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Essick, Samuel V

soldier, lawyer, inventor, was born Jan. 19, 1841, in New Franklin, Ohio. He served in the civil war as a private. The most important effort on which he entered was the invention of the Essick printing telegraph, and in 1889 a company was organized under the name of the Essick Printing Telegraph company.

ESTABROOK, E., lawyer, legislator, congressman, poet, was born April 30, 1813, in Lebanon, N. H. In 1851 he was elected attorney-general of Wisconsin; in 1854 was appointed United States attorney for Nebraska by President Pierce; and in 1859 was elected to congress.

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