Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-03-02
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George Washington, First President of the uni
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Charles Carroll of Carrolton last survivor c. the
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Washington Irving, Author Of The Sketch Book,
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William White, d. D., Bishop of the Protestant
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Lewis Cass, Senator from Michigan, &c.
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J. Fennimore Cooper, Author of 1.-The Spy"
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Patrick Henry, First Republican Governor of Vir-
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William Moultrie, Major General U. 5. Army.
Henry Glay. Senator from Kentucky, etc.
Daniel Webster, Senator from MasSac huSettS, etc.
William Writ, Attorney General, etc.
Timothy Dwight, D. D., President of Yale col
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Joel Barlow, Author of & The Columblad, Min
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John Trumbull, President of the American Acad-
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John E. Howard, Colonel U. S. Army, Senator
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Gilbert Stuart, Painter.
Israel Putnam. Major General U. s. Army.
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Oliver II. Perry, Commodore U. s. Navy.
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