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John D. Burbank, the progenitor of the fore-mentioned family was a man of fine physical stature and of a digni- fied presence and address. He possessed considerable in- tellectual culture; a fitting life companion for his noble wife, who was much inclined to study and scholarship in her girlhood days, and was a superior teacher in Harrison before her marriage, always beloved and respected by her pupils.
When the town of Gorham was incorporated in 1836, Mr. Burbank was chosen one of the selectmen, and was elected to that office for nineteen consecutive years, and was on the board the year of his death, 1865. He repre- sented his town in the Legislature several times. His wife was a great help to him in life, and was of an exemplary Christian character, devoted to the cheer and helpfulness of all around her. Their children inherited to a great de- gree, the character that distinguished their worthy parents.
John C. Burbank, son of John D. and Achsah, is a mill- wright and machinist. Franklin P., was an architect and builder and erected a number of fine residences in Gorham, New Hampshire, South Paris and Portland. He was noted for his energy and resources of courage and forethought in cases of emergency.
EMILY NUTTING, b. May 14, 1821; married William Chute of Naples. (See Chute family.)
FRANCIS M .; was a soldier in the Civil War, and died in hospital at Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. 25, 1863.
CALISTA B., b. -; married Samuel Pitts. (See Pitts family.)
AMos, b. Mar. 19, 1830; married Ist, June 22, 1856, Mercy Matilda Mason of Harrison, born in Albany, Me., June 22, 1844; she died June 18, 1860; they had one daugh- ter, Matilda Blanche, b. July 3, 1859; she married Sept. 29, 1886. They have one daughter, Joyce Elizabeth, b. Aug. 3, 1890. Mr. Stuart married 2d, June 20, 1864, Caroline Augusta Wight of Naples, b. Feb. 8, 1842; she
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was killed in a train accident, Aug. 1, 1904, leaving two children : U. S. Grant, b. Apr. 25, 1865; married June 16, 1886; has one son, Nelson, b. July 15, 1903. Rena Martelle, b. Aug. 19, 1869; married July 6, 1907.
LYDIA G., b. Aug. 1, 1827; married Sept. 19, 1849, Wil- liam Brigham of Bridgton ; he died Mar. 6, 1901.
JOANNA, b. Aug. 20, 1832 ; married Jan. 1, 1855, Washing- ton Chaplin, 2d, of Naples; their children: Willis B., b. Apr. 9, 1856. Joseph S., b. July 16, 1859. Margaret b. Oct. 16, 1862. Eleanor M., b. May 7, 1866. Daniel G., b. Dec. 8, 1868. Byron C., b. Oct. 20, 1874.
HANNAH STUART, second child of Joseph, born March 5, 1782 ; married February 20, 1820, Jonathan Saun- ders of Norway, Maine. In the last years of her widow- hood, she lived with the family of her brother, Captain Wentworth Stuart of Bolster's Mills. She was very in- dustrious and did a great deal of spinning of woolen yarn for weaving and knitting. Everybody loved "Aunt" Han- nah Saunders. She died January 1, 1864.
SUSANNA STUART, second daughter of Joseph, Sr., born in Gorham, June 8, 1788; married Frances May- berry of Raymond, born January 9, 1786. Their children:
CAROLINE, b. May 1, 1810.
SOLOMON, b. July 4, 1811.
ELIZA M., b. Apr. 11, 1814; married Ezekiel Jordan of Casco.
FRANCIS C., b. Jan. 11, 1816.
MARTHA C., b. Apr. 26, 1818.
JOSEPH S., b. June 4, 1821.
HANNAH, b. Dec. 3, 1823. BENJAMIN B., b. Mar. 16, 182 -.
