Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: ReminiscencesMoore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 - 640 pages |
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... FROM RIHS liver empton REMINISCENCES BY HON . O. H. SMITH . CINCINNATI : MOORE , WILSTACH , KEYS & CO . , PRINTERS . 25 WEST FOURTH STREET , Entered according to Act of Congress , August 6 ,. 1858 . EARLY INDIANA TRIALS: ...
... FROM RIHS liver empton REMINISCENCES BY HON . O. H. SMITH . CINCINNATI : MOORE , WILSTACH , KEYS & CO . , PRINTERS . 25 WEST FOURTH STREET , Entered according to Act of Congress , August 6 ,. 1858 . EARLY INDIANA TRIALS: ...
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... Congress from the Third Con- gressional district of Indiana . The subject of the West naturally came up , and with it the practice of medicine . My brother was a physician of great experience and of a high reputation - a student of Dr ...
... Congress from the Third Con- gressional district of Indiana . The subject of the West naturally came up , and with it the practice of medicine . My brother was a physician of great experience and of a high reputation - a student of Dr ...
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... Congress and resigned . Amos Lane was appointed my successor . The most of the sketches that will be given are of after occurrences . My competitor for Congress in 1826 , the Hon . John Test , was one of the first men in the State , had ...
... Congress and resigned . Amos Lane was appointed my successor . The most of the sketches that will be given are of after occurrences . My competitor for Congress in 1826 , the Hon . John Test , was one of the first men in the State , had ...
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... Congress , with the old man then . The contest grew warm , and more and more doubtful . My stock was rising , and with it my spirits . My district covered one - third of the State . I had not , as yet , visited the county of Allen ...
... Congress , with the old man then . The contest grew warm , and more and more doubtful . My stock was rising , and with it my spirits . My district covered one - third of the State . I had not , as yet , visited the county of Allen ...
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... Congress , General Noble and Waller Taylor to the Senate of the United States ; Jesse L. Holman , John Johnson and James Scott , Supreme Judges . Judge Johnson lived but a short time , and Isaac Blackford , of Vincennes , a young lawyer ...
... Congress , General Noble and Waller Taylor to the Senate of the United States ; Jesse L. Holman , John Johnson and James Scott , Supreme Judges . Judge Johnson lived but a short time , and Isaac Blackford , of Vincennes , a young lawyer ...
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