Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Transcriber removed redundant chapter headings.
Lists of reference materials, originally printed at the bottom of the first page of each biography, have been moved to just after the chapter headings and labelled as “References:” by the Transcriber.
Footnotes, originally printed at the bottoms of pages, have been renumbered, collected, moved to the ends of their chapters, and labelled as “Footnotes:” by the Transcriber.