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 | | He was subsequently Captain of Company C, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battle of Prairie Grove, December 7, 1862, being discharged in the fall of 1863, on account of disability caused by wounds. |
 | | He is a member of Emporia Lodge, No. 12, A., F. HOLMES, settled in Emporia Township, in September, 1857, and engaged in farming and stock raising, which he carried on for three years. |
 | | Finding the country too warm for him he removed from the slave State to Kansas, in the spring of 1857, and was one of the early settlers of Emporia Township. |
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