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Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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29. 1900. being the 44th anniversary of the first Republican con-vention. His portrait with that of Governor Palmer taken at the time will befound in this book. Jooseph O. Cunningham was married October 13, 1853, to Miss Mary Mc-Conoughey of Bainbridge. Ohio. Judge Cunningham is president of the Histori-cal Society of Champaign County, and a member of the state Historical Society,and has taken great interest in historical subjects. He is also a member ofthe Clarksfield. Ohio. Memorial Society before which he has delivered a numberof addresses. Judge Cunningham became a member of Iris Lodge P. & A. M.at Cleveland, is now a member of the Urbana Lodge of which he has been masterfor six years, and has been its representative to the Grand Lodge. Judge Cun-ningham was a member of the first Board of Trustees of the University of Illi-nois, appointed by Governor Oglesby and re-appointed by Governor Palmer. The Judge has a pleasant home at Urbana, Illinois, and a wide circle offriends. 410
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411 LORIN C. COLLINS, Jr. Tracing his ancestry in this country back to the Mayflower, Judge LorinC. Collins possesses all those characteristics which made that little band ofdetermined men and women cross the ocean and brave the terrors of an un-known and almost unexplored region. Gifted with ability of a superior orderand with a positive purpose in life, Judge Collins is now recognized as one ofthe foremost legal lights of this country. He is a native of Windsor, Connec-ticut, born August, 1848, and the son of Lorin C. Collins and Mary (Bemis)Collins. The parents were also of American descent and for many years thefather was a prominent and influential minister of the Gospel, espousing thefaith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he remained in harmonyuntil a disbelief in the question of eternal punishment on his part led him towithdraw. This was while he was a leading member of the Minnesota Con-ference, and the independence and self-reliance thus manifested in the char-ac

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