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Stephens, Alice Barker

artist, was born in 1858, in New Jersey. For many years she was engaged in wood: engraving and as an illustrator for Har-- per's, Century and other leading maga-- zines. For three years she taught portrait and life classes in the Philadelphia. School of Design for Women.

STEPHENS, MRS. ANN SOPHIA (WINTERBOTHAM), author, poet, was born in 1813 in Derby, Conn. She was a. novelist of New York city whose books. were at one time much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best. work; A Story of Western Life; The Old.

Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; The Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; and A Popular History of the United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem being the familiar Polish Boy. She died Aug. 20, 1886, in Newport, R. I.