Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 91

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988


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Mr. Kasper married, March 10, 1857, Fran- ces Roger Randall, daughter of Jacob Rogers, and adopted daughter of John Randall, of Wy- oming, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Seven children were born to them, namely: I. Silas, died in Wyoming at the age of nine months, buried in the cemetery at Forty Fort. 2. Wesley, died at the age of two weeks, buried in the West Pittston cemetery. 3. Frank, died in Buffalo, New York, February 19, 1896, aged thirty-five years, was buried from the residence of his parents at 14 Exeter street, Pittston, Pennsylvania, men- tioned hereafter. 4. John R., married Nellie Hull ; he is employed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at Sayre, Pennsylvania. 5. Joseph W., engaged in business with his father, and resides in West Pittston ; he married Minnie Dodd, and they have two children: Helen and Harold. 6.


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Carrie M., married Ed. John Crowell, agent of the New York Life Insurance Company, at Erie, Pennsylvania, a promoter of various enterprises, and for eleven years served as secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association. They are the parents of two children, Frances and Char- lotte. 7. Harry S., died in Pittston, 1873, aged eight months, buried in West Pittston cemetery. Mr. Kasper and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, West Pittston. The family are held in high esteem in the community. Mrs. Frances Rogers (Randall) Kasper is a daughter of Jacob and Frances ( Thorp) Rogers, the former born January I, 1778, near Pittsburg, a veteran of the war of 1812, in which he lost a brother, and was wounded at the battle of Lun- dy's Lane, He was a son of a Revolutionary sol- dier. Jacob Rogers died September 8, 1889, aged one hundred and twelve years in Oakland Mills, Iowa, and at his death was the oldest man in the United States. He was a Methodist, a Mason for ninety years, loved and respected by all who knew him. Mrs. Frances ( Thorpe) Rogers, was a daughter of Samuel Thorpe, and was born in Warren county, New Jersey, where she died aged forty-five years. She was a consistent mem- ber of the Methodist church.


The following article appeared in the Evening Neres of Buffalo, New York, February 20, 1896: "After a long battle with a complication of dis- eases, only one of which would long ago have vanquished a weaker man, Frank R. Kasper, son of John and Frances Roger (Randall) Kasper, night agent of the United Press and the New York State Associated Press, died at the General Hospital yesterday afternoon shortly after six o'clock. It was on the night of December 23d that Mr. Kasper was taken with a severe cold while going on an errand of mercy for a friend. Since that time at the hospital his lot has been one of suffering and pain, but under the heavy burden of disease he was characteristically hope- ful to the end. The cold developed into acute pneumonia and pleurisy, which in turn was fol- lowed by an attack of prurient pericarditis. From the very start his was a serious case, but his many friends, seeing the man bear up so bravely under the complications, hoped for his life until last Sunday. Then, already weakened by weeks of struggle, Mr. Kasper sank and yesterday the end came. His parents and his wife, who was Miss Flora Sauerwine, of this city, survive him."


Frank R. Kasper was born in Pittston, Penn- sylvania, in 1858. He took early to telegraphy and adopted it as a profession in early man- hood. Since that time he had worked in many


large cities, as his skill and personality were widely known. He came to Buffalo in 1881, but left for the west shortly after. He returned to- this city in 1886 and had charge of the telegraph service for the News for four years. Since 1886 he has lived in Buffalo. Mr. Kasper was a man who made friends wherever he went, and in the- many cities where he lived there are many people today who are sorrowing for the untimely end of a man who won their esteem and admiration. His character and 'personality were magnetic in their power to attract friends and what is more keep. them when won. It is safe to say that in all the country Frank R. Kasper had none but well wish- ers. His brave struggle against the overwhelm- ing odds of pain and suffering at the hospital were characteristic of the man. Strong in ad- versity, uncomplaining in trouble, his nature was. one that will stand for years as the type of an indomitable spirit. As a news gatherer, he was sure and reliable ; as a telegrapher, his skill was. wonderful. In him the press service has lost a valuable and trustworthy servant.


