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10-28-2019, 11:37 AM

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Those are great! Right during the very beginning on the Hobby too. John D. Wagner is a difficult man to find anything on.He was born in Hegins, PA and tells a great story of how he acquired his first T206s. I know really nothing about his family so this is interesting. He has a draft card from WWI but it dosent look like he went into the service until 1926 -when he would've been 27 or 28? In the mid 30's his occupation says "painter" and he was on active duty in the Army Air Corps from 1941-1956, retiring as a Master Sgt. It looks like he spent most of his time at the Harrisburg Recruiting Center and was able to hop on a plane anywhere in the country and acquire cards. Looks like he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery around 1988-89. Of course I could be wrong on some of this and there are a lot of gaps and a lot as a collector. Was he writing in the Card Collector's Bulletin or known to have assisted Burdick with the Card Catalogs?

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