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French, John William

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1810 in Connecticut. He was an episcopal clergyman of Washington in 1842-56, and from the latter date till his death professor of ethics at West Point. He was the author of a work on Practical Ethics. He died July 8, 1871, in West Point, N. Y.

FRENCH, MRS. L. VIRGINIA [SMITH], educator, author, was born in 1830 in Virginia. She is a writer and educator of Memphis; and the author of Wind Whispers, a collection of poems; Legend of the South; Iztalixo, a Tragedy; and My Roses, the Romance of a June Day. She died March 31, 1881, in McMinnville, Tenn.