Genealogical and biographical record of New London County, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the early settled families, Part 75

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Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1568


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Rev. Frederick Smith Hyde was born in Lyme, Conn., Oct. 3, 1866. He attended first the schools in Bayonne, N. J., and at the age of fourteen he spent one year in the high school at Manchester, N. H. His preparation for college was made under the able tuition of Rev. Dr. E. F. Burr, of Lyme, with whom he remained for three years. He en- tered Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1888, with the degree of A. B. For four years he taught English and Literature at the Syrian Prot- estant College at Beirut, Syria. In 1892 he attended Union Theological Seminary, New York City, grad- uating with the class of 1894. Almost coincident with his graduation came his call to the pastorate of the Groton Congregational Church, which he ac- cepted, and which he still continues to fill. He has been eminently successful. His natural oratorical gifts are supplemented by perfect sincerity of faith, and a conscientious regard for his duty as a min- ister of the Gospel. He is ever ready to answer any call to aid those in trouble, and his own cheer- ful disposition and ready sympathy have lightened many heartaches. He has been director of the music of the church during the whole of his pastorate. On Oct. 16, 1902, was dedicated the fourth build- ing of this church. It is a beautiful stone edifice, costing $25,000, and is a source of great pride not only to its members, but to the whole town. The


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deacons are: Thomas Miner, Thomas Avery and Capt. J. L. Randall; Sunday-school superintendent, Charles E. White; clerk and treasurer, M. M. Baker. When the church was erected the trustees were: Eugene Baker, Frederic Bill and Capt. Thomas Hamilton. The present trustees are: Eugene Baker, Capt. Thomas Hamilton and Pierre L. Schellens. In the beginning they started to raise $10,000, and on accomplishing that they added $5,000, and when they received $4,000 more they determined to have a $25,000 church, Morton F. Plant paying the other $6,000. The membership is about 200.


On July 19, 1894, Rev. Mr. Hyde was married, at Lincoln, Tenn., to Miss Matilda Strang, who was born in Cairo, Egypt, a daughter of David Strang, a missionary at the United Presbyterian Mission there. She, too, had been engaged in Cairo as a missionary. To this union have come two chil- dren, twins, Dorothea and Herman, born March 15, 1898. In all his work Rev. Mr. Hyde finds an enthusiastic helper in his noble wife, whose winning personality and high attainments have been of in- estimable service for the good of those who have been privileged to come under their influence.


JOHN FORSYTH, one of the public-spirited and leading citizens of Mystic, was born in Old Mystic, Conn., Jan. 27, 1836, a son of Capt. Peter Forsyth.


Capt. Peter Forsyth was born in Ledyard, and there spent his boyhood days. During his early life he engaged in farming, but after removing from Ledyard he engaged in shoemaking for a few years, and then settled at Mystic, and worked in the Greenman shipyard. Still later he started a yard of his own, two years afterward selling the lease to Charles Mallory. He built vessels and went to sea in them himself. After making a voyage in a vessel he would sell it, return home and build an- other, but after selling his yard he retired from active business. In addition to his other interests Peter Forsyth took great pleasure in fishing, and he was never idle. He died of rheumatism, when eighty-three years of age. For some years he served very efficiently as postmaster at Mystic, and was a stanch Democrat, wielding considerable in- fluence in his locality.


The Captain was married in Stonington to Thankful Hinckley Chesebro, who was born in Led- yard, Conn., and who died March 22, 1870. They became the parents of children as follows: Pru- dence Mary, of Groton, Conn., married Giles J. Wolfe; Lydia Amelia (deceased) married Charles E. Chase; John is mentioned below; Thomas C., a retired sea captain, lives in Mystic; Jennie (de- ceased) married Charles W. Clift and resided at Mystic, but died at Stockbridge, Mass., where she had gone for her health; William H. is a member of the United States secret service, located at Dal- las, Texas; Hannah B., Frances Elizabeth and El-


len lived to adult age; Courtland, Charles Mund Edwin died young.


