Identifier: americanaunivers07newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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pended in 1876. He then established the Courier, which did not long continue, and in 1880 bought a quarter interest in the Constitution, of which paper he remained until his death editor and part owner. He was an able journalist, writing for the New York Herald some noteworthy letters, including an account of the Hamburg riots in South Carolina; and while editor of the Constitution, publishing in its columns vivid descriptions of the Charleston earthquake, and in various magazines articles on the condition and promise of the South. He also became locally known for his oratory, largely through his lecture, Just Human, given at Atlanta. In 1886, at the annual banquet of the New England Society in New York, he made a distinguished address on The New South,* which was widely printed and at once gave him a national prominence. Other well-known speeches by himwere one on prohibition at Atlanta in 1887, one at the Texas State Fair in Dallas in 1888, and his final and greatest effort, The Future of the
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HENRY WOODFIN GRADY. GRAEBNER — GRAFTAGE Negro> (December 1889), before the Merchants Association of Boston. Grady was the first to present to the North the views of the more en-lightened portion of the reconstructed South, —its belief that the struggle between the States was war and not rebellion, but at the same time its readiness to identify itself with the united progress of the nation. His eloquent services in this behalf were of much importance. He aided in the establishment of the Confederate Veterans Home, the election of Gen. J. B. Cordon as governor of the State, and the organization of the Atlanta expositions of 1887 and 1889. He declined public office, but was frequently mentioned for nomination to the United States Senate. Consult the Life,* by Lee (1896). Graebner, grebner, August L., . American Lutheran theologian: b. Frankentrost, Mich., 10 July 1849. He studied at Concordia College (Ft. Wayne, Ind.) and the Concordia Theological Seminary (St. Louis, Mo.), was ordained t

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