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Longfellow, Stephen

lawyer, congressman, was born June 23, 1775, in Gorham, Maine. From 1817 to 1836 he was a member of the corporation of Bowdoin college. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1823 to 1825; and a representative in the Maine legislature in 1826. He died Aug. 2, 1849, in Portland, Maine.

LONGFELLOW, WILLIAM PITT PRE- BLE, architect, author, was born in 1836 in Maine. He is an architect of note, and editor of the Cyclopædia of Architecture in Italy, Greece and the Levant.

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