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| | Bingham family and bank and Marengo, Iowa, part 1 |
 | | Back in Marengo, Iowa, where Charlie, Merritt and Julia all grew up, her father, Lewis Q. Reno, was a dry goods merchant who built the first retail store in town and indulged her every whim until he died in 1883. |
 | | She claimed in a 1937 memoir that the Marengo Renos were of French descent, descendants of the Renaults who were granted an enormous chunk of southern Illinois by King Louis XV. |
 | | It was not long until her sister Bessie arrived from Marengo, Iowa, and Albert Holland, then a clerk at Cook's store, and myself were invited to spend the evening with the bankers to meet the new arrival. |
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