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title: 'Memoir of Hon. Jas. W. Lynd'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'Stephen Return Riggs'
date: 1880-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'Colonization'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 23'
- 'John 11'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/riggs-1880-memoir-of-hon-jas-w-lynd
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# Memoir of Hon. Jas. W. Lynd

Memoir of James W. Lynd (1830–1862): self-taught scholar, Dakota linguist, trader, editor and Minnesota state senator. He was killed in the 1862 Lower Sioux uprising, his Dakota research largely lost.

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