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Broome, Lewis Henry

architect, was born June 28, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the civil war; and attained the rank of major. He has designed and erected many of the finest buildings in New Jersey and New York.

BRO N, WILLIAM G., educator, manufacturer, state senator, was born Oct. 31, 1861, in Marion, Ohio. After graduating from the Ohio Normal university he entered educational work, and for three years was superintendent of public schools at Cridersville. Since 1866 he has been a merchant and manufacturer of Buckland, Ohio, and in 1891 was elected its first mayor. He has served as a member of the seventy-first and seventysecond general assemblies of Ohio; and in 1897 was elected to the state senate.

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