Abbe, Cleveland.N. Y., 1838- ——. A meteorologist of
distinction who in 1871 became professor of meteorology in the national
weather bureau and has since continued in that position. The more
important of his many publications include Solar Spots and Terrestrial
Temperature; A Plea for Terrestrial Physics; Atmospheric Radiation;
Treatise on Meteorological Apparatus; Preparatory Studies for Deductive
Methods in Meteorology.
Abbe, Frederick Randolph.Ct., 1827-1889. A
Congregational clergyman in Massachusetts. The Temple Rebuilt, a Poem
of Christian Faith.
Abbey, Henry.N. Y., 1842- ——. A resident of
Kingston, New York, who has published several collections of pleasant
unpretentious verse. Ballads of Good Deeds; The City of Success; May
Dreams; Ralph and Other Poems; Stories in Verse.
Abbey, Richard.N. Y., 1805-1891. A prominent clergyman
of the Southern Methodist Church, among whose many theological and
controversial writings are, End of the Apostolical Succession; Creed of
All Men; Diuturnity; Ecce Ecclesia, a reply to Ecce Homo; The City of
God and the Church Makers.
Abbot, Abiel.N. H., 1765-1859. A Congregational
clergyman of Connecticut and Massachusetts. History of Andover;
Genealogy of the Abbot Family.
Abbot, Abiel.Ms., 1770-1828. A Congregational clergyman
of Beverly, Massachusetts. Letters from Cuba. His Sermons with Memoir
were published in 1831.
Abbot, Ezra.Me., 1819-1884. A Unitarian biblical scholar
of much prominence, who was for many years a professor in the Divinity
School of Harvard University, and widely known for the extent of his
bibliographical acquirements. Literature of the Doctrine of a Future
Life; Authenticity of the Fourth Gospel; The Fourth Gospel and Other
Critical Essays. With H. B. Hackett, infra, he prepared the
American edition of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. See Memorial of, 1884.
El.
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood.Ms., 1836-1903. A religious
and philosophical thinker of advanced views, for some years editor of
The Index, whose home was at Cambridge. Scientific Theism; The Way out
of Agnosticism. Lit.
Abbot, Gorham Dummer.Me., 1807-1874. A Congregational
clergyman, long an educator of New York city. He was a brother of Jacob
Abbott, infra, but returned to an older spelling of his surname.
Prayer-Book for the Young; Pleasure and Profit; The Family at Home.
Abbot, Henry Larcom.Ms., 1831- ——. A general in the
United States army, of prominence as an engineer. Besides several
series of Professional Papers, his writings include Lectures on the
Defence of the Sea Coast of the United States; Physics and Hydraulics
of the Mississippi River. Vn.
Abbot, Willis John.Ct., 1863- ——. Grandson of J. S.
C. Abbott, infra, but using an older spelling of the surname.
A journalist of New York city. Blue Jackets of 1776; Blue Jackets of
1812; Blue Jackets of ’61, three volumes of history for young people;
Battle Fields of ’61; Battle Fields and Camp Fires; Battle Fields and
Victory; Life of Carter Harrison. Do.
Abbott, Arthur Vaughan.N. Y., 1854- ——. Son of B. V.
Abbott, infra. A civil, electrical, and mechanical engineer
of Chicago. Electrical Transmission of Energy; The Evolution of a
Switchboard; History and Use of Testing Machines; Treatise on Fuel.
Vn.
Abbott, Austin.Ms., 1831-1896. Son of Jacob Abbott,
infra. A lawyer of New York city who was dean of the Law School
of New York University at the time of his death. Besides preparing
several works with his brother Benjamin, infra, he published
Legal Remembrancer, Principles and Forms of Practice in Civil Actions
in Courts of Record; The Law of Evidence; Select Cases on Code
Pleading; Digest of New York Statutes.
Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan.Ms., 1830-1890. Son of Jacob
Abbott, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Law Dictionary;
Travelling Law School and Famous Trials; First Lessons in Government
and Law; Patent Laws of All Nations; Year-Book of Jurisprudence for
1880; Judge and Jury. Har. Lit. Lo.
Abbott, Charles Conrad.N. J., 1843- ——. A naturalist
and physician of Trenton, New Jersey, whose writings show a very close
and sympathetic observation of nature. The Stone Age in New Jersey;
Primitive Industry; A Naturalist’s Rambles about Home; Cyclopædia of
Natural History; Upland and Meadow; Wasteland Wanderings; The Birds
About Us; Days Out of Doors; Outings at Odd Times; Recent Rambles;
Travels in a Treetop; Notes of the Night; A Colonial Wooing, a novel;
Bird-Land Echoes. Ap. Cent. Har. Lip.
Abbott, Charles Edward.Me., 1811-1880. Brother of Jacob
Abbott, infra. An educator in Connecticut. Down the Hill;
Village Boys.
Abbott, Edward.Me., 1841- ——. Son of Jacob Abbott,
infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, but prior to 1878
a Congregational minister and editor of The Congregationalist. He is
now [1897] the editor of The Literary World. Dialogues of Christ; The
Long Look series of juvenile tales; A Trip Eastward; Revolutionary
Times; Paragraph History of the United States; Paragraph History of the
American Revolution. Rob.
Abbott, Jacob.Me., 1803-1879. An educator of New
England, who was a voluminous and popular writer for young people.
Among his numerous writings the best known are The Franconia Stories;
Marco Paul’s Adventures; The Rollo Books; Histories of Celebrated
Sovereigns; Harper’s Story Books. See Bibliography of Maine. Cr.
Har.
Abbott, John Stevens Cabot.Me., 1805-1877. Brother of
Jacob Abbott, supra. An historical writer, whose partisan spirit
seriously impairs the value of his very readable works. He was for
some years a Congregational minister, but after 1844 devoted himself
to literature and educational work. Among his works are comprised The
Mother at Home; Practical Christianity; Romance of Spanish History;
American Pioneers and Patriots; History of Napoleon; Napoleon at St.
Helena; History of the French Revolution; History of the Civil War in
America; Lives of the Presidents; History of Maine from its Discovery
by Northmen; Christopher Carson; History of Napoleon III.; History of
Frederick the Great; History of Christianity. See Bibliography of
Maine. Do. Har.
Abbott, Lyman.Ms., 1835- ——. Son of Jacob Abbott,
supra. A Congregational minister of broad views, who as editor
of The Outlook and successor to H. W. Beecher as pastor of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, has exercised a wide influence. Christianity and
Social Problems; Jesus of Nazareth; Old Testament Shadows of New
Testament Truths; Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament; A
Layman’s Story; How to Study the Bible; Life of Christ; In Aid of
Faith; The Evolution of Christianity; A Study in Human Nature;
Dictionary of Religious Knowledge (with T. J. Conant, infra).
Bar. Do. Dut. Fo. Har. Hou. Meth. Put.
Abeel, David.N. J., 1804-1846. A Reformed Dutch
missionary in China. Journal of a Residence in China; A Missionary
Convention at Jerusalem; The Claims of the World to the Gospel. See
Memoirs by G. B. Williamson, 1849.
Abert [ā´bert], Silvanus Thayer.Pa., 1828- ——.
A civil engineer in the United States service. Notes Historical and
Statistical upon the Projected Route for an Interoceanic Canal between
the Atlantic and Pacific.
Adams, Mrs. Abigail [Smith].Ms., 1744-1818. Wife
of President John Adams, infra. Known to literature by her
entertaining Letters edited by her grandson.
Adams, Brooks.Ms., 1848- ——. Son of Charles Francis
Adams, infra. A lawyer of Boston. The Gold Standard; The
Emancipation of Massachusetts, a careful study of the evolution of
religious freedom; The Law of Civilization and Decay, an Essay in
History. See The Forum, January, 1897. Hou. Mac.
Adams, Charles.N. H., 1808-1890. A Methodist clergyman
who wrote extensively, and among whose works are Evangelism in the
Middle of the 19th Century; Women of the Bible; The Poet Preacher,
a Memorial of Charles Wesley; The Earth and its Wonders; Life of
Cromwell; Life Sketches of Macaulay. Meth.
Adams, Charles Baker.Ms., 1814-1853. A naturalist, who
published Contributions to Conchology; Monographs of Several Species of
Shells.
Adams, Charles Coffin. 182- -1888. An Episcopal clergyman.
Creation, a Recent Work of God; Life of Christ; Anthrosophy; The Bible,
a Scientific Revelation.
Adams, Charles Follen.Ms., 1842- ——. A humourous
verse-writer of Boston, principally known as the author of Leedle
Yawcob Strauss. Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems; Dialect
Ballads. Har. Le.
Adams, Charles Francis.Ms., 1807-1886. Son of President
John Quincy Adams, infra. An eminent diplomatist, who was
Minister to England during the period of the Civil War. He edited The
Life and Works of John Adams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Life and
Works of John Q. Adams; Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams,
with Memoir of Mrs. Adams. See Life by his son, C. F. Adams, infra.
Hou.
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.Ms., 1835- ——. Son of C.
F. Adams, supra. An officer in the Union army during the Civil
War, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of
the Union Pacific Railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted
his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives
often differing materially from those of other writers in the same
field. Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A
College Fetich; Massachusetts, its Historians and its History; Three
Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [infra], a
Biography; Life of Charles Francis Adams. Hou. Le. Put.
Adams, Charles Kendall.Vt., 1835-1902. The president
of Wisconsin University and formerly of Cornell University. Manual of
Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; Christopher
Columbus. Har.
Adams, Francis Colburn.Circa 1850. A writer of
Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms.
Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at
Home; Our World, or the Democrats’ Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life
and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a
Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; The Von Toodleburgs,
or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family.
Adams, George Burton.Vt., 1851- ——. An historical
writer, professor of history at Yale University. Civilization during
the Middle Ages; The Growth of the French Nation. Fl. Scr.
Adams, Hannah.Ms., 1755-1832. An industrious and
painstaking writer on religious and historical subjects, whose chief
claim to distinction at present is that she was the first woman in
America who made literature a profession. A View of Religious Opinions;
History of New England; History of the Jews; Evidences of Christianity.
See Memoir by herself, with additions by another hand, 1832.
Adams, Henry.Ms., 1838- ——. Son of Charles Francis
Adams, supra. An historian and political biographer, living in
Washington. Life of John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; History of
the United States, 1801-17; Historical Essays; Essays in Anglo-Saxon
Law. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Adams, Henry Carter.Ia., 1852- ——. A political
economist of note. Public Debts: an Essay in the Science of Finance;
Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816. Ap.
Adams, Herbert Baxter.Ms., 1850-1901. A professor of
history at Johns Hopkins University, and the secretary of the American
Historical Association from its beginning. The Germanic Origin of
New England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in America; Norman Constables in
America; Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem; Thomas Jefferson
and the University of Virginia; Methods of Historical Study; History
of the United States Constitution. He edited the Life and Writings of
Jared Sparks, infra. Hou.
Adams, Jasper.Ms., 1793-1841. An Episcopal clergyman,
once noted as an educator at West Point, Charleston, and elsewhere, who
published The Elements of Moral Philosophy.
Adams, John.N. S., 1704-1740. A clergyman of Newport
and Philadelphia, much esteemed in his day as a poet. Poems on Several
Occasions, a volume of his verses posthumously collected and printed,
shows, however, no very especial marks of poetic talent.
Adams, John.Ms., 1735-1826. The second President
of the United States, and a political writer of great ability and
force. A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, a work relating to
the constitutional rights of New England; Thoughts on Government;
Novanglus: a History of the Dispute with America from 1754 to 1774;
Defence of the American Constitution; Discourses on Davila: a Series
of Papers on Political History. See complete Works in 10 volumes,
1850-56. See, also, Lives by J. Q. and C. F. Adams, 1871; John Adams,
by Morse, 1885; Histories of the United States, by Bancroft, McMaster,
Henry Adams, and Schouler; Parker’s Historic Americans; Appleton’s
American Biography.
Adams, John Coleman.Ms., 1849- ——. Son of J. G. Adams,
infra. A Universalist clergyman and editor of New York city.
Christian Types of Heroism; The Fatherhood of God; The Leisure of God
and Other Studies in Spiritual Evolution.
Adams, John Greenleaf.N. H., 1810-1887. A Universalist
clergyman, among whose writings the chief are The Universalist Church,
its Faith and its Works; Universalism of the Lord’s Prayer; Talks About
the Bible to Young Folks; Fifty Notable Years, or Views of the Ministry
of Universalism.
Adams, John Quincy.Ms., 1767-1848. Son of President John
Adams, supra. The sixth President of the United States, and a
statesman whose writings, though mainly political in their character,
include several purely literary works. Lectures on Rhetoric and
Oratory; The Bible and its Teachings; Poems of Religion and Society;
Letters on Freemasonry; Lives of Celebrated Statesmen, and many State
Papers. See Complete Works, edited by C. F. Adams, with Life; also
Diary of; Lives by Seward, Quincy, Morse; Histories of the United
States by Bancroft, McMaster, Schouler.Lip.
Adams, John Turvill.B. G., 1805-1882. A lawyer of
Norwich, Connecticut. The Knight of the Golden Melice, an historical
tale; The Lost Hunter.
Adams, Julius Walker.Ms., 1812-1899. An engineer of
distinction, who was employed in many important engineering works.
Sewers and Drains for Populous Districts.
Adams, Myron.N. Y., 1841-1895. A Congregational
clergyman of Rochester, New York, from 1876 until his death. The
Creation of the Bible; The Continuous Creation, an Application of the
Evolutionary Philosophy to the Christian Religion. Hou.
Adams, Nehemiah.Ms., 1806-1878. A once noted
Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose most famous work, A South
Side View of Slavery, provoked much hostile criticism. Among other
works by him are Walks to Emmaus; Scriptural Argument for Endless
Punishment; Remarks on Unitarian Belief; Life of John Eliot; Agnes and
the Little Key; Evenings with the Doctrines.
Adams, Robert Chamblet.Ms., 1839- ——. Son of Nehemiah
Adams, supra. History of England in Rhyme; History of the United
States in Rhyme; On Board the Rocket; Aids to Endeavour, Evolution, a
Summary of Evidence; Travels in Faith from Tradition to Reason; Pioneer
Pith. Lo.
Adams, Samuel.Ms., 1722-1803. Cousin of President John
Adams, supra. A statesman and orator who fills a large place in
the annals of the American Revolution. See Lives by Wells, Hosmer,
1885; Harper’s Magazine, vol. 53.
Adams, William.Ct., 1807-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman
of prominence in New York city, 1835-80. The Three Gardens: Eden,
Gethsemane, Paradise; Conversations of Jesus Christ with Representative
Men; In the World, not of the World; Thanksgiving, Memories of the Day
and Helps to the Habit.
Adams, William.I., 1813-1897. An Episcopal clergyman who
was one of the founders of Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wisconsin,
and professor of systematic divinity there from 1841. Mercy to Babes;
Elements of Christian Science; New Treatise of Baptismal Regeneration.
Adams, William Taylor, “Oliver Optic.” Ms., 1822-1897. A
prolific and popular writer of books for boys, who was for many years a
teacher in the Boston public schools. Among his writings are Army and
Navy Series; Young America Abroad Series; Lake Shore Series; Starry
Flag Series. Le.
Ade, George.Il., 1866- ——. A Chicago journalist.
Artie: a Story of the Streets and Town. S.
Adeler, Max.See Clark, C. H.
Adler, Felix.G., 1851- ——. An ethical reformer of New
York city. Creed and Deed; The Moral Instruction of Children. Ap.
Put.
Adler, Georg.G., 1821-1868. A philologist of New York
city who was the author of a valuable German and English Dictionary and
other educational works. Ap.
Agassiz [ag´a-see or ä-gäs-se´], Alexander.Sd.,
1835- ——. Son of L. Agassiz, infra. Marine zoölogist. Born in
Neuchatel, he came to America with his father, and has distinguished
himself in lines of special scientific research. Exploration of Lake
Titicaca; List of the Echinoderms; Three Cruises of the Blake: a
Contribution to American Thalassography. Hou.
Agassiz, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cary].Ms., 1822- ——. Wife of
L. Agassiz, infra. Life of Louis Agassiz; Seaside Studies in
Natural History (with A. Agassiz, supra).
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe.Sd., 1807-1873. A
naturalist of eminence. Founder of the Museum of Natural History
at Cambridge. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles; Lake Superior,
Natural History of Fresh-Water Fishes of Central Europe; Etudes sur
les Glaciers; Système Glacière; Methods of Study in Natural History;
Geological Sketches; Structure of Animal Life; Journey in Brazil.
See Whipple’s Character and Characteristic Men; Louis Agassiz and
Evolution, Popular Science Monthly, vol. 32; Lives by Mrs. E. Agassiz,
Holder, 1892, Jules Marcou, 1896; Lowell’s ode, Agassiz.
Agnew, David Hayes.Pa., 1810-1892. A physician who was
for a long time professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania.
His writings were the outcome of wide experience. Handbook of Practical
Anatomy; Principles and Practice of Surgery: a treatise on Surgical
Diseases and Injuries. See Life of, by J. H. Adams, 1892.Lip.
Aikman, William.N. Y., 1824- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman. The Moral Power of the Sea; Life at Home, or the Family and
its Members; The Altar in the Home; A Bachelor’s Talks about Married
Life.
Aimwell, Walter.See Simonds.
Ainslie, Hew.S., 1792-1878. A Scottish poet who
emigrated to America in 1822 and lived mainly in Kentucky. Pilgrimage
to the Land of Burns, a prose work with lyrics interspersed; Scottish
Songs, Ballads, and Poems.
Akers, Elizabeth.See Allen, Mrs.
Albee, John.Ms., 1833- ——. Formerly a clergyman; now
living at Chocorua, New Hampshire. Literary Art; St. Aspenquid: an
Indian Idyl; Prose Idyls. Hou. Put.
Alcott [awl´kot], Amos Bronson.Ct., 1799-1888. A
philosopher of a singularly unpractical type, whose personality was of
greater interest than his writings. Conversations with Children on the
Gospels; Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, Concord Days, Sonnets,
and Canzonets; New Connecticut: a poem. See Miss E. P. Peabody’s
Records of a School; Life, by F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris, 1893.Rob.
Alcott, Louisa May.Pa., 1832-1888. Daughter of A. B.
Alcott, supra. A writer whose books for young people have
been widely popular. They cannot, however, claim consideration as
examples of literary art. Among them are Little Women; Little Men; An
Old-Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs. Moods; Hospital
Sketches; A Modern Mephistopheles, are works for older readers. The
thoughtful poem, Thoreau’s Flute, is her finest effort. See Life,
Letters, and Journals, edited by Mrs. Cheney; Recollections of, by Mrs.
M. S. Porter, 1893.Rob.
Alcott, William Andrus.Ct., 1798-1859. Cousin of A. B.
Alcott, supra. An energetic, earnest writer upon diet reform.
The House I Live in; Vegetable Diet; Library of Health.
Alden [awl´den], Henry Mills.Vt., 1836- ——.
A thoughtful and suggestive writer on religious themes who has been
editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1869. God in his World; A Study of
Death. Har.
Alden, Mrs. Isabella [Macdonald]. “Pansy.” N. Y.,
1841- ——. A very prolific writer of religious tales for young
people, the literary worth of which is inconsiderable. Four Girls at
Chautauqua; Chautauqua Girls at Home, are among the earlier ones.
Lo.
Alden, Joseph.N. Y., 1807-1885. An industrious
contributor to educational and Sunday-school literature. He was
for many years president of the Normal School at Albany. Example
of Washington; Citizen’s Manual; Christian Ethics; The Science of
Government; Studies in Bryant; Elements of Intellectual Philosophy.
Ap. Le. Meth.
Alden, William Livingston.Ms., 1837- ——. Son of J.
Alden, supra. A humourous writer who has for some time resided
in London. A New Robinson Crusoe; Domestic Explosions; Shooting Stars;
Moral Pirates; Cruise of the Canoe Club; Life of Christopher Columbus.
Har. Ho. Put.
Aldrich [awl´dritch], Annie Reeve.N. Y.,
1866-1892. A New York city writer of notably erotic verse and fiction.
The Rose of Flame and Other Poems of Love; Songs about Life, Love, and
Death; The Feet of Love: a novel. Put.
Aldrich, James.N. Y., 1810-1866. A littérateur of
New York, who established The Literary Gazette in 1840, in which a
number of his verses appeared. His Poems were privately printed by his
daughter in 1884.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.N. H., 1837- ——. A poet and
novelist whose work in both verse and prose is distinguished for grace
of expression and delicacy of execution. Verse: The Bells; Ballad of
Baby Bell; Pampinea; Flower and Thorn; Cloth of Gold; Friar Jerome’s
Beautiful Book; XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets; The Sisters’ Tragedy;
Wyndham Towers; Unguarded Gates; Mercedes and Later Lyrics; Judith and
Holofernes. Prose: Prudence Palfrey; The Queen of Sheba; The Stillwater
Tragedy; Marjorie Daw and Other Stories; Two Bites at a Cherry,
with Other Tales; The Story of a Bad Boy; An Old Town by the Sea: a
description of Portsmouth, the author’s birthplace; From Ponkapog to
Pesth: Travel Sketches; Ponkapog Papers. See Stedman’s Poets of
America; Vedder’s American Writers.Hou.
Alexander, Archibald.Va., 1772-1851. A Presbyterian
clergyman who was professor at Princeton Theological Seminary 1812-51.
Evidences of Christianity; The Canon of Scripture; Moral Science;
Bible Dictionary, are some of his many works. See Life, by J. W.
Alexander; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.Scr.
Alexander, Caleb.N. Y., 1775-1828. A clergyman, much of
whose life was spent in teaching at Onondaga, New York. He published
Latin and English grammars; Essay on the Deity of Christ; The Columbian
Dictionary; Grammar Elements: a literal prose version of Virgil.
Alexander, James Waddel.Va., 1804-1859. Son of A.
Alexander, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city.
Plain Words to a Young Communicant; Sacramental Discourses; Thoughts
on Preaching; Life of Archibald Alexander; Consolation; The American
Mechanic and Workingman, are among his writings. Ran. Scr.
Alexander, John Henry.Md., 1812-1867. A once noted
Maryland scientist. History of the Metallurgy of Iron; Universal
Dictionary of Weights and Measures, Ancient and Modern; International
Tonnage; Treatise of Mathematical Instruments; Introits; Catena
Dominica: a collection of religious poems.
Alexander, Joseph Addison.Pa., 1809-1860. Son of A.
Alexander, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at
Princeton College, and Theological Seminary, 1820-60. He was the author
of Commentaries on the Psalms, Isaiah, Acts, Matthew, and Mark; and
many theological reviews, often as sarcastic as they were forcible.
See Life, by H. C. Alexander; Hart’s American Literature.Scr.
Alexander, Samuel Davies.N. J., 1819-1894. Son of A.
Alexander, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city from
1855. Princeton College in the 18th Century. Scr.
Alexander, Stephen.N. Y., 1806-1883. An astronomer who
was a professor at Princeton College, 1834-78. Physical Phenomena of
Solar Eclipses; Certain Harmonies of the Solar System.
Alger [ă´jẽr], Horatio, Jr.Ms., 1832-1899. The
author of a long series of popular juvenile tales, among which the
Ragged Dick stories are best known. Co.
Alger, William Rounseville. Ms., 1822- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman and lecturer of Boston. Symbolic History of the Cross; The
School of Life; History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Solitudes
of Nature and Man; The Friendships of Women; Poetry of the Orient;
Life of Edwin Forrest. A. U. A. Lip. Rob.
Alice, Aunt.See Graves, Mrs.
Alice, Cousin.See Haven, Mrs.
Allan, William.Va., 1837-1889. A lieutenant-colonel in
the Confederate army during the Civil War. Battlefields of Virginia;
Jackson’s Valley Campaign; Army of Northern Virginia. Hou. Lip.
Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold.Ms., 1841- ——. An
Episcopal clergyman, prominent among leaders of modern religious
thought, and a professor in the Episcopal Theological School at
Cambridge. The Continuity of Christian Thought: a Study of Modern
Theology in the Light of its History; Life of Jonathan Edwards; The
Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the 19th Century; Religious
Progress. Hou.
Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Chase] [Akers], “Florence Percy.”
Me. 1832- ——. A writer of verse, whose song, “Rock Me to
Sleep, Mother,” is her most famous though not her best poem. The
Triangular Society; Queen Catharine’s Rose; Forest Buds; Poems by
Florence Percy; The Silver Bridge; The High Top Sweeting. Hou.
Scr.
Allen, Frederick De Forest.O., 1844-1897. A professor of
classical philology at Harvard University from 1880. Remnants of Early
Latin; Greek Versification in Inscriptions.
Allen, Fred Hovey. N. H., 1845- ——. A clergyman, author of
the text of a number of popular art works, such as Great Cathedrals of
the World; Modern German Masters; Recent German Art; Famous Paintings;
Grand Modern Paintings; Glimpses of Parisian Art; History of the
Reformation.
Allen, Harrison.Pa., 1841-1897. A surgeon of
Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1865.
Outlines of Comparative Anatomy; System of Human Anatomy. Lip.
Allen, Ira.Ct., 1751-1814. An officer in the American
army during the Revolutionary War, who was afterwards instrumental in
settling the disputes between Vermont and its neighbours. Natural and
Political History of Vermont.
Allen, James Lane.Ky., 1849- ——. At one time a
teacher, now devoted to literature. A writer of short stories, notable
for literary excellence. Flute and Violin; The Blue Grass Region and
Other Sketches of Kentucky; John Gray: a Novel; The Kentucky Cardinal;
Aftermath; A Summer in Arcady; The Choir Invisible; The Reign of Law;
Two Gentlemen of Kentucky. Har. Lip. Mac.
Allen, Jerome.Vt., 1830-1894. An educator of New York,
dean of the School of Pedagogy. Handbook of Experimental Chemistry;
Methods for Teachers in Grammar; Mind Studies for Young Teachers;
Temperament in Education.
Allen, Joel Asaph.Ms., 1838- ——. A naturalist who
since 1885 has been curator of ornithology and mammalogy in the
American Museum of Natural History in New York city. History of North
American Pinnipeds; Monographs of North American Rodentia (with E.
Coues, infra).
Allen, Joseph Henry.Ms., 1820-1898. A Unitarian
clergyman of Cambridge, who is also noted as the author of a number of
valuable and popular classical text-books. Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy;
Hebrew Men and Times; Christian History in Three Great Periods;
Fragments of Christian History; Historical Sketch of the Unitarian
Movement since the Reformation; Our Liberal Movement in Theology;
Outline of Christian History, A. D. 50-1880; are some of his
religious works. El. Gi. Rob.
Allen’s Wife, Josiah.See Holley.
Allen, Lewis Falley.Ms., 1800-1890. A once prominent
cattle broker. Rural Architecture; The American Herd Book; American
Cattle.
Allen, Nathan.Ms., 1813-1889. A physician of Lowell. The
Law of Human Increase; The Opium Trade; Physical Development.
Allen, Paul.R. I., 1775-1826. A journalist of
Philadelphia. Poems: Noah, a poem in five cantos; Life of Alexander
I.; Lewis and Clark’s Novels. The Life of Washington, which bears his
name, was written by John Neal, infra, and others.
Allen, Richard Lamb.Ms., 1803-1869. Brother of L. F.
Allen, supra, with whom, in 1842, he founded the American
Agriculturalist. Domestic Animals; Diseases of Domestic Animals; New
American Farm Book (with L. F. Allen). See Last Letters of,
with Memoir.
Allen, Stephen Merrill.N. H., 1819-1894. A banker and
merchant of Boston. Fibrilia and Fibrous Manufactures, Ancient and
Modern; Theories of Light; Religion and Science.
Allen, Timothy Field.Vt., 1837-1902. A physician of New
York city, dean of the Homœopathic Medical College from 1882. Characeæ
Americanæ; General Symptom-Register of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He
has edited Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica.
Allen, William.Ms., 1784-1868. The author of an American
Biographical and Historical Dictionary, the first edition of which
appeared in 1809, the earliest work of the kind in the United States.
From 1820 to 1829 he was president of Bowdoin College. Lectures to
Young Men; Junius Unmasked; Wunissoo: a poem, with notes.
Allen, William Francis.Ms., 1830-1889. Brother of J. H.
Allen, supra. A professor in the University of Wisconsin. He
published Outline Studies in the History of Ireland; Monographs and
Essays; and edited a collection of Slave Songs.
Allen, Willis Boyd.Me., 1855- ——. A Boston littérateur
whose writings are popular with juvenile readers. Among them are The
Red Mountain of Alaska; Pine Cones; Silver Rags; Kelp; The Mammoth
Hunters. He has published In the Morning, a collection of verse.
Est. Lo. Ran.
Allen, Zachariah.R. I., 1795-1882. A noted inventor and
manufacturer of Providence. Practical Tourist; Practical Mechanics;
Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; Solar Light and Heat. See
Memorial by A. Perry, 1883.Ap.
Allerton, Mrs. Ellen [Palmer].N. Y., 1835-1893. A
Kansas writer living at Padonia in that State. Poems of the Prairies.
Allibone, Samuel Austin.Pa., 1816-1889. A Philadelphia
author widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature
and British and American Authors, a work of immense labour and
research. It is of great value as a work of reference, but is not an
infallible guide, and is more or less marred by trivial comment and
moralizing. See Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. 15, 1891.Lip.
Allmond, Marcus Blakey.Va., 1851- ——. An educator of
Louisville who has published Estelle, an Idyl of Old Virginia, a volume
of verse; Agricola, an Eastern Idyl; Outlines of Latin Syntax.
Allston [awl´ston], Robert Francis Withers.S. C.,
1801-1864. A South Carolina statesman well known at one time as an
agricultural reformer. Memoir on Rice; Essay on Sea Coast Crops; Report
on Public Schools.
Allston, Washington.S. C., 1779-1843. A once famous
artist of Cambridge who was also known as a poet and romancer. Sylphs
of the Seasons and Other Poems; The Romance of Monaldi; Lectures on
Art. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Life and Letters, edited
by J. Flagg, 1892.
Alsop [awl´sop], Richard.Ct., 1761-1815. A once
noted political satirist, chief of the “Hartford Wits,” who wrote
The Echo, a series of metrical parodies upon current publications,
orations, state papers, and the like. Other works by Alsop are The
Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; The Enchanted
Lake of the Fairy Morgana.
Alvord [awl´vord], Benjamin.Vt., 1813-1884.
A United States officer who served in the Mexican and Civil wars.
Tangencies of Circles and Spheres; Interpretation of Imaginary Roots in
Questions of Maxima and Minima.
Ames, Charles Gordon.Ms., 1828- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman who became pastor of the Church of the Disciples in Boston on
the death of J. F. Clarke, infra. George Eliot’s Two Marriages;
As Natural as Life: Studies of the Inner Kingdom.
Ames, Mrs. Eleanor Maria [Easterbrook], “Eleanor Kirk.”
1830- ——. A littérateur of Brooklyn. Up Broadway and Its Sequel;
Information for Authors; Perpetual Youth.
Ames, Fisher.Ms., 1758-1808. Son of N. Ames,
infra. A statesman whose speeches are marked examples of
condensed effective statement as well as of felicitous expression.
Laocoon and Other Essays. See Works of, with Memoir, 1854; Magoon’s
Orators of the American Revolution.
Ames, Lucia True.N. H., 1856- ——. A Boston writer
who has published Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers; Memoirs of a
Millionaire, a novel. Hou. Put.
Ames, Mary Clemmer.See Hudson, Mrs.
Ames, Nathaniel.Ms., 1708-1764. A physician of Dedham,
Massachusetts, who published, 1725-64, an Astronomical Diary and
Almanac which contained much shrewd humour and original philosophy and
was widely popular. See Tyler’s American Literatures; Essays, Humour
and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, edited by S. Briggs,
1891.
Ammen, Daniel.O., 1820-1898. A rear-admiral of the
United States navy, the designer of the Ammen life raft. The Atlantic
Coast; Country Homes and their Improvement; The Old Navy and the New.
Lip. Scr.
Amory, Thomas Coffin.Ms., 1812-1889. A lawyer of Boston.
Life of James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts; Military Services of
Major-General John Sullivan; Life of Sir Isaac Coffin.
Anagnos, Mrs. Julia Romana [Howe]. 1844-1886. Daughter of Dr.
S. G. and Julia Ward Howe, infra, and wife of M. Anagnos, the
Superintendent of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Stray
Chords, a volume of verse; Philosophiæ Questor.
Anderson, Alexander.N. Y., 1775-1870. The first
wood-engraver in the United States. He was the author of an illustrated
General History of Quadrupeds.
Anderson, John Jacob.N. Y., 1821- ——. An educator of
New York city who prepared a number of historical text books, among
which are A History of France; Common School History of the United
States. My.
Anderson, Mary.See Navarro.
Anderson, Rasmus Björn.Wis., 1846- ——. A Norse
scholar of Norwegian descent who has translated Björnson’s novels and
written much in relation to Norse mythology. America not Discovered by
Columbus; Norse Mythology; Viking Tales of the North; The Younger Edda;
The Elder Edda. Sc.
Anderson, Rufus.Me., 1796-1880. A clergyman, who was
secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, 1824-74. Foreign
Missions, their Relations and Claims; History of the American Board’s
Missions in the Sandwich Islands, Turkey and India, Peloponnesus and
Greek Islands. C. P. S.
Andrew, James Osgood.Ga., 1794-1871. A bishop of the
Methodist Church South. Family Government; Miscellanies.
Andrews, Christopher Columbus.N. H., 1829- ——. A
brevet major-general in the United States army, who was minister
to Sweden 1869-77, and consul-general to Brazil 1882-85. Minnesota
and Dakota (1857); Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the
United States; Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties;
History of the Campaign of Mobile; Digests of the Opinions of the
Attorneys-General of the United States; Brazil, its Condition and
Prospects (1887), third enlarged edition (1895). Ap.
Andrews, Elisha Benjamin.N. H., 1844- ——. A prominent
educator, president of Brown University. Institutes of General History;
Institutes of Economics; Brief Institutes of our Economical History; An
Honest Dollar; Eternal Words and Other Sermons; History of the United
States; Wealth and Moral Law; History of the Last Quarter Century in
the United States, 1870-95. Gi. Scr. Sil.
Andrews, Eliza Frances.Ga., 1840- ——. An educator of
Macon, Georgia, whose writing is mainly in the line of fiction. A Mere
Adventurer; A Family Secret; How he was Tempted; Prince Hal.
Andrews, Ethan Allen.Ct., 1787-1858. An educator who was
at one time professor of ancient languages in the University of North
Carolina. Beside a Latin-English Dictionary, he published a valuable
series of classical text-books. Hou.
Andrews, Israel Ward.Ct., 1815-1888. President of
Marietta College. His only published work of importance is a Manual of
the Constitution of the United States. Va.
Andrews, Jane.Ms., 1833-1887. A writer of Newburyport
whose books for children have long been deservedly popular. Seven
Little Sisters who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air; The
Seven Little Sisters Prove their Sisterhood; The Stories Mother Nature
Told; Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now; Only a Year
and what it Brought. Gi.
Andrews, Samuel James.Ct., 1817- ——. Brother of I. W.
Andrews, supra. An Irvingite clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut.
The Life of Our Lord upon Earth; God’s Revelations of Himself to Men.
Scr.
Andrews, Sidney. 1837-1880. A Boston journalist. The Art of
Flying; The South since the War.
Andrews, Stephen Pearl.Ms., 1812-1886. An eccentric
writer of New York city, the originator of phonographic reporting and
at one period prominent as an abolitionist. Among his many and varied
works are Basic Outline of Universalogy, in which he advocated the
adoption of a universal language called Alwato; Discourses in Chinese;
Comparison of Common Law with Roman, French, or Spanish Law on Entails
and Other Limited Property; Love, Marriage and Divorce.
Angell, Henry Clay.R. I., 1829- ——. A professor of
ophthalmology in Boston University. Diseases of the Eye; How to Take
Care of our Eyes; Records of W. M. Hunt. Rob.
Angell, James Burrill.R. I., 1829- ——. President of
Michigan University since 1871. Manual of French Literature; Progress
in International Law.
Angell, Joseph Kinnicut.R. I., 1794-1857. A legal writer
of Rhode Island, among whose works are Treatise on the Common Law
of Watercourses; The Law of Tide Waters; The Limitation of Actions.
Lit.
Anspach, Frederick Rinehart.Pa., 1815-1867. A Lutheran
clergyman of Hagerstown, Maryland. Sons of the Sires; Sepulchres of Our
Departed; The Two Pilgrims.
Anthon, Charles.N. Y., 1797-1867. A noted classical
scholar, for many years professor of ancient languages at Columbia
College. He was the author of some fifty classical text-books,
including a Classical Dictionary. Har.
Anthon, John.Mch., 1784-1863. Brother of Charles Anthon,
supra. A jurist of New York city. Essay on the Study of Law;
Analysis of Blackstone; Nisi Prius Cases; American Precedents.
Appleton, Jesse.N. H., 1772-1819. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Bowdoin College, 1807-19. Addresses; Lectures.
His works, with Memoir by A. S. Packard, infra, appeared in 1837.
Appleton, John. 1804-1891. A former chief justice of Maine
eminent as a legal reformer. The Rules of Evidence Stated and Discussed.
Appleton, John Howard.Me., 1844- ——. A professor
of chemistry at Brown University since 1868. The Young Chemist;
Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Chemistry of Non Metals.
Sil.
Appleton, Thomas Gold.Ms., 1812-1884. An artist and
littérateur of Boston. A Sheaf of Papers; A Nile Journal; Windfalls;
Syrian Sunshine; Chequer-Work; Faded Leaves, a volume of verse. See
Life and Letters, edited by Susan Hale, 1885.Rob.
Apthorp, William Foster.Ms., 1848- ——. A musical
newspaper critic of Boston. Musicians and Music Lovers and Other
Essays. He has translated Zola’s Jacques Damour. Cop. Scr.
Archibald, Andrew Webster.N. Y., 1851- ——. A
Congregational clergyman of prominence in Iowa. The Bible Verified.
Archibald, Mrs. George.See Palmer, Mrs. Anna.
Arey, Mrs. Harriet Ellen [Grannis].Vt., 1819- ——. An
educator whose home is in Cleveland. Household Songs and Other Poems;
Home and School Training. Lip.
Arkwright, Peleg.See Proudfit, D.
Armitage, Thomas.E., 1819-1896. A prominent Baptist
clergyman of New York city. Jesus, his Self Introspection; Lectures on
Preaching; History of the Baptists.
Armstrong, George Dodd.N. J., 1813-1899. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Norfolk, Virginia. The Summer of the Pestilence; The
Doctrine of Baptisms; The Christian Doctrine of Slavery; Theology of
Christian Experience; The Sacraments of the New Testament; The Books
of Nature and Revelation, a criticism of the theory of evolution.
Fu.
Armstrong, John.Pa., 1758-1843. An officer of note
in the American army at the time of the Revolution. He was the
author of the first of the famous Newburg Letters, and in later life
published Notes on the War of 1812; Treatise on Gardening; Treatise on
Agriculture; Memoirs of Generals Montgomery and Wayne.
Arnold, Albert Nicholas.R. I., 1814-1883. A Baptist
clergyman who held professorships in several Baptist seminaries
successively. Pre-requisites to Communion; Evils of Infant Baptism; One
Woman’s Mission.
Arnold, George.N. Y., 1834-1865. A journalist and poet
of New York city, whose verse is musical without being especially
strong. Drift and Other Poems; Poems Grave and Gay. See Biographical
Sketch by W. Winter, infra.Hou.
Arnold, Isaac Newton.N. Y., 1815-1884. A prominent
Chicago lawyer and politician, member of Congress, 1861-65. Life of
Abraham Lincoln; Life of Benedict Arnold; Recollections of the Early
Chicago and Illinois Bar. Mg.
Arnold, Lauren Briggs.N. Y., 1814-1888. An agriculturist
of western New York who lectured frequently upon dairy husbandry and
was the author of American Dairying.
Arnold, Samuel Greene.R. I., 1821-1880. A lawyer who was
several times lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island. History of the State
of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Life of Patrick Henry.
Pr.
Arp, Bill.See Smith, C. H.
Arr, E. H.See Rollins, Mrs. Ellen.
Arria.See Pugh, Mrs.
Arrington, Alfred W.N. C., 1810-1867. A prominent lawyer
in the Southwest, and, later, in Chicago. The Rangers and Regulators of
the Tanaha; Sketches of the Southwest; Poems (with Memoir), 1869.
Arthur, Timothy Shay.N. Y., 1809-1885. A prolific
writer of moral tales, with much more excellence of intention than
literary merit to recommend them, but which have enjoyed a very
extensive popularity. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room; Six Nights with the
Washingtonians; Tales of Married Life, are some of the best known. His
life was nearly all spent in Philadelphia. Co. Lip. Pet.
Ashhurst, John.Pa., 1839-1900. A distinguished surgeon
of Philadelphia. Injuries of the Spine; Principles and Practice
of Surgery. He edited the International Encyclopædia of Surgery.
Lip.
Astor, William Waldorf.N. Y., 1848- ——. A noted
millionaire of New York city, minister to Italy, 1882-85, and more
recently the proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Pall Mall Magazine
in London. Valentino, an Historical Romance of the 16th Century in
Italy; Sforza, a Story of Milan. Scr.
Atkinson, Edward.Ms., 1827- ——. A Boston reformer
active in matters of diet and political economy. The Distribution of
Products; Labor and Capital; Industrial Progress of the Nation; The
Science of Nutrition; Margin of Profits; Taxation and Work. Put.
Atkinson, John.N. J., 1835-1897. A clergyman of
prominence in the Methodist church. The Living Way; Memorials of
Methodism in New Jersey; The Garden of Sorrows; The Class Leader;
Centennial History of American Methodism. Meth.
Atkinson, William Parsons.Ms., 1820-1890. Brother of E.
Atkinson, supra. A professor of history at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The Right Use of Books; History and the Study
of History; Classical and Scientific Studies. Rob.
Atwater, Horace Cowles.N. Y., 1819-1879. A clergyman of
the Methodist Church South, who published Incidents of a Southern Tour
(1857).
Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss.Ct., 1813-1883. A professor of
philosophy at Princeton College and long a noted contributor to the
Princeton Review. He published a Manual of Elementary Logic. Lip.
Atwater, Wilbur Olin.N. Y., 1844- ——. A professor of
chemistry at Wesleyan University since 1873. He has written extensively
upon agricultural chemistry, and published Co-operative Experimenting
as a Means of Studying the Effect of Fertilizers; Results of Field
Experiments with Various Fertilizers.
Atwood, Anthony.N. J., 1801-1888. A Methodist clergyman,
whose only published work is The Abiding Comforter.
Atwood, Isaac Morgan.N. Y., 1838- ——. A Universalist
clergyman, president of the Theological Seminary at St. Lawrence
University. Have we Outgrown Christianity; Glance at the Religious
Progress of the United States; Latest Word of Universalism; Walks about
Zion; Manual of Revelation.
Audubon, John James.La., 1780-1851. An ornithologist of
eminence, whose entire life was devoted to the pursuit of his favorite
study. Birds of America; Quadrupeds of North America; Ornithological
Biography. See Audubon, the Naturalist, by Mrs. St. John; Journal of
Life and Labours of Audubon.
Auringer, Obadiah Cyrus.N. Y., 1849- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York state, whose writings in verse
include Scythe and Sword; The Heart of the Golden Roan; The Episode of
Jane McCrea; The Book of the Hills. Lo.
Austen, Peter Townsend.N. Y., 1852- ——. A professor
of chemistry at Rutgers College since 1877, who has contributed much
to scientific journals, and published Chemical Lecture Notes; Organic
Chemistry, from the German of Pinner. Wil.
Austin, Arthur Williams.Ms., 1807-1884. A lawyer of
Boston. The Woman and the Queen, and Other Specimens of Verse, (1875).
Austin, Benjamin.Ms., 1752-1820. A Boston merchant,
active as a political writer and an especially violent champion of
democracy. Constitutional Republicanism is a collection of some of his
contributions to the newspapers of his day.
Austin, Coe Finch.N. Y., 1831-1880. A botanist of
Closter, New York, who published Musci Appalachani, a description of
American mosses.
Austin, George Lowell.Ms., 1849-1893. A Boston physician
whose miscellaneous writings include Perils of American Women, a
Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; Water-Analysis, a Handbook
for Water-Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz Schubert; Popular
History of Massachusetts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; Longfellow;
Life of Wendell Phillips. Le.
Austin, Henry.Ms., 1858- ——. A lawyer of Boston, who
has written The Law Concerning Farms; American Farm and Game Laws;
American Fish and Game Laws; Liquor Law in New England.
Austin, Henry Willard.Ms., 1858- ——. A journalist and
littérateur of Boston. Vagabond Verses.
Austin, James Trecothick.Ms., 1784-1870. A once
prominent lawyer of Boston, who published a Life of Elbridge Gerry.
Austin, Mrs. Jane [Goodwin].Ms., 1831-1894. A talented
writer of historical fiction, much of whose life was spent in Boston.
She was a careful student of colonial history, and will be long
remembered for her series of romances relating to the Plymouth Pilgrims
and their descendants. These include A Nameless Nobleman; Standish of
Standish; Betty Alden: the First-Born Daughter of the Pilgrims; Dr. Le
Baron and his Daughters; David Alden’s Daughter and Other Stories of
Colonial Times. Other novels by her are Cipher; The Shadow of Moloch
Mountain; Mrs. Beauchamp Brown; The Desmond Hundred; Dora Darling;
Outpost. Nantucket Scraps is a volume of travel sketches; Moonfolk, a
fairy tale. Hou. Le. Put. Rob.
Austin, Samuel.Ct., 1760-1830. A Congregational
clergyman of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1790-1815, and afterwards
president of the University of Vermont. Views of the Church;
Theological Essays; Letters on Baptism.
Austin, William.Ms., 1778-1841. A Boston lawyer whose
best claim to remembrance is that he was author of the famous sketch
Peter Rugg: the Missing Man, which appeared in the New England
Galaxy in 1824. It is a very remarkable imaginative study that in
some respects anticipates the later work of Hawthorne. Other works
of his are Letters from London (1804); The Human Character of Jesus
Christ. See Literary Papers of, with Biographical Sketch, 1890.Lit.
Avery, Benjamin Parke.N. Y., 1829-1875. A Californian
journalist who was appointed minister to China in 1874. Californian
Pictures in Prose and Verse.
Ayres, Alfred.See Osmun.
Ayres, Anne.E., 1816-1896. The first member of an
American sisterhood in the Protestant Episcopal Church, becoming a
sister of the Holy Communion in 1845. Evangelical Sisterhoods; Life of
W. H. Muhlenberg, infra.
Azarias, Brother.See Mullany.
B
Bache [baych], Alexander Dallas.Pa., 1806-1867.
A scientist who was superintendent of the United States Court Survey,
1843-67. His annual reports to Congress are works of great value.
See Commemorative Address by B. A. Gould, infra, 1868.
Bache, Franklin.Pa., 1792-1864. Cousin of A. D. Bache,
supra, and like him a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin,
infra. A Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in
Jefferson Medical College, 1841-64. A System of Chemistry for Students
in Medicine; The Dispensatory of the United States (with G. B.
Wood). See Memoir, by G. B. Wood, infra.
Bacheller, Irving.N. Y., 1859- ——. A journalist and
littérateur of New York city. The Master of Silence, a romance; The
Still House of O’Darrow; Eben Holden. Cas. Lo.
Bachman [bäk´man], John.N. Y., 1790-1874. A
naturalist of Charleston, where he was pastor of a Lutheran church,
1815-74. He assisted Audubon, preparing the greater part of the text
of The Quadrupeds of North America, and wrote several religious and
scientific works. Two Letters on Heredity; Defence of Luther and the
Reformation. See American Lutheran Biographies.
Backus, Isaac.Ct., 1724-1806. A Baptist clergyman of
Rhode Island. A History of New England, with Particular Reference to
the Baptists. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Bacon, Delia Salter.O., 1811-1859. The earliest exponent
of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare. Philosophy of
the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded; Tales of the Puritans; The Bride
of Fort Edward: a Drama. See Hawthorne’s Recollections of a Gifted
Woman; Mrs. Farrar’s Recollections of Seventy Years; Life, by Theodore
Bacon; Saturday Review, vol. 67.
Bacon, Edwin Munroe.R. I., 1844- ——. A journalist of
Boston. Dictionary of Boston; Boston of To-Day. Hou.
Bacon, Henry.Ms., 1839- ——. An artist who has lived
principally in Paris. A Parisian Year; Parisian Art and Artists.
Hou. Rob.
Bacon, Leonard.Mch., 1802-1881. Brother of D. S. Bacon,
supra. The pastor of a Congregational church in New Haven,
Connecticut, 1825-81, and a prominent figure in the denomination
to which he belonged. Historical Discourses; Slavery Discussed in
Occasional Essays; Genesis of the New England Churches; Christian
Self-Culture. See Century Magazine, vol. 3.Har.
Bacon, Leonard Woolsey.Ct., 1830- ——. Son of L. Bacon,
supra. A Congregational clergyman. A Life Worth Living; Church
Papers; Sermons; The Simplicity that is in Christ. Fu.
Bacon, Thomas Scott.N. Y., 1825- ——. An Episcopal
controversialist of Maryland. Both Sides of the Controversy between the
Roman and Reformed Churches; The Reign of God and the Reign of Law;
The Beginnings of Religion; Primitive Man in Christian Thought; It is
Written; The Primitive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy Scripture.
Badeau, Adam.N. Y., 1831-1895. A general in the
United States army. The Vagabond; Military History of General Grant;
Conspiracy: a Cuban Romance; Aristocracy in England; Grant in Peace: a
Personal Memoir. Ap. Har.
Bagg, Lyman Hotchkiss. “Karl Kron.” Ms., 1846- ——. Four
Years at Yale; Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.
Bailey, James Montgomery.N. Y., 1841-1894. Widely
known at one time as “The Danbury News Man.” A journalist of Danbury,
Connecticut, who was among the earliest to exploit a kind of native
humour chiefly concerned with local allusion and application. He has
had many imitators whose methods have been much less legitimate than
his. Life in Danbury; England from a Back Window; The Danbury Boom; Mr.
Phillis’ Goneness; They All Do It. Le.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde.Mich., 1858- ——. A prominent
horticulturist. American Grape Training; Crossbreeding and
Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture;
The Horticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book: a Complete Guide to the
Multiplication and Pollination of Plants; Talks Afield about Plants;
Plant Breeding. Hou. Mac.
Bailey, Loring Woart.N. Y., 1839- ——. A professor of
natural history in the University of New Brunswick. Mines and Minerals
of New Brunswick; Geology of Southern New Brunswick; Elementary Natural
History.
Bailey, William Whitman.N. Y., 1843- ——. Brother of
L. W. Bailey, supra. A professor of botany at Brown University.
New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild
Flowers; Botanical Collector’s Hand-Book. Pr.
Baird, Charles Washington.N. J., 1828-1887. Son of R.
Baird, supra. A Presbyterian minister of Rye, New York. Eutaxia,
or the Presbyterian Liturgies; Book of Public Prayer; History of Rye;
History of the Huguenot Emigration to America. Do.
Baird, Henry Carey.Pa., 1825- ——. Nephew of Henry
Carey, infra, and a political economist holding similar views.
Rights of American Producers and Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue
Reformers; Protection of Home Labour and Home Production necessary to
the Protection of the American Farmer; Miscellaneous Papers on Economic
Questions. Bai.
Baird, Henry Martyn.Pa., 1832- ——. Son of R. Baird,
infra. Professor of Greek at the University of New York from
1859. An historian who is conscientious but not absolutely impartial.
Life of Robert Baird; Modern Greece; Narrative of a Residence and
Travels; History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France; The Huguenots
and Henry of Navarre; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. Har. Ran. Scr.
Baird, Robert.Pa., 1798-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman,
active in the cause of temperance and in promoting the extension of
Protestantism in Europe. History of the Temperance Societies; View of
Religion in America; History of the Waldenses, Albigenses, and Vaudois;
Protestantism in Italy. See Life, by H. M. Baird.Har.
Baird, Samuel John.O., 1817-1893. A Presbyterian
clergyman whose writings are chiefly concerned with the polity
and history of the Presbyterian church. The Church of Christ: its
Constitution and Order; History of the Early Polity of the Presbyterian
Church in the Training of Ministers; The Socinian Apostasy of the
English Presbyterian Church; History of the New School.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton.Pa., 1823-1887. A naturalist
of prominence, who was from 1878 the secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution. The translator and editor of the Iconographic
Encyclopedia, co-author with J. Cassin of Birds of North America
and Mammals of North America; editor Annual Record of Science and
Industry from 1872-78. A History of North American Birds, written in
collaboration with T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway, is one of his most
valuable works. See Popular Science Monthly, vol. 33.Har.
Lip. Lit.
Baker, Abijah Richardson.Ms., 1805-1876. A
Congregational clergyman of Lynn, Massachusetts. School History of the
United States; The Catechism Tested by the Bible; Topics in Christ’s
Sermon on the Mount.
Baker, George Augustus.N. Y., 1849- ——. A lawyer of
New York. Point Lace and Diamonds, a collection of sparkling society
verse; The Bad Habits of Good Society; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short
Stories; West Point: a Comedy. Sto.
Baker, George Melville.Me., 1832-1890. The author
and compiler of Amateur Dramas, the Social Stage, and works of like
character. Le.
Baker, George Pierce.R. I., 1866- ——. An instructor
at Harvard University. Plot Book of Elizabethan Plays; Principles of
Argumentation. Gi. Ho.
Baker, Mrs. Harriette Newell [Woods]. “Madeline Leslie.”
Ms., 1815-1893. Wife of A. R. Baker, supra, and daughter
of Leonard Woods, infra. Beside two novels,—Cora and the
Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded Life,—her writings include nearly two
hundred moral and religious tales, among which Tim the Scissors Grinder
is the best known.
Baker, Mrs. Julia Keim [Wetherill].Mi., 1858- ——. A
journalist of New Orleans. Wings: a Novel.
Baker, William Mumford.D. C., 1825-1883. A popular
novelist who was a Presbyterian clergyman in the Southwest until 1870,
and afterwards the pastor of a church in Boston. He was a vigourous
writer of considerable originality, whose earlier works possess
historic interest as pictures of a now past stage of civilization in
the Southern States. Inside: a Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians
in Texas; Oak Mot; The New Timothy; Mose Evans; His Majesty Myself;
Blessed St. Certainty; Thirlmore; Carter Quarterman; A Year Worth
Living; Colonel Dunwoddie: Millionaire; The Making of a Man; The
Ten Theophanies: the Manifestations of Christ before his Birth in
Bethlehem; John Westacott, a juvenile tale. Har. Le. Ran. Rob.
Balch, William Stevens.Vt., 1806-1887. A Universalist
clergyman, long resident at Elgin, Illinois, and author of Lectures
on Language; Grammar of the English Language; Ireland as I Saw It; A
Peculiar People.
Baldwin, James Mark.S. C., 1861- ——. A professor of
psychology at Princeton University since 1893. Psychology; Elements of
Psychology; Mental Development in the Child and Man; a translation of
Ribot’s “German Psychology of To-Day.” Ho. Mac.
Baldwin, John Denison.Ct., 1809-1883. A journalist of
Worcester, Massachusetts. Raymond Hill, a Poem; Pre-Historic Nations;
Ancient America. Har.
Baldwin, Joseph G.Va., 1811-1864. A once popular
humourous writer who was a jurist of prominence in Alabama and
afterwards of California, of which State he became chief justice.
Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi; Party Leaders, able papers on
Southern statesmen.
Baldwin, Mrs. Lydia Wood.Ms., 1836- ——. Rubina; A
Yankee School-Teacher in Virginia. Fu.
Balestier, Charles Wolcott. 1861-1891. An American writer who
established himself as a publisher in London, and whose sister was
married to Rudyard Kipling the novelist. A Fair Device; Life of Blaine;
A Victorious Defeat; Benefits Forgot; The Naulahka (with Rudyard
Kipling); A Common Story. See Century Magazine, April, 1892.Ap. Har.
Ballou, Adin.R. I., 1803-1890. A Universalist clergyman
of Milford, Massachusetts. Christian Non-Resistance Defended; Treatise
on Spirit Manifestations; Primitive Christianity and its Corruptions;
History of the Town of Milford. See New England Magazine, April,
1891.
Ballou, Hosea.N. H., 1771-1852. A Universalist
theologian of note in New England, and one of the founders of American
Universalism. With his son he established the Universalist Quarterly.
Treatise on Atonement; Notes on the Parables; An Examination of
the Doctrine of Future Retribution. See Lives, by M. M. Ballou;
Whittemore, 1854; Safford, 1889. See Universalist Review, vol. 41.
Ballou, Hosea.Vt., 1796-1861. Nephew of H. Ballou,
supra. A Universalist clergyman who was the first president of
Tufts College, 1854-61. Ancient History of Universalism.
Ballou, Maturin Murray.Ms., 1820-1895. Son of H. Ballou,
2nd. The founder and editor of several periodicals in Boston which
bore his name, and, in his later years, a traveler to all parts of the
world. History of Cuba; Life of Hosea Ballou; Due West, or Round the
World in Ten Months; Due South, or Cuba Past and Present; Due North:
Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia; Under the Southern Cross: Travels
in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, etc.; Alaska: The New Eldorado;
Aztec Land; The Story of Malta; The Pearl of India, a description of
Ceylon; Equatorial America, a description of visits to the Lesser
Antilles and to South American capitals; Footprints of Travel. Gi.
Hou.
Ballou, Moses.Ms., 1811-1879. A nephew of H. Ballou,
1st, and, like him, a Universalist clergyman. The Divine Character
Vindicated.
Bancroft, Aaron.Ms., 1755-1839. A Unitarian clergyman of
Worcester, Massachusetts, 1785-1839, who was prominent in the earlier
days of the Unitarian movement as a writer in its behalf. Sermons on
the Doctrines of the Gospel; A Life of Washington. Co.
Bancroft, Edward.Ms., 1744-1821. A physician who
resided chiefly in London, where he was supposed to have been a spy of
the English Government during the American Revolution. Natural History
of Guiana; Researches concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colors;
Charles Wentworth: a Novel; and several political works.
Bancroft, George.Ms., 1800-1891. Son of A. Bancroft,
supra. An eminent historian who was United States minister to
England, 1846-49, and to Prussia and Germany, 1867-74. He was inclined
to view history from the philosophic standpoint, and his political
experiences gave him insight into motives. In his estimates of men he
made smaller allowance for the relative values of the testimony of
different periods than is now customary among historians. He paid much
attention to style, but sometimes erred in regard to over-ornament. His
manner, however, where not laboured, is attractive and often dramatic.
The first volume of The History of the United States appeared in 1834,
the second in 1837, the third in 1840, and the succeeding ones 1852-74.
A revised edition was issued in 1876, while volumes 11 and 12 of the
first edition were published in 1882 as The History of the Formation of
the Constitution of the United States. The latest revised edition was
printed 1884-85. Minor works include Martin Van Buren to the End of his
Public Career; Literary and Historical Miscellanies; Memorial Address
on Abraham Lincoln; A Plea for the Constitution of the United States
wounded in the House of its Guardians. See Annual Cyclopedia, 1891;
Century Magazine, vol. 11; Jameson’s Historical Writing in America, pp.
100-110.Ap. Har.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe.O., 1832- ——. An historical
writer whose works, exceedingly comprehensive in their scope, were
prepared with the assistance of a number of collaborateurs. The Native
Races of the Pacific States, 5 volumes; History of the Pacific States
of North America, including Central America, Mexico, California,
Oregon, British Columbia, 39 volumes; The Early American Chroniclers;
Popular History of the Mexican People; Literary Industries. See
Jameson’s Historical Writing in America, pp. 152-156. Ap. Har.
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse.Sd., 1830- ——.
An archæologist of Swiss birth, whose life has been chiefly spent in
the United States. The Art of War and Mode of Warfare; Tenure of Land
and Inheritances of the Ancient Mexicans; Historical Introduction to
Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Archæological Tour
in Mexico in 1881; The Delight Makers, a novel of Pueblo Indian Life.
Ap. Do.
Bangs, John Kendrick.N. Y., 1862- ——. A humourous
writer of Yonkers, New York, and one of the founders of “Life.” Three
Weeks in Politics; Coffee and Repartee; The Idiot; The Water Ghost; Mr.
Bonaparte of Corsica; A House Boat on the Styx; The Bicyclers and Other
Farces; Toppleton’s Client; A Rebellious Heroine. Har.
Bangs, Nathan.Ct., 1778-1862. An active Methodist
theologian and controversialist, very prominent in the literary
history of his church and a most prolific writer. Among his works are
comprised History of the Methodist Episcopal Church to 1840; Errors of
Hopkinsianism; Life of Arminius; Letters to a Young Preacher; Letters
on Sanctification; Methodist Episcopacy. See Life and Times of, by
Abel Stevens.Meth.
Banks, Louis Albert.Or., 1855- ——. A prominent
Methodist clergyman. The Saloon Keeper’s Ledger, a series of Temperance
Discourses; The Fisherman and his Friends; Common Folks’ Religion;
Revival Quiver, a Record of Revival Campaigns; The People’s Christ;
White Slaves, or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor; The Honeycombs of
Life; Christ and His Friends. Fu. Le. Meth.
Banister, John.E., 16— -1692. A Virginia botanist who
assisted the English naturalist, John Ray. Observations on the Natural
Productions of Jamaica; Insects of Virginia; Curiosities of Virginia;
The Unseen Lupus; The Pistolochia, or Serpentaria Virginiana. The genus
Banisteria was named in his honour.
Banneker, Benjamin.Md., 1731-1806. An astronomer and
mathematician of African descent, who assisted in the original survey
of the District of Columbia and published an astronomical almanac
1792-1806. See Lives, by Latrobe, 1845; Norris, 1854; Atlantic
Monthly, January, 1863; Catholic World, vol. 38.
Banvard, John. 1814-1891. An artist and poet whose famous
panorama of the Mississippi covered 3 miles of canvas. He wrote much
indifferent verse, and published books of a miscellaneous nature.
Amasis, The Last of the Pharaohs, afterwards dramatized by him;
Carrinia: a Drama; Description of the Mississippi River; Pilgrimage to
the Holy Land; The Private Life of a King; A Tradition of the Temple: a
Poem.
Banvard, Joseph.N. Y., 1810-1887. Brother of J.
Banvard, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Massachusetts who beside
contributing somewhat largely to Sunday-school literature wrote much
in other directions. Romance of American History; Plymouth and the
Pilgrims; Novelties of the New World, or Adventures and Discoveries
of the First Explorers; Tragic Scenes in the History of Maryland; The
American Statesman: a Memoir of Webster; Southern Explorers; Soldiers
and Patriots of the Revolution; Priscilla: an Historical Tale. Lo.
Mer.
Baraga, Friedric.A., 1797-1868. A Roman Catholic
missionary who came to America in 1830 from Austria, and became bishop
of Sault St. Marie in 1852. He devoted himself to mission work among
the Chippewa or Ojibway Indians, and beside writing several books
in their tongue prepared a Grammar and Dictionary of the Otchipewe
Language.
Barbe, Waitman.W. Va., 1864- ——. A resident of
Parkersburg, West Virginia. Ashes and Incense, a volume of notable
verse; In the Virginias, a collection of short stories. Lip.
Barber, John Warner.Ct., 1798-1885. An industrious
annalist whose compilations though of slight literary merit are
valuable as historical material not so readily accessible elsewhere.
Historical Collections of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Virginia, and Ohio, the four last being prepared with the
assistance of Henry Howe, infra; History of New Haven; Elements
of General History; Historical Scenes in the United States.
Barbour, John Humphrey.Ct., 1854-1900. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Berkeley
Divinity School at Middletown, Connecticut. Beginnings of the Historic
Episcopate.
Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo.N. Y., 1811-1889. An eminent
lawyer of New York State. Equity Digest; Criminal Law; The Law of
Set-Off; Practice of the Court of Chancery; Summary of the Law of
Parties to Actions at Law, and many legal reports.
Barclay, James Turner.Va., 1807-1874. A leading
clergyman of the Campbellite faith, for many years a missionary at
Jerusalem. He is best known as the author of The City of the Great
King, a description of Jerusalem.
Barker, Fordyce.N. H., 1818-1891. A New York physician
of prominence and a professor in the Bellevue Hospital from 1860. On
Sea-Sickness; On Puerperal Diseases. Ap.
Barker, George Frederic.Ms., 1835- ——. A professor of
physics in the University of Pennsylvania since 1873. Correlation of
Vital and Physical Forces; Text Book of Elementary Chemistry.
Barker, James Nelson.Pa., 1784-1858. A Philadelphia
poet and playwright who was comptroller of the United States Treasury
1838-50. His dramas include Marmion; The Indian Princess; Superstition;
Smiles and Tears.
Barlow, Joel.Ct., 1754-1812. A prominent literary figure
in the early days of the republic. His verse for the most part is
stilted and declamatory. The Columbiad, his most ambitious poem, is
now unread, but Hasty Pudding, a poetical reminiscence of New England
among Italian scenes, still affords pleasant reading, and is genuinely
humourous. The Vision of Columbus, The Conspiracy of Kings, are his
only other works of any note. See Life by Todd, 1896; Tyler’s Three
Men of Letters, 1895; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 58.
Barnard, Charles.Ms., 1838- ——. A writer and lecturer
of New York city who was an editorial contributor to The Century
Dictionary. The Tone Masters; The Soprano; My Ten Rod Farm; Farming
by Inches; A Simple Flower Garden; The Strawberry Garden; Legilda
Romanoff; Knights of To-Day; Co-operation as a Business; A Dead Town,
a Romance of the Old Country; Talks about the Weather; Talks about the
Soil. Put. Scr.
Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter.Ms., 1809-1889. An
educational writer who was president of Columbia College, 1864-89.
History of the United States Coast Survey; Imaginary Metrological
System of the Great Pyramid; The Undulatory Theory of Light; Letters
on College Government. See Memoirs of, by John Fulton, 1896.Wil.
Barnard, Henry.Ct., 1811-1900. A noted advocate of
educational reforms. National Education in Europe; School Architecture;
Hints and Methods for Teachers; Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism; History
of Education in Connecticut; Educational Biography; German Educational
Reformers. See New England Magazine, vol. 4.
Barnard, John.Ms., 1681-1770. A Congregational minister
of Boston who was among the earliest New England dissenters from
Calvinism. A robust and logical thinker. Version of the Psalms;
Sermons; The Strange Adventures of Philip Ashton. See Tyler’s
American Literature.
Barnard, John Gross.Ms., 1815-1882. Brother of F.
Barnard, supra. A major-general of the United States Army.
Survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Phenomena of the Gyroscope;
Dangers and Defences of New York; Sea Coast Defence; The Peninsular
Campaign and its Antecedents; Problems of Rotary Motion.
Barnes, Albert.N. Y., 1798-1870. A leader of New School
Presbyterian thought and an able scriptural commentator. He was a
clergyman of Philadelphia, and was at one time tried for heresy. Notes
on the New Testament; Scriptural Views of Slavery; The Atonement; Life
at Three Score; Prayers for Family Worship; Evidences of Christianity
in the Nineteenth Century. See Theological Works of, 1875.Har.
Barnes, James.Md., 1865- ——. For King or Country, a
Story of the Revolution; Admiral Farragut; Naval Actions of the War of
1812; A Princetonian. Ap. Har. Put.
Barnes, Mrs. Mary Downing [Sheldon].N. Y., 1850-1898. An
educator who published Studies in General History; Teachers’ Manual.
Barnum, Mrs. Frances Courtenay [Baylor].Ark.,
1848- ——. A novelist now living in Savannah. On Both Sides, an
international novel; Behind the Blue Ridge; Juan and Juanita, a
juvenile tale; Claudia Hyde. Hou. Lip.
Barnum, Phineas Taylor.Ct., 1810-1891. A showman of
world-wide fame. Humbugs of the World; Struggles and Triumphs, or
Forty Years’ Recollections; Lion Jack, or How Menageries are Made;
Autobiography. See Saturday Review, vol. 71.
Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith [Huddleston].E., 1831- ——.
A novelist of English birth who was educated in Glasgow and came
to America in 1854. Her literary career did not begin, however,
until 1871. Her books exhibit many excellencies of construction and
characterization, are wholesome in tone, and have been deservedly
popular. Among the best of them may be named Jan Vedder’s Wife; Paul
and Christina; A Daughter of Fife; A Border Shepherdess; The Bow of
Orange Ribbon, a tale of colonial life in New York; Between Two Loves;
Friend Olivia; Bernicia, a story in which Whitefield, the famous
preacher, is a prominent figure. Other works by Mrs. Barr include:
Scottish Sketches; Flower of Gala Water; Romance and Reality; Young
People of Shakespeare’s Time; Cluny McPherson; The Hallam Succession;
The Lost Silver of Briffault; The Last of the McAlisters; The King’s
Highway; The Squire of Sandal Side; Master of his Fate; Christopher;
Remember the Alamo, a story of Texas; She loved a Sailor; A Rose of a
Hundred Leaves; Michael and Theodora; A Sister to Esau; Feet of Clay;
The Household of McNeil; The Preacher’s Daughter; Love for an Hour is
Love Forever; A Singer from the Sea; The Lone House. See Andover
Review, vol. 11.Ap. Do. Har.
Barrett, Benjamin Fisk.Me., 1808-1892. A Swedenborgian
clergyman of Philadelphia who wrote extensively in behalf of his faith.
Among his many books are A Life of Swedenborg; The New View of Hell;
Swedenborg and Channing; Heaven Revealed: a Popular Presentation of
Swedenborg’s Disclosures about Heaven.
Barrett, Walter.See Scoville.
Barron, Elwyn Alfred.Tn., 1855- ——. A Chicago
journalist on the editorial staff of The Inter-Ocean from 1879, who has
written The Viking, a blank-verse drama; A Moral Crime, and other plays.
Barrow, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth [Mease]. “Aunt Fanny.” S.
C., 1822-1894. A writer of juvenile tales which have been widely
circulated. Among them are The Night Cap Series; The Pop Gun Series;
The Six Mitten Books. Est.
Barrows, John Henry.Mich., 1847-1902. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Chicago. The Gospels are True History; I believe in God
the Father Almighty; Henry Ward Beecher, the Pulpit Jupiter; Life of
Henry Ward Beecher. Fu. Lo.
Barrows, Mrs. Katherine Isabel Hayes [Chapin].Vt.,
1846- ——. Wife of S. J. Barrows, infra, and with him author of
The Shaybacks in Camp, a volume of leisurely travel notes. Hou.
Barrows, Samuel June.N. Y., 1845- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, editor of The Christian Register since 1881. A
Baptist Meeting House, a narrative of a transition from the Baptist
to the Unitarian faith; The Doom of the Majority of Mankind. A. U.
A.
Barrows, William.Ms., 1815-1891. A Congregational
clergyman of Massachusetts. The Church and the Children; The Indian’s
Side of the Indian Question; Oregon, the Struggle for Possession; The
United States of Yesterday and To-morrow; Twelve Nights in the Hunter’s
Camp. Hou. Le. Lo. Rob.
Barry, John Daniel.Ms., 1866- ——. A littérateur of New
York city. A Daughter of Thespis; The Intriguers, a novel; Mademoiselle
Blanche; The Princess Margarethe, a fairy tale; The Congressman’s Wife.
Ap. St.
Barry, John Stetson.Ms., 1819-1872. A Universalist
clergyman. The Stetson Genealogy; History of Massachusetts.
Barry, Patrick.I., 1816-1890. A prominent horticulturist
of Rochester, N. Y. Treatise on the Fruit Garden. Ju.
Barry, William.Ms., 1805-1885. Brother of J. S. Barry,
supra. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. Rights and Duties
of Neighboring Churches; Thoughts on Christian Doctrine; History of
Framingham; Antiquities of Wisconsin.
Bartholow, Roberts.Md., 1831- ——. A physician and
medical professor of Philadelphia. Materia Medica and Therapeutics;
Practice of Medicine; Medical Electricity; The Antagonism between
Medicines and between Remedies and Diseases. Ap. Lip.
Bartlett, Elisha.R. I., 1804-1855. A Rhode Island
physician. The Fevers of the United States; Simple Settings in Verse
for Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dickens’s Gallery.
Bartlett, John.Ms., 1820- ——. Formerly a Boston
publisher, well known as the editor of Familiar Quotations, which
reached a ninth edition in 1891; The Shakespeare Phrase-Book; A
Complete Concordance to Shakespeare. Lit. Mac.
Bartlett, John Russell.R. I., 1805-1886. At one time
Secretary of State in Rhode Island. Records of the Colony of Rhode
Island; Memoir of Rhode Island Officers in the War of the Rebellion;
Primeval Man; Genealogy of the Russell Family; Dictionary of
Americanisms; Progress of Ethnology. He edited the Letters of Roger
Williams. Lit.
Bartlett, Joseph.Ms., 1762-1827. A satirical poet whose
New Vicar of Bray once attracted considerable attention.
Bartlett, Samuel Colcord.N. H., 1817-1898. President of
Dartmouth College 1877-92. Life and Death Eternal, a Refutation of the
Doctrine of Annihilation; Future Punishment; From Egypt to Palestine:
observations of a Journey; Sources of History in the Pentateuch. See
The Forum, vol. 2.Har.
Bartlett, William Holms Chambers.Pa., 1804-1893. A
prominent scientist, who was from 1834-71 an instructor at West Point.
Treatise on Optics; Analytical Mechanics; Spherical Astronomy.
Bartol, Cyrus Augustus.Me., 1813-1900. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, prominent as a leader of radical religious
thought. Pictures of Europe; Christian Spirit and Life; Radical
Problems; The Rising Faith; Principles and Portraits; Church and
Congregation; Christian Body and Form. A. U. A.Rob.
Barton, Benjamin Smith.Pa., 1766-1815. A once noted
physician of Philadelphia. Observations on Some Parts of Natural
History; New Views on the Origin of the Tribes of North America;
Elements of Botany.
Barton, William Paul Crillon.Pa., 1786-1856. Nephew of
B. S. Barton, supra. He organized the United States Naval Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery, and was known both as botanist and surgeon.
Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; Flora of North America;
Medical Botany; Compendium Floræ Philadelphiæ.
Bartram, John.Pa., 1699-1777. “The Father of American
Botany.” A shrewd, careful observer whom Linnæus termed “the greatest
natural botanist in the world.” Observations on the Inhabitants,
Climate, etc., as made by Mr. John Bartram in his Travels from
Pennsylvania to Onondaga, etc. A similar record of travels in eastern
Florida appeared in 1766. See Memorials of, by Darlington, 1849.
Bartram, William.Pa., 1739-1823. Son of J. Bartram,
supra. A botanist and traveller of Pennsylvania. Travel Through
North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc.; Observations on the Creek and
Cherokee Indians.
Bascom, Henry Bidleman.N. Y., 1796-1850. A bishop
of the Methodist church. Sermons from the Pulpit; Mental and Moral
Science; Methodism and Slavery. See Life by Heuhle, 1854; Methodist
Quarterly, vol. 45.
Bascom, John.N. Y., 1827- ——. A philosophical writer,
from 1874-87, president of Wisconsin University, subsequently professor
of political science at Williams College. Elements of Psychology;
Æsthetics; Political Economy for Colleges; Science, Philosophy, and
Religion; Natural Theology; The Science of Mind; The Words of Christ;
Philosophy of English Literature; Comparative Psychology; Problems
in Philosophy; Sociology, Social Theory; Ethics; The New Theology;
Historical Interpretation of Philosophy; A Philosophy of Religion.
Cr. Put.
Bassett, James.Ont., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian
missionary in Persia. Hymns in Persian; Among the Turcomans; Persia,
the Land of the Imams: a Narrative of Travel; Grammatical Note on the
Simnuni Dialects of the Persian. Scr.
Batchelor, George.Ct., 1836- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman. Social Equilibrium and Other Problems, Ethical and
Religious. El.
Bates, Arlo.Me., 1850- ——. Professor of English
literature in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and novelist.
Talks on Writing English; The Pagans; Patty’s Perversities; A Wheel of
Fire; In the Bundle of Time; A Lad’s Love; The Philistines; A Book o’
Nine Tales. His verse includes Berries of the Brier; Sonnets in Shadow;
A Poet and his Self; Told in the Gate; The Torch-Bearers; Under the
Beech-Tree. Ho. Hou. Rob. Scr.
Bates, Charlotte Fiske.See Rogé.
Bates, Mrs. Clara [Doty].Mch., 1838-1895. A writer of
juvenile tales. Classics of Babyland Versified; Child Lore; On the Way
to Wonderland; Heart’s Content. Lo.
Bates, Mrs. Harriet Leonora [Vose]. “Eleanor Putnam.”
It., 1856-1886. Wife of A. Bates, supra. A Woodland
Wooing; Old Salem; Prince Vance (with A. Bates).
Bates, Katherine Lee.Ms., 1859- ——. A professor of
literature at Wellesley College. The English Religious Drama; Hermit
Island: a Story for Girls. Lo. Mac.
Bates, Mrs. Margret Holmes [Ernsperger].O., 1844- ——.
A fiction-writer of Indianapolis. Manitou; The Chamber Over the Gate.
Bates, Samuel Penniman.Ms., 1827-190-. A Pennsylvania
educator of note. Mental and Moral Culture; Liberal Education; History
of Pennsylvania Volunteers; History of the Colleges of Pennsylvania.
Batterson, Hermon Griswold.Ct., 1827-1903. An Episcopal
clergyman of Philadelphia. The Missionary Tune Book; The Churchman’s
Hymn Book; Christmas Carols and Other Verses; The Pathway of Faith; A
Sketch Book of the American Episcopate. Lip.
Baxley, Isaac Rieman.Md., 1850- ——. A California
versifier whose thought as a whole gains nothing by being expressed in
verse. The Temple of Alanthur; The Prophet and Other Poems; Songs of
the Spirit; The Bank of Mist.
Baxter, James Phinney.Me., 1831- ——. An historical
writer of Portland, Maine. George Cleves of Casco Bay, 1630-67; Sir
Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine; Idyls of the Year, a
collection of verse.
Baxter, Lydia.N. Y., 1809-1874. Gems by the Wayside, a
collection of poems. The hymn, The Gates Ajar, is by her.
Baxter, Sylvester.Ms., 1850- ——. A journalist of
Boston, prominent in exploiting the Metropolitan Park system. The
Cruise of a Land Yacht, a Boy’s Book of Mexican Travel. Lit.
Baxter, William.E., 1820- ——. A clergyman of
Cincinnati, whose War Lyrics as originally published in Harper’s Weekly
were once widely popular. The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion;
Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in
Arkansas. Meth.
Bayley, James Roosevelt.N. Y., 1814-1877. A clergyman
who entered the Roman Catholic Church from the Episcopal and became
archbishop of Baltimore. History of the Catholic Church of New York;
Memoirs of Bruté, First Bishop of Vincennes; Pastorals for the People.
Baylies, Francis.Ms., 1783-1852. An eminent lawyer of
Taunton, Massachusetts. Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth.
Baylor, Frances Courtenay.See Barnum, Mrs.
Beach, David Nelson.N. J., 1848- ——. A prominent
Congregational clergyman of Cambridge, and, since 1895, of Minneapolis.
The Newer Religious Thinking; How we Rose; Plain Words on Our Lord’s
Work; The Intent of Jesus. Lit. Rob.
Beal, William James.Mch., 1833- ——. A botanical
professor in the Michigan Agricultural College from 1870. The New
Botany; The Grasses of North America.
Beale, Mrs. Maria [Taylor].Va., 1849- ——. A novelist
of Arden, North Carolina. Jack O’Doon. Ho.
Beard, George Miller.Ct., 1839-1883. A New York
physician. American Nervous Diseases: Causes and Consequences; The
Scientific Basis of Delusions; Clinical Researches in Electro-Surgery;
Medical Uses of Electricity; Physiology of Mind-Reading; Stimulants
and Narcotics; Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft and its Practical
Application in Our Own Time. Some works of lesser note. Har. Wo.
Beardsley, Eben Edwards.Ct., 1808-1891. An Episcopal
clergyman of New Haven. History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut;
Lives of Samuel Johnson, the First President of King’s College, New
York, William Samuel Johnson, President of Columbia College, and Samuel
Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut. Hou.
Beasley, Frederick.N. C., 1777-1845. An Episcopal
clergyman who was provost of the University of Pennsylvania. An
Examination of the Oxford Divinity; Search of Truth in the Science of
the Human Mind; Reply to Dr. Channing.
Beck, Theodric Romeyn.N. Y., 1791-1855. A medical writer
of Albany. Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (with J. B. Beck).
Becker, George Ferdinand.N. Y., 1847- ——. A geologist
in the United States service. Geology of the Comstock Lode; Atomic
Weight Determinations; Geometrical Value of Volcanic Cones; A New Law
of Thermo-Chemistry; Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific
Slope. Several lesser works.
Beckett, Sylvester Breakmore.Me., 1812-1882. An author
and publisher of Portland, Maine. Hester, the Bride of the Islands, a
Poem; Guide Book of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence.
Bedell [bē-dĕll´], Gregory Thurston.N. Y.,
1817-1892. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and a valued
writer of the evangelical school. The Divinity of Christ; The Profit
of Godliness; Pastoral Theology; Principles of Pastorship; The Age of
Indifference; Episcopacy; Fact and Law. A few minor works.
Bedell, Gregory Townsend.N. Y., 1793-1834. Father of G.
T. Bedell, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, once
famous as a preacher. Renunciation; Ezekiel’s Vision; Sermons were his
chief works. See Life by Tyng, 1836.
Beecher, Catherine Esther.L. I., 1800-1878. Daughter of
L. Beecher, infra. A New England educator of much celebrity at
one time, who wrote with the ardour of sincerest conviction. Domestic
Economy; Physiology and Calisthenics; Letters to the People; Religious
Training of Children; Domestic Service, True Remedy for the Wrongs of
Woman. See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record.Har.
Beecher, Charles.Ct., 1815-1900. Son of L. Beecher,
infra. A Congregational clergyman. Patmos; Pen Pictures of the
Bible; The Eden Tableau; Redeemer and Redeemed. He edited his father’s
Life and Correspondence. Har. Le.
Beecher, Edward.L. I., 1803-1895. Son of L. Beecher,
infra. A Congregational clergyman of Illinois, and later of
Brooklyn, whose attainments must be considered as the most solid of
those of any of the famous children of Lyman Beecher. In his Conflict
of Ages (1853) was struck the earliest note of the liberal theology
now dominant in the Congregational churches. The more important of
his other works include Papal Conspiracy Exposed; Baptism; History of
Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Future Retribution. Ap.
Beecher, Mrs. Eunice White [Bullard].Ms., 1812-1897.
Wife of H. W. Beecher, infra. From Dawn to Daylight: a Simple
Story; Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers; All around the House, or
How to Make Homes Happy; Letters from Florida; Mr. Beecher as I Knew
Him. Ap.
Beecher, Henry Ward.Ct., 1813-1887. Son of Lyman
Beecher, infra. A Congregational clergyman widely famous as
the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 1847-87. He was an earnest,
large-hearted man, though not a deep thinker, and his cheerful
influence upon middle-class American thought was very extensive. His
literary work can hardly be said to possess enduring excellence,
and much of it is already forgotten, graphic and picturesque as it
often is. Eyes and Ears; Life Thoughts; Star Papers; Yale Lectures on
Preaching; Lectures to Young Men; Speeches on the American Rebellion;
Doctrinal Beliefs and Unbeliefs; Life of Jesus the Christ. His only
novel, Norwood, is a collection of successful character studies rather
than a finished story. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Lyman
Abbott, 1883; J. Howard, 1887; Barrows, 1893; Henry Ward Beecher: a
Study, 1891; Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him, by his wife; North American
Review, vol. 144.Ap. Fo. Har.
Beecher, Lyman.Ct., 1775-1863. A Congregational
clergyman of wide fame. While in Boston he was a zealous opponent
of Unitarianism, and as president of Lane Theological Seminary at
Cincinnati was noted as an outspoken enemy of slavery. He was a bold
thinker, much in advance of his contemporaries. Sermons on Temperance;
Views in Theology; Scepticism; Political Atheism. See Life and
Correspondence, edited by Charles Beecher, 1864.Har.
Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut.Ct., 1824-1900. Son of L.
Beecher, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Elmira, N. Y. Our
Seven Churches.
Beecher, Willis Judson.O., 1838- ——. A professor of
Hebrew in the Auburn Theological Seminary. Farmer Tompkins and his
Bible; Drill Lessons in Hebrew; Testimony of the Historical Books.
Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda [Eliot]. “Ethel Lynn.” N. J.,
1827-1879. General Frankie, a juvenile tale; All Quiet Along the
Potomac and Other Poems. Co.
Beers, Henry Augustin.N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor of
English literature at Yale University. The Ways of Yale; A Suburban
Pastoral and Other Stories; From Chaucer to Tennyson; Life of N. P.
Willis, infra; Outline Sketch of English Literature; Initial
Studies in American Letters. Verse: Odds and Ends; The Thankless Muse.
Fl. Ho. Hou. Meth.
Belcher, Joseph.E., 1794-1859. A Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia, who came thither from England in 1844. His complete
works number over 200 volumes. Among them are The Baptist Pulpit
of the United States; The Clergy of America; History of Religious
Denominations in the United States; Hymns and their Authors.
Belknap [bĕl´năp], Jeremy.Ms., 1744-1798. A
Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose History of New Hampshire
ranks as the best among local State histories, and is accurate as it
is entertaining. His other works include American Biographies; The
Foresters: an American Tale. See Atlantic Monthly, vol. 67.
Bell, Charles Henry.N. H., 1823-1893. A New Hampshire
lawyer and Congressman, governor of his State, 1881-83. The Bench and
Bar of New Hampshire. Hou.
Bell, John.I., 1796-1872. A physician and medical
lecturer, among whose writings are Health and Beauty; Regimen and
Longevity.
Bell, Lilian.Ky., 1867- ——. A Chicago novelist. The
Love Affairs of An Old Maid; A Little Sister to the Wilderness. Har.
St.
Bell, Zura.See Williamson, Julia.
Bellamy, Charles Joseph.Ms., 1852- ——. A journalist
of Springfield, Massachusetts. The Breton Mills: a Novel; Everybody’s
Lawyer; The Way Out: Suggestions for Social Reform. Put.
Bellamy, Edward.Ms., 1850-1898. Brother of C. J.
Bellamy, supra. A socialist reformer whose Utopian theories
embodied in the tale Looking Backward, 2000-1887, have been very widely
read, and have resulted in the formation of several societies and
communities that endeavour to put some of them in practice. His other
works include Six to One: a Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process, a
novel; Miss Ludington’s Sister: a Romance of Immortality; Equality; The
Blindman’s World, and Other Stories; The Duke of Stockbridge. Ap.
Hou.
Bellamy, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield [Croom]. “Kamba Thorpe.”
Fl., 1838-1900. A novelist of Mobile. Four Oaks; Little Joanna;
Penny Lancaster Farmer; Old Man Gilbert; The Luck of the Pendennings.
Ap.
Bellamy, Joseph.Ct., 1719-1790. A Congregational
minister of the Edwards school, settled at Bethlehem, Connecticut,
for a half century. He founded a divinity school in his parish, and
trained many men there who were afterwards famous among New England
ministers. True Religion Delineated; The Law our Schoolmaster; The
Half-Way Covenant; The Nature and Glory of the Gospel, are a few of his
publications. See Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. 43; Sprague’s Annals of
the American Pulpit.
Bellamy, William.Ms., 1846- ——. A Boston writer who
has published, in verse, A Century of Charades; A Second Century of
Charades. Hou.
Bellows, Henry Whitney.N. H., 1814-1882. A Unitarian
clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known at one time as the
president of the United States Sanitary Commission. Restatements of
Christian Doctrine; Sermons; Relation of Public Amusements to Public
Morality; The Old World in its New Face. See Unitarian Review, vol.
67.A. U. A. Har.
Belrose, Louis.Pa., 1845-1894. A writer whose only
published work of note is Thorns and Flowers, a volume of verse.
Bemis, Edward Webster.Ms., 1860- ——. A professor of
economics in the University of Chicago. History of Co-operation in the
United States; Municipal Ownership of Gas in the United States.
Bender, Prosper.Q., 1844- ——. A Canadian physician, a
littérateur, who since 1883 has practiced his profession in Boston. Old
and New Canada; Literary Sheaves, or La Littérature au Canada-Français.
Benedict, David.Ct., 1779-1874. A Baptist clergyman of
Pawtucket. History of the Baptists; History of All Religions; Fifty
Years Among the Baptists; Compendium of Ecclesiastical History; History
of the Donatists, comprise his principal works.
Benedict, Erastus Cornelius.Ct., 1800-1880. A jurist of
New York city. The American Admiralty: its Jurisdiction and Practice.
Benedict, Frank Lee.N. Y., 1834- ——. A novelist of New
York city. Miss Van Kortland; My Daughter Elinor; The Price She Paid;
John Worthington’s Name; Miss Dorothy’s Charge; St. Simon’s Niece;
’Twixt Hammer and Anvil; Her Friend Laurence; A Late Remorse; Madame;
The Shadow-Worshipper and Other Poems. Har. Lip.
Benezet, Anthony.F., 1713-1784. A Quaker philanthropist
of Philadelphia, whose tracts on slavery first aroused the attention
of Clarkson and Wilberforce to the subject. See Memoir by R. Vaux,
1817.
Benjamin, Judah Philip.W. I., 1811-1884. A prominent New
Orleans lawyer who became attorney-general of the Confederacy during
the Civil War. At its close he went to England, and speedily became
eminent in his profession there. His Treatise on the Law of Sale of
Personal Property is the standard work on the subject. See The
Athenæum, vol. 88.
Benjamin, Park.B. G., 1809-1864. A poet and journalist
of New York city, whose verse, mainly lyrical in character, has not
been collected. The Old Sexton is the best remembered example.
Benjamin, Park, Jr.N. Y., 1849- ——. Son of P.
Benjamin, supra. A New York lawyer whose specialty is patent
law. Shakings: Etchings for the Naval Academy; Wrinkles and Receipts:
Suggestions for the Mechanic, Engineer, etc.; The Age of Electricity;
The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: a History. Ap. Scr. Wil.
Benjamin, Samuel Green Wheeler.Gr., 1837- ——. A
contributor to the field of general literature; at one period minister
to Persia. Art in America; Contemporary Art in Europe; The Atlantic
Islands; Troy: its Legend, Literature, and Topography; A Group of
Etchers; Persia and the Persians; The Story of Persia; The Cruise of
the Alice May in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Sea Spray, or Facts and
Fancies of a Yachtsman. Ap. Har. Hou. Lo. Scr.
Bennett, Charles Wesley.N. Y., 1828-1891. A Methodist
clergyman prominent in educational matters. National Education in
Italy, France, Germany, England, and Wales, Popularly Considered;
Christian Art and Archæology of the First Six Centuries. Meth.
Bennett, De Robique Mortimer.N. Y., 1818-1882. A noted
free-thinker who was several times arrested and imprisoned on account
of his extreme views. The World’s Reformers; Champions of the Church;
From Behind the Bars; An Infidel Abroad; A Truth Seeker Around the
World.
Bennett, Edmund Hatch.Vt., 1824-1898. A New England
jurist, dean of the Boston University Law School. English Law and
Equity Reports; Fire Insurance Cases; Leading Cases in Criminal Law. He
has also edited many legal works of importance. Hou.
Bennett, Emerson.Ms., 1822- ——. A Philadelphia writer
of sensational romances quite worthless as literature, but which have
been very popular. Prairie Flower, Leni Leoti, are perhaps the most
noted of his fifty or more novels.
Bensel, James Berry.N. Y., 1856-1886. A verse-writer
whose lines are often musical and pathetic, though sometimes lacking in
finish. In the King’s Garden, and Other Poems; King Cophetua’s Wife, a
novel. Lo.
Benson, Carl.See Bristed.
Benson, Egbert.N. Y., 1746-1833. A jurist and
politician. Vindication of the Captors of Major André; Memoir on Dutch
Names of Places.
Benson, Eugene.N. Y., 1840- ——. An American artist
long resident in Italy. Gaspara Stampa, a biography; Art and Nature in
Italy. Rob.
Benton, Joel.N. Y., 1832- ——. A verse-writer and
critic. Under the Apple Boughs, a collection of verse; Emerson as a
Poet. Ho.
