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land Ray and Jesse Riggs came into the town- ship from Roseville in 1840, Mr. Ray locating on Section 35, where he resided until his death, and Mr. Riggs on Section 25, and later moving again into Roseville. Matthias Armsby, father of George and Fred E. Armsby, of Monmouth, was as early as any one in the west part of the township, settling on Section 8 in 1841, coming there from Monmouth. He at one time owned a vast amount of land in the north and west parts of the township, and much of it is still in the hands of his sons. James Dickson and his family settled on Section 31, and one of his sons owned the Larchland townsite. For a number of years their settlement was known as the "Half Way Place." Asa Ogden and Henry Howard were also among the early set- tlers, and so was Jacob Jewell, who later moved into Monmouth, dying there.
The County Farm is in this township, on the north part of Sections 29 and 30. It was purchased by the county in 1857, and the build- ings were erected during that year and the one following.
The location and date of the first school in the township are not remembered. The latest report to the County Superintendent of Schools showed that there were then in the township eight school districts, with one brick and seven frame buildings. There were three male teach- ers receiving from $35 to $45 per month each, and six female teachers receiving from $30 to $51 per month. There were 112 males and 106 females of school age, of whom 97 males and 91 females were enrolled. There were three school libraries, with 79 volumes valued at $199; the tax levy for schools was $3,100; the value of school property was $6,500; and the value of school apparatus was $410.
The assessment rolls for 1901 showed that there were then in the township 942 horses worth $46,745; 2,341 cattle worth $68,855; 45 mules and asses worth $3,625; 110 sheep worth $425; and 2,447 hogs worth $10,570. The total valuation of personal property in the town- ship was $230,795, and the assessed valuation $45,595. The assessed valuation of lands was $259,095, and of lots $1,135.
The population of Lenox Township in 1900 was 885, a gain of 48 over that of 1890.
The township is well supplied with stations and postoffices. The oldest is Larchland on the St. Louis division of the Burlington Route. On the Iowa Central is Phelps, named after
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Hon. Delos P. Phelps, one of the promoters of the road. It is at the southeast corner of Sec- tion 13, and is quite a shipping point, es- pecially for cattle and grain. On the Santa Fe are Ormonde and Nemo, Ormonde on the east side of Section 16, and Nemo on the south- west quarter of Section 11 at the crossing of the Santa Fe and Iowa Central. Phelps and Nemo have never been platted.
ORMONDE.
Ormonde was surveyed and platted by T. S. McClanahan, June 5, 1888, B. F. Arnold and W. W. Washburn owning the townsite. The town consists of ten blocks, only six of which were divided into lots. The postoffice at Ormonde, known as Zulu until May 3, 1895, was establish- ed soon after the building of the railroad. Henry Holgate was the first postmaster, and still serves in that capacity.
LARCHLAND.
Larchland was laid out under the name of Lenox January 10, 1870, by J. B. Mccullough, county surveyor, and was the first of the War- ren county towns on the Rock Island and St. Louis division of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. It is on the southeast quar- ter of Section 30 and the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of Section 31 in Lenox township. The land was owned by C. C. Dick- son. He came to the township in 1834, when there was but one house between his and Monmouth.
The postoffice at Lenox was established July 1, 1856, with John O. Sherwin as postmaster. The next summer the name was changed to Cane Run, but soon afterward was made Lenox again. For the past several years both town and postoffice have been known as Larchland.
The Larchland Camp No. 5641, Modern Woodmen of America, was organized August 23, 1898, with twelve members. The officers were: E. L. Fernald, Venerable Consul; D. A. Holgate, Worthy Adviser; Oscar Ewan, Bank- er; G. O. Killey, Clerk; C. E. Moore, Watchman; S. Fernald, Escort; J. Lee, Sentry.
TOWN LINE.
In August, 1861, a postoffice was established on the west township line and called Town
Line. A. H. Tracy was postmaster. It was soon discontinued.
CHURCHES.
