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health of Chicago was safe. The Inflammatory Rheumatism was my frequent winter companion and this I think was what saved me from being taken into the store as were my two brother Frank and Charley. I even was allowed to go to the drawing school from the Antique that was maintained by the Chicago Academy of Design. Here I met one of my warmest life long friends F.S. Church. We studied together under the instructor Mr Conrad Diehl. He, I think, had been trained in Dusseldorf and was engaged in doing several panels on the ceiling of an important Roman Catholic church in West 12th St. He was no mean draughtsman and his instruction started me in the right direction. Church, who was night-money clerk in the office of the American Express Co also spent his

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