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| | James A. Covert |
 | | JAMES A. COVERT, engineer in Nye, Lusk & Hudson’s mill at Thorp, Clark County [Wisconsin], was born in Green County, Wisconsin, January 16, 1838, the son of James M. and Martha (Martin) Covert, natives of Ohio. |
 | | The eldest daughter, Nancy, died at the age of twenty-one years; Sarah died in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the summer of 1888, at the age of thirty-seven years; she was the wife of Charles Neyhart, a harness-maker of Lincoln, Nebraska. |
 | | The subject of this sketch was educated in the private schools of Broadhead, and in June, 1880, came to Thorp, where he worked on the railroad, which was then being built to this place. |
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