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ATKINSON, EDWARD (1827-1905), American economist, was born at Brookline, Massachusetts, on the icth of February 1827. For many years he was engaged in managing various business enterprises, and became, in 1877, president of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fir ...

ATCHISON, a city and the county-seat of Atchison county. Kansas, U.S.A., on the west bank of the Missouri river, which is navigable at this point but is utilized comparatively little for commerce. Pop. (1800) 13,963; (1900) 15,722, of whom 2308 were of negro d

... light on the political and ecclesiastical history and social life of the ATHY— ATKINSON East from the middle of the loth century. Up to comparatively recent times a priceless collection of classical manuscripts was preserved in the libraries; many of them wer ...

... 339) at $3,250,000,000 to the North and $1,500,000,000 to the South; by Edward Atkinson (the Forum, October 1888, p. 133), including the first three years of Reconstruction at $5,000,000,000 to the North and $3,000,000,000 to the South. The last alone of thes ...