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Title: A biographical history of Fremont and Mills Counties, Iowa
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Fremont County (Iowa) -- Biography Mills County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THOMAS MORAN, the well-knownpainter of Rocky Mountain scenery,was born in Lancashire, England, in 1837.He came to America when a child, andshowing artistic tastes, he was apprenticedto a wood engraver in Philadelphia. Threeyears later he began landscape painting, andhis st3de soon began to exhibit signs of genius.His first works were water-colors, andthough without an instructor he began theuse of oils, he soon found it necessary tovisit Europe, where he gave particular at-tention to the works of Turner. He joinedthe Yellowstone Park exploring expeditionand visited the Rocky Mountains in 1871and again in 1873, making numeroussketches of the scenery. The most note-worthy results were his * Grand Canon ofthe Yellowstone, and The Chasm of theColorado, which were purchased by con-gress at $10,000 each, the first of which isundoubtedly the finest landscape paintingproduced in this country. Mr. Moran hassubordinated art to nature, and the subjectshe has chosen leave little ground for fault
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255152H PUBLIC li-^^^^*RT ASTO.*., - • ^ COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHT. 101 finding on that account. The Mountainof the Holy Cross, The Groves WereGods First Temples, The Cliffs of GreenRiver, The Children of the Mountain, The Ripening of the Leaf, and othershave given him additional fame, and whilethey do not equal in grandeur the firstmentioned, in many respects from an artis-tic standpoint they are superior. LELAND STANFORD was one of the,e;reatest men of the Pacific coast andalso had a national reputation. He wasborn March 9, 1824, in Albany county, NewYork, and passed his early life on hisfathers farm. He attended the localschools of the county and at the age oftwenty began the study of law. Heentered the law office of Wheaton, Doolittleand Hadley, at Albany, in 1845, ^n^ a fewyears later he moved to Port Washington,Wisconsin, where he practiced law fouryears with moderate success. In 1852 Mr.Stanford determined to push further west,and, accordingly went to California, wherethree of

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