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Benedict, Frank Lee

author, poet, was born in 1834 in New York city.

She is the author of Miss Van Kortland; My Daughter Elinor; The Price She Paid; John Worthington's Name; Miss Dorothy's Charge; St. Simon's Niece; 'Twixt Hammer and Anvil; Her Friend Laurence; A Late Remorse; Madame; and The Shadow-Worshipper and Other Poems.

BENEDICT, GEORGE GRENVILLE, journalist, state senator, was born Dec. 10, 1826, in Burlington, Vt. He attended the academy at Burlington; and graduated from the university of Vermont in 1847. During the civil war he was lieutenant in the twelfth regiment, Vermont volunteers; and aid-de-camp on the staff of the second Vermont brigade. He has been president of the Vermont and Boston Telegraph company; a member of the Vermont state senate; secretary of the university of Vermont; president of the State Historical society; president of the Vermont Press association; and president of the Vermont society of Sons of the American Revolution. He has been the state military historian; collector of customs for Vermont; and for forty years editor of the Burlington Free Press.