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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
rom 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, that the will of the people may be ascertained and effectuated, but providing that no ordinance of secession should be valid unless ratified by the people......Jan. 18, 1861 Edward Bates, of Missouri, United States Attorney-General......March 5, 1861 State convention assembles in the courthouse at Jefferson City; ninety-nine delegates. Sterling Price chosen president, Feb. 28. They adjourn to meet at St. Louis on March 4, when a committee reports against secession......March 9, 1861 In reply to President Lincoln's call for troops, Governor Jackson writes, Not one man will the State of Missouri furnish to carry on such an unholy crusade ......April