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D. C. GOWDEY, editor, Beaver Dam Argus ; was born in New York City Aug. 3, 1841, and came to Wisconsin May 30, 1846. locating in Beaver Dam ; he received his education in the public schools of Beaver Dam, finishing at Wayland University; Mr. Gowdey has been connected with the following news- papers : Republican and Sentinel, Democratic Post, Democrat, Citizen, Horicon Argus, Beaver Dam Argus ; this last paper he, in connection with Mr. B. F. Sherman, bought out and are still publishing at the present writing ; in 1866, he was City Clerk of Beaver Dam, and held the office six terms; in 1874, he was member of the Assembly, from Beaver Dam ; in 1878-79, he was Alderman of the Third Ward. Mr. Gowdey married, April 11, 1865, Adaline T. Nelson, of Milton, Vt .; he has six children-Nelson L. M., Laura A., Hattie A., Margarette L. and William H. W .; the last not named.
W. C. GRIFFIS, druggist ; born in Chatham, County Kent, Upper Canada, June 14, 1825 ; he studied with Drs. Pegley & Cross, and graduated in 1846, as physician and druggist, at Montreal Col- lege ; came to Wisconsin in 1853, locating at Neenah, where he opened a drug store on his own account, and continued the same until 1856 ; he then moved to Appleton, and engaged in general merchandising,
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which he continued for three years ; he then went to Canada, to close up a bankrupt stock for his brother- in-law ; in 1862, he went to Beaver Dam and started the drug business, his present location being on Front street, between Center and Spring, known as the City Drug Store; in 1871, he was elected School Commissioner of the Fourth Ward. He married, Sept. 10, 1847, Margaret Aiken, of Canada, who died July 7, 1861 ; he again married, Sept. 21, 1863, Charlotte Frost, of England, who died March 17, 1869 ; he again married, Nov. 16, 1870, Sarah J. Erway, of New York State; he has four children-Martha A., Orville A., Herbert A. and Willie J.
T. B. GRINNEL, retired, Beaver Dam ; born in Farmington, Ontario Co., N. Y., June 10, 1819; came to Wisconsin in 1857, locating in Calamus Township, Dodge Co., engaging in farming, which he continued until 1875, when he moved to Beaver Dam, where he died Oct. 10, 1879 ; while in Calamus, he was Justice of the Peace six years. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Married, at Perring- ton, Monroe Co., N. Y., May 4, 1842, Miss Sarah E. Case, of Perrington, N. Y .; two children living ; widow owns a farm of 150 acres.
GEORGE C. GUNN, retired, Beaver Dam ; born in Oneida Co., N. Y., June 6, 1813 ; came to Wisconsin in June, 1843; located at Jefferson Township, Jefferson Co., and engaged in farming; in 1846, came to Dodge Co., and went to farming in Trenton Township ; in 1869, sold his farm of 360 acres, and took in part pay his present residence at Beaver Dam, to which he retired, and where he has since resided. He married, in Oneida Co., N. Y., Oct. 12, 1867, Miss Mary A. Hinckley, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y. ; has had a family of two daughters, one only living.
JOSEPH HAMMER, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Beaver Dam ; is a native of Prussia; son of Joseph and Mary Hammer ; born in 1838; came to America in 1853, and settled in the town of Westford, Dodge Co., Wis., where he followed farming until 1868; in 1866, he bought of his father a farm of 120 acres, in town of Westford, and, in two years after, sold that and bought his present farm of 160 acres in Sec. 36, town of Beaver Dam; he now has 146 acres in that section. He married Miss Francis, daughter of George and Barbara Goeshl, of Westford, in 1860; they have eleven children-Michael, Albert, Edward, Frank, Francis, George (deceased), Mary E., Joseph P., Ida B., Anna R. and William G. The family is connected with the Catholic Church.
