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Rudolph Lexow

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Rudolph Lexow (January 10, 1823 Tönning,[1] Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark – July 16, 1909 New York City) was an American writer and editor.

Biography

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Lexow graduated from the University of Kiel and was active in the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany. He fled to England, where he married Caroline King in Hull,[1] and then traveled on to the United States, where he settled in New York City and founded the Belletristisches Journal in 1852.

Family

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Rudolph and Caroline Lexow were the parents of New York City attorney Charles King Lexow, New York state senator Clarence Lexow, Allan Lexow and Rudolph G. Lexow.[1] Their granddaughter Caroline Lexow Babcock was a prominent suffragist and pacifist.[2]

Works

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He wrote histories of the American Civil War and of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Carl Schlegel (1918). Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry. New York: The American Historical Society. p. 225. ISBN 9780806317281. This source reports Lexow's birth year as 1821.
  2. ^ Harriet Hyman Alonso, The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War (Syracuse University Press 1997): 25. ISBN 0815604173
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