A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . lroad lines. Nothing further was done, how-ever, and it was fifteen years before railroad building beganin Missouri. Governor Boggs administration was most important andexciting. It was filled with seven historic events. In 1837 the Legislature founded a ?tateBank. Later branches of this bankwere established over were sound and rendered thepeople seivice. In the same yearthe famous panic of 1837 tookplace. Missouri suffered but notso much as did othe
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . lroad lines. Nothing further was done, how-ever, and it was fifteen years before railroad building beganin Missouri. Governor Boggs administration was most important andexciting. It was filled with seven historic events. In 1837 the Legislature founded a ?tateBank. Later branches of this bankwere established over were sound and rendered thepeople seivice. In the same yearthe famous panic of 1837 tookplace. Missouri suffered but notso much as did other states. Thiswas because she had no wildcatbanks and wildcat paper money,because she had received silverthrough the Santa Fe Trade, andalso because she had not speculatedso much. It was in 1837 that theUnited States Government calledon Missouri for troops to fight the Seminole Indians inFlorida. Colonel Richard Gentry, of Columbia, raised a regi-ment. The men .suffered severely and Col. Gentry was killedin battle. It was during Governor Boggs temi that trouble arosewith the Mormons, which finally resulted in war and their ex-. W. BOGGS Missouri Politics, 1820-1844 121 pulsion from the State. The miUtia was called out and theMormons surrendered in 1839. They left Missouri in story of the Mormon War will be told later. The nextimportant acts during- these four years were the founding ofMissouris public school system in 1839 and the establishmentof the University of Missouri atColumbia the same year. The lastevent was trouble with Iowa overthe northern boundary line. Thishas been called the Honey Warand will also be considered underA Century of Military Reynolds is best knownin Missouri history for being- theauthor of the law abolishing im-prisonment for debt. It was a veryshort law but it was also very im-portant. It read: Imprisonmentfor debt is hereby forever abolish-ed. THOMAS REYNOLDS
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