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At a special town meeting held on the nineteenth day of February, 1910, it was:
Resolved that Nathaniel A. Knapp, Edwin N. Chap- man and Martin J. Quinn be and the same are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and deliver the bonds of the said Town of Greenwich mentioned and provided for in the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, passed at the January Session thereof, 1909, in accordance with the terms of said act; and for a sum not less than par and to take all such action as may be necessary in the matter of the execution, issuance, sale and negotiation thereof, including the payment of a broker's commission of not more than one half of one per cent. to Saunder & Jones, 35 Wall Street, New York City.
The bonds were finally sold in April, 1910.
At a special town meeting held on the second day of October, 1909, it was:
Resolved that Nathaniel A. Knapp, E. N. Chapman and Martin J. Quinn, heretofore appointed a committee to co-operate with and assist the selectmen in preparing a proper and practicable funding plan to be submitted to the next annual town meeting, or the adjournment thereof, be dismissed.
Resolved further that E. C. Converse, Charles B. Allyn and William J. Smith be and are hereby appointed a committee to co-operate with and assist the selectmen in pre-
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paring a proper and practicable funding plan to be sub- mitted at the next annual town meeting, or the adjournment thereof.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN COMMEMORATION OF THE RIDE OF GENERAL ISRAEL PUTNAM AT HORSENECK, FEBRUARY 26, 1779. OBSERVED FEBRUARY 22, 1879. 1
The proceedings were inaugurated at sunrise by the firing of an artillery salute and the ringing of church bells. The old Knapp Tavern, in which there were many Revolutionary mementos loaned by residents for the occasion, was profusely decorated with bunting, as also were the public buildings and residences along the line of march and throughout the village. People began to pour into the village at an early hour in the morning and by midday the streets were crowded.
At twelve o'clock the procession, having been formed in Putnam Avenue, right resting on Greenwich Avenue, moved forward in the following order.
Sheriff Aaron Sanford, and Deputy Sheriffs John Dayton and O. Bartram. Wheeler and Wilson Band of Bridgeport. Grand Marshal Edward J. Wright. Aids, H. Frank June, James L. Marshall, M.D., and Jacob V. Close. Veterans of the Mexican War.
Veterans of the Rebellion, William H. Bailey, Marshal. Greenwich Light Guard, Company F, 4th Regiment, C. N. G., Captain Fred D. Knapp commanding. Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, Major F. M. Brown commanding.
President of the Day A. Foster Higgins, with Hon. Gideon Hollister, Orator; Colonel Samuel B. Sumner, Poet; and Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt, Historian.
Distinguished Invited Guests in Carriages accompanied by Members of the Reception Committee.
Chief Engineer James W. Finley and Assistants of the Port Chester Fire Department.
Putnam Engine Company, W. S. Chapin, Foreman.
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Putnam Hose Company, James H. Merritt, Foreman. Officers of the Town of Greenwich. Officers of the Borough of Greenwich. Citizens on Foot. Battery.
The procession accompanied by a large dense crowd of pedestrians on both sides, marched through Putnam Avenue to Put's Hill, making a circuit of the hill by the old road (now closed), thus coming in full view of the precipitous bluff down which General Putnam rode, and then countermarched back to the Second Congregational Church, where the public exercises were held.
The historic church was filled to its utmost capacity. The Putnam Phalanx of Hartford occupied the centre of the church, and their continental uniforms added much to the impressiveness of the celebration. A portrait of General Putnam, by H. J. Thompson, hung from the gallery, and the platform was decorated with plants and flowers.
Among the invited guests present were:
Hon. Gideon Hollister.
Colonel Samuel B. Sumner.
General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator.
Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell.
Hon. Talmadge Baker, State Treasurer.
Hon. William H. Putnam of Brooklyn, Conn., a great- grandson of General Israel Putnam, and a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Connecti- cut.
Jedediah Pendergrast Merritt of St. Catharines, Canada,
grandson of Thomas Merritt, the tory who chased General Putnam to the brow of the hill.
Hon. Oliver Hoyt of Stamford, Senator of the 12th Senatorial District, Connecticut.
Colonel Vincent Colyer of Darien.
Hon. Dwight L. Williams of Hartland.
Hon. R. H. Rowan of Norwalk.
Hon. William E. Raymond of New Canaan, Ex-State Treasurer.
Lieut .- Colonel J. N. Bacon, 2nd Regiment, C. N. G.
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Ex-Sheriff George W. Lewis of Bridgeport.
S. A. Hubbard and Captain John C. Kinney of the Hart- ford Courant.
Ex-Representative Bacon of Middletown.
