History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the original boundaries) ; its past and present, containing a condensed comprehensive history of Ohio, including an outline history of the Northwest, a complete history of Richland county miscellaneous matter, map of the county, biographies and histories of the most prominent families, &c., &c., Part 147

Author: Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Mansfield, O. : A. A. Graham & co.
Number of Pages: 968


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TAYLOR, JOHN W., machinist, Shelby ; was born in Weller Township, Richland Co., Dec. 18, 1820; remained there on a farm until he was 22 years of age, when he went with Hoy & Williams to Lexington, Mo., and engaged in the fanning-mill business ; stayed there two years and then went to Kentucky. In 1846, enlisted in the Louisville Legion and served as a private soldier under Zachary Taylor, in the Mexican war, and was discharged at Vera Cruz; from there he moved to


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California, where he remained until 1850, then returned to Kentucky by way of Isthmus of Panama. In 1859, he went to Missouri and went to raising cotton, which business he followed until the war broke out. He vol- unteered as Captain in the Confederate service under Gen. Forrest; was in all the principal battles of the Army of the Cumberland, and at the close of the war surrendered with Joseph E. Johnston to Maj. Gen. Sherman at Jonesboro, N. C .; after the war closed, he came to Kentucky and engaged in the fanning-mill business again. In 1875, came to Shelby, where he now lives. Was married to Amanda Killingsworth, of Georgia, in 1850. Had by this wife two children, one of which is now living. His first wife died in 1854; in 1856, was married to Sarah C. Thurman. Had by this marriage four children-Alonzo, Cleopatra, John T. and Lena. His second wife died May 1, 1870. Married as his third wife Mary A. Nunamaker, Sept. 28. 1875. Mr. Taylor is a man of good moral habits, neither drinks, chews nor smokes. Both of his grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, and his father a soldier of the war of 1812. His father, John Taylor, a noted pioneer of Weller Township, Richland Co., was born in Greene Co., Penn., in 1788; moved to Weller Township in 1818, where he entered his land from the Government. He remained on this farm until July 26, 1875, when he died.


TUCKER, BENJAMIN, farmer ; lives in Sec. 20; P. O. Shelby; was born in Washington Co., Penn., in 1812; he moved to Shelby in 1819. He was married to Nancy Wentz in 1844, and moved to Crawford Co. in 1850 ; he lived there as a farmer eight years, when he returned and located on a farm near Shelby, where he now lives ; his wife was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Jan. 4, 1820; she came to Richland Co. in 1821; Mr. Tucker by this marriage was the father of eight children-Samuel H., Mary E., Jos. W., Margaret J. ( died July 31, 1867, at the age of 15 years), Paulina, Sarah, Christopher and William A .; Samuel H. was a soldier in the late war of the rebellion. The subject of this sketch is a man of feeble health, in consequence of many hardships of his pioneer life in Sharon Township; his wife is in good health.


URICH, ISAAC, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Shelby ; he was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., April 20, 1808 ; he moved to Sharon Township in an early day, and entered 80 acres of land, where he now lives; he built a house, and on the 28th day of November, 1848, was married ; by this marriage he had six children-David G., born July 15, 1849; Elizabeth Mary, born Dec. 18, 1850; Amos C., born Sept. 27, 1853; Sarah A., born Nov. 4, 1855; infant son born July 11, 1858 (died soon after its birth); Isaac N., July 14, 1859; Mr. Urich's first wife died Sept. 1, 1860. He was married to his sec- ond wife, Mrs. John Hersh, June 24, 1861; by this marriage he had four children, three are living-Wm. Riley, born March 7, 1862 ; Ezra C., born June 6, 1864 ; Mattie E., born May 3, 1867, and a daughter who died in infancy. The subject of this sketch is one of the enterprising farmers in Sharon Township, a careful bus- iness man and an excellent neighbor.


WARD, J. L., proprietor Beverstock House, Shelby, Ohio ; was born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, in 1837. His father, J. W. Ward, moved to Richland Co. about 1847.


