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Keables, Thomas Ash

soldier, physician, surgeon, legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1844, in Mansfield, Conn. He was educated at the Alfred university; and graduated in medicine from the medical department of the Georgetown college, D. C. During 1862-64 he served gallantly in the war as lieutenant of the light artillery. He has attained success in his profession, and is a noted physician and surgeon of Bodie, Cal. In 1896-97 he served with distinction as a member of the assembly of the California state legislature; and was chairman of the committee on public health and quarantine.

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