Mr. Kasper was a member of the Buffalo. Press Club and this afternoon at four o'clock there will be a meeting of that body to take ac- tion on his death. Mrs. Kasper is today the re- cipient of many telegrams of sympathy, for there is no one who knew Frank R. Kasper but feel his loss today. His body will be taken to Pitts- ton for burial."


TOWNEND FAMILY. The extensive mer- cantile business carried on by representatives of this family in Wyoming was established more. than forty-seven years ago by John Townend. father of the present proprietors, who was born in Lancashire, England, January 12, 1809, and came from a well-to-do family of Manchester. John Townend's father, also named John, was born in Manchester, March 7, 1785. He was educated for the legal profession, which he practiced in his native city, and his death occurred at the age of fifty-five years on the island of Trinidad, West Indies, whither he went to adjust some law bus- iness for an uncle. He married Hannah Bow- man, born July 3. 1787, and was a life-long resi- dent of Manchester. She became the mother of four children : Mercy, Hannah, William and John.


John Townend, son of John and Hannah (Bowman) Townend was educated in Manches- ter, England, where he began at an early age to learn the shoe business. In 1840 he came to the United States, and opened a large shoe store in Brooklyn, New York, where he carried on busi- ness for nine years, at the expiration of which


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time he removed to Stroudsburg, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, and for the ensuing twelve years conducted a profitable business in that place. About 1857 he came to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, where he established the extensive general mer- cantile business which is now conducted by his sons, resided there for the remainder of his life, which terminated May 29, 1891. John Townend married Ann Cowan, who was born in Manches- ter. November 7, 1810, daughter of Christopher and Martha (Henderson) Cowan, the former a well known lawyer of that city in his day. Mrs. Ann (Cowan) Townend died in Wyoming Au- gust 29, 1877. She was the mother of eight chil- dren : 1. William, born Manchester, April 7, 1837. 2. John. born Manchester, September 3, 1839, died in infancy. 3. James (deceased), born New York city, August 30, 1840. 4. George Ferguson, born Brooklyn, New York, December 29, 1842. 5. Christopher, born Stroudsburg, April 18, 1846. 6. Samuel, born Stroudsburg, April 18, 1849. 7. Hugh Carey, born Cunkeltown, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1852. 8. Martha Alice, born Tan- nersville, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1854. Six of them are now living :


I. William Townend, married Mary Pocknell, born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1843, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Frame) Pocknell, who, in addition to Mary, were the parents of William, now of Wyoming; Minnie, wife of I. WV. Glatts, also of Wyoming ; and Elizabeth (de- ceased), marred S. J. Poland, of Wilkes-Barre. William and Mary (Pocknell) Townend had eight children : Charles, born October 24, 1863, married Lulu Sparling, daughter of Dr. Sparling, of Kingston, see sketch on another page ; Mercy, born May II. 1865. married George Schuerman, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, who died leaving three children-William, Alfred and James; George F., born November 18. 1867, died February 15. 1870: Christopher, born August 8, 1870, married Cadulah Starmer, of Dallas, this state, and re- sides in Wyoming, having two children-Eugene and Charles : Ruth, born August 6, 1873, died January 18, 1880; John, born March 9, 1879 re- siding at home: Fanny, born July 5, 1882, mar- ried Edward Ike, of Wyoming, and has one son, Roger Sherman Ike; and Blanche, who died in infancy.


2. George Ferguson Townend, married Sarah Goodwin, and has an adopted daughter, Mabel, born May 29, 1881.


3. Christopher Townend, married Mary Col- man, who died leaving one daughter, Gretta, now a student in the Mercy Hospital, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania.


4. Samuel Townend. in the real estate bus- iness ; married Fannie Sharp Meyers, daughter of the late Lawrence Meyers, ( see sketch on an- other page), and they reside in Wilkes-Barre, having three children-Ernest S., Mae and Helen F.


