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Custer, Thomas Ward

soldier, was born March 15, 1845, in New Rumley, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in an Ohio regiment, and served in the west until he was made aide-de-camp on his brother's staff, then with the army of the Potomac.

He died June 25, 1876, in Montana.

CUSTIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE, author, was born April 30, 1781, in Mount Airy, Md. He was an adopted son of General Washington; and the author of Recollections of Washington. He died Oct. 10, 1857, in Arlington House, Va.