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An American writer of note; born in Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1840; died in Cairo, Egypt, July 18, 1890. He was United States secretary of legation at St. Petersburg (1870-76); secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople (1876-78); and minister to Greece (1882-84). His works include: "Turkestan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkestan, Khokand, Bokhara, and Kuldja" (1876); "Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia" (2 vols., 1884); and "American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce" (1886).