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Fort, George Franklin

governor, author, was born in May, 1809, in Pemberton, N. J. He was a governor of New Jersey in 1850-54, and the author of Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry. He died April 22, 1872, in New Egypt, N. J.

FORT, GREENBERRY LAFAYETTE, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1825, in Sciota county, Ohio.

In 1834 he moved to Illinois. In 1866 he was elected to the state senate; and was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican. He died Jan. 13, 1883, in Lacon, Ill. 4