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| | From A Biographical History of Central Kansas |
 | | He engaged in farming in the western portion of the Empire state, in Ohio and in Illinois, and died in the last named commonwealth in the fall of 1875, at the age of seventy-seven years, at which time he was residing in Randolph county. |
 | | He enlisted in Perry county, Illinois, in August, 1862, as a member of Company C, Eighty-first Illinois Infantry, and, though in many battles, including the terrible charge of Vicksburg, where many fell around him, he was never wounded. |
 | | The wedding was celebrated in Illinois November 26, 1844, the groom being then in his twenty-first year, while the bride was eighteen years of age. |
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