In Galena in 1840

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Date of Game	1840
Game	Town Ball
Location	Galena, IL, United States
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Description	"In the latter part of the '80s I met at a dinner party at the house of a mutual friend in Chicago Joseph Jefferson, the celebrated actor. The conversation at the table was in regard to early times in Chicago and the North west. I mentioned incidently that in 1840 I knew him at Galena and that we had played town ball together. He looked up in surprise, and said: "Are you Gus Chetlaiii, the athlete, as the boys called him, of the Campbell school, whom I knew when my father and MeKenzie ran a theater there for a season?" I replied, I am.""
Sources	Augustus Chetlain, "Recollections of seventy years" p. 176
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Submitted by	Bruce Allardice
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