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=Dyer, Mrs. Catherine Cornelia [Joy].= _N. Y._, 1817-1903. Wife of H.
Dyer, _infra_. Henry and the Bird’s Nest; Sunny Days Abroad; Brief
History of the Joy Family; Records of the Dyer Family.
=Dyer, Heman.= _Vt._, 1810-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of New York
city. Voice of the Lord upon the Waters; Records of an Active Life, an
autobiography.
=Dyer, Sidney.= _N. Y._, 1814-1898. A Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia, well known as a song-writer. Voices of Nature and
Thoughts in Rhyme; Psalmist for Use of Baptist Churches; Songs and
Ballads; The Drunkard’s Child; Ruth, a Cantata; Black Diamonds; Home
and Abroad; Hoofs and Claws; Ocean Gardens and Palaces; Elmdale Lyceum;
The Beautiful Ladder, or the Two Students.
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=Eads, James Buchanan.= _Ind._, 1820-1887. A civil engineer of
distinction and the designer of the Mississippi jetties. System of
Naval Defence; Mouth of the Mississippi, the Jetty System Explained;
Discussion on Upright Bridges.
=Eames, Mrs. Jane [Anthony].= _Ms._, 1816-1894. A writer of Concord,
New Hampshire. A Budget of Letters; The Budget Closed; My Mother’s
Jewel; The Christmas Gift; Letters from Bermuda, comprise the most of
her writing.
=Earle, Mrs. Alice [Morse].= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A writer on American
antiquarian themes. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days; Margaret
Winthrop, a biography; Costume of Colonial Times; Customs and
Fashions in Old New England; The Sabbath in Puritan New England;
China-Collecting in America; Colonial Dames and Goodwives; Colonial
Days in Old New York. _Hou. S. Scr._
=Earle, Pliny.= _Ms._, 1809-1892. A son of the inventor of the same
name, and a prominent physician, who was superintendent of the State
Insane Hospital at Northampton, Massachusetts, 1864-1885. Marathon
and Other Poems; Institutions for the Insane in Prussia, Germany, and
Austria; Visits to Thirteen Insane Asylums in Europe; The Curability of
Insanity; Blood-Letting in Disorders; The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and
his Descendants.
=Earle, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1796-1849. Brother of P. Earle, _supra_. A
lawyer and philanthropist of Philadelphia. Essay on Penal Law; Right
of States to Alter and Annul their Charters; Railroads and Internal
Communications (1830); Life of Benjamin Lundy.
=Early, Jubal Anderson.= _Va._, 1816-1894. A distinguished general in
the Confederate army who settled in New Orleans after the close of
the Civil War. Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in
the Confederate States; Campaigns of General Lee; Jackson’s Campaign
against Pope.
=Eastburn, James Wallis.= _E._, 1797-1819. An Episcopal clergyman
remembered as co-author with R. C. Sands of the once noted poem
Yamoyden.
=Eastburn, Manton.= _E._, 1801-1872. The fourth Protestant Episcopal
bishop of Massachusetts, and somewhat prominent as a dogmatic,
aggressive Low Churchman. Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and Greek Poetry;
Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians; Essays and Dissertations
on Biblical Literature.
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