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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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GEORGE ATHERTON 0. B. GALTJSHA Member of First Faculty Member of First Board of Trustees BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HARRIS One of the Incorporators of the ' * Urbana-Champaign Institute ' ' Benjamin F . Harris was born in Winchester, Virginia, in 1811 and removed to Champaign county, Illinois, in 1831. He became the largest cattle feeder in the corn-belt; feeding world's record hundred cattle weighing 2378 lbs. He founded the First National Bank of Champaign. His portrait has been placed in the Illinois Farmers 7 Hall of Fame.
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