| United States. Congress - 1880 - 104 páginas
...Fatherland and home of his childhood, was nevertheless thoroughly Americanized, fully identified with <3ur people, devoted to the principles of our free institutions...who knew him. He sleeps upon a mound overlooking the histone Alamo, where the ashes of Milam, Travis, Bowie, and Crockett mingle with the dust. To this... | |
| Rodolphus Waite Joslyn, Frank Wilber Joslyn - 1908 - 884 páginas
...dollars to complete the work. Alderman George Meredith championed the work of the council, and it is to his efforts, more than to those of any other one man, that Aurora secured water works at that time. The pumping station was put north of the city, and conduits... | |
| John W. Burgess - 2005 - 353 páginas
...rivalry with Mr. Lincoln which was to culminate in the great struggle of 1860. Probably it was owing to his efforts more than to those of any other one man that the Commonwealth of Illinois chose Democratic electors. In January of 1841, he was appointed Secretary... | |
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