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MEN OF MARK IN AMERICA

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,
Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., L.H.D.

ADVISORY BOARD

Edwin A. Alderman, LL.D. President Tulane University. *Gen. Henry V. Boynton Chairman of Chicamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission. Hon. David J. Brewer, LL.D. Associate Justice United States Supreme Court. Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., L.H.D. Ex-President Amherst College. Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, LL.D. Treasurer of the United States.

Josiah Strong, D.D. President Institute Social Service; Author of "Our Country." Hon. Henry Litchfield West Commissioner District of Columbia. Gen. John M. Wilson, LL.D. Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., Retired. Carroll D. Wright, Ph.D., LL.D. Formerly Commissioner of Labor, President of Clark College. Gen. Marcus J. Wright War Department President Southern History Association.

*General Boynton died while Volumes I and II were in course of preparation.

Volumes I and II contain biographies of men who are most prominently identified with the great political, educational and public interests which center at the National Capital, and of its leading residents. In the following volumes eminent men in all parts of the country will be represented.

In order that this representation may be complete the Advisory Board has been enlarged. In addition to those already named the following eminent men have consented to serve in the same capacity for the succeeding volumes:

Francis E. Clark, D.D. Founder and President United Society of Christian Endeavor. Franklin H. Head, LL.D. of Chicago. David Starr Jordan, LL.D. President Leland Stanford Jr. University. Charles D. McIver, LL.D., Litt.D. President of North Carolina Normal and Industrial College.

Hon. William J. Northen, LL.D. Ex-Governor of Georgia. William H. Payne, LL.D. of the University of Michigan. Hon. Oscar S. Straus, LL.D., L.H.D. Ex-United States Minister to Turkey. Charles F. Thwing, D.D., LL.D. President Western Reserve University. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, LL.D. of Alabama.

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