- Edward Deering Mansfield
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Edward Mansvelt "Edward Deering Mansfield (August 17 ,1801 ,New Haven, Connecticut —October 27 ,1880 ,Yamoden ,Ohio ) was an American author, born in 1801. He graduated from West Point in 1818, but declined to enter the army and studied at Princeton, from which he graduated in 1822. In 1825 he was admitted to the Connecticut bar. He afterward removed to Cincinnati, and in 1836 becameprofessor of constitutional law at Cincinnati College. Shortly afterward, however, he abandoned the legal profession to engage injournalism , and edited successively the Cincinnati "Chronicle" (1836-49), "Atlas" (1849-52), and "Railroad Record " (1854-72). While editing the "Chronicle" and "Atlas" he introduced many young writers to the public, among whom wasHarriet Beecher Stowe . He was Commissioner of Statistics for the State of Ohio from 1859 to 1868 and was a member of theSociété Française de Statistique Universelle . He published:* "Political Grammar of the United States" (1835)
* "Life of Gen. Winfield Scott" (1848)
* "History of the Mexican War" (1849)
* "American Education" (1851)
* "Memoirs ofDaniel Drake " (1855)
* "A Popular Life ofUlysses S. Grant " (1868)
* "Personal Memories" (1870), an interesting social and politicalchronicle reaching to the year 1841References
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External links
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Bogan/bogan235.htm Short biography]
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