Memorials. Collected by his Literary Executor Horatio S. White Volume 2 - Couverture rigide

Fiske, Willard; White, Horatio Stevens

 
9781356084166: Memorials. Collected by his Literary Executor Horatio S. White Volume 2

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Daniel Willard Fiske was bom in Ellisburgh, N. Y., November 11, 1831, and died in Frankforton-the-M ain, September 17, 1904. He was educated at Cazenovia Seminary and at Hamilton College, but left the latter institution before graduation to go abroad and study the Scandinavian languages. He passed two years at the University of Upsala, Sweden, and returned to New York in 1852, taking a place in the A stor Library, where he remained until 1859. He was General Secretary of the American Geographical Society, 1859-60. In 1857 the American Chess Monthly was founded, which he edited in conjunction with Paul Morphy, 1857-60; and compiled the Book of the First American Chess Congress, held in New York, 1857. He had been connected with the United States Legation, Copenhagen, 1850-1851; and became Attache to the United States Legution, Vienna, 1861-62, under Motley. In 1863-65 he was connected with the Syracuse Daily Journal. Later he was in the book business in Syracuse, and in 1867 was on the staff of the Hartford Courant.
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9781290230254: Memorials. Collected by His Literary Executor Horatio S. White Volume 2

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ISBN 10 :  1290230250 ISBN 13 :  9781290230254
Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2012
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