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LE BLOND Francis Celeste , a Representative from Ohio;
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pursued an academic course;
studied law;
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1867; moved with his parents to Woodbury, N.J., in 1874; attended the public
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7, 1878; attended the grade schools and normal school in Iowa; was graduated from the…
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