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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
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oth at home and abroad. He contributedverses to the Country Ga2ette before hewas ten years of age, and at the age of nine-teen he wrote Thanatopsis, the most im-pressive and widely known of his poems.The later outgrowth of his genius was histranslation of Homers Iliad in 1870and the Odyssey in 1871. He alsomade several speeches and addresses whichhave been collected in a comprehensive vol-ume called Orations and Addresses. Hewas honored in many ways by his fellowcitizens, who delighted to pay tributes ofrespect to his literary eminence, the breadthof his public spirit, the faithfulness of hisservice, and the worth of his private char-acter. Mr. Bryant died in New York CityJune 12, 1878. WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD, thesecretary of state during one of themost critical times in the history of ourcountry, and the right hand man of Presi-dent Lincoln, ranks among the greateststatesmen America has produced. Mr.Seward was born May 16, 1801, at Florida,Orange county, New York, and with such ^\ ,444
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PUBLIC LIBHAKY TiLDXH fOUKSXTlOWl COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 47 facilities as the place afforded he fitted him-self for a college course. He attendedUnion College at Schenectady, New York,at the age of fifteen, and took his degree inthe regular course, with signs of promise in1820, after which he diligently addressedhimself to the study of law under competentinstructors, and started in the practice ofhis profession in 1823. Mr. Seward entered the political arenaand in 1828 we find him presiding over aconvention in New York, its purpose beingthe nomination of John Quincy Adams for asecond term. He was married in 1824 andin 1830 was elected to the state senate.From 1838 lo 1842 he was governor of thestate of New York. Mr. Sewards next im-portant position was that of United Statessenator from New York. W. H. Seward was chosen by PresidentLincoln to fill the important office of thesecretary of state, and by his firmness anddiplomacy in the face of difficulties, he aidedin piloting the Union

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