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REBECCA B., b. Mar. 19, 1828; married Samuel C. Syl- vester of Casco and lived in Lowell, Mass., till 1862; afterward in Casco till 1904, when they removed to Harrison and lived with their son, Dr. Charles B. Syl- vester, till the death of Mrs. Sylvester, Apr. 13, 1905. Samuel C. Sylvester died Feb. 4, 1908. Their children were :
I. Wilfred, b. in Lowell, Mass., May 3, 1851 ; mar- ried Mary Cameron Watson in 1875, in Lowell, Mass. He died in Rhode Island in 1890. Children : Malcolm C., b. in Casco, Mar. 19, 1877; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1890; was principal of high school in Marietta, Ga., and married in 1907, Marie Goodman of Marietta; they have one child, Anna Carolyn, born in 1908. Jessie M., b. in Casco, Feb. 22, 1879; lived in Harrison with her mother and uncle, Dr. C. B. Sylvester in 1895 and 1896; afterward in North Bridgton ; graduated from Bridg- ton Academy in 1900, and removed to Marietta, Ga., in 1903, where she is a teacher in a private school. Her mother, Mrs. Mary C. Sylvester, re- sides with her in Marietta.
2. Minnie E., b. July 18, 1856; married David L. May- berry of Otisfield; died in 1894.
3. Charles Bradford, b. Feb. 12, 1865 in Casco, Me .; married Ist, Flora Bell Bray of Harrison. (See Bray family) ; 2d, Mary Florence Whitney, Aug. 18, 1896. (See Whitney family.)
Dr. Charles B. Sylvester has resided in Harrison nearly twenty years, where he is a popular and esteemed physi- cian. He takes much interest in civic affairs, and has served very acceptably on the school board as super- intendent of schools. He is much identified with the progress of medical science and is a member of the medical associations of Cumberland and Oxford Counties. He has been a contributor to various medical publications, and is a member of several fraternal organizations: Lakeside Grange, P. of H., Harrison; Oriental Lodge, Oriental Chapter and Oriental Commandery of Masons, Bridgton ; Oxford Council of Norway; Kora Temple Mystic Shrine, Lewiston.
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WENTWORTH STUART, third son of Joseph and Hannah (Smalley) Stuart was born in Gorham, September 26, 1791. He came to Harrison about 1812, and married April 24, 1814, Mercy, daughter of Isaac and Anna (Whit- ney) Hall of Gorham, who came to Harrison about the same time. Wentworth settled on the farm in North Harrison, afterward owned many years by his brother, Josiah, which is still in possession of his grandson. After 1825, the resi- dence of Wentworth and family was at Bolster's Mills. He kept a tavern there for many years, and was engaged extensively in farming and shoe making. He was a Justice of the Peace, and his knowledge of public business caused him to become a leader in the civil and political affairs of the town to the close of his life. He was chosen suc- cessively on the board of selectmen five years, and served as town treasurer and superintending school committee, and was frequently appointed to act on committees for the hearing and settlement of private questions of conten- tion. He was postmaster at Bolster's Mills several years and was collector of taxes in 1838 and 1839, and in 1848. He had a very cheerful disposition, was ready-witted, keen at repartee, and delighted in telling or hearing a good story. He was universally respected and had a wide circle of friends.
In politics, he was an unswerving Democrat of the old school type. As illustrating his ready wit, it is related that, once a young man rushed into his stable, almost out of breath, and exclaimed: "Captain Stuart, I want to get your horse and wagon to go to Otisfield, aint agoin' to be gone but a minute." Quick as a flash the Captain replied : "No, I can't possibly let you have them, no horse of mine is going to be driven there so quick as that." When the youth reconsidered his request and made in proper form, it was readily granted, for Captain Stuart was noted for his kindness and for being always an obliging neighbor. Cap-
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tain Stuart's religious proclivities were with the Free Bap- tist, in which order he loved to worship. Wentworth and Mercy (Hall) Stuart had six children :
MOSES H., b. Nov., 1816; died Aug. 31, 1840.
BENJAMIN S., b. Aug. 28, 1818; died Sept. 20, 1820.
CHARLES E., b. Oct. 9, 1821; married Lydia, daughter of William and Nancy (Sampson) Twombly of Harrison. (See Twombly family.)
MARIA, b. June 5, 1824; married Francis Chute, Jr., of Otisfield in 1843; died June 9, 1863. They had one child :
I. Mercy, b. Apr. 27, 1844; died Mar. 8, 1865.
CHARLOTTE, b. Apr. II, 1828; married Thomas Grace of Casco, June 28, 1860; died Dec. 30, 1901. They lived many years in Chelsea, Mass. Mr. Grace died May 29, 1900.