John Forsyth spent his boyhood days in M tic, and learned shipbuilding with Mason C. Hill, Mallory yard. He also learned draughting


the ith him and was succeeding finely when the war hoke out, and went to Cincinnati as assistant su fin- tendent with Mr. Hill, who had charge of the ing of two monitors, the "Oneota" and the tawba," at the Niles Works. These vessels fere later sold to the Peruvian government. Mr. for- syth remained there for nineteen months. R fri- ing to Mystic, he went to work for Hill & l'in- nell, remaining with them for a time, wh he opened a provision and grocery store which h fon- ducted until 1887, and then accepted the polion of superintendent of building barges and tovtats for the Thames Towboat Co., at New Londo In June, 1900, when the Riverside shipyard was fab- lished, Mr. Forsyth had charge of the constr fion of the entire plant and appliances, all of which tere made in accordance with his plans. He was per- intendent of the Riverside Shipyard and Mine Railways until Jan. 1, 1905, when he resign the position. He has superintended the buildi of vessels in Bath, Maine, and dry docks in Erie [sin, although he has always been a legal reside of Stonington.


Mr. Forsyth married Annie Maria Crand: an adopted daughter of Mason C. Hill, and the be- came the parents of children as follows: Ant fette May died at the age of twenty-one years; fate Mercer married Ira F. Noyes, of Mystic, ancheir children are John Forsyth and Robert Angel


Mr. Forsyth is a member of Charity an Re- lief Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Benevolence Coter and Mystic Council, of the Order of United Aeri- can Mechanics, and of the Royal Arc um. He is a man widely known and universal re- spected, both as a private citizen and as a buless man. Politically he is a Democrat, and alt ugh in Stonington the Republicans at that time we in the majority he represented the town one tef1 in the Legislature, in 1874. He was a member | the committee on Roads and Bridges. He has ved two terms as member of the board of sele Then, and has held office as assessor and district 1001 committee man.


THEODORE BODENWEIN. The carr ot Theodore Bodenwein, proprietor of the New .01- don Day and Morning Telegraph, is a strikis ex- ample of the possibilities of American citizen hip. Born in Dusseldorf, Prussia, in 1864, he cafe to this country at the age of five, the child of Giman parents in humble circumstances. He got hildu- cation in a country school in Groton. an early age he showed an aptitude fo the printer's trade, and in 188I he becan an apprentice in the office of the New London Day. He passed through the different br ches


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of 4 business and from close application and ob- servion obtained a practical knowledge of the new aper business. By constant application he bec: e a ready and forceful writer. In 1885 he becife one of the founders of the Morning Tele- gra who rem which succeeded the old Evening Telegraph, eloquent mouth was closed by the sheriff. He led with the Telegraph in various capacities for e years. Then he disposed of his interest. In Sep nber, 1891, he purchased the New London Day hat had been founded by Major John A. Tib- well known writer and politician. The Day hadbeen leading a checkered career for ten years


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and as heavily encumbered with debt. The new


etor quietly brought order out of chaos, show- proj ing alm


re executive ability, and the paper was put at once on a paying basis. Its growth in circ tion and influence was remarkable. When he suco ded to the business in 1891, the circulation of y was not over 1,500. To-day (1905) it ex- the ceec the 6,000 mark, which means one paper to


six inhabitants in its field, which includes the ·ever art of New London county. In the first ten low


Mr. Bodenwein bought four newspaper year pres


·, discarding one after the other to accommo- e growing demands of his business. To-day, date he 1 one of the finest equipped newspaper plants in ( necticut. The Day establishment is one of


the minent institutions of New London on ac-


coul of the magnitude of its operations. In Jan- uary 90I, he bought the Morning Telegraph. His expe nent of issuing both morning and evening pap from the same office seems to have met with succ , as both papers are better and more pros- perc than ever before. The Day is Republican in polit , while the Telegraph is independent.


Bodenwein was married, Feb. 21, 1889, to Miss ennie Muir. He has two children, Gordon fag twelve) and Elizabeth (aged nine). He is a mer r of numerous clubs and societies. In poli- tics is a Republican. He served as alderman in


the w London Court of Common Council and as Sew Commissioner of the city, 1903-06. In 1904 he v unanimously nominated by the Republican State onvention for Secretary of State and had the please of being elected by over 37,000 plurality, lead his State ticket, and only 814 votes behind the we for President Roosevelt.


