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Hills, Lucius Perry

lawyer, poet, elocutionist, was born June 16, 1844, in Bennington, N. Y. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the tenth regiment New York cavalry and served three years in the civil war. In 1871 he graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan; and since 1875 has practiced his profession in Atlanta, Ga. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled When Patti Sang; and as a poet humorist of Georgia has given successful elocutionary entertainments in various parts of the United States.

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