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John William Draper
(1811-1882) Historian, born at St. Helen's, Lancashire, emigrated to Virginia, and was a prof. in the University of New York. He wrote History of the American Civil War (1867-70), History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1863), and History of the Conflict between Science and Religion (1874), besides treatises on various branches of science.
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