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George Alfred Townsend (1841–1914)
Townsend, George Alfred [“Gath”]. An American journalist and war correspondent; born in Georgetown, DE, Jan. 30, 1841; died on April 15, 1914. He was special correspondent for the New York Herald and World (1860–64), afterwards public lecturer, and war correspondent in the Austro-Prussian War (1866). His publications in book form are: ‘Campaigns of a Non-Combatant’ (1865); ‘Life of Garibaldi’ (1867); ‘Life of Abraham Lincoln’ (1867); ‘The New World and the Old’; ‘Poems’ (1870); ‘Washington Outside and Inside’ (1871); ‘Bohemian Days’ (1881); ‘The Entailed Hat’ (1884), and ‘Katy of Catoctin; or The Chain-Breakers’ (1886), novels; ‘Life of Levi P. Morton’ (1888); ‘Columbus in Love’ (1892).