5. Huglı Carey Townend, who is the special subject of this sketch, married Maranda Smith, born in Easton, Pennsylvania, daughter of John and Sarah (Garris) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Town- end have one son, Howard, born September 4, 1882.


6. Martha Alice Townend, married Septem- ber 16, 1885, Morris Shafer, born in Carverton, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1857. They have one daughter, Myrtle Shafer, born March 11, 1890.


The business, which is now conducted under the auspices of the Townend family and is lo- cated directly in the heart of the beautiful Wy- oming valley, has greatly expanded since its es- tablishment by the elder John Townend, 1857, and at the present time includes two separate stores, one of which is devoted to general mer- chandise, and the other consists of a first class furniture and undertaker's establishment.


HARRY PETTEBONE STREATER, a well known and highly respected citizen of Dor- ranceton, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, now liv- ing retired from active business life, traces his descent back to the old settlers of Pennsylvania.


(I) Dr. Charles Streater, grandfather of Harry Pettebone Streater, was born in England, emigrated to America, and settled in Hanover township. He owned a large farm at Hanover, which he sold before coal was discovered. He practiced medicine in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, and conducted a drug store in the same city. He married, in England, Bessie Lane, who emigrated to the United States with him, and among their children was a son, William. Dr. Streator died in Wilkes-Barre, October 10, 1863, aged eighty-two.


(II) William Streater, son of Dr. Charles (I) and Bessie (Lane) Streater, was a merchant early in his business career, and then turned his attention to contracting for railroad work. This line he followed for the greater part of his life. He constructed a tunnel on a railroad in Vir- ginia, and then lived for a time in Texas, where he died some time during 1874. He married, Oc- tober 15, 1844, Martha Pettebone, who is also de- ceased. She was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Sharps) Pettebone. Her maternal grandfather, Jolın Sharps, of Wyoming, Penn- sylvania, was a farmer in the valley and at one


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time managed the old Pringle farm, and later an- other farm in Wyoming. Her father, Henry Pettebone, was the son of Oliver Pettebone, who was a farmer and landowner in the Wyoming valley owning from the river to the top of the mountain. (See Pettebone sketch). Henry Pet- tebone served in the legislature about the year 1845-46, and was at one time associate judge in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death he was general ticket agent for the Dela- ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and sta- tioned in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Among the children of William and Martha (Pettebone) Streater was Harry Pettebone Streater, of whom later.


(III) Harry Pettebone Streater, son of Will- iam (2) and Martha (Pettebone) Streater, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1852. His early years were spent in North- umberland and Wilkes-Barre, where he was ed- ucated in the public schools, and when quite young, he evinced an extraordinary desire for a seafaring life. He became a sailor and followed this calling for about six years, cruising along the southern and eastern coast of the United States. He then went to Ohio and took up farm- ing for a time, putting this aside in order to learn the trade of coopering, in Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania. He continued at this for some time, com- ing then to Wilkes-Barre and entering the ser- vice of the Jersey Central Railroad, as trainman, a position which he held for several years. He then again took up farming, this time at Dor- ranceton, Pennsylvania, and at the end of five years retired from active business life. Mr. Streater is a man who has made many friends. He has seen a great deal of the world in the course of his wanderings, and has a pleasant manner of relating his adventures which always gains for him an interested audience. Although taking interest in the public affairs of his town, he has never felt any inclination to hold office.


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He married, February 6, 1878, Annie M. Pettebone, born April 7, 1861, daughter of Stephen H. and Lucinda ( Pettebone) Pettebone. Stephen H. Pettebone is of the sixth generation of the Pettebone family, which was of French Huguenot extraction, was the fourth son of Noah and Sarah ( Sharps) Pettebone. ( See Pettebone sketch). He was born in Kingston township (now Dorranceton) and was reared on the fam- ilv homestead. He commenced his education in the public schools and pursued an advanced course of study at the Wyoming Seminary. At the age of twenty-six years he rented a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits for some years.


