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Liberal man.

--J. W. Farmer, of New York, spent in 1857 for the poor, about $20,000. He fed all who came to his house, supplied at their own homes 1,084 families and 811 sick persons, and, better than all, during the winter he found employment for 1,171 mechanics and laborers.

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