All the western states and territories . the year 1757, was educatedto medicine, entered the army of the Revolution, and was breveted brigadier gen-eral. After the war he settled in Kentucky in commercial business. Again en-tering the army, he had command of the United States forces in the Mississippivalley. In the war of 1812, he served on the northern frontier. He died in 1825,aged 68. He published Memoirs of My Own Times, 3 vols. 8vo., 1816. Major Amos Stoddard, the first American governor of Upper Louisiana, wasborn in Woodbury, Conn., and was a soldier of the Revolution. He was subse-quen
All the western states and territories . the year 1757, was educatedto medicine, entered the army of the Revolution, and was breveted brigadier gen-eral. After the war he settled in Kentucky in commercial business. Again en-tering the army, he had command of the United States forces in the Mississippivalley. In the war of 1812, he served on the northern frontier. He died in 1825,aged 68. He published Memoirs of My Own Times, 3 vols. 8vo., 1816. Major Amos Stoddard, the first American governor of Upper Louisiana, wasborn in Woodbury, Conn., and was a soldier of the Revolution. He was subse-quently clerk of the supreme court in Boston, also practiced law at Hallowell,Maine. In 1799, he entered the army as captain of artillery. About the year1804, he was appointed first military commandant and civil governor of UpperLouisiana, his headquarters being St. Louis. He died of lockjaw in 1813, from awound received at the siege of Fort Meigs. He was a man of talent, and was theauthor of Sketches of Louisiana, a valuable work. Kansas, prior to 1854, was included within the limits of the IndianTerritory, lying west of Missouri, and the adjoining states. It was thus called from the circumstance of itsbeing the territory on which severaltribes of Indians, mainly from eastof the Mississippi, were located un-der the direction of the general gov-ernment. The principal tribes thusplaced within the present limits ofKansas, were the Delawares, whowere estimated at upward of 800 innumber; the Kickapoos, at about900, the Shawnees, at about 1,300:the Kansas, one of the originaltribes of this region, were locatedon the Kansas River, farther west-ward, and were supposed to numberabout 2,000, The first white man who traversedthe soil of Kansas seems to havebeen M. Dutisne, a French officer,sent in 1719, by Bienville, the gov-ernor of Louisiana, to explore the territory west of the Mississippi. Hepassed up Osage River, a southern tributary of the Missouri, and visitedseveral Indian v
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