. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. of the committees of the great Exhibition. On the outbreak of the Civil War, Horace Greeleybecame a zealous advocate of the Union, and is supposedto have caused the premature advance that resulted in thedefeat at Bull Run, July 21, 1861. Greeleys death, whichoccurred in 1872, followed closely on his unsuccessful can-didacy for the Presidency the same year. Joseph Henry Joseph Henry, the eminent scientist, was born in Albany,N. Y.
. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. of the committees of the great Exhibition. On the outbreak of the Civil War, Horace Greeleybecame a zealous advocate of the Union, and is supposedto have caused the premature advance that resulted in thedefeat at Bull Run, July 21, 1861. Greeleys death, whichoccurred in 1872, followed closely on his unsuccessful can-didacy for the Presidency the same year. Joseph Henry Joseph Henry, the eminent scientist, was born in Albany,N. Y., in 1797. In this city he was educated, and at theconclusion of his academic course he purposed adopting themedical profession, and prosecuted the study of chemistry,anatomy, and physiology with that end in view. At thesame time he became known as a writer of papers on scien-tific topics, and in 1825 he unexpectedly received an appoint-ment as assistant engineer on the survey of a route for astate road from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. We findhim next elected to the chair of Mathematics and NaturalPhilosophy in the Albany Academy, and in 1832 he became 381. THE HALL OF FAME
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