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11/5/2013: Railroads were beginning to stretch across the Territory. To create the illusion that the land was being quickly settled, numerous, unorganized counties were established.
12/9/2013: A meeting on December 3, 1888 in Jamestown, sought to lay the groundwork for statehood. The meeting went well, laying out a conservative, yet aggressive path. But in a recent development, a bill had already been introduced in Congress that admitted the State of South Dakota. It had passed the US Senate, and the Senators-elect had been seated. They were now waiting only for a similar response in the House.
1/19/2010: Senator James S. Green of Missouri passed away on this date in 1870. Senator Green is often credited, along with Representative Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania, with the organization of Dakota as a federal territory in 1861. As chairman of the Committee on Territories in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, Green was responsible for both initiating and moving Senate Bill 562 through the Senate. The bill called for the creation of Dakota Territory and for the creation of Nevada Territory.