History of Webb Lake, (Burnett County) Wisconsin United States of America

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James Florant Meline, author, was born in the U.S. garrison at Sacket Harbor, N.Y., April 25, 1813; son of Lieut. Florant and Catherine (Butler) Meline. His father came from France early in 1800 and served in the war of 1812. He was educated at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md., but was not graduated owing to his parents' death, and he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged as a music teacher and as professor of languages, history and literature in the Athen?um. He studied law in the meantime, was admitted to the Cincinnati bar, and studied in France, Germany and Italy three years, 1835-38. On his return to the United States in 1838, he became assistant to the Rev. Josue M. Young, editor of the Catholic Telegraph. He was married in 1846 to Mary E., daughter of John Rogers, of Cincinnati, and engaged in the foreign banking business in that city, for the governments of France, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Sardinia, Papal States, and several German principalities. He also served as consular agent in Cincinnati, 1851-54, and as vice-consul to 1862, and in June, 1862, he entered the Union army as judge advocate on the staff of Gen. John Pope with the rank of major. He served throughout the war and was promoted colonel. He accompanied General Pope on an official tour through Colorado and New Mexico, 1865-66; was chief of the bureau of civil affairs in the third military district, which comprised Georgia, Alabama and Florida, 1866-68; was employed by the government in connection with the Freedmen's bureau in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the same time acted as the regular correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial and the New York Tribune. He settled in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1869, and engaged in literary work chiefly on disputed Catholic subjects of history. He delivered a course of lectures on English literature at Seton Hall college, the College of the Christian Brothers and the Academy of the Sacred Heart, New York. He was literary critic of the Nation; contributed to the Galaxy, Catholic World and New York newspapers, and is the author of: Two Thousand Miles on Horseback (1867); Commercial Travelling (1869); Mary Queen of Scots and her Latest English Historian, a criticism of the work of Froude (1871); and a Life of Sixtus the Fifth (1871). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1873.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Webb Lake, (Burnett County) Wisconsin

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