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Southwick, George N

journalist, congressman, was born March 7, 1863, in Albany, N. Y. He was made editor of the Albany Evening Journal in 1889. He was elected from New York to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. SOUTHWORTH, MRS. EMMA DORO- THY ELIZA [NEVITTE], author, was born Dec. 26, 1819, in Washington, D. C.

She is a voluminous writer of sensational romances, mainly of southern life and some sixty in number, for many years a resident of Washington, but since 1876 of Yonkers, N. Y. She is the author of Ishmael; The Widow's Son; Retribution; and The Family Doom.

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