LAURA JANE, b. July 16, 1835; married Henry Kilgore of Waterford, Mar. II, 1860. They settled at Norway Village. Their daughter, Lizzie H., married William Boynton of Norway, June 18, 1881. They have two children, Carl W., b. May II, 1885; and Fannie S., b. Feb. 12, 1888. Mrs. Kilgore died Nov. 29, 1907.
Charles E. Stuart, third son of Wentworth and Mercy, was a farmer in his early life. He afterward became a cattle broker and in company with Newell A. Trafton, did a large business in Cumberland and Oxford Counties, col- lecting and driving cattle to Brighton market. That firm was for some years, a leading one in the cattle droving business in Maine. He was afterward in trade, keeping a general store at Bolster's Mills in the building now the store of Ernest L. Gay, and location of the Maine Tele- phone Company Exchange. Later his son-in-law, Ernest L. Gay, became his partner and under the firm name of Stuart & Gay, the business was continued till he was too feeble to attend to it. For a long period while in his prime,
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he was a successful auctioneer, his services being in fre- quent demand. Mr. Stuart was many years prominent in town affairs, being collector of taxes in 1860, and from 1862 to 1868. In 1869, he was one of the selectmen, and later in life was very popular as moderator of the annual town meetings, being first elected to the office in 1882, and then for the eight following years. Ill health prevented his acting in 1892 and 1894, no other candidates being named when he was able to serve. This popularity in the position was well deserved, for he always conducted the business of the meetings in a business-like manner, never showing favoritism in his treatment of any one. He became a member of Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., at Bridg- ton in 1864, and was much in love with that order of brother- hood. He was a charter member of Crooked River Lodge at its institution in 1869, and was nearly always prominent as an officer of that Lodge, serving as Secretary and in other official positions. He was, from his youth upwards, a devoted and consistent temperance man and member of different organizations. He was a favorite speaker at the old time "rallies," always ready with his voice in support of the cause. His views on practical temperance were very radical, and he lived strictly according to his profes- sion, being a strict teetotaller. In politics, Mr. Stuart was by education an uncompromising Democrat, and he never swerved from the political faith of his ancestors until in the latter years of his life, he became satisfied that neither of the great parties was likely to act according to his pronounced views on temperance matters, and for that reason he saw fit to cast his fortunes with the Prohibition party. In 1886 and in 1894, that party honored him with its nomination for representative to the Legislature. But he never forgot his love for the Democratic party, and the writer well remembers the time when he last acted as moderator in 1894. Before taking the chair, he thanked his townsmen for the honor of their choice, telling them
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he thought they must have given it to him on account of his "unswerving democracy."
Mr. Stuart was a most genial, companionable man, was very witty, and had on hand an almost inexhaustible fund of anecdotes and stories; always having something pertinent to the subject that might be the theme of conversation or debate. He was a kind and obliging neighbor and a good citizen, always wishing to help on the advancement of the public good to the extent of his ability. Charles E. and Lydia Stuart had one child, Lelia M., born October 13, 1865. She married September 7, 1897, Ernest L. Gay of Casco, born September 7, 1871, who moved to Bolster's Mills and took up his residence with her parents, and still re- sides with them. Mr. Gay continues to carry on the busi- ness of a general store under the old name of "Stuart & Gay." He was president of the Bolster's Mills Telephone & Telegraph Company from its organization in 1901, to the time of its selling its interests to the Maine Telephone Company in 1907; but the exchange is still at the Gay store.
ACHSAH STUART, seventh child of Joseph, Senior, married Richard Fogg of Harrison. They had three chil- dren : Benjamin Stuart, who settled in - . Elvira, who married Lewis Edson of Harrison and Caroline, who mar- ried James Smith of Otisfield.
