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Michael Dowling, farmer and stock-raiser,see. 5; P. O., Marble- town. Mr. D. is a native of Ireland, where he was born about the vear 1846. His father, M. Dowling, was a farmer in Ireland and
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there married Bridget Corcoran. Of this marriage there were born 7 children, Michael the youngest. At the age of 13 he crossed the ocean for the New World. After the usual voyage he landed in New York, from where he went to Louisville, Ky., then came to Mason Co., Ill., and finally settled in Isabel tp., Fulton Co., where he worked several years by the month. In 1874 he was married to Miss Mary A., daughter of Wm. Carney, a native of Ireland, who settled in Fulton Co. in an early day. They have 2 children.
John V. Elden, farmer, was born in Hardin Co., Ky., Sept. 30, 1817. His father, James Elden, was also a native of Kentcky, was a farmer and a mechanic, married Sarah Van Meter, by whom he had 13 children. He became a wealthy planter, and died in 1827. John V. married Hester Farmer in Kentucky, and has had 7 chil- dren,-Mary J., Sarah, James, Thomas, Jonas, John and William. From 1857 to 1864 Mr. E. lived in Missouri, since which time he has resided on sec. 14, this tp., owning 80 acres of valuable land. P. O., Marbletown.
Lawrence Fall, farmer, was born in county Clare, Ireland, about 1839. His father, Lawrence Fall was also a farmer, married Mar- garet MeNamara, and had 10 children. Lawrence, the youngest, grew to manhood, receiving a good common-school education, and in May, 1870, he came to America. He soon settled in this tp., on sec. 11, where he owns 100 acres of land. Politics Democratic, and P. O., Marbletown.
Jacob Fisher, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 30; P. O., Bluff City ; among the leading farmers of this township Mr. F. finds a place in the biographical department of this work. He is a native of Ger- many, where he was born in 1823. His father, Jacob Fisher, was a farmer by occupation and married at Baden Miss Elizabeth Taylor. Our subject was their youngest child. At the age of 11 he brought him to the U. S. At Buffalo his father died. Young Jacob went to Coshocton Co., Ohio., where he was a farm hand. In 1845 he came to Schuyler Co., Ill., where he remained until the Mexican war broke out, when he enlisted in Col. Dunlap's regiment. He returned to Schuyler Co., where he remained 6 years and married Miss Louisa Miller, and about 1859 moved to Kerton tp., where he purchased 160 acres of land. He has increased his possessions through un- common perseverance to one section of land. The marriage above referred to has been blessed with 9 children, 7 of whom are living : Mary, Valentine, Mahala, George, Laura, Anna and Ellen. Melissa and John deceased. Mrs. F. died April 5, 1876.
Thomas P. Kearney, farmer and stock-raiser, see. 33; P. O., Marbletown, is a son of Patrick Kearney of Isabel tp. Patrick Kearney crossed the ocean in an early day. He had previously married in Ireland Bridget Falon, who has become the mother of 7 children, none of whom survive, however, save the subject of this sketch. Thomas grew up in Fulton Co., where he received his pre- liminary education, afterwards taking a business course at Notre
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Dame, Ind. After receiving a liberal education he returned to Ful- ton Co., where he has since successfully followed farming. In 1867 he was married to Miss Mary, daughter of Peter Lally, of Havana, by whom he had 6 children, 4 of whom are living: Anna, Bridget, Mary and Kate.
J. W. Linebaugh, farmer and stock-raiser, see. 18, P. O., Marble- town; is one of the most successful agriculturists in this county. He is a native of Rockingham Co., Va., where he was born in 1820, and is the son of Junius and Susan (Wilds) Linebaugh. They moved to Coshocton Co., O., in an carly day, where they pass- ed the remainder of their days. They had a family of 10 children. In 1843, J. W. secured employment with Johnson Bros.', promi- nent farmers, and whose superintendent he soon became. The first money he earned was at work on a dock. When a boy he bought ealves and raised them, which he did at a profit. He set foot in Chicago as early as 1846 on one of his trips West. In 1854 he set- tled in Kerton, where he married during the year, Miss Rebecca Butler, who owned 120 acres of land. They soon began to prosper, and now own 1,100 acres of land.
