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	Isaac Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 – September 1, 1862) was the first governor of Washington Territory, and served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly.
		Stevens was born and raised in Massachusetts, leaving his home state for the United States Military Academy at West Point in the late 1830s.
		Stevens was promoted to major general on July 4, 1862, serving under Major General John Pope in the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Stevens (596 words)

	Gov Isaac Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stevens was appointed governor at age 35, and remains as the youngest governor in Washington history.
		Isaac Stevens was a descendant of two 17th Century Puritan immigrants.
		Isaac was their third child, but first son, and was born with some physical impairments that today would be associated with a problematic pituitary gland.
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	Isaac Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Isaac Ingalls Stevens (March 25, 1818 - September 1, 1862) was the first governor of Washington Territory, and served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War until his death at the Battle of Chantilly.
		Stevens was born and raised in Massachusetts, leaving his home state for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in the late 1830s.
		The treaties Stevens negotiated with the Native Americans in Washington proved to be a boon to the tribes, when in the mid-1970s the Boldt Decision interpreted a phrase in the treaties ("in common with") to mean that the treaty tribes were entitled to fully half of the entire salmon harvest.
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	Stevens County, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stevens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.
		It is named for the first governor of Washington Territory, Isaac Stevens.
		An 1884 hailstorm in Stevens County on Wikisource
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stevens_County,_Washington (421 words)

	Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862)
		Isaac Stevens descended from the earliest settlers of Andover in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
		Stevens had formally declared the establishment of the Territory of Washington (by Congress in March 1853) as he crossed Cadotte's Pass in the Rocky Mountains on September 24, 1853, but he did not formally assume his office of governor until November 25.
		When Stevens returned in December 1854 with his wife (who was so despondent at seeing Olympia, she did not leave her house for two months) and children, he plunged into the organization of treaty councils.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/stevensi.html (1286 words)

	Brown Harris Stevens Agent Isaac Feldman
		Isaac has knowledge of many of the unsung buildings in NYC –– ask him about a street corner and he’ll probably be able to tell you what’s there and what’s been there.
		Isaac has taken hundreds of photos and videos of NYC buildings over the years both professionally and personally.
		Isaac worked as a professional videographer for over 25 years including the production closest to his heart: shooting and interviewing over 600 Holocaust Survivors for the Survivors of the Shoah Project produced by Steven Spielberg.
	www.brownharrisstevens.com /agent.aspx?id=IZF (284 words)

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		Stevens was the oldest of a family of six, one of whom died in infancy.
		Their father, Samuel B. Stevens, was a descendant of Benjamin Stevens, who purchased a piece of land of Isaac Sawyer in Back Cove in 1738.
		Isaac S. and Sarah (Brackett) Stevens had a son, Zachariah Brackett Stevens, who was born November 20, 1778, and died May 15, 1856.
	www.raynorshyn.com /meGenWeb/cumberland/biographies/stevens3.txt (1004 words)

	Isaac Stevens House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The story of the Isaac Stevens House is in many ways the most interesting of the three Webb-Deane-Stevens properties, because it came to the Museum from descendants of the original family.
		In 1786 leatherworker Isaac Stevens purchased half an acre of land on High (now Main) Street adjacent to the Webb property and in 1788 began constructing his new home, completing it in 1789.
		Stevens married Captain Stephen Francis and had five children, four of whom survived to inherit the Stevens House jointly.
	mc04.equinox.net /wdsmuseum/stevenshouse.html (437 words)

	Commodore Joel Abbot, Camp No. 21, Major General Isaac Ingalls Stevens Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stevens, Isaac I., Major General, was born in Andover, Mass., in 1817.
		A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Stevens resigned from the U.S. Army in 1853 and served as governor of the Washington (state) Territory until 1857.
		Stevens’ son, Gen. Hazard Stevens, was twice injured at Ox Hill.
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	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project
		Isaac Ingalls Stevens served as the first governor of the Washington Territory and played a large role in Indian relations in the mid-19th century.
		As the first governor of the Washington Territory, Isaac Ingalls Stevens was assigned by the federal Office of Indian Affairs to carry out the new reservation policy.
		Stevens County, WA, is named after him, and his son, Hazard, wrote a history of the Washington Territory.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=33&ObjectID=197 (591 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Governor Isaac Stevens ejects Judge Edward Lander from his court under martial law on May 12, 1856.
		During the Indian War of 1855-1856, Isaac Stevens was the military commander of Washington Territory.
		Stevens ordered the men to evacuate their farms to within the protection of Fort Steilacoom.
		Stevens empanelled a court martial to try the settlers, but his own militia officers decided that they did not have jurisdiction and that the prisoners should be turned over to civil authorities.
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	Friends of Old Fort Stevens present VisitFtStevens.com
		Fort Stevens, named for General Isaac Stevens, a former Governor of Washington Territory, was constructed by the U.S. Army toward the end of the Civil war and remained active through World War II.
		Fort Stevens was one of three forts built at the mouth of the Columbia River.
		At Fort Stevens, Battery 245, a new gun emplacement, was armed with two 6-inch rifles that had a range of about fifteen miles, almost double the range of the 10-inch rifles.
	www.visitftstevens.com /history.htm (489 words)

