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Eugene Didier, son of Franklin James Didier and Julia LeMoine, was born in Baltimore, where he live all his life.
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Eugene Didier, son of Franklin James Didier and Julia LeMoine, was born in Baltimore, where he live all his life.
In 1873 he married Mary Louisa Innocentia Northrop, daughter of the Confederate General Lucius Bellinger Northrop, who was at West Point during the time Edgar Poe attended the Military Academy.
He started his literary career in 1867 as editor of The Southern Society and contributed many articles to other magazines such as Scribner"s Monthly, The Century Magazine, The Catholic World and Harper"s Monthly. From 1869 to 1870 he was Deputy Marshal of the Supreme Court. Didier died in 1913 at the age of 75.
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