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Vickers, George M

author, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of a number of works; among his best known are Lost in the Mountains; The Felon's Wife; Roderick Lee; The Pilot Bride; and numerous others. He has also written a number of short comedies as Dorothy Clyde and The Public Worrier.

VICTOR, MRS. FRANCES AURETTA [FULLER] [BARRETT], author, was born May 23, 1826, in Rome, N. Y. She is the author of The River of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and Other Stories; and Atlantis Arisen.

VICTOR, MRS. METTA VICTORIA [FULLER], author, poet, was born March 2, 1831, near Erie, Pa. She was a novelist and poet of New York city, and the author of Fresh Leaves from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance; The Senator's Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens' Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess's Client; The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man; The Bad Boy's Diary; The Naughty Girl's Diary; and The Rasher Family. Her poem Compound Interest is still quoted. She died in 1885.

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