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Title: A genealogical history of the French and allied families
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Beyer, Mary Elizabeth Queal, 1849-
Subjects: Seaward, William, 1627-1689 Queal family French, William, 1603-1681 Queal, Michael, fl. 1776 Ingalls, Edmund, 1598-1648 Byers family French family Beyer, Abraham, 1690-1754 Seward family Ingalls family
Publisher: Cedar Rapids, IA : Priv. print. by Torch Press for M.Q. Beyer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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and his sister Lucy bought in partner-ship a team of horses, some cows, and part of the farm implements,rented the farm for one hundred fifty dollars per year, and for twoyears continued to work together. In the spring of 1863, having dis-posed of his interests to his sister, he again started westward, with thehope of working his way to fame and fortune in the gold mining dis-tricts of California and Nevada. For six years his business abilitybrought him a measure of success, but the reverses consequent uponthe years of depression that followed the Civil War were experiencedby him, and in 1872 he returned to Missouri, where for four years heengaged in the drug business in Ray county, going from that state toDeadwood, South Dakota, in 1876. In 1878 he went to Salida, Colo-rado, the distributing point for Gunnison county, at which place heagain engaged in business as a druggist, which occupation provedquite remunerative. While visiting his sister at Ames, Iowa, in 1876, he met Miss Belle
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FRENCH AND ALLIED FAMILIES 197 Chamberlain, who in the spring of 1879 went to Salida, where theywere united in marriage May 16th. In 1898 he sold his business inthis place and moved to Ames, Iowa, where he was employed in adrug store when able to work. He was a member of the Masonicfraternity, having received the degree of Knight Templar in thatorder. His first presidential vote was cast for a Democrat and henever changed his politics. His early political and religious viewswere dominated by those of an uncle, Daniel Flint (in whose familyhe often visited during his boyhood years), who believed in universalsalvation, and that the slave question was one with which peopleshould not interfere. Martin French died of Brights disease at Ames, Iowa, August 1,1900, leaving a widow, who still resides in that place. ALVA C. French, twelfth child of Samson and Elizabeth French,was born in Decatur, Otsego county, New York, April 15, 1839;married Lydia A. Elder (born March 19, 1847, Morrow county,

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