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Oliver Otis Howard
Title: Oliver Otis Howard
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Oliver Otis Howard
Oliver Otis Howard was born in Maine November 1830. Howard received his education at Bowdoin College. In the mid-1850’s he attended West Point where he became a professor in mathematics from 1857 to 1861. At the point of switching his career and becoming a minister the Civil War erupted and Howard resigned his regular army commission and became a colonel of the Third Maine Volunteers of the Union army. During the war he took part in the …showed first 75 words of 301 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 301 total…University in his honor.
He later served as a superintendent from (1880-82) of West Point and founded the Lincoln Memorial University (1895) in Harrogate, Tennessee. In his later years and after his retirement from the army in 1894, he wrote several books on military and Indian affairs, including Nez Perce’ Joseph (1881), Autobiography (1907), My life and Experiences Among Hostile Indians (1907) and Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known (1908). In the year of 1909 Oliver Otis Howard past to the next life.
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