Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . n snerman ) Imported First Bananas. 1 John Sherman Mckintosh died lastweek He was not particularly notedwas not a statesman, a writer, orTrt st He was a merchant of imported£S£ Yet he was V-at-,randSon oRoger Sherman, the sprier of the DeclaI ration of Independe^ He was a per*na? friend of A&m andDaniel Welbster. He received a cnecKS life insurance not long ago whenthe insurance company was lead to dedare Mm dead because of his ad j vanced age. rhirairo Although he remembered the Chicagoof«mudhole days, and had walked -0miles to hear Webster deliver
Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . n snerman ) Imported First Bananas. 1 John Sherman Mckintosh died lastweek He was not particularly notedwas not a statesman, a writer, orTrt st He was a merchant of imported£S£ Yet he was V-at-,randSon oRoger Sherman, the sprier of the DeclaI ration of Independe^ He was a per*na? friend of A&m andDaniel Welbster. He received a cnecKS life insurance not long ago whenthe insurance company was lead to dedare Mm dead because of his ad j vanced age. rhirairo Although he remembered the Chicagoof«mudhole days, and had walked -0miles to hear Webster deliver the BunSrfflfl dedicatory address, Mackintoshil be chiefly remembered ^s the nj-p,orter 0f the first bananas into tfuscountry. These he was forced to giveand throw away, being unable to conyince the American public that they wereerood to eat. , I fti more than 50 years he was in theforeign fruit business in Boston andwhen he came to Washington he was 98 years old ^ ^ McMurry, Edward Parks Springfield - law office. -jMaMnq^
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