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Show John Howard F.rvant. a brother of the late William Cullen Bryant, who celebrated cele-brated his !.;:rd birthday in JJrinceton,.Ills., last week, went to Illinois from Massachusetts Massa-chusetts in 1SJ1. "He was there," says a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, "at the outbreak of the Black Hawk, war, and cne day he ;;aw a comp-my of volunteers volun-teers on The way to the front and was introduced to the captain, a tall, raw-boned, raw-boned, typical son of the prairies and pro-duet pro-duet of the -log cabin. Mr. Bryant chatted with this captain for a while, and at once per.-- ived that, although he was unconventional uncon-ventional according to eastern standards, in his garb and manner, yet lie lud a clear mind, and was a most "; rtaining aed impressive talker, lie a.-ked the captain his name, whereupon hi oliicer introduced intro-duced himself as Abrah am Lincoln, cab-rain cab-rain of the volunteers in the Black Hawk war." |