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Harrison Rich - Pipe Smoking Caused His Death

· Late 1800s

Harrison Rich survived the frontier but not his pipe.

Harrison Rich, Mabels grandfather, lived on a ranch near Watsonville with his wife Jeanetta McCoy Rich. Harrison often smoked a pipe—something that eventually gave him cancer and killed him.

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