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Harper, Edward Bascom

insurance president, was born Sept. 14, 1842, in Dover, Del. In 1875 he was manager of John Hancock Insurance company of Boston; and in 1882 became president of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life association. He died July 2, 1895. HARPER, FRANCES ELLEN WAT- KINS, lecturer, author, poet, was born in September, 1825, in Baltimore, Md. She is well known as an anti-slavery lecturer, and is a director in the Association for the Advancement of Woman of Philadelphia, Pa. She is the author of Iola Leroy, which presents a vivid and truthful view of scenes in the south before, during and after the war. She is also the author of numerous meritorious poems, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.