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...some 300 pages and each is as long and as closely packed as a novel in itself. Finally, there is a prologue and an epilogue, laid in 1944 and 1945, explaining that the three books are a manuscript left by a great American, a former Supreme Court Justice, Orville Windom (obviously modeled on Oliver Wendell Holmes), as both his concept of family history and his testament of the American heritage...
Freedom & Fog Ghosts. Windom is sentimental, liberal, vague in his speech, tremendously learned in American history. He has lived through the administrations of 14 Presidents, and has shaken hands with nine of them. He holds long, philosophic-poetic conversations with his granddaughter-in-law-his grandson is a flyer-in a language which, with its mixture of slang and Walt Whitman grandiloquence, is unlike anything in American life or literature...
...college course at Carleton College, graduating in 1900. During his course there he received three highest awards for scholarship, took first prize in the junior debate and was leader in the intercollegiate debate in his senior year. For the last three years he has been principal of the Windom Institute, the Congregational Academy of Minnesota. He is 29 years...
...President Harrison has fulfilled his pledges to the country: [a] Economical administration. [b] Civil service-judicial and other appointments, e. g. Judge Brown, Roosevelt, Windom, Foster: Abridgment of Message and Documents. 1889-90, pp. 804-806; Pub. Opinion, Oct. 11, 1890, Jan. 3, Feb. 28, 1891; Boston Post, April 24, 1891. [c] Interest in honest elections, 2d Annual Message, Boston Journal, Dec. 1, 1890; Pub. Opinion, Dec. 6, 1890. [d] Support of Tariff and Pension legislation, Secretary Tracy's speech, Boston Herald, April...
Kest general references: Sec. Windom's Rep. 1889 and 1890; Taussig in Forum Oct. 1890; Laughlin's Will Cp. VII, Book Il, Congressiond Record June 3, July 15 1890; Public Oplonion, Vol. IX, No. 15: Boston Advertiser and Boston Post June and July. 1890; Speech P. B. Plumb. Cong. Rec. July...