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Neill, Edward Duffield

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 9, 1823 , in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a reformed episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but forbut formerly a presbyterian clergyman. He was the author of History of Minnesota ; Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland History; The Fairfaxes of England and and America; History of the Virginia Company; English Colonization of America in the Seventeenth Century; Founders of Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Car- Virginia Carolorum; and Concise History of Minneof Minnesota. He died Sept. 26, 1893, in St. Paul , Minn.

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