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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mahan, Alfred Taylor 1840- (search)
Mahan, Alfred Taylor 1840- Naval officer and author; born in West Point, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1840; son of Dennis Hart Mahan, for many years Professor of Military Engineering in the United States Military Academy; graduated at the Naval Academy in 1859; promoted lieutenant, 1861; Alfred Taylor Mahan, lieutenant-commander, 1865; commander, 1872; and captain, 1885. After the Civil War he served in the South Atlantic, Pacific, Asiatic, and European squadrons. During 1886-93 he was president of the Naval War College, at Newport, R. I.; in 1893-96 was in command of the United States protected cruiser Chicago; and was retired at his own request, Nov. 17, 1896. During the war with Spain he was recalled to active service and made a member of the naval advisory board, and in 1899 President McKinley appointed him a delegate to the peace conference at The Hague. Captain Mahan is known the world over for his publications on naval subjects, and particularly on naval strategy. He was dined
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nast, Thomas 1840- (search)
Nast, Thomas 1840- Artist; born in Landau, Bavaria, Sept. 27, 1840; came with his parents to the United States at an early age; and was educated in public schools. He began his artist career in the office of Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, where he became a sketch artist and illustrator on wood. In 1860-61 he was an art correspondent with Garibaldi for American and British newspapers. Subsequently he became widely noted as a political cartoonist on Harper's weekly. His cartoons on the Tweed Ring in New York City had a large influence in the destruction of that corrupt organization, and it was one of his caricatures of Tweed that caused the identification and arrest in Spain of the Tammany leader, after he had escaped from Ludlow Street jail in New York City. Mr. Nast also acquired wide popularity as a lecturer from his habit of illustrating his discourses with caricatures drawn before his audience.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, chapter 7 (search)
resence of any growing thing. This apple-tree before my window I shall mourn to leave. Seeing fruit trees in a garden is entirely another thing from having this one before my eyes constantly, so that I can't help seeing all that happens to it. But I shall write out the history of our acquaintance and give you a copy. Ms. (W. H. C.) Yet I must confess to liking her out-door sketches even better when they are more wholly descriptive and less imaginative, as with the following:-- September 27, [1840?] Oh, it is the loveliest morning. After those days of glad light and calm, benign, roseate sunsets, how sweet the unutterable love of such clouds as the west wind has brought; they keep sighing themselves away and letting us see, behind the tenderest blue, the sky of May. The utmost purity with such tenderness! All the fragrance of farewell is breathing out of the earth. The flowers seem to have grown up express for the day. In the wood where I have been they all thronged the