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 . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 303. secretarj; for foreign correspondence of the Ameri-can Cliristian commission. He was a great reader,thinker, scholar, and philanthropist, whose firsttho
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 . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 303. secretarj; for foreign correspondence of the Ameri-can Cliristian commission. He was a great reader,thinker, scholar, and philanthropist, whose firstthought was the alleviation of misery on every collection of his principal papers, sermons, andaddresses is in preparation, and a Memoir, byHenry Barnard, , of Hartford, has been pub-lished. He died Aug. 13,1886, at Mount Vernon,N. , Edwin Henry, manufacturer, ex-mayor of Philadelphia and president of the Unionleague of that city, was born in Philadelphia , 1825. son of William Fitler, aprominent tanner and leatherdealer. After leaving school heentered the law-offlce of CharlesE. Lex, with whom he remainedfour years, and in the meantimegave close attention to convey-ancing. The knowledge gainedduring this period of his life wasof great assistance to him in hisfuture career as a remarkablysuccessful business man, as inforty years of experience he hasnever been involved in a singlelitigation. Having a markedpredil
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