. Outing. THE BIOGRAPHY OF A FISHING REEL BY EUGENIE JEFFERSON I bequeath to my friend, Honorable Grover Cleveland, my best Kentucky reel. —Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator, Joseph HE history of this nowfamous reel has neverbeen given to the pub-lic, although the aboveclause in the codicil ofMr. Jeffersons will tracted general atten-tion, and was widely published in the pressat the time the will was filed. It was saidthat Joseph Jefferson could not have dem-onstrated his affection for Grover Cleve-land more clearly than he did by thisclause in his will,
. Outing. THE BIOGRAPHY OF A FISHING REEL BY EUGENIE JEFFERSON I bequeath to my friend, Honorable Grover Cleveland, my best Kentucky reel. —Signed, sealed, published and declared by the testator, Joseph HE history of this nowfamous reel has neverbeen given to the pub-lic, although the aboveclause in the codicil ofMr. Jeffersons will tracted general atten-tion, and was widely published in the pressat the time the will was filed. It was saidthat Joseph Jefferson could not have dem-onstrated his affection for Grover Cleve-land more clearly than he did by thisclause in his will, as the reel is known tohave been one of the actors most treas-ured possessions. This German silver reel was first theproperty of Dr. Preston Scott of Louisville,a man well known and well beloved in thewhole community, who bought the reeldirect from the maker, Ben Meek, of Ken-tucky, who was also the inventor, and ofwhom it was said at the time of his deaththat no other man had contributed somuch to the enjoyment of those who findtheir greatest pleasure in angling. Doctor Scott was descended from old Vir-ginia and Kentucky families, and was oneof the most prominent physicians in theSouth, and an ardent admi
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