WILLIAM MAXWELL BLACKBURN
\wˈɪli͡əm mˈakswɛl blˈakbɜːn], \wˈɪliəm mˈakswɛl blˈakbɜːn], \w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m m_ˈa_k_s_w_ɛ_l b_l_ˈa_k_b_ɜː_n]\
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An American Presbyterian divine and educator, historian and biographer; born at Carlisle, Ind., Dec. 30, 1828; died- 1900. He became president of the University of North Dakota (1884-85) and Pierre University, South Dakota (1885). He wrote: "St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church" (1869); "Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots" (2 vols., 1869); "History of the Christian Church" (1879); etc.; and the "Uncle Alick" juvenile stories.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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