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Fallows, Samuel

bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1835, near Manchester, England. He is a bishop of the reformed episcopal faith. In early life he was a methodist minister, and during the civil war a brigadier-general in the federal army. He left methodism for the reformed episcopal church in 1875, and was advanced to the episcopate the next year. He is the author of The Bible Story for Young People; Complete Hand-Book of Synonyms and Antonyms; Hand-Book of Abbreviations and Contractions; Hand- Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, etc.; The Home Beyond, or Views of Heaven; Past Noon; and Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms. He has edited a Supplemental Dictionary of the English Language.

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