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Mr. Tindal was married first in 1861 to Mary, daughter of A. L. Anderson, of York county, and niece of Judge Pressly, of Charleston. She died two years later, leaving an infant son who survived only a few months. Mr. Tindal's second marriage was
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on December 20, 1866, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of M. H. Conners, and granddaughter of Charles Conners, one of Marion's men and for years member of the general assembly as represen- tative and senator from the Sumter district. Of their children, three sons and three daughters are now living.
Since the above sketch was written, Mr. Tindal died on May 25, 1906, at his home in Silver, South Carolina.
DAVID DUNCAN WALLACE
W ALLACE, DAVID DUNCAN, Ph. D., teacher and author, was born May 23, 1874, in Columbia, Richland county, South Carolina. His father, William Henry Wallace, newspaper editor, is a man of integrity and independ- ence, with a judicial trend of mind. His mother is Mrs. Alice Amanda (Lomax) Wallace. She devoted much of her time to the cultivation of his mind and character, and she has been the strongest influence in his young life. His paternal ancestors came from Scotland to the United States early in the last century. Some of his maternal ancestors settled in the Carolinas and Virginia much earlier; one of them, David Duncan, his great- grandfather, after whom he was named, was the first professor of classics in Wofford college, Spartanburg, South Carolina; and on the same side he is related to some distinguished Virginia families.
Reared in a small town, he was fond of swimming, hunting, reading, and mechanics-tastes which he has retained. He thinks that mechanical tasks performed as a boy, for diversion, had much educational value as cultivating unity in action of his mind and hands and as broadening his sympathies. He received much of his primary education at home; later he attended New- berry (South Carolina) Male academy. In 1891 he entered Wofford college, from which he was graduated A. B. in 1894, receiving the degree of A. M. in 1895. In 1894 he matriculated at Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tennessee, and received the degree of Ph. D. in 1899. He had three years earlier begun his work as a teacher at the Carlisle Fitting school, Bamberg, South Carolina, where he taught for two years.
In the fall of 1899 he was called to Wofford college as professor of history and economics. He has made for himself a reputation as one of the more progressive young educators of the state. He has frequently taught in the summer normal schools. Besides a number of magazine articles, he has written "A Con- stitutional History of South Carolina (1725-1775)," published in 1899 and well received; and "The Civil Government of South
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Carolina and the United States," which has been adopted for use in the common schools by the state board of education.
He thinks the young should be "taught absolute opposition to all low politics," "supreme allegiance to the moral phase of everything," and "not to begin the work of life unprepared to do well some valuable service." He is a Democrat; but he declined to support Bryan, though he did not vote against him. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; of the Kappa Alpha (Southern) fraternity, and of the American Historical association. One of his favorite outdoor recreations is tramping in the mountains.
He has some decided opinions on the educational needs of his state. He says "better education for the common people should be brought about by elevating the standard of the teachers," and this "can only be done by separating politics and sectarianism from the common school system." He holds that a real agricul- tural education, covering a short time and dealing only with agricultural subjects, should be provided; that industries should be diversified, and white immigration encouraged; and that "the people should stop attributing all their troubles to the war," and should "look at present and future accomplishment as boldly as if there had been no war, or as if they had been the conquerors."
On June 10, 1900, he was married to Sophie Willis Adam, third daughter of Robert Marsden and Sophronia (Willis) Adam. They have had three children, all of whom are living in 1908.
His address is Wofford college, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
RICHARD HARVIN WICHMAN
W ICHMAN, RICHARD HARVIN, of Walterboro, South Carolina, banker and merchant, was born at Walterboro, February 27, 1861. His father, Albert Wichman, was a merchant of energy and business ability. To his mother, Margaret Amanda Wichman, he has always felt indebted for a strong and abiding influence upon his moral and spiritual life.
His grandfather, Jesse Bradford, came from Plymouth, Massachusetts, about 1820, and settled in South Carolina. He traces his descent directly to the famous Governor Bradford, of Massachusetts colonial history.
After a healthy boyhood, passed in the village of Walterboro, he attended the Porter school and the high schools at Charleston and at Bellevue, Virginia. He entered Adger college, at Wal- halla, South Carolina, but did not complete a course of study at that institution. His tastes and his own preference led him to begin the active work of self-supporting life as a clerk in his father's store. He says that his strongest impulse in life has been "the desire to live an upright life and to provide for the comfort of my family." The memory of a good Christian home, and the careful training given him in that home, he declares to have been the strongest influence in shaping his life.
By strict attention to business he came to be the managing partner in the firm of A. Wichman & Son, of which he is now sole owner. He is also president of the Farmers and Merchants bank.
