“The Beginning of Sorrows,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, December 5, 1859

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, March 23, 2009.
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Original caption
The Beginning of Sorrows
Source citation
“The Beginning of Sorrows,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, December 5, 1859, p. 1: 1.
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Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

William Vandever (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
"Vandever, William," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000031.
VANDEVER, William, a Representative from Iowa and from California; born in Baltimore, Md., March 31, 1817; attended the common schools and pursued an academic course; moved to Illinois in 1839 and to Iowa in 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Dubuque, Iowa; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1859, to September 24, 1861, when he was mustered into the Union Army as colonel of the Ninth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, never having resigned his seat in Congress; promot
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
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