On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> Who except students of the 1848 revolutions in Germany
> and US Civil War aficionados remembers who Carl
> Schurz was?
They named a park after him on the east side of Manhattan. Visitors can read this on the historical sign <http://www.nycgovparks.org/ sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=6526>:
> The park name honors Schurz, a native of Cologne, Germany. It was
> strongly supported by the large German community of adjacent
> Yorkville. After emigrating to the United States in 1852, Schurz
> quickly made his reputation as a skilled orator and proved to be
> instrumental to Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election campaign. His most
> significant political offices were that of United States Senator
> from Missouri (1869-1875), and Secretary of the Interior (1877-81)
> during the Hayes administration. In his later years, Schurz was
> editor of the New York Tribune and an editorial writer for Harper’s
> Weekly. Schurz is also honored by Karl Bitter’s statue of 1913,
> located at Morningside Drive and 116th Street.