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IDWIN AUGUSTUS DUDLEY, late post- master of Monmouth, who died while on a business trip to Boston, August 14, 1902, was born in Monmouth, March 13, 1857, son of William K. and Ann (Tilton) Dudley. His parents were natives of Maine. He was a descendant of Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634, 1640, 1645, and 1650, through his son, the Rev. Samuel Dudley, of Exeter, N.H., the line being: Governor Thomas,1 the Rev. Samuel,2 Stephen,3 James,+ Joseph,5 6 Benjamin, James,8 William K.,? Edwin Augustus10 (Dudley Gene- alogy).
Stephen3 was a son of the Rev. Samuel Dudley by his third wife, Elizabeth. He mar- ried, in 1684, Sarah Gilman. James+ married Mercy Folsom. Their son Joseph,5 born in 172S, married Susanna Lord. Joseph," born in Exeter in 1750, died at Raymond, N.H., in 1825. Benjamin, born in 1776, son of Joseph" by his first wife, Dorothy Bean, married, first, Elizabeth Smith, and, second, Mrs. Sarah Tucker. James" Dudley married Lucinda Whittier, and resided in Readfield, Me. Their eldest son, William. K., above mentioned, born in Readfield in 1820, married Ann, daughter of Henry Tilton, of Monmouth. On the ma- ternal side Mr. Edwin A. Dudley was a kins- man of the Hon. Benjamin White, who, at
the time of his death, was one of the nominees for the office of Governor of Maine.
The first occupation of Edwin Augustus Dudley, after receiving his education in the public schools and Monmouth Academy, was that of a moccasin maker in the employ of his father, who for many years carried on a thriv- ing business as a manufacturer of moccasins. While still a young man Edwin A. became a clerk in the employ of M. O. Edwards, a gen- oral merchant of Monmouth; and later he en- gaged in business for himself, conducting a general store in Monmouth for fourteen years. He then purchased Mr. Edwards's drug busi- ness, which he carried on successfully for a number of years, also dealing in jewelry. wall papers, and other merchandise. This busi- ness was finally incorporated under the style of the E. A. Dudley Company, and at the time of his death Mr. Dudley was its president. In addition to his regular business he was quite extensively engaged in purchasing na- tive apples, which he shipped to the Boston market and also to Europe. For some time he was manager of the Lewiston & Greene Telephone Company, and for several years he held the appointment of postmaster at Monmouth. In polities he was a Republican. and, besides rendering valuable services to the local party organization as a member of the town committee, he was frequently a dele- gate to the State conventions. He was a Master Mason and a Knight Templar, belong- ing to the local Blue Lodge and to Trinity Commandery, of Augusta. He was also a memi- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. the Ancient Order of United Workmen. the Order of the Golden Cross, and the Patrons of Husbandry.
Mr. Dudley was highly respected both in social and business circles, in the latter being especially esteemed for his sterling ability and upright character. His loss will be keenly felt in the business activities of Monmouth. with which he was so long and intimately con- nected. He possessed considerable talent for vocal music, in which he was well versed, and for some time he acted as chorister at the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Dudley was first married to Isabel
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Corliss, of Yarmouth, Me. His second wife, who survives him and is still residing in Mon- mouth, was before marriage Miss Mary W. Owen, being a daughter of Robert M. and Susan (Hall) Owen, of Auburn, Me.
TON. JAMES HARVEY BURGESS, of Bangor, Judge of the Probate - Court of Penobscot County, was born in Oldtown, Me., February 4, 1845, son of James Harvey, Sr., and Lucy A. (Trott) Burgess. His father was a native of Fairfield. His mother, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Trott, was born in Bath, Me.
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James H. Burgess, Sr., the father, who was a shoemaker, followed that trade as a journey- man for a number of years, subsequently open- ing a boot and shoe store in Oldtown, Me. Later he also engaged in lumbering and in the manufacture of lumber, in which enter- prises he was very successful. He died Au- gust 5, 1865, at the age of fifty-five years. His wife died April 4, 1870, at the age of fifty- seven. They were the parents of six chil- dren, four of whom attained maturity, three of the latter being now alive, namely: James Harvey, of Bangor, whose name begins this sketch; Emma F., who is the wife of Silas Stone, of Grafton, Mass .; and Lucy A., who is unmarried.
