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imously 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 at Parkville, by a pro-slavery faction......April 14, 1855 Gov. Trusten Polk resigns to become United States Senator......March, 1857 Dred Scott and family emancipated by Taylor Blow, under deed for that purpose from the family of Calvin C. Chaffee, who inherited then......May 26, 1857 First overland mail leaves St. Louis for San Francisco......Sept. 16, 1858 First overland mail from California arrives at St. Louis twenty-four days eighteen and a half hours from San Francisco......Oct. 9, 1858 Legislature calls a State convention,