Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Rumsey, Joseph B

railroad president, was born Aug. 29, 1842, in Mainesburg, Pa. Since 1892 he has been president of the Olean, Oswayo and Eastern railroad. a RUNCIE, MRS.

CONSTANCE [FAUNT LE ROY], author, poet, was born Jan. 15, 1836, in Indianapolis, Ind.

She is a writer whose home was many years at St.

Joseph, Mo. She is the author of Divinely Led; Poems, Dramatic and Lyric; Woman's Work; Felix Mendelssohn; and Children's Stories and Fables. Besides the publication of these works, she has contributed both prose and verse to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States.

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