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Chittenden, Ezra P

educator, clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 22, 1851, in Westbrook, Conn. As an educator he has been professor of mental and physical sciences in the St. John's school of Salina, Kan.; and he has filled many important pastorates in the congregational church.

The work of his life is The Pleroma, a Poem of the Christ, the brilliancy of which proves him to be a musical and scholarly poet.

CHITTENDEN, LUCIUS EUGENE, lawyer, author, was born in 1824, in Vermont. He is the author of Personal Reminiscences; Recollections of Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical episode of the war between the states; and The Capture of Ticonderoga.

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