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Adams, Henry C.
Born in Davenport, Ia., 1861.
Graduated from Iowa College, 1874. Professor of Political Economy in the University of Michigan since 1887. Director of the division of transportation of the eleventh census; statistician to Interstate Commerce Commission since 1887; president American Economic Association from 1895-97.
He has written Lectures on political Economy ; State in relation to industrial action; Public debts; The Science of finance.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkie , Francis Bangs 1832 -1892 (search)
Wilkie, Francis Bangs 1832-1892
Journalist; born in West Charleston, N. Y., in 1832; graduated at Union College in 1857; removed to Davenport, Ia., where he engaged in journalism in 1859.
He was connected with the Herald in Dubuque till the Civil War began, and then went South as a war correspondent.
He established and published for a short time Our whole nation, in Macon City, Mo., when he became war correspondent of the New York Times, and served as such for four years. He wrote for theand then went South as a war correspondent.
He established and published for a short time Our whole nation, in Macon City, Mo., when he became war correspondent of the New York Times, and served as such for four years. He wrote for the Chicago Times for seventeen years under the name of Polinto; was the organizer and first president of the Chicago Press Club; and author of History of Davenport; Walks about Chicago; The history of Great inventions, etc. He died in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1892.