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East Africa (GERMAN co III in He)

GERMAN co., III., in 1858. He was educated in the public schools of Quincy, Ill., and for several years taught at the public schools.

After several years of newspaper work he organized and became secretary of the Civic Federation of Chicago. In 1900 he organized the National Civic Federation and became chairman of its executive council. He promoted national conferences on primary election reforms in New York and promoted also other conferences on political and economic subjects. He organized in 1917 the League for National Unity. He wrote extensively on sociological subjects.

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