He then removed to Orangeville, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, where he remained for five years, going thence to Kingston township (now Forty Fort), where he lived for seventeen years, finally settling permanently at Dorrance- ton, occupying a part of the old homestead, where he died October 4, 1905. In politics he was a Democrat, and always took an active interest in the public affairs of the community. He mar- ried, January 24, 1854. Lucinda C. Pettebone, born April 6, 1832, danghter of Joshna and Elea- nor (Gay) Pettebone, whose ancestor was the same as his own. She was the youngest of twelve children, as follows: Sarah Ann, Oliver, Samuel T., Elizabeth, Jane, Ebenezer G., Ben- jamin D., Fisher, Mary, Esther M., George T., and Lucinda C. Stephen H. and Lucinda C. ( Pettebone) Pettebone had children : William T., John B., Margaret E., Mary E., Annie M., who married Harry P. Streater, as previously men- tioned : Edgar R., and Jacob S. (See Pettebone sketch). The children of Harry Pettebone and Annie M. (Pettebone) Pettebone are: I. Clara, born March 21, 1879, died October II, 1879, bur- ied in Forty Fort cemetery. 2. Edna, June 13, 1881, married Frederick Pettebone, and had : Or- ville, deceased : Marian and Leah. Resides in Forty Fort. 3. Elsie, October 22, 1884, married April 23, 1905, Horace G. Crawford, resides in Pleasantville, New York. 4. Ray, October 1.4, 1887, died in 1902, buried in Forty Fort ceme- tery. 5. Carle, September 30, 1889, resides on a farm in Luzerne county. 6. Charlotte, Sep- tember 6, 1891, lives at home in Dorranceton. 7. Gertrude, July 12, 1893, died March 9, 1894. 8. Milton B., March 21, 1895, resides in Dorrance- ton.


ALVA TOMPKINS, of West Pittston, was born in Pittston township, now within the city limits, May 20, 1827, son of William and Hannah (Van Fleet) Tompkins, and grandson of Joseph and Hannah (Osborne) Tompkins. Four of the Tompkins name came to America. one about 1666; Micah located in Newark, New Jersey ; Nathaniel in Rhode Island: John in Concord, Massachusetts; and Ralph in Salem, Massachu- setts. The best known of the name was Daniel D. Tompkins, ex-governor of New York, and vice-president of the United States during the two terms of President James Monroe. Hast- ings, the State Historian of New York, says : "The trite old saying, 'Republics are ungrateful,' was never better illustrated than in the cases of the two men who, at critical war periods in our history, raised by their personal endorsement, and


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by their personal effort, large sums of money for the national government, when the nation was unable to negotiate a loan on its own credit-in the end only to find themselves bankrupt and ruined-Robert Morris, patriot of the first war with Great Britain, Daniel D. Tompkins, patriot of the second war with Great Britain."


Joseph Tompkins, grandfather of Alva Tomp- kins, a miller by trade and one of the pioneers of Pittston, had worked in one of the Hollenback mills on Mill creek, near Wilkes-Barre, and lived near Laflin, Pittston township. at what was then called White Oak Hollow, where he bought land in 1794. His wife, Hannah (Osborne) Tompkins, born in Connecticut. died at the home of her son, William Tompkins, in Pittston, about 1831-32, aged about ninety years. She was his second wife. William Tompkins, father of Alva Tompkins, was born July 10, 1788 or 1789. He resided in White Oak Hollow for many years, re- moving to Pittston before 1820, where he spent the later years of his life, and died August 5, 1876. His home was on South Main street, now (1906) nearly opposite Nafus street. At the forks of the road, near his home, in the southern part of the city, for many years he had a saw- mill, the only one in this vicinity. It was not operated after the early 50s. A wrought iron crank used in this mill had been in the old Sutton mill on Sutton's (now Coray's) creek when it was burned by the British and Indians in 1778. This iron was probably brought from Rhode Island : it was given to the Historical Society at Wilkes-Barre. There was a mill-pond fed by a stream called Tompkins creek ; the pool has been filled up for many years and the small stream is now mainly sulphur water pumped from the No. 4 mine of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. Will- iam Tompkins was deeply interested in the edt- cation of the young and did what he could to make good schools possible during the period when advantages in Pittston were meager. In the politics of his period he was keenly interested, being a Whig and later a Republican.


