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SOULE, George, educator, born in Barrington, Yates County, New York, 14 May, 1834. After the death of his father in 1838 he was taken to Illinois by his mother. He was graduated at Sycamore academy, Illinois, in 1852, and during the next three years studied medicine, law, and the commercial sciences in St. Louis, No. In 1856 he founded the Soule commercial and literary college in New Orleans, Louisiana, of which he is still (1888) president. He was an officer in the Confederate army from 1862 to the close of the war, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was captured at Shiloh, and afterward was chief of the labor bureau of General Kirby Smith's army. Colonel Soule is engaged in lecturing and writing on educational and social topics, and has held many offices in benevolent and civic societies. He has published "Practical Mathematics" (New Orleans, 1872) ; a series of " Philosophic Arithmetics" on a new system (1884) ; and " Science and Practice of Accounts" (1887).
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