Born in Indiana in 1838, died in 1905; graduated from Brown
University in 1858; admitted to the bar in Illinois; one of
the private secretaries of President Lincoln; secretary of
Legation in Paris, Madrid and Vienna; Assistant Secretary of
State in 1879-81; president of the International Sanitary
Commission in 1891; ambassador to England in 1897-98;
Secretary of State in 1898; author of "Castilian Days,"
published in 1871, "Pike County Ballads" in 1871, "Abraham
Lincoln: a History," in collaboration with John G. Nicolay
in 1890.