William Tompkins married Hannah Van Fleet, born August 9, 1800, died May 18, 1830, of Pittston, daughter of Abraham and Saralı (Brown) Van Fleet, who came to the Wyoming Valley from Orange county, New York, in 1786. He was a Revolutionary pensioner. The Van Fleet family came originally from Holland about 1662-63, and the name was then spelled Van Vleit and Vander Vleit. The four children of William and Hannah (Van Fleet) Tompkins were: Sarah Van Fleet, educated at Franklin Academy, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, a


member of the first faculty of Wyoming Sem- inary, Kingston, who married Horace P. Messen- ger : she died in West Pittston. James Harvey, died November, 1898, in West Pittston ; he mar- ried Elizabeth Dawson Tracy, of Wilkes-Barre, daughter of Sidney and Elizabeth (Sinton) Tracy. George, died in Pittston, 1846, aged twenty-one years, unmarried. Alva, now living in West Pittston. William Tompkins married (second) Ann Miller, of Parsons, and (third) Mrs. Knight, but there was no issue to either of these marriages.


Alva Tompkins, who has spent all his life in Pittston and is now one of the oldest residents, was educated in the schools of the neighborhood and Wyoming Seminary. He worked in his father's saw-mill and assisted in the labors of the farm. About 1851 he embarked in the coal bus- iness, which he followed for thirty-four years. He had the second coal breaker in Pittston. Coal was mined, and lump coal shipped for eight or nine years before the breaker was built. Most of the coal sent to market before 1861 went by boat on the North Branch canal to Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania, Port Deposit, Haver de Grace and Bal- timore, Maryland, and intermediate points. Leb- anon, Pennsylvania, was reached by a crosscut canal, running from Middletown on the Susque- hanna river to Reading, that had been widened so boats from the North Branch could pass through. A railroad from Wrightsville, opposite Columbia, carried the coal to York, Pennsylvania. In the 6os he had as partners J. Langdon, of El- mira, New York, and M. C. and H. S. Mercur, of Towanda, Pennsylvania. The breaker was built by Stephen Clark, of Plainsville, the machinery made and put in by Jackson & Woodin, of Ber- wick. The Lehigh Valley Railroad track that runs through the streets of Pittston was built from the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg junction to the Tompkins breaker by the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad Company. Transportation was a serious problem for the pioneer coal opera- tors. This shipper furnished some boats and most of the railroad cars for his early trade. Many of the cars were built by Jackson & Wood- in: it was their first order for coal cars. This establishment was the nucleus of the present plant of the American Car & Foundry Company, at Berwick, Pennsylvania. For three years in the 6os, in addition to the Tompkins mine, Mercur & Company operated the twin shaft in Upper Pitts- ton. In 1863 Mr. Tompkins had the Sweatland mine of Plymouth. Later the Eagle shaft prop- erty adjoining this land was leased and the coal prepared for market in the Tompkins breaker.


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He established coal yards in Elmira, Auburn, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois.


He was a school director in Pittston, a trus- tee of the West Pittston Seminary that later sold its building for the public high school, and, be- ginning late in the 6os, for many years sustained a private school in South Pittston presided over by ladies trained in some of the best educational institutions of the day. Since his retirement from the coal industry he has been interested in agricultural pursuits, this being his main busi- ness and recreation at the present time ( 1906). He was one of the prominent business men of the town, was director in the First National Bank, and the Water Street Bridge Company, in which capacity he served for several years. He has always been interested in the work of the church. Since joining the Methodist Episcopal church in 1858 he has served as trustee for some years and been connected with the Sunday school as sup- erintendent or teacher most of that time; he is still a regular attendant. His political affiliations . are with the Republican party. He held mem- bership in the Order of Good Templars, having served as one of its first officers in Pittston.


