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for three months, and afterward for three years, or during the war. Dur- ing the first period named his company did nothing but drill, seeing no active service. After the first year had expired Dr. Rountree was appointed surgeon of Hardee's brigade, and stationed at Decatur, where he remained until a month before the battle of Shiloh, when he removed his patients to Holly Springs, Miss., and remained there with them until the battle was fought, participating in it himself. He then returned to Holly Springs and remained there until the battle of Tupelo, Miss., after which he was on detached duty about four months around Nashville, Tenn. He was then appointed surgeon of the Ninth Tennessee cavalry, and served in that position two years. From January to June, 1864, he was located at Port Hudson, La., and was then transferred to northern Alabama, and made surgeon of the Eighth Alabama cavalry, commanded by Col. Josiah Patterson. In this capacity he served till the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Port Hud- son, Baton Rouge, Columbia, Tenn., and many minor skirmishes. After the war closed, he located in Morgan county, and has ever since been engaged in the practice of medicine. He was one of the charter members of the Morgan county Medical society, and he is now one of the censors of the society, and health officer for the tenth and twelfth precincts. He was president of the society for ten years. He is a member of the Ala- bama Medical association, and also of the American Medical association. He is a royal arch Mason, a Knight of Honor, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was married, first in 1864 to Josie Thompson, daughter of Robert A. Thompson, of Morgan county, Ala. By this marriage he had one son, Joe L. Rountree. Dr. Rountree was married the second time to Georgia Thompson, sister of his first wife, and by her he has eleven children, ten of whom survive, viz .: Asa, editor of the Hartsell Enquirer; Mary, wife of Joshua Collins of Nash ville, Tenn .; Walter, John, Carrie, Roxie, Myrtle, James H., Bessie, and Charlie. Dr. Rountree's father was John Rountree, a native of North Carolina, and his mother was Ann Scott, a native of Virginia.
ELECTIOUS M. RUSSELL, probate judge of Morgan county, Ala., is a native of the county, having been born there January 28, 1849. His parents were Samuel E. and Marilda E. (Winton) Russell, both of whom were born in Morgan county. The grandfather of Judge Russell was Capt. Christopher Russell, a native of South Carolina, who came to Ala- bama at a very early day, being, in fact, one of the pioneer settlers of Morgan county. He was a captain of the militia, and was a prominent character in his day. The great-grandfather of Judge Russell was James Russell, a native of Scotland, who emigrated from his native country and settled in South Carolina. The maternal grandfather of Judge Russell was Samuel Winton, a native of Kentucky, who was one of the early settlers in Morgan county, Ala. Samuel E. and Marilda E. Rus- sell are both living, the former being in his sixty-seventh year, and the
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latter in her fifty-seventh. Judge Electious M. Russell was reared on on his father's farm and attended the country schools. In 1869, be took a business course at Eastman's college, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For a year afterward, he clerked in a store at Apple Grove, Morgan county, and in 1872 he engaged in business for himself at Somerville, Ala. In 1874, he was elected treasurer of Morgan county, and served in that posi- tion three years, still continuing in business, however, until 1880. In the latter year he was elected probate judge of Morgan county, after which he withdrew from the mercantile bisiness. . In 1886 he was re-elected to the office of probate judge, his term expiring in 1892. In that year he was defeated in the primary election for the nomination. Judge Russell was married November 13, 1873, to Miss Mary E. Parrish, who was born in Coosa county, Ala., March 17, 1848. Her death occurred February 7, 1892, after an illness of six years. One son, whose name is Edgar A., was born to this marriage, on December 30, 1881. At intervals during the period from 1873 to 1880, Judge Russell gave considerable attention to the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1890. After the expiration of his second term to office as probate judge he estab- lished himself in the practice of the law, and it may be said of him, that as he commanded such practice after having had several years' experience in the profession, his long service in the office mentioned must be of great service to him in his new profession.
