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Early Life of W J Bryan Recited From Biographical Sketch
A 1908 biographical sketch details William Jennings Bryan born March 19 1860 in Salem Illinois to Judge Silas L Bryan and Mary Elizabeth Jennings. It traces his childhood on a Virginia family farm his schooling in Salem Jacksonville Illinois college at Illinois and law study with Lyman Trumbull. It covers his marriage to Mary Baird his early law practice in Lincoln Nebraska and entry into politics advancing from state conventions to Congress and the 1896 presidential campaign.
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Robertus Love
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Democratic Party
United States
Mr. Bryan
Salem
Silas L. Bryan
Virginia
Maria Elizabeth Jennings
Judge Bryan
William Jennings
Whipple Academy
Jacksonville
Ill
Illinois College
Illinois
Galesburg
Mary KE
Baird
Perry Ill
Union Law College
Chicago
Lyman Trumbull
Abraham Lincoln
Miss Baird
Bryans
Lincoln
Neb
Talbot & Bryan
Omaha
Nebraska
Young Democracy
Young Demosthenes
J. Sterling Morton
Arbor Day
Cleveland
Congress
Connell
House of Representatives
Burrows
Michigan
Allen W. Field
House
Senate
Omaha World-Herald
United States Senate
World-Herald Business
John M. Thurston
Thurston
Ways and Means Committee
William McKinley
Ohio
McKinley
Pryan
Ruth
William H. Leavitt
William Junior
Miss Grace
Leavitt
Colorado
Denver
William
Nebraska State University At
Grace
White House
Bryan Farm
Fairview
St Louis
William J
St. Louis
Planters Hotel
W. J. Bryan
New York Tribune
William J. Bryan
Free Silver
Nebraska Democracy
Far West
Henry M. Teller
Tribune
Free Silver Democracy
New York
Free Silver Seceders
H. A. Allen
Colfax
Milton, Or
Colfax Hospital
Seattle
Alaska
Columbia River
Whitman County
Mary E. Eggleston