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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
Francis Adams, Jr., gave himself to the study of the railroad situation, writing and publishing articles that led to his appointment on the Massachusetts railroad commission in 1869. In the same year he published a remarkable essay, A chapter in Erie, exposing the methods by which some of the leading railroad directors manipulated the stocks of their roads for their own benefit. He became a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1882 and served as its president from 1884 to 1890. Retiring from this position he gave the remainder of his life to history. The results of his labours appeared in many books and pamphlets, the most important of which were Chapters of Erie and other essays—in collaboration with Henry Adams—(1871), Railroads, their origin and problems (1878), notes on railroad accidents (1879), the New English Canaan of Thomas Morton (new edition with introduction, 1883), Richard Henry Dana, a biography (2 vols., 1890), History of Quincy (1891), History of Br<
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
T., 471, 472, 484 Channing, W. E. (the elder), 109, I 14, 121, 451, 471, 549 Channing, W. E. (the younger), 528 Chanson de Roland, 458 Chapman, Arthur, 161 Chapman, J. J., 491 Chapone, Hester, 541 Chappel, P. E., 134 Chapter in Erie, a, 198 Chapters from the religious history of Spain connected with the Inquisition, 194 Chapters of Erie and other essays, 198 Chapters on the theory and history of banking, 440 Character and characteristic men, 126 Charity ball, theErie and other essays, 198 Chapters on the theory and history of banking, 440 Character and characteristic men, 126 Charity ball, the, 276 Charles II, 510, 560 Charles V, 188 Charles Francis Adams, an autobiography, 198 Charles Francis Adams, the first, 198 Charles Sealsfield. See Postl, Karl Charles the Bold, 188 Charlevoix, 179 Charlie's town, 510 Charlotte Temple, 69 Chartres, 490 Chateaubriand, 579, 595 Chatterton, Thomas, 35, 517 Chaucer, 77, 471, 484, 485, 486, 487, 555 Chaucer as a literary artist, 486 Chaucer in literary history, 486 Cheever, Ezekiel, 390, 416, 444 Ch