James Harvey Burgess, second, acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Oldtown, Bucksport, and Hampden, Me., and under private tutors fitted for the Soph- omore year at Harvard College. Then for a while he taught school, and at the same time studied law under the direction of Will- iam P. Young, of Piscatiquis County. Octo- ber 18, 1871, he was admitted to the bar at Dover, Me., and at once began practice in the town of Winn, Me., where he remained for five years. He was then elected clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Penobscot County, continuing in that office until 1880, after which he practised law for one year in Cor- rinna, Me. The following year he spent in Western travel, returning to Oldtown in 1SS2. In 1884 he was elected to his present position as Judge of the Probate Court of Penobscot
County, entering upon his duties January 1, 1885. Under an aet of the Legislature of 1895, Judge Burgess was appointed, in con- nection with Judges Peabody, of Portland, and Stevens, of Augusta, a member of the commission to prepare a uniform system of blanks and rules for the Probate and Solvency Courts of Maine. From 1868 to 1870 he was clerk to the superintendent of construction for the building of the Bangor Post-office and Custom-house. Later he went to Wash- ington, D.C., as clerk in the Pension Office, where he remained a short time. Formerly, while a resident of Winn, Me., he held various offices, among them that of Town Clerk, Su- perintendent of the Schools, and municipal offieer. He has been a justice of the peace since 1867. In politics he is a Republican.
Judge Burgess was married in 1872 to Sarah G. Gibbs, who was born in Alton, Me., a daugh- ter of William Gibbs. He has two children: Charles H. Burgess, born in Winn, Me., who was graduated from the medical department of Bowdoin College, and is now practising medicine in Bangor, Me .; and James Fred- eriek Burgess, born in Bangor, Me., who is a graduate of the Bangor high school.
Judge Burgess is a Free Mason, belonging to Star of the East Lodge of Oldtown; and he is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Since 1892 he has made his home in Bangor, of which city he is one of the most respected residents.
AMES FREDERICK HILL, M.D., the well-known specialist of Waterville, was born in Waterville, June 15, 1854, son of James Preston and Emeline P. (Simp- son) Hill. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Hill, was a Revolutionary soldier from Exeter, N.H. His grandfather, Purmont Hill, who was born in Exeter, March 14, 1797, settled in Waterville in 1820, and was for many years en- gaged in the earriage manufacturing business. He died August 19, 1871. He married Lydia R. Smith, who was born in Dover, N.H., Sep- tember 30, 1797, and died May 7, 1879.
James Preston Hill, Dr. Hill's father, was born in Waterville, August 20, 1827. In his
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earlier years he was employed in the blacksmith- ing department of his father's carriage manu- factory, and later in life he was proprietor of a large grocery store in Waterville. During the Civil War he acted as a special agent of the United States government under Provost Mar- shal Davis at Augusta, and at the present time is a popular eivil officer in Waterville. He married, in 1849, Emeline P. Simpson, a native of Winslow, Me., daughter of Ezekiel and Rox- anna (Simpson) Simpson, who went from Bos- ton, Mass., to the Kennebec valley in 1797, settling in Winslow. James P. Hill and his wife Emeline have had six children, four of whom are living: Anna L., of Woolwich, Me .; Charles A., who married Abbie Boyd, of New- ton, Mass., and is now manager of the Hotel Belgrade, Belgrade Lakes, Maine; James Frederick, M.D., whose name begins this sketch; and Wallace A. Hill, who married Nina Sawyer, of Fairfield, Me., and is now residing in that town. (A more extended account of Dr. Hill's parents and kinsfolk will be found in a sketch of James Preston Hill, which appears upon an- other page of this work.)
