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Poor, Henry Varnum

lawyer, journalist, author, was born in December, 1812, in Andover, Maine. In 1868 he published a Manual of the Railroads of the United States, which has been issued yearly. In 1877 he published Money: its Laws and History, a large octavo volume, as also a work entitled Resumption and the Silver Question. Besides these more important works he has been a frequent contributor to the newspapers and periodicals on a great variety of topics, and is now, it is said, engaged on a History of the United States.

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