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- Abner K. Stauffer was born October 11, 1836, at Boyertown, Berks County; acquired a preliminary education at Mount Pleasant Seminary, in his native town, which institution his father, Judge Stauffer, instituted in 1850. He was graduated from Frankin and Marshall Collge, at Lancaster, in the class of 1858; removed to Reading in 1860; read law in the office of John S. Richards, Esq., and was admitted to the bar April 15, 1861; was a member of City Council from 1869 to 1871, from 1873 to 1877, and from 1881 to 1884 and was president of Common Council for the year 1873. [2]
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