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Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth

suffragist, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 28, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a famous lecturer, and the author of A Paying Investment, a Plea for Education; A Ragged Register of People, Places and Opinions; What Answer? a novel; and two plays, Mary Tudor; The Crown of Thorns.

DICKINSON, CHARLES MONROE, journalist, poet, was born in November, 1842, in Lowville, N. Y. He is the editor and proprietor of the Binghamton Republican, one of the most influential newspapers in the state of New York. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled The Children, and Other Verses. DICKINSON, CORNELIUS EVARTS, clergyman, author, was born April 23, 1835, in Heath, Mass. He has filled pastorates in the congregational church at Oak Park and Elgin, Ill., and at Marietta, Ohio. He is the author of A Century of Church Work.

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