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Harry Walter Colmery speaking at the Montsec Memorial Dedication, Montsec, France, August 3, 1937

Studio Waroline

Photograph of Harry W. Colmery, Topeka attorney, American Legion National Commander, and author of the G. I. Bill of Rights speaking at the Montsec memorial dedication, Montsec, France, August 3, 1937

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Willis John. Barnes

Downing, George

This cabinet card shows Willis John Barnes, (1846-1921). Barnes, born in Burlington, Connecticut to Noah and Rosina Toothaker, moved with his with parents in 1851 to Henry County Iowa near Hillsboro. At the age of sixteen, Barnes enlisted in the Civil War as a private in Company C of the 25th Regiment Iowa Infantry. He mustered out service on June 06, 1865. After the war he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Barnes moved to Kansas with this first wife Laura F. Percival around 1885 to Sheridan County, Kansas. A farmer by trade he was also actively involved in his community. In 1891 Barnes was elected to served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a member of the Populist Party, (Farmers' Alliance), for District #121 for Sheridan County. He was re-elected in 1892, to the House of Representatives representing District #104 for Sheridan County. On November 07, 1921 he died at the age 75 at his home in Alhambra, California. Burial was at San Gabriel in Los Angeles, California.

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