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- Fought in Revolution
If long service in public life be taken by a legislator as an approval of the representative's acts while serving his constituents, then the subject of our sketch stands forth as the most thoroughly endorsed amongst our many able statesmen and lawmakers.
Lorenzo Dow Whiting was born at Arcadia, Wayne county, New York, November 19, 1819, son of Samuel and Zilpha Whiting ,his mother being a lineal descendent of Cotton Mather. His grand-father, Samuel Whiting, was a soldier in the revolution.
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