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ARTHUR R. PLUMB, farmer, section 23, post-office Carthage. The subject of this sketch is a native of Chautauqua county, N. Y., born in April, 1836, and was there reared and received a good education in the common English branches and mathematics, land surveying and civil engineering. He served his country during the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in July, 1861, in Company G, Seventy-second Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. It was the first regiment to respond to the call of President Lincoln for three years’ troops, and formed a part of Dan. Sickles’s old brigade, joining the Army of the Potomac a few days after the battle of Bull Run. He participated in all the bloody battles of Virginia, the campaigns of the Peninsula, under McClellan, Hooker, and Pope, and was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run, and discharged in consequence, in December, 1863. He returned to his home in the Empire State, and engaged at land surveying. He came to Jasper county, Mo., in 1870, purchasing a well improved farm of 160 acres, three miles northeast from Carthage. Mr. Plumb keeps himself well posted on current events, is a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and upright and honorable in his dealings.