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was born in Cincinnati, December twelfth, 1828. He received a good English education, and then learned the art of printing. He has for about ten years been a contributor to the Ladies' Repository of Cincinnati, and has written frequently for the Knickerbocker Magazine, New York. In 1846, Mr. Pummill printed for private circulation, at Circleville, Ohio, a small volume of poems entitled "Fruits of Leisure." In 1852 he published a little book of "Fugitive Poems," in Cincinnati. He is now the editor and proprietor of the Commercial, published at Aurora, Indiana.

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