William Markley, farmer, stoek-raiser and apiarian, was born in Coshoeton Co., O., in 1830. At the age of 10 years he accompan- ied his parents, David and Rebecca Markley, to Illinois. They at first settled in Schuyler Co., but soon moved to Fulton, where Wm. was raised and received a liberal education, and was quietly pursu- ing his farm duties when the war broke out, when he enlisted in Co. I, 85th Ill. Inf. He was discharged in 1862 and returned to his old home, where in 1838 he had married Lavina Masters. They have a family of 5 children. Mr. M. has a fine farm of 320 acres. He has held many local offiees.
Vandoras Martin, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 7; P. O., Marble- town; is a native of Zanesville, O., where he was born in 1820. His father, Thomas Martin, was born in Maryland, and was united in marriage there with Miss Anna Blaine, of Penn. They had a family of 11 children, of whom Vandoras was the eldest. He was only 3 years of age when his parents came to Ohio. In 1837 they made the usual overland trip to Illinois; crossed the Illinois at Beardstown and followed the wagon traeks and landed in Wood- land tp., this county. The usual cabin was erected in a short time, and the pioneer family began Western life in earnest. The long trips to mills, raising of cabins, corn-huskings, bee-huntings, being the diversion from the monotony of clearing and grubbing. In 1851 Mr. M. was married to Miss Diana Beamen, by whom he has 4 children : Hortense, Manning, Sylvester and Melinda. In 1853 Mr. M. purchased his first property, consisting of 180 acres. After a life of unusual activity and success, he rests in affluence, own- ing the best residences in the township and 428 acres of land.
David Mc Neill, deceased. Long before Illinois gave an indication of its present prosperity, when the smoke from Indian wigwams
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were still seen in the Illinois Valley, David McNeill made his way to Illinois. He arrived in Fulton county in 1827, and became widely known. He was born in New Hampshire, and went to New York with his parents when 11 years old, and in 1820 to Indiana, and 7 years later to this county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was twice married. Dec. 9, 1819, he married Miss Mary Cole, who bore him 9 children. She was a poetess, and died Dec. 10, 1840. Mr. McNeill married Mrs. Maria (Smith) Huff March 31, 1841. Five of his sons served in the late war ; one gave up his life for the country and another was an inmate of Libby prison, but made his escape. Our subject and his brother, Parker, were the first settlers in South Fulton. Shortly after his arrival a congregation was formed, and the first Methodist ministrations were held at his house. He was an earnest Christian man, liberal in his views and with his purse. He was a large contributor to the new church in Astoria, and on the day of dedication the trustees hon- ored the old pioneer and themselves by naming it the MeNeill Cen- tenary Chapel. He passed away Sept. 30, 1867, and lies at rest in Astoria township.
Joseph E. Moore, farmer, sec. 14; P. O., Marbletown ; was born in 1843 in Missouri. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, who married Lydia Mosslander, and had 8 children. They then moved to Fulton county, where Joseph, the second of the children, passed his boyhood. During the war he enlisted in Co. I, 85th Ill. Inf., as a private, and was engaged in the battles of Chickamauga, Jones- boro, Kenesaw Mountain, Rome, Buzzard Roost, etc. Honorably discharged at Springfield, Ill., he returned to this township, where he married Clarissa Jewel, by whom he has had 3 children,-Clarissa E., Dora M. and Myrtle V.
William A. Raridin, Justice of the Peace and wagon-maker, set- tled in this township in the autumn of 1848. He was born in Ma- son county, Ky., in 1827 ; his father, Jesse Raridin, was a native of Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Ruth Applegate. They had a family of 13 children. Jesse R. moved to Indiana and con- tinned to follow farming and passed the remainder of his life in that State. Mrs. R. died many years before her husband did. William grew up in Indiana and learned the trade of wagon-making and since his coming here has followed farming and wagon-making. During the autumn of 1849 he was united in married with a daughter of Thomas Seaborn, Miss Amanda, one of the pioneers of Fulton county. They have 6 children living out of a family of 9 born to them. Their names are Mary A., Catharine, Platt, Wm., Melissa and Emma.
