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Veterans On Staff:
In the 1920s, about 100,000 tourists came to the Capitol each year. They were greeted by two Civil War veterans, Stanley Lathrop and Albert Cook, the building's guides.
Another veteran, 85-year-old Jesse Myers, ran the GAR Memorial Hall. "I am still here at my desk putting in a regular day's work every day," he told a reporter in 1928. A fourth Civil War veteran, Frank Higgins, worked at the Capitol every day until retiring in 1930 at the age of 91. |