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in Ohio. When his parents separated, Ellen and Hugh went to live in Munich and study art. On June 28, 1897, his father went to his wife's house in order to get her to sign a document confirming their reconciliation. He then attacked his wife's family with a razor and a revolver. Rankin's grandfather
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