Rev. S. B. S. Bissell of Norwalk.
Rev. C. E. Glover of New York.
Charles A. Hawley, President of the Stamford National Bank.
Rev. Dr. Rogers of Stamford.
Professor J. H. Van Amringe of Columbia College.
Rev. Matthew Hale Smith of New York.
John P. Hollister of Litchfield.
Henry W. Lyon of Westport.
Warren H. Burr of the Hartford Times.
N. A. Tanner of the New Haven Palladium.
William A. Countryman of the New Haven Register.
Hon. John D. Candes of the Bridgeport Standard.
Robert E. Day of the New Haven Union.
Frederick Penfield of the Hartford Evening Post and Boston Globe.
Joseph Ells of the Norwalk Gazette.
Henry W. Vail of the Shore Line Times.
Edward Z. Lewis of the New York Sun.
Lawrence A. Kane of the New York Times.
William W. Gillespie of the Stamford Advocate.
M. H. Babcock of the New York World.
J. Meads Warren of the Stamford Herald.
The assemblage having been called to order by A. Foster Higgins, President of the Day, the following order of exer- cises was followed:
Prayer. Rev. Charles R. Treat, Pastor of the Second Congregational Church.
Address of Welcome. A. Foster Higgins, President of the Day.
Reading of the Scriptures and Prayer. Rev. Charles R. Treat.
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Historical Address. Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt. On General Putnam and the events leading up to Governor Tryon's Raid.
The Poem. Colonel Samuel B. Sumner.
This poem on General Putnam's ride was composed by Colonel Sumner and delivered with great unction. Several verses were highly applauded by the audience, especially the following:
A supercilious Johnny Bull-the story goes-one day A visit paid to Horseneck Hill, the locus to survey. He turned upon his heel and said, "For all that he espied, He didn't see that Putnam's leap was such a daring ride. "
A Yankee heard the cool remark, and with a Yankee's wont,
To always have a ready word to answer an affront,
Inquired: "When Gin'ral Putnam rid deown that ere holler,
Of all your fifteen hundred men, why didn't some one foller?"
The Oration. Hon. Gideon H. Hollister of Litchfield. On the Life and Character of General Putnam.
Benediction.
The great crowd again filled the streets, and regardless of the fast falling snow, the procession carried out to the minutest detail the line of march, and in due course arrived at the Lenox House, corner of Greenwich and Putnam Avenues, where a collation was served to the officers and invited guests, over which the President of the Day, A. Foster Higgins, presided.
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Toasts.
"The Day we Celebrate." General Joseph R. Hawley.
"The State of Connecticut." Hon. Marshall Jewell.
"Greenwich in the Revolution." Solomon Mead.
"New England." Luther P. Hubbard.
"Old Put." William H. Putnam.
"The Clergy." Rev. Charles R. Treat.
"The 22nd of February." Rev. George Taylor.
"The Legislature." Colonel Vincent Colyer.
"Oldtime Foes, Longtime Friends." Jedediah P. Merritt.
"To Our Guests." Professor J. H. Van Amringe.
"The Press." Rev. Matthew Hale Smith.
Letters of regret were read from President Hayes, Vice- President Wheeler, Governor Andrews, General James .A. Garfield, and others.
At a special town meeting held on the ninth day of August, 1882, the selectmen were authorized "to erect in the rear of the town building a suitable brick building for the
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purpose of a lock-up at an expense not exceeding $1000.00, and that the work be commenced without delay."
In 1884, the inhabitants of the town were much exercised over the burning of a number of barns belonging to Alexander Mead, the ham-stringing of his cattle, and other depreda- tions, and at a special meeting held on the second day of February, 1884, the sum of $2000.00 was appropriated and offered as a reward for the apprehension and conviction of the party, or parties, setting fire to the barn of Alexander Mead on the night of the eleventh of January, 1884, and a secret committee was appointed to investigate the fire, who placed the matter in the charge of Pinkerton's Detective Agency.
At the annual town meeting held on the fourth day of October, 1886, it was:
Resolved, that the selectmen be and hereby are author- ized and empowered to construct a dock, or wharf, opposite the Steamboat Road at Rocky Neck Point, and that the sum of $2500.00 be and hereby is appropriated for the same.
At the annual town meeting held on the third day of October, 1892, it was:
Resolved, that an appropriation of $6,000.00 be and the same is hereby made for the completion of the public dock on the Steamboat Road.
At the annual town meeting held on the second day of October, 1905, it was:
Resolved, that the selectmen are hereby authorized and instructed to erect a pavilion on the town dock at Rocky Neck, and that the sum of $2000.00 be and the same hereby is appropriated for the erection of said pavilion.