About the age of 15 years he began clerking, which he followed for a number of years; he also taught for a number of terms; he engaged in several business enterprises, furniture and undertaking being the prin- cipal ; he has lately taken charge of the Beverstock House. This house was built in 1847, and is well cal- culated for the business. Mr. Ward is gentlemanly and accommodating ; he and his wife fully understand the wants of the traveling public. He was married to Mrs. Ann E. Kline Feb. 22, 1880, and has settled in Shelby.


WEBER, SOLOMON, was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., September, 1820; when he was about 2 years of age his parents died. He then went to live with his aunt, Mrs. Weber, with whom he stayed about five years and then went to his brother's, who was a wagon-maker, and with whom Solomon learned his trade; when he left Pennsylvania he came to Jefferson Co., Ohio,and in 1840, he came to Richland Co .; he followed his trade until 1849, when he went to farming, which he followed until 1870, when he moved to Shelby. He has been following his trade mostly since he has resided in Shelby ; Mr. We- ber has been a successful man ; hestarted poor, but by industry and perseverance he has made a competence ; he is well informed although his educational advantages were limited ; he is a comprehensive man, and takes an interest in the affairs of the country. He was mar- ried to Miss Sarah Miller, Feb. 27, 1844; they had four sons-two of whom are living-George A., a minis- ter in the M. E. Church, John L., farmer. Mr. Miller, father of Mrs. Weber, was born in Lebanon Co., Penn., in 1792, and came to Ohio about 1815. He some time afterward returned to Pennsylvania, and married Cath- erine Bricker, and returned about 1823; he settled per- manently in what is now Jackson Township. He died in 1863; his wife still survives him and resides with her daughter, Mrs. Weber.


WENTZ, HENRY, JR .; fourth son of Henry Wentz, Sr., who moved from Perry Co., Penn., in April, 1834, and settled in Cass Township, was born Dec. 9, 1839; lived with and aided his father on his farm until the age of 18 years, when he went to Crestline, Ohio, as an apprentice to the carpenter trade; served an apprenticeship of three years; when attaining his freedom he went to Fort Wayne, Ind., and ob- tained employment in the car-shops of the P., Ft. W. & C. R. W. Co.at that place, and remained until the breaking-out of the late war, when he, on July 11, 1861, enlisted as a private in Co. E, 11th Ind. V. I. (Lew Wallace's Zouave Regiment), and immediately entered upon his duties as a soldier; the arrival, by express, of his trunk, tool-chest, etc., at Shelby, Ohio, was the first intimation his parents and friends had of his enlistment ; from Fort Wayne, his company was sent to Indianapolis for drill, where it remained at Camps Morton and Robinson until Aug. 6, 1861, when the regiment was sent to Benton Barracks near St. Louis ; in September of the same year the regiment was sent to Paducah, Ky., where it was made a part of the force under Gen. Grant, styled the Army of West Tennessee; on Feb. 5, 1862, Mr. Wentz accompanied his regiment, and took part in the capture of Fort Henry ; also participated in the siege and capture of Fort Donelson, Feb. 14, 15 and 16, 1862, and in the


