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Sibley, Joseph C

manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1850, in Friendship, N. Y. He is extensively engaged in farming and stock raising; is a manufacturer of lubricating and signal oils, and interested in various other manufacturing and business enterprises He has been mayor of Franklin, Pa.; and president of the Pennsylvania State Dairymen's association. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-third congress; and in 1896 his name was put forward for the presidency of the United States by the silver party of the east.

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