Elbridge S. Brooks The Story of the American Indian Hardcover

by Elbridge S. Brooks

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Provenance: There is an important hand written inscription on the end paper. At the top of the page appears the name “Rev. RB Howard”. Below Reverend Howard‘s name is an inscription as follows: perhaps my brother will associate this little memento with the peace campaign October 27 to November 16, 1887; and, with a divine blessing, it’s successful issues in connection with the coming of the British arbitration deputation. C.H.h.West Medford, November 16, 1887. This book was presented to Reverend Roland Bailey Howard, by his brother General Charles Henry Howard. General Charles Henry Howard was a union Privette brigadier general in the Civil War. Following the war, general Howard settled in Illinois, worked for the American missionary Association, became editor of several newspapers and assisted his brother Oliver Howard (founder of Howard University) and founding many colleges and the settling of Native Americans in the west. He also became involved in the American peace movement in 1893 was appointed a delegate to the Chicago peace Congress by the American peace Society. General Howards, other brother, Reverend Roland, Bailey Howard, to whom the book is inscribed, was also an official of the American peace society, which she served as secretary. Regarding the peace campaign referred to by general Howard and his inscription, in 1887, as part of a joint effort by the American and British Quakers, a deputation consisting of several members of British Parliament, visited their c

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