SOLOMON STUART was born in Gorham, Maine, April 22, 1796; married Mary Hall of Gorham, June 19, 1817. He died February 19, 1868. His widow died April 27, 1880. Children :
MARY ANN, b. Nov. 6, 1818; married John Lombard of Otisfield; no children. John Lombard died Aug. 24, 1890. His wife predeceased him Sept. 27, 1865.
MAJOR P., b. Aug. 17, 1820; married Octavia Weston, b. Sept. 18, 1827, daughter of James and Sukey Weston of
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Harrison, May 24, 1850. Major P. Stuart died Sept. 26, 1903. Octavia (Weston) Stuart died July 30, 1906. They had children, all born in Harrison :
I. Rebecca L., b. Oct. 5, 1852; married Lyman Shedd of Norway, June 1, 1881; they have one daughter : Josephine, b. Aug. 28, 1882.
2. Infant daughter, b. Oct. 9, 1853; died Oct. 15, 1853.
3. James W., b. Apr. 24, 1856; married Claribel L. Horr of Waterford, Me., Dec. 25, 1879; one child, Gladys A., b. Oct. 6, 1888.
4. Caro J., b. July 21, 1859; died Jan. 2, 1861.
5. Dana M., b. Dec. 21, 1866; married J. Florence Hicks of Winthrop, Mass., June 20, 1903.
ISAAC H., b. Apr. 22, 1822; married Elizabeth Hall of Chelsea, Mass .; they had children: Robert Evans and Mary Ella, born in Chelsea.
HANNAH, b. Mar. 3, 1825; married Ist, Sumner Hancock of Otisfield, May 24, 1850; they had a son, Sumner O., b. - She married 2d, Nathan Decker of Casco. Sumner O. Hancock resides in Casco, Me. He has a daughter, May Hancock.
JOSEPH PHINNEY, b. Sept., 1829; died Apr., 1830.
WENTWORTH, b. Nov. 18, 1831 ; died Oct. 5, 1831.
WYATT TURNER, b. Nov. 18, 1835; married Lucy Andrews of Harrison. They had children: Solomon Lewis and Eva, deceased. Wyatt T. Stuart died Jan. 1I, 1879.
JOSIAH ALDEN STUART was born in Gorham, July 7, 1798. He came to Harrison when four years old. He married Miriam Rich of Harrison (born May 20, 1800) ; married April 24, 1824. They had eleven children :
MALVINA M., b. Apr. 20, 1825.
BENJAMIN R., b. Nov. 20, 1827; died Oct. 25, 1903.
CLEMENTINE A., b. Nov. 22, 1829.
JOHN W., b. July 7, 1831 ; died in the war, May 6, 1863.
JOSIAH A., b. Mar. 20, 1833; died in Montana, date un- known.
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LUCRETIA E., b. Oct. 16, 1835.
EVELYN I., b. Nov. 5, 1837.
CLARA B., b. May 29, 1840; died in California, Mar. 23, 1899.
MARTHA M., b. Feb. 27, 1842; died Sept. 22, 1844.
MOSES H., b. Apr. 10, 1844.
CHARLES D., b. July 24, 1846; died Oct. 22, 1900.
Malvina married Randolph Sturgis of Standish, Mar. 17, 1850. After his death, she married John Anderson of Lim- ington, where she died July 24, 1891. She had five children.
Benjamin married Ellen Haskell of Harrison, in 1871. He had one son, Samuel B., who lives on the ancestral farm.
Clementine married October 15, 1854, E. E. Hayes of Oxford, and had one child, Martha Elizabeth. She after- ward married February 12, 1860, Samuel Edgerly of Otis- field. Resided successively in Otisfield, Waterford, Harri- son, and West Paris, where he died in 1888. Martha E. Hayes married Samuel K. Wight of Otisfield, and settled in Harrison in 18 -. They had children: Virginia A., Katherine L. L., Samuel K., Howard M., and Ronello E. Samuel Edgerly had four children : Fred B., born in Water- ford, February 27, 1861. Etta A., born February 16, 1865; married James Thomes of Harrison. John C., born in Harrison, June 10, 1869. Hubert R., born February 24, 1871.
John W. and Josiah went to Iowa when young men. John was killed in battle in the Civil War. Josiah died in Montana, later. He was married and left two children; no names given.
