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D. W. CLARK, dentist, Dodgeville ; was born in Castile, Wyoming Co., N. Y., May 17, 1844 ; his parents, Daniel and Jane A. (Cooley) Clark, came to Racine, Wis., in 1845, three or four years later removing to Delavan, Wis., where D. W. received his schooling; he served 100 days with Co. F, 40th W. V. I., and after the war began the study of dentistry with Dr. H. O. Larabee, of Delavan ; has since practiced in Hartland, Waukesha and Mazomanie; he came to Dodgeville in 1874; his father died in 1873; his mother now lives with him. Dr. Clark married in Hampton, Iowa, on New Year's eve, 1874, Miss Hattie A. Campbell, a native of Ohio; they have two children-Winnefred and Hattie, both born in Dodgeville. Dr. Clark is a member of the Wisconsin State Dental Society, and belongs to Crescent Lodge, No. 97, A., F. & A. M., Mazomanie.
JOSEPH CLEMINSON, deceased ; was born April 5, 1806, in Yorkshire England ; mar- ried Betsy Sunter, who died in England leaving three children-George and James (twins) and Henry F. M., of whom James is the only one living. Mr. C. married again, Miss Jane Bell, and came to America and Wisconsin in 1846; spent two years on Jefferson Prairie, then two at Galena, Ill., and in 1850, set- tled at Highland, Iowa Co., Wis., where he engaged in smelting up to 1864; he died Dec. 12, 1867, and the widow is still a resident of Highland ; his oldest living son, James Cleminson, was born July 18, 1837, in Yorkshire ; was educated in Wisconsin ; went to Colorado in 1860; returned, and in 1862, went to Idaho, where he spent five years in the gold mines, returning in 1867 ; he, in 1870, began mercantile business in Highland ; was elected Register of Deeds in 1876; was appointed Under Sheriff in 1878, and, while holding that office, is the Republican nominee for County Treasurer. He married Miss Betsy A. Green, a native of New York ; five children were born to them, and all were torn from them by that grim destroyer death during the winter of 1880, the three eldest, Celia E., Adelaide M. and Marvin J. falling vietims to diphtheria within seven days of each other; George R., Jessie, an infant of 7 days, also died during the winter ; the eldest was Celia E., aged 8 years.
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SAMUEL J. CORNELIUS, mason, Dodgeville ; was born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, March 24, 1818; in early life he served an apprenticeship of six years as a stone-mason, and he has made the trade a life-long oceupation ; in 1846, he embarked for America, reaching the then small mining settle- ment of Dodgeville, June 11, 1846; worked at his trade until 1851, when he went by the New York and Panama route to California, pursuing Dame Fortune in the gold mines until April, 1855, when he returned to Dodgeville ; his father, returning from a voyage to the Brazils in 1859, died in his native Cornwall, in 1862; his son, our subject, in 1863, brought his widowed mother to his Dodgeville home. He married Miss Mary Penberthy, of his native parish; she came to America in 1847, and they were married in Dodgeville ; have seven children-Mary, Kate, James, Willie, Ella, Charles and Bert, or J. Penberthy ; all were born in Dodgeville, and no deaths have occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius are honored members of the M. E. Church, Mr. C. having served several years as Steward ; he is a Republican in politics, and is the pioneer mason of the village; was one of the three contractors in building the county jail, and has worked on various public buildings.
THOMAS CUTLER, of Dodgeville, one of the leading agrieulturists of his county, has re- sided here nearly thirty years ; he was born in England, but has resided during most of his life in the United States ; his fine farm of 240 acres, three and one-half miles east of Dodgeville Village, where he secured his foothold as one of the substantial men of his town. This farm he improved and placed in a high state of cultivation, then turned it over to his sons who are now managing it, Mr. Cutler himself having recently purchased a splendid 160-acre farm adjoining the village on the north. This was, at the time of his purchase, an almost unbroken prairie, and, like most of the land about the Iowa Co. seat, some what rolling, yet very fertile. Here he has erected a tasteful frame farmhouse and other buildings in keep- ing with the requirements of the progressive farmer of to-day, including well-built and painted basement barns. As Mr. Cutler came to Iowa Co. with scarcely a dollar, and has by labor and good management secured this property, he certainly can have few regrets in looking over the past.
