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American historian
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
(born Cambria Station,
Chester County, Pennsylvania
, October 5, 1868; died December 8, 1936,
Philadelphia
, age 68) was an American
biographer
and
historical
writer.
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He was the son of John Oberholtzer, a former schoolteacher who during Ellis' lifetime ran Willowdale Mills (now
The Mill at Anselma
in
Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
) and later became a successful
grain merchant
. Ellis' mother,
Sara Louisa Vickers Oberholtzer
, was a respected poet and social activist known for her work in abolition, post-Civil War social reform, and equal rights. Ellis had one brother named Vickers Oberholtzer.
Ellis was educated at the
University of Pennsylvania
(
Ph. D.
, 1893), at
German
universities (
Berlin
and
Heidelberg
), and in
Paris
. He was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph
(1889?96), editor of
The Manufacturer
(1896-1900), and literary and dramatic editor of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger
(1902?08). He edited the American Crisis Biographies (20 volumes) and in 1908 and 1912 directed historical pageants at Philadelphia. His wife, Winona McBride Oberholtzer, was the sister of publisher
Robert M. McBride
.
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer tombstone in
West Laurel Hill Cemetery
He died in 1936 and was interred at
West Laurel Hill Cemetery
in
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
.
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Works
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- The Referendum in America
(1893; new edition, 1900; 3rd ed., 1908; revised, 1911)
- Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Staat und der Zeitungspresse im deutschen Reich
(1895)
- The New Man
(1897)
- Robert Morris
, Patriot and Financier
(1903)
- Abraham Lincoln
(1904)
- The Literary History of Philadelphia
(1906)
- Jay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War, Vols. &
I
and
II
. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company. 1907.
- Henry Clay
(1909), with T. H. Clay
- Philadelphia: A History of the City and its People
(four volumes, 1912).
- A History of the United States since the Civil War
(1917).
- The Morals of the Movie
(1922).
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