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An American journalist and editor; born in Colebrook, N. H., Aug. 10, 1834. He settled in Chicago, was editor of the Chicago Tribune (1864-74), and subsequently became connected with the New York Evening Post. He has written many pamphlets and essays upon political, social, and financial topics, the best known being: "The Silver Question"; "The Tariff Question"; "Coin's Financial Fool"; "Money and Banking Illustrated by American History"; "The Gold Standard"; and has edited Luigi Cossa's "Scienza delle Finanze" (1888), and Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Economiques" (1889).