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    • JAMES SHIELDS
      May. 24, 2016

      JAMES SHIELDS

      Est: $75 - $100

      JAMES SHIELDS (1810-1879) Union major general and the only person in U.S. history to serve as a Senator from three different states. A.L.S., 3pp. 4to.,Washington, Oct. 6, 1845, to GEORGE W. JONES (1804-1896), frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge. Shields writes to request that Jones, then Surveyor General of Iowa, have a surveyor named George Sargent paid for his work in surveying Sullivan's Line, the border between Iowa and Missouri. Folds, minor paper loss on the third sheet not affecting content, else very good.

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