MATHIAS HAMMER, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Beaver Dam; was born in Prussia Aug. 4, 1843; at the age of 8, he, with his father's family, came to America and settled on a farm in the town of Westford, Dodge Co., Wis., where he lived for twenty-two years ; in 1875, he sold a farm of 107 acres, which he owned in that town, and bought his present one of 160 acres in Sec. 8, town of Beaver Dam ; probable value. $50 per acre. He married Miss Augusta, daughter of Valentine and Mary Ptashinski, of Westford, in 1862, she being a native of Prussia; they have had six children-Mary, Joseph, Albert (deceased), Johannah, Hannah and Phillip. Mr. and Mrs. Hammer are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church.
GEORGE HALL, carpenter ; born in Painted Post, Steuben Co., N. Y., Dec. 16, 1824, and came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1855, locating in Hustisford ; he learned the carpenter trade in Philips- port, N. Y., and afterward engaged in the carpenter business there on his own account, which he con- tinued for six years. In 1855, he went to Milwaukee, and hired out to Alanson Sweet & Co., lighthouse builders, and went to Lake Superior to assist in building lighthouses along this lake. In the fall of the same year. he went to Hustisford and entered the carpenter business on his own account ; in 1856, he went to Beaver Dam, and from that time until the present, with the exception of one year, in which he was engaged in the war, he has worked at his trade, his present location being corner Front and Beaver streets. He enlisted during the war, Jan. 4, 1864, in Co. D., 5th W. V. I., Col. Thos. Allan, and was engaged in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hatcher's Run, Va., near . Petersburg, Va., and storming of Petersburg; he was wounded above and a little back of the right temple in the battle at Spottsylvania ; he received his discharge June 13, 1865. Mr. Hall married, October, 1846, Jerusha A. Hall, of Connecticut, who died Oct. 4, 1878.
JAMES HARLEY, Superintendent Woolen Mills, Beaver Dam; was born in Scotland July 27, 1828, and came to Wisconsin in June, 1869, locating in Beaver Dam ; in Scotland, he was Super- intendent of the Devonvale Woolen Mills, running between 4,000 and 5,000 spindles; from Scotland he went to Canada and was there engaged in manufacturing woolen goods on his own account, and after, as Superintendent of Barber Bros.' Woolen Mills ; he then moved to Oswego Falls, N. Y., and was Super- intendent of the Oswego Falls Woolen Mills of that place ; from Oswego Falls he went to Seneca Falls, N. Y., and became Superintendent of the Phoenix Woolen Mills, and from there to Syracuse, N. Y., where he was Superintendent of the Syracuse Woolen Mills ; from Syracuse he moved to Utica, where he was Superintendent of the Globe Woolen Mills; then to Maumee City, where he was Superintendent and also
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had an interest in the Washington Woolen Mills, which continued from 1867 to 1868 ; he then moved to Beaver Dam, where he become Superintendent of the Woolen Mills of Chandler, Congdon & Co., which position he now holds. Mr. Harley married, in 1855; Catherine McIntosh, of Scotland ; he has four chil- dren-William A., David, Elizabeth and James. Mr. and Mrs Harley are members of the First Presby- terian Church of Beaver Dam.
