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Hon. Edmund Deberry, 1 North Carolina; Hon. Francis 

 W. Pickens, 2 South Carolina; Hon. Wm. C. Dawson, 3 

 Georgia; Gov. Call, 4 Florida; Caleb N. Bement, Esq., 

 New York; Solomon W. Jewett, Esq., 5 Vermont; Hon. 

 Levi Woodbury, 6 New Hampshire; Hon. George Evans, 7 

 Maine; B. V. French, Esq., 8 Massachusetts; William C. 



1845, The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, 1848. Edited numer- 

 ous agricultural books. Interested in improvement of livestock, 

 particularly thoroughbred horses. See sketch by Myrtle Helfrich 

 in the Baltimore Sunday Sun, February 17, 1935, pp. 10-11; also 

 Dictionary of American Biography, 17:199-201. 



1 Edmund Deberry, born August 4, 1787, Montgomery County, 

 North Carolina; died December 12, 1859. Member of Congress 

 from Lawrenceville and Mount Gilead, North Carolina. Lamb's 

 Biographical Dictionary of United States, edited by John Howard 

 Brown, 2:401 (James H. Lamb Company, Boston, 1900). 



2 Francis Wilkinson Pickens, born April 7, 1805, in St. Paul's 

 Parish, Colleton District, South Carolina; died January 25, 1869. 

 Lawyer. Minister to Russia, 1858-1860. Confederate governor of 

 South Carolina. Southern planter. See Dictionary of American 

 Biography, 14:559-61. 



8 William Crosby Dawson, born January 4, 1798, in Greene 

 County, Georgia; died May 5, 1856. Lawyer. Representative and 

 senator from Georgia. Ibid., 5:154-55. 



4 Richard Keith Call, born 1791, in Prince George County, Vir- 

 ginia; died September 14, 1862. Soldier, lawyer, statesman. Ap- 

 pointed governor of Florida Territory, March, 1841. 



B Solomon W. Jewett, Middlebury, Vermont. Authority on live- 

 stock, particularly sheep. Active in New York State Agricultural 

 Society. Contributor to Albany Cultivator, Prairie Farmer, New 

 England Farmer, and American Agriculturist. 



Levi Woodbury, born Francestown, New Hampshire, Decem- 

 ber 22, 1789; died Portsmouth, September 4, 1851. Jurist and 

 statesman. 



7 George Evans, born in Hallowell, Maine, January 12, 1797 ; 

 died in Portland, Maine, April 6, 1867. Lawyer; representative 

 in Congress, 1829-1841, senator, 1841-1847. 



8 Benjamin V. French, Braintree, Massachusetts. Vice-presi- 

 dent, Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Active in Norfolk 

 County Agricultural Society. Contributor to Transactions of the 

 Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, New England Farmer, Amer- 

 ican Agriculturist, and other periodicals. 



