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Richards, L. L. Greene

editor, poet, was born April 8, 1849, in Kanesville, Iowa. At the age of twenty-three she became the editor of the Woman's' Exponent-the first woman's paper published in Utah; herself Utah's first lady editor.. The year following she married Levi Willard Richards, but five years later she was compelled through failing health and domestic duties to relinquish her business pursuits and to turn the publication over to the hands of Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, under whose care it still flourishes.

RICHARDS, MRS. LAURA ELIZA- BETH [HOWE], author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of juvenile books, whose home is in Gardiner, Maine; and the author of The Joyous Story of Toto; Toto's Merry Winter; In My Nursery; Five Mice; Captain January; Jim of Hellas; and Queen Hildegarde.

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