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BIOGRAPHY OF REV. E. THOMAS.

[Contributed by his daughter, Mary Thomas Jarboe.]

Doctor Eleazer Thomas, D. D. Killed by Boston Charley. Buried at Lone Mountain Masonic Cemetery, and then removed in 1910 to the new Masonic Cemetery at Woodlawn, near San Francisco, California. Left a widow and three children to mourn his loss.

My father, Rev. E. Thomas, was born at Chatham Four Corners in the State of New York, on Jauary i6th, 1814. He was descended from many of the first Puritan settlers of the country, and inherited the strong characteristics of those