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uest paper uo ever put his eyes on.Of the Pendleton of long ugo— ante bellum days—he said: “Around Pendleton clustered the oducation, talent and patriotism of tha 81010.” JIo described the quaint, historic old stone church at Pendleton, which was built hy John R. Husk. A son of John Rusk, Thouias J. Rusk, wuh onco n United States senator Xrom Texas.Col. Thompson has been from his youth an omnivorous reader. In his law office can bn found a well worn copy of Gov. U. F. Perry’s sketches of prominent Carolinians, which has an introductory wnfton by A. II. Williams, a brillianr. Virginia newspaper man. There Ib also Dr. Landrum's history of Snnrtauhurg county. Hut the book he uiost frequently reads nowadays Is a large volume entitled “Story of the Now World, by Henry Davenport Northrop—a history of the United States nnd overy administration down to UarriBon’s. While glnnc-Ing through this hook, the picture of President James Buchanan caught Col. Thompson's oyo. “Thore. ho eaid. “was a man who well understood the conditions existing ut tho time he was President.-I lit
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The Anderson Daily Intelligencer
Anderson, South Carolina, US
Sat, Aug 08, 1914
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