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Josiah Williams Begole of Michigan, 1865-1880. Begole, Hon. J.W. Rep of Mich., between 1865 and 1880. [Anti-slavery politician, businessman, banker: early activist for women's suffrage; vice president of the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, (first statewide suffrage organisation); Chairman of the Committee on the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind; involved in Begole Fox & Co, a lumber business; founded Flint Wagon Works].