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Wolfe, Simeon K

soldier, lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 1824, in Floyd county, Ind. He was a presidential elector in 1856, and was elected to the Indiana state senate in 1860, and served four years. He was colonel of the Indiana militia in 1861, and was editor and proprietor of the Corydon Democrat from 1857 to 1865. In 1870 he moved to New Albany; and was elected to the forty-third congress. WOLFENBARGER, ANDREW GIV- ENS, lawyer, author, was born March 24, 1856, in Greenbank, Va. He has attained prominence as a lawyer of Lincoln, Neb., and is president of the Nebraska Irrigation association. He is the author of the Nebraska Legislative Year Book of 1897.

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