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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

David Demarest Lloyd (1851–1889)

Lloyd, David Demarest. An American journalist and playwright; born in New York City, 1851; died at Weehawken, NJ, 1889. As a correspondent of the New York Tribune at Albany in 1875 he was prominent in exposing the canal ring. Besides contributions to magazines, he wrote four plays: ‘For Congress’ (1883); ‘The Woman Hater’ (1885); ‘The Dominie’s Daughter’ (1887); ‘The Senator’ (1889).