Jacob Severns ranks among the first settlers of the county. He is a native of Coshocton, O., where he was born in March, in 1832. His father was Daniel Severns, of Pennsylvania, who came West settling in Ohio and from there to Fulton Co. in 1842, settling in Kerton tp. In subsequent years he lived in Astoria township, but
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passed the remainder of his life in Woodland. Mrs. Severns died in February, 1871. Jacob was married in 1854 to Miss Mary M. Williams. They had a family of 6 children : Mrs. S. died May 11, 1868. Mr. S. was again married April 22, 1869, this time to Miss Mahala Wallace. They have one child. Mr. S. is Town Clerk, which office he held for 3 years previously.
John W. Shields, farmer and grocer, was the son of Asa L. Shickls, whose father was born in East Tennessee in 1805, moved to Indiana and died there, when AAsa was but 12 years old. The orphan moved to Woodland township in 1829, grew to manhood, and after roughing it for many years he accumulated considerable property, married Mary, daughter of John and Mary Miner, and had 8 children, all vet living. During the great war he enlisted in Co. I, 3d Cav. In about a year he was wounded and discharged, and he returned home. In 1860 he married Rachel, daughter of Thos. and Fanny Sechom, and has had 4 more children,-Geo. A. Marion, Mary I. and Martha A. For a year Mr. S. has been a grocer at Heenan, and is an enterprising and generous man.
S. W. Sloan, merchant, Marbletown, is a native of Isabel town- ship, Fulton county. He was born Dec. 13, 1853, and is the eldest son of Samuel Sloan, an early settler of Fulton county. He is a native of Fayette county, O., and his parents came West when he was a lad and first settled in Mason county in 1832, and 12 years later moved to Fulton county. S. W. received a liberal education and in 1874 was united in marriage with Miss Effie J. Saffer. They have one child, whom they have christened Frank. February 17, 1878, Mr. S. embarked in the mercantile business at Duncan's Mills and June 23, of this year (1879) moved to Marbletown.
Abraham Tippy, agriculturist, was born in 1827, in Williamson Co., Ill. His grandfather was Abraham Tippy, a native of New York, a farmer, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war until its close. He married Nancy Spellers and had 13 children, the 3d of whom was James, the father of the subject of this sketch. James was born in 1802, in Tennessee, and when a child his parents emi- grated with him to Williamson Co., Ill., where he grew to manhood, receiving a common-school education, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sterling Hill of N. C., by whom he had 7 children. Abraham, the oldest, passed his youth there as a farmer, and after serving as a soldier during the Mexican war, he returned home and married Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Sands of Ohio, by whom he has had 5 children,-James N., Winfield S., Harvey L., Abraham A. and E. E. Mr. Tippy came to Kerton tp. in 1853, purchased 98 acres of land, and is now the owner of 148 acres of well im- proved land. He has been Supervisor 11 years, School Director, Justice of the Peace, etc. In politics he is a Democrat.
John Trayar, farmer and blacksmith, was born in 1814 in Penn- sylvania ; being left an orphan when young, he was reared by a family named McCune, who brought him to Ohio, near Columbus.
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In 1841 he emigrated to Illinois and settled in Marshall Co. ; was a soldier in the Mexican war ; married Johanna Macklin, in Cass Co., and has had 4 children,-Lydia, Nancy A., James E. and Joshua E. Mrs. Travar died May 7, 1854, and the following October Mr. T. married Sarah, daughter of John W. Hardy, by whom he has had 3 children,-Jane Irving, Simeon R. O. and James F. In the last war Mr. T. enlisted in Co. I, 85th Ill. Inf., and was made Cor- poral; fought under Sherman in his march to the sea, honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., and returned home. He located in this tp. in 1857. In politics he is a Republican.