James Frederick Hill entered Colby College with the class of 1882, but withdrew prior to graduation in order to take up the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Frederick C. Thayer, of Waterville. His professional preparations were continued at Dartmouth Col- lege, and, after graduating from the medical department of Bowdoin College in 1885, he acted for the ensuing three years as assistant to Dr. Thayer. From 1SSS to 1897 he was in partnership with his preceptor, but in August of the latter year he severed his amicable rela- tions with Dr. Thayer for the purpose of de- voting himself exclusively to ophthalmology, otology, laryngology, and rhinology, in which branches he had previously taken post-graduate work under New York's leading specialists at the New York Polyclinic and the New York Post- graduate Medical School. Thus well equipped, he has achieved success in his chosen field of usefulness, being now recognized as an able specialist in diseases of the eye, car, throat, and nose. At the present time Dr. Hill is consulting surgeon at the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, Portland, and also lecturer upon the anatomy
and physiology of the eye and ear at Colby College. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Laryngologi- cal, Rhinological, and Otological Society. the Maine Medical Association, the Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, and other prominent professional bodies. A thirty-second degree Mason, he is Past Commander of St. Omer Commandery, K. T. He is a trustee of Coburn Classical Institute, Grand Medical Director of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. sur- geon of the Second Regiment, National G. .. of the State of Maine, and for two years has been president of the Waterville Board of Trade.
OEL BYRON POTTER, Treasurer of Androscoggin County, was born in Webster, Me., January 13. 1:59. being a son of Omar Dwight Potter by his wife Sarah, whose maiden name was Jordan.
He is a descendant in the ninth costaden of Nicholas1 Potter, who came to America from England some time previous to 1650. settling at Lynn, Mass. Nicholas, who was a 10-01 by trade, had sixty acres of land grantel hun. Ile appears to have become much interested in the Saugus iron works, but in 1660 removed to Salem. He was three times married. The maiden surname of his first wife. Emma. is not known. His second wife was Alice, widow of Thomas Weeks; and for his third he married Mary, daughter of John Gedney, of Salem. Of the first marriage there were two children: Robert, through whom the present line is continued; and Elizabeth.
Robert2 Potter was married twice, the second time on January 25, 1660. to Ruth Driver, who bore him ten children - Robert. Jr., Nathaniel. John, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, second. Ruth. Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel, and Thomas.
Robert3 Potter, Jr., born in Lynn. March 18, 1661, married January 9. 1681-2. Martha Hall, by whom he had ten chik Iren - Ephraim .. . Martha, Sarah, Ruth, Elizabeth, Robert. Re- becca, Mary, Nathaniel, and Elizabeth.
Ephraim+ Potter, born in Lynn. April 5. 1683, married November 23, 170s. Sarah Wit :. They resided in Marlborough, Mass,, and had
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ciglit children - Mary, Martha, Joseph, Persis, Ephraim, Jr., Sarah, Theophilus, and Eliza- beth. He died March 19, 1731.
Theophilus5 Potter, the seventh child of Ephraim,4 was born in Marlborough, January 26, 1725, and died September 13, 1814. He married in 1748 Lois Walker, who died in 179S. They had twelve children -Silas, Ephraim, Barnabas, Hannah, Thomas, Abijah, Lois, Thaddeus, Esther, Elizabeth, Luke, and Aaron, of whom the first four were born in Marl- borough and the others in Brookfield. The- ophilus was a farmer and the first of the name of Potter to reside in Brookfield.
His son Thomas," who comes next in this lineage, was born in Brookfield, November 15, 1757. He married November 26, 1778, Han- nah Heald. Their children were: Bethiel, Polly, Hannah, Thomas, Lucinda, Silas, Thomas, second, Josiah Wilt, Theophilus, Daphney, and Dwight Foster.
Dwight Foster Potter, born at Brookfield, July 12, 1800, died June 28, 1832. He mar- ried January 4, 1824, Clarissa, daughter of Nathaniel Hodgkins. Born in 1805, she died in 1847. They had three children: Omar Dwight, born at Belvidere, Vt., August 16, 1824; Albert Nelson, born at Belvidere, Vt., May 17, 1826; and Edgar, born at Waterville, Vt., December 4, 1831.
