GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND
\d͡ʒˈɔːd͡ʒ ˈalfɹɪd tˈa͡ʊnsɛnd], \dʒˈɔːdʒ ˈalfɹɪd tˈaʊnsɛnd], \dʒ_ˈɔː_dʒ ˈa_l_f_ɹ_ɪ_d t_ˈaʊ_n_s_ɛ_n_d]\
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An American journalist and war correspondent; born in Georgetown, Del., Jan. 30, 1841. He became a journalist in 1860. He was special correspondent for the New York Herald and World (1860-64), afterwards public lecturer, and war correspondent in the Austro-Prussian War (1866). His publications in book form are: "Campaigns of a Non-Combatant" (1865); "Life of Garibaldi" (1867); "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1867); "The New World and the Old"; "Poems" (1870); "Washington Outside and Inside" (1871); "Bohemian Days" (1881); "The Entailed Hat" (1884), and "Katy of Catoctin; or The Chain-Breakers" (1886), novels; "Life of Levi P. Morton" (1888); "Columbus in Love" (1892).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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