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in Clark's bookstore, 1827-31. and was manager of the business, 1831-36. In 1836 he founded the publishing house of J. B. Lippinoott & Co. He was married. Oct. 16, 184.!», to Josephine, daughter of Seth Craigie of Philadelphia. In 18-19 be bought the stock of Grigg, Elliot & Co., then the largest book jobbing house in the United States, and in 1850 he formed the partnership firm of Lippinoott, Grambo & Co., and on June 30, 1855, that of J. B. Lippincott & Co. In 1855 they published Lippincott' s Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World ; in 1868 Li^jpincott's Magazine was established and soon afterward the Medical Times. They also published T7i« Biographical Dictionary, Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, an edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia and other important works. Mr. Lippincott was a director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and a trus- tee of the University of Pennsylvania. 1876-85. He died in Philadelplna. Pa.. Jan. 5, 1886.

LIPPLNCOTT, Sara Jane, author, was born in p. mpey, N.Y., Sept. 28. 1823 : daughter of Dr. Thaddeus and Deborah (Baker) Clarke of Leb- anon, and Brooklyn, Conn., and of English and Huguenot ancestry. She was educat-ed in the

High school of Roch- ester, X.T., and in 1S43 removed with her parents to Xew Brighton, Pa. She wrote at an early age poems which appear- ed in newspapers and magazines under her own name, and in 1844 she became a regular contributor to the Xew York Mir- ror under the pen name of •* Grace Greenwood." She was afterward a fre- quent contributor to the Home Journal, the JVa- tiiitnal Era. Godey's Ladies' Book and Grahani's Magazine, and to the Saturday Even ing Post. As the correspondent of the yational Era and Satur- day Evening Post she resided in Europe, 1852-53. On her return she was married to Leander K. Lippincott of Philadelphia, and with him estab- lished The Little Pilgrim, which she edited for twelve years. During the civil war she engaged as a public lecturer and reader to raise money for the disabled soldiers and their families, also visiting and reading to the soldiers in camp and hospital. She served as a special Washington correspondent for the New York Tribune during the Grant administrations, and for several years later filled a similar position on the New York Times — writing from Washington. Chicago, Coi-

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orado, Utah and many points on the Pacific coast. She then sent two series of letters from Euroi>e. She contributed to several English jour- nals and periodicals, including the Housettold Words and AU tlte Year Round of Cliarles Dick- ens, who was her personal friend. 3>Irs. Lippinoott resided in New York city, 1888-92. and in Wash- ington, D.C., 1892-1900. She is the author of: Greenwood Leaver (1650); History of my Pet^ (1850): Poems (1851): Recollections of my Cidld- hood (1851) : Haps and 31i^haps of a Tour in Eu- rope {IS^): Merrie England (1855); Forest Trag- edy and Other Tales {ISoQ); Stories and Legend* of Travel (1858); History for Children (I858j; Stories from Famous BaUods (1860): Stories of Many Lands (1867) : Stories and Sights in France and Italy (1868); Records of Five Years (1868); New Life in New Lands ( 1873 ) : Heads and Tails (1874); Victoria, Queen of England (ISSi): Stories for Home Foils (1885); and Stories aiid Sketches (1893). Her Washington political correspond- ence, and letters from European capitals, which she pronounced her best literary work, were not republished, and her popular lectures never appeared in print.

LIPPINCOTT, William Henry, artist, was bom in Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 6, 1849; son of Isaac and Emily i^Hoover) Lippincott : grandson of Isaac and Sarah (Widdifield) Lippincott. and a descendant of Richard and Abigail Lippinoott, the Quaker immi- grants. He was edu- cated in the Friends private school in Phil- adelphia, Pa., and studied at the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He es- tablished himself as a designer of illus- trations in 1866. and was a scenic piainter in Philadelphia thea- tres, 1870-74. He studied in Paris un- der Leon Bonnat. 18- 74—82, devoting him- self to portraits and child life, and exhibiting reg- ularly at the Paris Salon. Rerurning to the L'nited States in 188'2, he estabUslied a studio in New York city, where he painted portraits, figure compositions and landscapes, and continued his scenic work principally in connection with tht» Metropolitan opera house. He became a member of the American Water Color society, the Society of American Etchers, the Salmagundi club ; an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1884. and an academician in 1897. He was married, June 20. 1893. to Amalia ( Wilson)