80.415.2

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Monument in the Ames Municipal Cemetery for John E. Duncan and Harriet B. Duncan. John Duncan was an editor (1882-1889) of The Intelligencer, Ames's first newspaper. He came to Ames from a newspaper in Eldora, Iowa, and before that he had been with a Wisconsin newspaper. For more information, see Chapter 17, "Clark vs. Duncan--1886," in "Ames the Early Years in Word and Picture; from Marsh to Modern City," by Farwell T. Brown, 1993. Inscription on the moument reads: JOHN E. DUNCAN/APR. 12, 1836/OCT 8, 1900/ HARRIET B. DUNCAN/JUNE 19, 1843/JAN. 14, 1915. (For another view of this tombstone, see 80.415.1)

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