Alva Tompkins married, June 14, 1854, Dorothy Calista Stark, born in Lemon township, Wyoming county. Pennsylvania, daughter of William and Ruth (Clary) Stark. William Stark had a land grant for service in the war of 1812; he was a farmer and lumberman in his early days, and spent most of his life in Lemon town- ship. He was a son of Nathan and Dorcas (Dixon) Stark, of Tunkhannock Creek, a few miles above the town of Tunkhannock. Dorcas Dixon was the daughter of John and Hannah (Marshall) Dixon or Dickson, of Connecticut. Ruth Clary, wife of William Stark, was born in New Hampshire. She was the daughter of John and Dorothy ( Fletcher) Clary, who was a daugh- ter of Peter and Ruth (Adams) Fletcher, and she in turn was a daughter of Joseph and Doro- othy (Merriam) Adams, of Concord, Massachu- setts. ( See Stark Genealogy which appears else- where in this work). Alva Tompkins and his wife have seven children: 1. Adelaide Ruth. 2. William Stark, engaged in insurance in Wilkes- Barre. 3. Edwin Webster, engaged in real estate, married Anna Frost, of Cobleskill, New York, and has one child, Edwin Frost Tompkins : they reside in Cobleskill, New York. Anna (Frost) Tompkins is a daughter of James and Evaline (Burnap) Frost, and granddaughter of Isaac S. and Phebe (Hoag) Frost, who were among the first settlers of Frosts Corners, now Charleston


Four Corners, Montgomery county, New York. 4. Lewis Alva, married Ruth Conyngham But- ler, of Port Gibson, Mississippi. daughter of Lord John and Kate (Humphreys) Butler, and grand- daughter of Rev. Zebulon Butler ( see Woodward family ), and they are the parents of two children : John Butler and Lewis Alva, Jr. Lewis Alva, Sr., is the auditor of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company ; the family reside in East Orange, New Jersey. 5. Mary Fletcher, resides at home. 6. Harry Clay, engaged in the insurance business, resides at home. 7. Martha Dorothy, teacher of music in Trenton, New Jersey.


JOHN DORRANCE COLVIN. In 1820. Philip Colvin, with his wife Sarah and sons Joseph and Cyrus, and daughters Polly, Mercy and Anna, with her husband, Elemuel Stone, from Rhode Island, traveling with ox teams, and bringing their household goods with them, settled in Abington township, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) county, Pennsylvania. Philip- Colvin, with his son Cyrus, settled on a farm in the western part of the township, near Fac- toryville. Joseph settled near the east part of the township. Elemuel Stone and his wife Anna settled on a farm near the south center of the township. Polly married Thomas Smith, and settled in the northern part of the town- ship. Mercy married James Nichols and set- tled in the Benton township. Cyrus Colvin married. 1821, Phoebe Northrup, whose par- ents had emigrated from Rhode Island a few years previously. To Cyrus Colvin and his first wife were born four sons and two daugh- ters: Artless L, Augustus, Deborah N., Phil- ip, George Perry, and John Dorrance. Mrs. Colvin died December 24, 1835. Philip Col- vin, senior, died in 1832, aged seventy-eight years. Sarah, his wife, died in 1844, aged eighty-three years. Cyrus Colvin died in 1879, aged eighty-one years. After the death of his first wife he married Maria Dean, daugh- ter of James Dean, one of the early settlers from Rhode Island. The second wife died in 1876, aged seventy-two years. By his second marriage two sons were born: Cyrus D. and Albert Colvin. All the children of Cyrus Col- vin lived at home until 1850, when Artless L. (I) went to Archbald, Pennsylvania, where she married J. W. Sheerer, an engineer. They have one son who is married and lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a daughter, Phoebe. who married Dr. J. Hayes, and is also living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Augustus (2). mar-




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