See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

FREDERICK See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

LAW See also:

• OLMSTED, DENISON (1791-1859)
• OLMSTED, F
• FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED (1822-1903)

OLMSTED (1822-1903)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American landscape architect, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• HARTFORD

Hartford, See also:

• CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 27th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1822 . From his earliest years he was a wanderer . While still a lad he shipped before the See also:

• MAST (2) (Anglo-Saxon maest, food, common to some Teutonic languages, and ultimately connected with " meat")
• MAST (I) (O. Eng. maest; a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. malus; from the medieval latinized form mast us comes Fr. malt)

mast as a sailor; then he took a course in the Yale Scientific School; worked for several farmers; and, finally, began farming for himself on Staten See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, where he met See also:

• CALVERT
• CALVERT, FREDERICK CRACE (1819–1873)
• CALVERT, SIR HARRY, BART

Calvert See also:

• VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895)

Vaux, with whom later he formed a business See also:

• PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership . All this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he wrote for the agricultural papers . In 185o he made a walking tour through See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, his observations being published in Walks and Talks of an American See also:

• FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

Farmer in England (1852) . A horseback trip through the See also:

• SOUTHERN

Southern States was recorded in A See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), A Journey through See also:

• TEXAS

Texas (1857) and A Journey in the Back See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country (186o) . These three volumes, reprinted in England in two as Journeys and Explorations in the See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

Cotton See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom (1861), gave a picture of the conditions surrounding American See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery that had See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, and they were much quoted in the controversies at the time of the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . During the war he was the untiring secretary of the U.S . Sanitary See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission . He happened to be in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City when Central See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park was projected, and, in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with Vaux, proposed the See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan which, in competition with more than See also:

• THIRTY

thirty others, won first See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize . See also:

• OLMSTED, DENISON (1791-1859)
• OLMSTED, F
• OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW (1822-1903)

Olmsted was made See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent to carry out the plan . This was practically the first See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt in the See also:

• UNITED

United States to apply See also:

• ART

art to the improvement or emLellishment of nature in a public park; it attracted great See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, and the See also:

• WORK

work was so satisfactorily done that he was engaged thereafter in most of the important See also:

• WORKS

works of a similar nature in See also:

• AMERICA

America—Prospect Park, See also:

• BROOKLYN

Brooklyn; Fairmount Park, See also:

• PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia; See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Park, See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago; See also:

• RIVERSIDE

Riverside and Morningside Parks, New York; See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Royal Park, See also:

• MONTREAL

Montreal; the grounds surrounding the Capitol at See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington, and at See also:

• LELAND (LEYLAND Or LAYLONDE), JOHN (c. 1506-1552)
• LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY (1824-1903)
• LELAND, JOHN (1691–1766)

Leland See also:

• STANFORD, SIR CHARLES VILLIERS (1852– )

Stanford University at Palo See also:

• ALTO (Ital. for " high ")

Alto (See also:

• CALIFORNIA
• CALIFORNIA, LOWER (Baja California)
• CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF

California); and many others .

He took the See also:

• BARE

bare stretch of See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake front at Chicago and See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed it into the beautiful See also:

• WORLD

World's See also:

• FAIR

Fair grounds, placing all the buildings and contributing much to the architectural beauty and the success of the exposition . He was greatly interested in the See also:

• NIAGARA
• NIAGARA, FORT

Niagara See also:

• RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation, made the plans for the park there, and also did much to influence the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of New York to provide the Niagara Park . He was the first See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner of the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Park of the See also:

• YOSEMITE

Yosemite and the Mariposa See also:

• GROVE (O.E. graf, cf. O.E. gr(efa, brushwood, later" greave "; the word does not appear in any other Teutonic language, and the New English Dictionary finds no Indo-European root to which it can be referred; Skeat considers it connected with " grave," to
• GROVE, SIR GEORGE (182o-1900)
• GROVE, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT (1811-1896)

Grove, directing the survey and taking See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of the See also:

• PROPERTY

property for the state of California . He had also held directing appointments under the cities of New York, See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, Philadelphia, See also:

• BALTIMORE
• BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, 1ST BARON (C. 1580—1632)

Baltimore, See also:

• WILMINGTON

Wilmington and See also:

• SAN

San Francisco, the See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

Joint See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee on Buildings and Grounds of See also:

• CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress, the Niagara Falls Reservation Commission, the trustees of Harvard, Yale, See also:

• AMHERST
• AMHERST, JEFFREY AMHERST, BARON (1717-1797)

Amherst and other colleges and public institutions . Subsequently to 1886 he was largely occupied in laying out an extensive See also:

• SYSTEM

system of parks and parkways for the city of Boston and the See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• BROOKLINE

Brookline, and on a See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of landscape improvement of Boston See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour . Olmsted received honorary degrees from Harvard, Amherst and Yale in 1864, 1867 and 1893 . He died on the 28th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1903 .