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Am not related but may be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info, but additional newspaper extracts may be found at URL:
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Vern D
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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>Monday, 31 July 1871<<
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE for RECORDER -- The 'Stocktonian' of July 29th, a weekly advertising sheet, published and circulated gratuitously by C.M. HARRISON, contains the subjoined notice of S.S. BURGE, the Union Republican nominee for Recorder of San Joaquin county:
"The Republican nominee for the office of County Recorder is a native of what is known as West Virginia. His father moved West when the subject of this sketch was about 10 years of age, and settled in Iowa, and in the community in which he was reared the name of BURGE was always mentioned with respect and esteem. From the latter State Mr. B. came to California in 1862, and located near Woodbridge, in this county. The last time we saw "Sim," prior to meeting him in the streets of Stockton, he was engineering an emigrant train through the Black Hills above Fort Laramie. Mr. BURGE is a prompt, accommodating business man, and should a majority of the voters of this county desire his presence in the [rest cut off]
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