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lution with the name of one gentleman from the District 

 of Columbia, and one from each State and Territory. 



On the motion of Mr. Ellsworth, Resolved, That the 

 name of the chairman of this meeting be added to the 

 committee for framing the constitution. 



The chairman announced the names of the following 

 gentlemen as the committee: 



Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, District of Columbia; Hon. 

 James M. Garnett, Virginia; Hon. Chilton Allen, 1 Ken- 

 tucky; Hon. Oliver H. Smith, 2 Indiana; Hon. Thomas S. 

 Hind, 3 Illinois; Hon. Lewis F. Linn, 4 Missouri; Hon. 

 Francis H. Gordon, 5 Tennessee; M. W. Phillips, Esq., 



1 Chilton Allan, born Albemarle County, Virginia, April 6, 1786 ; 

 died September 3, 1858. Lawyer, legislator, president of the State 

 Board of Internal Improvements, Kentucky. Representative in 

 Congress, 1831-1837. See Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, 

 2:131. 



J Oliver H. Smith, born October 23, 1794, near Trenton, New 

 Jersey; died March 19, 1859. Author, attorney, representative, 

 and senator from Indiana. See Biographical and Genealogical 

 History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana, 

 1:245-46 (Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1899); Woollen, 

 William Wesley, Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early 

 Indiana, 196-203 (Indianapolis, 1883). 



s Reverend Thomas S. Hinde, Mount Carmel, Illinois. Contrib- 

 utor to the Cultivator and the Western Farmer and Gardener. 

 Pioneer advocate of agricultural education combined with collegi- 

 ate study. Advocate of a government department for agricultural 

 and manufacturing interests. See Cultivator, 7:153 and 8:14. 



4 Lewis Fields Linn, born November 5, 1795, near Louisville, 

 Kentucky; died October 3, 1843. Senator from Missouri. Physi- 

 cian. See Dictionary of American Biography, 11 : 282-83. 



8 Francis H. Gordon, Clinton College, Tennessee. Corresponding 

 secretary of the Tennessee State Agricultural Society, 1841-42. 

 Contributor to the Nashville Agrictdturist and the Albany Culti- 

 vator. Especially interested in the culture of silk and in agri- 

 cultural education. A vice-president of the National Society of 

 Agriculture. See Cultivator, 8:52 (March, 1841); Nashville Agri- 

 culturist, 2:61-62, 238, 252, 255-56 (March, October, November, 

 1841), 3:209 (August, 1842). 



