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Beech, Mrs. Mary Turner

poet, was born in Homer, N. Y. She is a poet of Beechville, Ill.; and has contributed extensively to current literature.

BEECHER, CATHERINE ESTHER, educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 1800, in East Hampton, N. Y., and is a daughter of L. Beecher, a New England educator of much celebrity at one time, who wrote with the ardor of sincerest conviction.

She was the author of Domestic Economy; Physiology and Calisthenics; Letters to the People; Religious Training of Children; and Domestic Service, True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman. She died May 12, 1878, in Elmira, N. Y.

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