American journalist, born in Gettysburg, PA, on the 31st of July 1830; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, and studied law, but abandoned its practice for journalism. In 1858 and 1860 he was elected to Congress; was clerk in the House of Representatives (1863–73, 1881–83, and 1889–91). From 1877 to 1880 he was editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Press; and in 1880 became editor of a paper in Gettysburg, PA. From 1877 till his death he edited the New York Tribune Almanac; was the American editor of the Almanach de Gotha; published every second year Handbook of Politics; and was the author of Political History of the United States During the Great Rebellion (1865) and Political History of the United States During the Period of Reconstruction (1871). He died in Gettysburg on the 14th of December 1895.
