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Elliott, Jonathan

soldier, journalist, author, was born in 1784 in England. For thirteen years he edited and published the Washington Gazette, and was the author of American Diplomatic Code; Debate on Adoption of the Constitution; Funding System of the United States; Statistics of the United States; The Comparative Tariffs; and Sketches of the District of Columbia. He died in 1802 in Washington, D. C.

ELLIOTT, MRS. MAUD (HOWE), author, was born Nov. 9, 1855, in Boston, Mass. She is a fiction writer of Chicago, and the author of Atalanta in the South; Mammon; A Newport Aquarelle; The San Rosario Ranch; Honor; and Phyllida.

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