Statewide County, SD Biographies.....Atkinson, Henry 1788 - 1842
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Author: Doane Robinson (1925)

  Atkinson, General Henry, 1788-1842; born in North Carolina; captain, 3rd
Infantry, U. S. Army, 1808; Colonel, 1813; transferred to 6th Infantry, 1815;
Brigadier General, 1820; in 1823 commanded Dept. of the Missouri with
headquarters at St. Louis; visited the Dakota country at head of Trade and
Intercourse Treaty Commission, 1825; made treaties with all the Dakota bands and
the Arickara. Four military forts in the west were named for him, one of them
near Omaha, Neb. See Celebrations, Atkinson, Mary H.

  Hist., I. 181, 245-6, 304, 433; Robinson, 109-15.


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DOANE ROBINSON'S
Encyclopedia of South Dakota
FIRST EDITION

Published by the Author
PIERRE
1925

COPYRIGHT BY DOANE ROBINSON. 1925

WILL A. BEACH PRINTING COMPANY
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