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Treloar, William W

educator, composer, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1850, near Linden, Wis. In 1872 he moved to Huntsville, and in 1875 to Mexico, Mo.; and has always been actively engaged in educational work. In 1894 he was elected a representative from Missouri in the fiftyfourth congress and served with distinction in that body. He is an accomplished musician; and has composed and published a hundred piano pieces and several booklets. The most notable of his compositions are The Sleigh Ride Galop; The Tambourine March; and The Railroad Galop. Nearly a hundred thousand copies of each of these pieces have been published.

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