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    <abstract id="aspace_d860b6851b908895291b1f05a8eb0369">Diploma of Rev. John Benjamin Hardwicke from the West Virginia College in 1873. The college was maintained by Free Will Baptists at Flemington, West Virginia, from 1865 to the late 1890s when it was forced to close due to reduced enrollments.</abstract>
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