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Lewis, Enoch

educator, author, was born Jan. 29, 1776, in Radnor, Pa. He was an educator among the Friends of Pennsylvania; and the author of Vindication of the Society of Friends; Oaths; Baptism; and Life of William Penn. He died June 14, 1856, in Philadelphia, Pa.

LEWIS, MRS. ESTELLE ANNA BLANCHE [ROBINSON], author, poet, was born in April, 1824, near Baltimore, Md. She was a Brooklyn writer whose life was largely spent in Europe. She was the author of Sappho of Lesbos; Records of the Heart; Child of the Sea; Myths of the Minstrel; and Helémah, or the Fall of Montezuma. She died Nov. 24, 1880, in England.

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