Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1914), 5: 681.
Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography. Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1914.
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Secondary
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1914
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Book
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Whitney, Henry Clay, lawyer, state senator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1831, in Detroit, Maine. He was an intimate friend of Lincoln from 1854 until his death; and in 1861-65 was paymaster in the United States army. In 1871-72 he was state senator of Kansas. He is the author of Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce; and also many essays on Lincoln. He died Feb. 27, 1905, in Salem Mass.
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Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1914), 5: 15.
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Riley, Theodore Myers, clergyman, author, was born June 9, 1842, in Carlisle, Pa. Since 1803 he has been engaged in the ministry; and in 1894-1902 was adjunct professor of pastoral theology in the General theological seminary of New York City. He is the author of Charles George Gordon; and a biography of Eugene Augustus Hoffman.