Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Richmond (Virginia, United States) or search for Richmond (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ubject of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. He was a delegate from the State at large to the Chicago Convention, and constituted, one of the committee to proceed to Springfield with official notice of Mr. Lincoln's nomination. C. B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Smith is well known in Indiana. He has been in Congress, and was Commissioner to Mexican claims. Edward Bates, Attorney General. Edward Bates was born on the 4th of September, 1793, on the banks of James river, in the county of Goochland. Virginia, about 30 miles above Richmond. He was the seventh son and youngest child of a family of twelve children, all of whom lived to a mature age, Thomas Bates and Caroline M. Woodson. After the death of his parents he was educated by his brother, Fleming Bates, of Northumberland co., Va. In 1812, having renounced service in the Navy, and with no plan of life settled, his brother Frederick (who was Secretary of the Territory of Missouri from 18 to 1820,