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Chaplain A. C. Leonard, Candidate for Clerk of Orphans' Court, Lancaster, Pa., 1896

Chaplain A. C. Leonard, Candidate for Clerk of Orphans' Court, Lancaster, Pa., 1896
Albert Charles Leonard also was the author and publisher of The Boys in Blue of 1861-1865: A Condensed History Worth Preserving (Lancaster, Pa.: A. C. Leonard, 1904).

Compliments of Chaplain A. C. Leonard, Lancaster City

Who as a candidate for Clerk of Orphans' Court in 1893 received almost 3,000 complimentary votes, and respectfully asks your kind consideration fot the same office at the Republican primary election in 1896.

Four years a soldier and ten months a prisoner of war in Belle Isle and Andersonville prison pens where 14,000 of his companions died from privation and exposure.

Andersonville prison pen.

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 John FitzGerald
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Political advertising was different then, eh?
7 years ago.

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