Albert Palaska Forsythe was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Biography

Born in New Richmond, Ohio

New Richmond, Ohio

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, Forsythe attended the common schools and Indiana Asbury College (now DePauw University

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), Greencastle, Indiana

Greencastle, Indiana

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. He was admitted into the Indiana conference of the Methodist Church as a traveling preacher in 1853 and served eight years. During the Civil War

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, Forsythe served in the Union Army

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 as first lieutenant of Company I, Ninety-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
He moved to Illinois

Illinois

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 in 1865 and settled on a farm west of Paris

Paris, Illinois

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, Edgar County

Edgar County, Illinois

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. He took an active part in the Grange movement and served six years as master of the State Grange of Illinois.

Forsythe was elected as a Greenback

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 to the Forty-sixth Congress

46th United States Congress

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 (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress

47th United States Congress

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. He moved to Kansas

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 in 1882 and engaged in agricultural

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 pursuits near Liberty

Liberty, Kansas

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, Montgomery County

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. He served as Regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University

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) 1886-1892. He moved to Independence, Kansas

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, where he died September 2, 1906. He was interred in Liberty Cemetery, Liberty, Kansas

Liberty, Kansas

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