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Champlin, John Denison

author, was born Jan. 29, 1834, in Stonington, Conn. He is the author of Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things; Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places; Young Folks' History of the War for the Union; Young Folks' Catechism of Common Things; Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Games and Sports; Young Folks Astronomy; Chronicle of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Apthorp, he has edited Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians, and with. C. C. Perkins, a Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings.

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