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had rendered his country, from the burdens of taxation, but I submit to
Congress that this just gift of the nation to the family of such faithful officer should come from the National Treasury rather than from that of this District, and I therefore recommend that an appropriation be made to reimburse the District for the amount of taxes which would have been due to it had this act not become a law."
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neither signed nor vetoed the bill, but held it ten days and allowed it to become law without his signature. In a message dated June 21, 1884, the
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in mid-1852, when Grant was taking a detachment of troops across Panama for eventual posting in Oregon, and
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and John R. Fouratt he sought to found one of the first ferry services across San
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A portion of this property later became the subject of a lawsuit that reached the
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how long it operated before being sold to another operator or shut down. He also engaged in real estate investments in San
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from 1849 to about 1853, primarily running between the west coast of Panama and San
Francisco. His ships sometimes carried as many as a thousand gold-seeking men per voyage north during the
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of North Carolina) on January 23, 1851, in the Pearson family home "Brentwood" in Washington D.C. They had several children; at least three daughters reached adulthood.
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