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George was born on August 27, 1841 in Washington, D. C. He was the only son of Nathaniel Carter and Eunice (Makepeace) Towle.
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George was born on August 27, 1841 in Washington, D. C. He was the only son of Nathaniel Carter and Eunice (Makepeace) Towle.
His parents moved to Boston in his childhood, and he attended the public schools there, and Lawrence Academy, Groton, and Day's Academy, Wrentham, Massachussets He was graduated from Yale in 1861, studied at the Harvard Law School, and received the degree of LL. B. in 1863, qualifying as a member of the Suffolk County, Massachussets, bar on November 14, 1862.
He practised law in Boston till 1865, when he became associate editor of the Boston Post, and in 1866 he published the first of his many books, a popular work called Glimpses of History.
In 1866 he was appointed United States Consul at Nantes, France, and in August 1868 was transferred as commercial agent to Bradford, England, where he remained till 1870. In Europe he acquired a command of French that he utilized as a translator of Jules Verne and other popular writers in that language, and gained a knowledge of European politics of which he made literary use. One of his many prominent friends was Charles Dickens, to whose periodical, All The Year Round, he contributed many articles on American affairs.
In 1870 he published a book, American Society (2 vols. ) , in London. On returning to Boston in 1870, he acted as correspondent for the London Athenaeum, and contributed American notes to the London Graphic from 1871 to 1876. He also wrote for a wide variety of American publications.
He was managing editor of the Boston Commercial Bulletin (1870 - 71) and foreign editor of the Boston Post (1871 - 76), and he was connected at various times with the Youth's Companion and with most of the Boston newspapers as contributor or editor. He published more than twenty volumes, among them A Brief History of Montenegro (1877), Pizarro (1879), Beaconsfield (1879), Marco Polo (1880), Ralegh, His Exploits and Voyages (copyright 1881), Drake, The Sea-king of Devon (1883), Heroes and Martyrs of Invention (1890), Literature of the English Language, vol. I (1892), and other books on topics of general interest or contemporary prominence.
He became known for his ability to present his matter effectively in speech as well as in print. For the Lowell Institute of Boston he gave a series of four lectures on "Famous Men of our Day" (1880 - 81), eight lectures on "Foreign Governments" (1886 - 87), and six on "The Era of Elizabeth" (1890 - 1901), all of which with others of a similar nature, he delivered before many other audiences. In Brookline, where he lived, he served as moderator of the town meeting.
He died in Brookline after a long illness culminating in paralysis of the brain, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1890 and 1891 as a Republican, and he took a prominent part in it until illness restricted his activities and prevented his seeking reelection.
He was physically somewhat striking, having a florid complexion and sweeping side-whiskers of the Dundreary variety; in addition, he was emphatic as well as fluent in his speech, and, perhaps because of his residence in Europe, more effusive in manner than most American men.
On September 16, 1866, he was married in Paris to Nellie Lane of Boston, who survived him. He had no children.