Lucretia married April, 1858, Reuben Dunn of Poland, where they have always lived. They have one son, Seth C.
Evelyn married November 5, 1858, Joseph Libby of Paris. They had three children: Annie L., Leo W., and Mary P.
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Clara married November 17, 1864, Payson Stanley of this town and went West, where they lived several years, finally removing to California, where she died. She had three children: Grace, Percy, and Curtis.
Moses H. also went West; married Cornelia Howe, and has five children: Charles, Miriam, Claude, Rex, and Lau- rence.
Charles D. married Katie L. Brackett of Harrison. Has lived in Boston. They had two children: Elwin and Rosa- lie. (See Joseph L. Brackett in Brackett family.)
Josiah A. Stuart died December 19, 1868 and his wife, Miriam Rich, January 20, 1879.
TEBBETTS FAMILY.
STEPHEN F. TEBBETTS was, with one exception, the oldest inhabitant that Harrison has ever had, and no one of our residents was ever better known than was this remarkable man during the forty-six years of his res- idence in this town. He came of a sturdy and long-lived race, and one with most marked characteristics, according to the accounts which we get of his ancestors. Ridlon, in his "Saco Valley Settlements," says of those character- istics of the Tebbetts Family: "Conspicuous as a trait of character was precision; the exactitude with which every- thing undertaken by them must be done. There was no 'half way' or 'nine-tenths' known to them; finished meant perfection. Their ideals were clearly defined, and must be incarnated in materialized form. Good order, system, and tidiness were everywhere observable about their houses, farms, stores, and work-shops. They were cleanly of per- son; if their clothes had an honest patch on them it was a clean one. They were tender hearted and compassionate to the needy; they would divide and sub-divide the last
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crust with the poor; they hated oppression and intrigue, and if contention was abroad their sympathies were al- ways with the 'under dog in the fight.' High minded and outspoken constitutionally, they were never afraid to 'speak their mind'."
Henry Tebbetts, shoemaker, his wife Eliza, and his three children, Remembrance, Jeremy, and Samuel, came from England and landed in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1635. Jeremy, Henry's oldest son, was the ancestor of the sub- ject of this sketch, the lineage being traced through Eph- raim and Aaron to Stephen, who married Alice Haines of Buxton, and settled in Scarborough. They had eight chil- dren : Thomas, Timothy, Ephraim, Jedediah, Aaron, Ste- phen, Ruth, and Patience. Stephen, the sixth son, married Mehitable, daughter of Elijah and Hannah (Furbush) Teb- betts, and settled in Scarborough, later removing to Saco. They had a family of ten children.
STEPHEN F. TEBBETTS, son of Stephen and Me- hitable Tebbetts, was born in Saco, July 29, 1797, and ac- quired a fair education for those days, his father being a school teacher. His youthful days were passed in Saco and vicinity, and it appears that he early learned to work, and was inured to more or less hardship, as he used to tell how in his boyhood he had to chop wood barefoot when it was so cold that he would have a heated plank to stand on. Among the reminiscences of his youthful days, he also used to tell of the time when Saco and vi- cinity was threatened with a visit from the British Squad- ron in the War of 1812, quoting from a humorous poem of his own composition, of which the following was the first verse :
"Saturday night, being all of good spunk, We set out from Saco to fetch Kennebunk ; We all being ready, steered out in the street, Came to 'Smith's Eddy', and there joined the 'fleet.'"
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At that time Mr. Tebbetts was about sixteen years of age, so it is evident that his faculty for making poetry developed early and lasted through his lifetime, as the writer has a vivid recollection of hearing him sing an original song at the "Democratic Jubilee," at Harrison in 1884, on the occasion of the election of Grover Cleveland, he being over eighty-seven years of age. He was a musician as well as a poet, and was an expert with a snare drum, being in great demand at "general musters" and similar gatherings; and on one occasion played at a muster not far from Portland with Edward Kendall, afterwards a world-famous bugle player, accompanying him with the fife. It seems that he was quite well acquainted with Ken- dall, as he used to tell of the last time that he saw him, which was in Portland, and how he called out to him across the street: "Hello, Uncle Stephen! Have you forgotten how to play the 'double drag ?'"
