. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. e, in 1847, established a weekly newspaper, firstknown as the North Sfar, and afterwards as Frederick DouglassPapcr^ and its publication was
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. e, in 1847, established a weekly newspaper, firstknown as the North Sfar, and afterwards as Frederick DouglassPapcr^ and its publication was continued for several years. Hisautobiography appeared in 1855, rewritten and enlarged, as MyBondage and My Freedom, which is still extant. In 1855 he wassuspected of complicity in John Browns raid into Virginia to freethe slaves of thai commonwealth, and Governor Wise issued arequisition for his arrest upon the Governor of Michigan; butDouglass avoided this trouble by going to England. On his returnhome he resumed his editorial duties at Rochester. During the latewar he advocated the use of colored troops and a general emancipa-tion of the Southern slaves, and in 1863 he assisted in organizingnegro regiments in Massachusetts and elsewhere. In 1870 heassumed editorial control of the Xew National Era, at 1871 he was secretary of the national commission to San Domingo,and has since held j)rominent political positions of trust. A- % -^. TlIK WIDELY KNOWN OKATOKS, OUUOll AND SlUUOKON. loo 9- John B. Gough. Charles H. Spurgeon. ALMOST every town and city of tht- TnitedStates, the peculiarities of John , the popular lecturer, and hii*talents as an orator, are familiarly at Sandj;ate, England, in 1817, hoemigrated to New York in 1829, learnedthe trade of a bookbinder, and becamenoted for hia habits of some influence he was inducedto attend a temperance meeting in Octo-ber, IH12, where he signed the temper-ance pledge, and from that
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