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HENRY ROWE SCHOOLCRAFT (1793-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY ROWE See also:SCHOOLCRAFT (1793-1864)  , See also:American traveller, ethnologist and author, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:March 1793 at what is now Guilderland, New See also:York, and died at See also:Washington on the loth of See also:December 1864 . After studying See also:chemistry and See also:mineralogy in See also:Union See also:College he had several years' experience of their application, especially at a See also:glass-factory of which his See also:father was manager, and in 1817 published his Vitreology . In the following See also:year he collected See also:geological and mineralogical specimens in See also:Missouri and See also:Arkansas, and in 1819 he published his View of the See also:Lead Mines of Missouri . In 182o he accompanied See also:General See also:Lewis See also:Cass as geologist in his expedition to the Upper See also:Mississippi and the See also:Lake See also:Superior See also:copper region, and in 1823 he was appointed See also:Indian See also:agent for the Lake Superior See also:country . More than sixteen millions of acres were ceded by the See also:Indians to the See also:United States in See also:treaties which he negotiated . He married the granddaughter of an Indian See also:chief; and during several years' See also:official See also:work near Lake Superior, and later under authorisation of an See also:Act of See also:Congress of 1847, he acquired much See also:information as to institutions, &c., of the American natives . From 1828 to 1831 See also:Schoolcraft was an active member of the See also:Michigan legislature . In 1832, when on an See also:embassy to some Indians, he ascertained the real source of the Mississippi to be Lake Itasca . In 1825 he published Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley, and in 1839 appeared his Algic Researches, containing Indian legends, notably, " The Myth of See also:Hiawatha and other Oral Legends." He composed a considerable quantity of See also:poetry and several See also:minor See also:prose See also:works, especially Notes on the See also:Iroquois (1846); Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark Mountains (1853) . His See also:principal See also:book, See also:Historical and Statistical Information respecting the Indian Tribes of the United States, illustrated with 336 plates from See also:original drawings, in See also:part a compilation, was issued under the patronage of Congress in six See also:quarto volumes, from 1851 to 1857 . 1 Another See also:painting of the same subject in the See also:Doria See also:Palace in See also:Rome (usually attributed to Darer) is given to See also:Schongauer by See also:Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Flemish Painters (See also:London, 1872), p . 359; but the See also:execution is not equal to Schongauer's wonderful See also:touch .

2 An interesting example of Schongauer's popularity in See also:

Italy is given by the lovely See also:Faenza See also:plate in the See also:British'Msiseum, on which is painted a copy of See also:Martin's beautiful See also:engraving uT the " See also:Death of the Virgin." ' See Bartsch, Peintre Graveur, and Willshire, See also:Ancient Prints, best edition of 18i7 . According to a See also:German tradition Schongauer was the inventor of See also:printing from See also:metal plates; he certainly was one of the first who brought the See also:art to perfection . See an interesting See also:article by See also:Sidney See also:Colvin in the Jahrbuch der k. preussischen Kunstsammlung, vi. p . 69 (See also:Berlin, 1885) .

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