WILLIAM H. SIMPSON, a prominent lawyer of north Alabama, now judge of the city court of Decatur, was born at Danville, Ala., July 15, 1857. He is a son of Stephen Simpson, who was for many years a suc- cessful merchant of Danville, Judge Simpson was educated in the high school of Danville and at the university of Alabama, graduating from the law department of the university in 1879. He immediately entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the state in February, 1886, and continued actively in the practice until his elevation to the bench. In the latter year he was elected to the legislature as a democrat. In February, 1889, he was appointed, by Gov, Seay, judge of the city court, and removed to Decatur the following October. In 1892 he was elected to the same position, the term expiring in 1898. Judge Simpson enjoys the distinction of being the youngest judge in Alabai. The court over which he presides is a very comprehensive one, having general jurisdiction concurrent with the circuit and chancery courts. The judge was married March 28, 1892, to Miss Mary Daniel Johnson, daughter of Daniel Johnson, who was killed at the battle of Shiloh, when Mary was an infant, and she was given the name Daniel in honor of her father's memory.
H. A. SKEGGS, real estate agent at Decatur, Ala., was born in Hunts- ville, Ala., May 12, 1854. He was educated at the schools, public and private, of his native city, and leaving school when seventeen years old
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he began clerking in Trotman & Sons' grocery. After being thus engaged two years, he removed to Decatur, Ala., and there acted as bookkeeper for L. F. Falk & Co., cotton buyers and merchants, till May, 1874, when he went to Cincinnati, O., and bought cotton for J. S. Goodhart & Co., of that city, for one year. He then went with Miller, Brown & Co., of the same city, and was engaged in the same line of work till 1877, when he went to Colorado, and spent two years there in the mines in the Georgetown district with varying success. In 1879 he returned to Deca- tur, and in 1880 organizeed the merchandising firm of H. A. Skeggs & Bro., and continued in the mercantile business until 1887, when he went into the real estate business alone. He has served four years as coun- cilman in Decatur, and is treasurer of the Decatur school board. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a Knight of Pythias. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is a vestryman of his church. He was married. in 1873, to Miss Sue Burkett, daughter of Col. Burkett, deceased, of Kentucky, and to this marriage have been born three children, viz .: William, Annie and Thomas. The father of H. A. Skeggs is H. A. Skeggs, a native of Maryland, who lives in Decatur. At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in Capt. Davis' company of the Fourth Alabama cavalry as a private soldier, and was at once promoted to be commissary sergeant of the company, and served as such until near the time of the surrender, when he was discharged. He served in the following battles: Fort Donelson, Lexington, Tenn., Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn., Dalton, Ga., Kensaw Mountain, Resaca, Atlanta, Cassville. He was captured twice first at Fort Donelson, and next at Parker's Cross Roads, being held the first time about a year, and the second time six months." He was married to Mary J. Hunt of Huntsville, after whose grandfather, John Hunt, the town was named. To their marriage were born three children, viz .: W. E. Skeggs, H. A. Skeggs, and Rufus H. Skeggs, the latter of whom died in 1872. The mother of these children died in Vicksburg, Miss., in 1858. H. A. Skeggs is at the pres- ent time president of the Copaco club, a social organization of Decatur.
WILLIAM E. SKEGGS, a prominent attorney at the Morgan county bar, was born in Huntsville, Ala., April 27, 1832. He is the son of Henry and Mary J. (Hunt) Skeggs. He was educated at Huntsville academy, under Prof. C. G. Smith, late president of the university of Alabama. He located in Decatur in 1871, and until 1878 he taught school in Decatur and Somerville, at the same time studying law. He was admitted to the bar in Somerville, where he practiced law until 1887, when he opened an office in Decatur. He represented Morgan county in the legislature in 1880 -- 81 and served as register in chancery for the county from 1883 to 1887. Mr. Skeggs has not only met with success in his profession, but he has also become conspicuous as a man of affairs. He is identified with a number of the leading enterprises of Decatur, among them being both the land companies, the First National bank, the Electric Light
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company. and the Cotton Compress company. Mr. Skeggs married Miss Celia E. Bean, daughter of Maj. Benjamin F. and Mary J. (Garner) Bean, of Morgan county. He is a Mason, a member of the Knights of Honor, and Knights of Pythias. In 1888 Mr. Skeggs was elected state senator for the third senatorial district, composed of Morgan, Cullman, Blount and Winston counties, and served during the sessions of 1888 -- 89, and 1890 -- 91. and was placed on a number of important committees, being chairman of the committee on education in 1890 -- 91, and he was a mem- ber of the committee on judiciary, and on redistricting and reapportion- ing the state the same year.
