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Singerman ID#supp1852

The Memories of Fifty Years: containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; interspersed with Scenes and Incidents occurring during a Long Life of Observation chiefly spent in the Southwest.

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Singerman ID#supp1852

Sparks, William Henry. The Memories of Fifty Years: containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; interspersed with Scenes and Incidents occurring during a Long Life of Observation chiefly spent in the Southwest. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870. 489 p.

Notes

See pp. 103-5 for a tribute to the endurance of the Jewish people; see also p. 458 for the reference to an unnamed rabbi in New Orleans (surely James K. Gutheim) and his high esteem in the eyes of local clergymen who implored the "distinguished" rabbi not to accept a pulpit in New York. Frequently reissued.