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Person Detail: Mary Ashley (Van Voorhis) Townsend

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Full Name: Mary Ashley (Van Voorhis) Townsend
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Poet and novelist. Born in Lyons. Works include "The Brother Clerks" (1857) and "Down the Bayou and Other Poems" (1882).
Author's Timeline:
1836 Wayne County
Mary Ashley Townsend was born around 1836 in Lyons, New York. 
1901 (Unknown) County
 
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