SOLOMON A. SPARKMAN, one of the prominent citizens of Decatur, and the leading business man of the city, was born in White county, Tenn., July 4, 1848. His father, Lewis Sparkman, was a native of Van Buren county, Tenn., and married Nancy Copeland of White county, Tenn., and settled in that county. In 1889 he removed to Morgan county, Ala., and located on a farm nine miles south of Decatur, where he now resides. His wife died in 1886. Solomon A. Sparkman was reared in White county, Tenn., and in Moragn county, Ala. Just after the war he attended the noted high school of Zach. Freeman of Danville, Ala., and received there a fair common school education. While attending school in 1868, he was married to Miss Nancy C. Thompson, of the Tennessee valley, daughter of Newton. Thompson, an extensive farmer of Morgan county, Ala. He then engaged in farming, at which he was exclusively engaged until 1879, when he became a merchant at Flint, Ala., where he remained until 1887. He then removed to Decatur, and engaged in the real estate and insurance business. at which he is now engaged, and also at the same time carrying on farming. Mr. Sparkman has figured con- spicuously in the politics of the county and state. In 1890 he was elected to represent Morgan county in the legislature, of which body he is at present a member. He has also been connected with the executive cam- paign committee of Morgan county for the past fifteen years, serving as chairman of the committee several times. . In 1884 he was a delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Grover Cleveland for the presi- dency, and during the campaign a son was born to him, to whom he gave the name of Grover Cleveland. Mr. Sparkman is a Mason, a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Knights of Honor. He was formerly a member of the executive board of the state grange of Ala- bama. Mr. Sparkman is the father of seven boys and four girls. His eldest son, Henry A., is deputy clerk and register of the county court of Morgan county, and is also engaged in merchandising in Decatur; M. C., the next eldest son, is engaged in merchandising in Decatur as a partner of his brother, Henry A. Mr. Sparkman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and his wife is a member of the Baptist church. His children are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, south.
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J. P. THOMAS, abstractor and notary public of Decatur, Ala., was born in St. Louis, Mo., in November, 1854, and was educated in the public schools of that city. Leaving school in 1874, he began to study the abstract business in St. Louis, and in 1879 went to Kansas City, where he established himself in that business as a member of the firm of Schueler & Thomas. He remained in Kansas City until 1883 thus engaged, and he then compiled a set of abstract books for Wyandotte county, Kas., which work occupied him until 1885. He then returned to St. Louis, remaining one year, and in October, 1886, came to Alabama and compiled a set of abstract books for Jefferson county. This work required one year's time, and in October, 1857, he removed to Decatur, where he has since resided. He is president of the North Alabama Abstract company, and is secretary and treasurer of several loan and building associations. He is a royal arch Mason. He was married December 31, 1890, to Miss Gardien, daughter of E. N. Gardien of Irondale, Ala., by whom he has one son, J. P. Thomas, Jr. This was Mr. Thomas's second marriage, he having for his first wife, Miss Joseph Sutton of St. Louis, who died in 1886, leaving no children. The father of M :. Thomas was J. P. Thomas, a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother was Ellen G. McCutcheou, of Missouri.
