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*	CONTENTS.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.	PAGE.
Early Life of John Shofner............................	15
Chapter II
Business and Political Career.........................	19
Chapter III.
Education.............................................	21
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Chapter IV.
Slavery...............................................	25
Chapter V.
i	Home	Life...........................................	29
Chapter VI.
Evening of Life.......................................	33
Chapter VII.
Joel Shoffner and John R.	Shoffner...................	37
N\	Chapter	VIII.
f	Loton	Shofner.................v......................	45
Chapter IX.
? History of the Shoffner	Family in Tennessee?........	49
Chapter X.
Michael Shoffner .....................................	53
Chapter XI.
Mary Boyers...........................................	59
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