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John Clark Ridpath (1840–1900)
Ridpath, John Clark. An American historian and educator; born in Putnam County, IN, April 26, 1840; died in New York City, July 31, 1900. Among his writings are: ‘Academic History of the United States’ (1875); ‘Grammar-School History of the United States’ (1876); ‘Popular History of the United States’ (1877); ‘Inductive Grammar of the English Language’ (1879); ‘Life and Works of Garfield’ (1881); ‘History of the World’ (1885); ‘Christopher Columbus: The Epoch, the Man, and the Work’ (1890); ‘Great Races of Mankind’ (1892); and ‘The Epic of Life,’ a poem (1894).