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Palfrey, Warwick

journalist, state legislator, author, was born in 1787, in Salem, Mass. He began his appren-- ticeship in the Essex Register office in 1801, and was its editor from 1805 till his. death. He was a member of the city council of Salem, and of both branches of the Massachusetts legislature for several years. He was the author of Evangelical Psalms. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Salem, Mass.

PALLEN, MONTROSE ANDERSON, educator, inventor, author, was born Jan. 2, 1836, in Vicksburg, Mass. In 1883 he assisted in forming the Post-Graduate Medical college in New York city. He has written much for medical periodicals, and published Abnormalities of Vision and Ophthalmoscope; Uterine Abnormali-- ties; Prophylaxis of Pregnancy; and Dysmenorrhœa.

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