JOHN M. DALE, Clerk of the Court of Iowa Co., Dodgeville; was born in Toronto, Canada West, June 6, 1842; is of English parentage ; the family came to Mineral Point in 1848; here he was educated, growing to manhood on his father's farm ; at a later day, the parents removed to Madison, in order to facilitate the education of their children; in 1863, John M. completed a commercial course at the State University, and taught school five years. He was elected City Treasurer of Mineral Point in 1876, and served until 1878, when he was elected to his present office, for which office he is the Repub- lican nominee of 1880. He married Eliza W. Edwards, in Cherry Valley, Ill .; she was born in England, and they have four children-Edgerton M., William H., John and James B. Mr. Dale is now P. W. C. T. of Dodgeville Temple of Honor, of which he was a charter member. He is a partial cripple, owing to a rheumatic affection, but is a gentleman whose cheerful and courteous demeanor renders him a most pleas- ant companion.
D. B. DAVIS, Dodgeville ; was born Nov. 28, 1833, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales; came to America with his parents in 1856, and lived here until 1862, when he went overland to Oregon, mined two years, then went to Idaho and mined until 1868, then returned to Dodgeville via the isthmus and New York ; in 1869, he made a second visit to Idaho, remaining about eighteen months, and, since 1871, has been a partner with his brother, T. B. Davis, in the lime business; theirs is the only patent kiln in Iowa Co., and is located one and a half miles southeast of the village of Dodgeville. Mr. Davis visited California several times while in the West. He married Miss Annie, daughter of Reese Williams, who settled in Dodgeville, her native village, in 1852; Mr. Williams died April 28, 1869, and his wife, for- merly Margaret Lewis, died Dec. 2, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have an only son-Thomas, born Aug. 22, 1879, in Dodgeville. Mr. Davis is a Republican, and his wife is a member of the Welsh Congrega- tional Church.
JOSEPH DAVIES, retired miner ; was born Oct. 7, 1822, in Camborne, Cornwall, England, where he spent his early life in the lead and tin mines; he came to America and the then small mining settlement of Dodgeville, in the spring of 1845 ; he mined one year on the Van Meter Survey, returned to England, and married, in his and her native parish, Mary Jane Rule ; returned, in 1847, to Dodge- ville, and began life in the house in which they have lived ever since. Mr. Davies went to California, by the Nicaragua route, in 1852, and spent two years and nine months; was then four months in Dodgeville ; then he went again to the Golden State, and, ten months later, returned to Dodgeville, where he lived until he made his third visit, of one year's duration, to California ; in 1864, he went to Montana, and remained until the fall of 1866, when he made one of a party of about 500 people who floated from the headwaters of the Yellowstone, in the peculiar flatboats of that region ; returning to Dodgeville,
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he bought his farm of 178 acres, now occupied by his sons ; in 1878, he went again to the Far West, visiting the Mormon capital, thence going to Nevada, where he remained until June, 1880; during his trip to Montana, he, with a party of others, spent eighteen nights exposed to the snows and blasts of the Roeky Mountains, and his last trip enabled him to witness the marvelous growth and development of the Pacific slope during the time which elapsed after his first Western trip twenty-eight years previously. Mr. and Mrs. Davies have three children-Mary ( Mrs. Thomas James), Joseph and Thomas H .- and have lost four children ; the sons belong to the T. of H. Joseph married Miss Katie, daughter of James Cock ; they have a son, Oscar. The father and sons are Republicans.