A Presbyterian church was organized in Larchland in December, 1859, seventeen mem- bers bringing letters from the First Presby- terian church of Monmouth in order to get it started. In 1863 or 1864 a comfortable house of worship was erected, largely through the efforts of the Dicksons, who donated a lot, and at one time there was quite & prosper- ous congregation. Owing to removals and other causes the church became weakened, and was disbanded early in the '70s. The Metho- dists now occupy their church building.
The Methodist Protestant church at Larch- land known as Grace Chapel, grew out of a successful series of revival meetings held there in 1876. The society bought the old Presby- terian church after that organization disband- ed, for $300. It belongs to the Liberty Chapel charge in Tompkins township. Rev. R. E. Fox is the present pastor.
A class of the Methodist Episcopal church was formed in the latter part of 1856 at the residence of Joseph Aimie under the direction of Rev. Franklin Chaffee. Members of the class were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Aimie, John Shel- ton, and Mr. and Mrs. Evan Ewan. In 1863 a house of worship was erected on the south- west quarter of Section 27 at a cost of about $2,000, and dedicated by Rev. Henderson Ritchie, Warren county's first born child. The church is known as the West Prairie church. Mr. Chaffee was the first pastor.
There is also a United Brethren church known as the Fairview church at the southeast corner of Section 20.
A WOMAN'S CLUB.
The Woman's Club of Fairview was organ- ized April 3, 1900, with a membership of six- teen. Mrs. Louise Pattison McVey was presi- dent, and Mrs. Edna Spurlock secretary and treasurer. The object of the club was stated in the constitution to be: "To cultivate our minds by the discussion of any subject of gen- eral interest." No prescribed course of study was laid down, but the subject which claimed
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attention at a majority of the meetings was the duties and responsibilities of mothers.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
BOND, L. M .; farmer and painter; Lenox Township; is an influential and highly re- spected citizen, who has a more than credi- table record as a soldier in the Civil War. He was born in Greenbush Township, Septem- ber 11, 1848, a son of Major William G. and Elizabeth (Henry) Bond. His father was born in Jackson County, Ala., April 2, 1823, a son of. Major John C. and Mary (Grimsly) Bond. John C. Bond was born in Knox County, Tenn., December 25, 1799, and married there in 1818. His wife bore him children as follows: Susanna, Mrs. Johnson; William G .; Jesse W .; Ruby, who married A. J. Clayton, of Swan Creek, and Anna. He removed from Ten- nessee to Alabama and thence in 1826 to Mor- gan County, Ill., where his wife soon died. In 1829, he married Mary Singleton, of Morgan County, who bore him a son, Fielding, who was School Commissioner of that county about 1861 and died April 19, 1862. Mrs. Bond died Sep- tember, 1842, and, in 1844, Mr. Bond married Mrs. Nancy Terry, who bore him two children: Canzada S., wife of Mathew Campbell, of Stella, Neb., and Cordelia, who married Henry Staat, of Berwick Township, and who died in Greenbush Township, May 20, 1882. Major John C. Bond removed to Warren County in 1834, filled the office of County Commissioner in 1839, and, with Samuel Hallam and Robert Gilmore, surveyed the county into townships in 1853. William G. Bond remained on his father's farm until August 26, 1862, when he was made Captain of Company H, Eighty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and went to the seat of war. February, 1863, he was promoted to be Major of his regiment, of which he was in command from July, 1863, until January, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service at Nashville, Tenn. He took part in the battle at Garrettsburg, Ky., in the cap- ture of Fort Donelson, and, in 1864, in opera- tions against the Confederate General Wheeler along the line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He received two wounds and, after the war, was employed in the Quartermaster's Department until 1868, when he entered the revenue department and was storekeeper on the Cumberland River two years, then went
