The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson

OBERHOLTZER, ō'bėr-hol-ser, Ellis Paxson, American historian; son of Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer (q.v.): b. Philadelphia, 1868. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1893), and at Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris; was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (1889-96); editor of The Manufacturer (1896-1900), literary and dramatic editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger (1902-08). He has published &lsquo;The Referendum in America&rsquo; (1893, 3d ed., 1908); &lsquo;Die Beziehung zwischen dem Staat und der Zeitungspresse&rsquo; (1895); &lsquo;The New Man&rsquo; (1897); &lsquo;Robert Morris, Patriot and Financier&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;Abraham Lincoln&rsquo; (1904); &lsquo;The Literary History of Philadelphia&rsquo; (1907); &lsquo;Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War,&rsquo; (2 vols., 1907); &lsquo;Henry Clay&rsquo; (1909); &lsquo;Philadelphia, a History of the City and its People&rsquo; (4 vols., 1911), and edited &lsquo;American Crisis Biographies&rsquo; (20 volumes).