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Parkman, Francis 1823-1893
Author; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1823; graduated at Harvard College in 1844, and fitted himself for the legal profession, but soon abandoned it. He made a tour of the Rocky Mountains, and lived for some time among the Dakota Indians.
The hardships he
Francis Parkman. there endured caused a permanent impairment of his health, and through life he suffered from a chronic disease and partial blindness.
Notwithstanding these disabilities he long maintained ry labors were in the field of inquiry concerning the power of the French, political and ecclesiastical, in North America.
So careful and painstaking were his labors that he was regarded as authority on those subjects which engaged his pen. Mr. Parkman's first work was The California and Oregon trail, in which he embodied his experience in the Far West.
His first work on the French in America was The conspiracy of Pontiac (1851). It was followed by Pioneers of France in the New world (1865)
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Smith, Buckingham -1871
Historian; born on Cumberland Island, Ga., Oct. 31, 1810; graduated at Cambridge Law School in 1836; elected to the Florida legislature; was secretary of the United States legation at Mexico in 1850-52, and at Madrid in 1855-58; and later settled in Florida, where he became a judge and a member of the State Senate.
He made many important researches in Indian philology, Mexican history and antiquities, and early Spanish expeditions in North America.
He aided Bancroft, Parkman, and Sparks in their researches, and published An inquiry into the authenticity of documents concerning a discovery of North America claimed to have been made by Verrazano.
He died in New York City, Jan. 5, 1871.