J. S. TURNEY, M. D., practicing physician at Hartsell's, Morgan county, Ala., was born in this county, June 17, 1858. His early education was received at the comomn schools in Morgan county, and afterward at the university of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Leaving school, he returned to Hartsell's, and commenced reading medicine wtih his uncle, Dr. W. M. Turney, and then attended medical lectures at the Vanderbilt university, graduating in 1882. He immediately afterward located at Harstell's, Ala., established himself in the practice of medicine, and has ever since remained there thus engaged. He is a member of the Morgan county Medical society, of which he served two years as treasurer, and he is a member of the Alabama state Medical association. He was married, in 1879, to Mollie Moore, daughter of H. S. Moore, of Hartsell's, and by her he has one child, a daughter, named Maud, born in 1880. The father of Dr. Turney is J. F. Turney, a native of Morgan county, Ala., a retired dentist. He was at one time county superintendent of education. He married Miss Sarah M. Simpson, and to them was born one son, Dr. J. S. Turney.
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MORRIS A. TYNG, prominent at Decatur, Morgan county, Ala., as an attorney-at-law, is a native of Philadelphia, and was born in December, 1841. His father, Stephen H. Tyng, was a native of Massachusetts, and for many years was rector of St. George's church, New York city. He married Miss Susan Mitchell, of Philadelphia, who bore him seven chil- dren. of whom five still survive. Morris A. Tyng acquired his literary education at Williams college, Mass., and graduated in 1861; he graduated in law from Columbia college. New York city, in 1863, practiced there
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for some years, then passed a few years in Ohio, returned to New York, and in 1887 settled in Decatur, Ala., where he has ever since stood at the head of the legal profession. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Episcopal church. His first marriage was in 1867, to Miss Christie, who bore him four children, of whom three still survive, and are named as follows: Elizabeth, Caroline, wife of W. E. Sawyer of New York city, and Susan. The deceased child was the second born, and was named Effie. The second marriage of Mr. Tyng took place, in 1891, to Mrs. Louise Savage, née Hamilton.
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EDWARD PORTER AMERINE, one of the most popular drug merchants of Montgomery, Ala., was born in Coffee county, Ala., in 1868. and educated in the schools in Butler county, and later in Montgomery county. Leav- ing school at the age of fifteen, Mr. Amerine went into the wholesale grocery house of J. R. Warren & Co., in Montgomery, and remained four years and then went into the wholesale tobacco business with his father. M. H. Amerine. and remained about eighteen months; he then went into the drug business in Montgomery, which he now carries on. Mr. Amerine takes much pride in military matters, and has been a member of the Montgomery Grays since 1886; was made corporal in 1887 and lieutenant in 1891, and captain in November, 1891. He is also a member of the K. P. and the I. O. O. F. Mr. Amerine was married in March, 1890, to Zadie Brown, daughter of W. D. Brown, and has one son, Warren Miles Amerine. Miles Henry Amerine, father of Edward Porter Amerine, was born in Georgia in 1847. He served in the late war in the Forty-seventh regiment under his father, J. P. W. Amerine, who was its colonel. J. P. W. Amerine was also captain of the Montgomery Grays from 1884 to 1889. He married Lena Lee, a descendant of the Lees of Virginia and a daughter of Col. C. S. Lee, of Coffee county, Ala. She died in 1890. The grandfather of E. P. Amerine was Dr. J. P. W. Amerine, who was a native of Georgia. He went into the Confederate service, first as a surgeon, then returned to Troy, Ala., his place of enlistment, and organized a regiment of which he was made colonel and served all through the war. He died in 1880.
SVEN JOHN ANDERSON, merchant of Montgomery, was born in Sweden, in August, 1829, and was raised on a farm. What schooling he received, he got in his native country and, in 1849, he came to America, and went to Wayne county, Miss .. where he lived one year; then he passsed one year in Washington county, Ala., then went to Mobile, in December, 1851, and lived there until November, 1872. While in Mobile he was in the grocery business, up to 1862. He served in the home guards until the war was over, and then engaged in dealing in grain and feed. . Next, he moved to Montgomery, where he is engaged in merchandising and
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milling. He also deals in hay, grain, and coal, and is doing a prosperous business. He was married,. in 1856. to Margaret H. O'Neal. and to this union have been born eight children, of whom seven survive, as follows: Olivia E. : Octavia, wife of C. E. Whetstone, of Montgomery, Ala. ; John M. ; Jeannette, wife of C. R. Wescott: Albert Massie; Charles Frederick, and William O. The parents of S. J. Anderson were Peter and Margaret (Svenson) Anderson. Both were born, and both died, in Sweden.
