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Greene, Homer

lawyer, author, poet, was born in 1853, in Pennsylvania.

He is a story writer of Honesdale, Pa., and the author of The Blind Brother; Burnham Breaker; Coal and the Coal Mines; and The Riverpark Rebellion.

GREENE, HUGH WENTWORTH, journalist, state senator, was born July 5, 1811, in Concord, N. H. During 1857-58 he served in the New Hampshire senate. In 1869 he moved to Minneapolis, Minn., where he became part owner and editorial manager of a daily paper. He died Feb. 1, 1888, in Portsmouth, N. H.

GREENE, MRS. ISABELLA CATHER- INE (COLTON), author, was born in 1844 in Vermont. She is a novelist and writer for young people, long a resident of Nashua, N. H., and the author of A New England Conscience; Adventures of an Old Maid; A New England Idyl; and The Hobbledehoy.

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