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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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, questioning the power of Congress to legislate on slavery in the Territories. Passed by the Senate, Jan. 20, and by the Assembly......March 6, 1849 Fire in St. Louis destroys twenty-three steamboats and their cargoes and a large section of the city......May 17, 1849 United States Senator Thomas H. Benton, in the hall of the House at Jefferson City, opposes the Jackson resolutions, as in the spirit of nullification and disunion, and appeals from the legislature to the people......May 26, 1849 Inter-State convention at St. Louis unanimously endorses a national Pacific railway across the continent......Oct. 16, 1849 Ground broken for the Pacific Railroad by the mayor of St. Louis......July 4, 1850 William Jewell College at Liberty, chartered in 1849, opened......1850 At a joint convention to choose a United States Senator, Henry S. Geyer, of St. Louis, Whig, defeats Thomas H. Benton......Jan. 22, 1851 Destruction of the Industrial luminary, a newspaper published a