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Wedding and political notes from Chicago in 1874
Our Chicago Letter reports the Grant family and Horatio Seymour at the Palmer House for Fred Grant and Miss Honore’s wedding. It notes women’s convention progress, Republican ticket strength, possible appointments after Irwin’s death, and Grand Lodge Encampment events with Illinois delegates and officers.
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Cutcace
Grant
Belknap
Borie
Babgack
Hain
Springfield
Parioc
Palmer House
Horatio Seymour
New York
Palmer
Seymour
Fred Grant
Miss Honore
Grants
Honores
Scn
Fred
Potter Palmer
Hanore
Christian Church
Chicago
Odd Fellows, Masons
Presbyterian Synod
Julia Ward Howe
Livermore
DeGeer
Rirs. Churchill
Misses B. Walker
Alta Hulett
Phebe Cozens
Susan Anthony
Ohio
Indiana
Irwin
Internal Revenue
A. A. Burley
Col Schafer
W. H. Harper
Col. A. B. Moore
E. T. Bridges
Burley
Medill
Moore
LaSalle County
Harper
Grain Inspection Bureau
J. D. Woodward
Aevvntican
R. E. Hencock
Henry
H. D.bonham
Odd Fellows
Staball
Odel
Oulton
Atea
Bureau
M. Quoningham
Hennepin
Ots
Brevoort Hotel
McCormick Hall
The
Orden
R. E. Heacock
H. D. Bonham
James Gallup
Marshall
Lcg Rose
Lacan
Peoria
Grand Lodge
Fremoot House
EB. Sherman
D.G. M
W A. Welsher
Cambridge
T. DL. Blake
Galena
C Nason
G. T
Barry
Altan
T B. Needles
Nashville
T F Mitchell
Bloomington
Marshall Indge
Clayton
Sparland
H. D. Bonhall
L. ©. Rose
Stephen Ryder
Magnolia
James Anderson
G M Cunningham
Robert Blum Lodge
Brethren of Chicago
M. G. Slayton
Parker
George Bonham
C Neigherson
Lacon
J. A. Bush
Peartt
Heary Squires
Venice
Madison County
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