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| Allegan County Michigan 1800's
He lacked but a few days of being seventy years old. He was an orderly sergeant of a company of U. S. Infantry in 1833, and stationed at Chicago when it was the western outpost of the United States. A year or two ago Long John. Wentworth, President of the Chicago Historical Society, spied him out and invited him to Chicago as the guest of the Iroquois Club of that city. He was escorted from his hotel to the club room by millionaires and trod with his granger boots a Brussels carpet laid from his coach to the club-house door, and the first ladies of Chicago sought the honor of a promenade in the hall with him.
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