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unusual facts about Augustus B. Wylde



Augustus B. R. Sprague

He served as sheriff of Worcester County from 1871 to 1890 and was a member of the Worchester City Council.

He was also descendant from Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

Augustus B. Woodward

His biographer, Arthur M. Woodford, describes Woodward as a prototype of Washington Irving’s Ichabod Crane.

Chalacot

However, a little more than generation later Chalacot had declined; Guglielmo Massaia found only 200 houses with about 1,000 inhabitants and in the 1880s Augustus B. Wylde reported he counted only 80 houses there.

Tekezé River

Augustus B. Wylde records a related tradition that near the source of the Tekezé, at the location of Eyela Kudus Michael church, is the true resting-place of the Ark of the Covenant.


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