Re: Not A Very Nice Man
On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
Who except students of the 1848 revolutions in Germany and US Civil War aficionados remembers who Carl Schurz was?
They named a park after him on the east side of Manhattan. Visitors =
can read this on the historical sign subyourpark/historicalsigns/hshistorical_sign.php?id=3D6526>: The park name honors Schurz, a native of Cologne, Germany. It was = strongly supported by the large German community of adjacent = Yorkville. After emigrating to the United States in 1852, Schurz = quickly made his reputation as a skilled orator and proved to be = instrumental to Abraham Lincoln=92s 1860 election campaign. His most = significant political offices were that of United States Senator = from Missouri (1869-1875), and Secretary of the Interior (1877-81) = during the Hayes administration. In his later years, Schurz was = editor of the New York Tribune and an editorial writer for Harper=92s = Weekly. Schurz is also honored by Karl Bitter=92s statue of 1913, = located at Morningside Drive and 116th Street.