F. H. HAWLEY, music-dealer ; born in Floyd, Oneida Co, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1829; came to Wisconsin in May, 1846, locating in Waukesha; he received his early education in Otsego Co .; in Tren- ton, he assisted his father on the farm, and afterward farmed it on his own account for about four or five years ; he then went to Steele Co., Minn., and bought 120 acres of land which he farmed for about four and a half years ; in the fall of 1870, he came to Beaver Dam and started in the music business; is agent for the Smith, Kimball and Shoninger Organs and the Kimball and Hale Pianos; has also a full line of sheet music and music-books ; in Trenton, he was Justice of the Peace for two years, and also Supervisor; in Minnesota for two years Assessor. He married, on March 25, 1854, Cornelia Davis of New York; has five children-Frank, Ethelinda, Frederick, Elmer and Emerson ; the last two twins. Mrs. Hawley is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
SILAS HAWLEY was born in Amherst, Mass., Aug. 15, 1815 ; his parents were Silas and Elizabeth Marsh Hawley ; his family are descendants of an English ancestor who early settled in Massa- chusetts ; a brother settled at the same time in Connecticut; Maj. Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, a Titan in the Revolution in eloquence and prowess, was an immediate ancestor ; with him, according to Ban- croft, originated the idea of the American Republic. He says, " Hawley was the first to discern, through the darkness, the coming National Government of the Republic even while it still lay far below the horizon ; and he wrote from Watertown, to Samuel Adams : 'The eyes of all the Continent are fastened on your body, to see whether you act with firmness and intrepidity, with the spirit and despatch which your situation calls for ; it is time for your body to fix on periodical annual elections-nay, to form into a Parliament of two Houses.'"-Hist. of U. S., Vol. VIII., p. 136. President Hawley, of Cambridge University (though misspelling the name), was also in the ancestral line; and the family, by marriage, were allied with the. Edwards family, of whom President Jonathan Edwards was the most distinguished member. The parents of the subject of this sketch moved from Amherst to Floyd, Oneida Co., N. Y., in the spring of 1825; to South New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1834; to Waukesha, Wis., in May, 1846, and to Fox Lake in 1847 ; he entered young upon a course of study with reference to the ministry ; having acquired the rudiments in the com- mon school of his native and adopted States, he studied some five years in the academies of Holland, Patent and Whitesboro, and at the Oneida Collegiate Institute, all in Central New York ; in the latter insti- tution, which had a full college course, he was a few years behind the late Dr. Miter, of this city ; he also studied with the Rev. Stephen W. Burritt, brother of the author of the "Geography of the Heavens," a Presbyterian Pastor of much ability and devotion ; he was licensed in the spring of 1835; ordained the subsequent year. The principal points of his pastorate have been : Cazenovia, Penn Yan, Vienna, Peekskill, N. Y. ; New Bedford, Mass., Fond du Lac, Wis., St. Paul, Minn., and one of the beautiful suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was married at Jocelyn's Corners, Madison Co., N. Y., Sept. 6, 1836, by Rev. John Ingersoll, to Miss Melinda Benedict, youngest daughter of Stephen Benedict, Esq., of Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., and sister of Hon. Joseph Benedict, of Utica, and of O. M. Benedict, Esq., long a leading lawyer of the Rochester bar of that State. She was a native of Sherburne; born Dec. 7, 1817. Of this union there were three children-Erskine, born in Cazenovia Nov. 3, 1837 ; died in New Bedford Aug. 19, 1842, in the 5th year of his age ; Marietta, now Mrs. L. P. Stafford, of Indianapolis, Ind., born in Groton, Mass., Feb. 27, 1841 ; Erskine, second, born in Penn Yan Sept. 11, 1846, now, and for several years, Train-Despatcher and Superintendent of Telegraph on the I., P. & Chicago Railway, located at Indianapolis. This wife died in Penn Yan, universally lamented, Dec. 23, 1848. He was married the second time, in Penn Yan, Jan, 24, 1850, by Rev. W. W. Robinson, to Miss Harriet Joy Reddy, oldest daughter of Leander Reddy, Esq., who was born in Trumansburg, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1826. There were two children of this union-Melinda Benedict, now Mrs. D. Royce Drake, of Kansas City, Mo., born in Vienna, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1850 ; Harriet Amelia, born in Fond du Lac Feb. 14, 1857. This second wife died, beloved by all, in Fond du Lac, May 24, 1857. He was married for the third time, in Fond du Lac, May 22, 1860, by Rev. W. H. Marble, to Miss Andalusia Gillett, the younger daughter of Deacon Kirkland Gillett, who was born in Arcade, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Oct. 26, 1838. There has been of this union one child-Grace Brand, born in Fond du Lac Aug. 5, 1866. He was one of the original Abo- litionists, having, though a student, taken a decided stand on the subject even before the appearance of Garrison's Liberator ; he was present at the formation of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society in the city of Utica, forty-five years ago, when the members were driven from the place by a mob, headed
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by leading citizens, and resorted to Peterboro, the home of the Hon. Gerrit Smith, pelted with brickbats and addled eggs the whole distance. In every stage of the grand conflict, he bore an earnest and unfalter- ing part. So in kindred reforms. In the late war, too, he was among the most earnest and active. His only son, educated at the semi-military academy at Peekskill, N. Y., entered the service early in the 14th W. V. I., and fought in the ten battles prior to the investment of Vicksburg, beginning with that of Pittsburg Landing; he was wounded in the left arm at Vicksburg, in the defense of a most exposed bat- tery, and had to submit to amputation ; his life for weeks was despaired of; and Mr. Hawley himself, then Pastor of Plymouth Church, St. Paul, exerted himself by speech and pen to hurry men to the South, or to the frontiers, to fight the hostile Sioux. Under the preaching of a single sermon, Aug. 10, 1862, eleven young men of his Bible class, with many others, enlisted and went South, or against the hostile Indians-largely depleting his congregation ; eight of these fell in a single battle with the Sioux. A failure in health compelled Mr. Hawley to retire from his fine Cincinnati suburban charge in 1872, after a very successful pastorate of seven years. In the autumn of 1873, he located in Beaver Dam; from this period, though avoiding the strain of pastoral life, he has done much evangelistie and reformative labor, as well as been active with the pen.
