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Lawrence Berry Washington

 * ... that a great-grandnephew of George Washington, Lawrence Berry Washington, was a Forty-niner, a participant in the Bleeding Kansas conflict, and author of a novel after serving in the Mexican–American War?
 * Reviewed: Bus rapid transit in New Jersey

Created/expanded by Caponer (talk). Self nom at 22:20, 10 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Sufficient expansion, AGF on offline sources. Rewrite:


 * ALT1: ... that Lawrence Berry Washington, a great-grandnephew of George Washington, participated in the California Gold Rush, Bleeding Kansas conflict, and Mexican–American War?
 * The novel bit could be worked back into the hook, but I don't know what the novel was about. His life to that point? It can't include Bleeding Kansas, since that came afterwards. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:23, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Muboshgu, thank you tremendously for your review. I concur with your alternative hook as written and wish to strike my hook as originally proposed. As for Washington's novel, only a handful of copies are in existence according to an archived antique booksellers' message board and along with the OCLC source, all that is known of the book is that it is a work of fiction. I'd like to some day review one of the extant copies in person so that I may elaborate on it in the article. --Caponer (talk) 00:41, 23 May 2012 (UTC)