	SuAnn M. Reddick and Cary C. Collins \| Medicine Creek to Fox Island: Cadastral Scams and Contested Domains \| Oregon ...
		Joel Palmer succeeded Dart in Oregon, and Isaac Stevens was appointed governor and ex officio superintendent of Indian affairs for Washington Territory.
		Upon his arrival in the territory, Stevens wrote the Office of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., suggesting that, to expedite the opening of lands, the Indians could be placed on a few small "temporary" reservations, later to be transferred to a "general" reservation somewhere in western Washington.
		Isaac Stevens used this tracing of a map by Charles Wilkes at the Medicine Creek treaty council in December 1854.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ohq/106.3/reddick.html (9033 words)

	Glacier NP: Administrative History (Chapter 1)
		When the Washington Territory was formed in 1853 and Isaac I. Stevens was appointed governor of this new territory, the first job assigned to him was to make a survey of possible railroad routes into the northwest, along the northern border of the country.
		This fired Stevens to continue the search for the pass but, as winter was fast approaching, he was forced to continue to his winter camp that was being established by Lt. Saxton in the Bitterroot Valley.
		Stevens proceeded alone in a blizzard and by evening had reached the pass and crossed it far enough to be certain that it was the true pass and that it was useable.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glac/adhi1c.htm (3769 words)

	Metcalf Top
		In 1822, my great-grandfather Isaac Stevens Metcalf was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, the son of Isaac Metcalf, a school teacher, and Anna Mayo Stevens Rich.
		In 1852, Isaac Stevens Metcalf married Antoinette Putnam, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
		Harriet and her eldest son Ralph died of pneumonia in 1894, and Isaac Stevens Metcalf died in 1898, at the age of 76.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~dhm1h/Metcalf_top.htm (480 words)

	NARA - Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		Simmons; to the superintendent of Indian affairs, Gov. Isaac Stevens, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; to the Office of the Secretary of the Interior; and eventually to the President.
		Stevens was anxious to survey a northern route for the proposed transcontinental railroad through the trackless wilderness of his new domain.
		Ezra Meeker, a severe critic of Governor Stevens's Indian policies, accused Stevens of being drunk at the councils and of having suppressed a speech of opposition by Chief Leschi of the Nisqually Indians in the official record.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/1985/spring/chief-seattle.html (2787 words)

	Fort Stevens
		On July 10, Early encamped at Rockville, Maryland, 10 miles from Fort Stevens.
		Supporting Fort Stevens were the guns from Fort DeRussy on the left and Fort Slocum on the right.
		The Battle of Fort Stevens thus marks the only battle in which a President was present and under enemy fire while in office.
	www.nps.gov /rocr/ftcircle/stevens.htm (649 words)

	History of Lake Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Believed to be named after Governor Isaac I. Stevens, Lake Stevens was first settled in 1886 on a 160-acre homestead along the east shore.
		From the 1920's to the 50's Lake Stevens was primarily a resort community, with many public and private resort beaches scattered around the shore.
		In 1960 Lake Stevens incorporated as a City with a population of 900.
	www.ci.lake-stevens.wa.us /cityhist.htm (279 words)

	White River Massacre
		Stevens told the Indians that if they sold their land they would receive great gifts.
		Stevens did the same with other tribes along the coast and the sound.
		Governor Stevens left the area to investigate the Blackfeet country and left his secretary John Mason in charge.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/94486 (411 words)

	American Masters . Isaac Bashevis Singer \| PBS
		Though his work often took the form of parables or tales based on a nineteenth century tradition, he was deeply concerned with the events of his time and the future of his people and their culture.
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 24, 1904 in Radzymin, Poland.
		Isaac Joshua Singer is considered one of the major Yiddish writers of the twentieth century, and was the first and greatest literary influence on his younger brother Isaac.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/singer_i.html (753 words)

