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\d͡ʒˈɛsi bˈə͡ʊmən jˈʌŋ], \dʒˈɛsi bˈəʊmən jˈʌŋ], \dʒ_ˈɛ_s_i b_ˈəʊ_m_ə_n j_ˈʌ_ŋ]\
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An American Methodist clergyman, author, and editor; born in Pennsylvania, 1844. He has been editor of the Central Christan Advocate from 1892, and has written "What a Boy Saw in the Army"; "Days and Nights on the Sea"; "The Hungry Christ".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Mrs Caroline Lee Hentz (Whiting)
- An American writer of popular romances; born at Lancaster, Mass., 1800; died Marianna, Fla., Feb. 11, 1856. Among her works may be named: "Aunt Patty's Scrap-Bag"(1846); "The Mob Cap"(1848); Planter's Northern Bride"(1854); etc.