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John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) - Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Southern California. Grand Cañon Of The Colorado River. Yellowstone National Park
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Lectures: Illustrated And Embellished With Views Of The World's Famous Places And People, Being Identical Discourses Delivered During The Past ... The Title Of The Stoddard Lectures; Volume 5
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John Lawson Stoddard was an American writer, hymn writer and lecturer who gained popularity through his travelogues.
Background
John was born on April 24, 1850 at Brookline, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Lewis Tappan Stoddard and his second wife, Sarah H. (Lothrop) Stoddard, a nephew of David Tappan Stoddard, and a descendant of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton.
Education
After attending public school in Boston he entered Williams College, from which he graduated in 1871. He spent the next two years at the Yale Divinity School, but his increasing unorthodoxy led him to abandon the ministry and take up an instructorship in the classics in the Boston Latin School, 1873-74.
Career
After two years of foreign travel, chiefly in Greece, Palestine, and Egypt, and some further teaching, Stoddard entered in 1879 upon his highly successful career as a public lecturer. A pioneer in the use of the stereopticon, during the next eighteen years he traveled widely, visiting, as he said, "nearly every part of the habitable globe, " and each winter delivered a series of illustrated lectures in the larger American cities, descriptive of European, Oriental, and American cities, life, and scenery.
In this period he also published Red-Letter Days Abroad (1884); Glimpses of the World (1892), a volume of photographs with explanatory text; and a Portfolio of Photographs (copyright 1894), issued in sixteen weekly instalments.
Broadly advertised by his speaking tours, which had made his name a household word, a series of ten volumes, John L. Stoddard's Lectures, first published in 1897-98, with five supplementary volumes in 1901, had an extensive and long-continued sale. His Famous Parks and Buildings (1899) and Beautiful Scenes of America (1902) catered similarly to the popular taste for pictures and light information.
In April 1897 he retired and made his home in New York. His European home was first in a villa at Meran in the Austrian Tyrol, then from about 1906 until 1914 on Lake Como, Italy, and afterwards until his death on a larger estate near Meran.
In religion he had been for many years a free thinker, but his harrowing wartime experiences in a frontier province and his suffering from typhus fever in 1917 inclined him toward Catholicism. In 1922, with his wife, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
Views
He had love for the Tyrol and its people, as well as his own strongly independent habits of thought.
Quotations:
Stoddard was a proponent of the restoration of the Jews to Israel. In Volume 2 of his Lectures he told the Jews, “You are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. Be united. Fulfill the dreams of your old poets and patriarchs. Go back, go back to the land of Abraham. ”
Personality
By natural gifts and long training Stoddard was an excellent speaker, and from the moment his slender, erect figure appeared on the platform his audience was won by his eloquence and personal magnetism.
Connections
He had been married, December 24, 1877, to Mary Hammond Brown of Bangor, Maine, and had a son, born in 1883, who also became a writer of distinction. Some five years later he became estranged from his wife, and on August 15, 1901, after being divorced, he was married to Ida M. O'Donnell of Barnesville, Ohio.