James Grant Wilson
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James Grant Wilson was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the Chicago Record in 1857, the first literary paper in that region. During the American Civil War, he served a
Wilson c. 1863
John Fiske (philosopher)
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John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian. He was heavily influenced by Herbert Spencer and applied Spencer's concepts of evolution to his own writings on linguistics, philosophy, religion,
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…He edited A Memorial History of the City of New York (four volumes, 1892–93); Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (six volumes, 1887–89, with John Fiske; volume vii, 1900); The Great Commanders Series (eighteen volumes, completed 1913); and The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (four volumes…
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"Professor John Fiske flies the evolution kite in America." – Daily Graphic, September 12, 1874.
Fiske late in life
The John Fiske Monument, Petersham