The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . the season forflowers and seeds from every quarter of the beautiful rural village, known as Floral Park,with churches and schools, stores, post-office, acresof forcing hous


The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . the season forflowers and seeds from every quarter of the beautiful rural village, known as Floral Park,with churches and schools, stores, post-office, acresof forcing houses, large storage warehouses, packinghouses, printing and publishing house, hotel, andover 100 beautiful villa residences in the midst ofblooming flowers and brilliant foliage, have supplant-ed the room over the country store, and the fewrented acres. Mr. Childs has established a monthlymagazine, the Mayflower, which has a sub-scription list of over 300,000, made up from theprominent floriculturists, horticulturists and agri-cultui-ists in the world. He gives his personal at-tention to the various branches of his business,even sowing and gathering the rare and choice seedswith his own hands. In 1886 he was married toCarrie Goldsmith, of Washingtonville, N. Y., awoman of rare culture and attainments, being anartist, a writer, and a . practical housewife. has stood as the republican nominee for con-. 9^-^d^T^^ gress for his district for two successive contests, andsucceeded by his popularity in cutting down thelarge democratic majority, but not sufficiently tosecure his election. FOBTEB, Charles A., state senator, was bornin Philadelphia May 15, 1839, and obtained his edu-cation in the schools of that city. After leavingschool he engaged in the business of a contractorwith his father, and continued itwith success. Early in life he be-came deeply interested in munic-ipal government, and in the studyof the leading questions of local,state, and national politics. Hetook a


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