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and was immediately placed on the board of managers of that order. At the 1869 Board meeting of the I.O.G.T., State of New York, Rude was elected as an officer alongside her sister, Mrs. M. B. Dickinson (who subsequently became Mrs. M. B. O'Donnell).
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