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Author Bio
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608:
The
James Wickes Taylor correspondence, 1859-1870
. 1968.
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Taylor, James Wickes (1819-1893.)
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1819-1893. Associated with newspapers and railways in St Paul, Minnesota; reported on Rupert's Land to Minnesota Legislature, 1860, and to American Treasury Department, 1862; special agent of U.S. Treasury Department, 1859-1869; his discovery of plans for Fenian raid on Red River Settlement enabled authorities to disperse Fenians; appointed American consul at Winnipeg, 1870-1893; during rebellion of 1885 took steps to prevent American Natives from aiding Riel (Dictionary of American biography).
Other authors of Peel 608
- Bowsfield, Hartwell (b.1922.)
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