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Mcintire, James J

educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 22, 1827, in Franklin, N. Y. In 1853 he graduated from the university of Rochester; since which time he has held pastorates for fortyfour years, and at the same time taught school for twenty-seven years. For several years he was principal of the Waterloo institute and the Marshall academy, Wis. During the civil war he served as chaplain of the forty-ninth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry. Soon after the war he located in Dakota; has been superintendent of public instruction for four years; and is still actively engaged in pioneer work at Spencer, S. D.

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