Mr. Tebbetts married Lucy Baston of Denmark in 1819, and settled in his wife's native town. His start in life was not a pleasant one, and involved a loss of what was a fortune to him at that time. He bought land, having what he supposed to be a good title, but later there came up a claim that it was "ministerial land," and that the title was worthless. He had built a set of buildings on the land, and, true to the Tebbetts characteristic, he fought for his home to the last, but was obliged at the end to submit to an unfavorable decision, involving the loss of both land and buildings after being to the expense of $1,500. The family then consisted of four children, and they were turned out into the world without a home, the parents feeling so dis- heartened and discouraged that they could hardly struggle for the subsistence of the little family. But Mr. Tebbetts was not a man to despair, and he resolved to start anew. He moved to North Bridgton where he lived for a while, and then went to Harrison, which he made his permanent
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home, living for a time in the "Old Temple," and then in the house near the blacksmith shop, and which has recently been torn down. There he resided until some years after the decease of his wife.
As far as occupation was concerned, he was a "Jack at all trades," but, instead of being "good at none," he was good at all of them, thus showing the prominence of another Tebbetts characteristic, that of perfection in what- ever was undertaken. He was a sailor, river-driver, cooper, shoemaker, basket maker, and gardener. His father was a seafaring man, and in his early days he made more than one voyage to the West Indies with him. But he probably worked at coopering more than at all other occupations, as it is said of him that "for fifty-three years he made hogs- heads, tierces, barrels, etc., and they were the best that were made in the vicinity." Of course the hogsheads and tierces left his hands in the shape of "shook," the making of which was for many years one of Harrison's chief in- dustries. During his residence at Harrison, he also worked in Portland some time making shook for John B. Brown & Sons, the proprietors of the old "Sugar House," and these shook were largely sent to the West Indies.
During his forty-six years' residence in Harrison, Stephen Tebbetts was one of its most industrious citizens as long as his health permitted him to work, and for many years he made shook in the old cooper shop which stood very near where the drug store now is. In his house near the blacksmith shop "Uncle Stephen," as everybody called him, carried on shoemaking for many years after he was a very old man, and made baskets after he was ninety. He was an old time shoemaker, able to make a perfect boot or shoe from the leather, and to turn out a product that could not be excelled. As a basket maker he was "equalled by few, excelled by none." There are in existence today, baskets that he made after he was ninety years of age, and no Indian expert could make better ones, or better
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looking ones, than they were when new. Later in life he did quite an amount of work in the vegetable garden, and, as in all other kinds of work, he excelled in this. Like the hero of Longfellow's poem, his motto in all things was, "Excelsior."
Politically the old gentleman was always a thorough- going Democrat, but said: "All the same I'm none of your pesky politicians no more'n I'm a political turncoat." In reply to the question of a reporter: "To what do you ascribe your long life and perfect health," he replied: "To the inheritance of a robust constitution, a regular life with freedom from bad habits, a cheerful mind; and to having voted the Democratic ticket ever since I was of age." His first vote for Governor was cast in 1818, two years before Maine became an independent State. He said that he voted at every State and Presidential election after he became twenty-one years of age, and always voted the straight Democratic ticket without scratch or blemish. During the last few years of his life the leaders on both sides would exert themselves to give Uncle Stephen the chance to cast the first vote, and he never to the very last had to be as- sisted in casting his ballot, even after the adoption of the "Australian Ballot" system of voting.
He was a remarkably healthy and robust man, having inherited the strong constitutions of his ancestors, and was a hard worker up to within a very short time of his death. Up to the time of his last sickness, which was a short one, he had never been under the care of a doctor but once, which was when he had a fever in his youth. He was cer- tainly a most remarkable man; born two years before the death of George Washington, living under the admin- istrations of twenty-four Presidents, voting at twenty Presi- dential elections - his first vote having been for Monroe at his second election, and his last for Bryan at his second non-election - he had seen the United States increase from a country with four hundred and eighty post offices to
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