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Show Victim of Apoplexy. , ' BOSTON, Feb. 2J.-C0L J. H. French, j Identified with many business interests, especially the granite Industry of New England, died of apoplexy at his Roxbury I .home today, aged 72. In 1869 he organized and became president of the Cape Ann ! Granite company. During the thirty I years he was identified with that company com-pany he supplied material for some of the most notable buildings in the country. During the Civil war he organized the Thirteenth Massachusetts regiment, and, under Gen. B. F. Butler, was In the New Orleans expedition. After the war he was provost marshal of Louisiana under Gen. Banks. For three years he was president of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railway and for ten years a director In the New England railroad. |