into the United States secret service, in which he was employed, with headquarters at Clarks- ville, Tenn., until 1873. He returned to Mon- mouth, January, 1874, and December following, was appointed Deputy Sheriff, in which ca- pacity he served two years; between 1876-1882 he served three terms as Sheriff of Warren County. Reared in the Democratic faith, he became a Republican before the war, and af- filiated with that party until his death. He was twice married; first, in 1845, in Jo Daviess County, Ill., to Elizabeth Henry, who died in 1863, and later to Mrs. Mary E. (Taylor) Moore. By his first wife he had children as follows: Clarissa Ann, Mrs. Farris; L. M .; Jesse W., of Swan Township; George C. L. M. Bond was reared and educated in Warren County, and, in September, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After service in the army of the West in Kentucky, he was honorably dis- charged February, 1863. March 28, 1864, he en- listed in Company H, Second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry and stationed at Fort Blake- ly, served as scout and spy until he received his final honorable discharge from the service in 1865, at Springfield, Ill. He then returned to Warren County and gave his attention to farm- ing. In 1876, he located in Lenox Township, where he has since been engaged in farming and painting. He is a member of A. C. Hard- ing Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Roseville, and is locally influential as a Re- publican. In Warren County, in 1870, he mar- ried Mary Melissa Smith, who was born in Fulton County, Ill., a daughter of Ezekiel and Anna (Harrah) Smith, who has borne him two children: Walter and Wm. G.,-the last mentioned of whom filled a responsible position in connection with the Pan-American Exposi- tion at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901, and also served with Company H, Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American war in Porto Rico. At an early day Ezekiel Smith brought his family from Ohio to Fulton County, where he died. His widow married J. W. Bond, of Lenox Township.
CAPPS, T. L., farmer, Lenox Township, War- ren County, Ill., (Monmouth rural delivery route No. 5), is a representative of several honored Southern families, and his father, a Kentuckian, was a pioneer in Illinois. He was born in Roseville Township, June 6, 1843, a son of Asa and Mary A. (Brooks) Capps,
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natives respectively of Edmonson and Barren Counties, Ky. His grandmother in the pater- nal line was Nancy Brooks, a native of Ken- tucky, and his mother was a daughter of Thomas and Nancy Brooks. In 1840, Asa Capps came from Kentucky to Illinois on horseback and, in 1841, located in Warren County, where he married about 1842 and in 1846 bought the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 24 at three dollars an acre. Later he bought other land until he owned 620 acres. He died December 6, 1877, and his wife, January 5, 1895. His property has been divided among his children, his son, T. L. Capps, now living on the original purchase above described. He left seven other children as follows: Mrs. Sarah J. Ingram, of Iowa; Mrs. Nancy E. Perrine; John L. Capps, Menlo, Iowa; L. M. Capps, of Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Lucy C. Jenks, Lenox Township; Orville Capps, Dallas, Texas, and E. R. Capps, Anaconda, Mont.
In Lenox Township, September 16, 1866, T. L. Capps married Mary Jewell, who was born in Berwick Township, March 5, 1844, and whose father came from Rome, N. Y., to Warren County, in 1840, and bought a farm which he improved and on which he and his wife died. Mrs. Capps has borne her husband four chil- dren, three of whom are living: Minnie J., Nettie B., deceased, Addie C. and Orton A. The family live in a fine residence which is heated by a large hot air furnace and is sup- plied with hot and cold water from tanks in an upper story. Mr. Capps is a Baptist and a Democrat and has twice filled the office of Tax Collector and has been Supervisor three years and Assessor six years. Mrs. Capps is a daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Jewell and granddaughter of Nathaniel Jewell who mar- ried Elizabeth Crane. Her father came to Berwick in 1840 and married Elizabeth John- son in 1840 and died in 1862.
