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Kirk, Edward N

soldier, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Jefferson county, Ohio.

He organized the thirty-fourth Illinois regiment; and commanded a brigade at Shiloh, and at the siege of Corinth, on Nov. 29, 1862, and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers. He aied July 26, 1863. was KIRK, MRS. ELLEN WARNER [OL- NEY]-HENRY HAYES-author, born Nov. 6, 1842, in Southington, Conn. She is a popular novelist of Germantown, Philadelphia, and the author of Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness; Walford; The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in Idleness; A Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times, short stories; A Daughter of Eve; Narden's Choosing; Ciphers; and The Story of Lawrence Garthe.

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