DREW H. BREED, a highly respected citi- Norwich, descends from sturdy New Eng- icestry reaching back to the early Colonial


zen land peri His paternal grandparents were Roswell rah Ann (Hancox) Breed, of Stonington,


and Con was


The forerunner of the Breed family there in Breed, a son of Allen Breed (2), and a gran n of Allen Breed, the progenitor of the Ston- ingto ind Norwich Breeds.


An Breed appears of record at Lynn, Mass., in 16. John Breed, a grandson of the Lynn set- tler, pears of record in Stonington as early as


1690, the year in which he united with the Church there.


John Breed, great-grandfather of Andrew H., was married in December, 1773, to Grace Palmer. He resided in Stonington.


Roswell Breed, grandfather of Andrew H., was born June 5, 1776, and died July 20, 1844. He re- sided in what is known as Breedtown, in Stoning- ton, Conn., so named because of the numerous mem- bers of the family that once resided there. He was first married, Nov. 1, 1801, to Sarah (or Sally) Ann Hancox, who died March 14, 1817, aged forty years. On Jan. II, 1818, he married (second) Priscilla Chesebrough, who died April 3, 1857, aged seventy- three years. The children by the first marriage were as follows: (I) William H., born Nov. 18, 1813, was married first to Mary E. Washington, and second to Mary E. Bugbee, who survives him with one son, William A. William H. was a black- smith by trade, and died in Norwich. (2) Edward, born Dec. 29, 1814, is mentioned below. By the second union there were five children: (I) Ros- well P., born May 5, 1819, died May 9, 1848. (2) Thomas A., born Dec. 18, 1820, died in early life. (3) Sally Ann, born April 19, 1822, died the same day. (4) Caroline, born April 9, 1824, married John Washington, whom she survived for a num- ber of years, and died in Norwich in April, 1903. (5) Prudence Augusta, born Nov. 6, 1826, died April 9, 1900, in Norwich, unmarried.


Edward Breed, father of Andrew H., was born Dec. 29, 1814, in Stonington, Conn., and his boy- hood days were spent there. He received only a dis- trict school education, and when a young man came to Norwich and apprenticed himself to learn the carpenter's trade. He resided in Norwich the rest of his days, and for many years was in the employ of Leander Griswold, a well known builder of Nor- wich. He died Feb. 20, 1886, his death being due to an accident received while at work some time previous. He was a quiet, hard-working man, thoroughly honest and reliable in all his dealings, and one who commanded the utmost respect from all who knew him. Politically he was a Whig, later a Republican, but he never cared for public offices. Mr. Breed was a member of the Baptist Church, was active in its affairs, and for many years sang in the choir.


On April 14, 1842, Mr. Breed married, in Nor- wich, Harriet Lee Hebard, born May 20, 1815, daughter of Gurdon and Irena (Frink) Hebard, who were married Nov. 27, 1796. Mrs. Breed, who was a most estimable lady, survived her husband, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry H. Gallup, Feb. 3, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Breed had the following children: (1) Sarah, born Feb. 13, 1843, died Feb. 26, 1843. (2) Frederick, born Jan. 26, 1844, died Jan. 29, 1844. (3) Charles E., born Sept. 19, 1845, was attending the Norwich Free Academy, when he enlisted in the United States Navy for service in the Civil war, and while


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in the service he contracted consumption, and died on April 17, 1865, at his home. (4) Harriet Irena, born Sept. 19, 1847, is the wife of Hon. Henry H. Gallup, of Norwich, a sketch of whom appears else- where. (5) Andrew H., born July 18, 1849, is men- tioned below. (6) Roswell A., born Feb. 2, 1852, is president of the Norwich Belting Company, and manager of their branch store at Chicago, Ill. (7) Herbert F., born April 11, 1858, died Dec. 9, 1858. (8) Fannie M., born March 7, 1860, died July 14, 1875.


