Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: The End of Utopia (1999), pp. 10-11
“Honors to me now are not what they once were.”
Written on the death of his wife, Ellen. As quoted in Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, ch. 8, Thomas C. Reeves (1975).
1880s
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