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| Fillmore County, Minnesota |
Imagine a clear blue sky and a temperature outside barely above zero on Thursday, 17 December 1874. Inside the farmhouse, a nervous father-to-be only hears the crackles from the fire in the hearth – and then the cry of a newborn baby in the next room. His first child, my great-grandfather, Cephas Adolph Eisenman was born on this day. I don’t really know what the day was like or what time he was born but I can pretend....
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