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to gather "such information from all parts of 

 the Union as will best enable the states to pro- 

 mote the interest of the nation's greatest asset, 

 child life. The first director of the new bureau 

 was Miss. Julia Lathrop, for many years a 

 co-worker with Miss Jane Addams at Hull 

 House, Chicago, and long a member of the 

 Illinois Board of Charities. See LATHROP, 

 JULIA C. J.L. 



CHILDS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1829-1894), one 

 of the most notable of American publishers and 

 philanthropists. He was born in Baltimore, but 

 began his business career in Philadelphia, be- 

 coming a partner in the publishing house of 

 Childs & Peterson in 1849. In 1864 he pur- 

 chased the Philadelphia Public Ledger, one of 

 the earliest of the low-priced daily papers. 



Under his management it became very influ- 

 ential and made its owner a wealthy man. 

 Mr. Childs' charities, both public and private, 

 were boundless. Among the most noted of his 

 public gifts were a memorial fountain at Strat- 

 ford-on-Avon in England, a monument over 

 the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, the presenta- 

 tion of a printers' cemetery "Woodlawn" in 

 Philadelphia, and a subscription which made 

 possible the endowment of the home for union 

 printers at Colorado Springs. His private 

 benefactions were equally large, and included 

 among many others the educating of 800 boys 

 and girls and the pensioning of many old liter- 

 ary workers. He wrote two books, The Recol- 

 lections of General Grant and Personal Recol- 

 lections. 



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