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Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
Sara Jeannette Duncan
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
Age: 60 †
Born: 1861
Born: December 22
Died: 1922
Died: July 22
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The Corporation of the City of Brantford
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