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Oliver, Fitch Edward

physician, journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1819, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1860 he assumed the editorship of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in Massachusetts. He was one of the translators of Chomel's Treatise on General Pathology, and published the Lynde Diaries. OLIVER, MRS. GRACE ATKINSON (LITTLE) (ELLIS), littérateur, author, poet, was born Sept. 24, 1844, in Boston, Mass. She is a littérateur of Salem, Mass., and the author of Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She has edited Tales of Maria Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; and Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane Taylor.

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