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Simon Newton Dexter North was born on November 29, 1848 in Clinton, New York, United States. He was the son of Edward and Mary Frances (Dexter) N.
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Henry Gannett: President of the National Geographic Society, 1910-1914 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Henry Gannett: President of the National Geographic Society, 1910-1914 By his ingenuity in visualizing statistical results in many combinations, and the use of a variety of symbols devised to meet special conditions, he brought all branches of statistics within the ready comprehension of the people, and enormously increased their usefulness, particularly in schools, colleges, and public lectures. He thus made possible the introduction and successful use of the lantern slide in the teaching and understand ing both of geography and statistics. Nothing has since been developed in the graphic method which carries the art beyond his development of it. I recall a talk of hisat the cosmosclub many years ago, in which he lined the walls with colored drafts of the various symbols he employed, in an endless variety of combinations, suitable for any association of related data, and described the particular advantage of each in particular instances. I have often wished he had reduced that informal talk to writing, for I know of no treatise on the sub j ect more illuminating than this lecture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Simeon North, First Official Pistol Maker of the United States: A Memoir (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Simeon North, First Official Pistol Maker of the United States: A Memoir Becoming interested in the achievements of their ancestor in the manufacture of pistols and guns for government use, they were surprised to find that there nowhere existed, in any public form, any record of these achievements, nor any knowledge of them on the part of the historians of the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Official Register, Persons in the Civil, Military and Naval Service of the United States, and List of Vessels, 1907, Vol. 1: Directory (Classic Reprint)
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Simon Newton Dexter North
Edit ProfileEducation
North was educated at Hamilton College, and as an undergraduate displayed ability in journalism.
Career
North was employed as managing editor of the Utica Morning Herald. A few years later he acquired a financial interest in the paper, of which he remained editor until 1886.
In 1886 he became editor and part owner of the Albany Express. When after two years the paper was sold, he was employed for a short time as an editorial writer on the New York Press.
In 1889 he went to Boston to become secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers. As editor of the association's quarterly Bulletin, he began the collection of wool prices and other statistics important to the industry. Much of his time was spent in Washington, however, where during the tariff revisions of 1894 and 1897 he presented before congressional committees the case for the domestic manufacturers. He also acted as clerk for a sub-committee of the Senate Finance Committee during the tariff discussions of 1894 and 1897.
In 1903 he was appointed director of the United States Census, a position for which he was well qualified by previous experience. For the Tenth Census (1880) he had prepared an exhaustive study, History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States (1884); he was the author of a special report, "Wool Manufacture, " in Report of Manufacturing Industries at the Eleventh Census, 1890; and had been chief statistician for manufactures for the Twelfth Census. His appointment as director came at a critical period in the history of the census bureau. In response to the urging of economists and statisticians, Congress, by the act providing for the Census of 1900, had made the Bureau of the Census, placed in the Department of the Interior, substantially independent of the secretary. In 1903, however, the census bureau was transferred by executive order to the newly created Department of Commerce and Labor, and immediately differences of opinion arose between Director North and Secretary George Bruce Cortelyou. North opposed the Secretary's attempts to control the bureau on the ground that the director's authority as defined by statute could not be limited by executive orders. Legally, North's position appears to have been impregnable, but strategically he was at a great disadvantage in dealing with a cabinet member. He proceeded to reorganize and expand the work of the Bureau, but the administrative conflict, continually renewed, threatened to interfere with the plans for the Thirteenth Census, and finally President Taft, acting on a report from Secretary Charles Nagel, forced North to resign. He was then sixty years old. Turning again toward editorial work, he spent a few months in Concord, New Hampshire, associated with Messrs. Chandler, Rossiter, and others in building up the Rumford Press.
In 1911 he returned to Washington to become assistant secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in which position he remained until 1921, when failing health caused his retirement.
North was a member of the United States Industrial Commission by appointment of President McKinley in 1898, and one of three commissioners sent to Germany by President Roosevelt in 1906 to investigate complaints regarding the administration of American customs laws. He was a prolific writer. His publications, in addition to those already mentioned, include "An American Textile Glossary"; Old Greek (1905), a memoir of his father; Simeon North, First Official Pistol Maker of the United States (1913), in collaboration with Ralph H. North, a biography of his great-grandfather; and a large number of magazine articles of an historical or statistical nature. He edited The American Year Book, 1910 (1911).
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Henry Gannett: President of the National Geographic Society, 1910-1914 (Classic Reprint)
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Simeon North, First Official Pistol Maker of the United States: A Memoir (Classic Reprint)
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Official Register, Persons in the Civil, Military and Naval Service of the United States, and List of Vessels, 1907, Vol. 1: Directory (Classic Reprint)
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Henry Gannett: President of the National Geographic Society, 1910-1914 (Classic Reprint)
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On July 8, 1875 North married Lillian Sill Comstock of Rome, New York, by whom he had two daughters and two sons.
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