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Mulford, Prentice

journalist, author, was born in 1834 in Long Island. He was a journalist of New York city and San Francisco; and the author of The Swamp Angel; Life by Land and Sea; and Your Forces and How to Use Them.

MULLANY, JAMES ROBERT MADI- SON, naval officer, was born Oct. 26, 1818, in New York city. He was actively engaged in the Mexican and civil wars, and attained the rank of commodore. He died Sept. 17, 1887, in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

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