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27 Feb 2009
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Eastern Argus
Portland, Maine: 19 Aug 1828 – Page 3
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Portland, Maine: 19 Aug 1828 – Page 3
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Columbus (GA) Enquirer
28 Feb 1900
Rare, one of a kind documents
In memory of Solomon Snow … who was drowned
in crossing the Kennebec River from Swan Island
to Bowdoinham, August 11, 1811.

Solomon Snow is not in the published Snow genealogy;

not in the census – this might be the only record of him.
Published Government Reports
Looking for information
on Rachel (Bittinger) Platter
of Garrett County, MD

Details like this are not in

the census; not in the published
family history.
Obituaries of Report of the
Convention of American Instructors
of the Deaf
Proceedings of the twenty-first meeting of the Convention of American
Instructors of the Deaf. Held at Hartford, Conn., June 29 to July 4, 1917.
January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.
Date: 1918-01-30; U.S. Congress. Senate
Serial Set Vol. No. 7320, Session Vol. No.10
65th Congress, 2nd Session
S.Doc. 172
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Philadelphia Inquirer (21 April 1905)

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Quickly locate obscure documents
like this list of US prisoners in
Algiers in 1791 ….

Prisoners at Algiers. Letter in relation to

the prisoners at Algiers, communicated to the
Senate, 21st January, 1791, by the Secretary of
1st Congress, 3rd Session. Publication No. 48
War of the Rebellion Record

US Army Register

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Military reports of all kinds

1789 - 1980
Obituaries routinely published
in government reports.

Orman K. Osbon, killed in

1903
A Soldier’s Last Letter …

“I was there as a spectator only.

Imagine my surprise which was
only equaled by my delight at first
and later by my thankfulness
when my name was called…
What have I done I asked myself, to
deserve to be remembered by
strangers in a town in which I had
never been...”
Corporal Wilson Mcpherson Osbon (1877-1899)
written 28 Dec 1898, Spanish-American War
Philippines
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