. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ts ofIdaho, a position that he abandoned inorder to edit a Democratic newspaperat unpa-triotic char-acter of thepaper duringthe So
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ts ofIdaho, a position that he abandoned inorder to edit a Democratic newspaperat unpa-triotic char-acter of thepaper duringthe Southernrebellioncaused itssuppression,and Miller,in 18 6 3,opened a law-office at Ca-non city,Oregon. Forabout fouryears (1866 to 1870) he was county judgeof (irant county, and while thus occupiedhe wrote and published his first collectionof poems. In 1863 he married MinnieTheresa Dyer, who obtained a divorcefrom him in 1870, and he went to London,where, in 1871, he published his Songsof the Sierras and Pacific 1873 appeared bis Songs of the SunL;tnds ^ and a prose volume, Life Among tin- Modocs, Unwritten History. The Ship in the Desert waspublished in 1875, together with First Famlies in the Sierras,followed, from time to time, by The One Fair Woman, a novel,and Songs of Far Away Lands. King and Other Poems, Clever Stories of Many Nations, TheMasquerade and Other Poems, Fables and Legends in liuyme,Leisure Day Rhymes, etc. JAMES Iparish. Joaquin Miller, Author of Sonprs of the Sierras. Pacific PoemsSongs of Far Away Lands, etc. JOHN GODFREY SAXE. HI(;1I<;ATE, Vt., in 1816, was the birthplace of John (J. Saxe, thehumorous American author and lecturer. He was educated atMiddlebury college*, where he graduated in 1839. In 1843 he wasadmitted to the practice of the law, at St. Albans. In 1850, andfT about five years afterwards, he was the proprietor and editor ofthe Burlington Sentinel. In 1856 he became States attorney. In185I*-60 he was unsuccessfully nominated for g
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