Life of Alphonso Taft (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Life of Alphonso Taft As Judge and Lawyer - Some of the Great Cases He Tried - The McMiken Case - The Bible in the Public Schools - Political Activities - Residence Burned - Death of His Father; The Republican Convention that Nominated Lincoln - Judge Taft Sits with the Vermonters and They Break to the Man from Illinois; Beginning of the Civil War - Activities in Aid of the Soldiers and Victims of the War - The English Cotton Workers - Story of Sheridan´s Ride; The Party Struggle of 1875 - Judge Taft Triumphant in Defeat - His Great Efforts in Support of Hayes; Ferguson Recognizes the Indispensable Aid Rendered by Taft in the Work of Securing the Southern Railroad - The Objections, Delays and Final Triumph; Judge Taft, as Secretary of War, Succeeds Belknap - He and Mrs. Taft in Washington - Official Work and Social Duties; As Attorney-General - The Disputed Presidency - Judge Taft Cooperates with J. Proctor Knott in Solving the Complication - Cries of Fraud; Judge Taft Appointed Minister to Austria-Hungary - Secures a Pleasant Residence in Vienna - Something of the Customs of the People - Comments on the City and Its Surroundings; Minister Taft Handles the Question of Excluding American Imports - Some Further Descriptions of the Beautiful City; Arrives in Russia - Impressions of the Czar and Czarina - Complicated Questions of Citizenship - Interesting Interview with the New York Tribune; Mr. Chas. P. Taft Sends an Emissary to the Bedside of General Grant - Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Jefferson Davis in After Years; His Last Days - A Winter in California, Where the End Came - A Great and Good Man Passes Away; The Tafts of Today - Charles Phelps Taft, Peter Rawson Taft, Hulbert Taft, William Howard Taft, Henry W. Taft, Horace D. Taft, Frances Taft Edwards, Etc.; Appendix; The Tafts of Yesterday, Embracing an Address Delivered by Hon. Alphonso Taft at Uxbridge, Mass., August 12, 1874 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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