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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1844–1878)

MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius. A noted American journalist and war correspondent; born near New Lexington, OH, June 12, 1844; died at Constantinople, June 9, 1878. He was war correspondent of the New York Herald during the Franco-Prussian war (1870–71); accompanied the Russian expedition against Khiva in 1873, and the Arctic expedition on the Pandora in 1875. He wrote: ‘Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva’ (1874); ‘Under the Northern Lights’ (1876); ‘Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria’ (1876).