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Show DEATH OF VENERABLE POET. Richard Henry Stoddard Passes Away at Age of Seventy-Eight. Klchnrd Henry Stoddard, tho Amor lenn poet and author, nnd tho last member of his family, died at his homo In Now York last week. .Mr. Stoddard was born at Hlngham, Mass., July 2, 1825, and in his youth worked nt the trndo of an Iron" mold er. lio began his literary enrcer as a contributor to tho dally newspapers meanwhile lining a position ns a clerk In tho custom house of New York In this occupation ho spent tho years between be-tween 185.1 nnd 1870. In tho latter year ho became tho conlldcntlnl clerk of Cen. McClellnn, n position ho filled Tor three years, nt tho end of which ho was upiKilnted city librarian of Now York. Mr. Stoddard during nil llicso years had quietly pursued let tors, nnd for some short time was lit orary reviewer of the Now York World, and subsequently of tho Mall and Impress, which Hist ho nominal! held to tho tlmo of his denth. Some of hlg hotter-known works nie Ms col lected poems, "Adventures In Kniry Lund," n "i.iro of Humboldt," "Song of Summer," "Tho King's Hell," "The Hook or tho Dast," "Abraham Lin coin," nnd a life or Washington In ing |