	Beyond Lewis and Clark exhibit at the Kansas State Historical Society
		Isaac Stevens was chosen to lead the military survey crew mapping a route for a transcontinental railroad in 1853.
		A graduate of West Point, Stevens distinguished himself as an explorer as well as a politician.
		Governor of Washington Territory, Stevens was a military engineer placed in charge of surveying the northernmost route between the 47th and 49th parallels (latitude).
	www.kshs.org /exhibits/blc/stevens.htm (70 words)

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		In September of that year Isaac Stevens crossed the Divide into what is now Montana and proclaimed the establishment of Washington Territory.
		Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the eighth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, accept, ratify and confirm the said treaty.
		Civil war hostilities began in 1861 and (now General) Isaac Stevens was killed leading an assault in the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, September 1, 1862.
	www.skc.edu /netbook/04-treaty.htm (890 words)

	About Stevens County
		Stevens County was named for Washington's first territorial governor, Isaac I. Stevens.
		The Stevens Territory represented an area covering what are now 13 counties in eastern Washington, all of northern Idaho and much of western Montana.
		Stevens County currently ranks 23rd in population to the other counties of Washington State.
	www.co.stevens.wa.us /Misc/about.htm (347 words)

	Philip Kearny at the Battle of Chantilly
		General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson encountered the Union troops of General Isaac Stevens as they were retreating from Manassas, and a battle ensued late that afternoon amidst a torrential downpour.
		Stevens led a charge against the Rebel line, nobly bearing the flag of the 79th New York (Highlanders), and in the fury of the raging battle was shot through the temple and killed.
		To the left is the marker of Major General Isaac Stevens: Here fell Major General Isaac Ingalls Stevens with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp September 1, 1862.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6732/files/kearny_chantilly.html (839 words)

	STEVENS, Isaac Ingalls (1818-1862) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mills, Hazel E. Governor Isaac I. Stevens and the Washington Territorial Library.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 53 (January 1962): 1-16.
		Isaac I. Stevens, delegate from Washington Territory, on the Washington and Oregon War Claims.
		Isaac I. Stevens, of Washington Territory, on the Indian war expenses of Washington and Oregon.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S000881 (315 words)

	Stevens Hall Records, 1894-1966
		The records of Stevens Hall were transferred to Washington State University Libraries prior to 1980 (WSU 154).
		Stevens Hall, planned by the architectural firm of Stephens and Josephans, was built in 1895 to house women students.
		The records of Stevens Hall, ranging from 1894 to 1966, bulk largest from 1917 to 1930.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/ua133.htm (271 words)

	General Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		THE LATE GENERAL ISAAC I. STEVENS, whose portrait we give on this page, was born at Andover, Massachusetts, in the year 1818, and was killed on 1st September, in Virginia.
		When he fell, shot through the head by a Minie ball, he was bearing aloft the colors of one of his regiments, and cheering on his men in a furious charge upon the foe.
		General Stevens was small of stature, wiry and compact in form, with an elastic step which betokened great energy, and an eye whose keen glances evidenced rare genius.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leeFoundation/civil-war/1862/september/general-stevens.htm (620 words)

	American Masters . Isaac Stern \| PBS
		irtuoso violinist Isaac Stern is one of the twentieth century’s most renowned, celebrated and recorded musicians.
		Isaac Stern was born in Kreminiecz, Russia in 1920.
		Isaac Stern passed away on September 22, 2001.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/stern_i.html (442 words)

	Hazard Stevens Papers, ca.1861-ca.1930
		Hazard Stevens (1842-1918) was a prominent military officer who served in the Civil War, receiving the Medal of Honor for his service.
		Stevens was the son of Isaac Stevens, first governor of the Washington Territory (1853-1857), and Margaret Lyman Hazard Stevens.
		Autograph letter from Stevens to his grandmother (incomplete), 1865; Poem, "The Bridal," 1886; Typescript, "Reminiscences of a Journey in Montana in 1855," 1913; Letter from the Bureau of Pensions regarding Medal of Honor, 1916; Typescript, "Notes of a Journey of Governor Stevens and Family from Vancouver to Olympia, Washington Territory, in December, 1854," n.d.
	www.wsulibs.wsu.edu /holland/masc/finders/cg696.htm (436 words)

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