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About the AuthorJames Taft Hatfield, born Jun. 15, 1862 Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn). Death: Oct. 3, 1945. Glencoe, Cook County, Illinois, USAPhilologist and Author born in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, to Rev. Robert Miller Hatfield and Elizabeth Ann (Taft) Hatfield. He married Ann Estelle Caraway, daughter of Henry Thomas Caraway and Susanna Reat, and had 4 children: Elizabeth Hatfield, Henry Caraway Hatfield, Ann Hatfield (Owens). James Taft married Maude Hollingsworth Wilson of Baltimore MD on March 13, 1890 and had 3 children: Margaret Hatfield, Henry Wilson Hatfield, Theodore Merriman HatfieldGraduate of Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins; studied in Japan, China, India, Egypt, also in Berlin, Tubingen and at Oxford. The author was a Ph.D. Professor of the German Language and Literature at Northwestern University Since 1890.Other titles held were: Professor of Classical Languages at Rust University, Holly Springs Missisippi;Principal of McCormick School, De Funiak, Fla.;Contributing editor of "American Germanica". Contributed to Publications in England, Germany, and U.S.Author of "Goethe's Egmont", "New Light on Longfellow", and several other books and publications.(Who's Who in the World Publication)GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace.The Ku-Klux KlanThe Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct movements in the United States. The first sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by violence against African American leaders. It ended about 1871. The second was a very large, controversial, nationwide organization in the 1920s that especially opposed Catholics. The current manifestation consists of numerous small unconnected groups that use the KKK name. They have all emphasized racism, secrecy and distinctive costumes. All have called for purification of American society, and all are considered part of right-wing extremism.