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battle of Shiloh in April 6 and 7, same year; in the siege of Corinth, capture of Memphis, and in the campaigns through Arkansas under Gen. Fred Steele; in the flank movement on Vicksburg, viz .. Atchafalaya, in the movement on Vicksburg, viz., Milliken's Bend; was present at the running of the blockade by Com- modore Porter's fleet ; participated in the battles inci- dent to the approaches to Vicksburg, viz., Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Beaver Station, Raymond, Jackson and Champion Hills; the latter one of the severest, for the number engaged, of the war; Mr. Wentz at this time held the rank of First Lieutenant ; his company entered the fight with forty-five men and came out withi twenty- three, but had the satisfaction to capture, aided by the regiment, four guns in this engagement ; the boys used the bayonet and butt of the gun at close quarters ; Lieut. Wentz coming out without harm except that caused by a minie ball that carried away the heel of his boot and an- other passing through his cap, received while aiding the Colonel in changing the position of the regiment ; participated in the siege of Vickburg, and was present at its surrender, and was with Gen. Sherman on his Jackson (Miss.) campaign ; in August, 1863, his regi- ment was transferred to the Gulf Department, where Mr. Wentz took part in the campaigns under Gens. W. B. Franklin and Nathaniel Banks ; re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, after which his regiment was transferred to the Shenandoah Valley, reaching Washington Aug. 4, 1864, and Harper's Ferry, Va., on the 10th ; took part in the skirmish at Halltown, battle of Winchester, Sept. 18, Fisher's Hill, Sept. 22, and Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, where Gen. Phil. Sheridan so greatly distin- guished himself by taking command of a defeated army and winning one of the most brilliant victories of the war, after making his famous ride from Winchester, twenty miles away ; although Mr. Wentz was a perfect stranger to all in his regiment, he, by his faithfulness to duty, won the confidence of his superiors, and thereby promotion, he having held all the subordinate positions from the command of his company down to private ; was also at different times detailed on staff duty and acted as Adjutant of his regiment. After the war, Mr. Wentz returned to his home, afterward en- gaged in the lumber business at Crestline, but after one year, finding that his health would not permit him to con- tinue, he sold out his interests and engaged in the hard- ware business, which business he followed until Septem- ber 1874, when he sold out and entered the fire insur- ance field; since then he has been engaged at Dayton, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Shelby, Ohio ; in the spring of 1880 a new fire association was formed at Shelby, and Mr. Wentz was offered the secretaryship, which he accepted and now holds. Mr. Wentz married Miss Sarah A. Bushey June 8, 1865 ; the fruits of this union were two sons and one daughter-one daughter and one son now living. Although a strong Republican, Mr. Wentz was three times elected a member of the City Council at Crestline, Ohio, the usual Democratic major- ity being about two to one.


WIIEELER, ISAAC S., was born in Plymouth Town- ship, Feb. II, 1822; his father, Oliver Wheeler ; immi- grated from Connecticut to Ohio at an early day, and settled two miles north west of Shelby. His father served in the war of 1812 ; his mother, whose maiden name was


Rebecca Ilolston, was born in Pennsylvania ; she died when Isaac was 13 years old, and his father died when he was 14, thus leaving him to take care of the younger children, as he was oldest son, and second child. He thus at an early age was deprived of the fostering care of his parents, and had the charge of his younger brothers and sister, who depended on him in a great measure for their raising. He managed the farm and kept the family together until they could do for themselves, for which he certainly ought to take a just pride. He is Vice President of the Shelby National Bank, and Treas- urer of the Buckeye Mutual Insurance Company ; he is a practical business man, and considers well any enter- prise he undertakes ; he is a self-made man ; his educa- tional privileges were poor, as he was compelled to work when young, but he has acquired sufficient education to see to his business properly conducted, and is a close ob- server of the issues of the times. Mr. Wheeler was mar- ried in 1851, to Mrs. Martha Moore, whose maiden name was Rambo ; they are the parents of six children.


WHITE, WILLIAM C., farmer, was born in Richland Co., Oct. 18, 1836; he has lived in Cass and Sharon Townships all his life except five years he resided in Mar- shall Co., Ind .; he sold his farm in Indiana, and on his return to Ohio, purchased the farm known as the " John Snyder" farm, where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Susan Snyder Feb. 23, 1860; she was born Oct. 3, 1840; they are blessed with five children, four living, namely : Mary E., married to Lau- rence Lake, farmer; Dorah Matilda, Irene Jane and Minnie May, at home. Mr. White started in life with- out material assistance, but by industry has made for himself a comfortable home. Mrs. White's mother, Mrs. Mary E. Snyder, whose maiden name was Magner, was born in Greene Co., April 30, 1818; her parents, Samuel and Catharine Magner, immigrated to Columbi- ana Co., Ohio, where they lived for some years, and then came to Richland Co., in April, 1829, and settled on the farm now occupied by Mr. White. This farm was en- tered in 1827. Mary E. Magner was married to John Snyder April 28, 1837 ; he was born Sept. 4, 1804 ; they had four children, all of whom are living.


