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Winchester's history: Stephen Douglas, dentistry pioneer, and a dark past | John Dunphy
In 1877, Winchester was the site of the first lynching in post-Civil War Illinois. The victim’s name was Andrew Richards.Richards’s lynching drew a paragraph on Page 2 of The Great Bend (KS ...
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C.C. Andrews: Civil War veteran, international diplomat and Minnesota’s first chief fire warden
A Democrat, Andrews served in the Minnesota Senate from 1859 until 1860, when he campaigned for presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas. After the Civil War began, however, he and 20 young men ...