Don Carlos Seitz was an American

United States

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 newspaper manager, born at Portage, Ohio

Portage, Ohio

Portage is a village in Wood County, Ohio, United States. The population was 428 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Portage is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land....

 in 1862.

In 1880 he graduated from the Liberal Institute at Norway, Maine. He served as Albany

Albany, New York

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 correspondent (1887-89) and as city editor (1889-91) of the Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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 Eagle

Brooklyn Eagle

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, was assistant publisher of the New York

New York City

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 Recorder (1892-93) and managing editor of the Brooklyn World (1893-94), and thenceforth was connected with the New York World as advertising manager (1895-97) and as business manager after 1898. He died in 1935.

His publications include:

• Discoveries in Everyday Europe (1907)
• Writings by and about James McNeill Whistler
  James McNeill Whistler
  James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger...
  
  (1910)
• Elba and Elsewhere (1910)
• Surface Japan
  Japan
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  (1911)
• Letters from Francis Parkman
  Francis Parkman
  Francis Parkman was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his...
  
   to E. G. Squier
  E. G. Squier
  Ephraim George Squier was an American archaeologist and newspaper editor.-Biography:He was born in Bethlehem, New York, the son of a minister of English heritage and his Palatine German wife. In early youth he worked on a farm, attended and taught school, studied engineering, and became interested...
  
  (1911)
• The Buccaneer
  Buccaneer
  The buccaneers were privateers who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.The term buccaneer is now used generally as a synonym for pirate...
  
  s (1912)
• Whistler Stories (1913)
• Under the Black Flag: Exploits of the Most Notorious Pirates (1925)
• The Great Island: Some observations in and about the Crown Colony of Newfoundland (1926)

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