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The spelling of Thomas Eagar's name.

        
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Our February 3 Then and Now column, "The Real Brooklyn," misspelled the last name of Thomas Eagar, the settler who suggested that the towns of Clinton and San Antonio consolidate into a town called Brooklyn, which was in an area now known as East Oakland.

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