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Abbott, Edward,
Fourth son of Jacob Abbott, was born July 15, 1841; was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1860.
During 1862 and 1863 he was connected with the Sanitary Commission of the Army of the Potomac.
He was a Congregational minister from 1863 to 1878.
when he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Among his published writings are Paragraph histories of the Revolution; Revolutionary times; United States, etc.
Abbott, Lyman, 1835-
Clergyman and editor; born in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 18, 1835; third son of Jacob; was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1853; was admitted to the bar there, and for a time practised in partnership with his brothers Benjamin Vaughan and Austin. Subsequently he studied theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot, and was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1860.
He was secretary of the Freedmen's Commission in 1865-68; became editor of the Literary record in Harper's magazine, and conductor of the Illustrated Christian weekly; and for a time was associated with Henry Ward Beecher (q. v.) in the editorship of The Christian Union., In 1888 he succeeded Mr. Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
In 1898 he resigned and took full editorial charge of The outlook, formerly The Christian Union.
Among his publications is A dictionary of religious knowledge.
See Indian problem, the.
An Anglo-American understanding.
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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.
Agnus, Felix, 1839-
Journalist; born in Lyons, France, July 4, 1839; was educated in the College of Jolie Clair, near Paris; came to the United States in 1860, and in the following year entered the Union army in Duryea's Zouaves (5th New York Volunteers). At Big Bethel he saved the life of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick.
He aided in recruiting the 165th New York Volunteers, of which he was made captain: in 1862 he participated in the siege of Port Hudson, La.; afterwards was promoted major and lieutenant-colonel.
He next served in the 19th Corps under Sheridan and in the department of the South.
On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, and in August of the same year was mustered out of the service.
After the war he became the editor and publisher of the Baltimore American.
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Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-
Editor; born in Mount Tabor, Vt., Nov. 11, 1836; was graduated at Williams College in 1857, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1860.
In the winter of 1863-64 he delivered before the Lowell Institute of Boston a series of twelve lectures on The structure of paganism; 1863-69 he was managing editor of Harper's weekly, and in 1869 became editor of Harper's magazine.
He is the author of The ancient Lady of sorrow, a poem; God in his world; A study of death; and (with A. H. Guernsey) of Harper's pictorial history of the Great rebellion.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Aldrich , Charles , 1828 - (search)
Aldrich, Charles, 1828-
Historian; born in Ellington, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1828; was educated at Jamestown Academy, N. Y. On June 29, 1857, he established The Freedman, a newspaper in Webster City, In. For several years between 1860 and 1870 he was chief clerk of the Iowa House of Representatives, and in 1882 was a member of that body; in 1875 served with the United States Geological Survey in the Rocky Mountains; and in 1892 established the Historical Department of Iowa, of which he afterwards was made curator and secretary.