Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Luther, John Hill

clergyman, educator, poet, was born June 21, 1824, in Warren, R. I. He has had large experience as a journalist, clergyman, and educator, and for many years he was president of the Baylor Female college of Belton, Texas. He is the author of two volumes of poems entitled My Verses, and Souvenir Verses, and has contributed for nearly half a century, both prose and verse, to the periodical press.

LUTHERAN, MRS. HATTIE L. HOR- NER, author, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1864, in Muscatine, Iowa. She is the author of a book of travels entitled Not at Home; and a volume of poems.

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