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Kirkham, Ralph Wilson

soldier, was born Feb. 20, 1821, in Springfield, Mass. During the civil war he served as chief quartermaster and was brevetted brigadier-general of the United States army.

KIRKLAND, MRS. CAROLINE MA- TILDA [STANSBURY], author, was born Jan. 12, 1801, in New York city. She was a once popular writer of New York city, and the author of A New Home; Who'll Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; and Forest Life. She died April 6, 1864, in New York city.

KIRKLAND, ELIZABETH STANS- BURY, educator, author, was born in 1828, in New York. She was an educator of Chicago, and the author of Six Little Cooks; Dora's Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School; and Short Histories of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for Young People. She died in 1896.