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EARLY HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK
The first house I looked upon in Woodstock was the neat log cabin of Benjamin Lair, who preceded my father in the settlement of Woodstock about three or four months. Benjamin was a man of sterling worth, industrious and honest. He settled on a farm of two hundred acres on sections one and twelve, his residence being on section twelve, on the north side of the Chicago road; and there he hewed out for himself a fine home and after about thirty years of pioneer life he laid aside the toils and cares
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