Incidents of a Journey From Pennsylvania to Wisconsin Territory, in 1837: Being the Journal of Gen. William Rudolph Smith, U. S. Commissioner for ... Are Added Gen. Smith's Autobiography, 178 - Hardcover

Smith, William Rudolph

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ISBN 10: 0365455296 ISBN 13: 9780365455295

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Incidents of a Journey From Pennsylvania to Wisconsin Territory, in 1837: Being the Journal of Gen. William Rudolph Smith, U. S. Commissioner for Treaty With the Chippewa Indians of the Upper Mississippi, to Which Are Added Gen. Smith's Autobiography, 1787-1808, Letters Relating to the Commission

Part of the early education of William Rudolph Smith was conducted by this grandfather, who lived until 1803. The father of William Rudolph Smith was William Moore Smith, a leading lawyer of Philadelphia. Appointed agent to settle claims arising under the Jay Treaty, William Moore Smith visited England in 1803, accompanied by his son, William Rudolph Smith, as his private secretary.

William Rudolph Smith studied law in the Middle Temple. Returning to America at the end of two years, and completing his legal studies w1th James Milnor, he was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia in 1808, in the following year marrying Miss Eliza Anthony, who died in 1821. In 1824 he married Miss Mary Hamilton Van Dyke. In 1809 he became a resident of Cambria County where he served as deputy attorney-general and pursued the practice of the law for the next twenty years. In 1830 he removed to a farm in Bedford county, but continued to practice law. Taking an active interest in military matters. He rose to the rank of major-general in the State militia, and was appointed colonel of the Pennsylvania Reserves, command ing this regiment in support of the movement on Canada in the War of 1812, and taking part in the battle of Lundy's Lane. During the remainder of his residence in Pennsylvania he served many terms in the House and Senate of the Legislature. In 1836 he was a Presidential Elector, casting his vote for Martin Van Buren.

In 1837 he was appointed a commissioner to treat with the Chippewa Indians for the cession of their pine lands in the north western portion of the then Territory of Wisconsin, now largely within the boundaries of the present State of Minnesota. His associate commissioner for the making of the treaty was Henry Dodge. Then Governor of Territory. The letters herewith presented indicate the instructions by which the com missioners were to be guided in conducting their negotiations. The Journal was kept by General Smith from the time when he left Pennsylvania on this mission to the time when he reached North Bend on his way back, and is a vivid narrative of river travel in the United States in the era immediately preceding the construction of railroads.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0365455296
• ISBN 13: 9780365455295
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 86