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view, of which he was the founder; was associate editor of the Woman's Home Companion; editor of the Baptist Union; and in 1896-98 was director University of Chicago Press. In 1889-97 was editor and publisher of the Public Opinion. He is the author of Rise of the Anglo-Indian Empire; and of the first eight volumes of Our Own Times. Curline, J. V., educator, college president, 9, 1847, in Union City, Tenn. He received his education at the Kentucky university of Lexington; and has been a college president for a quarter of a century.

was bom Nov.

was bom in Irewas major in the seventh

Curly, Thomas, soldier, land. In 1862 he

regiment Missouri volunteer infantry; in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of vol-

in Canaan, N.H. He served in the New Hampshire state senate in 1887, and was made

president of that body. In 1899 he was speaker of New Hampshire house of representatives. In 1901-11 he was a representative, from New Hampshire to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. He still resides in the place of his nativity, and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol. Currier, Charles Warren, clergyman, theologian, author, was born March 23, 1857, in St. Thomas, West Indies. He was educated in St. Thomas and in Holland; and in 1881-

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Curme, George gist, author,

Oliver, educator, philoloin 1860 in Richmond,

was bom

States in 1883; in 1893

went to Spain as

Ind. During 1884-96 he was connected with Cornell college of Mount Vernon, Iowa; and no fills the chair of G ermanic philology in the Northwestern university of Evanston, 111. He is the author of Grammar of the

of the international congress of Americanists since

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1900 has been Roman catholic pastor of St. Mary's church at Washington, D.C. He

German Language; and other works. Curran, Charles Courtney, artist, was born Feb. 13, 1861, in Hartford, Ky. He became an associate in the national academy of design. In 1893 he was awarded a medal at the World's Columbian exposition.

Currey, Augustus, poet, was born Dec. 17, 1836, in Detroit, Mich. He is manager of the Detroit Car service association. He Is the author of a volume of poems entitled The

Sower. Currey, John, lawyer, jurist, was bom Oct. 4, 1814, in Westchester county, N.Y. In 1849 he went to California; practiced law in San Francisco; and in 1859 was a candidate for governor. In 1863 he was judge of the state supreme court of California; and served one term. Currier, Albert Henry, clergyman, author, was born on Nov. 15, 1837, in Skowhegan, Maine. In 1862 he was ordained to the ministry; and filled pastorates in Ashland and Lynn, Mass. Since 1907 he has been professor emeritus of the Ohio Oberlin theological seminary. He is the author of The Life of Constant L. Goodell; and Where is Charley?

Amos

Noyes,

educator, author, 1832, in Canaan, N.H. Since' 1887 he has been dean of the college of liberal arts in the university of Iowa. In 1898-99 he was president of the Iowa state teachers' association. He is the author of Currier,

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Latin Suffixes. Curtis, Mrs.

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was a missionary

Dutch Guiana. He came to the United

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the author of Carmel in America; Diameand Irene; Historical Romance; History of Religious Orders ; Church and Saints is

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The Rose of Alhama; Mission Memoirs; The Divinity of Christ; and other works. Currier, Moody, educator, lawyer, banker, governor, poet, was born April 22, 1806, in Boscawen, N.H. He established the Amoskeag National bank and the Amoskeag Savings bank in Manchester, N.H. He served two terms as a state senator. He was twice a member of the governor's council; was a presidential elector in 1876; and in 188587 was the thirty-eighth governor of New Hampshire. N.H.

He

died in 1898, in Manchester,

Currier, Warren, lawyer, jurist, of St. Louis, Mo. In 1868 he was elected associate justice of the state supreme court of Missouri for a term of six years, but resigned in 1871.

Curry, Daniel, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 36, 1809,- in Peekskill, N.Y. He was a methodist divine of note; edited the Methodist Quarterly. He was the author of New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark; Fragments, Religious and Theological; and Platform Papers. In 1845 he left Georgia and returned to the North because of his sympathy with the northern branch of the Methodist episcopal church. He died Aug. 17, 1887, in New York

was bom

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president, founder, was bom in March, 1871, in Delaware, Ohio. He was educated in the Delaware high schools, Michael college and the Ohio Wesleyan university; and subsequently read law. He is a success-

Oct. 14, 1835, in London, England. She is the author of a comedy entitled The Coming Woman, or the Spirit of '76. In 1854 she married Daniel S. Curtis of Boston,

Currier, Frank Dunklee, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1853,

Curry, Elmer college

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B.,

educator, lecturer,