268 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



Mississippi ; Hon. Dixon H. Lewis, 1 Alabama ; Hon. Alex 

 Mouton, 2 Louisiana; Hon. Wm. S. Fulton, 3 Arkansas; 

 Hon. Augustus C. Dodge, 4 Iowa; Gov. James D. Doty, 5 

 Wisconsin; Hon. William Woodbridge, 6 Michigan; Wm. 

 Neff, Esq, Ohio; Wm. P. Kinza, Esq., Pennsylvania; Ed- 

 mund D. Morris, Esq., 7 New Jersey; Dr. James W. 

 Thompson, Delaware; Hon. John S. Skinner, 8 Maryland; 



1 Dixon Hall Lewis, born August 10, 1802, probably in Dinwiddie 

 County, Virginia; died October 25, 1848. Lawyer. Representa- 

 tive and senator from Alabama. See Dictionary of American Biog- 

 raphy, 11:209-10. 



2 Alexander Mouton, born November 19, 1804 ; died February 

 12, 1885. Governor of Louisiana and United States senator. Law- 

 yer. Interested in railroads and agriculture. Op. cit., 13:295. 



3 William S. Fulton, born June 2, 1795, in Cecil County, Mary- 

 land; died August 15, 1844. Lawyer, governor of Arkansas Ter- 

 ritory, and senator from Arkansas, 1836-1844. Fought public 

 land manipulation. See sketch in Shinn, Josiah H., Pioneers and 

 Makers of Arkansas (Genealogical and Historical Publishing Com- 

 pany, Little Rock, 1908). 



4 Augustus Caesar Dodge, born January 2, 1812, in Ste. Gene- 

 vieve, Missouri; died November 20, 1883. Senator from Iowa. 

 Minister to Spain. Interested in western lands. See Dictionary 

 of American Biography, 5:344. 



6 James Duane Doty, born November 5, 1799, in Salem, Wash- 

 ington County, New York; died June 13, 1865. Politician and 

 speculator in western lands in Michigan and Wisconsin. Member 

 of Congress from Wisconsin. Superintendent of Indian Affairs 

 and governor of Utah Territory. Op. cit., 5:390-91. 



6 William Woodbridge, born August 20, 1780, at Norwich, Con- 

 necticut; died October 20, 1861, at Detroit, Michigan. Lawyer, 

 governor of Michigan, 1840-1841, and senator from Michigan, 

 1841-1847. See American Biographical History of Eminent and 

 Self -Made Men . . . Michigan Volume, dist. 1 : 156-58 (Western 

 Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati, 1878). 



7 Edmund Morris, born August 28, 1804, Burlington, New Jer- 

 sey; died May 4, 1874. Newspaper editor. Wrote Ten Acres 

 Enough for Intensive Gardening (1844). Experimented with silk 

 culture. See Dictionary of American Biography, 13:204-5. 



8 John Stuart Skinner, born February 22, 1788, in Maryland; 

 died at Baltimore, March 21, 1851. Established the American 

 Farmer, 1819, the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, 

 1829, the Farmers' Library and Monthly Journal of Agriculture, 



