American journalist, born in Franklin, Suffolk County, MA, on the 2nd of June 1833; graduated at Yale College in 1853; studied law at the Harvard Law School and practiced his profession at Boston until 1861. At the breaking out of the Civil War he became a correspondent of the New York Tribune. He served in that capacity until 1863, accompanying the Union army to North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and furnishing descriptions of the battles he witnessed that secured for their author a national reputation. In the latter year he was appointed to a position in the editorial department of the Tribune, and afterward was sent to Europe by that paper, establishing a London bureau. His principal professional work while abroad was letters descriptive of the war between Austria and Prussia, descriptive of the Franco-Prussian War, of the death and burial of the German emperors, and of the social and political conditions existent in the countries he visited. In 1895 he became correspondent in the United States for the London Times. He published two notable works from his London correspondence to the N. Y. Tribune, viz., London Letters, and Some Others (2 vols., 1893), and Studies of Men (1896). See also “Critical and Biographical Introduction: Wendell Phillips,” “Louis Blanc, the Man and the Political Leader” and “Bismarck in the Reichstag.”