RICHARD D. DAVIS, carpenter, Dodgeville ; was born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, July 27, 1831 ; spent his early life at farming ; came to America in 1852, spent a year in a Cincinnati, Ohio, foundry, and came to Dodgeville in 1853; engaged for a few years in mining, and then took up the carpenter's trade; the firm of Davis & James was founded in 1868, and their planing-mill built in 1873; the small engine then procured was replaced in 1878, by the fine twenty-horse power motor now used ; the firm also operated a feed-mill here in 1878, and, in 1879, they prepared to do planing, re-sawing, matching, molding, and to manufacture sash, doors, blinds, etc .; they built the residence of R. Gowens. Mr. Davis married Mary Griffith, born in 1833, in Wales; at the age of 3 years, her parents brought her to the United States; her father died in St. Louis, Mo., and herself and mother came to Dodgeville in 1850; Mr. and Mrs. Davis have seven children-Llewellyn, David, Lillie, John, Orville, Betsey and Nellie -all born in Dodgeville; they lost two children, deceased. Mr. Davis is a Republican, and served a number of years each as Supervisor and Assessor ; is also a member of Dodgeville Lodge of Masons.
T. B. DAVIS, Dodgeville ; was born June 12, 1836, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales; bis father, David Davis, died there in 1842, and, in 1856, his widow and six children came to America ; T. B. worked as a laborer until 1862, when he enlisted in Co. C, 31st W. V. I .; served in Kentucky and Tennessee ; fought at Peach Tree Creek and at Atlanta, and, after its capture, marched with Sherman to the sea and through the Carolinas, fighting at Averysboro and Bentonville ; was mustered out in July, 1865, returned to Dodgeville, and, in March, 1866, went to California; thence to Idaho; came back to Dodge- ville in 1871, and has since, with his brother, been in the lime business here; the brother owns the only patent kiln in Iowa Co., and burns about 12,000 bushels of lime per annum. Mr. Davis married Miss Sarah, daughter of Richard and Mary Roberts ; she was born in St. Louis, Mo., and they were wedded July 13, 1871, in Dodgeville. Mr. Davis is a Republican, and has for several years been a member of both the Village and Township Boards.
R. A. DRAPER, cooper, Dodgeville ; was born Dec. 12, 1857, in Platteville, Wis, where he received his education and learned his trade ; in September, 1879, he came to Dodgeville, and now has the only cooper-shop in the place; he is prepared to do any and every thing in his line. He married Miss Susie, daughter of Thomas and Susan Paul, of Dodgeville, where they were early settlers. Mr. Draper is a Methodist, with his wife, and, in polities, is a Republican.
EDMUND EDMUNDS, Sec. 36; P. O. Dodgeville; was born in Bergen Stift, Norway, in October, 1809; married Helen Edmunds, and, in 1852, came with her and three sons to America ; spent two years in Primrose, Daue Co., and settled on their present farm of 160 acres in 1854. The vicinity was then best known as " Norwegian Hollow," four of the original fourteen cabins of the Norse miners being then in existenee. Mr. E. began mining, and followed it until 1866, when he bought the farm ; has since brought over 100 acres into improvement, and erected good buildings. There are now four sons in this family ; three born in Bergen, Norway, and the youngest in Primrose ; Edmund lives near Dodgeville ; Sigburn is farming in Nebraska, while Ole, born Dec. 15, 1846, and Tobias, born in September, 1852, are on the homestead. The father and sons are Democrats.
ELLWOOD BROTHERS, Dodgeville. John, Thomas, Isaac and Joseph are all natives of Cumberland, England. They came to the United States in 1852, and worked as earpenters in Oswego Co., N. Y. The next removal was to Stephenson Co., Ill., where they planted a nursery, from which they made selections for the establishment of the Iowa County Nursery. This was founded in 1855, at which time the four brothers settled on the 40 acres which they own in the south part of the village. Theirs is the only nursery in Iowa Co., and their stock of clean-looking and thrifty young apple trees is large and complete, embracing those varieties which twenty-five years of careful culture have proven adapted to our Wisconsin climate. Shade and ornamental trees are also grown. They have 600 bearing apple trees ; their crop for 1880 was about 1,200 bushels, and 2,000 gallons of cider was made here, which the brothers will convert into vinegar. The vineyard and wine house, however, are a more interesting feature of the Ellwood plantation. The first grape roots were planted in 1865, and now about 15 acres are devoted
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to the eulture of the Concord grape, although the Delaware, Hartford Prolific, Rogers' Hybrid No. 15, and others are grown to some extent. Ten tons of grapes was the crop for 1880, 1,200 gallons of wine having been made. The wine house, 18x60 feet, is provided with a cellar under its entire length, where the rows of huge casks bring to mind the stories told of the wine-cellars of feudal England and France. Thomas Ellwood is the wine maker, and his books and apparatus are most expensive. He is an enthusiast on the subject, and his success is in proportion with his earnestness. About 5.000 gallons of old and new wine is now on hand. John Ellwood was for eight or ten years President of the Iowa County Agricultural Society, and was twice a member of the County Board.
