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BENJAMIN H. CLOVER. 



Benjamin H. Clover, Vice- President of the National 

 Farmers* Alliance and Industrial Union, was born in 

 Franklin County, Ohio, in 1838. He lived there until he 

 was 25 years old. Was married at the age of 21, and has 

 five sons and two daughters, all of whom, together with 

 their mother, are living exponents of the doctrine of 

 u Equal rights and exact justice for all, and special privi- 

 leges for none." In the spring of 1865 he moved from 

 Ohio to Douglas county, Illinois, where he remained for 

 five years. From here, in the fall of 1870, he moved to 

 Cowley county, Kansas, and settled on the u claim" where 