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COWICK, L. B .; farmer and stock-raiser; Lenox Township (postoffice Monmouth) ; is the owner of about 800 acres of land, ships stock extensively, has served his fellow-townsmen as Supervisor and Justice of the Peace, and served in the Civil war as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Volun- teer Infantry. He was born in Cumberland County, Penn., September 2, 1846, a son of John and Hannah (Bixler) Cowick. His father was born in Lancaster County and his
mother in Cumberland County, Penn., and, after their marriage, they lived in Cumberland County until 1854, when they settled in Warren County, Ill., where Mr. Cowick bought land. They were the parents of three children: S. R. Cowick, who is practicing law at Walker, Mo .; Mary, who lives in Monmouth; and the subject of this sketch, whose home is in Section 34, Lenox Township, and who married Sarah O. Jones in Warren County, February 22, 1872. Mrs. Cowick is a daughter of the late Calvin and Rebecca (McQuown) Jones, who came to Warren County from Virginia in 1855, and lo- cated in Tompkins Township, where Mr. Jones reared a family of four children and acquired 240 acres of land. L. B. and Sarah O. (Jones) Cowick have children named: Arthur G., Frank B., Bert H. and Grace H. Mr. Cowick ably filled the office of Justice of the Peace.
CRANDALL, A. C .; farmer; Lenox Town- ship (Monmouth rural delivery route No. 5); is of Eastern stock and comes of a family long prominent in Erie County, Penn., where Richard Crandall, his grandfather, and Emery Crandall, his father, were born. Richard Crandall married Silby Armstrong, and Catherine Williams became
the wife of Emery Crandall, who came from his na- tive state to Lenox Township at a com- paratively early date and bought land in Section 33, on which he farmed until 1899, when he moved to Monmouth. He served in the Civil War, in the Eighty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, until discharged because of disability, and is in receipt of a liberal pension. He has four children, all of whom are married and two of whom live in Lenox Township, one at Monmouth and one in Chicago. His son, A. C. Crandall, who is a Republican in politics and a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, married at Monmouth, December 31, 1885, Laura M. Ru- lon, daughter of H. M. and Elvira (Bryan) Rulon, and a native of Illinois. Her father was born in Washington County, Indiana; her mother in Tennessee, and they were married in Salem, Illinois. They owned property at Mon- mouth, where, for thirty-eight years, Mr. Ru- lon has been an engineer and in the employ of the concern now known as the Pattee Plow Company twenty-four years. Mrs. Crandall has borne her husband children named Edna Grace and Ruth Pearl. The family live on a
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fine 120-acre farm, in Section 33, and Mr. Cran- dall raises miscellaneous crops and gives con- siderable attention to live-stock. He has travel- ed quite extensively in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. Francis E. Crandall, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Crandall, was born in Lenox Township, April 18, 1872, and died February 5, 1901.
ELLIOTT, ROBERT A .; farmer and stock- raiser; Lenox Township (postoffice Monmouth, rural route No. 5); is a representative of an old English family which has a most interest- ing history. His grandparents in the paternal line were Thomas and Mary E. (Holden) El- liott. Their son Thomas H. Elliott, who was born at Stonehouse, England, October 14, 1797, married Amelia Helvestine, a native of Win- chester, Va., born January 29, 1804. Thomas H. Elliott came from England to Virginia in 1817 and was a merchant there until 1823, when he removed to Ohio, settling in Madison County. In 1828 he went to Jackson County, in the same State, where he died and where his son Robert A. Elliott was born, January 8, 1849. Mary E. Holden, grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was a descendant of Elizabeth and a daughter of Sir Thomas Cliff- ord, of Frithem Lodge, near the river Severn, in Frampton, England, and a sister of "Fair Rosamond," mistress of Henry II., who was poisoned by Henry's Queen Eleanor, while the King was in Flanders subduing a rebellion led by his two sons. John Elliott, brother of Thomas H. Elliott was born December 19, 1791, and died January 4, 1891, the oldest cler- gyman in England. He preached his last ser- mon, August 11, 1889, and made his last pub- lic address in 1890 to an assemblage of school teachers. Robert A. Elliott, who is a Baptist and a Democrat, has, for nine years, been treasurer of his township. He married in Lenox Township, March 14, 1869, Sarah E. Shirley, who was born there July 3, 1852, a daughter of John and C. J. (Ray) Shirley, na- tives respectively of Sangamon County, Ill., and Kentucky. Mr. Shirley settled in 1854 in Lenox Township, where he became the owner of about four hundred acres of land and died July 11, 1867. Robert A. and Sarah E. (Shir- ley ) Elliott have nine children named as fol- lows: Nettie A., Sophronia Q., Nora A., Annie H., William E., Alethia, Ethel P., Erie M. and Mary C. Robert A. Elliott has a farm of about 0 A1-17
300 acres in Lenox and Roseville Townships, where he carries on stock-raising and general farming.
