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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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e party immediately upon reaching Illinois, and has been a constant and earnestadvocate of the principles of the party from that time until the present. In1894 he was nominated as a candidate for the State Senate by the Republicansof the 31st Senatorial District, composed of Whiteside. Bureau, Stark and Put-nam counties, and was elected. He was re-elected in 1898. Mr. Templeton hastaken a high position as a legislator, and has exercised a great deal of influencein the legislation of the State. As a result of this he has a first-class standingin his district- James W. Templeton was married December 2, 1870. to Miss MandanaM. Stevens, whose parents, Justus Stevens and Lurena M. Stevens, were earlysettlers in Bureau County, from the State of Xew Hampshire. They have twochildren, a son, Justus Stevens Templeton, who is a student at Princeton Uni-versity, Xew Jersey, and a daughter, Gladys Wilson Templeton, who at thiswriting is in her last year at the Princeton, Illinois, High School. 628
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M<tAT^^^J2U^ 629 JOHN THOMAS. Col. John Thomas was born in Wythe County, Virginia, January n, 1800,of poor parents. His father, John Thomas, was a blacksmith and had a largefamily and a very small farm, surrounded for miles by large planters and slave-holders, who sent their children to eastern academies and colleges to be edu-cated; nor were there any common or local schools at which the children ofthe poor might be educated, consequently our subject was deprived by slaveryof all means of education except what he received from his mother, who taughtall her children to read and write. In order to escape the pernicious influence ofslavery his father resolved to move into a free State, and accordingly, on April28, 1818, the family arrived in St. Clair County, Illinois, at or near the presentvillage of Shiloh and set up a blacksmith shop. John Thomas worked for his father until he was twenty-one years of age,after which he went out for himself, not worth a dollar. The first year after

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