Horace Burton Strait (Congressional Biographical Directory)
Reference
"Strait, Horace Burton," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000988.
STRAIT, Horace Burton, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Potter County, Pa., January 26, 1835; attended the common schools; moved with his parents to Indiana in 1846; settled near Jordan, Minn., in 1855 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Shakopee, Minn., in 1860 and conducted a general store; entered the Union Army in 1862 as captain in the Ninth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, being promoted to major in 1864; served at the close of the war as inspector general on the staff of General McArthur; honorably discharged in 1865; trustee of Minnesota
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1860, zoomable image
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, January 25, 2009.
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Bird's eye view of Philadelphia / J. Bachman, del. & lith.
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Panoramic Maps Collection, Library of Congress
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John Bachman, lithographer
Illinois, 1857, zoomable map
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Illinois
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Mitchell's New Universal Atlas.... (Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857), 32.
New York Times, “The President and His Visitors,” April 28, 1859
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New York Times, “Growing Ferocious,” May 9, 1859
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