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Unterreiner, Charles

educator, was born March 4, 1847, in Alsace. He received his education in the university of Strasburg; has taught modern languages in France; and for the past quarter of a century in the United States. He is now the principal of The Institute of Peekskill, N. Y., which he founded in 1877. me- UPCHURCH, JOHN JORDEN, chanic, was born March 26, 1822, in Franklin, N. C. In 1868 he secured a situation in the machine-shops of the Atlantic and Great Western railroad at Meadville, Pa.

Here he prepared the first ritual and organized the first lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, to which his principal reputation is due. It has since spread into every state and territory of the union, has more than 150,000 members, and pays out about $2,000,000 annually in benefits to the families of deceased members. He died Jan. 18, 1887, in Steelville, Mo.