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Related to Gladstone
A Cousin of the "Grand Old Man" Dies in Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 23. - A first cousin of Willilam E. Gladstone, the great English statesman, died near this city yesterday in the person of David G. Steele, a Cole County farmer.
Mr. Steele was born at the town of Bigger, Scotland, in 1813, and his mother was an aunt of the "Grand Old Man", and came to this country at an early day, living for a time in Virginia and Ohio, and coming toe Jefferson City in 1865. he has no relatives in America. He was a man of high character, and never boasted of his relationship to one of the leading statesmen of the world. |