Benton, Thomas Hart.N. C., 1782-1858. An eminent
statesman who represented Missouri in the United States Senate for 30
years. His political writing is notable for its simple, direct style
and absence of invective. Speeches; Thirty Years’ View; History of the
Workings of Congress, 1820-50; Abridgment of the Debates of Congress,
1789-1856. See Life by T. Roosevelt.Ap.
Berard, Augusta Blanche.N. Y., 1824-1901. An educational
writer of West Point. School History of the United States; School
History of England; Manual of Spanish Art and Literature; Reminiscences
of West Point in the Olden Time.
Berg, Joseph Frederick.W. I., 1812-1871. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman of Philadelphia and a once noted controversialist.
Lectures on Romanism; Rome’s Policy towards the Bible are among his
writings.
Berg, Louis de Coppet.N. Y., 1856- ——. An architect
and civil engineer of New York city, who has published a valuable work
on Safe Building.
Bergh, Henry.N. Y., 1823-1888. A New York philanthropist
who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. The Streets of New York, a volume of sketches; Love’s
Alternative, a drama; Married Off, a poem.
Bernheim, Gotthardt Dellman. 1827- ——. A Lutheran clergyman
at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, from 1883. The Success of God’s Work;
Localities of the Reformation; History of the German Settlements in
North and South Carolina.
Berrian, William. 1787-1862. An Episcopal clergyman who was
rector of Trinity Church, New York city, 1830-62. Travels in France and
Italy; Devotions for the Sick Room; On Communion; Enter thy Closet; The
Sailors’ Manual; Recollections of Departed Friends; Family and Private
Prayers; Historical Sketch of Trinity Church.
Bessey, Charles Edwin.O., 1845- ——. A botanical
professor in the University of Nebraska. Geography of Iowa; Botany for
High Schools and Colleges; The Essentials of Botany. Ho.
Bethune [beh-thoon´], George Washington.N. Y.,
1805-1862. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Brooklyn of considerable note
as a preacher. Orations and Discourses; Fruits of the Spirit; History
of a Penitent; Lays of Love and Faith, a volume of verse, are some of
his works. He was an ardent fisherman, and edited Walton’s Complete
Angler. See Memoir by Van Nest.
Betts, Craven Langstroth.N. B., 1853- ——. Songs from
Béranger; The Perfume Holder: A Persian Love Poem; co-author with A. W.
H. Eaton (infra) of Tales of a Garrison Town. Sto.
Beverley, Robert.Va., 1675-1716. A writer whose one
work, a History of the Present State of Virginia, 1705, is full of
life and vigour. In it occurs the phrase “the almighty power of gold,”
which anticipates Irving’s “almighty dollar.” See Tyler’s American
Literature; Jameson’s Historical Writing in America, pp. 62-67.
Bianciardi, Mrs. Elizabeth Dickinson [Rice].Ms.,
c. 1833-1885. At Home in Italy. Hou.
Bickmore, Albert Smith.Me., 1839- ——. An ethnologist,
since 1885 the curator of the American Museum of Natural History in
New York city. Travels in the East Indian Archipelago; The Ainos or
Hairy Men of Jesso, Saghalien, etc.; Sketch of a Journey from Canton to
Hankow.
Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel.Pa., 1874- ——. A
journalist and publisher of Philadelphia. A Dual Role, and Other
Stories; An Allegory and Three Essays; The Madeira Islands; The Froggy
Fairy Book.
Biddle, Charles John.Pa., 1819-1873. Son of N. Biddle,
infra. An officer in the United States Army, and afterwards a
journalist in Philadelphia, who is best known by his careful monograph,
The Case of Major André.
Biddle, Nicholas.Pa., 1786-1844. A financier of
Philadelphia famous in political history as the president of the United
States Bank. A Commercial Digest; History of the Expedition under Lewis
and Clark to the Missouri River. See Memoir, by Conrad.
Biddle, Richard.Pa., 1796-1847. Brother of N. Biddle,
supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with
a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery.
Bigelow, Mrs. Edith Evelyn [Jaffray].N. Y., 1861- ——.
Wife of P. Bigelow, infra. Diplomatic Disenchantments, a novel.
Har.
Bigelow, Erastus Brigham.Ms., 1814-1879. A noted New
England inventor of carpet looms. The Tariff Question considered in
regard to the Policy of England and the Interest of the United States;
The Tariff Policy of England and United States Contrasted.
Bigelow, Jacob.Ms., 1787-1879. A famous physician of
Boston who established Mount Auburn cemetery. History of Mount Auburn;
A Brief Exposition of Rational Medicine; Modern Inquiries, classical,
professional, and miscellaneous; Remarks on Classical and Utilitarian
Studies; American Medical Botany; Nature in Disease. See Memoir, by
Ellis.
Bigelow, John.N. Y., 1817- ——. A prominent New
York journalist, at one time United States Minister to France.
Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Life of
Samuel Tilden; Jamaica in 1850; Les États Unis d’Amérique en 1863;
Some Recollections of Antoine Pierre Berryer; France and Hereditary
Monarchy; Wit and Wisdom of the Haytiens; Molinos the Quietist; France
and the Confederate Navy: an International Episode; The Mystery of
Sleep. He has edited complete editions of the works of Franklin and
Tilden. Har. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Bigelow, John, Jr.N. Y., 1854- ——. Son of John
Bigelow, supra. A United States cavalry officer. The Principles
of Strategy, illustrated chiefly from American Campaigns. Lip.
Bigelow, Melville Madison.Mch., 1846- ——. A lawyer
and law lecturer of Boston. The Law of Bills; English Procedure in
the Norman Period; The Law of Fraud; Elements of Equity; Elements of
the Law of Torts; Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I.
to Richard I.; Law of Wills, Notes, and Cheques; The Law of Fraud on
its Civil Side; The Law of Estoppel and its Application to Practice;
Leading Cases in the Law of Torts, comprise his principal works. He has
also edited the 8th edition of Story’s Conflict of Laws, and published
a volume of original verse, Rhymes of a Barrister. Hou. Lit.
Bigelow, Poultney.N. Y., 1855- ——. Son of John
Bigelow, supra. The German Emperor and his Eastern Neighbors;
The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser; History of the German Struggle for
Liberty; White Man’s Africa; The Children of the Nations. Har.
Biglow, William.Ms., 1773-1844. An educator of Boston.
History of Natick; History of Sherburne; The Youth’s Library;
Introduction to the Making of Latin.
Billings, John Shaw.Ind., 1838- ——. Formerly surgeon
U. S. A. Upon the consolidation of the New York city libraries, he was
made chief librarian. His chief work is a voluminous Index Catalogue of
the Library of the Surgeon-General’s office. Others are Hygienics of
the United States Army Barracks; Mortality and Vital Statistics of the
United States Army.
Billings, Josh.See Shaw, Henry.
Binney, Amos.Ms., 1803-1847. A once prominent physician
and naturalist of Boston. Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the
United States.
Binney, Horace.Pa., 1780-1875. A noted jurist of
Philadelphia. Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
1799-1814; Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia; Inquiry into the
Formation of Washington’s Farewell Address.
Binney, William Greene.Ms., 1833- ——. Son of A.
Binney, supra. A well-known conchologist of Burlington, New
Jersey. Besides completing his father’s work on mollusks he has written
Bibliography of North American Conchology; Land and Fresh Water Shells
of North America; Catalogues of the Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks
of North America.
Bird, Frederick Mayer.Pa., 1838- ——. Son of R.
M. Bird, infra. An Episcopal clergyman widely known as an
hymnologist. He has edited The Lutheran Ministerium Hymns (with
Smucker); Songs of the Spirit (with Bishop Odenheimer); published
Charles Wesley seen in his Finer and Less Familiar Pieces; and
contributed extensively to the critical literature of his subject.
Bird, Robert Montgomery.Del., 1803-1854. A romantic
novelist of Philadelphia whose Nick of the Woods was his most popular
work. His two Mexican stories, Calavar: a Knight of the Conquest;
The Infidel, or the Fall of Mexico, were commended by the historian
Prescott. His other works include Peter Pilgrim, a collection of Tales
and Sketches, notable as containing almost the earliest description of
the Mammoth Cave; Sheppard Lee; The Hawks of Hawk Hollow; Adventures of
Robin Day; and three successful dramas, The Broker of Bogota; Oraoosa;
The Gladiator.
Birney, James Gillespie.Ky., 1792-1857. A statesman
famous for his opposition to slavery. Ten Letters on Slavery and
Colonization; Addresses and Speeches; American Churches the Bulwarks
of American Slavery, are among his writings. See Nation, vol. 50;
Birney and his Times, by W. Birney.
Bishop, Joel Prentiss.N. Y., 1814-1901. An eminent
jurist of Boston. Commentaries on Criminal Law; Marriage and Divorce;
The Law of Married Women; Thoughts for the Times; First Book of The
Law; Directions and Forms; Criminal Procedure; Statutory Crimes;
Prosecution and Defence; The Written Laws, are among the more important
works of his. Lit.
Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes.Ms., 1837-1902. A writer of
entertaining travels. A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America; The
Voyage of the Paper Canoe; Four Months in a Sneak Box. Le.
Bishop, Robert Hamilton.S., 1777-1855. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Ohio, president of Miami University, 1824-41. Sermons;
Elements of Logic; Philosophy of the Bible; Science of Government;
Western Peacemaker; Memoirs of David Rice.
Bishop, William Henry.Ct., 1847- ——. A novelist and
professor in Yale University. Fish and Men in the Maine Islands; A
Househunter in Europe; Writing to Rosina: a novelette; A Pound of Cure:
a Story of Monte Carlo; Detmold; The House of a Merchant Prince; The
Golden Justice; Choy Susan and Other Stories; The Brown Stone Boy and
Other Queer People; Old Mexico and her Lost Provinces, a volume of
travel; The Garden of Eden. Cas. Cent. Har. Ho. Hou. Ke. Scr.
Bisland, Elizabeth.See Wetmore, Mrs.
Bissell, Edwin Cone.N. Y., 1832-1894. A Congregational
clergyman of Chicago. Analysis of the Codes; The Historic Origin of the
Bible; The Pentateuch: its Origin and Structure; Biblical Antiquities;
Practical Introductory Hebrew Grammar; Genesis Printed in Colours,
showing original sources of compilation. Fu. Ran. Scr.
Bixby, James Thompson.N. Y., 1843- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Yonkers, New York. Similarities of Physical and Religious
Knowledge, reprinted with the title Religion and Science as Allies; The
Crisis in Morals. Ap. Rob.
Bixby, John Munson. “E. Grayson.” Ct., 1800-1876.
A lawyer of New York city, whose two novels were issued under a
pseudonym. Standish the Puritan; Overing, or the Heir of Wycherly.
Black, Alexander.N. Y., 1859- ——. A Brooklyn
journalist, literary editor of the Brooklyn Times. The Story of Ohio;
Photography Indoors and Out; Miss Jerry, a Picture Play. Hou. Lo.
Scr.
Black, James.Pa., 1823-1894. A noted Pennsylvania
advocate of temperance who was the presidential nominee of the
prohibitionists in 1872. Is Prohibition a Necessity; History of the
Prohibition Party; The Prohibition Party.
Black, James Rush.S., 1827- ——. An Ohio physician,
since 1876 a professor of hygiene in the medical college of Columbus.
Ten Laws of Health, a valuable work on hygiene; Guide to Protection
against Epidemic Disease.
Black, Warren Columbus.Mi., 1843- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of Mississippi. Temperance and Teetotalism; Christian
Womanhood.
Black, William Henry.Ind., 1854- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of St. Louis. God our Father; Womanhood; Sermons for the
Sunday School.
Blackburn, William Maxwell.Ind., 1828-1900. A
Presbyterian clergyman, since 1886 president of Pierre University,
South Dakota. Among his many works, chiefly on religion and biography,
are History of the Christian Church; Geneva’s Shield; Exiles of
Madeira; Judas the Maccabee; The Rebel Prince; College Days of Calvin;
Young Calvin in Paris; St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; Admiral
Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and the Uncle
Alick series of juvenile tales. Meth.
Blackwell, Mrs. Antoinette Louisa [Brown].N. Y.,
1825- ——. A Unitarian minister prominent in the woman-suffrage
movement. Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; The Island
Neighbours: a novel of American life; The Sexes Throughout Nature;
The Physical Basis of Immortality; The Philosophy of Individuality.
Har.
Blackwell, Elizabeth.E., 1821- ——. A physician of New
York city who, with her sister Emily, organized the woman’s medical
college of the New York Infirmary. Laws of Life, or the Physical
Education of Girls; Counsel to Parents in the Moral Education of their
Children; Pioneer Work in opening the Medical Profession to Women.
Lgs.
Blaikie, William.N. Y., 1843-1904. A lawyer and athlete
of New York city. How to Get Strong; Sound Bodies for our Boys and
Girls. Har.
Blaine, James Gillespie.Pa., 1830-1893. A very prominent
Republican leader who was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency
in 1884. Twenty Years of Congress, an able and reasonably impartial
work; Eulogy on James Abram Garfield. See Appleton’s American
Biography, vol. 1, and Annual Cyclopedia, 1893; Lives, by Cressey,
1884; Balestier, 1884; Ramsdell; Dodge, 1895; Mr. Blaine and his
Foreign Policy, 1884; North American Review, vol. 147.
Blair, Andrew Alexander.Ky., 1846- ——. A chemist of
Philadelphia. The Chemical Analysis of Iron; Methods in Analysis of
Iron, Steel, Copper, and Alloys of Copper, Zinc, and Tin. Lip.
Blair, Mrs. Eliza [Nelson].N. H., 1859- ——. A writer
of Manchester, New Hampshire. Her novel, ’Lisbeth Wilson, gives an
excellent picture of New Hampshire rural life a half century ago.
Le.
Blair, James.S., 1656-1743. An Episcopal clergyman of
Virginia who founded William and Mary College, and was its president
for 50 years. The State of His Majesty’s Colony in Virginia; Our
Saviour’s Divine Sermon on the Mount, a series of 117 sermons written
in a simple, unornamental style; moderate in tone and very much to the
point. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Blake, Mrs. Euphemia [Vale].E., 1824-1904. Daughter
of G. Vale, infra. Teeth, Ether, and Chloroform; History of
Newburyport; Arctic Experiences, a history of the Polaris Expedition.
Blake, James Vila.N. Y., 1842- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Chicago. Poems; Essays; A Grateful Spirit; Anchor of the
Soul; St. Solifer; Legends from Story Land. Ke.
Blake, John Lauris.N. H., 1788-1857. An Episcopal
clergyman of Boston long prominent as an educator. Text Book of
Geography and Chronology; Family Encyclopædia of Agriculture and
Domestic Economy; Farmer’s Every-Day Book; Modern Farmer; Letters on
Confirmation; General Biographical Dictionary; Book of Nature Laid
Open; Wonders of the Earth; Wonders of Art.
Blake, Mrs. Lillie [Devereux] [Umstead].N. C.,
1835- ——. A prominent advocate of woman-suffrage. Fettered for Life;
Southwold; Rockford; Woman’s Place To-Day; The Hypocrite, or Sketches
of American Society.
Blake, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [McGrath].I., 1840- ——. A
Boston writer of prose and verse. Poems; Youth in Twelve Centuries;
Verses by the Way. Her prose includes On the Wing, sketches of American
travel; A Summer Holiday: travel experiences in Europe; Mexico:
Picturesque, Political, Progressive (with Mrs. Sullivan, infra).
Hou. Le.
Blake, William Phipps.N. Y., 1826- ——. A mineralogist
of prominence. Silver Ores and Silver Mines; California Minerals;
Production of the Precious Metals; Iron and Steel; Ceramic Art and
Glass; History of Hamden, Ct.; Life of Captain Jonathan Mix.
Blauvelt, Augustus.N. Y., 1832- ——. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of New Jersey, deposed from the ministry on account of his
liberal doctrinal views embodied in papers in the Century Magazine. The
Kingdom of Satan; The Present Religious Crisis.
Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna [Hahn-Hahn].R., 1831-1891.
A writer of Russian birth but naturalized in the United States, who
visited India, and, embracing Buddhism, founded the Theosophical
Society of New York. Isis Unveiled; The Secret Doctrine; Voices of
Silence; Key to Theosophy. See Memoirs of, by Sinnett, 1886; Review
of Reviews, vol. 3.
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor.Ky., 1808-1877. A Southern
clergyman who left the Episcopal for the Methodist church, and wrote
extensively on metaphysics and mathematics. Liberty and Slavery;
Examination of Edwards on the Will; Philosophy of Mathematics; Is Davis
a Traitor? or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War
of 1861?; Theodicy. Lip. Meth.
Bliss, Daniel.Vt., 1826- ——. A Congregational
missionary, president of the Protestant college at Beyrout since 1864.
Mental Philosophy; Natural Philosophy (in Arabic).
Bliss, Porter Cornelius.N. Y., 1838-1885. A journalist
and diplomat of some repute as a philologist. The Ethnography of Gran
Chaco, a district of Argentina; Historia Secreta de la mision, del
ciudadano norte-Americano, Charles A. Washburn, cerca del gobierno de
la república del Paraguay; The Conquest of Turkey 1877-78 (with L.
Blodgett, infra).
Bliss, William Dwight Porter.Iy., 1856- ——. An
Episcopal clergyman of Boston, prominent as a leader among Christian
Socialists. A Handbook of Socialism; The Social Faith of the Catholic
Church; What is Christian Socialism? He has edited The Encyclopædia of
Socialism. Fu. Scr.
Bliss, William Root.Ct., 1825- ——. A business man of
New York city. Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House; The Old
Colony Town and other Sketches; Colonial Times on Buzzard’s Bay; Quaint
Nantucket; Paradise in the Pacific. Hou.
Blodget, Lorin.N. Y., 1823-1901. An eminent statistician
of Philadelphia who published more than 150 volumes, mainly reports
upon finance, revenue, and industrial progress. The Climatology of the
United States; Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States.
Lip.
Bloede, Gertrude. “Stuart Sterne.” Sxy., 1845- ——.
A poet and novelist of Brooklyn who has usually written under a
pseudonym. Angelo; Giorgio and Other Poems; Beyond the Shadow; Pièro da
Castiglione, a tale in verse of the time of Savonarola; The Story of
Two Lives: a novel. Hou.
Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara Sophia [Jessup].Pa.,
1824-1899. A Philadelphia writer who passed much time abroad, and
chiefly in England. Miscellaneous Poems; On Dangerous Ground, a romance
of American Society; Sensible Etiquette; Gondaline’s Lesson and Other
Poems; Slander and Gossip; The Warden’s Tale and Other Poems. Co.
Blot, Pierre.F., 1818-1874. A once noted cooking
instructor of New York city. What to Eat and How to Cook It; Lectures
on Cookery; Handbook of Practical Cookery. Ap.
Blunt, Edmond March.N. H., 1770-1862. A bookseller of
Newburyport whose chief work, The American Coast Pilot (1796), is still
in use.
Blunt, George William.Ms., 1802-1878. Son of E. M.
Blunt, supra. Hydrographer. Atlantic Memoir; Sheet Anchor;
Harbour Laws of New York; Plan to Avoid the Centre of Violent Gales.
Blunt, Joseph.Ms., 1792-1860. Son of E. M. Blunt,
supra. A lawyer who was one of the founders of the Republican
party. Historical Sketch of the Formation of the American Confederacy;
Speeches, Reviews, and Reports; Merchants’ and Shipmasters’ Assistant.
Boardman, George Dana.Bh., 1828-1903. A prominent
Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. Coronation of Love; Studies in the
Creative Week; Epiphanies of the Risen Lord; Studies in the Mountain
Instruction; University Lectures on the Ten Commandments; The Divine
Man. Ap. Bap.
Boardman, Henry Augustus.N. Y., 1808-1880. A once noted
Presbyterian divine of Philadelphia. The Bible in the Family; The
Bible in the Counting-House; The Christian Ministry not a Priesthood;
Earthly Suffering and Heavenly Glory; A Handful of Corn, are among his
writings. Lip. Ran.
Bogart, William Henry.N. Y., 1810-1888. A writer of New
York state. Life of Daniel Boone; Who Goes There? or Men and Events.
Le.
Bok, Edward William.H., 1863- ——. Editor of the
Ladies’ Home Journal. The Young Man in Business; Successward, a Young
Man’s Book for Young Men. Rev.
Boker, George Henry.Pa., 1823-1890. A poet and
diplomat of Philadelphia, United States Minister to Turkey and Russia
successively. His verse is of uneven excellence, but at its best is
notably good, as, for example, the familiar Dirge for a Soldier. Of
his four tragedies, Calaynos; Anne Boleyn; Lenor de Guzman; Francesca
da Rimini, the first and last are the finest, the last having been
revived with success in very recent years. His volumes of verse include
The Lesson of Life; Poems of War; The Book of the Dead; Königsmark;
Street Lyrics; Our Heroic Themes. Plays of lesser rank are The Widow’s
Marriage; The Betrothal. See Atlantic Monthly, vol. 65; Lippincott’s
Magazine, vol. 45.Lip.
Bollan, William.E., 17— -1776. An English lawyer who
settled in Boston in 1740, and was subsequently colonial agent in
London for Massachusetts. He was active in its behalf and wrote many
political tracts for that end, among which The Mutual Interests of
Great Britain and the American Colonies Considered, is a favourable
example.
Boller, Alfred Pancoast.Pa., 1840- ——. An engineer of
note whose specialty is bridge construction. Practical Treatise on the
Construction of Iron Highway Bridges; Report on Thames River Bridge.
Wil.
Bolles, Albert Sidney.Ct., 1845- ——. A political
economist of prominence, professor in the University of Pennsylvania.
Chapters in Political Economy; The Conflict between Labour and Capital;
Industrial History of the United States; Financial History of the
United States, 1774-1860; Elements of Commercial Law. Ap.
Bolles, Frank.Ms., 1856-1894. A writer of nature
studies of the school of Jefferies and Thoreau, though with important
differences from either. From Blomidon to Smoky; At the North of
Bearcamp Water; Land of the Lingering Snow; Chocorua’s Tenants, a
volume of verse. Hou.
Bolster, William Wheeler.Me., 1823- ——. A lawyer of
Auburn, Maine. Digest of the Law of Tax Titles; The Authority and Duty
of Town Officers.
Bolton, Charles Knowles.O., 1867- ——. Son of S. K.
Bolton, infra; librarian of Brookline, Massachusetts. The
Boltons of Old and New England; Gossiping Guide to Harvard; Saskia the
Wife of Rembrandt; Notes on Special Collections in American Libraries
(with W. C. Lane). Verse: Poems: from Heart and Nature; The Wooing of
Martha Pitkin; the Love Story of Ursula Wolcott. Cop. Lam.
Bolton, Henry Carrington.N. Y., 1843-1903. Scientist
and professor of chemistry at Trinity College. Application of Organic
Acids to the Examination of Minerals; Literature of Uranium; Literature
of Manganese; Student’s Guide in Quantitative Analysis; Counting-out
Rhymes of Children; their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution.
Wil.
Bolton, Mrs. Sarah [Knowles].Ct., 1841- ——. A
miscellaneous writer of Cleveland whose successive collections of
biographical sketches have been extremely popular. Famous Givers and
Their Gifts; How Success is Won; Poor Boys who Became Famous; Girls
who Became Famous; Famous American Authors; Famous American Statesmen;
Successful Women; Social Studies in England; Famous Types of Womanhood;
Famous Voyages and Explorers; Famous Leaders among Men; The Inevitable,
a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse. Cr. Lo.
Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Tittle [Barritt].Ky., 1820-1893. A
writer whose name is kept in mind by her oft quoted poem, Paddle Your
Own Canoe. The Songs of a Life Time; Life and Poems of, 1880.
Bomberger, John Henry Augustus.Pa., 1817-1890. A German
Reformed theologian, president of Ursinus College, 1870-90. Infant
Salvation and Baptism; Revised Liturgy; Reformed not Ritualistic.
Bond, George Phillips.Ms., 1825-1865. An astronomer
of note, professor in Harvard University. On the Construction of the
Rings of Saturn; The Method of Least Squares; Mathematical Memoirs upon
Mechanical Quadrations.
Boner, John Henry.N. C., 1845- ——. A poet and
littérateur of New York city. Whispering Pines: poems.
Bonner, Sherwood.See MacDowell.
Bonney, Charles Carroll.N. Y., 1831-1903. A lawyer of
Chicago. Rules of Law for Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property
by Railway; Summary of the Law of Marine, Fire, and Life Insurance; Our
Remedy in the Laws.
Booth, Henry Matthias.N. Y., 1843-1899. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New Jersey. The Heavenly Vision and other Sermons;
Sunrise, Noonday, and Sunset of the Day of Grace; First Communion.
Ran.
Booth, Mary Louise.L. I., 1831-1889. Editor of Harper’s
Bazar from its establishment in 1867 to 1889. She made over 30 valuable
translations from the French. A History of the City of New York was her
only piece of original writing.
Bostwick, Mrs. Helen Louise [Barron].N. H., 1826- ——.
A verse-writer of Bucyrus, Ohio. Buds, Blossoms and Berries.
Botta, Mrs. Anne Charlotte [Lynch].Vt., 1820-1891. Wife
of V. Botta, infra. A well-known New York writer whose weekly
receptions were for many years the nearest approach in New York city to
a salon. Handbook of Universal Literature; Leaves from the Diary
of a Recluse; Poems. Hou.
Botta, Vincenzo.Iy., 1818-1894. An Italian educator
who came to the United States in 1853, and was for a long period a
professor of Italian Literature in the University of New York. The
System of Education in Piedmont; Life of Cavour; Historical Account of
Modern Philosophy in Italy; Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet.
Scr.
Botts, John Minor.Va., 1802-1869. A Virginia lawyer
eminent for his devotion to the Union during the Civil War. Letters on
the Nebraska Question; The Great Rebellion: its Secret History, Rise,
Progress, and Disastrous Failure. Har.
Boudinot [boo´de-not], Elias.Pa., 1740-1821.
A philanthropist of Burlington, New Jersey, and the first president
of the American Bible Society. The Second Advent of the Messiah; The
Age of Revelation, a reply to Paine; The Star in the West, an attempt
to identify the American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
See Life, edited by J. J. Boudinot, 1896.
Boughton, Willis.N. Y., 1854- ——. An educator,
professor of English literature in Ohio University from 1892. A History
of Ancient Peoples; Mythology in Art. Put.
Bourke, John Gregory.Pa., 1846-1896. A United States
army officer. The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, a valuable
contribution to ethnology; An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre; On
the Border with Crook. Scr.
Bouton, John Bell.N. H., 1830-1902. Son of N. Bouton,
infra. A New York littérateur. Loved and Lost: essays; Round the
Block, a novel; Treasury of Travel and Adventure; Memoir of General
Bell; Roundabout to Moscow, an Epicurean Journey; Uncle Sam’s Church.
Ap. Lam.
Bouton, Nathaniel.Ct., 1797-1878. State historian of
New Hampshire. He is best known for his edition of ten volumes of
Provincial Records and for a History of Concord, New Hampshire.
Boutwell, George Sewall.Ms., 1818- ——. A Massachusetts
statesman; Governor of the State, 1852-53; Secretary of the Treasury,
1869-73. Thoughts on Educational Topics; Manual of the Direct and
Excise Tax System of the United States; The Taxpayer’s Manual; Speeches
and Papers relating to the Rebellion; Why I am a Republican: a History
of the Republican Party; The Lawyer, the Statesman, the Soldier; The
Constitution of the United States at the end of the First Century.
Ap. He.
Bouvé, Edward Tracy. 18— - ——. A Boston writer of fiction.
Centuries Apart. Lit.
Bouvet, [Marie] Marguerite.La., 1865- ——. A writer
of excellent juvenile books. Sweet William; Prince Tip-Top; Little
Marjorie’s Love Story; My Lady; A Child of Tuscany; Pierrette.
Mg.
Bouvier [boo-veer´], Hannah. Daughter of J. Bouvier,
infra. See Peterson, Mrs.
Bouvier, John.Iy., 1787-1851. A jurist of Philadelphia.
Law Dictionary; Institutes of American Law. Lip.
Bovee, Christian Nestell.N. Y., 1820-1904. An
epigrammatic writer, some of whose sayings have been much quoted.
Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies; Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.
Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll.Ms., 1808-1892. Son of
N. Bowditch, infra. An eminent physician of Boston. Life of
Nathaniel Bowditch for the Young; The Young Stethoscopist; Public
Hygiene in America.
Bowditch, Nathaniel.Ms., 1773-1838. A famous
mathematician of Salem, Massachusetts, whose translation of La Place’s
Mécanique Céleste, with extensive commentary, was his greatest work.
The New American Navigator was his only original work of note. See
Memoir, by H. I. Bowditch.
Bowen, Eli.Pa., 1824-188-. A once popular Pennsylvania
author. Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pictorial Sketch Book of
Pennsylvania; Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; The Creation of
the Earth; United States Post-Office System; Coal and Coal Oil.
Bowen, Francis.Ms., 1811-1890. A professor of philosophy
at Harvard University for many years, and eminent both as philosopher
and political economist. He opposed the systems of Kant, Fichte,
Cousin, Comte, and Mill, and was answered by the latter in a third
edition of his Logic. Critical Essays in Speculative Philosophy; Modern
Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann; Treatise on
Logic; American Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy;
A Layman’s Study of the English Bible considered in its Literary and
Secular Aspects; Gleanings from a Literary Life. Scr.
Bowen, John Eliot.N. Y., 1858-1890. A New York
journalist. The Conflict of East and West in Egypt; Songs of Toil, a
translation from Carmen Sylva.
Bowen, Mrs. Sue [Petigru] [King].S. C., 1824-1875. A
novelist of Charleston, South Carolina. Sylvia’s World; Gerald Gray’s
Wife; Lily; Busy Moments of an Idle Woman, a collection of stories.
Bowker, Richard Rogers.Ms., 1848- ——. The editor for
some years of the Publishers’ Weekly. Work and Wealth: a Summary of
Economics; A Primer for Political Education; Economics for the People;
The Library List; Electoral Reform. Har.
Bowles, Samuel.Ms., 1826-1878. Journalist of
Springfield, Massachusetts, editor of the Springfield Republican.
Across the Continent; Our New West. See Life of, by Merriam,
1885.
Bowne, Borden Parker.N. J., 1847- ——. A philosophical
writer and professor of philosophy in Boston University. The Philosophy
of Herbert Spencer; Studies in Theism; Metaphysics: a Study of First
Principles; Introduction to Psychological Theory; Philosophy of Theism;
Principles of Ethics. Har. Meth.
Boyd, James Robert.N. Y., 1804-1890. A Presbyterian
clergyman, formerly professor of moral philosophy at Hamilton College.
Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism; Moral Philosophy; The
Westminster Shorter Catechism, with Analysis; Elements of Logic; Last
Days of a Christian Philosopher; Memoir of Doddridge, are some among
his rather numerous publications. Har.
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth.N., 1848-1895. A writer of
Norwegian birth, long resident in New York, and a professor in
Columbia College at the time of his death. His novels and sketches are
pleasantly written, but as essays in fiction are not much above average
merit. Gunnar; A Norseman’s Pilgrimage; Tales from Two Hemispheres;
Falconberg; A Daughter of the Philistines; Queen Titania; Ilka on the
Hill Top and Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their Lives and Works;
Literary and Social Silhouettes; The Story of Norway, an historical
work; Social Strugglers; Essays on Scandinavian Literature; Essays on
German Literature; Idylls of Norway and Other Poems; the Norseland
series of books for boys, including: Norseland Tales; Boyhood in
Norway; The Modern Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; The Golden Calf. Fl.
Har. Mac. Scr.
Boynton, Edward Carlisle.Vt., 1825-1893. A United States
army officer. History of West Point.
Bozman, John Leeds.Md., 1757-1823. A once noted Maryland
lawyer. Historical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War;
History of Maryland. See Memoir by S. A. Harrison, 1888.
Brace, Charles Loring.Ct., 1826-1890. Son of J. P.
Brace, infra. A noted clergyman and philanthropist of New York
city who founded the Children’s Aid Society, and gave much of his time
to philanthropic work. Norse-folk; Home Life in Germany; The Races of
the Old World; Gesta Christi; The Dangerous Classes of New York. See
Life, chiefly told in his own Letters.Scr.
Brace, John Peirce.Ct., 1793-1872. A once prominent
educator of Litchfield, Connecticut. Lectures to Young Converts; Tales
of the Devil; The Fawn of the Pale Faces: a Novel.
Brackenridge, Henry Marie.Pa., 1786-1871. Son of H. H.
Brackenridge, infra. A noted Florida jurist. History of the Late
War between the United States and Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South
America; Views of Louisiana; Recollections of Persons and Places in the
West; Essay on Trusts and Trustees; History of the Western Insurrection.
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry.S., 1748-1816. A Pennsylvania
lawyer and humourist whose writing enjoyed great popularity in the
early years of the 19th century. His principal work was Modern
Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O’Regan, his
Servant, a rough, sharp piece of humourous fiction, partaking, to some
extent, of the nature of an autobiography. See edition of 1848, with
illustrations by Darley; Hart’s American Literature.
Brackett, Albert Gallatin.N. Y., 1829-1896. A United
States cavalry officer. General Lane’s Brigade in Central Mexico;
History of the United States Cavalry, 1854. Har.
Brackett, Anna Callender.Ms., 1836- ——. An educational
writer. The Education of American Girls; Woman and the Higher
Education; The Technique of Rest. Har.
Brackett, Edward Augustus.Me., 1819- ——. A sculptor of
Boston. Twilight Hours, a volume of verse.
Bradford, Alden.Ms., 1765-1843. Secretary of State for
Massachusetts, 1812-24. Eulogy on Washington; History of Massachusetts,
1764-1820; Life of Jonathan Mayhew; History of the Federal Government;
Biographical Notices of Distinguished Men of Massachusetts; New England
Chronology, 1497-1843.
Bradford, Alexander Warfield.N. Y., 1815-1867. A New
York jurist of prominence. He edited American Antiquities, and prepared
many volumes of legal reports, among which the six commonly called
Bradford’s Reports have become standard authority.
Bradford, Amory Howe.Ms., 1846- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Montclair, New Jersey. The Pilgrim in Old England; Old
Wine: New Bottles; Spirit and Life, Thought for To-Day; Heredity and
Christian Problems. Fo. Mac.
Bradford, William.E., 1590-1657. Governor of the
Plymouth Colony, 1621-57. He left in manuscript a History of the
Plimoth Plantation, the leisurely composition of 20 years, which was
drawn from by Morton, Prince, and Hutchinson as a basis for their
respective histories, and after being lost for nearly a century
was found in the library of the Bishop of London in 1855, and
published soon after. He was the earliest American historian, and
his work exhibits judicial impartiality, broad conceptions, and a
direct, vigourous style. See Tyler’s American Literature; Young’s
Chronicles of the Pilgrims; Mrs. Austin’s Betty Alden and Standish of
Standish.Hou.
Bradlee, Caleb Davis.Ms., 1831-1897. A Unitarian
clergyman. Sermons for the Church; Sermons for All Sects; Life of Starr
King. El.
Bradley, Mrs. Mary Emily [Neeley].Md., 1835-1898. A
writer of tales for girls. Among her 20 or more volumes of this class
are Douglass Farm; Story of a Summer; Brave Girls; Grace’s Visit.
Hidden Sweetness is a volume of verse. Le. Lo.
Bradley, Warren Ives. “Glance Gaylord.” Ct., 1847-1868.
A talented writer of tales for boys. Among his twelve volumes, all
written before he was twenty-one, Culm Rock is as well known as any.
Bradstreet, Mrs. Anne [Dudley].E., 1612-1672. The first
American woman of letters, and called by her contemporaries “The
Tenth Muse.” Her prose work includes a brief autobiographic sketch,
Religious Experiences; Meditations Divine and Moral, a series of
shrewd, strong aphorisms. In her lifetime she was known only as a poet,
and her verse, the bulk of which is considerable, comprises elegies,
epitaphs; The Four Monarchies, a rhymed chronicle of ancient history;
The Four Elements; The Four Humours of Man; The Four Ages of Man;
The Four Seasons of the Year; Dialogue between Old England and New;
Contemplations. She followed artificial models, and her lines reflect
the grotesque conceits of the time, but here and there are gleams
of real poetic vigour, while in the poem Contemplations, the least
laboured of them all, she exhibits true poetic inspiration. See
Works of, edited by John Harvard Ellis, with sketch of the author,
1867; Tyler’s American Literature; Life, by Helen Campbell; New England
Magazine, 1887.
Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins.Ct., 1796-1828. A
Hartford journalist whose Poems were published first in 1825, and
reissued as Literary Remains in 1832 in an enlarged edition, with
Memoir by his friend Whittier. His verse was temporarily popular, but
his chief claim to present remembrance is the fine poem beginning, “I
saw two clouds at morning.”
Brainerd, David.Ct., 1718-1747. A famous missionary
among the Indians of New England. Selections from his journals have
been printed, entitled Miriabilia Dei apud Indicos; Divine Grace
Displayed. See Life, by Jonathan Edwards, 1749, enlarged, 1822;
Sparks’s American Biography.
Branch, Mrs. Mary Lydia [Bolles].Ct., 1840- ——. A New
York writer, best known by her poem, The Petrified Fern. The Kanter
Girls is a story for young people. Scr.
Brannan, William Penn. “Vandyke Brown.” O., 1825-1866. A
portrait painter of Cincinnati. Vagaries of Vandyke Brown; The Harp of
a Thousand Strings, or Laughter for a Life Time.
Brattle, Thomas.Ms., 1657-1713. A once famous Boston
merchant. Eclipse of the Sun and Moon observed in New England; Lunar
Eclipse in New England, 1707.
Brazza, Cora [Slocomb], Countess di. La., 1862- ——. A
writer of New York city. An American Idyl; A Literary Farce; Guide to
the Old and New Lace in Italy. Ar.
Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson.Ky., 1800-1871. A once
noted Presbyterian clergyman of Lexington, Kentucky. Popery; Internal
Evidence of Christianity; Memoranda of Foreign Travel; Travels in
France, Germany, etc. His chief work was a system of theology, The
Knowledge of God, Objectively and Subjectively Considered. He was a
writer of very positive views, and one of the leaders in the division
of the Presbyterian church into Old and New School in 1837.
Breed, David Riddle.Pa., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian
minister of Chicago since 1885. More Light; Abraham, the Typical Life
of Faith; History of the Preparation of the World for Christ; Heresy
and Heresy. Rev.
Breed, William Pratt.N. Y., 1816-1889. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia. His works are mainly religious juveniles,
and among them are Jenny Geddes; Home Songs for Home Birds; Grapes from
the Great Vine; A Board and Abroad. Fu.
Breidenbaugh, Edward Swoyer.Pa., 1849- ——. A professor
of chemistry at Pennsylvania College. Notes on Inorganic Chemistry;
Mineralogy of the Farm, are among his purely technical papers and
monographs.
Breitman, Hans.See Leland.
Brewer, Thomas Mayo.Ms., 1821-1880. A Massachusetts
ornithologist who was the principal author of the History of North
American Birds prepared with Ridgway and S. F. Baird, supra.
Oölogy of North America is also by him.
Brewer, William Henry.N. Y., 1828- ——. A professor of
agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven since 1864.
Botany of California.
Brewerton, George Douglas.C., 1820-1901. A United
States army officer. The War in Kansas, a Rough Trip to the Border;
Fitzpoodle at Newport; Ida Lewis, the Heroine of Lime Rock; The
Automaton Company; The Automaton Battery.
Bridge, James Howard. “Harold Brydges.” E., 1858- ——. A
Fortnight in Heaven: an Unconventional Romance; Uncle Sam at Home.
Bridges, Madeline.See De Vere.
Bridges, Robert. “Droch.” Pa., 1858- ——. A littérateur
of New York city; literary critic of Life from 1883, and assistant
editor of Scribner’s Magazine since 1887. Overheard in Arcady,
dialogues about contemporary writers; Suppressed Chapters and Other
Bookishness. Scr.
Briggs, Charles Augustus. 1841- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman
prominent among the leaders of newer religious thought and a
professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York, since 1875. In
1892 he was tried for heresy and acquitted. Biblical Study; American
Presbyterianism; Messianic Prophecy, notable for its display of the
true historical spirit; The Authority of Holy Scripture; The Messiah
of the Apostles; The Messiah of the Gospels; The Higher Criticism
of the Hexateuch; The Bible, the Church, and the Reason; Whither? a
Theological Question for the Times. See New Englander, vol. 55;
Andover Review, vol. 16; Catholic World, vol. 53.Scr.
Briggs, Charles Frederick.Ms., 1804-1877. A journalist
and editor of New York city, the valued friend of many of the prominent
literary Americans of his time. Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of
the Great Panic; The Haunted Merchant; The Trippings of Tom Pepper;
Working a Passage, or Life on a Liner. See Lowell’s Fable for
Critics.
Brigham, Amariah.Ms., 1798-1849. A physician of
Hartford, and subsequently superintendent of the lunatic asylum at
Utica, New York. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain.
Brigham, William Tufts.Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer and
naturalist now at Honolulu in charge of the government museum. Volcanic
Manifestations in New England; Guatemala: the Land of the Quetzal, a
volume of travels. Scr.
Brightly, Francis Frederick.Pa., 1845- ——. Son of
F. C. Brightly, infra. Digest of the Laws of Philadelphia,
1701-1887.
Brightly, Frederick Charles.E., 1812-1888. An eminent
Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on Law of Costs; Nisi Prius Reports;
Equitable Jurisdiction of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Digest of the Laws
of the United States, 1789-1869; Digest of the Decisions of the Federal
Courts; Bankrupt Law of the United States; Leading Cases in the Law of
Elections, include the larger number of his legal writings.
Brinton, Daniel Garrison.Pa., 1837-1899. An
archæological writer and publisher, as well as physician, of
Philadelphia, whose researches in aboriginal history and literature
were very extensive. He was professor of archæology in the University
of Pennsylvania from 1880. The Myths of the New World; The Religious
Sentiment; American Hero-Myths; Aboriginal American Authors; The
Floridian Peninsula; Races and Peoples; Essays of an Americanist;
The Lenape and their Legends. He edited The Maya Chronicles; The
Comedy-Ballet of Güeguence; Aboriginal American Anthology. See
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 38.Co. Gi. Ho.
Brisbin, James Sanks.Pa., 1837-1892. A United States
cavalry officer. Campaign Lives of Grant and Colfax; The Beef Bonanza;
Trees and Tree Planting. Har. Lip.
Bristed, Charles Astor. “Carl Benson.” N. Y., 1820-1874.
Son of J. Bristed, infra. A magazinist of New York city. Five
Years in an English University; The Upper Ten Thousand; Pieces of a
Broken-down Critic; The Interference Theory of Government; Anacreontics.
Bristed, John.E., 1778-1855. An Episcopal clergyman of
Rhode Island. His principal works, none of which rise much above the
level of dullness, are Critical and Philosophical Essays; Resources of
the United States, 1818; Anglo-American Churches; Edward and Anna: a
Novel; A Pedestrian Tour through the Highlands of Scotland.
Bristol, Mrs. Augusta [Cooper].N. H., 1835- ——. An
educator of Vineland, New Jersey. Poems; The Relation of the Maternal
Function to the Woman’s Intellect; The Philosophy of Art; Science and
its Relations to Character; The Present Phase of Woman’s Advancement;
The Web of Life, a collection of verse.
Britton, Nathaniel Lord.S. I., 1859- ——. A botanical
professor in the School of Mines at Columbia College. Catalogue of the
Flora of Staten Island; The Geology of Staten Island; Catalogue of
the Flora of New Jersey; An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United
States, Canada, and the British Possessions, from Newfoundland to the
Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic
Ocean to the 102d Meridian (with A. Brown). Scr.
Britts, Mrs. Mattie [Dyer].N. Y., 1842- ——. Daughter
of S. Dyer, infra. The author of many juvenile tales, among
which are Edward Lee; Nobody’s Boy.
Broaddus, Andrew.Va., 1770-1848. A Baptist clergyman
once noted as a pulpit orator. History of the Bible; Form of Church
Discipline; Letters and Sermons.
Broadus, John Albert.Va., 1827-1895. A Baptist
clergyman, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Preparation and Delivery of Sermons; Lectures on Preaching; Sermons and
Addresses; Jesus of Nazareth. Bap.
Brockett, Linus Pierpont.Ct., 1820-1893. A prolific
writer of Hartford, among whose many productions are History of
Education; Our Great Captains; The Year of Battles: a History of the
Franco-German War of 1870; Epidemics and Contagious Diseases; The Silk
Industry in America; Our Western Empire, an account of the resources of
the United States west of the Mississippi; The Great Metropolis.
Brodhead, Mrs. Eva Wilder [McGlasson]. 18— - ——. A popular
novelist. One of the Visconti; Diana’s Livery; An Earthly Paragon;
Ministers of Grace; Bound In Shallows. Har. Scr.
Brodhead, John Romeyn.Pa., 1814-1873. A painstaking,
accurate writer, whose work, if somewhat lacking in picturesqueness, is
of lasting value. History of the State of New York; The Government of
Sir Edmund Andros over New England. Har.
Brooks, Arthur.Ms., 1845-1895. Brother of Phillips
Brooks, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. A volume
of his Sermons was reprinted in London with the title, Christ for
To-Day. Wh.
Brooks, Charles.Ms., 1795-1872. A once prominent
Massachusetts educator. History of Medford; The Christian in his
Closet; Daily Monitor; Family Prayer-Book; Elements of Ornithology;
Introduction to Ornithology, and ten volumes of biography.
Brooks, Charles Timothy.Ms., 1813-1883. A Unitarian
clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, 1837-73, whose English versions of
Schiller, Richter, Goethe, and Schefer take high rank. His other work
includes Songs of Field and Flood; The Simplicity of Christ; William
Ellery Channing: a Centennial Memory; Poems Original and Translated.
See Memoir by Wendte.Rob.
Brooks, Edward.N. Y., 1831- ——. The principal of the
Millersville Normal School, Pennsylvania, 1866-83, and since then
superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools. His writings are
mainly, though not entirely, mathematical, and among them are The
Normal Written Arithmetic; Philosophy of Arithmetic; Mental Science and
Methods of Culture; The Story of the Iliad; The Story of the Odyssey.
Brooks, Elbridge Gerry.N. H., 1816-1878. A Universalist
clergyman of Philadelphia. Universalism a Practical Power; Our New
Departure; Universalism in Life and Doctrine. See Life by E. S.
Brooks.
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter.Ms., 1846-1902. A Boston
writer for young people. Life Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks; In No
Man’s Land; Historic Boys; In Leisler’s Times; Chivalric Days; Storied
Holidays; Historic Girls; Story of the American Indian; The Story of
New York; Story of the American Sailor; Story of the United States;
The True Story of Columbus; Heroic Happenings; A Son of Issachar; The
True Story of George Washington; The Century Book for Young Americans;
A Boy of the First Empire; Great Men’s Sons; The Story of Miriam of
Magdala; The True Story of Abraham Lincoln; The Story of the American
Soldier; The Century Book of Famous Americans; Under the Tamaracks; The
Long Walls (with J. Alden). Cent. Lo. Put.
Brooks, Mrs. Maria [Gowen].Ms., 1795-1845. Called by
Southey “Maria del Occidente.” A poet whose fate it has been to be
utterly neglected after being once extravagantly praised. Zephiel, or
The Bride of Seven, her chief work, is a poem whose incidents are taken
from the story of Sara in the apocryphal book of Tobit. It is a work
of considerable power but extravagant sentiment. Idomen, or the Vale
of Yumuri, is to some extent autobiographic. See Griswold’s Female
Poets; Harper’s Magazine, January and May, 1879; Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s
Record.
Brooks, Nathan Covington.Md., 1819-1898. A prominent
educator of Baltimore, who besides publishing an excellent series
of classical text-books, chief among which are editions of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses and Virgil’s Æneid, is the author of A Complete History
of the Mexican War.
Brooks, Noah.Me., 1830-1903. A New York writer of
popular books for boys. The Boy Emigrants; The Fairport Nine; Our
Baseball Club; Abraham Lincoln; The Boy Settlers; American Statesmen;
Tales of the Maine Coast; Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American
Slavery; How the Republic is Governed; Short Studies in American
Party Politics; Washington in Lincoln’s Time, a volume of gossipy
recollections; The Mediterranean Trip. Cent. Scr.
Brooks, Phillips.Ms., 1835-1893. The sixth Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. He was rector of Holy Trinity
Church at Philadelphia, 1862-69, and of Trinity Church, Boston, from
1869 until his consecration as bishop in 1891. He was a leader of
Broad Church opinion, but had no hostility towards forms of thought
opposed to his. For many years before his death he had been accounted
the foremost preacher in America. The Influence of Jesus; Lectures on
Preaching; The Candle of the Lord and Other Sermons; The Light of the
World and Other Sermons; Sermons in English Churches; Twenty Sermons;
Sermons for the Principal Festivals and Fasts; Tolerance; A Century
of Church Growth in Boston; Essays and Addresses; Letters of Travel;
The Oldest School in America. O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular
poem by him. See Phillips Brooks in Boston; Five Years’ Editorial
Estimates; Phillips Brooks, by Dunbar; Annual Cyclopedia, 1893; Andover
Review, vol. 15; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts, by J. H. Ward,
infra.Dut. Mer.
Brooks, William Keith.O., 1848- ——. A professor of
morphology at Johns Hopkins University. Hand-book of Invertebrate
Zoölogy; Development of the American Oyster; Conifer, a Study in
Morphology; Development of Lingula; The Law of Heredity. Wn.
Bross, William.N. J., 1813-1890. A Chicago journalist.
History of Chicago (1866); Tom Quick, a romance of Indian warfare;
Chicago and her Future Growth.
Brotherton, Mrs. Alice [Williams].Ind., 18— - ——. A
magazinist of Cincinnati, whose work is mainly in verse. Beyond the
Veil; The Sailing of King Olaf; What the Wind told the Tree-Tops, prose
and verse for children.
Brougham [broo´am or broo´m], John.I., 1814-1880.
A once noted dramatist who was the author of over a hundred comedies
and farces, many of which, like Vanity Fair and The Irish Emigrant,
have been very successful. See Life, by William Winter.
Brown, Abram English.Ms., 1849- ——. A resident of
Bedford, Massachusetts. Beneath Old Roof Trees, a volume of local
history; Beside Old Hearthstones; History of Bedford; Bedford Old
Families; Glimpses of New England Life; Flag of the Minute Men.
Le.
Brown, Alexander.Va., 1843- ——. A writer of Nelson
County, Virginia, who has published The Cabells and their Kin, a
genealogy; The Genesis of the United States. Hou.
Brown, Alice.N. H., 1857- ——. A Boston writer on
the staff of the Youth’s Companion. Fools of Nature, a novel; Meadow
Grass, a collection of New England stories; By Oak and Thorn, a volume
of English travel; Robert Louis Stevenson: a Study (with L. Guiney,
infra); Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Cop. Hou. Scr.
Brown, Anna Robeson.Pa., 1873- ——. Daughter of H. A.
Brown, infra, and great-niece of C. B. Brown, infra. A
novelist who has published Sir Mark; The Black Lamb. Ap.
Brown, Charles Brockden.Pa., 1771-1810. A novelist of
Philadelphia, and the first of native authors who adopted literature
as a profession. In his novels probability plays a very small part,
the local colour is faint, though the scenes are American, and all
are overshadowed by an overpowering element of mystery. In spite of
extravagances and faults, his work possesses undeniable power of a very
high order, and does not deserve the neglect into which it has fallen.
Wieland; Ormond, or the Secret Witness; Arthur Mervyn, in some respects
the most powerful of his works; Edgar Huntley, or the Memories of a
Sleep Walker; Clara Howard, reprinted in England as Philip Stanley;
Jane Talbot. See Lives by Dunlap, 1815, Prescott, 1831; Atlantic
Monthly, vol. 61; Nichol’s American Literature.My.
Brown, Charles Rufus.N. H., 1849- ——. A professor of
Old Testament interpretation at Union Theological Seminary since 1883.
An Aramaic Method: Text and Grammar. Scr.
Brown, David Paul.Pa., 1795-1872. A Philadelphia lawyer
who was the author of two unsuccessful tragedies, Sestorius; The Trial;
a melodrama and a comedy, equally unsuccessful, and The Forum, or Forty
Years’ Practice at the Philadelphia Bar. His Forensic Speeches were
edited by his son in 1873.
Brown, Emma Elizabeth.N. H., 1847- ——. A writer of
popular biographies living at Newton, Massachusetts. Her works include
lives of Washington; Grant; Garfield; Wendell Holmes; Russell Lowell;
From Night to Light, a story of Bible times; The Child Toilers of
Boston Streets; An Hundred Years Ago, a story in verse. Lo. Me.
Brown, Francis.N. H., 1849- ——. A professor of Hebrew
and cognate languages at Union Theological Seminary since 1890.
Assyriology: its Use and Abuse; The Teachings of the Apostles (with R.
D. Hitchcock). Scr.
Brown, Goold.R. I., 1791-1857. An educator of New
York city and a once famous grammarian. Grammar of English Grammars;
Institutes of English Grammar; First Lines of English Grammar.
Brown, Helen Dawes.Ms., 1857- ——. A lecturer on
English literature in New York city. The Petrie Estate, a novel; Two
College Girls; Little Miss Phœbe Gay. Hou.
Brown, Henry Armitt. 1846-1878. A lawyer and orator of
Philadelphia, whose Four Historical Orations have been much admired.
See Memoir, by Hoppin; Atlantic Monthly, August, 1880.
Brown, Henry Billings.Ms., 1836- ——. A justice of the
United States Supreme Court since 1890. Admiralty Reports for Western,
Lake, and River Districts.
Brown, James Allen.Pa., 1821-1883. A Lutheran clergyman
and educator, professor in Gettysburg Seminary, 1864-77. The New
Theology.
Brown, John Walker.N. Y., 1814-1849. An Episcopal
clergyman who won some fleeting notice as a poet. Christmas Bells, a
Tale of Holy Tide, and Other Poems.
Brown, Mrs. Phoebe [Hinsdale].N. Y., 1783-1861. A
hymn-writer remembered for her popular religious lyric, “I love to
steal awhile away.”
Brown, Samuel Gilman.Me., 1813-1885. A Congregational
clergyman who was president of Hamilton College, 1867-81. Biography of
Self-Taught Men; Life of Rufus Choate. Lit.
Brown, Theron.Ct., 1832- ——. A Baptist clergyman of
Boston, who has written several books for young people, among which
are The Blount Family; Walter Neil’s Example; Life Songs, a collection
of verse. Le. Lo.
Brown, Thomas Edwin.D. C., 1841- ——. A Baptist
clergyman of Rochester, New York. Studies in Modern Socialism and Labor
Problems.
Brown, Thurlow Weed. —— -1866. A Wisconsin journalist
prominent as a temperance advocate. Why I am a Temperance Man; Minnie
Hermon, the Landlord’s Daughter; Temperance Tales.
Browne, Charles Farrar, “Artemus Ward.” Me., 1834-1867.
A very genuine though grotesque humorist, whose satire is invariably
good-natured and whose humour is based on shrewd sense. While a printer
in the office of The Plaindealer, in Cleveland, he began publishing
his series of letters from “Artemus Ward, Showman.” Later he became
known as a popular humorous lecturer, and was lecturing in England with
success at the time of his death. Artemus Ward: his Book; Artemus Ward
Among the Mormons; Artemus Ward in London; Artemus Ward: His Travels;
Artemus Ward’s Lecture at Egyptian Hall. See Haweis’s American
Humorists.
Browne, Francis Fisher.Vt., 1843- ——. A literary
critic of Chicago and editor of The Dial since 1880. Everyday Life of
Abraham Lincoln; Volunteer Grain, a collection of poems. Wy.
Browne, Irving.N. Y., 1835-1899. A lawyer of Albany.
Humorous Phases of the Law; Short Studies of Great Lawyers; Judicial
Interpretation of Common Words and Phrases; Law and Lawyers in
Literature; Iconoclasm and Whitewash; The Character of the Nurse’s
Deceased Husband in Romeo and Juliet; Our Best Society, a comedy; The
Elements of Criminal Law. See The Green Bag, vol. 1.
Browne, John Ross.I., 1817-1875. A writer of amusing
travels, illustrated by original drawings, which enjoyed a transient
but profitable popularity. An American Family in Germany; Yusef, a
Crusade in the East; Land of Thor, a volume of Icelandic experiences;
Etchings of a Whaling Voyage; Crusoe’s Island; Adventures in the
Apache Country. Ap. Har.
Browne, Junius Henri.N. Y., 1833-1902. A journalist of
New York city. Four Years in Secessia; The Great Metropolis, a Mirror
of New York; Sights and Sensations in Europe. See Lippincott’s
Magazine, vol. 40.
Browne, William Hand.Md., 1828- ——. An historical
writer of Baltimore who, besides assisting Scharf and other writers,
has also written Maryland, the History of a Palatinate; George Calvert
and Cecilius Calvert, barons Baltimore. Do. Hou.
Browne, William Hardcastle.Pa., 1840- ——. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Digest of the Law of Divorce and Alimony in the United
States; Famous Women of History; Bible Heroes.
Brownell, Henry Howard.R. I., 1820-1872. Nephew of T. C.
Brownell, infra. A writer who served in the Civil War as ensign
under Farragut, and was present in the two engagements described in his
famous battle poems, The Bay Fight, The River Fight, which rank among
the finest verses of their kind. Poems; People’s Book of Ancient and
Modern History; Discoverers of North and South America; Lyrics of a
Day; War Lyrics.
Brownell, Thomas Church.Ms., 1779-1865. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. Family Prayer-Book;
Commentary on the Prayer-Book; Youthful Christian’s Guide; Consolation
for the Afflicted; Christian’s Walk and Consolation; Religion of Heart
and Life, comprise the greater number of his works.
Brownell, William Crary.N. Y., 1851- ——. A New York
journalist and critic. Newport; French Art; Classic and Contemporary
Painting and Sculpture; French Traits: an essay in Comparative
Criticism. See The Bookman, December, 1896.Scr.
Brownlee, William Craig.S., 1784-1860. A Reformed Dutch
clergyman of New York city, and a very active controversialist, whose
batteries were chiefly directed at the Quakers and Roman Catholics.
Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers; The Roman Catholic
Controversy; Treatise on Popery; Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life;
Christian Youths’ Book; Christian Father at Home; Deity of Christ;
History of the Western Apostolic Church; The Converted Murderer; The
Whigs of Scotland, a romance.
Brownlow, William Gannaway.Va., 1805-1877. A Methodist
preacher and journalist of Knoxville, Tennessee, conspicuous for his
fidelity to the Union during the Civil War. At its close he served two
terms as governor of his state. The Iron Wheel Examined and its False
Spokes Extracted, a reply to attacks upon Methodism; Ought American
Slavery to be Perpetuated; Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline
of Secession.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus.Vt., 1803-1876. A
prominent philosophical thinker who in early life was successively a
Presbyterian, a Universalist clergyman, a Socialist leader associated
with Robert Owen, and a Unitarian clergyman, as well as an able
political speaker at all times. In 1844 he became a Roman Catholic, and
in Brownson’s Review, from that date until 1864, he ably defended the
Roman Catholic faith from the standpoint of a liberal. His philosophy
is more or less influenced by the thought of Cousin. New Views of
Christianity, Society, and the Church; Charles Elwood, or the Infidel
Converted (1840), a more or less autobiographic novel; Leaves from my
Experience; Essays and Reviews; The Spirit-Rapper, an autobiography;
The American Republic, a work on political ethics; Conversations on
Liberalism. See Complete Works, in 20 volumes, 1882-87, published in
Detroit by his son Henry F. Brownson; Catholic World, volumes 45 and
46; Atlantic Monthly, June, 1896.
Bruce, Wallace.N. Y., 1844- ——. A poet and lecturer
of Poughkeepsie. From the Hudson to the Yosemite; The Land of Burns;
The Connecticut Daylight; in verse, The Hudson; Yosemite; Old Homestead
Poems; Wayside Poems; In Clover and Heather; Here’s a Hand. Har.
Brush, Mrs. Christine [Chaplin].Me., 1842-1892. Daughter
of J. Chaplin, infra. An artist in water-colours whose home was
in Brooklyn. Her most important book, The Colonel’s Opera Cloak, a
novel, was first published anonymously. Her only other works are the
two stories, Inside our Gate; One Summer’s Lessons in Perspective.
Rob.
Bryan, Mrs. Mary [Edwards].Fl., 1846- ——. A journalist
of New York city who has written the novels Manch; Wild Work, a story
of the reconstruction period in Louisiana; The Bayou Bride; Kildee.
Bryant, John Howard.Ms., 1807-1902. Brother of W. C.
Bryant, infra. A poet and farmer of Princeton, Illinois. Poems;
Poems written from Youth to Old Age, 1824-84.
Bryant, William Cullen.Ms., 1794-1878. A poet and
journalist of New York city. In early life he began the practice
of law, but soon abandoned it for journalism and, removing to New
York in 1825, became in 1828 the editor of the Evening Post, with
which he remained associated until his death. His earliest poem, The
Embargo, a political satire, was published when its author was but
thirteen, but the first collection of his poems was not made until
1821, the famous Thanatopsis being one of the eight which the volume
comprised. The quantity of Bryant’s verse is small, the quality high,
but not uniformly so. Its tone is usually calmly philosophic, and
it rarely makes any very effective appeal to the sympathies, its
coldness arising partly from lack of humour, partly from natural
reserve. The Embargo; The Spanish Revolution; The Ages; The Fountain
of Youth, and Other Poems; The White-Footed Deer; The Flood of Years;
Thirty Poems; translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, both in unrhymed
heroic pentameter; Letters of a Traveller, a prose work; Orations and
Addresses. See Commemorative Address by G. W. Curtis; Lives by J.
Bigelow, Parke Godwin, A. J. Symington; Stedman’s Poets of America;
Appleton’s American Biography; Wilson’s Bryant and his Friends, 1886;
Gosse’s Questions at Issue; Magazine of American History, vol. 23;
Atlantic Monthly, March, 1897.Ap. Cr. Hou.
Bryant, William McKendree.Ind., 1843- ——. A prominent
educator of St. Louis. Philosophy of Landscape Painting; The World
Energy and its Self-Conservation; Syllabus of Psychology; Ethics
and the New Education; Text Book of Psychology; Life, Death, and
Immortality. Sc.
Bryce, Lloyd.L. I., 1851- ——. A novelist of New York
city, editor of the North American Review, 1889-96. Paradise; A Dream
of Conquest; The Romance of An Alter Ego; Friends in Exile.
Brydges, Harold.See Bridge, J. H.
Buchanan, James.Pa., 1791-1868. The fifteenth president
of the United States. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration (1866) is his own
defence of his policy as President. See Life of, by G. T. Curtis,
infra.
Buchanan, Joseph.Va., 1785-1829. A once noted mechanical
inventor of Kentucky who published The Philosophy of Human Nature.
Buchanan, Joseph Rodes.Ky., 1814-1899. Son of J.
Buchanan, supra. A Boston physician who claimed to have invented
the sciences of sarcognomy and psychometry. He published Buchanan’s
Journal of Medicine, 1849-56, and wrote Outlines of Lectures on the
Neurological System of Anthropology; Eclectric Practice of Medicine
and Surgery; The New Education; Therapeutic Sarcognomy; Manual of
Psychometry. See One of a Thousand.
Buck, Dudley.Ct., 1839- ——. A composer and organist of
Brooklyn. Dictionary of Musical Terms; The Influence of the Organ in
History.
Buck, Gurdon.N. Y., 1807-1877. An eminent surgeon of
New York city. He wrote much for medical journals and a treatise on
Contributions to Reparative Surgery.
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker.Ct., 1779-1861. A Boston
journalist of note who published, 1831-34, The New England Magazine, in
which Dr. Holmes began his famous “Autocrat,” and The Boston Courier,
1828-48. Specimens of Newspaper Literature; Personal Memoirs and
Recollections of Editorial Life.
Buckley, James Monroe.N. J., 1836- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, editor since 1881 of the New York Christian Advocate. Two
Weeks in the Yosemite Valley; Supposed Miracles; Christians and the
Theatre; Oats or Wild Oats; The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist;
Faith-Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena; Travels in
Three Continents, Europe, Africa, Asia. Cent. Har. Lo. Meth.
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens.N. H., 1784-1812. A talented
Unitarian clergyman of Boston, the first appointed lecturer on biblical
criticism at Harvard University. Sermons, with Memoir by S. C. Thacher,
1814.
Buel, Jesse.Ct., 1778-1839. A noted agriculturist of
Albany who effected many reforms in farming. He established the Albany
Argus, The Cultivator, and published The Farmer’s Instructor, in ten
volumes; and also The Farmer’s Companion, or Essays in Husbandry.
Har.
Buel, Samuel.N. Y., 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of
High Church proclivities, who was professor of divinity at the General
Theological Seminary of New York from 1871. The Apostolic System
Defended; Eucharistic Presence, Sacrifice, and Adoration; A Treatise on
Dogmatic Theology. Wh.
Buell, Richard Hooker.Md., 1842- ——. A United States
civil engineer. The Cadet Engineer; Safety Valves; The Compound
Steam-Engine and its Steam-Generating Plant.
Bulfinch, Ellen Susan.Ms., 1844- ——. An artist of
Cambridge. Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect. Hou.
Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf.Ms., 1809-1870. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, and son of Charles Bulfinch, the noted architect.
Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Communion Thoughts; Contemplations of the
Saviour; The Holy Land and its Inhabitants; The Harp and the Cross;
Honour, or The Slave Dealer’s Daughter; Manual of the Evidences of
Christianity; Studies in the Evidences of Christianity. A. U. A.
Le.
Bulfinch, Thomas.Ms., 1796-1867. Brother of S. G.
Bulfinch, supra. A Boston banker whose leisure was devoted to
literary pursuits. Hebrew Lyrical History; The Age of Fable; The Age of
Chivalry; Boy Inventors; Legends of Charlemagne; Poetry of the Age of
Fable; Oregon and Eldorado, or Romance of the Rivers. Le.
Bulkley, Peter.E., 1583-1659. A Congregational clergyman
of Concord, Massachusetts. His one work, The Gospel Covenant, or The
Covenant of Grace Opened, is a ponderous series of sermons notable
for its intellectual vigour. See Tyler’s History of American
Literature.
Bullard, Asa.Ms., 1804-1888. Brother-in-law of H. W.
Beecher, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts,
long prominent in Sunday-school work. His principal writings are
Sunnybank Stories; Shady Dell Stories; Fifty Years with the Sabbath
School; Incidents in a Busy Life, an autobiography. Le. Lo.
Bullions, Peter.S., 1791-1864. A United Presbyterian
clergyman of Troy, New York, well known as a classical scholar.
Among his text-books for schools are Principles of English Grammar;
Principles of Greek Grammar; Latin and English Dictionary.
Bullock, Alexander Hamilton.Ms., 1816-1882. A prominent
Massachusetts politician, at one period governor of the State.
Intellectual Leaderships; Address on Several Occasions, with Memoir by
G. F. Hoar. Lit.
Bump, Orlando Franklin.N. Y., 1841-1881. A Baltimore
lawyer, author of The Law and Practice of Bankruptcy; Federal Procedure.
Bumstead, Freeman Josiah.Ms., 1826-1879. A physician
of New York city. Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases, and
translations from the French of Ricord and Cullerier.
Bunce, Oliver Bell.N. Y., 1828-1890. A New York
littérateur, editor of Appleton’s Journal for the period of its
existence, and well known as the author of Don’t (1883), a small volume
of social negations which was widely circulated. He wrote also Bachelor
Bluff, his Opinions, a volume of essays; My House; Marco Bozzaris, a
drama; Love in ’76, a comedy; Romance of the Revolution; four stories,
including Life Before Him; Bensly; A Bachelor’s Story; The Adventures
of Timias Terrystone; Happinolande and Other Legends, a collection of
sketches. Ap. Co. Scr.
Bundy, Jonas Mills.N. H., 1835-1891. A New York
journalist, prominent as editor of the Mail and Express from 1868.
State Rights; Are we a Nation?; Life of Garfield (1880). Bar.
Bungay, George Washington.E., 1818-1892. A New York
journalist well known as a temperance lecturer. He wrote many poems,
among which The Creeds of the Bells has long been popular. His other
writings include The Abraham Lincoln Songster; The Poets of Queen
Elizabeth’s Time; Offhand Takings; Crayon Sketches; Pen Portraits of
Illustrious Abstainers.
Bunner, Henry Cuyler.N. Y., 1855-1896. A New York
journalist, the editor of Puck, and well known as a writer of graceful,
delicate verse and very readable fiction. Jersey Street and Jersey
Lane; Love in Old Cloathes; Zadoc Pine and Other Stories; The Story
of a New York House; The Midge; In Partnership (with J. B. Matthews,
infra); Short Sixes, a collection of humourous tales; The Woman
of Honour. His verse includes Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere; Rowen:
“second crop” Songs. Hou. Scr.
Burdett, Charles.N. Y., 1815-18—. A journalist and
novelist of New York whose writings were transiently popular. Life
of Kit Carson; The Second Marriage; The Beautiful Spy; Margaret
Moncrieffe; Emma, or The Lost Found; Marion Desmond; The Gambler;
The Adopted Child; Trials and Triumphs; Never too Late; Chances and
Changes. Har.
Burdette, Robert Jones.Pa., 1844- ——. A newspaper
humourist who was for some years editor of The Hawkeye, of Burlington,
Iowa. Hawkeyes; Rise and Fall of the Mustache; Innach Garden and Other
Comic Sketches; Life of William Penn. Ho.
Burgess, Edward.Ms., 1848-1891. A noted naval architect
of Boston. English and American Yachts. See New England Magazine,
vol. 5.
Burgess, George.R. I., 1809-1866. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Maine. Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of
New England; The Christian Life; The Book of Psalms in English Verse;
The Last Enemy Conquering and Conquered; Strife of Brothers, a poem,
comprise the most of his writings. See Memoir, by A. Burgess;
Bibliography of Maine.Ran.
Burgess, John William.Tn., 1844- ——. The dean of
the school of physical science in Columbia College. The American
University: When Shall it Be, Where Shall it Be, and What Shall it
Be?; Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law; The Middle
Period. Gi.
Burk, John Daly.I., 17— -1808. An Irish author who came
to America in 1796, and for the last years of his life was a lawyer
in Virginia. History of the Late War in Ireland; History of Virginia;
Bunker Hill, a once popular tragedy; Bethlem Gaber, an historical drama.
Burleigh, George Shepard.Ct., 1821-1903. A writer of
Little Compton, Rhode Island. Anti-Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other
Poems; Signal Fires, or The Trail of the Pathfinder.
Burleigh, William Henry.Ct., 1812-1871. Brother of G. S.
Burleigh, supra. An anti-slavery journalist of Hartford and elsewhere
who won some notice as a poet. See Poems of with biographical sketch
by Celia Burleigh.Hou.
Burnap, George Washington.N. H., 1802-1859. A Unitarian
clergyman of Baltimore, prominent as a controversialist. Popular
Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered; What is a Unitarian;
Lectures to Young Men; Lectures on the History of Christianity;
Christianity, its Essence and Evidence, are his more important works.
Burnett, Mrs. Frances Eliza [Hodgson].E., 1849- ——. A
popular writer of fiction, whose first successful book was That Lass
o’ Lowrie’s, a powerful tale of Lancashire life. Her other works, of
varying degrees of excellence, include Earlier Stories, first and
second series; Haworth; A Fair Barbarian; Through One Administration;
Louisiana; Esmeralda; Vagabondia, Surly Tim, and Other Stories; The
Pretty Sister of José; A Lady of Quality. As a writer for young people
her success has been very marked; and besides Little Lord Fauntleroy,
the most popular of all her books, her juvenile writings comprise
Sara Crewe; Piccino and Other Child Stories; Little Saint Elizabeth;
Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress; Giovanni and the Other; The One I Knew
the Best of All, an autobiographic tale. See Vedder’s American
Writers.Scr.
Burnett, James G.N. Y., 1868-1893. A verse-writer who
published Love and Laughter, a collection of verse. Put.
Burnett, Peter Hardeman.Tn., 1807-1895. A California
lawyer who was the first governor of that state. The Path which led
a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church; The American Theory of
Government; Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer; Reasons why
we should believe in God. Ap.
Burnett, Waldo Irving.Ms., 1828-1854. A naturalist of
Boston. The Cell, its Physiology, Pathology, and Philosophy.
Burney, Stanford Guthrie.Tn., 1814- ——. A Cumberland
Presbyterian divine, professor of systematic theology at Cumberland
University. Treatise on Elocution; Baptismal Regeneration; Atonement
and Law Reviewed; Chart of Duty; Soteriology; Studies in Moral Science;
Studies in Psychology; Studies in Theology.
Burnham, Mrs. Clara Louise [Root].Ms., 1854- ——. A
popular novelist of Chicago. “No Gentlemen”; A Sane Lunatic; Dearly
Bought; Next Door; Young Maids and Old; The Mistress of Beech Knoll;
Miss Bagg’s Secretary, a West Point romance; Dr. Latimer, a story of
Casco Bay; Sweet Clover; The Wise Woman. Hou.
Burr, Aaron.Ct., 1716-1757. A Presbyterian clergyman who
was president of Princeton College. He married a daughter of Jonathan
Edwards, infra, and his son was the noted politician of the same
name. His Latin Grammar was long in use at Princeton as “the Newark
Grammar.” His only other work was The Supreme Divinity of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Burr, Enoch Fitch.Ct., 1818- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Lyme, Connecticut, since 1850. Pater Mundi; Ad Fidem;
Doctrine of Evolution; Ecce Cœlum; Sunday Afternoons for Little People;
About Spiritualism; Toward the Strait Gate; Ecce Terra; Work in the
Vineyard; From Dark to Day; Facts in Aid of Faith; Celestial Empires;
Universal Beliefs; Long Ago as Interpreted by the 19th Century; Tempted
to Unbelief; Dio the Athenian; The Voyage, and Other Poems; Aleph, the
Chaldean.
Burr, George Lincoln.N. Y., 1857- ——. A professor of
history at Cornell University from 1892. The Literature of Witchcraft;
The Fate of Dietrick Flade; Charlemagne.
Burr, William Hubert.Ct., 1851- ——. A civil engineer
of prominence, professor of engineering at Columbia College from 1893.
Stresses in Bridge and Roof Trusses; The Theory of the Masonry Arch;
Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering. Wil.
Burrage, Henry Sweetser.Ms., 1837- ——. The editor of
Zion’s Advocate, Portland, Maine. Brown University in the Civil War;
The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church; History of
the Anabaptists in Switzerland; History of Baptists in New England;
History of the 36th Massachusetts Regiment; Baptist Hymn Writers and
their Hymns. Bap.
Burrill, Alexander Mansfield.N. Y., 1807-1869. A noted
New York jurist. Practice of the Supreme Court of New York; Law
Dictionary and Glossary; Law and Practice of Voluntary Assignments;
Circumstantial Evidence.
Burritt, Elihu.Ct., 1811-1879. A famous linguist who
was called “The Learned Blacksmith,” from the fact that much of his
education was obtained while working at the forge in Worcester,
Massachusetts. He was a noted peace reformer, and was for some years
consul at Birmingham. Few of his writings have the literary quality to
any extent, and they form rather dry reading. Sparks from the Anvil;
A Voice from the Forge; Peace Papers for the People; Olive Leaves;
Thoughts of Things at Home and Abroad; Handbook of the Nations; A Walk
from John O’ Groat’s to Land’s End; The Mission of Great Sufferings;
Walks in the Black Country; Lectures and Speeches; Ten-Minute Talks;
Chips from Many Blocks; Prayers and Devotional Meditations. See
Memorial, by C. Northend, 1879; Leisure Hour, vol. 28.Ran.
Burroughs, John.N. Y., 1837- ——. A noted essayist of
Esopus, New York, whose keen, sympathetic studies of nature have been
very popular both in America and England. Wake-Robin; Winter Sunshine;
Birds and Poets; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields;
Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman: a Study. See
Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 42; Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. 39.Hou.
Burrowes, George.N. Y., 1811-1894. A Presbyterian
clergyman of San Francisco, professor of Hebrew in the Presbyterian
seminary there. Commentary on the Song of Solomon; Octorara, a Poem and
Occasional Pieces; Advanced Growth in Grace.
Burt, Nathaniel Clark.N. J., 1825-1874. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Ohio. Hours among the Gospels; The Far East; The Land and
its Story, the Sacred Geography of Palestine. Ap.
Burton, Asa.Ct., 1752-1836. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor at Thetford, Vermont, for more than fifty years. Essays on Some
of the First Principles of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Theology. See
Memoir by T. Adams.
Burton, Ernest De Witt.O., 1856- ——. A professor of
sacred literature in the University of Chicago. Records and Letters of
the Apostolic Age; Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek; A
Harmony of the Four Gospels (with W. A. Stevens). Scr. Sil.
Burton, Richard [Eugene].Ct., 1859- ——. A littérateur
and journalist of Hartford, Connecticut. Dogs and Dog Literature; Dumb
in June, and Other Poems; Memorial Day and Other Poems; Men of Progress
(edited). Cop.
Burton, Warren.N. H., 1800-1866. An educational
writer of Boston. Cheering Views of Man and Providence; My Religious
Experience at my Native Home; The Divine Agency in the Material
Universe; Uncle Sam’s Recommendations of Phrenology; The District
School as it Was; Helps to Education; Culture of the Observing
Faculties in the Family and School; Scenery Showing.
Burton, William Evans.E., 1804-1860. A popular comedian
of New York city. The Actor’s Alloquy; Waggeries and Vagaries;
Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor. Ap.
Bush, George.Vt., 1796-1859. A Swedenborgian clergyman
who was long a professor of Hebrew in the University of New York.
Beside Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Joshua,
Judges, the Psalms, his writings include Life of Mohammed; New Church
Miscellanies; Priesthood and Clergy unknown to Christianity; Mesmer and
Swedenborg; Treatise on the Millennium; The Resurrection of Christ.
Har.
Bushnell, Charles Ira.N. Y., 1826-1883. An antiquarian
writer of New York city, among whose works are Crumbs for Antiquarians;
Adventures of Sir Christopher Hawkins (edited).
Bushnell, Horace.Ct., 1802-1876. A Congregational
clergyman of Hartford, who was one of the foremost thinkers in his
denomination. He was a fearless reasoner, and his literary style
exhibits both clearness and beauty. Christian Nurture; God in Christ;
Christ in Theology; The Vicarious Sacrifice; Politics the Law of God;
Nature and the Supernatural; Moral Uses of Dark Things, his ablest
work; Sermons for the New Life; Sermons on Living Subjects; Forgiveness
and Law; The Age of Homespun; Woman Suffrage; Moral Tendencies and
Results of Human History; Building Eras in Religion; The Character
of Jesus; Work and Play; Christ and His Salvation. See Life and
Letters, edited by his daughter, Mrs. Cheney; Atlantic Monthly,
January, 1881.
Bushnell, William H.N. Y., 1823- ——. A littérateur of
Washington. Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers of Chicago; The
Hermit of the Colorado Hills, a Story of the Texan Pampas; Ah Meek the
Beaver, or The Copper Hunters of Lake Superior.
Butler, Clement Moore.N. Y., 1810-1890. An Episcopal
clergyman of the evangelical type, professor of ecclesiastical history
in the Episcopal Divinity School at Philadelphia, 1864-1884. Book of
Common Prayer Interpreted by its History; Old Truths and New Errors;
The Flock Fed; St. Paul in Rome; Inner Rome; Manual of Ecclesiastical
History from the 1st to the 18th Century; The Reformation in Sweden,
are his most important works. Ran.
Butler, Frederick.Circa 1766-1843. A writer of Hartford.
History of the United States to 1820; The Farmer’s Manual; Memorial of
Lafayette and his Tour in the United States.
Butler, James Glentworth.N. Y., 1821- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York. The Bible Work, an extended
scriptural commentary; The Fourfold Gospel. Fu.
Butler, John Jay.Me., 1814-1891. A Free Baptist
clergyman of Michigan, professor of sacred literature in Hillsdale
College from 1873. Natural and Revealed Theology; Commentary on the
Gospels, are his principal works.
Butler, Nicholas Murray.N. J., 1862- ——. An educator
of New York city, professor of philosophy in Columbia College. Horace
Mann and American Systems of Education.
Butler, Noble.Pa., 1819-1882. A classical professor in
the University of Louisville, who published A Practical and Critical
English Grammar and other valuable text-books.
Butler, Thomas Belden.Ct., 1806-1873. A Connecticut
jurist whose Philosophy of the Weather, 1856, appeared later in
enlarged form as a Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the
Atmospheric System.
Butler, William.I., 1819-1899. A Methodist missionary.
The Land of the Veda; From Boston to Bareilly and Back; Mexico in
Transition from the Power of Political Romanism to Civil and Religious
Liberty.
Butler, William Allen.N. Y., 1825-1902. A lawyer of New
York city well known as a writer of poetical satires, among which
Nothing to Wear has long been famous. Others are, Two Millions; General
Average, a satire upon mercantile life; Barnum’s Parnassus. His prose
writings include, Martin Van Buren, a Biography; Mrs. Limber’s Raffle,
an able attack on the morality of church fairs; Domesticus, a Story;
Oberammergau. Ap. Har. Scr.
Butterfield, Consul Willshire.N. Y., 1824-1899. A
Wisconsin educator. Historical Account of the Expedition against
Sandusky, 1782; System of Punctuation for Schools; History of the
Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicollet, 1634, comprise his chief
works. Clke.
Butterfield, Daniel.N. Y., 1831-1901. A major-general in
the United States army. Camp and Outpost Duty. Har.
Butterworth, Hezekiah.R. I., 1837- ——. A Boston
writer, for many years editor of The Youth’s Companion. Besides
publishing several volumes of Zig-Zag Journeys, Great Composers, The
Knight of Liberty, In the Boyhood of Lincoln, The Patriot Schoolmaster,
and other popular juvenile books, he is the author of two collections
of musical verse, Songs of History; Poems for Christmas, Easter, and
New Year’s. Ap. Cr. Est. Lo. Mer.
Butts, Mrs. Mary Frances [Barber].R. I., 1836- ——. A
writer of popular juvenile works. Three Girls; Lottie; Nellie’s New
Home; Lizzie and her Friends; The Frolic Series, are some of them.
Byerly, William Ellwood.Pa., 1849- ——. A professor of
mathematics at Harvard University. Elements of Differential Calculus;
Elements of Integral Calculus. Gi.
Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall.Ms., 1838- ——. A United
States consul at Zurich, subsequently a consul-general to Italy and
now a resident of Des Moines. Switzerland; Switzerland and the Swiss:
Historical and Descriptive; Florence; History of Switzerland; What I
Saw in Dixie; Military History of Iowa; The Happy Isles, and Other
Poems.
Byfield, Nathaniel.E., 1653-1733. A jurist of note
in Massachusetts in the colonial period. Account of the Late War in
England, 1689.
Byford, William Heath.O., 1817-1890. A physician of
prominence in Chicago. Practice of Medicine and Surgery Applied to
Diseases and Accidents Peculiar to Women; Theory and Practice of
Obstetrics; Philosophy of Domestic Life, are his more important works.
Byington, Ezra Hoyt.Vt., 1828-1901. A Congregational
clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts. Puritan in England and New England;
Puritan as Colonist and Reformer; Christ of Yesterday, To-day, and
Forever. Lit.
Byles, Mather.Ms., 1706-1788. A Congregational clergyman
of Boston famous both as preacher and wit. After 43 years’ ministry in
the Hollis Street Church, his Tory sympathies obliged him to give up
his charge in 1776. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit;
Tyler’s American Literature; Unitarian Review, vol. 27; Atlantic
Monthly, vol. 59.
Bynner, Edwin Lassetter.N. Y., 1842-1893. A popular
historical novelist of Boston. His best work is included in the three
historical tales, Agnes Surriage; The Begum’s Daughter; Zachary Phips.
Of lesser importance are Nimport; Tritons; Damen’s Ghost; Penelope’s
Suitors; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with L. P. Hale, infra); The
Chase of the Meteor, a book for boys. Hou.
Byrd, William.Va., 1674-1744. A colonial Virginian and
man of letters, whose Journals, first published in 1841, are known as
The Westover Manuscripts, from Westover, the family mansion of Byrd.
A fuller collection, styled The Byrd Manuscripts, was printed in
1866, edited by T. Wynne. They are well worth reading for their wit,
keen observations, and vigorous style. They comprise The Story of the
Dividing Line, an account of the expedition to fix the boundary between
Virginia and North Carolina; A Progress to the Mines; A Journey to
the Land of Eden. See Hart’s American Literature; Tyler’s American
Literature; Century Magazine, vol. 20.
Byrn, Marcus Lafayette. 18— - ——. A physician. Complete
Practical Brewer; Rattlehead’s Travels, or the Recollections of a
Backwoodsman; Complete Practical Distiller; Repository of Wit and
Humour; Book of Nature, an expositor of the Science of Life and Sexual
Physiology; Family Physician.
C
Cabell, James Lawrence.Va., 1813-1889. An eminent
Virginia physician. The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of
Mankind.
Cabell, Mrs. Julia [Mayo].Va., 18— -185-. An Odd Volume
of Facts and Fiction in Prose and Verse; Sketches and Recollections of
Lynchburg.
Cable, George Washington.La., 1844- ——. A writer of
fiction who has reproduced with much success the life and dialect among
the creoles of Louisiana. He served in the Confederate army during
the Civil War, and is now a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts.
Old Creole Days; The Grandissimes; Madame Delphine; Dr. Sevier; John
March, Southerner; Bonaventure; Strange True Stories of Louisiana; The
Creoles of Louisiana; The Silent South; The Busy Man’s Bible; The Negro
Question. See Vedder’s American Writers.Fl. Scr.
Cabot, James Elliot.Ms., 1821-1903. A Boston writer
whose principal work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hou.
Cahan, Abraham.R., 1860- ——. A New York city
journalist, editor of Zukunft. Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto;
Raphael Narizokh (in Yiddish). Ap.
Cain, William.N. C., 1847- ——. A professor of civil
engineering in the University of North Carolina. Theory of Voussoir;
Solid and Braced Arches; Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges; Solid and
Braced Elastic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; Practical Designing of
Retaining Walls.
Caines, George. 1771-1825. A reporter of the New York Supreme
Court. Lex Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors; Forms
of New York Supreme Court; Summary of Practice in New York Supreme
Court; Cases in the Court for Trial of Impeachments; New York Supreme
Court Reports.
Caldwell, Charles.N. C., 1772-1853. A Kentucky
physician, who beside publishing some 200 technical monographs and
pamphlets, wrote The Life and Campaigns of General Greene, and
translated Blumenbach’s Elements of Physiology. See Autobiography,
1855; Life, by Caruthers, infra; Sketches of Contemporaries, by S. D.
Gross, infra.
Caldwell, George Chapman.Ms., 1834- ——. A professor of
agricultural chemistry at Cornell University. Agricultural Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice
(with A. Breneman); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with S. M.
Babcock).
Caldwell, Joseph.N. J., 1773-1835. A once noted educator
who was president of the University of North Carolina. A Compendious
System of Elementary Geometry; Letters of Carleton.
Caldwell, Linus Boues.N. Y., 1834- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, of Tennessee. Wines of Palestine, or The Bible
Defended; Beyond the Grave.
Caldwell, Merritt.Me., 1806-1848. A professor of
metaphysics at Dickinson College. The Doctrine of the English Verb;
Manual of Elocution; Philosophy of Christian Perfection; Christianity
Tested by Eminent Men. See Memoir by S. M. Vail.Meth.
Caldwell, Samuel Lunt.Ms., 1820-1889. A Baptist
clergyman whose later life was passed in Providence. Cities of Our
Faith and Other Addresses and Discourses. Hou.
Caldwell, William Warner.Ms., 1823- ——. A resident of
Newburyport who has published Poems, Original and Translated, and has
translated many lyrics from the German.
Calef, Robert.Ms., c. 1648-1719. A Boston
merchant who published in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible World,
a satirical reply to Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World.
Its line of argument was in direct opposition to the witchcraft
persecutions, and the book was publicly burnt by Increase Mather in the
grounds of Harvard College. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Calhoun [kăl-hoon´], John Caldwell.S. C.,
1782-1850. A South Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under
Monroe, and again under Tyler, vice-president under John Quincy Adams,
and United States senator from 1845 till his death. He was one of the
ablest of political leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of
the first rank. His literary style is both vigourous and concise, and
displays at times a remarkable intensity of expression. A Disquisition
on Government; The Constitution and Government of the United States.
See Works in 6 volumes; Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Jenkins;
Von Holst.Ap.
Calkins, Norman Allison.N. Y., 1822-1895. The first
assistant superintendent of primary schools in New York city for
thirty-three years. Primary Object Lessons; How to Teach; Manual of
Object Teaching; Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and Occupations;
Natural History Series for Children.
Callender, James Thomas.E., 17— -1803. A writer who was
exiled from England on account of his pamphlet, The Political Progress
of Great Britain. He was at first the friend and soon the violent
political opponent of Thomas Jefferson. Sketches of the History of
America; The Prospect before Us.
Callender, John.Ms., 1706-1748. A Baptist clergyman of
Newport, Rhode Island, whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is a careful
monograph of Rhode Island history for the first century of the colony’s
existence. See edition of 1838, with notes and memoir.
Calthrop, Samuel Robert.E., 1829- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Syracuse. Essay on Religion and Science; The Rights of the
Body.
Calvert, George Henry.Md., 1803-1889. A littérateur of
Newport, Rhode Island, who published a great number of volumes of verse
that never was mistaken for poetry by any reader, and almost as many
prose works. Among his writings are Goethe: his Life and Works; Dante
and his Latest Translators; St. Beuve, the Critic; Count Julian, a
tragedy; Three Score, and Other Poems; a translation of Schiller’s Don
Carlos.
Cameron, Henry Clay.W. Va., 1827- ——. A professor at
Princeton College since 1877. Princeton Roll of Honour; History of
American Whig Society.
Camp, Walter.Ct., 1859- ——. A writer of prominence on
athletic matters. Book of College Sports; American Football; Football
Facts and Figures; Football (with L. F. Deland). Har. Hou.
Campbell, Alexander.I., 1788-1866. A Baptist clergyman
of West Virginia, who was the founder of the sect of Campbellites, or
Disciples of Christ. He established Bethany College in 1841, and was
its first president. His writings, mainly controversial, are nearly
sixty in number, among them being Christian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted
by Infidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular Lectures and Addresses;
Christianity as it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch; Six
Letters to a Sceptic. See Hart’s American Literature; Memoir by
Richardson, 1868.
Campbell, Alexander Augustus.Va., 1789-1846. A
Presbyterian clergyman and physician, once prominent in Tennessee,
whose only book was a work on Scripture Baptism.
Campbell, Alexander James. 18— - ——. Son of A. Campbell,
supra. The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American
Practical Cyclopædia; A True Friend, reflections on Life, Character,
and Conduct.
Campbell, Bartley.Pa., 1843-1888. A journalist of
Pittsburg, who turned his attention to the stage and became a popular
playwright. My Partner; The Galley Slave; Matrimony; Siberia; The Big
Bonanza; The White Slave; and Peril, comprising his most successful
plays.
Campbell, Charles.Va., 1807-1876. An educator of
Petersburg, Virginia, whose father, John Wilson Campbell, a bookseller
there for many years, wrote a History of Virginia to 1781. The writings
of Charles Campbell include History of the Colony of Virginia;
Genealogy of the Spotswood Family; The Bland Papers; Memoir of John
Daly Burk, supra. Lip.
Campbell, Douglas.N. Y., 1840-1893. Son of W. W.
Campbell, infra. A lawyer of New York city, whose notable
historical work, The Puritan in Holland, England, and America, has
attracted much attention. Har.
Campbell, Douglas Houghton.Mch., 1859- ——. A professor
of botany in Stanford University. Elements of Structural and Systematic
Botany; Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns. Mac.
Campbell, Mrs. Helen [Stuart]. 1839- ——. A writer who is
deeply concerned in philanthropic and social reforms, and whose work
covers a wide range of topics. In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way
in Housekeeping, are books for the housekeeper. Prisoners of Poverty;
Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Life of Dr. Martha
Scarborough; Women Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and
Daylight in New York, relate to the social problems of the time. Six
Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley’s Probation; Miss Melinda’s
Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon’s Income; The What-to-Do-Club; Under Green
Apple-Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson’s
Boy, are fictions. Other works are Girls’ Handbook of Work and Play; A
Sylvan City, a description of Philadelphia; The Ainslee Stories, for
juvenile readers; Anne Bradstreet and her Time, supra. Fo.
