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the topics of the times appropriately interspersed with liquid refreshments. The store and one cabin constituted the town, which at that time bore the euphonious title of "Lickskillet," but why, no man can find out. In 1852 Benjamin F. White opened a second store in Lickskillet and the village im- mediately began to assume metropolitan proportions. Several settlers erected cabins until there must have been fully a half dozen of these resi- dences in the neighborhood. The town was named Nevada, and in 1854 a post-office was established with Meredith White as postmaster. Then it was discovered that there was a Nevada in Vernon county, the department called for a new name, and Alpha was the result. To Messrs. Thos. J. Hern and Benj. F. White belong the honor of conferring the name. In 1860 the town had become so large that it was deemed advisable to lay off streets. M. M. Hall had the work done by F. Thomas and P. Woods, and the town plat remains the same to-day. After the disturbances incident to the war had passed, the town moved tranquilly along with no visible changes or prospect of any until 1876, the centennial year, which was cele- brated by presenting a petition to the County Court to be incorporated, which was as follows:
PETITION TO INCORPORATE.
" To the County Court of Grundy county, Missouri:
"GENTLEMEN-We, the undersigned inhabitants of the village of Alpha, Wilson township, Grundy county, Missouri, do hereby petition your honor- able body to incorporate the said inhabitants into a body politic, and grant such powers as are necessary to establish a police for the local government of the said village as directed by law.
" The bounds of said corporation shall be as follows; viz., commencing at the northeast corner of Dr. J. B. Freeman's lot, and from thence to a stake one furlong east, and two furlongs south to another stake, thence due west to the Medicine Creek, thence up Medicine Creek to Mr. Samuel Wilson's north line, about one-half mile, and from thence due east to the place of beginning.
"Signed:
J. B. Freeman.
J. P. Thomas.
H. B. Miller.
Clay Price.
H. S. Graves.
I. J. East.
H. C. Wilson.
R. T. Ishmael.
R. H. Maygood.
Albert Wilson.
Thos. J. Hancock.
O. R. Miller.
Patrick Woods.
S. Kilburn.
Samuel Wilson.
H. J. Hammond.
J. W. Wood.
A. Bliss.
J. Tunstall.
J. W. Utley."
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On the 17th of April, 1876, the court issued the following:
" Ordered, that the town of Alpha, on petition of the inhabitants of said town, be incorporated and granted such privileges as are necessary to estab- lish a police for their local government."
And at the July term of the court for the same year, on the 18th of said month, the following appears of record:
" It is ordered by the court that H. J. Hammond, J. B. Freeman, Samuel Wilson, Joshua Tunstall, and J. P. Thomas, be and they are hereby ap- pointed a board of trustees of the incorporated town of Alpha."
This was in 1876, but it seems that fully a year was allowed to pass before the petitioners realized that Alpha was an incorporated town, with a board of trustees possessing full police powers for the government of the same, for almost exactly a year later the following appears of record, as authenticated and attested by the county elerk; to-wit,
" CERTIFIED COPY OF RECORD.
" STATE OF MISSOURI, - "COUNTY OF GRUNDY. SS. JULY 16, TERM, 1877.
" In the County Court of said county, on the 16th day of July, 1877, the following among other proceedings were had; viz.,
" Now at this day come Joshua Tunstall, Thomas Hancock, et al., and file their petition, asking that the town of Alplia be incorporated and a police be established for their local government and for the preservation and regu- lation of any commons appertaining to said town.
" The court being satisfied that the prayer of the petitioners is reasonable, it is therefore ordered that the town of Alpha be declared incorporated, and that the metes and bounds be as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of lot four (4) of the southwest quarter of section thirty (30), town- ship sixty (60), range twenty-two (22); thence east to the northeast corner of lot two (2), of the southwest quarter of said section; thence south to the southeast corner of the north half of lot two (2) of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one (31) of said township and range; thence west to the south- west corner of the north half of lot four (4), of the northwest quarter of said sections, thence north to the place of beginning. And that J. M. Woods, H. B. Miller, Clay Price, J. S. Clark and H. J. Hammond, be appointed trustees of said town."
