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Humphrey, Reuben

state senator, congressman. He was for four years a senator in the legislature of New York from Onondaga county; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1807 to 1809.

HUMPHREYS, man.

ANDREW, congress- He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.

HUMPHREYS, ANDREW ATKINSON, soldier, author, was born Nov. 2, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war; and was subsequently chief of engineers of the United States army. He was the author of The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; and From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. He died Dec. 27, 1883, in Washington, D. C.

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