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| | LEE COUNTY ILLINOIS BIOGRAPHIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Samuel Dysart, World's Fair Commissioner, representing the Seventh Congressional District of Illinois, and Vice-President of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, is one of Lee County's most eminent citizens, whom she delights to honor. |
 | | In the fall of 1886 he was elected President of the Board, acted in that capacity two years, 1889 and 1890 served as ex-President, and in the fall of 1890 he was again made its Vice-President, which position he still holds. |
 | | In the summer of 1888, as President of the Board of Agriculture, he visited Europe in its interest, and was absent about four months, his time being spent mostly in France investigating the breeding of French draft horses. |
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