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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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battle of Long Island and took NewYork city. He won the battle of Brandywine inSeptember 1777, in consequence of which Phila-delphia was occupied by his army. At his ownrequest he was recalled in 1778, and was suc-ceeded by Sir Henrj- Clinton, who repulsedWashington at Germantown in the October fol-lowing. He succeeded to the Irish peerage asviscount in 1799. Howell, Clark, American journalist andpolitician: b. Barnwell County. S. C. 21 Sept1863. He was graduated from the Universityof Georgia in 1^3, entered journalism, becamemanaging editor in 1889 of the Atlanta Con-stitution, and editor-in-chief 1807. He was amember of the Georgia House of Representatives189D-1 and has been a member of the GeorgiaSenate from 1900. Howell, Mich., -village, county-seat of Liv-ingston County: on the Pere M. and the .\nn .\.RRs; about 50 miles northwest of Detroit. Itis located in a rich agricultural section of theState. The chief manufactures are flour andcondensed milk; and it has a large sash, door.
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Photograph copyright, 1902, by Iurdy, Boston. JULIA WARD HOWE. t HOWELLS — HOWITT and blind factor)-, and a planing-mill. Pop.(1900) 2,5i8. Howells, Willicim Dean, American novel-ist, poet and criuc: b. Martins Ferry, Ohio, IMarch 1S37. During his boyhood his fatherowned and published daily papers in Hamiltonand Dayton, Ohio, successively, and he learnedthe printers trade and gradually the whole busi-ness of conducting a newspaper. In 1851 hewas working in Columbus as a compositor; in1856 he became Columbus correspondent of theCincinnati Ga:ctie; and in 1859 was appointednews editor of the Ohio State Journal. At thistime he published a small volume of poems, andlalso some poems in the Atlantic Monthly. Ini860, when Lincoln was nominated, Howellswrote his life, and in 1861 was appointed UnitedStates consul at Venice, where he remained till1865. The impressions of his stay there wereembodied in Venetian Life (1866), and ItalianJourneys* (1867). On his return to the UnitedStates, he wa

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