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From the St. Charles (Ill.) Chronicle, July 19, 1901:
Smith D. Atkins, editor of the Freeport Journal, who was formerly a Kane county boy and learned the printer’s trade in St. Charles, says in last week’s paper: “While ‘down east recently, we visited our birthplace, Horseheads, Chemung county, New York. We found the place where the house stood in which we were born, but the house had been replaced by a business block. There were no railroads there when we were a boy, but now the Erie, the Northern Central and the Delaware and Lacawanna pass through the village, and the electric street cars run from the village to Elmira. We found little to remind us of our boyhood days. The Chemung canal locks were all gone and abandoned twenty years ago. We went to Conkling’s mill where we played when a boy, but there was no dam by a mill-site and no mill by a dam site – both had disappears. We found the spot where a log cabin stood at the street crossing in 1840, from the windows of which hard cider was served to the supporters of ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.’ In 1844 we carried a banner through that village on which was lettered ‘Clay and Frelinghuysen,’ and we have been fighting the democratic party ever since then, considerable more than half a century.
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I am not researching nor related to this family and have no further information, just a crumbling old newspaper.
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