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HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



and sociable. He is just such a man as the people can 

 look to with confidence as a leader in the present struggle 

 for industrial freedom. 



HUGH MITCHELL. 



Hugh Mitchel, President of the Maryland State Alli- 

 ance, was born in Charles county, Maryland, August 9, 



1838. He was edu- 

 cated at Charlotte Hall, 

 Maryland, and Prince- 

 ton College, New Jer- 

 sey. Began farming 

 in 1857; entered the 

 Confederate army in 

 June, 1861; served in 

 the ist Maryland Regi- 

 ment as Lieutenant, 

 and afterwards in the 

 Signal Service; re- 

 turned to his farm 

 after the war and has 

 resided on it since; 

 joined the Grange in 

 1876, and was elected 



Hugh Mitchell. 



Master of the organization in his county; joined the 

 Farmers' Alliance in September, 1889, and was elected 

 President of the State Alliance at its organization. 



T. S. ADAMS. 



Thomas Scott Adams, President of the Farmers' 

 State Union of Louisiana, was born in Richland district, 

 South Carolina, in the year 1840. In 1853 his father 

 moved to Louisiana and settled on a plantation near Clin- 



