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unusual facts about Merrill C. Meigs


Merrill C. Meigs

In 1901, he took a job as a salesman for the J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company in Racine, Wisconsin.


Battle of Fort Stevens

The U.S. Army's Quartermaster General, Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, took command of an "Emergency Division", composed of federal employees who were armed during the raid, directly under the command of McCook.

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts

On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Democracy Now! screened a debate between Dunbar and James B. Meigs from Popular Mechanics and Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas, respectively the director and producer/researcher of the 9/11 online-documentary Loose Change.

Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln

Edwin M. Stanton, Gideon Welles, Hugh McCulloch, John Palmer Usher, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, and Montgomery C. Meigs left the escort at the depot, and at 8 A.M. the train departed.

Mary Meigs

Meigs was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward Browning Meigs and Margaret Wister Meigs, and grew up in Washington, D.C. Her great-great-grandfather was the famous obstetrician Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs, and her great-granduncle was Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster General of the United States Army during the American Civil War.

Meigs County, Tennessee

Colonel Return J. Meigs, who was to become the county's name source, operated a federal Indian agency across the river in Rhea County until 1817, when the agency moved to what is now Meigs County.

Othniel Looker

Governor Return J. Meigs, Jr. resigned to become Postmaster General.

Perrysburg, Ohio

The installation was named Fort Meigs in honor of Ohio's fourth governor, Return Jonathan Meigs.

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

Return Jonathan Meigs

Return J. Meigs, Jr., (1764–1825), Governor of Ohio, U.S. Postmaster General

Return J. Meigs, Sr. (1740–1823), American Revolutionary War officer, federal Indian agent

Whaleboat

During the American Revolutionary War, there were many whaleboat raids, including one with 230 men led by Return J. Meigs, Sr. to sack Sag Harbor on Long Island in 1777.


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