James D. Tyrer, physician and surgeon, Marbletown; was born in Quincy, Ill., in 1832. When quite small his parents moved to Wisconsin, where in the mining regions they remained some 18 years, when they moved back to Quincy. His father was among the original settlers of Quiney and settled there among the Indi- ans. He bought a soldier's elaim lying adjacent to what is now the city of Quincy. Although not a graduate of a medical institute he acquired considerable skill as a physician and became a prominent citizen of Quincy. He set up and had in running order the first mill stones ever brought to Adams county. He died at Quiney in the 87th year of his age. Mrs. T. is living at the age of 91. The Doctor is the youngest of 6 sons. He received a liberal education at Quiney and graduated from the Chicago Medical College in 1859. He first began practice at Quiney, where in 1855 he had married Miss Catharine M. Terry. He went from there to Mt. Sterling, thence to Jacksonville, then to Astoria and finally to Marbletown. He has a family of 5 children.
George Warner, farmer, sec. 8; P. O., Marbletown ; was born in Harrison county, O., in 1850. His father, Samuel Warner, was a native of the Buckeye State and farmer by occupation. He moved to Indiana and married Miss Sarah Carter. They raised a family of 12 children, George being the youngest surviving son. Samuel Warner came to Fulton county in 1858 and purchased farm prop- erty in Kerton. He died at Lewistown, and Mrs. W. passed away many years before her husband did, and but 6 children survive. In 1871 George was married to Miss Lucinda Le Masters. Lillie V., David and Ira V. are their children.
Lemuel Welker, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in 1834, in Knox county, O. His father, David Welker, was also a native of Ohio and a farmer, and moved to this county in 1848. In Ohio he married Margaret Darling, by whom he has had 9 children ; of these 7 are living. Lemuel, the second of them, was brought up in Ful- ton county. At the commencement of the late war he enlisted in Co. I, 85th Inf., and was engaged in the battles of Stone River, Resaca, Buzzard Roost, Kenesaw Mountain, Chickamauga, Jones- boro and other places. Serving until the close of the war, he was honorably discharged at Springfield and returned home. He has a good farm of 160 acres, on see. 9. In 1868 he married Caroline,
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daughter of Wm. Potter, of Pennsylvania. He has no children living. Mr. W. is Independent in politics, voting for the man and not the party. P. O., Marbletown.
Edwin Weston, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Staffordshire, Eng., in 1832. His father, Robert Weston, was a game-keeper, who married Jane Adams, and they were the parents of 9 children, the youngest of whom is Edwin. They emigrated to America in 1846 and settled 100 miles below Niagara Falls. In a few months they came to Isabel township, this county, Mrs. W. dying in Chicago en route. Edwin soon learned to take care of himself, and in June, 1853, he married Margaret, a daughter of Geo. Cooper, of Ohio. Mr. W. has now a home of his own on see. 6, and has been Assessor and Road Commissioner. Democrat. P. O., Otto.
Thomas W. Wilson, farmer, sec. 6 ; is a native of Harrison county, Ind., and was born in 1835. His father, Joseph Wilson, was born in East Tennessee, where he followed farming and married Margaret Armstrong. She became the mother of 6 children, and was taken from him by death. He then married Miss Mary M. Rogers, who bore him 3 children. Thomas accompanied his parents to Fulton county in 1855. He married in Indiana Miss Martha A. Deweese, by whom he has 16 children ; 3 having passed away. We give the names of his children : Sarah P., Joseph W., John W., Mary S., Margaret E., Chas. S., Amos L., De Lefayette, Nandora, Laura B., Emmet C., Lewis E., Martha A., Havs, Thomas and Gertrude.
W. L. Wrestler, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 7; P. O., Marble- town ; is a native Brown county, O., where he was born Feb. 13, 1825, his father, Henry Wrestler, was born in Pennsylvania, where he followed farming and there married Miss Lydia Rass, by whom he had a family of 5 children. W. L. being next to the youngest. He grew to manhood in Ohio and there married Sarah J., daughter of Samuel and Margaret Warner. Ten children have been born to them, 7 of whom are living: Lydia, Minerva V., Marcus, Sarah, Lafayette, George and Ida M. During the autumn of 1852 Mr. W. made his way to Illinois and located in Kerton township, on the property now owned by J. W. Linebangh and the following year purchased 80 acres of his present farm which consists of 240 acres.
