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HEERINGPHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

Stevenson's Attitude to Life;

Ecclesiastes

and Omar Khayyam; and Words of Koheleth, Being a Study and Translation of tlie

George, John Malin, philanthropist,

Bool?: of Ecclesiastes.

George,

Andrew Jackson,

educator, author, was born on Feb. 16, 1853, in GoflFstown, N.H. He is a noted educator of Newton, Mass.; and head of the English department of Clark university. He is the editor and

author of numerous works. George, Enoch, clergyman, bishop, was born in 1767 in Lancaster county, Va. In 1816-28 he was a bishop of the methodist episcopal church. He died in August, 1838, in Staunton, Va. George, Henry, journalist, author, was born Sept. 2, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1887-97 he was editor of the Standard of New York City. He ~wa.s the leading exponent and advocate of the single or land tax in the world. He was a candidate for mayor of New York in 1897, but died a few days prior to the electioii. He was, the author of Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish Land Question; The Land Question; and Social Problems. He died Oct. 29, 1897, in

Christmas in Other Lands; Washington and Suggestions for Seat Work; and How Little Cedric Became a Knight. Lincoln;

New York aty.

George, Henry, journalist, reformer, author, was born Nov. 3, 1862, in Sacramento, He is the eldest son of the late Henry Cal. George. Since 1881 he has been engaged in newspaper work. He was secretary to his father on his lecturing tour in Great Britain. He is the author of a biography of his father.

George, James Zachariah, soldier, lawyer.

bom Oct. 20, 1826, in Monroe county, Ga. He was a brigadier-general of state troops; and later colonel of the fifth regiment of Mississippi cavalry in the confederate states army. In 1879 he was appointed one of the judges of the supreme court of Mississippi and elected United States senator, was

chief justice. In 1881-97 he States senator. He died Aug. Mississippi City, Miss.

was United 14, 1897, in

George, Marian M., educator, author,

was

born Dee. 25, 1865, in Zanesville, Ohio. She was educated in the public schools of lUi-.

and

in 1883-99 in various schools in that state.

nois;

taught

Since girlhood she has contributed stories to magazines and periodical

literature.

She

has been critic teacher in English training school; and a teacher

in

Oak Park and

other cities of Illinois. She is the author of

Primary Plan Books; The Intermediate Plan Books; Character Building; Little Journeys; son; Stories in Season;

Songs in Sea-

How

to

Sleep;

was

born Oct. 16, 1802, in Philadelphia, Pa. By his will he left thirty-five thousand dollars to various religious and charitable institutions in Pennsylvania. He died Feb. 11, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa. George, Melvin Clarke, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born May He was a 13, 1849, in Noble county, Ohio. state senator for four years; and in 188185 he was a representative from Oregon to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congressIn 1897 he was appointes as a republican. ed judge of the state circuit court; and in 1898 was elected to the same position.

George, Nathan Dow, clergyman, author, was born in 1808 in New Hampshire. He was a methodist clergyman "of Maine and Massachusetts. He was the author of An

Examination of Universalism Universalism of God; Materialism Anti-Scriptural; and Annihilation Not of the Bible. He

Not

died in 1896 in Massachusetts. George, Samuel Carr, educator, missionary, was born July 8, 1832, in Allegheny county. Pa. In 1861-73 he was a missionary in Siam. In 1886 he was elected professor of the Sanskrit and cognate tongues in Wilson female college of Chambersburg, Pa. George, William Reuben, business president, philanthropist, foimder, was born on June 4, 1860, in West Dryden, N.Y. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; and in 1880 engaged in business in New York City. He became interested in the boys and girls of the poorer class; and in 1904 took parties of two hundred to the country for two weeks to a month to spend their vacation with him. In 1894 he conceived 'a plan of requiring payment of labor for everything the children^ received; and also in addition instituted self-government. From these reforms came the idea of the Junior Republic, put in operation in New York in 1895. The George junior republic is a reform in the methods of dealing with delinquent and dependent children, the system now being extended to various states of the union. Gerard, James Watson, lawyer, philanthropist, was born in 1794 in New York City. It was through his efforts that the institution now known as the house of refuge for juvenile delinquents was founded in New York City, .the first institution of its kind in the United States. He died Feb 7, 1874, in New York City. Gerard, James Watson, lawyer, state senator, author, was bom about 1822 in New York City. He successively occupied the offices of trustee and inspector of schools in New York City; and was elected to the state senate in 1876-77. He is the author of The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real