George Walker Crawford (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

Reference
“Crawford, George Walker,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000890.
CRAWFORD, George Walker, a Representative from Georgia; born in Columbia County, Ga., December 22, 1798; was graduated from Princeton College in 1820; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Augusta, Ga.; attorney general of the State 1827-1831; member of the State house of representatives 1837-1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard W.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Arkansas County, Arkansas (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 26.
ARKANSAS COUNTY, situated in the southeast part of the state of Arkansas, and watered by Arkansas, White, and Bœuf rivers, and Bayou Barthelany. The face of the country is generally level, except the westerly part which rises into eminences. Length, 60 miles; mean width, 40, extending over an area of 2,400 square miles. Courts are held at Arkansas. Pop., in 1830, 1,426; in 1840, 1,346; in 1850, 3,246.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....

“Republicanism Defined,” (Jackson) Mississippian, March 6, 1860

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Republicanism Defined
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“Republicanism Defined,” (Jackson) Mississippian, March 6, 1860, p. 2: 2.
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“Pennsylvania,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, March 5, 1860

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Pennsylvania
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“Pennsylvania,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, March 5, 1860, p. 2: 1.
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Anton Chekhov is born in southern Russia

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog in southern Russia the son of a grocer.  He graduated from medical school in Moscow in 1884.  He had already begun writing for leading newspapers, however, and soon became the master of the genre for which he is most famous, the short story.  He also became an accomplished playwright, the author of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.  He died of tuberculosis on July 15, 1904.  (By John Osborne)
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