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Groesbeck, Telford

lawyer, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1853, in Cincinnati , Ohio. He graduated from Princeton col- Princeton college and the Harvard law school, and has attained success in the profession of law in his native city. He has filled various positions of honor, and has been judge advocate general of Ohio. He is the author of The Incas, the Children of the Sun, an exceedingly meritorious poem, which dewhich depicts the strange and romantic civilization of the Incas.

GROESBECK, WILLIAM SLOCOMB, lawyer, state senator, congressman , was born July 24, 1815, in New York city.

York city .

He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-fifta congress; was a member of the peace congress of 1861; of 1861; and in 1862 was elected to the senate of Ohio. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia National Union convention of 1866. of 1866.

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