J. F. HENSLER, butcher, Beiver Dam; was born at Racine, Wis., July 21, 1849; from Racine he moved to Beaver Dam, where he has been engaged in the butcher business; this was the first market in Beaver Dam. Mr. Hensler is doing a large and profitable business. He married, Oct. 13, 1873, Louisa Rissman, of Herman. Dodge Co. He has two children-Alvin and Alida.
EDWARD W. HINCHLEY, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Beaver Dam; was born at Min- nesota Junction, Dodge Co., Wis., Dec. 25, 1846, and is the son of the early pioneers Samuel and Rebecca Hinchley ; he soon removed, with parents, to a farm of 90 acres in Sec. 26, town of Beaver Dam, which has been his home most of the time since, and now owns the farm. In 1865, he married Miss Julia, daughter of Samuel and Julia Allard, of Beaver Dam, she being a native of Madison Co., N. Y., but immigrated to Wisconsin in 1855 ; they have one daughter-Edith. Mr. Hinchley is a member of the Baptist Church. Politically, Mr. H. is a Republican.
J. M. HITCHCOCK, physician ; was born in Bernardstown, Franklin Co., Mass., June 5, 1817, and, came to Wisconsin on May 29, 1855, locating in Beaver Dam; he received his early education in Massachusetts and removed, after his father's death, to Greenfield, Mass., and assisted his uncle on the farm and in his mills for five years ; he then moved to Amherst, Mass., where he learned the shoe business, after which he farmed and ran a custom grist-mill ; he then moved to Canastota, N. Y., and worked at his trade ; in 1843, he moved to Centreville, Ohio, and was Superintendent of the shoe-shop of Parker Bros., tanners ; in 1845, he went to Unionville, Ohio, and commenced the shoe business on his own account which he continued for ten years ; in 1855, he went to New York and joined the Minnesota Settlement Association and went to Minnesota with them and located in Blue Earth Co., and, afterward moved to Beiver Dam. He studied homeopathy under Drs. Rosa & Gatchell, in Little Mountain, Lake Co., Ohio ; he originally commenced the study of medicine in 1846, and continued its study up to 1858, when he commenced the practice of medicine in Beaver Dam. He has been leader of the choir of the First Pres- byterian Church at Beaver Dam for fifteen years. He married, Oct. 15, 1861, Lucia B. Comstock, of Swanton, Franklin Co., Vt. ; he has two children living-Clara B. and Charles Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock are members of the First Presbyterian Church.
