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Reed, Anna Morrison

author, lecturer, poet, was born in Dubuque, Iowa.

Besides writing for the press east and west, she published between 1880 and 1896 two different editions of her poems, a third compilation being about to issue. She has been called on to lecture before the Agricultural association of Northern California; and was appointed one of the commissioners on the state board for the Columbian exposition in 1892. Her organizing talents won her the distinction of again being solicited to aid in raising funds for the Midwinter Fair of San Francisco the following year, in which she was eminently successful.

She is a life member of the Pacific Coast Woman's Press association. A native of Iowa.

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