biography
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| (1876–1966)
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| biography:
| Reformer and museum director, born in Cornwall, SW England, UK. Leaving the ministry for the labour movement, he attacked the British conduct of the Boer War in his Barry Herald (1899), earning the reputation as a Socialist intellectual and skilled orator. Emigrating to New York (1901), he worked on behalf of many social causes, and exposed childhood poverty in The Bitter Cry of the Children (1906). Moving to Bennington, VT, he wrote extensively on Socialism and served on the executive committee of the Socialist Party. During World War 1 he resigned from the Socialist Party and became a major architect of President Wilson's anti-Bolshevik policy. In 1926 he founded the Bennington (Vermont) Historical Museum, and until 1954 served there as a caretaker of American history. |
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