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Johnson (ROSSITER an American)

ROSSITER, an American 1840; was educated there, and edited the editor; born in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1840; was educated there, and edited the the Concord (N. H.) "Statesman"; in 1873-1877 was associated with George 1880 aided Sydney Howard Gay in his "History of the United States." In 1883 he became editor of the "Annual Cyclopædia." He devised and edited the series of "Little Classics" (16 vols. 1874- 1875; two additional vols. 1880). He was editor-in-chief of the "World's Great Books" (50 vols. 1898-1901). Life of Captain John Smith" (1916); "Epi

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