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| Title | Peoria City and County, Illinois: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Volume 2 Peoria City and County, Illinois: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, James Montgomery Rice |
| Author | James Montgomery Rice |
| Contributor | S.J. Clarke Publishing Company |
| Publisher | S. J. Clarke, 1912 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2008 |
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