EVANS, J. H .; farmer; Lenox Township; is a prosperous and progressive citizen, who is the owner of a fine farm of 500 acres, and who merits, and receives the honor, due to a veteran of the Civil war. He was born in Henderson County, Ill., January 24, 1849, a son of James A. and Lucy C. (Fort) Evans. His father was born in Virginia, March 1, 1821, and spent his earlier days in Ohio and Indiana. Eventually he located in Henderson County, whence he re- moved in 1851, to Lenox Township, where he acquired 240 acres of land and lived there until his death, April 3, 1875. Lucy C. Fort, whom he married March 7, 1844, and who died Feb- ruary 6, 1897, was a daughter of Washington and Elizabeth (McChesney) Fort, natives of Kentucky. James A. and Lucy C. (Fort) Evans had children as follows: Emeline, who married David Darr and is dead; Washington, who died young; J. H .; Samuel, who died in 1869; Stephen D., who lives on a part of the Evans homestead; Mary E., Mrs. Clague, of Roseville Township; Ida J., wife of Thomas Davis, of Kirkwood; James A., of Lenox Township; Jesse, who owns and lives on 80 acres of the Evans homestead. In 1864, J. H. Evans enlisted in Lenox Township in Company C, One Hun- dred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Illinois Vol unteer Infantry, which went to Avon and thence to Quincy, where its members were sworn into the service of the United States. The regiment was stationed at Fort Leaven- worth and then at Springfield, Ill., then at Big River on Iron Mountain Railroad, Missouri. Mr. Evans was honorably discharged in 1864, and returned to Lenox Township, where he re- sumed farming, and where in 1873, he married Miss Dell Porter a native of New York and a daughter of Jesse Porter. Mrs. Evans has borne her husband two sons both of whom are dead. Her mother was a member of her house- hold during her declining years. For two years Mr. Evans was in the grain trade at Larchland. He is an able business man of much public spirit, who richly deserves the suc- cess that has rewarded his efforts thus far in life.
GILMORE, CLARENCE M .; formerly for seven years a merchant and now a farmer,
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Lenox Township (postoffice Monmouth) ; is a son of Lawrence H. Gilmore, a pioneer from Ohio, who, in 1853, bought land in Spring Grove Township to enter his claim, making the journey to the land office at Quincy and return on horseback. The son was born in Warren County, October 4, 1855, and was educated in Monmouth College. His father, Lawrence H. Gilmore, a native of Ohio, married Sarah A. Forwood, a native of Virginia, who has borne him four sons and two daughters, two of whom live in Omaha, Neb., and four in Warren County. Mr. Gilmore's second purchase of land in the county was in Lenox Township, and his son, Clarence M., now lives there, and he is the owner of nine hundred and twenty acres all told. Clarence M. Gilmore is a Democrat and member of the Presbyterian Church; has been elected to the offices of School Trustee and Road Commissioner. He married, at Mon- mouth, April 19, 1888, Jessie Herbert, who has borne him a daughter named Lucile. Mrs. Gil- more is a daughter of J. and Elizabeth (Moore) Herbert, who, in 1854, came from Ohio to War- ren County and bought property at Monmouth, where Mr. Herbert was a grain-buyer. He died, June 13, 1881; his wife, November 21,
HOLGATE, DAVID M .; farmer; Lenox Town- ship; is a Republican, a member of the United Brethren Church, a member of Larchland Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America and one of the most progressive and prominent young business men in his vicinity. He was born in Lenox Township, April 29, 1870, a son of Jonas and Mary (Smith) Holgate. His father, who was born in Yorkshire, England, March 8, 1835, landed at New York, May 4, 1857, and in June of that year, began farming near Larch- land, where, in company with his brother Thomas, he bought and improved prairie land. He was successful as a farmer and influential as a citizen and a Republican and was Super- visor of Lenox Township fourteen years and a member of the County Board when the court house was erected; was also an active and helpful member of the United Brethren Church. He was married, in Warren County, March 20, 1862, and died in Monmouth, in May, 1900. His widow, who lives in Monmouth, was born in Virginia, a daughter of Jackson and Susan- na (Parrott) Smith, natives of that State, who were pioneers in Lenox Township, where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Holgate had eight chil-
dren, six of whom grew to manhood and woul- anhood : David M .; Maggie, who married C. W. Ewing, of St. John, Washington; G. L., who lives in Lenox Township; Josephine (Mrs. Gawthorp), of Dysart, Iowa; Frank, who is an osteopathist at Jackson, Ohio; and Lillian, who lives in Monmouth. David M. Holgate was reared on the family homestead on which ho now lives, and received a public school edu- cation. He married in Lenox Township, in 1891, Miss Anna Wood, born in Canada, a daughter of William and Catherine (Crighton) Wood, who has borne him two children: Le- land and Raymond.
