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OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW (1822-1903)

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FREDERICK
FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)
FREDERICK See also:
LAW
LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)
LAW (1822-1903) , See also:

AMERICAN

American landscape architect, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 27th of See also:

APRIL

April 1822. From his earliest years he was a wanderer. While still a lad he shipped before the See also:

mast as a sailor; then he took a course in the Yale Scientific School; worked for several farmers; and, finally, began farming for himself on Staten See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, where he met See also:

Calvert See also:

VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895)

Vaux, with whom later he formed a business See also:

PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership. All this See also:

time he wrote for the agricultural papers. In 185o he made a walking tour through See also:

England, his observations being published in Walks and Talks of an American See also:

FARMER, RICHARD (1735–1787)

Farmer in England (1852). A horseback trip through the See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern States was recorded in A See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), A Journey through See also:

TEXAS

Texas (1857) and A Journey in the Back See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country (186o). These three volumes, reprinted in England in two as Journeys and Explorations in the See also:

Cotton See also:

KINGDOM

Kingdom (1861), gave a picture of the conditions surrounding American See also:

SLAVERY

slavery that had See also:

GREAT

great See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, and they were much quoted in the controversies at the time of the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War. During the war he was the untiring secretary of the U.S. Sanitary See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

Commission. He happened to be in New See also:

York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City when Central See also:

Park was projected, and, in See also:

CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with Vaux, proposed the See also:

plan which, in competition with more than See also:

THIRTY

thirty others, won first See also:

PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize. Olmsted was made See also:

SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent to carry out the plan. This was practically the first See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt in the See also:

UNITED

United States to apply See also:

art to the improvement or emLellishment of nature in a public park; it attracted great See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, and the See also:

WORK

work was so satisfactorily done that he was engaged thereafter in most of the important See also:

WORKS

works of a similar nature in See also:

AMERICA

America—Prospect Park, See also:

BROOKLYN

Brooklyn; Fairmount Park, See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia; See also:

South Park, See also:

Chicago; See also:

RIVERSIDE

Riverside and Morningside Parks, New York; See also:

MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

Mount Royal Park, See also:

MONTREAL

Montreal; the grounds surrounding the Capitol at See also:

Washington, and at See also:

Leland See also:

STANFORD, SIR CHARLES VILLIERS (1852– )

Stanford University at Palo See also:

ALTO (Ital. for " high ")

Alto (See also:

California); and many others.

He took the See also:

BARE

bare stretch of See also:

lake front at Chicago and See also:

DEVELOPED

developed it into the beautiful See also:

WORLD

World's See also:

FAIR

Fair grounds, placing all the buildings and contributing much to the architectural beauty and the success of the exposition. He was greatly interested in the See also:

Niagara See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation, made the plans for the park there, and also did much to influence the See also:

state of New York to provide the Niagara Park. He was the first See also:

COMMISSIONER

commissioner of the See also:

NATIONAL

National Park of the See also:

YOSEMITE

Yosemite and the Mariposa See also:

Grove, directing the survey and taking See also:

charge of the See also:

PROPERTY

property for the state of California. He had also held directing appointments under the cities of New York, See also:

Boston, Philadelphia, See also:

Baltimore, See also:

WILMINGTON

Wilmington and See also:

San Francisco, the See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

Joint See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

Committee on Buildings and Grounds of See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress, the Niagara Falls Reservation Commission, the trustees of Harvard, Yale, See also:

Amherst and other colleges and public institutions. Subsequently to 1886 he was largely occupied in laying out an extensive See also:

SYSTEM

system of parks and parkways for the city of Boston and the See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BROOKLINE

Brookline, and on a See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of landscape improvement of Boston See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour. Olmsted received honorary degrees from Harvard, Amherst and Yale in 1864, 1867 and 1893. He died on the 28th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1903.

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