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Samuel Pearce Jennison, Librarian, 1860-1861

Publications by Samuel Pierce Jennison

Letter From S.P. Jennison Describing the Heroics of the 2nd Regiment at Mill Spring – March 10, 1862
Col. Jennison to His Regiment - His Address to His Old Soldiers, Lake City Leader, Nov. 3, 1866, p.6, column 1
Samuel P. Jennison, “The Illusions of a Soldier”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle. (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 369-380
How Pierce was Nominated, Minneapolis Journal, Dec. 16, 1903, p.5, column 1
Letter to the editor from Jennison

1860 Annual Report

Publications About Samuel Pierce Jennison

Pen pictures of St. Paul, Minnesota, and biographical sketches of old settlers : from the earliest settlement of the city, up to and including the year 1857 by T.M. Newson
Publication Date: 1886
Link goes to pg. 662, section about Samuel Jennison.
Minnesota Biographies, Vol. 14 of Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society
Call Number: Special Collections Room F601 .M66
Publication Date: 1912
Link goes to page with entry on S.P. Jennison

Newspaper articles

Married. St. Paul Weekly Minnesotian, Aug. 21, 1858, p.3, column 8
Married in N. H. to Lucia Wood
St. Paul Philharmonic Society, St. Paul Weekly Minnesotian, Jan. 8, 1859, p.4, column 3
S.P. Jennison elected president of the society
Veto Messages - Legislative Blundering, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, Jan. 27, 1860, p.4, column 6
Field and Staff Officers, Chatfield Democrat, Oct. 19, 1861, p.2, column 3
S.P. Jennison, Second Lieutenant, Company D
Adjutant of the Second, St. Paul Daily Press, Feb. 7, 1862, p. 1, column 5
Jennison promoted
Tenth Regiment, Stillwater Messenger, Nov. 11, 1862, p.3, column 2
Our Army Correspondence - Minnesota Regiments in the Battle at Nashville - Casualties, Weekly Pioneer and Democrat, Dec. 30, 1864, p. 3, column 5
Jennison wounded in the battle
Breveted Generals, Chatfield Democrat, Aug. 5, 1865, p. 2, column 5
Minnesota Legislature, Chatfield Democrat, Jan. 12, 1867, p.3, column 4
Jennison Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives
State News, Wabasha Weekly Herald, April 25, 1867, p.1, column 6
Jennison appointed private secretary to Governor Marshall.
Mass Meeting at Wasioja, Dodge County Republican, Oct. 19, 1867, p.1, column 5
Jennison gives a speech.
Army Re-Union, Minneapolis Tribune, July 16, 1869, p.4, column 2
Jennison re-elected president
Minnesota News, St. Cloud Journal, Aug. 19, 1869, p.2, column 4
Jennison starting a new paper in Meeker County.
Gen. S.P. Jennison...Dodge County Republican, Oct. 8, 1869, p. 1, column 2
Editor of the Goodhue County Republican
Personal, Freeborn County Standard, July 6, 1871, p.3, column 1
Secretary of State, Mantorville Express, July 7, 1871, p.2, column 2
Gen. Jennison's Pension, Stillwater Messenger, Sept. 15, 1871, p.1, column 4
Minnesota Legislature - Fourteenth Annual Session - Joint Convention, Minneapolis Daily Tribune, Jan. 5, 1872, p.4, column 5
Jennison elected and sworn in.
Political - Last Meeting of the Young Men's Grand and Wilson Club- Speech by Gen. S. P. Jennison, Minneapolis Daily Tribune, Oct. 30, 1872, p. 4, column 4
S. L. Pierce, esq.... Mantorville Express, Dec. 13, 1872, p.3, column 2
How to Get An Office, Minnesota Record, May 31, 1873, p.2, column 3
Newspaper dispute and Scandinavian assistant
Secretary of State, Lake City Leader, June 13, 1873, p.1, column 6
The University - The Ninth Annual Commencement Exercises Yesterday Forenoon - The Class - Biographical Reference to the Members of It - James Jennison..., The Minneapolis Tribune, June 3, 1881, p. 7, column 3
Son James graduating from college
The St. Paul Dispatch changes editors... Wabasha County Herald, Sept. 14, 1881, p.1, column 8
Gen. S.P. Jennison... New Ulm Weekly Review, Jan. 18, 1882, p.2, column 1
Appointed Governor's Secretary
Stately Functionaries - His Private Secretary the Large-Sized and Witty Gen. Jennison, with Musical Tastes, St. Paul Daily Globe, March 15, 1885, p.1, column 4
Includes drawing. Biography starts directly above the image of Fred Von Baumbach.
He is Probably Fooling, St. Paul Daily Globe, April 14, 1886, p.2, column 1
Includes a drawing. Will he or won't he run for governor?
The Campaign Opened, The News [Zumbrota, MN], Oct. 7, 1886, p.1, column 5
Speech by Jennison
"Illusions in Battle," St. Paul Daily Globe, April 7, 1887, p.2, column 2
Death of Theodore Jennison, St. Paul Daily Globe, Aug. 10, 1887, p.2, column 4
Death of Theodore (age 17), youngest son of Jennison
Herbert Out, Jennison In, St. Paul Daily Globe, Jan. 24, 1888, p. 4, column 4
Management of Red Wing Printing Company and Daily Republican
Clans and Clubs Represented at the Big Republican Gathering at Minneapolis, St. Paul Daily Globe, Feb. 3, 1888, p.1, column 1
Includes a drawing of Jennison
Gen. Jennison Makes a Defense of Himself, St. Paul Daily Globe, Sept. 7, 1888, p.1, column 5
Gen. S.P. Jennison... The News [Zumbrota, MN], Oct. 2, 1891, p. 4, column 2
Jennison's report from the fair
Jennison Explains, St. Paul Daily Globe, Aug. 26, 1892, p.4, column 6
Gen. Jennison Reports, Minneapolis Tribune, Oct. 12, 1892, p.1, column 3
Gen. Jennison Retires, St. Paul Daily Globe, April 4, 1894, p.4, column 4
Local News, Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Jennison... Zumbrota Independent, Nov. 4, 1897, p.4, column 2
Looking for a place to settle in California
Time Has Not Changed Him, Rochester Post, Jan. 14, 1898, p.3, column 5
Gen. S. P. Jennison... Faribault Journal, Jan. 3, 1899, p.1, column 5
Jennison purchased an orange grove in California
The Red Wing Republican says... Faribault Journal, Jan. 10, 1899, p.1, column 5
Dates Jennison worked for governors as private secretary
Died at Covina, Cal... Zumbrota Independent, June 8, 1899, p.4, column 2
Jennison's son, S.W. Jennison, died at age 30

Prosecution Must Make Ready It's Evidence in the Fruit Case, Los Angeles Herald, April 26, 1904, p.3
Includes portrait

Orange Folks Plan for Future, San Bernardino Sun, March 13, 1906, p.2, column 2

Archival Collections

St. Paul Musical Society, Society scrapbook, 1863-1879.
Call Number: Gale Family Library at the Minnesota Historical Society
Samuel P. Jennison (musical director 1868-1869)

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