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He married Sally Sherwood, whose brother, John Hynman Sherwood, the shoemaker of Greene Chenango Co, became distinguished in later years through having amassed the largest fortune of all our relatives, in speculation in 5th Avenue real estate, but of him I will later have occasion to speak as his home was my shelter after the Chicago fire of '71
When I first began to study my profession my mother was a woman of undying charm in the memory of all who were so happy as to know her. She must have been exceedingly pretty in her youth, was always blessed with refined taste [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] which affected every thing that surrounded her and I can readily imagine the infatuation which grew in the heart of the young student at the Oxford University as he passed

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