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State of Illinois
Cook County SS:
City of Chicago
Lewis T. DWolf of said city being duly sworn saith that he is Weigh Master in the Elevator of Munger Wheeler & C. Chicago, that prior to his present employment & for two years & upwards he was Head Porter at the Metropolitan Hotel in said City & that during most of such time he employed one Silas L. Greenman as Porter. that he is well acquainted with him & with his character & deportment. and that during said time said Freeman sustained a most excellent reputation for honesty, sobriety & business capacity, that he was as such Porter during all of said time freely & fully entrusted with a great deal of valuable property, that he was always considered perfectly trustworthy. & had the full confidence of his employers, & was never suspected of any dishonesty or want of integrity. And this Deponent further saith that he knows that the said Greenman was for about two years employed by the Proprietors of the Briggs House in said City & while there had the full confidence of such employers & left said Hotel enjoying the best reputation for honesty & integrity
and has always sustained a good character among all of his acquaintances in said City.
Lewis T. DeWolf
Sworn before me this st Day of May A.D. 1864
O. R. W. Lull
Notary Public
In aforesaid City of Chicago
1864
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