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Walton, Matthew

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1803 to 1807, and a presidential elector in 1809. He died Jan. 18, 1819.

WALWORTH, CLARENCE ALPHON- SUS, clergyman, author, poet, was born May 30, 1820, in Plattsburg, N. Y. He is a Roman catholic clergyman who was one of the founders of the Paulist order in the United States, a prominent temperance advocate, and since 1864 rector of St.

Mary's, Albany. He is the author of The Gentle Sceptic; The Doctrine of Hell; and Andiatorocté, and Other Poems.

WALWORTH, MRS. ELLEN [HAR- DIN], author, was born Oct. 20, 1832, in Jacksonville, Ill. She is a Saratoga writer who has published Saratoga, the Battle Ground.

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