These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Young.
ANDREW WHITE, an American political economist; born in Carlisle, N. Y., March 2, 1802. He wrote "Introduction to Science of Government" (1843); "Citizen's Manual of Government and Law" (1851); "The American Statesman: A Political History of the United States" (1855); "National Economy: A History of the American Protective System" (1860). He died in Warsaw, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1877.
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ARTHUR, an English political economist; born in Suffolk, England, Sept. 11, 1741. He became a farmer, and made a series of agricultural tours in England, Ireland, and France, publishing accounts of them, which were very favorably received, and in 1793 he was appointed secretary to the newly constituted Board of Agriculture. Of his many writings his "Travels in France," ARTHUR YOUNG published in 1792, is the most interesting, from its sketches of the social as well as the agricultural conditions of the French provinces just before and just after the revolution of 1789. He died in London, April 20, 1820.
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JESSE BOWMAN, an American clergyman, author, and editor; borr in Berwick, Pa., July 5, 1844; waf graduated at Dickinson College in 1868; served three years in the Union army in the Civil War, ending as captain in the 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers; entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1868, and was pastor in Pennsylvania and Kansas City, Mo.; editor of the "Central Christian Advocate" (1892-1900); etc. He wrote: "What a Boy Saw in the Army"; "Days and Nights on the Sea"; "Helps for the Quiet Hour" (1900). He died in 1914.
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SIR JOHN, BARON LISGAR, a British statesman; born in Bombay, British India, Aug. 31, 1807; was graduated at Oxford University in 1829 and called to the bar in 1834. He was a member of the House of Commons in 1831- 1845; lord of the treasury in 1841-1844; secretary of the treasury in 1844-1846; chief secretary under the Earl of Aberdeen, in Ireland, in 1852-1855; and in the latter year was transferred to the Ionian Islands as lord high commissioner. On the death of his father in 1848 he succeeded to the baronetcy, and in 1860 was sent to New South Wales as governor. His administration in that colony lasted nearly seven years, when he returned to England, and in 1868 was appointed governor-general of Canada, in which office he served till 1872, when he was succeeded by the Earl of Dufferin. He died in Freland, Oct. 6, 1876.
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JOHN RUSSELL, an American journalist; born in Downingtown, Pa., Nov. 20, 1841. He entered journalism in 1857 as a copyholder on the Philadelphia "Press"; and was rapidly promoted to reporter, news editor, Washington correspondent, and at the outbreak of the Civil War was war correspondent. He remained with the Army of the Potomac from the battle of Bull Run to the end of the Chickahominy campaign, when he returned to Philadelphia ill, and became managing editor of the "Press." In September, 1865, he joined the editorial staff of the New York "Tribune"; in May managing editor, retiring in 1866, became ma 1869; established the "Morr "Morning Post" in Philadelphia; the "Standard" in New York (1869); was European correspondent of the New York "Herald" (1871- 1877); as correspondent of the same paper he accompanied General Grant in his journey round the world (1877); resumed editorial work on the "Herald" (1879-1882); was appointed minister to China (1882); resigned in 1885 and came home; was appointed Librarian of Congress, June 30, 1897. He wrote "Around the World with General Grant" (1879), and edited "Memorial Histo History of Philadelphia" and "Narrative and Critical History" (1895). He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 17, 1899. BALDWIN
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JAMES, a British chemist; born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1811; studied chemistry under Professor Graham at Anderson's College, Glasgow, and became assistant both there and at University College, London. Receiving appointments in chemical works at St. Helen's and Manchester, he discovered a method of distilling oil from shale, through which he became the founder of the miner the mineral oil industry of Scotland, besides leading to the development of the petroleum industry in America and elsewhere. He acquired a large fortune and endowed a chair of technical chemistry in Anderson's College, Glasgow. He died in 1883.
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THOMAS, an English scientist; born of a Quaker family in Milverton, Somersetshire, England, June 13, 1773. He qualified himself for the medical profession; but a fortune left him made him rather languid in his practice as a physician in London. In 1802 he became the colleague of Davy as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal F Institution, having previously made the discovery of the interference of light, the result of researches which, completed by Fresnel, secured the triumph of the undulatory theory. In 1807 appeared his admirable "Lectures on Natural ral Philosophy." In 1818 he was appointed secretary of the Board of Longitude, with the charge of supervising the "Nautical Almanack." Young preceded Champollion in the discovery of tic character of certain of charact the alphabetic the Egyptian hieroglyphs. He was a man of universal accomplishments, adding to his scientific and mathematical attainments a knowledge of the classical and the principal modern and Oriental languages. He died in London, May 10, 1829.
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SAMUEL MARKS, an American military officer; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 9, 18 1840; entered the Union army in 1861; served with distinction through the Civil War; brevetted Brigadier-General and was April 9, 1865. He joined the regular army as 2d lieutenant in May 1866; was promoted captain in July, 1866, and colonel, June 19, 1897; was commissioned a Brigadier-General of volunteers, May 4, 1898; and participated in the Cuban of volunteers, and honorably discharged after the surrender of Santiago; served in the Philippines in 1889-1901; was promoted Brigadier-General, U. S. A., .., Jan. 2, 1900; Major-General, Feb. 2, 1901; and for a time served as military governor of Northwestern Luzon and was commander of the 1st District, Department of Luzon. Later in the same year he was placed in command of the Department of California. In February, 1902, he was selected to be the first president of the newly-established Army War College, in Washington, D. C. He died in 1921.
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