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N.Y.S. Division of Military & Naval Affairs.

    ASSOCIATED WITH GREELEY
        IN ABOLITION MOVEMENT
Col. Jacob J. DeForest is Dead in
      Rotterdam, N.Y.
 SCHENECTADY, March 13.--Colonel Ja-
cob J. DeForest, one of the best know
persons in this part of the state, died
to-day at his home in Rotterdam, aged
83 years. He was intimately associated
with Horace Greeley during the abolition
movement. When the Civil War began,
he became lieutenant in an Osewgo com-
pany and rose to the rank of colonel.