Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 . horoughly and ad-dressed his audiences in their own vernacular, the PennsylvaniaDutch dialect, which he spoke fluently. In the Presidentialcampaign of 1848 he was made chairman of the Whig Statecentral committee and received the credit of having contributedlargely to the Whig victory by which Pennsylvania was carriedfor Taylor and Fillmore. His commission as Governor was datedApril 2, 1849, and he was not thirty-four years of age. Charles K. Smith, Territorial Secretary, was born at Cin-cinnati, Ohio, February 15, 1799. He, too, was a Whig politi-cian,
Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 . horoughly and ad-dressed his audiences in their own vernacular, the PennsylvaniaDutch dialect, which he spoke fluently. In the Presidentialcampaign of 1848 he was made chairman of the Whig Statecentral committee and received the credit of having contributedlargely to the Whig victory by which Pennsylvania was carriedfor Taylor and Fillmore. His commission as Governor was datedApril 2, 1849, and he was not thirty-four years of age. Charles K. Smith, Territorial Secretary, was born at Cin-cinnati, Ohio, February 15, 1799. He, too, was a Whig politi-cian, and a prominent Free Mason and Odd Fellow. Aaron Goodrich, the Chief Justice, was a native of NewYork, but appointed from Tennessee, where he had passed thegreater part of his life. He was elected as a Whig from a Demo-cratic district to the Thirtieth Congress, serving in 1847 and1848. In 1848 he was a Presidential elector chosen on theWhig ticket, and when Taylor and Fillmore carried Tennesseehe voted for them in the electoral
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