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Latimer, James Elijah

educator, was born Oct. 7, 1826, in Hartford, Conn.

After holding several pastorates he was chosen professor of historic theology in the theological school of Boston university. In 1874 he became dean and professor of systematic theology. He died Nov. 26, 1884, in Auburndale, Mass.

LATIMER, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH [WORMELEY], educator, author, was born in 1822 in England. She is an educator of Baltimore; and the author of Familiar Talks on Shakespeare's Comedies; France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830- 90; Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century; England in the Nineteenth Century; Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century; and Italy in the Nineteenth Century.

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