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Richards, Cyrus Smith

educator, author, was born March 11, 1808, in Hartford, Vt. He was principal of Kimball Union academy, Meriden, N. H., and from 1871 until his death had charge of the preparatory department of Howard university of Washington, D. C. He was the author of Latin Lessons and Tables; Outlines of Latin Grammar; and an Introduction to Cæsar: First Latin Lessons. He died July 19, 1885, in Madison, Wis.

RICHARDS, MRS. ELLEN HENRIET- TA [SWALLOW], educator, author, was born Dec. 3, 1842, in Dunstable, Mass.

She is an instructor in sanitary chemistry in the Massachusetts institute of Technology; and is the author of Chemistry of Cookery and Cleaning; Food Materials and Their Adulterations; and First Lessons in Minerals.

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