" STATE OF MISSOURI,
"COUNTY OF GRUNDY. SS.
" I, D. C. Pugh, clerk of the County Court, in and for said county, hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a true copy of the proceedings of our said County Court, on the day and year above written, as the same appears of record in my office.
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" In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office, in Trenton, this the 19th day of July, 1881.
" [SEAL.]
D. C. PUGI, " Clerk of County Court."
The board of trustees, consisting of J. M. Wood, HI. B. Miller, Clay Price, J. S. Clark and H. J. Hammond, as appointed, organized by electing H. B. Miller chairman or mayor. Thomas J. Hancock was appointed treas- urer; Joshua Tunstall, clerk and corporation attorney; and Chas. Portman marshal. These gentlemen continued in office for one year, when the elec- tion was allowed to go by default, and as far as town regulations were con- cerned the inhabitants reveled in perfect freedom for four years, or until the April election, 1881, when the reins of government were again assumed, by the election of a new board of trustees, and the town began to look up and improve. The present officers are James P. Thomas, mayor; John M. Woods, Thomas J. Hancock, H. B. Miller, J. E. Rentfrow and James P. Thomas, board of trustees; H. B. Miller, corporation attorney; J. E. Rent- frow, marshal; O. R. Miller, clerk; H. B. Phillips, treasurer; and T. J. Hancock, postmaster.
The population of Alpha in 1880 by the United States census, numbered one hundred and twenty-eight. The following is the list of merchants doing business in the town: Solomon Kilburn, general merchandise; Thos. J. Hancock, groceries; O. R. Miller, drugs; H. B. Phillips, drugs; Owen Kilburn, blacksmith; Jackson Pridemore, blacksmith; Patrick Woods, wagons; David Loutzenheiser, saddles and harness; Thomas J. Hancock, boarding house; physicians, Dr. H. B. Miller, Dr. James P. Thomas, Dr. J. M. Stone.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, JR.,
One of the pioneers of Wilson township, was born in Jackson county, Tennessee, July 1, 1813. His parents, William and Elizabeth Anderson, were natives of Virginia. He received such an education as could be ob- tained in the early subscription schools of his native county, and then en- gaged in the live stock business. In 1839 he left the herding fields of Ten- nessee to seek newer and better pastures in the West. On the morning of the 17th of May, in the year named, two ox teams in White county, Ten- nessee, headed for Missouri, and in one of the wagons were William Ander-
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son, Sr., and wife, and in the other were William Anderson, Jr., his wife and two children, together with a brother-in-law and his family. They were journeying westward to grow up with the country, and they had little trouble on the way, except lack of good roads and a scareity of bridges; the former there was no help for, but the latter they supplied by felling trees so as to fall across the streams, covered them with poles, brush and dirt, mak- ing a bridge over which they crossed in safety. They crossed Turkey Creek, in Chariton county, in this way, but ferried over Medicine Creek ina canoe. It was their intention when they left the hills and valleys of Ten- nessee behind, to settle in the country known as the "Three Forks of Grand River," and their first stopping place was four miles west of the town of Utica, in Livingston county, where they remained a short time with friends while looking around for a location. In July, 1839, William Anderson, Jr., purchased the claim which is now a part of the farm he lives upon, and on the 31st of the same month moved upon his claim and there he has since resided. Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Lyda, May 29, 1827. She was a native of White county, Tennessee, born in 1816. The issne of this marriage was nine children; namely, Henry H., born March 26, 1838; Isaac H., born March 6, 1839; Willian A., born February 14, 1844; Brunette, died an infant; Vina E., born August 8, 1847; Ira J., born Decem- ber 28, 1848; Ora B., born in February, 1850; Samuel W. and Nancy J., twins, born June 18, 1855. Mrs. Anderson died September 11, 1861, aged forty-three years. April 3, 1863, Mr. Anderson married Miss Rachel L. Gillespie, a native of Pickaway county, Ohio. She was born August 23, 1815. Her parents were Alexander and Sarah Gillespie.