S. HODGMAN, furniture dealer ; born in Massachusetts, Nov. 25, 1824, came to Wisconsin Sept. 22, 1845, locating at Beaver Dam ; he received his early education in New Boston, N. H .; when he came to Beaver Dam he commenced the coopering business and made the first tight barrel that was made in Beaver Dam ; on Jan. 1, 1854, he farmed fifty acres of land located in Beaver Dam, and in 1870, started a lumber-yard which he continued until 1874, when he went to Colorado, in the furniture business, for one and one-half years ; he then returned to Beaver Dam, and on June 1, 1877, commenced the furniture business on Front street, between Center and Spring streets, dealing in bedroom sets and other lines of furniture, and paper hangings, and frames ; he has also the best facilities for undertaking. He married, Sept. 6, 1859, Harriet E. Taylor, of New York, and has three children-Sarah, Reed T. and Belle. Mrs. Hodgman is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Hodgman of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
A. B. HOPKINS, dealer in lightning rods ; was born in Carmel, Putnam Co., N. Y., Sept. 11, 1830, and came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1854, locating at Mineral Point; he received his early education in Dundee, Yates Co .; was engaged, at this place, in the harness business and in buying and shipping stock ; in 1854, he built four miles of the Mineral Point & Warren R. R., between Warren and Darlington, after which he engaged in the lightning-rod business ; in 1856, he moved to Prairie du Sac,
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where, for eight years, he engaged in the lightning-rod and lumber business, and was also in the grain and stock business in connection with a general store, associated with S. S. Wilkinson under the firm name of Hopkins & Wilkinson; in 1864, he moved to Beaver Dam, and since that time he has been exclusively in the lightning-rod business; dealing in the old Franklyn solid iron rod, which rod was adopted by the World's Scientific Convention as being the standard rod ; he also kept the Stevens House at Beaver Dam, and is engaged in farming in Beaver Dam Township, where he has two farms, one of 200 acres and one of 40 acres, adjoining the city limits. Mr. Hopkins was Constable and afterward Deputy Sheriff of Sauk County for four years ; is School Com- missioner of the First Ward, Beaver Dam. He married Aug. 28, 1853; has two children-Rose Ann and Emory Elmore.
L. E. HOYT, miller, Beaver Dam; was born in Beaver Dam Oct. 18, 1853 ; from there he moved to Milwaukee, then back to Manchester, thence to Watertown, Wis., and from there to Chicago, where he finished his education, and, in 1868, returned to Beaver Dam. He then opened a general store in Manchester in connection with his brother and cousin, under the firm name of E. L. Hoyt & Co., which he continued for three years ; he then returned to Beaver Dam and kept the books and superintended the Beaver Dam Flouring-Mill, and, in 1874, was admitted as partner with his father, under the firm name of E. R. Hoyt & Son, which firm manufacture flour on a large scale.
THOMAS HUGHES, editor and proprietor of the Dodge County Citizen, Beaver Dam ; was born in Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Aug. 25, 1841, and came to Wisconsin in June, 1847, locating in Beaver Dam. In 1856, he learned his trade with the proprietor of the Dodge County Citizen, M. Cul- laton ; from 1859 to 1862, worked on Beaver Dam and Madison papers; in 1862, he bought out the interest of Mr. G. H. Wells in the paper, and admitted into partnership Mr. H. A. Reid, which continued for six years, when he bought out Mr. Reid and ran it alone for one year; he then admitted Mr. S. B. Allen, and this firm, Hughes & Allen, ran it for between six and seven years, when Mr. Allen retired and Mr. Hughes became sole proprietor, in which he has continued up to the present writing. Mr. Hughes was City Clerk of Beaver Dam for two terms, and was School Commissioner of Third Ward one year. He married, in June, 1870 May L. Hambright, of Oak Grove; he has one child-Myrtie May.
