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Felix Battles

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Felix Battles (early 1840s – April 20, 1907) was an American former slave and Civil War veteran who served in the United States Colored Troops, and one of the first settlers of Moorhead, Minnesota, where he was a businessman running his own barbershop. He was called by one newspaper the "pioneer barber of the Red River Valley".

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