| LC control no. | n 88144880 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Beadle, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1838-1915 |
| Variant(s) | Beadle, William Henry Harrison, 1838-1915 |
| Located | Dakota Territory South Dakota |
| Birth date | 1838-01-01 |
| Death date | 1915-11-15 |
| Place of birth | Parke County (Ind.) |
| Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Army University of Michigan Madison State Normal School |
| Profession or occupation | College teachers College presidents Surveyors Soldiers Lawyers |
| Found in | His Dakota, 1888: t.p. (W.H.H. Beadle) MnHi man. cat., 1-22-88 (hdg.: Beadle, William Henry Harrison, 1838-1915) Wikipedia, January 6, 2020 (William Henry Harrison Beadle (January 1, 1838 - November 15, 1915) was an American soldier, lawyer, educator and administrator. Born in Parke County, Indiana. Died in San Francisco, California. Shortly after graduating in 1861, he enlisted in the Union Army and by the end of the war had risen to the rank of brevet brigadier general. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1867 and practiced briefly In 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him surveyor-general of Dakota Territory. His journeys through the territory and his previous frontier experience convinced him that school lands were a trust for future generations and should be sold at their appraised value and never for less than $10 an acre ($2,500 per km²) . This effort dominated his life. He served as secretary of the 1877 commission to codify the territorial laws and as chairman of the judiciary committee in the territorial House. In 1879 he became superintendent of public instruction. Beadle drafted the school lands provision at the South Dakota constitutional convention of 1885. When Congress accepted the state constitution in 1889, it was so impressed that similar provisions were required for North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming. This preserved 22 million acres (89,000 km²) for schools. Beadle served as president of the Madison State Normal School from 1889 to 1906, and as a professor of history until his retirement in 1912) |
| Associated language | eng |
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