On November 14, 1883, he was married to Sarah G. Solomons, daughter of Elliott G. and Elizabeth Solomons, of Hampton county. They have had ten children, of whom seven are living in 1907.
While Mr. Wichman has not been especially active in politics, he is identified with the Democratic party. His religious con- victions have led to his membership in the Presbyterian church, and since 1895 he has been a deacon in the Bethel Presbyterian church, of Walterboro.
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It is interesting to find in one of the solid business men, prominent in Walterboro, the grandson of a Massachusetts Brad- ford, and a lineal descendant of Governor Bradford, of the old Bay State colony. In the days which preceded the Revolution patriotic Americans saw eye to eye; and the leading men of Virginia and the Carolinas knew the closest and most amicable friendship for the leaders of the people who aspired to freedom and independence in New England. As men descended from Southern families are now taking leading places in New York and Boston, so the grandchildren of New Englanders are becom- ing thoroughly identified with the life and the growing pros- perity of the Southern States. The twentieth century is opening as the eighteenth century closed, with warm aspirations for a national American life which shall know no South and no North.
ASBURY HILLIARD WILLIAMS
W ILLIAMS, ASBURY HILLIARD, M. D., financier, physician, druggist, and legislator, was born March 17, 1859, in Cottageville, Colleton county, South Carolina. His father, A. E. Williams, M. D., practicing physician and member of the Democratic state executive committee of South Carolina,-a man of kind and sympathetic disposition,-was markedly charitable, and, excepting barely enough to support his family, gave his entire earnings to the poor. His mother, Georgie C. (Sheridan) Williams, a woman of strong intellect and high character, was a powerful influence in his life, both intellectually and morally. On the paternal side his ancestry is English and Welsh. His maternal grandfather, Hugo Sheridan, M. D., came direct from Ireland to South Carolina, where he became widely known as a physician.
His early life was passed in the country near his birthplace. His physical condition has always been perfect, and from boy- hood he had strong tastes for farming and for merchandising. He spent four years in doing the hardest kind of manual labor, such as ploughing, driving timber wagons, working in sawmills, and general farm work, and has never regretted that he had to do so, as it taught him to take a broad view of life and its duties. His primary education was obtained under difficulties that would have discouraged a boy of less pluck and determination. For four years he studied at night, after doing a long and hard day's work. He then entered the high school, Orangeburg, South Carolina, where he was prepared for college and where his ambi- tion to succeed was spurred on by association. Neither heredity nor a strong personal preference influenced his choice of a profession. The persuasion of his father and brother led him, in 1880, to become a student at the Charleston (South Carolina) Medical college, where he was graduated M. D. in 1882.
On August 20, 1884, he began the practice of medicine in Lake City, South Carolina. At the same time he entered the drug business. In both of these lines he was successful. He became interested in banking, and became, in 1903, president of the Bank of Lake City, which he has made a prosperous institution.
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He has been active in politics as an uncompromising Demo- crat. He is now (1908) serving his fourth term, of four years each, as a state senator from Williamsburg county, and for the last two terms he was elected without opposition. In this body he holds a high rank. Since 1899 he has been county chairman of his political party, and is ranked as one of the leading members. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and has been chancellor commander. His religious preference is for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
He says he owes his success to early home and school training and to always having selected sober and honest young men as companions. His advice to young men seeking success is : "Keep sober and be honest; practice what you preach, and preach what you practice."
On October 15, 1884, he married Hattie Viola Fulmore, daughter of Doctor Z. R. and Hattie Fulmore, of Williamsburg county, South Carolina. Of their seven children, six are now (1908) living.
His address is Lake City, Williamsburg county, South Caro- lina.
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JOHN SUMMERS WIMBERLY
W IMBERLY; CAPTAIN JOHN SUMMERS, of St. George, Dorchester county, South Carolina, farmer and miller, from 1884 to 1888 representing Colleton county in the South Carolina house of representatives, from 1899 to 1901 and from 1904 to the present time representing Dorchester county in the same body, was born near St. George, in Colleton (now Dorchester) county, on the 16th of July, 1844. His father, Isaac Wimberly, was a planter, a captain in the militia of his state, and an upright and energetic business man.
His early boyhood was passed in the country. He became familiar with all kinds of farm work. His mother died when he was but four years old. In his boyhood he attended the "old field schools," but the breaking out of the War between the States, at about the time when he might have prepared therefor, cut off all possibility of a college course.
He volunteered in 1861 and served in the Confederate army until the end of the war.
At the close of the war, feeling himself too old for further schooling, he turned his attention to farming and milling. As his father had died when he was but fifteen years old, he had to make his own choice of a life work. By hard labor and economical living he bought some property and won for himself a position. In 1884 old Colleton county sent him to the house of representatives. At the end of his term he was reelected. In 1899 the new county of Dorchester chose him for another term; in 1903 he was again elected, and has since been reëlected to represent Dorchester county in the state legislature.