REV. GEORGE F. HUNTING, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Beaver Dam, was born in Milton, Chittenden Co., Vt., April 24, 1836, and came to Wisconsin in the fall of 1870, locating in Kilbourn City. He received a common school education' a' Milton, and went to the Castleton Semi- nary, in Vermont, where he prepared for college ; he graduated in 1860 at the Burlington College, Ver- mont ; in 1860. he moved to Edward's Mine, Lake Co., and wa employed two years keeping books for the Edward's Mine Camp; here he commenced talking to the miners on religious subjects ; he was licensed to preach the Gospel, in the spring of 1871, by the Pre yterian Synod of Wisconsin and ordained before the Presbytery at Lodi, Wis., after which, he went to Kil. urn City as Pastor of the First Presby- terian Church, where he remained six years ; he then took charge of the First Congregational Church at Sparta, Monroe Co., Wis., and remained two years, when he went to Beaver Dam, Nov. 1, 1879, and became Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church there. Mr. Hunting enlisted during the late war, Nov. 30, 1861, in the 12th U. S. I., and attached to a permanent recr ting party, under Lieut. J. W. Jones, at Burlington, Vt., until the spring of 1862, when he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 3d Artillery and ordered to Alcatraz Island, Cal .; after remaining there two and a half years, he was promoted to a First Lieutenancy and ordered to Washington to man the defenses at that place; in 1867, he was ordered to Hilton Head, S. C., where he remained six months and was ordered to Columbia, S. C .; he then obtained a six-months leave of absence and resigned in the following September. Mr. Hunting married, Aug. 8, 1860, Frances A Maynard, of Castleton, Rutland Co., Vt. ; he has four children living-Berenice, Mary Olive, Henry Gardner and Merrill Maynard. Mr. and Mrs. Hunting are members of the First Presbyterian Church.
PROF. A. S. HUTCHENS, retired, Beaver Dam ; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Dec. 8, 1817, and came to Wisconsin April 1, 1855, locating in Walworth Co. In 1837, he went to the Den- nison University, and, after graduating, taught the Latin and Greek languages there; in January, 1849, he went to the Norwalk Academy, Ohio, as Professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German and Mathematics, the late Gen. McPherson, of the U. S. Army, being one of his scholars at that time; in 1855, he went to farming for two years ; in 1857, he connected himself with the Wayland University. Prof. Hutchens married, Dec. 11, 1844, Henrietta B. Avery, of Granville, Ohio; he has two children-Frank A. and Dora. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchens are members of the Baptist Church.
ED. JOHNSON, bricklayer and plasterer, Beaver Dam ; born in Columbia Co., Penn., Aug. 28, 1847 ; came to Wisconsin with his father and family and settled in Beaver Dam Township; in 1855,
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moved to the city of Beaver Dam ; in 1864, he went sailing on the lakes; March 27, 1865, he enlisted in the 48th W. V. I., and was mustered out March 30, 1866, and returned to Beaver Dam and went to learn- ing his trade; having learned his trade, he went to work on the Masonic Hall, and has done work on nearly all the principal business blocks in the city ; also on the Music Hall and Catholic Church.
REV. THOMAS S. JOHNSON. Pastor of the Assembly Presbyterian Church. Beaver Dam ; is a son of the Rev. Baker and Electa Johnson, a Presbyterian minister, now of Oxford, Wis .; he was born at Greeneville, N. Y., in February, 1839 ; his early education was in the Academy of Newton, N. J .; after which he completed his collegiate studies at Carroll College in 1860, and his preparation for the work of the ministry in the Theological Seminary of Princeton, N. J., where he graduated Dec. 7, 1864. From December, 1864, to December, 1866, he was Chaplain of the 127th U. S. C. T. and the 36th U. S. C. T., serving one year in each. In January, 1867, he returned to his home at Oxford, Wis., whither his parents removed in 1855; remaining here a short time, he was called to the Assembly Presbyterian Church of Beaver Dan, of which he has since been Pastor. He has been an occasional con- tributor to the Evening Wisconsin and the New York Observer.
H. N. JUSTICE, dealer in horses, Beaver Dam ; born in Chenango Co., N. Y., Nov. 19, 1823 ; came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1844, locating in Waukesha Township (then Prairieville); in Novem- ber, 1845,.he came to Beaver Dam and engaged in keeping livery ; started the first livery stable in Beaver Dam; in 1853, he went into the mercantile business with Mr. Booth, which he continued two years; in 1863, he gave up the livery business and went into his present business. He was Town Treasurer in 1853-54. He married, at Beaver Dam, in 1850, Miss Almenia Yates, a native of New York State. He owns seventy acres near the city.
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