Heroic soul, in homely garb half hid,
Sincere, sagacious, melancholy, quaint;
What he endured, no less than what he did,
Has reared his monument, and crowned him saint.
[Illustration: STATUE OF LINCOLN
Burlington, Wisconsin. George E. Ganiere, sculptor
Unveiled October 13, 1913]
Kinahan Cornwallis was born in London, England, December 24, 1839.
Entered British Colonial Civil Service; two years at Melbourne,
Australia. Located in New York in 1860, one of the editors and
correspondent of the _Herald_. Accompanied the Prince of Wales on his
American tour. Admitted to the New York bar in 1863; financial editor
and general editorial writer of _New York Herald_, 1860-69. Editor and
proprietor of _The Knickerbocker Magazine_, afterward of _The Albion_.
Since 1886 editor and proprietor _Wall Street Daily Investigator_, now
_Wall Street Daily Investor_. Author of _Howard Plunkett_ (a novel);
an Australian poem, 1857. The _New Eldorado, or British Columbia_
(Travels); _Two Journeys to Japan_; _A Panorama of the New World_;
_Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society_ (novel); _My Life and Adventures_
(story), 1859, also of many other histories and novels. Among his poet
productions are _The Song of America and Columbus_, 1892; _The
Conquest of Mexico and Peru_, 1893; _The War for the Union, or the
Duel Between North and South_, 1899.