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 . in 1887. Mr. Pack-ards chief distinction is as anauthor of commercial 1859-60 he prepared the Bry-ant & Stratton bookkeeping ser-ies, which were the leading text-book
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 . in 1887. Mr. Pack-ards chief distinction is as anauthor of commercial 1859-60 he prepared the Bry-ant & Stratton bookkeeping ser-ies, which were the leading text-books on that subject, and morerecently the Packard manual ofbookkeeping and the Packardarithmetic. He is the oldest incontinuous service, and the bestknown business-college man inthe United States, and his suc-cessful efforts in promoting thebusiness educators exhibit at theWorlds Fair is worthy of allpraise. In the creation, develop-ment and management of his suc-cessful college, Mr. Packard seemsto have been governed by twoleading ideas: first, to meet the real wants of thebusiness community in the matter of well-trainedclerks, and next, to render his institution worthy thename of college. Not only is his influence feltin his own country, but much that he has done andis doing has been fitly recognized abroad. Thebusiness schools of France, particularly those atParis and Rouen, under the management of the. chamber of commerce at Paris, were founded onMr. Packards model, and after a careful personalexamination of his methods; and the Bureau com-mercial of the Antwerp school has taken some of itsfeatures from Mr. Packards scheme of businesspractice. He is recognized from one end of the landto the other as an educator who has nobly served hisday and generation, and who is yet striving to makethe world better by increasing the sum of the worldsknowledge. He died in New Yoric, Oct. 37, 1898. MacCHESNEY, diaries Eugene, educator,was born in Greenwich, N. Y., Dec. 7,1861, son ofWm. N.
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