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Pyle, Howard & Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles

Pyle, Howard

artist, author, was born March 5, 1853, in Wilmington, Del.

He is an artist and littérateur of Wilmington, Del., and the author of The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within the Capes, a novel; Otto of the Silver Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden Behind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk; A Modern Aladdin; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, a romance of chivalry; and Jack Ballister's Fortunes.

Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1823 in Connecticut. He is an episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Trinity college in 1874-83, and professor of chemistry there, and the author of Bishop Butler: a Religious Philosopher for All Time; and Introduction to Chemical Physics. was

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