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Rachel Guido DeVries

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Rachel Guido DeVries is a Southern-Italian American, and a poet and novelist. She grew up near Paterson, New Jersey, and has lived in central New York since 1970. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Yellow Silk, Voices in Italian Americana, the Paterson Literary Review, and Blueline. New work is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary … Continued

Emily Chubbuck Judson

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(1817-1854) Writer, poet. Emily Chubbuck Judson was born in Eaton, New York. She worked in the New York woolen mills and received an informal education. Impressed by her desire to learn, the preceptresses at the Utica Female Seminary invited her to study for a year in their school free of cost, after which she was … Continued

Charles Dudley Warner

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(1829-1900) Editor, novelist. Charles Dudley Warner graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1845 and enrolled at Hamilton College in 1848. After practicing law in Chicago, he edited the “Hartford Courant.” He also edited the “American Men of Letters” series, for which he wrote a life of Washington Irving, and also the “Library of the Worlds Best … Continued

Hervey Allen

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(1889-1949) Novelist, poet, biographer. Allen served as trustee of Cazenovia Junior College. 1924-1926 He taught English at Columbia University. His works include “Israfel” (1926), a biography of Edgar Allan Poe and “Anthony Adverse” (1933), a popular novel. His first book of poetry is “Wampum and Old Gold” (1921).

L(yman) Frank Baum

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(1856-1919) Journalist, playwright, writer of children’s books. (He also used the names: Edith Van Dyne, Laura Bancroft, Floyd Akers, Suzanne Metcalf, Schuyler Staunton.) L. Frank Baum was born in, and also lived in, Chittenango, New York. His birth home is uncertain; some reports say it burned down; others say it is still standing. A marker … Continued

Rev. William Dean

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Writer, missionary, translator. Lived during the 1800s. Translated the “Bible” to Chinese. Was born in Eaton, New York.

Maurice Hindus

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(1891-1969) Writer, journalist. Maurice Hindus moved to the United States from Byelorussia and worked as a farmhand in Brookfield, New York; his papers are in the Case Library Archives.