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HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



C. W. MACUNE. 



Among the many active, able and efficient members 

 who have rendered the Farmers' Alliance, one of the most 

 successful and remarkable organizations in the world, 

 none have contributed more to that result than its Presi- 

 dent, C. W. Macune. He was born on the 2oth day of 

 May, 1851, at Kenosha, Wisconsin, where his parents had 

 just moved from Canada. His father was of Scotch and 

 Irish descent, was a blacksmith by trade and also acted as 

 a local Methodist preacher. His mother was a McAfee 

 and her grandfather was one of the McAfees who crossed 

 the mountains with Daniel Boone in the early settlement 



