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LOUISE CAMILLE LANE was born in Milltown, Me., April 29, 1826. Her father, Rufus Lane, was a civil engineer and military man. Removed to Kennebec county, Me., when she was about six years of age. She was married in October, 1853, to Edward D. Clayes, whose father was an orthodox minister. The court having granted her a bill of divorce, she resumed her maiden name. In 1853 she removed to Lowell, Mass., and engaged in the drug business on her own account, acting at first as her own prescription apothecary, and later employing several clerks, a business she success fully managed for about fifteen years. In 1860 she came west for her health, intending only to make some investments in land, but being then favorably impressed with the country and climate, she bought large tracts of land, and after the war settled upon her farm. The tract where she resides comprises about 200 acres, 150 acres of it being under the plow. There is a fine orchard of apple, peach, cherry, plum, and pear trees, and about 300 bushels of apples were raised the past season. Her lands comprise a tract of about 800 acres; 200 sown to wheat averaged in 1882 about eighteen bushels to the acre; 200 in corn averaged forty bushels to the acre. Her lands extend to the new and prosperous town of Carl Junction, and are destined to become valuable as town lots. This lady is of that thorough, energetic, industrious New England stock who have become the “bone and sinew” of progress and public enterprise, and is therefore able to manage so large a business of crops, lands, and tenants, and the responsibility which is entailed. Although accustomed to the rush and throng of city life for years, and now in a measure isolated from society, she finds plenty in the way of business, books, and papers in moments of leisure, to fill up the measure of the passing day. She is a sister of Dr. Horace Lane, so widely and favorably known in the western part of Twin Grove township and the eastern portion of Cherokee county, Kan., who has traveled so extensively in Brazil, particularly many of the South American states and a greater portion of Europe.