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Charlemagne Tower Jr.

Charlemagne Tower Jr. (April 17, 1848 – February 24, 1923[1]) was an American businessman, scholar, and diplomat.[2]

Charlemagne Tower Jr.

Biography edit

Charlemagne Tower was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1848 to Charlemagne Tower Sr. and Amelia Malvina (Bartle) Tower. He was the first of seven children and his sister, Henrietta, was the last.

He spent his childhood in Orwigsburg and Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1862 he entered a military academy in New Haven, Connecticut and transferred in 1865 to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.[3] Tower entered Harvard University in 1868 and graduated in 1872.

After graduating from Harvard, Tower returned to Europe where he lived and traveled for four years. Tower studied history, languages and literature. Initially he lived in the cities of Madrid, Paris and Tours. In 1874 he traveled to Germany and later to Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and Greece.[3]

In July 1876 Tower returned to the United States and was admitted to the bar in 1878, later doing business in the mining and railroad sectors. He moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1882 when he began serving as president of the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. In 1887 he returned to Philadelphia.[3]

In 1891 he began to devote himself exclusively to history and archaeology, and became a professor in the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1895.[4] He served as Minister to Austria-Hungary (1897–1899) for President William McKinley before being transferred to Russia as Ambassador (1899–1902). Following his post in St. Petersburg, he served as Ambassador to Germany from December 1902 to June 1908 under President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, donating a large collection of 2,300 Russian books to the library, which forms the nucleus of Penn's Russian and East European collection.[5]

Death edit

In 1923 Tower and his wife were living in the Green Hill Farms Hotel in Overbrook, outside of Philadelphia. On February 9, 1923 he entered the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Charlemagne Tower Jr. died February 24, 1923. The cause of death was pneumonia.[6]

Works edit

  • The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1894. de kalb. (French translation)
  • Diary of a European Trip. Princeton University. (Diary written by Tower when he was an attaché to the American Legation in Madrid, dated 1872-1873).

References edit

  1. ^ "Charlemagne Tower's Funeral". The New York Times. 1923-02-27. p. 19.
  2. ^ "TOWER, Charlemagne". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1760.
  3. ^ a b c The National Cyclopedia of American Biography Vol. 5, 1894, Pg. 190-191.
  4. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  6. ^ "Ex-Ambassador Tower Dies at 74." New York Times, February 25, 1923, page 16.

This article integrates text in the public domain taken from the following two sources:

  • . U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  • Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). "Tower, Charlemagne" . The New Student's Reference Work . Vol. 4. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co.

Further reading edit

  • Brunet, Helen Tower. Nellie and Charlie: A Family Memoir of the Gilded Age. New York: iUniverse, 2005. ISBN 9780595343843
  • Historical Society of Pennsylvania. "Proceedings at the dinner given by the Historical society of Pennsylvania to Hon. Charlemagne Tower, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary. April twenty-ninth, 1897." Philadelphia: E. Stern & Co. 1897.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Minister to Austria-Hungary
April 1, 1897–February 9, 1899
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Russia
March 19, 1899–November 19, 1902
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Germany
December 19, 1902–June 8, 1908
Succeeded by

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