Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . HESTER A. ARTHUR, ©)._ twenty-first PresKLm of the United States was born in Franklin Courty, Vermont, on —3* thefifthofOcober, 1830, andis ¥;^§W the oldest of a family of two mMduSf sons and five daughters. His -?? i father was the Rev. Dr. William s«s I i S&fcjS Arthur, aBaptistd,rgyrnan, who ^J emigtated to country from1^, the county Antrim, Ireland, inhis 18th year, and died in 1875, inNewtonville,


Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . HESTER A. ARTHUR, ©)._ twenty-first PresKLm of the United States was born in Franklin Courty, Vermont, on —3* thefifthofOcober, 1830, andis ¥;^§W the oldest of a family of two mMduSf sons and five daughters. His -?? i father was the Rev. Dr. William s«s I i S&fcjS Arthur, aBaptistd,rgyrnan, who ^J emigtated to country from1^, the county Antrim, Ireland, inhis 18th year, and died in 1875, inNewtonville, neai Albany, after along and successful ministry. Young Arthur was educated atUnion College, S< henectady, wherehe excelled in all his studies. Af-ter his graduation he taught schoolj in Vermont for two years, and atso the expiration of that time came toNew York, with $500 in his pocket,and the office of ex-JudgeE. D. Culver as student. AfterI being admitted to he bar he formeda partnership with his intimate friend and room-mate,Henry D. Gardiner, with the intention of practicingin the West, and for three months they roamed aboutin the Western States in se


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