Lee Meriwether2 biography 1734

Lee Meriwether [TMSI #1734]

Lee Meriwether, author, b. in Columbus, Miss., 25 Dec. 1862. His mother Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, is the author of numerous tales, including “The Master of Red Leaf,” called “the southern ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’”  The son was educated in the public schools of Memphis, Tenn., and at the age of eighteen established, with an elder brother, the “Free Thinker.”  The next year he set out on a walking tour through Europe for the purpose of studying the condition of workingmen and the effect of protective tariffs. He was employed by the U. S. bureau of labor to prepare a report on the “Condition of European Labor,” which was included in the “Annual Report” for  1886. Since completing that work he has been retained in the service to gather information concerning labor in the United States. He is the author of “A Tramp Trip; How to see Europe on Fifty Cents a Day” (New York, 1887).

Source: Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 4, by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, 1888, Page 304



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