Post by Cliff Krainik on Jul 25, 2004 14:54:24 GMT -5
AN EARLY HENRY DODGE DOCUMENT
To thank all the members of the Old Lead Region Historical Society who participated in An Afternoon with General and Mrs. Dodge at the "Dodge Mining Camp Cabin" in Dodgeville last Thursday afternoon, we would like to share our copy of a very early document written by Henry Dodge.
The future Colonel, Commanding Michigan Mounted Volunteers during the Black Hawk War and twice Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin was forty-three years old when he penned -
Elijah Beebe's Admn.
St. Louis Circuit Court
Henry Dodge
The plaintiffs will take notice
that on Monday next between the hours of nine o'clock
in the forenoon & six o'clock in the afternoon at the
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court in the Town of
St. Genevieve I will [be] present to take the depositions
of witnesses to be read on the trial of the said cause.
Henry Dodge
St. Louis March 10, 1825
The single page note was written on unlined paper, 5.25 by 8 inches.
Original document from the Black Hawk War Collection, Cliff and Michele Krainik, Warrenton, Virginia.
Cliff & Michele