Hou. Lo. Rob.
Campbell, James Valentine.N. Y., 1823-1890. A Michigan
jurist. Outlines of the Political History of Michigan.
Campbell, John Lyle.Va., 1818-1886. A professor of
chemistry at Washington and Lee College, 1851-86. Manual of Scientific
and Practical Agriculture; Idaho, Six Months in the New Gold Diggings;
Guide to the Agricultural and Mineral West; Geology and Mineral
Resources of the James River Valley, Virginia.
Campbell, John Poage.Va., 1767-1814. A once popular
clergyman on the Ohio border. The Passenger; Strictures on Stone’s
Letters on the Atonement; Vindex; Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craighead;
The Pelagian Defeated; An Answer to Jones.
Campbell, William Henry.Md., 1808-1890. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman, president of Rutgers College, 1863-82. Subjects and Modes
of Baptism; Influence of Christianity in Civil and Religious Liberty;
System of Catechetical Instruction.
Campbell, William W.N. Y., 1806-1881. A jurist of New
York city. Annals of Tryon County, reissued as Border Warfare; Memoirs
of Mrs. Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and Writings of De Witt
Clinton; Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd.
Canfield, Henry Judson.Ct., 1789-1856. An agriculturist
who published a serviceable Treatise on the Breed, Management,
Structure, and Diseases of Sheep.
Cannon, Charles James.N. Y., 1810-1860. A New York
littérateur who besides compiling a series of readers published, among
other works, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; Pencillings from the
Web of Life, and a number of dramas now forgotten.
Cannon, James Spencer.W. I., 1776-1852. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of New Jersey, professor of metaphysics at Rutgers College,
1826-56. Lectures on Chronology; Lectures on Pastoral Theology.
Capen, Nahum.Ms., 1804-1886. A Boston publisher who was
postmaster 1857-61, and introduced the custom of street letter-box
collections. The Republic of the United States; Reminiscences of
Spurzheim and Combe; History of Democracy, or Political Progress
Historically Illustrated.
Capers, William.S. C., 1790-1855. A Methodist bishop
once prominent in the South. Cathechisms for Negro Missions; Short
Sermons and True Tales for Children. See Life, by Wightman, 1859.
Carey, Henry Charles.Pa., 1793-1879. Son of M. Carey,
infra. One of the foremost of American political economists,
who advocated protection as a preliminary step toward ultimate free
trade. He opposed such theorists as Malthus and Ricardo, holding that
human progress depends upon success in subjugating nature; that land
values depend upon labour; and that the social well-being is directly
dependent upon existing conditions. Principles of Political Economy;
The Credit System; The Principles of Social Science; Lectures on the
Currency; Letters on Political Economy; Letters on International
Copyright; Financial Crises; The Unity of Law, comprise his chief
works. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Memoir by Elder; Gross’s Sketches
of Contemporaries.Bai. Lip.
Carey, Matthew.I., 1760-1839. An Irishman who came to
America in 1785, entered into politics, and established himself in
Philadelphia as a bookseller. His writings include The Olive Branch, or
Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (1814), which soon entered
a tenth edition; Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; Thoughts on Penitentiaries and
Prison Discipline; Essays on Political Economy; The Yellow Fever of
1793.
Carleton, Henry Guy.N. M., 1856- ——. A journalist of
New York city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are
Memnon; The Pembertons; Victor Durand.
Carleton, Osgood. 1742-1816. A Massachusetts mathematician.
American Navigator; South American Pilot; Practice of Arithmetic.
Carleton, William.Mch., 1845- ——. A writer of homely
verse which appeals with great force to imperfectly educated tastes,
and has been very popular, but which is without literary merit. Farm
Ballads; Farm Festivals; Farm Legends; City Legends; City Ballads; City
Festivals; Rhymes of our Planet; Young Folks’ Centennial Rhymes; The
Old Infant, and Similar Stories. Har.
Carman [William], Bliss.N. B., 1861- ——. A poet
of Canadian birth, whose literary work has been done mainly in New
York and Boston. Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras;
Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey, infra); More Songs from
Vagabondia (with R. Hovey); Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea.
Cop. Lam.
Carnegie, Andrew.S., 1835- ——. A noted
steel-manufacturer of Pittsburg who came to America in 1845. He has
made many important gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg,
and as a writer is distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism
of his work. An American Four-in-Hand in Europe; Round the World;
Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. Scr.
Carnochan, John Murray.Ga., 1817-1887. A New York
surgeon of distinction. Treatise on Congenital Dislocations;
Contributions to Operative Surgery. Har.
Carpenter, Edmund Janes.Ms., 1845- ——. A journalist
of Boston. A Woman of Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; History of
Roger Williams. Lit.
Carpenter, Esther Bernon.R. I., 1848-1893. A writer of
southern Rhode Island, whose South Country Neighbours is a series of
sympathetic studies in fiction of Rhode Island types of character.
Rob.
Carpenter, Francis Bicknell.N. Y., 1830-1900. A portrait
painter of New York city, who painted The Emancipation Proclamation in
the Capitol at Washington. Six Months in the White House with Abraham
Lincoln.
Carpenter, Henry Bernard.I., 1840-1890. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, brother of W. Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican bishop
of Ripon. He wrote principally in verse, his only published books
including The Oatmeal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metrical Romaunt of
the Middle Ages; A Poet’s Last Songs. The last-named volume was issued
after his death, with memorial sketch by J. J. Roche, infra.
Hou.
Carpenter, Stephen Cullen.E., c. 17— -1820.
An English journalist who came to America in 1803 and settled in
Charleston. Memoir of Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise History of
the United States (1809); An Overland Journey to India, published under
the pseudonym “Donald Campbell.”
Carpenter, Stephen Haskins.N. J., 1831-1878. A Wisconsin
educator, professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin.
Evidences of Christianity; English of the 14th Century; Introduction to
the Study of Anglo-Saxon; Elements of English Analysis. Gi.
Carr, Lucien.Mo., 1829- ——. An archæologist of
Cambridge, assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, 1876-1894. The
Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; Missouri, a
brief history of the State; Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky (with N. S.
Shaler, infra). Clke. Hou.
Carrier, Augustus Stiles.N. Y., 1857. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Chicago, professor of Hebrew in McCormick Theological
Seminary from 1892. The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.
Carrington, Henry Beebe.Ct., 1824- ——. A general in
the United States army living in Boston. His principal writings include
Crisis Thoughts; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or
Indian Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field;
The Washington Obelisk and its Voices. See One of a Thousand.Bar. Le. Lip.
Carrol, John.Md., 1735-1817. The first Roman Catholic
archbishop of Baltimore. His writings are mainly of a controversial
cast. Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between the
Protestant and Catholic Churches; Discourse on General Washington.
Carroll, Anna Ella.Md., 1815-1894. A political writer
who was the real author of the Federal campaign of 1862 in Tennessee.
The Great American Battle, or The Contest between Christianity and
Political Romanism; The Star of the West, or National Men and National
Measures; The Union of the States; The War Powers of the General
Government; The Relation of the National Government to the Revolted
Citizens Defined. See S. E. Blackwell’s A Military Genius.
Carroll, Henry King.N. J., 1847- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and religious statistician. The World of Missions; The
Catholic Dogma of Church Authority; The Religious Forces of the United
States.
Carryl, Charles Edward.N. Y., 1841- ——. A broker of
New York city, the author of the popular juvenile tales, Davy and the
Goblin; The Admiral’s Caravan. Cent. Hou.
Carson, Joseph. 1808-1876. A medical professor at the University
of Pennsylvania from 1850. Illustrations of Medical Botany; Lectures on
Materia Medica and Pharmacy.
Carter, Franklin.Ct., 1837- ——. President of
Williams College. Life of Mark Hopkins, infra, and a scholarly
translation of Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris. Hou.
Carter, James Gordon.Ms., 1795-1849. A once prominent
educator of Massachusetts. Essays on Popular Education; Geography of
New Hampshire; Geography of Massachusetts; Letters to William Prescott
on the Free Schools of New England.
Carter, Nathaniel Franklin.N. H., 1830- ——. A
Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. The Ride for Life, and Other
Poems; History of Pembroke, New Hampshire.
Carter, Nathaniel Hazeltine.N. H., 1787-1830. A New York
journalist who published Letters from Europe (1827), and wrote many
poems of reflection.
Carter, Peter.S., 1825- ——. A prominent New York
publisher. Crumbs from the Land of Cakes, a volume of travels in
Scotland; Scotia’s Bards; and three juvenile tales, including Bertie
Lee; Donald Fraser; Effie’s Home.
Carter, Robert.N. Y., 1819-1879. A New York writer who
was one of the editors of Appleton’s American Cyclopædia, to which he
contributed many articles. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England
was his only book of importance.
Carter, Russel Kelso.Md., 1849- ——. A mathematician
of Chester, Pennsylvania, prominent in the “Holiness” movement in the
Methodist church and as a Faith healer. The Atonement for Sin and
Sickness; Miracles of Healing.
Cartwright, Peter.Va., 1785-1872. A once famous
Methodist preacher of Illinois. Controversy with the Devil;
Autobiography of a Backwoods Preacher; Fifty Years a Presiding Elder.
Caruthers, William Alexander.Va., 1800-1850. A physician
of Savannah who wrote a number of romances now quite forgotten. The
Kentuckian in New York; The Cavaliers of Virginia; Knights of the Horse
Shoe; Life of Charles Caldwell, supra.
Cary, Alice.O., 1820-1871. An Ohio writer who came with
her sister Phœbe to New York city in 1852, and as poet and novelist
became prominent in literary circles there. The weekly receptions
of the sisters were attended by artists and writers for many years.
Her books of verse include Lyra, and Other Poems; A Lover’s Diary;
Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns; Early and Late Poems (with Phœbe Cary,
infra). Her other works are Clovernook, a book of the type of
Miss Mitford’s Our Village; Pictures of Country Life; the novels,
Hagar; The Bishop’s Son; Married, not Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile;
From Year to Year, a Token of Remembrance (with P. Cary). See
Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary, by Mrs. [Clemmer] Hudson.Hou. Lip.
Cary, Edward.N. Y., 1840- ——. A journalist of New
York city on the editorial staff of The Times. Life of George William
Curtis, infra. Hou.
Cary, George Lovell.Ms., 1830- ——. A professor of
New Testament literature at Meadville Theological School since 1862.
Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament.
Cary, Phœbe.O., 1824-1871. Sister of A. Cary,
supra. Poems and Parodies; Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love. She
will be longest remembered by the well-known hymn, Nearer Home. Hou.
Lip.
Casey, Silas.R. I., 1807-1882. A general in the United
States army who published Infantry Tactics; Infantry Tactics for
Colored Troops.
Cass, Lewis.N. H., 1782-1866. A statesman of Michigan
who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1845. Inquiries
Concerning the History, Traditions, and Languages of the Indians in
the United States; France, its King, Court, and Government, 1840.
See Lives by Schoolcraft, 1848; W. L. G. Smith, 1856; McLaughlin,
1891.
Cassin, John.Pa., 1813-1869. A naturalist of
Philadelphia whose American Ornithology is a continuation of Audubon’s
work on that subject. Other works of his are Ornithology of the
Japan Expedition; Mammalogy and Ornithology of the Wilkes Exploring
Expedition; Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, etc.; A
General Synopsis of North American Ornithology. Lip.
Castlemon, Harry.See Fosdick.
Caswall, Henry.E., 1810-1870. An Episcopal clergyman
of English birth, but ordained in the United States, where the most
of his life was spent. He lived for a time in England, however, and
was a prebend of Salisbury. An Epitome of the History of the American
Episcopal Church (1836); Didascalus, or The Teacher; Mormonism and its
Author; The Jerusalem Chamber, or Convocation and its Possibilities;
The Californian Crusoe, a Tale of Mormonism; Scotland and the Scottish
Church; The Western World Revisited; The Martyr of the Pongas; The
American Church and the American Union, include the majority of his
writings.
Caswell, Alexis.Ms., 1799-1877. A Baptist clergyman
and educator; for 35 years a professor at Brown University, and its
president, 1868-72. Lectures on Astronomy; Meteorological Observations.
Cathcart, William.I., 1826- ——. A Baptist clergyman
of Philadelphia. The Baptists and the American Revolution; The
Papal System; The Baptism of the Ages and the Nations; The Baptist
Encyclopædia.
Catherwood, Mrs. Mary [Hartwell].O., 1847-1902. A writer
of Hoopeston, Illinois, whose historical romances dealing with the
early days of Canada and the Northwest are as notable for their careful
attention to historical details as for their graphic and picturesque
style. A Woman in Armour; The Lady of Fort St. John; The Romance of
Dollard; Story of Tonty; Old Kaskaskia; The Chase of St. Castin, and
Other Tales; The Spirit of an Illinois Town; The White Islander, a
story of Mackinac; Craque o’ Doom. Her books for young people include
Old Caravan Days; The Dogberry Bunch; Rocky Fork; The Secrets of
Roseladies. Cent. Hou. Lip. Lo. Mg.
Catlin, George.Pa., 1796-1872. An artist who spent many
years among the Indians. Notes of Eight Years in Europe; Illustrations
of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians;
Notes for the Emigrant to America; Life among the Indians, a Book
for Youth; The Breath of Life, or Mal-Respiration and its Effects;
O-Kee-Pa, a Religious Ceremony, and other Customs of the Mandans;
Last Rambles Among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains; The Lifted and
Subsided Rocks of America. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists.
Catlin, George Lynde.S. I., 1840-1896. A journalist
and diplomat, consul at Limoges, Stuttgart, and Zurich. Bilbigheim, a
story; The Presidential Campaign of 1896, written in 1888; Titbits for
Travellers; The Postilion of Nagold and Other Poems. Fu.
Caton, John Dean.N. Y., 1812-1895. A jurist of Chicago.
A Summer in Norway; The Last of the Illinois and a Sketch of the
Pottawatomies; The Antelope and the Deer of America; Miscellanies,
Speeches, and Essays.
Caulkins, Frances Mainwaring.Ct., 1796-1869. A local
historian of Connecticut. A History of Norwich; A History of New London.
Cawein, Madison Julius.Ky., 1865- ——. A poet of
Louisville, Kentucky, whose verse is very musical, and shows much
individuality. Days and Dreams; Moods and Memories; Intimations of the
Beautiful; Blooms of the Berry; The Triumph of Music; Accolon of Gaul;
Lyrics and Idyls; Poems of Nature and Love; Red Leaves and Roses; The
Garden of Dreams; Undertones. Cop. Mor. Put.
Cesnola [ches-no´la], Luigi Palma di.It.,
1832-1904. An archæologist who served in the Union army during the War
and became a colonel, but for a number of years filled the position
of director of the Metropolitan Museum of New York city. Cyprus, its
Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples; The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ap. Har.
Chadbourne, Paul Ansel.Me., 1823-1883. A Congregational
clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1872-81. Relations
of Natural History to Intellect, Taste, Wealth, and Religion; Natural
Theology; Instinct in Animals and Men; Strength of Men and Stability of
Nations; The Hope of the Righteous; The Public Services of the State of
New York [with W. B. Moore]. Bar. Put.
Chadwick, Henry.N. H., 1824- ——. An authority on games
and sports. Base Ball Players’ Book of Reference; Base Ball, How to
Learn, Play, and Teach It; Base Ball Manual; Sports and Pastimes of
American Boys.
Chadwick, John White.Ms., 1840- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Brooklyn, prominent among the more radical thinkers of
his denomination. The Man Jesus; The Faith of Reason; The Bible of
To-Day; Old and New Unitarian Belief; The Power of an Endless Life;
The Revelation of God, and Other Sermons; Thomas Paine: the Method and
Value of his Religious Teachings; George William Curtis: an Address; A
Book of Poems; In Nazareth Town, and Other Poems. Har. Put. Rob.
Chaffin, William Ladd.Me., 1837- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Easton, Massachusetts, whose History of Easton is of
notable excellence.
Chaillé, Stanford Emerson.Mi., 1830- ——. A prominent
physician of New Orleans. Yellow Fever in Havana and Cuba; Laws
of Population and Voters; Living, Dying, Registering, and Voting
Population of Louisiana; Intimidation of Voters in Louisiana; Origin
and Progress of Medical Jurisprudence, 1776-1876.
Chalkley, Thomas.E., 1675-1741. A Quaker itinerant
preacher born in London, who spent his life preaching throughout
New England and the Southern colonies. His writings, consisting of
religious tracts and a Journal of his experiences, published as Life,
Labours, and Travels, are noted for their quaint simplicity. His
Journal has been very popular among the Friends, and has been several
times reprinted. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 9.
Chalmers, Lionel.S., c. 1715-1777. A once noted
physician of Charleston. Treatise on the Weather and Diseases of South
Carolina; Essay on Fevers.
Chamberlain, Jacob.Ct., 1835- ——. A Reformed Dutch
missionary to India. The Bible Tested is his most important work.
Chamberlain, Nathan Henry.Ms., 1830-1901. An Episcopal
clergyman of Massachusetts, whose principal writings include The
Autobiography of a New England Farm House; Samuel Sewell and the World
he Lived In; The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish.
Chamberlayne, Israel.N. Y., 1795-1875. A Methodist
clergyman. The Past and the Future; The Australian Captive; Saving
Faith: its Rationale; The Great Specific against Despair of Pardon.
Meth.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.Vt., 1851- ——. A Boston
journalist on the staffs of The Transcript and the Youth’s Companion.
The Listener in the Town; The Listener in the Country. Cop.
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder.Il., 1843- ——. A prominent
geologist of Wisconsin. Outline of a Course of Oral Instruction;
Geology of Wisconsin.
Chambers, Charles Julius.O., 1850- ——. A journalist
long connected with the New York Herald. A Mad World and its
Inhabitants, a description of lunatic asylums founded on the author’s
personal experience in one in disguise; On a Margin, a Story of These
Times; Lovers Four and Maidens Five, a Story. Ap. Fu.
Chambers, Robert William.L. I., 1865- ——. A novelist
and artist of New York city. In the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The
Red Republic; The Maker of Moons; The Mystery of Choice; A King and a
Few Dukes; With the Band, a book of ballads. Ne. Put. St.
Chambers, Talbot Wilson.Pa., 1819-1896. A noted Reformed
Dutch clergyman of New York city. The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton
Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to the
Divine Origin of the Bible; Companion to the Revised Version of the Old
Testament. Fu.
Champlin, James Tifft.Ct., 1811-1882. A Baptist
clergyman of Portland, Maine, president of Colby University, 1857-73.
First Principles of Ethics; Lessons on Political Economy; Text-Book of
Intellectual Philosophy; Scripture Reading Lessons; The Constitution
of the United States, with Brief Comments; and a series of classical
text-books. See Bibliography of Maine.
Champlin, John Denison.Ct., 1834- ——. A littérateur of
New York city. Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Common Things; Young Folks’
Cyclopædia of Persons and Places; Young Folks’ History of the War
for the Union; Young Folks’ Catechism of Common Things; Young Folks’
Cyclopædia of Games and Sports; Young Folks’ Astronomy; Chronicle
of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Apthorp,
supra, he has edited a Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians,
and with C. C. Perkins, infra, a Cyclopædia of Painters and
Paintings. Ho. Scr.
Champney, Mrs. Elizabeth [Williams].O., 1850- ——. A
popular New York writer for young people, and wife of the artist, J.
Wells Champney, who has illustrated many of her books. The Three Vassar
Girls Series; The Witch Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; Howling Wolf
and his Trick-Pony; All Around a Palette; Children’s Art Sketches;
In the Sky Garden; Fables in Astronomy, and other juveniles; and the
novels, Bourbon Lilies; Sebia’s Tangled Web; Rosemary and Rue. Do.
Est. Lo. Ran.
Chancellor, Charles Williams.Va., 1833- ——. An
eminent physician of Baltimore. Prisons, Reformatories, and Charitable
Institutions of Maryland; Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts;
Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Drainage of the Marsh Lands of
Maryland; Heredity; The Sewerage of Cities.
Chandler, Bessie.See Parker, Mrs.
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret.Del., 1807-1835. A
verse-writer whose themes were mainly those relating to the subject
of anti-slavery, in which she was greatly interested. See Poetical
Works and Essays, with Memoir by Benjamin Lundy.
Chandler, Peleg Whitman.Me., 1816-1889. A prominent
lawyer of Boston. The Bankrupt Law of the United States; American
Criminal Trials; Memoir of Governor Andrew; Observations on the
Authenticity of the Gospels. Rob.
Chaney, George Leonard.Ms., 1836- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman, pastor of the Hollis Street Church in Boston, 1862-79, and
subsequently pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, where he edited the Southern
Unitarian, 1893-96. F. Grant & Co., a story for boys; Tom, a Home
Story; Aloha, travels in the Sandwich Islands; Every Day Life and Every
Day Morals; Belief. Rob.
Chaney, Lucien West.N. Y., 1857- ——. A naturalist,
professor of biology in Carleton College, Minnesota, since 1882, and
author of Guides for the Laboratory.
Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives.See Troubetzkoy.
Channing, Edward.Ms., 1856- ——. Son of W. E. Channing,
2d. A professor of history at Harvard University since 1883. Guide to
the Study of American History (with A. B. Hart, infra); Town and County
Government of the English Colonies of North America; Narragansett
Planters; The United States of America, 1765-1865. Gi. Mac.
Channing, Edward Tyrrel.R. I., 1790-1856. Brother of
W. E. Channing, infra. A professor of rhetoric and oratory at
Harvard University. Life of William Ellery; Lectures on Rhetoric and
Oratory (with Memoir by R. H. Dana, Jr.).
Channing, Walter.R. I., 1786-1876. Brother of W. E.
Channing, infra. A physician of prominence in Boston for many
years, and medical professor in Harvard University. The Prevention
of Pauperism; Etherization in Childbirth; Professional Reminiscences
of Foreign Travel; New and Old; Miscellaneous Poems; A Physician’s
Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; Reformation of Medical Science.
Channing, William Ellery.R. I., 1780-1842. A Unitarian
theologian of eminence, who became pastor of the Federal Street Church
in Boston in 1803. He was the foremost theologian in America in his
time, and his influence is still great. He wrote upon philanthropic
and social as well as religious and ethical questions, and was a noted
opponent of slavery. His writings have been translated into French,
Italian, German, Icelandic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evidences of
Revealed Religion; Self-Culture; Essay on Milton; The Duty of the Free
States, are among his most notable works. See Sprague’s Annals of
the American Pulpit; Lives by W. H. Channing, infra; C. T. Brooks,
supra; Reminiscences by Miss Peabody; Correspondence of Channing and
Lucy Aikin; New England Magazine, December, 1896.A. U. A.
Channing, William Ellery.Ms., 1818-1901. Son of W.
Channing, supra. A poet and essayist of Concord, Massachusetts,
who married a sister of Margaret Fuller, infra. His verse is
thoroughly original in tone and more or less willful in form. His work
in verse includes The Youth of the Painter, a series of psychological
essays; Poems 1843-47; The Woodman; The Wanderer; Near Home; Eliot;
John Brown; Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; Conversations in Rome between
an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose volumes.
Channing, William Francis.Ms., 1820-1901. Son of W. E.
Channing, 1st. A physician, scientist, and inventor. Davis’s Manual of
Magnetism; Medical Application of Electricity; The American Fire Alarm
Telegraph.
Channing, William Henry.Ms., 1810-1884. Nephew of W. E.
Channing. A Unitarian clergyman who settled in England, and succeeded
James Martineau as pastor of the Unitarian Chapel in Hope Street,
Liverpool. The Christian Church and Social Reform; Memoirs of Wm. E.
Channing; Memoirs of James H. Perkins; Memoirs of Margaret Fuller (with
R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke). A. U. A.
Chapin, Aaron Lucius.Ct., 1817-1892. A Congregational
clergyman of Wisconsin, who was president of Beloit College, 1849-86.
First Principles of Political Economy.
Chapin, Alonzo Bowen.Ct., 1808-1858. An Episcopal
clergyman of Hartford. Classical Spelling-Book; Organization and Order
of the Primitive Church; Views of Gospel Truth; Glastenbury for 200
Years (1853); Puritanism not Protestantism.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell.N. Y., 1814-1881. A Universalist
clergyman of New York city, long the foremost preacher in his
denomination. The Crown of Thorns; Humanity in the City; Christianity
the Perfection of True Manliness; Moral Aspects of City Life;
Discourses on the Lord’s Prayer; Hours of Communion; Token for the
Sorrowing; Characters in the Gospels. See Life, by Sumner Ellis.
Chapin, James Henry.Ind., 1832-1892. A Universalist
clergyman and educator, professor of geology in St. Lawrence
University, 1871-92. Sketches of the Huguenots; The Creation and Early
Development of Mankind; From Japan to Granada, a Tour Around the World.
See Life of, by G. S. Weaver.Put.
Chaplin, Mrs. Ada C.Ms., 1842-1883. A Massachusetts
writer of religious juveniles, some of which are Christ’s Cadets;
Charity Hurlburt; Our Gold Mine, the Story of American Baptist Missions
in India.
Chaplin, Heman White.R. I., 1847- ——. Son of J.
Chaplin, 2d. A lawyer of Boston, whose Five Hundred Dollars, and Other
Stories of New England Life, are exceptionally faithful and delicate
studies of character, and rank among the foremost of American short
stories. Lit.
Chaplin, Mrs. Jane [Dunbar].S., 1819-1884. Wife of J.
Chaplin, 2d, infra, and daughter of Duncan Dunbar. Among her
various writings, mainly religious juveniles, are The Transplanted
Shamrock; Black and White; The Convent and the Manse.
Chaplin, Jeremiah.Ms., 1776-1841. A Baptist clergyman
and educator, the first president of Colby University, 1822-33. The
Evening of Life.
Chaplin, Jeremiah.Ms., 1813-1886. Son of J. Chaplin,
supra. A Baptist clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts, who after
leaving the ministry devoted himself to literary pursuits in Boston.
The Memorial Hour; The Hand of Jesus; Riches of Bunyan; Life of Henry
Dunster, First President of Harvard College; Chips from the White
House; Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dunbar;
Life of Charles Sumner (with Jane Chaplin). Lo.
Chapman, Alvan Wentworth.Ms., 1809-1899. A botanist
for whom the genus Chapmannia was named. Flora of the Southern United
States.
Chapman, George Thomas.E., 1786-1872. An Episcopal
clergyman. Sketches of Alumni of Dartmouth College from 1771-1868.
Chapman, Henry Cadwalader.Pa., 1845- ——. Grandson of
N. Chapman, infra. A physician of Philadelphia. Evolution of
Life; History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.
Chapman, Nathaniel.Va., 1780-1853. A Philadelphia
physician and professor of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania,
1814-50. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, long a valued text-book;
Select Speeches (edited); Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and
Dropsies; Lectures on Thoracic Viscera. See Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries.
Charles, Mrs. Emily [Thornton].Ind., 1845-189-. A
Washington journalist who published two volumes of verse. Hawthorn
Blossoms; Lyrical Poems. Lip.
Chase, George.Me., 1849- ——. A professor of criminal
law at Columbia College. The American Students’ Blackstone.
Chase, George Wingate.Ms., 1826-1867. A native and
resident of Haverhill, Massachusetts. History of Haverhill, 1640-1860;
The Freemason’s Monitor; Masonic Dictionary and Manual of Masonic Law;
Tactics for Knights Templars and Appendant Authors.
Chase, Irah.Vt., 1793-1864. A Baptist clergyman of
prominence who founded the theological seminary at Newton Centre,
Massachusetts, and was professor there, 1825-45. Life of Bunyan;
Design of Baptism; The Jewish Tabernacle; Infant Baptism an Invention
of Men; The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, are his principal works.
Chase, Lucien B.Vt., 1817-1864. A member of Congress
from Tennessee, who wrote the History of Polk’s Administration.
Chase, Philander.N. H., 1775-1852. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and, later, of Illinois. He founded Kenyon
College at Gambier, Ohio. A Plea for the West; Defence of Kenyon
College; Reminiscences.
Chase, Pliny Earle.Ms., 1820-1886. An educator and
scientist of Philadelphia. Numerical Relations of Gravity and
Magnetism; Elements of Meteorology; Elements of Arithmetic; Common
School Arithmetic.
Chase, Thomas.Ms., 1827-1892. Brother of P. E. Chase,
supra. An educator of Pennsylvania, and president of Haverford
College. He was co-editor with George Stuart of a series of classical
text-books, and also published Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery,
descriptive of his travels in Greece.
Chatard, Francis Silas Marean.Md., 1834- ——. The Roman
Catholic bishop of Vincennes. Christian Truths.
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield.Il., 1865- ——. A
novelist of Chicago. With Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two Women
and a Fool; The Land of the Castanet.
Chauncy [chän´sĭ or chaun´sĭ], Charles.E.,
1592-1672. A Puritan clergyman, vicar of Ware, 1627-35. He came to
America in 1638, and was 13 years minister at Scituate. He was the
second president of Harvard College, succeeding Henry Dunster in
1654. His most important work is a series of Twenty-Six Sermons on
Justification. Antisynodalia Scripta America, a controversial pamphlet,
appeared in 1662. See Tyler’s American Literature; Dictionary of
National Biography, vol. 10.
Chauncy, Charles.Ms., 1705-1787. Great-grandson of
C. Chauncy, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. A
vigourous, logical thinker, who exercised a great influence upon
colonial thought. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New
England; Discourse on Enthusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of whose
teachings he was a strong opponent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete
View of Episcopacy; The Mystery hid from the Ages; Benevolence of the
Deity; Five Dissertations on the Fall and its Consequences; Validity of
Presbyterian Ordination, comprise his principal works. See Tyler’s
American Literature; Chauncy Memorials.
Chauvenet [shō-ve-nay´], William.Pa., 1820-1870.
A mathematician who was chancellor of Washington University, St.
Louis, 1862-69. Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry; Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Elementary
Geometry. See Memoir, 1877.Lip.
Checkley, John.Ms., 1680-1753. An Episcopal clergyman of
Rhode Island, noted in his day for his witty, reckless attacks on his
theological opponents. Choice Dialogues about Predestination.
Cheetham, James.E., 1772-1810. An English journalist who
came to America in 1798, and became editor of The American Citizen.
Nine Letters on Burr’s Defection; Reply to Aristides; Life of Thomas
Paine, a work written from a hostile point of view.
Cheever, Ezekiel.E., 1615-1708. A colonial educator of
Boston, who was master of the Latin School for many years. Scripture
Prophecies Explained, an essay on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for
a century a standard introductory Latin text-book in New England.
Cheever, George Barrell.Me., 1807-1890. A noted
Congregational clergyman of New York city. Deacon Giles’s Distillery;
Studies in Poetry; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc;
Lectures on Pilgrim’s Progress; Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth;
God Against Slavery; Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; The
Guilt of Slavery; The Republic or the Oligarchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt,
and Evidence; God’s Timepiece for Man’s Eternity; Lectures on Cowper;
Windings of the River of the Water of Life, include his principal
writings. Ran. Wi.
Cheever, Henry Theodore.Me., 1814-1897. Brother of G.
B. Cheever, supra. A Congregational clergyman. Way Marks in
the Moral War with Slavery; Correspondences of Faith and Views of
Madame Guyon; The Island World of the Pacific; Life in the Sandwich
Islands; The Whale and his Captors; The Pulpit and the Pew; Life of
Nathaniel Cheever; Life of Walter Colton, infra; Captain Caugar.
Har.
Chellis, Mary Dwinell.See Lund, Mrs.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah Dow [Littlehale].Ms., 1824-1904.
A Boston writer, associated in early life with the prominent New
England transcendentalists, who was long active in the woman-suffrage
movement, and whose writing had more or less to do with philosophical
themes. Her principal works comprise Hand-book of American History for
Coloured People; Faithful to the Light, and Other Tales; Stories of
the Olden Time; Gleanings in the Fields of Art; Life of Louisa Alcott,
supra; Life of Christian Daniel Rauch, Sculptor; Memoir of John
Cheney, Engraver; Memoir of Dr. Susan Dimock; Nora’s Return, a sequel
to Ibsen’s Doll’s House; Sally Williams, the Mountain Girl.
Cheney, Mrs. Harriet Vaughan [Foster].Ms., c.
1815- ——. Daughter of Hannah Foster, infra. Confessions of an
Early Martyr; A Peep at the Pilgrims in 1636; The Rivals of Acadia;
Sketches from the Life of Christ; The Sunday School, or Village
Sketches (with her sister, Mrs. Cushing).
Cheney, John Vance.N. Y., 1848- ——. Son of S. P.
Cheney, infra. A poet and essayist, for some years at the head
of the public library in San Francisco, and now (1897) librarian of the
Newberry Library in Chicago. His work in verse includes Thistle Drift;
Wood Blooms; Queen Helen, and Other Poems. In prose, The Old Doctor,
a Romance of Queer Village; The Golden Guess, a series of critical
essays; That Dome in Air, a similar collection of critical studies.
Ap. Cop. Le. Mg. Sto. Wy.
Cheney, Simeon Pease.N. H., 1818-1890. A once noted
musical educator of Vermont. The American Singing Book; Wood Notes
Wild, notations of Bird Music. Le.
Cheney, Theseus Apoleon.N. Y., 1830-1878. A writer
who devoted his attention to the history of the western portion of
his native State. Report on the Ancient Monuments of Western New
York; Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley; Historical Sketch of
18 Counties of Central and Southern New York; Laron; Relations of
Government to Science; Antiquarian Researches.
Chenoweth, Mrs. Caroline [Van Dusen].Ind., 1846- ——.
A teacher of literature in Boston and New York. Stories of the Saints.
Hou.
Chesebro [cheez´brō], Caroline.N. Y., 1825-1873.
A writer of stories and sketches who was during the latter part of
her life a teacher in the Packer Institute of Brooklyn. Her writing
displays much individuality, and the novel, The Foe in the Household,
her finest work, is a careful study of some unfamiliar phases of
Pennsylvania life. Her other works include The Beautiful Gate and Other
Sketches; Peter Carradine; The Children of Light; Susan the Fisherman’s
Daughter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream-Land by Daylight; Philly and
Kit; Victoria; Amy Carr; The Glen Cabin.
Chester, Albert Huntington.N. Y., 1843- ——. A
professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Rutgers College. Dictionary
of the Names of Minerals; Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemical
Composition and Synonyms. Wil.
Chester, Frederick Dixon Walthall.W. I., 1861- ——. A
geologist of Delaware who has written many monographs upon local state
geology.
Chester, Joseph Lemuel.Ct., 1821-1882. A Philadelphia
journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting
himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous
genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery
and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws
of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned
for the crime of teaching free coloured children to read; John Rogers,
the Compiler of the English Bible; Preliminary Investigation of the
Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian
work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of
Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent 17 years’ labour. He
edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. See
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. x.
Chickering, Jesse.N. H., 1797-1855. A Boston physician
who was a Unitarian minister in his earlier career, and later became a
noted writer on political economy. Statistical View of the Population
of Massachusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the United States; Reports
on the Census of Boston; Letter to the President on Slavery in Relation
to Constitutional Government in Great Britain and the United States.
Chickering, John White.Ms., 1808-1888. A Congregational
clergyman of Portland, Maine, 1835-65. What it is to Believe in Christ,
a very widely circulated tract; The Hillside Church.
Child, Francis James.Ms., 1825-1896. A professor at
Harvard University, 1851-96, and the foremost authority upon all
matters pertaining to ballad literature. He edited the American edition
of The British Poets, in 130 volumes; English and Scottish Popular
Ballads; The Debate between the Body and the Soul, and other specimens
of mediæval literature. As a Chaucerian scholar he had few equals.
Observations on the Language of Chaucer; Observations on the Language
of Gower’s Confessio Amantis. See Atlantic Monthly, December,
1896.Hou.
Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria [Francis].Ms., 1802-1880. A
once famous writer whose literary career began with the publication of
Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, and closed with Aspirations of
the World, in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of her popularity by
her Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans, and was ever
after prominent as an abolitionist, assisting her husband in editing
the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among her other works are included
The Rebels, a novel in which occur a speech by James Otis and a sermon
by Whitefield, long supposed to be real and not imaginary; The First
Settlers of New England; The Mother’s Book; The Girl’s Book; Philothea,
a Greek romance; The Power of Kindness; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life,
a popular biography of a noted Quaker abolitionist; The Progress of
Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman’s
Book; Miria, a Romance of the Republic. See Letters of; Lowell’s
Fable for Critics.Hou. Rob.
Childs, George William.Md., 1829-1894. A noted
journalist of Philadelphia who established the Public Ledger in 1864.
Recollections of General Grant; Personal Recollections. Lip.
Chiles, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Hicks] [Hemdin].Ky.,
1820- ——. Among her writings are Louisa Elton, a reply to “Uncle
Tom;” Bandits of Italy; Oswyn Dudley; Select Poems.
Chipman, Nathaniel.Ct., 1752-1843. A Vermont jurist
who was professor of law at Middlebury College, 1816-43. Sketches of
the Principles of Law; Reports and Dissertations. See Life, by D.
Chipman, 1846.
Chittenden, Lucius Eugene.Vt., 1824-1900. A lawyer of
New York city. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890; Recollections of
Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical
episode of the War between the States; The Capture of Ticonderoga.
Do. Har.
Chittenden, Russell Henry.Ct., 1856- ——. A professor
of chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University.
Studies from the Laboratory of Physiology and Chemistry in Sheffield
Scientific School; On Digestive Proteolysis.
Chivers, Thomas Holley. 1807-1858. A Georgia physician and
versifier. Virginalia, or Songs of my Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul
Epic in Three Lustra; Eonchs of Ruby.
Choate, Isaac Bassett.Me., 1833- ——. An educator of
Boston. Elements of English Speech; Wells of English. Ap. Rob.
Choate, Rufus.Ms., 1799-1859. A lawyer of Boston and
member of Congress, 1841-45, famous for his gifts as an orator, a
distinguishing feature of his style being an extravagant use of long
sentences. Addresses and Orations. See Memoir, by S. G. Brown,
supra, 1862; Some Recollections of, by E. P. Whipple; Memoirs, by
Neilson, 1884.Lit.
Chopin, Mrs. Kate [O’Flaherty].Mo., 1851-1904. A writer
of St. Louis. Bayou Folk; At Fault, a novel. Hou.
Choules [chōlz], John Overton.E., 1801-1856. A
Baptist clergyman of Newport. History of Missions; Christian Offering;
Young Americans Abroad; Cruise of Steam Yacht North Star.
Church, Albert Ensign.Ct., 1807-1878. A mathematical
professor at West Point, 1833-78. Elements of Differential Calculus;
Elements of the Calculus of Variations; Elements of Analytical
Geometry; Elements of Descriptive Geometry; Elements of Analytical
Trigonometry.
Church, Benjamin.Ms., 1639-1718. A famous colonial
soldier, the conqueror of King Philip, and the founder of Little
Compton, Rhode Island. Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War
is a personal narrative of his adventures. See edition by Dexter,
1867; History of the Eastern Expeditions against the Indians and
French.
Church, Benjamin.R. I., 1734-1776. A Boston physician of
considerable note as a political satirist and versifier. The Times, a
political satire; Elegy on Dr. Mayhew; Address to a Provincial Bashaw;
Elegy on the Death of Whitefield, comprise his chief poems.
Church, Mrs. Ella Rodman [MacIlvane].N. Y., 1831- ——.
A popular and prolific writer of miscellaneous works, among which are
Flights of Fancy; Grandmother’s Recollections; The Catanese; Christmas
Wreath; Golden Days; Flyers and Crawlers, or Talks about Insects; Talks
by the Seashore; Among the Trees at Elmridge; Flower Talks at Elmridge;
Home Animals; Some Useful Animals; How to Furnish a Home; Money-Making
for Ladies. Ap. Har.
Church, Irving Porter.Ct., 1851- ——. A professor of
engineering at Cornell University. Statics and Dynamics for Engineering
Students; Mechanics of Materials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three
works which were afterwards published as Mechanics of Engineering;
Notes and Examples in Mechanics. Wil.
Church, John Adams.N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of P. Church,
infra. A mining engineer of note. The Mining Schools of the
United States; Notes on a Metallurgical Journey in Europe; The Comstock
Lode; Report on the Striking of Artesian Water, Arizona.
Church, Pharcellus.N. Y., 1801-1886. A Baptist clergyman
of prominence. Philosophy of Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their
Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of Moral Power in the Church;
Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine Law; Seed-Truths; Theodosia.
Church, Samuel Harden.Pa., 1858- ——. A Pittsburg
writer, the author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful historical study.
Put.
Chute, Horatio Nelson.Ont., 1847- ——. A mathematical
educator of Michigan. Complete School Register; Arithmetical Cabinet;
Manual of Practical Physics.
Cist, Henry Martyn.O., 1839-1902. A Cincinnati lawyer
who served in the Federal army during the Civil War and became
brigadier-general. The Army of the Cumberland.
Cist, Lewis Jacob.O., 1818-1885. Brother of H. M. Cist,
supra. A banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati who published
Trifles in Verse.
Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin [Davenport].Ms., 1825-1896.
A Boston writer, the wife of ex-Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts.
Brampton Sketches; Personal Recollections of Whittier; Real Happenings;
Under the Elms. Cr.
Claiborne [klā´burn], John Francis Hamtramck.Mi.,
1809-1884. A journalist of New Orleans. Mississippi as a Province,
Territory, and State; Life of General Dale, the Mississippi Partisan;
Life of General Quitman. Har.
Claiborne, John Herbert.Va., 1828- ——. A physician
of Virginia. Diphtheria; Dysmenorrhea; Clinical Reports from Private
Practice.
Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert.Va., 1777-1859. Uncle of J.
F. H. Claiborne, supra. A Virginia congressman. Notes on the War
in the South (1819).
Clap, Nathaniel.Ms., 1669-1745. A clergyman of Newport,
of some distinction in his day. Advice to Children; The Lord’s Voice
Crying to the People in some Extraordinary Dispensations.
Clap, Roger.E., 1609-1691. A colonist of Dorchester,
whose Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times
reprinted, and possess considerable historical value. They were first
edited and published by Thomas Prince, infra, 1731.
Clap, Thomas.Ms., 1703-1767. A Congregational clergyman
of distinction, president of Yale College, 1740-66. The Nature and
Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History of Yale College;
Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion
of Meteors; The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale,
comprise his chief works. See Sprague’s Annals of the American
Pulpit.
Clapp, Theodore.Ms., 1792-1866. A Unitarian minister
of New Orleans for many years. Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years’
Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; Slavery, a Sermon.
Clark, Alexander.O., 1834-1879. A Methodist Protestant
clergyman of Pittsburg. The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity;
The Red Sea Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees;
Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; Ripples on
the River, a collection of verses.
Clark, Alonzo Howard.Ms., 1850- ——. A naturalist in
the United States National Museum at Washington, who has published
Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and
Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; History of the
Mackerel Fishery.
Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.Vt., 1822-1899. A
physician, at one time collector of customs at Oswego. The Commonwealth
Reconstructed is his only book.
Clark, Charles Heber. “Max Adeler.” Md., 1841- ——.
A Philadelphia journalist, author of several works of a humourous
character which have been popular, though their literary merit is
slight. Out of the Hurly Burly; Elbow Room, a Novel without a Plot;
Random Shots; Fortunate Island and Other Stories.
Clark, Davis Wasgatt.Me., 1812-1871. A Methodist bishop
of some note as a preacher. Mental Discipline; Death-Bed Scenes; Man
all Immortal; Life of Bishop Hedding; Sermons; Elements of Algebra.
Meth.
Clark, Edson Lyman.Ms., 1827- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Massachusetts. The Arabs and the Turks; The Races of
European Turkey; Turkey; Fundamental Questions chiefly relating to
Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures. Do.
Clark, Francis Edward.Q., 1851- ——. A Congregational
minister who during his pastorate in Portland, Maine, in 1881,
established the Christian Endeavour Society. Danger Signals, the
Enemies of Youth; Looking out on Life, a book for girls; Our Vacations,
where to Go, etc.; Young People’s Prayer Meeting in Theory and
Practice; The Children and the Church; Mossback Correspondence; Our
Business Boys; Ways and Means, a history of the Christian Endeavour
movement. Fu. Lo.
Clark, George Hunt.Ms., 1809-1881. An iron merchant of
Hartford, of local fame as a verse-writer. Now and Then; The News;
Undertow of a Trade Wind Surf.
Clark, George Whitfield.N. J., 1831- ——. A Baptist
clergyman of New Jersey. Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Notes
on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; Harmonic Arrangement of the Acts of
the Apostles; Brief Notes on the New Testament; History of the First
Baptist Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Clark, Henry James.Ms., 1826-1873. A naturalist of
Cambridge. Mind in Nature; A Claim for Scientific Property.
Clark, James Gowdy.N. Y., 1830-1897. A verse-writer and
composer of San Francisco. Poetry and Song.
Clark, James Henry.N. Y., 1814-1869. A physician of
Newark, New Jersey. History of the Cholera in Newark in 1847; Sight and
Hearing, how Preserved, how Lost; Medical Topography of Newark; The
Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex District, 1666-1866.
Clark, John Alonzo.Ms., 1801-1843. An Episcopal
clergyman of Philadelphia. The Young Disciple; The Pastor’s Testimony;
A Walk about Zion; Gathered Fragments; Awake, Thou Sleeper; Glimpses of
the Old World.
Clark, John Bates.R. I., 1847- ——. A political
economist, professor of political economy in Columbia College. Capital
and its Earnings; The Philosophy of Wealth. Gi.
Clark, Mrs. Kate [Upson].Al., 1851- ——. A journalist
of Brooklyn, who has written mainly for young people. That Mary Ann.
Lo.
Clark, Lewis Gaylord.N. Y., 1810-1873. A once prominent
magazinist of New York city, and editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine.
Knick-Knacks is a collection of brief sketches contributed to that
periodical.
Clark, Mrs. Mary [Latham].Me., 1831- ——. A New England
writer of religious juveniles, among which are The Mayflower Series;
Daisy’s Mission.
Clark, Nathaniel George.Vt., 1825-1896. The foreign
secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions from 1866. In
earlier life he was of some note as an educator, and published Elements
of the English Language. Scr.
Clark, Rufus Wheelwright.Ms., 1813-1886. Brother of
Thomas M. Clark, infra. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Albany.
Among his more than a hundred publications are Lectures to Young Men;
Heaven and its Scriptural Emblems; Life Scenes of the Messiah; Romanism
in America; The African Slave Trade; Heroes of Albany.
Clark, Simeon Taylor.Ms., 1836-1891. A physician of
Lockport, and professor of medical jurisprudence in Niagara University.
My Garden.
Clark, Mrs. Susanna Rebecca Graham.N. S., 1848- ——. A
writer of Portland, Maine, who has written much juvenile literature.
Yensie Walton; Our Street; The Triple E.; Achor; Herbert Gardenell’s
Children; Tom’s Street; Go’s Goings. Lo.
Clark, Theodore Minot.Ms., 1845- ——. An architect
in Boston, formerly instructor in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Architect, Owner and Builder before the Law; Building
Superintendence; Rural School Architecture. Mac.
Clark, Thomas.Pa., 1787-1866. An educator of
Philadelphia. Naval History of the United States from the Commencement
of the Revolutionary War, 1814; Sketches of United States Naval History.
Clark, Thomas March.Ms., 1812-1903. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island, and prominent among
theologians of the Broad Church school. Primary Truths; The Dew of
Youth and Other Lectures to Young Men and Women; Early Discipline and
Culture; The Efficient Sunday School Teacher; Reminiscences. Ap.
Wh.
Clark, Willis Gaylord.N. Y., 1810-1841. Twin brother
of L. G. Clark, supra. A now forgotten verse-writer. See Literary
Remains, with Memoir by L. G. Clark; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America.
Clarke, Dorus.Ms., 1799-1884. A Congregational clergyman
of Boston. Letters to Horace Mann; Oneness of the Christian Church;
Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects; Saying the Catechism 75 Years
Ago and the Historical Results; Review of the Oberlin Council; Letters
to Young People in Manufacturing Villages; Revision of the English
Version of the Bible; Essay on the Tri-Unity of God.
Clarke, Edward Hammond.Ms., 1820-1877. A prominent
physician and medical writer of Boston. Sex in Education; The Building
of a Brain; Visions: a Study of False Sight; Nature and Treatment of
Polypus of the Ear. Hou.
Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth.Ms., 1847- ——. Chief
chemist of the United States Geological Survey at Washington. Weights,
Measures, and Money of All Nations; Elements of Chemistry. Ap.
Clarke, Isaac Edwards.Ms., 1830- ——. A lawyer in the
United States Civil Service since 1871. Tribute to Bayard Taylor;
Industrial and High Art Education in the United States.
Clarke, James Freeman.N. H., 1810-1888. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, who founded there the Church of the Disciples, and
was its pastor from 1841 till his death. He was especially prominent
among Unitarian writers of the latter half of the century, the tone of
his thought being that of the liberal conservative. His first important
work was Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors (1866). Other works of his
include Ten Great Religions, Part I, an Essay in Comparative Theology;
Ten Great Religions, Part II, a Comparison of all Religions; Christian
Doctrine of Prayer; Thomas Didymus; Common Sense in Religion; Steps of
Belief; Events and Epochs in Religious History; Self-Culture; Every
Day Religion; The Ideas of the Apostle Paul; Memorial and Biographical
Sketches; Vexed Questions in Theology; Anti-Slavery Days. See
Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence, edited by E. E. Hale; Memoir
by A. P. Peabody, 1889.A. U. A. Hou. Le.
Clarke, MacDonald.Ct., 1798-1842. An eccentric,
unbalanced verse-writer of New York city, who was commonly styled “the
Mad Poet.” Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance
poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a
Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; Review of the Eve of Eternity.
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard [Devereux].N. C., 1822-1886.
A writer of Raleigh, North Carolina, who has published Reminiscences
of Cuba; Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; Wood
Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.
Clarke, Rebecca Sophia. “Sophie May.” Me., 1833- ——. A
popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born
and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are
the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of
the latter class are Her Friend’s Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In
Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; The Doctor’s Daughter. Le.
Clarke, Richard Henry.D. C., 1827- ——. A noted Roman
Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written
many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the
Catholic Church in the United States; Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic
Bishops of the United States.
Clay, Cassius Marcellus.Ky., 1810-1903. A Kentucky
congressman noted as a strong opponent of slavery, who was minister to
Russia 1861-69. See Life and Memoirs, compiled by Himself.
Clay, Henry.Va., 1777-1852. A Kentucky statesman and
orator, who was in public life for half a century, and was several
times an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency. He is known in
literature by his Speeches, several collections of which were published
in his lifetime. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by G. D.
Prentice, 1831; Swaim, 1843; Mallory, 1844; Sargent and Greeley, 1852;
Colton, 1857; Carl Schurz, 1887.
Cleaveland, John.Ct., 1722-1799. A Congregational
minister of Massachusetts. The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex)
in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ’s Sacrifice and Atonement against
Aspersions cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter
of Reproof; Treatise on Infant Baptism.
Cleaveland, Nehemiah.Ms., 1796-1877. Grandson of J.
Cleaveland, supra. An educator of Massachusetts, who published
a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its
Graduates, 1806-79, edited and completed by A. S. Packard, infra.
Cleaveland, Parker.Ms., 1780-1858. Grandson of J.
Cleaveland, supra. A professor in Bowdoin College, 1805-58,
whose Mineralogy and Geology, 1816, gained for him the title of “the
father of American mineralogy.”
Cleland, Thomas.Va., 1778-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Kentucky, much inclined to controversy, who published Letters on
Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; Unitarianism Unmasked.
Clemens, Jeremiah.Al., 1814-1865. An Alabama statesman
who won some notice as a novelist. Bernard Lyle; Mustang Gray; The
Rivals, a Tale of the Times of Burr and Hamilton; Tobias Wilson, a Tale
of the Great Rebellion.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. “Mark Twain.” Mo., 1835- ——.
A celebrated humourist, who, after an eventful experience as a
journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad,
a volume of extravagantly humourous travels, which still remains
his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has
any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most
popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are, A Tramp
Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner,
infra); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry
Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court; Tom
Sawyer Abroad; Pudd’nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and
the Pauper; Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being
his most finished production. See Haweis’s American Humourists;
Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Vedder’s American
Writers.
Clemens, Will Montgomery.O., 1860- ——. A Ken of
Kipling; Life of Roosevelt; Famous Funny Fellows; Sixty and Six;
Mistakes of Authors.
Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine.See Waters, Mrs.
Clemmer, Mrs. Mary.See Hudson, Mrs.
Cleveland, Aaron.Ct., 1744-1815. A verse-writer who late
in life became a Congregational minister. He was the great-grandfather
of President Cleveland. The Philosopher and Boy; Slavery Considered,
both productions in verse.
Cleveland, Charles Dexter.Ms., 1802-1869. Grandson of
A. Cleveland, supra. An educator of Philadelphia, who published
Compendiums of English, American, and Classical Literature; English
Literature of the 19th Century; critical edition of Milton, with notes
and life. Bar.
Cleveland, Cynthia Eloise.N. Y., 1845- ——. A
Washington writer employed in the civil service. See Saw, or Civil
Service in the Departments, a political novel; Is it Fate?
Cleveland, Henry Russell.Ms., 1808-1843. Son of R. J.
Cleveland, infra. The Classical Education of Boys; Life of Henry
Hudson.
Cleveland, Horace William Shaler.Ms., 1814-1900. Son
of R. J. Cleveland, infra. A noted landscape gardener of
Minneapolis. Hints to Riflemen; Landscape Architecture; Voyages of a
Merchant Navigator. Har.
Cleveland, Richard Jeffry.Ms., 1773-1860. Cousin of A.
Cleveland, supra. Voyages and Commercial Enterprises; Voyages of
a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past.
Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth.N. Y., 1846- ——.
Great-granddaughter of A. Cleveland, supra, and the only sister
of President Cleveland. During the first year of her brother’s first
administration she was the mistress of the White House. George Eliot’s
Poetry and Other Studies; The Long Run, a novel. Fu.
Clevenger, Shobal Vail.Iy., 1843- ——. A physician of
Chicago, and son of the noted sculptor of the same name. Treatise on
Government Surveying; Comparative Physiology and Psychology; Lectures
on Artistic Anatomy and Sciences Useful to the Artist.
Clifford, Nathan.N. H., 1803-1881. A noted jurist of
Maine, who was attorney-general during Polk’s administration, and
published United States Circuit Court Reports.
Clingman, Thomas Lanier.N. C., 1812-1897. A
North Carolina congressman who served during the Civil War as
brigadier-general in the Confederate army. The two Carolina mountains,
Clingman’s Peak and Clingman’s Dome, were named in his honour, he
having been the first to measure their height. Speeches; Follies of the
Positivist Philosophers.
Clinton, De Witt.N. Y., 1769-1828. A famous statesman
and politician of New York state. Memoir of Antiquities of Western
New York; Natural History and Internal Revenues of New York; Speeches
to the Legislature. See Lives, by Hosack, 1829; Renwick, 1840;
Campbell, 1849.
Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria [Dietz].Ms., 1856- ——. A New
York writer, once an actress; for some time president of the woman’s
club of New York, Sorosis. She has written three volumes of verse: The
Triumph of Love; The Triumph of Time; The Triumph of Life.
Clymer, Meredith.Pa., 1817-1902. A distinguished
physician and medical writer of New York city. Diseases of the
Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and
Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous
System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Legitimate
Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.
Coan, Titus.Ct., 1801-1882. A missionary of note in the
Sandwich Islands who wrote Life in Hawaii; Adventures in Patagonia.
Do. Ran.
Coan, Titus Munson.H. I., 1836- ——. Son of T. Coan,
supra. A New York littérateur. Ounces of Prevention; Topics of
the Times (edited).
Cobb, Cyrus.Ms., 1834-1903. Son of S. Cobb, 1st,
infra. An artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing
much occasional verse, published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.
Cobb, Howell.Ga., 1795-18—. A Georgia lawyer. Penal
Code of Georgia.
Cobb, Jonathan Holmes.Ms., 1799-1882. A manufacturer of
Dedham, who founded the silk industry in the United States, and whose
Manual of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk was once well known.
Cobb, Joseph Beckham.Ga., 1819-1858. A Southern author
whose writings include The Creole, or the Siege of New Orleans, a
novel; Mississippi Scenes; Leisure Labours.
Cobb, Lyman.Ms., c. 1800-1864. A once prominent
educator who, besides many text-books on spelling and mathematics,
published The Evil Tendency of Corporal Punishment; Just Standard for
Pronouncing the English Language. Har.
Cobb, Sylvanus.Me., 1799-1866. A Universalist clergyman
of Massachusetts, editor for many years of The Christian Freeman.
The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes; Compend of Divinity;
Discussions. See Autobiography, and Memoir by his son, S. Cobb,
1867.
Cobb, Sylvanus.Me., 1823-1887. Son of S. Cobb,
supra. A prolific writer of sensational tales quite without
literary value. Among them are The King’s Talisman; The Patriot
Cruiser; Ben Hamed.
Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes.Ga., 1823-1862. A Georgia
lawyer who served as brigadier-general in the Confederate army during
the Civil War, and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg. Digest
of the Laws of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest
Periods; Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States.
Cobbett, Thomas.E., 1608-1685. A nonconformist English
clergyman who came to America in 1637, and was minister at Ipswich
from 1656 till his death. Infant Baptism; Civil Magistrate’s Power in
Matters of Religion; Practical Discourse of Prayer; The Honour due from
Children to their Parents.
Cocke [cōke], James Richard.Tn., 1863-1900. A
physician of Boston. Hypnotism; Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel.
Ar. Le.
Cocke, Zitella.Al., c. 1847- ——. A verse-writer
whose contributions to periodicals have been collected in a volume of
verse entitled A Doric Reed. Cop.
Cocker, William Johnson.E., 1846- ——. An educator of
Michigan. Handbook of Punctuation; The Government of the United States.
Har.
Coddington, William.E., 1601-1678. The first governor
of Rhode Island. Demonstrations of True Love unto the Rulers of
Massachusetts.
Codman, John.Ms., 1782-1847. A Congregational clergyman
of Dorchester. Sermons; Visit to England. See Memoir, by W. A.
Allen, 1853.
Codman, John.Ms., 1814-1900. Son of J. Codman,
supra. A noted captain in the merchant marine. Sailors’ Life
and Sailors’ Yarns; Ten Months in Brazil; The Mormon Country; The
Round Trip by Way of Panama; A Solution of the Mormon Problem; Winter
Sketches from the Saddle.
Coffin, Charles Carleton.N. H., 1823-1896. A Boston
journalist who became famous as the war correspondent of the Boston
Journal during the Civil War, over the signature “Carleton.” His
writings, mainly though not exclusively for young people, include My
Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a narrative of personal experience;
Following the Flag; Winning his Way; Building the Nation; Old Times
in the Colonies; The Boys of ’76; The Story of Liberty; The Drumbeat
of the Nation; Marching to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; Freedom
Triumphant; Abraham Lincoln; Our New Way Round the World; Daughters of
the Revolution. See Life of, by Griffis.Est. Har. Hou.
Coffin, Isaac Foster.Me., 1787-1861. An educator of
Roxbury, Massachusetts. Journal of a Residence in Chili during the
revolutionary scenes of 1817-19.
Coffin, James Henry.Ms., 1806-1873. A meteorologist
who was professor of astronomy at Lafayette College. Solar and Lunar
Eclipses Illustrated and Explained; Winds of the Northern Hemisphere;
Psychometrical Table; Orbit and Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball;
Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Winds of the Globe.
See Life, by J. C. Clyde, 1882.
Coffin, John Huntington Crane.Me., 1815-1890. A
mathematician of distinction. Observations with the Mural Circle at the
United States Naval Observatory; The Compass; Navigation and Nautical
Astronomy.
Coffin, Joshua.Ms., 1792-1864. A Massachusetts antiquary
prominent among the abolitionists, and one of the poet Whittier’s early
instructors. He published a History of Ancient Newbury; The Toppans of
Toppan’s Lane, a genealogy.
Coffin, Robert Allen.Ms., 1801-1878. Brother of J.
H. Coffin, supra. An instructor in western Massachusetts.
Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Town Organization; History of Conway,
Massachusetts.
Coffin, Robert Barry. “Barry Gray.” N. Y., 1826-1886. A
New York journalist and littérateur, whose books, popular at one time,
are now nearly forgotten. Their humour is somewhat forced, and the
style has no very marked merits. Matrimonial Infelicities; Who is the
Heir?; Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles
in the Air; Left in the Lurch; The Home of Cooper.
Coffin, Robert Stevenson.Me., 1797-1827. A verse-writer
of Boston who published The Oriental Harp; Poems of the Boston Bard.
See Autobiography, 1825.
Coffin, Roland Folger.N. Y., 1826-1888. A marine
reporter in New York city. An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s Cup;
History of American Yachting. Fu. Scr.
Coffin, Selden Jennings.N. Y., 1838- ——. Son of J. H.
Coffin, supra. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy
at Lafayette College in 1873, and completed the latter’s Winds of the
Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette.
Coggeshall, George.Ct., 1784-c. 1850. A sea
captain of some prominence as a writer. Voyages to Various Parts of the
World, 1799-1844; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque
during our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and
Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; Religious and Miscellaneous
Poetry.
Coggeshall, William Turner.Pa., 1824-1867. A journalist
of Cincinnati, whose principal writings include Signs of the Times,
a work on spirit rappings; Home Hits and Hints; Stories of Frontier
Adventure.
Cogswell, Jonathan.Ms., 1782-1864. A noted
Congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey. The Necessity
of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai;
Godliness a Great Mystery; The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit.
See E. O. Jameson’s Cogswells of America.
Cogswell, William.N. H., 1787-1850. A Congregational
clergyman of New Hampshire, among whose works are, Manual of Theology
and Devotion; Assistant to Family Religion; Christian Philanthropist;
Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millennium; Letters to Young
Men Preparing for the Ministry.
Cohen, Jacob Da Silva Solis.N. Y., 1838- ——. A
Philadelphia physician and medical lecturer of prominence. Treatise
on Inhalations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup in its Relations to
Tracheotomy; The Throat and the Voice.
Coit, James Milnor.Pa., 1845- ——. An instructor
in chemistry at St. Paul’s School, Concord. Elements of Chemical
Arithmetic; Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis.
Coit, Thomas Winthrop.Ct., 1803-1885. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor in Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from
1872 to 1885. Necessity of Preaching Doctrine; Theological Commonplace
Book; Puritanism in New England and the Episcopal Church; Lectures on
the Early History of Christianity in England.
Colburn, Warren.Ms., 1793-1833. A noted mathematician
of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was
translated into many languages. Hou.
Colburn, Zerah.N. Y., 1832-1870. A nephew of the famous
calculator of the same name. He was a well-known mechanical engineer
who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature
of Heat and its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.;
Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. Bai. Vn.
Colby, Frederick Myron.N. H., 1848- ——. A journalist
of New Hampshire. The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; Brave
Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.
Colden, Cadwallader.S., 1688-1776. A colonial physician,
lieutenant-governor of the province of New York, 1761-76, and a
prominent loyalist of his day. The History of the Five Indian Nations
is his chief work. Among his many lesser writings is Principles of
Actions on Matter. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Colden, Cadwallader David.L. I., 1769-1834. Nephew of
C. Colden, supra. A commercial lawyer of prominence in New York
who published Life of Robert Fulton; Vindication of the Steamboat Right
granted by the State of New York.
Coleman, Leighton.Pa., 1837- ——. The second Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Delaware. The Church in America, a history of the
American Episcopal Church.
Coleman, Lyman.Ms., 1796-1882. A Congregational
clergyman who was a classical professor at Lafayette College,
1861-82. Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The
Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible;
Text-Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; Genealogy of the Lyman Family.
Coles, Abraham.N. J., 1813-1891. A New Jersey physician
who published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the
Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater
Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological
poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; The Psalms in
Verse, with notes. See Biographical Sketch, edited by J. A. Coles,
1892.Ap.
Coles, George.E., 1792-1858. A Methodist clergyman who
published The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the
Scriptures; Heroines of Methodism.
Colesworthy, Daniel Clement.Me., 1810-1893. A once noted
bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for
children, like “Don’t Kill the Birds” and “Little Words of Kindness,”
have been extremely popular. Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an
Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children,
and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; A Day in the Woods, in verse,
comprise the most of his writings.
Collens, Thomas Wharton.La., 1812-1879. A well-known
jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy;
Humanics; Views of the Labour Movement; The Eden of Labour.
Collier, Mrs. Ada [Langworthy].Ia., 1843- ——. A writer
of Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of
not a little merit.
Collier, Joseph Avery.Ms., 1828-1864. A Reformed Dutch
clergyman of Kingston, New York. The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied
to the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The
Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns;
Dawn of Heaven.
Collier, Peter.N. Y., 1835-1896. A chemist of
distinction for several years attached to the Department of Agriculture
at Washington. Sorghum, its Culture and Manufacture Economically
Considered; Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant.
Clke.
Collier, Robert Laird.Md., 1837-1890. A Unitarian
clergyman who in his later years was a London correspondent of the
New York Herald. Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on
the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism;
English Home Life. A. U. A. Hou. Rob.
Collier, Thomas Stephens.N. Y., 1842-1893. A physician
and poet whose home was at New London, Connecticut. Song Spray, a
collection of poems, 1889.
Collins, Charles.Me., 1813-1875. A Methodist preacher
and educator of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism
Compared.
Collyer, Robert.E., 1823- ——. A Unitarian clergyman
of New York, and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith.
He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith’s trade, which
he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a
Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a Unitarian,
and in 1860 founded Unity Church in Chicago, over which he remained
pastor till he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within
and without the Unitarian body, has been very great. The Life That Now
Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book;
Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire.
Dut. Le.
Colman, Benjamin.Ms., 1673-1747. A famous Congregational
minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal
than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far
more polished and flexible. Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty
Sacramental Sermons. See Life by E. Turell, 1749; Tyler’s American
Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Colman, Henry.Ms., 1785-1849. An agricultural writer of
Massachusetts, who was a Congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20,
and afterwards a Unitarian minister at Salem. Report on Silk Culture;
European Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agriculture and Rural Economy
of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; European Life and Manners.
Colton, Calvin.Ms., 1789-1857. An Episcopal clergyman
of some note in his day as a political writer. Manual for Emigrants to
America; History of American Revivals; Protestant Jesuitism; Public
Economy for the United States, a plea for protection; Life of Henry
Clay; Junius Tracts.
Colton, George Hooker.N. Y., 1818-1847. A verse-writer
whose Tecumseh is a poem as ambitious in conception as it is mediocre
in execution.
Colton, Walter.Vt., 1797-1851. Brother of C. Colton,
supra. A journalist and educator who established the first
newspaper in California, and built the first schoolhouse there. As
chaplain in the United States navy he visited many parts of the world.
Visit to Athens and Constantinople; Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and
Ægean; Ship and Shore; Deck and Port; The Sea and the Sailor.
Colwell, Stephen.Va., 1800-1871. An iron merchant of
Philadelphia, who wrote much on current topics, especially matters
relating to political economy. Ways and Means of Commercial Payment;
Money on Account; Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United
States; Domestic Production and Internal Trade; Hints to Laymen;
Charity and the Clergy; Politics for American Christians; New Themes
for Protestant Clergy, include the more important of his writings.
Coman, Katherine.O., 1857- ——. A professor of history
at Wellesley College. Outlines in Constitutional History of England;
Outlines in Industrial History; The Growth of the English Nation.
Comegys, Benjamin Bartis.Del., 1819-1901. A banker of
Philadelphia. Tour Round My Library, and Other Papers; Advice to Young
Men and Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with Boys and Girls; How to Get
On, a Book for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An Order of Worship; Old
Stories with New Lessons. Hou. Rev.
Comfort, Mrs. Anna [Manning].N. J., 1845- ——. Wife of
G. F. Comfort, infra. A physician of Syracuse, who has written
Woman’s Education and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. Clarke’s once
famous Sex in Education.
Comfort, George Fisk.N. Y., 1833- ——. A professor at
Syracuse University since 1872. He has published a series of German
text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland. Har.
Comly, John.Pa., 1774-1850. A Pennsylvania educator
among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally
popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. See Journal of
John Comly of Ryberry, 1853.
Comstock [kŭm´stŏk], Cyrus Ballou.Ms.,
1831- ——. A colonel of the Engineer Corps in the United States army,
and brevet major-general of U. S. Volunteers, who has made a number of
important government surveys. Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of
the Northwestern Lakes; Primary Triangulation of United States Lake
Survey.
Comstock, John Henry.Wis., 1849- ——. A professor of
entomology and general invertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University.
Notes on Entomology; Report on Cotton Insects; Introduction to
Entomology.
Comstock, John Lee.Ct., 1789-1858. An educational
compiler of Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The
Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; System of Natural
Philosophy; History of the Precious Minerals; Natural History of
Quadrupeds. He wrote also A History of the Greek Revolution.
Comstock, Theodore Bryant.O., 1849- ——. A geologist
of distinction, professor in Illinois University. Outlines of General
Geology; Classification of Rocks.
Conant, Alban Jasper.Vt., 1821- ——. A naturalist who
was for some time curator in the University of Wisconsin. Footprints of
Vanished Races in the Valley of the Mississippi.
Conant, Mrs. Hannah O’Brien [Chaplin].Ms., 1809-1865.
Wife of T. J. Conant, infra, and daughter of J. Chaplin,
supra. An Oriental scholar who assisted her husband in his
literary work, made important translations from the German of Strauss,
Neander, and Uhden, and was the author of History of the English Bible;
Popular History of English Bible Translation; The Earnest Man, a sketch
of Judson the missionary.
Conant, Mrs. Helen Peters [Stevens].Ms., 1839-1899.
Wife of S. S. Conant, infra. A magazinist of New York city. The
Butterfly Hunters; Primers of German and Spanish Literature. Har.
Conant, Samuel Stillman.Me., 1831-1885. Son of T. J.
Conant, infra. A journalist of New York, managing editor of
Harper’s Weekly, 1869-85, and translator of Lermontoff’s Circassian Boy.
Conant, Thomas Jefferson.Vt., 1802-1891. A Baptist
clergyman who was one of the foremost Hebrew scholars of his time.
Baptism, its Meaning and its Use Philologically and Historically
Considered. His editions of The Book of Job; The Book of Proverbs;
Genesis; Psalms; Prophecies of Isaiah; Historical Books of the
Old Testament from Joshua to Second Kings; The Gospel by Matthew,
constitute a scholar’s version of the Scriptures, amply illustrated
with critical and philological notes. Fu.
Condie, Daniel Francis.Pa., 1796-1875. A physician and
medical writer of Philadelphia. Course of Examination for Medical
Students; Catechism of Health; Epidemic Cholera; Diseases of Children.
Cone, Helen Gray.N. Y., 1859- ——. An instructor in
the Normal College of New York city, whose writing has been mainly in
verse. Oberon and Puck, verses Grave and Gay; The Ride to the Lady and
Other Poems. Hou.
Congdon, Charles Taber.Ms., 1821-1891. A journalist
of New York city for some years on the staff of the Tribune. Tribune
Essays; Reminiscences of a Journalist; Recollections of a Reader;
Autobiographical Papers.
Conkling, Alfred.N. Y., 1789-1874. A jurist of New
York whose son was the noted statesman, Roscoe Conkling. Treatise
on Organization and Jurisdiction of Superior, Circuit, and District
Courts; Admiralty Jurisdiction; Powers of the Executive Department of
the United States; Young Citizen’s Manual.
Conkling, Alfred Ronald.N. Y., 1850- ——. Grandson of
A. Conkling, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Appleton’s Guide
to Mexico; City Government in the United States; Handbook for Voters in
New York city; Life of Roscoe Conkling. Ap.
Conn, Herbert William.Ms., 1859- ——. A biologist
whose specialty is the bacteriology of milk; instructor and professor
of biology at Wesleyan University from 1884. Evolution of To-Day; The
Living World: Whence it Came and Whither it is Drifting. Put.
Connelly, Mrs. Celia [Logan] [Kellogg].Pa., 1837-1904. A
journalist and playwright of Washington. An American Marriage is one of
her plays.
Connelly, Emma M.Ky., 18— - ——. A writer of New York
city. Under the Surface; Tilting at Wind Mills, a Story of the Blue
Grass Country; The Story of Kentucky. Lo.
Conrad, Frederick William.Pa., 1816-1898. A Lutheran
clergyman of Philadelphia, editor of The Lutheran Observer from 1867.
The Lutheran Doctrine of Baptism; Analysis of Luther’s Small Catechism:
The Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Call to the Ministry; The
Liturgical Question.
Conrad, Robert Taylor.Pa., 1810-1858. A lawyer of
Philadelphia and mayor of that city in 1854, who was once noted as a
dramatic poet. Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent, is a tragedy in which
Jack Cade is the chief figure, a rôle in which Edwin Forrest was very
successful. Conrad of Naples, another tragedy, had also a measure of
popularity.
Conrad, Timothy Abbott.N. J., 1803-1877. A conchologist
who published Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North
America; New Fresh-Water Shells of the United States; Miocene Shells of
the United States; Palæontology of State of New York.
Converse, Mrs. Harriet [Maxwell].N. Y., 184- -1903. A
writer of verse and prose in New York city. Sheaves, a collection of
verses; The Religious Festivals of the Iroquois Indians; Mythology and
Folk-Lore of the North American Indian.
Conway, Katherine Eleanor.N. Y., 1853- ——. A
journalist of Boston, on the editorial staff of The Pilot. Songs of the
Sunrise Slope; A Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A Lady and Her
Letters; Making Friends and Keeping Them.
Conway, Moncure Daniel.Va., 1832- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of extremely radical views, who was for many years settled
in charge of a congregation in London. He has been a prolific writer
in several fields, and among his many published books are The Rejected
Stone; Idols and Ideals; Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wandering
Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earthward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a
compilation; Emerson at Home and Abroad; George Washington and Mount
Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life
of Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; Natural History of the Devil;
The Golden Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slavery; Human Sacrifices
in England; Lessons for the Day; Travels in South Kensington; A
Necklace of Stories; Pine and Palm, a novel; Prisons of Air, a novel;
Autobiography. Har. Ho.
Conwell, Russell Herrman.Ms., 1842- ——. A Baptist
minister of Philadelphia. Why the Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law;
Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard Taylor; Life of President
Garfield; Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the Vineyards of Lucerna.
Lo. Mer.
Conyngham, David Power.I., 1840-1883. A New York
journalist, editor of The Tablet. Sherman’s March Through the South;
Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; The Irish Brigade and its
Campaigns. In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great Struggle for
Ireland; The O’Donnells of Glen Cottage; O’Mahoney, Chief of the
Commeraghs; Rose Parnell, the Flower of Avondale.
Cook, Albert John.Mch., 1842- ——. A professor of
zoölogy at Michigan Agricultural College. Injurious Insects of
Michigan; Manual of the Apiary.
Cook, Albert Stanborough.N. J., 1853- ——. A professor
of English at Yale University, who has edited Siever’s Old English
Grammar; Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment; Sidney’s Defence of
Poesy. Gi.
Cook, Clarence Chatham.Ms., 1828-1900. An art critic of
New York city, and editor of The Studio. He edited Lübke’s History of
Art, and published also The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables,
Stools and Candlesticks; The Central Park. Scr.
Cook, George Hammell.N. J., 1818-1889. A professor of
geology at Rutgers College and State geologist, whose only published
work is The Geology of New Jersey.
Cook, Joel.Pa., 1842- ——. A Philadelphia journalist,
financial editor of the Public Ledger. Brief Summer Rambles near
Philadelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe;
England, Picturesque and Descriptive; The Siege of Richmond. My.
Cook, Joseph.N. Y., 1838-1901. A Boston lecturer whose
Monday morning lectures at Tremont Temple were at one time very
popular, but whose shallow, pretentious thought provoked much criticism
from scholarly, accurate minds. Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes;
Current Religious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms.
Hou.
Cook, Marc.R. I., 1854-1882. A journalist of New York.
The Wilderness Cure; Vandyke Brown Poems.
Cook, Richard Briscoe.Md., 1838- ——. A Baptist
clergyman of Wilmington, Delaware. The Story of the Baptists in all
Ages and Countries.
Cook, Theodore Pease.Ms., 1844- ——. Brother of M.
Cook, supra. A journalist of Utica, who published a Life of
Samuel J. Tilden. Ap.
Cooke, George Willis.Mch., 1848- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Lexington, Massachusetts, who has done much excellent work
in criticism. George Eliot: a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson:
his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets and Problems, Studies of
Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; The Clapboard
Trees Parish, Dedham, a History. Hou.
Cooke, John Esten.Va., 1830-1886. A noted Virginia
author who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He
wrote much historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most
famous of his romances. Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of
Jefferson; Surry of Eagle’s Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Pokahontas;
Henry St. John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days
of Lee and his Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston;
Stories of the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley’s Idea;
Professor Pressensee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier; Hilt to
Hilt, include the greater part of his work in fiction. He wrote also
Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biography; Virginia, a
History of the People. Ap. Har. Hou. Lip.
Cooke, Josiah Parsons.Ms., 1827-1894. A chemist of
distinction who was professor of chemistry at Harvard University from
1850, and lectured in many places on scientific topics. Religion and
Chemistry; Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical
Problems and Reactions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New
Chemistry; The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; Laboratory
Practice. Ap. Scr.
Cooke, Nicholas Francis.R. I., 1829-1885. A once
prominent physician of Chicago. Satan in Society; Antiseptic Medication.
Cooke, Parsons.Ms., 1800-1864. A Congregational
clergyman of Lynn, strongly Calvinistic in doctrine and controversially
inclined. History of German Anabaptism; A Century of Puritanism and a
Century of its Opposites.
Cooke, Philip Pendleton.Va., 1816-1850. Brother of J. E.
Cooke, supra. A Virginia lawyer whose verse was once very much
admired, and whose Florence Vane still lingers in the anthologies. The
Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry
of America; Hart’s American Literature.
Cooke, Philip St. George.Va., 1809-1895. Uncle of J.
E. Cooke, supra. A brigadier-general in the United States army
who retired in 1873. Scenes and Adventures in the Army; Handy Book for
United States Cavalry; Cavalry Tactics; Conquest of New Mexico and
California.
Cooke, Mrs. Rose [Terry].Ct., 1827-1892. A New England
writer well known both as a poet and a writer of short stories of
notable excellence. Poems by Rose Terry; Happy Dodd; Somebody’s
Neighbors; The Sphinx’s Children and Other People’s; Steadfast;
Huckleberries. In 1888 a complete collection of her poems was made,
including the contents of her early volume and her later work in verse.
The Two Villages is her best known poem, as it is one of her best.
Hou.
Cookman, Alfred. 1828-1871. A Methodist clergyman who published
Stayed on God. See Life by H. B. Ridgaway, 1871.
Coolbrith, Ina Donna.Il., 18— - ——. A California
poet, formerly librarian of the Oakland Public Library. Her work,
though uneven in quality, is nearly always musical. The Perfect Day and
Other Poems; Songs from the Golden Gate. Hou.
Cooley, Le Roy Clark.N. Y., 1833- ——. A professor
of physics at Vassar College. Text-Book of Physics; Text-Book of
Chemistry; Easy Experiments in Physical Science; Natural Philosophy;
Elements of Chemistry; Students’ Guide Book; Beginners’ Guide to
Chemistry; Laboratory Studies in Elementary Chemistry.
Cooley, Thomas McIntyre.N. Y., 1824-1898. A jurist
of prominence in Michigan, professor of history in the University
of Michigan. Law of Taxation; Law of Torts; General Principles of
Constitutional Law in the United States; Treatise on Constitutional
Limitations of the Legislative Power in the Several States; annotated
editions of Blackstone’s Story’s Commentaries; Michigan, a History of
Governments. Hou. Lit.
Coolidge, Susan.See Woolsey, Sarah.
Coombs, Mrs. Annie [Sheldon].N. Y., 1858-1890. A
novelist of New York city. As Common Mortals; A Game of Chance; The
Garden of Armida. Ap.
Cooper, Ellwood.Pa., 1829- ——. A horticulturist of
southern California, president of the State board of horticulture.
Statistics of Trade with Hayti; Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees;
Treatise on Olive Culture.
Cooper, James Fenimore.N. J., 1789-1851. The first
American writer to gain general European recognition, and the first
native novelist who won a national reputation. Although much that he
wrote is nearly forgotten, the best of his work survives and is still
popular. His first novel, Precaution, a conventional, mediocre piece
of writing, appeared in 1820, and was followed, in 1821, by The Spy,
the most famous of all his books, having been translated into all the
principal languages of Europe. Almost as famous is The Last of the
Mohicans, a much greater work. Among his tales of the sea, The Pilot
and The Red Rover are the best, as the five Leather Stocking tales—The
Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers,
The Prairie,—are the best of his stories of Indian life. His other
fictions include The Bravo; Lionel Lincoln, or The Leaguer of Boston;
The Water-Witch; The Two Admirals; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish; The
Heidenmauer; The Headsman; Homeward Bound; Home as Found; The Monikins,
the weakest of all his works; Mercedes of Castile; Wing-and-Wing;
Wyandotté; Afloat and Ashore; Satanstoe; The Chainbearer; The Red
Skins; Jack Tier; The Crater; The Oak Openings; The Sea Lions; The Ways
of the Hour; Miles Wallingford. He wrote, also, History of the United
States Navy; Sketches of Switzerland; Gleanings in Europe; Notions of
the Americans. See Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant’s Memorial
Discourse, 1852; Coffin’s Home of Cooper, 1872; Life, by Lounsbury,
1882; Bryant and his Friends, 1886; Richardson’s American Literature;
The Bookman, March, 1897.Ap. Hou. Put.
Cooper, Myles.E., 1735-1785. An Episcopal clergyman who
came to America in 1762, and was president of King’s (now Columbia)
College, 1763-1775. Being an ardent loyalist, he was obliged to leave
the colony, and returned to England. Friendly Advice to all Reasonable
Americans on our Political Confusions; Poems on Several Occasions;
Address to the Episcopalians of Virginia; The American Querist.
Cooper, Peter.N. Y., 1791-1883. A famous philanthropist
of New York city who founded the Cooper Institute. Ideas for a System
of Good Government; Financial Opinions, with Autobiography.
Cooper, Susan Fenimore.N. Y., 1813-1894. Daughter of J.
F. Cooper, supra. A writer of rural sketches, whose life was
passed at Cooperstown, New York. Rural Hours; Country Rambles; Rhyme
and Reason; Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; Mount Vernon and
the Children of America. Hou.
Cooper, Thomas.E., 1759-1840. A noted scientist who came
to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestley, infra, and was president
of the College of South Carolina, 1820-34. Letters on the Slave Trade;
Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; Information concerning
America; The Bankrupt Law of America compared with that of England;
Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence; Elements of Political Economy; An
English Version of the Institutes of Justinian.
Cooper, William.Ms., 1694-1743. A once famous
Congregational minister of Boston. Tract Defending Inoculation for the
Small Pox, 1720; The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life.
Cope, Edward Drinker.Pa., 1840-1897. A noted
Philadelphia naturalist. Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and
Reptilia of North America; Primary Groups of Batrachia Anura;
Systematic Relations of the Fishes; Vertebrate Palæontology of New
Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of the West; The Origin of the Fittest,
include the more important of his writings. Ap.
Cope, Gilbert.Pa., 1840- ——. A genealogist of
Pennsylvania. Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham;
Genealogy of the Dutton Family; Genealogy of the Sharpless Family;
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Coppée, Henry.Ga., 1821-1895. A prominent educator,
president of Lehigh University, 1866-75, and professor there until his
death. During the Mexican War he served as an officer in the American
army. His most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain
by the Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached
at the close of Irving’s “Mahomet and his Successors.” His other
works comprise Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his
Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; Manual of
Court Martial. Lit.
Copway, George, or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. Mch.,
1818-c. 1869. An Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a
journalist in New York City, and was well known as a lecturer.
Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway’s “American Indian;” The
Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The Ojibway Conquest, a
poem; Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe, include the most of
his writings.
Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Fairfield].Ct.,
1835- ——. A Chicago writer of fiction and other works. Rebecca; His
Marriage Vow; Belle and the Boys; A Woman’s Philosophy of Love, a
psychological treatise. Le.
Corbin, John.Il., 1870- ——. Son of Mrs. Corbin,
supra. The Elizabethan Hamlet. Scr.
Cornelius, Elias.N. Y., 1794-1852. A missionary to the
Cherokee Indians who wrote The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic
Narrative.
Cornell, Alonzo Barton.N. Y., 1832- ——. A governor
of New York, 1880-83, and a son of the founder of Cornell University.
His only publication is True and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell: a
Filial Tribute. Bar.
Cornell, John Henry.N. Y., 1828-1894. A musician and
organist of New York City. Primer of Modern Musical Tonality; Practice
of Sight Singing; Easy Method of Modulation; Theory and Practice of
Musical Form; A Manual of Roman Chant; Congregational Tune Book.
Cornell, William Mason.Ms., 1802-1895. A physician of
Boston and elsewhere. Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools;
Life of Horace Greeley; Grammar of the English Language; Consumption
Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; History of Pennsylvania, include the
most of his writings. Fu. Lo.
Cornwall, Henry Bedinger.Ct., 1844- ——. A professor of
mineralogy at Princeton College since 1873, who has published A Manual
of Blow-Pipe Analysis.
Cornwallis, Kinahan.E., 1835- ——. A New York
journalist who came to America about 1860. His more important works
are Yarra Yarra, or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical Narrative; The
New Eldorado of British Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society;
My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance;
Pilgrims of Fashion; The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange.
Har.
Cornwell, Henry Sylvester.N. H., 1831-1886. A physician
of New London, Connecticut, who wrote much thoughtful verse. The Land
of Dreams and Other Poems (1879), is the only collection that has been
made of his poems.
Corson, Hiram.Pa., 1828- ——. A Chaucerian and Early
English scholar, professor at Cornell University since 1870. The Voice
and Spiritual Education; Elocutionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of
Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of Browning; Lectures on English
Language and Literature; The Aims of Literary Study; Vocal Culture in
Relation to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early English; Handbook of
Anglo-Saxon and Early English. He has also edited Chaucer’s Legende of
Goode Women. Gi. Ho. Mac.
Corson, Juliet.Ms., 1842-1897. A cooking instructor
of New York, founder of the School of Cooking there in 1876. Cooking
Manual; Cooking School Text-Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families
of Six; Meals for the Million; Practical American Cookery; Family
Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; Diet for Invalids and Children.
Do. Har.
Corthell, Elmer Lawrence.Ms., 1840- ——. A civil
engineer of distinction. History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the
Mississippi.
Corwin, Edward Tanjore.N. Y., 1834- ——. A Reformed
Dutch clergyman of New Jersey, among whose works are Manual of the
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America; Manual of the
Reformed Church in America; Corwin Genealogy.
Cossett, Franceway Ranna.N. H., 1790-1863. A Cumberland
Presbyterian clergyman of Tennessee. He published The Life and Times
of Ewing, which gives a history of the beginnings of the Cumberland
Presbyterian denomination.
Cotheal, Alexander Isaac.N. Y., 1804-1894. An Oriental
scholar of New York City who published Sketch of the Language of the
Mosquito Indians; Atoff the Generous, a translation from the Arabic.
Cotting, John Ruggles.Ms., 1783-1867. A once noted
Georgia scientist. Introduction to Chemistry; Lectures on Geology;
Soils and Manures.
Cotton, John.E., 1585-1652. The foremost clergyman of
his century in New England. He came to the Massachusetts colony in
1633, having been for 20 years vicar of St. Botolph’s church in Boston,
Lincolnshire. He was at once made teacher of the church in the new
settlement of Boston, and until his death exercised an influence in
church and state unequalled by any one since in New England. He was a
prolific writer, but his writings have no charm of style, and the power
which he wielded was a force that lay in the man himself, not in his
books. His principal works comprise The Bloody Tenet Washed and made
White in the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger Williams’s famous
“Bloody Tenet of Persecution”; A Brief Exposition upon Ecclesiastes;
The Covenant of Grace; The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; The Way
of the Congregational Churches Cleared; The Way of Life; Treatise
concerning Predestination; The New Covenant; Meat for Strong Men,
Spiritual Milk for Babes. See Cotton Mather’s Magnalia; Lives by
Norton, 1653; McClure, 1843; Tyler’s American Literature.
Coues [kŏwz], Elliott.N. H., 1842-1899. An
eminent naturalist connected with the Smithsonian Institution. Key
to North American Birds; Field Ornithology; Birds of the Northwest;
Fur-Bearing Animals; Check List of North American Birds; Birds of the
Colorado Valley; New England Bird Life (with W. A. Stearns); Biogen,
a Speculation on the Origin of Life; The Dæmon of Darwin; Our Native
Birds. Est. Le. Wn.
Coulter, John Merle.Ch., 1851- ——. A botanist who was
president of the Indiana State University, 1891-93. Synopsis of the
Flora of Colorado (with T. C. Porter); Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany;
Manual of Texan Botany; Text-Book of Western Botany (with Asa Gray,
infra).
Councilman, William Thomas.Md., 1854- ——. A physician
and instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Contribution to the Study
of Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; On the
Ætiology of Malaria, and other works.
Courtenay [kŭrt´ni], Edward Henry.Md., 1803-1853.
A civil engineer who was professor of mathematics in the University of
Virginia, 1842-53, and published a Treatise on Differential Calculus
and the Calculus of Variations.
Covell, James.Ms., 1796-1845. A Methodist clergyman
of New York and Vermont who published a Dictionary of the Bible.
Meth.
Cowan, Frank.Pa., 1844- ——. A Pennsylvania lawyer and
journalist, who has travelled extensively and who entered Corea before
that country had made any treaties with foreign nations. Curious Facts
in the History of Insects; Zomara, a Romance of Spain; Southwestern
Pennsylvania in Song and Story; The City of the Royal Palm, and Other
Poems; A Visit in Verse to Honolulu; Fact and Fancy in New Zealand.
Cowdin, Jasper Barnett. 18— - ——. Esther’s Wedding and Other
Poems.
Cowell, Benjamin.Ms., 1781-1860. A jurist of Providence
who published an historical work, The Spirit of ’76.
Cowen, Patrick H. ——-18—. Digest of Criminal Decisions of
the Court of New York; Reports of Criminal Cases; The Poor Laws of the
State of New York.
Cowles [kōlz], Henry.Ct., 1803-1881. A
Congregational clergyman who was professor of theology at Oberlin
College, 1835-48. Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims; Hebrew History;
Critical Notes on the Old and New Testament, in 16 volumes. Ap.
Cowley, Charles.E., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Lowell.
Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of Lowell; Illustrated History of
Lowell; Famous Divorces of all Ages; Our Divorce Courts.
Cox, Edward Travers.Va., 1821- ——. A geologist of New
York City who made a number of important surveys, and published Annual
Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana.
Cox, Jacob Dolson.O., 1828-1900. An Ohio lawyer who
served in the Union army during the Civil War as major-general, was
governor of Ohio, 1860-67, Secretary of the Interior, 1869-1870, and
president of Cincinnati University, 1885. Atlanta: The March to the
Sea; The Second Battle of Bull Run as connected with the Fitz-John
Porter Case. Scr.
Cox, Palmer.Q., 1840- ——. An artist of New York City
widely known by the various volumes of the Brownie Books, a series of
juveniles consisting of very original humourous pictures and somewhat
indifferent verses. Other works of his include Squibs, or Every-Day
Life Illustrated; Hans Von Petter’s Trip to Gotham; How Columbus Found
America; That Stanley; Queer People, such as Goblins, etc.; Queer
People with Claws and Wings; Queer People with Wings and Stings.
Cent.
Cox, Samuel Hanson.N. J., 1793-1880. A Presbyterian
clergyman of the New School party noted for his eccentricities and
fondness for controversy. Quakerism not Christianity; Theopneuston, or
Select Scriptures Considered; Interviews Memorable and Useful, are his
most important writings.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan.O., 1824-1889. A noted Democratic
Congressman from Ohio, and later from New York, who was a popular
lecturer, humourist, and writer of travels. He was minister to Turkey,
1885-86. Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; Three Decades of
Federal Legislation; Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey; A Buckeye
Abroad; Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers,
and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sunbeams; Free Land and Free Trade.
Har.
