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Best, Susie Montgomery

educator, poet, was born in Ireland. She is the author of nearly two thousand poems; and a volume in verse entitled The Fallen Fillar Saint.

BETHUNE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, clergyman, author, was born in March, 1805, in New York. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of Brooklyn of considerable note as a preacher. He was the author of Orations and Discourses; Fruits of the Spirit; History of a Penitent; and Lays of Love and Faith, a volume of verse, are some of his works. He was an ardent fisherman, and edited Walton's Complete Angler. He died April 27, 1862, in Florence, Italy.