1st Ed. "Galusha A. Grow" Biography Signed by the Author, J. T. DuBois

"Galusha A. Grow: Father of the Homestead Law" by James T. DuBois and Gertrude S. Matthews. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition. Twelvemo, xi, 305pp including an index. The front free end page has been inscribed by the author: "Mr. Grow once said to me, 'while some of the conditions on earth do not meet my views I am consoled with the thought that I did not create them and cannot be held responsible for their existence. James T. DuBois." Eight photo plates throughout. Maroon cloth-bound boards, with gilt titling on the front cover and black titling at the spine. Spine bearing a catalog sticker. Dedicated to Andrew Carnegie. Rubbing, scratching, and soiling to the covers. The former bookplate has been removed. Light toning throughout internal pages. Very good.

Galusha Aaron Grow (1823-1907) was a politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, who served as the 24th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863. Elected as a Democrat in the 1850 congressional elections, he switched to the newly organized Republican Party in the mid-1850s when the Democratic Party tried to force the extension of slavery into western territories. Grow presided as Speaker of the House during the initial years of the American Civil War, and passed the landmark Homestead Act of 1862, which supported the Free Soil policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave-owners who wanted to buy up large tracts of land and use slave labor.

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