Lewis P. Wright, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Harrison Co., Ind., in 1844. His father, Wm. Wright, was also born in In- diana, followed farming, and married Melinda Wiseman, a native of Virginia. They had 9 children. Lewis, the 7th, came to this tp. in 1856; in 1861 he enlisted in Co. G, 85th Ill. Inf., for the term of war, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga, Mis- sion Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Wake Creek Gap, Jonesboro, etc. At one time his regiment was under fire for 108 successive days. After the war he returned home Ang. 30, 1866, he married Harriet, daughter of St. Clair Murray, who was among the first settlers of this tp. Their children are Charley, John W., Sarah, Elmer and Edmund. He has 80 acres of land, on sec. 3. Republican. P. O., Marbletown.
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We give below a list of the township officers who served in Kerton since 1859, supervisors from 1850.
SUPERVISORS.
George Anderson 1850
Abner Bassett
1861
Patrick H. McKee.
1851
A. J. Ralston
1862-66
Win. Fuson
1852
Abram Tippy
1867-76
Daniel Severns
1854-55
Abner Bassett
1877
Wmn. Fuson.
1856
Abram Tippy
187S
A. J. Ralston
1857-60
Isaac L. Beatty
1869
TOWN CLERKS.
Hugh MeHugh.
1859-72
James Orr
1875-78
James McCausland.
1873
Richard Warren.
1879
A. J. Ralston.
1874
ASSESSORS.
W. S. Fuson ...
1859-60
Edwin Weston
1875-78
Cornelius Phalen
1861-65
James Morningstar
1879
Cornelius Phalen
1866-75
COLLECTORS.
Abram Tippy
1859-61
G. O. Richardson 1870
W. L. Wrestler.
1862
Jacob Severns
1871
Joseph Richardson
1863-64
S. B. Tippy
1872
G. O. Richardson
1865-66
Jacob Severns
1873-74
James Morningstar.
1867
Chas. Brown.
1875
S. B. Tippy
186S
Jacob Severns
1876-77
W. L. Wrestler
1869
Joseph Butler
1878-79
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LEE TOWNSHIP.
In regard to agricultural resources, this township is unsurpassed by any in the county. It is acceded by all to be one of the finest bodies of land in this part of the State, and is under a high and al- most perfect state of cultivation.
Sept. 26, 1832, Stephen Rigdon arrived in this county. He lo- cated at Canton, where he lived until May 1, 1834, when he moved into Lee township, being the first white man to ereet a cabin and make his home in this township. The family lived here for a per- iod of five months before they saw another white person. Mr. Rig- don located upon section 36. Harrison Rigdon was 22 years of age at the time, and says he thought nothing of going 25 or 30 miles on foot through the wild country. Upon one occasion he, with 10 others, engaged in building a mill on see. 4, Cass township, upon Put creek, for Andrew Laswell. A Mrs. Cline was employed to do the cooking. Some way or another Mr. Laswell offended her. She gathered up her cooking utensils and quitted them. Thus the 11 men were left to do their own cooking, with only one tin cup and a wooden trough as their kitchen furniture. The trough they used to mix the dough in, which they cooked by setting a board in the ground not far from a log fire and pressed the dough upon this, fronting the blazing log. After a crust had formed over the dough the bacon was laid upon it to cook, letting the grease run down over the bread.
The first child born in the township was JJacob Peirsol. The second was Hiram Rigdon. James Osborn and Ruth Smith were the first couple married. The ceremony was performed by James Haney, and occurred in March, 1835. Morgan Beal was the first grown person to die. The first school-house was erected in 1839 and the first teacher was Elizabeth Moon. The first sermon was preached at the residence of Stephen Rigdon by Elder John Rig- don, his brother, who was a Christian preacher. The first Church organized was the Christian Church in 1835. The first frame barn erected in the township was built for Ezra D. Smith, who is now Postmaster at Prairie City. It stood until June 17, 1879, when it was burned down. The first saw and grist-mill was erected by Philip Aylesworth in 1837.
