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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 3 : Black-Hawk War. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , September (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 186 (search)
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Faribault , John Baptist 1769 -1860 (search)
Faribault, John Baptist 1769-1860
Pioneer; born in Berthier, Quebec, about 1769; entered the service of the American Company, of which John Jacob Astor was president, in 1796, and was assigned to the Northwest.
After traversing the country he located at Des Moines, Ia., and later on removed to Saint Peter, Minn. After ten years service with the American Company he went into business on his own account, and soon accumulated a fortune, but lost it all in the War of 1812 through the fact of his having taken the American side during the contest.
The English seized him at Mackinac as a trader and kept him confined for a short period.
He died in Faribault, Minn. (which city had been founded by his son Alexander), in 1860.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kasson , John Adam 1822 - (search)
Kasson, John Adam 1822-
Diplomatist; born in Charlotte, Vt., Jan. 11, 1822; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1842; and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts.
Removing to St. Louis, Mo., he practised till 1857, when he settled in Des Moines, Ia. In 1861-62 he was first assistant Postmaster-General; in 1863-67 was a member of Congress, and in 1863 and 1867 the United States commissioner to the international postal Congress.
He again served in Congress in 1873-77, and in the latter year was appointed United States minister to Austria, where he remained till 1881, when he was again elected to Congress.
In 1884-85 he was minister to Germany, and in 1893 envoy to the Samoan international conference.
President McKinley appointed him United States special commissioner plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity treaties in 1897, under the Dingley tariff act: and in 1898 he became a member of the Anglo-American Joint High Commission.
He resigned the office of reciprocity comm