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Lippincott, Oliver W

educator, clergyman, was born June 10, 1856, in Lee county, Iowa. He graduated from the Dexter Normal college, and received the degrees of B. Sc., and bachelor of didactics. For many years he taught in the public schools of Iowa, and in a government Indian school in Nebraska. During the past ten years he has filled five pastorates in the Des Moines conference of the methodist episcopal church.

LIPPINCOTT, MRS. SARA JANE [CLARKE]-Grace Greenwood-author, was born Sept. 23, 1823, in Pompey, N. Y. She is a popular littérateur of Philadelphia who has written much in the line of newspaper corresponda ence, but whose early fame was gained as writer for young people. She is the author of Greenwood Leaves; Records of Five Years; Poems; Life of Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands; Recollections of My Childhood; and Merrie England.