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Duyckinck, George Long

author, was born Oct. 17, 1823, in New York city.

He was a writer of New York city who, beside his share in The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of Lives of George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; and Bishop Latimer. He died in 1863.

DWIGHT, BENJAMIN WOODBRIDGE, educator, author, was born April 5, 1816, in New Haven, Conn. He was an educator of New York city; and the author of The Higher Christian Education; Mod- Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman's Higher Culture; The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the Dwight Family in America; and History of the Strong Family. He died in 1889. ern

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