In a quiet little cemetery, within twenty rods of the spot where this pio- neer family first pitched their tents, there lies in sweet repose the ashes of William Anderson, Sr., who died July 6, 1854, aged eighty-four, and near by is Elizabeth, wife of William Anderson, Sr., who died October 9, 1855, also eighty-four years of age. There also may be found the graves of Henry Lyda and Naney, his wife, parents of Mrs. William Anderson, Jr .; he died September 27, 1844, aged fifty-nine, and she died March 1, 1854, aged sixty-five. And Mrs. Anderson is buried in the same cemetery. There is yet a vacant spot which remains to be filled.
Mr. Anderson is a hale old gentleman, with a memory stored with inter- esting reminiscences of the " golden long ago." He and his wife live upon the old place, and his son owns a farm only a few miles away.
CAIN URTON
Was born February 1, 1828, in Jefferson county, Kentucky. At the age of twenty-two he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Eliza Helin, of Shelby county, Kentucky. She was born June 13, 1833. Two years and six months after their marriage they moved to Adams county, Illinois, and set-
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tled on a farm, two miles northeast of the city of Quincy. He remained only two years in Adams county, then moved to Pike county, same State. He re- mained in Pike county nine years. At that time land in Illinois and espe- cially in Adams county, commanded high prices, and believing that he could invest capital to better advantage further west, he left Illinois, and came to the State of Missouri, and settled in Grundy county on the farm where he now resides. To Mr. and Mrs. Urton there were born seven sons; names as given below: Clarence, born January 6, 1852; Lawrence, born October 22, 1854; Alonzo, born February 15, 1856; Claudius Luther, born November 16, 1858; George Washington, born April 22, 1861; and twins, but no record made of their birth, both dying before being named. A short time after, Mrs. Urton was removed from the tribulations of earth to the happier re- gion where sorrow never enters, and death is an unknown term. Clarence, the first born, died March 26, 1853, Mr. Urton married Miss Sarah Eliza- beth Scott, March 11, 1869. By this marriage, three sons were added to the family, as follows: Charles, born March 19, 1870; William, born June 17, 1872; and Oates, born September 2, 1874. William Urton died Febru- ary 12, 1872; and Mrs. Sarah E. Urton died September 30, 1877. Mr. Urton was again called to drink the bitter cup of domestic affliction by the loss of his son, and wife, but he believes his loss is their eternal gain. Mr. Urton married, August 1, 1878, Miss Nancy Jane Norwell, of Linn county, Missouri. May their days be many, and prosperity and success erown all their labors. Mr. Urton owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, well improved, which produces abundantly the various cereals, fruits, vegetables, etc., common to this part of the State. He has a handsome residence, and is blessed with all that is necessary to render existence pleasurable and happy. His farm is located twelve miles north of the city of Chillicothe, and the same distance south of Trenton.
H. J. HAMMOND
Was born March 13, 1835, in the county of Suffolk, England, and was edu- cated at the Academy of Plummen in his native county. When sixteen years old he embarked on the Great Britain on her first trip to America, and landed at New York. From there he went to Chicago, and after a res- idence of two and a half years, went to Mantorville, Minnesota, and engaged in the hardware business. In the fall of 1857, he went to Page county, Iowa, and in the spring of 1860, together with hundreds of others, went in search of a fortune in the gold mines of Colorado, where he worked until 1865, then returned to the States and settled in Livingston county, Missouri. He conducted his farm and at the same time engaged in the mercantile business at Alpha, this county. In 1876 he removed to this county, making it his home, and about that time traded for the mill at Alpha, took charge of it, and has been running it since. In May, 1880, he
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purchased the tract of land on which the town of Alpha was built. He married Miss Alvira E. Cooper, born August 22, 1843. They have eight children, four of whom are living; namely, Charles H., born June 8, 1868; Albert O., born January 27, 1872; Jessie M., born August 5, 1874; and Lennie L., born July 9, 1880.
