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Myers, Philip Van Ness

educator, author, was born in 1846 in New York.

He is an educator of Cincinnati, professor of history and political economy in the university of Cincinnati in 1890, and dean of the university in 1895. He is the author of Life and Nature under the Tropics; Remains of Lost Empires; Outlines of Ancient History; Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History; A History of Greece; The Eastern Nations and Greece; A History of Rome; and General History. MYERS, MRS. SARAH ANN [IRWIN], was born in 1800, in Wilmington, Del.

She was a writer and artist of Carlisle, Pa. Among her many contributions to juvenile literature are, Margaret Gordon; Impatient Ellen; and The Silk-Weaver of Lyons. She died Dec. 11, 1876, in Carlisle, Pa.