JEWELL, HENRY L .; farmer and stock raiser; Lenox Township (Monmouth rural de- livery route No. 5) ; is the owner of a beautiful home in Section 24, and is the owner of 575 acres in Lenox Township. He is a prominent man in his township, a member of the Warren County Library Association and a director in the Monmouth National Bank. He was born in Lenox Township, May 19, 1847, a son of Jacob and Julia Ann (Brooks) Jewell, natives re- spectively of Oneida county, New York, and Bowling Green, Ky. He was educated in the district schools and at Monmouth College; is a communicant of the Baptist church, a Re- publican in politics and has filled several iut- portant offices, including Township Treasurer, Supervisor one year, and Justice of the Peace fourteen years, acquitting himself in each with credit. He married in Lenox Township, Sep- tember 14, 1871, Lydia A. Crandall, who was born at Mckean, Erie County, Penn., May 20, 1854, and came to Warren County in 1861 with her parents, who settled not far from her pres cnt home. Henry L. and Lydia A. (Crandall) Jewell have had seven children named as fol- lows: Inez, Orpha, Irma, Henry R., Merle, and two who died in infancy. Incz is the wife of Ivory Quinby, of Monmouth; Orpha is the wife of Lewis E. Baker, of Chicago; Henry R. is studying medicine in Chicago.
MOREY, C. H .; farmer; Lenox Township, (postoffice Phelps) ; represents an old and hon- orable Pennsylvania family and is himself a man of good ability who has made a creditable record in a business way and as a public. spirited citizen. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, is a Republican and has held the office of Township Clerk seven years. Mr
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Morey was born in Floyd Township, January 5, 1861, and received a common-school education. Charles Morey, his grandfather, married Pollie Blair. Their son, G. W. Morey, was born in Erie County, Penn., and married Emily Bonnell, who was born there, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Higgins) Bonnell. In 1841 G. W. Morey drove from Erie County, Penn., to Floyd Township, where he was a pioneer and bought land, which he later sold in order to purchase 160 acres in Section 14 in Lenox Township, where he prospered as a farmer and where he died July 11, 1900, leaving a widow, a daughter and two sons. The daughter, Mrs. T. W. Russell, is living at Crete, Neb., the sons on the Morey homestead, the northeast corner of which is traversed by the Iowa Central Rail- road. Mrs. Morey, who came from Pennsyl- vania in April, 1851, and is now in her eightieth year, lives with her sons, the estate of her late husband not having been divided. Mr. Morey, who was a stanch Republican, was proud of the fact that he twice voted for Abraham Lincoln for the high office of President of the United States. He was a patriotic and public-spirited man and his sons C. H. Morey and brother, W. F. Morey, have inherited much of his love for home and country. The subject of this sketch has resided on the farm where he now lives for thirty-nine years, cast his first presidential vote for James G. Blaine, and has voted at every election since.
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