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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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extensively through the West Indies and South Amer-ica, and afterward in Europe. In 1857 he was in Paris, wherethe charm of the famous Latin Quarter took such possession ofhim that he was near to renouncing his native land and becom-ing a permanent resident of that romantic haunt of poetry andart. Mr. Raymond had, in early manhood, a decided bent towardliterature, and has retained throughout his life a love for the bestin art in its various expressions. Returning to Albany, he was appointed by SuperintendentWilliam Barnes to a position in the newly organized StateDepartment of Insurance, in which he later became deputysuperintendent, succeeding the Hon. James W. Husted. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Raymond, who was amember of the Albany Zouave Cadets, enlisted, with many othernoted members of that gallant body, and went to the front. Heserved with distinction in the Louisiana campaign under GeneralN. P. Banks. On his return home, he was reinstated in the State Department 276
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