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(33° 39’ N., 42° 50’ E.), town, Turkey-in-Asia; produces naphtha, bitumen. Pop. c. 5000. 1604), Span. author; wrote well-known romance, Guerras civiles de Granada. After his graduation from Ambhers College in 1856, he became a ist an State geologist of Vermont, 1857-61 State geologist of Maine, 1861-2; and o New Hampshire, 1868-78. From 186: to 1908 he served as profe or of geolog: at Dart mouth College. He compilec many geological maps and was: founder of the Geological Society o America. (1798-1870), major-general; 6. Ver Allen. He entered the artillery in 181 as a third lieutenant upon graduatin from West Point and commanded th corps of cadets from 1829 to 1833. H saw service in Florida against the In dians and in the war in Mexico, when h reached the ranks of colonel and brig a dier-general. After retiring from th army he was gazetted major general o volunteers. He was interested i alchemy, Swedenborg and Dante, an published works on these subjects. (1835-1909), U. 8S. amba ador; 2 Mobile, Ala.; d. Washington, D. C After engaging in busine in St. Loui: Mo., and in China, and serving later a president of a number of manufacturing mining and railway companies, he wa appointed by President McKinley a envoy to Ru ia, 1897. The Ru ia: legation being raised to an emba y th following year, he became the firs American Amba ador to the Czar’ court, but soon returned to the Unite States to join the Cabinet as Secretar of the Interior, a post he held throug the McKinley and Roosevelt admin is trations till 1907. graduated from Harvard in 189land prc ceeded to study law in Washington, D.C where he was admitted to the bar thre years later. Entering the govern men service, he became chief of the foreig markets division of the Department ¢ Agriculture, chief clerk of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, fir: a istant Postmaster General, and 190 13, Postmaster General. During hi direction of the Post Office the parece post and postal savings banks wet established. In 1908 he was chairman « the National Republican Committe and managed the Taft presidential can paign of that year; also the campaign fe the nomination of Charles E. Hughe for President in 1916. In 1913 he r sumed the practice of law in New Yor City. 1859), statesman and publisher; 0b. slain tion in his native city and in BadenBaden, Germany, later studying law thocomus and obtaining the LL.B. degree of the University of Michigan. He practised olive in Omaha from 1881 to 1885, when he yellow sntered journalism by establishing the able Omaha Evening World. Acquiring the on Omaha Morning Herald in 1889, he. is combined the two journals as the Worldype. po and became notable as its puber. He served three terms in the| ng. lower house of Congre between 1903 on and 1911 as a Democrat, and in the later year was elected to the Senate, where High né remained until 1923, having been Bangor, jlefeated for re-election. After the chester; World War he was Pre is dent Wilson’s sermon shief spokesman during the heated deof bates on the League of Nations (q.v.) in ine Senate in a vain effort to obtain the u ent of the Republican majority of hat chamber to American participation LOW n the League’s functions. one in the 1817-1887), theologian; b East part Machias, Me.; d. Somerset, Ma . He ing jeminary in 1848, and later studied in dalle and Berlin. After serving as yastor of an Exeter (N.H.) Congregaional Church, 1845-52, he became pro General; ie of revealed religion at Bowdoin b. of Jollege and 1855, profe or of church listory at the Union Theological Seminter ry, Of which institution he was apjudge jointed president in 1880. He was an Common dit or of the American Theological Supreme teview and wrote an analysis of the joined sible. 1869 he