American author, born in Northfield, MA, on the 29th of January 1834; was graduated at Harvard in 1855; professor at Antioch College, 1866–72; became professor of English and German literature in the University of Missouri in 1872; in 1874 became a professor in Washington University, St. Louis, MO. He published The Color Guard (1864); Short History of German Literature (1879); Samuel Adams in the American Statesman Series (1885); The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane (1888); How Thankful Was Bewitched, a novel (1895); and The Life of Thomas Hutchinson (1896).
