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Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879 [Members of Congress agree on Washington D.C.'s need for an Episcopal Church]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02288 Author/Creator: Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: February 3, 1848 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Written and signed by Congressmen John A. Dix. Cosigned by George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, H. Johnson, (possibly either Henry or Herschel Johnson), Robert Winthrop, John Sergeant, William D. Dayton, John Macpherson Berrien, and Joseph R. Ingersoll. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Nelson, V. Daniel (possibly Peter V. Daniel), and Levi Woodbury signed the document 8 February 1848. States that members of the Episcopal Church temporarily in Washington, D.C., need accommodation. Acknowledges that a subscription is needed to build another Church; states that the Church is also necessary for accommodating transient persons.

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Daniel, Peter Vivian, 1784-1860
Dayton, William, 1807-1864
Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879
Ingersoll, Joseph Reed, 1786-1868
Johnson, Henry, 1783-1864
Johnson, Herschel Vespasian, 1812-1880
Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856
Nelson, Samuel, 1792-1873
Sergeant, John, 1779-1852
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 1809-1894
Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851

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