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Field (HENRY MARTYN American)

HENRY MARTYN, American clergyman and scholar; born in Stockbridge, Mass., April 3, 1822; brother of Cyrus West and Stephen Johnson Field; was graduated at Williams College, and was ordained to the ministry in 1842. In 1854 he became editor and proprietor of the New York "Evangelist." He was a lifelong traveler. Among his work are: "Summer Pictures from Copenhagen to Venice " (1859); "History of the Atlantic Telegraph" (1866); "From Egypt to Japan" (1878); "On the Desert" (1883); "Among the Holy Hills" (1883); "Our Western Archipelago"; "The Barbary Coast"; "Old Spain and New Spain"; "The Story of the Atlantic Cable." He died in 1907.

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