Coxe, Arthur Cleveland.N. J., 1818-1896. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Western New York. A son of S. H. Cox,
supra, having adopted an older spelling of his surname. A writer
of much force and originality, holding opinions with great tenacity
and much given to controversy. Christian Ballads; Halloween; Athanasius
and Other Poems; Advent, a Mystery; Saul, a Mystery; Athwold, a
Romaunt; St. Jonathan, the Lay of a Scald, include his writings in
verse. His other works comprise Impressions of England; Thoughts on
the Services; Apollos, or the Way of God; The Criterion, a Means of
Distinguishing Truth from Error; Institutes of Christian History;
Signs of the Times; L’Episcopat de l’Occident, a defence of Anglican
theology; The Penitential. Ap. Dut. Lip.
Coxe, Eckley Brinton.Pa., 1839-1895. A Pennsylvania
mining engineer who was the author of Theoretical Mechanics.
Coxe, John Redman.N. J., 1773-1864. A noted physician
who was the first to introduce the practice of vaccination in
Philadelphia. Inflammation; Importance of Medicine; Vaccination;
Combustion; American Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends in Another
World; Agaricus Atramentarius; The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen
Epitomized; Refutation of Harvey’s Claim to the Discovery of the
Circulation of the Blood; Appeal to the Public.
Coxe, Margaret.N. J., 1800-18—. Claims of the Country
on American Females; Wonders of the Deep; Ladies’ Companion.
Coxe, Tench.Pa., 1755-1824. A once noted Philadelphia
writer on commerce and political economy. Inquiry into the Principles
of a Commercial System for the United States; View of the United
States; On the Navigation Act; Thoughts on Naval Power; Address on
American Manufactures.
Coyle, John Patterson.Pa., 1852-1895. A Congregational
clergyman formerly of North Adams, Massachusetts, but settled in Denver
at the time of his death. The Imperial Christ, with a Biographical
Introduction by George A. Gates; The Spirit in Literature and Life.
Hou.
Cozzens, Frederick Swartwout.N. Y., 1818-1869. A
wine merchant of New York City, once noted as a humourist, but now
neglected. The Sparrowgrass Papers; Acadia, or a Sojourn among the
Blue Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men; Stone
House on the Susquehanna; Prismatics; Fitz-Greene Halleck, a Memorial.
Cozzens, Issachar.R. I., 1781-18—. Uncle of F. S.
Cozzens, supra. A mineralogist who published History of New York
Island.
Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth.Ms., 1834-1878. A lawyer of
Arizona. Nobody’s Husband; The Marvellous Country, or Three Years in
Arizona; The Young Trail Hunters; The Young Silver Seekers; Crossing
the Quicksands. Le.
Craddock, Charles Egbert.See Murfree, Mary Noailles.
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.Me., 1850- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of New York City and elsewhere. Through the Eye to the Heart;
Childhood; The Ideal Sunday-School; The Rescue of Child Soul; Must the
Old Testament Go?; The Sabbath for Man; Talks to Boys and Girls about
Jesus; Successful Men of To-Day; Practical Christian Sociology, include
the larger number of his writings. Fu. Le.
Crafts, William.S. C., 1787-1826. A once noted lawyer
and journalist of Charleston. See Poems, Essays, and Orations, with
Memoir, by S. Gilman, infra, 1828.
Crafts, William Augustus. 1819- ——. A Boston writer. Life of
General Grant; History of the United States; Pioneers in the Settlement
of America.
Cram, Ralph Adams.N. H., 1863- ——. An architect of
Boston. The Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and
White, a book of ghost stories; In the Island of Avalon, a book of
verse. Cop. St.
Cranch, Christopher Pearse.Va., 1813-1892. Son of W.
Cranch, infra. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister, but
after a few years in the ministry gave up his profession and devoted
himself to art. For many years he lived in Italy and Paris, but
his later years were spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His early
sympathies were with the New England Transcendentalists, and his best
known poem, Thought, was written for The Dial. His work as a poet is
uneven, but at its best is excellent. It never strongly appealed to
popular tastes, but was always appreciated by thoughtful minds. Poems,
1844; The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems; Ariel and Caliban, and
Other Poems; Satan: a Libretto; The Æneid in English Blank Verse. The
Last of the Huggermuggers; Kobboltzo, are juvenile prose tales. Hou.
Le.
Cranch, Richard.E., 1726-1811. A lawyer of Braintree,
Massachusetts, who published Views of the Prophets concerning
Anti-Christ.
Cranch, William.Ms., 1769-1855. Son of R. Cranch,
supra. A noted jurist who was chief justice of the District of
Columbia, 1805-55. Reports of Cases in the United States District Court
of the District of Columbia, 1801-41; Supreme Court Reports, 1800-1815.
Crandall, Charles Henry.N. Y., 1858- ——. A littérateur
of Springdale, Connecticut. Wayside Music, a book of verse. Put.
Crane, Cephas Bennett.N. Y., 1833- ——. A Baptist
clergyman of Boston. The Spiritual Court of the Christian Church.
Crane, Jonathan Townley.N. J., 1819-1880. A Methodist
clergyman of New Jersey. Methodism and its Methods; The Right Way;
Essay on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; Holiness
the Birthright of all God’s Children.
Crane, Oliver.N. J., 1822-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman
who lived in Boston during his latest years. Minto and Other Poems;
Virgil’s Aeneid translated literally into English dactylic hexameter.
Crane, Stephen.N. J., 1870-1900. A popular novelist
of New York City. George’s Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines,
a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage,
a striking historical romance of the Civil War in America; Maggie, a
story of slum life. Ap. Cop.
Crane, Thomas Frederick.N. Y., 1844- ——. A professor
of Romance languages at Cornell University. Italian Popular Tales;
The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de
Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française;
La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; Chansons Populaires de la
France.
Crane, William Carey.Va., 1816-1885. A Baptist clergyman
of Texas, president of Baylor University, 1863-1885, which was renamed
Crane College in his honour, 1885. Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston,
and lesser works.
Crawford, Mrs. Alice [Arnold].Wis., 1850-1874. A
Milwaukee writer who published A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends, a
collection of verse.
Crawford, Francis Marion.Iy., 1854- ——. A son of the
noted sculptor, Crawford. His life has been mainly spent in Italy,
where he has devoted himself to novel-writing with great perseverance.
His novels are of varying degrees of excellence and always
entertaining, but none of them reach the high-water mark of enduring
excellence. Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An
American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone’s Sin; A Tale of a
Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio’s Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the
Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant’ Ilario; A Cigarette-maker’s Romance;
Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children
of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine
Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The
Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; Taquisara. See
Vedder’s American Writers.Mac. Mer. Scr.
Crawford, Nathaniel Morton.Ga., 1811-1871. A Baptist
minister of Kentucky, president of Georgetown College, Kentucky,
1865-71, and the author of Christian Paradoxes.
Crayon, Porte.See Strother.
Creswell, Mrs. Julia [Pleasants].Al., 1827-1886. A
Southern writer who published Aphelia and Other Poems by Two Cousins;
Callamura, an allegorical novel.
Crocker, George Glover.Ms., 1843- ——. A lawyer of
Boston. Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies.
Crocker, Mrs. Hannah [Mather].Ms., 1765-1847. A
granddaughter of Cotton Mather, infra. Letters on Free Masonry;
The School of Reform; Observations on the Rights of Woman.
Crocker, Uriel Haskell.Ms., 1832-1902. Brother of
G. G. Crocker, supra. A lawyer of Boston. The Cause of Hard
Times; Notes on Common Forms; Book of Massachusetts Law; Excessive
Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress; Notes on General Statutes of
Massachusetts (with G. G. Crocker). Lit.
Crockett, David.Tn., 1786-1836. A noted hunter and
pioneer who enlisted in the Texan army in the revolt against Mexico,
and was slain in the massacre at the Alamo, in San Antonio. Tour to the
North and Down East; Life of David Crockett, by Himself (1834); Colonel
Crockett’s Exploits in Texas; Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir Apparent;
Leisure Hour Musings in Rhyme. See Life by E. S. Ellis; Bibliography
of Texas.
Croffut, William Augustus.Ct., 1835- ——. A well-known
journalist attached to many journals, East and West, and connected
with the United States Geological Survey since 1888. The War History
of Connecticut; A Helping Hand; Bourbon Ballads; Deseret, an Opera;
A Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of travels; The Vanderbilts; The
Folks Next Door; The Prophecy, and Other Poems.
Croly, David Goodman.N. Y., 1829-1889. A journalist of
New York City. Life of Horatio Seymour; History of Reconstruction; The
Positivist Primer; Glimpses of the Future.
Croly, Mrs. Jane Cunningham. “Jennie June.” E.,
1829-1901. Wife of D. G. Croly, supra. The founder of Sorosis,
and editor of Demorest’s Magazine, 1860-87. The originator of duplicate
correspondence. Talks on Women’s Topics; For Better or Worse; Knitters
and Crochet; Letters and Monograms; Cookery Book for Young Beginners;
Thrown upon her Own Resources. Cr.
Crooks, George Richard.Pa., 1822-1897. A Methodist
clergyman and religious journalist. Life of John McClintock,
infra; Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books in Latin and Greek
(with J. McClintock); Latin-English Lexicon (with A. J. Schem). Fu.
Har.
Crosby, Alpheus.N. H., 1810-1874. An educator of
Massachusetts who published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; Greek Tables;
First Lessons in Geometry; an edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis.
Crosby, Howard.N. Y., 1826-1891. A Presbyterian
clergyman long prominent in New York City who was chancellor of the
University of New York city, 1870-81. The Christian Preacher; Notes on
the New Testament; Life of Jesus; Christ and Science; At the Lord’s
Table; Sermons; Lands of the Moslem; Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with
Notes; Bible Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View of the Jewish Church;
The Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the Church; Thoughts on
the Pentateuch; Commentary on the New Testament, include his principal
works. Fu. Ran.
Crosby, Nathan.N. H., 1798-1885. Brother of A. Crosby,
supra. A prominent lawyer of Lowell, who published First Half
Century of Dartmouth College.
Crosby, William Otis.O., 1850- ——. A professor of
geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published
Common Minerals and Rocks; Contributions to the Geology of Eastern
Massachusetts.
Cross, Charles Robert.N. Y., 1848- ——. A professor
of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Course in
Elementary Physics; Lecture Notes on Mechanics and Optics.
Cross, David Wallace.N. Y., 1814-1891. A Cleveland
lawyer of local fame as a sportsman. Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun.
Cross, Joseph.E., 1813-1893. An Episcopal clergyman who
from 1829-1856 was a prominent Methodist divine. The more important of
his writings include Headlands of Faith; Pisgah Views of the Promised
Inheritance; A Year in Europe; Coals from the Altar; Pauline Charity;
Prelections on Charity; Old Wine and New.
Cross, Mrs. Jane Tandy [Chinn] [Harding].Ky., 1817-1870.
Wife of J. Cross, supra. Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for
my Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a
translation from the Spanish; Duncan Adair, a novel.
Croswell, Andrew. 1709-1785. A Boston clergyman, very active as
a controversialist. The Apostle’s Advice to the Jailor Improved; Heaven
shut against Arminians and Antinomians.
Croswell, Harry.Ct., 1778-1858. An Episcopal clergyman
who was rector of Trinity Church, New Haven, 1816-58, but in earlier
life was a political journalist noted for his scathing editorials.
Young Churchman’s Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy
Sacrament.
Croswell, William.Ms., 1804-1851. Son of H. Croswell,
supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, the first rector of the
Church of the Advent. Some of his hymns appear in various religious
anthologies and hymnals. Poems Sacred and Secular.
Crowe, Winfield Scott.Ind., 1850- ——. A Universalist
clergyman, of Newark, New Jersey, editor of the Universalist Monthly.
The Man of Evolution; The God of Evolution; The Lordship of Jesus.
Crowell, Eugene.N. Y., 1817-1894. A writer of San
Francisco, and later of New York city, who was a zealous defender
of Spiritualism. The Identity of Primitive Christianity with Modern
Spiritualism; The Spirit World; The Philosophy of Death; Spiritualism
and Insanity; The Religion of Spiritualism.
Crowell, William.Ms., 1806-1871. A Baptist clergyman
who published The Church Member’s Manual of Ecclesiastical Principles;
Church Member’s Handbook; History of Baptist Literature for Fifty Years.
Cruger, Mrs. Julia Grinnell [Storrow]. “Julien Gordon.”
F., 18— - ——. A popular novelist of New York city. A
Diplomat’s Diary; Poppaea; A Successful Man; A Wedding and Other
Stories; Mademoiselle Réséda; A Puritan Pagan. Lip.
Cruger, Mary.N. Y., 1834- ——. A writer of Montrose,
New York. Hyperæsthesia; A Den of Thieves, or the Lay Reader of St.
Mark’s; The Vanderheyde Manor House; How She Did It; Brotherhood.
Fo. Lo.
Crummell, Alexander.N. Y., 1819-1898. A coloured
Episcopal clergyman of Washington. The Future of Africa; Greatness of
Christ, and Other Sermons; Africa and America.
Cruse, Christian Frederick.Pa., 1794-1864. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city whose translation of the Ecclesiastical
History of Eusebius is a standard English version.
Cruse, Mary Anne.Al., 18— - ——. A writer and educator
of Huntsville, Alabama. Besides a novel of the Civil War, Cameron Hall,
she has written several popular Sunday-school books, such as The Little
Episcopalian; Bessie Melville.
Cruttenden, Daniel Henry.N. Y., 1816-1874. An educator
of New York city, among whose text-books are Systematic Arithmetic
Series; The Philosophy of Language; Rhetorical Grammar.
Crynkle, Nym.See Wheeler, A. C.
Culbertson, Matthew Simpson.Pa., 1818-1862. A
Presbyterian missionary to China. Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or
Religious Notions in North China.
Cullum, George Washington.N. Y., 1809-1892. A brevet
major-general in the United States army. Military Bridges with
India-Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Register of the Officers and
Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, 1802-90; System
of Military Bridges. Hou.
Cumming, Kate.Al., c. 1835- ——. A resident
of Mobile, prominent during the Civil War as an organizer of field
hospitals in the Confederate army. Hospital Life in Tennessee from the
Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War.
Cummings, Amos Jay.N. Y., 1842-1902. A journalist of New
York city. Horace Greeley Campaign Songster; Sayings of Uncle Rufus;
Ziska Letters.
Cummings, Jeremiah W.D. C., 1823-1866. A once popular
Roman Catholic clergyman of New York city. Italian Legends; Songs for
Catholic Schools; Spiritual Progress; The Silver Stole.
Cummings, Thomas Seir.E., 1804-1894. A New York artist
who was author of the Historic Annals of the National Academy from its
Foundation to 1865.
Cummins, Ebenezer Harlow.N. C., 1790-1835. A clergyman
and magistrate of Baltimore. Geography of Alabama; History of the Late
War (1820).
Cummins, Maria Susanna.Ms., 1827-1866. A once famous
novelist of Massachusetts, whose first book, The Lamplighter, enjoyed
for a time a phenomenal popularity. Her subsequent stories include El
Fureidîs, a tale of Palestine; Haunted Hearts; Mabel Vaughan. Cr.
Hou.
Curry, Daniel.N. Y., 1809-1887. A Methodist divine of
note. New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark,
supra; Fragments, Religious and Theological; Platform Papers.
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe.Ga., 1825-1903. A Baptist
clergyman who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War,
achieved prominence as an educator, and was United States Minister to
Spain in 1885. Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in
Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a
Study; Southern States of the American Union.
Curry, Otway.O., 1804-1855. An Ohio journalist who
published Love of the Past, a poem.
Curry, Samuel Silas.Tn., 1847- ——. An educator of
Boston whose specialty is the culture of expression. The Province of
Expression; Lessons in Vocal Expression; Imagination and Dramatic
Instinct.
Curtin, Jeremiah.Wis., 1838- ——. Myths and Folk-Lore
of Ireland; Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fairies and the
Ghost World, collected from Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths
and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. His
translations include Tales of Three Centuries, from the Russian of
Zagoskin; The Romances of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish. Lit.
Curtis, Alva.N. H., 1797-1881. An Ohio physician and
medical writer. Medical Discussions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory and
Practice of Medicine; Medical Criticisms.
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins.Ms., 1809-1874. A noted jurist
of Boston. Reports of Cases in the Circuit Courts of the United States;
United States Supreme Court Decisions; Digest and Decisions of United
States Supreme Court. See Memoir by G. T. Curtis.Lit.
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, Jr.Ms., 1855-1891. Son of B.
R. Curtis, supra. A municipal court judge of Boston. Dottings
Round the Circle, a volume of travels.
Curtis, Mrs. Caroline Gardiner [Cary]. “Carroll Winchester.” N.
Y., 1827- ——. A novelist of Boston. From Madge to Margaret; The Love
of a Lifetime.
Curtis, Edward.R. I., 1838- ——. Brother of G. W.
Curtis, infra. A physician of New York who has published Manual
of General Medical Technology.
Curtis, George Ticknor.Ms., 1812-1894. Brother of B.
R. Curtis, supra. An eminent lawyer of New York city, well
known as a legal writer and biographer. Digest of English and American
Admiralty Decisions; Digest of Decisions of Courts of Common Law and
Admiralty in the United States; American Conveyancer; Law of Patents;
Equity Precedents; Inventor’s Manual; Law of Copyright; Rights and
Duties of Merchant Seamen; Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice,
and Peculiar Jurisdiction of United States Courts; A History of the
Constitution of the United States; Life of James Buchanan; Life of
Daniel Webster; Creation or Evolution; Last Years of Daniel Webster;
John Charaxes, a novel. Har. Lit.
Curtis, George William.R. I., 1824-1892. One of the
foremost of American essayists, and a writer whose influence was as
helpful as it was widespread. In boyhood he was one of the members of
the famous Brook Farm Association at West Roxbury. To Putnam’s Monthly
he contributed The Potiphar Papers, a spirited satire upon society;
and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel,
Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of
Harper’s Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of
Harper’s Weekly. He was zealous in the cause of civil service reform,
and by his efforts as writer and lecturer accomplished very much in
that direction. Beside the volumes already named, his writings include
Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James
Russell Lowell, an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy
Chair; Speeches, Addresses, &c., edited by C. E. Norton, infra;
Literary and Social Essays. See Life by E. Cary, 1895; Address by J.
W. Chadwick, supra; Century Magazine, February, 1883; Smalley’s Studies
of Men.
Curtis, Moses Ashley.Ms., 1808-1872. A botanist and
Episcopal clergyman of North Carolina. Edible Fungi of North Carolina;
Contributions to Mycology of North America; Catalogue of the Plants of
North Carolina; Esculent Fungi; Indigenous and Native Plants of North
Carolina.
Curtis, Samuel Ives.Ct., 1844- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary of Chicago. The Name
Maccabee; The Levitical Priests; Ingersoll and Moses; The Date of our
Gospels. Rev.
Curtis, Thomas F.E., 1815-1872. A Baptist divine who
was for some years president of Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania.
Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years (1857); The
Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures, a work which
occupies the Colenso position on the subject and is in places more
advanced.
Curtis, William Eleroy.O., 1850- ——. A prominent
Washington journalist. The United States and Foreign Powers; Life of
Zachariah Chandler; The Capitals of Spanish America; The Land of the
Nihilist; Venezuela; The Yankees of the East: Japan Sketches; The True
Thomas Jefferson. Har. St.
Curtiss, Mrs. Abby [Allin].Ct., 1820- ——. A
verse-writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Home Ballads (1850).
Curwen, Samuel.Ms., 1715-1802. A loyalist who lived in
England during the American Revolution, but returned after its close
to his native town of Salem. While an exile he kept a journal which
contains much valuable information concerning loyalist exiles. It was
first published in 1842, with the title Journal and Letters of the Late
Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, an American Refugee in England,
1775-1884.
Cushing, Caleb.Ms., 1800-1879. A Massachusetts statesman
and diplomatist, who was attorney-general of the United States,
1853-57. Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution
in France, 1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life
of William Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the
United States, 1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport;
The Treaty of Washington. See Appleton’s American Biography.Har.
Cushing, Luther Stearns.Ms., 1803-1856. A well-known
authority on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was
lecturer on Roman Law in Harvard University, 1848-56. Massachusetts
Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process;
Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts;
Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law
and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex
Parliamentaria Americana; Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the
Deliberative Assemblies. Lit.
Cushing, William.Ms., 1811-1895. Brother of L. S.
Cushing, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who,
after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself to literary research,
and published Anonyms; Initials and Pseudonyms, useful guide-books of
literary information. Cr.
Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bacon].Mch., 184- - ——. Wife
of G. A. Custer, infra. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota
with General Custer; Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas
and Texas; Following the Guidon; The Boy General. Har. Scr.
Custer, George Armstrong.O., 1839-1876. A famous general
in the Federal army during the Civil War, who afterwards became noted
in campaigns against the Indians, and was killed with his entire
command in a battle with the Sioux in the Black Hills. My Life on the
Plains was his only publication.
Custis, George Washington Parke.Va., 1781-1857. An
adopted son of General Washington. He published Recollections of
Washington.
Cuthbert, James Hazard.S. C., 1822- ——. A Baptist
divine of Washington. Our Mission as Baptists; Life of Richard Fuller,
infra.
Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson.Ms., 1831-1870. A professor
of modern languages at Harvard University, 1865-1870. War Poems;
Stella. See Memoir by A. P. Peabody, infra, 1872.
Cutler, Mrs. Hannah Maria [Tracy] [Conant].Ms.,
1815-1896. A prominent woman-suffragist who became a physician in 1879,
and practiced in Cobden, Illinois. Woman as She Was, Is, and Should Be;
Phillipia, or A Woman’s Question; The Fortunes of Michael Doyle, or
Home Rule for Ireland.
Cutler, Jervis.Ms., 1768-1844. A Western pioneer who
published Topographical Description of the Western Country (1812).
See Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler.
Cutler, Mrs. Lizzie [Petit].Va., 1836- ——. A novelist
of New York City. Light and Darkness; Household Mysteries, a romance of
Southern life; The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.
Cutter, George Washington.Ms., 1801-1865. A verse-writer
of Washington. Buena Vista, and Other Poems; Song of Steam; Poems
National and Patriotic.
Cutting, Hiram Adolphus.Vt., 1832-1892. A State
geologist of Vermont. Mining in Vermont; Climatology of Vermont;
Microscopic Revelations; Farm Pests; Notes on Building Stones; Lectures
on Plants, Fertilization, etc.; Lectures on Milk, etc.; Farm Lectures;
Vermont Agricultural Reports.
Cutting, Sewall Sylvester.Vt., 1813-1882. A Baptist
clergyman and religious journalist. Historical Vindications; Struggles
and Triumphs of Religious Liberty; Ancient Baptistries.
Cuyler [ky´ler], Theodore Ledyard.N. Y.,
1822- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, formerly pastor of
Lafayette Avenue Church of Brooklyn. Stray Arrows; Cedar Christian; The
Empty Crib; Wayside Springs; Right to the Point; Thought Hives; God’s
Light on Dark Clouds; Pointed Papers; Heart Life; From the Nile to
Norway; Newly Enlisted, or Talks to Young Converts; The Young Preacher;
Stirring the Eagle’s Nest; How To Be a Pastor; Christianity in the
Home, comprise the greater number of his works. Rev.
D
Dabney, Richard.Va., 1787-1825. A once noted instructor
in Richmond, Virginia, whose Poems, Original and Translated, contain
scholarly translations from Euripides, Alcæus, and other classic poets.
Dabney, Richard Heath.Va., 1859- ——. The Causes of the
French Revolution. Ho.
Dabney, Robert Lewis.Va., 1820-1898. Nephew of R.
Dabney, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1882 professor of
moral philosophy in the University of Texas. Life of T. S. Sampson;
Life and Campaigns of General Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric,
or Lectures on Preaching; Defence of Virginia and the South; The
Sensualistic Philosophy of the 19th Century; A Course of Systematic
and Polemic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; Collected Discussions.
Ran.
Dabney, Virginius.Va., 1835-1894. A staff officer in the
Confederate service during the Civil War, who published Don Miff, a
Symphony of Life; Gold That Did Not Glitter. Lip.
Daboll [da´bŏl], Nathan. 1750-1818. A once famous
instructor of Connecticut. He prepared The Schoolmaster’s Assistant,
long a standard text-book on arithmetic, and The Practical Navigator.
Daboll, Nathan.Ct., 1782-1863. Son of N. Daboll,
supra. A probate judge of Connecticut. The author, with his son,
of Daboll’s New Arithmetic, and compiler of the New England Almanac,
begun by the father in 1773. The second of the name continued its
preparation from 1818 to the year of his own death.
Da Costa, Jacob Mandes.W. I., 1833-1900. A Philadelphia
physician connected with Jefferson Medical College since 1864, and a
specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs. Epithelial Tumours and
Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The
Physicians of the Last Century; Serous Apoplexy; Medical Diagnosis;
Inhalation in Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages; Strain
and Over-action of the Heart; Harvey and his Discovery. Lip.
Dadd, George H.E., c. 1813- ——. A veterinary
surgeon who has published The Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterinary
Science; Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse; The American Cattle
Doctor.
Dagg, John Leadley.Va., 1794-1884. A Baptist clergyman
who retired from the ministry in 1833, and was president of Mercer
University, Georgia, 1844-56. Manual of Theology; Elements of Moral
Science; Evidences of Christianity; English Grammar. Bap.
Dahlgren, John Adolph.Pa., 1809-1870. A famous United
States naval officer, made admiral in 1863, who invented the cannon
bearing his name, and conducted the siege of Charleston during the
Civil War. Thirty-Two Pounder Practice for Rangers; System of Boat
Armament in the United States Navy; Naval Percussion Locks and
Primers; Ordnance Memoranda; Shells and Shell Guns; Memoir of Ulric
Dahlgren; Notes on Maritime International Law, edited by Charles
Cowley, supra. See Memoir by Mrs. Dahlgren, infra.
Dahlgren, Mrs. Madeleine [Vinton] [Goddard].O.,
1835-1898. Second wife of J. A. Dahlgren, supra, to whom she
was married in 1865. A novelist of Washington. Idealities; Thoughts
on Female Suffrage; South Sea Sketches; Etiquette of Social Life
in Washington; Memoir of Admiral Dahlgren; South Mountain Magic,
a Narrative; A Washington Winter, a Society Novel; The Lost Name;
Divorced; Lights and Shadows of a Life. Lip.
Dalcho, Frederick.E., 1777-1836. An Episcopal clergyman
of Charleston, rector of St. Michael’s Church there, 1819-36, but in
earlier life successively a physician and journalist. The Evidence of
the Divinity of Our Saviour. Historic Account of the Episcopal Church
in South Carolina; Ahiman Rezon, a work for freemasons.
Dale, James Wilkinson.Del., 1812-1881. A clergyman of
eastern Pennsylvania. The Cup and the Cross, or the Baptism of Calvary;
Classic Baptism; Judaic Baptism; Johannic Baptism; Christic and
Patristic Baptism.
Dales, John Blakely.N. Y., 1815-1893. A United
Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, whose principal writings
include Roman Catholicism; Dangers and Duties of Young Men; The Gospel
Minister.
Dall, Mrs. Caroline Wells [Healey].Ms., 1822- ——. Wife
of C. H. A. Dall, infra. A Washington writer whose early efforts
were mainly in the line of social reforms, while her later works were
concerned with general literature. Essays and Sketches; Historical
Pictures Retouched; Life of Dr. Marie Zakrzewski; Woman’s Rights
under the Law; The Romance of the Association, or one Last Glimpse
of Charlotte Temple and Eliza Wharton; What we Really Know about
Shakespeare; Woman’s Place in History; Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee;
College, Market and Court; Woman’s Right to Labor; Essays on Confucius;
Patty Gray’s Journey to the Cotton Islands; My First Holiday, or
Letters from Colorado; Egypt’s Place in History, include her principal
works. Le. Rob.
Dall, Charles Henry Appleton.Md., 1816-1886. A Unitarian
missionary to Calcutta. The Temperance Movement in Modern Times;
Theism, in Questions and Answers.
Dall, William Healey.Ms., 1845- ——. Son of C. H.
and C. W. Dall, supra. A naturalist of distinction who has
been connected with the United States Coast Survey and the Geological
Survey. Alaska and its Resources (1870); Tribes of the Extreme
Northwest; Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska; Coast Pilot
of Alaska; Pacific Coast Pilot; Reports on the Mollusca of the Blake
Expedition. Le.
Dallas, Alexander James.F., 1759-1817. A noted statesman
who was secretary of state, 1796-1801, and secretary of the treasury
under Madison. Features of Jay’s Treaty; Speeches on the Trial of
Blount; Address to Constitutional Republicans; Causes and Character of
the Late War (1815); Reports of Cases. See Life and Writings of, by
G. M. Dallas, infra.
Dallas, George Mifflin.Pa., 1792-1864. Son of A. J.
Dallas, supra. A statesman who was minister to Russia, 1837-39,
vice-president of the United States, 1845-49, minister to England,
1856-61. Series of Letters from London; Eulogy on Andrew Jackson, as
well as many single speeches and addresses. Lip.
Dalton [dawl´ton], John Call.Ms., 1825-1889. A
physician of note who was a professor in various medical colleges.
Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The Experimental Method in Medical
Science; Doctrines of the Circulation; Topographical Anatomy of the
Brain; History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
city; Treatise on Human Physiology; Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene.
Daly, Charles Patrick.N. Y., 1816-1899. A prominent
jurist of New York City. Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of
New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in Court of Common Pleas, City and
County of New York; First Settlement of Jews in North America; What we
Knew of Maps and Map Drawing before Mercator.
Daly, John Augustin.N. C., 1838-1899. A dramatist and
theatrical manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays
from the German and the French, wrote Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under
the Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffington, a Tribute to
the Actress and the Woman.
Damon, Howard Franklin.Ms., 1833-1884. A hospital
physician of Boston. Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; General
Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. Lip.
Dana, Alexander Hamilton.E., 1807-1887. A lawyer of New
York State. Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries
in Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; Enigmas of Life, Death, and the
Future State.
Dana, Charles Anderson.N. H., 1819-1897. A distinguished
journalist of New York City. He was assistant secretary of war 1863-65,
and since 1868 the editor of The New York Sun. His political writing
is noted for its bitter partisanship, but the literary quality of his
work is admirable. With J. G. Wilson, infra, he prepared a Life
of General Grant, and was co-editor with George Ripley, infra,
of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by
him. Ap.
Dana, Charles Louis.Vt., 1852- ——. A physician of note
as a neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.
Dana, Edward Salisbury.Ct., 1849- ——. Son of J. D.
Dana, infra, assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale
University since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the
Peabody Museum there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of
Silliman’s Journal. Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary
Mechanics; Appendix II. (1875) and Appendix III. (1883) of Dana’s
System of Mineralogy. Wil.
Dana, James.Ms., 1735-1812. A once famous Congregational
clergyman of New Haven, who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the
Will.
Dana, James Dwight.N. Y., 1813-1895. A celebrated
geologist, professor at Yale University from 1850. System of
Mineralogy; Manual of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Geology; Corals and
Coral Islands; The Geological Story Briefly Told. Am. Do. Wil.
Dana, James Freeman.N. H., 1793-1827. A chemist and
physician, the first professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College.
Epitome of Chemical Philosophy; Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology
of Boston and its Vicinity (with S. L. Dana, infra).
Dana, Mrs. Katharine [Floyd].L. I., 1835-1886. A writer
of New York City. Our Phil and Other Stories. Hou.
Dana, Mrs. Mary.See Shindler, Mrs.
Dana, Richard Henry.Ms., 1787-1879. A poet and critic
who was one of the founders of the North American Review in 1815.
As a critic his Lectures on Shakespeare represent him fairly, and
it must not be forgotten that he was one of the earliest in America
to appreciate the genius of Wordsworth. The Idle Man, a publication
begun in 1821 and extending to six numbers, includes his two novels,
Tom Thornton; Paul Felton. His later publications include The
Buccaneer, and Other Poems; Poems and Prose Writings. His verse is both
imaginative and original, but at the same time unmelodious. See
Atlantic Monthly, April, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, April, 1879; Lowell’s
Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends.
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.Ms., 1815-1882. Son of R. H.
Dana, supra. A noted lawyer of Boston, best known in literature
by the famous Two Years before the Mast, a narrative of personal
adventure, which first appeared in 1840, and was reissued, enlarged,
in 1869. His other works include The Seaman’s Friend, known in England
as The Seaman’s Manual; Letters on Italian Unity; To Cuba and Back;
Letters on the Somers Mutiny; Life of Major Vinton; Enemy Property and
Enemy Territory. See Life by C. F. Adams, 1891.
Dana, Samuel Luther.N. H., 1795-1868. Brother of
J. F. Dana, supra. A noted chemist of Lowell, who made
many improvements in cotton-printing, and was one of the foremost
agricultural writers of his time. Chemical Changes in the Manufacture
of Sulphuric Acid; Muck Mineral for Manures; Essay on Manures. See
American Journal of Science, May, 1868.
Dana, William Coombs.Ms., 1810-1873. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Charleston. Hymns for Public Worship; A Transatlantic
Tour; Life of Samuel Dana.
Dana, Mrs. William Starr.See Parsons, Mrs. Frances.
Dandridge, Mrs. Danske [Bedinger].Dk., 1858- ——. A
verse-writer of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joy, and Other Poems.
Dane, Nathan.Ms., 1752-1835. A very prominent lawyer
of Massachusetts, who founded the Dane professorship at the Harvard
University Law School. He published an Abridgment and Digest of
American Law [in nine volumes].
Danenhower, John Wilson.Il., 1849-1887. An Arctic
explorer who was second in command of the De Long Expedition in 1879,
and published The Narrative of the Jeannette, 1882.
Danforth, John.Ms., 1660-1730. Son of S. Danforth,
infra. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Dorchester,
Massachusetts, who published many single sermons and occasional poems.
Danforth, Joshua Noble.Ms., 1798-1861. A Congregational
minister of Massachusetts and Virginia, who published Gleanings and
Groupings from a Pastor’s Portfolio.
Danforth, Samuel.E., 1626-1674. A once famous Puritan
clergyman of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1650-74. An Astronomical
Description of the Comet of 1664; An Election Sermon; The Cry of Sodom
Inquired Into.
Danforth, Samuel.Ms., 1666-1727. Son of S. Danforth,
supra. A Congregational clergyman of Taunton, Massachusetts,
famous for his great learning and wide influence. Eulogy on Thomas
Leonard; Essay Concerning the Singing of Psalms. The MS. of his Indian
Dictionary is now the property of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Dangé, Henri.See Hammond, Mrs.
Daniel, John Moncure.Va., 1825-1865. A once noted
Virginia journalist who edited The Richmond Examiner, and was minister
to Italy 1853-60. See Writings of, with Memoir by his brother,
1868.
Daniel, John Warwick.Va., 1842- ——. A prominent
Virginia lawyer who was an adjutant-general in the Confederate
army during the Civil War. Attachments under the Code of Virginia;
Negotiable Instruments.
Daniels, Mrs. Cora [Linn].Ms., 1852- ——. A novelist
of Franklin, Massachusetts. Sardia, a Story of Love; As It Is to Be.
Ban. Le.
Daniels, William Haven.Ms., 1836- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, prominent as an evangelist. D. L. Moody and his Work;
That Boy, who Shall Have Him?; The Temperance Reform and its Great
Reformers; Moody, his Words, Work, and Workers; Illustrated History
of Methodism in the United States; Graduated with Honour; Memorials
of Gilbert Haven; Short History of the People called Methodists.
Meth.
Dannelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Otis [Marshall].Ga.,
1838- ——. A Texas writer of verse. Cactus, or Thorns and Blossoms;
Wayside Flowers.
Da Ponte, Lorenzo.Iy., 1749-1838. An Italian dramatist
who furnished libretti for Mozart’s operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di
Figaro. He came to America in 1805, and after 1828 was professor of
Italian in Columbia College. He published his own Life (1823); History
of the Florentine Republic and the Medici (1833).
Darby, John.See Garretson.
Darby, John.Ms., 1804-1877. An educator who was
connected with various colleges North and South. Manual of Botany; The
Botany of the Southern States; Chemistry, are some of his publications.
Darby, William.Pa., 1755-1834. A geographer who
published Geographical Dictionary of Louisiana; Plan of Pittsburg and
Adjacent Country; Emigrant’s Guide to the Western Country; Tour from
New York to Detroit (1819); Geography and History of Florida; View
of the United States (1823); Lectures on the Discovery of America;
Mnemonica, a Register of Events from the Earliest Period; Geographical
Dictionary.
Darden, Mrs. Fannie [Baker].Al., 1829- ——. Romances of
the Texas Revolution; Poems.
Dargan, Clara Victoria.See Maclean, Mrs.
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr.Pa., 1822-1888. A well-known
artist and illustrator whose home was at Claymont, Delaware. His only
writing is included in Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil.
Darling, Mrs. Flora [Adams].N. H., 1840- ——. A writer
of fiction whose writings include Mrs. Darling’s Letters, or Memoirs of
the Civil War; A Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon Lily; Was it a Just
Verdict?; A Social Diplomat; From Two Points of View; The Senator’s
Daughter.
Darling, Henry.Pa., 1823-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman
who was president of Hamilton College, 1881-1891. The Close Walk;
Slavery and the War; Conformity to the World; Not Doing but Receiving.
Darling, Mary Greenleaf.Pa., 1848- ——. Battles at
Home; In the World; Gladys, a Romance. Le. Lo.
Darling, William.S., 1815-1884. A distinguished New York
physician who published Anatomography, or Graphic Anatomy; Essentials
of Anatomy (with A. L. Ranney).
Darlington, William.Pa., 1782-1863. A famous botanist
of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in whose honour Darlingtonia, a genus
of pitcher-plants, was named. Mutual Influence of Habits and Disease;
Agricultural Botany; Flora Cestrica; Memorials of John Bartram,
supra, and Humphrey Marshall.
D’Arusmont, Madame Frances [Wright].S., 1795-1852. A
very energetic and versatile Scottish reformer who came several times
to America, and finally settled in Cincinnati. Her attacks on social
institutions aroused much hostility, her opposition to slavery making
her the object of especial dislike. Popular Lectures on Free Inquiry;
Biographical Notes and Political Letters of Fanny Wright D’Arusmont
(1844); Altorf: a tragedy; Views of Society and Manners in America; A
Few Days in Athens, include her principal works. See Gilbert’s The
Pioneer Woman, 1855; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14.
Daveiss, Mrs. Maria [Thompson].Ky., 1814-1896. A
Kentucky author who wrote much for agricultural journals, and published
Roger Sherman, a Tale of ’76; Woman’s Love; History of Mercer and Boyle
Counties, Kentucky; Cultivation and Uses of the Chinese Sugar Cane.
Davenport, John.E., 1597-1670. A famous Puritan divine
who, before coming to America in 1637, was a celebrated London
preacher. In 1638 he was one of the founders of New Haven, and in 1660
concealed the noted regicides, Goffe and Whalley, from their pursuers.
In 1666 he became pastor of the First Church in Boston. Instructions
to Elders of the English Church; Catechism containing the Chief Heads
of the Christian Religion; Discourse about Civil Government in New
England. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Dictionary of
National Biography, vol. 14.
David, Jean Baptist.F., 1761-1841. A Roman Catholic
bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky. Among his many works are Vindication
of Catholic Doctrine concerning Images; Address to Brethren of Other
Professions; On the Rule of Faith; True Piety.
Davidson, Charles.O., 1852- ——. An instructor of
Belmont, California. The Phonology of the Stressed Vowels of Beowulf;
Studies in the English Mystery Plays.
Davidson, George.E., 1825- ——. An astronomer of
distinction, founder of the Davidson Observatory in San Francisco. The
United States Coast Survey of the Pacific Coast; Coast Pilot of Alaska;
Voyages of Discovery on the Northwest Coast of America, 1539-1603.
Davidson, James Wood.S. C., 1829- ——. An educator of
South Carolina and elsewhere, whose Living Writers of the South is
quite wanting in discrimination and critical ability. His other works
include School History of South Carolina; The Correspondent; The Poetry
of the Future; Florida of To-Day. Ap.
Davidson, Lucretia Maria.N. Y., 1808-1825. A precocious
verse-writer now quite forgotten. Amir Khan and Other Poems was issued
in 1829. See Memoir by S. F. B. Morse, and Life by C. M. Sedgwick,
infra.
Davidson, Margaret Miller.N. Y., 1823-1838. Sister to L.
M. Davidson, and, like her, a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses
were extravagantly lauded by contemporary writers, but by no critics of
a later day. See Memoir by Washington Irving.
Davidson, Robert.Md., 1750-1812. A Presbyterian
clergyman who was president of Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, 1804-09. Epitome of Geography in Verse for Schools; The
Christian’s A, B, C, or the 119th Psalm in Metre; New Metrical Version
of the Psalms, with Notes.
Davidson, Robert.Pa., 1808-1876. Son of R. Davidson,
supra. A Presbyterian minister in Kentucky and other States,
among whose writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and Other Poems; The
Christ of God, or the Relation of Christ to Christianity.
Davidson, Thomas.S., 1840-1900. A writer on art and
philosophy who came to the United States in 1866 and settled at
Cambridge. The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays; The Place of Art in
Education; Giordano Bruno and the Relation of his Philosophy to Free
Thought; Handbook of Dante, from the Italian of Scartazzini, with Notes
and Additions; Prolegomena to Tennyson’s “In Memoriam;” Aristotle,
and Ancient and Modern Educational Ideals; The Education of the Greek
People and its Influence on Civilization. Ap. Gi. Hou.
Davies, Charles.Ct., 1798-1876. A noted professor of
mathematics in Columbia College from 1857. Beside a notable series
of mathematical text-books, from A Primary Table Book to Elementary
Geometry and Trigonometry, he published also editions of Legendre’s
Geometry and Bourdon’s Algebra. Other works by him comprise Practical
Mathematics; Elements of Surveying; Analytical Geometry; Differential
and Integral Calculus; Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Metric
System; Mathematical Dictionary (with W. G. Peck).
Davies, Samuel.Del., 1724-1761. A Presbyterian clergyman
of great renown in his day as a preacher, and the fourth president of
Princeton College. He wrote a number of hymns still in use, and his
Sermons in 5 volumes appeared in London in 1767. See Sermons, 1851,
with Memoir by Albert Barnes, supra.
Davies, Thomas Alfred.N. Y., 1809-1899. Brother of C.
Davies, supra. A Federal officer in the Civil War. Cosmogony, or
Mysteries of Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to
Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geologists; How to Make Money and how to
Keep It.
Davis, Andrew Jackson.N. Y., 1826- ——. A noted
spiritualist of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical
writings the following may be considered the most important: The
Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy
of Spiritual Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia;
Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography, 1885. Ban.
Davis, Andrew McFarland.Ms., 1833- ——. Brother of H.
Davis, infra. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge. Currency and
Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Mac.
Davis, Asahel.Ms., 1791-18—. A Massachusetts antiquary
who published Ancient America and Researches of the East (1847);
History of New Amsterdam.
Davis, Augusta Cordelia.Me., 1836- ——. Poems from Yare.
Davis, Mrs. Caroline E—— [Kelly].N. H., 1831- ——. A
prolific writer of Sunday-school tales. Among her fifty or more volumes
are, No Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope;
That Boy. Lo.
Davis, Charles Henry.Ms., 1807-1877. Son of D. Davis,
infra. A rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted
hydrographer. Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he
published Law of Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and
Other Ocean Currents; and translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corporum
Cœlestium. See Life, by C. H. Davis, infra, 1899.
Davis, Charles Henry.Ms., 1845- ——. Son of C. H.
Davis, supra. A United States naval officer. Chronometer Rates
as Affected by Temperature and Other Causes; Telegraphic Determination
of Longitudes.
Davis, Charles Henry Stanley.Ct., 1840- ——. A
physician of Meriden, Connecticut. History of Wallingford and Meriden;
The Voice as a Musical Instrument; Education and Training of Feeble
Minded Children; Index to Periodical Literature.
Davis, Cushman Kellogg.N. Y., 1838-1900. A prominent
Minnesota lawyer and United States senator, who wrote The Law in
Shakespeare.
Davis, Daniel.Ms., 1762-1835. A Massachusetts jurist
who was solicitor-general of his State, 1800-32. Criminal Practice;
Precedents of Indictments.
Davis, Edwin Hamilton.O., 1811-1888. An archæologist
whose chief work is Monuments of the Mississippi.
Davis, Emerson.Ms., 1798-1866. A Congregational
clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1861-68. Historical
Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; The First Half
Century, or Events and Changes, 1800-50.
Davis, George Thomas.Ms., 1810-1877. A Massachusetts
lawyer whose speeches in Congress were published in 1852.
Davis, Henry Winter.Md., 1817-1865. A Maryland statesman
and lawyer, conspicuously loyal to the Union during the Civil War. The
War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th Century (1853); Speeches and
Addresses in Congress (1867). Har.
Davis, Horace.Ms., 1831- ——. Nephew of G. Bancroft,
supra. A manufacturer of California. Dolor Davis, a Sketch
of his Life; American Constitutions and the Relation of the Three
Departments as adjusted by a Century; Shakespeare’s Sonnets, an Essay.
Davis, Jefferson.Ky., 1808-1889. President of the
Confederate States. After the fall of the Confederacy, in 1865, he was
confined as a prisoner of war in Fortress Monroe, and upon his release,
in 1867, he lived in retirement in Mississippi. His history, which
appeared in 1881, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, is a
valuable commentary on the Civil War as it appeared to one of the chief
figures of the time, but it is as narrowly conceived as it is diffuse
in statement and bitter in tone. See Lives, by Alfriend, 1868;
E. A. Pollard, infra, 1869; Prison Life of, by Craven, 1866; Memoir
by his Wife, 1890; London Times Biographies of Eminent Persons, 4th
Series.Ap.
Davis, John A. G.Va., 1801-1840. A Virginia lawyer,
professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1830-40. Estates Tail,
Executive Devises, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes;
Treatise on Criminal Law.
Davis, John Chandler Bancroft.Ms., 1822- ——. Brother
of H. Davis, supra. A diplomatist who was agent for the United
States before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims,
and afterwards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. The Massachusetts
Justice; The Case of the United States before the Tribunal of
Arbitration at Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes;
United States Supreme Court Reports; Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims.
Hou.
Davis, John Woodbridge.N. Y., 1854-1902. Son of E. H.
Davis, supra. A civil engineer who, besides contributing much to
engineering journals, published Formulæ for the Calculation of Railroad
Earth Work and Average Haul (1876), which speedily came into use as a
text-book.
Davis, Lemuel Clarke.Md., 1835- ——. A Philadelphia
journalist, editor of The Inquirer, and author of The Stranded Ship, a
Story of Sea and Shore.
Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn [Moore].Al., 1852- ——.
A prominent writer of New Orleans, on the editorial staff of the
Picayune. Minding the Gap, and Other Poems; In War Times at La Rose
Blanche, sketches for young people; Under the Man-Fig, a novel; An
Elephant’s Track and Other Stories; The Wire-Cutters. Har. Hou.
Lo.
Davis, Matthew L.N. Y., 1766-1850. A Washington
journalist who published a Life of Aaron Burr.
Davis, Nathan Smith.N. Y., 1817-1904. A Chicago
physician, dean of the Northwestern University, whose principal
writings include Lectures on Various Important Diseases; Principles
and Practice of Medicine; Verdict of Science concerning the Effects of
Alcohol on Man; Medical Education and Reform.
Davis, Noah Knowles.Pa., 1838- ——. A professor of
moral science in the University of Virginia since 1873. The Theory
of Thought, a Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive
Logic; the Elements of Deductive Logic. Har.
Davis, Peter Seibert.Md., 1828-1892. A German Reformed
divine who wrote The Young Parson.
Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine [Harding].Pa., 1831- ——.
Wife of L. C. Davis, supra. A novelist whose first story, Life
in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of labouring-class
life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of The Atlantic
Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for
the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law unto Herself; Kitty’s Choice; John
Andross; Doctor Warrick’s Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent
Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; Frances
Waldeaux. Har. Lip. Scr.
Davis, Reuben.Tn., 1813-1890. A Mississippi lawyer and a
general in the Confederate service, who was the author of Recollections
of Mississippi and the Mississippians. Hou.
Davis, Richard Bingham.N. Y., 1771-1799. A verse-writer
of New York city. See Poems, with Memoir edited by John T. Irving,
1807.
Davis, Richard Harding.Pa., 1864- ——. Son of L. C. and
R. H. Davis, supra. A popular New York writer whose first book,
Gallegher and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in
1890. His work is always characterized by dash and spirit, but exhibits
some defects of style, and touches scarcely more than the superficial
side of life. Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles;
The West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The
Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for
Boys. Har. Scr.
Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson.Va., 1864-1898. Daughter of
Jefferson Davis, supra. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century, a
Sketch of Robert Emmet; The Veiled Doctor. Har.
Davis, William Bramwell.O., 1832- ——. A physician
and surgeon of Cincinnati. Report on Vaccination; Consumption and
Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of
Therapeutics; The Alcohol Question.
Davis, William Morris.Pa., 1850- ——. A professor of
physical geography in Harvard University since 1890. Nimrod of the
Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes;
Elementary Meteorology. Gi. Har. Le.
Davis, William Watts Hart.Pa., 1820- ——. El Gringo, or
New Mexico and her People; History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment;
The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards.
Har.
Dawes, Anna Laurens.Ms., 1851- ——. A daughter of
Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and
periodicals. How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and
Future; Biography of Charles Sumner. Do. Gi.
Dawes, Rufus.Ms., 1803-1859. A witty jurist of
Massachusetts, who won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of
the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s
Mate, an Historical Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.
Dawson, George.S., 1813-1883. A once influential Albany
journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The
Pleasures of Angling.
Dawson, Henry Barton.E., 1821-1889. An historical writer
of New York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and
editor of The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles
of the United States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by
Uncurrent Facts; Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the
Revolution. Scr.
Day, Henry.Ms., 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city.
The Lawyer Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a
volume of Spanish travels.
Day, Henry Noble.Ct., 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A
Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president,
and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric,
reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics;
The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of
Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton;
Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater
number of his writings. Scr.
Day, Jeremiah.Ct., 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman
of Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.
Day, Jeremiah.Ct., 1773-1867. Son of J. Day,
supra. A noted mathematician who was president of Yale
College, 1817-46. Introduction to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies
and Solids; Examination of Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane
Trigonometry; Navigation and Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the
Self-Determining Power of the Will and Contingent Volition.
Day, Richard Edwin.N. Y., 1852- ——. A journalist of
Syracuse. Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.
Dayton, Amos Cooper.N. J., 1813-1865. A Baptist
clergyman and physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the
Heroine of Faith, was very popular. His other works comprise The
Infidel’s Daughter, a novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction;
Baptist Question Book; Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and
Campbellite Immersion.
Dean, Amos.Vt., 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures
on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical
Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of
Civilization.
Dean, John.Ms., 1831-1888. A physician who published
Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray
Substance of the Medulla Oblongata.
Dean, John Ward.Me., 1815-1902. A noted antiquarian of
Boston, editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
and one of the founders of the Prince Society. Memoir of Nathaniel
Ward, infra; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth, infra; Life
of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of
Giles Firmin; The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.
Dean, Paul.Vt., 1789-1860. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor
in Boston, 1813-40, who was author of Lectures on Final Restoration.
Deane, Charles.Me., 1813-1889. An antiquarian writer of
Cambridge, who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir;
First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford’s History of Plymouth
Plantation; John Smith’s True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens
of early American literature.
Deane, Margery.See Pitman, Mrs.
Deane, Samuel.Ms., 1784-1834. A Baptist clergyman of
Scituate, Massachusetts. The Populous Village, a poem; History of
Scituate.
Deane, Silas.Ct., 1737-1789. A diplomatist who, with
Franklin and Lee, negotiated a treaty of peace and amity between France
and the United States. He was subjected to much misrepresentation,
and died abroad in poverty and exile. Letters to Robert Morgan; Paris
Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane’s late Intercepted Letters to his Brother
and Other Friends.
Deane, William Reed.Ms., 1809-1879. An antiquary of
Mansfield, Massachusetts, who published genealogies of the families of
Deane, Leonard, and Watson.
Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell.N. H., 1783-1851.
A lawyer and public-spirited citizen of Boston, a son of Commodore
Dearborn. Commerce of the Black Sea; Biography of Commodore Bainbridge;
History of Navigation and Naval Architecture.
De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson.S. C., 1820-1867.
A noted statistician of New Orleans, who founded De Bow’s Review.
Industrial Resources of the South and West; Statistical View of the
United States; The Southern States, their Agriculture, Commerce, etc.
(1850).
De Charms, Richard.Pa., 1796-1864. A Swedenborgian
divine of Baltimore and New York city. Freedom and Slavery in the Light
of the New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; Lectures at Charlestown.
De Costa, Benjamin Franklin.Ms., 1831-1904. A prominent
Episcopal clergyman of New York city, well known as an historical
writer. The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, illustrated by
translations from the Icelandic Sagas; The Northmen in Maine; The
Moabite Stone; Verrazano, the Explorer; The Rector of Roxburgh, a
novel; and a number of historical monographs. See Bibliography of
Maine.
Deems, Charles Force.Md., 1820-1893. A Methodist
clergyman, prominent for many years in New York city as pastor of the
Church of the Strangers. Triumphs of Peace, and Other Poems; Home
Altar; Twelve College Sermons; Life of Dr. Adam Clarke; Devotional
Melodies; Weights and Wings; The Light of the Nations; The Gospel
of Common Sense as Contained in the Epistle of James; The Gospel of
Spiritual Insight; A Scotch Verdict in re-Evolution; My Septuagint,
comprise the larger number of his writings. Cas. Fu.
Deering, Nathaniel.Me., 1791-1881. A writer of Portland,
Maine, whose work enjoyed a local fame. Carabasset, a tragedy; The
Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both in Portland and Boston; Bozzaris,
a tragedy. See Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine.
De Forest, John William.Ct., 1826- ——. A novelist
of New Haven who was a Federal officer in the Civil War. His stories
are skillfully constructed, and the characterization is strong, but
they have hardly won the reputation that, as a whole, they deserve.
History of the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Oriental Acquaintances,
or Travels in Asia Minor; European Acquaintances; Witching Times; The
Lauson Tragedy; Seacliff, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to
Loyalty; Overland; Kate Beaumont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody Chasm;
The Wetherel Affair; Justine Vane; Irene Vane; Irene the Missionary;
Playing the Mischief. Ap. Har.
De Hart, William Chetwood.N. Y., 1800-1848. An officer
in the United States army who published Observations on Military Law
and Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial.
Dehon, Theodore.Ms., 1776-1817. The second Protestant
Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. A once popular preacher. Ninety
Sermons on the Public Means of Grace.
De Kay, Charles.D. C., 1849- ——. Grandson of J. R.
Drake, infra. A New York journalist and poet, literary editor
of The Times since 1877. Hesperus; Vision of Nimrod; Vision of Esther;
Love Poems of Louis Barnaval; The Bohemians, a Tragedy of Modern Life;
Barye, his Life and Works. Ap.
De Kay, James Ellsworth.Pl., 1792-1851. A physician and
naturalist of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Sketches of Turkey; Natural
History of New York.
De Koven, James.Ct., 1831-1879. An Episcopal clergyman
of Wisconsin, very prominent at one time as a leader of ritualistic
thought, whose views more than once prevented his elevation to the
episcopate. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions was issued after his
death. Ap.
De Kroyft, Mrs. Susan Helen [Aldrich].N. Y., 1818- ——.
A writer living in Dansville, New York, who became blind soon after her
marriage in 1845, her husband having died on their wedding day. A Place
in thy Memory, a very popular collection of letters; Darwin and Moses,
a lecture; Little Jakey, a story.
Delafield, Francis.N. Y., 1841- ——. A physician
and surgeon of New York city, who was the first president of the
Association of American Physicians and Pathologists. Handbook of
Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy; Studies in Pathological
Anatomy; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy.
De Lancey, Edward Floyd.N. Y., 1821- ——. A lawyer
and historical writer of New York city. Memoir of James De Lancey;
The Capture of Fort Washington the Result of Treason; Memoir of James
W. Beekman; Memoir of William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania;
Origin and History of Manors in the Province of New York; History of
Mamaroneck, New York.
Deland, Ellen Douglas.N. Y., 1860- ——. A popular
writer of stories for young people. Oakleigh; In the Old Herrick House;
Malvern, a Neighbourhood Story. Har. We.
Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade [Campbell].Pa., 1857- ——.
A novelist and poet of Boston who became suddenly famous on the
publication of John Ward, Preacher, a story upon lines similar to Mrs.
Ward’s “Robert Elsmere.” Other works by her include The Old Garden
and Other Verses; Sydney; The Story of a Child; Mr. Tommy Dove and
Other Stories; Philip and his Wife; Florida Days, a volume of travels.
Hou. Lit.
Delano, Amasa.Ms., 1763-1817. A once noted Massachusetts
sea captain who was an extensive traveller, and published Narrative of
Voyages and Travels.
Delavan, Edward Cornelius.N. Y., 1793-1871. A retired
wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer.
Adulterations of Liquors; Temperance in Wine Countries.
De Leon, Edwin.S. C., 1828-1891. A Washington journalist
who was European diplomatic agent of the Confederacy during the Civil
War period. Thirty Years of my Life on Three Continents; The Khedive’s
Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Copt, a novel; Under the Star and Under the
Crescent. Lip.
Del Mar, Alexander.N. Y., 1836- ——. A New York writer
on political economy. Gold Money and Paper Money; Essays on Political
Economy; The Great Paper Bubble; What is Free Trade?; Resources,
Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt; Why Should the Chinese
Go?; History of the Precious Metals; History of Money in China;
History of Money in Various Countries; The Science of Money; Money and
Civilization; Statistical Handbook; The National Banking System; The
Worship of Augustus Caesar.
De Long, George Washington.N. Y., 1844-1881. An Arctic
explorer who was a lieutenant-commander in the United States navy.
The Voyage of the Jeannette, including his journals of his latest
expedition, edited by his wife, appeared in 1884.
Demarest, David D.N. J., 1819-1898. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New
Jersey. History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch
Church; Practical Catechetics; The Huguenots on the Hackensack.
Demarest, John Terhune.N. J., 1813-1897. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman. Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration;
Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle
of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Christocracy (with W. R.
Gordon).
Demarest, Mrs. Mary Augusta [Lee].N. Y., 1838-1888. A
writer of popular, unpretentious verse, who published My Ain Countree
and Other Poems.
Deming, Henry Champion.Ct., 1815-1872. A prominent
lawyer of Hartford who published translations of the novels of Eugène
Sue and a Life of General Grant.
Deming, Philander.N. Y., 1829- ——. A stenographic
court reporter of Albany until 1882, whose sketches are characterized
by much originality. Adirondack Stories; Tompkins and Other Folks.
Hou.
Dempster, John.Fl., 1794-1863. A noted Methodist
preacher and educator, and one of the founders of the theological
school of Boston University. Lectures and Addresses was issued in 1864.
Meth.
Denio [de-ni´o], Hiram.N. Y., 1799-1871. A Utica
jurist who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court, and the
Court for Correction of Errors.
Denison, Charles Wheeler.Ct., 1809-1881. A clergyman
who as a young man was editor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery
journal of New York. During the Civil War he served as chaplain in the
Federal army. The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair,
a temperance tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an
exposure of the padrone system; Life of General Grant; Out at Sea, a
volume of verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin
Boy; Winfield, the Lawyer’s Son, form a series of biographies of noted
men for juvenile reading.
Denison, Daniel.E., 1613-1682. A famous colonial soldier
of Massachusetts. Irenicon, or Salve for New England’s Sore.
Denison, Frederic.Ct., 1819-1901. A Baptist divine
of Rhode Island. The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution;
History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and its Witnesses,
1626-1876; Picturesque Narragansett; Picturesque Rhode Island, are his
principal writings.
Denison, John Henry.Ms., 1841- ——. A Congregational
clergyman retired from active service, but at one time college pastor
at Williamstown, Massachusetts. Christ’s Idea of the Supernatural.
Hou.
Denison, John Ledyard.Ct., 1826- ——. Brother of F.
Denison, supra. A publisher of Norwich, Connecticut. Picturesque
History of the Wars of the United States; Illustrated History of the
New World.
Denison, Mrs. Mary [Andrews].Ms., 1826- ——. Wife of C.
W. Denison, supra. A prolific author of tales, mainly of home
life, some of them to be classed as Sunday-school literature, while
others are of a more ambitious character. Among them are Opposite the
Jail; That Husband of Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an
extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine; Rothmell;
His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; If
She Will, She Will. Har. Le. Lip.
Dennie, Joseph.Ms., 1768-1812. A journalist and essayist
of Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his
deserts. The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers, is his
only literary legacy. See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines,
1892.
Denton, Franklin Evert.O., 1859- ——. A journalist of
Cleveland who published in 1883 The Early Poems of Franklin Denton.
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell.N. Y., 1834- ——. A very
prominent lawyer and railway president of New York city, of wide
fame as a ready after-dinner speaker. He has published Orations and
After-Dinner Speeches; Later Speeches. Cas.
De Peyster, John Watts.N. Y., 1821- ——. An historical
writer of New York city, and a general of the State militia. Life
of Torstenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and the Dutch in Maine;
Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War; Personal and Military History
of General Kearney; Life of Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of Scots, a
Study; The Character of Mary and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell,
a drama; The Thirty Years’ War; Before, At, and After Gettysburg; Life
of Baron Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; The Real Napoleon
Bonaparte.
De Puy, Henry Walter.N. Y., 1820- ——. A lawyer and
journalist. Kossuth and his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his Times;
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of ’76.
De Puy, William Harrison.N. Y., 1821-1901. A Methodist
clergyman of western New York. Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics
of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home and Health; Home Economics, a
very popular book. Meth.
Derby, Elias Hasket.Ms., 1803-1880. A noted railway
attorney of Boston. Two Months Abroad; Catholic Letters; The Overland
Route to the Pacific; Position and Prospects of the United States with
Respect to Finance, Commerce, and Prosperity.
Derby, George.Ms., 1819-1874. Cousin of E. H. Derby,
supra. A physician of Boston, prominent as a sanitarian, who
published Anthracite and Health.
Derby, George Horatio. “John Phœnix.” Ms., 1823-1861. Son
of J. B. Derby, infra. A topographical engineer in the United
States army who was a popular humourist in his day. Phœnixiana; Squibob
Papers.
Derby, James Cephas.N. Y., 1818-1892. A noted publisher
of New York and San Francisco, and author of Fifty Years Among Authors,
Books, and Publishers.
Derby, John Barton.Ms., 1792-1867. Half-brother of G.
Derby, supra. A verse-writer whose later years were spent in
Boston. Musings of a Recluse; The Sea; The Village.
De Saussure, Henry William.S. C., 1763-1839. A jurist
of South Carolina, who was director of the United States Mint in 1794,
and published Reports of the Courts of Chancery and Equity in South
Carolina from the Revolution to 1813.
Deshon, George.Ct., 1823-1903. A Roman Catholic priest
of the Paulist order, whose Guide for Young Catholic Women has had a
very extended circulation.
De Smet, Peter John.Bm., 1801-1872. A noted Roman
Catholic missionary to the Indians, who came to the United States in
1821. His writings, originally published in French, include The Oregon
Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains; Indian Letters and
Sketches; Western Missions and Missionaries; New Indian Sketches.
De Trobriand [trō-brĕe-ăan´], Philip Regis.F.,
1816-1897. A military writer who came to the United States in
1841, entered the army, and, after serving through the Civil War,
retired from active service in 1879, and resided in New Orleans. Les
Gentilshommes de l’Ouest, a novel; Quatre ans de Campagnes à armée du
Potomac.
De Vere, Mary Ainge, “Madeline Bridges.” N. Y.,
18— - ——. A writer of Brooklyn, Long Island. Love Songs and Other
Poems; Poems.
De Vere, Maximilian Schele.Sn., 1820-1898. A philologist
of note who came from Sweden to the United States in 1843, and after
1844 was a professor in the University of Virginia. Outlines of
Comparative Philology; Studies in English; Americanisms; Wonders of the
Deep; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of
Nature; Romance of American History, include the most important of his
works. Lip. Put. Scr.
Devereux, Thomas Pollock.N. C., 1793-1869. A North
Carolina lawyer who published Reports of North Carolina Supreme Court,
1826-34; Reports in the Superior Court, 1834-40; Equity Reports,
1826-40.
De Vinne, Daniel.I., 1793-1883. A Methodist clergyman
of New York city. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery;
Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry; Irish Primitive Church.
De Vinne, Theodore Low.Ct., 1828- ——. Son of D. De
Vinne, supra. A noted printer of New York city. Printer’s Price
List; Invention of Printing; Historic Types.
Dew, Thomas Roderick.Va., 1802-1846. An educator of
Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1836-46. A Digest of
the History and Laws of Ancient and Modern Nations is his chief work.
Other writings of his include The Policy of the Government; Lectures on
History; Usury; Essay in Favour of Slavery, which had a great influence
in turning popular sentiment against emancipation. Ap.
De Walden, Thomas Blaides.E., 1811-1873. A New York
actor of some note as an author and adapter of many plays, among which
are The Upper Ten and the Lower Twenty; Kit; The Jesuit.
Dewees, William Potts.Pa., 1768-1841. A once popular
physician of Philadelphia, professor of obstetrics in the University
of Pennsylvania. His literary style was bad, yet his writings were
widely circulated in the profession and highly valued. Medical Essays;
Physical and Medical Treatment of Children; System of Midwifery;
Practice of Medicine. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Dewey, Chester.Ms., 1783-1867. A botanist who as an
educator was connected with various colleges, and lastly with the
University of Rochester. Besides a History of Herbaceous Plants of
Massachusetts, he wrote an elaborate monograph on the Carices of North
America, the result of many years’ labour.
Dewey, Melvil.N. Y., 1851- ——. The librarian of
Columbia College and director of the New York State library. Library
School Rules; The Decimal Classification and Relation Index.
Dewey, Orville.Ms., 1794-1882. A Unitarian clergyman
of conservative opinions, once prominent as a pastor in New York and
Boston. Unitarian Belief; Discourses on Human Life; The Old World and
the New; Letters on Revivals; Problems of Human Life and Destiny;
Education of the Human Race, comprise his principal writings. See
Autobiography and Letters, 1883.A. U. A.
De Witt, Benjamin. 1774-1819. A New York physician and scientist
who published Oxygen; Minerals in New York.
De Witt, John.N. Y., 1821- ——. A Reformed Dutch
clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick,
New Jersey, 1863-92. The Sure Foundation and how to Build on It; The
Psalms, a New Translation (1891); What is Inspiration? Rev.
De Witt, John.Pa., 1842- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman,
professor at Princeton Theological Seminary since 1892, and the author
of Sermons on the Christian Life.
De Witt, Simeon.N. Y., 1756-1834. A once famous surveyor
who is commonly held responsible for the classical nomenclature of
places in central and western New York. He published Elements of
Perspective.
Dexter, Henry Martyn.Ms., 1821-1890. A Congregational
clergyman of prominence in Boston as editor of The Congregationalist,
1867-90. He was a positive, dogmatic writer, much addicted to
historical and religious controversy. His most important work is
The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years. Handbook of
Congregationalism; Pilgrim Memoranda; The Verdict of Reason; As
to Roger Williams and his Banishment, a marked example of special
pleading; History of the Old Plymouth Colony; History and the Study of
History; The Right Use of Books; The Study of Politics, include the
greater number of his other works. C. P. S. Har.
Dexter, Samuel.Ms., 1761-1816. A jurist of Boston who
was secretary of war under President John Adams. Letters on Free
Masonry; Progress of Science, a poem; Speeches and Political Papers.
Diaz, Mrs. Abby [Morton].Ms., 1821-1904. A Boston
writer who in youth was one of the famous company at Brook Farm, and
was afterward prominent in relation to social reforms. Her books for
juvenile readers, which are characterized by a strong vein of humour,
include The William Henry Letters; William Henry and his Friends;
Chronicles of the Stimpcett Family; The Cats’ Arabian Nights; The John
Spicer Lectures; Lucy Maria; Polly Cologne; Jimmyjohns; A Story-book
for Children. Other works are Bybury to Beacon Street, a discussion of
social topics; Domestic Problems; Only a Flock of Women. Lo.
Dibble, Sheldon.N. Y., 1809-1845. A missionary to the
Sandwich Islands who published History of the Sandwich Island Missions.
Dickenson, Baxter.Ms., 1795-1875. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, author of Letters to Students.
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth.Pa., 1842- ——. A once
famous lecturer on politics and woman-suffrage who, after a short and
unsuccessful career as an actress, has since lived in retirement. A
Paying Investment, a Plea for Education; A Ragged Register of People,
Places, and Opinions; What Answer? a novel; and two plays, Mary Tudor;
The Crown of Thorns. Har. Hou.
Dickinson, Charles Monroe.N. Y., 1842- ——. A
journalist of Binghamton, New York, who published The Children, and
Other Verses.
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens.Ct., 1800-1866. A Democratic
politician, long prominent in the State of New York. Speeches and
Correspondence, with a biography of him by his brother, appeared in
1867.
Dickinson, Emily.Ms., 1830-1886. A poet whose entire
life was passed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in great seclusion, and
who rarely published any of her work. Since her death attention has
been drawn to the strikingly original nature of her poetry by the
publication of three volumes of Poems, selected from her manuscripts.
They display an utter disregard of technique as well as an almost
startling originality of conception. See Letters of, 1847-1886,
edited by Mrs. Todd.Rob.
Dickinson, John.Md., 1732-1808. A political writer of
great influence during the period of the Revolution. Dickinson College,
which he helped to found, was named in his honour. He wrote vigorously
against the Stamp Act, and his various state papers display both
eloquence and dignity. Petition to the King; Second Petition to the
King; Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer; Letters of Fabius.
Dickinson, Jonathan.E., 16— -1722. A chief justice
of Pennsylvania who came to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled
God’s Protecting Providence Man’s Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a
narrative of personal adventure, and has been several times reprinted
since its first appearance in 1699.
Dickinson, Jonathan.Ms., 1688-1747. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who was one of the chief
American theologians of his day, and the first president of the College
of New Jersey (now Princeton College). He was a voluminous writer, and
much given to controversy of a theological nature. Among his many works
are included Familiar Letters upon Important Subjects in Religion;
Reasonableness of Christianity; True Scripture Doctrine. See
Tyler’s American Literature.
Dickinson, Richard William.N. Y., 1804-1874. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Scenes from Sacred History;
Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life
and Times of John Howard; The Resurrection of Christ Historically and
Logically Viewed.
Dickinson, Rodolphus.Ms., 1787-1863. An Episcopal
clergyman in Deerfield, Massachusetts, who published a much criticised
New and Corrected Version of the New Testament; Geographical and
Statistical View of Massachusetts.
Dickson, Andrew Flinn.S. C., 1825-1879. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Alabama. Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert;
The Light, is it Waning?
Dickson, John.N. H., 1783-1852. A New York congressman,
early prominent in opposition to slavery. Remarks on the Presentation
of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.
Dickson, Samuel Henry.S. C., 1798-1872. A physician of
eminence in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where from 1858
to 1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote
much on medical and other topics, his literary style being greatly
admired. Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, and Death; On the Correlation
of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its
History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of
Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; Studies in Pathology
and Therapeutics. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries.
Didier [dy´deer], Eugene Lemoine.Md., 1838- ——.
Son of F. J. Didier, infra. A Baltimore littérateur whose style
as a critic is somewhat aggressive. Life of Poe; Life and Letters of
Madame Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; The Political Adventures of
James G. Blaine (1884). Scr.
Didier, Franklin James.Md., 1794-1840. A Baltimore
physician who was the author of Didier’s Letters from Paris;
Franklin’s Letters to his Kinsfolk.
Dillaye, Stephen Devalson.N. Y., 1820-1884. The Money
and Finances of the French Revolution of 1789.
Dillon, John Forrest.N. Y., 1831- ——. A noted jurist
of Iowa, and, since 1879, of New York city. United States Circuit
Court Reports; Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to
Federal Courts; Municipal Bonds; Laws and Jurisprudence of England and
America. Lit.
Diman, Jeremiah Lewis.R. I., 1831-1881. A Congregational
clergyman who was professor of history and political economy in Brown
University from 1864. Orations and Essays; The Theistic Argument
as Affected by Recent Theories. See Memoirs by Caroline Hazard,
infra.Hou.
Dimitry, Charles Patton.D. C., 1837- ——. A novelist
and journalist of New Orleans. Guilty or not Guilty; Angela’s
Christmas; The Alderly Tragedy; The House in Balfour Street.
Dimitry, John Bull Smith.D. C., 1835-1901. Brother of C.
P. Dimitry, supra. A journalist of New York city. History and
Geography of Louisiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the
Civil War.
Dimmock, George.Ms., 1852- ——. A naturalist of
Cambridge, at one time editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology.
Anatomy of Mouth Parts of Some Insects of the Order of Diptera.
Dinnies, Mrs. Anna Peyre [Shackelford].S. C., 1816-1886.
A verse-writer of New Orleans who published The Floral Year, a
collection of one hundred poems.
Dinsmore, Robert.N. H., 1757-1836. A homely verse-writer
of Windham, New Hampshire, who was known as “The Rustic Bard,” and
published Incidental Poems, strongly imitative of Burns. See
Whittier’s Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.
Dirck, Cornelius Lansing.N. Y., 1785-1857. A
Presbyterian clergyman for many years connected with Auburn Theological
Seminary, who published Sermons on Important Subjects.
Disosway, Gabriel Poillon.N. Y., 1798-1868. An antiquary
of New York city. The Children’s Book of Sermons; The Earliest Churches
of New York and its Vicinity.
Disturnell, John.N. Y., 1801-1877. A map-publisher
of New York city who was an industrious compiler of guide-books
and similar literature. New York as it Was and Is, 1876; Influence
of Climate in North and South America; The Great Lakes of America;
Traveller’s Guide to Hudson River; Tourist’s Guide to the Upper
Mississippi, include some of his more important works.
Ditson, George Leighton.Ms., 1812- ——. A noted
traveller who published Circassia, or a Tour to the Caucasus; Crimora;
The Para Papers, or France, Egypt, and Ethiopia; The Crescent and
the French Crusaders; The Fedariti of Italy, a Romance of Circassian
Captivity.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde.Me., 1802-1887. A famous
Massachusetts philanthropist the greater part of whose life was
spent in efforts to improve the condition of the insane. The present
enlightened treatment of the insane throughout the world is due in
large measure to the impetus given in that direction by her labours in
America and Europe. Her writings, except Prisons and Prison Discipline,
are intended for children, and include The Garland of Flora;
Conversations about Common Things; Alice and Ruth; Evening Hours.
See Life by F. Tiffany, infra.
Dix, John Adams.N. H., 1798-1879. A general and
statesman who while secretary of the treasury in 1861 issued the
celebrated order, “If any one attempts to tear down the American flag,
shoot him on the spot.” A Winter in Madeira, and A Summer in Spain and
Florence; Speeches and Occasional Addresses; Resources of the State of
New York. See Memoir, by Morgan Dix, infra.Ap.
Dix, John Homer.Circa 1810-1884. An oculist and aurist
of Boston who published Changes of the Blood, a translation from the
French of Gibert; Treatise on Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the
Retina; The Opthalmoscope and its Uses.
Dix, Morgan.N. Y., 1827- ——. Son of J. A. Dix,
supra. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city
conspicuous among High Church theologians, and rector of Trinity Church
since 1859. Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Lectures on the Calling
of a Christian Woman; Memoir of J. A. Dix, supra; Gospel and
Philosophy; The Sacramental System; The Seven Deadly Sins; Lectures on
the First Prayer Book of King Edward VI.; The Two Estates,—Wedded in
the Lord, Single for the Kingdom of Heaven’s Sake. Ap. Dut. Har.
Dixon, James Main.S., 1856- ——. A professor of English
literature in Washington University, St. Louis, since 1892, and the
author of A Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases.
Doane, George Hobart.Ms., 1830- ——. Son of G. W.
Doane, infra. A prelate of the papal household at Rome since
1886, with the title of Monsignore. First Principles; Exclusion of
Protestant Worship from Rome; Manual of Instructions and Prayers.
Doane, George Washington.N. J., 1799-1859. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey; consecrated bishop in 1832.
Songs by the Way; Sermons on Various Occasions. The familiar hymn
beginning “Softly now the light of day” is one of his most noted poems.
See Life and Writings of, by W. C. Doane, infra.
Doane, William Croswell.N. J., 1832- ——. Son of G. W.
Doane, supra. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Albany.
He has contributed much to reviews and other periodicals on topics of
the day, is the author of a number of poems, among which The Sculptor
Boy is often quoted, and has published several works, including
Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the
Sundays of the Christian Year. As a theologian his place is amongst
liberal High Churchmen.
Dod, Albert Baldwin.N. J., 1805-1845. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of mathematics at Princeton College, 1830-45.
Theological Essays was his only published work.
Dodd, Mrs. Anna Bowman [Blake].L. I., 1855- ——. A
New York writer whose volumes of travels have been very popular.
The Republic of the Future, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral Days;
Glorinda: a Story; Three Normandy Inns; In the Norfolk Broads. Cas.
Rob.
Dodd, Stephen.N. J., 1777-1856. A Presbyterian minister
of Connecticut, who published History of East Haven; Revolutionary
Memorials.
Doddridge, Joseph.Pa., 1769-1826. An Episcopal clergyman
of western Virginia. Logan, a drama; Notes on the Settlement and Indian
Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83.
Dodge, David Low.Ct., 1774-1852. A New York merchant who
was the first president of the New York Peace Society. The Mediator’s
Kingdom not of this World; War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus
Christ. See Memorials of, 1854.
Dodge, Ebenezer.Ms., 1819-1890. A Baptist clergyman,
president of Madison (now Colgate) University, 1868-90. Evidences of
Christianity; Christian Theology.
Dodge, Mary Abby. “Gail Hamilton.” Ms., 1838-1896.
A noted essayist and magazinist of Hamilton, Massachusetts, whose
aggressive, pungent style made her writings at one time extremely
popular. Much of her work is ephemeral in its nature, but it is always
readable and often brilliant. A New Atmosphere; Gala Days; Woman’s
Wrongs; Red-Letter Days; Summer Rest; Battle of the Books; Twelve Miles
from a Lemon; Sermons to the Clergy; First Love is Best; What Think
ye of Christ?; Country Living and Country Thinking; Skirmishes and
Sketches; Wool-Gathering; Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness; Little Folk
Life; Nursery Noonings; Our Common School System; Divine Guidance; The
Insuppressible Book; A Washington Bible Class; Biography of James G.
Blaine. Ap. Har.
Dodge, Mrs. Mary Barker [Carter].Pa., 18— - ——.
Belfry Voices; The Gray Masque and Other Poems. Lo.
Dodge, Mrs. Mary [Mapes].N. Y., 1838- ——. A writer
of New York city who has edited the Saint Nicholas Magazine since
1873. Her writings for young people include Hans Brinker; Donald and
Dorothy; Rhymes and Jingles; Irvington Stories; A Few Friends; The Land
of Pluck; When Life is Young, poems for young people. She has also
written Theophilus and Others; Along the Way: a volume of Short Poems.
Scr.
Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell.Ms., 1810-1874. A Boston
littérateur who was the author of Stories of a Grandfather about
American History. Le.
Dodge, Richard Irving.N. C., 1827-1895. A colonel in the
United States army who saw much service in Indian campaigns, and made
careful study of the Indian character. The Black Hills; The Plains of
the Great West; Our Wild Indians; A Living Issue.
Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.Ms., 1842- ——. A captain and
brevet lieutenant-colonel in the United States army, prominent as a
military historian. The Campaign of Chancellorsville; A Bird’s-Eye View
of our Civil War; Great Captains; Alexander, a History of the Origin
and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of
Ipsus, B. C. 301, with a detailed account of the Campaigns of
the Great Macedonian; Hannibal; Cæsar; Gustavus Adolphus; Patroclus and
Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle; Riders of Many Lands. Har. Hou.
Dods, John Bovee.N. Y., 1795-1872. A clergyman of New
York city whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of
Mesmerism; Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant;
Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained.
Doe, Charles Henry.Ms., 1838-1900. A journalist of
Worcester, Massachusetts. Buffets, a novel.
Doesticks, Q. K. Philander.See Thomson, Mortimer.
Doggett, David Seth.Va., 1810-1880. A Methodist bishop
who lived at Richmond, Virginia, and published The War and its Close.
Dolbear, Amos Emerson.Ct., 1837- ——. A professor
of physics and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of
Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenomena. Matter,
Ether, and Motion. Le.
Dole, Charles Fletcher.Me., 1845- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston. The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men
about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; The American Citizen.
Dole, Edmund Pearson.Me., 1850- ——. Cousin of C. F.
Dole, supra. Assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands.
Talks About Law. Hou.
Dole, Nathan Haskell.Ms., 1852- ——. Brother of C. F.
Dole, supra. A littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing
translations from the Russian of Tolstoï and other writers, is the
author of A Score of Famous Composers; The Hawthorn Tree and Other
Poems, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse; Not Angels Quite;
History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer
Idyl; Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works
is a variorum edition of the Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám. Cr. Est. Kt.
Mer.
Donald, Elijah Winchester.Ms., 1848-1904. An Episcopal
clergyman of Boston, rector of Trinity Church from 1892. The Expansion
of Religion. Hou.
Donaldson, Frank.Md., 1822-1891. A Baltimore physician,
professor of hygiene in the University of Maryland since 1866.
Influence of City Life and Occupations in Consumption.
Donaldson, James Lowry.Md., 1814-1885. A colonel and
brevet major-general in the United States army who published Sergeant
Atkins, a tale of the Florida War.
Donnelly, Eleanor Cecilia.Pa., 1838- ——. Sister of I.
Donnelly, infra. A Philadelphia writer of religious verse, the
greater part of which is occupied with Roman Catholic themes. Among her
many volumes are Domus Dei; Out of Sweet Solitude; Hymns of the Sacred
Heart; Children of the Golden Sheaf and Other Poems.
Donnelly, Ignatius.Pa., 1831-1901. A Minnesota writer
who, besides publishing An Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare;
Atlantis: the Antediluvian World; Cæsar’s Column; Ragnarok: the Age of
Fire and Gravel, was the author of The Great Cryptogram. In this work
he claims to have discovered a cipher in the plays of Shakespeare which
sufficiently establishes the fact that they were written by Lord Bacon,
an eccentric exercise of ingenuity that has not been taken seriously by
scholars. Ap. Har.
Doolittle, Benjamin.Ms., 1695-1749. A clergyman of
Northfield, Massachusetts, 1718-49. Narrative of the Mischief of the
French and Indians, 1744-48; Inquiry into Enthusiasm.
Dorchester, Daniel.Ms., 1827- ——. A noted Methodist
clergyman of Massachusetts. Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy;
Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor
Problem in All Ages; The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United
States; Romanism versus the Public Schools. Meth.
Dorgan, John Aylmer. 1836-1866. A lawyer and verse writer of
Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled
Studies. See Manhattan Magazine, June, 1883.
Dorr, Benjamin.Ms., 1796-1869. An Episcopal clergyman
who was rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1837-69. The Churchman’s
Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in
Another World; Sunday-School Teacher’s Encouragement; Prophecies and
Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the
East; Memoir of John Fanning Watson, infra.
Dorr, Mrs. Julia Caroline [Ripley].S. C., 1825- ——.
A poet and novelist of Rutland, Vermont. Her verse, much of which
reaches a high degree of excellence, includes Daybreak, an Easter Poem;
Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; Legend of the Baboushka; Poems
(complete edition). Her other writings comprise four novels: Lanmere;
Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of travel;
Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower
of England’s Face; A Cathedral Pilgrimage. Lip. Mac. Meth. Ran.
Scr.
Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson.D. C., 1815-1896. A prolific
writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in
Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman Catholic. Among her works are
May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra;
Palms; Warp and Woof.
Dorsey, Ella Loraine.D. C., 1853-1901. Daughter of Mrs.
Anna Dorsey, supra. A Washington writer of stories for boys.
Midshipman Bob; Saxty’s Angel; The Two Tramps.
Dorsey, James Owen.Md., 1848-1895. An ethnologist who
for a time was an Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for
many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the Bureau of
Ethnology. Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War
Customs; The Dhegiha Language, are among his writings.
Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne [Ellis].Mi., 1829-1879.
A Mississippi author who was the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis,
supra, to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the
Gulf of Mexico, where he died. Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories
of the Civil War; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern
Villeggiatura; Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana.
Dorsheimer, William.N. Y., 1832-1888. A prominent
citizen of Buffalo who was twice lieutenant-governor of New York, and
published A Life of Grover Cleveland (1884).
Doten, Lizzie.Ms., 1829- ——. A Boston spiritualist
trance medium whose verses are claimed to be inspired by the spirits
of Shakespeare, Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past. Poems of
Progress; Poems from the Inner Life. Ban.
Doubleday, Abner.N. Y., 1819-1893. A colonel and brevet
major-general in the United States army who retired from active service
in 1873. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; Chancellorsville
and Gettysburg; Gettysburg made Plain. Har. Scr.
Doubleday, Charles William.E., 1829- ——. A soldier who
accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition, and later served
as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. Reminiscences
of the Filibuster War in America.
Douglas, Alice May.Me., 1865- ——. A writer of verse
and juvenile tales whose home is at Bath, Maine. Her verse includes
Phlox; May Flowers; Gems Without Polish. Jewel Gatherers; The
Peacemaker; Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her tales for young
readers.
Douglas, Amanda Minnie.N. Y., 1837- ——. A popular
novelist of Newark, New Jersey, whose more than thirty works of fiction
have obtained a wide circulation. They are readable, and not without
skill in construction, but are not particularly strong on the literary
side. Among them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; Claudia; With Fate Against
Him; Sherburne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven Daughters; Larry; Hope
Mills. Do. Le.
Douglas, Marian.See Robinson, Mrs. A.
Douglas, Silas Hamilton.N. Y., 1816-1890. A professor
of chemistry at the University of Michigan, 1844-79. Tables for
Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with A.
R. Prescott).
Douglass, Frederick.Md., 1817-1895. A famous orator and
the most distinguished member of the African race in America. He was
born in slavery, but escaped to the North in 1838, educated himself,
and soon became prominent as an anti-slavery speaker. As time went
on, his style, always picturesque and eloquent, became polished and
elegant. My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of My Experience in
Slavery; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). See Life by
Holland, 1891.
Douglass, William.S., c. 1691-1752. A Scottish
physician who came to America and settled in Boston in 1718. He was a
man of very positive views, most of which were opposed to those of the
age and the community in which he lived, and his time was well filled
in controversies with the clergy, physicians, magistrates, and colonial
governors. His principal work is a Summary, Historical and Political,
of the British Settlements in America. Others of less note are
Mercurius Novanglicanus, an almanac; Treatise on Small Pox; Midwifery;
Practical History of a New, Eruptive, Miliary Fever. See Tyler’s
American Literature.
Dow, Daniel.Ct., 1772-1849. A Congregational clergyman
of Thompson, Connecticut. Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; The
Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covenants; Free
Inquiry Recommended on the Subject of Free Masonry.
Dow, Lorenzo.Ct., 1777-1834. An eccentric Methodist
travelling preacher, especially vehement against the Jesuits. Polemical
Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and Confession
of Lorenzo Dow; A Short Account of a Long Travel; Journal and
Miscellaneous Writings; History of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic
work.
Dowd, Mary Alice.W. Va., 1855- ——. An educator of
Stamford, Connecticut, who has published Vacation Verses.
Dowling, John.E., 1807-1878. A Baptist clergyman of New
York city whose writings had a large circulation. Vindication of the
Baptists; History of Romanism; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures;
Power of Illustration; Nights and Mornings; Judson Offering; Exposition
of the Prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ.
Downes, John.N. Y., 1799-1882. A mathematician of
Washington. Peter Parley’s Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and
Logarithmic Sines and Tangents; United States Almanac Complete, or
Ephemeris.
Downes, William Howe.Ct., 1854- ——. A Boston
journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and an art
critic. Spanish Ways and By-Ways; The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a
Kindergarten of War.
Downie, David.S., 1838- ——. A Baptist missionary to
India who has published a History of the Telugu Mission.
Downing, Andrew Jackson.N. Y., 1815-1852. A once noted
horticulturist and landscape gardener of New York who did much to
popularize a knowledge of rural art. Theory and Practice of Landscape
Gardening; Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Architecture of Country
Houses; Cottage Residences; Rural Essays. See Garden and Forest,
vol. 8.Wil.
Downing, Mrs. Frances [Murdaugh].N. Y., c.
1835-1894. A writer of Charlottesville, North Carolina, who has
published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after
the manner of the “Ingoldsby Legends;” and several novels, including
Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; Five Little Girls and Two
Little Boys.
Downing, Jack.See Smith, Seba.
Drake, Benjamin.Ky., 1794-1841. A Cincinnati journalist
whose writings include Cincinnati in 1820; Tales and Sketches from the
Queen City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of William Henry Harrison; Life of
Tecumseh.
Drake, Charles Daniel.O., 1811-1892. Son of Daniel
Drake, infra. An eminent lawyer of St. Louis who published Law
of Attachments; Life of Daniel Drake. Lit.
Drake, Daniel.N. J., 1785-1852. Brother of B. Drake,
supra. A distinguished physician of Cincinnati and Philadelphia
who is best known by his valuable work on The Diseases of the Interior
Valley of North America, which embodies a vast amount of patient
research. His other works include Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami
Country (1815); History of the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic
Cholera; Essays on Medical Education; Discourses; Pioneer Life in
Kentucky. See Lives by Mansfield, 1855, C. D. Drake, supra, 1871;
Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.Clke.
Drake, Francis Samuel.Ms., 1828-1885. Son of S. G.
Drake, infra. A bookseller of Boston whose Dictionary of
American Biography is incorporated in Appleton’s Cyclopedia of
Biography. Other works of his are Life of General Knox; The Town of
Roxbury; Tea Leaves; Indian History for Young Folks. Har. Lip.
Drake, Joseph Rodman.N. Y., 1795-1820. A talented
physician of New York city, co-author with Halleck, infra, of
The Croaker Papers in the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests on
The Culprit Fay, a delicate, fanciful creation, and the often-quoted
poem The American Flag. His poetry was once extremely popular, but has
failed to interest the readers of the latter half of the 19th century.
A selection from his poems was made by his daughter and published in
1836.
Drake, Samuel Adams.Ms., 1833- ——. Son of S. G. Drake,
infra. A littérateur of Boston whose histories and books of home
travel have been deservedly popular. Around the Hub, a Boy’s Book About
Boston; The Heart of the White Mountains; Old Landmarks and Historic
Personages of Boston; Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast; Old
Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; The Watch
Fires of ’76; Burgoyne’s Invasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg;
The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial Homes; New England Legends and
Folk-Lore; The Making of New England, 1580-1643; The Making of Virginia
and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making of the Ohio Valley
States, 1660-1837; The Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; History of
Middlesex County; The Pine-Tree Coast. Est. Har. Le. Rob. Scr.
Drake, Samuel Gardiner.N. H., 1798-1875. A Boston
bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical
works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History
of King Philip’s War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle;
Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and
Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of
Witchcraft in the United States; History of the French and Indian War.
See Bibliography of Maine.
Draper, Andrew Sloan.N. Y., 1848- ——. A lawyer and
educator of Albany, and, since 1894, president of the University
of Illinois. What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve
the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School
Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School
System; A Teaching Profession; Authority of the State in Education;
Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System
of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools
and American Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and
Massachusetts.
Draper, Henry.Va., 1837-1882. Son of J. W. Draper,
infra. A professor in the University of New York. The
Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; Text-Book of Chemistry.
Draper, John Christopher.Va., 1835-1885. Son of J. W.
Draper, infra. A New York physician, professor in the University
of New York. Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical
Laboratory Course in Physics; Text-Book of Medical Physics.
Draper, John William.E., 1811-1882. A distinguished
scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from
1839 to 1881 was connected with the University of New York. History of
the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of
Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements
of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology;
Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; History of the
Conflict between Religion and Science. See Dictionary of National
Biography, vol. 16.
Draper, Lyman Copeland.N. Y., 1815-1891. An antiquarian
writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; King’s
Mountain and its Heroes.
Drayton, John.S. C., 1766-1822. Son of W. H. Drayton,
infra. A South Carolina statesman, twice governor of his State.
View of South Carolina; Letters written during a Tour through the
Northern and Eastern States.
Drayton, William Henry.S. C., 1742-1779. A prominent
figure among statesmen of the Revolution and a member of the
Continental Congress. A History of the American Revolution, which he
left in manuscript, was afterwards published by his son.
Drinker, Anne. “Edith May.” Pa., 1827- ——. A
verse-writer of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Poems by Edith May; Tales and
Verses for Children; Katy’s Story.
