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village of Greene Chenango Co N.Y. with the going out of one candel [[candle]] another was being lighted and my eldest brother Frank had declared his intentions to the Family of Marrying Nannie the eldest daughter of Samuel H. Kerfoot a long established real estate dealer in the muddy lots of Chicago. This wedding was a very pretty one and occured [[occurred]] out of doors at their country place called "Dawn" on the north side of Chicago bordering the Lake on the pleasant afternoon of October 16th 1872. But to go back to the episode of the burning of that great wooden city, even the pavements were of wood. It was called Nicholson pavement and consisted of blocks about ten inches long by three or four wide and six inches deep, soaked in tar and placed on edge compactly laid with 

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There were several instances where periods and commas were not added which I have corrected. ^^uncorrect what has been done above