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Letter from Elias Higbee, 22 February 1840

 
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 Feb 22d. 1840
Dear Brother
I have just returned from the committee room;  the committee being present to day, a Mr. Corwin of St.  Louis

Located on west side of Mississippi River about fifteen miles south of confluence with Missouri River. Founded as fur-trading post by French settlers, 1764. Incorporated as town, 1809. First Mississippi steamboat docked by town, 1817. Incorporated as fourth...

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, formerly a democratick editor, emtied his bud get: which was as great a bundle of nonsense and  stuff, as could be thought of; I suppose not what  he knew but what gentlemen had told him, for—  instance the religious Genl. [John B.] Clark

17 Apr. 1802–29 Oct. 1885. Lawyer, politician. Born at Madison Co., Kentucky. Moved to Howard Co., Missouri, 1818. Practiced law in Fayette, Howard Co., beginning 1824. Clerk of Howard Co. courts, 1824–1834. Appointed brigadier general in Missouri militia...

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 & others. I confess  I had hard work to restrain my feelings some of  the time; but I did succeed in keeping silence—  tolerably well. Himself Mr. Jamison & [Lewis] Linn sum moned all the energies of their mind to impress upon  the assembly, that Jo. Smith as he called him,  led the people altogether by revelation, in their [p. 111]

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Letter from Elias Higbee, 22 February 1840
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