Rhodes, James Ford
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Having made a considerable fortune, he retired in 1885 to devote himself to writing history. He moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1891. His major work, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (7 vol., 1893 1906), which...