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Burnham, Benjamin F

educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 2, 1831, in Sharon, Vt. He graduated from Dartmouth college; was judge advocate, New Orleans, La.; and judge of the municipal court of Boston, Mass. He is a successful lawyer, educator, and law and theological author.

BURNHAM, MRS. CLARA LOUISE, author, was born May 25, 1854, in Newton, Mass. She is the author of No Gentlemen; A Sane Lunatic; Dearly Bought; Next Door; Young Maids and Old; The Mistress of Beech Knoll; Miss Bagg's Secretary, a West Point Romance; Dr. Latimer, a story of Casco Bay; Sweet Clover; and The Wise Woman.

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