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French, Carlos

manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1835, in Seymour, Conn. In 1859 he undertook the manufacture of car springs in Seymour, Conn., and has gradually acquired an interest in a variety of other profitable manufactures in that vicinity and the state. He was a member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1860 and 1868; and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. FRENCH, CHARLES GRAFTON WIL- BERTON, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 22, 1820, in Berkeley, Mass. He was for many years trustee of the state library of Sacramento, Cal.; was a representative in the state legislature in 1872; and in 1875 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Arizona, and was reappointed in 1880.

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