Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon,England,was an Anglican priest,hagiographer,antiquarian,novelist,folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications,though this list continues to grow. His family home,the manor house of Lew Trenchard,near Okehampton,Devon,has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns,the best-known being "Onward,Christian Soldiers","Sing Lullaby",and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English.
James Payn was an English novelist and editor. Among the periodicals he edited were Chambers's Journal in Edinburgh and the Cornhill Magazine in London.
Carl Schurz was a German revolutionary and an American statesman,journalist,and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War,he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil service reform. Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and was the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.
Henry Stuart Foote was a United States Senator from Mississippi and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1847 to 1852. He was a Unionist Governor of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854 and an American Party supporter in California. During the American Civil War,he served in the First and Second Confederate Congresses. A practicing attorney,he published two memoirs related to the Civil War years,a book on Texas before its annexation and a postwar book on the legal profession and courts in the Southern United States.
Zachariah Chandler was an American businessman,politician,and one of the founders of the Republican Party,whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist. He was mayor of Detroit,a four-term senator from the state of Michigan,and Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant.
Redfield Proctor was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. He served as the 37th governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880,as Secretary of War from 1889 to 1891,and as a United States Senator for Vermont from 1891 to 1908.
Alonzo Barton Cornell was a New York politician and businessman who was the 27th Governor of New York from 1880 to 1882.
Charles Anderson Dana was an American journalist,author,and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War,he served as Assistant Secretary of War,playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of The New York Sun. He at first appealed to working class Democrats but after 1890 became a champion of business-oriented conservatism. Dana was an avid art collector of paintings and porcelains and boasted of being in possession of many items not found in several European museums.
Jacob Harold Gallinger,was a United States senator from New Hampshire who served as President pro tempore of the Senate in 1912 and 1913.
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was an American journalist,teacher,author,reformer,and abolitionist. Sanborn was a social scientist,and a memorialist of American transcendentalism who wrote early biographies of many of the movement's key figures. He founded the American Social Science Association,in 1865,"to treat wisely the great social problems of the day". He was a member of the so-called Secret Six,or "Committee of Six",which funded or helped obtain funding for John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry;in fact he introduced Brown to the others.
John Robert French was an American publisher,editor and Republican politician. He served as a Congressional Representative from North Carolina,as Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate and as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives during the 1860s.
George Manville Fenn was a prolific English novelist,journalist,editor and educationalist. Many of his novels were written with young adults in mind. His final book was his biography of a fellow writer for juveniles,George Alfred Henty.
Martha Finley was an American teacher and author of numerous works for children,the best known being the 28-volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. Her books tend to be sentimental,with a strong emphasis on religious belief. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley,she was born on April 26,1828,in Chillicothe,Ohio. She died in 1909 in Elkton,Maryland.
Alexander Kelly McClure was an American politician,newspaper editor,and writer from Pennsylvania. He served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1858 to 1859 and 1865 to 1866 as well as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district in 1861 and the 4th district from 1873 to 1874. He was a prominent supporter,correspondent,and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln. He was the editor of the Franklin Repository newspaper in Chambersburg,Pennsylvania and of the Philadelphia Times. The borough of McClure,Pennsylvania,and the Alexander K. McClure School in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,are named in his honor.
Henry Haven Windsor,American author,magazine editor,and publisher,was the founder and first editor of Popular Mechanics. He was succeeded as editor by his son,Henry Haven Windsor,Jr (1898–1965). Windsor also published Cartoons Magazine from 1912 to 1922. Windsor was born in a log cabin in Mitchell,Iowa,the son of Rev. William D. D. Windsor and Harriet Butler (Holmes) Windsor. He attended Iowa College,graduating in 1884. On June 25,1889,he married Lina B. Jackson in Marengo,Illinois.
Rossiter Johnson was an American author and editor. He edited several important encyclopedias,dictionaries,and books,and was one of the first editors to publish "pocket" editions of the classics. He was also an author of histories,novels,and poetry. Among his best known works was Phaeton Rogers,a novel of boyhood in Rochester,New York,where Johnson was born.
George Franklin Edmunds was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont. Before entering the U.S. Senate,he served in a number of high-profile positions,including Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives,and President pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate.
James Macaulay was a Scottish medical man,journalist and author,best known as an anti-vivisectionist and periodical editor.
George Putnam Upton was an American journalist and author.
