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Lillie, John

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 16, 1812, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Kingston, N.

Y., who published The Perpetuity of the Earth. He died in February, 1867, in Kingston, N. Y.

LILLIE, MRS. LUCY CECIL [WHITE], author, was born in 1835 in New York.

She is a writer of popular juveniles; and the author of Mildred's Bargain; Nan; The Story of Music and Musicians; Rolf House; The Colonel's Money; Jo's Opportunity; The Household of Glen Holly; The Story of English Literature; Prudence, dence, a Novel of AEsthetic London; Ruth Endicott's Way; and Alison's Adventures. a

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