On December 13, 1866, Captain Wimberly married Miss Drucilla Westbury, daughter of Captain Jonathan Westbury, of Colleton county. Of their six children, four were living in 1907.
Captain Wimberly is a Mason and has for several years been worshipful master. He is also a Knight of Pythias.
In politics he has always been identified with the Democratic party.
By religious conviction he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he has for some years served as superintendent of the Sunday school and as steward of the Meth- odist Episcopal church of St. George, where he resides.
LAURENS WINKLER YOUMANS
Y OUMANS, LAURENS WINKLER, of Fairfax, Barnwell county, South Carolina, merchant, farmer, and sawmill proprietor, was born near Gillisonville, Hampton county, South Carolina, on the 13th of October, 1844. His father, William Youmans, was a merchant and planter, clerk of the court and sheriff of his county,-a man of resolute character, of strong religious convictions, and with a marked love of literature. His mother, Mrs. Salena Maria Houston (Johnston) Youmans, had a strong influence upon the life of her son. His earliest known ancestor in America was Edward Youmans, who came originally from Bristol, England, and later came immediately from Barbadoes with a party of adventurers and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, about 1670. Tradition makes "the most marked characteristic of the family in colonial days their loyalty to the crown."
Born in the country, healthy and active, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and all out-of-door sports. He was not trained to any manual labor in his boyhood or youth, and the circumstances of his family were such as to give him all the educational advantages his state afforded, until he was seventeen years old, when he left South Carolina college, which he had entered only three months before, to enter the Confederate States army. Enlisting on the 12th of April, 1862, as a private in Company F, Third regiment, South Carolina cavalry, and later transferred to Company H, First regiment of South Carolina volunteers, he served until the close of the war, surrendering at Appomattox on the 9th of April, 1865.
He began life after the war as a farmer at Black Creek, Hampton county, South Carolina, "determined by necessity to the choice of this occupation." While he has always styled himself a planter, Mr. Youmans has been a merchant as well, and since 1906 has been the proprietor of a sawmill which has done a good business.
He was elected member from his county to the state house of representatives in 1876, serving until 1878. In 1884 he was elected state senator, serving until 1888.
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Mr. Youmans has been twice married : On the 15th of June, 1865, to Miss Mary Ann Stokes, daughter of A. R. and Mary Stokes, of Hampton county, South Carolina; and on the 18th of November, 1886, to Miss Margaret Preston Campbell, daughter of Doctor E. M. and Ellen S. Campbell, of Washington county, Virginia. He has had twelve children, nine of whom are living in 1908.
He has always been a member of the Democratic party. He is connected with the Baptist church.
Throughout his life he has kept certain of the tastes and habits which characterize the college-bred man, although, like so many other high-spirited youth of his state, he joyously sacrificed the possibilities of a college course to the call of his state for service from her loyal sons.
Since this sketch was written, Mr. Youmans died at his home in Hampton county, February 26, 1908.
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ALEXANDER, EDWARD P .. 5
CLEVELAND, JESSE F .. 81
ARDREY, JOHN W. 7 CLINKSCALES, JOHN G .. ... 84
BAGBY, HARRY A.
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COLCOCK, CHARLES J .. 86
BASS, WILLIAM L.
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COLLINS, BENJAMIN G .... 88
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COOK, HARVEY T. 92
BEATTIE, WILLIAM E. 15
COOKE, ARTHUR B. 95
COOPER, PRESTON S.
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CORBETT, JOHN W.
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BLACK, HUGH R. 21
CREWS, THOMAS B .. 102
BLACK, JAMES B .. 24 CRITTENDEN, STEPHEN S .. . 105
BLACK, WILLIAM C .. 26
CROSSON, DRAYTON M .....
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BLAKENEY, WHITEFORD S .. 30 CUMMINGS, WILLIAM F ... 110 DANTZLER, CHARLES G .... 114
BOYD, JOHN C .. 34
DANZTLER, MANLY J. D .. . 116
BRABHAM, HENRY J. 37
DARGAN, MARION 118
BRADHAM, DANIEL J .. 39
BREZEALE, JOHN E .. 40
BRISTOW, LOUIS J ..
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DIAL, NATHANIEL B. 130
DILLON, THOMAS A.
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BRYAN, GEORGE D .. 46
DOAR, JOHN W.
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BUCHANAN, OSMUND W ... 48 DONALDSON, MILTON LAF. 139
BUIST, JOHN S .. 53 DOUGLAS, ALEXANDER S ... 141
BURNETT, WILBUR E.
