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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Two foreign opinions of the Confederate cause and people.
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
Adams, Brooks, 1848-
Author; born in Quincy, Mass., June 24, 1848: son of Charles Francis; was graduated at Harvard College in 1870; spent a year in the law school there; was secretary to his father while the latter was serving as an arbitrator on the Alabama Claims, under the Treaty of Washington; and after his return from Geneva he was admitted to the bar and practised till 1881, when he began applying himself chiefly to literature.
Besides numerous articles in magazines and other periodicals, he has published The emancipation of Massachusetts, The law of civilization and decay, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Herbert Baxter 1850 - (search)
Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-
Historian and editor; born in Shutesbury, Mass., April 16, 1850; was graduated at Amherst College in 1872 and at Heidelberg University in 1876: and in 1878-81 was successively Associate Professor and Professor of History in Johns Hopkins University; also in 1878-81 lecturer in Smith College, Northampton, Mass. He had been for many years secretary of the American Historical Association and editor of its Reports, editor of the Johns Hopkins studies in Historical sor and Professor of History in Johns Hopkins University; also in 1878-81 lecturer in Smith College, Northampton, Mass. He had been for many years secretary of the American Historical Association and editor of its Reports, editor of the Johns Hopkins studies in Historical and political Science, and editor of Contributions to American educational history, published by the United States Bureau of Education.
His other publications include a large number of educational and historical monographs.
Addams, Jane, 1860-
Social reformer; born in Cedarville, Ill., Sept. 6, 1860; was graduated at Rockford College in 1881, and, after spending some time in study in Europe, established the Social Settlement of Hull House in Chicago, of which she became head resident.
She is widely esteemed for her writings and lectures on Social Settlement work.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agnew , David Hayes 1818 -1892 (search)
Agnew, David Hayes, 1818-1892
Anatomist and author: born in Lancaster county, Pa., Nov. 24, 1818: was graduated at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838; became professor in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy; demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and surgeon at the Pennsylvania and the Orthopaedic hospitals, all in Philadelphia.
During the Civil War he became widely known as a daring and successful operator in cases of gunshot wounds.
After the war he was elected Professor of Operative Surgery and of the Principles and Practice of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Agnew was the consulting and operating surgeon in the case of President Garfield in 1881.
Among his numerous publications are Practical Anatomy; Anatomy and its relation to medicine and Surgery; and The principles and practice of Surgery.
He died in Philadelphia, March 22, 1892.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Aldrich , Thomas Bailey 1836 - (search)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-
Author and editor; born in Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 11, 1836; entered upon mercantile life at an early age, and at the same time engaged in writing verses for the New York journals.
The first collection of his poems was published, under the name of The bells, in 1855, when he was nineteen years of age. His most successful poem, Babie Bell, was published in 1856, and soon afterwards he abandoned mercantile for literary pursuits.
In 1856 he joined the staff of the Home journal, published by Morris and Willis, in New York.
He edited Every Saturday from its foundation.
and from time to time contributed largely to periodical publications.
From 1881 to 1890 he was the editor of the Atlantic monthly.