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BRITTS, MATTIE DYER (MRS. JAMES H.): 1842-?

Mattie Dyer , daughter of the Rev. Sidney M. Dyer, was born on Nov. 23, 1842, in New York City and was educated at the Baptist Seminary in Indianapolis. For a time she taught school in Ladoga, Ind., but she spent most of her married life in Crawfordsville, Ind. She married James H. Britts in 1860. Mrs. Britts was an author of juvenile books and of poetry and was a writer for periodicals and newspapers.

Information from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography and the Indianapolis Public Library.

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