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Incidents in the life of John L. Sullivan and other famous people of fifty years ago: As related by William C. Burns (blind)

Burns, William C.: 1857-1934. Born in London, Ontario; before 1886 on a freighter which sank 400 miles off Melbourne, Australia, and one of two men who survived on a raft for 72 hours; boxer in the U.S.A. and attended big fights as a sparring partner; member of John L. Sullivan's troupe for several tours; employed on construction of G.T.P. in 1910; homesteader and woodcutter for river steamers in the country around Lesser Slave Lake and along the Athabasca River; blindness forced retirement to Edmonton where he was a non-paying guest at the Selkirk Hotel, 1927; began writing to raise money. // Contains letter of introduction by H. Petty of HBC, and also a list of persons to whom the author was indebted. "This book is published for the benefit of the author by his friends."

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