. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. was a belief â everybody ould do his Xo the 13th d for a mill passed and Inale looked 3 Captain to ictor for the wn artificer, joing to the During the 1 the spring, fall; when, !, he raised 1, which was his fortune, ;one on two 13 one of the e was thus a [or corn, and jry, a small ;;h continued 3n the stone dy for occu- of the most all the burrs very twenty- 700 bushe
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. was a belief â everybody ould do his Xo the 13th d for a mill passed and Inale looked 3 Captain to ictor for the wn artificer, joing to the During the 1 the spring, fall; when, !, he raised 1, which was his fortune, ;one on two 13 one of the e was thus a [or corn, and jry, a small ;;h continued 3n the stone dy for occu- of the most all the burrs very twenty- 700 bushels. 1 amount to bur by him f his mill is is whole soul his example is state than enatorial dis- BiOGRAniicAL Sketches. 705 trict, was born on the 20th of February, 1840, at Richland Springs, Otsego county, N. Y; his parents being in comfortable circum- stances on their own farm, and their son, dividing his attention from childhood to the age of seventeen between farm work in the summer and tuition in the winter seasons. His father, having become surety for other persons, was bereft of nearly all his prop- erty in the j'car 1857. and removed to Page county, Iowa. Dur- ing the winter of 1857-8 the boy attended the openin-g term at "Amity College," anil in the following year taught school, until the death of his father necessitated his return to- farm life to sup- port the younger branches of the family and his mother. He married in the year 1860, when twenty years of age, and in the following year enlisted in a regiment of militia raised for six months only, in Iowa, to put down the rebellion. Private Dow was elected lieutenant by his comrades, and at the close of that gervice he entered tlife ranks of the fourth cavalry regiment raised by the state of Missouri under Col. Geo. 11. Hall. Within six months he was once more a lieutenant, and participated in the battle of Springfield, already described in our military history, as â ivell as in many engagements of no
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