DR. GLENN ANDREWS, now of Mortgomery, Ala., was born in Tuske- gee, Ala., March 7, 1862. He was educated at the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Auburn, Ala., and Vanderbilt university in Ten- nessee, completing the course in the latter, in 1883, and then went to the university of the city of New York Medical college, graduating in 1886, and then located in Montgomery, Ala. He is a member of the Mont- gomery county Medical society, and the State Medical society, and his proficiency is universally recognized. Mark S. Andrews, father of Dr. Glenn Andrews, was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., in 1828. He is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and was a chaplain in the Confederate army during the Civil war. He married Miss Sallie Glenn, daughter of John B. Glenn, a native of South Carolina. The father of Rev. Mark Andrews was Mark Andrews, who was born in Vir- ginia, and emigrated to Georgia, and then came to Alabama, taking part in the Creek war of 1836.
ELLIOTT S. ARMISTEAD, general merchant and farmer at Pike Road. and tax collector of Montgomery county, was born near Snowdoun, Ala., in 1860. He is a son of Dr. William B. and Eliza C. (Scott) Armistead, the former of whom was born in King and Queen county, Va., in 1830, and the latter in Montgomery county, Ala. Both were liberally educated. Dr. Armistead came to Alabama a young man, married in this state, and is still living. His wife died in 1880. He was educated for a physician, and practiced his profession until the war. Since then he has devoted his attention to farming, and is one of the most extensive farmers in Montgomery county. He was the first democratic tax collector of Mont- gomery county after re-construction. He was a self made man, and ranks among the foremost men of the county. He now resides near Mount Meigs, where he has a fine home. His father, Col. William Armistead, was a Virginian by birth, and a man of considerable prominence. He came to Alabama about 1837, and for some years was United States mar- shal for the southern district of Alabama. He died before Elliott S. was born. The maternal grandparents of Elliott S. Armistead were Gen. Thomas B. and Martha G. (Mark) Scott, both born in Scottsboro, Ga., the former October 8, 1800, the latter in 1807. They came with their parents to Alabama, married here and lived in this state till their death. Mr. Scott was educated at Jefferson college, at Athens, Ga., was a fine Latin and French scholar, and was a wealthy planter throughout his life. He was a member of the legislature from Lowndes county when the
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capital was at Tuscaloosa. In the early days of the state he was briga- dier-general of state troops, was an active politician and very highly esteemed. "Both he and his wife died of yellow fever in 1853. His father was Gen. John Scott, a native of Virginia, and a near relative of Gen. Winfield' Scott. " He was liberally educated and became a man of great prominence. "He removed in an early day, first to Georgia and later to Lowndes county, Ala., where he died. He was a contractor and builder, and built the state house at Milledgeville, Ga., and many of the early houses in" Montgomery. He became a wealthy man, and contributed what is known as the Scott's Free Cemetery at Montgomery, and also sites for several churches in the city. He was one of the original con- tractors and founders of the Montgomery and West Point railroad, the first railroad'in the state. He was an indefatigable worker and made a large for- tune. Both he and his wife, Eliza Colman, died in Lowndes county Elliott S. Armistead is the elder of two brothers, the other brother being named George M. Mr. Armistead was reared on a farm and educated at Mount Meigs and Montgomery. He began life for himself, at the age of seven- teen years, as a clerk and bookkeeper in Montgomery, and in 1879 he established himself in the mercantile business in the same city, remain- ing there thus engaged until 1885, when he removed to Pike Road, where he has since remained. Besides conducting his mercantile business, he also owns a large farm, and manages other farms besides his own. He is the largest merchant at Pike Road. In 1881, he married Rosa L. Wit- son, daughter of Alexander and Mary Wilson, both natives of Lowndes county, Ala. Rosa L. was educated in Montgomery, and is a graduate of Montgomery Home college. On August 1, 1892, Mr. Armistead was elected tax collector of Montgomery county for four years. He is a K. of P., a member of the A. L. of H., and was for some time an honor- ary member of Lomax fire company, and assistant chief of the fire department. Col. Herbert Armistead, lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty- second Alabama regiment, who was killed before the works at the battle of Franklin, was an uncle of Elliott S. Armistead, as was also Maj. Robert B. Armistead of the Twenty-second Alabama, who was killed at the battle of Shiloh. Maj. Robert Armistead was a distinguished mem- ber of the Mobile bar before the war between the states. Both he and his wife are members of the Protestant Episcopal church. and highly respected people.
