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AMBROSE BIERCE BIRTHPLACE IN QUESTION

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From: Dayton Daily News
Date: 20020721
Author:Benjamin Kline Dayton Daily News

Biographers want to place marker

Ambrose Bierce, a talented and enigmatic West Coast literary figure from the turn of the last century, has been the center of controversy here in his home state. The topic: Where was Bierce born?

Ohio Bicentennial Commission officials were prepared to erect a marker for Bierce (1842-1914) in southern Ohio's Meigs County, where his biographers said he was born in the tiny hamlet of Horse Cave on June 24, 1842.

Then Margaret Parker, president of the Meigs County Historical Society, sallied forth with a challenge. She said census, courthouse and voting records do ...

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