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Montefiore, Joseph H

journalist, lawyer, was born March 19, 1848, in St.

Albans, Vt. He learned the printer's trade in all its branches; served one year as a soldier in the army of the gulf; was admitted to the bar; and was the editor of the successful daily and weekly newspaper of his native city before he was twenty-one years of age. During 1873-78 he was the editor of the Baldwin Bulletin, Hammond Independent, and Wilson Pioneer, three papers issued from one office in Wisconsin. During 1878-80 he was a writer for the St. Paul Globe and the Minneapolis Tribune; and then became proprietor and editor of the Minneapolis Herald. Since 1880 he has practiced law in St. Albans, Vt.