HON. THOMAS MANN ARRINGTON, judge of the city court of Mont- gomery, was born in North Carolina August 29, 1829; graduated from the university of that state in 1849; admitted to the bar in 1852, and came to Alabama in 1856. He began the practice at Tarborough, N. C., immedi- ately after his admission to the bar, and remained there up to the time of his coming to Montgomery. Associated with Hon. Milton J. Saffold, and later with Gen. Holtzclaw. he was in the practice of law up to the out- break of the war. In April. 1-61, he volunteered in the Metropolitan
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guards, which became a part of the Third Alabama infantry, and served with this command about eight months. While absent in Virginia, he was elected to the Alabama legislature, which distinction exempted him under the law from army service for the period of two years, but declin- ing this legal privilege, he at once, after the fall of Fort Donelson, helped to raise a company of which he became captain, and entered the Thirty-first Alabama infantry. At the formation of this regiment, in April, 1862, he was elected lieutenant-colonel, with which rank he left the service at the close of the war. Immediately upon its organization, the regiment was ordered to east Tennessee, where it soon after took part in the battle of Tazewell, and the investment of Cumberland Gap, and thence went on Gen. Bragg's march to Frankfort. On the return from Kentucky, but before the battle of Murfreesboro, it was ordered to Miss- issippi. The brave Col. Hundley, who commanded this regiment; was wounded in the battle of Port Gibson. and fell into the hands of the enemy. This threw the command upon the lieutenant-colonel, who led the regiment subsequently in many hotly contested engagements. He commanded at Tazewell, Baker's creek, Franklin, Nashville, and the siege of Vicksburg, and for gallantry was commended by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. He was also in numerous skirmishes. He surrendered at Vicks- burg, July, 1863, with the rest of Gen. Pemberton's command, which retired him from active service until after his exchange. In 1864, again in command of the Thirty-first, he went on Hood's march to Tennessee. His was one of the three regiments of Pettus' brigade that forced the passage of the river at Columbia, and captured the enemy's rifle pits, making what Lieut .- Gen. S. D. Lee pronounced, in his official report, "a most gallant charge," and was among the last to leave the trenches at Nashville. Though suffering much from ill health, he participated in every battle in which his command was engaged, except that of Mission- ary Ridge, from which he was detained by protracted sickness. One of the sad consequences of the war to him was the loss of two young brothers-the elder, Samuel, a delicate boy, who had won the golden medal for oratory at the university of Virginia, died from fatigue and exposure in the battle of Tazewell -- the other, Archibald, who had left the university of North Carolina to join the Confederate service, died from a wound received in the charge on Malvern Hill. At the close of hostilities, Col. Arrington resumed the practice of law, and in the spring of 1866 was elected judge of the city court by the white people of the city and county of Montgomery. In the fall of 1868 he was removed from office through the intervention of the reconstruction laws, and again resumed the practice, associated with the late brilliant Malcolm D. Graham, a partner- ship that existed for a period of ten years. He was again elected to the city judgeship in 1880, and re-elected in 1856: Judge Arrington was married in 1861 to a daughter of the late Judge George Goldthwaite, and has nine children. The ancestors of the Arringtons came originally from England,
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