Relationships of Benton, Joel

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume I, Aaron-Crandall. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. [pages:240]

Benton was considered a valuable Emerson scholar, particularly following the poet's death.

Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)

Chase, Frank H. "Joel Benton." Dictionary of American Biography. Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2006. http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC.

"His admiration for Horace Greeley led him back in 1872 to the editor's chair, in support of Greeley's presidential campaign." He also published a book about Greeley, titled Greeley on Lincoln in 1893.

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