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W. P« Daral.William P. Duval, who died at Washington while on a visit, iu Gen. Jackson’s last administration, was a genuine backwoodsman, who was the original of Washington Irving’s “Ralph Ringwood” and James K Paulding’s “Nimrod Wildfire.” When a boy be had gone from bis native Virginia to Kentucky, where he became one of the burners who ranged the forests and lived by their rifles. Studying law, he soon acquired a lucrative practice, and was sent to Congress In 1813. Gen. Jackson appointed him governor of Florida, and while there be exercised great influence over the Seminole chief, whose confidence he gained. From Florida he went to Texas, and it was on business connected with the lands in tha* State that he came to Washington In his seventieth year. His genial humor, his ftond of anecdote and his spotless integrity made him a favorite among young men, who used to fill his room at night, listening to his spirited accounts of the time when he—to use his own words—“could whip his weight in wildcats.”Senator Benton.Ta«m D nn f z\n A n In n
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Atlanta Sunny South
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Sep 05, 1885
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