At a special town meeting held on the ninth day of May, 1903, it was:
Resolved, that the selectmen be and they are hereby authorized to construct a dock at Byram Shore extending one hundred feet in length from highwater mark by fifty
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feet in width according to the map, or plan, submitted to this meeting, at an expense to the town not exceeding $1,000.00.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898.
On the night of February 15, 1898, the United States Battleship Maine, while lying peacefully at anchor in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, was destroyed by an explosion. The following morning the entire country was aroused by the startling message from Captain Sigsbee, "Maine blown up, suspend judgment." The officials at Washington took immediate action, a Court of Inquiry was appointed and sent to Havana to ascertain, if possible, the cause. The country waited in suspense the report of that Court, which on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1898, was delivered to the President, on the twenty-eighth of March transmitted to Congress, and "in the opinion of the Court the Maine was destroyed by the explosion of a submarine mine." Repa- ration was demanded by the Government, but refused, and on the twenty-second day of April, 1898, a proclamation was issued by the President declaring war. This was followed on the next day by a proclamation calling for 125,000 volun- teers. The greatest enthusiasm and patriotism were shown throughout the entire length and breadth of the land. Many residents of the town volunteered, and enlisted in the pro- visional regiments, which were organized for the purpose of going to the front, but the quota of each State was so small that only a small proportion of those eager to go were mustered into the United States service. The campaign was short and decisive. The protocol signed on the twelfth day of August, 1898, ended hostilities, and the treaty of peace was signed at Paris, on the tenth day of December, 1898.
3RD REGIMENT, CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
The 3rd Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, was mustered into the United States service at Camp Niantic on
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the twenty-second day of June, 1898. The first detail left the camp on the tenth day of September, 1898, via rail, for Camp Mead, Middletown, Pennsylvania. The regiment remained there until the tenth day of November, 1898, when it left for Camp Marion, Summerville, South Carolina. It remained there until the twentieth day of January, 1899, when it left for Camp Onward, Savannah, Georgia, where it was mustered out of service on the twentieth day of March, 1899.
COMPANY K. Smith, Frederick G. C., 2nd Lieutenant.
Corporals.
Boswell, William S., Gisborne, Frank R. Raymond, Paul A.
Privates.
Burnett, Harry, Dolan, Patrick,
Crawford, Henry P., Mead, Seaman M.,
Talbot, Frederick.
Mead, Harry A., enlisted in this regiment as a musician and was mustered into the United States service at Camp Niantic. He accompanied the regiment to Camp Mead and was mustered out of the service in the fall. He then re- enlisted in the 42nd United States Volunteer Infantry, as a musician, and was mustered into the United States service at Fort Niagara in December, 1898. The regiment was ordered to San Francisco, and from thence to the Philippine Islands. Here he remained for eighteen months and saw considerable fighting.
7IST REGIMENT NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARDS.
The 7Ist Regiment, New York National Guards, left its armory in the City of New York on the second day of May, 1898, for Camp Black on Long Island, and was mus- tered into the United States service on the tenth day of May
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at that place. The regiment left camp on the twelfth day of May, 1898, for Cuba, via steamer, but owing to the scare occasioned by the reported approach of the Spanish fleet the order was countermanded, and it was sent to Florida by rail on the fourteenth day of May. The regiment camped at Lakeland and Tampa Heights, Florida, until the seventh of June, when it was ordered to Port Tampa; took the transport Vigilancia and sailed on the fourteenth of June for Cuba. It landed on the twenty-third of June at Siboney and on the following day was ordered to the front. The regiment remained in Cuba until the second week in August, 1898, when it took transports for Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point on the eastern end of Long Island, where it remained until . the twenty-ninth of August, 1898. It was then transported by rail to New York and granted a furlough for sixty days.
It was mustered out of service on the fifteenth day of November, 1898, at its armory.
Principal Engagements.
Battle of Las Guasimas, June 24. Battle of San Juan, July 1, 2, and 3. Siege of Santiago, July 10 to 17.
Privates.
COMPANY A. Conover, James S., promoted to corporal.
COMPANY I. Kalb, George M.
During the year 1898, the selectmen closed that part of the old Post Road at the top of Put's Hill, which made a half circle to the north and east around the present Putnam Hill Park, and which was used until the cut was made through the rocks as the Post Road between New York and Boston. The following is on the minutes of the annual town
I See also Borough of Greenwich.
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meeting for that year, "action of the selectmen in closing the highway near the top of Put's Hill approved."
UNVEILING OF THE PUTNAM MONUMENT.
