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Reuben Gold Thwaites

THWAITES, Reuben Gold, antiquary, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 15 May, 1853. In 1866 he removed to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he studied in the intervals of farm-work, and, after teaching for a year, became editor of a newspaper in 1872. Subsequently he took a post-graduate course at Yale. From 1877 till 1886 he was connected with the " Wisconsin State Journal" as associate and afterward as managing editor, and conducted a news bureau at Madison. Having given much attention to the study of western history, especially that of Wisconsin, he was elected in 1887 corresponding secretary of the Wisconsin historical society, and editor of its publications. He is the author of " Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down Rock, Fox, trod Wisconsin Rivers" (Chicago, 1888).

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