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 . //ffM^. istry, and it is destined to become one of the mostprominent institutions of learning in the southwest,already having an extended influence in giving aChristian education t
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 . //ffM^. istry, and it is destined to become one of the mostprominent institutions of learning in the southwest,already having an extended influence in giving aChristian education to the remnant of Indians. Thisuniversity, in sending teachers, preachers and work-men who are equipped to lead the thought and di-rect the morals of their various tribes, will finallydemonstrate the possibility of introducing civiliza-tion where the eflforts of four centuries have failed. WAIiES, Salem Howe, journalist, was bornin Wales, Mass., Oct. 4, 1835. He is descendedfrom one of the Puritan fathers who came to thiscountry with Richard Mather in1631. He was educated at the com-mon schools of his native town, andat the Academy of Attica, N. 1846 he came to New York,and for about two years was em-ployed in an importing house. Twoyears later he associated himselfvnth Mr. O. D. Munn in the publi-cation of the Scientific American,and remained managing editor ofthat journal for nearly twenty-fouryears. He was ap
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