Omar Dwight8 Potter, the eldest son, mar- ried November 2, 1851, Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel and Nancy Jordan, born in 1824. He has two sons: Noel Byron,9 born in Webster, Me., January 13, 1859, as already recorded in this article; and Herbert Joseph, who was born in Webster, Me., November 20, 1860, and resides in that town. Omar Dwight Pot- ter is still living in Webster. His wife Sarah, the mother of his children, died March 13, 1897.
Noel Byron Potter was educated in the pub- lic schools, Litchfield Academy, and Maine Central Institute. He took an active interest in public affairs, at the age of twenty-one serv- ing as superintendent of public schools in his native town of Webster. In 1883 he became private secretary to Governor Robie. That post he held until 1887, when he was elected to his present position as County Treasurer of Androscoggin, which he has since retained.
From 1890 to 1893 he was a member of Gov- ernor Burleigh's staff, having the rank of Lieu- tenant-Colonel. His fraternal society affilia- tions include membership in Rhabome Lodge, F. & A. M., of Lewiston; Industry Lodge, No. 2, K.P., of which he has been Keeper of Records and Scal for seventeen years and Grand Representative for fourteen years; Sabattus River Lodge of I. O. O. F .; and Algonquin Lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men. On November 8, 1893, Mr. Potter married Nellie MI., daughter of Albert G. and Chloe J. (Plaisted) Potter, of Auburn. He has no children.
Mrs. Potter is a grand-daughter of George Potter (son of George, Sr.), who was born at Bowdoin, Me., December 2, 1800, and died November 9, 1864. George Potter married Martha Connor, who was born in Bowdoin, February 21, 1810, and who died October 7, 1864.
Their children, twelve in number, were as
follows: Albert G. (Mrs. Nellie M. Potter's father), born in Wales, Me., March 11, 1828, who died August 22, 1897; Martha E., born July 9, 1829, who died February 13, 1901; Pamela A., born January 15, 1831, who died February 7, 1861; William, born in Litchfield, Me., November 5, 1832; Cynthia P., born September 7, 1834: Emeline, born June 30, 1836, who died June 29, 1839; George, born at Lewiston, June 22, 1838, who died December 28, 1864; Simon C., born at Lewiston, August 18, 1840, who died in infancy; Elijah, born June 27. 1842; Aklen S., born June 24, 1844; Emery, born May 3, 1846; and Mary E., born March 25, 1849, who died August 23, 1863.
Albert G. Potter and Chloe J. Plaisted (daugh- ter of George P. Plaisted, of Gardiner, and his wife Martha) were married September 25, 1862. She died December 11, 1901, leav- ing two children: Nellie M., who married Noel Byron Potter, the subject of this sketch; and Elizabeth G., who on December 23, 1885, became the wife of Darius W. Randall, and resides. in Auburn. The Plaisteds and Con- nors and Potters are families of high repute in Maine, furnishing many men of ability to the legislative councils of the State, as well as to the professions and the higher walks of business enterprise.
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HERBURN LAWRENCE, the late senior partner in the firm of Law- rence Brothers, lumber operators and manufacturers of South Gardi- ner, was born in South Gardiner, March 5, 1832, son of Charles and Eleanor (Morrill) Lawrence. His father was a native of South Gardiner, and was one of the pioneers in the lumber industry of the Kennebec valley. His mother was born in Winthrop, Me. To Charles Lawrence and his wife Eleanor were born eleven children, namely: Hiram, Greenlief, Eleanor, Annie, and Drusilla, all now living; and Samuel M., Sherburn, Abner C., Dolly M., Laura A., and Charles L., deceased. Hiram resides in South Gardiner. Greenlief is the special sub- ject of another sketch in this work. Eleanor is a resident of Deering. Annie is the wife of Wallace Brower, of New York City. Drusilla is the wife of F. L. McGowan, a resident of Boston. Charles, who died in October, 1901, was a member of the Maine House of Repre- sentatives. Charles Lawrence, Sr., died in 1883, and his wife in 1873.
