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tor of New York; and during the civil war he served as chaplain in the federal army. He was the author of The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair, a temperance tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an exposure of the padrone system: Life of General Grant; Out at Sea; a volume of verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale.

The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; and Winfield, the Lai'yer's Son, form a series of biographies of noted men for juvenile reading. died Nov. 14, 1881, in New York City. Denison, Daniel, soldier, author, was born in 1613 in England. He was a famous colonial soldier of Massachusetts. He was the author of Irenicon, or Salve for New England's Sore. He died Sept. 20, 1682, in Ipswich, Mass. Denison, Dudley Chase, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1819, in Eoyalton, Ind. He was a state senator in 1853-54; state's attorney in 1858-60; and a member of the state house of representatives in 1861-63. He was United States district attorney for the district of Vermont. In 187579 he was a representative from Vermont to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses. Denison, Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, patriot. She raised above her home in San Antonio the first federal flag that floated in the state of Texas, and coiisequently became known as the Barbara Frietchie of Texas. The town of Denison, Texas, was named in her honor. She died in December, 1901, in Texas. Denison, Frederic, soldier, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1819, in Stoning, Conn. He is a baptist clergyman of Rhode Island; and was chaplain in the Union army during the civil war. He was the author of

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History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and Its Witnesses, 16271876; Picturesque Narragansett and Picturesque Rhode Island; Hymns and Historical Poems; and other works. He died in 1901 in tution;

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a]id she also ministered to the sick and dying. She was educated in public and private schools in Boston, Mass. She is the author of Opposite the Jail That Husband of

Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine Rothmell His Triumph; Old Slip AVarehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; When She Will She Will; Charles Montgomery; A Changed Life; Idaline; Captain Molly; Noble by Birth; The Yellow Violin; Her Secret; An