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Hildreth, Charles Lotin

journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 28, 1858, in New York city. He was editor of Demorest's Magazine in New York city.

He was the author of the Masque of Death, a volume of poems; The Mysterious City; Judith; Damar; The New Symphony; Art in America; and other works. He died in 1896.

HILDRETH, EUGENIUS AUGUSTUS, physician, inventor, author, was born Sept. 13, 1821, in Wheeling, W. Va. He was the inventor of surgical appliances, and published articles upon Medical Botany of West Virginia; Meteorology and Epidemic Diseases of Ohio County; and Biographies of Physicians of Wheeling for the Last Hundred Years.

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