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DUNCAN, WATSON B ...... 143
BURROUGHS, FRANKLIN A. 59 DUNCAN, WHITEFORD MCK. 145 EARLE, JOHN H. 147
BURTS, CHARLES E .. 61
CARLISLE, HOWARD B.
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EFIRD, DANIEL F.
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CARTLEDGE, SAMUEL J. 65
EHRHARDT, CONRAD.
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CATES, ROBERT Z .. 67 ELLIOTT, THOMAS K. 155
CHAPMAN, JAMES D. 69 EPTING, R. BERLEY 159
CHAPMAN, JOHN A.
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BEATY, J. H. MEANS 16
BELLINGER, JOHN R.
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BOYD, CHARLES W.
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DAVID, JOHN H.
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DE VORE, JAMES W.
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FLINN, JOHN W. 170
LEVER, ASBURY F 274
FOLK, HENRY C ..
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LIGON, HENRY A. 275
FROST, EDWIN P.
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McARN, ARCHIBALD H.
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McBRAYER, DAVID P.
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McDow, THOMAS F. 284
GEER, JOHN M.
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MCFADDEN, SAMUEL E. 288
GEORGE, SAMUEL B.
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GILES, WILLIAM A.
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MCGEE, HENRY P. 292 MCKINNON, MURRAY S ... 294 MCPHEETERS, WILLIAM M. 298
GRAYDON, WILLIAM N.
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MCSWAIN, JOHN J ..
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GREGG, SMILIE A.
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MAULDIN, WILLIAM L. 301
GUERRY, LEGRAND
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MAXWELL, JOHN H.
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GUESS, JAMES B ..
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MAYER, ORLANDO B.
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GUESS, SAMUEL D. M.
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MAYFIELD, STANWIX G .. 311
MOFFETT, GEORGE H.
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HAMER, THOMAS C ..
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MORRISON, WILLIAM S ..
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HAMMOND, FRANK
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Moss, BENJAMIN H. 322
HAY, JAMES T ..
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MURRAY, WILLIAM J.
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HEYWARD, JULIUS H.
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NASH, WILLIAM E.
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HARDIN, ABRAHAM T.
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NELSON, PATRICK H.
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HARLEY, IRVING S ..
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NICHOLS, LUCIUS T.
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HEMPHILL, JOHN J.
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NICHOLSON, EMSLIE
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O'NEILL, FRANCIS Q.
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HOWELL, MADISON P. 232
HUGER, WILLIAM H.
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HUGHES, EDWARD W. 237
RAINSFORD, THOMAS H.
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HYATT, FREDERICK H.
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SALLEY, MICHAEL G ..
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HYDRICK, AUGUSTUS S. 240
SANDERS, COTESWORTH P .. 352
JACOBS, WILLIAM P
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SASS, GEORGE H. 354
SCHACHTE, HENRY
355
SCHERER, M. G. G. 357
SHAFFER, ALEXANDER C ... 361
JENNY, JOSEPHUS W 257
SHAND, ROBERT W.
363
JOHNSON, JOHN
259
SHEPPARD, ORLANDO
365
JONES, IREDELL. 261
KENNEDY, WILLIAM H 264
KIRKLAND, JAMES H. 268
LAW, THOMAS H. 270
LESESNE, JAMES H. 272
SHUMAN, BASIL M. 369
SIMMONS, OSCAR B .. 371
SIMPSON, RICHARD W. 373
SIMPSON, WILLIAM A. 377
SIMS, JAMES L .. 379
HOOD, JOHN K. 231
PATTERSON, JAMES O.
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PORCHER, WALTER P. 344
JAMES, EDWARD C. 246
JAMISON, ATHA T. 249
JAYNES, ROBERT T.
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FROST, HENRY W.
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GARY, EUGENE B.
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GOLDSMITH, WILLIAM, JR .. 194
HAGOOD, WILLIAM M. 208
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SIRRINE, WILLIAM G. 381
STRAIT, THOMAS J. 415
SITTON, AUGUSTUS J. 385
SUMMERS, ABRAM W. 419
SLOAN, EARLE .. 389
SMITH, CHARLES A 393
SMITH, JEPTHA P .. 397
WALLACE, DAVID D .. 431
SMITH, SAMUEL M. 398
WICHMAN, RICHARD H. 433
SMITH, WATTIE G .. 400
WILLIAMS, ASBURY H.
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SMYTH, ELLISON A. 404
WIMBERLY, JOHN S ...
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SMYTH, JAMES A.
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YOUMANS, LAURENS W .... 438
SMYTHE, AUGUSTINE T. . 408
TATUM, RICHARD J. 423
TINDAL, JAMES E .. 427
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