Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Great Lakes” in entry angell-james-burrill of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...880-81 he was United States minister to China; in 1887 a member of the Anglo-American Commission on Canadian Fisheries: in 1896 chairman of the Canadian-American Commission on Deep Waterways from the Great Lakes to the Sea: and in 1897-98 United States minister to Turkey.
He is author of numerous addresses, and magazine articles.
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