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Longshore, Hannah E

physician, was born May 30, 1819, in Maryland. She was the first woman to put up a professional sign in Philadelphia, and one of the ten members who composed the first graduating class of the Woman's Medical college in Pennsylvania. LONGSHORE, JOSEPH SKELTON, physician, author, was born Sept. 18, 1809, in Bucks county, Pa. He is the author of a work entitled Principles of Nursing; and a work on obstetrics. He died in December, 1879. LONGSTREET, AUGUSTUS BALD- WIN, educator, jurist, college president, author, was born Sept. 22, 1790, in Augusta, Ga. He was a jurist and educator of Georgia who bemethodist minister in 1838, and was subsequently president of several southern colleges.

He is remembered came a for his genuinely humorous Georgia Scenes. Among his other works are, Master William Mitten; and Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts. He died Sept. 9, 1870, in Oxford, Miss.