ADAM EULBERG, of the Commercial House, Dodgeville ; was born in the Province of Nassau, Prussia, July 11, 1835; attended school until he was 14, then became the apprentice of his father as a tailor. His parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Klein) Eulberg, came to America with their seven children, a son, Jacob, remaining in Germany. The father and sons, all tailors, settled in Sheboygan, Wis., and three months later went to Milwaukee; a year later, tempted by the cheap lands of Iowa Co., the father b ught 320 acres in Dodgeville, at 50 cents per acre, and settled upon it. The neighborhood was then known as Paneake Hills, now known as Pleasant Hills. The son, our subject, spent most of his time on this farm until he was 25, when he was married, went to Mineral Point, and worked four years at his trade. In July, 1865, he opened a saloon in Dodgeville, and continued the business up to August, 1878, when he leased, and has since kept, the Commercial House. His personal supervision of affairs renders it a most pleasant stopping-place, and " Adam's " is a popular resort. Mr. E. is a Democrat. His wife was formerly Margaret May, born Sept. 22, 1842, in Luxembourg, Germany. They were married on Christ- mas Day, 1859, and have eight children-Jacob, Mattie and Peter, born in Mineral Point, while William, Katie, Julius, Josephine and Gertrude were born in Dodgeville.
REV. MEREDITH EVANS, Sec. 20; P. O. Dodgeville ; born Dec. 22, 1812, in Mont- gomeryshire, North Wales ; is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Davis) Evans. He followed farming in his native land until June, 1836, the date of his emigration to America ; he first settled at Coldport, Ohio, and engaged as a laborer in the coal mines. His father prceeded him to this country, leaving his mother, who accompanied him to Portage Co., Ohio, where his father had located; in March, 1844, Mr. Evans came to Dodgeville, and began prospecting fer mineral. He married Mary B. Watkins, Oct. 27, 1846; has seven children living-Thomas, Barbara, David, George, Sarah, Meredith and Theresa-all born in the town of Dodgeville. Mr. Evans is an elder in the Welsh Baptist Church, of which he has been a prominent mem- ber for many years. He is a Republican in politics. He began with 160 acres and a log house ; he now has 320 acres and a recently erected comfortable frame farm-house.
R. W. EVANS, harness maker, Dodgeville ; born Feb. 15, 1852, in Mifflin, Iowa Co., Wis. His father, William Evans, died in 1857 ; the widow has since lived in Dodgeville. From 1870 to 1876, R. W. Evans was in Chicago; was then for a few months with W. N. Currie, of Mineral Point, loea' ed at Dodgeville ; returning to Chicago for a short time, then came to Dodgeville, and took an interest with Mr. Currie, in his shop here ; bought him out in January, 1877, and now employs three or four hands, in place of one, as formerly ; Mr. Evans has a good business, and deals in harness, saddles, robes, blankets, whips, trunks, valises, ete., making a specialty of the Concord light harness ; a light double harness of his manufacture was awarded the first prize, at the Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial and the Iowa Co. fairs in 1878; he learned his trade in Chicago, and now manufacturers the finest harness in Southwestern Wis- consin. Ile married on Christmas Day, 1875, Miss Julia Welch ; born Oct. 4, 1854, in Chicago, Ill., on the site of Marshall Field & Co.'s wholesale house ; they have two children-Sadie, born in Chicago, and Frances, born in Dodgeville.
