Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . vents of the Civil war, two striking incidents of which were the receptionof Alajor Anderson in New York, after his return from Ft. Sumter, and thefuneral obsequies of the martyred President, Al:)raham Lincoln, as his bodylay in state in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. In 1867 and 68, he attended the private school of Emorv F. Strong,at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and in 1869, 70 and 71 he prepared for collegeat the General Russell Collegiate and ?ililitary Insti
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . vents of the Civil war, two striking incidents of which were the receptionof Alajor Anderson in New York, after his return from Ft. Sumter, and thefuneral obsequies of the martyred President, Al:)raham Lincoln, as his bodylay in state in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. In 1867 and 68, he attended the private school of Emorv F. Strong,at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and in 1869, 70 and 71 he prepared for collegeat the General Russell Collegiate and ?ililitary Institute, at New Haven,Connecticut, where he attained the rank of first lieutenant and acting cap-tain. The Christmas holidays of 1870-71, he went to Charleston, SouthCarolina, to visit his parents, who were spending the winter in the South,and though but a lad, the vivid impression left by the sad condition of theSouthland during the days of reconstruction was a powerful factor in broad-ening his sympathies and political understanding in after life. A severeattack of scarlet fever at the end of his New Haven school days, as well as. MRS. i;. M. SIlIMAKIi.
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