Hommes et femmes d'Amérique; un dictionnaire biographique de contemporains . ND est devenu rédacteur en chef de la Xenia News, et peu après est devenu un correspondant de la Cincinnati Gazette, dans des lettres signées Agate, qui à l'ouverture de la CivilWar a attiré une large attention parce que de leur style vigoureux et infor-mation digne de confiance. Il a pris part à la guerre en tant qu'aide de camp d'avolunteer au général Morris, puis au général Rosecrans dans les campagnes de Virginie occidentale. Plus tard, il était correspondant awar avec l'armée de theCumberland et l'armée du Potomac, et était présent dans les batailles de ShiloHand Gettysburg.

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Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . nd became editor of the Xenia News, andsoon after became a correspondent of theCincinnati Gazette, in letters signed Agate, which at the opening of the CivilWar attracted wide attention because oftheir vigorous style and trustworthy infor-mation. He took part in the War as avolunteer aide-de-camp to General Morris, and afterward to General Rosecrans in theWest Virginia campaigns. Later he was awar correspondent with the Army of theCumberland and the Army of the Potomac, and was present at the battles of Shilohand Gettysburg. He was librarian of theHouse of Representatives at Washington, 1863-1806, and at the same time Washingtoncorrespondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, of which he became one of the proprietors.After the war he accompanied Chief JusticeChase on a journey through the South, andafterward tried cotton-planting in Louis-iana. In 1868, on the invitalinn of lloi-aceGreeley, he took an editoiial position onthe New York Tribune, was quickly ad-vanced to managing editor, aud when in. U. 8. WlIITELAW IKII) Aiiibassadoi to En< land MEN OF AMERICA. 1381 1872, Mr. Greeley accepted the nominationfor the Presidency, he placed the whole con-trol of the paper in Mr. Keids hands, whereit has remained ever since. After Mr. Oree-leys death he became editor-in-chief andprincipal owner of the New York Tribune.Mr. IJeid became in 1873, one of the pion-eers in the movement for tall buildings inNew York, erecting on the site of the oldTribune Building a new structure higherthan any then existing in the city. It wasat first an object of ridicule, and for yearssome of his newspaper rivals habitually al-luded to him as the young man in the talltower/ but Avithin a little over thirty yearshe found this tall tower absolutely squatcompared with the structures all aroundhim, and doubled the height as well as thespace occupied on the ground — makingeven then a building barelj in proportionwith its neighbors. He

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