“ BAYLOR, Miss Frances Conrtenay, author, born in Fayetteville, Ark., 20th January, 1848. FRANCES COURTENAY BAYLOR. She is descended from an old Virginian family of English strain. Her childhood was spent in San Antonio and New Orleans, w here her father, an army officer, was stationed. She was educated principally by her mother and her aunt, in her own home. After the Civil War was ended, she went to Europe and spent the years 1865 to 1867 in travel and residence in England and on the Continent. ”