Note 28 — Chapter Seventeen
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... Honorable Ross Tawkett, who was probably responsible, more than any other individual, for my brother’s first candidacy for public office, made the introductory address. He did not, as many believe, first come into David’s life when they were fellow members of the International Board of 1937. On the contrary, Ross had lived in our county for one winter when he was sixteen, then his father, who was a dairy-farmer, moved to the outskirts of Springfield.