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    Salem, Massachusetts. Lander, Wyoming Lander County, Nevada Lander Peak Lander Creek Lander, Maryland General Frederick W. Lander Post No. 5 of the Grand...
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    briefly fired on the town with artillery. Union Brigadier General Frederick W. Lander refused a Confederate request to surrender on January 5, and that...
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    census. Lander was previously known as Pushroot, Old Camp Brown and Fort Augur. Its present name was chosen in 1875 in reference to General Frederick W. Lander...
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    Lander County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,734. Its county seat is Battle Mountain. Lander County...
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    Bierstadt joined the Honey Road Survey Party led by then-colonel Frederick W. Lander. Bierstadt traveled as far as the Wyoming Range in the Rocky Mountains...
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  • Places in 1975. It is a historic road used by wagons, designed by Frederick W. Lander. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic...
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    the supervision of Frederick W. Lander by federal contractors in 1858—one of the first federally sponsored roads in the west. Lander's Road officially was...
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    total of 1,400 men under Col. Dumont (with the assistance of Col. Frederick W. Lander, volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. McClellan), would march directly...
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    In 1859 Albert Bierstadt accompanied Frederick W. Lander on a western expedition. On his return he painted a mountain landscape on a large 6-by-10-foot...
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  • comedian and author Eric Lander (born 1957), American professor of biology Frederick W. Lander (1822–1862), American engineer Harald Lander (1905–1971), Danish...
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    was a minor skirmish with a group of soldiers under Frederick W. Lander, an Army engineer. Lander was establishing watering holes and building a wagon...
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    to the design of the Lynn firm Wheeler & Northend for the General Frederick W. Lander Post 5 of the Grand Army of the Republic, an American Civil War veterans...
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  • Desert. In 1860, Frederick W. Lander negotiated peace with the Paiute leader Numaga at Deep Hole Spring during the Paiute War. Lander's assistant commissary...
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    The Grand Army of the Republic Hall, also known as the General Frederick W. Lander Post No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic, is an historic building located...
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    California, Bierstadt was part of an 1859 survey expedition, led by Frederick W. Lander, to scout a route for a railroad across the Rockies. Sponsored by...
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    Massachusetts Audubon Society Jeff Juden, Major League Baseball pitcher Frederick W. Lander (1821–1862), Civil War general, wagon trail and railroad surveyor...
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    was surveyed by Frederick W. Lander working under William Magraw. In 1858, Lander guided several hundred workers who built the Landers Cutoff passing the...
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    Information System: Lander, Maryland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lander, Maryland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Lander v t e...
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  • Four group of financiers in California (d. 1900). December 17 - Frederick W. Lander, Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (d. 1862). Marshall...
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    Wolverhampton, England – August 3, 1903, Washington, D.C.), later Mrs. Frederick William Lander, was an English actress with a career in both England and the United...
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    14-year-old Grenville met the owner's son, Frederick W. Lander, and helped him survey a railroad. Lander was to become "one [of] the ablest surveyors...
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    Lander was a former Massachusetts militia camp active during 1862 and located in Wenham, Massachusetts. It was named for Brigadier General Frederick W...
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    to appropriate $300,000 for an expedition along the route, led by Frederick W. Lander, who prepared a favorable report in February 1861. The route became...
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    located east of Paw Paw, under the command of Brigadier General Frederick W. Lander. In 1868, J.B. Hoyt and Company of New York established a leather...
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    Franklin, Louis Blenker, Nathaniel P. Banks, Frederick W. Lander (replaced by James Shields after Lander's death on March 2, 1862, Silas Casey, Irvin McDowell...
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    School. In 1859, Bierstadt traveled westward in the company of Frederick W. Lander, a land surveyor for the U.S. government, to see those western American...
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    Benjamin West. Her father was a ship captain, and her brother, Col. Frederick W. Lander, explored the American west. Her family home in Danvers, Massachusetts...
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    Massachusetts Listed on National Register of Historic Places General Frederick W. Lander (for whom the Lynn G.A.R. Post is named) while attending Governor...
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    authority on this subject, known as the "Father of American Mineralogy" Frederick W. Lander, Brig. Gen. USA, killed in action during the Civil War Reuben D....
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    Frederick William Faber CO (28 June 1814 – 26 September 1863) was a noted English hymnwriter and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism...
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