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Ray, Harry Palmer

journalist, author, was born July 2, 1866, in Phelps, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Coldwater, Mich., and subsequently attended the Chicago university and Union College of Law. For eighteen years he has been engaged in newspaper work; several years of which were with the Associated Press. He has contributed to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Republican, and Post- Dispatch; the Chicago Tribune, and the Cincinnati Enquirer. He is one of the leading turf writers in America; the editor of Whip and Spur of Philadelphia, Pa., and the author of several works of fiction.

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