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��v-illage swains. In after-years he became city, to perpetuate his memory. To the distinguished in European pohtics, and town in after-years returned his only when raised to the ranks of the nobility daughter, the countess, to avoid the commemorated in his title the old name of the town, and was known as Count Rumford. Count Rumford in scientific

���RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH B. WALKER.

pomps of foreign courts, and to pass her declining years amidst the familiar attainments became very distinguished ; scenes of her childhood, and he will rank for all time as a bene- Concord was a favorite muster-field factor of the human race. A bronze for the old State militia. Uniformed monument should be erected in the and un-uniformed companies were here

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