HENRY D. GRIFFITH, Sec. 8; P. O. Dodgeville ; born Oet. 17, 1814, in Carmarthen- shire, South Wales ; he spent his early life as a farmer. In 1839, he came to America with his family, and located in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; here he worked at anything to which he could honorably turn his hand. Arriving with his family in Dodgeville, May 2, 1849, he soon made a claim to 160 acres of his present farm, afterward buying it at $1.25 per acre ; building a small log house sixty yards from his present resi- dence, he began work in the lead mines; the second year he raised wheat, corn, potatoes, etc., and by farm- ing, mining and wood-cutting, has added to his farm, now owning 240 acres, on which he has erected good buildings ; the dense growth of small timber clothing the picturesque bluffs around him, has sprung up since his settlement there. He married in his and her native shire, Margaret Howells ; she died in 1851, leaving six children-Morris, William ( deceased), Henry, Daniel, John, and au infant, deceased ; he mar- ried again, Mary Davis, of the same shire; they have had ten children-David, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Diana (deceased). Hannah J., Jemima and Keziah (twins, both deceased), Thomas (deceased ), and Evan.
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William Griffith enlisted in Co. C, 31st, W. V. I. ; participated in Sherman's march, served till the war closed, and went to Denver, Colo., where he died in April, 1871 ; Henry enlisted from Sauk Co., Wis., in the 49th. and served in Missouri : Morris served as a volunteer in the Nevada Home Guards. Mr. Griffith is a Republican ; was Town Supervisor three years, and is, with his wife, a member of the Bethel W. C. Church, of which he is trustee and deacon.
HALGRIM HALGRIMSON, Sec. 11; P. O. Dodgeville; was born Aug. 12, 1839, in Christiania, Norway. His parents, Ole and Lynora Halgrimson, came to America in 1848; spent the winter in Lebanon, Dodge Co., Wis .. then removed to their present home, in the adjoining town of Aship- pun. Their son, our subject, lived with them until 1868, when he settled on his present farm of 430 acres. He married Anna Swenson, also a native of Christiania ; they have four children-Amelia, Charlotte, Henry and Edward, all born on the homestead. Mr. Halgrimson is a Lutheran in religion, and a Republican.
ERICK HALVORSON, Sec. 32; P. O. Dodgeville; was born in Vegle, Numedahl, Nor- way, Jan. 6, 1824; came to America, and Iowa Co., in 1841, reaching Dodgeville Sept. 11, and began work for a Mr. Ferris; the winter was spent about five miles to the west, and the next spring he went to New Diggings, La Fayette Co., and spent a year. In 1842, his parents, Halvor and Mary, came to America, and they, with their children-Ole, Halstine, Erick, Tollef and Leiv-settled on the old scott farm, renting it. [n 1845 they made claim to 160 acres, which Erick H. now owns, and on it built a small log house, which was their home till 1850; then Erick built a similar log house, near his present residence, and, on the original 40 acres claimed and entered by the family, his parents lived with him up to their death. He married, Sept. 5, 1851, Ingeborg Larsdatter, who was born Feb. 18, 1831, in Valebo, Holden, Norway ; she came to Iowa Co., from Norway, in 1849. Mr. Halvorson has been for many years a trustee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which his family are members. He now has 220 acres, and good buildings. Mr. and Mr. Halvorson have reared a family of ten children, viz : Oliver, Louis, Mary, Ole, Christie, Annie, Elizabeth, Rovina, Henry and E. Charles-four young children de- ceased.
WILLIAM HARRIS, blacksmith, Dodgeville ; was born in Cornwall, England, March 29, 1815 ; learned his trade in England, and in 1846, came with his family to America ; located at Dodge- ville, and began blacksmithing, where he had no rival except one " Dock " Wise. Mr. Harris is now the veteran blacksmith and wagon-maker, and employs several hands. A wagon made by him in Sept., 1880, was awarded the first prize at the Iowa Co. Fair ; it is now in his shop, a model of strength and finish. He married, in Cornwall, Miss Mary Anne Bennett. They lost a son, William H., aged 2 years; their only daughter, Mary J., is the wife of J. T. Pryor, Jr., of Dodgeville. Mr. Harris and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been class-leader many years. He is a Republican, and has served four terms on the Village Board.
