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Thorpe, Francis Newton

lawyer, author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts.

He is a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of The Government of the People of the United States; and The Story of the Constitution.

THORPE, MRS. ROSA (HARTWICK), author, poet, was born in 1850, in Mishawaka, Ind. She is a poet chiefly known as the author of Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night. Temperance Poems; Ringing Ballads; and several juvenile prose works, including The Year's Best Days; The Chester Girls; Fred's Dark Days; The Fenton Family; and Minna Bruce.. Her poems have also been included in a number of standard collections.

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