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| | Olmstead Museum, Somonaul |
 | | For the information of those who do not know the reason for my choice of this name, I need only say that Marie Louise Olmstead was my beloved wife, who departed this life on October 30, 1916, and I wish to dedicate this collection to her memory. |
 | | She was born at Lutzenhausen, in France, February 14,1860, and came to America with her parents, Frank and Marie Clair Miller, settling in LaSalle County, Illinois, sometime during the year of 1867. |
 | | For a number of years I gathered up such relics as came my way, not anticipating that they would ever become so varied and numerous, until I was brought to such realization by the fact that my office, barn, cellar, and wood house all became more or less cluttered with them. |
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