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Show EX-GOVERNOR BEVER1DGE OF ILLINOIS IS DEAD T.OS ANGELES, Cnl May 3. John L. llcvorldgc, former governor of Illinois. died today at his home in Hollywood. Mr. Bcverldge, who liad reaped advanced years, had been In falling health for scv-era! scv-era! woeks. For many ycni-s tho de-ceused de-ceused was prominent in politics in Till-nols Till-nols and the middle west. CHICAGO, May rt. John T.ourle Bevor-Idgo Bevor-Idgo sensed four years as governor of Illi-nols. Illi-nols. beginning In 1S73. lie entered tho volunteer army In 1S6I tin major of thw Eighth Illinois cavalry nnd participated In tho battles of Fair Oaks. Malvern Hill, Froderlcksburg and Gettysburg. In tho wintor of JS6H--1 he recruited and organized the Seventeenth Illinois cavulry or which he was colonel. Tic served to the end of the war. when he was mus-tcrcd mus-tcrcd out with the brevot rank of brlga-dler brlga-dler general. In 1S70 he was elected congressman-at-large. Two yearn later ho was chosen nontenant governor, and when Governor Oglcshy wns elected to the senate Gen-eral Gen-eral Bcverldge succeeded him. He moved IH to California fifteen years ago. IH Kuohn Boverldge and Baroness Tiny IH Von Wredc arc grandchildren of the de- IH |