Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.

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Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe (1864- ? ) was an American editor and author, born at Bristol, R. I. In 1886 he graduated from Lehigh University and in 1887 from Harvard (A.M., 1888). He served as associate editor of the Youth's Companion from 1888 to 1893 and again from 1899 to 1913, as assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1893-95, and as editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin until 1913.

Besides editing The Memory of Lincoln (1889), Home Letters of General Sherman (1909), The Beacon Biographies (31 volumes, 1899-1910), and Lines of Battle and Other Poems by Henry Howard Brownell (1912), he published the following:

• Shadows (1897)
• American Bookmen (1898)
• Phillips Brooks (1899)
• Boston: The Place and People (1903)
• Life and Letters of George Bancroft (1908)
• Harmonics: A Book of Verse (1909)
• Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries (1910)
• Life and Labors of Bishop Hare, Apostle to the Sioux (1911)
• Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (1813), with Sara Norton
• The Boston Symphony Orchestra (1914)
• The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1918)
• The Atlantic Monthly and Its Makers (1919)
• George von Lengerke Meyer, his Life and Public Services (1919)
• Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War against Germany two volumes, (1920, 1921)

He was the editor of Harvard Volunteers in Europe in 1916.

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