Drisler, Henry.N. Y., 1818-1897. A classical scholar
of distinction, professor at Columbia College from 1843, whose
Greek-and-English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.
Droch.See Bridges, Robert.
Drone, Eaton Sylvester.O., 1842- ——. A legal writer on
the staff of the New York Herald. The Law of Property in Intellectual
Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright. Lit.
Drummond, Josiah Hayden.Me., 1827-1902. A lawyer who was
attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic
Text-Book for Use of Lodges; History of Masonic Jurisprudence.
Drury, Augustus Waldo. 1851- ——. A clergyman of the sect of
United Brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the
founder of the sect.
Drury, John Benjamin.N. Y., 1838- ——. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of Ghent, New York, who has published Truths and Untruths of
Evolution. Ran.
Duane, James Chatham.N. Y., 1824-1897. A retired
brigadier-general of the United States army, author of A Manual for
Engineer Troops.
Duane, William.N. Y., 1760-1835. A once prominent
journalist and politician of Philadelphia. Military Dictionary; The
Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to
Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen;
Handbook for Infantry.
Duane, William.Pa., 1808-1882. Son of W. J. Duane,
infra. A Philadelphia writer who published Relation of Landlord
to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law of Roads, etc., in Pennsylvania; Canada
and the Continental Congress; Ligan, a collection of Tales and Essays.
Duane, William John.I., 1780-1865. Son to W. Duane,
supra. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia who was secretary
of the treasury in 1833, and was dismissed from office by President
Jackson for declining to order the deposits removed from the Bank of
the United States. The Law of Nations Investigated; Letters on Internal
Improvement; Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of
the Deposits, 1838.
Dubbs, Joseph Henry.Pa., 1838- ——. A German Reformed
clergyman, professor of history in Franklin and Marshall College,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1875. Otterbein and the Reformed Church;
Historic Manual of the Reformed Church; Home Ballads and Metrical
Versions; Why Am I Reformed?
Du Bois, Augustus Jay.O., 1849- ——. A professor of
engineering at Yale University since 1877. Elements of Graphical
Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed
Structures; Mechanics. Wil.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt.Ms., 1868- ——. An
educator of African descent, assistant professor of sociology in the
University of Pennsylvania. The Suppression of the African Slave Trade
to the United States, 1638-1810. Lgs.
Du Bois, William Ewing.Pa., 1810-1881. A Philadelphia
numismatist, assayer at the Mint. Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of
All Nations; Pledges of History, an account of the Antique Coins in the
United States Mint.
Du Bose, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Richards].E., 1826- ——.
A Georgia writer who published The Pastor’s Household, or Lessons on
the Eleventh Commandment, a juvenile tale.
Ducatel, Julius Timoleon.Md., 1796-1849. A chemist of
Baltimore, professor in the University of Maryland and author of a
Manual of Toxicology.
Du Chaillu [dü-chä-yü´], Paul Belloni. F.,
1835-1903. A noted French traveller who became a naturalized citizen
of the United States. Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in
Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild
Life under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs;
Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; Stories of the Gorilla
Country. The greater number of his works are intended for juvenile
reading. Har.
Duché, Jacob.Pa., 1737-1798. An Episcopal clergyman of
Philadelphia who made the prayer at the opening of the Continental
Congress. Becoming discouraged at the want of success of the colonists,
he urged Washington to abandon the cause. He was thereupon considered
an enemy of the country and his property was confiscated. Caspipina’s
Letters; Discourses on Various Subjects.
Dudley, Dean.Me., 1823- ——. A Boston lawyer of
antiquarian tastes. Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley
Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent;
History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy;
History of the Dudley Family.
Dudley, Thomas Underwood.Va., 1837-1904. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He served in the Confederate
army as a colonel, and afterwards entered the ministry. A Wise
Discrimination the Church’s Need.
Dudley, William Russell.Ct., 1849- ——. A professor of
botany at Cornell University, who has published The Cayuga Flora.
Duer, Edward Louis.N. J., 1836- ——. A physician of
Philadelphia. Post Mortem Discoveries; Treatment of Diphtheria.
Duer, John.N. Y., 1782-1858. A once prominent New York
jurist whose specialty was insurance law. Duer’s Reports; Laws and
Practice of Marine Insurance.
Duer, William Alexander.N. Y., 1780-1858. Brother of J.
Duer, supra, and like him a prominent jurist. He was president
of Columbia College, 1829-42. Constitutional Jurisprudence of the
United States.
Duff, Peter.N. B., 1802-1869. An educator of Pittsburg,
where he founded Duff’s Mercantile College, one of the earliest
institutions of the kind. The North American Accountant was his only
publication of note.
Duffel, Mary Gordon.Al., c. 1840- ——. A
resident of Alabama, who published A History of Alabama; Guide to the
Mammoth Cave.
Duffield, George.Pa., 1794-1869. A Presbyterian
clergyman, once prominent in Detroit as a leader among New School
Presbyterians. Dissertations on the Prophecies; Regeneration; Travels
in the Holy Land; Claims of Episcopal Bishops Examined, include his
most important writings.
Duffield, George.Pa., 1818-1888. Son of G. Duffield,
supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of some note as a hymn-writer,
one of his most popular hymns being “Stand up for Jesus.”
Duffield, John Thomas.Pa., 1823-1901. A Presbyterian
clergyman who was professor of mathematics in Princeton College for
many years, and published The Princeton Pulpit and many religious
monographs.
Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby.L. I., 1843-1887.
Son of G. Duffield, 2d. A Presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, New
Jersey. English Hymns, their Authors and History; Latin Hymn-Writers
and their Hymns; Warp and Woof, a Book of Verse. Fu.
Duffield, William Ward.Pa., 1823- ——. An engineer of
Kentucky who was a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the
Civil War. School of the Brigade and Evolutions of the Line.
Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey.Ms., 1823-1884. A
journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the Civil
War he served in the Federal army, and was for some time a captive in
Southern prisons. Among his writings are Prison Life in the South;
Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy;
Home Poems; Parnassus in Pillory, a satire.
Dugdale, Richard L.F., 1841-1883. A writer on sociology.
The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; Further Studies of Criminals.
Duhring, Julia.Pa., 1836- ——. An essayist who has
published Philosophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in
Society; Mental Life and Culture. Lip.
Duhring, Louis Adolphus.Pa., 1845- ——. Brother of J.
Duhring, supra. A physician of Philadelphia, prominent as a
dermatologist. Atlas of Skin Diseases; Practical Treatise on Diseases
of the Skin; Epitome of Skin Diseases; Cutaneous Medicine. Lip.
Duke, William.Md., 1757-1840. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator of Maryland who published A Clew to Religious Truth.
Dulany, Daniel.Md., 1721-1797. A noted Maryland
statesman. Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the
British Colonies.
Dulles, Charles Winslow.E. I., 1850- ——. A surgeon of
Philadelphia. What to Do First in Accidents or Poisoning; What to Do
First in Accidents and Emergencies; Accidents and Emergencies.
Dulles, John Welsh.Pa., 1823-1887. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia, at one time a missionary to India. The
Soldier’s Friend; Life in India; The Ride Through Palestine.
Dummer, Jeremiah.Ms., c. 1680-1739. A noted
scholar who was colonial agent for Massachusetts in London, 1710-21,
and was a political friend of Bolingbroke. A Letter to a Noble Lord
concerning the Late Expedition to Canada; A Defence of the New England
Charters,—both excellent specimens of literary skill as well as
patriotism. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Dumont, Mrs. Julia Louisa [Carey].O., 1794-1857. A once
noted educator of Vevay, Indiana. Life Sketches from Common Paths.
Dunbar, Charles Franklin.Ms., 1830-1900. A professor
of political economy at Harvard University from 1871. Chapters on The
Theory and History of Banking. Put.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.O., 1872- ——. A verse-writer of
Dayton, Ohio, of African descent. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Do.
Duncan, William Cecil.N. Y., 1824-1864. A Baptist
clergyman of New Orleans. Life of John the Baptist; History of the
Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era; The Years of
Jesus; Brief History of the Baptists.
Duncan, William Stevens.Pa., 1834- ——. A physician of
Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Medical Delusions; Physiology of Death.
Dunglison [dŭng´glĭ-son], Richard James.Md.,
1834-1901. Son of R. Dunglison, infra. A physician of
Philadelphia who published Practitioner’s Reference Book; Elementary
Physiology.
Dunglison, Robley.E., 1798-1869. An eminent Philadelphia
physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College from 1836, and one
of the most learned men of his profession. His most important work is
his Medical Dictionary, which has a very wide reputation. Other works
are, Human Physiology; Elements of Hygiene; General Therapeutics; The
Medical Student; The Practice of Medicine; Commentaries on Diseases
of the Stomach and Bowels in Children. See Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries.
Dunham, Carroll.N. Y., 1828-1877. A once prominent
homœopathic physician of New York. Homœopathy the Science of
Therapeutics; Lectures in Materia Medica.
Dunham, William Russell.N. H., 1833- ——. A physician
of Keene, New Hampshire, who has published Theory of Medical Science.
Dunlap, Andrew.Ms., 1794-1835. A lawyer of Boston, and
author of Admiralty Practice in Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction.
Dunlap, John A.Circa 1793-c. 1858. A justice of
the peace in New York city. Practice of the Superior Court of New York
in Civil Actions; Abridgement of the 13th and 14th books of Coke’s
Reports.
Dunlap, Samuel Fales.Ms., 1825- ——. Son of A. Dunlap,
supra, and, like him, a lawyer of Boston. Origin of Ancient
Names; Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man.
Dunlap, William.N. J., 1766-1839. A once prominent
artist, dramatist, and theatrical manager of New York city. Life of
George Frederick Cooke; Life of Charles Brockden Brown; The American
Theatre; History of New York; History, Rise, and Progress of the
Arts of Design in the United States; Thirty Years Ago, a novel; New
Netherlands, Province of New York; The Father, a comedy; Leicester, a
tragedy, include the greater part of his writings.
Dunlop, James.Pa., 1795-1856. A Pittsburg lawyer
prominent as an opponent of slavery. Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853;
Digest of the General Laws of the United States.
Dunn, Jacob Piatt.Ind., 1855- ——. The State librarian
of Indiana. History of Indiana; Massacres of the Mountains, a History
of Indian Wars in the Far West. Har. Hou.
Dunn, Lewis Romaine.N. J., 1822-1876. A Methodist divine
of New Jersey. Lizzie Hagar, the Orphan Girl; The Mission of the
Spirit; Angels of God; Sermons on the Higher Life.
Dunning, Albert Elijah.Ct., 1844- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, editor of the Congregationalist. The Sunday-School
Library; Bible Studies; Congregationalists in America. C. P. S.
Hi.
Dunning, Mrs. Annie [Ketchum]. “Nellie Grahame.” N. Y.,
1831- ——. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, mainly for the
Presbyterian Board of Publication. Among them are Clementina’s Mirrour;
A Story of Four Lives; Broken Pitchers; Contradictions. Lo.
Dunning, Charlotte.See Morse, Mrs.
Duponceau [du-pŏn´sō or dü´poN´so´], Pierre
Etienne.F., 1760-1844. A Frenchman who came to America as
aid to Baron Steuben, settled in Philadelphia, and became eminent as
a lawyer. He was president of the American Philosophical Society, and
his Memoir on the Indian Languages of North America attracted much
attention amongst scholars.
Dupuy [dü-pwe´], Eliza Ann.Va., 1814-1881. A
sensational novelist of Kentucky, for many years a regular contributor
of serial stories to the New York Ledger. Among them are The
Conspirator, a story of Aaron Burr; The Huguenot Exiles; The Concealed
Treasure. Har.
Durbin, John Price.Ky., 1800-1876. A Methodist clergyman
noted for his eloquence, who was missionary secretary of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, 1850-72. Observations in Europe; Observations in
Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. See Life by J. A. Roche,
1879.Har.
Durfee, Job.R. I., 1790-1847. A Rhode Island jurist who
was chief justice of his State, 1835-47. What Cheer, or Roger Williams
in Exile; Panidea, a philosophical treatise. See Complete Works,
with Memoir by his son, 1849.
Durivage, Francis Alexander.Ms., 1813-1881. Nephew to
Edward Everett, infra. A magazinist of Boston, among whose
writings are The Fatal Casket; Life Scenes from the World Around Us;
Cyclopedia of History.
Durrie, Daniel Steele.N. Y., 1819-1892. An antiquarian
writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Bibliographia Genealogica
Americana; History of Madison.
Dutcher, Addison Porter.N. Y., 1818-1884. A physician
of Cleveland. Selections from my Portfolio, essays on Popular and
Scientific Subjects; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Sparks from the Forge of a
Rough Thinker; Two Voyages to Europe. Lip.
Dutcher, Jacob C.Circa 1820- ——. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of New York. Requisites of National Greatness; The Prodigal
Son; Our Fallen Heroes; The Old Home by the River; Frank Lyttleton, or
Winning his Way.
Dutton, Clarence Edward.Ct., 1841- ——. An officer in
the United States army associated with the Geological Survey. Geology
of the High Plateaus of Utah; Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon
District; Hawaiian Volcanoes; Mount Taylor and the Zuñi Plateau; The
Charleston Earthquake of 1886.
Dutton, Henry.Ct., 1796-1869. A prominent jurist of
Connecticut who issued a Digest of the Connecticut Reports.
Duval, John Pope.Va., 1790-c. 1855. A Florida
lawyer who published in 1840 A Digest of the Laws of Florida.
Duyckinck [dī´kiṉk], Evert Augustus. N. Y.,
1816-1878. A literary critic of New York city, who with his brother
George, infra, was the author of an Encyclopædia of American
Literature, first issued in 1855. Its estimates were sometimes
over-indulgent, but on the whole the work gave a fairly just view
of the subject at that time. Other works by the elder Duyckinck are
History of the War for the Union; Biography of Eminent Men and Women of
Europe and America.
Duyckinck, George Long.N. Y., 1823-1863. Brother of E.
A. Duyckinck, supra. A writer of New York city who, beside his
share in The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of
Lives of George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; Bishop Latimer.
Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge.Ct., 1816-1889. Grandson of
Timothy Dwight, infra. An educator of New York city. The Higher
Christian Education; Modern Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman’s
Higher Culture; The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the
Dwight Family in America; History of the Strong Family.
Dwight, Edwin Welles.Ms., 1789-1841. A Congregational
clergyman of Richmond, Massachusetts, whose only publication was a
History of Berkshire County.
Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis.Ms., 1803-1862. A
Congregational missionary to Armenia. Researches of Smith and Dwight
in Armenia; Christianity Revived in the East; Catalogue of Armenian
Literature in the Middle Ages.
Dwight, Henry Edwin.Ct., 1797-1832. The eighth son of
Timothy Dwight, infra. An educator of New Haven who published
Travels in the North of Germany.
Dwight, Henry Otis.Ty., 1843- ——. Son of H. G. O.
Dwight, supra. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and a
correspondent of the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79.
Turkish Life in War Times; Constantinople and its Problems. Rev.
Scr.
Dwight, John Sullivan.Ms., 1813-1893. A distinguished
musical critic of Boston, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, an
outspoken, fearless, high-class critical periodical, 1852-81. In
earlier life he spent five years at Brook Farm, and was a contributor
to The Dial. He was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the
poem God Save the State.
Dwight, Mary Ann.Ms., 1806-1858. A teacher of
drawing and painting in New York city. Grecian and Roman Mythology;
Introduction to the Study of Art; Art as a Branch of Education.
Dwight, Nathaniel.Ms., 1770-1831. Brother of Timothy
Dwight, infra. A physician and clergyman of Rhode Island and
Connecticut, who published the first school geography in America, and
was author also of The Great Question Answered; A Compendious History
of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Bar.
Dwight, Sereno Edwards.Ct., 1786-1850. The fifth son of
Timothy Dwight, infra. A Congregational clergyman and educator.
Life of David Brainerd; The Hebrew Wife, an argument in opposition to
marriage with a deceased wife’s sister; Select Discourses. He edited
the Works of Jonathan Edwards, infra, in ten volumes, with Life.
See Memoir by W. T. Dwight.
Dwight, Theodore.Ms., 1764-1846. Brother of Timothy
Dwight, infra. A once famous journalist of New York city, and a
member of Congress, well known as a Federalist. History of the Hartford
Convention; Character of Thomas Jefferson. See Life and Writings,
1840.
Dwight, Theodore.Ct., 1796-1866. Son of T. Dwight,
supra. A New York littérateur whose varied writings include Tour
in Italy; New Gazetteer of the United States; History of Connecticut;
Summer Tour of New England; The Northern Traveller; The Roman Republic
of 1849; The Kansas War; Life of Garibaldi; The Father’s Book; First
Lessons in Modern Greek; School Dictionary of Roots and Derivatives.
Dwight, Theodore William.N. Y., 1822-1892. Grandson of
Timothy Dwight, infra. A jurist of note who was professor of
municipal law in Columbia College. Argument in the Rose Will Case;
Trial by Impeachment; Prisons and Reformatories (with E. C. Wines,
infra).
Dwight, Thomas.Ms., 1843- ——. A physician of Boston,
successor to O. W. Holmes, infra, as professor of anatomy in
the Harvard Medical School. Anatomy of the Head; The Intracranial
Circulation. Hou.
Dwight, Timothy.Ms., 1752-1817. A Congregational
clergyman who was a very prominent figure in the early history of
the republic, and as president of Yale College, 1795-1817, of great
influence as an educator as well. His most important work is Theology
Explained and Defended in a Course of 173 Sermons, which has gone into
more than one hundred editions. Other prose works are Genuineness and
Authenticity of the Old Testament; Observations on Language; Essay
on Light; Travels in New England and New York, which still furnishes
entertaining reading. His writings in verse include The Conquest of
Canaan, a very ponderous epic; Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; The Triumph
of Infidelity, a satire. See Sparks’s American Biography; Allibone’s
Dictionary; Tyler’s Three Men of Letters, 1895.
Dwight, Timothy.Ct., 1828- ——. Grandson of Timothy
Dwight, supra. A Congregational clergyman, president of Yale
University, 1886-99, and one of the members of the New Testament
Revision Company. The True Ideal of an American University.
Dwight, William Buck.Ty., 1833- ——. Son of H. G.
O. Dwight, supra. A scientist who has been curator of Vassar
College Museum for many years.
Dyckman, Jacob.N. Y., 1788-1822. A physician of New York
city who was the author of Pathology of Human Fluids.
Dyer, Mrs. Catherine Cornelia [Joy].N. Y., 1817-1903.
Wife of H. Dyer, infra. Henry and the Bird’s Nest; Sunny Days
Abroad; Brief History of the Joy Family; Records of the Dyer Family.
Dyer, Heman.Vt., 1810-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of
New York city. Voice of the Lord upon the Waters; Records of an Active
Life, an autobiography.
Dyer, Sidney.N. Y., 1814-1898. A Baptist clergyman
of Philadelphia, well known as a song-writer. Voices of Nature and
Thoughts in Rhyme; Psalmist for Use of Baptist Churches; Songs and
Ballads; The Drunkard’s Child; Ruth, a Cantata; Black Diamonds; Home
and Abroad; Hoofs and Claws; Ocean Gardens and Palaces; Elmdale Lyceum;
The Beautiful Ladder, or the Two Students.
E
Eads, James Buchanan.Ind., 1820-1887. A civil engineer
of distinction and the designer of the Mississippi jetties. System of
Naval Defence; Mouth of the Mississippi, the Jetty System Explained;
Discussion on Upright Bridges.
Eames, Mrs. Jane [Anthony].Ms., 1816-1894. A writer of
Concord, New Hampshire. A Budget of Letters; The Budget Closed; My
Mother’s Jewel; The Christmas Gift; Letters from Bermuda, comprise the
most of her writing.
Earle, Mrs. Alice [Morse].Ms., 1851- ——. A writer
on American antiquarian themes. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days;
Margaret Winthrop, a biography; Costume of Colonial Times; Customs
and Fashions in Old New England; The Sabbath in Puritan New England;
China-Collecting in America; Colonial Dames and Goodwives; Colonial
Days in Old New York. Hou. S. Scr.
Earle, Pliny.Ms., 1809-1892. A son of the inventor of
the same name, and a prominent physician, who was superintendent of
the State Insane Hospital at Northampton, Massachusetts, 1864-1885.
Marathon and Other Poems; Institutions for the Insane in Prussia,
Germany, and Austria; Visits to Thirteen Insane Asylums in Europe; The
Curability of Insanity; Blood-Letting in Disorders; The Earle Family:
Ralph Earle and his Descendants.
Earle, Thomas.Ms., 1796-1849. Brother of P. Earle,
supra. A lawyer and philanthropist of Philadelphia. Essay on
Penal Law; Right of States to Alter and Annul their Charters; Railroads
and Internal Communications (1830); Life of Benjamin Lundy.
Early, Jubal Anderson.Va., 1816-1894. A distinguished
general in the Confederate army who settled in New Orleans after
the close of the Civil War. Memoir of the Last Year of the War for
Independence in the Confederate States; Campaigns of General Lee;
Jackson’s Campaign against Pope.
Eastburn, James Wallis.E., 1797-1819. An Episcopal
clergyman remembered as co-author with R. C. Sands of the once noted
poem Yamoyden.
Eastburn, Manton.E., 1801-1872. The fourth Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, and somewhat prominent as a
dogmatic, aggressive Low Churchman. Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and
Greek Poetry; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians; Essays and
Dissertations on Biblical Literature.
Eastman, Charles Gamage.Me., 1816-1861. A verse-writer
of Montpelier, Vermont, who published in 1848 a volume of Poems,
descriptive of rural life in New England, that was popular for a time.
Eastman, Mrs. Elaine [Goodale].Ms., 1863- ——. A writer
who, with her younger sister, Dora Goodale, infra, attracted
much attention, when both were children, by the publication of several
volumes of poems, of which the literary quality was very marked. She
afterward became a teacher at various Indian schools, and in 1891
married Dr. Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian, educated at the Boston
University; she now lives in South Dakota. Journal of a Farmer’s
Daughter; The Coming of the Birds. See Goodale, D. R.
Eastman, Julia Arabella.N. Y., 1837- ——. A
Massachusetts teacher who has written a number of juvenile tales, among
which are Short Comings and Long Goings; Young Rick; Kitty Kent’s
Trouble. Lo.
Eastman, Mrs. Mary [Henderson].Va., 1818- ——. Wife of
S. Eastman, infra. Romance of Indian Life; Dacotah, or Life and
Legends of the Sioux; American Aboriginal Portfolio; Chicora and other
Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered; Tales of Fashionable Life;
Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, a reply to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Eastman, Philip.N. H., 1799-1869. A jurist of Maine.
General Statutes of Maine; Digest of Maine Law Reports.
Eastman, Seth.Me., 1808-1875. An officer in the United
States army stationed at Fort Snelling and other places on the Western
frontier; afterwards a lieutenant-colonel and brevet brigadier-general.
History, Condition, and Future Prospects of the Indians of the United
States; Topographical Drawing.
Eaton, Amos.N. Y., 1776-1842. A once prominent scientist
whose writings include Index to Geology of the Northern States; Natural
History of New York; Geological Survey of the Erie Canal District;
Philosophical Instructor; Manual of Botany of North America.
Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton.N. S., 1849- ——. An
Episcopal clergyman and instructor of New York city. The Heart of the
Creeds, a notable contribution to Broad church literature; Acadian
Legends and Lyrics; Letter-Writing: its Ethics and Etiquette; The
Church of England in Nova Scotia; Tales of a Garrison Town (with C. L.
Betts, supra).
Eaton, Cyrus.Me., 1784-1875. An educator of Maine who
was totally blind for the last thirty years of his life. Annals of
Warren, Maine; Woman, a poem; History of Thomaston, Maine.
Eaton, Daniel Cady.Mch., 1834-1895. Grandson of Amos
Eaton, supra. A professor of botany at Yale University. The
Ferns of North America; Ferns of the Southwest. Wn.
Eaton, Daniel Cady.N. Y., 1837- ——. Cousin of D.
C. Eaton, supra. A professor of the history of art at Yale
University, 1869-76. Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture. Hou.
Eaton, Dorman Bridgeman.Vt., 1823-1899. A jurist of
New York city, prominent in civil service reform, who published Civil
Service in Great Britain, and edited the seventh edition of Kent’s
Commentaries. Har.
Eaton, John Henry.Tn., 1790-1856. A once noted
politician who was secretary of war, 1829-31, and minister to Spain,
1836-40. He wrote a Life of Andrew Jackson.
Eaton, Samuel John Mills.Pa., 1820-1899. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Franklin, Pennsylvania, 1848-82. Petroleum; History of
Venango County, Pennsylvania; Lake Side; Jerusalem, the Holy City;
Palestine.
Eaton, Thomas Treadwell.Tn., 1845- ——. A Baptist
minister of Louisville. My Angels; Talks to Children; Marriage and Law;
Talks on Getting Married.
Eberle, John.Pa., 1787-1838. A noted physician of
Philadelphia, and later of Cincinnati. Botanical Terminology; Diseases
and Physical Education of Children; Therapeutics and Materia Medica;
Notes on Theory and Practice of Medicine. Lip.
Eckard, James Read.Pa., 1805-1887. A Presbyterian
missionary to India. Faith and Justification (in the Tamil language);
The Hindoo Traveller; Outline of English Law from Blackstone.
Eddy, Ansel Doane.Ms., 1798-1875. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York who published the Christian Citizen; Duties,
Dangers, and Securities of Youth.
Eddy, Clarence.Ms., 1851- ——. An organist of Chicago.
The Church and Concert Organist; The Organ in Church.
Eddy, Daniel Clark.Ms., 1823-1896. A Baptist clergyman
of Boston, and subsequently of Brooklyn, who wrote extensively, some of
his books having been very popular. Among them are The Percy Family,
and Walter’s Tour in the East, two series of volumes for young readers;
Young Man’s Friend; Young Woman’s Friend; The Burman Apostle, a life
of Judson; Roger Williams and the Baptists; The Unitarian Apostasy;
Europa, or Scenes in the Old World; Waiting at the Cross; Angel
Whispers.
Eddy, Henry Turner.Ms., 1844- ——. A mathematician,
since 1874 a professor in the University of Cincinnati. Analytical
Geometry; Researches in Graphical Statics; Thermodynamics; Maximum
Stress under Concentrated Loads.
Eddy, Mrs. Mary Morse [Baker] [Glover] [Patterson].N.
H., 1822- ——. A resident of Concord, New Hampshire, widely known
as the founder of the sect of Christian Scientists. Besides Christian
Science; Science and Health, she has published a number of pamphlets on
the general subject of Christian Science.
Eddy, Richard.R. I., 1828- ——. A Universalist
clergyman of Melrose, Massachusetts. Universalism in America; History
of the Sixtieth New York Regiment; The Martyr to Liberty.
Eddy, Thomas.Pa., 1758-1827. A philanthropist whose
efforts were chiefly in the direction of prison reform, and who was the
author of The State Prisons of New York. See Life by S. L. Knapp,
1834.
Eddy, Thomas Mears.O., 1823-1874. A Methodist minister
of Chicago, who published Patriotism of Illinois, a history of that
State during the Civil War.
Eddy, Zachary.Vt., 1815-1891. A Presbyterian minister of
Augusta, Georgia. Immanuel, or the Life of Christ; Hymns of the Church;
Songs of the Church.
Edes, Henry Herbert.Ms., 1849- ——. A Boston merchant
of antiquarian tastes, who has published Charlestown’s Historic Points;
Memorial of Josiah Barker.
Edes, Robert Thaxter.Me., 1838- ——. A physician
of Washington. Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases; Physiology
and Pathology of the Sympathetic or Ganglionic Nervous System;
Therapeutical Handbook of United States Pharmacopœia; Text Book of
Therapeutics and Materia Medica.
Edgar, Cornelius Henry.N. J., 1811-1884. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman of Easton, Pennsylvania. Lectures on Slavery;
Discourses on the Death of Lincoln; Curse of Canaan Rightly
Interpreted; Exposition of the Nine Last Wars (1867).
Edgren, August Hjalmar.Sn., 1840- ——. A Swedish
scholar who came to the United States in 1862, and served for a time
in the Federal army, and afterwards in the Swedish army. Since 1884 he
has been professor of languages in the University of Nebraska. Complete
Sanskrit Grammar; German and English Dictionary (with W. D. Whitney,
infra); The Literature of America (in Swedish); Public Schools
and Colleges of the United States; Swedish Literature in America;
American Antiquities.
Edmonds, John Worth.N. Y., 1799-1874. A prominent
jurist of New York city, noted as an ardent defender of Spiritualism.
Spiritualism (with G. T. Dexter); Reports of Select Law Cases; Letters
and Tracts on Spiritualism.
Edwards, Bela Bates.Ms., 1802-1852. A Congregational
clergyman, professor in Andover Theological Seminary, and editor of
the Bibliotheca Sacra. He published an Eclectic Reader; Biography of
Self-made Men; Memoirs of E. Cornelius; but his principal work was
in the line of religious editorship. See Memoir by E. A. Parks,
infra.
Edwards, Charles.E., 1797-1868. A New York lawyer who
was counsel to the British consulate. The Juryman’s Guide; Parties to
Bills and Other Pleadings; Feathers from my Own Wings; Receivers in
Chancery; Reports of Chancery Cases; Receivers in Equity; Referees;
History and Poetry of Finger Rings; Pleasantries about Courts and
Lawyers.
Edwards, Emory.Va., 1841- ——. A naval engineer who
served in the United States navy as assistant engineer, 1864-68, and
was subsequently employed in a similar capacity in the merchant marine
service. A Catechism of the Marine Steam Engine; Modern American
Locomotive Engines; Modern American Marine Engines, Boilers, and Screw
Propellers; The Practical Steam Engineer’s Guide. Bai.
Edwards, George Wharton.Ct., 1860- ——. An artist
and writer of short stories living at Plainfield, New Jersey. P’tit
Matinic’, and Other Monotones; Thumb-Nail Sketches; The Rivalries of
Long and Short Codiac; Break o’ Day and Other Stories. Cent.
Edwards, Harry Stillwell.Ga., 1854- ——. A littérateur
and journalist of Macon, Georgia. Two Runaways and Other Stories; Sons
and Fathers. Cent. Ra.
Edwards, James Thomas.N. J., 1838- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of Baltimore. The Grass Family; The Voice Tree;
The Silva of Chautauqua Lake.
Edwards, John.W., 1806-1887. A Welsh poet who came to
America in 1828, and settled in central New York. He was long prominent
amongst Welsh residents in the United States, and published two volumes
of verse, The Crucifixion; The Omnipresence of God.
Edwards, John Ellis.N. C., 1814-1891. A Methodist
clergyman of Richmond, Virginia. Life of John Wesley Childs; Random
Sketches and Notes of European Travel; The Confederate Soldier; Log
Meeting-House.
Edwards, Jonathan.Ct., 1703-1757. A Congregational
clergyman who must be called the most subtle reasoner the New World
has ever produced. He was the son of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational
minister of East Windsor, Connecticut, and was minister at Northampton,
Massachusetts, 1727-50. From 1751 to 1758 he served as missionary to
the Stockbridge Indians, and the last month of his life was president
of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was
the greatest defender of Calvinism that has ever lived, and as a
preacher had an extraordinary influence. His famous sermon, “Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry God,” is the best example of the pitiless,
ferocious realism of his style. His chief work is the celebrated
Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of acute, precise,
and original thinking. His other works include Notes on the Mind
and Natural Science, written when he was between 15 and 16 years of
age; The Religious Affections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work of
the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; God’s Last End in the Creation;
Treatise on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; Inquiry into the
Qualifications for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival of Religion;
History of the Redemption; Life of David Brainerd. See Lives by
S. E. Dwight, supra; S. Hopkins, infra; A. V. G. Allen, 1889, supra;
Sparks’s American Biography, vol. 8; Tyler’s American Literature;
Duyckinck’s Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Edwards, Jonathan, Jr.Ms., 1745-1801. Son of Jonathan
Edwards, supra. A Congregational clergyman of great ability who
was president of Union College. Treatise on Liberty and Necessity;
Discourses on the Atonement. See Memoir by Tryon Edwards, infra;
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Edwards, Justin.Ms., 1787-1853. A Congregational
clergyman, prominent in the temperance movement. Beside a Sabbath
Manual; Temperance Manual, he published a great number of tracts.
See Memoir by W. Hallock, 1854.
Edwards, Morgan.W., 1722-1795. A Welsh Baptist clergyman
who came to America in 1761, and was the foremost colonial minister of
his faith. He was one of the founders of Brown University. Materials
Toward a History of the Baptists in Pennsylvania; Materials Toward a
History of the Baptists in New Jersey.
Edwards, Ninian Wirt.Ky., 1809-1889. A prominent jurist
of Illinois, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of that State. History of
Illinois and Ninian Edwards.
Edwards, Tryon.Ct., 1809-1894. A grandson of Jonathan
Edwards, Jr. A Congregational clergyman who edited the Works of Joseph
Bellamy, supra, with Memoir; the Works of his grandfather; and
published, among other works, Christianity a Philosophy of Principles;
Self-Cultivation; Light for the Day; Wonders of the Word; Anecdotes for
the Family.
Edwards, William Emory.Va., 1842-1903. Son of J. E.
Edwards, supra. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia who was the
author of John Newson, a Tale of College Life.
Edwards, William Henry.N. Y., 1822- ——. A naturalist
of Coalburgh, West Virginia. The Butterflies of North America; Voyage
up the Amazon. Hou.
Egan, Maurice Francis.Pa., 1852- ——. A journalist and
littérateur, now professor at the Roman Catholic University of Notre
Dame, Indiana. His prose writings include That Girl of Mine; That Lover
of Mine; A Garden of Roses; Stories of Duty; The Life Around Us; The
Theatre and Christian Parents; Modern Novelists; Lectures on English
Literature; The Disappearance of Mr. Longworthy; A Primer of English
Literature; A Gentleman; A Marriage of Reason; The Success of Patrick
Desmond; The Flower of the Flock. In verse he has published Preludes;
Songs and Sonnets, and Other Poems. Mg.
Egar, John Hodson.E., 1832- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Rome, New York. The Threefold Grace of the Holy Trinity;
Christendom, Ecclesiastical and Political.
Eggleston, Edward.Ind., 1837-1902. A novelist long
resident near Lake George, New York, who, in the early part of his
career, was a Methodist minister. He was especially successful in
depicting life in southern Indiana in pioneer days, his first important
work, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, attracting widespread notice. Other
fictions by him include The End of the World; The Circuit Rider; Roxy;
The Graysons, a story of Illinois; The Faith Doctor; The Hoosier
Schoolboy; Queer Stories; Schoolmasters’ Stories for Boys and Girls;
Mr. Blake’s Walking-Stick; Duffels. Still other works are Sunday-School
Manual; Counsel for Teachers; School History of the United States;
Household History of the United States; First Book in American History;
Stories of Great Americans; The Beginners of a Nation, the first volume
in a History of Life in the United States. In collaboration with his
daughter, Mrs. Seelye, infra, he wrote Tecumseh and the Shawnee
Prophet; Pocahontas; Brandt and Red Jacket; Montezuma. See Vedder’s
American Writers. Am. Ap. Cent. Do. Scr.
Eggleston, George Cary.Ind., 1839- ——. Brother of E.
Eggleston, supra. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate
army, and afterwards filled several journalistic positions in New
York city, becoming editor of the Commercial Advertiser in 1886. His
writings are mainly for young people. How to Educate Yourself; A Man
of Honor; A Rebel’s Recollections; How to Make a Living; How to Make
Money; The Big Brother, or a Story of the Indian War; Captain Sam;
Signal Boys; The Wreck of the Red Bird; Strange Stories from History
for Young People; Red Eagle; Juggernaut: a Veiled Record (with Dolores
Marbourg). Do. Fo. Har. Put.
Egle, William Henry.Pa., 1830-1901. A physician and
local historian of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History of Pennsylvania;
History of Dauphin County; History of Lebanon County; Historical
Register; Pennsylvania Genealogies, Scotch-Irish and German;
Pennsylvania in the Revolution; Notes and Queries relative to
Interior Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Archives (edited with J. B. Linn,
infra), in 12 volumes.
Egleston, Thomas.N. Y., 1832-1900. A metallurgist of
note, professor of mineralogy at Columbia College from 1864. Metallurgy
of Silver; Catalogue of Minerals; Lectures on Mineralogy; Life of John
Patterson, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution. Wil.
Eidlitz, Leopold.Bo., 1823-1896. An architect of New
York city. The Nature and Function of Art.
Elder, Cyrus.Pa., 1833- ——. Nephew of W. Elder,
infra. A revenue commissioner of Pennsylvania. Dream of a
Free-Trade Paradise; Man and Labor; Short Studies; May Gift, in verse.
Elder, George A. M.Ky., 1794-1838. A Roman Catholic
priest who founded the College of St. Joseph, at Bardstown, Kentucky,
and was its first president. He wrote Letters to Brother Jonathan.
Elder, Mrs. Susan [Blanchard].La., 1835- ——. A
littérateur of New Orleans who has written extensively for Roman
Catholic periodicals. The Loss of the Papacy; James the Second;
Savonarola; Ellen Fitzgerald, a Southern tale.
Elder, William.Pa., 1806-1885. A Philadelphia physician,
prominent as an abolitionist. Periscopics, a volume of miscellanies;
The Enchanted Beauty; Life of Dr. Kane, infra; The Debt and
Resources of the United States (1863); Questions of the Day, Economic
and Social; Conversations on the Principal Subjects of Political
Economy. Bai.
Eliot, Charles William.Ms., 1834- ——. Son of S. A.
Eliot, infra. A distinguished educator who has been president of
Harvard University since 1869. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis;
Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (with Storer).
Eliot, Jared.Ct., 1685-1763. Grandson of John Eliot,
1st, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Killingworth,
Connecticut, 1707-63, famous in his day as an agriculturist,
physician, and scientist. He was awarded a medal by the London
Institute in 1786 “for producing malleable iron from American Black
Sand.” Essays upon Field and Husbandry, and many single sermons.
Eliot, John.E., 1604-1690. A Puritan minister of Roxbury
who came to America in 1631, and is famous in history as the “Indian
Apostle.” He is chiefly remembered for his famous translation of the
Bible into the Indian language, but he was the author of other works,
among which are the Communion of Churches; The Harmony of the Gospels;
Dying Speeches of Several Indians; The Indian Primer; Indian Logic
Primer. See Sparks’s American Biography; Life by R. B. Caverly;
Appleton’s American Biography; Hart’s American Literature.
Eliot, John.Ms., 1754-1813. A clergyman of Boston,
pastor of the New North Congregational church, 1779-1813, and author of
the New England Biographical Dictionary.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins.Ms., 1798-1862. A citizen of Boston
who was mayor 1837-39, and published Observations on the Bible for the
Use of Young Persons; Sketch of the History of Harvard College.
Eliot, Samuel.Ms., 1821-1898. A New England educator
of prominence, at one time president of Trinity College. History of
Liberty; Manual of United States History; Life and Times of Savonarola.
Eliot, William Greenleaf.Ms., 1811-1887. A Unitarian
clergyman of St. Louis, chancellor of Washington University there,
1872-87. Doctrines of Christianity; Early Religious Education; Lectures
to Young Men; Lectures to Young Women; Discipline of Sorrow; Manual of
Prayer; The Unity of God; The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to
Freedom; Home Life and Influence. A. U. A.
Ellet, Charles.Pa., 1810-1862. An engineer of note who
built the first wire suspension bridge in America. He served during
the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army, and was killed in an
engagement on the Mississippi. Physical Geography of the Mississippi
Valley; Coast and Harbor Defences; The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers,
with Plans for Protecting the Delta from Inundation. Lip.
Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth Fries [Lummis].N. Y., 1818-1877.
A once popular miscellaneous writer whose historical works were the
outcome of a good deal of research and are not without value, but
whose productions as a whole have little of the quality of permanence.
They include Domestic History of the American Revolution; Women of the
American Revolution; Court Circles of the Republic; Queens of American
Society; Pioneer Women of the West; Novelettes of the Musicians;
Rambles in the West; The Practical Housekeeper; Family Pictures from
the Bible; Evenings at Woodlawn; Poems, Original and Selected; Teresa
Contarini, a tragedy; Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily; The
Characters of Schiller; Women Artists in All Ages. Har.
Ellinwood, Frank Fields.N. Y., 1826- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions. The Great Conquest; Oriental Religions and Christianity.
Scr.
Elliot, Benjamin.S. C., 1786-1836. A South Carolina
jurist who published Refutation of Calumnies respecting the Institution
and Existence of Slavery; The Militia System of South Carolina.
Elliot, George Henry.Ms., 1831-1900. A military engineer
in the service of the United States. European Light-House Systems; The
Presidio of San Francisco.
Elliot, Henry Rutherford. 1849- ——. A journalist of New York
city. The Basset Claim, a Story of Life in Washington; The Common
Chord, a Story of the Ninth Ward. Cas.
Elliot, Samuel Hayes.Vt., 1809-1869. A Congregational
clergyman of New Haven. Rolling Ridge, or the Book of Four-and-Twenty
Chapters; The Parish Side; Dreams and Realities; New England’s
Chattels, or Life in a Northern Poor-House; The Attractions of New
Haven.
Elliott, Charles.I., 1792-1869. A Methodist clergyman,
at one period president of Iowa Wesleyan University. Treatise on
Baptism; Delineation of Roman Catholicism; Life of Bishop Roberts;
History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church;
Political Romanism; Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission;
Southwestern Methodism; The Bible and Slavery; Sinfulness of American
Slavery. Meth.
Elliott, Charles.S., 1815-1892. A Presbyterian minister,
professor of Hebrew at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. The
Sabbath; The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; Vindication of the
Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.
Elliott, Charles Wyllys.Ct., 1817-1883. A New York
writer, at one time a landscape gardener of note. The Book of American
Interiors; Pottery and Porcelain; Remarkable Characters and Places in
the Holy Land; Cottages and Cottage Life; Mysteries, or Glimpses of
the Supernatural; St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Toussaint
l’Ouverture; New England History, from its Discovery by the Northmen;
Wind and Whirlwind, a novel. Ap. Hou.
Elliott, Ezekiel Brown.Sn., 1823-1888. A government
statistician of note. Unification of International Coinage.
Elliott, Franklin Reuben.Ct., 1817-1878. A
horticulturist of Cleveland. The Western Fruit Book; Popular Deciduous
and Evergreen Trees; Handbook for Fruit Growers; Handbook of Practical
Landscape Gardening.
Elliott, Henry Wood.O., 1846- ——. Son of F. R.
Elliott, supra. An artist in the employ of the Smithsonian
Institution. Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska; Our Arctic
Provinces. Scr.
Elliott, John.Ct., 1768-1824. A Congregational minister
at Madison, Connecticut, 1791-1824, co-author with S. Johnson of the
first American dictionary of the English language.
Elliott, Jonathan.E., 1784-1846. A publicist of
Washington who published American Diplomatic Code; Debate on Adoption
of the Constitution; Funding System of the United States; Statistics of
the United States; The Comparative Tariffs; Sketches of the District
of Columbia. Lip.
Elliott, Mrs. Maud [Howe].Ms., 1855- ——. Daughter of
S. G. Howe, infra. A fiction-writer of Chicago. Atalanta in
the South; Mammon; A Newport Aquarelle; The San Rosario Ranch; Honor;
Phyllida. Mer. Rob.
Elliott, Sarah Barnwell. 18— - ——. Granddaughter of S.
Elliott, infra. Jerry; John Paget, a novel of New York and
Newport; The Felmeres. Ho.
Elliott, Stephen.S. C., 1771-1830. A naturalist of
South Carolina, and a professor in the State Medical College. His son
Stephen, 1800-1866, was the first Episcopal bishop of Georgia, and his
grandson, Robert Woodward Barnwell Elliott, 1840-1887, the first bishop
of Western Texas. The Botany of South Carolina and Georgia.
Elliott, William.S. C., 1788-1863. Nephew of S. Elliott,
supra. A politician of Beaufort, South Carolina, who published
the tragedy of Fiesco; Carolina Sports by Land and Water.
Ellis, Charles Mayo.Ms., 1818-1878. A Boston lawyer of
prominence as an abolitionist, who published a History of Roxbury.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester.O., 1840- ——. A popular writer
of school text-books and juvenile tales, who was for a number of years
an instructor in Trenton, New Jersey. Among his numerous writings are
included The People’s Standard History of the United States; several
school histories of the United States; From the Throttle to the
President’s Chair; Lost in Samoa; The Camp Fires of General Lee; The
Hunters of the Ozark; The Last War Trail; Righting the Wrong; Up the
Tapajos; Down the Mississippi; Life of Daniel Boone; Storm Mountain.
Am. Cas. Co. Mer.
Ellis, George Edward.Ms., 1814-1894. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston who was pastor of the Harvard Church in
Charlestown, 1840-69, and for many years president of the Massachusetts
Historical Society. He was an enthusiastic historical student with
positive convictions. They were, however, held without bitterness or
prejudice. A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy; Evidences of
Christianity; The Red Man and the White in North America; The Organ
and Church Music; Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts;
Memoirs of Count Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, Luther Bell,
and others; Lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn, in
Sparks’s American Biography; History of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The
Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is his most
important work. Hou. Lit.
Ellis, Sumner.Ms., 1828-1886. A Universalist clergyman
of Boston and Chicago. At Our Best, and Other Essays; Life of E. H.
Chapin, supra; Hints on Preaching. See Memorial by C. R.
Moor, 1887.Meth.
Ellsworth, Erastus Wolcott.Ct., 1822- ——. An inventor
of Connecticut who published in 1855 a volume of poems of very uneven
excellence, some of which were popular for a time.
Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt.Ct., 1791-1858. A commissioner
of patents who was a son of the noted jurist, Oliver Ellsworth. Digest
of Patents from 1770 to 1859.
Ellsworth, Henry William.Ct., 1814-1864. Son of H. L.
Ellsworth. A lawyer of Indiana. Sketch of the Upper Mississippi Valley;
American Swine-Breeder.
Ellsworth, Mrs. Mary Wolcott [Janvrin].N. H., 1830-1870.
A writer for periodicals. Peace, or the Stolen Will; An Hour with the
Children; Smith’s Saloon.
Ellwanger, George Herman.N. Y., 1848- ——. Brother of
H. B. Ellwanger, infra. A writer of Rochester, New York. The
Garden’s Story; The Story of My House; In Gold and Silver; Idyllists of
the Country-Side. Love’s Demesne, a Garland of Contemporary Love Poems.
Ap. Do.
Ellwanger, Henry Brooks.N. Y., 1851-1883. A
horticulturist of Rochester, New York. The Rose, a Treatise on
Cultivation, History, etc., of Roses. Do.
Elmendorf, John James.N. Y., 1827-1896. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor of philosophy in Racine College, Wisconsin,
1867-88, and later connected with the Western Theological Seminary at
Chicago. Manual of Rites and Ritual; History of Philosophy; Outlines of
Logic; Aspects of Modern Philosophy; Moral Philosophy.
Elmer, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus.N. J., 1793-1883. A
jurist of Bridgeton, New Jersey, who published a Digest of the Laws of
New Jersey, commonly styled “Nixon’s Digest;” Genealogy of the Elmer
Family; History of Cumberland County; History of New Jersey.
Elsberg, Louis.P., 1836-1885. A physician of New York
city. Laryngoscopal Medication; The Throat and its Functions.
Elson, Louis Charles.Ms., 1848- ——. A Boston
journalist, editor of the Vox Humana. History of Music; History of
German Song; Curiosities of Music. Dit.
Elton, Romeo.Ct., 1790-1870. A once prominent clergyman
of the Baptist faith, at one time a professor in Brown University, who
was author of a Life of Roger Williams.
Elwell, Edward Henry.Me., 1825-1890. A journalist of
Portland, Maine. Portland and Vicinity; The Boys of Thirty-Five, a
Story of a Seaport Town.
Elwyn, Alfred Langdon.N. H., 1804-1884. A noted
Philadelphia philanthropist. Bonaparte, a poem; Glossary of Supposed
Americanisms; Melancholy and its Musings; Hints to the City on
Intemperance.
Ely, Ezra Stiles.Ct., 1786-1861. A Presbyterian minister
of Philadelphia. Contrast between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism; Endless
Punishment; The Science of the Human Mind; Sermons on Faith; Visits of
Mercy; Memoir of Zebulon Ely; The Contrast; Ely’s Journal.
Ely, Richard Theodore.N. Y., 1854- ——. A political
economist of distinction, professor of political economy at Wisconsin
University since 1892. French and German Socialism in Modern Times;
The Past and Present of Political Economy; Taxation in American States
and Cities; Problems of To-Day; Political Economy; Social Aspects of
Christianity; Outlines of Economics. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Fl. Har. Meth.
Embury, Mrs. Emma Catharine [Manly].N. Y., 1806-1863.
A writer of verse and prose whose home was in Brooklyn. Her various
works include Guido and Other Poems; The Blind Girl and Other Tales;
The Waldorf Family, a Fairy Tale; Female Education; Glimpses of Home
Life; Pictures of Early Life; Poems; Token of Flowers; Nature’s Gems,
or American Wild Flowers; Love’s Token Flowers, a collection of verse.
Emerson, Alfred.Pa., 1859- ——. An archæologist,
professor at Cornell University since 1891. Dissertatio de Hercule
Homerico.
Emerson, Charles Noble.Ms., 1821-1869. A Massachusetts
lawyer, commissioner of revenue, who published Internal Revenue Guide;
Handbook of Internal Revenue for Popular Use.
Emerson, Edward Waldo.Ms., 1844- ——. Son of R. W.
Emerson, infra. An instructor in art anatomy, living at Concord,
Massachusetts. Emerson in Concord. Hou.
Emerson, Mrs. Ellen [Russell].Ms., 1837- ——. A Boston
writer upon art and Indian mythology. Indian Myths; Masks, Heads, and
Faces, with Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art.
Hou.
Emerson, Frederick.N. H., 1788-1857. A once prominent
Boston educator who published a series of popular arithmetics, chief
among which was the North American Arithmetic.
Emerson, George Barrell.Me., 1797-1881. An educator of
Boston of much prominence and wide influence. Lectures on Education;
The School and the Schoolmaster (with A. Potter, infra); Manual
of Agriculture (with C. L. Flint); Report on the Trees and Shrubs
of Massachusetts; Reminiscences of an Old Teacher. See Harvard
Register, May, 1881.Lit.
Emerson, Joseph.N. H., 1777-1833. A New England
clergyman and educator, author of Lectures on the Millennium. See
Life by R. Emerson, infra.
Emerson, Ralph.N. H., 1787-1862. Brother of J. Emerson,
supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Andover
Theological Seminary, 1829-53, and author of Life of Joseph Emerson,
and translation of Wisgon’s Augustinianism and Pelagianism.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.Ms., 1803-1882. The most
distinguished of American essayists, and by some critics ranked as the
foremost American poet when the substance of his poetry is considered
apart from its form. He was ordained in 1829 as a Unitarian minister
in Boston, but retired from the profession in 1833, and the next
year settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where the remainder of his
life was spent. He succeeded Margaret Fuller as editor of The Dial,
and was the most prominent figure among the Transcendentalists. As a
lecturer he was frequently before the public, and in his writings faced
a world-wide public as a philosophical thinker. His first volume of
Poems appeared in 1847, followed in 1867 by May-Day and Other Pieces.
His prose writings are comprised in Nature; Essays, first and second
series; Representative Men; English Traits; Conduct of Life; Society
and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Lectures and Biographical
Sketches; Miscellanies; Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers.
See Scribner’s Magazine, February, 1879; Century Magazine, April,
1883; Fraser’s Magazine, May, 1867; Harper’s Magazine, February,
1884; Conway’s Emerson at Home and Abroad; Correspondence between
Carlyle and Emerson; Benton’s Emerson as a Poet; Emerson in Concord;
Appletons’ American Biography; Stedman’s American Poets; Lives by Cabot
(1887), Garnett, Ireland, Holmes, Cooke; Guernsey’s Emerson as Poet
and Philosopher; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American
Literature; New England Magazine, December, 1896; Emerson-Stirling
Letters; Atlantic Monthly, January, and February, 1897; Peterson’s
Magazine, February, 1897; The Forum, November, 1896; The Arena, March,
1896.Hou.
Emerton, Ephraim.Ms., 1851- ——. A professor of history
at Harvard University. Introduction to the Study of Mediæval History;
Synopsis of the History of Continental Europe; The Practical Method in
Higher Historical Instruction; Sir William Temple und die Tripleallianz
vom Jahre 1668; Mediæval Europe, 814-1300. Gi.
Emerton, James Henry.Ms., 1847- ——. A naturalist
of eminence. Structure and Habits of Spiders; Life on the Seashore.
Wn.
Emmerton, James Arthur.Ms., 1834-1888. A New England
genealogist and physician. Eighteenth Century Baptisms in Salem,
Massachusetts; Record of the 23d Massachusetts Regiment; Materials
towards an Emmerton Genealogy.
Emmet, Thomas Addis.I., 1764-1827. An Irish patriot who
came to the United States in 1804 and settled in New York city, where
he practiced law. He was a brother of the famous Robert Emmet. Pieces
of Irish History. See Memoir by C. G. Haynes.
Emmet, Thomas Addis.Va., 1828- ——. Grandson of T. A.
Emmet, supra. A physician and surgeon of New York city, whose
chief work is The Principles and Practice of Gynecology.
Emmons, Ebenezer.Ms., 1799-1863. A noted geologist who
in the latter part of his life was attached to the State geological
survey of North Carolina. Manual of Mineralogy and Geology; American
Geology.
Emmons, George Foster.Vt., 1811-1884. A rear-admiral in
the United States service who wrote The Navy of the United States from
1775 to 1853.
Emmons, Nathanael.Ct., 1745-1840. A once noted
Congregational minister at Franklin, Massachusetts, 1773-1840. His
theological works in six volumes, with Memoir by J. Ide, appeared in
1842. A later edition contains a Memoir by E. H. Park, infra.
See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Emmons, Samuel Franklin.Ms., 1841- ——. A geologist
in government service. Descriptive Geology; Geological and Mining
Industries of Leadville; Statistics and Technology of the Precious
Metals (with G. F. Becker, supra).
Emory, John.Md., 1789-1835. A Methodist bishop of
prominence in his denomination. The Divinity of Christ Vindicated;
Defence of Our Fathers. See Life by R. Emory, infra.Meth.
Emory, Robert.Pa., 1814-1848. Son of J. Emory,
supra. A Methodist minister and educator who was president of
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1842-48. Life of Bishop
Emory; History of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Meth.
Emory, William Helmsley.Md., 1811-1887. Cousin of J.
Emory, supra. An army officer who retired from the United States
service in 1876 with the rank of brigadier-general. Notes of a Military
Reconnoissance in Missouri and California, 1848; Report on the United
States and Mexican Boundary Commission.
Endicott, Charles Moses.Ms., 1793-1863. A writer of
Salem, Massachusetts, who was at one time commander of a merchantman.
Life of John Endicott; The Persian Poet, a tragedy; Rights and Duties
of Nations; Three Orations.
Endress, Christian.Pa., 1755-1827. A Lutheran clergyman
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who published in German The Kingdom of
Heaven not Susceptible of Union with Temporal Monarchy and Aristocracy.
Engelmann, George Julius.Mo., 1847-1903. A St. Louis
physician, founder of the Polyclinic School of Medicine in that city.
Labor among Primitive Peoples, or the Development of Obstetric Science.
England, John.I., 1786-1842. A Roman Catholic prelate
who was appointed bishop of Charleston in 1820, and came to America in
that year. He was eminent as a lecturer and orator, whose influence
both within and without his church was widespread and beneficent.
Letters on Slavery are among his writings. See Works, 8 vols.,
1849.
Engles, William Morrison.Pa., 1797-1867. A Presbyterian
minister of Philadelphia, for many years editor of The Presbyterian.
Records of the Presbyterian Church; English Martyrology; Sick-Room
Devotion; Bible Dictionary; Sailor’s Companion; Soldier’s Pocket Book.
English, George Bethune.Ms., 1787-1828. A versatile
adventurer who wrote The Grounds of Christianity Examined, which was
answered by Edward Everett, and this brought a rejoinder from English
entitled Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook. He published also
Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar.
English, Thomas Dunn.Pa., 1819-1902. A physician and
poet of Newark, New Jersey, widely known by his famous song Ben Bolt,
first published in 1843. His various writings include Walter Woolfe,
a novel; Poems; 1844, or the Power of the S. F., a political satire;
Ambrose Fecit, or the Peer and the Painter; American Ballads; Book of
Battle Lyrics; Jacob Schuyler’s Millions. Har.
Errett, Isaac.N. Y., 1820-1888. A Campbellite clergyman
of Cincinnati. Debate on Spiritualism; Brief View of Missions; Walks
about Jerusalem; Talks to Bereans; Letters to Young Christians;
Evenings with the Bible, comprise the most of his writing.
Esling, Mrs. Catherine Harbeson [Waterman].Pa.,
1812- ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia who published The Broken
Bracelet and Other Poems in 1850.
Esling, Charles Henry Augustine.Pa., 1845- ——. A
lawyer of Philadelphia, author of Life of Saint Germaine Cousin, the
Shepherdess of Pibrae.
Espy, James Pollard.Pa., 1785-1860. A meteorologist of
Philadelphia, sometimes called “the storm king,” who published The
Philosophy of Storms (1841).
Evans, Augusta Jones.See Wilson, Mrs. Augusta.
Evans, Edward Payson.N. Y., 1833- ——. An Oriental
scholar who has lived chiefly in Europe. Abriss der deutschen
Literaturgeschichte; Progressive German Reader; translation of Stahr’s
Life and Works of Lessing.
Evans, Mrs. Elizabeth Edson [Gibson].R. I., 1833- ——.
Wife of E. P. Evans, supra. The Abuse of Maternity; Laura, an
American Girl; The Story of Kaspar Hauser; The Story of Louis XVII. of
France.
Evans, Frederick William.E., 1808-1893. An elder among
the Shakers of Lebanon, New York, from 1838. He wrote and lectured
much, and possessed great influence in his sect. Compendium of Origin,
History, and Doctrines of Shakers; Shaker Communism; Autobiography of a
Shaker; Second Appearing of Christ; Test of Divine Inspiration, are his
chief works.
Evans, Hugh Davy.Md., 1792-1868. A Baltimore lawyer,
conspicuous for loyalty to the Union during the Civil War, who wrote on
legal and High Church topics. Essay on Pleading; Maryland Common Law
Practice; Essay on the Episcopate; Treatise on the Christian Doctrine
of Marriage; Essays on the Validity of Anglican Ordination; Theophilus
Americanus. Hou.
Evans, Lewis.Circa 1700-1756. A surveyor and geographer
of Philadelphia who published Geographical, Historical, Political, and
Mechanical Essays.
Evans, Mrs. Lizzie Phelps [Esterbrook].Ms., 1846- ——.
A writer of Somerville, Massachusetts. Aunt Nabby; From Summer to
Summer.
Evans, Nathaniel.Pa., 1742-1767. An Episcopal clergyman
stationed as a missionary in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Poems on
Several Occasions, with Memoir by Wm. Smith, appeared in 1772.
Evans, Oliver.Del., 1755-1819. A once famous inventor
who constructed the first high-pressure steam-engine. The Young
Engineer’s Guide; Miller and Millwright’s Guide.
Evans [ĭv´anz], Thomas.Pa., 1798-1868. A Quaker
controversialist of Philadelphia who was an active opponent of the
doctrines of Thomas Hicks, infra, and published an Exposition of
the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends.
Evans, Thomas Wiltberger.Pa., 1823-1897. A famous
dentist, resident in Paris from 1848, through whose aid the Empress
Eugénie escaped from that city in 1870. History of the American
Ambulance in Paris during the Siege, 1870-71; Sanitary Institutions
during the Austro-Prussian-Italian Conflict, 1868; Lettres sur le
Gouvernement des États Unis; La Commission Sanitaire des États Unis.
Eve, Paul Fitzsimmons.Ga., 1806-1877. A distinguished
surgeon of Nashville during the Civil War, surgeon-general of the
Confederate army of Tennessee. Collection of Remarkable Cases in
Surgery; One Hundred Cases of Lithotomy; The Inhumanity of Capital
Punishment by Hanging.
Everest, Harvey William.N. Y., 1831- ——. A clergyman
and educator of the Christian denomination. The Divine Demonstration: a
Text-Book of Christian Evidence.
Everett, Alexander Hill.Ms., 1792-1847. Brother of E.
Everett, infra. An able member of the diplomatic service of the
United States who was minister to Spain, 1825-29, and to the Chinese
Empire at the time of his death. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays;
Poems; Europe: a General Survey; America: a General Survey. See
Allibone’s Dictionary.
Everett, Charles Carroll.Me., 1829-1900. A Unitarian
clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the theological faculty of Harvard
University from 1878, and a profound and independent philosophical
thinker. The Science of Thought; Religions before Christianity;
Fichte’s Science of Knowledge, a Critical Exposition; Poetry, Comedy,
and Duty; Ethics for Young People; The Gospel of Paul. Gi. Hou.
Sc.
Everett, David.Ms., 1770-1813. A Boston journalist who
wrote the famous lines beginning,—
“You’d scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage.”
Common Sense in Déshabillé, or the Farmer’s Monitor;
Daranzel, or the Persian Poet, a tragedy.
Everett, Edward.Ms., 1794-1865. A distinguished
Massachusetts statesman famous for his oratory. He was ordained to
the Unitarian ministry in 1813, but soon retired from the profession
and entered political life, becoming a congressman in 1825. After
that date he was successively governor of Massachusetts, president
of Harvard College, and secretary of state. He achieved a wide
popularity, and his literary style was greatly admired. His work has,
however, failed to retain its hold upon attention, and his polished
sentences now find a constantly lessening circle of readers. Defence of
Christianity; Orations and Speeches; Mount Vernon Papers; Importance of
Practical Education. See Whipple’s Character and Characteristic Men;
Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography.Lit.
Everett, Edward Franklin.Ms., 1840-1899. A Boston
genealogist who published genealogies of the families of Capen and
Everett.
Everett, Erastus.Ms., 1813-1900. An educator once
prominent in Brooklyn. System of English Versification; Progress, a
poem.
Everett, William.Ms., 1839- ——. Son of E. Everett,
supra. At one time an instructor in Harvard University,
afterward master of the Adams Academy at Quincy, Massachusetts, member
of Congress in 1893, and an active political speaker. College Essays;
On the Cam: Lecture on Cambridge University; the poem Hesione, or
Europe Unchained; School Sermons. His books for boys include Thine not
Mine; Changing Base; Double Play. Rob.
Everhart, Benjamin Mablack.Pa., 1818-1904. A
Pennsylvania botanist, co-author with J. B. Ellis of The North American
Pyrenomycetes.
Everhart, James Bowen.Pa., 1821-1888. Brother of B. M.
Everhart, supra. A Pennsylvanian politician and congressman who
published Miscellanies; Poems; The Fox Chase, a Poem.
Everts, Orpheus.Ind., 1826- ——. A physician
of Cincinnati. Giles & Co., or Views and Interviews concerning
Civilization; What Shall we Do with the Drunkard? Clke.
Everts, William Wallace.N. Y., 1814-1890. A Baptist
clergyman of Chicago, and later of Jersey City, among whose many
published works are included The Pastor’s Hand-Book; Bible Prayer-Book;
The Voyage of Life; Manhood, its Duties and Responsibilities; Promise
and Training of Childhood; Words in Earnest; The Baptist Layman’s Book;
The Sabbath; The Christian Apostolate; Life of John Foster. Bap. Fu.
Rev.
Ewbank, Thomas.E., 1792-1870. A scientist of New York,
at one period commissioner of patents. Thoughts on Matter and Force;
Hydraulics; The World a Workshop; Life in Brazil; Experiments in Marine
Propulsion; Reminiscences in the Patent Office. Har. Scr.
Ewell, Marshall Davis.Mch., 1844- ——. A lawyer of
Chicago, and professor of law in Union College of Law in Chicago.
Blackwell on Tax Titles; Treatise on the Law of Fixtures; Essentials of
the Law; Manual of Medical Jurisprudence.
Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright.Ms., 1826-1883. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city of the extreme ritualistic school, whose
Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism attracted much attention at
the time of their delivery. His other writings include The Operation
of the Holy Spirit; Grammar of Theology; Two Eventful Nights, or the
Fallibility of Spiritualism Exposed; Sanctity and Other Sermons. See
American Church Review, December, 1883; Sermons of, with Memoir by C.
T. Congdon, supra.
Ewing, Finis.Va., 1773-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman
who with two others organized the Cumberland Presbyterian church in
1810. Lectures on Divinity is an exposition of the doctrines of the
sect.
Ewing, Hugh Boyle.O., 1826- ——. A general in the
Federal army during the Civil War, and minister to the Netherlands,
1866-70. A Castle in the Air; Ladron, a Tale of Early California.
Ewing, John.Md., 1732-1802. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1777-1802, and
eminent in his day as a scientific observer. He published an Account
of the Transit of Venus, and his Lectures on Natural Philosophy were
issued after his death.
Eyster, Mrs. Nellie [Blessing].Md., 1831- ——. A writer
for young people, formerly living in Pennsylvania, now in California.
Sunny Hours; Chincapin Charlie; Tom Harding; Lionel Wintour’s Diary; A
Colonial Boy. Lo.
F
Fabbri, Cora Randall.N. Y., 1871-1892. A verse-writer
of Italian descent whose volume of Lyrics was published but a few days
before her death. Har.
Fabens, Joseph Warren.Ms., 1821-1875. A native of
Salem, Massachusetts, who was an envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the Dominican republic. The Camel Hunt, a Narrative
of Personal Adventure; Story of Life on the Isthmus; Facts about
Santo Domingo; The Last Cigar, and Eight Other Poems; In the Tropics
(probably).
Fairbairn, Robert Brinckerhoff.N. Y., 1818-1899. An
Episcopal clergyman, warden of St. Stephen’s College, Annandale,
New York. The Child of Faith; Sermons Preached at St. Stephen’s;
Morality in its Relation to the Grace of Redemption; Unity of Faith as
Influenced by Speculative Philosophy. Wh.
Fairbanks, George Rainsford.N. Y., 1820- ——. A
Confederate officer during the Civil War; since 1880 a resident of
Fernandina, Florida. History and Antiquities of St. Augustine; History
of Florida, 1512-1842.
Fairchild, Ashbel Green.N. J., 1795-1864. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Pennsylvania, among whose writings are The Great Supper,
long a popular defence of Calvinism; Baptism; Faith and Works;
Confession of Faith.
Fairchild, Herman Le Roy.Pa., 1850- ——. A lecturer on
natural science who has written a History of the New York Academy of
Sciences.
Fairchild, James Harris.Ms., 1817-1902. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Oberlin College, 1866-89. Moral Philosophy;
Needed Phases of Christianity; Oberlin, the Colony and the College;
Elements of Theology; Woman’s Right to the Ballot.
Fairfield, Francis Gerry.Ct., 1844-1887. A New York city
journalist who was in early life a Lutheran minister. The Clubs of New
York; Ten Years with Spiritual Mediums. Ap.
Fairfield, Genevieve Genevra.N. Y., 1832- ——. Daughter
of S. L. Fairfield, infra. Genevra, or the History of a
Portrait; The Vice-President’s Daughter; The Wife of Two Husbands; The
Innkeeper’s Daughter; Irene.
Fairfield, Mrs. Jane Frazee.N. J., c. 1810- ——.
Wife of S. L. Fairfield, infra, of whom she wrote a Life in
1846. She afterwards published an Autobiography.
Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln.Ms., 1803-1844. An educator
of Philadelphia and elsewhere, and an ambitious versifier, whose work
received very little attention from the public. Abaddon, the Spirit of
Destruction; Lays of Melpomene; The Sisters of St. Clara; Cities of
the Plain; The Heir of the World; The Last Night of Pompeii; Poems and
Prose Writings; Select Poems (1860). See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry
of America.
Fales, Edward Lippitt. 18— - ——. Underneath the Mistletoe,
and Other Poems; Songs and Song Legends of Dahkotah Land.
Fall, Charles Gershom.Ms., 1845- ——. A lawyer of
Boston. Dreams, a volume of verse; A Village Sketch and Other Poems;
Employers’ Liability for Personal Injuries to their Employés.
Fallows, Samuel.E., 1835- ——. A bishop of the Reformed
Episcopal faith. In early life he was a Methodist minister, and
during the Civil War a brigadier-general in the Federal army. He left
Methodism for the Reformed Episcopal church in 1875, and was advanced
to the episcopate the next year. The Bible Story for Young People;
Complete Hand-Book of Synonyms and Antonyms; Hand-Book of Abbreviations
and Contractions; Hand-Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, etc.; The Home
Beyond, or Views of Heaven; Past Noon; Complete Dictionary of Synonyms
and Antonyms. He has edited a Supplemental Dictionary of the English
Language. Meth. Rev.
Fanning, David.N. C., c. 1756-1825. A once
famous freebooter who acted with the royalists during the American
Revolution, and was one of those persons exempted by name from benefits
of the general pardon. He was the author of a Narrative of Adventures
in North Carolina, edited by J. H. Wheeler, and printed privately in
1861.
Fanning, John Thomas.Ct., 1837- ——. A distinguished
civil engineer of Minneapolis, whose Treatise on Water Supply
Engineering has had wide circulation.
Farley, Harriet.N. H., 1817- ——. A factory operative
of Lowell who, in 1841 and subsequently, edited The Lowell Offering,
a periodical to which she and her companions in the mills were the
contributors. It attracted much attention, from its literary character.
A selection from its pages, Mind among the Spindles, was published in
London in 1849. Shells from the Strand of Genius is partly original and
partly selected. Fancy’s Frolics, a juvenile work, appeared many years
later.
Farlow, William Gilson.Ms., 1844- ——. A professor of
botany in Harvard University since 1874, and the foremost American
authority on cryptogamic botany. Marine Algæ of New England; The Black
Knot; The Gymnosporangia of the United States; Index of Fungi; The
Potato Rot; Diseases of Orange and Olive Trees.
Farman, Ella.See Pratt, Mrs.
Farmer, Henry Tudor.E., 1782-1828. A writer of English
birth who came to America in early life and settled in Charleston. He
published Imagination (1819); The Maniac’s Dream, and Other Poems.
Farmer, John.Ms., 1789-1838. A genealogist of New
England, whose Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New
England is a much valued work. His other writings include History of
Billerica; History of Amherst; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; and an
edition, with notes, of Belknap’s History of New Hampshire. See
Savage’s edition of the Register, 1862; Memorial by Le Bosquet.
Farmer, John.N. Y., 1798-1859. A noted cartographer of
Detroit who published A Gazetteer of Michigan.
Farmer, Mrs. Lydia [Hoyt].O., 1842-1903. A miscellaneous
writer of Cleveland. Aunt Belindy’s Points of View; Boys’ Book of
Famous Rulers; A Story Book of Science; Girls’ Book of Famous Queens;
The Prince of the Flaming Star, an Operetta; Life of Lafayette; A
Short History of the French Revolution; A Knight of Faith; A Moral
Inheritance; The Doom of the Holy City. Cr. Lo. Mer. Ran.
Farmer, Silas.Mch., 1839-1902. Son of J. Farmer,
supra. A publisher and antiquarian of Detroit. History of
Detroit and Michigan.
Farnam, Henry Wolcott.Ct., 1853- ——. A professor
of political economy at Yale University. Die Innere Französische
Gewerpolitik von Colbert bis Turgot.
Farnham, Mrs. Eliza Woodson [Burhans].N. Y., 1815-1864.
Wife of T. J. Farnham, infra. A philanthropist who from 1844 to
1848 was matron at the prison of Sing Sing, and later a resident of
California. Woman and her Era is her most important work. Others are
Life in Prairie Land; My Early Days; The Ideal Attained; California
Indoors and Out.
Farnham, John Marshall Willoughby.Me., 1829- ——. A
Presbyterian missionary to China; Homeward; Farnham Genealogy; The
Missionary Complaint and Appeal.
Farnham, Thomas Jefferson.Vt., 1804-1848. A lawyer who
in 1839 headed an expedition to Oregon. Travels in Oregon Territory
(1842); Travels in California; Memorial of the Northwest Boundary Line;
Mexico, its Geography, People, and Institutions (1846).
Farquharson, Martha.See Finley, Martha.
Farrar, Charles A. J. 18— -1893. A New England writer who
published Moosehead Lake and the North Maine Wilderness; Camp Life in
the Wilderness; The Lake and Forest Series; Wild-Woods Life; From Lake
to Lake. Le.
Farrar, Mrs. Eliza Ware [Rotch].Bm., 1791-1870. A writer
of Cambridge who was the wife of a professor of mathematics in Harvard
University. She was educated in England, where her first book, Congo
in Search of his Master, was written. Her other works include The
Children’s Robinson Crusoe; The Young Lady’s Friend; Life of Howard;
The Story of Lafayette; Youth’s Love-Letters; Recollections of Seventy
Years.
Farrar, Timothy.N. H., 1788-1874. A New Hampshire
jurist. Report of Dartmouth College Case; Reviews of the Dred Scott
Decision; Manual of the United States Constitution.
Farrington, Margaret Vere.See Livingston, Mrs. Margaret.
Farrow, Edward Samuel.Md., 1855- ——. An army officer
and engineer. West Point and the Military Academy; A Military System
of Gymnastic Exercises; Mountain Scouting; Pack Mules and Packing;
Farrow’s Military Encyclopædia.
Fasquelle, Jean Louis.F., 1808-1862. A French educator
who came to America in 1834, and was professor of modern languages
at Michigan University, 1846-62. Lessons in French; French Course;
Télémaque, with Notes and Grammatical References; General and Idiomatic
Dictionary of the French and English Languages. Cas.
Faunce, David Worcester.Ms., 1829- ——. A Baptist
minister of New England. Words and Works of Jesus; Words and Acts of
the Apostles; The Christian in the World; A Young Man’s Difficulties
with his Bible; The Resurrection in Nature and Revelation. Ran.
Fawcett, Edgar.N. Y., 1847-1904. A New York author who
wrote much fiction, more or less ephemeral in character, but whose work
as a poet takes far higher rank, some of it in the realm of pure fancy
standing quite alone in excellence. His novels include An Ambitious
Woman; Fabian Dimitry; A Gentleman of Leisure; A Hopeless Case; Olivia
Delaplaine; Asses’ Ears; A New York Family; The Confessions of Claude;
Purple and Fine Linen; A Mild Barbarian; The House at High Bridge;
Social Silhouettes; The Adventures of a Widow; Tinkling Cymbals;
Rutherford; Douglas Duane; Ellen Story; A Demoralizing Marriage; A
Man’s Will; Miriam Balestier. In verse he published Short Poems for
Short People; The Buntling Ball, a satire; Poems of Fantasy and
Passion; Romance and Revery; Song and Story; Songs of Doubt and Dream;
The New King Arthur. He wrote also Agnosticism, and Other Essays.
Ap. Cas. Fu. Hou. Lip. Ra.
Fay, Amy.La., 1844- ——. A Chicago musician. Music
Study in Germany. Mg.
Fay, Theodore Sedgwick.N. Y., 1807-1898. A writer who
belonged to the generation of literary New Yorkers which included
Halleck, Willis, and Bryant. He was secretary of legation at Berlin,
1837-53; minister to Switzerland, 1853-61; and thereafter lived in
Berlin. The novel Norman Leslie is his best known work. Others are,
Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man; The Minute Book, a record of
travel; Countess Ida; Hoboken, a romance of New York; Sidney Clifton;
Robert Rueful; Ulric, a volume of verse; Views of Christianity; Great
Outlines of Geography; History of Switzerland; History of the Three
Germanys. Bar.
Fearing, Lilian Blanche.Ia., 1863-1901. A lawyer of
Chicago. The Sleeping World and Other Poems; In the City by the Lake
(verse); Roberta. Ke.
Fellows, John.Ms., 1760-1844. The Veil Removed;
Mysteries of Free Masonry.
Felt, Joseph Barlow.Ms., 1789-1869. A Congregational
minister of Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry,
devoted himself to antiquarian research at Salem. Annals of Salem;
History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Historical Account of
Massachusetts Currency; Memoirs of Hugh Peters; The Customs of New
England; Ecclesiastical History of New England, include the most of his
writings.
Felton, Cornelius Conway.Ms., 1807-1862. A Greek scholar
of eminence who was president of Harvard College, 1860-62. Besides his
many translations from the Greek, among which The Clouds and The Birds
of Aristophanes are the most noteworthy, he published Selections from
Modern Greek Writers, with Notes; Familiar Letters from Europe; Greece,
Ancient and Modern. Hou.
Fenner, Cornelius George.R. I., 1822-1847. A Unitarian
clergyman at one time in charge of a church at Cincinnati. Poems of
Many Moods.
Fern, Fanny.See Parton, Mrs.
Fernald, Charles Henry.Me., 1838- ——. A naturalist who
has been professor of zoölogy at Massachusetts Agricultural College
since 1886. Tortricidæ of North America; Butterflies of Maine; Grasses
of Maine; Sphingidæ of New England.
Fernald, Chester Bailey.Ms., 1869- - ——. A littérateur
of San Francisco. The Cat and the Cherub, and Other Stories.
Cent.
Fernald, James Champlin.Me., 1838- ——. The Economics
of Prohibition; The New Womanhood.
Ferrel, William.Pa., 1817-1891. A distinguished
meteorologist employed at various times in the Coast Survey and the
Signal Service. Recent Advances in Meteorology; Popular Treatise on the
Winds; Motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth’s Surface. Wil.
Ferris, George Titus.Ct., 1840- ——. Great German
Composers; Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers; Great
Violinists and Pianists; Great Leaders. Ap.
Fessenden, Thomas Green.N. H., 1771-1837. An
agricultural writer of Boston who edited the New England Farmer and
similar journals, but in earlier life won considerable attention
as a satirical poet under the name of Christopher Caustic. Country
Lovers and The Terrible Tractoration are the poems by which he is
remembered. He published Original Poems; The Ladies’ Monitor; American
Clerk’s Companion; Democracy Unveiled; Pills, Poetical, Political, and
Philosophical; Laws of Patents for New Inventions. See Hawthorne’s
Fanshawe, and Other Pieces.
Festetitts, Mrs. Kate [Neely].Va., 1837- ——. A writer
of children’s books whose home has been in Washington since 1885. Ellie
Randolph; A Year at Dangerfield.
Feuchtwanger, Lewis.G., 1805-1876. A once noted chemist
of New York city who came to America from Germany in 1829. Popular
Treatise on Gems; Elements of Mineralogy; Treatise on Fermented
Liquors; Practical Treatise on Soluble or Water Glass.
Fewkes, Jesse Walter.Ms., 1850- ——. An ethnologist of
Boston who has written valuable professional monographs and edited the
Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology. Hou.
Ficklin, Joseph.Ky., 1833-1887. A professor of
mathematics in the University of Missouri who published The Complete
Algebra; Elements of Algebra, and a series of arithmetical text-books.
Field, Mrs. Caroline Leslie [Whitney].Ms., 1853-1902.
Daughter of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, infra. A writer of Guilford,
Connecticut. High Lights, a novel; The Unseen King, and Other Verses.
Hou.
Field, David Dudley.Ct., 1781-1867. A Congregational
clergyman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. History of Pittsfield;
Genealogy of the Brainerd Family; Histories of the Counties of
Berkshire and Middlesex.
Field, David Dudley.Ms., 1805-1894. Son of D. D. Field,
supra. A distinguished jurist of New York city. His Speeches,
Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers have been edited by A. P. Sprague
in three volumes. Speeches and Arguments before United States Supreme
Court; The Electoral Votes of New York; Miscellaneous Papers. See
Life by H. M. Field, infra.Ap.
Field, Eugene.Mo., 1850-1895. A journalist and author of
Chicago whose writing has received much undiscriminating and damaging
praise. The greater part of his work is purely ephemeral, but his poems
for and about children possess both originality and beauty. The Denver
Tribune Primer; Culture’s Garland; A Little Book of Profitable Tales;
A Little Book of Western Verse; Second Book of Verse; Love Songs of
Childhood; With Trumpet and Drum (verse); Echoes from the Sabine Farm
(with R. M. Field); Songs and Other Verse; A Second Book of Verse; The
Holy Cross, and Other Tales. Hou. Scr.
Field, George Washington. 18— -1889. Iowa County and Township
Officers; Law of Damages; Private Corporations for Pecuniary Gain; Law
of Private Corporations; Constitution and Jurisdiction of United States
Supreme Courts; Field’s Lawyers’ Briefs; Field’s Medico-Legal Guide for
Doctors and Lawyers; Legal Relations of Infants in the State of New
York.
Field, Henry Martyn.Ms., 1822- ——. Son of D. D.
Field, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman, and editor of
the New York Evangelist, whose writings are chiefly concerned with his
extensive travels. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn;
From Egypt to Japan; Story of the Atlantic Telegraph; Among the Holy
Hills; Our Western Archipelago; The Barbary Coast; On the Desert; Old
Spain and New Spain; Gibraltar; Bright Skies and Dark Shadows; Summer
Pictures, from Copenhagen to Venice; Blood is Thicker than Water; The
Irish Confederates, or the Rebellion of 1798. Har. Scr.
Field, Henry Martyn.Ms., 1837- ——. A physician,
professor in Dartmouth Medical School. Evacuant Medication is his only
publication.
Field, Mrs. James A.See Field, Mrs. Caroline Leslie.
Field, Joseph M.[3]E., 1810-1856. An actor and dramatist
of St. Louis. The Drama in Pokerville, and Other Stories.
Field, Kate.See Field, Mary.
Field, Mary Katherine Kemble.Mo., 1838-1896. Daughter
of J. M. Field, supra. A journalist of Washington. Planchette’s
Diary; Ten Days in Spain; Pen Photographs of Dickens’s Readings;
Hap-Hazard, Travel Sketches; History of Bell’s Telephone; Adelaide
Ristori, a Biography; Life of Fechter. See The Arena, November,
1896.Hou.
Field, Maunsell Bradhurst.N. Y., 1822-1875. A lawyer of
New York city. Adrian (with G. P. R. James); Poems; Memories of Many
Men and Some Women, a volume of entertaining gossip.
Field, Thomas Warren.N. Y., 1816-1881. An educator of
Brooklyn who was superintendent of public schools there, 1873-81. Pear
Culture; Historic and Antiquarian Scenes in Brooklyn; Essay Toward an
Indian Bibliography. Scr.
Fields, Mrs. Annie [Adams].Ms., 1834- ——. Wife of
J. T. Fields, infra. A Boston littérateur. Under the Olive, a
volume of verse; The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems; A Shelf of Old
Books; Whittier, Notes of his Life and Friendships; Memoir of J. T.
Fields; How to Help the Poor; Authors and Friends. Har. Hou. Scr.
Fields, James Thomas.N. H., 1816-1881. A well-known
publisher of Boston who edited the Atlantic Monthly, 1862-70.
Yesterdays with Authors; Underbrush, a collection of essays; Ballads,
and Other Verses. See Memoir by Mrs. Fields.Hou.
Fillmore, John Comfort.Ct., 1843-1898. A musician of
Milwaukee. History of Piano-Forte Music; New Lessons in Harmony;
Lessons in Musical History.
Filson, John.Pa., 1747-1788. An early explorer of the
Western country. The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of
Kentucky; Map of Kentucky; Topographical Description of the Western
Territory. See Life by R. T. Durret, 1884.
Finch, Francis Miles.N. Y., 1827- ——. A New York
jurist, dean of the law school of Cornell University since 1892. He has
published a number of poems, among which Nathan Hale and The Blue and
the Gray are well known.
Finck, Henry Theophilus.Mo., 1854- ——. A musical
journalist of New York city. Wagner and Other Musicians; Romantic Love
and Personal Beauty; Chopin, and Other Musical Essays; Lotos-Time in
Japan; The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; Spain and Morocco. Scr.
Findley, Samuel.Pa., 1818-1889. An Associate Reformed
clergyman and educator. Rambles Among the Insects.
Findley, William.I., c. 1750-1821. A once noted
Pennsylvania politician. Review of the Funding System; History of the
Insurrection of the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania.
Finley, James Bradley.N. C., 1781-1856. A Methodist
clergyman of Ohio, at one time chaplain in the state penitentiary.
History of the Wyandot Mission; Memorials of Prison Life; Sketches
of Western Methodism; Life Among the Indians. See Autobiography.
Bibliography of Ohio. Meth.
Finley, John.Va., 1796-1866. A journalist of Richmond,
Indiana, mayor of that town for a number of years. The Hoosier’s Nest
and Other Poems were once widely circulated.
Finley, John Park.Mch., 1854- ——. A lieutenant in the
signal service. Tornadoes; Manual of Instruction in Optical Telegraphy;
Sailors’ Handbook of Storm Track, Fog and Ice Charts of the North
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Finley, Martha. “Martha Farquharson.” O., 1828- ——. A
voluminous writer of religious and moral tales for girls, including
more than twenty Elsie Books; The Mildred Books; Casella; Wanted—a
Pedigree; and others. Do. Lip.
Finney, Charles Grandison.Ct., 1792-1875. A
Congregational clergyman famous during his earlier career as a
revivalist. He was president of Oberlin College, 1852-66. Lectures
on Revivals; Systematic Theology; Lectures to Professing Christians;
Character of Free Masonry; Sermons on Gospel Themes. See
Autobiography; Life by G. F. Wright, 1890.Bar.
Finotti, Joseph Maria.Iy., 1817-1879. A Roman Catholic
clergyman who was in charge of a Colorado parish at the time of his
death. French Grammar; A Month of Mary; Life of Blessed Paul of the
Cross; Italy in the Fifteenth Century; Diary of a Soldier; The French
Zouave; Herman the Pianist; The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales.
Bibliographia Catholica Americana, his most important work, was never
completed.
Fish, Henry Clay.Vt., 1820-1877. A Baptist clergyman of
Newark, New Jersey. Primitive Piety Revived; The Price of Soul Liberty;
Harry’s Conversion; Harry’s Conflicts; Handbook of Revivals; Bible
Lands Illustrated, and several compilations. Bar. Do.
Fisher, Ebenezer.Me., 1815-1879. A Universalist
clergyman who was the first president of the theological seminary at
Canton, New York. The Christian Salvation. See Life, 1880.
Fisher, Frances. “Christian Reid.” See Tiernan, Mrs. F.
Fisher, George Jackson.N. Y., 1825-1893. A physician,
for many years medical director at Sing Sing prison. Biographical
Sketches of Distinguished Physicians of Westchester County, New
York; Animal Substances Employed as Medicines by the Ancients;
Diploteratology.
Fisher, George Park.Ms., 1827- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale University
since 1861. The Supernatural Origin of Christianity; The Reformation;
The Beginnings of Christianity; Faith and Rationalism; Discussions in
History and Theology; Life of Benjamin Silliman, infra; The
Grounds of Theistic and Rationalistic Belief; History of the Christian
Church; The Christian Religion; Manual of Natural Theology; Manual of
Christian Evidences; Outlines of Universal History; Nature and Method
of Revelation; The Colonial Era. Fl. Scr.
Fisher, Joshua Francis.Pa., 1807-1873. A municipal
reformer of Philadelphia. The Degradation of our Representative System
and its Reform; Reform of Municipal Elections; Nomination of Candidates.
Fisher, Michael Montgomery.Ind., 1834-1891. A
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of Latin at the
University of Missouri from 1871. The Three Pronunciations of Latin;
Education.
Fisher, Samuel Reed.Pa., 1810-1881. A German Reformed
clergyman of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Exercises in the Heidelberg
Catechism; The Rum Plague, a translation from Zschokke; The Family
Assistant; Heidelberg Catechism Simplified.
Fisher, Samuel Ware.Pa., 1814-1874. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, who was president of Hamilton College, 1858-67.
Three Great Temptations of Young Men; Occasional Sermons and Addresses.
Fisher, Sydney George.Pa., 1856- ——. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States;
The Making of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth.
Co. Lip.
Fisher, Theodore Willis.Ms., 1837- ——. A physician,
since 1881 clinical instructor in mental disease at Harvard University.
Plain Talks About Insanity.
Fisher, Thomas.Pa., 1801-1856. A Philadelphia writer
who published Dial of the Seasons; Song of the Sea Shells; Mathematics
Simplified and Made Attractive.
Fisk, Samuel.Ms., 1828-1864. A Congregational clergyman
who served as a soldier in the Federal army, and was killed at the
Battle of the Wilderness. Mr. Dunn Browne’s Experiences in the Army.
Fisk, Wilbur.Vt., 1792-1839. A Methodist clergyman
once famous as a pulpit orator, and the first president of Wesleyan
University, 1831-39. Calvinistic Controversy; Travels in Europe;
Sermons on Universalism. See Lives by G. Prentice, 1889, J. Holdich,
1890. Meth.
Fiske, John.Ct., 1842-1901. A philosopher and historian
of Cambridge, who lectured and wrote extensively on American history,
and was a thinker of the school of Darwin and Spencer. Myths and
Myth-Makers; Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy; The Unseen World; Darwinism
and Other Essays; Tobacco and Alcohol; Excursions of an Evolutionist;
The Destiny of Man; The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge;
American Political Ideas from the Standpoint of Universal History;
The Critical Period of American History, 1783-89; The Beginnings
of New England; Civil Government in the United States; The War of
Independence, a work for young readers; The American Revolution; The
Discovery of America; United States History for Schools; Life of Edward
L. Youmans, infra; Virginia and Her Neighbours. Ap. Har.
Hou.
Fiske, Nathan.Ms., 1733-1799. A Congregational clergyman
of Brookfield, Massachusetts, who was a prolific author of essays and
addresses. Beside separate sermons, his published works include Sermons
(1794); The Moral Monitor, a collection of essays once very popular as
a school reader.
Fiske, Nathan Welby.Ms., 1798-1847. Son of N. Fiske,
supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Amherst
College, 1824-47. He was the father of Mrs. Helen Jackson, “H. H.,”
infra. Manual of Classical Literature; Sermons; Young Peter’s
Tour Around the World; Story of Aleck, or the History of Pitcairn’s
Island. See Biography by H. Humphrey, 1850.
Fitch, Elijah. 1745-1788. A Congregational minister of
Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The Beauties of Religion, a Poem Addressed to
Youth; The Choice, a Poem. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Fitch, William Clyde.N. Y., 1865- ——. A dramatist
of New York city, the author of Beau Brummell and other plays; The
Knighting of the Twins, and Ten Other Tales; Some Correspondence and
Six Conversations. Rob. St.
Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn.N. C., 1820- ——. A bishop of
the Methodist Church South, living at Atlanta. California Sketches;
Christian Growth; Centenary Cameos; Bible Nights; The Class Meeting;
Life of Judge Longstreet, infra.
Fitzhugh, George.Va., 1807-1881. A lawyer of Port Royal,
Virginia, noted as an advocate of slavery as the proper condition for
the mass of mankind. Sociology for the South; Cannibals All, or Slaves
without Masters.
Flagg, Edmund.Me., 1815-1890. A lawyer and journalist
of St. Louis and elsewhere, living in West Salem, Virginia, in recent
years. Venice, the City of the Sea, a history, is his most important
work. Other writings of his include North Italy since 1849; Commercial
Relations of the United States; Blanche of Artois; Edmond Dantes, a
sequel to Monte Christo.
Flagg, Isaac.Ms., 1843- ——. Son of W. Flagg,
infra. A professor of Greek at Cornell University, 1871-88, and
professor at the University of California since 1891. The Hellenic
Orations of Demosthenes; Versicles; The Seven Against Thebes, of
Æschylus; Iphigenia among the Taurians, of Euripides. Gi.
Flagg, John Foster Brewster.Ms., 1804-1872. A
Philadelphia physician. Ether and Chloroform and their Employment in
Surgery, Dentistry, Midwifery, etc.
Flagg, Wilson.Ms., 1805-1884. A naturalist of Cambridge.
Studies in the Field and Forest; Woods and By-Ways of New England;
Halcyon Days; A Year among the Trees; A Year among the Birds.
Flanders, Henry.N. H., 1826- ——. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Maritime Law; The Law of Shipping; Lives of the United
States Chief Justices (1858); Memoirs of Cumberland; Exposition of the
United States Constitution; The Law of Fire Insurance; Adventures of a
Virginian.
Flash, Henry Lynden.O., 1835- ——. An officer in the
Confederate army during the Civil War. Since 1887 he has lived in Los
Angeles. He published a volume of Poems (1860).
