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Show EX-SEMTOR PEFFER DIES ffffi OF 81 Notable Career of Famous Kansas Populist Who Was Prominent in Many Fields. TOPEKA. Kan.. O.'t. 7. William A. Peffcr, ex-United States senator from Kansas, and a man well known in this state, died last night. A complication of troubles and old aSc caused his death. He wn.. recovering from a stroke of I apoplexy and the amputation of a lo in a Joncka hospital recently. Tho body will bo brought to the home in ropoka Tuesday. Nearly fifty 'years ago, Seualor I'uf-rcr I'uf-rcr moved to Kansas and established the I'rodonm Journal. Since that, time be htib been active in politic?, in newspaper news-paper work, and has written .several well known books and poems. Ho d;cd last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. W. McCIellan. at Grcnotn? Ho was 81 j'cars old at the time of bis deatn. Vvilliam Alfrod Peffcr was born at Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, September Sep-tember 10, 3831. At the age of 15 years he bogan teaching school. At the age of 21 be moved to Indiana, thence to Missouri and in J Sol) he began rarnnng in Tlliuois. In 18(52 William HefTer enlisted as a private in the eighty-third Illinois infantry. In June, 186n, ho way mustered out with the rank of lieutenant. In 1S01 Mr. Peffcr Pef-fcr was elected United States senator by the People's parly. I0 served as senator until 1397. |