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Yost, Mrs. M. Edith

poet, was born July 26, 1863, in Mount Summit, Ind. She is a writer of Sulphur Springs, Ind.; and the author of a story in rhyme entitled A Summer Tale, and Other Poems.

YOUMANS, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, scientist, journalist, author, was born June 3, 1821, in Coeyman's, N. Y. He was an eminent scientist who, though partially blind for many years, wrote and lectured extensively, beside editing The Popular Science Monthly in 1872-87. He was the author of Handbook of Household Science; The Culture Demanded by Modern Life; Alcohol and the Constitution of Man; Chemical Atlas; and Correlation and Conservation of Forces (edited). He died Jan. 18, 1887, in New York city.