Fleeta.See Hamilton, Kate.
Fleming, Mrs. May Agnes [Early].N. B., 1840-1880. A
prolific author of sensational romances, some of which were issued
under the pseudonym “Cousin May Carleton.” Among them are Guy
Earlscourt’s Wife; Lost for a Woman; Pride and Passion.
Fleming, George.See Fletcher, Julia.
Fletcher, James Cooley.Ind., 1823-1901. A Presbyterian
clergyman, missionary to Brazil, 1851-54, author with D. P. Kidder
of the once very popular work Brazil and the Brazilians, which first
appeared in 1857, and reached an eighth edition in 1868. See Hart’s
American Literature.
Fletcher, Julia Constance. “George Fleming.” B.,
1853- ——. Daughter of J. C. Fletcher, supra. A novelist
whose home is in Rome. Kismet; The Head of Medusa; Mirage; Vestigia;
Andromeda; The Truth About Clement Ker; For Plain Women Only.
Rob.
Fletcher, Robert.E., 1823- ——. An eminent
anthropologist of Washington. Paul Broca and the French School of
Anthropology; Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets; Human
Proportion in Art and Anthropometry; Some Recent Experiments in
Serpent Venom; The New School of Criminal Anthropology; Tattooing among
Civilized People.
Fletcher, William Baldwin.Ind., 1837- ——. A physician,
since 1883 superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.
Cholera, its Characteristics, History, etc. Clke.
Flickinger, Daniel Krumler.O., 1824- ——. A clergyman
belonging to the sect of United Brethren, and since 1885 a foreign
missionary bishop of that faith. Off-hand Sketches of Men and Things in
Western Africa; Ethiopia; The Churches, Marching Orders.
Flint, Abel.Ct., 1765-1825. A Congregational clergyman
of Hartford who published a Geometry and Trigonometry with a Treatise
on Surveying.
Flint, Austin.Ms., 1812-1886. A distinguished physician
of New York city who held professorships in several New York medical
colleges. Practice of Medicine; Continued Fever; Chronic Pleurisy;
Dysentery; Physical Explanation and Diagnosis of Diseases of the
Respiratory Organs; Diseases of the Heart; Essays on Conservative
Medicine; Phthisis; Clinical Medicine; Manual of Auscultation and
Percussion; Medical Ethics and Etiquette; Medicine of the Future.
Ap.
Flint, Austin, Jr.Ms., 1836- ——. Son of Austin Flint,
supra, and like his father an eminent physician of New York
city, connected with several hospitals and medical colleges. Text-Book
of Human Physiology; Manual of Chemical Examinations of Urine in
Disease; Physiological Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular
Exercise; The Source of Muscular Power; Physiology of Man. Ap.
Flint, Charles Louis.Ms., 1824-1889. The secretary
of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, 1853-81, and one of the
founders of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The Agriculture of
Massachusetts; Grass and Forage Plants; Milch Cows and Dairy Farming;
Manual of Agriculture (with G. B. Emerson, supra). Le.
Flint, Henry Martyn.Pa., 1829-1868. A journalist of
Chicago. Life of Stephen A. Douglas; History and Statistics of United
States Railroads: Mexico under Maximilian.
Flint, Joshua Barker.Ms., 1801-1864. A surgeon of Boston
and subsequently of Louisville, where he was professor of surgery in
the Kentucky school of medicine from 1849 till his death. He published
The Practice of Medicine.
Flint, Micah P.Ms., 1807-1830. Son of T. Flint,
infra. The Hunter and Other Poems (1826). See Coggeshall’s
Poets of the West.
Flint, Timothy.Ms., 1780-1840. A Congregational
clergyman of New England who after some years of missionary labour in
the Ohio Valley devoted himself to literary pursuits in Cincinnati,
New York, and elsewhere. His most important work in some respects, the
Geography and History of the Mississippi Valley, materially advanced
the settlement of that region. His other works include Recollections
of Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi; Indian Wars in the
West; Memoir of Daniel Boone; Lectures on Natural History, etc.
Fiction: Francis Berrian; Arthur Clenning; George Mason; The
Shoshonee Valley. See Bibliography of Ohio.
Flower, Benjamin Orange.Il., 1859- ——. Formerly the
editor and publisher of The Arena at Boston. Civilization’s Inferno,
or Studies in the Social Cellar; Lessons Learned from Other Lives; The
New Time; Persons, Places, and Ideas; The Century of Sir Thomas More;
Gerald Massey, Poet, Prophet, and Mystic. Ar.
Flower, Frank Abial.N. Y., 1854- ——. A Wisconsin
statistician, curator of the state historical society. Old Abe, the
Wisconsin War Eagle; Life of Matthew H. Carpenter; History of the
Republican Party.
Floy, James.N. Y., 1806-1863. A Methodist clergyman of
New York city, prominent as a botanist and as an anti-slavery leader.
Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; Occasional Sermons, etc.;
Literary Remains (1870).
Folger, Peter.E., 1617-1690. Grandfather of Benjamin
Franklin. An emigrant from Norwich, England, in 1635. He settled
successively at Watertown, Martha’s Vineyard, and in 1663 at
Nantucket. He is remembered as the author of A Looking-Glass for
the Times, a spirited doggerel ballad without literary merit, but a
very manly appeal for religious toleration. See Tyler’s American
Literature.
Follen, Charles Theodore Christian.G., 1796-1840. A
German scholar who came to America in 1824. He was German instructor
at Harvard University, 1830-34, but lost his position on account of
his anti-slavery opinions, and in 1836 was ordained as a Unitarian
clergyman. He published a German Reader; Practical German Grammar.
See Works in five volumes, with Memoir, edited by Mrs. Follen.
Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee [Cabot].Ms., 1787-1859. Wife of
C. Follen, supra. A popular author for many years. Sketches of
Married Life; Twilight Stories, a volume of excellent juvenile tales;
The Well-spent Hour; The Skeptic; Poems; To Mothers in the Free States;
Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs; Home Dramas; Little Songs for Little
People; The Old Garret Stories. Le.
Folsom, Charles Follen.Ms., 1842- ——. A physician of
Boston, professor in the Harvard Medical School, 1877-1885. Mental
Diseases; Present Aspect of the Sewage Question Applied to Boston
(1877).
Folsom, George.Me., 1802-1869. An antiquarian writer
of New York city. Sketches of Saco and Biddeford; Dutch Annals of New
York; Letters and Dispatches of Cortés, translated from the Spanish;
Political Condition of Mexico.
Folwell, William Watts.N. Y., 1833- ——. An educator
of Minnesota. Public Instruction in Minnesota; Lectures on Political
Economy.
Fontaine, Edward.Va., 1814-1884. An Episcopal clergyman
of Mississippi. How the World was Peopled, a series of ethnological
lectures.
Fontaine, Francis. 18—. The Exile; Etowah, a Romance of the
Confederacy.
Foote, Andrew Hull.Ct., 1806-1863. A rear-admiral of the
United States navy. Africa and the American Flag (1854). See Life
by J. M. Hoppin, infra.
Foote, Henry Stuart.Va., 1800-1880. A prominent
Mississippi politician. He was governor of his State, 1853-54, and,
though opposed to secession, a member of the Confederate Congress,
where he was noted for his strong opposition to Jefferson Davis. Texas
and the Texans; The War of the Rebellion, or Scylla and Charybdis;
Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest; Personal Reminiscences.
Foote, Henry Wilder.Ms., 1838-1889. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, minister of King’s Chapel from 1861 till his
death. Annals of King’s Chapel; Thy Kingdom Come, ten sermons on the
Lord’s Prayer; The Insight of Faith. El. Rob.
Foote, Mrs. Mary Anna [Hallock].N. Y., 1847- ——. A
novelist and illustrator whose married life has been passed chiefly
in the Rocky Mountain country, where the scene of much of her work
is laid. The Led Horse Claim, a Romance of a Mining Camp; In Exile,
and Other Stories; John Bodewin’s Testimony; The Chosen Valley; Cœur
d’Alene; The Last Assembly Ball; The Cup of Trembling, and Other
Stories. Hou.
Foote, William Henry.Ct., 1794-1869. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator of West Virginia. Sketches of North Carolina;
Sketches of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia; The Huguenots, or
Reformed French Church; Sketches of Virginia.
Forbes, Mrs. Harriette [Merrifield].Ms., 1856- ——. A
writer of Westborough, Massachusetts. The Hundredth Town, a series of
historical sketches of Westborough; The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman.
Forbes, Robert Bennet.Ms., 1804-1889. A sea captain
who was subsequently a Boston merchant. China and the China Trade
(1844); Construction of Ships for the Merchant Service; Life Boats,
Projectiles, and Other Means for Saving Life; Seamen Past and Present;
Rambling Reminiscences; Notes on Some Few Wrecks and Rescues.
Forbes, Stephen Alfred.Il., 1844- ——. A professor of
zoölogy in the University of Illinois and State entomologist. Studies
of the Food of Birds, Fishes, and Insects; Contagious Diseases of
Insects.
Force, Manning Ferguson.O., 1824-1899. Son of P. Force,
infra. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil
War, and subsequently a prominent jurist of Cincinnati. From Fort Henry
to Corinth; Marching Across Carolina; The Mound Builders; Prehistoric
Man; Recollections of the Vicksburg Campaign, include the most of his
writings. Clke. Scr.
Force, Peter.N. J., 1790-1868. A journalist and
historian of Washington who began in 1833 a documentary history of the
American colonies. Thirty years’ labour was spent upon the task, and
nine volumes completed, entitled American Archives. His other works
include Tracts and Other Papers relating to the Origin of the North
American Colonies; Grinnell Land. His immense and valuable library was
purchased by Congress in 1867.
Force, William Quereau.D. C., 1820-1880. Son of P.
Force, supra. A meteorologist of Washington who assisted his
father in preparing American Archives, and published Builder’s Guide;
The Picture of Washington.
Ford, Corydon La.N. Y., 1813- ——. A physician of note
who has held several medical professorships, and since 1886 has been
professor emeritus in the Long Island College hospital. Questions on
Anatomy, etc.; Questions on the Structure and Development of the Human
Teeth; Syllabus of Lectures on Odontology, Human and Comparative.
Ford, Mrs. Emily Ellsworth [Fowler].Ms., 1826-1893.
Daughter of W. C. Fowler, infra, and granddaughter of Noah
Webster. A Brooklyn writer who has published My Recollections, a volume
of verse.
Ford, James Lauren.Mo., 1854- ——. A journalist and
littérateur of New York city. Dr. Dodd’s School; The Third Alarm, are
tales for juvenile readers. Other works of his are Hypnotic Tales; The
Literary Shop; Bohemia Invaded; Dolly Dillenbeck. Ric. Sto.
Ford, Paul Leicester.L. I., 1865-1902. Son of Mrs. Emily
Ford, supra. Bibliotheca Hamiltonia; Franklin Bibliography; The
Honorable Peter Stirling; The True George Washington; The Story of an
Untold Love; Janice Meredith. Do. Ho. Hou. Lip.
Ford, Mrs. Sallie [Rochester].Ky., 1828- ——. Wife of
S. H. Ford, infra. A St. Louis writer whose early writings were
very popular, Grace Truman, her first book, having an extensive sale.
Other works of hers are, Romance of Freemasonry; Raids and Romance of
Morgan and his Men; Mary Bunyan, the Dreamer’s Blind Daughter; Evangel
Wiseman; Ernest Quest.
Ford, Samuel Howard.Mo., 1819- ——. A Baptist clergyman
of Memphis, Mobile, and elsewhere, living in retirement in St. Louis
since 1887. The Origin of the Baptists; Servetus, Hero and Martyr.
Ford, Thomas.Pa., 1800-1850. An Illinois jurist who was
governor of his State, 1842-46. History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847.
Ford, William Henry.Pa., 1839-1897. A Philadelphia
surgeon twice president of the municipal board of health. He has
published Healthy Dwelling-Houses and How to Build Them.
Ford, Worthington Chauncey.L. I., 1858- ——. Son of
Mrs. Emily Ford, supra. A government statistician at Washington.
American Citizens’ Manual; The Standard Silver Dollar.
Forester, Frank.See Herbert, W. H.
Forestier, Auber.See Moore, Mrs. Annie.
Forney, John Weiss.Pa., 1817-1881. A journalist of
Philadelphia and Washington, of prominence as a politician, and
secretary of the United States Senate, 1861-68. Life of General
Hancock; Anecdotes of Public Men; The New Nobility, a story of England
and America; What I Saw in Texas; A Centennial Commissioner in Europe;
Letters from Europe; Forty Years of American Journalism. Ap. Har.
Lip.
Forrester, Fanny.See Judson, Mrs.
Forrester, Francis.See Wise, Daniel.
Forry, Samuel.Pa., 1811-1844. A physician and surgeon
of New York city. The Climate of the United States and its Endemic
Influences; Meteorology.
Fort, George Franklin.N. J., 1809-1872. A governor of
New Jersey, 1850-1854. Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry.
Fortier, Alcée.La., 1856- ——. An educator of
Louisiana, professor of Romance languages in Tulane University. Le
Château de Chambord; Gabriel d’Ennerich, an historical novelette; Bits
of Louisiana Folk-Lore; Sept Grands Auteurs de xixe Siècle; Histoire
de la Littérature Française; Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Folk Tales.
He has also annotated college editions of several French texts. He.
Ho. Hou.
Forwood, William Stump.Md., 1830-1892. A physician of
Darlington, Maryland. History and Descriptive Account of Mammoth Cave,
with Full Scientific Details of the Eyeless Fishes.
Fosdick, Charles Austin. “Harry Castlemon.” N. Y.,
1842- ——. A voluminous author of juvenile books, among which The
Gunboat Series; Rocky Mountain Series; Roughing It Series; The Steel
Horse, or the Rambles of a Bicycle, are but a few of the whole number.
Co.
Fosdick, William Whiteman.O., 1825-1862. A lawyer of
Cincinnati, who published Malmiztic the Toltec, a novel; Ariel and
Other Poems.
Foss, Samuel Walter.N. H., 1858- ——. A writer
of popular dialect and other poems, whose home is in Somerville,
Massachusetts. Back Country Poems; Whiffs from Wild Meadows (verse).
Le.
Foster, Charles Hubbs.N. Y., 1833-1895. An actor and
playwright of New York city, who wrote more than seventy-five plays,
mostly melodramas, among which are, Twins of London; Twenty Years Dead;
The Chain Gang.
Foster, Mrs. Hannah [Webster].Ms., 1759-1840. A writer
who was the wife of John Foster, minister at Brighton, Massachusetts,
1784-1827, and after his death a resident of Montreal. She was the
daughter of Grant Webster, a merchant of Boston, and was probably born
in that city. She wrote The Boarding School; Letters of a Preceptress;
but is remembered chiefly for having been the author of the once famous
story, The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton, which was largely
based upon fact, and passed through more than thirty editions.
Foster, John Wells.Ms., 1815-1873. A geologist employed
by the United States in a geological survey of the Lake Superior
region, and subsequently a resident of Chicago. The Mississippi
Valley; Mineral Wealth and Railroad Development; Prehistoric Races of
the United States; Geology and Topography of the Lake Superior Land
District (with J. D. Whitney, infra). Sc.
Foster, Mrs. Judith Ellen [Horton].Ms., 1840- ——. A
lawyer and prominent temperance advocate of Iowa. The Crime Against
Ireland; Amendment Manual (Prohibition); The American Renaissance;
Republican Contentions and Supreme Court Decisions.
Foster, Randolph Sinks.O., 1820-1903. A Methodist bishop
of much prominence in his denomination. Objections to Calvinism;
Christian Purity; Ministry Needed for the Times; Theism; Beyond the
Grave; Centenary Thoughts; Studies in Theology. Meth.
Foster, Robert Verrell.Tn., 1845- ——. A Cumberland
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in the
Theological Seminary at Lebanon, Tennessee, since 1877. Introduction to
the Study of Theology; Old Testament Studies; Commentary on the Epistle
to the Romans.
Foster, Stephen Collins.Pa., 1826-1864. A famous
song-writer and composer of Pittsburg and New York city. He set to
music 150 or more songs, the words in nearly all cases being his own.
Some of them, like the Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky Home, Nelly Bly,
are known in all English-speaking lands. See Atlantic Monthly,
November, 1867.
Foster, Stephen Symonds.N. H., 1809-1881. A noted
anti-slavery agitator of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married in 1845
Abby Kelly, also noted as an abolitionist. The Brotherhood of Thieves,
a True Picture of the American Church and Clergy.
Foster, Mrs. Theodosia Maria [Toll]. “Faye Huntington.” N.
Y., 1838- ——. An educator of Verona, New York, who has written
much for young people. In Earnest; What Fide Remembers; A Baker’s
Dozen; A Modern Exodus, are among her works. Lo.
Foster, William Eaton.Vt., 1851- ——. A librarian of
Providence. The Civil Service Reform Movement; The Literature of Civil
Service Reform in the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island
Statesman; Town Government in Rhode Island.
Fowler, Henry.Ms., 1824-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Auburn, New York. The American Pulpit, a collection of sketches of
American preachers.
Fowler, Lorenzo Niles.N. Y., 1811-1896. A lecturer,
editor, and publisher of New York city who settled in London in 1863,
and lectured frequently in England from that period. Marriage, its
History and Ceremonies; Lectures on Man.
Fowler, Mrs. Lydia [Folger].Ms., 1823-1879. Wife of L.
N. Fowler, supra. A practicing physician for some years. Nora,
the Lost and Redeemed; The Pet of the Household and How to Save It;
Familiar Lessons on Phrenology and Physiology; Familiar Lessons on
Astronomy.
Fowler, Orin.Ct., 1791-1852. A Congregational clergyman
of Fall River, noted as a temperance and anti-slavery orator, who was a
member of Congress, 1848-52. Treatise on Baptism; Historical Sketch of
Fall River.
Fowler, Orson Squire.N. Y., 1809-1887. Brother of L. N.
Fowler, supra, and with him a member of the New York publishing
house of Fowler & Wells, 1844-63. He was an ardent phrenologist, and
wrote much on his favourite topic. Memory and Intellectual Improvement;
Physiology, Animal and Mental; Matrimony; Self-Culture; Hereditary
Descent; Love and Parentage; Sexual Science; Amativeness; Human
Science; Creative Science; The Self-Instructor in Phrenology (with L.
N. Fowler).
Fowler, Philemon Halstead.N. Y., 1814-1879. A
Presbyterian clergyman of Utica. History of Presbyterianism in central
New York; The Presbyterian Element in our National Life and History.
Fowler, William Chauncey.Ct., 1793-1881. A
Congregational clergyman and educator of New England, who married a
daughter of Noah Webster, infra. Memorials of the Chaunceys;
The Sectional Controversy, or Passages in United States Political
History; History of Durham, Connecticut; Local Law in Massachusetts
and Connecticut; Essays; English Grammar; The English Language in its
Elements and Forms. Har.
Fowler, William Worthington.Vt., 1833-1881. Son of W.
C. Fowler, supra. He was successively a lawyer, broker, and
journalist of New York city. Ten Years in Wall Street; Fighting Fire,
the Great Fires of History (1873); Woman on the American Frontier;
Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street.
Fox, Ebenezer.Ms., 1763-1843. A Bostonian who was
postmaster of his city 1830-36, and the author of The Revolutionary
Adventures of Ebenezer Fox (1848).
Fox, John [William].Ky., 186- ——. A Cumberland
Vendetta. Har.
Fox, Norman.N. Y., 1836- ——. A Baptist minister of New
York and Missouri. George Fox and the Early Friends; Rise of the Use of
Pouring and Sprinkling for Baptism; A Layman’s Ministry; Inspiration of
the Apostles in Speaking and Writing.
Foxton, E.See Palfrey, Sarah.
Foye, James Clark.N. H., 1841-1896. An educator who was
a professor of chemistry at Lawrence University from 1867. Chemical
Problems; Handbook of Mineralogy; Tables for Determination of United
States Minerals.
France, Lewis Browne.D. C., 1833- ——. A lawyer and
littérateur of Denver. Over the Old Trail; Pine Valley, a volume of
short stories; Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado. Cr.
Francis, Convers.Ms., 1795-1863. Brother of Mrs.
Lydia Child, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Watertown,
Massachusetts, and subsequently Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence
at Harvard University, 1843-63. Life of John Eliot (supra);
Historical Sketch of Watertown; Errors of Education, include his
principal writings.
Francis, James Bicheno.E., 1815-1892. A noted hydraulic
engineer of Lowell. Lowell Hydraulic Experiments; The Strength of Cast
Iron Columns.
Francis, John Wakefield.N. Y., 1789-1861. A physician
of much prominence at one time in medical and literary circles of
New York city. Use of Mercury; Cases of Morbid Anatomy; Febrile
Contagion; The Anatomy of Drunkenness; Old New York, a volume of
pleasant reminiscences, comprise his principal writings. See Life by
Tuckerman.
Francis, Samuel Ward.N. Y., 1835-1886. Son of J. W.
Francis, supra. A physician of New York city and subsequently
of Newport, Rhode Island. Mott’s Clinics; Water; Inside and Out;
Biographical Sketches of New York Surgeons and Physicians; Life and
Death; Curious Facts Concerning Man and Nature.
Francis, Valentine Mott.N. Y., 1834. Son of J. W.
Francis, supra. A physician of Newport who has published
Hospital Hygiene.
Francke, Kuno.Sg., 1855- ——. A professor in Harvard
University. Social Forces in German Literature: a Study in the History
of Civilization. Ho.
Franklin, Benjamin.Ms., 1706-1790. A celebrated
philosopher, statesman, and scientist who was born in Boston but went
to Philadelphia in 1723, where he worked as a journeyman printer. In
1729 he became the proprietor of The Pennsylvania Gazette, and after
that date his rise in life was rapid. He established the Philadelphia
Library in 1731, the American Philosophical Society in 1744, and was
one of the founders in 1749 of the institution which in 1753 became
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1753 he was appointed, jointly
with William Hunter, postmaster-general of the colonies. He was twice
sent to London as colonial agent for Pennsylvania, and in 1770 was
appointed agent for Massachusetts in England. In 1776 he helped draft
the Declaration of Independence. During the next nine years he was
first commissioner, then minister, to France; and was also a member
of the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace with England.
He was the discoverer of the identity of lightning with electricity,
and the inventor of the lightning-rod. As a writer his influence
has been felt throughout the world, his works including essays on
politics, religion, commerce, science, and philosophy. The Busybody
is a series of papers of the type of those in The Spectator, but
furnishing much more lively reading. Poor Richard’s Almanac, published
1732-57, was everywhere popular, and had a great influence over the
mass of readers. The work by which he is best known, however, is his
famous Autobiography, which has been one of the most widely read books
ever printed. His Complete Works in ten volumes have been edited by
J. Bigelow, supra. See Edinburgh Review, July, 1806, and
August, 1817; Contemporary Review, July, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, July,
1880; Godey’s Magazine, 1896; Appleton’s American Biography; Parker’s
Historic Americans; Hale’s Franklin in France; Lives by Parton,
McMaster, H. Mayhew, Morse; Mignet’s Vie de Franklin, 1873; Wetzel’s
Franklin as an Economist.Put.
Franklin, Benjamin.R. I., 1819-1898. An Episcopal
clergyman of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. The Creed and Modern Thought; The
Church and the Era.
Franklin, Thomas Levering.Pa., 1820-1899. An Episcopal
clergyman of western New York, and more recently of Philadelphia. His
writings include an important work on The Creed, and several tractates
on Divorce.
Frazer, Persifor.Pa., 1844- ——. A distinguished
geologist attached to the State geological survey of Pennsylvania who
has published Tables for the Determination of Minerals; The Geology of
Lancaster County. Lip.
Frederic, Harold.N. Y., 1856-1898. A novelist and
journalist who served as the London correspondent of the New York
Times from 1884. The scenes of several of his novels are placed in
small American communities. Marsena, and Other Stories; The Copperhead;
The Lawton Girl; In the Valley; Seth’s Brother’s Wife; The Damnation of
Theron Ware; March Hares. Ap. Scr. St.
Fredet, Peter.F., 1801-1856. A Roman Catholic priest
who came from France to America in 1831, and was professor in St.
Mary’s Seminary at Baltimore from that date until his death. Ancient
History; Modern History; Original Texts and Translations of the Bible;
Treatise on the Eucharistic Mystery; Lay Baptism; Inspiration and
Canon of Scripture; Interpretation of Scripture; Doctrine of Exclusive
Salvation; Necessity of Baptism; Effect of Baptism.
Freedley, Edwin Troxell.Pa., 1827- ——. A Philadelphia
writer and compiler of books of useful information, but of small
literary value. The Business Man’s Legal Adviser; Leading Pursuits
of Leading Men; Philadelphia and its Manufactures; Opportunities for
Industry; History of American Manufactures; Common Sense in Business;
Home Comforts. Lip.
Freeman, Barnardus.G., 1660-1743. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of Long Island who came to America in 1700 and was especially
noted for his influence over the Indians. De Spizel der Self Kennis
(Mirror of Self-Knowledge); De Weegshale der Gerade Gods (Balance of
God’s Grace).
Freeman, Frederick.Ms., 1800-1883. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator who was a Presbyterian minister in the earlier
portion of his career. History of Cape Cod; Annals of Barnstable
County; Freeman Genealogy; Civilization and Barbarism illustrated by
Especial Reference to Metacomet and the Extinction of his Race.
Freeman, James.Ms., 1759-1835. The first clergyman in
the United States to bear the name Unitarian. While a lay reader at
King’s Chapel in Boston, in 1782, he became a Unitarian in his views,
and was ordained in 1787 minister of that church, the members of which
adopted Mr. Freeman’s theology as their own, and he continued in that
office until his death. The oldest Episcopal church in New England thus
became the first Unitarian church in America. Mr. Freeman’s Sermons and
Charges were published in 1832.
Freeman, James Midwinter. “Robert Ranger.” N. Y.,
1827-1900. A Methodist clergyman of New York city who published many
books for children under the pseudonym “Robert Ranger.” Other works of
his include Illustration in Sunday-School Teaching; Handbook of Bible
Manners and Customs; Short History of the English Bible; Book of Books.
Meth.
Freeman, Samuel.Me., 1743-1831. A jurist of Portland,
Maine. The Massachusetts Justice; Probate Directory; The Town Officer.
See Bibliography of Maine.
Frémont, Mrs. Jessie [Benton].Va., 1824-1902. Wife of J.
C. Frémont, infra, and daughter of T. H. Benton, supra.
A resident of Los Angeles. The Story of the Guard, a Chronicle of the
War; A Year of American Travel; Souvenirs of My Time; Sketch of Senator
Benton; Far West Sketches; Will and the Way Stories. Lo.
Frémont, John Charles.Ga., 1813-1890. A famous soldier
and politician who in 1856 was the first Republican candidate for the
presidency, and served during the Civil War as a major-general in the
Federal army. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
in 1842, and to Oregon and Northern California in 1843-44; Frémont’s
Explorations; Memoirs of My Life. See Appleton’s American Biography;
Lives by J. Bigelow, supra, C. Upham.
French, Alice. “Octave Thanet.” Ms., 1850- ——. A writer
of novels and short stories whose home has been in Davenport, Iowa,
and also in Arkansas. Knitters in the Sun; Otto the Knight, and other
Trans-Mississippi Stories; Stories of a Western Town; An Adventure in
Photography; Expiation. Hou. Scr.
French, Benjamin Franklin.Va., 1799-1877. A writer of
New Orleans and subsequently of New York city. Biographia Americana;
Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers; Historical Collections of
Louisiana; History of the Iron Trade in the United States; Historical
Annals of North America.
French, Henry Willard.Ct., 1853- ——. A lecturer and
miscellaneous writer of Boston. Art and Artists in Connecticut; Our
Boys in China; Our Boys in India; Through Arctics and Tropics; Gems of
Genius; Nuna the Brahmin Girl; Lance of Kehama; Oscar Peterson; Colonel
Thorndike’s Adventures; and the novels, The Only One; Castle Foam; Ego.
Le. Lo.
French, John William.Ct., 1809-1871. An Episcopal
clergyman of Washington, 1842-56, and from the latter date till his
death professor of ethics at West Point. He was the author of a work on
Practical Ethics.
French, Mrs. L. Virginia [Smith].Va., 1830-1881. A
writer and educator of Memphis. Wind Whispers, a collection of poems;
Legend of the South; Iztalixo, a Tragedy; My Roses, the Romance of a
June Day.
French, William Henry.Md., 1815-1881. An officer who
served in the army of the United States during the Mexican, Seminole,
and Civil wars. His only published work is a manual of Instruction for
Field Artillery.
Freneau [frē-nō´], Philip.N. Y., 1752-1832. A
journalist of New York city who, during the Revolution, produced much
patriotic verse that was very effective as well as popular, though
none of it is marked by any high degree of excellence. Poems of Philip
Freneau, written chiefly during the Late War (1786); Poems Written
between the Years 1768 and 1794; Poems Written and Published during
the American Revolution; Collection of Poems on American Affairs.
Among his prose writings are, The Philosopher of the Forest; Essays
by Robert Slender. See American Literatures by Hart, Nichol, and
Richardson.Cr.
Frey, Albert Romer.N. Y., 1858- ——. A writer of New
York city upon Shakesperean and dramatic topics, who has also published
a work upon Sobriquets and Nicknames. Hou.
Frey, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick.G., 1773-1850.
A clergyman of Jewish descent who became a Christian in 1798, and,
after coming to America in 1816, was for some ten years a Presbyterian
minister and subsequently a Baptist preacher, especially active as a
missionary to the Jews. Narrative of My Life: Hebrew Bible; Hebrew
Grammar; Judah and Israel; Joseph and Benjamin; The Passover; Scripture
Types.
Frieze, Henry Simmons.Ms., 1817-1889. A professor of
Latin in the University of Michigan from 1854 until his death. He
published editions of Quintilian and Virgil’s Æneid, and was the author
of The Story of Giovanni Dupré.
Frisbie, Levi.Ct., 1748-1806. A Congregational clergyman
of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who published Sermons and Orations.
Frisbie, Levi.Ms., 1783-1822. Son of L. Frisbie,
supra. A tutor and professor at Harvard College from 1805 till
his death. Miscellaneous Writings of Professor Frisbie, edited with
Memoir by Andrews Norton, infra, appeared in 1823.
Fritschel, Gottfried Leonhard Wilhelm.G., 1836-1889. A
Lutheran clergyman who came from Germany to the United States in 1857,
and was a professor of theology in the seminary at Mendota, Illinois,
from that time. He published (in German) Meditations on the Passion of
Christ; History of Protestant Missions among North American Indians in
the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Frost, John.Me., 1800-1859. An educator of Philadelphia
who was a prolific writer and compiler of historical and other works of
indifferent merit. Their number was very great, and the sale of some of
them extensive. Among them are, Beauties of English History; Beauties
of French History; Wild Scenes in a Hunter’s Life; Pioneer Mothers in
the West; The Presidents of the United States; Pictorial History of the
United States; History of the World. Har. Le.
Frothingham, Ellen.Ms., 1835-1902. Daughter of N. L.
Frothingham, infra. A Bostonian who published several fine
translations from Lessing (The Laocoön); Auerbach; Goethe (Hermann and
Dorothea); Grillparzer (Sappho); “Marie-Herbert” (Poems of Therese).
Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon.Ms., 1793-1870. A
Unitarian clergyman of Boston whose writing displays singular grace
and refinement. Deism or Christianity; Sermons in the Order of a
Twelvemonth; Metrical Pieces, Original and Translated.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks.Ms., 1822-1895. Son of
N. L. Frothingham, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of extremely
radical views who resigned his charge in New York city in 1879, and
returned to Boston the next year, devoting the remainder of his life
to literary pursuits. He was at one period art critic for the New
York Tribune. Stories from the Lips of the Teacher; Stories from the
Old Testament; The Religion of Humanity; The Cradle of the Christ;
Memoir of W. H. Channing, supra; The Safest Creed; Beliefs
of the Unbelievers; Creed and Conduct; The Spirit of the New Faith;
The Rising and the Setting Faith; Visions of the Future; Lives of
Gerrit Smith, George Ripley, Theodore Parker; History of New England
Transcendentalism; Boston Unitarianism; Recollections and Impressions.
Hou. Put.
Frothingham, Richard.Ms., 1812-1880. A journalist and
local historian of Charlestown, Massachusetts. History of the Siege
of Boston; The Rise of the Republic; History of Charlestown; Life
of General Joseph Warren; The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Lit.
Frothingham, Washington.N. Y., 1822- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Atheos, or Tragedies of Unbelief; The
Martel Papers: Scenes in the Reign of Terror.
Fry, James Barnet.Il., 1827-1894. A colonel and brevet
major-general in the United States army who was retired from active
service in 1881, and thereafter lived in New York city. Sketch of the
Adjutant-General’s Department, 1775-1875; Historical and Legal Effects
of Brevets in Great Britain and the United States from their Origin in
1692; Army Sacrifices; McDowell and Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run;
Operations of the Army under Buell; New York and Conscription.
Fuller, Andrew S——.N. Y., 1828-1896. A horticultural
writer and journalist of New York city, editor of Woodward’s Record of
Horticulture. The Fruit Tree Culturist; The Grape Culturist; The Small
Fruit Culturist; The Strawberry Culturist; Practical Forestry; The
Propagation of Plants; The Nut Culturist.
Fuller, Anna.Ms., 1853- ——. A Boston novelist. Pratt
Portraits; A Literary Courtship; Peak and Prairie; A Venetian June.
Put.
Fuller, Edward.N. Y., 1860- ——. A Boston journalist,
subsequently on the staff of the Providence Journal. The Complaining
Millions of Men, a novel of social conditions in Boston.
Fuller, Henry Blake.Il., 1857- ——. A novelist of
Chicago. The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani; The Chatelaine of La Trinité;
The Cliff Dwellers; With the Procession; The Puppet-Booth, twelve
one-act plays. Cent. Har.
Fuller, Hiram.Ms., c. 1815-1880. A journalist
of New York city who at the outset of the Civil War supported
the Confederate cause, and emigrated to England on that account.
Subsequently he became an adventurer in Paris. The Groton Letters;
Belle Brittan on a Tour; Sparks from a Locomotive; Grand Transformation
Scenes in the United States.
Fuller, Margaret.See Ossoli.
Fuller, Richard.S. C., 1804-1876. A Baptist clergyman of
Charleston, and subsequently of Baltimore. Argument on Baptist Close
Communion; Sermons; Scriptural Baptism.
Fuller, Richard Frederick.Ms., 1821-1869. Brother of
M. Fuller, supra. A lawyer of Boston who published Visions in
Verse; Chaplain Fuller, a life of his brother Arthur.
Fuller, Samuel.N. Y., 1802-1895. An Episcopal clergyman,
professor at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut.
Confirmation, its Authority and Nature; The Revelation of St. John
Self-Interpreted.
Fuller, Samuel Richard.Ms., 1850- ——. Son of S.
Fuller, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts.
Personality, a volume of Sermons. Hou.
Fullerton, George Stuart.E. I., 1859- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor of moral philosophy in the University of
Pennsylvania. The Conception of the Infinite and the Solution of the
Mathematical Antinomies, a psychological treatise; A Plain Argument for
God. Lip.
Fullerton, William Morton.Ct., 1865- ——. A journalist
in Boston for several years, and since 1890 a member of the Paris
staff of the London Times. Cairo, a descriptive essay; Patriotism and
Science, a collection of essays. Mac. Rob.
Fulton, John.S., 1834- ——. An Episcopal clergyman
noted as an able exponent of canon law, and professor of that subject
at the Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia. Letters on Christian
Unity; Index Canonum; The Laws of Marriage; Documentary History of
the Episcopal Church in the Confederate States; The Beautiful Land, a
description of Palestine; The Chalcedonian Decree. Wh.
Fulton, Justin Dewey.N. Y., 1828-1901. A Baptist
clergyman, prominent in Boston and Brooklyn for his continued and
violent attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic
Element in American History; The True Woman; Show Your Colors, a story
of Boston Life; The Way Out; Witnessing for the Truth, or the Overthrow
of the Papacy; Rome in America, include the most of his work, which is
of interest as an example of religious bigotry if for no other reason.
Furness, Mrs. Helen Kate [Rogers]. 1837-1883. Wife of H. H.
Furness, infra. A Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia who
published A Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare. Lip.
Furness, Horace Howard.Pa., 1833- ——. Son of W.
H. Furness, infra. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar of
Philadelphia, widely known in the literary world for his scholarly and
exhaustive variorum editions of King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and
Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s
Dream, and others of Shakespeare’s plays. Lip.
Furness, William Henry.Ms., 1802-1896. A Unitarian
clergyman of Philadelphia, from 1825 to 1875 pastor of the Unitarian
church in that city. A theologian of radical views, but reverent
temper. The Unconscious Truth of the Four Gospels; Jesus and his
Biographers; History of Jesus; Thoughts on the Life and Character of
Jesus; The Story of the Resurrection Told Once More; The Power of
Spirit; Discourses; The Veil Lifted and Jesus becoming Visible; Verses:
Translations and Hymns; The Faith of Jesus; a much admired translation
of Schiller’s Song of the Bell. See Harvard Graduates’ Magazine,
June, 1896.El. Lip.
Futhey, John Smith.Pa., 1820-1888. A lawyer and
antiquarian of Eastern Pennsylvania. History of Chester County;
Historical Collections of Chester County.
G
Gage, Mrs. Frances Dana [Barker].O., 1808-1884. A
prominent advocate of woman-suffrage who lectured much on that subject
as well as upon temperance and anti-slavery. Elsie Magoon, a temperance
story; Poems; Gertie’s Sacrifice; Nightcaps, a Series of Books; Sparks
Upward. She wrote much over the signature “Aunt Fanny.” Lip.
Gage, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn.N. Y., 1826-1898. A noted
woman suffragist of Fayetteville, New York. Woman’s Rights Catechism;
Woman as an Inventor; Woman, Church, and State; History of Woman
Suffrage (with Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton). Ke.
Gage, Simon Henry.N. Y., 1851- ——. A physiologist who
has been professor of physiology at Cornell University. The Microscope
and Histology; Anatomical Technology (with B. G. Wilder, infra).
Gage, William Leonard.N. H. 1832-1889. A Congregational
clergyman of Hartford, 1868-84. Trinitarian Sermons to a Unitarian
Congregation; Songs of War Time; Light in Darkness; Life of Carl
Ritter; Studies in Bible Lands; Verses; The Home of God’s People; A
Leisurely Journey; Palestine, Historic and Descriptive; The Salvation
of Faust; a number of translations from the German. Lo.
Gallagher [găl´a-ḡer], William Davis.Pa.,
1808-1894. A journalist of Cincinnati prominent in the early
literary annals of the Ohio Valley, whose home in later years was
near Louisville. Miami Woods and Other Poems; A Golden Wedding, and
Other Poems; Erato (verse). See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America.Clke.
Gallatin, Albert.Sd., 1761-1849. A financier of
distinction. He came to America from Switzerland in 1780, and was
active in political affairs. He was secretary of the treasury under
President Jefferson; an associate of Adams and Clay in negotiating
the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain in 1815; minister to France
1816-23; subsequently minister to Great Britain. After his retirement
from public life he became a banker in New York city. Considerations on
the Currency and Banking System of the United States; Synopsis of the
Indian Tribes; Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan,
and Central America; Peace with Mexico; War Expenses. His writings have
been edited in six volumes by H. Adams, supra. See Lives by
H. Adams, J. A. Stevens.Lip.
Gallaudet [găl-aw-dĕt´], Edward Miner.Ct.,
1837- ——. Son of T. H. Gallaudet, infra. Popular Manual of
International Law; Life of T. H. Gallaudet, infra.
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins.Pa., 1787-1851. A celebrated
educator of deaf-mutes, who was superintendent of the institution
for deaf-mutes at Hartford, the first in the United States, 1817-30.
Child’s Book of the Soul; The Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Sermons
Preached to an English Congregation in Paris; Bible Stories for the
Young. See Lives by H. Humphrey, E. M. Gallaudet.
Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine. Prince. Hd., 1770-1841.
The son of the Russian ambassador to France, he came to America in
1792, was educated as a Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman
Catholic colony of Loretto in Pennsylvania in 1803. Defence of
Catholic Principles; Appeal to the Protestant Public; Six Letters of
Advice; Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy Scripture. See
Lives by Lemcke, Heyden, Brownson.
Galloway, Charles Betts.Mi., 1849- ——. A bishop of the
Methodist Church South. Methodism a Child of Providence; Aaron’s Rod in
Public Morals.
Galloway, Joseph.Md., 1731-1803. A Philadelphia lawyer
who was a noted loyalist, and went to England after the evacuation of
the city by the English. Historical and Political Reflections on the
American Rebellion; The Prophetic History of the Church of Rome.
Gallup, Joseph Adams.Ct., 1769-1849. A Vermont
physician, professor in Vermont Medical College, which he founded.
Epidemic Diseases in Vermont; Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine.
Gammell, William.Ms., 1812-1889. An educator of Rhode
Island, professor at Brown University, 1835-64. Life of Roger Williams;
History of American Baptist Missions.
Gannett, Ezra Stiles.Ms., 1801-1871. A Unitarian
clergyman of prominence in Boston for many years, who published a
great number of single sermons and addresses. See Memoir by W. C.
Gannett.
Gannett, Henry.Me., 1846- ——. The chief topographer
of the United States Geological Survey since 1882. Boundaries of the
United States; The Building of a Nation; Dictionary of Altitudes
in the United States; Results of Primary Triangulation; Manual of
Topographical Methods; Geographic Dictionaries of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey.
Gannett, William Channing. 1840- ——. Son of E. S. Gannett,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis, and subsequently of
Rochester, New York. A Year of Miracle, a poem in Four Sermons; Memoir
of E. S. Gannett, supra; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems
(with F. L. Hosmer). A. U. A. El. Rob.
Garden, Alexander.S., circa 1685-1750. An
Episcopal clergyman of Charleston remembered for his vigorous
opposition to Whitefield. Six Letters to the Reverend George
Whitefield; Two Sermons. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Garden, Alexander.S., 1728-1791. A botanical writer
of Charleston for whom Linnæus named the genus Gardenia. He went to
England as a loyalist in 1783, and became vice-president of the Royal
Society.
Garden, Alexander.S. C., 1757-1829. Son of A. Garden,
2d. An officer in the American army during the Revolution. Anecdotes of
the Revolutionary War (1822). See edition of 1865.
Gardener, Mrs. Helen.See Smart, Mrs.
Gardiner, Frederick.Me., 1822-1889. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor in the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from
1869. The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude;
Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in
English; Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old
and New Testament in their Mutual Relations; Aids to Scripture Study.
Hou.
Gardner, Augustus Kinsley.Ms., 1812-1876. Son of S.
J. Gardner, infra. A physician of New York city. The French
Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children, a
Handbook for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; Ships and Shipbuilders
of New York; translation of Scanzoni’s Diseases of Females.
Gardner, Charles Kitchell.N. J., 1787-1869. A United
States army officer who was postmaster of Washington in President
Polk’s administration. Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned
Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; Permanent
Designation of Companies, and lesser works.
Gardner, Dorsey.Pa., 1842-1894. A journalist of New
York city who was one of the revisers of the Webster International
Dictionary. Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo; Condensed Etymological
Dictionary of the English Language.
Gardner, Eugene C.Ms., 1836- ——. An architect of
Springfield, Massachusetts. Homes and All About Them; The House that
Jill Built; Homes and How to Make Them; Illustrated Homes; Home
Interiors; Common Sense in Church-Building; Town and Country School
Buildings.
Gardner, Samuel Jackson.Ms., 1788-1864. A lawyer of
Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, New Jersey, whose
essays over the signature “Decius” were issued in book form with the
title Autumn Leaves.
Garfield, James Abram.O., 1831-1881. The twentieth
president of the United States. A statesman of Ohio, prominent as a
general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and subsequently as a
congressman till his elevation to the presidency. In July, 1881, he was
mortally wounded by an assassin, and died in the September following.
His Complete Works have been edited by B. A. Hinsdale, infra.
See Appleton’s American Biography; Life by J. R. Gilmore, infra,
1880; Eulogy by G. F. Hoar.
Garland, Hamlin.Wis., 1860- ——. A novelist who was
for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western
States, in which the scenes of his realistic fictions are mainly laid.
Main Travelled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs;
Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly; Little Norsk. St.
Garland, Landon Cabell.Va., 1810-1895. A mathematician
who held professorships in several Southern colleges, and published
Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.
Garman, Samuel.Pa., 1846- ——. A naturalist of
Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz Museum there. The Reptiles and
Batrachians of North America; Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda.
Clke.
Garnett, James Mercer.Va., 1840- ——. A professor
of English literature at the University of Virginia since 1882.
Translation of Beowulf; Anglo-Saxon Poems; Translations of Elene,
Judith, Athelstan, and Byrhtnoth.
Garretson, James Edmund. “John Darby.” Del., 1828-1895.
A physician of Philadelphia, dean of the dental college there from
1879. System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and
Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland;
19th Century Common Sense. Lip.
Garrett, Alexander Charles.I., 1832- ——. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Northern Texas. Historical Continuity, a
series of Sketches on the Church. Wh.
Garrigues, Henry Jacques.Dk., 1831- ——. A Danish
physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been
professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school
of New York city. Gastro-Elytrotomy; Practical Guide in Antiseptic
Midwifery.
Garrison, James Harney.Mo., 1842- ——. A clergyman and
editor of religious journals. Heavenward Way; Alone With God.
Garrison, Joseph Fithian.N. J., 1823-1892. An Episcopal
clergyman of Camden, New Jersey, professor of canon law at the
Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School for some years. The Formation
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; The American
Prayer Book.
Garrison, William Lloyd.Ms., 1805-1879. A very
celebrated anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The
Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its
existence. His uncompromising attitude roused the fiercest opposition
in both North and South, and he was at one time dragged through the
streets of Boston by a mob who intended to hang him for his newspaper
utterances, but he fortunately lived to see the triumph of his ideas
and the liberation of the slave. Thoughts on African Colonization;
Sonnets and Other Poems. See Johnson’s Garrison and his Times; Life
by his Sons.
Gath.See Townsend, G. A.
Gay, Ebenezer.Ms., 1696-1787. A Unitarian clergyman of
Hingham from 1718 until his death. The Old Man’s Calendar, a sermon
preached on his eighty-fifth birthday, went through several editions
in America and England, and was translated into several continental
languages.
Gay, Eben Howard.Ms., 1858- ——. Nephew of S. H. Gay,
infra. A banker of Boston who has published A Treatise on
Municipal Bonds.
Gay, Sydney Howard.Ms., 1814-1888. Great-grandson of E.
Gay, supra. A journalist of New York and Chicago, during the
Civil War the managing editor of the New York Tribune. Life of James
Madison; Bryant and Gay’s Popular History of the United States, of
which the preface only was the work of Mr. Bryant. Hou. Scr.
Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur.La., 1805-1895. A jurist
of New Orleans, profoundly versed in the history of his State. Histoire
de la Louisiane; Romance of the History of Louisiana; Colonial History
of Louisiana; Louisiana as a French Colony; The Spanish Domination in
Louisiana; Philip the Second, a Biography; Louisiana Supreme Court
Reports; School for Politics, a drama; Fernando de Lemos, a novel;
Aubert Dubayet, a sequel to the preceding; School for Politics, a
Dramatic Novel.
Gayler, Charles.N. Y., 1820-1892. A dramatist of New
York city among whose many plays are, The Gold Hunters; Taking the
Chances; Fritz. Among his various novels are, The Romance of a Poor
Young Man; Out of the Streets, both of which were dramatized by their
author.
Gaylord, Glance.See Bradley, Warren.
Geer, George Jarvis.Ct., 1821-1885. An Episcopal
clergyman, long rector of St. Timothy’s Church, New York city, and the
author of The Conversion of St. Paul, a series of Discourses.
Gemünder, George.Wg., 1816-1899. A violin-maker who came
to America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city, 1852.
He published Progress in Violin-Making.
Genin, John Nicholas.N. Y., 1819-1878. A noted hatter of
New York city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Ages.
Genth, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William.G.,
1820-1893. A professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania
from 1872. Ammonia Cobalt Bases (with O. W. Gibbs, infra);
Minerals of North Carolina; First and Second Preliminary Reports on the
Mineralogy of Pennsylvania.
Genung [je-nŭng´], John Franklin. N. Y.,
1850- ——. A professor at Amherst College. A Study of In Memoriam;
The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated translation of Job; Practical
Elements of Rhetoric; The Study of Rhetoric in College Courses. Gi.
Hou.
George, Henry.Pa., 1839-1897. A very widely known
political economist of New York city whose radical views upon economic
and social topics have met with much criticism both in America and
Europe. Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy
Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish
Land Question; The Land Question; Social Problems.
George, Nathan Dow.N. H., 1808-1896. A Methodist
clergyman, long prominent in Maine, and subsequently in Massachusetts.
An Examination of Universalism; Universalism Not of God; Materialism
Anti-Scriptural; Annihilation Not of the Bible. Meth.
Gerard, James Watson.N. Y., 1822-1900. A lawyer of New
York city. The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real Estate in
New York City; Title of the Corporation and Others to the Streets,
Wharves, Lands, and Franchises in New York City; The Peace of Utrecht;
Aquarelles (verse); Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a collection
of humourous verse. Put.
Gerhard, William Paul.G., 1854- ——. A sanitary
engineer of New York city. Theatre Fires and Panics; Anlagen von
Haus-Entwässerungen; Diagram for Sewer Calculations; House Drainage and
Sanitary Plumbing; Guide to General House Inspection; Domestic Sanitary
Appliances; Prinzipien der Haus-Kanalization, include his principal
writings. Wil.
Gerhard, William Wood.Pa., 1809-1872. A Philadelphia
physician. Diagnosis of Chest Diseases; Spotted Fever; Fevers; Clinical
Guide.
Gerhart [gair´hart], Emmanuel Vogel.Pa.,
1817-1904. A German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
professor of theology in Franklin and Marshall College. Philosophy and
Logic; Monograph of the Reformed Church; Child’s Heidelberg Catechism;
Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Gerrish, Theodore.Me., 1846- ——. A clergyman of
Portland, Maine. Army Life; Will Newton, the Young Volunteer; Life in
the World’s Wonderland; The Blue and the Gray, an army history (with J.
Hutchinson).
Gholson, William Yates.O., 1807-1870. An Ohio jurist who
published Speeches on Payment of the Public Debt of the United States.
Gianque, Florien.O., 1843- ——. A Cincinnati lawyer of
Swiss descent. Laws of Election in Ohio; Election and Naturalization
Laws of the United States; Manual for Ohio Road Supervisors; Manual for
Guardians and Trustees; Manual for Assignees, Insolvent Debtors, etc.;
Laws of Ohio relating to Roads, Ditches, Bridges, and Water-Courses;
Manual for Notaries, etc.; Appendix to Ohio Revised Statutes.
Clke.
Gibbes [ḡĭbz], Robert Wilson.Ms., 1809-1866.
A physician, educator, and journalist of Columbia, South Carolina.
Monograph of the Squalidæ; Typhoid Pneumonia; Documentary History of
South Carolina; Documentary History of the American Revolution.
Gibbon, John [Oliver].Pa., 1827-1896. A major-general in
the Federal army during the Civil War who published The Artillerist’s
Manual.
Gibbons, Henry.Del., 1808-1848. Son of W. Gibbons,
infra. A physician of San Francisco, professor in the Pacific
Medical College who was the author of an anti-tobacco treatise, Tobacco
and its Effects.
Gibbons, James.Md., 1834- ——. A cardinal of the Roman
Catholic church since 1886. The Faith of Our Fathers; Our Christian
Heritage; The Ambassador of Christ.
Gibbons, James Sloan.Del., 1810-1892. Son of W. Gibbons,
infra. A prominent financier and philanthropist of New York
city. He was a noted abolitionist, and was a pioneer in the movement
for preserving the forests. The Banks of New York; The Public Debt
of the United States. He wrote the popular war song, “We are Coming,
Father Abraham.”
Gibbons, Mrs. Phœbe [Earle].Pa., 1821-190-. An author of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Dutch, and Other Essays;
French and Belgians. Lip.
Gibbons, William.Pa., 1781-1845. A philanthropist and
scientist of Wilmington, Delaware. He wrote Truth Vindicated, a notably
clear exposition of the principles of the Friends.
Gibbs, George.L. I., 1815-1873. A lawyer and antiquarian
of New York city. The Judicial Chronicle; Dictionary of the Chinook
Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon; Comparative Vocabulary; Research
relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America; Suggestions
relating to Scientific Observation in Russian America.
Gibbs, Josiah Willard.Ms., 1790-1861. A philologist
who was professor of sacred literature at Yale University, 1824-61.
Philological Studies; New Latin Analyst; Teutonic Etymology.
Gibbs, Josiah Willard.Ct., 1839-1903. Son of J. W.
Gibbs, supra. A professor of physics at Yale University, and the
author of scientific papers and monographs.
Gibbs, [Oliver] Wolcott.N. Y., 1822-1903. Brother of G.
Gibbs, supra. A chemist of distinction, Rumford professor at
Harvard University, and author of scientific papers.
Gibson, Louis Henry.Ind., 1854- ——. An architect of
Indianapolis. Beautiful Houses, a Study in Housebuilding; Convenient
Houses; Gradual Reduction Milling; Artistic Houses at Moderate Cost.
Cr.
Gibson, William.Md., 1788-1868. A once famous
physician of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the University of
Pennsylvania, 1819-55. Principles and Practice of Surgery; Rambles in
Europe. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Gibson, William.Md., 1826-1887. A United States naval
officer retired in 1879. Sailing Directions for the Kattegat,
etc.; Poems of Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and Other Poems; a
translation of the Miscellaneous Poems of Goethe. Le.
Gibson, William Hamilton.Ct., 1850-1896. An artist
and author of New York city who has illustrated his own writings.
The Complete American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways;
Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Happy Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a
Rambler’s Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; Our Edible Toadstools and
Mushrooms. See New England Magazine, February, 1897.Har.
Giddings, Franklin Henry.Ct., 1855- ——. A lecturer on
sociology at Columbia University since 1891. Report on Profit Sharing;
The Modern Distributive Process (with J. B. Clark); The Principles of
Sociology. Mac.
Giddings, Joshua Reed.Pa., 1795-1864. A once noted
anti-slavery statesman and congressman of Ohio. The Exiles of Florida;
The Rebellion: its Authors and its Causes; Speeches in Congress; Essays
of Pacificus. See Life by G. W. Julian, infra.
Gihon, Albert Leary.Pa., 1833-1901. A United States
naval surgeon. Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene; Need of Sanitary
Reform in Ship Life; Sanitary Commonplaces Applied to the Navy;
Prevention of Venereal Disease by Legislation.
Gilbert, Benjamin.Pa., 1711-1780. A miller of
Northumberland, Pennsylvania, who wrote on theological themes. Truth
Defended; Discourses on Perfection; Further Discourses on Sin,
Election, Reprobation, and Baptism.
Gilbert, Charles Henry.Il., 1859- ——. An
ichthyologist, professor of zoölogy at Stanford University. Synopsis of
the Fishes of North America (with D. S. Jordan).
Gilbert, David McConaughy.Pa., 1836- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman of Virginia. The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1776-1876;
The Synod of Virginia; The Annihilation Theory Briefly Examined;
Muhlenberg’s Ministry in Virginia.
Gilbert, Grove Karl.N. Y., 1843- ——. A geologist
attached to the United States Geological Survey. Geology of the Henry
Mountains; Topographical Features of Lake Shores; Geology of Nevada,
Utah, etc.; Lake Bonneville.
Gilder, Richard Watson.N. J., 1844- ——. A writer
of New York City well known both as a poet and as the editor of The
Century Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner’s Monthly,
he has been editor-in-chief since 1881. The New Day, The Poet and
his Master, Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great
Remembrance, and Other Poems; Five Books of Song (1894), include all of
his collected poems up to the year of issue. Cent.
Gilder, William Henry.Pa., 1835-1900. Brother of R. W.
Gilder, supra. An Arctic explorer. Schwatka’s Search; Ice Pack
and Tundra. Scr.
Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau.S. C., 1831- ——. A
professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University from 1876, and editor
of the American Journal of Philology from its establishment. He is the
author of Essays and Studies, and has published a Latin Grammar, and
editions of Justin Martyr and the Odes of Pindar. Gi. Har.
Giles, Chauncey.Ms., 1813-1893. A Swedenborgian
clergyman of Philadelphia, and of much prominence in his denomination.
The Nature of Spirit; The Second Coming of our Lord; Perfect Prayer;
Man as a Spiritual Being; The Incarnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The
Magic Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and
Other Stories; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Jerusalem; The Spiritual
World; The Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stories. Lip.
Giles, Ella Augusta.Wis., 1851- ——. A writer of
Madison, Wisconsin. Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel;
Flowers of the Spirit (verse). See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Giles, Henry.I., 1809-1882. A Unitarian minister of
Liverpool, England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United
States. Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations
of Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; Lectures on the Irish, and Other
Subjects. See Hart’s American Literature.
Gill, Theodore Nicholas.N. Y., 1837- ——. A naturalist,
professor of zoölogy in the Columbian University, Washington, District
of Columbia. Arrangement of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangement
of the Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the Families of Mammals;
Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; Scientific
and Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.
Gill, William Fearing.Ms., 1844- ——. The Martyred
Church (verse); Home Recreations; Life of Poe.
Gill, William Ireland. 18— - ——. Evolution and Progress;
Analytical Processes; Christian Conception and Experience.
Gillespie, George.S., 1683-1760. A Presbyterian
clergyman, once prominent in Delaware. Treatise Against Deists and
Free Thinkers; Letters to the Presbytery of New-York; Remarks upon Mr.
George Whitefield.
Gillespie, William Mitchell.N. Y., 1816-1868. A
professor of civil engineering at Union College, 1845-68. Rome as seen
by a New Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles
and Practice of Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher
Surveying; Philosophy of Mathematics (from Comte). Ap.
Gillet, Ransom H——.N. Y., 1800-1876. A lawyer of
Ogdensburg, New York. History of the Democratic Party; The Federal
Government; Life of Silas Wright.
Gillett [jĭl-lĕt´], Ezra Hall.Ct., 1823-1875. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of political economy
in the University of New York from 1868. History of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought;
The Moral System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What
Then? or the Soul’s To-Morrow; Ancient Cities and Empires. Scr.
Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Fidelia [Woolley].N. Y.,
1827- ——. A Universalist minister who published Pebbles from the
Shore (verse); Editorials and Other Waifs.
Gillette, William Hooker.Ct., 1853- ——. An actor and
playwright, among whose plays are Held by the Enemy; The Professor;
Esmeralda; The Private Secretary.
Gilliss, James Melville.D. C., 1811-1865. An astronomer
of distinction in charge of the naval observatory at Washington. United
States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere; Observations
at the Naval Observatory. Lip.
Gillmore, Quincy Adams.O., 1825-1888. A military
engineer in charge of the Federal bombardment of Charleston in
1863. He was a major-general of volunteers in the Civil War, and a
high authority on engineering matters. Siege and Reduction of Fort
Pulaski; Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars; Engineer and Artillery
Operations Against the Defences of Charleston; Compressive Strength,
etc., of Building Stones of the United States.
Gilman, Arthur.Il., 1837- ——. An educator of
Cambridge, and the organizer of Radcliffe College (long known as “the
Harvard Annex”). First Steps in English Literature; Seven Historic
Ages; First Steps in English History; History of the American People;
Rome from the Earliest Times; Tales of the Pathfinders; Short Stories
from the Dictionary; The Saracens; Colonization of America; The
Discovery of America; The Making of the American Nation. He has also
edited the Riverside Chaucer. Lo.
Gilman, Mrs. Caroline [Howard]. Ms., 1794-1888. Wife of S.
Gilman, infra. A writer whose married life was passed in
Charleston. Among her writings are included Recollections of a Southern
Matron; Recollections of a New England Housekeeper; The Sibyl, or New
Oracles from the Poets; Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Travelling in
the United States; Ruth Raymond; Stories and Poems. Le.
Gilman, Chandler Robbins.O., 1802-1865. A physician
of New York City, professor from 1841 in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. Legends of a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life of
J. B. Beck, supra; The Relations of the Medical to the Legal
Profession; Tracts on Generation.
Gilman, Daniel Coit.Ct., 1831- ——. An educator of
prominence, President of Johns Hopkins University from 1875. Our
National Schools in Science; Life of James Monroe.
Gilman, Nicholas Paine.Il., 1849- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman, formerly of Massachusetts, prominent as a writer upon
economics and since 1895 professor of sociology at the Meadville
Theological Seminary. Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee; The
Laws of Daily Conduct; Socialism and the American Spirit. Hou.
Gilman, Samuel.Ms., 1791-1858. A Unitarian clergyman of
Charleston, 1819-58. He published Memoirs of a New England Choir; The
History of a Ray of Light; Pleasures and Pains of a Student’s Life;
Contributions to Literature, and was the author of the noted college
song, “Fair Harvard.”
Gilman, Mrs. Stella [Scott].Al., 1844- ——. Wife of A.
Gilman, supra. Mothers in Council.
Gilmer, George Rockingham.Ga., 1790-1859. A Georgia
lawyer who was governor of his State, 1829-31, and three times a
representative in Congress. The Georgians, an historical work (1855).
Gilmore, James Roberts. “Edmund Kirke.” Ms., 1823-1903.
In earlier life a shipping merchant in New York city, but during and
since the Civil War a journalist and miscellaneous writer. Among the
Pines; My Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among
the Guerillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot Boys; The
Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder;
The Advance Guard of Western Civilization. See Hart’s American
Literature.Ap.
Gilmore, Joseph Henry.Ms., 1834- ——. A Baptist
minister of Rochester, New York, professor of rhetoric in the
University of Rochester since 1867. Outlines of the Art of Expression;
Outlines of Logic; English Language and its Early Literature; English
Literature; He Leadeth Me, and Other Poems.
Gilpin, Henry Dilwood.E., 1801-1860. Son of J. Gilpin,
infra. A jurist of Pennsylvania who was attorney-general of
the United States, 1840-41. He edited The Atlantic Souvenir, the
first American literary annual, and published Reports of Cases in the
United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; Opinions of the
Attorneys-General. He also edited the Papers of President Madison in
three volumes.
Gilpin, Joshua.Pa., 1765-1840. A Philadelphia writer who
published Verses at the Fountain of Vaucluse; Farm of Virgil, and Other
Poems; Memoir on a Canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware.
Girard, Charles.F., 1822-1895. A naturalist who came
to the United States with Agassiz in 1847. Life in its Physical
Aspects; Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; Herpetology of the Wilkes
Expedition, are his more important publications. Lip.
Girardeau, John L.S. C., 1825-1898. A Presbyterian
clergyman of South Carolina, professor of systematic theology in
Columbia Theological Seminary from 1876. Calvinism and Evangelical
Arminianism Compared; The Will in its Theological Relations.
Gladden, Washington.Pa., 1836- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, of prominence as a writer upon social
reforms. The Lord’s Prayers: Seven Homilies; The Christian League of
Connecticut; Things New and Old; Amusements, their Uses and Abuses;
Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the Hub to the Hudson; Being
a Christian; Working-People and their Employers; The Christian Way; The
Young Man and the Church; Applied Christianity; Parish Problems; Tools
and the Man; Who Wrote the Bible?; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age; The
Cosmopolis City Club; Burning Questions, a volume of sermons. Cent.
Co. Hou.
Glazier, Willard.N. Y., 1841- ——. A captain in the
Federal army during the Civil War, and the discoverer, in 1881, of the
true source of the Mississippi River. Capture, Prison-Pen, and Escape;
Three Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for the Union; Heroes of
Three Wars; Peculiarities of Great Cities; Down the Great River. See
Life by Owens, “Sword and Pen,” 1881.
Gleason, Mrs. Rachel Brooks.Vt., 1820- ——. A
physician of Elmira, New York, for many years in charge of the Gleason
Sanitarium. She has published Talks to My Patients.
Glisan, Rodney.Md., 1827- ——. A physician of Portland,
Oregon, emeritus professor of obstetrics in Willamette University.
Journal of Army Life; Modern Midwifery; Two Years in Europe.
Glyndon, Howard.See Searing, Mrs.
Gmeiner, John.Bv., 1847- ——. A Roman Catholic
priest of Milwaukee, professor of homiletics in St. Francis de Sales
Seminary. Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten; Sind wir
den Weltende nahe?; Modern Scientific Views and Christian Doctrines
Compared; The Spirits of Darkness and their Manifestations on Earth;
The Church and the Various Nationalities in the United States.
Godfrey, Thomas.Pa., 1736-1763. A lieutenant in the
colonial militia who possessed much poetic ability, and was the first
dramatic author in America. The Court of Fancy; Juvenile Poems on
Various Subjects, with The Prince of Parthia, a Tragedy. See Tyler’s
American Literature.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.I., 1831-1902. A prominent
journalist of New York city. He came to America in 1856. From 1865 to
1869 he was editor of The Nation, and, 1881-1899, of the Evening Post.
Government; History of Hungary; Reflections and Comments; Problems of
Democracy. Scr.
Godman, John D.Md., 1794-1830. A physician and
naturalist of Cincinnati and New York. A man of great natural gifts
whose career was one of failure and disappointment. Rambles of a
Naturalist; American Natural History; Irregularities of Structure
and Morbid Anatomy; Anatomical Investigations. See North American
Review, January, 1835; Gross, Lives of Eminent American Physicians,
1861, and Autobiography, vol. 1.
Godwin, Parke.N. Y., 1816-1904. A journalist of New
York city, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose writings he
edited. He was long connected with the Evening Post, and was the
editor of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 1853-55 and 1867-70. Pacific and
Constructive Democracy; Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier;
Vala, a mythological tale; Political Essays; History of France; Life
of William Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a collection of essays;
Commemorative Addresses; Handbook of Universal Biography (edited).
Har.
Goebel, Julius.G., 1857- ——. A philologist, professor
at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. Ueber die Zukunft
unseres Volkes in Amerika; Ueber Fragische Schuld und Sühne; Zur
deutschen Frage in Amerika; Poetry in the Limburger Chronik.
Goff, Mrs. Harriet Newell [Kneeland].N. Y.,
1828- ——. A noted reformer of Brooklyn and elsewhere, prominent
in the temperance, woman-suffrage, and other movements. Was it an
Inheritance?; Who Cares?; Episodes in the Life of Mary Campbell.
Gooch, Mrs. Fannie.See Inglehart, Mrs.
Good, James Isaac.Pa., 1850- ——. A German Reformed
clergyman and educator of Reading, Pennsylvania, professor in Ursinus
Theological Seminary, 1890-93. Origin of the Reformed Church of
Germany; Rambles Around Reformed Lands.
Goodale, Dora Reed.Ms., 1866- ——. Sister of Mrs. E. G.
Eastman, supra, and author with her in their childhood of Verses
from Sky-Farm; Apple Blossoms; In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers. She
has contributed much verse to The Century and other periodicals, and
has also published Heralds of Easter. Put.
Goodale, Elaine.See Eastman, Mrs. Elaine.
Goodale, George Lincoln.Me., 1839- ——. A botanist of
prominence, professor of botany at Harvard University from 1878. The
Wild Flowers of America; Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few Common
Plants; Useful Plants of the Future. Wn.
Goode, George Brown.Ind., 1851-1896. An ichthyologist
in the government service. Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas;
Annual Resources of the United States; Game Fishes of the United
States; Beginnings of Natural History in America; Britons, Saxons, and
Virginians; American Fishes, a popular treatise; Fisheries and Fishing
Industries of the United States; Oceanic Ichthyology (with T. H. Bean).
Est.
Goodell, William.Malta, 1829-1894. A Philadelphia
physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and
author of Lessons in Gynæcology.
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor.Ct., 1869- ——. An architect
of Boston whose border designs and initials for book illustration are
of notable excellence. Mexican Memories.
Goodenow, John M.Ms., 1782-1838. An Ohio jurist who
published American Jurisprudence in Contrast with the Doctrine of
English Law.
Goodnow, Frank Johnson.L. I., 1859- ——. A professor
of administrative law in Columbia University from 1884. Comparative
Administrative Law; Municipal Home Rule. Mac.
Goodrich, Aaron.N. Y., 1807- ——. A Minnesota jurist,
secretary of legation at Brussels 1861-68. He published A History of
the So-called Christopher Columbus. Ap.
Goodrich, Charles Augustus.Ct., 1790-1862. Brother of
S. G. Goodrich, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford.
Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; History of
the United States; View of Religions; Family Tourist; Great Events
of American History; Outlines of Geography; Universal Traveller. He
assisted his brother in the preparation of a number of works.
Goodrich, Chauncey Allen.Ct., 1790-1860. A
Congregational clergyman, professor at Yale University, 1817-60. He
published Greek and Latin Lessons; A Greek Grammar; was the editor
and reviser of Webster’s Dictionary, and also edited Select British
Eloquence, with careful critical notes. Har.
Goodrich, Frank Boot. “Dick Tinto.” Ms., 1826-1894. Son
to S. G. Goodrich, infra. A dramatist and miscellaneous writer
of New York city. The Court of Napoleon; Man upon the Sea; Tri-Colored
Sketches of Paris; The Tribute Book; World-Famous Women; Women of
Beauty and Heroism; History of Maritime Adventure. Lip.
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. “Peter Parley.” Ct.,
1793-1863. Brother of Charles A. Goodrich, supra. A once famous
writer and compiler of Boston and New York. He published nearly two
hundred volumes, mainly juvenile and educational, some of which
achieved a wide popularity. Among them are, History of All Nations;
Tales of Peter Parley about America; Recollections of a Lifetime, an
autobiography. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Goodwin, Daniel.N. Y., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Chicago.
James Pitts and his Sons in the American Revolution; The Dearborns; The
Lord’s Table; Provincial Pictures.
Goodwin, Daniel Raynes.Me., 1811-1890. An Episcopal
clergyman who was a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and
of much prominence as a Low Churchman. Southern Slavery in its Present
Aspects; Christianity Neither Ascetic nor Fanatic; The Christian
Ministry; Shall we Return to Rome?; The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; The
New Ritualistic Divinity; Christian Eschatology. See Bibliography of
Maine.
Goodwin, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth [Bradbury].Ms.,
1827-1893. A Boston writer for young people, among whose works are
Madge; Christine’s Fortune; Dorothy Gray; Dr. Howells’s Family;
Fortunes of Miss Follen. Ap.
Goodwin, Isaac.Ms., 1786-1832. A writer of Worcester,
Massachusetts, and the father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin,
supra. History of the Town of Stirling; The Town Officer; The
New England Sheriff.
Goodwin, John Abbott.Ms., 1824-1884. Son of I. Goodwin,
supra. A Lowell writer who published The Pilgrim Fathers
Neither Puritans nor Persecutors; The Pilgrim Republic, an historical
review of the Plymouth colony. Hou.
Goodwin, Mrs. Lavinia Stella [Tyler].Vt., 1833- ——.
The Mysterious Miner; The Little Helper; Little Folks’ Own. Le.
Goodwin, Mrs. Maud [Wilder].N. Y., 1856- ——.
An historical novelist of New York city. The Colonial Cavalier, or
Southern Life before the Revolution; The Head of a Hundred; White
Aprons, an historical romance; Dolly Madison, a biography. Lit.
Scr.
Goodwin, Nathaniel.Ct., 1782-1855. A Hartford
genealogist and probate judge. Genealogical Notes of Some of the First
Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Goodwin, William Watson.Ms., 1831- ——. Nephew of I.
Goodwin, supra. An eminent Greek scholar, Eliot professor of
Greek at Harvard University from 1860. He has published Syntax of Moods
and Tenses of the Greek Verb; A Greek Grammar. Gi.
Goodyear, William Henry.Ct., 1846- ——. An art educator
of New York city, the son of the noted inventor, Charles Goodyear.
Roman and Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The
Grammar of the Lotus; Ancient and Modern History. Bar. Fl.
Gookin, Daniel.E., c. 1612-1687. A colonial
writer of Massachusetts, the friend of John Eliot, the “Indian
apostle,” and a man far in advance of the general sentiment of his
time and country in regard to the treatment of the Indians. For the
last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians
in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of
the Indians in New England; Account of the Doings and Sufferings of
the Christian Indians in New England. The first of these remained
in manuscript until 1792, and the second until 1836. See Tyler’s
American Literature.
Gordon, Adoniram Judson.N. H., 1836-1895. A Baptist
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon Church from 1869 until his
death. Grace and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry
of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit
in Missions; Ecce Venit. See Life of, by E. B. Gordon, 1896.Bap. Rev.
Gordon, Archibald D.I., 1848-1895. A dramatic critic and
playwright of New York city. The Ugly Duckling; Is Marriage a Failure?;
That Girl from Mexico, are among his plays.
Gordon, Armistead Churchill.Va., 1855- ——. A lawyer
of Staunton, Virginia, co-author with T. N. Page, infra, of
a volume of verse entitled Befo’ the War; Echoes in Negro Dialect;
Congressional Currency. Put.
Gordon, Clarence. “Vieux Moustache.” N. Y., 1835- ——.
A writer of Newburg, New York. His writings, intended for juvenile
reading, include Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two
Lives in One; Boarding-School Days.
Gordon, George Angier.S., 1853- ——. A prominent
Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church from
1884. The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature,
Philosophy, and Life; Immortality and the New Theodicy. Hou.
Gordon, George Henry.Ms., 1823-1886. A lawyer of Boston
who served as a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil
War. History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the
Army of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of
the Great Rebellion; Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. Hou.
Gordon, Julien.See Cruger, Mrs. Julia.
Gordon, M. Lafayette.Pa., 1843-1900. A Congregational
clergyman and physician, formerly a missionary to Japan, and
subsequently a professor in Dōshisha University, Kyōto. An
American Missionary in Japan. Hou.
Gordon, Thomas F——.Pa., 1787-1866. A Philadelphia
lawyer and antiquarian. Digest of the Laws of the United States;
History of Pennsylvania to 1776; History of New Jersey to 1789; History
of America; Cabinet of American History; History of Ancient Mexico;
Gazetteers of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Gordon, William Robert.N. Y., 1811-1896. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman of New York and New Jersey. Supreme Godhead of
Christ; Particular Providence, A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism;
The Peril of our Ship of State; Revealed Truth Impregnable; The
Reformed Church in America; Christocracy (with J. T. Demarest,
supra), include his principal writings.
Gore, James Howard.Va., 1856- ——. A professor of
mathematics in Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia.
Geodesy; Elements of Geodesy; and several annotated editions of German
works for college study. Gi. Hou. Wil.
Gorgas, Ferdinand James Samuel.Va., 1834- ——. A
Baltimore dentist, professor in the College of Dental Surgery from
1860. Lectures on Dental Science and Therapeutics; Dental Materia
Medica.
Gorrie, Peter Douglas.S., 1813-1884. A Methodist
clergyman of New York. Churches and Sects in the United States;
Episcopal Methodism as it Was and Is; Lives of Eminent Methodists.
Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch.W. I., 1841-1885. A United
States naval officer who superintended the removal of the obelisk from
Egypt to New York, and after leaving the navy engaged in shipbuilding.
His only publication is a work on Egyptian Obelisks.
Gorton, David Allyn.N. Y., 1832- ——. Descendant of S.
Gorton, infra. A physician of Brooklyn. The Monism of Man, or
the Unity of the Divine and Human; The Principles of Mental Hygiene;
The Drift of Medical Philosophy; Neurasthenia. Put.
Gorton, Samuell.E., 1592-1677. The founder of a small
sect sometimes called “Nothingarians,” which survived him for about
a century. Simplicitie’s Defence against Seven Headed Policy; An
Incorruptible Key composed of the CX. Psalm; Saltmarsh Returned from
the Dead; An Antidote Against the Common Plague of the World; Certain
Copies of Letters. See Life of, by L. G. Janes, 1896; Bibliography
of Rhode Island.
Goss, Warren Lee.Ms., 1838- ——. A writer of Norwich,
Connecticut, and more recently of Rutherford, New Jersey. The Soldier’s
Story of the Captivity at Andersonville; Jack Alden; Tom Clifton; Jed;
Recollections of a Private. Cr. Le.
Gouge, William M——.Pa., 1796-1863. A financial writer,
for thirty years in the Treasury Department at Washington. History of
the American Banking System (1835); Expediency of Dispensing with Bank
Paper; Fiscal History of Texas.
Gough [gŏf], John Bartholomew.E., 1817-1886. A
celebrated temperance lecturer. He came to America in 1829, fell into
habits of dissipation, but reformed and signed the pledge in 1842.
Entering into the temperance movement as a lecturer, he soon rose to
fame. Autobiography (1846); Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow,
or Gleanings from my Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; Platform Echoes.
See Life, by Carlos Martyn, infra.
Gould [goold], Augustus Addison.N. H., 1805-1866.
Son of N. D. Gould, infra. A conchologist of Boston. System of
Natural History; Mollusca and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of
the North Pacific Expedition; The Invertebrata of Massachusetts.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.Ms., 1787-1859. An educator of
Massachusetts who published The Prize Book; Adam’s Latin Grammar; and
editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.Ms., 1824-1896. Son of B.
A. Gould, supra. A distinguished astronomer, from 1868-1885
director of the Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova,
and subsequently a resident of Cambridge. Uranometry of the Southern
Heavens; Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey.
Gould, Edward Sherman.Ct., 1808-1885. Son of J. Gould,
infra. A merchant and author of New York city. The Sleep Rider;
The Very Age, a comedy; John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New York
life; Classified Elocution; Good English.
Gould, Ezra Palmer.Ms., 1841-1900. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor of New Testament literature in the Philadelphia
Episcopal Divinity School. Commentary on Corinthians; Notes on the
Lessons of 1885.
Gould, Hannah Flagg.Vt., 1789-1865. Sister of B. A.
Gould, 1st, supra. A verse-writer of Newburyport whose work
was simple in conception but not unpleasing. The Snow Flake and the
Frost still find a place in anthologies, and afford a fair example of
her style. Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth’s
Coronal; Mother’s Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and
selected; Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. See North American
Review, October, 1835.
Gould, James.Ct., 1770-1836. A jurist of Connecticut who
published The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions.
Gould, John W.[4]Ct., 1814-1838. Son of J. Gould,
supra. Forecastle Yarns; Private Journal of Voyage from New York
to Rio Janeiro.
Gould, Nathaniel Duren.Ms., 1781-1864. A musician and
penman of Boston who published A History of Church Music.
Goulding, Francis Robert.Ga., 1810-1881. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Georgia whose Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, a tale
for boys, has long been popular. Other works of his include Marooner’s
Island; Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little
Josephine; Cousin Aleck; Adventures among the Indians; Boy Life on the
Water. Do.
Gouley, John William Severin.La., 1832- ——. A
physician, professor in the University of New York. External Perineal
Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary Organs; Diseases of Man. Ap.
Graebner, August Lawrence.Mch., 1849- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at St. Louis from
1887. Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America; Life of John
Sebastian Bach.
Grafton, Charles Chapman.Ms., 1832- ——. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac, and, prior to his
consecration in 1889, rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston.
Vocation, or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister’s Life.
Graham, David.E., 1808-1852. A lawyer of New York city.
Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; Courts of
Law and Equity in New York State.
Graham, John Andrew.Ct., 1764-1841. A lawyer of Rutland,
Vermont. Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont (1797);
Speeches; Memoirs of Horne Tooke.
Graham, Mrs. Margaret [Collier].Ia., 1850- ——.
A California writer who has published Stories of the Foot-Hills.
Hou.
Graham, Sylvester.Ct., 1794-1851. A once well-known
vegetarian and lecturer upon temperance. He advocated the use of
unbolted wheat, since called Graham flour. Lectures on the Science of
Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; Philosophy of Sacred History.
Grahame, Nellie.See Dunning, Mrs.
Granbery, John Cowper.Va., 1829- ——. A bishop of the
Methodist Church South who published a Bible Dictionary.
Grant, Asahel.N. Y., 1807-1844. A physician who was
a missionary in Persia. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. See
Memoir, 1847; Grant and the Nestorians, 1853.
Grant, Robert.Ms., 1852- ——. A lawyer of Boston well
known as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for
Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He has written several satirical works,
including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle; and
the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has
published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold
Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face
to Face; The Bachelor’s Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a
Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are, The
Art of Living; The Oldest School in America. Hou. Scr.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson.O., 1822-1885. The eighteenth
president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War as
lieutenant, and in the Civil War as major-general, 1861-64, and
subsequently became lieutenant-general in command of the entire army.
Report of the Armies of the United States; Personal Memoirs. See
Military Life of, by A. Badeau, supra; Life by J. G. Wilson; Appleton’s
American Biography.Cent.
Gratacap, Louis Pope.N. Y., 1850- ——. A naturalist
connected with the American Museum of Natural History in New York city
who has published Philosophy of Ritualism, or Apologia Pro Ritu.
Graves, Mrs. Adelia Cleopatra [Spencer]. “Aunt Alice.”
O., 1821-1895. An educator of Tennessee. Life of Columbus; Poems
for Children; Seclusarval, or the Arts of Romanism; Jephtha’s Daughter,
a drama.
Graves, James Robinson.Vt., 1820-1896. Brother-in-law
of Mrs. A. C. Graves, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Nashville,
prominent as a controversialist. The Great Iron Wheel, or Republicanism
Backward; The Little Iron Wheel; The Intermediate State; Old Landmarks;
Intercommunion of Churches; The Redemptive Work of Christ; The New
Great Iron Wheel; Denominational Sermons; Parables and Prophecies of
Christ.
Gray, Albert Zabriskie.N. Y., 1840-1889. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator, warden of Racine College, Wisconsin, 1882-88.
Racine and her Labour of Love; The Land and the Life; Jesus Only, and
Other Devotional Poems; Mexico as it Is. Ran.
Gray, Asa.N. Y., 1810-1888. An eminent botanist of
Cambridge, and one of the highest authorities in his department. He
was professor at Harvard University 1842-88, and was in charge of
the botanical garden at Cambridge. Elements of Botany, now called
Structural and Systematic Botany; How Plants Grow; A Free Examination
of Darwin’s “Origin of Species;” Darwiniana; Natural Science and
Religion; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States;
Synoptical Flora of North America; How Plants Behave; Field, Forest,
and Garden Botany; Lessons in Botany; School and Field Book of Botany;
Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition (1854);
Scientific Papers selected by C. S. Sargent. See Letters of, edited
by Mrs. Gray.Am. Ap.
Gray, Barry.See Coffin, R. B.
Gray, David.S., 1836-1888. A journalist of Buffalo, on
the editorial staff of The Courier, 1856-82. See Letters, Poems, and
Selected Writings.
Gray, Elisha.O., 1835-1901. An electrician and inventor
who published Experimental Researches in Electric Harmonic Telegraphy.
Gray, Francis Calley.Ms., 1790-1856. A Boston lawyer
prominent as an enlightened patron of arts and education who published
a work on Prison Discipline.
Gray, George Seaman.N. Y., 1835-1885. A Presbyterian
clergyman who, after retiring from the ministry, engaged in business in
Cincinnati. Eight Studies of the Lord’s Day. Hou.
Gray, George Zabriskie.N. Y., 1838-1889. Brother of A.
Z. Gray, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the
Theological School, 1876-89, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers.
The Scripture Doctrine of Recognition; The Children’s Crusade: An
Episode of the Thirteenth Century; Husband and Wife; The Church’s
Certain Faith. Hou. Wh.
Gray, John Chipman.Ms., 1839- ——. A lawyer of Boston.
Royall professor of law at Harvard University from 1883. Restraints on
the Alienation of Property; Rule against Perpetuities; Select Cases.
Lit.
Graydon, Alexander.Pa., 1752-1818. A citizen of
Harrisburg who published Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in
Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years (1811), a lively, entertaining
autobiography.
Graydon, William.Pa., 1759-1840. Brother of A. Graydon,
supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg. Digest of the Laws of the United
States; Justice and Constable’s Assistant; Forms of Conveyancing.
Grayson, William John.S. C., 1788-1863. A South Carolina
statesman. Chicora, and Other Poems; The Hireling and Slave, a poem;
The Country, a poem; Life of James Petigru. Har.
Greeley, Horace.N. H., 1811-1872. A famous journalist of
New York city, founder and editor of The Tribune. In 1872 he was the
unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency. For
a generation he was one of the most influential leaders of American
public opinion. Letters from Texas; Glances at Europe; Essays in
Political Economy; What I Know About Farming; The American Conflict;
Recollections of a Busy Life. See Lives by Parton, 1868; Reavis,
Ingersoll; Appleton’s American Biography.
Greely, Adolphus Washington.Ms., 1844- ——. An arctic
explorer in the United States service. In 1887 he was appointed chief
of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, and
was thus at the head of the Weather Bureau until its transfer to the
Department of Agriculture in 1891. Three Years of Arctic Service;
American Weather; Handbook of Arctic Discoveries; Explorers and
Travellers. Do. Rob. Scr.
Green, Alexander Little Page.Tn., 1806-1874. A Methodist
clergyman of Nashville who was the author of The Church in the
Wilderness.
Green, Anna Katharine.See Rohlfs, Mrs.
Green, Ashbel.N. J., 1762-1848. A Presbyterian
clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1812-22. Sermons from 1790
to 1836; Sermons on the Assembly’s Catechism; History of Presbyterian
Missions. See Autobiography and Memoir by J. H. Jones, 1849.Ran.
Green, Beriah.Ct., 1795-1874. A reformer and
anti-slavery leader of Ohio and New York. History of the Quakers;
Sermons and Discourses.
Green, Duff.Ga., 1780-1875. A Washington lawyer and
journalist. Facts and Suggestions; How to Pay off the National Debt.
Green, Francis Matthews.Ms., 1835-1902. A United States
naval commander. The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Telegraphic
Determination of Longitudes; List of Geographical Positions.
Green, George Walton.N. Y., 1854-1903. A New York city
lawyer and politician. Repudiation.
Green, Horace.Vt., 1802-1866. A physician of New York
city, president of the New York Medical College, 1850-60. Diseases of
the Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment of Croup; Surgical Treatment
of the Polypi of the Larynx; Report of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary
Diseases.
Green, Jacob.Pa., 1790-1841. Son of Ashbel Green,
supra. A Philadelphia scientist who was professor of chemistry
in Jefferson Medical College. Chemical Diagrams; Chemical Philosophy;
Astronomical Recreations; Trilobites; The Botany of the United States;
Notes of a Traveller; Diseases of the Skin.
Green, Joseph.Ms., 1706-1780. A Boston loyalist, widely
known in his day for his political lampoons and his ready wit. He went
to England in 1775, and never returned. The Wonderful Lament of Old Mr.
Tanner; Poems and Satires. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s
American Literature.
Green, Mrs. Julia [Boynton].N. Y., 1861- ——. A
verse-writer of Rochester, New York, who has published Lines and
Interlines.
Green, Rufus Smith.N. Y., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian
minister, president of Elmira College for Women since 1893. History of
Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; Both
Sides, or Jonathan and Absalom.
Green, Samuel Abbott.Ms., 1830- ——. A physician and
antiquarian of Boston. Groton during the Indian Wars; History of
Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series.
Green, Seth.N. Y., 1817-1888. A noted pisciculturist,
from 1870 until his death the superintendent of the New York Fish
Commission. Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; Fish Hatching
and Fish Catching.
Green, William Henry.N. J., 1825-1900. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of biblical literature at Princeton College from
1851. The Pentateuch Vindicated; Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A
Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argument of Job Unfolded; Moses and the Prophets;
Newton Lectures for 1885; The Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of
the Pentateuch; The Unity of the Book of Genesis. Scr. Wil.
Green, William Mercer.N. C., 1798-1887. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. His only publications were
Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft and Bishop Otey.
Greene, Aella.Ms., 1838-1903. A journalist of
Springfield, Massachusetts. Rhymes of Yankee Land; Into the Sunshine,
and Other Poems; Stanza and Sequel, and Other Poems; John Peters;
Gathered from Life.
Greene, Albert Gorton.R. I., 1802-1868. A lawyer of
Providence who is chiefly remembered for his humourous poem, Old
Grimes. He published Canonchet.
Greene, Asa.Ms., 1788-1837. A bookseller of New York
city of note among his contemporaries as a humourist. Life and
Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth; Perils of Pearl Street; A Yankee
Among the Nullifiers; A Glance at New York; Debtor’s Prison; Travels of
Ex-Barber Fribbleton in America.
Greene, Belle C.See Greene, Mrs. Isabella.
Greene, Charles Ezra.Ms., 1842-1903. A professor of
civil engineering in the University of Michigan from 1872. Graphical
Method for Analysis of Bridge Trusses; Trusses and Arches; Notes on
Rankine’s Civil Engineering. Wil.
Greene, Charles Warren.Ms., 1840- ——. Nephew of S. S.
Greene, infra. A Massachusetts physician who has written upon
natural science. Animals, their Homes and Habits; Birds, their Homes
and Habits.
Greene, Edward Lee.R. I., 1843- ——. A professor of
botany in the University of California. Illustrations of West American
Oaks; Flora Franciscanæ.
Greene, Francis Vinton.R. I., 1850-1900. A captain in
the United States army who resigned in 1886. The Russian Army and its
Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78; Sketches of Army Life in Texas; The
Mississippi, a military work; Life of General Greene. Ap. Scr.
Greene, George Washington.R. I., 1811-1883. An historian
who was professor of American history at Cornell University from
1872. Historical Studies; The German Element in the American War of
Independence; Short History of Rhode Island; Historical View of the
American Revolution; Life of General Nathanael Greene; Biographical
Studies; History and Geography of the Middle Ages. Hou.
Greene, Homer.Pa., 1853- ——. A story-writer of
Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The Blind Brother; Burnham Breaker; Coal and
the Coal Mines; The Riverpark Rebellion. Cr. Hou.
Greene, Mrs. Isabella Catherine [Colton].Vt.,
1844- ——. A novelist and writer for young people, long a resident of
Nashua, New Hampshire. A New England Conscience; Adventures of an Old
Maid; A New England Idyl; The Hobbledehoy. Lo.
Greene, Nathaniel.N. H., 1797-1877. A Boston journalist,
postmaster of Boston 1829-40 and 1845-49. He published a translation of
Sforzosi’s History of Italy; Tales from the German; Tales and Sketches
from the German, Italian, and French.
Greene, Samuel Stillman.Ms., 1810-1883. An educator
of Providence, professor at Brown University, 1851-83, who published
Analysis of the English Language and several text-books on English
Grammar.
Greene, Mrs. Sarah Pratt [McLean].Ct., 1858- ——. A
writer whose first novel, Cape Cod Folks, was widely popular, while
the fact that certain of the dramatis personæ were portraits of living
people gave rise to much litigation. Her other works include Towhead;
Some Other Folks; Peter Patrick; Vesty of the Basins; Flood Tide.
Har.
Greene, William Batchelder.Ms., 1819-1878. Son of N.
Greene, supra. In early life a member of the noted Brook Farm
Community. He was subsequently a Unitarian minister, and during the
Civil War served as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. Remarks on
the Science of History; Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc.,
Fragments; Reflections and Modern Maxims. Put.
Greene, William Houston.Pa., 1854- ——. A Philadelphia
chemist, professor in the Central High School from 1880. Medical
Chemistry; Lessons in Chemistry. Lip.
Greenhow, Robert.Va., 1800-1854. A surgeon and scholar
whose latest years were spent in California. History of Tripoli;
History of Oregon and California (1846).
Greenleaf, Benjamin.Ms., 1786-1864. An educator of
Bradford, Massachusetts, who published a popular series of text-books
on arithmetic and the higher mathematics.
Greenleaf, Jonathan.Ms., 1785-1865. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Brooklyn. Sketches of Ecclesiastical History of Maine;
History of New York Churches; Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.
Greenleaf, Moses.Ms., 1788-1834. Brother of J.
Greenleaf, supra. Statistical View of Maine (1816); Survey of
Maine (1829).
Greenleaf, Simon.Ms., 1783-1853. Brother of B.
Greenleaf, supra. A distinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and
professor of law at Harvard University from 1835 till his death. His
greatest work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, has passed into
fifteen editions. His other writings include Origin and Principles of
Freemasonry; Full Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases
in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31; Examination of the Testimony of
the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. See Bibliography of
Maine.
Greenough [green´o], Henry.Ms., 1807-1883.
An architect of Cambridge whose writings include the novels Ernest
Carroll; Apelles and his Contemporaries, and various essays on art.
Greenough, James Bradstreet.Me., 1833-1901. A professor
of Latin at Harvard University from 1873, who published with J. H.
