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Thomas, Robert Harper

journalist, was born Jan. 8, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1870 he purchased the Valley Democrat of Mechanicsburg, changing the name to the Independent Journal, and subsequently to the Farmer's Friend and Grange Advocate. He was commissioner from Pennsylvania to the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial exhibition at New Orleans in 1884-85, and also to the American exposition at London in 1887.

THOMAS, ROBERT WILLIAM STEPH- ENSON, educator, clergyman, was born April 9, 1870, in Antigua, British West Indies. He graduated from the Shaw university of Raleigh, N. C., and has filled several important pastorates in the methodist episcopal church. He also fills the chair of sciences in the Bennett college of Greensboro, N. C.; is third vice-president of the North Carolina Epworth league; and secretary of the North Carolina conference of the methodist episcopal church.