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Prince, George W

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 4, 1854, in Tazewell county, Ill. He was elected a member of the lower house of the general assembly of Illinois in 1888, and was re-elected in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress at a special election held in 1895, to fill a vacancy, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

PRINCE, MRS. HELEN CHOATE (PRATT), author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. She is a novelist now living in France, and the author of The Story of Christine Rochefort; and A Transatlantic Chatelaine.

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