To John P. Usher1Jump to section
Sir: Washington City, D.C. Oct. 8. 1863
Please send me an appointment for Daniel W. Wilder of Kansas, as Surveyor General, in place of Mark W. Delahay, resigned.
A. LINCOLN
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[1] ALS-P, ISLA. Following the death of Archibald Williams on September 21, 1863, Mark W. Delahay was appointed to succeed him as judge of the U.S. District Court for Kansas, and Wilder replaced Delahay as surveyor general.