From the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, 6/11/1888, p. 2, c. 3

Franklin Stearns, one of Richmond’s wealthiest citizens, died last night in the 74th year of his age. He was a native of Vermont, but had been a resident of Richmond fifty years. He was [???] prominent sympathy with the Federal cause during the late war, and was imprisoned on that account, and in reconstruction Stearnes took a prominent part. He was one of the largest property owners in the city.

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