The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 20John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond A. S. Barnes., 1888 - United States |
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... Hundred Years Ago .. A Chapter in the History of Spain . Chief - Justice Morrison Remick Waite . His Home in Washington ... Mrs. Martha J. Lamb . The Continental Congress ... Judge William J. Bacon . .Hon . Charles K. Tuckerman . Hon ...
... Hundred Years Ago .. A Chapter in the History of Spain . Chief - Justice Morrison Remick Waite . His Home in Washington ... Mrs. Martha J. Lamb . The Continental Congress ... Judge William J. Bacon . .Hon . Charles K. Tuckerman . Hon ...
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... Hundred Years Ago . Judge WILLIAM J. BACON . Hon . CHARLES K. TUCKERMAN . Senator JOSEPH S. FOWLER . A Chapter in the History of Spain . In Relation to American Affairs . Hon . J. L. M. CURRY , LL.D. , Minister to Spain . Washington's ...
... Hundred Years Ago . Judge WILLIAM J. BACON . Hon . CHARLES K. TUCKERMAN . Senator JOSEPH S. FOWLER . A Chapter in the History of Spain . In Relation to American Affairs . Hon . J. L. M. CURRY , LL.D. , Minister to Spain . Washington's ...
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... hundred guineas into the lap of his Parisian mistress . " A reversion to an office was reckoned upon as a good investment , sure to come to hand in due time , and as our author sharply and keenly puts it , " a paymaster of the works ...
... hundred guineas into the lap of his Parisian mistress . " A reversion to an office was reckoned upon as a good investment , sure to come to hand in due time , and as our author sharply and keenly puts it , " a paymaster of the works ...
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... hundred acres of land in our own county of Oneida , in the soil of which he sleeps beneath a monument which our grateful fellow - citizens recently erected and publicly dedicated , with appropriate ceremonies , to his honored name . The ...
... hundred acres of land in our own county of Oneida , in the soil of which he sleeps beneath a monument which our grateful fellow - citizens recently erected and publicly dedicated , with appropriate ceremonies , to his honored name . The ...
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... HUNDRED YEARS AGO Mr. John Allison , 42 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON East Tennessee One Hundred Years Ago Hon Joseph S Fowler.
... HUNDRED YEARS AGO Mr. John Allison , 42 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON East Tennessee One Hundred Years Ago Hon Joseph S Fowler.
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