Sherburn Lawrence acquired his education in the South Gardiner public schools and at the Litchfield (Me.) Academy. At an early age he connected himself with the lumbering industry, becoming in an unusually short space of time a valuable assistant to his father in the latter's extensive logging operations upon the Kennebec River, and from the very first he gave unmistakable signs of those sterling characteristics which were afterward the pre- dominating features in his business career. He was identified with the lumbering enterprises of the elder Lawrence until 1870, when he en- tered into partnership with his brothers, Samuel M., Hiram, Greenlief, and Charles, organizing the firm of Lawrence Brothers, which immedi- ately inaugurated an extensive business in the cutting, hauling, and manufacturing of lun- ber. From its own timber lands, located in the Moosehead Lake and Dead River regions, this firm cut and haul eight to nine million feet of logs annually, necessitating the employment of two hundred men and forty teams in the woods for a period of four months in the year; and at its mills in South Gardiner, where the winter's product is manufactured, it employs
an average force of one hundred and ten men, turning out ten million feet of manufactured lumber annually, two and a half million of which are purchased each year by the Maine Central Railroad Company. The amount of logs sawed in addition to those of its own hauling is purchased from other lumbermen. As a means of disposing advantageously of the rapid accumulation of slabs and edgings, the firm added to its plant some years ago a kindling wood department, having a capacity of producing ten thousand bundles daily. It was also at one tine engaged rather exten- sively in the ice business, having ice-houses and shipping facilities at Pittston. When the business was established, Sherburn Lawrence became by common consent, as well as by his knowledge and experience, the principal rep- resentative of the firm; and he continued to direct its extensive and varied transactions with signal ability and success until his death, which occurred April 29, 1895.
The partnership was first broken by the death in 18SS of Samuel M. Lawrence, who was respected and loved by all who knew him. In 1901 Charles Lawrence was summoned hence, thus leaving Hiram and Greenlief the only survivors of the original firm.
In the face of his arduous business duties the late Sherburn Lawrence was not unmind- ful of his political obligations. He served with ability in the city government, to which he was elected as a Republican; and his inter- est in all movements relative to the welfare of his native city and its business develop- ment was upon every warrantable occasion made substantially apparent. His affection for his family was always in evidence; his sym- pathy for those less fortunate than himself was frequently demonstrated in a generous though unostentatious manner; his citizenship was of the purest quality; and the community in general, as well as business circles in par- tienlar, sorrowed deeply at his removal from their midst.
On Christmas Day, 1855, Mr. Lawrence mar- ried Miss Julia Stanford, who survives him. She was born in Gardiner, daughter of Jordan and Polly (Miller) Stanford, her father a na- tive of Lewiston, Me., and her mother of Union,
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this State. Jordan Stanford was for a num- ber of years a boot and shoe merchant in Gar- diner. He subsequently removed to South Gardiner to engage in the grocery business. The only child of this union was Forest M. Lawrence, who was born in 1856, and died in 18SS. He was a young man of unusual activ- ity and rare qualities of heart and mind, and was sincerely mourned by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He married Miss Abbie P. Willey, of South Gardiner, and left a son, Perley M. Lawrence.
As a fitting conclusion to this memorial the following remarks relative to the personal character of the late Sherburn Lawrence, made by an editor and a lifelong acquaintance, will not be out of place: "Endowed with great common sense and a man of mature judgment and mental grasp, yet he impresses men more by the qualities of his heart. Public-spirited and thoroughly modest, he always considers the interests and feelings of others, especially the poor; and he is held in ideal esteem by those in his employ. I do not believe Sher- burn Lawrence has an enemy."
