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 . listic questions, upheld by with a research and exhaustiveness thatshowed incessant toil and labor and the profundityof his knowledge. His health began to fail in 1885,a
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 . listic questions, upheld by with a research and exhaustiveness thatshowed incessant toil and labor and the profundityof his knowledge. His health began to fail in 1885,and, though warned by his physicians to desist frommental labor, his nature would not brook idleness,and he continued his work until he was strickenwith apoplexy, from which he died. Dr. Kalischtook a foremost place as a polemic writer, and hiscelebrated controversy with Rev. Isaac Leeser be-came famous in Jewish history. He was a man oforiginal thought; tenacious of his opinions, thoughever open to conviction, the sense of right and jus-tice being a prominent trait of his character. Char-itable to a fault, he deemed no exertion or fatiguetoo great to excuse him from a mission of mercy orcharity. He was always deeply interested in , and never ceased to be a student, and athis death left a number of valuable original manu-scripts and translations. His death occurred atNewark, N. J., May 11, 04 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA .«^^^Z^- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, author, was bornat Salem, Mass., July 4, 1804, son of NathanielHawthorne, captain of a trading vessel. The familyseat of his .incestors in England is supposed to havebeen in Wiltshire. The father of the first emigrantto America from among his ancestors was born about1570. William, his second son, was born in 1607,and was a passenger with Gov. John Winthrop, ofMassachusetts, in the Arbella, reaching Boston whenhe was twenty-three years of age, and settling atDorchester, Mass. In 1637 he removed to Salem, inthat colon
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