Note 65 — Front matter

Edward Duffield Neill, born Philadelphia, August 9, 1823, died St. Paul, September 26, 1893. Presbyterian minister in St. Paul, 1849-60; private secretary to President Johnson, 1865-69; consul to Dublin, 1869-70 and later president of Macalester College, St. Paul. Published extensively in American history and his History of Minnesota (last edition, 1887), is considered of highest authority. See Dr. Alexander Nicolas De Menil’s Literature of the Louisiana Territory (St. Louis, 1904), for a sketch of this writer and of many others whose names are prominent in the history of the middle west.