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Settle, Thomas (Lawyer congressman was born)

lawyer, congressman, was born March 10, 1865, in Rocking- , was born March 10, 1865, in Rockingham county, N. C. He was nominated by the republican party a candidate for congress in 1892, and elected; was reelected elected to the fifty-fourth congress from , N. C.

SEVER, ANNE ELIZABETH PAR- SONS, benefactor, was born May 29, 1810, in Boston, Mass. She bequeathed $100,000 to Harvard to build a hall for undergraduates , which should be called by her name, and $20,000 for the purchase of books for its library. She also willed $10,the Boston children's hospital, and $5,000 each to five benevolent institutions in that city, $5,000 to the New England historic -genealogical society, and an equal sum to the General Theological library, to the Boston training school for nurses, and the Connecticut retreat for the insane.

She died Dec. 15, 1879, in Boston, Mass.