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 | | Still, Missouri had the distinction of having two, arguably, legitimate governments during the warthe provisional one installed in Jefferson City by the State Convention and supported by the U. Army, and the other the rather hapless floating government-in-exile of Governors Jackson and, after his death on December 6, 1862, Thomas C. Reynolds. |
 | | Ebenezer Magoffin went to Boone County, Missouri, from his home in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1856.11 On February 19, 1856, he purchased 2,160 acres in a body in north central Pettis County, Missouri, from Nimrod and Mary J. Dewees of Morgan County, Illinois, for $16,000.12 Mr. |
 | | Ebenezer Magoffin's daring escape from Alton may have resolved the men's dilemma for them by allowing them at last to act freely, unhindered by circumstances not really germane to their mutual problem and objectives. |
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