Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.

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 * A swarm of Jews has within the last ten years settled in every Southern town, many of them men of no character, opening cheap clothing and trinket shops, ruining or driving out of business many of the old retailers, and engaging in an unlawful trade with the simple negroes, which is found very profitable.
 * Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom, 2nd. edition, pp. 252-253. See The Journal of Historical Review, Volume 17, by Institute for Historical Review, 1998, p. 22