WELLS, Erastus, a Representative from Missouri; born in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, N.Y., December 2, 1823; attended the public schools; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1842; established the…
GILL, Patrick Francis, a Representative from Missouri; born in Independence, Jackson County, Mo., August 16, 1868; moved with his widowed mother to St. Louis, Mo., in 1871; attended the…
METCALFE, Lyne Shackelford, a Representative from Missouri; born in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Ky., April 21, 1822; attended the common schools, Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill., and Illinois…
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(Encyclopedia) Affton, uninc. city, St. Louis co., E Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. Manufacturing includes machinery and medical equipment. Settled in the mid-1800s largely by German…
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(Encyclopedia) Mersen, Treaty of, 870, redivision of the Carolingian empire by the sons of Louis I, Charles the Bald (later Charles II) of the West Franks (France) and Louis the German of the East…
