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 . agacity. In the senate hehas taken the highest rank as an exhaustive andphilosophical student, and a broad and conservativestatesman, his mastery of financial and economicalquestio
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 . agacity. In the senate hehas taken the highest rank as an exhaustive andphilosophical student, and a broad and conservativestatesman, his mastery of financial and economicalquestions being pre-eminent. He has made loftyand powerful speeches on finance, silver, and the• tariff, showing profound research, a rare faculty forargument, and the largest catholicity of spirit. Inthe great senate tariff debate of the fifty-first congresshe bore mainly the heavy burden of party leadership,demonstrating himself a loaded depository of tariffknowledge which he showed remarkable skill in us-ing readily and effectively. He also made one ofthe ablest democratic speeches on the election married Miss Gregory at Buffalo, N. Y., in social side of his character is as pleasant as hispublic life is marked. HOWARD, John Eager, soldier, was born inBaltimore county, Md., June 4, 1752. He was care-fully educated, and, at the death of his father,baeamc heir to extensive estates. He entered the.
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