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Miller, Elihu Spencer

lawyer, educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1817, in Princeton, N. J. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; professor in the university of Pennsylvania; and the author of Treatise on the Law of Partition by Writ in Pennsylvania; and Caprices, a volume of verse.

He died March 6, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.

MILLER, MRS. EMILY HUNTINGTON, educator, author, was born in 1833 in Connecticut. She is an educator of Evanston, Ill., president of the Woman's college of the Northwestern university, and a popular writer of semi-religious fiction for young people. She is the author of From Avalon, and Other Poems; The Royal Road to Fortune; The Kirkwood Series; bors. Series; Captain Fritz; and Little Neigh-

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