WILL, PETER, farmer and stock grower; he was born in Bedford Co., Penn., March 19, 1833; his par- ents emigrating to Richland Co., Ohio, in May of the same year, purchasing what is familiarly known as the Will homestead, composed of 155 acres, where he re- ceived his education, remaining with his parents until December, 1860. He married Miss Humphrey, Jan- uary, 1857. They have six children-Ivin E., John Sherman, Franklin E., Jennie E., Sarah E., and George B. His father, Vallentine, was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, about 1802, and married Elizabeth Cook, who was born in the same place about 1805, and had twelve children, nine of whom are living-Elizabeth, Henry, Peter, Mar- garet, Mary, Rebecca, Sarah, John A. and Lottie, Peter, the subject of this sketch, was elected Assessor in 1874, and has been re-elected six consecutive years ; he also was elected Land Appraiser in October, 1879 ; on leaving the homestead, in 1860, he moved to Shelby, where he purchased an interest in the Sutter saw-mill, remaining until October, 1867, when he disposed of his interest, and went to Marshall Co., Ind., remaining


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there about four years, when he returned to his native county, and purchased 75 acres of Sec. 1I, Range 20, in Sharon Township. Politically, he is a Republican, and possesses the confidence of the community ; he enlisted in Co. F, of 163d O. V. I., May 2, 1864, and was mustered ont of service at Columbus, Ohio, in September of the same year.


WIRTZ, HENRY, Sr., father of Henry, Jr., and John; was born near Heidelberg, Germany, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, in April, 1806 ; he married Miss Bow- man about 1828; they had thirteen children ; they emigrated to Ohio about 1840, with three children, locating on what is known as the Wirtz homestead; he lived to the age of 72, his wife and two sons surviving him ; he died in the faith of the Reformed Church, of which the remainder of his family are members.


WIRTZ, HENRY, farmer; P. O. Shelby ; he was born on the Wirtz homestead in March, 1844; he re- ceived his education at the district schools, remaining with his parents until he was 20 years of age, when he


married Miss Mary Frank, of Sharon Township; they have quite an interesting family of children-John Henry, Lewis Philip, George Adam, Charles William, Francis Marion, Allen Willard, Oliver Wesley and Sherman Edward. Mr. Wirtz was elected Trustee of Sharon Township in the spring of 1876, and has been re-elected four consecutive years, having the confidence of the community at large ; he owns 80 acres of land, under a splendid state of cultivation, and erected a fine brick building in 1875; he is a member of the Reformed Church at Shelby.


WIRTZ, JOHN W., farmer; P. O. Shelby ; he was born in Sharon Township Aug. 29, 1849 ; he remained with his parents until 1872, receiving his education in the district schools. He married Caroline Beach Nov. 16, 1872. They have three children-Mattie Florence, Mary Etta and Birdy Hortense. The subject of this sketch has erected an elegant residence, the finest in his immediate vicinity, on his 80-acre farm, which is under a high state of cultivation.


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ANDREWS, HARRISON, is a resident of Ontario ; his father at one time lived in Brooke Co., Va., but moved to Washington Co., where Mr Andrews was born May 3, 1818. He was married, Jan. 14, 1841, to Mary Ann Rankin ; he lived in Washington Co. until the year 1867, when he came to this county. Mrs. Andrews died Jan. 14, 1878. Mr. Andrews has six children living and one dead.


AU, HENRY, farmer; P. O. Mansfield ; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Aug. 16, 1817; he came to this county, in 1839. He was married in 1850 to Eliza Blower, who was born in England Sept. 9, 1832; she came to America in childhood ; they had nine chil- dren-John F., born May 19, 1851 ; William H., Jan. 31, 1853; Samuel A., Sept. 9, 1855 ; Thomas J., March 12, 1857; Charles H., March 22, 1858; Theodore L., Feb. 18, 1860; Mary E., March 31, 1862; Robert E., Feb. 16, 1866 ; George W., March 24, 1868. The fol- lowing are deceased : William H., died April 23, 1864 ; Thomas J., March 23, 1857. Mr. Au resided in Mans- field 13 years; in 1851 moved to Mifflin Township ; remained till 1855, then bought a farm in this town- ship ; has resided here since.


