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David Lee Child was a journalist and activist. He graduated Harvard and served as the sub-master of the Boston Latin-school and the secretary of legation in Lisbon. He was admitted to the bar in the 1820s. He edited the Massachusetts Journal. He was a member of the anti-slavery society, along with his wife, Lydia Maria Child. In his later yeats he turned to beet-sugar farming, which he had studied in Belgium.

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David Lee Child was a journalist and activist. He graduated Harvard and served as the sub-master of the Boston Latin-school and the secretary of legation in Lisbon. He was admitted to the bar in the 1820s. He edited the Massachusetts Journal. He was a member of the anti-slavery society, along with his wife, Lydia Maria Child. In his later yeats he turned to beet-sugar farming, which he had studied in Belgium.

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Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Cje66&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=david&gsfn_x=1&gsln=child&gsln_x=1&msbdy_x=1&msbdy=1794&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=0&MSV=0&uidh=if4&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=8304&d
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Source Citation Book Title: Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, From 1630 to 1881
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