MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE — A freshly minted Harvard degree in his pocket and a wealthy Maryland family behind him, Harwood Iglehart’s promising life veered west in the early 1850s thanks to a random meeting in Annapolis.
Willis Gorman, Minnesota Territory’s second governor and a pre-statehood booster, was visiting his son at the U.S. Naval Academy when he bumped into young Iglehart and his pal William Sprigg Hall. Gorman talked up Minnesota, where an impressive land boom was reaping hefty profits after Dakota land had been pried loose of the tribe in controversial treaties.
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