AU, CHRISTOPHER; merchant, Ontario ; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., in 1824, and came to Ohio in 1843. He was married June 27, 1848, to Laura J. Greenfield, who was born Nov. 16, 1829, in the State of New York ; they have the following family : John H., born May 2, 1852; Mary E., March 27, 1854 ; Martha A., April 8, 1856 ; Sherman G., July 10, 1858 ; Abraham Hamlin, Sept. I, 1860; Laura F., Nov. 15, 1862; Christopher Sheriden, Oct. 25, 1865. Mr. Au resided in Mansfield for one year and a half; then spent six years in the Western States; returned to


Mansfield and remained till 1855, then removed to Springfield Township, and engaged in farming till 1869, when he located in Ontario, and engaged in the mercantile business ; he also has been Postmaster for eleven years. Mr. Au recruited a company for the 120th O. V. I., of which he was Captain, during the war. John H. Au was married, April 18, 1878, to Miss E. M. Hartupee; they have one daughter, Miunie L., born Feb. 8, 1879. He is now a partner in the mercantile business with his father.


BRANDT, DAVID, resides on the southeast quarter of Sec. 5; he was born in Franklin Co., Penn., in the year 1805 ; at 20 years of age, he moved with his father into Maryland, and married the next year; from Maryland he came to this county in 1837, and lived on the farm now owned by J. W. Niman twelve years, when he removed to his present place ; Mr. Brandt lost his first wife, July 30, 1865; he was mar- ried a second time to Margaret Augustine, a sister of his former wife, in the fall of 1866; he has nine children living and two dead. His trade has been that of a carpenter and builder, in which he was one of the best ; all over the township and in those adjoining are evidences of his skill; so successfully has he followed his business that he has now a small improved farm and a handsome competence besides. Mr. Brandt is a member of the Lutheran Church ; is highly respect- ed, and widely known as an able, honest, and, in times past, a most useful man.


CAMPBELL, DENNIS, farmer ; he was born in Berk- shire, Vt., Aug. 29, 1825; he came to Richland County with his parents in the spring of 1840; his father, Shepard Campbell, resided for many years in this township; in 1863, he removed to Fayette Co.,


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Iowa, where he was killed by a falling limb while en- gaged in cutting timber ; his family consisted of seven children, five of whom are living. Dennis is the oldest son and resides near the southeast corner of Springfield Township; he was married April 24, 1861, to Miss Sarah Sweeney ; she died July 8, 1875.


CONDON, J. M., lives on the southeast quarter of Sec. 29; his grandfather, Richard Condon, came into the county in 1814, from Westmoreland Co., Penn .; he entered a body of land at Spring Mills. J. M. Condon was born at this place in 1828, and, when 2 years of age, his father, John, moved to Plymouth, thence to the farm now owned by Mr. Condon, two years later. He was married on the first day of 1858 to Maria Walters, and has a family of eight children. Mr. Condon comes of a hardy stock of people, who knew well what hard- ships, privations and dangers the early settlers were obliged to endure while clearing their farms and making the improvements which the present generation now enjoy.


COURTNEY, WILLIAM, sawyer ; P. O. Ontario ; he was born in Troy Township March 26, 1846. He was married in 1873 to Anna Lindsey, who was born in this township June 12, 1852; they have two children- Elmer, born Sept. 25, 1874, and Carrie A., Oct. 6, 1876.


CRAIG, WM. N., was born in Jackson Township in the year 1828; his father came from Belmont Co., Ohio, and settled in the above mentioned township (then Sharon) in 1825; Mr. Craig describes the country as being very wild and unimproved, when he was a boy going to school ; the first teacher he had of whom he can remember, was an old Irishman, named Wm. Bai- ley, who taught in a log schoolhouse near his father's farm ; the scholars were large boys and girls not far advanced, and their illustrious teacher made frequent use of the rod as a means of advancement. There were plenty of wolves and deer, but the more danger- ous wild animals were scarce; they were, however, oc- casionally met with, as will be seen from the following incident which Mr. Craig relates : He and another boy were sent one day to carry a bucket of water for the school ; when they had gone some distance from the house, they met some wild animal, which he now thinks was a panther; they did not then know what it was ; it sat in the road watching them and lashing its tail against its sides ; presently it jumped behind a tree, and the boys went on unharmed ; Mr. Craig remem- bers when the first railroad train came through the county, his father was some distance from the house at the time, and mistaking the noise for that of a storm coming upon them, ran home with all speed to close the house. Mr. Craig was married in 1857, and has two children ; his wife died in 1875; he owns and resides on the northwest quarter of Sec. 8. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Ontario.


