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term as president and was in use in the White House until 1902, when new furniture was purchased. Presented by President Roosevelt to Henry C. Payne. Two porcelain plates from the White House dinner set of President Grant. Pass given by him to Dayton Locke, April 19, 1865.-E.H., A.R., M.H.R.

President Benjamin Harrison. Porcelain plate from his White House dinner set. Presented by President Roosevelt.-A.R.

President Rutherford B. Hayes. Two porcelain plates from his White House dinner set. Presented by President Roosevelt.-A.R.

Stephen Hopkins. Two Lowestoftware mugs formerly used by him. He was governor of Rhode Island (1755-68), the first chancellor of Brown University, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and a member of the Continental Congress.-C.K.

Gen. Sam. Houston. Small heart cut by General Houston from a piece of pine wood and presented by him to Mrs. Susan J. Spiller, while a guest at her home at Danville, Tex., in 1852. In 1836

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Houston secured the independence of Texas by conquest from Mexico, and was elected president of the Texan republic, which in 1845 was admitted into the Union.-M.H.R.

Captain Jack (Kintpuash). Iron staple said to have been one of a number used in securing this chief, the leader of the Modoc War of 1872-73, when a prisoner at Fort Klamath, Oregon. He and five other leaders were hanged in October, 1873, for treacherously assassinating the peace commissioners who had been sent to treat with the Modoc renegades.-M.H.R.

Col. C.R. Jennison ("Jayhawker"). Confederate flag of domestic make, captured by him when in command of the First Kansas Cavalry, November 26, 1861. Accompanying the flag is a note from Jennison, written on the back of one of his famous bloodthirsty proclamations.-M.H.R.

John Paul Jones. Button from the coat of this celebrated naval commander of the War of the Revolution.-M.H.R.

President Abraham Lincoln. Autograph card dated July 27, 1863, request-

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