Frederic ward putnam biography of michael jordan
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The Cyclopædia of American Biography/Putnam, Frederic Ward
PUTNAM, Frederic Ward, geologist, ethnologist, and anthropologist, b. in Salem, Mass., 16 April, 1839; d.
Frederic ward putnam biography of michael jordan
in Cambridge, Mass., 14 Aug., 1915, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Appleton) Putnam. His grandfathers were Ebenezer Putnam (1768-1826) and Nathaniel Appleton (1779-1818); his grandmothers, before marriage, were Elizabeth Fiske and Elizabeth Ward.
His father (1797-1876) for a short time after leaving college engaged in fitting young men for college, but soon embarked in business in Cincinnati as a commission merchant, a line in which he was successful. Recalled to Salem by his father's death in 1876, he married there and never after engaged in business, devoting himself to the study and cultivation of plants and fruits, and in the study of politics and the management of the Democratic party in his county.
Although frequently offered office he never accepted, except to serve as alderman in the so-called “model-g