Charles Anderson Dana, 1895 - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: abelincolnsyar3369mccl (find matches)
Title: "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (excerpts)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Benjamin J. Falk (1853-1925)
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : International Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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IIORACK GRFELEY. for more than thirty years editor of the New York Tribune,the most influential Republican newspaper in the country during Lincolns time, was notfriendly to the President a good deal of the time from 1861 to 1865. Mr. Greeley desiredto dictate to Lincoln, which was something to which the latter would not submit. In1872 Greeley headed the Independent Republican revolt, and was endorsed for thePresidencj by the Democrats. His humiliating defeat by President Grant caused his deathshortly after the election. He was born in New Hampshire in 1811. (35i)
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CHARLES ANDERSON DANA. Assistant Secretary of War to Secretary Stanton,and for many years previous to his death the editor of the New York Sun, was one ofthe really great journalists of his time, he being particularly noted for the bitterness withwhich he carried on controversies, personal and political, through the columns of hispaper. As Secretaiy Stantons assistant he was of much aid to President Lincoln andthe War Department in reporting, after visiting the headquarters of commanding generalsin the field, the true state of affairs. He was called the eyes of the War Department.He was born in New Hampshire in 1819. and died in 1897. (352)