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 . ), at FallRiver, , as a clerk in Business, however, was not to his tasteHe longed to study, andeven while clerking devotedevery spare penny to booksand spent eve
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 . ), at FallRiver, , as a clerk in Business, however, was not to his tasteHe longed to study, andeven while clerking devotedevery spare penny to booksand spent every leisure houiwith cultured associatesMrs. M. B. Slade of PallRiver, one of New Englands literary women, recognized the natural abilitiesof the young man, and resolvod that his talents should notbe buried in the obscurityof the career to which fateseemed to have assignedhim. Her efforts securedfor her protege admittanceinto the Hebrew Union college in Cincinnati, Octo-ber, 1875. While studying diligently, both at thiscollege and at the University of Cincinnati, youngKranskopf was obliged to earn his living by irksomelabors as a tutor. While yet a student he contrib-uted articles to journals, and also published, with of a fellow-student, H. Berkowitz, thefirst_ and second Hebrew Readers, and BibleEthics, which are now widely introduced as text-books in .Jewish Sabbath-schools. He was graduated. OF AM OGRAPHY. 21 from the university with fulLcJegrees inthe same year, also, as rabbi ftv in the Halcollege. Two years later the faculty ofUnion college coui^irred upon him the de,tor of divinity, which was the first D. D. iferred by that institution upon an alumnus, and forthe first time by a Jewish seminary in the UnitedStates. Some time before his graduation, the youngrabbi received a call to the pulpit of the Bnai Ye-hudah congregation in Kansas city, ]\Io. He laboredearnestly for reformed Judaism while in Kansas lectures on Jews and Moors in Spain, and on
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