American historical writer and statistician, born in Brooklyn, NY, on the 16th of February 1858. He studied at Columbia College, and was for a number of years an editorial writer on the New York Herald. He was appointed chief of the Bureau of Statistics in the Department of State, at Washington, DC, in 1885, and in 1892 chief of a similar bureau in the Treasury Department. He edited the 1879 edition of Wells’s Natural Philosophy, and published a number of volumes, chiefly of letters of prominent Revolutionary characters. Among his publications are The Standard Silver Dollar (1884); Writings of Washington (1889–92); Letters of William Lee (1891); and Correspondence and Journals of Samuel B. Webb (1892).
