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Subject: [IA-IRISH] Irish Volunteers Meeting - Burlington, Iowa 1857
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:16:26 -0500

Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Dec 16, 1857


At a Meeting of the Irish Volunteers, held at the City Hall on Friday
evening, December 4th, HENRY H. SCOTT, Chairman, FRANK LEIGH, Secretary.
The Company proceeded to an Election, when the following Officers were duly
elected.-
NATHANIEL SCOTT, Captain.
FENTON DORAN, 1st Lieutenant,
PATRICK RYAN, 2d do.
JOSEPH GAVAN, 3d do.
On Saturday the Officers waited on His Excellency Governor GRIMES, who, in
a most gracious manner gave them an Order on the Adjutant-General for fifty
stand of arms and their commissions.


Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

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