BENJAMIN F. MERRYMAN
Was born April 19, 1833, in Rock Castle county, Kentucky. His father, John II. Merryman, was a native of Virginia, and his mother, Jemima Merryman, of Kentucky. In a little family cemetery on the old homestead where they first settled in this county, lie in sweet repose the ashes of his parents. His father died April 26, 1873, aged seventy-six years, and his mother departed this life April 29, 1873, aged sixty-nine years. As their lives had been together in one happy union, so their deaths were but three days apart. The subject of our sketch was but eleven years old when his parents moved to this county. He was united in matrimony, April 10, 1856, to Miss Charlotte Kilburn. She was born September 26, 1834, in Pulaski county, Kentucky. They have eight- children: Thomas C., born March 23, 1852; Reuben S., born February 3, 1859; Jemima J., born May 8, 1861; Sarah S., born February 10, 1863; Mary E., born October 28, 1865; John F., born February 23, 1868; William H., born July 29, 1870; and Benjamin G., born November 10, 1872. Mr. M. now owns a beautiful farm of three hundred and forty acres.
JOIIN II. MERRYMAN
Was born October 21, 1841, in Rock Castle county, Kentucky; son of John H. and Jemima Merryman, of whom mention is made in another sketch. The subject of our sketch was two years old when his parents moved to this county, on the farm now owned by him, and he was educated in the common schools of this county. He enlisted August 15, 1861, in company B, Thirtieth regiment Missouri State militia and served six months, and August 31, 1862, enlisted in company K, Forty-fourth regiment Missouri volunteer infantry, as third sergeant, and served until April, 1865, when he was discharged. Was with the Army of the Cumberland and participated in a number of the heavy battles fought by that division. He married, De- cember 31, 1865, Mrs. Sirena Baker, whose maiden name was Kilburn. She was married to James Baker, January 1, 1863, and he died in August, 1863, having been accidentally shot at Trenton. By her union with Mr. Merryman they have five children: Laura L., born October 30, 1867; Joseph M., born . August 21, 1869; Mary J., born August 1, 1871; and Minnie B, born May 24, 1873. Mr. M. has a farm of two hundred acres. He was the first assessor of Wilson township after the late township organization.
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TIIOMAS MOORE
Is a native of Greene county, Indiana, born February 14, 1827. His par- ents were natives of Virginia, of English descent. Thomas G., grandfather of our subjeet, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. When our subject was but a child his parents moved to Maconpin county, Illinois. Here he was reared, and educated in a log school-house, having split logs with pin legs for seats, and a stick and clay chimney. He engaged in farming until twenty- five years old, when he began selling goods as salesman. In June, 1846, he enlisted for the Mexican War, in company B, Fourth Illinois infantry volunteers, commanded by Col. E. D. Baker. They took a boat at Alton, Illinois, for New Orleans, from there shipped to Point Isabelle, near the mouth of the Rio Grande River, and then marched to Fort Brown, and as their provision train was delayed they were four days without provisions. The regiment was in many of the hard fought battles of that war. After his return from the Mexican War, he began farming which has been his busi- ness since. He married, September 24, 1851, in Macoupin county, Illinois, Miss Nancy Covington. She was born November 23, 1833. By this union they have had ten children, eight of whom are living; namely, Edward M., born July 21, 1852; George T., born April 21, 1854; William S., born March 19, 1857, died in infancy; Frederick A., born September 5, 1859; Lyon S., born September 24, 1861; Sherman G., born January 4, 1864, died Novem- ber 6, 1880; Lincoln F., born July 12, 1861; Sheridan S., born January 22, 1869; Jennie W., born April 27, 1871; and Edwinna Cannalls San Men Ulto Florence, born October 23, 1873. Mr. Moore enlisted July, 1861, in com- pany D, Merrill's Horse, which were the first troops sworn into the United States service at Chillicothe; he was wounded at the battle of Roanoke, and was discharged on account of disability caused by this wound. He was once a firm believer in Providence, but by reading the writings of Bob Ingersoll and others has switched off on their track, and believes that nine out of every ten professors of religion worship the "big dollar" instead of their God; he thinks there never was a beginning nor never will be an ending of the planetary system of worlds. Mrs. Nancy Moore is of French and Eng- lish descent. The family came to this country before the Revolution.
