Title: Biographical Sketch of Philo White of Whitestown, New York. (Cover Title).
Description: Utica, NY: Curtiss & Childs, Printers, [1880]. [1880]. WISCONSIN PIONEER PHILO WHITE'S PRESENTATION COPY OF HIS BIOGRAPHY - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light blue wrappers. The binding is slightly soiled with the corners lightly bumped. The bottom corner of the rear cover is creased & is reinforced internally with archival linen tape. There is a chip out of the rear cover's bottom edge & a small area is stained with the surface rubbed away. 16 pages. The page corners are lightly creased. Good.
Rare first edition.
Presentation copy with Philo White's compliment slip tipped onto the first page slightly affecting a few words of the text.
The author of this biography, Elias Ahira Calkins [1828-1904], was a newspaper editor and publisher and a veteran of the Civil War who was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Calkins began his career in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, becoming an editorial writer and newspaper publisher. When the war broke out he organized the Third Wisconsin cavalry and saw service in Missouri and Arkansas. He won praise for his conduct at Prairie Grove, Ark. and Rocky Bluff, Mo. in 1862. After the war he resumed his career as an editorial writer and newspaper editor and publisher, first in Wisconsin and later in Chicago. A lifelong Democrat, Calkins was described in his Chicago Chronicle obituary as "a valiant soldier and a leading citizen..a pioneer journalist and a brilliant, farseeing political economist."
Philo White [1796-1883 was a politician and newspaperman. After publishing the Western Carolinian [1820-1830] and the Raleigh Standard [1834-1836], he helped to establish and edited the Milwaukee Sentinel. He then went into politics and was a member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature and for a year a member of the first state Senate for a year. He was U.S. Charge d'affaires in Ecuador and later U.S. Minister to Ecuador from 1853 to 1858. Good .
Keywords: AMERICANA; BIOGRAPHY; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PHILO WHITE OF WHITESTOWN, NEW YORK; ELIAS AHIRA CALKINS; CIVIL WAR VETERAN; NEWSPAPER EDITORS; NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; PRESENTATION COPY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
- Book number: 36740
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