In the year 1900, a monument was erected under the auspices of Putnam Hill Chapter, D. A. R., on the brow of the hill, in commemoration of General Putnam's exhibition of rough riding at Horseneck on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1779. It is on the spot where General Putnam left the main road and took a short cut down the hillside to the road below in order to escape capture from a party of tories and cowboys. This monument was unveiled on the 16th day of June, 1900, and has thereon the following inscription.
This marks the spot Where on February 26, 1779,
General Israel Putnam,
Cut off from his soldiers and Pursued by British Cavalry, Galloped down this rocky steep
And escaped, daring to lead where not
One of many hundred foes dared to follow.
Among the distinguished guests present on this mem- orable occasion were:
Nelson A. Miles, Lieutenant-General U. S. A.
Hon. George Lounsbury, Governor of the State of Con- necticut, and staff.
Surgeon-General J. Francis Calliff.
Quartermaster-General G. B. Newton.
Paymaster-General J. W. Atwood.
Judge Advocate-General George B. Colwell.
Assistant Adjutant-General E. F. Landis.
Colonels Rollin S. Woodruff, John W. Low, J. M. Ullman, and Henry J. Steiner, Aides-de-Camp.
General O. O. Howard.
Colonel Albert A. Pope of Boston.
Compte de Sahune de Lafayette.
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Mrs. Washington A. Roebling, Vice-President General of the National D. A. R.
Mrs. Donald McLean, Regent, New York City.
The view from the site of this monument over the rolling country across which General Putnam rode on his way to Stam- ford, after he left the tories on the edge of the bluff gazing after him in stupid wonder, is most picturesque and interesting.
Since the year 1901 there has been annually appropriated by the town the sum of fifty dollars for the maintenance of this park.
At the annual town meeting held on the third day of October, 1888, it was:
Resolved, that the sum of fifteen cents on each one. hundred dollars of the grand list of the town last completed be and the same is hereby appropriated for the erection of a suitable monument to the memory of all soldiers and seamen, who were residents of and belonging to said town at the time of their enlistment and died in the military, or naval, service of the United States in the late war, and that Prof. William G. Peck, J. Albert Lockwood and Benjamin Wright, be and are hereby appointed a committee to decide upon a site for such a monument and to direct the expenditure of such appropriation.
The committee selected the site on which the monument now stands, and at a special town meeting held on the twenty-third day of February, 1889, it was:
Resolved, that the piece of land southerly and easterly of the Second Congregational Church at the junction of Putnam and Maple Avenues be and the same is hereby appropriated and granted as a place for the erection of a soldiers' monument and the committee appointed to select a site for a soldiers' monument are authorized and empowered to make use of said land for the location of such a monument.
UNVEILING OF THE MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE CIVIL WAR. OCTOBER 22, 1890.
It was an ideal day in Indian summer, bright, cheerful and invigorating, and such a crowd of people to enjoy the
PUTNAM MONUMENT, BOROUGH OF GREENWICH.
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clear air and delightful views had never before gathered within the borders of the town. The buildings and resi- dences were handsomely decorated for the occasion.
Early in the morning, men were to be seen about the village and at the depot, wearing yellow badges; these were members of the reception committee. The invited guests, as soon as they arrived, were taken in charge by members of this committee and escorted to carriages. Between eleven and twelve o'clock an express train with the Governor of the State of Connecticut and staff, United States Senators General Joseph R. Hawley and Orville H. Platt, judges of the courts, and others, arrived, and during the interval, while the procession was being formed, the Governor and staff were taken to the residence of George P. Sheldon, where a committee of ladies entertained them, and a repast was served, while Senator Hawley and other distinguished guests were entertained by Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt at his residence.
The procession was formed on Greenwich Avenue, right resting on Arch Street, and at 12.30 noon moved forward in the following order.
Ist Division.
Grand Marshal, Edwin H. Johnson. Aids, Walter Peck, E. W. Little, Dr. Beverly E. Mead, Seaman Mead, Henry H. Adams and Erwin Edwards. Distinguished Invited Guests in Carriages accompanied by Members of the Reception Committee. Prominent Town and Borough Officials in Carriages.
Members of the Press in Carriages. Citizens on Horseback.
2nd Division.
W. A. Robbins, Chief of Staff. Frederick S. Hastings, Aid. Wheeler and Wilson Band of Bridgeport. Lombard Post, G. A. R., of Greenwich, with some Members of the Port Chester Post, William H. Bailey, Commander.
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Buckingham Post Drum Corps.
Buckingham Post, G. A. R., of Norwalk, A. A. Hauschildt, Commander.