JACOB W. MORRIS
Is a native of Indiana, born June 26, 1836. His parents were both natives of Virginia, and while Jacob was an infant moved to Adams county, Illi- nois, where he was reared. He was educated in the seminary at Payson, Illinois, and at the college at Quincy, under Prof. Jacques. He was united . in marriage, June 26, 1860, to Miss Melissa J. Nichols. She was born Febru- ary 15, 1841, in Adams county, Illinois. Mr. M. came to this county in Octo- ber, 1865, and settled where he now lives, on land purchased by him in
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1857. He is a stock-grower and feeder, and makes a specialty of breeding and growing fine horses, and has perhaps the finest blooded horses in the county.
DR. II. B. MILLER.
H. B. Miller was born July 16, 1839, in Brown county, Illinois. His father, Samuel W. Miller, was a native of Kentucky, and his mother, Mar- garet Miller, of Tennessee. He was educated in the common schools of his native county and at the academy at Mt. Sterling, Illinois. After he quit school he became a law student for a few months, and then began the study of medicine. He attended one course of lectures at the New Orleans Med- ical School before the war, and at the beginning of the war enlisted in com- pany D, Eighty-fourth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry, as a private, was promoted to first sergeant, then to second lieutenant, next to first lieu- tenant, and then brevet captain; he was in the Army of the Cumberland most of the time during his term of service, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta campaign, Franklin and Nashville; was discharged June 8, 1865. He resumed his medical studies after the war, at Keokuk, Iowa, and in April, 1866, came to this county, and entered upon the practice of medicine, and has been very successful. Dr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss R. C. Hoffman, January 1, 1866, at Palmyra, Missouri. She was born September 8, 1847. They have three children; named, respectively, Maud F., born November 11, 1867; Leona M., born Septem- ber 8, 1869; and Winfield G., born May 1, 1874.
J. H. RINKER
Was born in Porter county, Indiana, November 27, 1836. His parents, Henry and Dorothea Rinker were both natives of Virginia, and of German descent. When a child of four years, his parents moved to Rock Island county, Illinois, where they lived for seven years, then went to Madison county, Illinois, and in October, 1855, came to this county, and settled on the farm where they now live. He was reared upon a farm, and educated in the common schools. November 20, 1861, he enlisted in company G, Ninth regiment Illinois volunteer cavalry, as a private; the cavalry branch of the service of which his regiment was a part, was kept on scout and escort duty and guarding outposts, most of the time; while on a scout in Mississippi he was wounded in the right leg and the left foot, both in the same skirmish; with many others who loved the cause they were defending, he reënlisted as a veteran and served, in all, four years. August 22, 1867, Mr. Rinker married Miss Amy Bell. She was born December 31, 1837. They have had four children by this marriage; namely, Katie, born Septem- ber 9, 1868, died September 10, 1873; Joseph T., born March 20, 1871; Vir- ginia B., born July 16, 1873; and Bertha, born Angust 1, 1879. He was
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elected township collector in 1874, filled the office for three terms, and was elected, in April, 1881, township trustee, which office he now holds.
ABRAM RICHERSON
Was born in Harrison county, Ohio, thirty-five miles from the Ohio River, August 2, 1802. There was but one family living nearer to them than the river, at the time of his birth. When young, he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it until he was forty-seven years old, and then went to De Kalb county, Indiana, where he farmed for about twenty years. In 1865 he went to Iowa and for three years engaged in milling. In June, 1870, he came to this county, and has been engaged in milling ever since. He built the mill he now owns, known as Richerson's Mill, on Medicine Creek. No- vember 20, 1829, Abram Richerson and Miss Mary M. Study were married. Six children were the fruit of this union, as follows: Samuel, born June 2, 1832; Joseph, born April 15, 1834; Sarah A., born February 11, 1836; : Mary J., born September 10, 1837; Rhuama, born March 20, 1839; and John W., born September 14,. 1841. Mrs. Richerson died December 13, 1878. November 23, 1879, Mr. Richerson married Mrs. Nancy Hosier, nee Dan- gerfield. She was the mother of one child by her first husband; namely, Olive, born December 3, 1871, died May 12, 1875.
