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MEN OF MARK IN AMERICA




EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,
Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., L.H.D.

ADVISORY BOARD

Edwin A. Alderman, LL.D.
President University of Virginia.

[1]Gen. Henry V. Boynton
Chairman of Chicamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission.

Hon. David J. Brewer, LL.D.
Associate Justice United States Supreme Court.

Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., L.H.D.
Ex-President Amherst College.

Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, LL.D.
Treasurer of the United States.

Josiah Strong, D.D.
President Institute Social Service;
Author of "Our Country."

Hon. Henry Litchfield West
Commissioner District of Columbia.

Gen. John M. Wilson, LL.D.
Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., Retired.

Carroll D. Wright, Ph.D., LL.D.
Formerly Commissioner of Labor,
President of Clark College.

Gen. Marcus J. Wright
War Department
President Southern History Association.

Volumes I and II contain biographies of men who are most closely identified with the great public interests which center at the National Capital, and of its leading residents. In the succeeding volumes prominent citizens in all parts of the country will be represented and the Advisory Board has been enlarged by the addition of the following named eminent men:

Francis E. Clark, D.D.
Founder and President United Society of Christian Endeavor.

Franklin H. Head, LL.D.
of Chicago.

David Starr Jordan, LL.D.
President Leland Stanford Jr. University.

Charles D. McIver, LL.D., Litt.D.
President of North Carolina Normal and Industrial College.

Hon. William J. Northen, LL.D.
Ex-Governor of Georgia.

William H. Payne, LL.D.
of the University of Michigan.

Hon. Oscar S. Straus, LL.D., L.H.D.
Ex-United States Minister to Turkey.

Charles F. Thwing, D.D., LL.D.
President Western Reserve University.

[2]Gen. Joseph Wheeler, LL.D.
of Alabama.

  1. General Boynton died while Volumes I and II were in course of preparation.
  2. While the consideration of names for Volumes IV and V was in progress General Wheeler was removed by death.