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Gettysburg, on Lookout mountain with Hooker, 

 with Sheridan in the Shenandoah, and were on the 

 march to the sea with Sherman. 



One spinster of the family residing in Detroit 

 expressed much regret that she had no husband. 

 The reason she gave, however, was highly compli- 

 mentary to the sterner sex, — because she had no 

 husband to send to the Civil war. Having none, 

 she paid the regulation bounty and had a man in 

 the service of her coimtry for three years in lieu of 

 the husband she would have sent if she had had 

 one. 



The Jukes were as far removed as possible from 

 literature. They not only never created any, but 

 they never read anything that could by any stretch 

 of the imagination be styled good reading. In the 

 Edwards family some sixty have attained promi- 

 nence in authorship or editorial life. "Richard 

 Carvel," is by Mr. Winston Churchill, a descendant 

 of Mr. Edwards, and I have found 135 books of 

 merit written by the family. Eighteen consider- 

 able journals and periodicals have been edited and 

 several important ones founded by the Edwards 

 family. 



The Jukes did not wander far from the haunts of 

 Max. They stagnated like the motionless pool, 

 while the Edwards family is a prominent factor in 

 the mercantile, industrial, and professional life of 

 thirty-three states of the union and in several for- 

 eign countries, in ninety-two American and many 

 foreign cities. They have been pre-eminently direc- 



