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had fallen ill, probably in the late 1860s, Miriam Squier volunteered to fill in while the ill editor still received the salary. The editor died, and she took on the position permanently. The
November 18, 1871, issue of the magazine was published with the notation "conducted by Miriam F. Squier."
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When Frank Leslie died in 1880, the debts amounted to $ 300,000, and his will was contested by creditors. Miriam Leslie took the business in hand and put it on a paying basis. In addition, she had her name legally changed to
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and the heir to his publishing business, which she developed into a paying concern from a state of precarious indebtedness. After her husband's death, she changed her own name to his,
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a residuary legatee of her estate, to support enfranchising women. The activist established the
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California: a pleasure trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, April, May, June, 1877
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increased by 200,000 in four months under her management.
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