“Time Table by the Butterfield Overland Mail Route,” San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, October 11, 1858

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Time Table by the Butterfield Overland Mail Route
Source citation
“Time Table by the Butterfield Overland Mail Route,” San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, October 11, 1858, p. 2: 2.
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“Vehicles in St. Louis,” (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, October 10, 1858

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Vehicles in St. Louis
Source citation
“Vehicles in St. Louis,” (St. Louis) Missouri Republican, October 10, 1858, p. 2: 1.
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“A Peep Behind the Curtain!,” Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, October 12, 1858

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A Peep Behind the Curtain!
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“A Peep Behind the Curtain!,” Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, October 12, 1858, p. 1: 1.
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Peter Harrison Whisner (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 191.
Whisner, Peter Harrison    Born February 1, 1837, Morgan county, Va.; p., Jacob and Margaret Whisner; prep. Lick Run school; entered 1856; A. B., 1860; D. D., Randolph Macon college, Va.,; clergyman; member Baltimore conference, Methodist Episcopal church south; presiding elder; principle Preston and Ohio institutes; corresponding secretary board of church extension, Methodist church south; U. P. society. Address, Louisville, Ky.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America.... (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 449.
Mauch Chunk, Pa., Carbon co. Township and village. In the midst of the Schuylkill coal fields. The surface is mountainous, the soil gravel. The village is on the W. bank of the Lehigh River, at the head of the Lehigh Canal, in a deep and romantic ravine, between rocky mountains, which rise precipitously 800 or 1000 feet. An inclined plane and railroad 9 miles long extend to the coal mines.
Gazetteer of the United States of America....

William Henry Forney (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
“Forney, William Henry,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000280.
FORNEY, William Henry,  (grandson of Peter Forney and nephew of Daniel Munroe Forney), a Representative from Alabama; born in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, N.C., November 9, 1823; pursued classical studies, and was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1844; served in the war with Mexico as a first lieutenant in the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Ala.; trustee of the University of Alabama 1851-1860; member of the State house of representatives
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
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