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JAMES FORD RHODES

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 258 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES FORD RHODES  (1848- ),
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American historian, was born in Cleveland,
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Ohio, on the 1st of May 1848 . He II entered the university of New York as a
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special student in 1865, studied at the university of Chicago in 1866-67, and at the College de France in 1867-68, and in 1868 served as occasional Paris correspondent to the Chicago Times . He then took a course in metallurgy in the School of Mines, at Berlin; subsequently inspected iron and steel
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works in western Germany and in
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Great Britain; and in 187o joined his
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father in the iron, steel and
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coal business in Cleveland, becoming a member of the
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firm in 1874 . He retired from business with an ample fortune in 1885, and after two years devoted to general
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reading and travel he began his
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History of the
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United States from the Compromise of 185o, which, closing the narrative with the
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year 1877, was published in seven volumes in 1893-1906 . In recognition of the merit of his
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work he received honorary degrees from various American
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universities, was elected president of the American
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Historical Association in 1899, and received the Loubat prize of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 19o1 . In 1909 he published a
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volume of Historical Essays .

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