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Alexander Harris - papers, 1857-1874 [selected pages]
MLMSS 6185/1

Teacher’s Third Grade Certificate.

No. 53
Brown County.

Common Schools of Wisconsin
Teacher’s Third Grade Certificate.

It is hereby Certified, That Alexander Harris has passed a satisfactory Examination upon all points required by law, for a Third Grade Certificate, and he is licensed to teach in the Town of Morrison, for one year from the date hereof, unless this Certificate be sooner annulled.

The following is his standing in the several branches, upon a scale of 10:

Orthoepy,
Orthography, 8
Reading, 8
Penmanship, 8
Mental Arithmetic, 8
Written Arithmetic, 8
Primary Grammar, 8
Geography, 8

Dec. 12th, 1864.

E. Hicks
County Sup’t. of Schools.

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Independent Order of Good Templars.

To Whom It May Concern.

This Certifies, That Alexander Harris whose signature appears in the margin, in his own handwriting, was, on the 18th day of April 1870 regularly admitted a member of Pine Grove Lodge No. 562 located in Lake Port and working under a legal and unreclaimed Charter granted by the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars, of the State of Michagan on the 19 day of August 1867 [?].

Having paid all demands against him up to the 29 day of April 1870, and being under no charge whatever, we have granted him this Clearance Card, and recommend him to the due regards of all the members of this Order.

In Witness Whereof, We have caused this to be signed by our W.C.T. and W.S. and the Seal of our Lodge to be attached in the Margen of this Card the 29 day of April one thousand eight hundred and 70.

James Bingham W.C.T.
Lottie Edmison W.S.

John Evans G.W.S.

We have no seal

[Signature in margin]:

Alexander Harris

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

Certificate No. 16.075

Whereas, Alexander Harris, of Brown County, Wisconsin, has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Menasha, whereby it appears that Full Payment has been made by the said Alexander Harris, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of public lands”, for lot numbered three of Section nine, in Township twenty-seven North, of Range twenty-six East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Menasha, Wisconsin, containing Thirty-three acres and twenty-hundredths of an acre according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General, which said Tract has been purchased by the said Alexander Harris, Now know Ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the several Acts of Congress, in such cases made and provided, Have Given and Granted; and by these presents Do Give And Grant, unto the said Alexander Harris, and to his heirs, the said Tract To Have And To Hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature thereunto belonging, unto the said Alexander Harris, and to his heirs and assigns forever.

In testimony whereof, I, Franklin Pierce, President of the United States of America,
have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the Second day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-ninth.

By the President: Franklin Pierce

By A.G. Baldwin: Asst. Sec’y.

M. Granger: Recorder of the General Land Office.

Recorded, Vol. 31 Page 229.