Andrew H. Breed was born in the house he now occupies. He attended common school until the age of eighteen years, and then shipped on the "City of Norwich," which ran between Norwich and New York. After running on this boat for five years he was advanced to the post of assistant engineer, and was transferred to the steamer "City of Lawrence," continuing in that capacity for seven years, spending altogether twelve years on the Nor- wich line. After leaving the water he was for two years employed in the works of Thomas Drum- mond, at Thamesville, and then entered the em- ploy of the Norwich Belt Company, in their tan- nery at Greeneville, and for six years had charge of the machinery there. He next accepted the posi- tion of chief engineer on the vessel "Julia," which ran between Mystic, Fisher's Island and New London, and on which he remained a year. Coming to Nor- wich, in company with Joseph P. Monaher, he es- tablished a plumbing, steam and gasfitting business at No. 61 West Main street, under the name of Monaher & Breed. The partnership continued un- til March, 1903, when Mr. Breed bought his part- ner's interest, and he is now the sole owner. Mr. Breed is a Republican, politically, and he served two years in the common council. He is chairman of the school board of the West Chelsea district. Fraternally he holds membership in Somerset Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M .; Franklin Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M .; Franklin Council, No. 3, R. & S. M .; Columbian Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar ; and Sphinx Temple, Mystic Shrine. In Scottish Rite Masonry he is a member of Connecticut Sov- ereign Consistory, 32d degree. He also affiliates with the Odd Fellows, uniting with Uncas Lodge, No. II, I. O. O. F., of which he is past noble grand, and with Palmyra Encampment, No. 3; and also belongs to the Royal Arcanum. He and his family are members of the Second Congregational Church.


On Sept. 23, 1874, Mr. Breed was married to Hannah E. Sweet, who was born Feb. 9, 1856, in Franklin, Conn., daughter of Dr. Stephen and Phobe (Heath) Huling Sweet. They have had born four children: (1) Ellen Miner died in in- fancy. (2) An infant son lived one day. (3) Har- riet Ella was born Nov. 6, 1879. (4) Edward Almy was born June 21, 1881.


Mr. Breed's maternal lineage is from (I) Rob- ert Hebard (Hibbard, etc.), a native of Salisbury,


England, baptized March 13, 1613, who mwied there Joan or Joanna, and with his wife call to America between 1635 and 1639. They settle at Salem, Mass. Mr. Hebbard and wife, accord to Lay Kry.


Savage, were admitted to the Salem Church 17, 1646, and there had children baptized : Nov. 27, 1641 ; John, Jan. 24, 1643 ; Sarah, Ppt. 26, 1644 ; Joseph and Robert, May 7, 1648; Joina, March 9, 1651 ; Elizabeth, May 1, 1653; A fail, April 5, 1655 ; and Samuel, June 20, 1658.


(II) Robert Hebard (2), born in that pe of Salem now Veverly, Mass., was baptized (accoling to family genealogy) May 7, 1648. He m ied Mary Walden, of Wenham, Mass., and sett [ in that town. In 1694 he united with the Church ere, and in 1700 he removed with his family to ' nd- ham, Conn., where he and his wife died Ap 29, 1710, and March 7, 1736, respectively. Thei [hil- dren, all born in Wenham, were: Mary, bom lug. 18, 1674; Robert, born July 8, 1676; Joseph porn May 15, 1678; Nathaniel, born in 1680; Ebeszer, baptized in 1683; Martha, born in 1684; Jfah, born in 1686; Hannah, born in 1691; Sarah forn in 1694; Abigail, born in 1696; and :[lia, born in 1699. Of these children Robert fand Joseph settled in Windham, probably wo years or more previous to their father' re- moval thither. At a meeting held in Withan Dec. 10, 1700, a church society was organizedand the father and two of his sons attended it. Tlf as- sisted in erecting the first church building the town. The father is referred to in the reco., as one of the proprietors of Windham.


