Edward D. Neill; Assistant secretary to President Lincoln: 1870 DS as Consul to Dublin
Set of documents consisting of ten sheets of paper of various sizes bound together by a green ribbon and wax seal. The documents consist of a request from a court in Indiana for depositions to be taken in Ireland and seven large sheets of depositions in a land dispute case. At the front of the pack of documents is a small part-printed form from the Consulate of the United States of America at Dublin, Ireland. United States
Consul Edward D. Neill signs this later form attesting to the signature of the Justice of the Peace who took the depositions.
Document size; the seven large sheets are 11" by 17" on rag-content paper. Mildly age toned, Tiny holes at intersection of folds, overall very fine condition. The small part-printed document signed by Edward D. Neill is 8.5 in. by 5 in. and bears the embossed seal of the consulate, it is in fine condition.
From Wikipedia " Edward Duffield Neill (1823 – 1893) was an American author and educator.[1]
Neill was born in Philadelphia. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania for some time, he enrolled at Amherst College and graduated from Amherst in 1842, then studied theology at Andover. After ordination as a Presbyterian minister, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1848 where he became pastor of the First Presbyterian church. He also worked as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Minnesota Territory in 1851–53, and served as chancellor of the University of Minnesota from 1858 to 1861.
During the Civil War he served in the army as a regimental chaplain with the 1st Minnesota Volunteers from 1861 to 1862 and as a hospital chaplain from 1862 to 1863. He worked for Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, who in 1869 nominated him United States Commissioner of Education to replace Henry Barnard, however, President Grant appointed him Consul to Dublin in 1869.
He returned to the United States in 1870, and served as the president of Macalester College in St. Paul in 1873–74, thenceforth as professor of history and literature.[2]
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" Assistant secretary to President Lincoln (1864-65), Edward Duffield Neill was an ordained Presbyterian minister and dedicated historian. At the beginning of the Civil War, Rev. Neill served as chaplain to a Minnesota regiment and later as an army hospital chaplain in Philadelphia." from Mr. Lincoln's Whitehouse
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