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 * || Stephen Long ||  ||
 * [[image:long.JPG width="119" height="144"]] || Born on Dec 30,1784 and was one of the thirteen children born to Moses and Lucy Long.At the age of 25 he gratuated from Dartmouth College and was teaching school. Stephen joined the army in Dec.1814 as a second lieutenant of engineers ,and taught mathematics for two years at West Point. By 1816 ,Lieutenant Long had advanced to BVT major in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Bvt.Majors Long's first expedition was in 1817 to the upper Mississippi region,where he surveyed the potages of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and helped construct Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He died on Sep.4,1864. ||  ||
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