Allen, supra, a series of classical text-books. Other works of
his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic
Fantasia. Gi.
Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana [Loring]. 1827-1885. The wife of the
noted sculptor Richard Greenough. In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law;
Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; Mary Magdalene, and Other
Poems. Rob.
Greenwald, Emanuel.Md., 1811-1885. A Lutheran clergyman
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Order of Family Prayer; The Lutheran
Reformation; The Baptism of Children; Meditations for Passion Week;
Romanism and the Reformation; The True Church; Meditations for the
Closet, include the most of his controversial and other writings.
See Life by Haupt, 1889.
Greenwood, Francis William Pitt.Ms., 1797-1843. A
Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of King’s Chapel, 1824-43.
History of King’s Chapel; Sermons to Children; Sermons of Consolation;
Sermons on Various Subjects; Essays; Lives of the Apostles;
Miscellaneous Writings. A. U. A.
Greenwood, Grace.See Lippincott, Mrs. Sarah.
Greenwood, James Mickleborough.Il., 1836- ——. An
educator and school superintendent of Kansas City who has published
Principles of Education Practically Applied. Ap.
Greer, David Hummell.W. Va., 1844- ——. Protestant
Episcopal bishop-coadjutor of New York from 1904. The Preacher and his
Place; From Things to God; Visions. Scr. Wh.
Greey [gree], Edward.E., 1835-1888. An English
writer of French descent who came to America in 1868, and was for
many years a dealer in Japanese curios in New York city. His writings
include the dramas, Vendome, and Mirah; Blue Jackets, a novel; The
Golden Lotus; the juvenile tales Young Americans in Japan; The
Wonderful City of Tokio; The Bear Worshippers of Yezo; and translations
from the Japanese of the novels, The Loyal Ronins; The Captive of Love.
Le.
Gregg, Alexander.S. C., 1819-1893. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Texas. History of the Old Cheraws, an Account of
the Indian Tribes in the Valley of the Pedee.
Gregory, Daniel Seeley.N. Y., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, president of Lake Forest University, Illinois, 1878-86.
Christian Ethics; Why Four Gospels; Practical Logic; The Tests of
Philosophic Systems; Christ’s Trumpet Call to the Ministry. Fu.
Gregory, John Milton.N. Y., 1822-1898. A Baptist
clergyman and educator of Michigan and Illinois. Handbook of History;
New Political Economy; The Seven Laws of Teaching.
Greylock, Godfrey.See Smith, J. E. A.
Griffin, Edward Dorr.Ct., 1777-1837. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston and elsewhere who was president of Williams
College, 1821-36. Lectures in Park Street Church, Boston; Sixty Sermons
on Practical Subjects. See Recollections of, by P. Cooke, 1856.
Griffin, George.Ct., 1778-1860. Brother of E. D.
Griffin, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Sufferings of Our
Saviour; Evidences of Christianity; The Gospel its Own Evidence.
Griffin, Gilderoy Wells.Ky., 1840-1891. A journalist who
was a consul in Australia and elsewhere. Studies in Literature; Danish
Days; Visit to Stratford; New Zealand, her Commerce and Resources; Life
of George Prentice, infra.
Griffin, Solomon Bulkley.Ms., 1852- ——. A journalist
of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has published Mexico of To-Day
(1886). Har.
Griffis, William Elliot.Pa., 1843- ——. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman, pastor at Schenectady 1877-86, in charge of the
Shawmut Congregational Church in Boston 1886-92, and subsequently
settled at Ithaca, New York. An authority upon Japanese topics. The
Mikado’s Empire; Japanese Fairy World; Corea: the Hermit Nation; The
Tokio Guide; The Yokohama Guide; Japan in History, Folk-Lore, and Art;
The Religions of Japan; Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us;
The Lily Among Thorns, a biblical study; Life of Matthew Calbraith
Perry; Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations; Townsend Harris, first
American Envoy in Japan; Honda the Samurai: a Story of Modern Japan.
Do. Har. Hou. Scr.
Griffith, Robert Eglesfield.Pa., 1798-1850. A physician
and botanist who was from 1838 a medical professor in the University of
Virginia. Medical Botany; Universal Formulary.
Griffiths, John Willis.N. Y., 1809-1882. A naval
architect of New York city. Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture,
a work of great value; The Ship Builders’ Manual; The Progressive Ship
Builder.
Grimke [grim´ke], Archibald Henry.S. C.,
1849- ——. A Massachusetts lawyer of African descent. Eulogy on
Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; William
Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist. Fu.
Grimke, Frederick.S. C., 1791-1863. Son of J. F. Grimke,
infra. An Ohio jurist. Ancient and Modern Literature; Nature and
Tendencies of Free Institutions. Clke.
Grimke, John Faucheraud.S. C., 1752-1819. A jurist of
South Carolina. Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of
Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate
Directory; Duty of Justices of the Peace.
Grimke, Sarah Moore.S. C., 1792-1873. Daughter of J.
F. Grimke, supra. A reformer who was very prominent in the
anti-slavery movement. Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States;
Letters on the Condition of Women.
Grimke, Thomas Smith.S. C., 1786-1834. Son of J. F.
Grimke, supra. A reformer of Charleston, active in temperance
and in the promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on
Science, Education, and Literature.
Grimshaw, Robert.Pa., 1850- ——. A civil engineer,
lecturer on physics at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. History,
etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism;
Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power
Users; Fifty Years Hence. Bai. Cas. Wil.
Grimshaw, William.I., 1782-1852. A Philadelphia writer
who published a once popular series of school histories, and also
Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen’s Lexicon; Ladies’ Lexicon; The
American Chesterfield; Life of Napoleon. Lip.
Grinnell [grin´el], George Bird.N. Y.,
1849- ——. An ornithologist and the editor of “Forest and Stream” of
New York city. He has enjoyed a long and friendly acquaintance with the
Indians of the Great Plains. The Story of a Prairie People; The Story
of the Indian; Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. Ap. Scr.
Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell.Vt., 1821-1891. A
distinguished citizen of Iowa; in early life a Presbyterian minister.
He founded the Iowa town of Grinnell in 1854, and was president of
Iowa College, formerly Grinnell University. It was to him that Horace
Greeley is said to have made the famous remark, “Go West, young man, go
West.” Home of the Badgers; Cattle Industries of the United States; Men
and Events of Forty Years. Lo.
Griscom, John.N. J., 1774-1852. A once noted educator
who was professor of chemistry at Rutgers College, 1812-28. A Year in
Europe; Monitorial Instruction. See Memoirs of, by his Son.
Griscom, John Hawkins.N. Y., 1809-1874. Son of J.
Griscom, supra. An eminent physician of New York city. Animal
Mechanism and Physiology; Prison Hygiene; Use and Abuses of Air; Use
of Tobacco and Evils Resulting Therefrom; Physical Indications of
Longevity. Har.
Griswold, Alexander Viets.Ct., 1766-1843. Third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Discourses on the Most
Important Doctrines; The Reformation and the Apostolic Office; Remarks
on Prayer Meetings. See Memoirs, by J. S. Stone, infra.
Griswold, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge] [Smith].R. I.,
1826-1900. A Brooklyn writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are
The Bishop and Nannette Series; Miriam’s Reward.
Griswold, Mrs. Harriet [Tyng].Ms., 1842- ——. In early
life a schoolteacher in Columbus, Wisconsin, who has published Apple
Blossoms, a volume of poems; Home Life of Great Authors; Waiting on
Destiny; Lucille and her Friends. Her poem, Under the Daisies, has had
a wide popularity as a song. Mg.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot.Vt., 1815-1857. An industrious
compiler and literary editor who possessed but a slight amount of
critical insight and discrimination. His best known publications are,
Female Poets of America; Prose Writers of America; Poets and Poetry of
America; Sacred Poets of England and America. His other works include
Washington and the Generals of the Revolution; The Republican Court;
Scenes in the Life of the Saviour; Napoleon and the Marshals of the
Empire (with H. B. Wallace, infra). See Lowell’s Fable for
Critics.Ap. Co.
Griswold, William Macrillis.Me., 1853-1899. Son of R.
W. Griswold, supra. A literary worker of Cambridge who has
published A Manual of Misused Words, and many valuable indexes to
periodicals.
Gronlund, Laurence.Dk., 1847-1899. A lecturer upon
socialistic topics in many cities of the United States. The Coöperative
Commonwealth in its Outlines; Ça Ira, or Danton in the French
Revolution; Our Destiny. Le.
Gross, Joseph B——. 18— -1891. Brother of S. D. Gross,
infra. A Lutheran clergyman, among whose writings are The
Heathen Religion in its Symbolical Development; Teachings of
Providence; Truth in Religion; Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical
Principles; Old Faith and New Thoughts.
Gross, Samuel David.Pa., 1805-1884. A distinguished
surgeon of Philadelphia who was professor of surgery in Jefferson
Medical College 1856-82, and a member of many medical associations in
America and Europe. A System of Surgery; Lives of Eminent American
Physicians and Surgeons of the 19th Century; Manual of Military
Surgery; History of American Medical Literature; John Hunter and his
Pupils; Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the Intestines; Diseases of
the Urinary Organs. He also edited American Medical Biography. See
Autobiography, edited by his sons, 1887.
Gross, Samuel Weissell.O., 1837-1889. Son of S. D.
Gross, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded his father
as professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College in 1882. Tumors
of the Mammary Gland; Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied
Disorders. Ap.
Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus.Ms., 1845- ——. A professor
of European History at Amherst College, and from 1873-90 professor of
history at Roberts College, Constantinople. Constantinople. Rob.
Grote, Augustus Radcliffe. 18— -1903. A scientist, formerly
of Buffalo, but afterward living in Bremen, Germany. Notes on the
Bombycidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba; Notes on the
Zygænidæ of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera
of America (with C. T. Robinson); Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other
Poems.
Grubé, Bernhard Adam.G., 1715-1808. A Moravian
missionary who came to America in 1746 and settled in Pennsylvania. He
published Delaware Indian Hymn Book; Harmony of the Gospels.
Grund, Francis Joseph.Bo., 1805-1863. A journalist of
Philadelphia who published Exercises in Arithmetic; Americans in their
Moral, Religious, and Social Relations; Aristocracy in America; Life of
General Harrison (in German); Thoughts and Reflections on the Present
Position of Europe (1860).
Guernsey, Alfred Hudson.Vt., 1818-1902. A writer of
New York city, at one period editor of Harper’s Monthly. The Spanish
Armada; The World’s Opportunities; Carlyle, his Life, Books, and
Theories; Emerson, Poet and Philosopher. Ap.
Guernsey, Clara Florida.N. Y., 1836- ——. A Rochester
writer of juvenile tales, among which are, The Boys of Eaglewood
School; The Silver Library; Friends in Need; The Merman and the Figure
Head. Lip.
Guernsey, Egbert.Ct., 1823-1903. A homœopathic physician
of New York city, editor of The Medical Times from 1872. History of
the United States; Homœopathic Domestic Practice; The Gentleman’s Book
of Homœopathy.
Guernsey, Henry Newell.Vt., 1817-1885. A homœopathic
physician of Philadelphia. Application of Homœopathy to Obstetrics;
Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects; The Keynote System; Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women and Children; Lectures on Materia Medica.
Guernsey, Lucy Ellen.N. Y., 1826-1899. Sister of C. F.
Guernsey, supra. A writer of Rochester, New York, who published
more than fifty juvenile tales, including Old Stanfield House; Through
Unknown Ways; Winifred; Agnes Warrington’s Mistake. Do.
Guernsey, Rocellus Sheridan.N. Y., 1836- ——. Juries
and Physicians on Insanity; Mechanics’ Lien Laws for New York City;
Municipal Law and its Relations to the Constitution of Man; Key to
Story’s “Equity Jurisprudence;” Living Authors at the New York Bar;
Suicide, a History of the Penal Laws Relating to It; New York City and
Vicinity during the War of 1812.
Guild, Mrs. Caroline Snowden [Whitmarsh].Ms., 1827-1898.
A religious writer of Boston. Violet; Daisy; Never Mind the Face;
Some House Songs. Compiler of Hymns of the Ages; Prayers of the Ages.
Hou.
Guild, Curtis.Ms., 1828- ——. A journalist of Boston,
founder and editor of The Commercial Bulletin. Over the Ocean, a
popular book of travels; Abroad Again; Britons and Muscovites; From
Sunrise to Sunset, a volume of verse; A Chat About Celebrities.
Le.
Guild, Reuben Aldridge.Ms., 1822-1899. A librarian of
Brown University, 1848-93. Librarian’s Manual; Rhode Island in the
Continental Congress (edited); History of Brown University; Chaplain
Smith and the Baptists; Footprints of Roger Williams; Roger Williams,
the Pioneer Missionary to the Indians.
Guiney [gī´nĭ], Louise Imogen.Ms., 1861- ——.
A writer of Newton, Massachusetts, whose published works include
Goose-Quill Papers; Brownies and Bogles; Three Heroines of New England
Romance (with Mrs. Spofford and Alice Brown); Monsieur Henri, a
Footnote to French History; A Little English Gallery; Lovers’ Saint
Ruths, and Three Other Tales; Patrins, a collection of essays; Verse:
Songs at the Start; The White Sail; A Roadside Harp. She has edited the
select poems of Mangan, with a study of his life and work. Cop. Har.
Hou. Lam. Lo. Rob.
Gummere [gŭm´ery], Francis Barton.N. J.,
1855- ——. A professor of English in Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor; Handbook of Poetics; Germanic Origins, a
study in Primitive Culture. Gi. Scr.
Gummere, John.Pa., 1784-1845. A once noted educator
of Burlington, New Jersey. Treatise on Surveying; Theoretical and
Practical Astronomy.
Gummere, Samuel R.Pa., 1789-1866. Brother of J.
Gummere, supra, and also an educator of Burlington. Treatise on
Geography; Compendium of Elocution.
Gunnison, Almon.Me., 1844- ——. A Universalist
clergyman of prominence. Rambles Overland, a Trip Across the Continent;
Wayside and Fireside Rambles.
Gunnison, Elisha Norman.Ms., 1837-1880. A journalist of
York, Pennsylvania, who published One Summer Dream, and Other Poems;
Our Stars.
Gunnison, John Williams.N. H., 1812-1853. A civil
engineer killed by Mormons and Indians while making railway surveys in
Utah. A History of the Mormons was his only published work.
Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley.O., 1856- ——. A
Congregational clergyman of Chicago. The Metamorphosis of a Creed; The
Transfiguration of Christ; Monk and Knight, an Historical Study in
Fiction; Phidias, and Other Poems; October at Eastwood; Songs of Night
and Day. Hou. Mg.
Gunter, Archibald Clavering.E., 1847- ——. A writer of
popular sensational romances quite destitute of literary merit. Mr.
Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The First of the English; The
Ladies’ Juggernaut.
Gurowski, Adam.Po., 1805-1866. A Polish count who came
to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the
state department at Washington. La Civilisation et la Russie; Pensées
sur l’Avenir des Polonais; Aus meinem Gedankenbuche; Eine Tour durch
Belgien; Impressions et Souvenirs; Die letzen Ereignisse in den drei
Theilen des alten Polen; Le Panslavisme; Russia as It Is; The Turkish
Question; A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in
History; My Diary, 1861-66.
Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers.E., 1840-1898. An
Episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo, and elsewhere, prominent as an
organizer of charities. Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What is
Charity Organization; How Paupers are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian
Epic; Epic of the Fall of Man. Put.
Gustafson, Axel. “Carl Johan.” Sn., 1849- ——. A Swedish
writer who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The
Foundation of Death: a Study of The Drink Question; The Drink Problem;
Some Thoughts on Moderation. Fu.
Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel [Barnes] [Buddington].Ct.,
1841- ——. Wife of A. Gustafson, supra. Meg: a Pastoral, and
Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; Genevieve Ward, a Biography.
Le.
Gutheim, James Koppel.Wa., 1817-1886. A Jewish clergyman
of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons;
and a translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews.
Guyot [ḡe-o´], Arnold Henry.Sd., 1807-1884. A
geographer of distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854
until his death was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was
the founder of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the
Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography;
Social Economy. See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra.Scr.
H
Habberton, John.L. I., 1842- ——. A journalist of
New York city whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity
out of all proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings
include Other People’s Children; The Barton Experiment; The Jericho
Road; Who was Paul Grayson?; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest; The
Bowsham Puzzle; Brueton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up Babies; Life
of Washington; Some Folks; My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins; The
Worst Boy in Town; The Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and Gall; The
Lucky Lover. Fl. Fu. Har. Ho. Lip.
Habersham, Alexander Wylly.N. Y., 1826-1883. A naval
officer who in later life was a tea merchant in Japan, and the author
of My Last Cruise, an Account of the United States North Pacific
Exploring Expedition. Lip.
Hackett, Horatio Balch.Ms., 1808-1875. A Baptist
clergyman, professor at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts, 1839-70, and
from 1870 till his death professor in Rochester Seminary, New York. He
was one of the American Revisers of the Bible, and editor of Smith’s
Bible Dictionary. A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the
Apostles is his chief work. Others are, Memorials of Christian Men in
the War; Illustrations of Scripture by a Tour in the Holy Land. See
Memorials of, 1876.
Hackett, James Henry.N. Y., 1800-1871. A popular
actor, noted for his impersonation of Falstaff. Notes and Comments on
Shakespeare.
Hackley, Charles William. 1808-1861. An Episcopal clergyman who
was professor of mathematics at Columbia College from 1843 until his
death. Treatise on Algebra; Elementary Course in Geometry; Elements of
Trigonometry.
Haddock, Charles Brickett.N. H., 1796-1861. Nephew of D.
Webster, infra. A professor of rhetoric at Dartmouth College,
1819-50, and chargé d’affaires in Portugal, 1850-54. He originated the
railway system of New Hampshire, and also the system of common schools
in that State. His Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in
1840.
Hadley, Arthur Twining.Ct., 1856- ——. Son of J.
Hadley, infra. President of Yale University from 1899;
previously a professor of political science there. Private Property and
Public Welfare; Railroad Transportation, its History and Laws; Report
on the System of Weekly Payments. Put.
Hadley, James.N. Y., 1821-1872. A philologist who was
Greek professor at Yale University, 1848-72. Lectures on Roman Law; A
Greek Grammar; Elements of the Greek Language; Essays, Philological
and Critical; Brief History of the English Language. See The New
Englander, January, 1873.Ap.
Hageman, Samuel Miller.N. J., 1848- ——. Grandson of
S. Miller, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published
Once, a novel; and several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices;
Greenwood, and Other Poems; Silence; Saint Paul.
Hagen, Hermann August.P., 1817-1893. An entomologist
of prominence who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, and was
professor of comparative zoölogy at Harvard University. Catalogue of
Neuropterous Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera
of North America; North American Astacidæ; Some Insect Deformities.
Hagen, Theodor von.G., 1823-1871. A musician who
came to New York city from Germany in 1854. Civilisation und Musik;
Musikalische Novellen.
Hager, Albert David.Vt., 1817-1888. A geologist, from
1877 librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Geology of Vermont
(with C. H. Hitchcock, infra); Economic Geology of Vermont.
Hager, Mrs. Lucie Caroline [Gilson].Ms., 1853- ——. A
Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough, a New England Town
and its People.
Hagert, Henry Schell.Pa., 1826-1885. A noted nisi
prius lawyer of Philadelphia. Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen
(1886).
Hague, Arnold.Ms., 1840- ——. Son of W. Hague,
infra. A geologist in the government service. Volcanoes of
California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin;
Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District; Volcanic Rocks of
Salvador; Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe.
Hague, James Duncan.Ms., 1836- ——. Son of W. Hague,
infra. An engineer attached to the United States Geological
Survey who has published a work on Mining Industry.
Hague, Mrs. Parthenia Antoinette [Vardaman].Ga.,
1838- ——. A Florida writer. A Blockaded Family; Life in Southern
Alabama during the Civil War. Hou.
Hague, William.N. Y., 1808-1887. A Baptist clergyman
of Boston and elsewhere. Christianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist
Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New; Guide to Conversion;
Home Life; Authority of the Christian Sabbath; Self-Witnessing
Character of the New Testament; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Life Notes, or
Fifty Years’ Outlook. Le.
Haldeman [hŏl´de-man], Samuel Stehman.Pa.,
1812-1880. A professor of comparative philology in the University
of Pennsylvania, 1869-81. Zoölogical Contributions; Analytical
Orthography; Word-Building; Tours of a Chess Knight; Elements of Latin
Pronunciation; Pennsylvania Dutch; Outlines of Etymology; Affixes in
their Origin and Application; Rhymes of the Poets. Lip.
Hale, Benjamin.Ms., 1797-1863. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1836-58.
Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry; Scriptural
Illustrations of the Liturgy; Education in its Relations to a Free
Government; Historical Notices of Geneva College (1849). See Life
of, by Malcolm Douglass, 1883.
Hale, Charles Reuben.Pa., 1837-1900. The Protestant
Episcopal coadjutor bishop of Springfield, Illinois, with the title
of Bishop of Cairo. The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate;
Speeches and Addresses.
Hale, Edward Everett.Ms., 1822- ——. A prominent
Unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary
activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the
South Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been
extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest
remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a
Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars;
His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York;
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our
Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival
in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s
Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in
Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?;
Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of
sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other
Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty
Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic
work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to
Boston. See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan.A. U. A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr.
Hale, Edwin Moses.N. H., 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah
Hale, infra. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic
College. Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia
Medica; Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal
Meningitis.
Hale, Enoch.Ms., 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and
a nephew of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at
Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.
Hale, Horatio.R. I., 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah
Hale, infra. A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived
in Clinton, Ontario, from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian
Migrations as Evidenced by Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He
has edited the Iroquois Book of Rites.
Hale, Lucretia Peabody.Ms., 1820-1900. Sister of E.
E. Hale, supra. A writer who is best known by her humourous
juvenile books. The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her
other works comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service
of Sorrow; Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the
Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of
Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner,
supra); The New Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). Hou.
Rob.
Hale, Robert Beverly.Ms., 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale,
supra. Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.
Hale, Salma.N. H., 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs.
Sarah Hale, infra. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his
State in Congress in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the
Town of Keene. Har.
Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell].N. H., 1788-1879. A
once well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s
Book for forty years. It was largely through her influence that
Thanksgiving became a national festival. Among her numerous books
Woman’s Record, a large biographical and critical work, is the most
important. Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems;
Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American
Life; Flora’s Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy;
Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems;
The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of
Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She
also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of
Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. See Allibone’s
Dictionary.Har.
Hale, Susan.Ms., 1833- ——. Sister of E. E. Hale,
supra, and co-author with him of the Family Flight series of
travels for young people. She has also published The Life and Letters
of Thomas Gold Appleton, supra. Ap. Lo. Rob.
Hall, Abraham Oakey.N. Y., 1826-1898. A once prominent
Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor.
He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived
in Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas
Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays.
Har.
Hall, Arethusa.Ms., 1802-1891. An educator in New
England, and subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The
poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of
Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a
translation. See Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892.
Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston.E., 1847- ——. The
third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in
charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and
the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the
Collects; The Example of the Passion.
Hall, Baynard Rush.Pa., 1798-1863. An educator of New
Jersey and New York. A Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of Life in the
Far West, long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a
Science; The Teacher an Artist; Frank Freeman’s Barber’s Shop.
Hall, Benjamin Franklin.N. Y., 1814-1891. A New York
jurist, chief justice of Colorado, 1861-64. The Land Owner’s Manual;
The Republican Party; Methodism, its Source and Power.
Hall, Benjamin Homer.N. Y., 1830-1891. Brother of
Fitzedward Hall, infra. A lawyer of Troy, New York. College
Words and Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; Bibliography of the
United States: Vermont.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert.N. Y., 1852- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn, 1877-97; from 1897 president of Union Theological Seminary.
Does God Send Trouble?; Into His Marvellous Light; The Children, the
Church, and the Communion; Qualifications for Ministerial Power; The
Gospel of the Divine Sacrifice. Do. Hou.
Hall, Charles Francis.N. H., 1821-1871. An Arctic
explorer. The Arctic Regions; Life Among the Esquimaux; Narrative of
the Second Arctic Expedition. Har.
Hall, Charles Henry.Ga., 1820-1895. An Episcopal
clergyman of Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity Church, 1869-95.
Commentaries on the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; Spina Christi; The
Church of the Household; Valley of the Shadow.
Hall, Charles Winslow.Ms., 1843- ——. A lawyer of
Minnesota. Arctic Rovings; Twice Taken; Adrift in the Ice-Fields;
Drifting Around the World. Le.
Hall, Christopher Webber.Vt., 1845- ——. Professor of
geology and mineralogy in University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, from
1878, and dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy, and Mechanic
Arts. He has written many valuable professional papers, and a History
of the University of Minnesota.
Hall, Edward Henry.O., 1831- ——. Stepson of
Louisa Hall, infra. A Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, and
subsequently of Cambridge. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Christian
Church; Lessons on the Life of Saint Paul; Discourses. A. U. A.
El.
Hall, Edwin.N. Y., 1802-1877. A Congregational
clergyman, professor of theology in Auburn Seminary, 1854-77. The Law
of Baptism; The Puritans and their Principles; Historical Records of
Norwalk; Shorter Catechism with Proofs.
Hall, Fitzedward.N. Y., 1825-1901. A philologist of
distinction who was inspector of schools in India, 1846-62, and in the
latter year became professor of Sanskrit in King’s College, London.
Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; Modern English; English
Adjectives in -able with Special Reference to Reliable; Lectures on the
Nyâya Philosophy; and several works in Sanskrit. Scr.
Hall, Mrs. Florence [Howe].Ms., 1845- ——. Daughter
of Mrs. J. W. Howe, infra. A writer of Plainfield, New Jersey.
Social Customs; The Correct Thing in Good Society. Est.
Hall, Frederick.Vt., 1780-1843. An educator who was
professor of chemistry in Columbian College, Washington, at the time of
his death. He published Letters from the East and from the West.
Hall, Gertrude.Ms., 1863- ——. A Boston writer of short
stories and poems. Far from To-Day, a collection of strikingly original
stories; Allegretto, a volume of verse; Foam of the Sea, and Other
Tales; Verses. Rob.
Hall, Granville Stanley.Ms., 1845- ——. An educator
of note, president of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts,
from 1888. Aspects of German Culture; Hints Toward a Bibliography of
Education (with J. M. Mansfield); How to Teach Reading.
Hall, Harrison.Md., 1785-1866. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall,
infra. A scientist of Philadelphia who in 1815 published a work
on Distillation that was much commended in its day.
Hall, Hiland.Vt., 1795-1885. A jurist of Vermont and
governor of that State, 1858-60, who wrote a History of Vermont to 1791.
Hall, Isaac Hollister.Ct., 1837-1896. Son of E. Hall,
supra. A lawyer and Oriental scholar, lecturer on New Testament
Greek in Johns Hopkins University, 1884-96. He published American Greek
Testaments, a critical Bibliography.
Hall, James.Pa., 1744-1826. A Presbyterian clergyman
in the Southern States. Narrative of a Most Extraordinary Work of
Religion in North Carolina; Missionary Tour through the Mississippi and
Southwest Country.
Hall, James.Pa., 1793-1868. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall,
infra. Letters from the West; Legends of the West; Tales of the
Border; Sketches of the West; Notes on the Western States; Life of
General Harrison; History of the Indian Tribes (with McKinney); The
Wilderness and the War Path; The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Kentucky;
Romance of Western History. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography
of Ohio.Clke.
Hall, James.Ms., 1811-1898. A paleontologist of
distinction, professor of geology at the Troy Polytechnic School from
1836, and State geologist of New York from 1837. Geology of the Fourth
District of New York; Paleontology of New York; Geological Survey of
Wisconsin; and many scientific monographs.
Hall, John.Pa., 1806-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman,
pastor of the First Church in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841, among
whose writings are, Translation of Milton’s Latin Letters; History of
the Presbyterian Church in Trenton; Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of
James W. Alexander, supra; Sabbath-School Theology.
Hall, John.I., 1829-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman who
came from Dublin to America in 1867, and became pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York city. All the Way Across; The
Chief End of Man; Familiar Talks to Boys; Questions of the Day; God’s
Word through Preaching; A Christian Home; Foundation Stones for Young
Builders, include his principal writings. Bar. Ran.
Hall, John Elihu.Pa., 1783-1829. Son of Mrs. Sarah
Hall, infra. A lawyer and author of Philadelphia who edited
The Portfolio, 1817-27. Memoirs of Eminent Persons; Practice and
Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty; Life of Dr. John Shaw; Tracts
on Constitutional Law. See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines,
1892.
Hall, Mrs. Louisa Jane [Park].Ms., 1802-1892. A writer
of Providence. Miriam, a dramatic poem; Joanna of Naples, a tale; Life
of Elizabeth Carter. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Hall, Samuel Read.N. H., 1795-1877. An educator of
Vermont who organized the first training-school for teachers in
the United States. The Instructor’s Manual; Lectures on Education;
Geography for Children.
Hall, Mrs. Sarah [Ewing].Pa., 1761-1830. A Philadelphia
writer well known at one time as the author of Conversations on the
Bible. Selections from her work were published in 1833, with Memoir by
Harrison Hall, supra.
Hall, Thomas Mifflin.Pa., 1798-1828. A Philadelphia
littérateur. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, supra.
Hall, William Whitty.Ky., 1810-1876. A physician of New
York city, the founder of Hall’s Journal of Health. Health and Good
Living; Health and Disease as Affected by Constipation; Fun Better than
Physic; Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to Health; Coughs and Colds;
Health at Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia; Treatise on Cholera;
Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases. Hou.
Hallam, Robert Alexander.Ct., 1807-1877. An Episcopal
clergyman who was rector of St. James’s Church, New London,
Connecticut, from 1835 till his death. Lectures on the Morning Prayer;
Lectures on Moses; Sovereigns of Judah; Sermons; Annals of St. James’s.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene.Ct., 1790-1867. A poet who was
for many years a clerk in a New York banking-house, and subsequently
confidential adviser to John Jacob Astor. His verse has grace and
sweetness, but is wanting in positive qualities, and has already
largely passed out of remembrance. Marco Bozzaris is his most famous
poem. Fanny; Alnwick Castle, and Other Poems. See Life and Letters,
by Grant Wilson; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends;
Appleton’s American Biography.Ap. Cr.
Halleck, Henry Wager.N. Y., 1816-1872. A major-general
who was general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1862-64.
Bitumen, its Varieties, Properties, and Uses; Mining Laws of Spain and
Mexico; Elements of International Law (1866); Treatise on International
Law (1861); Elements of Military Art and Science. See Appleton’s
American Biography.Lip.
Halliday, Samuel Byram.N. J., 1812-1897. A
Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry Ward Beecher
at Plymouth Church for nearly twenty years. The Little Street Sweeper;
The Lost and Found, or Life Among the Poor; Winning Souls; The Church
in America and Its Baptisms of Fire (with D. S. Gregory, supra).
Fu.
Hallock, Charles.N. Y., 1834- ——. A journalist of New
York city, founder of Forest and Stream. The Fishing Tourist; Camp Life
in Florida; The Sportsman’s Gazetteer; Our New Alaska. Har.
Hallock, Mrs. Julia Isabel [Sherman].Ct., 1846- ——.
A Connecticut writer. Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery, a study of
country life. Le.
Hallock, Mrs. Mary Angelina [Ray] [Lathrop].Ms.,
1810- ——. Wife of W. A. Hallock, infra. A writer of
Sunday-school books, including That Sweet Story of Old; Child’s History
of the Fall of Jerusalem; Child’s Life of Daniel; The Story of Moses;
Bethlehem and her Children; Beasts and Birds; Child’s History of
Solomon; Life of the Apostle Paul.
Hallock, William Allen.Ms., 1794-1880. A Congregational
clergyman, secretary of the American Tract Society, 1825-70. Life of
Harlan Page; Moses Hallock; Justin Edwards, supra, and several
very popular tracts.
Hallowell, Richard Price.Pa., 1835-1904. A wool merchant
of Boston who wrote The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts; The Pioneer
Quakers. Hou.
Halpine, Charles Graham. “Miles O’Reilly.” I., 1829-1868.
A journalist of New York city who came to America in 1852 and served
during the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army. Lyrics;
Poems; Miles O’Reilly Papers; Life and Adventures of Private Miles
O’Reilly; Baked Meats of the Funeral. His Poetical Works, edited by
R. B. Roosevelt, infra, appeared in 1869. See Dictionary
of National Biography, vol. 24; Appleton’s American Biography.Har.
Halsey, Leroy Jones.Va., 1812-1896. A Presbyterian
clergyman, from 1859 professor in Chicago Theological Seminary. The
Literary Attractions of the Bible; The Life and Pictures of the Bible;
The Beauty of Emmanuel; Living Christianity; Scotland’s Influence on
Civilization.
Halstead, Murat.O., 1829- ——. A journalist of note,
editor and proprietor of The Commercial of Cincinnati, and since 1890
of The Standard Union, Brooklyn. Caucuses of 1860; Life of William
McKinley.
Halsted, Byron David.N. Y., 1852- ——. An agricultural
writer, since 1884 professor of botany in Iowa Agricultural College.
A Century of American Weeds; The Vegetable Garden; Farm Conveniences;
Household Conveniences.
Halsted, George Bruce.N. J., 1853- ——. Grandson of O.
S. Halsted, infra. A professor of mathematics in the University
of Texas from 1887, and a mathematician of prominence. Metrical
Geometry, a Treatise on Mensuration; Elements of Geometry; Synthetic
Geometry; Number, Discrete and Continuous. See Bibliography of
Texas.Gi. Wil.
Halsted, Oliver Spencer.N. J., 1792-1877. A jurist of
Newark, New Jersey. The Theology of the Bible; The Book called Job.
Ham, Charles Henry.N. H., 1831-1902. A lawyer and
journalist of Chicago. Manual Training: the Solution of Social and
Industrial Problems. Har.
Ham, Marion Franklin.O., 1867- ——. A verse-writer of
Chattanooga. The Golden Shuttle, and Other Poems.
Hamersley, Lewis Randolph.D. C., 1847- ——. A
lieutenant in the United States marine corps. Records of Living
Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps (1890); Naval
Encyclopædia.
Hamilton, Alexander.W. I., 1757-1804. A statesman who
ranks as the ablest political writer of his day in America. In 1789 he
became the first secretary of the United States Treasury, and his first
Report on the Public Credit was one of the most notable of national
state papers. He was the principal contributor to The Federalist, 51
of its 85 articles being by him alone, and he assisted Washington
in preparing the latter’s Farewell Address. See Complete Works,
including The Federalist, edited by H. C. Lodge, infra, 1885; Lives, by
Williams, 1804; J. C. Hamilton, infra, 1840; Renwick, 1841; Smucker,
1856; J. T. Morse, Jr., 1876; Shea, 1879; Lodge, 1882; Hamilton and
his Contemporaries, Richtmueller; Shea’s Historical Study of Hamilton;
Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, Ford, 1886.Ap. Put.
Hamilton, Alice King. 18— - ——. A novelist. Mildred’s Cadet;
One of the Duanes. Lip.
Hamilton, Allen McLane.N. Y., 1848- ——. A physician of
New York city. Clinical Electro-Therapeutics; Nervous Diseases; Medical
Jurisprudence; Types of Insanity; The Modern Treatment of Headaches.
Ap.
Hamilton, Edward John.I., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of philosophy in the State University of
Washington. The general system of philosophy advocated by him is best
defined by the term Perceptional. The Human Mind; Mental Science;
The Modalist, or the Laws of Rational Thought; A New Analysis in
Fundamental Modes, a short treatise in ethics. Gi.
Hamilton, Frank Hastings.Vt., 1813-1886. A distinguished
surgeon of New York city, for many years professor in Bellevue
Hospital. Strabismus; Fractures and Dislocations; Military Surgery;
Principles and Practice of Surgery; Surgical Memories of the War of the
Rebellion.
Hamilton, Gail.See Dodge, Abigail.
Hamilton, James Alexander.N. Y., 1788-1878. Third son
of A. Hamilton, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Reminiscences
during Three Quarters of a Century; Martin Van Buren’s Calumnies
Repudiated.
Hamilton, John Church.Pa., 1792-1882. The fourth son
of A. Hamilton, supra. A lawyer in New York city. Memoirs of
Alexander Hamilton; History of the Republic; The Prairie Province. He
edited his father’s works.
Hamilton, John William.W. Va., 1845- ——. A Methodist
clergyman who founded the People’s Church in Boston. Memorials of Jesse
Lee; Lives of the Methodist Bishops; People’s Church Pulpit.
Hamilton, Kate Waterman. “Fleeta.” N. Y., 1841- ——. An
Illinois writer of Sunday-school and other fictions. Among them are,
The Old Brown House; Frederick Gordon; Wood, Hay, and Stubble; Rachel’s
Share of the Road, a Novel; The Parson’s Proxy. Hou.
Hamilton, Robert S——. 18— - ——. Present Status of Social
Science; Present Status of the Philosophy of Society.
Hamilton, Schuyler.N. Y., 1822-1903. Son of J. C.
Hamilton, supra. A major-general in the Federal army during the
Civil War. History of the American Flag; Our National Flag.
Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster.Ty., 1855- ——. Son of
Cyrus Hamlin, infra. An architect, professor of architecture in
Columbia College from 1889. Handbook of the History of Ornament.
Hamlin, Augustus Choate.Me., 1829- ——. A surgeon of
Bangor. Martyria, or Andersonville Prison; The Tourmaline; Leisure
Hours Among the Gems. Hou.
Hamlin, Charles.Me., 1837- ——. Cousin of A. C. Hamlin,
and son of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-president of the United
States, 1861-65. He was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil
War, and has published The Insolvent Laws of Maine.
Hamlin, Cyrus.Me., 1811-1900. A Congregationalist
missionary in Turkey, 1837-60, president of Robert College,
Constantinople, 1860-76, and of Middlebury College, Vermont, 1880-85.
Papists and Protestants; Arithmetic for Americans; Cholera and Its
Treatment; Among the Turks; My Life and Times (1893). C. P. S.
Hamlin, Teunis Slingerland.N. Y., 1847- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman of Washington. Denominationalism versus
Christian Union. Rev.
Hamline, Leonidas Lent.Ct., 1797-1865. A Methodist
bishop prominent in Ohio. Sermons; Works, edited by F. G. Hibbard.
Hammett, Samuel A——. “Philip Paxton.” Ct., 1816-1865.
A journalist of New York city. A Stray Yankee in Texas; The Wonderful
Adventures of Captain Priest, are among his works.
Hammond, Anthony. 18— - ——. Law of Nisi Prius; Parties to
Actions; Principles of Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal Code:
Forgery; Practice and Proceedings in Parliament; Index to Tennessee
Reports; Criminal Code: Simple Larceny.
Hammond, Edward Payson.Ms., 1831- ——. A noted
evangelist who has been a prolific author of religious books and
tracts. Among his hundred or more publications are, Good Will to Men;
Sketches of Palestine; The Conversion of Children; Gathered Lambs.
See Reaper and Harvest, by P. C. Headley, infra.Fu. Rev.
Hammond, Mrs. Henrietta [Hardy]. “Henri Dangé.” Va.,
1854-1883. A Southern writer of fiction. The Georgians; A Fair
Philosopher; Her Waiting Heart; Woman’s Secrets, or How to be
Beautiful. Hou.
Hammond, Jabez D.Ms., 1778-1855. A jurist of New York
State. The Political History of New York; Life of Julius Melbourn; Life
of Silas Wright; Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul.
Hammond, James Henry.S. C., 1807-1864. A South Carolina
politician, governor of his State, 1842-47, and United States Senator,
1857-60. Owing to a speech of his in Congress in which the term
“mudsills” was used, he was afterwards known as “Mudsill Hammond.” He
published The Pro-Slavery Argument.
Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus.S. C., 1814-1876.
Brother of J. H. Hammond, supra. A United States army officer
whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A Critical History
of the Mexican War.
Hammond, William Alexander.Md., 1828-1900. An eminent
physician of New York city, surgeon-general of the United States
army, 1862-64; later on the retired list as brigadier-general and
surgeon-general. His medical writings include Military Hygiene;
Physiological Essays; Sleep and its Derangements; Nervous Derangements;
Physiological Memoirs; Lectures on Venereal Diseases; Wakefulness;
Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations; Physics and Physiology of
Spiritualism; Diseases of the Nervous System; Insanity and its
Medical Relations; Sexual Impotence in the Male; Cerebral Hyperæmia;
Neurological Contributions. His novels include Robert Severne; Lal;
Dr. Grattan; Mr. Oldmixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; On the Susquehanna.
Ap. Lip.
Hanaford, Mrs. Phebe Ann [Coffin].Ms., 1829- ——. A
Universalist minister, the first woman to enter the ministry in the
Universalist denomination. Since 1887 she has been in charge of a
church at New Haven. Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of George Peabody;
Lucretia the Quakeress; Leonette, or Truth Sought and Found; The Best
of Books and its History; Frank Nelson the Runaway Boy; The Soldier’s
Daughter; Field, Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the Century; The
Captive Boy of Tierra del Fuego; Life of Dickens; From Shore to Shore,
and Other Poems. Mer.
Hancock, Anson Uriel. 18— - ——. The Genius of Galilee, an
historical novel; John Auburntop, Novelist; Old Abraham Jackson, a
Nebraska Story. Ke.
Hanson, Edgar Filmore.Me., 1853- ——. Demonology or
Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.
Hanson, John Wesley.Ms., 1823- ——. A Universalist
clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, Chicago, 1869-84.
Histories of Danvers, Norridgewock, and Gardiner, in Maine; Bible
Threatenings Explained; Cloud of Witnesses, a compilation; Aion Aionos;
Bible Proofs of Universal Salvation; Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer; The
Leaven at Work; The New Covenant, a translation of the New Testament.
Hapgood, Isabel Florence.Ms., 1851- ——. A writer and
translator of New York city. The Epic Songs of Russia; Russian Rambles;
translations of Gogol and Victor Hugo. Hou. Scr.
Harbaugh [har´baw], Henry.Pa., 1817-1867. A
German Reformed clergyman of Pennsylvania, professor in Mercersburg
Seminary, whose principal writings include Fathers of the German
Reformed Church in Europe and America; The Heavenly Home;
Christological Theology; The True Glory of Woman; Heaven, or the
Sainted Dead; Birds of the Bible; The Golden Censer; Union with the
Church.
Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers.Md., 1849- ——. A popular
verse-writer of Casstown, Ohio, whose only published collection of
poems is entitled Maple Leaves.
Harby, Isaac.S. C., 1788-1828. A dramatist of Charleston
whose plays include Alexander Severus; The Gordian Knot; Alberti.
See Life by H. L. Pinckney, 1829.
Harby, Mrs. Lee [Cohen].S. C., 1849- ——. A New York
writer, formerly of Texas, who has published Christmas Before the War.
See Bibliography of Texas.
Hardee, William Joseph.Ga., 1815-1873. A Confederate
general who was the author of a well-known work on Rifle and Light
Infantry Tactics. See Southern Generals, by W. P. Snow.
Hardie, James.S., c. 1750-1832. An educator
of New York city. Corderii Colloquia; Epistolary Guide; Freeman’s
Monitor; Wonders of Art and Nature, especially in America; Biographical
Dictionary; Malignant Fevers in New York; Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ;
Description of New York City.
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne.Ms., 1847- ——. A professor of
mathematics at Dartmouth College 1878-93, well known both as novelist
and mathematician. Elements of Quaternions; New Methods in Surveying;
Elements of Analytic Geometry; Elements of Calculus; But Yet A Woman;
The Wind of Destiny; Passe Rose; Joseph Hardy Neesima, a biography.
See London Academy, June 30, 1883.Gi. Hou.
Hare, George Emlen.Pa., 1808-1892. Son of R. Hare,
infra. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of biblical learning in
the Philadelphia Divinity School from 1852. Christ to Return; Visions
and Narratives of the Old Testament, a volume of sermons. Dut.
Hare, John Innes Clark.Pa., 1816- ——. Son of R. Hare,
infra. A noted Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on Contracts; New
England Exchequer Reports; American Constitutional Law. Lit.
Hare, Robert.Pa., 1781-1858. A once prominent
Philadelphia scientist who made a number of important discoveries,
and contributed frequently to scientific journals. Brief View of
Policy and Resources of the United States; Spiritualism Scientifically
Demonstrated; Chemical Apparatus and Scientific Manipulations.
Hargrove, Robert Kenyon.Al., 1829- ——. A bishop of
the Methodist Church South from 1882. Laws of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South as Interpreted by the College of Bishops.
Hark, J[oseph] Max[imilian].Pa., 1849- ——. A Moravian
clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Unity of Truth
in Christianity and Evolution. He has translated and edited from the
German The Chronicon Ephratense.
Harkey, Sidney Levi.N. C., 1827- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman whose writings include The Signs of the Times; The Faith Once
Delivered to the Saints; Thorough Education; Agnosticism; National
Blessings and Dangers.
Harkey, Simon Walcher.N. C., 1811-1889. A Lutheran
clergyman of Illinois. True Wisdom Triumphant; Justification by Faith;
The Church’s Best State, are among his writings.
Harkness, Albert.Ms., 1822- ——. An educator of
Providence, professor of Greek in Brown University from 1855. He has
published Complete Latin Course for the First Year, and many Greek and
Latin text-books.
Harkness, James.S., 1803-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman
who emigrated from Scotland in 1839, and was a pastor in Jersey City,
1862-78. Messiah’s Throne and Kingdom was his only published work.
Harkness, William.S., 1837- ——. Son of J. Harkness,
supra. A mathematician of distinction who has published Magnetic
Observations on the Monadnock.
Harlan, George Cuvier.Pa., 1835- ——. Son of R. Harlan,
infra. A Philadelphia physician who has made a specialty of
diseases of the eye, and is the author of Eyesight and How to Take Care
of It.
Harlan, Richard.Pa., 1796-1843. A physician and
naturalist of Philadelphia. Observations on the Genus Salamandra; Fauna
Americana; American Herpetology; Medical and Physical Researches.
Harland, Henry. “Sidney Luska.” N. Y., 1861- ——. A
novelist of New York city who removed to London, and has there edited
The Yellow Book. Grandison Mather; Mea Culpa; As It Was Written; Mrs.
Peixada; The Land of Love; The Yoke of the Thorah; My Uncle Florimond;
Grey Roses. Cas. Rob.
Harland, Marion.See Terhune, Mrs.
Harman, Henry Martyn.Md., 1822-1897. A Methodist
clergyman, professor in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from
1870. Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land; Introduction to Study of the
Scriptures. Meth.
Harney, John Milton.Del., 1789-1825. A Savannah
journalist who became a Dominican monk. He published Crystallina, a
fairy tale in verse, and his other poems appeared posthumously in
periodicals.
Harney, William Wallace.Ia., 1831- ——. A journalist
and verse-writer of Florida whose poems have appeared in magazines and
anthologies, but have not been gathered into book form.
Harper, Robert Goodloe.Va., 1765-1825. A once noted
South Carolina and Maryland statesman. Letters on the Proceedings of
Congress; Letters to Constituents. His Select Works appeared in 1814.
Harper, William Rainey.O., 1856- ——. A Baptist
clergyman, president of the University of Chicago. Elements of Hebrew;
Elements of Hebrew Syntax; Hebrew Vocabularies; An Introductory New
Testament, Greek Method (with R. F. Weidner). Scr.
Harrigan, Edward.N. Y., 1845- ——. An actor and
playwright of New York city among whose many plays of low life in the
metropolis are, Squatter Sovereignty; Cordelia’s Aspirations.
Harriman, Walter.N. H., 1817-1884. A New Hampshire
politician, governor of his state, 1867-68, and during the Civil War
a Federal officer. History of Warner, New Hampshire; Travels and
Observations in the Orient. See Life by Amos Hadley.Le.
Harrington, Mark Walrod.Il., 1848- ——. A scientist,
professor of astronomy in the University of Michigan. The Analysis of
Plants; Identification of Crude Drugs.
Harris, Amanda Bartlett.N. H., 1824- ——. A writer
whose life has been mainly spent at her birthplace, Warner, New
Hampshire. Christ our Friend; Thy Will be Done; The Duty of Uniting
with the Church; Summer’s Autographs; How we went Birds’-Nesting,
republished as Field, Wood, and Meadow Rambles; Wild Flowers and Where
They Grow; Door-yard Folks; Pleasant Authors for Young Folks; American
Authors for Young Folks; The Luck of Edenhall. She has contributed much
to periodical literature, and has written reviews for The (Boston)
Literary World from 1877. Lo.
Harris, Chapin A——.N. Y., 1806-1866. A dentist of
Baltimore, founder of the Baltimore Dental College. Principles of
Dental Surgery; Characteristics of the Human Teeth; Diseases of the
Maxillary Sinus; Dictionary of Dental Science.
Harris, George.Me., 1844- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of Christian theology in Andover
Theological Seminary since 1883, and one of the editors of “The Andover
Review,” 1884-93. Editor (with W. J. Tucker and E. K. Glezen) of Hymns
of the Faith. Author of Moral Evolution. Hou.
Harris, George Washington.Pa., 1814-1869. A Tennessee
River steamboat captain who contributed humourous and political
articles to newspapers. Sut Lovengood’s Yarns were published in 1867.
Harris, Joel Chandler.Ga., 1848- ——. An Atlanta
journalist, editor of The Constitution, celebrated as the author of
Uncle Remus, a unique character study of the Southern negro as well as
a notable contribution to the literature of folk-lore. His writings
include Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings; Nights with Uncle
Remus; Uncle Remus and his Friends; Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black
and White; Balaam and his Master, and Other Sketches; Little Mr.
Thimblefinger, a juvenile; Mr. Rabbit at Home, a juvenile; The Story
of Aaron, a juvenile; Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches; Evening
Tales, from the French of Fréderic Ortoli; Stories of Georgia; Sister
Jane, her Friends and Acquaintances; Georgia, from the Invasion of De
Soto to Recent Times. See Chautauquan, October, 1896.Ap.
Hou. Scr.
Harris, Mrs. Miriam [Coles].L. I., 1834- ——. A novelist
of New York city whose first story, Rutledge, was very popular.
Later works are, Richard Vandermarck; The Sutherlands; St. Philip’s;
Happy-Go-Lucky; Missy; Frank Warrington; A Perfect Adonis; Phœbe; An
Utter Failure; Louie’s Last Term at St. Mary’s; The Rosary for Lent, a
compilation. Ap. Hou.
Harris, Samuel.Me., 1814-1899. A Congregational
clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Yale University from
1871. Zaccheus, or the Scriptural Plan of Benevolence; The Kingdom of
Christ on Earth; The Philosophic Basis of Theism; The Self-Revelation
of God; Christ’s Prayer for the Death of His Redeemed; God: Creator and
Lord of All. See Andover Review, February, 1884. Scr.
Harris, Samuel Smith.Al., 1841-1888. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Michigan. The Dignity of Man;
Christianity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and
Immortality; Shelton, a novel. Mg. Wh.
Harris, Thaddeus Mason.Ms., 1768-1842. A Unitarian
clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until his death. Discourses in Favor
of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory (1805);
Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of
James Oglethorpe; Natural History of the Bible.
Harris, Thaddeus William.Ms., 1795-1856. Son of T. M.
Harris, supra. An entomologist and physician who was librarian
of Harvard University from 1831. He published Systematic Catalogue of
the Insects of Massachusetts, and a valuable work on Insects Injurious
to Vegetation.
Harris, Thomas Lake.E., 1823- ——. A mystical
philosopher who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had
its home at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, New York. He has since lived
in California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry
Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life
in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; The Wisdom of the
Adepts; God’s Breath in Man. See Life of Laurence Oliphant, by Mrs.
M. O. W. Oliphant.
Harris, William Logan.O., 1817-1887. A Methodist
bishop of prominence as educator and missionary. The Powers of the
General Conference; Ecclesiastical Law (with W. J. Henry); Relation of
Episcopacy to the General Conference. Meth.
Harris, William Torrey.Ct., 1835- ——. A speculative
philosopher and educator of Washington city, a translator of Hegel,
and editor of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; since 1889 United
States commissioner of education. The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina
Commedia; Method of Study of Social Science; How to Teach Social
Science; Hegel’s Logic, a critical exposition; Introduction to the
Study of Philosophy. Ap. Hou. Sc.
Harrison, Mrs. Constance [Cary].Va., 1846- ——. A
novelist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. Story of Helen
Troy; Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edelweiss of the Sierras,
and Other Tales; Bar Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book; Folk
and Fairy Tales; Anglomania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia Cousin;
Bric-a-Brac Stories; A Bachelor Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow’s
Nest and Belhaven Tales; Externals of Modern New York. Bar. Cent.
Har. Scr.
Harrison, Gabriel.Pa., 1818-1902. A Brooklyn dramatist
and instructor in elocution. Life of John Howard Payne; The Stratford
Bust, a Critical Inquiry as to its Authenticity; Melanthia; Dartmore,
are among his writings.
Harrison, George Leib.Pa., 1811-1885. A philanthropist
of Philadelphia. Chapters on Social Science; Legislation on Insanity, a
compilation of lunacy laws.
Harrison, Gessner.Va., 1807-1862. A once noted educator
of Virginia. Exposition of some Laws of Greek Grammar; On Greek
Prepositions.
Harrison, Hall.Md., 1837-1900. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator. From 1865 to 1879 he was a master in St. Paul’s School
at Concord, and after the latter date rector of St. John’s church at
Ellicott City, Maryland. Life of Hugh Davy Evans, supra; Life of
Bishop Kerfoot.
Harrison, James Albert.Mi., 1848- ——. An educator
in Virginia, since 1876 a professor of languages at Washington and
Lee University. Greek Vignettes; Spain in Profile; The Rhine; French
Syntax; The History of Spain; The Story of Greece; Autrefois, tales
of Old New Orleans and Elsewhere; A Group of Poets and Their Haunts;
Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (with W. M. Baskerville); Exodus and
Daniel (with T. W. Hunt). Hou. Lip. Lo. Mer. Put.
Harrison, Jonathan Baxter.O., 1835- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of New Hampshire. Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American
Life; The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations. Hou.
Harrison, Joseph.Pa., 1810-1874. A Philadelphia engineer
and inventor, from 1843-52 employed in locomotive construction by the
Russian government. Essay on the Steam Boiler; The Locomotive Engine
and Philadelphia’s Share in its Early Improvements; The Iron Worker and
King Solomon, a poem.
Harrison, William Pope.Ga., 1830- ——. A prominent
clergyman of the Methodist Church South. Theophilus Walton, a
controversial work; Lights and Shadows of Forty Years; The Living
Christ; The High Churchman Disarmed; Methodist Union; The Gospel among
the Slaves.
Harrisse [har-ēs´], Henri.F., 1830- ——. A
bibliographer of New York city, of French birth, but long a citizen
of the United States. Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima; Christophe
Colombe; Jean et Sebastian Cabot; The Discovery of North America.
Do.
Harsha, David Addison.N. Y., 1827-1895. A writer in
Argyle, New York. The Heavenly Token; The Star of Bethlehem; Manual of
Sacred Literature; Lives of Charles Sumner, Doddridge, Baxter, Bunyan,
Addison, James Hervey, Watts, Whitefield, Abraham Booth; Eminent
Orators and Statesmen. Co.
Hart, Albert Bushnell.Pa., 1854- ——. A professor of
history in Harvard University. Coercive Powers of the United States
Government; Introduction to the Study of Federal Government; Formation
of the Union, 1750-1829; Studies in Education; Life of Salmon P. Chase;
Practical Essays on American Government. Fl. Hou. Lgs.
Hart, Charles Henry.Pa., 1847- ——. A lawyer and
antiquarian of Philadelphia. Memoir of W. H. Prescott, infra;
Biographical Sketch of Abraham Lincoln; Turner, the Dream Painter;
Remarks on Tabasco, Mexico; Bibliographia Websteriana.
Hart, James Morgan.N. J., 1839- ——. Son of J. S. Hart,
infra. A professor of Germanic languages at Cornell University
from 1868. Handbook of English Composition; Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon
Literature; German Universities. Put.
Hart, John Seely.Ms., 1810-1877. An educator of New
Jersey who was professor of rhetoric at Princeton College, 1872-77.
Manuals of English and American Literature; Composition and Rhetoric;
In the Schoolroom.
Hart, Samuel.Ct., 1845- ——. An Episcopal clergyman,
professor in Trinity College from 1868, who has published editions of
Juvenal and Persius. Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury.
Harte, [Francis] Bret.N. Y., 1839-1902. A Californian
writer who first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called
The Luck of Roaring Camp, published in The Overland Monthly, which
he edited. This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from
Truthful James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he
resided in New York, and afterward he made his home abroad, but mainly
in London from 1885. His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck
of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands; Tales
of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The
Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins
of Table Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing
Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow-Bound at
Eagle’s; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a Child’s Story; A Millionaire
of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the
Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow
Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of
Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle’s Client; A First Family of Tasajara;
Susy; A Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of
Angel’s; Clarence; In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker’s Luck. In verse
he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills. See
Haweis’s American Humorists; Nichol’s American Literature; Vedder’s
American Writers; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1896.Hou.
Harte, Walter Blackburn.Ont., 1866- ——. A littérateur
who has published Meditations in Motley. Ar.
Hartley, Cecil B——. 18— -18—. Louis Wetzel, the Virginia
Ranger; lives of Empress Josephine, Francis Marion, Daniel Boone;
Hunting Spots in the West; Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons; Pictorial
Teaching and Bible Illustration. Co.
Hartley, Isaac Smithson.N. Y., 1830-1899. Son of R. M.
Hartley, infra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Utica since 1871.
Prayer and its Relation to Modern Criticism; Old Fort Schuyler in
History, are his principal works.
Hartley, Robert Milham.E., 1796-1881. A philanthropist
who founded in 1842 the New York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor. History, Science, and Practical Essay on Milk;
Temperance in Large Cities and Towns.
Hartshorne, Edward.Pa., 1818-1885. A Philadelphia
physician. Separate System for Criminals; Ophthalmic Medicine and
Surgery; an edition of Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, with Notes.
Hartshorne, Henry.Pa., 1823-1897. Brother of E.
Hartshorne, supra. A Philadelphia physician, professor of
organic science at Haverford College, 1867-97. Memoranda Medica;
Essentials of Principles and Practice of Medicines; Family Adviser; Our
Homes; Cholera; Household Manual; Handbook of Human Anatomy; Conspectus
of the Medical Sciences; Glycerin and its Uses; Woman’s Witchcraft, a
dramatic romance; Summer Songs. Lip.
Hartt, Charles Frederick.N. B., 1840-1878. A professor
of geology at Cornell University, 1868, and chief of the geological
surveys in Brazil at the time of his death. Geology and Physical
Geography of Brazil; Contributions to the Geology of the Lower Amazons;
Amazonian Tortoise Myths.
Hartzell, J[onas] Hazard.Pa., 1830-1890. An Episcopal
clergyman of Waverly, New York, but prior to 1881 a noted clergyman
in the Universalist faith, for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo.
Wanderings on Parnassus, a collection of verse; Application and
Achievement.
Harvey, William Hope.W. Va., 1851- ——. A writer on
financial topics whose theories regarding unlimited coinage of silver
have been popular with superficial thinkers. Coin’s Financial School; A
Tale of Two Nations, a financial novel.
Harwood, Andrew Allen.Pa., 1802-1884. Son of J. E.
Harwood, infra. A rear-admiral in the United States navy.
Summary Courts Martial; Law and Practice of the United States Navy
Courts Martial.
Harwood, John Edmund.E., 1771-1809. An English actor who
came to the United States in 1793, and published a collection of Poems
the year of his death.
Hascall, Daniel.Vt., 1782-1852. A Baptist clergyman of
Hamilton, New York. Baptism; Elements of Theology; Analysis of Divine
Revelation.
Haskell, Daniel.Ct., 1784-1848. A Congregational
clergyman of Burlington, Vermont, who was subsequently a writer
in Brooklyn. Gazetteer of the United States (with J. C. Smith);
Chronological View of the World.
Haskins, David Greene.Ms., 1818-1896. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator of Cambridge. Selections from the Old and New
Testament for Use in Families and Schools; French and English First
Book; Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson (his cousin).
Hassard, John Rose Greene.N. Y., 1836-1888. A New York
journalist who was a literary critic on the staff of The Tribune. The
King of the Nibelung; School History of the United States; Life of
Archbishop Hughes, infra; Life of Pope Pius Ninth; A Pickwickian
Pilgrimage. Hou.
Hassaurek, Friedrich.A., 1832-1885. A journalist and
lawyer of Cincinnati. Four Years Among the Spanish-Americans; The
Secret of the Andes. Clke.
Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph.Sd., 1770-1843. A noted
surveyor in the government service who published System of the
Universe and a series of works on astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and
trigonometry.
Hastings, Horace Lorenzo.Ms., 1831-1899. A Boston
writer. Signs of the Times; Reasons for My Hope; Thessalonica; Atheism
and Arithmetic, are his principal writings.
Haswell, Charles Haynes.N. Y., 1809- ——. A civil
engineer of much prominence. Mechanics’ and Engineers’ Pocket Book;
Mechanics’ Tables; Mensuration and Practical Geometry; Bookkeeping;
History of the Steam Boiler; Reminiscences of New York from 1816 to
1855. Ap. Har.
Hatfield, Edwin Francis.N. J., 1807-1883. A Presbyterian
clergyman of St. Louis, and subsequently of New York city. Universalism
As It Is; History of Elizabeth, New Jersey; St. Helena and the Cape of
Good Hope; The Poets of the Church. Rev.
Hathaway, Benjamin.N. Y., 1822- ——. A verse-writer who
was for many years a nurseryman and farmer. Art Life, and Other Poems;
The League of the Iroquois; The Finished Creation, and Other Poems.
Ar.
Haupt [howpt], Herman.Pa., 1817- ——. An
engineer of distinction who has held many important posts, and is
the inventor of a drilling engine. Since 1875 the chief engineer of
the Tide Water Pipe Line Company. Hints on Bridge Building; General
Theory of Bridge Construction; Plan for Improvement of the Ohio River;
Military Bridges; Street Railway Motors. Ap. Bai.
Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg.Pa., 1844- ——. Son of H.
Haupt, supra. An engineer of Philadelphia, since 1872 professor
of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania. Engineering
Specifications and Contracts; Working Drawings and How to Make Them;
The Topographer: his Methods and Instruments; Essays on Road Making.
Bai.
Haven, Mrs. Alice [Bradley] [Neal]. “Cousin Alice.” N.
Y., 1828-1863. A writer of juvenile tales which were very popular.
Her later years were spent in New York city, but she formerly lived in
Philadelphia, her first husband being J. C. Neal, infra. Among
her writings are, No Such Word as Fail; Contentment Better than Wealth;
Patient Waiting No Loss. See Memoir; Harper’s Magazine, October,
1863.Ap.
Haven, Erastus Otis.Ms., 1820-1881. A Methodist bishop,
chancellor of Syracuse University from 1874, and from 1863-69 president
of the University of Michigan. Pillars of Truth; Young Man Advised;
Rhetoric; American Progress. Har. Meth.
Haven, Gilbert.Ms., 1821-1880. A Methodist bishop whose
official residence was in Atlanta. National Sermons; The Pilgrim’s
Wallet; Our Next-Door Neighbor, or Mexico of To-Day; Life of Father
Taylor, the Sailor Preacher; Christus Consolator. Meth.
Haven, Joseph.Ms., 1816-1874. A Congregational
clergyman, a professor in the Chicago Theological Seminary, 1858-70.
Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; History of Ancient and Modern
Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy and Theology; Systematic Theology.
Haven, Samuel Foster.Ms., 1806-1881. An archæologist
who was librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester.
Archæology of the United States; History of the Grants Under the Great
Council for New England.
Hawes, Joel.Ms., 1789-1867. A prominent Congregational
clergyman of Hartford, 1818-67. Lectures to Young Men; The Religion of
the East; Looking-Glass for Ladies; Washington and Jay; Experimental
and Practical Sermons; Tribute to the Pilgrims; Character Everything to
the Young.
Hawes, William Post.N. Y., 1803-1842. A lawyer of New
York city, author of Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches, published,
with Memoir, by H. W. Herbert, infra.
Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse.E., 1807-1889. An English
anatomist who removed to the United States in 1868. Popular Comparative
Anatomy; Elements of Form; Comparative View of the Human and Animal
Frame; Artistic Anatomy of the Horse; Artistic Anatomy of Cattle and
Sheep; Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer; Atlas of Comparative
Osteology (with Huxley).
Hawkins, Dexter Arnold.Me., 1825-1886. A lawyer of New
York city, an advocate of protection and similar political measures.
Among his writings are, Traditions of Overlook Mountain; Free Trade and
Protection; The Roman Catholic Church in New York City.
Hawkins, Rush Christopher.Ct., 1831- ——. Cousin of D.
A. Hawkins, supra. A New York city lawyer who served as a colonel in
the Federal army during the Civil War, and has since been a prominent
advocate of political reforms. He has published The First Books and
Printers of the 15th Century.
Hawkins, William George.Md., 1823- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Nebraska, prominent in the field of domestic missions.
Life of J. H. Hawkins, his father, a noted temperance reformer;
Lunsford Lane; History of the New York Freedmen’s Association.
Hawks, Francis Lister.N. C., 1798-1866. A once noted
Episcopal clergyman, rector of churches in New York, New Orleans,
and Baltimore. History of North Carolina; Reports of Cases in North
Carolina Supreme Court; History of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and
Maryland; The Romance of Biography; Cyclopædia of Biography; Egypt and
its Monuments; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church.
Hawley, Bostwick.N. Y., 1814- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of New York State. Close Communion; Manual of Methodism; The
Shield of Faith; Dancing as an Amusement; The Lenten Season; Methodist
Episcopacy Valid, include his chief works. Meth.
Hawley, Charles.N. Y., 1819-1885. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Auburn, New York. Early Chapters of Cayuga History;
Sanitary Reforms; Memorial Discourses; Early Chapters of Seneca History.
Hawthorne, Julian.Ms., 1846- ——. Son of N. Hawthorne,
infra. A novelist who has inherited much of his father’s
originality, but whose work is often careless and hasty in construction
and of ephemeral interest only. Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry;
Fortune’s Fool; Beatrix Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison;
Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough’s
Diamonds; David Poindexter’s Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream
and a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel
Hawthorne and his Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon;
Prince Saroni’s Wife; Love is a Spirit. Ap. Fu. He. Hou.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.Ms., 1804-1864. A celebrated
romancer, born at Salem, Massachusetts. From 1838 to 1841 he held a
position in the Boston custom-house, was next a member of the Brook
Farm Association, and after 1843 a resident at Concord, Massachusetts,
from time to time until his death, though within that period he was
surveyor of the port of Salem, 1846-50, and from 1853 to 1857 consul
at Liverpool. Fanshawe; Twice-Told Tales; Grandfather’s Chair; Mosses
from an Old Manse; Famous Old People; Liberty Tree; Biographical
Stories for Children; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; The House of
the Seven Gables; A Wonder-Book; The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told
Tales; The Blithedale Romance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble Faun,
known in England as Transformation; Our Old Home; Passages from
American Note-Books; English Note-Books; French and Italian Note-Books;
Septimius Felton; The Dolliver Romance; Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret.
See North American Review, July, 1837, July, 1850, January, 1852;
Blackwood’s Magazine, November, 1863; Atlantic Monthly, May, 1860;
Lathrop’s Study of Hawthorne; James’s Hawthorne; Hawthorne Index;
Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Personal Recollections of, by H. N. Bridge;
Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, by J. Hawthorne; Some Memories of
Hawthorne, by Mrs. R. H. Lathrop; Appleton’s American Biography;
Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature.Hou.
Hawthorne, Mrs. Sophia [Peabody].Ms., 1810-1871. Wife
of N. Hawthorne, supra, sister of Elizabeth Peabody, infra. Her
only publication was Notes in England and Italy. Hou.
Hay, John.Ind., 1838- ——. A writer who was Lincoln’s
private secretary, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during the Civil War, and
also served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore as major and assistant
adjutant-general, being brevetted colonel. He was subsequently in
the diplomatic service. Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. G. Nicolay,
infra); Pike County Ballads, and Other Poems; Castilian Days, a
volume of travels. Of his dialect poems, Jim Bludso and Little Breeches
are the best known. Cent. Hou.
Hayden, Ferdinand Vanderveer.Ms., 1827-1880. A professor
of geology in the University of Pennsylvania. Origin and Progress of
the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; The Yellowstone
National Park.
Hayden, Horace H——.Ct., 1769-1844. A once noted
Baltimore dentist who published Geological Essays.
Hayden, William Benjamin.N. Y., 1816-1893. A
Swedenborgian clergyman. Science and Revelation; Phenomena of Modern
Spiritualism; The Apocalyptic Dispensation; Light on the Last Things;
Dangers of Modern Spiritualism, include the greater portion of his
work. See Selected Essays and Memorials of his Life, 1894.Lip.
Hayes, Augustus Allen. 1837-1892. A novelist of Brookline,
Massachusetts. New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail; The Jesuit’s Ring,
a Romance; The Denver Express. Har. Scr.
Hayes, Henry.See Kirk, Mrs. Ellen.
Hayes, Isaac Israel.Pa., 1832-1881. An Arctic explorer
whose first voyage was made with Dr. Kane, infra. The Open
Polar Sea; An Arctic Boat Journey; Cast Away in the Cold; The Land of
Desolation; Pictures of Arctic Travel. Har. Hou. Le.
Haygood, Atticus Green.Ga., 1839-1896. A Methodist
clergyman of much prominence in the South. The Monk and the Prince, a
Critical Study of Savonarola and Lorenzo de’ Medici; Our Keep-Sake; Our
Children; Our Brother in Black; Speeches and Sermons; Jack-knife and
Brambles, a discussion of the authorship and meaning of the books of
the Bible; Pleas for Progress; The Man of Galilee. Meth.
Hayne, Paul Hamilton.S. C., 1830-1886. A lyric poet
whose verse has much melody. He served as a colonel in the Confederate
army, and at the close of the Civil War, broken in health and fortunes,
retired to the small village of Grovetown, Georgia, where the rest of
his life was passed. Avolio; The Mountain of the Lovers; Legends and
Lyrics; Sonnets and Other Poems; Lives of Robert Hayne and Hugh Legare,
infra. A complete edition of his Poems appeared in 1883. Lip.
Lo.
Hayne, William Hamilton.S. C., 1856- ——. Son of Paul
Hayne, supra, and a popular lyrist of the South. Sylvan Lyrics.
Sto.
Haynes, Emory Judson.Vt., 1846- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Are These Things So?; Fairest of
Three, a Tale of American Life; Dollars and Duties; A Farmhouse Cobweb,
a Vermont novel. Har.
Hays, George Peirce.Pa., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Kansas City. Everyday Reasoning; The Honest Book; May
Women Speak?; Presbyterians.
Hays, William Shakespeare.Ky., 1837- ——. A popular
ballad and song composer of Louisville. Mollie Darling is one of his
best known songs. He has published a volume of Poems and Songs.
Hayward, Edward Farwell.Ms., 1851- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman for some years pastor of a church in Boston. Willoughby;
Patrice; Ecce Spiritus.
Hayward, George.Ms., 1781-1862. A Boston writer who
published View of the United States; Religious Creeds of the United
States; Book of Religions, and several gazetteers.
Hayward, George.Ms., 1791-1863. A Boston physician of
note. Outlines of Physiology; Surgical Records.
Haywood, John.N. C., 1753-1826. A jurist of Tennessee.
Manual of Laws of North Carolina; Haywood’s Justice; Tennessee Reports;
History of Tennessee; Statute Laws of Tennessee (with R. L. Cutts).
Hazard, Caroline.R. I., 1856- ——. Granddaughter of R.
G. Hazard, infra. Narragansett Ballads; Thomas Hazard, a Study
of Life in Narragansett in the XVIIIth Century; Memoirs of J. L. Diman,
supra. She has edited, with introductions, the works of R. G.
Hazard.
Hazard, Ebenezer.Pa., 1744-1817. A Philadelphia writer
who was postmaster-general, 1782-89. Historical Collections, the
beginnings of a United States history; Remarks on a Report Concerning
the Western Indians.
Hazard, Rowland Gibson.R. I., 1801-1888. A woolen
manufacturer of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. Essays on Finance;
Resources of the United States; Essay on Language, and Other Essays
and Addresses; Freedom of Mind in Willing; Causation and Freedom in
Willing; Man a Creative First Cause. See Works, in four volumes,
edited by C. Hazard.Hou.
Hazard, Samuel.Pa., 1784-1870. Son of E. Hazard,
supra. An archæologist of Philadelphia. Annals of Pennsylvania,
1609-82; Register of Pennsylvania, 1828-36; Pennsylvania Archives,
1682-1790; United States Commercial and Statistical Register.
Hazard, Samuel.Pa., 1834-1876. Son of S. Hazard,
supra. An officer in the United States army. Santo Domingo Past
and Present; Cuba with Pen and Pencil. Har.
Hazard, Thomas Robinson.R. I., 1784-1876. Brother of R.
G. Hazard, supra, and like him a manufacturer at Peace Dale. He
was an ardent Spiritualist, and wrote much in defence of his beliefs.
Facts for the Laboring Man; The Ordeal of Life; Capital Punishment;
Mediums and Mediumship; Recollections of Olden Time.
Hazard, Willis Pope.Al., 1825- ——. Son of S. Hazard,
supra. A retired bookseller of Westchester, Pennsylvania.
The Art of Pleasing, a work on etiquette; The Jersey, Alderney, and
Guernsey Cow; Butter and Butter-making; Annals of Philadelphia, a
continuation of Watson’s Annals. Co.
Hazelius, Ernest Lewis.P., 1777-1853. A Lutheran
clergyman who was professor in a South Carolina theological seminary.
Life of Luther; Church History; History of the Lutheran Church in
America.
Hazeltine, Mayo Williamson.Ms., 1841- ——. A New York
journalist, since 1878 the literary editor of the New York Sun. Chats
About Books; British and American Education; The American Woman in
Europe. Scr.
Hazen, William Babcock.Vt., 1830-1887. A general in the
Federal army during the Civil War, and from 1880 chief officer of the
Signal Service. The School and the Army in Germany and France; Barren
Lands in the Interior of the United States; A Narrative of Military
Service. Clke. Har. Hou.
Head, Franklin H.N. Y., 1835- ——. A Chicago Writer
who has published Shakespeare’s Insomnia and the Causes thereof, an
ingenious burlesque. Hou.
Headley, Joel Tyler.N. Y., 1813-1897. An historical
writer of Newburg, New York, whose work is usually strongly
partisan in character, though nearly always as entertaining as it
is undiscriminating. Napoleon and his Marshals; The Old Guard of
Napoleon; Life of Oliver Cromwell; The Great Rebellion; Sacred Scenes
and Characters; Washington and his Generals; Life of Washington; Grant
and Sherman; Life of General Grant; Life of Havelock; Achievements of
Stanley and Other Explorers; The Adirondacks, or Life in the Woods;
Farragut and Our Naval Commanders; Chaplains of the Revolution; Sacred
Heroes and Martyrs; Letters from Italy and the Alps; The Second War
with England. Scr.
Headley, Phineas Camp.N. Y., 1819-1903. Cousin of J.
T. Headley, supra. A Congregational clergyman. Women of the
Bible; The Island of Fire; Young Folks’ Heroes of the Rebellion; Lives
of Josephine, Lafayette, Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots; Half-Hours in
Bible Lands; Evangelists in the Church. Le.
Heap, David Porter.Ty., 1843- ——. A major of engineers
in government service. History of Application of Electric Light to the
Courts of France; Ancient and Modern Lights; Electrical Appliances of
the Present Day (1884).
Heap, Gwynn Harris.Pa., 1817-1887. A diplomatist who was
consul-general at Constantinople from 1878. He published Central Route
to the Pacific.
Heard, Franklin Fiske.Ms., 1825-1889. A Boston lawyer
who was a high authority on pleading. Criminal Law; Criminal Pleading;
Civil Pleading; Shakespeare as a Lawyer; Libel and Slander; Leading
Cases in Criminal Law (with E. H. Bennett, supra); Curiosities
of the Law Reporters; Oddities of the Law; Precedents of Equity
Pleadings; Precedents of Pleadings in Special Actions. Lit.
Hearn, Lafcadio.Ion., 1850-1904. A writer of Irish and
Greek parentage long a resident of New Orleans, later of New York city,
and more recently of Japan. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature; Some
Chinese Ghosts; Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma, the
Story of a West Indian Slave; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Out of the
East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan; Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of
Japanese Inner Life. Har. Hou.
Hebbard, Stephen Southwick. 1841- ——. A Universalist
clergyman. The Secret of Christianity; History of Wisconsin under the
Dominion of France. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Hecker, Isaac Thomas.N. Y., 1819-1888. A Roman Catholic
clergyman who in early life was one of the noted Brook Farm community.
Becoming a Roman Catholic he founded the Order of the Paulists in 1858.
In 1865 he established The Catholic World, of which he remained the
editor till his death. Questions of the Soul; Aspirations of Nature;
Catholicity in the United States; Catholics and Protestants agreeing on
the School Question; The Church and the Age.
Heckewelder [hĕk´e-wel-der], John Gottlieb Ernest.E., 1743-1823. A Moravian missionary who made extended studies
of Indian customs. His views were vehemently attacked by Lewis Cass,
and stoutly defended by Nathan Hale. History, etc., of the Pennsylvania
Indians; Mission of the United Brethren among the Delawares; Names
which the Delawares Gave to Rivers and Streams, etc., with their
Signification. See Life by E. Rondthaler, 1847; Bibliography of
Ohio.
Hedge, Frederic Henry.Ms., 1805-1890. Son of L. Hedge,
infra. A Unitarian clergyman, professor of German language and
literature at Harvard University, 1872-81. Reason in Religion; The
Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition; A Christian Liturgy; Prose Writers
of Germany; Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays; Atheism in Philosophy;
Sermons; Hours with German Classics; Martin Luther and Other Essays;
Metrical Translations and Poems (with Mrs. A. L. Wister, infra).
Co. Hou. Rob.
Hedge, Levi.Ms., 1767-1843. An educator of
Massachusetts, professor of logic in Harvard University, 1810-27, and
author of A System of Logic.
Heilprin, Angelo.Hy., 1853- ——. Son of M. Heilprin,
infra. A Philadelphia naturalist and artist, professor of
geology at Wagner Free Institute from 1885. Contributions to the
Tertiary Geology and Palæontology of the United States; Town Geology,
the Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks; Geographical and Geological
Distribution of Animals; Explorations on the West Coast of Florida;
Animal Life of Our Seashore; Geological Evidences of Evolution; The
Arctic Problem. Ap. Lip.
Heilprin, Louis.Hy., 1851- ——. Son of M. Heilprin,
infra. A writer of New York city. The Story of Hungary (with A.
Vambéry); Historical Reference Book; Chronological Table of Universal
History. Ap. Put.
Heilprin, Michael.Po., 1823-1888. A Polish refugee and
scholar who supported Kossuth in Hungary in 1848, and came to the
United States in 1850. He published Historical Poetry of the Hebrews
Critically Examined. Ap.
Heitzman, Charles.Hy., 1836- ——. A physician who
came to New York city from Vienna in 1874, and is of prominence as a
dermatologist. Chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie; Descriptive and
Topographical Anatomy of Man; Microscopic Morphology of the Animal Body.
Helmuth, Justus Christian Henry.G., 1745-1825. A
Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1769, and was pastor of St.
Michael’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, 1779-1820, and for eighteen
years professor of languages in the University of Pennsylvania. Taufe
und heilige Schrift; Unterhalten mit Gott; Geistliche Lieder; and
several works for children.
Helmuth, William Tod.Pa., 1833-1902. A surgeon of
New York city. Treatise on Diphtheria; Medical Pomposity; System of
Surgery; Scratches of a Surgeon; Suprapubic Lithotomy; With the “Pousse
Café,” postprandial verses.
Helper, Hinton Rowan.N. C., 1829- ——. A Southern
writer long resident in New York city. The Impending Crisis of the
South, a once famous work, which appeared shortly before the opening
of the Civil War; Nojoque; The Negroes in Negroland; The Land of Gold;
Oddments of Andean Diplomacy; The Three Americas Railway.
Hempel, Charles Julius.P., 1811-1879. A physician
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who came to America from Prussia in
1835. Christendom and Civilization; System of Materia Medica and
Therapeutics; The Science of Homœopathy; Homœopathic Theory and
Practice in Surgical Diseases (with J. Beakley); True Organization
of the New Church; Life of Christ (in German); several important
translations from the German.
Henck, John Benjamin.Pa., 1816- ——. A professor of
engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1865-81, and
the author of a Field Book for Railway Engineers.
Henderson, Ernest Flagg.N. Y., 1861- ——. An instructor
in Wellesley College. A History of Germany in the Middle Ages;
Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (edited); collaborator in
Larned’s History for Ready Reference. Mac.
Henderson, Isaac.N. Y., 1850- ——. A New York city
journalist, 1872-81, who has since lived abroad. The Prelate; Agatha
Page. The second of these two novels has been dramatized. Hou.
Henderson, Mrs. Mary [Foote].N. Y., 1842- ——. A writer
of St. Louis who organized the Industrial Art School in that city.
Practical Cooking and Dinner-Giving; Diet for the Sick. Har.
Henderson, Peter.S., 1823-1890. A noted seedsman of New
York city. Gardening for Profit; Practical Floriculture; Gardening
for Pleasure; Handbook of Plants; How the Farm Pays; Garden and Farm
Topics. Ju.
Henderson, William James.N. J., 1855- ——. A journalist
on the staff of the New York Times. The Story of Music; Preludes
and Studies; Sea Yarns for Boys; Afloat with the Flag; Elements of
Navigation. Har.
Hendrix, Eugene Russell.Mo., 1847- ——. A bishop of the
Methodist Church South, whose official residence is at Kansas City. He
has written Around the World.
Hening, William Waller. 17— -1828. A legal writer of Virginia.
The American Pleader and Lawyer’s Guide; The New Virginia Justice;
The Statutes of Virginia, 1691-1792; Reports of Cases in the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia and in the Supreme Court of Chancery for
Richmond District (with W. Munford, infra).
Henkle, Moses Montgomery.Va., 1798-1864. A Methodist
clergyman of Baltimore and elsewhere. Masonic Addresses; Primary
Platform of Methodism; Analysis of Church Government; Life of Bishop
Bascom; Primitive Episcopacy.
Hennequin [en´-căn], Alfred.F., 1846- ——. A
dramatist and educator who beside several Anglo-French text-books has
published The Art of Playwriting. Hou.
Henningsen, Charles Frederick.E., 1815-1877. A soldier
of Swedish descent and English birth who served with the Carlists in
Spain in 1834, and subsequently joined Kossuth in Hungary. He came to
America in 1856, was with Walker in Nicaragua, entered the Confederate
army in 1861, and became a general. The Last of the Sophis, a Poem;
Twelve Months’ Campaign with Zumalacarregui; The White Slave, a novel;
Eastern Europe; Sixty Years Hence, a novel of Russian life; Scenes from
the Belgian Revolution; Analogies and Contrasts; Personal Recollections
of Nicaragua; The Past and Future of Hungary.
Henry, Alexander.N. J., 1739-1824. A once noted
traveller in northwest America who published Travels and Adventures in
Canada between 1760-76.
Henry, Caleb Sprague.Ms., 1804-1884. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York and Connecticut who held professorships in
several colleges, and was at one time a journalist in New York city.
Moral and Philosophical Essays; Satan as a Moral Philosopher; About Men
and Things; Dr. Oldham at Greystones and his Talk There; Social Welfare
and Human Progress; Household Liturgy; The Endless Future of the Human
Race; Epitome of the History of Philosophy. He was the translator of
Guizot’s History of Civilization and other works. Ap. Har.
Henry, Guy Vernor.N. J., 1839-1899. Son of W. S. Henry,
infra. An officer in the United States army who served during
the Civil War, and in Indian wars subsequently. Military Record of
Civilian Appointments in the United States Army; Army Catechism for
Non-Commissioned Officers; Manual of Target Practice.
Henry, James.Pa., 1809-1895. A rifle manufacturer of
Boulton, Pennsylvania, who was president of the Moravian Historical
Society, and published Sketches of Moravian Life and Character.
Henry, John Flournoy.Ky., 1793-1873. A physician of
Burlington, Iowa, who published a Treatise on Causes and Treatment of
Cholera.
Henry, John Joseph.Pa., 1758-1811. A jurist of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was author of the Accurate and Interesting
Account of Arnold’s Campaign Against Quebec.
Henry, Joseph.N. Y., 1797-1878. A scientist of eminence
who was director of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 till his
death. Syllabus of Lectures on Physics; Scientific Writings of Joseph
Henry, 1886. See Memorial, 1880; Appleton’s American Biography.
Henry, Patrick.Va., 1736-1799. A celebrated Virginia
patriot and orator known to literature by his speeches. See Lives
by William Wirt, H. H. Everett, M. C. Tyler, W. W. Henry; Appleton’s
American Biography.
Henry, Mrs. Sarepta Myrenda [Irish].Pa., 1839-1901.
Temperance reformer of Evanston, Illinois. Victoria, with Other Poems;
After the Truth; The Voice of the Home; Mabel’s Work; Beforehand; One
More Chance.
Henry, Thomas Chalmers.Pa., 1790-1827. A Presbyterian
clergyman of South Carolina. Consistency of Popular Amusements for
Professing Christians; Moral Etchings from the Religious World; Letters
from an Anxious Believer. See Memoir by T. Lewis, 1829; Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Henry, William Seaton.N. Y., 1816-1851. An officer in
the United States army who published Campaign Sketches of the War with
Mexico.
Henry, William Wirt.Va., 1831-1900. A Virginia lawyer
and historical writer who published Life, Correspondence, and Speeches
of Patrick Henry.
Hensel, William Uhler.Pa., 1851- ——. A politician
and journalist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, author of Lives of T. A.
Hendricks and Grover Cleveland.
Henshaw, David.Ms., 1791-1852. A politician who was
secretary of the navy in 1843, and wrote Letters on the Internal
Improvement and Commerce of the West.
Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley.Ct., 1792-1852. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island. Theology for the People;
Lessons in Elocution; On Confirmation; The Work of Christ’s Living
Body, are his principal works.
Henshaw, Joshua Sidney.Ms., 1811-1859. A lawyer in Utica
from 1848, but previously an instructor in the United States navy.
Incitements to Well Doing; Life of Father Mathew; United States Manual
for Consuls; Around the World (1840); Philosophy of Human Progress.
Hentz, Mrs. Caroline Lee [Whiting].Ms., 1800-1856.
Wife of N. M. Hentz, infra. A popular Southern writer of many
sensational romances of ephemeral interest. Among them are, Lovell’s
Folly; Rena; The Planter’s Northern Bride; Linda. Pet.
Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus.F., 1797-1856. A French
educator well known as an entomologist. He came to America in 1816, and
taught in the University of North Carolina and elsewhere in the South.
Hepburn, James Curtis.Pa., 1815- ——. A missionary to
Japan of note as a lexicographer. A Japanese and English Dictionary; A
Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridgment of the
earlier work.
Hepworth, George Hughes.Ms., 1833-1902. A New York
journalist since 1887 on the editorial staff of the Herald. From
1855-72 he was a Unitarian clergyman, but subsequently entered the
Presbyterian ministry. Rocks and Shoals; Brown Studies; Hiram Golf’s
Religion; The Life Beyond; They Met in Heaven; Herald Sermons;
Starboard and Port, a summer’s yacht cruise; a book entitled !!!.
Dut. Har.
Herbermann, Charles George.Wa., 1840- ——. A professor
of Latin in the College of the City of New York from 1869, author of
Business Life in Ancient Rome. Har.
Herbert, Henry William. “Frank Forester.” E., 1807-1858.
A versatile, gifted writer who came to America in 1831, and lived
near Newark, New Jersey. His writings in historical fiction include
Cromwell; Marmaduke Nyvil; The Puritans of New England, issued later
as The Puritan’s Daughter; The Fronde; Sherwood Forest. In history:
Captains of the Old World; Cavaliers of England; Knights of England;
Chevaliers of France; Persons and Pictures from French and English
History; Captains of the Great Roman Republic; Henry VIII. and his Six
Wives. As “Frank Forester” he published Field Sports of the United
States and British Provinces; Fish and Fisheries of the United States;
Frank Forester and his Friends; Warwick Woodlands; My Shooting Box;
The Deer Stalkers; Manual for Young Sportsmen; Horse and Horsemanship;
Fugitive Sporting Sketches. He also made a number of translations
from the French, while a collection of his Poems, edited by M.
Herbert, appeared in 1888. See Life by T. Picton, 1881; Allibone’s
Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography.Co. Lip.
Hering, Constantin.Sxy., 1800-1880. A German physician
who came to Philadelphia in 1833 and founded there the first
homœopathic school in America. Among his writings are, Rise and
Progress of Homœopathy; Condensed Materia Medica; Effects of Snake
Poison; American Drug Provings; Domestic Physician. See Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Hering, Rudolph.Pa., 1847- ——. A civil engineer of
prominence and an authority upon sewerage and the water supply of
cities, upon which topics he has written valuable reports.
Herndon, Mrs. Mary.See Chiles, Mrs.
Herndon, William Henry.Ky., 1818-1891. A lawyer of
Springfield, Illinois, and a law partner of Abraham Lincoln, of whom he
published a Life in 1891.
Herndon, William Lewis.Va., 1813-1857. A naval officer
sent by government to explore the Amazon. The results of his expedition
are detailed in his Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (1853). His
daughter became the wife of President Arthur.
Herrick, Mrs. Christine [Terhune].N. J., 1859- ——.
Daughter of Mrs. Mary Terhune, infra. A writer of New York city
who has written much upon housekeeping themes. Housekeeping Made Easy;
The Chafing-Dish Supper; The Little Dinner; What to Eat, how to Serve
It; Cradle and Nursery; Liberal Living upon Narrow Means. Har. Hou.
Scr.
Herrick, John Russell.Vt., 1822- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Dakota University since 1883, and the author of
Lectures on Positivism.
Herrick, Samuel Edward.L. I., 1841-1904. A
Congregational clergyman of Boston. Some Heretics of Yesterday.
Hou.
Herrick, Mrs. Sophia McIlvaine [Bledsoe].O., 1837- ——.
Daughter of A. T. Bledsoe, supra. A New York writer on The
Century staff, and well known as a microscopist. Wonders of Plant Life;
Chapters in Plant Life; The Earth in Past Ages. Har. Put.
Herron, George Davis.Ind., 1862- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Iowa, since 1893 professor of applied Christianity in
Iowa College, very prominent as a writer and lecturer upon Christian
Socialism. The Christian Society; The Call of the Cross; The Larger
Christ; The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth; The Christian State;
Social Meanings of Religious Experiences. See The Arena, April,
1896.Ar. Cr. Rev.
Hewett, Edwin Crawford.Ms., 1828- ——. An educator
of Illinois, president of the State Normal University from 1876, and
author of Pedagogy for Young Teachers.
Hewett, Waterman Thomas.Mo., 1846- ——. An educator
who has held the chair of German literature at Cornell University
from 1883. The Frisian Language and Literature; Aims and Efforts of
Collegiate Study of Modern Languages; Mutual Relations of High Schools
and Colleges.
Hewit, Nathaniel Augustus.Ct., 1820-1897. A Roman
Catholic clergyman who, previous to 1846, was successively a
Congregational and Episcopal clergyman. In 1858 he entered the
Paulist order, taking the name of Augustine Francis, and since 1865
has been a professor in the Paulist Seminary. Reasons for Submitting
to the Catholic Church; Life of Princess Borghese; Life of a Modern
Martyr,—Dumoulin-Borie; Problems of the Age; The King’s Highway; Light
in Darkness.
Hewitt, Mrs. Emma [Churchman].La., 1850- ——. A writer
of Philadelphia. Ease in Conversation; Hints to Ballad Singers; Queens
of Home, a book for the household.
Hewitt, John Hill.N. Y., 1801-1890. A Baltimore author,
once a rival of Poe. He wrote many ballads, among which is The
Minstrel’s Return from the War; The Governess, a comedy; Washington, a
play; Shadows on the Wall, a collection of reminiscences.
Hewitt, Mrs. Mary.See Stebbins, Mrs.
Hibbard, Freeborn Garretson.N. Y., 1811-1895. A
Methodist clergyman of western New York. Christian Baptism; Geography
and History of Palestine; The Religion of Childhood; Life of L.
