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Author: Tricia Raymond Publisher: ISBN: 9780979830105 Category : Flags Languages : en Pages : 87
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The first account to chronicle the history of the Pledge of Allegiance with original documents and historical photographs reveals a fascinating slice of America's past.
Author: Elia Wilkinson Peattie Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com ISBN: 9781230051130 Category : Languages : en Pages : 456
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...reputation as a writer and editor. He was born in Boston. At the age of nine, he was taken abroad, and for five years lived in Europe. In I867 he returned to the United States and remained until I87 I, when he went to England and was graduated at Oxford in 1875. On his return to this country he entered the Columbia Law School. In 1876 he bought the Non'/z American Review and became its editor. He is noted as having organized, in 1879, and subsequently directed, an expedition which was despatched underthe joint auspices of the United States and France to systematically investigate the remains of ancient civilization in Central America and New Mexico. In I884 he bought a controlling interest in the Le Malz'n, one of the leading papers of Paris, which he successfully managed. He always took an active interest in politics, and in 1886 received the Republican nomination for Congress, but was defeated. He edited reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and contributed valuable material to literature concerning the ancient cities of the New World. John A. Enander, of Illinois, was appointed Minister and Councillor-General of the United States to Denmark. He was born in Sweden, and was the son of a farmer. In 1869, he came to America, entering the College of Augustana. He soon became editor of a Swedish newspaper printed in Chicago, and afterwards assumed the charge of several Scandinavian periodicals. He became an American in all the word implies, a broad and liberal-minded citizen, exercising a good influence upon all his countrymen in the United States. Albert G. Porter was made Minister to Italy. He was born in Lawrenceville, Indiana. During the war he served in Congress for three terms. He declined re-election, and devoted himself to the...