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Elder, Joseph Freeman

educator, clergyman, was born March 10, 1839. in Portland, Maine. Since 1870 he has been pastor of the Baptist church of the Epiphany of New York city. In 1885 he became president of the New York Baptist City mission. ELDER, MRS. SUSAN BLANCHARD, educator, author, was born about 1835, in Fort Jessup, La. She has written extensively for Roman catholic periodicals; and is the author of The Loss of the Papacy; James the Second; Savonarola; and Ellen Fitzgerald, a southern tale.

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