(III) Sergeant Nathaniel Hebard, born in 580, in Wenham, Mass., married April 16, 1702, rah Crane. Mr. Hebard removed to Windham w his father in the fall of 1700, the father purchasin and on either side of Beaver brook, in Christian eet. Nathaniel was a corporal, and served in an e edi- tion against Canada. His death occurred in pril, 1725. Children: Nathaniel, born Jan. 3, 03; Samuel, July 21, 1704; Anna, born May 30, [:05; Deborah, May 28, 1707; Nathaniel (2) ; Jor han, Oct. 23, 1709; Paul, March 4, 1712; Zebulor Feb. 20, 1714; Sarah, June 27, 1717; Elisha, Do II, 1719 ; and Gideon, May, 172I.


(IV) Paul Hebard, born March 4, 17 , 111 Windham, Conn., married (first) Jan. 6, 17 ,-36, Deborah Lawrence, or Mary, daughter of Snuel Webb ( former is according to Weaver), and sec- ond) April 30, 1741, Martha, daughter of Dodge. In 1760 Mr. Hebard was elected dista- ble and collector. He was also granted a tavn li- cense. For several years he was deputy she f of Windham county. For a short period he lind in Norwich, where his eldest child was born. The others were born in Windham. His children vere as follows: Elijah, born April 29, 1737; Nhan- iel, Jan. 18, 1741-42; Mary, Nov. 15, 1743 ; ona- than, April 24, 1746; Ozias, June 6, 1749; Allaaz,


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20, 752; Alimaaz (2), May 31, 1759; and as, D I, 1763. The father died Jan. 12, 1791, the if ther Oct. 22, 1801.


(V) athaniel Hebard, born Jan. 18, 1741-42, Vindam, married, in 1770, Mary, daughter of e, of Windham. Mr. Hebard died May ph A 1803 nd Mrs. Hebard passed away in 1804. ir charen were: Gurdon, born Oct. 29, 1770; ustu e 9, February, 1772; Oliver, 1773; Shubael, 75; and Nathaniel, July 15, 1781.


(VI) Surdon Hebard, born Oct. 29, 1770, in dhar resic married, Nov. 27, 1796, Irena Frink, in Windham and in Norwich, Conn. He a w elwright by occupation. All excepting eldes of his children were born in Norwich. y we as follows : Andrew, born Dec. 31, 1797 ; n, Fe Apri


6, 1801; Mary A., Jan. 12, 1803 ; Oliver , 1805; Lydia, May 19, 1808; George, y 30, IO; Fanny, April 22, 1812; and Harriet , May 0, 1815 (married Edward Breed). The er w: killed by a fall from the doorway of a at Bin Hill Dec. 17, 1829. The mother died . 24, ;6. She was born May 19, 1775, daugh- rew and Lydia (Sawyer) Frink, who ed Oct. 9, 1770. Andrew Frink was


of A e ma Jan '3, 1749, son of Andrew and Jerusha nk.


drew Breed descends from one of the ilies of New England. The members he Svet family have acquired a wide reputa- as boe-setters, and a history of the family ap- s else here. She is one of six children born marriage of Dr. Stephen Sweet as fol- le thi : (I 11 20, Hav James D., born April 29, 1851, died 379, was a bone-setter and practiced in (2) Ella L., born Aug. 9, 1852, wife nson 16, aynard of Norwich. (3) John Byron, 54, married (first) Elizabeth Rogers, ( seco) es in first ) Mary Lord. He is a bone-setter and wett City. Two children were born to trriage, Benoni and Elizabeth. (4) born Feb. 9, 1856, became Mrs. Breed. hah F Phol Estella, born April 28, 1859, is the wife rkins of Norwich, and has two children, mes belled Clarence. (6) Clara I., born Dec. 861, at U 862, he wife of Capt. Henry Phelps, and re- asville. Mrs. Sweet passed away March her thirty-sixth year. Dr. Sweet died h 21, 374, aged seventy-six years.


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This family is a famous one in the id States, and undoubtedly the most one particular line in this country. As heir authentic history can be obtained, dition, leading us still farther, we find ve always been accredited with ability


one ick a rom hey emil it degree for bone-setting, though un- ted i iny department of surgery, and as we alot: down the genealogical line we find pers ( Enent


he family that have become especially the practice of this art.


