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| | Resident Portraitst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | In May, 1856, Junius, at twenty-nine, went to Princeton, Illinois, thirty miles from Kewanee on the two-year old Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad to offer his services as Princeton's first resident portraitist. |
 | | Princeton, the seat of Bureau County with a population of 2,500, had been settled in the early 1830's, primarily by a group from the Hampshire Colony, Massachusetts. |
 | | Junius made a sketch, dated May 14, of Cyrus Bryant's house, said to have been a hiding place for escaping slaves. |
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