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Richards, Charles L

lawyer, legislator, was born March 21, 1856, near Woodstock, Ill. For two terms this successful lawyer was prosecuting attorney of Thayer county, Neb.; and in 1895 he was elected a member of the Nebraska state legislature, of which body he was speaker.

RICHARDS, MRS. CORNELIA HOL- ROYD [BRADLEY], author, was born Nov. 1, 1822, in Hudson, N. Y. She is the author of At Home and Abroad, or How to Behave; Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on the Lord's Prayer; Hester and I; and Memoir of Mrs. Haven.

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