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Conway, John William

journalist, poet, was born June 22, 1851, in Portageville, N. Y. He graduated from the Iowa State Agricultural college, and was subsequently deputy recorder of Allamakee county, Iowa. He is the editor and owner of the Champion of Norton, Kan., and is the author of many poems of merit.

CONWAY, KATHERINE ELEANOR, journalist, poet, was born in 1853 in New York. She is a journalist of Boston, on the editorial staff of the Pilot, and the author of Songs of the Sunrise Slope; A Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A Lady and Her Letters; and Making Friends and Keeping Them.

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