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Parloa, Maria

author, was born in 1843 in Massachusetts. She is a lecturer and writer upon domestic economy, especially upon the science of food preparation; and the author of First Principles of Household Management and Cookery; Kitchen Companion; The Young Housekeeper; and New Cook Book and Marketing Guide.

PARMELEE, THEODORE NELSON, journalist, author, was born in 1804 in Connecticut. He was editor for several years of the Buffalo Commercial, and author of some of the biographies in the volume Men of Progress; of a series of political reminiscences that were published in Harper's Magazine under the title Recollections of an Old Stager; and of numerous fugitive articles. He died July 3, 1874, in Branford, Conn.

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