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Louisiana. Being a public spirited man he is ever ready 

 to indorse all associations that have for their object the 

 good of the State and the people. 



He is a noted temperance man, a zealous Farmers'' 

 Union man, and has ever been a modest, unassuming 

 Chaistian gentleman. He was married in the year 1873 

 to Miss Frankie Whitson, of Claiborne parish, and has 

 enjoyed an exceptionally happy domestic life. 



M. D. WILLIAMS. 



M. D. Williams, Secretary of the North Dakota State 

 Alliance, was born on a farm in Bedford county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, July 29, 1849. He attended the common schools 

 for two or three months in winter and worked on a farm 

 in the summer until 22 years of age, when he attended the 

 State Normal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, for 

 three months. He then taught school for six or eight 

 winters. He married in 1873, and in 1879 emigrated to 

 Kansas, where he remained until the spring of 1882 when 

 he removed to Dakota, locating near Jamestown, where he 

 now resides. He has worked on the farm every summer 

 except in 1876, when he was Inspector of Customs on the 

 Centennial grounds at Philadelphia. 



A. P. BASKIN. 



A. P. Baskin, Secretary of the Florida State Alliance, 

 was born, in Houston county, Georgia, January 20, 1844. 

 His education was limited to that received through attend- 

 ance at the common schools of the country. At the age of 

 17 years he enlisted in the Southern Rights Guards, ist 

 Georgia Regiment, and served through the war. After 

 the war he began farming on the place upon which he 



