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Towle, George Makepeace was born on August 27, 1841 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Nathaniel Carter and Eunice (Makepeace) Towle.
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The History of Henry the Fifth; King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France
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George Makepeace Towle
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Towle graduated in arts from Yale University in 1861 and in law from the Harvard Law School in 1863, and practised in Boston in 1863-1865.
Career
He is best known for his translations of Jules Verne" s works, in particular his 1873 translation of Around the World in Eighty Days. He was United States consul at Nantes, France, in 1866-1868, and in the latter year was transferred to the consulate at Bradford, England, where he remained until his return to Boston in 1870. Towle became president of the Papyrus club in 1880, and was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1888.
He was managing editor of the Boston "Commercial Bulletin" in 1870-1871, and foreign editor of the "Boston Post" in 1871-1876, and became a contributor to many foreign and American periodicals and took an active part in the literary life publishing over 50 books and articles and giving public lectures on topics of the day.
In early 1873 Towle started collaborating with the American publisher James R. Osgood on translations of Verne. He continued to translate the Verne novels until the bankruptcy of the firm in 1876.
The translations are of a uniformly high quality. On September 16, 1866 in Paris, Towle married Nellie Lane of Boston, who survived him.
Towle died in Brookline after a long illness culminating in paralysis of the brain, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
He had no children.
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The History of Henry the Fifth: King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France
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The History of Henry the Fifth; King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France
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Glimpses of History
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The History of Henry the Fifth; King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France - Primary Source Edition
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The History of Henry the Fifth: King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France - Primary Source Edition
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The History Henry Ti-Ie Fifth: King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir France (Classic Reprint)
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The History of Henry the Fifth: King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France
Membership
Member Massachusetts Senate (Republican), 1890, 91.
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Married Nellie Lane, September 16, 1866, no children.
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American