CHRISTMAN, CHARLES, farmer; P. O. Crestline. He was born in Germany in 1832 ; he came to America in 1849. He was married in 1855 to Mary Elizabeth Delph, who was born in Germany ; they have ten children, Frederick, was born Jan. 1, 1857; Peter, Nov. 14, 1858; George, Sept. 19, 1860 ; Mary Jane, Feb. 14, 1862; Charlie, July 25, 1864; Louis, Sept. 9, 1866; Elizabeth, July 27, 1868 ; Catherine, March 20, 1872; John, Nov. 28, 1873 ; Caroline, July 16, 1878.


Mr. Christman came to Springfield Township twenty-five years ago, and still resides here, owns a good farm.


CROW, JOSEPH, farmer ; P. O. Ontario.


DAY, MARCUS, came to this county with his father when he was 8 years old. His father came from Washington Co., Penn., where he lived previous to his removal to this State, to this county in 1814, and cleared a small piece of ground in the north part of Troy Township, which he planted in vegetables of dif- ferent kinds, and then returned to Pennsylvania. The next year, he brought his family out, and they moved into a log cabin on his farm. Mr. Day was born in 1808, in Washington Co., Penn. He was married, Sept. 15, 1830, to Mary Ann, daughter of John Young. He united with the Methodist Church when in his 30th year. He has held the offices of Township Trustee and Justice of the Peace, the duties of which he discharged with ability and with satisfaction to all. Mr. Day was very fond of hunting when a young man and found plenty of game in the then thickly wooded forests. Ife tells of the following occurrence which took place when he was still a boy living with his father in their cabin : " His father had started from the house and had gone twenty or thirty rods, when he came running back saying he had heard a rattlesnake and that it was somewhere near the house. On looking they found one which had just crawled from under the cabin. It sported seventeen rattles." Mr. Day moved into Springfield Township in 1830, and now lives on the northwest quarter of Sec. 36.


EVERITT, PETER, ; P. O. Ontario. He was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., July 16, 1838; he came to Ohio in 1865, and was married the same year, to Elzora D. Evans, who was born in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., March 6, 1848; they have the following family of children : Thomas Miles, was born Oet. 7, 1866; Angelia, July 21, 1868; William M., Sept. 2, 1870 ; Ella May, June 14, 1873, and Cornelia Maud, Dec. 12, 1874. Angelia died March 16, 1873. Mr Ev- eritt enlisted at the first call for soldiers, for three months, and served his time ; he then enlisted for three years ; he was a member of Co. K, 53d Penn. V. I .; he was wounded June 1, 1862, in the battle of Fair Oaks, East Virginia ; lost his left limb; also shot through the right limb ; he received four balls ; after being wounded, he laid on the field of battle four days, without any at- tention, and suffered intensely ; at the expiration of four days, was put on an ambulance and taken to Savage Station ; he lay there one night, and next morning was put on a freight car with other wounded soldiers, taken to Whitehouse Landing, and from there to a boat (called the State of Maine), and was taken to Fortress Monroe and thence to New York City, then up the Long Island Sound to New Haven, Conn., to the State Hospital ; he then at the expiration of nine days, received medical treatment ; he lay nine weeks before his limb was ampu- tated ; three weeks after the amputation, the main artery ruptured, from which bled till his bed was com- pletely saturated ; he was attended by seven nurses, taken from among the soldiers; the main artery was closely compressed three months, by which process, his life was saved. After the war, Mr. Everitt located in Ontario ; is receiving a pension, and is a worthy citizen.




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