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		<title>Nelson Hall</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Hall was born in Belfast, Maine, March 25, 1843. His family moved to Rockland in 1850. Educated in the common schools of Rockland, Nelson followed the sea for a living until 1861. At that time he was on board the ship Coolier, Oliver Amesbury, master, at St. John, N.B. He left the ship and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felipe Neri Gomez</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felipe Neri Gomez was born at Monterey in California on May 25, 1832. His father, Rafael Gomez, was a native of the State of Jalisco, Mexico. He was educated for the law, and in 1829 the Mexican government sent him to California on legal business. He died at Monterey in 1839, as a result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biography of Napoleon Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Napoleon Collins was a naval officer, born in Pennsylvania, May 4th 1814. He entered the U.S. Navy from Iowa as midshipman in 1834, studied at the naval school in Philadelphia in 1840, and became midshipman on July 16th 1840.
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		<title>Michael Aloysius O&#8217;Kane</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Aloysius O&#8217;Kane was an educator, born in county Clare, Ireland, July 12, 1849. He was the son of Michael O&#8217;Kane and Bridget (Casey) O&#8217;Kane. Brought to America by his parents in 1852, he received his education in the public schools of Spencer, Mass. He entered Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass., in 1865, the year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marshall Solomon Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marshall Solomon Snow, educator, was born in Hyannis, Mass., Aug. 17, 1842; son of the Rev. Solomon Pepper Snow and Maria Jane (Pratt) Snow; grandson of John Snow and Abiel (Pepper) Snow and of Seth Pratt and Lydia (Burt) Pratt, and a descendant of Nicholas Snow and Phineas Pratt, both of whom came from England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Noailles Murfree Biographical Sketch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Noailles Murfree, author, was born at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 24, 1850; daughter of William Law Murfree and Fanny Priscilla (Dickson) Murfree; granddaughter of William Hardy Murfree and Elizabeth Mary (Maney) Murfree, and great granddaughter of Col. Hardy Murfree, an officer in the Revolutionary army.
Mary Murfree became lame in childhood, and thus debarred from active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dudley G. Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dudley G. Stone was a merchant, of Negaunee, Michigan. He was born in New York City, May 9, 1840. His parents were Isaac D. Stone and Elizabeth G. Stone. His father, while young, was a merchant in New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama, and in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of his marriage, teh elder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Passmore Carlin Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[William Passmore Carlin was a soldier, born in Greene county, Ill., Nov. 24, 1829. He was graduated at West Point with the rank of brevet 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1850, and assigned to duty at Fort Snelling, Minn. He was in active service during the Sioux expedition, and also in the Cheyenne and Utah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biographical Sketch of Anson West</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Anson West, D.D., was the chief Methodist historian of the state. While the work of which he is the author properly relates itself to the history of Methodism in Alabama, there is much collateral history necessarily embraced within its compass which makes it a valuable contribution to the archives of the state. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Augustus Gordon Weissert Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Augustus Gordon Weissert was a well-known member of the Milwaukee bar, and one of Wisconsin&#8217;s bravest and most efficient soldiers during the war of the rebellion. He was born in Canton, Ohio, August 7th, 1844, the son of Michael and Magdalene Bernard Weissert.
The family moved from Ohio to Racine, Wisconsin, when Augustus was but six [...]]]></description>
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