Theodore Weld Stanton (10 February 1851 in

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– 1925) was an American

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Biography

He was the son of journalist and abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton a descendant of Thomas Stanton and reformer

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. He graduated from Cornell in 1876. In 1880, he was the

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correspondent of the ''

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'', and he afterward engaged in journalism in

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Works

He contributed to periodicals. Major works are: * François J. Le Goff, ''Life of Thiers'', translator and editor (New York, 1879) * ''The Woman Question in Europe'' (1884) * ''A manual of

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'' (1909)
''Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur''
(1910) *"A Soldier of France to His Mother: Letters from the Trenches on the Western Front," Translator and Editor (1917)(Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanton, Theodore 1851 births 1925 deaths American male journalists American non-fiction writers Cornell University alumni Livingston family American International Olympic Committee members