Douglass Fowler Post, G. A. R., of South Norwalk, Franklin Arnold, Commander. Elias Howe, Jr., Band.
Elias Howe, Jr., Post, G. A. R., of Bridgeport, James H. Burnes, Commander. Stamford Brass Band.
Hobbie Post, G. A. R., of Stamford, Elias E. Palmer, Commander.
E. D. Pickett Post, G. A. R., of Ridgefield, Seth Gilbert, Commander.
Samuel P. Ferris Post, G. A. R., of New Canaan, John Barber, Commander.
3rd Division.
John H. Gourlie, Jr., Marshal. Halsey W. Kent, Aid. Mertz Band of Port Chester.
Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F., W. G. Ferris, Commanding. Port Chester Cornet Band.
Knights of Pythias, Charles T. Hotaling and Henry Olm- stead, Commanding. St. John's Band of Stamford.
Oronoco Council, Knights of Columbus, John H. Arnold, Commanding. Greenwich Drum Corps.
Amogerone Hook, Ladder and Hose Company, Fred D. Knapp, Chief Engineer, Commanding. Citizens on Horseback. School Children from Mianus and Cos Cob District Schools with their Teachers.
Miss Jennie Smith, President of the Woman's Relief Corps, and Staff in carriages. Citizens in Carriages. Citizens on Foot.
The line of march was as follows: Through Greenwich Avenue to Putnam Avenue; through Putnam Avenue to the Field Point Road; countermarch by the right through Put- nam Avenue to Put's Hill; around Put's Hill by the left to
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Putnam Avenue; countermarch through Putnam Avenue to Tracy Street; through Tracy Street and Mead Avenue to North Street; through North Street and Maple Avenue to the monument, which is at the corner of Putnam and Maple Avenues. The invited guests and other distinguished individuals were seated on the platform, and the 2nd and 3rd Divisions formed en masse on the west and southwest of the monument. Among the distinguished guests were:
Hon. Morgan G. Buckley, Governor of the State of Connecticut.
Hon. Samuel E. Merwin, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Connecticut.
General Henry Hungerford, of the Governor's Staff.
General Embler.
Colonel George M. White, Assistant Adjutant-General.
Hon. Charles B. Andrews, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors.
Hon. Elisha Carpenter, Edward W. Seymour, and David
Torrance, Assistant Judges of the Supreme Court of Errors.
General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator.
Orville H. Platt, United States Senator.
Judges Lucius P. Deming of New Haven and Silas A. Robinson of Middletown.
Hon. John T. Waite of Norwich, Member of Congress.
Hon. Frederick Miles, Congressman, 4th Congressional District.
Colonel Dewey.
Lieutenant Lyman S. Catlin.
Hon. Benjamin C. Mead of Ridgefield, Senator of the 27th (12th) Senatorial District.
W. A. Abendroth, Herman Marshall, and John Diehl of Port Chester.
Captain Middleton and Amos M. Lyman.
Commanders Fenton and Smith, and Chaplain Miller of the G. A. R.
John C. Broach, Commander of the G. A. R., and Staff.
General E. S. Greely, Colonel William H. Noble, and Colonel Huss.
Lieutenant W. E. Morgan, Captain Blackman, and Captain Peck.
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Rev. Benjamin M. Wright, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Kent.
The assemblage was called to order by Lieutenant Ben- jamin Wright, Company C, 10th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Chairman, who announced the Presi- dent and Officers of the Day, after which the following order of exercises was followed :
President of the Day. Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt, Presided.
Prayer. Rev. Washington Choate, Pastor of the Second Congrega- tional Church.
Address. Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt.
Unveiling of the Monument. Mrs. Louisa Ritch, widow of Daniel M. Mead, Major, Ioth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.
Presentation of the Monument to the Town of Greenwich Lieutenant Benjamin Wright, Chairman.
Acceptance of the Monument on behalf of the Town of Greenwich.
J. Albert Lockwood, Sergeant, 28th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Ist Selectman.
Star Spangled Banner. Sung by the Choral Union.
Address. General Joseph R. Hawley, United States Senator.
America. Sung by the Choral Union.
Benediction. Rev. J. T. Wills, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, BOROUGH OF GREENWICH.
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The procession was again soon on the move, the invited guests were taken to the Lenox House, corner of Greenwich and Putnam Avenues, where a collation was served, presided over by Colonel Hoyt, President of the Day.
Toasts. "The State of Connecticut." Lieutenant-Governor Samuel E. Merwin.
"The United States." Orville H. Platt, United States Senator.
"The Women of Greenwich during the Civil War."
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