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Kistler, Frank M

lawyer, was born April 25, 1864, in Logansport, Ind.

He graduated from the high school of Royal Center, Ind., and became a teacher in that institution. He subsequently took the scientific course in the Wabash college of Crawfordsville, Ind. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar; was elected state's attorney in 1892; and in 1896 was offered the democratic nomination for congress, which he declined. He is a prominent lawyer of Logansport, Ind.; and is prominent in the democratic politics of his state.

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