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Title: Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party; a biography and a history Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Orcutt, William Dana, 1870-1953 Subjects: Burrows, Julius Cæsar, 1837-1915 Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States -- Politics and government 1865- Publisher: New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: notmad, finishing his recitation in the same tragic man-ner. It was deemed a great piece of oratory. After his experience at Kingsville, Burrows at-tended the academy at Austinburg, in the samecounty, teaching school during the Winter months, asdid also his sister and five of his brothers. By thetime he was eighteen years old he was regarded as acompetent pedagogue, and was appointed principalof a female seminary in Madison, Lake County,Ohio. It was here that the romance of his lifeoccurred, for the assistant principal was Miss JennieS. Hibbard, to whom he was married within a fewmonths, on January 31, 1856, just after passing hisnineteenth birthday. The letter written by theyouthful and admiring assistant principal to an-nounce to her uncle her engagement is so charminglynaive that it is given here in full: From Miss Jennie S. Hibbard Madison Sem., November, IQth, 55 Very Dear Uncle: Here I am pleasantly located in the flourishingtown of Madison, surrounded by all the pleasures life

Text Appearing After Image: Mrs. Julius C. Burrows Jennie S. Hibbard 1860 i862] AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 23would seek. You may wish to know why I am hereand what I am engaged in (perhaps the questionwould be full as easily answered were you to ask whoI am engaged to—however, we will let that pass forthe present). The circular within may partiallyfurnish you with an answer. Suffice it to add thatwe have a very exceedingly pleasant school. This isthe first week of our second term—eleven weeks each.Mr. J. C. Burrows, you will see by the advertisement,is principal, and Miss Jennie S. Hibbard his assistant.He is a gentleman eighteen years of age, irreproach-able character, generous impulses, and endowedwith a giant intellect which threatens some future dayto make the world tremble. Theres a certain honor-able nobility about him that serves at once as a pass-port to the best of society. He is at once distin-guished from the common mind—a gentleman fromGeneva where he resides says he is the most tal

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