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Nathan Haskell Dole was an American editor, translator, and author. He was a writer and journalist in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
Background
Dole was born on August 31, 1852 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the son of the Reverend Nathan and Caroline (Fletcher) Dole. The elder Nathan was a Congregational minister, who, after pastoral work in Maine, became connected in an editorial capacity with the headquarters of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Boston, Massachusetts He claimed descent from Richard Dole, who settled in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1639. His wife was a descendant of Robert Fletcher, who emigrated from England in 1630 and settled in Concord, Massachusetts.
Nathan Haskell was the youngest of three children: two boys and a girl. His older brother, Charles Fletcher Dole, became a popular preacher and writer on religious subjects. Their father died when Nathan was about three years old and their mother returned to Maine to live at Norridgewock.
Education
Nathan entered Harvard from Phillips Andover Academy in 1870 and graduated in 1874.
Career
After leaving college Dole began a comparatively short career of teaching. For a year he was at De Veaux College, Suspension Bridge, New York, relinquishing his position there to become instructor in Greek and English literature in the high school of Worcester, Massachusetts. In December 1876, however, he became preceptor of Derby Academy, Hingham, Massachusetts, and served as such until June 1878. Thereafter, the most of his time was devoted to literary work, though for a period beginning in 1881 he also taught in the classical school of Henry Hobart Brown at Philadelphia.
In 1880-1881 he was in New York as a newspaper correspondent. From 1881 to 1887 he was art and music editor of the Philadelphia Press. In the latter year he was managing editor of Epoch for a brief time, resigning to accept a position as literary adviser to the publishing firm of Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, Boston, in which capacity he acted until 1901. Subsequently, for a few months, he was secretary of the department of publicity for D. Appleton & Company. Dole had great literary versatility and the ability to work rapidly. His output was consequently voluminous and varied. It included translations from several different languages, biographical sketches, textbooks, historical publications, anthologies, and original poems and novels. It was too abundant to be of the highest excellence, but it made available to the general public knowledge which otherwise could not have been obtained so conveniently. After having published A Popular History of Russia (1880-1882), a rendering of the work of Alfred Rambaud, and Young Folk's History of Russia (1881), he translated a number of Tolstoi's novels and other Russian writings. His accuracy was sometimes questioned by the critics but they gave him credit for reproducing the sense and spirit of the originals. He also made translations from the works of Palacio Valdés, Von Scheffel, Von Koch, Daudet, and Dumas. He edited, or had a hand in editing, numerous works, including Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1899); Young Folks' Library (1902), with T. B. Aldrich and others; and the tenth edition of John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1914).
For many years Dole lived in Jamaica Plain, Massachuseеts, a suburb of Boston, spending his summers in Ogunquit, Maine. Some five years before his death, however, he moved to Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. He died in St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, of heart disease, when he was in his eighty-third year.
Achievements
Dole was among the earlier translators who introduced to American readers Russian literature of the nineteenth century. He translated many works of Leo Tolstoy, and books of other Russians.
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"He took everything contemporary in his stride, " wrote Harriet Monroe, who knew him well, "made and kept many friends, was interested in all the ideas and agitations going on in this interesting world, and was not in the least fastidious in his writings, aiming not at perfection and immortality but at satisfaction of the immediate demand. Thus his work belongs essentially to literary journalism; it helped to build up the culture of his time and pass it on to the next generation. "
Connections
In 1892, Dole married Helen James Bennett. The couple had four children - Robert, Arthur, Margaret, and Harold. They moved to Boston, where he concentrated on writing, translating, editing and lecturing. He and his family lived in Jamaica Plain for many years, spending their summers in Ogunquit, Maine. They were popular members of the Boston social and literary set. Their home was full of both music and literature, and was well known for good conversation at the four o'clock teas every afternoon.
In 1928, when he was seventy-six, they moved to New York City to be near their daughter and grandchildren and lived in Riverdale-on-Hudson.
