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Isaac Mendenhall (Smedley, 1883)
Robert Clemens Smedley, History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Office of the Journal, 1883), 249-250.
The home of Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall, in Kennett township, near Longwood, ten miles from Wilmington, was always open to receive the liberty-seeking slave. Their station being nearest the Delaware line was eagerly sought by fugitives as soon as they entered the Free State.
William Pennington, detail
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William Pennington. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U.S. 36th Congress 1860 / Photographed by Brady; engraved by A.B. Walter.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Mathew Brady photographer: Adam B. Walter engraver.
William Pennington
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William Pennington. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U.S. 36th Congress 1860 / Photographed by Brady; engraved by A.B. Walter.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Source note
Mathew Brady photographer: Adam B. Walter engraver.
George Douglas Ramsay, circa 1875, detail
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Ramsey, Hon. George D.
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Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
George Douglas Ramsay, circa 1875
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Ramsey, Hon. George D.
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Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Henry Watterson, detail
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Watterson, Hon. Henry of Ky
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Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Henry Watterson
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Watterson, Hon. Henry of Ky
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Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Delphi, NY
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Eppa Hunton (Congressional Biographical Directory)
Reference
"Hunton, Eppa," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000999.
HUNTON, Eppa, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Va., September 22, 1822; attended New Baltimore Academy; taught school three years; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Brentsville, Va.; served as colonel, and later general, in the Virginia militia; Commonwealth attorney for Prince William County 1849-1861; member of the Virginia convention at Richmond in February 1861 and advocated secession; entered the Confederate Army as colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to brigad