Lee township was organized into an election precinct in 1841. At the time there were 13 voters in the township. Previous to
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this, Deerfield, Ellisville, Union and Lee composed one election preeinet.
In 1866 the Virgil M. E. Church was organized. There has been a society here for at least 30 years. The first Church Board consisted of 5 Trustees, with Secretary and Treasurer. Geo. W. Brown was pastor at that time. Then came in succession Revs. Smith, Cook, Budd, JJennie Brothers, Birch, Woodruff, Magee, Green, Atherton and Martin, who is the present Pastor.
The first Baptist Church of Lee township was organized by Rev. Miner Nov. 20, 1849, and consisted of R. B., E., Cordelia, Martha and Corinna Guernsey, Louis and Abigail Luper, Sarah and Mary Peirsol, Lucinda Martin, Bennetta Leach and Naney Moor.
PERSONAL SKETCHES.
Charles S. Alden was born in 1840 in New York ; his parents were Smith D. and Sarah E. (Runnion), natives of Massachusetts ; they came to Fulton Co. in 1843 and have lived here ever since. Charles was in the war two years, in Co. H, 32d Ill. Inf .; fought in the campaign from Chattanoga to Atlanta, and went in the grand march to the sea. In 1871 he married Mary L. Barker, who was born in 1853 in this State. Their children are : George S., Wm. D., Cora L. and a babe not named. Mrs. A. belongs to the Methodist Church. Mr. A. owns 80 acres on sec. 18,-a nice farm. P. O., Bushnell.
Philip Aylsworth was born April 20, 1797, in Providence, R. I., son of Peleg and Anna Avlsworth, natives also of the same State; came with parents to New York when quite young; at 16 years of age the family removed to Pennsylvania, and in 1822 to Morgan Co., Ill., then to this county. Mr. Avlsworth laid off the town of Beardstown and named it, and in 1833 he laid off Merodosia; in 1835 he came up into Fulton county and was the first settler in Lce township, locating on an old Indian farm which he named Potato Hollow. He entered ten quarter-sections of land. He now owns 120 acres, on sce. 11. Has always been a farmer. In 1827 he married Miss Cloy Goodwell, a native of New York, and they had 4 children ; she died July 19, 1839, and in 1843 he married Eliza- beth Beers, born in 1820, and they had 8 children ; this wife died in 1859 and Mr. A. married Cynthia Avlsworth, a native of New York, and she died in 1863, leaving 2 children. Mr. A. was twice elected Justice of the Peace, and was for a time Sheriff of Morgan. county. P. O., Babylon.
Joseph Brown was born in 1842, a son to Jonas and Margaret Brown, natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jonas was in the Mexican war ; is now dead, but Mrs. B. still lives. Joseph grew to manhood in Indiana, and in 1865 emigrated to Fulton Co .; in 1866 he mar- ried Serilda Zimmerman, born in 1848 in this county. They have had 5 children, 4 of whom are living. Mr. B. has been a carpeu- ter, but is now a farmer, on sec. 5. P. O., Prairie City.
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Wm. C. Buckner was born in Crawford Co., Ind., June 2, 1818, the son of Henry Buekner. His parents were natives of Ken- tueky. Wm. C. came to Fulton Co. in 1833 and has lived here ever since. He is a farmer in Lee tp. In 1837 he was married. Christian Church. Democrat.
Minda J. Burke, daughter of Dennis C. and Sarah E. (Glass) Burke, was born in Deerfield tp. July 8, '57; was educated in the common schools at Cuba ; is a successful young teacher. Morality, order and discipline, first occupy her time and attention in the school-room. Eloention and reading she makes a specialty. Her mother was taken strangely ill in March, '79, of what was termed blood poison. The symptoms were those of hydrophobia, but her actions were different in each spasm. She died April 21, 1879. Her father is afflicted with lumps over his body, which the doctors fail to name. P. O., Bushnell.
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