ENJAMIN BUSSY THATCHER, of Bangor, is one of the leading men of the city. He was born in Brewer, Me., April 21, 1839, a son of George A. and Rebecca J. (Billings) Thatcher. He comes of a family distinguished in public and military life, among his ancestors being legis- lators and Revolutionary heroes. He is a direct descendant of Samuel Thatcher, an early resident of Watertown, Mass., his lineage being Samuel,1 Sammuel,2 Ebenezer,? Samuel,+ Samuel,5 George A.,6 and Benjamin B.7
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Samuel1 Thatcher was admitted freeman in Watertown, Mass., in May, 1642. He died November 30, 1669, survived by his wife Han- nah and two children, Hannah2 and Samuel.2 Samuel2 Thatcher, born in Watertown, Octo- ber 20, 1648, died October 21, 1726. On April 11, 1676, he married Mary Farnsworth, by whom he had ten children, Ebenezer being the youngest. Ebenezer3 Thatcher, born March 17, 1703-4, died at his home in Watertown, February 8, 1753. He married Susanna Spring,
January 27, 1731, and they became the parents of seven children. Samuel Thatcher, the eldest of these, was born November 3, 1732, and died June 27, 1786. He did brave service in the Revolutionary War. On April 19, 1775, he took part in the engagements at Lexington and Concord as Captain of a company under Colonel Gardner, and was so severely wounded as to be crippled for life. When General George Washington came to Cambridge, Mass., to take charge of the troops there, in 1775, Colonel Thatcher was a committee to provide him with suitable accommodations. He was Colonel of a regiment in 1776, 1777. and 1778. In 1786, the closing year of his life, as above noted, he was a Representative from Cam- bridge in the Massachusetts Legislature; and he died from apoplexy on the steps of the Old State House. He married, in 1753, Mary Brown, of Lexington. They reared the fol- lowing children-Susanna, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel,5 and Ebenezer.
Samuel5 Thatcher was baptized in Cam- bridge, Mass., July 1, 1776, and died at the home of his son, George A. Thatcher, in Bangor, Me., July 18, 1872. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1793, and at the time of his death was the oldest living alumnus of that institution. He studied law with the Hon. Timothy Bigelow, of Groton, Mass., and after his admission to the bar began the practice of his profession in New Gloucester, Me. In 1800 he settled in Warren, Me., where for many years he was one of the leading citizens. For eleven years he represented Warren in the General Court of Massachusetts, and for two terms, from 1803 until 1807, he was a member of Congress. From 1812 until 1821 he served as Sheriff of Lincoln County. He took great interest in educational matters, and was one of the founders of Warren Acad- emy. He removed to Brewer, Me., in 1833, a few years later becoming a resident of Bangor. On January 15, 1800, he married Sally, daugh- ter of Reuben and Molly (Howe) Brown, of, Concord, Mass. She was born December 17, 1776, and died September 22, 1851.
George A.6 Thatcher was born August 24, 1806, in Warren, Me., and died at his home in Bangor, Me., December 1, 1SS5. He was
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prominent as a business man in the early his- tory of Bangor, from 1826 to 1847, when he retired. He was Deacon of the First Church from 1840 to the time of his death (forty-five years), was prominent in the anti- slavery and temperance movements, was trus- tee of the Bangor Theological Seminary for many years, and part of the time was also treasurer. On October 1, 1832, he married Rebecca Jane, daughter of Caleb C. and Nancy (Thoreau) Billings, of Bangor, Me. They be- came the parents of seven children, namely- George Putnam, Frederick Augustus, Charles Alfred, Benjamin Bussy, Caleb Billings, Sarah Frances, and Henry Knox. George Putnam was born in Bangor, July 14, 1833, and now resides in California. He is unmarried. Fred- erick Augustus was born September 25, 1835, in Bangor, and died January 10, 1838, in Brewer, Me. Charles Alfred, born in Bangor, May 16, 1837, died November 26, 1864, at Red River, La., where he was in command of the steamer "Gazelle." Caleb Billings, born November 5, 1840, in Bangor, is a resident of this city. He is unmarried. Sarah Frances, born in Bangor, June 7, 1842, died September 20, 1842. Henry Knox Thatcher was born in Bangor, August 3, 1854, was graduated at Harvard College, and is now a successful physician in Dexter, Me. On January 17, 1882, he married Annie Ross, daughter of Hugh and Ann Ross, of Bangor. Their only child, Henry D. Thoreau Thatcher, was born in July, 1884.
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