A. S. HEARN, editor and proprietor of the Dodgeville Chronicle; born Oct. 8, 1846, in Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio; his early life was spent and his schooling attained in Cadiz, Ohio. En- tering the office of the Cadiz Republican, at 14, he has since devoted his life to "journalism," with the exception of fifteen months' military service. He first enlisted in Co. E, 88th O. V. I., and later in Co. B, 180th O. V. I. From 1869 to 1874, he was in partnership with a brother, then and now editor of the Cadiz Republican. During the winter of 1873-74, he came to Dodgeville and bought the Chronicle, which he has since published in the interests of Iowa Co., and the Republican party. He married, June 20. 1872, Miss Anna E. Carson, of Cadiz ; she was born in Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio. They have two daughters-Alice, born in Cadiz, and Clara B., born in Dodgeville. Mr. and Mrs. Hearn are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
FRANK P. HOCKING, blacksmith, Dodgeville; is a son of William H. Hocking, who came from his native Cornwall to America, in 1847; settled in Dodgeville, where he married Sarah Pri- deaux, a native of Cornwall, England. She died in 1860, leaving six children-Elizabeth J., Benjamin H. (deceased), Araminta, Frank P., Joseph (deceased), and an infant, which soon followed the mother. The father followed mining up to 1868. Frank P. Hocking, who was educated in the village, spent four years as a farmer, and in 1874 began learning his trade of Wm. Harris; he afterward worked for Hos- kins & Sampson, and opened his present shop in February, 1879 ; does general blacksmithing, and with John Ralph, carries on the manufacture of wagons and sleighs. He married, April 18, 1879, Miss Ro- sanna Woodward, a native of Highland, Iowa Co.
J. C. HOCKING, merchant, Dodgeville ; was born Feb. 4, 1830, in Cornwall, England, where his young manhood was passed in the mines. He came to America in 1851, joining his brothers Joseph
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and Wm. H., and a cousin, Joseph Hocking, in the Lake Superior mines; from May until September, 1852, himself and his brother W. H. were in Dodgeville; in September, 1852, they joined a party of twenty-one and went by the New York and Nicaragua route to California ; after two years of gold mining, Mr. H. returned Nov. 6, 1854. Nov. 15 of the same year, he married Mary Treloar, who was born 18 months before her parents left Cornwall for America, they being among the settlers of 1836, in Min- eral Point. Mr. Hocking went into partnership with his brother Joseph in the old Rough-and-Ready Hotel, followed it a few months and saloon-keeping a few months, and began his present business in June, 1856. Part of 1864 and 1865 he spent in the Montana gold fields. At his store, corner of lowa and Division streets, may be found a large stock of general merchandise, for the country trade. Mr. and Mrs. Hocking have seven children-Wm. J., Joseph F., Llewellyn, Benjamin H., Amelia A., Bertha May and Mabel Jane, all born in Dodgeville. Mr. Hocking is a member of the Dodgeville M. E. Church, and was a charter member of the Dodgeville T. of H.
JOSEPH HOCKING, proprietor of the Wisconsin Hotel, Dodgeville; was born Feb. 22. 1823, in Cornwall, England. He came to America in 1844 and settled in Jo Daviess Co., Ill .; a year later, he went to the mines near Pottsville, Penn., and for over a year, was overseer of a mine ; returning to England, he spent one winter, and in March, 1848, married Mary A. Mitebell, of his native parish (Camborne); in April, 1848, they left England, arriving at Dodgeville, June 10; it was an English and Welsh mining hamlet, containing two hotels, the Rough-and-Ready house, and the hotel of C. Stephens ; in 1852, he went to California, returned in 1854, and bought the Rough-and-Ready house, to which he gave its present more appropriate name ; Mr. H. has also built all, excepting that part of the building composed of stone, having in connection a store, where he carries a general stock of goods; his commencement, on Nov. 10, 1854, and continuing to this day, gives him the place of pioneer among the Dodgeville hotel men, and probably among those of Iowa Co. Mr. and Mrs. Hocking have four children -Elizabeth A., Ellen, Joseph A. W. and Abbie, and have lost six children, of whom the eldest, Sophia, was aged 16. Mr. H. is a Democrat, and has been twice on the village Board of Supervisors.
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