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by S7295x513 Frances S. Russell, 6 pages.

This is the story of S358 Charles and Lydia, parents of S1047 Ephraim, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. From this well-written article learn how Lydia Taft and President Taft share the same American ancestor; and follow the family’s emigration across the United States from Massachusetts to Claremont, California, where Charles Burt Sheldon became one of the original trustees and the first treasurer of Pomona College.

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