The Sweet family of Rhode Island, of which the Connecticut family is a branch, has been espe- cially distinguished through their more than 250 years of residence there as natural bone-setters, in which art many of the posterity of the emigrant set- tler in various parts of the country have become emi- nent.


Austin, in his Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, gives John Sweet as a settler as early as 1632, locating him at Salem and Providence, and as dying in 1637. He gives his wife's name as Mary. Job Sweet, of New Bedford, Mass., who furnished the data of the Sweet family given in the little work on the Robinson, Hazard and Sweet families, fol- lows Savage, and makes the emigrant ancestor James Sweet, a son of Isaac and Mary, the former likely having died previously to the emigration of Mary and her sons, John and James. James Sweet, of Wales, the recognized ancestor of this branch, came to New England in 1630, was of Salem, Mass., in 1631, an inhabitant of Warwick, R. I., in 1638, and later of King's Town. He settled near Ridge Hill, in North Kingston, R. I. He married Mary, daughter of John and Joan (Tattersall) Greene, and died in 1695. He had children : James, Mary, Benoni, Valentine, Samuel, Jeremiah, Re- newed and Sylvester, all born in North Kingston between 1655 and 1674. From this James Sweet, the Lebanon, Conn., Sweets are descended through Benoni Sweet (2), he being a descendant in the fifth generation from James, and his line is through Be- noni, James (2) and Job Sweet.


(II) Benoni Sweet, born Nov: 28, 1663, mar- ried Elizabeth Sweet, and they had children : James, Margaret, Benoni, Mary, Elizabeth and Thomas, all born between 1688 and 1703, and in North Kingston. Benoni Sweet, the father, was a cap- tain in the British service, and was a well-informed man. He gained celebrity as a natural bone-setter, and was styled "Doctor," but practiced only in re- storing dislocations. He was a regular communicant of the church, and officiated as vestryman until the time of his death, July 19, 1751.


(III) James Sweet (2), born June 28, 1688, married Mary Sweet, and they had children: Be- noni, Eben, Mary, James, Elisha, Freelove, Job, Elizabeth and Margaret.


(IV) Job Sweet, born Dec. 1, 1724, married July 5, 1750, in South Kingston, Jemima Sherman, and had children : Rufus, Jeremiah, Gideon, James, Benoni, Jonathan, Margaret, Lydia, Hannah and Sarah, all born between 1753 and 1774. Job Sweet early in life removed to South Kingston. He at- tained eminence as a natural bone-setter, and dur- ing the war of the Revolution was called to New- port to set dislocated bones for the French officers. After the war, at the solicitation of Col. Burr, aft- erward Vice-President, he went to New York to set a dislocated hip of Burr's daughter.


(V) Benoni Sweet (2), born Oct. 7, 1760, died Aug. 26, 1840. He had for a few years followed in


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the footsteps of his father, but removing to Leba- non, Conn., in 1793, he determined not to practice bone-setting any more, but to give his whole atten- tion to farming. This resolution, however, he was unable to carry out, for a dislocated shoulder in his own neighborhood, which baffled the surgeons, forced him again into the practice of this, his legiti- mate calling, which he never afterward abandoned during his active life. On March 31, 1791, in Kingston, R. I., Benoni Sweet married Sarah Champlin, who was born June 6, 1769, and died Nov. 17, 1833. Their children, all save the eldest born in Lebanon, were as follows: (I) Susannah, born Feb. 16, 1792, died Sept. 12, 1862; (2) Thomas B., born July 14, 1794, died Sept. 17, 1813. (3) Benoni, born July 20, 1796, died Sept. 5, 1844; he practiced bone-setting in Guilford, Conn .; he was the grandfather of Alfred N. Sweet, of Middle- town, Conn. (4) Stephen, born March 30, 1798, was four times married and died March 21, 1874; he was located at Franklin, Conn., where he prac- ticed bone-setting. (5) Sarah, born March 20, 1800, died in May, 1857; she practiced bone-set- ting for a time in Willimantic, Conn. (6) Mary, born Nov. 19, 1802, died Nov. 28, 1872. (7)




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