ELDRIGE STUCKER
Was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, June 14, 1827. IIis parents, John and Susanna Stucker, were natives of New York. They moved to Monroe county, Missouri, and after a six months' stay returned to Indiana, and four years later, in 1840, immigrated to this county. His father bought a claim, and after the land came into market entered it at $1.25 per acre, upon which he lived until his death, June 3, 1863. Mr. Stucker makes farming his business, and owns a beautiful farm of two hundred and ninety-five acres. He was married March 22, 1849, to Miss Catharine Christian. She was born July 25, 1830, and died May 9, 1869. They had six children: Lucinda, born October 4, 1853; John, born December 19, 1856, died No- vember 18, 1857; Wayne, born June 15, 1859; Serilda, born September 2, 1861; Henry, born June 9, 1865; and Thomas, born September 23, 1868. December 8, 1873, Mr. Stucker married Miss Frances Sink. She was born in Wayne county, Indiana, June 5, 1845. By this union they have had four children, whose names are, Julia Ann, born July 10, 1874, died Feb- ruary 3, 1875; Charles, born December 18, 1876, died June 5, 1881; Jen- nie, born February 17, 1878; and Elma E., born January 24, 1880.
REV. H. II. TURNER.
Henry H. Turner was born in Rush county, Indiana, March 4, 1836. IIis parents were natives of Kentucky. His father's name was James Turner,
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and his mother's Jane Turner. His father was one of the pioneer ministers of north Missouri, and is still living; was born October 17, 1808. His mother was born August 28, 1813. They were married while in In- diana, in 1833, and to them were born seven sons and seven daughters, all of whom are now living except two, and are all members of the Baptist Church. Henry H. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Emily C. Brass- field, of Livingston county, Missouri, August 9, 1860, by Rev. W. W. Wal- den. She was born September 23, 1841. To Mr. and Mrs. Turner were born four sons and one daughter; viz., Carrie E., born May 26, 1861; James M., born February 4, 1864; Riley F., born January 22, 1866; Edgar and Oscar, twins, born October 13, 1871. Mrs. Turner survived only fourteen days after the birth of the twins. When but three months old, little Edgar followed his mother to the grave. Four years after the death of his wife, Mr. Turner married the sister of his first wife, Miss Letitia Brassfield, Rev. John Harmon officiating. By this marriage two sons were added to the family, named: Norton, born October 7, 1877, and John, born August 5, 1880. During the first four years of his public life Mr. Turner rendered efficient service in the profession of school teaching. That he might be better qualified for the work to which he believed he was called, he went to New York, February 14, 1858, and entered Madison University, where he pursued a course of study during a period of eighteen months. Mr. Tur- ner settled in Grundy county in 1839, and was called to ordination by invi- tation of the Mt. Pleasant Church. The ordination services were held in the Baptist church at Chillicothe, August 26, 1866, during the session of the association in that eity. Since that time he has labored successfully with the following churches; to-wit, one year missionary in the bounds of the North Grand River Association. During that year his labor was crowned with encouraging success by the addition of fifty-seven members to the churches. He afterward assumed the pastoral functions, in which capacity he has continued to the present time, working with great accept- ance in the Shelburn, Trenton, Liberty, North Union, Rural Dale and Edinburg churches. He is now pastor of three churches: Shelburn, Liberty and Rural Dale. During his first pastorate of Shelburn Church he added one hundred and ten persons to its membership, and since his ordina- tion and induction into the ministry has been instrumental in the addition of probably more than six hundred persons to the membership of the Bap- tist denomination. Mr. Turner lives on his farm of one hundred and forty- five acres, eleven miles southeast of Trenton and sixteen miles northeast of Chillicothe. The land is all under cultivation except thirty-five acres of timber land. The approximate yield of the farm is about the following: Wheat, two hundred bushels; corn, one thousand bushels; oats, fifteen hun- dred bushels; and from ten to fifty tons of timothy hay.
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