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Bulfinch, Ellen Susan

artist, author, was born Oct. 11, 1844, in Framingham, Mass., and is the daughter of the Rev. Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch. She is the author of The Life and Letters of her grandfather, Charles Bulfinch, the pioneer of American architects; the designer of the state house of Boston, and under whose charge the capitol at Washington was completed in 1830.

BULFINCH, STEPHEN GREENLEAF, clergyman, author, poet, was born June 8, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Communion Thoughts; Contemplations of the Saviour; The Holy Land and Its Inhabitants; The Harp and the Cross; Honour, or the Slave Dealer's Daughter; Manual of the Evidences of Christianity; and Studies in the Evidences of Christianity.

He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Cambridge, Mass.

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