DANIELL, MOSES GRANT
Adair's New Encyclopedia · 1923 · p. 6
(18361909), American educator; 6. in Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1863 and for 32 years was engaged in secondary school work, principally at Roxbury Latin School (17 years) and as principal of the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, 12 years). He edited works for Ginn Co., and was long treasurer of the Handel and Hayden Society. His Latin books for secondary school are much used. tor, 6. Washington, N.C. In 1880, at the age of 18, he edited the Wilson (N.C.) Advance. Five years later he became a lawyer but never practiced, continuing in journalism as editor of the Raleigh (N.C.) State Chronicle, which later became the present News and Observer, a journal whose editorial control he retained throughout his career. He also served as State printer of North Carolina from 1887 to 1893, and for two years afterward was chief clerk of the Department of the Interior. As a Democrat he emerged inte national polivcs in the presidential campaign of ‘Woodrow Wilson in 1912, acting as the party’s publicity manager, and upon President Wilson’s taking office in 1913 was appointed Secretary of the Navy. He heid this post throughout the World War and until the Wilson administration ended in 1921. He was a delegate to two Democratic National Conventions and served as a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1896. His tenure of Navy portfolio produced many changes in naval administration and training. During the war period he delivered numerous addre es, later published in book form under the title of The Navy and the Nation. Another of his contributions to the war’s liter aH any aw Our Navy at War, published (1878), an American composer, }b. at Swamp scott, Ma ., daughter of George F. and Maria Wheeler Daniels. After | graduating from the Girls’ Latin School, Boston, 1896, and from Radcliffe College, Cambridge in 1900 she studied composition with George W. Chadwick and then spent a year in Munich under Ludwig Thuille. She began writing music to two operettas for students of Radcliffe College and later composed many songs, part-songs and chorals including compositions which in 1911, received two prizes offered by the National Federation of Music Clubs. She was also the author of An American Girl in Munich. (1867). Political economist. Born at Dayton, Ohio, September 30, 1867. He graduated from Princeton in 1888 and studied a year at the University of Leipzig. Was profe or of political economy at Princeton 1892-1911, member of the Board of Public Utilities Commi ion of New Jersey, 1911-1914, and of the Interstate Commerce Commi ion, 1914. Publications Revision and Continuation of Alexander Johnston's History of the United States, 1897; Elements of Public Finance, 1899; and Continuation of Alexander Johnston's History of American Politics, 1902.
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