[SWEDISH-AMERICANS] [MINNESOTA] MATTSON, Hans

Reminiscences: The Story of an Emigrant

Saint Paul: D.D. Merrill Company, 1891. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; [iii], 314pp; illus. Trivial soiling to cloth; spine mildly sunned; Very Good or better. Page [iii/iv], "Notes", is a cancel. Text illustrations (halftones) throughout.

Mattson (1832-1893) emigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1851; he became an active abolitionist, reached the rank of Colonel in the Union Army, and later served as the Minnesota Secretary of State and U.S. Consul General to India (1881-83).

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