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Palenske, Louis

merchant, banker, state legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1858, in Kansas. He is a successful merchant of Alma, Kan.; and president of the Alma National bank. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature, and has always taken great interest in educational legislation.

PALFREY, FRANCIS WINTHROP, soldier, author, was born April 11, 1831, in Boston. He was an officer in the federal army during the civil war, and from 1872 register of bankruptcy in Boston. He was the author of Antietam and Fredericksburg; and Memoir of William Francis Bartlett. He died Dec. 5, 1889, in France.

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