L. Hamline, supra; Eschatology; Commentary on the Psalms.
Meth.
Hibbard, George Abiah.N. Y., 1858- ——. A Buffalo
writer of short stories, notable for excellence of workmanship. Iduna,
and Other Stories; Nowadays, and Other Stories; The Governor, and Other
Stories. See The Book-Buyer, August, 1895.Har. Scr.
Hickok [hĭk´ŏk], Laurens Perseus.Ct., 1798-1888.
A Congregational clergyman who held several college professorships,
and was president of Union College, 1866-68. He subsequently lived
at Amherst. Logic of Reason; Moral Science; Empirical Psychology;
Rational Psychology; Rational Cosmology; Creator and Creation; Humanity
Immortal. Gi.
Hickox, John Howard.N. Y., 1832-1897. The State
librarian of New York, 1848-63, and subsequently employed in the
Congressional Library. Historical Account of American Coinage; History
of New York Paper Money, 1709-89; Catalogue of United States Government
Publications.
Hicks, Elias.L. I., 1748-1830. A famous Quaker
controversialist, and founder of the sect known as Hicksite Quakers.
He was an early and very active opponent of slavery. Observations
on Slavery; Journal of Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks;
Doctrinal Epistle. See Letters of; History of the Friends, by S.
Janney, infra.
Higginson, Mrs. Ella [Rhoads].Kan., 1862- ——. A
druggist of New Whatcom, Washington, who has written much verse of a
popular character, and The Flower that Grew in the Sand, and Other
Stories.
Higginson, Francis.E., 1588-1630. A Puritan clergyman
of Salem who emigrated to America in 1629. True Relation of the Last
Voyage to New England; New England’s Plantation. See Life, by T. W.
Higginson, infra; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit.
Higginson, John.E., 1616-1708. Son of F. Higginson,
supra. A Congregational clergyman of Salem, from 1659 till
his death in charge of the church founded by his father, and widely
popular in New England. The Cause of God and His People in New England;
Attestation to Cotton Mather’s Magnalia. See Tyler’s American
Literature.
Higginson, Mrs. Mary Potter [Thacher].Me., 1844- ——.
Wife of T. W. Higginson, infra. Seashore and Prairie, stories
and sketches.
Higginson, Mrs. Sarah Jane [Hatfield].Pa., 1840- ——.
A writer of New York city. A Princess of Java, a tale of the Far East;
Java: the Pearl of the East; The Bedouin Girl. Hou.
Higginson, Stephen.Ms., 1743-1828. A descendant of J.
Higginson, supra. A merchant of Boston of note in his day as a
political writer. Essays by Laco, reprinted as Ten Chapters in the
Life of John Hancock; Defence of Jay’s Treaty.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.Ms., 1823- ——. Grandson
of S. Higginson, supra. An essayist and littérateur of
Cambridge. In early life he was a Unitarian clergyman of a radical
type, and prominent among anti-slavery thinkers. During the Civil War
he commanded a regiment of freedmen. He has since been particularly
active as an advocate of suffrage for women. His writings include,
The Birthday in Fairy Land; Woman and her Wishes; Out-Door Papers; a
translation of Epictetus; Malbone, a romance; Army Life in a Black
Regiment; Atlantic Essays; Sympathy of Religions; Oldport Days; Young
Folks’ History of the United States; Young Folks’ Book of American
Explorers; Short Studies of American Authors; Common Sense about
Women; Life of Margaret Fuller; Larger History of the United States;
Travellers and Outlaws; Women and Men; The Afternoon Landscape, a
collection of poems; Life of Francis Higginson; The New World and
the New Book; Concerning All of Us; Such as They Are; The Monarch
of Dreams; Hints on Writing and Speech-Making; Cheerful Yesterdays;
English History for Americans (with E. Channing, supra); Book
and Heart. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Lgs.
Hildeburn, Charles Swift Riché.Pa., 1855-1901. The
librarian of the Philadelphia Athenæum from 1876. A Century of
Printing, or the Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784;
Printers and Printing in Colonial New York. Do.
Hildeburn, Mrs. Mary Jane [Reed].Pa., 1821-1882. A
Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, Day
Dreams; Archy and Pussy Series; Dr. Leslie’s Boys; Gaffney’s Tavern.
Hildreth, Charles Lotin.N. Y., 1856-1896. A journalist
of New York city. Judith, a novel; The New Symphony, and Other Stories;
The Masque of Death, and Other Poems.
Hildreth, Ezekiel.Ms., 1784-1856. An educator of Ohio
and Virginia. Logopolis, a grammatical treatise; A Key to Knowledge.
Hildreth, Richard.Ms., 1807-1865. A Boston journalist
and historian who was consul at Trieste in his latest years. Archy
Moore, an anti-slavery novel; History of Banks; Theory of Politics;
Despotism in America; Japan as it Was and Is; History of the United
States from the Discovery of the Continent to the Close of the 16th
Congress in 1820, a work which has few charms of style, though its
general merit is unquestioned. Har.
Hildreth, Samuel Prescott.Ms., 1783-1863. A physician
once prominent in Marietta, Ohio, where he settled in 1806. History
of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio; Lives of the Early
Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Early History of the North-West;
Meteorological Observations (with J. Wood); Pioneer History of the Ohio
Valley (1848); Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Early Pioneer
Settlers of Ohio. See Bibliography of Ohio.Meth.
Hilgard, Eugene Waldemar.Bv., 1831- ——. A professor
of agricultural chemistry at the University of California from 1875.
Geology and Agriculture of Mississippi; Geology of Lower Louisiana;
Cotton Production in the United States; Climatic Features, etc., of the
Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope (with T. C. Jones).
Hilgard, Julius Erasmus.Bv., 1825-1891. Brother of E. W.
Hilgard, supra. A civil engineer of note who was superintendent
of the United States Coast Survey, 1881-85, who published many valuable
professional papers.
Hill, Adams Sherman.Ms., 1833- ——. The Boylston
professor of rhetoric at Harvard University from 1876. Our English; The
Principles of Rhetoric; The Foundation of Rhetoric. Har.
Hill, Mrs. Agnes Leonard [Scanland]. “Mollie Myrtle.”
Ky., 1842- ——. Myrtle Blossoms; Vanquished, a novel; Heights
and Depths.
Hill, Benjamin Dionysius.E., 1842- ——. A Roman
Catholic clergyman and educator, for some time at Notre Dame
University, who has published Poems Devotional and Occasional.
Hill, Benjamin Harvey.Ga., 1823-1882. A noted Georgia
statesman. Notes on the Situation (1867-68); Address to the People of
Georgia.
Hill, Britton Armstrong.N. J., c. 1818- ——.
A prominent lawyer of St. Louis. Liberty and Law under Federative
Government; Absolute Money; Specie Resumption and National Bankruptcy
Identical.
Hill, Daniel Harvey.S. C., 1821-1889. A noted
mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges
before and since the Civil War, but during that conflict was a general
in the Confederate army. Elements of Algebra; Consideration of the
Sermon on the Mount; The Crucifixion of Christ.
Hill, David Jayne.N. J., 1850- ——. An educator of
note, president of the Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania, from 1879,
and subsequently of the University of Rochester, New York. Science of
Rhetoric; Elements of Rhetoric; Life of Washington Irving; Life of
Bryant; Principles and Fallacies of Socialism; Social Influences of
Christianity; The Elements of Psychology; Genetic Philosophy.
Hill, Edward Judson.N. Y., 183- - ——. A lawyer of
Chicago. Common Law Jurisdiction in Illinois; Chancery Jurisdiction
in Illinois; Probate Jurisdiction in Illinois; Municipal Offices in
Illinois.
Hill, Frederic Stanhope.Ms., 1829- ——. A journalist
of Cambridge. Twenty Years at Sea, or Leaves from my Old Log-Books;
Historical Continuity of the Anglican Church. Hou.
Hill, George.Ct., 1796-1871. A verse-writer who held
several government clerkships, and after 1835 lived at Guilford, his
native town. Ruins of Athens, and Other Poems; Titania’s Banquet, and
Other Poems. See Griswold’s Poets of America.
Hill, George Canning.Ct., 1825-1898. Lives of Captain
John Smith, Israel Putnam, Benedict Arnold, Daniel Boone; Homespun, or
Five and Twenty Years Ago; Our Parish, or Pen Paintings of Village Life.
Hill, Hamilton Andrews.E., 1827-1895. A Boston writer
who published History of the Old South Church, Boston, 1669-1884;
Memoir of Abbott Lawrence. Hou. Lit.
Hill, Henry Barker.Ms., 1849-1903. Son of T. Hill,
infra. A professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1879,
and author of Notes on Qualitative Analysis. Put.
Hill, Theophilus Hunter.N. C., 1836-1901. A lawyer
of Raleigh, North Carolina. Hesper, and Other Poems, the first book
copyrighted by the Confederate government; Passion Flower, and Other
Poems.
Hill, Thomas.N. J., 1818-1891. A Unitarian clergyman and
educator and a mathematician of eminence. He was president of Harvard
University, 1862-1868, and held pastorates at Waltham, Massachusetts,
and Portland, Maine. He invented several mathematical instruments, one
of which is the occultator. The Postulates of Religion and Ethics;
The Stars and the Earth; The True Order of Studies; Geometry and
Faith; Curvature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; Christmas, and
Poems on Slavery; The Natural Sources of Theology; In the Woods and
Elsewhere, containing notable experiments in classic metres; and
several text-books on arithmetic and geometry. See Bibliography of
Maine.El. Le. Put.
Hill, Walter Henry.Ky., 1822- ——. A Roman Catholic
clergyman and educator of Chicago, a professor in St. Louis University,
1864-65 and 1871-1884. Elements of Philosophy; Ethics, or Moral
Philosophy; Historical Sketch of St. Louis University.
Hillard, George Stillman.Me., 1808-1879. A lawyer of
Boston. Life of General McClellan; Life of George Ticknor (with Mrs.
Ticknor); Six Months in Italy. He also published a series of school
readers and an edition of Spenser. Hou.
Hillhouse, James Abram.Ct., 1789-1841. A dramatic
poet of New Haven. His ambitious, heavy dramas, Percy’s Masque,
Hadad, Demetria, were once extravagantly praised, but have long been
hopelessly dead. Dramas, Discourses, and Other Pieces, appeared in
1839. See North American Review, January, 1840.
Hilliard [hil´yärd], Francis.Ms., 1808-1878.
A jurist of Boston. The Law of Taxation; The Law of Vendors and
Purchasers; The Law of Mortgages; The Law of Torts; Law of Injunctions;
Law of New Trials; Law of Contracts; Law of Bankruptcy; American
Jurisprudence; American Law, a Comprehensive Summary. Lip.
Hilliard, Henry Washington.N. C., 1808-1892. A lawyer
and congressman of Alabama. In 1841 he was chargé d’affaires to
Belgium. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and
subsequently practiced law in Atlanta, serving as minister to Brazil,
1877-81. Speeches and Addresses; De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and
Patricians; Politics and Pen Pictures. Har.
Hills, George Morgan.N. Y., 1825-1890. An Episcopal
clergyman, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Burlington, New Jersey,
1870-90. History of the Church in Burlington; John Talbot, the First
Bishop in North America; Church of England Missions in New Jersey;
Transfer of the Church from Colonial Dependence to the Freedom of the
Republic.
Hinkel, Charles John.E., 1817-1894. A German educator
who came to America in 1855, and was professor of Greek and Latin at
Vassar College, 1869-90. Die Speculative Analysis des Begriffs Geist;
Leitfaden bei dem Unterreicht in der deutschen Grammatik; Allegemeine
Aesthetik für gebildete Leser.
Hinman, Royal Ralph.Ct., 1785-1868. A lawyer and
antiquarian of New Hampshire, and subsequently of New York city.
Historical Recollections of Connecticut in the American Revolution;
Catalogue of the First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut.
Hinrichs, Carl Detlef.Dk., 1836- ——. A Danish educator
who came to America in 1860, and was professor of physical sciences
in Iowa University, 1863-85. Elements of Physics; Elements of Atom
Mechanics; Principles of Pure Crystallography; Principles of Physical
Sciences; First Course in Qualitative Analysis.
Hinsdale, Burke Aaron.O., 1837-1900. An Ohio educator,
president of Hiram College, 1870-82, and for four years subsequently
superintendent of schools in Cleveland. Genuineness and Authenticity
of the Gospels; President Garfield and Education; Schools and Studies;
The Old Northwest; How to Study and Teach History; editor Life and
Works of Garfield. Ap. Hou. Sil.
Hinton, Isaac Taylor.E., 1799-1847. A Baptist clergyman
who came to America from England in 1822, and was pastor in Richmond,
Virginia, and in New Orleans, in which latter city he died. History of
Baptism; Lectures on the Prophecies.
Hirst, Henry Beck.Pa., 1813-1874. A lawyer and
verse-writer of Philadelphia. His poetical writings comprise Endymion,
a Tale of Greece; The Penance of Roland; The Coming of the Mammoth, and
Other Poems. He also published a Poetical Dictionary.
Hitchcock, Alfred.Vt., 1813-1874. A surgeon of
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who published Christianity and Medical
Science.
Hitchcock, Charles Henry.Ms., 1836- ——. Son of Edward
Hitchcock, infra. The State geologist of New Hampshire. Natural
History and Geology of Maine; New Hampshire Geological Survey; The
Geology of New Hampshire.
Hitchcock, Edward.Ms., 1793-1864. A Congregational
clergyman, State geologist of Massachusetts, 1833-1844, and president
of Amherst College, 1845-54. Religion of Geology; Illustrations of
Surface Geology; Fossil Footprints in the United States; Ichnology
of New England; Dyspepsia Forestalled and Resisted; Religious Truth
Illustrated from Science; Elementary Geology; Reminiscences of Amherst
College. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Hitchcock, Edward.Ms., 1828- ——. Son of E. Hitchcock,
supra. A physician, professor of hygiene in Amherst College from
1861. Anatomy and Physiology.
Hitchcock, Enos.Ms., 1744-1803. A Congregational
clergyman of Providence once famous as a preacher. Treatise on
Education; Sermons; Catechetical Instruction for Children and Youth.
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen.Vt., 1798-1870. A general in
the Federal army during the Civil War. He was a grandson of Ethan
Allen, the noted patriot, and was an ardent advocate of the doctrines
of Swedenborg. Alchemy and the Alchemists; Swedenborg, a Hermetic
Philosopher; Christ the Spirit, an argument for the symbolic exposition
of the Gospels; Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Spenser’s Colin
Clout Explained; Notes on Dante’s “Vita Nuova.”
Hitchcock, James Ripley Wellman.Ms., 1857- ——. Son of
A. Hitchcock, supra. A littérateur of New York city. The Western
Art Movement; A Study of George Jenness; Etchings in America; Madonnas
by Old Masters; Notable Etchings by American Artists; Some American
Painters in Water Colors; The Future of Etching.
Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight.Me., 1817-1887. A
Congregational clergyman who was president of Union Seminary from 1880.
Life of Edward Robinson, infra; Complete Analysis of the Bible;
The New Testament, with Readings Preferred by the American Committee
Incorporated into the Text; Eternal Atonement (with Francis Brown, the
editor of The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles). Scr.
Hittell, John Shertzer.Pa., 1825-1901. A journalist of
San Francisco. Evidences against Christianity; Mining in the Pacific
States; Brief History of Culture; History of San Francisco; The Spirit
of the Papacy; History of Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times;
Resources of California. Ap. Ho.
Hittell, Theodore Henry.Pa., 1830- ——. Brother of
J. S. Hittell, supra. A prominent lawyer and historian of
San Francisco. Adventures of Captain Capen Adams; General Laws of
California, 1850-64, commonly called Hittell’s Digest; Codes and
Statutes of California; History of California, a work of great value,
the first two volumes, appearing in 1885, carrying the narrative as
far as the close of the Mexican War, the remaining two volumes, issued
in 1897, bringing it to 1887. Goethe’s Faust, a critical review, was
issued in 1870. Se.
Hobart, John Henry.Pa., 1775-1830. The third Protestant
Episcopal bishop of New York, and a leader of Church thought in his
day. Companion for the Altar; State of Departed Spirits; Festivals and
Fasts; Apology for Apostolic Order. See Early and Professional Years
of Bishop Hobart, 1834-36.Dut.
Hobart, John Henry.N. Y., 1817-1889. Son of J. H.
Hobart, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city.
Instruction and Encouragement for Lent; Church Reform in Mexico;
Mediæval Papal and Ritual Principles Stated and Contrasted.
Hobby, William.Ms., 1707-1765. A Congregational
clergyman of Reading, Massachusetts. Vindication of Whitefield;
Self-Examination.
Hodge, Archibald Alexander.N. J., 1823-1886. Son of C.
Hodge, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology
at Princeton College from 1877. Outlines of Theology; Life of Charles
Hodge, infra; The Atonement; Commentary on the Confession of
Faith; Popular Lectures on Theological Themes. Scr.
Hodge, Charles.Pa., 1797-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman,
for nearly forty years editor of The Princeton Review, which he
founded, and to which he was the chief contributor. Systematic
Theology; Commentaries on the Epistles; Constitutional History of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States; What is Darwinism?;
Discussions in Church Polity; Conference Papers. See Life by A. A.
Hodge; Princetoniana, by Charles Salmond.Scr.
Hodge, Frederick Webb.E., 1864- ——. An ethnologist at
the Smithsonian Institution. Architecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of
Southern Arizona; Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of
the Salado Valley.
Hodge, Hugh Lenox.Pa., 1796-1873. Brother of C. Hodge,
supra. A physician who was professor of obstetrics in the
University of Pennsylvania from 1835. Principles and Practice of
Obstetrics; Diseases Peculiar to Women.
Hodge, John Aspinwall.Pa., 1831-1901. A Presbyterian
clergyman in Hartford, 1866-92. What is Presbyterian Law?; Theology of
the Shorter Catechism (second part); Recognition After Death.
Hodges, George.N. Y., 1856- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, dean of the Theological School at Cambridge from 1894, and
prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Heresy of Cain; Christianity
Between Sundays; Faith and Social Service. Wh.
Hodgkin, Louise Manning.Ms., 1846- ——. An educator
who was from 1876 to 1891 professor of English Literature in Wellesley
College. Guide to the Study of Nineteenth Century Literature; Via
Christi.
Hodgson, Francis.E., 1805-1877. A Methodist minister
in Pennsylvania and other States. Examination into the System of New
Divinity; Ecclesiastical Policy of Methodism Defended; Calvinistic
Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted. Meth.
Hoffman, Charles Fenno.N. Y., 1806-1884. Half brother
of M. Hoffman, infra. A once popular poet and story-writer of
New York city who from 1850 lived in absolute retirement by reason of
mental disorder. He excelled as a song-writer, his best known songs
being, Sparkling and Bright, and The Myrtle and Steel. A Winter in the
West; Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie; The Vigil of Faith, and
Other Poems; The Echo, or Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation (verse).
Love’s Calendar, and Other Poems; Grayslaer, a novel. See Poems of,
edited by E. Hoffman, 1874.
Hoffman, David.Md., 1784-1854. A lawyer who was
professor of law in the University of Maryland. A Course of Legal
Study; Legal Outlines; Legal Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men and
Things; Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the
Wandering Jew; Viator, a Peep into my Notebook.
Hoffman, David Bancroft.N. Y., 1827- ——. A politician
and physician of San Diego who has published Medical History of San
Diego County, California.
Hoffman, David Murray.N. Y., 1791-1878. A once prominent
New York jurist. Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Estate
and Rights of the Corporation of New York as Proprietors; Law of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Law in
the State of New York; Law and Practice as to References.
Hoffman, Eugene Augustus.N. Y., 1829-1902. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, dean of the General Theological Seminary
from 1879, and a prominent benefactor of that institution. Free
Churches; The Ritualistic Week; Manual of Devotion for Communicants.
Hoffman, John N——.Pa., 1804-1857. A Lutheran clergyman
of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Evangelical Hymns, Original and Selected; A
Collection of Tests; The Broken Platform, a Defence of the Symbolical
Books of the Lutheran Church.
Hoffman, Wickham.N. Y., 1821-1900. Son of D. M. Hoffman,
supra. A diplomatist who, after serving as secretary of legation
at Paris, London, and St. Petersburg successively, was minister to
Denmark, 1883-85. Camp, Court, and Siege, a Narrative of Personal
Adventure during Two Wars; Leisure Hours in Russia.
Hogan, John.I., 1805-1892. A politician and banker of
St. Louis. Thoughts about St. Louis; Resources of Missouri; Sketches of
Early Western Pioneers; History of Western Methodism.
Hoge [hōg], Moses.Va., 1752-1820. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator of Virginia, president of Hampden and Sidney
College, 1806-20, and widely known as an eloquent preacher. Christian
Panoply, a Reply to Paine’s “Age of Reason;” Sermons.
Hoge, William James.Va., 1821-1864. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, and subsequently of Petersburg, Virginia,
very popular in his day, and the author of Blind Bartimeus, or the
Sightless Sinner.
Hogg, Wilson Thomas.N. Y., 1852- ——. A Free Methodist
clergyman, president of Greenville College from 1893. Handbook of
Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Revivals and Revival Work.
Hoke, Jacob. 18— - ——. The Age we Live In; Holiness, or the
Higher Christian Life; Clusters from Eshcol; Guide to the Battle Field
of Gettysburg; The Great Invasion of 1863.
Holbrook, Alfred.Ct., 1816- ——. An educator of
Lebanon, Ohio. The Normal, or Methods of Teaching; An English Grammar
Conformed to Present Usage.
Holbrook, James. 1812-1864. From 1845 a special agent of the
United States Post Office. He published Ten Years Among the Mailbags.
Holbrook, John Edwards.S. C., 1794-1871. A physician and
naturalist, professor of anatomy at the Medical College in Charleston
for more than thirty years. American Herpetology; Ichthyology of South
Carolina.
Holbrook, Martin Luther.O., 1831-1902. A physician of
New York city, professor of hygiene in the New York Medical College
and Hospital for Women, and editor of The Herald of Health and Journal
of Hygiene. Parturition Without Pain; Eating for Strength; Hygiene of
Brain and Nerves; Marriage and Parentage; How to Strengthen the Memory;
Hygienic Treatment of Consumption.
Holbrook, Silas Pinckney.S. C., 1796-1835. Brother of
J. E. Holbrook, supra. A lawyer of Medfield, Massachusetts.
Sketches by a Traveller is a collection of his contributions to the
Boston Courier and the New England Galaxy.
Holcombe, Henry.Va., 1762-1826. A Baptist clergyman of
Philadelphia. Lectures on Primitive Theology; First Fruits.
Holcombe, Hosea.S. C., 1780-1841. A Baptist clergyman of
Alabama. Collection of Sacred Hymns; Anti-Mission Principles Exposed;
History of Alabama Baptists.
Holcombe, James Philemon.Va., 1820-1873. A lawyer and
educator of Virginia, professor of law in the University of Virginia,
1852-60, and member of the Confederate Congress, 1861-1863. Law of
Debtor and Creditor; Literature and Letters; Introduction to Equity
Jurisprudence; Leading Cases upon Commercial Law; Digest of United
States Supreme Court Decisions; Merchants’ Book of Reference. Ap.
Holcombe, William Frederick.Ms., 1827- ——. A physician
of New York city, professor of eye and ear diseases in several medical
institutions. History of Mount Sterling, Kentucky; History of the
Holcombes in America; Family Records, their Importance and Value.
Holcombe, William Henry.Va., 1825-1894. Brother of J.
P. Holcombe, supra. A homœopathic physician of New Orleans, who
was well known as a Swedenborgian writer. Our Children in Heaven; Lost
Truths of Christianity; The Other Life; Southern Voices, a volume of
verse; Scientific Basis of Homœopathy; How I Became a Homœopath; Poems;
The Sexes Here and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End of the World; The
New Tenant; Letters on Spiritual Subjects; Condensed Thoughts About
Christian Science. Lip.
Holden, Edward Singleton.Mo., 1846- ——. An astronomer,
president of the University of California since 1880, and director
of the Lick Observatory. Astronomy for Students (with S. Newcomb,
infra); Life of Sir William Herschel; Monograph of the
Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion; Notes on the Bastion System of
Fortification; Astronomical Bibliography; Handbook of Lick Observatory;
The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan. Scr.
Holden, George Henry.Ms., 1848- ——. The proprietor
of a bird store in Boston who has published Canaries and Cage Birds.
Ju.
Holden, Luther Loud. 18— - ——. Persis, a Tale of the White
Mountains; A Summer Jaunt through the Old World.
Holder, Charles Frederick.Ms., 1851- ——. Son of J.
B. Holder, infra. A naturalist of New York city, and a popular
writer upon natural history topics. Elements of Zoölogy (with J. B.
Holder); Marvels of Animal Life; The Ivory King; Living Lights; Wonder
Wings; A Strange Company; A Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales; All About
Pasadena; Along the Florida Reef; Life of Agassiz; Young Folks’ Story
Book of Natural History. Ap. Do. Le. Lo. Put. Scr.
Holder, Joseph Bassett.Ms., 1824-1888. A zoölogist who
was a curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city.
History of the North American Fauna; History of the Atlantic Right
Whales; The Living World.
Holdich, Joseph.E., 1804-1893. A Methodist clergyman who
was secretary of the American Bible Society, 1849-78. Bible History;
Life of A. H. Hurd; Life of Wilbur Fisk, supra. Har. Meth.
Holland, Edward Clifford.S. C., 1794-1824. A journalist
of Charleston who was the author of a volume of Odes, Naval Songs, and
Other Poems.
Holland, Frederick May.Ms., 1836- ——. Son of F.
W. Holland, infra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts.
The Reign of the Stoics; Stories from Robert Browning; The Rise of
Intellectual Liberty from Thales to Copernicus; Life of Frederick
Douglass. Fu. Ho.
Holland, Frederick West.Ms., 1811-1895. A Unitarian
clergyman of Concord, Massachusetts. Scenes in Palestine; Sinai and
Jerusalem, or Scenes from Bible Lands.
Holland, Henry Ware.N. Y., 1844- ——. Son of F. W.
Holland, supra. A Boston lawyer and journalist. William Dawes
and his Ride with Paul Revere.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. “Timothy Titcomb.” Ms.,
1819-1881. A popular author and lecturer whose writings met with severe
criticism as literary productions without being materially affected in
popularity. They were addressed to average commonplace humanity, and
exerted a wide and helpful influence. He was editor of The Springfield
Republican, 1849-66, and of Scribner’s Magazine from 1870 until his
death. His writings in verse include, Kathrina; Bitter Sweet; The
Mistress of the Manse; The Marble Prophecy; Garnered Sheaves, including
all his poems up to 1873; The Puritan’s Guest, and Other Poems. In
fiction: The Bay Path; Arthur Bonnicastle; Sevenoaks; Miss Gilbert’s
Career; Nicholas Minturn. His other works comprise, Gold Foil Hammered
from Popular Proverbs; History of Western Massachusetts; Letters to
Young People; Lessons in Life; Concerning the Jones Family; Plain Talks
on Familiar Subjects; Life of Abraham Lincoln, which had an enormous
sale. See Century Magazine, December, 1881; Memoir by Mrs. H. M.
Plunkett.Scr.
Holland, Robert Afton.Tn., 1844- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of St. Louis, but formerly a clergyman of the Methodist
faith. The Philosophy of the Real Presence; Relations of Philosophy to
Agnosticism and Religion; The Proof of Immortality; Midsummer Night’s
Dream, an Interpretation; Democracy in the Church; What is the Use of
Going to Church?
Holley, Alexander Lyman.Ct., 1832-1882. An engineer
of eminence who was a lecturer on iron and steel manufacture in the
Columbia School of Mines from 1879, and an inventor of prominence.
Railway Economics (with Zerah Colburn, supra); Treatise on
Ordnance and Armor. See Memorial of, 1884.
Holley, Marietta. “Josiah Allen’s Wife.” N. Y.,
1844- ——. A well-known and popular humourous writer whose home has
always been at Ellisburg, New York. Her writings contain much real wit
and shrewd sense, but the effect is often marred by extravagance and
faults of taste. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet’s; My Wayward Pardner;
Josiah Allen’s Wife as a P. A. and a P. I.; Samantha at the World’s
Fair; Samantha in Europe; Samantha Among the Brethren; Samantha at
Saratoga; Samantha at the Centennial; Poems; Sweet Cicely; Josiah’s
Alarm. Fu. Lip.
Holley, Mrs. Mary [Austin]. 17— -1846. The wife of Horace
Holley, a Unitarian clergyman of Kentucky. Texas: Observations
Historical, Geographical, and Descriptive (1833); Memoir of Horace
Holley.
Holley, Orville Luther.Ct., 1791-1861. Brother-in-law of
Mrs. Holley, supra. A lawyer and journalist of New York city.
Description of New York City; Life of Benjamin Franklin.
Hollister, Gideon Hiram.Ct., 1817-1881. A lawyer of
Litchfield, Connecticut, who was minister to Hayti, 1868-69. Mount
Hope, an historical romance; History of Connecticut; Thomas à Becket, a
Tragedy, and Other Poems; Kinley Hollow.
Holloway, Mrs. Laura [Carter].Tn., 1848- ——. A
writer who was for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn
Eagle. Ladies of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Brontë; The
Hearthstone, or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women;
Chinese Gordon; Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson;
The Buddhist Diet Book. Fu.
Holly, Henry Hudson.N. Y., 1834-1892. An architect of
New York city. Country Seats; Church Architecture; Modern Dwellings in
Town and Country.
Holm, Saxe.See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.
Holmes, Abiel.Ct., 1763-1837. A Unitarian clergyman of
Cambridge, pastor of the First Church there, 1792-1832. Life of Ezra
Stiles, infra; History of Cambridge; American Annals; Memoir of
the French Protestants. See Life by W. Jenks.
Holmes, Daniel.N. Y., 1810-1873. A Methodist preacher in
Michigan and Indiana. Pure Gold, or Truth in its Native Loveliness; The
Wesley Offering; Discussion on the Atonement.
Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana [Klingle]. “George Klingle.” Pa.,
185- - ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Make Thy Way Mine; In the
Name of the King. Sto.
Holmes, John.Ms., 1773-1843. A once prominent senator in
Congress from Massachusetts, and subsequently from Maine, who was the
author of The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation.
Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane [Hawes].Ms., 18— - ——. A
voluminous author of popular fiction of a domestic kind, the literary
merit of which is slight. She has for many years lived at Brockport,
New York. Among her writings are, Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine;
Marian Grey; Gretchen. Dil.
Holmes, Nathaniel.N. H., 1814-1901. A jurist of St.
Louis in earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in
Harvard University, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He
was an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of
Shakespeare’s plays. The Authorship of Shakespeare; Realistic Idealism
in Philosophy Itself. Hou.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell.Ms., 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes,
supra. A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet,
novelist, and essayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in
Boston his life was almost entirely passed. From 1847 to 1882 he was
professor of anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from
the founding of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of
which he began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial
occasions, and is more or less ephemeral in its nature; but his serious
verse and his essays entitle him to a high place among American
writers. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the
Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought
and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in
Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian
Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an
Old Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications
include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons;
The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. See Lives by
W. Kennedy, E. E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists;
Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature;
Stedman’s Poets of America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft
Noble’s Impressions and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors,
1890; Harper’s Monthly, December, 1896.Hou.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.Ms., 1841- ——. Son of O. W.
Holmes, supra. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common
Law and edited Kent’s Commentaries. Lit.
Holst, Hermann Eduard von.Livonia, 1841-1904. An
historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing
and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively
professor of history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and
at Freiburg, 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the
University of Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie
der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is
entitled The Constitutional and Political History of the United
States. His other works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown;
Constitutional Law of the United States. Hou.
Holt, John Saunders.Al., 1826-1886. A lawyer of New
Orleans. Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles;
The Quines. Lip.
Homes, Henry Augustus.Ms., 1812-1887. A Congregational
clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and
subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed
as librarian in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of
Mesopotamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California;
The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of
Constantinople, comprise his principal works.
Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers].Md., 1830- ——.
A writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans;
Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of
Rhymes.
Honeywood, Saint John.Ms., 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem,
New York, whose political Poems were published in 1801.
Hood, George.Ms., 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent
as an educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical
Manual; History of Music in New England (1846).
Hood, John Bell.Ky., 1831-1879. A noted general in the
Confederate army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the
United States and Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military
movements.
Hood, Samuel.I., c. 1800-1875. A Philadelphia
lawyer, author of A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in
Pennsylvania.
Hooke, William.E., 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who
was a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for
some seven years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following
pastor at New Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain
to Cromwell. New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best
known of his writings. See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s
Annals of the American Pulpit.
Hooker, Edward William.Ct., 1794-1875. A Congregational
clergyman of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, infra. A
Plea for Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.
Hooker, Herman.Vt., 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman
who retired from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia.
Family Book of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims;
The Portion of the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life
of Faith.
Hooker, Horace.Ct., 1793-1864. A Congregational
clergyman of Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.
Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher].Ct., 1822- ——. The
youngest daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. A philanthropist of
Hartford, prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage.
Womanhood: its Sanctities and Fidelities.
Hooker, Thomas.E., 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who
came to America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge,
then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock to
the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford. A
theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe of
Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption; The
Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. See Tyler’s American
Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.
Hooker, Worthington.Ms., 1806-1867. A physician of
Norwich, Connecticut, who was professor of medicine at Yale University,
1852-67. Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homœopathy; Human
Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature;
Child’s Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical
Delusions; Science for the School and Family; The Medical Profession
and the Community. Har.
Hooper, Edward James.E., 1803-189-. A once prominent
agriculturist in the West who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.
Hooper, Johnson.N. C., 1815-1863. A lawyer of Alabama.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other
Alabama Tales.
Hooper, Lucy.Ms., 1816-1841. A verse-writer of much
promise whose home was in Brooklyn. Scenes from Real Life, a collection
of prose Sketches, appeared during her lifetime, and her Complete Poems
in 1848. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton [Jones].Pa., 1835-1893. A
Philadelphia author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris
correspondent for several American papers. Poems, with translations
from the German; Under the Tri-Color, a Novel; The Tsar’s Window, a
Novel. Lip. Rob.
Hope, James Barron.Va., 1827-1887. A lawyer and
journalist of Norfolk. Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode;
Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; Arms and the Man, and Other
Poems.
Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah.N. Y., 1843- ——. A journalist,
educator, and lecturer. His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper
Poets; Our Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General
Clinton Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and their
Authors; Wealth and Waste; Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of
Lucile. Fu. Hou.
Hopkins, Caspar Thomas.Vt., 1826-1893. Son of Bishop
Hopkins, infra. A Californian journalist who established the
first insurance company on the Pacific coast. He published a Manual of
American Ideas.
Hopkins, Edward Washburn.Ms., 1857- ——. A professor
of Sanskrit in Yale University. Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in
Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and Military Position of the
Ruling Caste in Ancient India; The Religions of India. Gi.
Hopkins, Erastus.Ms., 1810-1872. A Presbyterian
clergyman, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the
author of The Family a Religious Institution.
Hopkins, John Henry.I., 1792-1868. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigour and versatility,
prominent both as a High Churchman and a controversialist. History
of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The
Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in
her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the
institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve
Canzonets, words and music; History of the Church in verse, include his
principal writings. See Life by his son, J. H. Hopkins, infra.
Hopkins, John Henry.Pa., 1820-1891. Son of J. H.
Hopkins, supra. An Episcopal clergyman who founded The Church
Journal, of which he was long the editor. Among his writings are
included Carols, Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Wayside; Life of Bishop
Hopkins; Faith and Order of the Protestant Church in the United States;
and a translation of Goethe’s Autobiography. See C. F. Sweet’s
Champion of the Cross, 1894.Wh.
Hopkins, Lemuel.Ct., 1750-1801. A political writer of
note in his day, author of satires, poems, and a favourite version of
Psalm cxxxii. With Barlow and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a plea for
an efficient federal constitution.
Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa Parsons [Stone].Ms., 1834-1895.
An educator of Boston, for some years a member of the Boston School
Board. How Shall my Child be Taught?; Practical Pedagogy; Educational
Psychology; Observation Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic Geography;
Handbook of the Earth; Parables of Nature and Life. In verse she wrote,
Motherhood; Breath of the Field and Shore; Easter Carols. Le.
Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa [Payson].Me., 1812-1862. A
writer of religious works for young people, the wife of Professor
Albert Hopkins, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Pastor’s Daughter;
Lessons on the Book of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guiding Star; The
Silent Comforter; Select Thoughts. See Sewall’s Memoirs of Albert
Hopkins.
Hopkins, Mark.Ms., 1802-1887. A Congregational
clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1836-1872, and a man
of wide influence as an educator and a religious writer. Lectures
on Moral Science; The Law of Love and Love as a Law; Discourses and
Essays; Outline Study of Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teachings
and Counsels; Evidences of Christianity. See Life by F. Carter,
supra.Rev. Scr.
Hopkins, Mark.Ms., 1851- ——. Son of M. Hopkins,
supra. A journalist in London. The World’s Verdict, a novel.
Hou.
Hopkins, Samuel.Ct., 1721-1803. A Congregational
clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, the founder of what has been called
Hopkinsian Divinity, which differed from Calvinism in maintaining
the free agency of sinners, the moral inability of the unregenerate,
and ascribing the essence of sin to the disposition and purpose
of the mind. His views had great influence in the modification of
contemporary thought. He was a strong opponent of slavery, and his
influence procured the passage of a law prohibiting the importation
of slaves into Rhode Island. The System of Doctrine contained in
Divine Revelation is his principal work. Others are, The True State of
the Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; The Duty and Interest of
American States to Emancipate their Slaves. See Life by Park; Mrs.
Stowe’s Minister’s Wooing; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Hopkins, Samuel.Ms., 1807-1887. Cousin of M. Hopkins,
1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman of New England, long
a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. The Puritans and Queen
Elizabeth; Lessons at the Cross; Youth of the Old Dominion.
Hopkins, Samuel Miles.Ct., 1772-1837. A jurist of New
York State. Chancery Reports; Treatise on Temperance.
Hopkins, Samuel Miles.N. Y., 1813-1901. Son of S. M.
Hopkins, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn
Theological Seminary from 1847. Manual of Church Polity; Liturgy and
Book of Common Prayer.
Hopkins, Stephen.R. I., 1707-1785. One of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, and ten times governor of Rhode
Island. He was the author of Rights of the Colonies Examined; History
of the Planting and Growth of Providence. See Life by W. E. Foster,
1884; Bibliography of Rhode Island.
Hopkinson, Francis.Pa., 1737-1791. A once famous
political writer and lawyer of Philadelphia, among whose political
writings are, The Pretty Story; The Prophecy; The Political Catechism;
The New Roof. He is best known by his humourous poem, The Battle of the
Kegs. Three volumes of his Miscellaneous Writings were published in
1792.
Hopkinson, Joseph.Pa., 1770-1842. Son of F. Hopkinson,
supra. A jurist of Philadelphia who is chiefly remembered as the
author of the poem, Hail Columbia.
Hoppin, Augustus.R. I., 1828-1896. An artist and
illustrator. On the Nile; Ups and Downs on Land and Water; Jubilee
Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable
Sufferer; Two Compton Boys; Married for Fun, a romance. Hou.
Hoppin, James Mason.R. I., 1820- ——. Cousin of
A. Hoppin, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of
homiletics at Yale University, 1861-1879, and subsequently of the
history of art. Notes of a Theological Student; Old England; Life
of Admiral Foote; Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown, supra;
Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work of the Christian
Minister; Sermons on Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Renaissance;
Greek Art on Greek Soil. Do. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip.
Horn, Edward Traill.Pa., 1850- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman of Charleston. The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper
Services of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgics; The Evangelical
Pastor.
Hornaday, William Temple.Ind., 1854- ——. A naturalist
of Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National
Museum. Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle
on the Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; Taxidermy and Zoölogical
Collecting. Scr.
Horner, William Edmunds.Va., 1793-1853. A physician of
Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania,
1819-53. Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector;
Anatomical Atlas; Pathological Anatomy. See Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries.
Horsfield, Thomas.Pa., 1773-1859. A naturalist and
traveller who was a native of Philadelphia, but was in the employ of
the East India Company, and lived in England after 1820. Lepidopterous
Insects; Zoölogical Researches in Java. See Dictionary of National
Biography, vol. 27.
Horsford, Eben Norton.N. Y., 1818-1893. A chemist of
Cambridge who was Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1847-63. He
was the discoverer of acid phosphate, and one of the founders of the
Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Theory and Art of Breadmaking;
The Army Ration; Discovery of America by Northmen. Hou.
Horsford, Mrs. Mary L’Hommedieu [Gardiner].N. Y.,
1824-1855. Wife of E. N. Horsford, supra, and author of Indian
Legends and Other Poems.
Horsmanden, Daniel.E., 1691-1778. A jurist of New York
city. The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot;
Letters to Governor Clinton.
Horton, George Forman.Pa., 1808-1888. A lawyer of
Terrytown, Pennsylvania. Geology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; The
Horton Genealogy.
Horton, Samuel Dana.O., 1844-1895. A publicist of
Pomeroy, Ohio, eminent as an advocate of bimetallism. Silver and Gold;
The Silver Pound and England’s Monetary Position since the Restoration,
with a History of the Guinea; Silver in Europe. Clke. Mac.
Hosack, David.N. Y., 1769-1835. An eminent physician
and scientist of New York city who founded the first botanic garden
in America. Contagious Diseases; Vision; Hortus Elginensis; Memoir of
Hugh Williamson; Memoirs of De Witt Clinton; Essays on Medical Science;
Theory and Practice of Medicine.
Hoskins, Nathan.Vt., 1795-1869. A lawyer of Vermont and
Massachusetts. History of Vermont; Notes in the West; The Bennington
Court Controversy.
Hosmer, Frederick Lucian.Ms., 1846- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Chicago. The Way of Life; The Thought of God in Hymns and
Poems (with W. C. Gannett, supra). Rob.
Hosmer, George Washington. 1846- ——. A physician. The People
and Politics; As We Went Marching On, a Story of the War. Har.
Hou.
Hosmer, James Kendall.Ms., 1834- ——. A professor in
Washington University of St. Louis, 1874-92, and since the latter date
public librarian of Minneapolis. Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom;
The Story of the Jews; Life of Sir Henry Vane; Life of Samuel Adams;
Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts
Bay; The Color Guard, a narrative of personal experience; The Thinking
Bayonet, a novel; A Short History of German Literature; How Thankful
was Bewitched. Hou. Put. Scr.
Hosmer, Mrs. Margaret [Kerr].Pa., 1830-1897. A
Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, A Chinaman
in California; The Chinese Boy; The Little Captives; Lonny the Orphan.
She wrote, also, three novels, Blanche Gilroy; The Morrisons; Ten
Years of a Life Time. Co. Lip.
Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler.N. Y., 1814-1877. A lawyer
of western New York who wrote much in verse, the greater part of
which is concerned with Indian legends. Fall of Tecumseh; Legends of
the Senecas; The Themes of Song; The Months; Yonnondio; Bird Notes;
Indian Traditions and Songs; The Pioneers of Western New York. See
Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Hotchkiss, James Harvey.Ct., 1781-1851. A Presbyterian
minister of Prattsburg, New York, the author of History of the Churches
of Western New York.
Hough [hŭff], Franklin Benjamin.N. Y., 1820-1885.
A physician whose later years were passed in Lowville, New York, in
scientific and historical study. Among his works are, Catalogue of
Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties; History of St. Lawrence and
Franklin Counties; The Siege of Charleston in 1780; Duty of Government
in the Preservation of Forests; Report on Forestry; Elements of
Forestry; American Constitutions. Clke.
Hough, George Washington.N. Y., 1836- ——. An
astronomer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory. Annals
of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dearborn Observatory; The Galvanic
Battery, are among his writings.
Houghton [ho´ton], George Washington Wright.Ms.,
1850-1891. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. His
published volumes of verse include, Songs from Over the Sea; Album
Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; The Legend of St. Olaf’s Kirk;
Niagara, and Other Poems. Hou.
Houghton, Henry Clark.Ms., 1837-1901. A physician of
New York city, dean of the ophthalmic hospital. Lectures on Clinical
Otology.
House, Edward Howard.Ms., 1836-1901. A journalist and
critic of Boston and New York, long resident in Japan. The Simonoseki
Affair; The Kagosima Affair; The Japanese Expedition to Formosa;
Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; The Midnight Warning,
and Other Stories. Har.
Houston, Daniel Franklin.N. C., 1866- ——. A professor
of political economy in the University of Texas. A Critical History of
Nullification in South Carolina. Lgs.
Hovey [hŭv´ĭ], Alvah.N. Y., 1820-1903. A Baptist
clergyman, professor in Newton Theological Seminary from 1849, and
from 1868 its president. The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law
of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead;
Christian Teaching and Life; God With Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical
Eschatology; Studies in Ethics and Religion, include his principal
works. Bap.
Hovey, Charles Mason.Ms., 1810-1887. A noted
horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey’s Magazine of
Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of
Fruits of America.
Hovey, Horace Carter.Ind., 1833- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Celebrated American Caverns.
Hovey, Richard.Il., 1864-1900. A verse-writer of
Washington. The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guenevere, a Poem in
Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guenevere; Seaward, an Elegy on
the Death of Thomas William Parsons, infra; Gandelfo, a tragedy;
Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia (with W. B.
Carman, supra). Cop. Lo. St.
Howard, Blanche Willis.See Teuffel, von.
Howard, Bronson.Mch., 1842- ——. A prominent dramatist
of New York city. Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and
in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s
Daughter; Old Love Letters; Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The
Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met
by Chance; Greenroom Fun.
Howard, Oliver Otis.Me., 1830- ——. A major-general in
the United States army who served during the Civil War and in several
Indian campaigns; in command of the Division of the Atlantic from
1888. Donald’s School Days; a translation of Agenor’s Life of Count de
Gasparin; Chief Joseph, or the Nez Percés in Peace and War; Isabella of
Castile. Fu. Le.
Howarth, Mrs. Ellen Clementine [Doran].N. Y., 1827-1899.
A verse-writer of Trenton, New Jersey. Poems; Poems edited by R. W.
Gilder, (1868). ’Tis but a Little Faded Flower, and Thou Wilt Never
Grow Old, are well-known poems of hers.
Howe, Edgar Watson.Ind., 1854- ——. A journalist of
Atchison, Kansas, editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story
of a Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The
Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; A Man Story.
Howe, Fisher.Vt., 1798-1871. A philanthropist of
Brooklyn. Oriental and Sacred Scenes; The True Site of Calvary.
Ran.
Howe, Frederic Clemson.Pa., 1867- ——. Taxation
and Taxes in the United States under the Internal Revenue System,
1791-1895. Cr.
Howe, George.Ms., 1802-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman,
professor of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at
Columbia, South Carolina, from 1831. Theological Education; History of
the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina.
Howe, Henry.Ct., 1816-1893. An historical writer and
compiler of Cincinnati. Historical Collections of New Jersey (with J.
W. Barber, infra); Our Whole Country; The Great West; Historical
Collections of Virginia and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures and
Achievements of Americans; Times of the Rebellion in the West, are
among his works.
Howe, Henry Marion.Ms., 1848- ——. Son of S. G. and J.
W. Howe, infra. A metallurgist who has published The Metallurgy
of Steel; Copper Smelting.
Howe, Herbert Alonzo.N. Y., 1858- ——. An astronomer of
Colorado, director of Chamberlin Observatory, University of Denver. A
Study of the Sky; Elements of Descriptive Astronomy. Fl. Sil.
Howe, John Badlam.Ms., 1813-1882. A publicist of
Indiana whose works upon finance have had much influence. Monetary and
Industrial Fallacies; Mono-Metalism and Bi-Metalism; The Political
Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France in the Use of
Money; The Common Sense of Money; Replies to Criticisms. Hou.
Howe, Mrs. Julia [Ward].N. Y., 1819- ——. Wife of S. G.
Howe, infra. A writer of Boston long prominent in philanthropic
movements, and as a lecturer upon the enfranchisement of women. The
Battle Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort. Her writings include,
Passion Flowers; Words for the Hour; The World’s Own; A Trip to Cuba;
From the Oak to the Olive; Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir of
S. G. Howe, infra; Modern Society; Life of Margaret Fuller; Is
Polite Society Polite?; From Sunset Ridge, poems. Lam. Le.
Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe.R. I., 1809-1895. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central Pennsylvania. Domestic Slavery,
a Reply to Bishop Hopkins; Life of Alonzo Potter, infra.
Howe, Maud.See Elliott, Mrs.
Howe, Samuel Gridley.Ms., 1801-1876. A physician of
Boston, the first superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the
Blind, and a man of prominence in the anti-slavery movement. Reader
for the Blind; Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. See J. F.
Clarke’s Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Memoir by Mrs. Howe.
Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford.N. C., 1801-1868. A once
noted Baptist clergyman of Nashville. Terms of Sacramental Communion;
The Way of Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The Cross; The Covenant;
Early Baptists of Virginia.
Howells, William Cooper.W., 1807-1894. Life in Ohio from
1813 to 1840. Clke.
Howells, William Dean.O., 1837- ——. Son of W. C.
Howells, supra. A novelist of much prominence who at nineteen
was a printer on a Cincinnati journal, and in 1860 published with
J. J. Piatt, infra, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year
he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at
Venice. Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of
his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and
since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New
York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At
the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their
Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The
Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance;
A Woman’s Reason; The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful
Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of
Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The
Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World
of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveller from Altruria; Christmas
Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting;
The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-trap, and Other Farces;
Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A
Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a
book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages
(Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy’s
Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction;
My Literary Passions. Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Century
Magazine, March, 1882; Vedder’s American Writers; New England Magazine,
October, 1893; The Bookman, February, 1897.Har. Hou.
Howison, George Holmes.Md., 1834- ——. A mathematician
who has published a Treatise on Analytic Geometry.
Howison, Robert Reid.Va., 1820- ——. A lawyer of
Richmond. History of Virginia; History of the American Civil War;
Fredericksburg; Lives of Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; God and
Creation.
Howland, George.Ms., 1824-1892. An educator of Illinois,
president of the State board of education, 1882. Grammar of the English
Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; an hexameter translation
of the Æneid; Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools.
Ap.
Hows, John William Stanhope.E., 1797-1871. A journalist
and educator of New York city who published The Practical Elocutionist,
and edited a number of school books.
Hoyt, Epaphras.Ms., 1765-1850. A major-general of the
Massachusetts militia, who lived in Deerfield. Treatise on the Military
Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Discipline; Antiquarian Researches.
Hoyt, Henry Martyn.Pa., 1830-1892. A Pennsylvania
lawyer, governor of his State, 1878-83. Controversy between Connecticut
and Pennsylvania; Protection versus Free Trade. Ap.
Hoyt, John Wesley.O., 1831-1892. An educator of
distinction, governor of Wyoming, 1878-82, and president of Wyoming
University from 1887. Resources and Progress of Wisconsin; Resources
and Progress of Wyoming.
Hoyt, Ralph.N. Y., 1806-1878. An Episcopal clergyman of
New York city. The Chant of Life, and Other Poems; Echoes of Memory and
Emotion; Sketches of Life and Landscape. See Duyckinck’s American
Literature.
Hoyt, Wayland.O., 1838- ——. A popular Baptist minister
of Brooklyn. Hints and Helps for the Christian Life; Present Lessons
from Distant Days; Gleams from Paul’s Prison; The Brook in the Way;
Saturday Afternoon; Light on Life’s Highway. Ran.
Hubbard, Bela.N. Y., 1814-1896. A prominent lawyer and
geologist of Detroit, author of Memorials of a Half Century; Ancient
Garden Beds of Michigan.
Hubbard, Elbert.Il., 1856- ——. A littérateur of East
Aurora, New York, editor of The Philistine. No Enemy but Himself;
Little Journeys; The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; One Day, a
Tale of the Prairies. Put.
Hubbard, Lucius Lee.O., 1849- ——. The State geologist
of Michigan from 1893. Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake; Woods and
Lakes of Maine. Hou.
Hubbard, William.E., 1621-1704. A colonial historian who
was a Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, and a member of the first
graduating class at Harvard College, 1642. Narrative of Troubles with
the Indians; Sermons; Present State of New England. He also wrote a
History of New England, for which the colony paid him £50, and which
was printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. See
Tyler’s American Literature.
Hubbell, Mrs. Martha [Stone].Ct., 1814-1856. A writer
of religious juveniles, and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Country
Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed an extraordinary popularity.
Hubner, Charles William.Md., 1835- ——. A journalist of
Atlanta. Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; Modern Communism; Wild
Flowers, a book of verse; Cinderella, and Prince and Fairy, two lyrical
dramas. Meth.
Hudson, Charles.Ms., 1795-1881. A Universalist clergyman
in charge of a parish at Westminster, Massachusetts, 1819-41, and
subsequently a resident of Lexington in the same State. Letters to
Reverend Hosea Ballou; History of Westminster; History of Lexington;
Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill; History of Marlborough.
Hudson, Erasmus Darwin.Ct., 1805-1880. A surgeon of New
York city. Resections; Essay on Temperance; Immobile Apparatus for
Ununited Fractures.
Hudson, Erasmus Darwin.Ms., 1843-1887. Son of E. D.
Hudson, supra. A physician of New York city. Doctors’ Hygiene
and Therapeutics; Home Treatment of Consumptives; Physical Diagnosis of
Thoracic Diseases; Methods of Examining Weak Chests; Diagnosis of the
Relations of Weak Digestions.
Hudson, Frederick.Ms., 1819-1875. A journalist connected
with The New York Herald in various capacities for nearly thirty years,
who after 1866 lived at Concord, Massachusetts. History of Journalism
in the United States, 1690-1872. Har.
Hudson, Henry Norman.Vt., 1814-1886. An Episcopal
clergyman who was a Shakespearean scholar of eminence. He served as
chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and in his later
years was professor of Shakespeare study in Boston University. Lectures
on Shakespeare; Sermons; Studies in Wordsworth; A Chaplain’s Campaign
with General Butler; Shakespeare: his Life and Characters; Essays
on Education. He edited the Harvard and the University editions of
Shakespeare. His criticisms are helpful, but are somewhat dogmatic in
tone. Est. Gi. Lit.
Hudson, James Fairchild.O., 1846- ——. A journalist of
Pittsburg for many years. The Railways and the Republic. Har.
Hudson, Mrs. Mary [Clemmer] [Ames].N. Y., 1839-1884.
A journalist of Washington, well known at one period by her Woman’s
Letters from Washington in The Independent. Eirene; His Two Wives;
Victoria (three novels); Ten Years in Washington; Men, Women, and
Things; Poems of Life and Nature; Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary.
See Memorial Biography, by E. Hudson.
Hudson, Thomson Jay.O., 1834-1903. The Law of Psychic
Phenomena; A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life. Mg.
Hudson, William Henry.E., 1863- ——. A professor of
English literature at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. The
Church and the Stage; Introduction to Study of Herbert Spencer.
Hughes, John.I., 1797-1864. A noted Roman
Catholic archbishop of New York, 1850-64. He was prominent as a
controversialist, and a controversy which he held with Erastus
Brooks on the church property question attracted much attention. He
collected the letters on both sides in a volume entitled Brooksiana.
His writings were published in 1865. He founded St. John’s College,
Fordham, New York, in 1839. See Life by Hassard; Appleton’s American
Biography.
Hughes, Robert William.Va., 1821- ——. A jurist of
Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases; The Currency Question from a
Southern Point of View; Transcript of United States Supreme Court
Decisions; The American Dollar; Lives of Generals Floyd and Johnston.
Ap.
Huidekoper, Frederic.Pa., 1817- ——. A Unitarian
theologian and philanthropist of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Belief of the
First Three Centuries concerning Christ’s Mission to the Underworld;
Judaism at Rome; Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of
the Gospels.
Huidekoper, Henry Shippen.Pa., 1839- ——. A soldier
in the Federal army during the Civil War who afterwards attained the
rank of major-general in the Pennsylvania militia. He was postmaster of
Philadelphia, 1880-1885, and author of a Manual of Military Service.
Hull, William.Ct., 1753-1825. A famous general
court-martialed in 1812 for his surrender of Detroit to the English.
His defence of his action appears in his book, The Campaign of the
Northwest Army (1824). See Life by Maria Campbell and James Freeman
Clarke (1848).
Humes, Thomas William.Tn., 1815-1892. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal
Mountaineers of Tennessee.
Humphrey, Edward Porter.Ct., 1809-1887. Son of H.
Humphrey, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. Our
Theology in its Development; Sacred History from the Creation to the
Giving of the Law.
Humphrey, Heman.Ct., 1779-1861. A Congregational
clergyman who was president of Amherst College, 1823-1845. Tour in
France, etc.; Domestic Education; Sketches and History of Revivals;
Essays on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; Letters to a Son in the
Ministry.
Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson.Pa., 1810-1883. A general in
the Federal army during the Civil War, subsequently Chief of Engineers
of the United States Army. The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865;
From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. Scr.
Humphreys, David.Ct., 1752-1818. A colonel who was
aide-de-camp to Washington. His miscellaneous works, of which two
collections appeared in his lifetime, include articles in both prose
and verse, and he was also the author of a Life of General Putnam.
Humphreys, Edward Rupert.I., 1820-1893. An educator of
Boston who came thither from England in 1859. Lessons on the Liturgy of
the Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The
Higher Education of Europe and America; Manual of Political Science,
include his principal works.
Humphreys, Milton Wylie.W. Va., 1844- ——. A professor
of Greek at the University of Virginia from 1887. He has published
scholarly translations, with notes, of the Antigone of Sophocles and
The Clouds of Aristophanes.
Hunnewell, James Frothingham.Ms., 1832- ——. A resident
of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands;
The Lands of Scott; The Historical Monuments of France; The Imperial
Island: England’s Chronicle in Stone; Bibliography of Charlestown and
Bunker Hill; A Century of Town Life, a History of Charlestown. Hou.
Lit.
Hunt, Ezra Mundy.N. J., 1830-1894. A physician of
Trenton, New Jersey. Patients’ and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’
Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; Principles of Hygiene, are
among his writings.
Hunt, Freeman.Ms., 1804-1858. A publisher of New York
city who was the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. Lives of
American Merchants; Sketches of Female Character; Letters About the
Hudson River.
Hunt, Harriot Kezia.Ms., 1805-1875. A physician of
Boston who lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She
published Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ Social and Twenty
Years’ Professional Life.
Hunt, Helen.See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.
Hunt, Henry Jackson.Mch., 1819-1889. A brigadier-general
in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general at
its close. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery.
Hunt, Jedediah.N. Y., 1815- ——. A verse-writer of
Chilo, Ohio. The Cottage Maid, a Tale in Rhyme.
Hunt, Samuel.Ms., 1810-1878. A Congregational clergyman
of Franklin, Massachusetts. He assisted Henry Wilson, infra, in
writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and completed the work after Mr.
Wilson’s death. He was author of Political Duties of Christians; Letter
to the Avowed Friends of Missions.
Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.N. Y., 1844- ——. An
educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College.
Principles of Written Discourse; English Prose and Prose Writers;
Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature. Fu.
Hunt, Thomas Poage.Va., 1794-1876. A clergyman and
temperance lecturer of Pennsylvania. History of Jesse Johnson and his
Times; Death by Measure; Liquor Selling, a History of Fraud, include
the most of his works.
Hunt, Thomas Sterry.Ct., 1826-1892. A geologist who
was professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1872-78.
Chemical and Geological Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiology; New
Basis for Chemistry.
Hunter, John Dunn.Circa 1798-1827. An adventurer whose
Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi once
attracted much attention.
Huntington, Faye.See Foster, Mrs. Theodosia.
Huntington, Frederic Dan.Ms., 1819-1904. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York. He was in earlier life
a Unitarian clergyman, and in 1842 was professor of Christian morals
in Harvard University. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1860, and
was consecrated bishop in 1864. Christian Believing and Living; Sermons
for the People; Christ in the Christian Year; Steps to a Living Faith;
Lessons on the Parables; Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the World;
Forty Days with the Master, The Fitness of Christianity to Man; Human
Society, include the larger part of his works. Dut. Wh.
Huntington, Jedediah Vincent.N. Y., 1815-1862. A writer
who was once an Episcopal clergyman, but became a Roman Catholic
layman. He was a journalist in St. Louis for some years, and died in
France. America Discovered: a Poem; Alban, or the History of a Young
Puritan; Poems; Lady Alice, or the New Una; Blonde and Brunette;
Rosemary, or Life and Death.
Huntington, William Reed.Ms., 1838- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of prominence as a Broad Churchman. He was rector of All
Saints church at Worcester, 1862-83, and since 1883 has been rector of
Grace church, New York city. The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality;
The Peace of the Church; The Church Porch; Questions on the Fourth
Gospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common
Prayer; Quinquaginta, a book of fifty poems. Dut. Scr. Wh.
Hurd, John Codman.Ms., 1816-1892. A writer of Boston.
The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States; The Theory of Our
National Existence. Lit.
Hurlburt, William Henry.S. C., 1827-1895. A journalist
of New York city of much prominence at one time as one of the editors
of The World. His latest years were spent in Europe. Gan Eden, or
Pictures of Cuba; General McClellan and the Conduct of the War. See
Hart’s American Literature.
Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman.N. Y., 1843- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of prominence in New York and New Jersey. Manual of Biblical
Theology; Studies in the Four Gospels; Outlines in Old Testament
History. Meth.
Hurst, John Fletcher. 1834-1903. A Methodist bishop of
much prominence as a writer. Literature of Theology; History of
Rationalism; Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Literature in the
Fatherland; Outline of Church History; Our Theological Century;
Bibliotheca Theologica; Short Histories of the Church; Short History
of the Christian Church; Indika, the Country and People of India and
Ceylon, include the greater part of his original works. He is also the
translator of Hagenbach’s History of the Church in the 18th and 19th
Centuries; of Van Oosterzee’s Lectures on John’s Gospel; and of Lange’s
Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, with additions. Har. Meth.
Ran. Scr.
Hutchins, Thomas.N. J., 1730-1789. A noted geographer
of the colonial period. Topographical Description of Virginia, etc.;
History, Narrative, and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West
Florida.
Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay.N. Y., 18— - ——. A literary
journalist of New York city, on The Tribune staff, and editor with E.
C. Stedman of The Library of American Literature, in eleven volumes.
She has published Songs and Lyrics. Hou.
Hutchinson, Thomas.Ms., 1711-1780. The last royal
governor of Massachusetts. An historian of great ability but whose
merits as such were not recognized by his contemporaries. His History
of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the third and last volume of which
was not published till nearly fifty years after his death, begins
with the year 1628, and closes with the year 1774. He published also
a Collection of Original Papers relating to the same subject. See
Diary and Letters of, edited by P. O. Hutchinson, 1884-86; Life by J.
K. Hosmer, supra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 28; Appleton’s
American Biography.
Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman.Ms., 1822-1867. A noted
physician of Brooklyn. History of Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn;
Physiology and Hygiene; Contributions to Orthopædic Surgery;
Acupressure.
Hutson, Charles Woodward.S. C., 1840- ——. Out of a
Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolution; Beginnings of Civilization;
History of French Literature; The Story of Beryl, a novel.
Hutton, Laurence.N. Y., 1843-1904. A littérateur of
prominence in New York city. Other Times and Other Seasons; Plays and
Players; Artists of the 19th Century (with Mrs. Waters, infra);
Literary Landmarks of London; Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh;
Curiosities of the American Stage; From the Books of Laurence Hutton;
Portraits in Plaster; Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem;
Literary Landmarks of Venice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; Literary
Landmarks of Rome. Har.
Hyatt, Alpheus.D. C., 1838-1902. A professor of zoölogy
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the Boston
Society of Natural History. Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About
Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Common Hydroids; Worms and
Crustacea; Guides to Science Teaching; The Oyster, Clam, and other
Common Mollusks.
Hyde, Edward Wyllys.Mch., 1843- ——. A professor of
mathematics and civil engineering in the University of Cincinnati from
1875, and author of Skew Arches; Directional Calculus. Gi. Vn.
Hyde, James Nevins.Ct., 1840- ——. A surgeon of
Chicago. Early Medical Chicago; Diseases of the Skin.
Hyde, Thomas Worcester.Iy., 1841-1899. A
brigadier-general in the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and
afterwards a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. Following the Greek
Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps. Hou.
Hyde, William De Witt.Ms., 1858- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Bowdoin College from 1885. Practical Ethics;
Outlines of Social Theology. Ho. Mac.
Hylton, John Dunbar.W. I., 1837- ——. A physician
of Palmyra, New Jersey, whose writings are wholly in verse of a
very ambitious but unpoetical character. They include The Bride of
Gettysburg; Betrayed, a Northern Tale; The Heir of Liolyn; Above the
Grave of John Odenswurge; Artaloisi, a Romance of King Arthur.
Hyneman, Leon.Pa., 1805-1879. An editor of New York
city. The Fundamental Principles of Science; Freemasonry in England
from 1567 to 1813.
Hyslop, James Hervey.O., 1854- ——. An instructor in
Columbia College. The Elements of Ethics; The Elements of Logic; The
Ethics of Hume. Gi. Scr.
I
Ide, George Barton.Vt., 1804-1872. A Baptist clergyman,
of Springfield, Massachusetts. Green Hollow; Bible Echoes, or Lessons
from the War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile tale; Bible Pictures.
Ilsley, Charles Parker.Me., 1807-1887. A writer whose
home was in Portland, Maine, till 1866. The Island Fête, a poem;
The Liberty Pole, a tale of Machias; Forest and Shore, subsequently
published as The Wrecker’s Daughter.
Ingalls, Joshua King. 18— - ——. Social Wealth; Economic
Equities.
Ingalls, William.Ms., 1769-1851. A physician who was
professor of anatomy at Brown University, 1811-23, and author of a
treatise on Malignant Fevers.
Ingersoll, Charles Jared.Pa., 1782-1862. A political
writer and statesman of Philadelphia who filled several diplomatic
positions abroad. History of the War of 1812-15; Chiomara, a Poem; Edwy
and Elgiva, a Tragedy; Inchiquin, the Jesuit’s Letters in American
Literature and Politics; Recollections, etc., a volume of personal
reminiscences. See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Life by W. M.
Meigs, 1897.
Ingersoll, Edward.Pa., 1817-1893. Son of C. J.
Ingersoll, supra. History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand
Juries; Personal Liberty and Martial Law.
Ingersoll, Ernest.Mch., 1852- ——. A naturalist of New
York city whose writing is mainly for young people and of a popular
character. Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking
Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the
Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings;
The Ice Queen, a story; Birds’-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short
Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond;
Habits of Animals. Har. Lo. Mer. Wn.
Ingersoll, Luther Dunham. 18— - ——. The librarian of the
War Department at Washington. Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of Horace
Greeley; History of the War Department.
Ingersoll, Joseph Reed.Pa., 1786-1868. Brother of C. J.
Ingersoll, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia who was minister to
England in 1852. Secession a Folly and a Crime; Memoir of Samuel Breck.
Ingersoll, Robert Green.N. Y., 1833-1899. A noted lawyer
and politician of Peoria, Illinois, and more recently of New York city,
famous also as a lecturer and writer strongly opposed to the Christian
religion. The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures;
Prose Poems. Ban.
Inglehart, Mrs. Frances [Chambers] [Gooch].Mi.,
1851- ——. A writer of Austin, Texas, author of Face to Face with the
Mexicans. Fo.
Inglis, David.S., 1825-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Brooklyn who published Systematic Theology in Relation to Modern
Thought.
Ingraham, Edward Duncan.Pa., 1793-1854. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. English Ecclesiastical Reports; A View of the Insolvent
Laws of Pennsylvania.
Ingraham, Joseph Holt.Me., 1809-1866. An Episcopal
clergyman of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the earlier portion of his
career he wrote a number of wildly sensational romances, among them
Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; Captain Kyd; The Dancing Feather,
all of which were very popular and quite worthless as literature. The
Southwest, by a Yankee, was another work of this period. He entered
the Episcopal ministry in 1855, and afterwards wrote three religious
romances as popular as the others and almost as valueless. They are,
The Prince of the House of David; The Pillar of Fire; The Throne of
David. Rob.
Innsley, Owen.See Jennison, Lucia.
Inskip, John Swannell.E., 1816-1884. A Methodist
clergyman who was a noted camp-meeting conductor. Life of Rev. William
Summers; Methodism Explained and Defended; Remarkable Display of the
Mercy of God.
Iredell, James.N. C., 1788-1853. A lawyer of Raleigh who
was governor of North Carolina, 1827. Laws of North Carolina; North
Carolina Reports; Equity Reports; Law of Executors; Digest of Reported
Cases.
Ireland, Joseph Norton.N. Y., 1817-1898. A merchant of
New York city. Records of the New York Stage, 1750-1860; Memories of
Mrs. Duff; Professional Life of Thomas Cooper.
Irving, John Treat.N. Y., 1812- ——. Nephew of
Washington Irving, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Indian
Sketches; Hawk Chief; The Attorney; Harry Harson; The Van Gelder
Papers. Put.
Irving, Peter.N. Y., 1771-1838. Brother of Washington
Irving, infra. A journalist of New York city, who published
Giovanni Sbogarra, a Venetian Tale.
Irving, Pierre Munroe.N. Y., 1803-1876. Son of William
Irving, infra, and the author of a Life of Washington Irving.
Put.
Irving, Roland Duer.N. Y., 1847-1888. A professor of
geology in the University of Wisconsin from 1870. Geology of Central
Wisconsin; Geology of Lake Superior; Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake
Superior, are among his writings.
Irving, Theodore.N. Y., 1809-1880. Nephew of Washington
Irving, the son of his brother Ebenezer. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator. The Fountain of Living Waters; Tiny Footfalls; More than
Conqueror; The History of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida. Put.
Ran.
Irving, Washington.N. Y., 1783-1859. The most popular
of the earlier American writers of the 19th century. He was born
in New York city, and his earliest work was Salmagundi, written
with his brother William and J. K. Paulding, infra. Diedrich
Knickerbocker’s History of New York, his next work, and the one by
which he will be longest remembered, appeared in 1809. Irving spent the
years from 1815 to 1832 abroad, a portion of the time as secretary of
the United States Legation at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as minister
to Spain. The rest of his life was spent at his home in Tarrytown on
the Hudson. His writings not already named include, The Sketch Book;
Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus;
Conquest of Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; The Alhambra; Crayon
Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of
Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and his Successors; Wolfert’s Roost; Life
of Washington; Spanish Papers. See Life and Letters of, by Pierre
Irving; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1860, and June, 1864; Haweis’s
American Humourists; Irvingiana; Life by C. D. Warner; Allibone’s
Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American
Literature; The Bookman, February, 1897.Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac.
Put.
Irving, William.N. Y., 1766-1821. Brother of Washington
Irving, supra. A merchant of New York city who was in Congress,
1814-18. He was author of the poetical portion of Salmagundi.
Ives, Levi Silliman.Ct., 1797-1867. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, consecrated in 1832 and
deposed in 1853, he having become a Roman Catholic at the close of
1852. After that period he lectured in convents of the Sacred Heart.
Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism; The Obedience of
Faith; Manual of Devotion; Humility a Ministerial Qualification.
J
Jackson, Abraham Reeves.Pa., 1827- ——. A noted surgeon
of Chicago, who has published many valuable professional papers.
Jackson, Abraham Willard.Me., 1842- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman who was formerly a pastor in New Hampshire and California,
but has since devoted himself to study and literary work at Concord,
Massachusetts. The Immanent God, and Other Essays; James Martineau.
Hou. Lit.
Jackson, Charles.Ms., 1775-1855. A jurist of Boston who
published a valued Treatise on Real Actions.
Jackson, Charles Davis.Ms., 1811-1871. An Episcopal
clergyman of Westchester, New York. Suffering Here and Glory
Hereafter; Popular Education; Relation of Education to Crime.
Ran.
Jackson, Charles Thomas.Ms., 1805-1880. A Boston
scientist whose laboratory for research in analytical chemistry was the
first of its kind in the United States. Report on the Geology of Maine;
Mineral Lands in Michigan; Manual of Etherization.
Jackson, Edward Payson.Ty., 1840- ——. An educator of
Boston, master in the Latin School from 1877. Mathematic Geography;
A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in Space; Character Building. Har.
Hou.
Jackson, Francis.Ms., 1789-1861. A once prominent
reformer who was president of the Anti-Slavery Society for many years,
and published a History of Newton, Massachusetts (his home), from 1639
to 1800.
Jackson, George Anson.Ms., 1846- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Swampscott, Massachusetts. The Son of a Prophet, an
historical novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century;
Post-Nicene Greek Fathers; Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, four works which
form a series of early Christian literature primers. Hou.
Jackson, George Thomas.N. Y., 1852- ——. A noted
dermatologist of New York city. Diseases of the Hair and Scalp;
Baldness; Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.
Jackson, Mrs. Helen Maria [Fiske] [Hunt]. “H. H.” Ms.,
1831-1885. A novelist and poet whose greatest achievement is Ramona,
a powerful romance of Indian life in southern California. To her is
usually attributed the authorship of the “Saxe Holm” stories. Her
other works include, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of Talk; A Century
of Dishonor; Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel at Home;
The Story of Boon, a Poem; Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly’s Silver Mine;
Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick’s Choice; Hetty’s Strange History; Zeph;
Glimpses of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a collection of short
stories; The Procession of Flowers in Colorado; Condition and Needs of
the Mission Indians of California (with K. Abbot). See Allibone’s
Dictionary, Supplement.Kt. Rob.
Jackson, Henry Rootes.Ga., 1820-1898. A Georgia jurist
who was minister to Austria, 1854-58, and to Mexico 1885-86. During the
Civil War he was a general in the Confederate army. Tallulah, and Other
Poems, was published in 1850. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America.
Jackson, Isaac Wilber.N. Y., 1805-1877. An educator who
was professor of mathematics in Union College from 1826, and did much
toward developing the arts of landscape gardening and horticulture.
Elements of Conic Sections; Treatise on Optics.
Jackson, James.Ms., 1777-1867. Son of C. Jackson,
supra. The first physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital
at Boston, and professor of medicine at Harvard University from 1810
until his death. On the Brunonian System; Medical Effects of Dentition;
Syllabus of Lectures; Text-Book of Lectures; Letters to a Young
Physician.
Jackson, James Caleb.N. Y., 1811-1895. The founder of
a popular hydropathic institution at Dansville, New York, called “Our
Home.” Hints on the Reproductive Organs; The Sexual Organism and its
Healthful Management; Consumption; Tobacco and its Effect; How to Treat
the Sick without Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Benefits; American
Womanhood; Training of Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ as a
Physician; Morning Watches.
Jackson, Sheldon.N. Y., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian
missionary, government general agent of education in Alaska since 1885.
Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast; Education in Alaska.
Do.
Jacobi [yä-kō´bē], Abraham.Wa., 1830- ——. A
New York city physician, professor in the College of Physicians since
1870. Dentition and its Derangements; Infant Hygiene; Diphtheria;
Pathology of the Thymus Gland; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood;
Contributions to Midwifery (with E. Noeggereth); Infant Diet. Lip.
Put.
Jacobi, Mrs. Mary [Putnam].E., 1842- ——. Wife of
A. Jacobi, supra, and daughter of George P. Putnam, a noted
publisher of New York, infra. A physician of prominence in New
York city, and the first woman to enter and graduate from the Ecole de
Médecine in Paris. The Value of Life; Cold Pack and Anæmia; Hysteria,
and Other Essays; The Martyr to Science; Studies in Primary Education;
Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage; Manual of Nursing; Found and
Lost. Put.
Jacobs, Henry Eyster.Pa., 1844- ——. Son of M. Jacobs,
infra. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor in
the Lutheran Seminary from 1883, and editor of the Lutheran Review
from 1882. The Lutheran Movement in England; The Lutherans; several
translations of religious works from the German; History of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. Fu.
Jacobs, John Adamson.Va., 1806-1869. An educator who was
forty-five years superintendent of the deaf and dumb institution at
Danville, Kentucky, his nephew of the same name succeeding him at his
death. He published Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes.
Jacobs, Michael.Pa., 1808-1871. An educator who was
professor in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 1852-1871, and
published Notes on the Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jacobs, Michael William.Pa., 1850- ——. Son of M.
Jacobs, supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of a
Treatise on the Law of Domicile. Lit.
Jacobs, Sarah Sprague.R. I., 1813- ——. A writer of
Cambridge. Nonantum and Natick, a juvenile giving an account of the
labours of John Eliot among the New England Indians; White Oak and its
Neighbors.
Jacobus, Melancthon Williams.N. J., 1816-1876. A
Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn and Pittsburg, professor of Oriental
literature in the theological seminary at Allegheny City, 1851-76.
Letters on the Public School Question; Notes on the New Testament, a
very popular work; Notes on Genesis.
Jacoby, Ludwig Sigismund.Mg., 1811-1874. A Methodist
clergyman of German birth who as general foreign agent of the Methodist
church resided at Bremen, 1849-72. On his return to the United
States he lived in St. Louis. Geschichte des Methodismus; Letzte
Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff der christlichen Glaubenlehre; Biblische
Hand-Concordanz.
Jacques, Daniel Harrison.Circa 1825-1877. A Southern
physician who edited The Rural Carolinian. Hints about Physical
Perfection; The Garden; The Farm; The Barnyard; The House; Florida as a
Permanent Home; How to Grow Handsome; The Temperaments; How to Behave;
How to Talk.
James, Edmund Janes.Il., 1855- ——. An educator well
known as a political economist, since 1883 professor in the Wharton
School of Finance in the University of Pennsylvania. Studien über den
amerikanischen Zolltarif; Our Legal Tender Decisions; The Education
of Business Men; The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas
Supply; with several translations from the German, comprise his more
important works.
James, Edwin.Vt., 1797-1861. A geologist and botanist
whose later years were spent in Burlington, Iowa. Expedition from
Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, 1818-19; Narrative of John Tanner; a
translation of the New Testament into the Ojibway language.
James, Henry.N. Y., 1811-1882. A Swedenborgian writer
of Cambridge who was a thinker of marked spirituality and originality.
Spiritual Creation, which he did not live to complete, affords the best
example of his felicitous style and matured thought. His other works
include, Society the Redeemed Form of Man; Remarks on the Gospels;
Moralism and Christianity; The Nature of Evil; Substance and Shadow;
The Secret of Swedenborg; What Is the State?; The Church of Christ;
Christianity the Lyric of Creation; Literary Remains, edited by W.
James, infra. Hou.
James, Henry.N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of H. James,
supra. A novelist and critic who since 1869 has resided in
Europe, and mainly in London. He has been a prolific writer whose works
have been much discussed by critics and general readers. In fiction
his writings include, Roderick Hudson; The American; The Europeans;
A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales; Confidence; Washington Square;
The Portrait of a Lady; Watch and Ward; Daisy Miller; An International
Episode; The Siege of London; The Author of Beltraffio, and Other
Tales; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Reverberator; The
Aspern Papers, and Other Stories; A London Life; The Tragic Muse; The
Lesson of the Master, and Other Tales; The Spoils of Poynton; What
Maisie Knew; The Other House; The Private Life; The Wheel of Time;
Terminations; Embarrassments; Theatricals, two comedies; The Real
Thing, and Other Tales; Tales of Three Cities. Other works by Mr. James
are, Transatlantic Sketches; French Poets and Novelists; Portraits of
Places; Life of Hawthorne; The Madonna of the Future; A Little Tour in
France; Picture and Text; Essays in London; Partial Portraits. See
Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement;
Vedder’s American Writers.Har. Hou. Mac. S.
James, Henry Ammon.Md., 1854- ——. A lawyer of New York
city who has published Communism in America.
James, William.N. Y., 1842- ——. Son of H. James, 1st,
supra. Professor of psychology at Harvard University. Principles
of Psychology; Psychology, a briefer study of the subject; The Will to
Believe, and Other Essays. Ho. Lgs.
Jameson, John Alexander.Vt., 1824-1890. A jurist of
Chicago, for many years an assistant editor of The American Law
Register. The Constitutional Convention, its History, Power, and Modes
of Proceeding.
Jameson, John Franklin.Ms., 1859- ——. A professor of
history in Brown University. William Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch
and Swedish West India Companies; The History of Historical Writing in
America; Dictionary of United States History. Hou.
Jamison, Mrs. Cecile Viets [Hamilton].N. S., 1848- ——.
The Story of an Enthusiast; Toinette’s Philip; Lady Jane; Seraph, the
Little Violiniste. Cent. Hou. We.
Janes, Edwin Lines.Ms., 1807-1875. A Methodist
clergyman. Wesley his Own Historian; Character and Career of Bishop
Asbury; Memento of Edward Payson. Meth.
Janes, Lewis George.R. I., 1844-1901. A lecturer
of Brooklyn, for twelve years president of the Brooklyn Ethical
Association. A Study of Primitive Culture; Samuell Gorton, a Forgotten
Founder of Our Liberties. Pr.
Janeway, Jacob Jones.N. Y., 1774-1858. A Presbyterian
clergyman who held pastorates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was
engaged in general mission work. Exposition of the Acts, Romans, and
Hebrews; Internal Evidences of the Holy Bible; Unlawful Marriage;
Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism; The Abrahamic Covenant. See
Memoir by T. L. Janeway.
Janney, Samuel Macpherson.Va., 1801-1880. A preacher
among the Hicksite Friends who in 1869 was appointed one of the
government superintendents of Indian affairs. Lives of William Penn
and George Fox; Conversations on Religious Subjects; The Last of the
Lenape, and Other Poems; Historical Sketch of the Christian Church;
Summary of Christian Doctrines Held by Friends; Peace Principles
Exemplified in the Early History of Pennsylvania; History of the
Religious Society of Friends from its Rise to 1828.
Janvier, Francis de Haes.Pa., 1817-1885. Cousin of T. A.
Janvier, infra. The Skeleton Monk, and Other Poems; The Sleeping
Sentinel (verse); Patriotic Poems. Lip.
Janvier, Margaret Thomson. “Margaret Vandegrift.” La.,
1845- ——. Sister of T. A. Janvier, infra. A Philadelphia
writer of children’s books, among which are, Clover Bank; Under the Dog
Star; Little Helpers; A Dead Doll, and Other Verses. Hou.
Janvier, Thomas Allibone.Pa., 1849- ——. A journalist
and littérateur of Philadelphia, and subsequently of New York. An
Embassy to Provence, a volume of travel; Color Studies: Four Stories;
The Mexican Guide; Stories of Old New Spain; The Aztec Treasure House,
a Romance; The Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories; In Old New York.
Ap. Cent. Har. Scr.
Jarves, James Jackson.Ms., 1820-1888. An art connoisseur
who lived in Hawaii, 1838-49, and subsequently for many years in
Florence. Why and What Am I?; Art Studies; History of the Sandwich
Islands (1843); Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands; Parisian
Sights and French Principles; Italian Sights and Papal Principles;
Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii; A Glimpse at the Art of Japan; Art Hints;
The Art Idea; Art Thoughts; Italian Rambles; Pepero, the Boy Artist.
Har. Hou.
Jarvis, Edward.Ms., 1803-1884. A once prominent
physician of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Physiology and Health;
Elementary Physiology; Condition of the Insane and Idiots in
Massachusetts, are his more important publications.
Jarvis, Samuel Farmar.Ct., 1786-1851. An Episcopal
clergyman of Connecticut. Sermons on Prophecy; No Union with Rome;
Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church; The Religion
of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Jay, Sir James.N. Y., 1732-1815. An elder brother of J.
Jay, infra. A physician of New York city who was knighted by
George III., and who published Reflections and Observations on Gout.
Jay, John.N. Y., 1745-1829. A famous New York statesman
who was one of the authors of The Federalist. Of his state papers, the
Address to the People of Great Britain is the most celebrated. His
Correspondence and State Papers, edited by H. P. Johnston, appeared
1890-93. See Lives by Wm. Jay, infra; Pellew; Appleton’s American
Biography.Put.
Jay, John.N. Y., 1817-1894. Son of W. Jay, infra.
A lawyer and diplomat of New York who was minister to Austria, 1869-75,
and a prominent opponent of slavery. Dignity of the Abolition Cause;
Caste and Slavery in the American Church; America Free or America
Slave, are some of his political and other pamphlets.
Jay, William.N. Y., 1789-1858. Son of J. Jay,
supra. A philanthropist of New York city who was strongly
opposed to slavery. Life of John Jay; War and Peace; Causes and
Consequences of the Mexican War.
Jay, W. M. L.See Woodruff.
Jeffers, William Nicholson.N. J., 1824-1883. A United
States naval officer who became a commodore in 1878. Short Methods in
Navigation; Theory and Practice of Naval Gunnery; Inspection and Proof
of Cannon; Ordnance Instruction for the United States Navy.
Jefferson, Joseph.Pa., 1829- ——. A famous actor of New
York city who has published an entertaining Autobiography. He is the
author of the famous play, Rip Van Winkle, in which he has long been
identified with the leading rôle. Cent. Do.
Jefferson, Thomas.Va., 1743-1826. The third president
of the United States. A statesman whose literary monument is the
world-famous Declaration of Independence. Other writings of his are,
Notes on Virginia; Rights of British America; Manual of Parliamentary
Practice. A ten-volume edition of his works was published in 1892.
See Lives by Linn, 1834; Rayner, 1834; Tucker, 1837; Dwight, 1839;
Randall, 1858; Parton, 1874; J. T. Morse, 1883; Domestic Life of, by
Randolph, 1871; Edinburgh Review, July, 1830, and October, 1837; North
American Review, April, 1830, and January, 1835; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Jefferson at Monticello; Appleton’s American Biography; Henry Adams’s
History of the Administration of Jefferson.Put.
Jeffrey, Mrs. Rosa Vertner [Griffith] [Johnson].Mi.,
1826-1894. A verse-writer of Lexington, Kentucky. Poems by Rosa;
Florence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems; Marah, a Novel;
Woodburn, a Novel. Lip.
Jeffries, Benjamin Joy.Ms., 1833- ——. A prominent
physician of Boston. Color Blindness: its Dangers and its Detection;
The Eye in Health and Disease; Diseases of the Skin.
Jenkins, John Stilwell.N. Y., 1818-1852. A lawyer and
journalist of Weedsport, New York. The Heroines of History; Lives
of the Governors of New York; Lives of Jackson, Polk, and Calhoun;
Political History of New York; History of the Mexican War; Generals
of the Last War with Great Britain; Life of Silas Wright, include the
larger part of his writings. Co.
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.Mch., 1856- ——. An educator,
since 1891 professor of political, municipal, and social institutions
at Cornell University. Henry C. Carey als National-ökonom; Road
Legislation for the American State.
Jenks, John Whipple Potter.Ms., 1819-1894. A naturalist
who was director of the museum of natural history at Brown University,
1872-94, and professor of agriculture and zoölogy there, 1875-94.
Hunting in Florida; Jenks and Steele’s Zoölogy.
Jenks, William.Ms., 1778-1866. A once prominent
Congregational clergyman of Boston who founded the American Oriental
Society. Commentary on the Bible, long a popular work; Bible Atlas and
Scripture Gazetteer.
Jenness, John Scribner.N. H., 1827-1879. A lawyer of
New York city. The Isles of Shoals, an Historical Sketch; The First
Planting of New Hampshire. He edited Transcripts of Original Documents
relating to the Early History of New Hampshire.
Jennison, Lucy White. “Owen Innsley.” Ms., 1850- ——. A
verse-writer who has lived mainly in Europe. Love Poems and Sonnets.
Jervey, Mrs. Caroline Howard [Gilman] [Glover].S. C.,
1823-1877. Daughter of S. Gilman, supra. A writer of fiction and
verse. Vernon Grove; Helen Courtenay’s Promise.
Jervis, John Bloomfield.N. Y., 1795-1885. A civil
engineer of New York who designed many important works, such as the
Croton Dam and High Bridge. Railway Property; Labor and Capital.
Bai.
Jessup, Henry Harris.Pa., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian
missionary in Syria from 1856. The Women of the Arabs; The Children of
the East; The Greek Church and Protestant Missions; Syrian Home Life,
include his most important works. Do.
Jeter, Jeremiah Bell.Va., 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman
prominent in the South as a preacher and controversialist. Among his
writings are, Campbellism Examined; Campbellism Re-Examined; The Seal
of Heaven; The Christian Mirror; Recollections of a Long Life. See
Life by W. E. Hatcher.
Jewett, Charles Coffin.Me., 1816-1868. A bibliographer
who was the first superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Facts
and Considerations Relative to Duties on Books; Notices of Public
Libraries in the United States; Construction of Catalogues.
Jewett, George Baker.Me., 1818-1880. Brother of C. C.
Jewett, supra. A New England educator whose principal works
were Baptism versus Immersion; Critique on the Greek Text of the New
Testament.
Jewett, Milo Parker.Vt., 1808-1882. An educator who was
the first president of Vassar College. Baptism; The Relation of Boards
of Health and Intemperance.
Jewett, Sarah Orne.Me., 1849- ——. A popular writer of
quiet fiction whose life has been passed mainly at her birthplace in
South Berwick, Maine, and in Boston. Her painstaking, accurate studies
of phases of rural New England life and character have received much
well-deserved praise. Old Friends and New; Play-Days; Country By-Ways;
Deephaven; The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore; A Country
Doctor; A Marsh Island; A White Heron, and Other Stories; The Story of
the Normans, an historical work; The King of Folly Island, and Other
People; Betty Leicester, a Story for Girls; Strangers and Wayfarers; A
Native of Winby, and Other Tales; The Life of Nancy; The Country of the
Pointed Firs. See Bibliography of Maine.Hou. Put.
Johnson, Alexander Bryan.E., 1786-1867. A prominent
banker of Utica for nearly half a century. Treatise on Banking; The
Philosophy of Human Knowledge; Religion in its Relations to the Present
Life; The Physiology of the Senses; The Meaning of Words; Nature and
Value of Capital; Encyclopædia of Instruction; Guide to the Right
Understanding of Our American Union.
Johnson, Barton W——.Il., 1833-1894. A Campbellite
minister and educator of Iowa. The Vision of the Ages; Commentary on
John; The People’s New Testament; Young Folks in Bible Lands.
Johnson, Benjamin F., of Boone.See Riley, James Whitcomb.
Johnson, Charles Frederick.N. Y., 1836- ——. A professor
of English literature in Trinity College. English Words, an Elementary
Study of Derivations; Three Americans and Three Englishmen, lectures.
Har.
Johnson, Clifton.Ms., 1865- ——. A writer and
illustrator of Hadley, Massachusetts, best known by his photographic
illustrations to White’s Selborne and other books. What They Say in New
England; A Book of Country Clouds and Sunshine; The Country School in
New England; The Farmer’s Boy; The New England Country; The Isle of the
Shamrock. Ap. Le.
Johnson, Edward.E., 1600-1682. The principal founder
of Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1640, and a prominent citizen of that
town for the rest of his life. The Wonder-Working Providence of Zion’s
Saviour in New England is a valuable account of New England “from the
English planting in 1628 till 1652.” An edition, with Introduction and
Notes by W. F. Poole, infra, appeared in 1867. See Tyler’s
American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island.
Johnson, Edwin A——.N. Y., 1829- ——. A Methodist
clergyman. Half-Hour Studies of Life; The Live Boy, or Charley’s
Letters; Winter Greeneries at Home; The Lilyvale Club and its Doings.
Meth.
Johnson, Francis Howe.Ms., 1835- ——. A Congregational
clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts. What is Reality? an Inquiry as to
the Reasonableness of Natural Religion, and the Naturalness of Revealed
Religion. Hou.
Johnson, Frank Grant.Ct., 1835- ——. A physician and
inventor of Brooklyn. The Water Metre and the Actual Measurement
System; The Nicholson and Other Pavements; Health Lifts; Infected Air
and Disinfectants.
Johnson, Franklin. 1836- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor in
Chicago University, and previously pastor of a church in Cambridge.
Quotations of the New Testament from the Old; True Womanhood; The New
Psychic Studies in their Relation to Christian Thought; Heine’s Lyrical
Interludes, with introduction and notes; Dies Irae, and Stabat Mater,
with introduction and notes. Bap. Fu. Lo.
Johnson, Mrs. Helen [Kendrick].N. Y., 1843- ——. Wife
of Rossiter Johnson, infra, and daughter of A. C. Kendrick,
infra. She has edited Our Familiar Songs; Tears for the Little
Ones; The Nutshell Series, and other works; and has written Raleigh
Westgate, or Epimenides in Maine; The Roddy Books; Woman and the
Republic. Ap. Ho. Hou. Put.
Johnson, Herrick.N. Y., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Chicago, professor in McCormick Theological Seminary from
1880. Christianity’s Challenge; Plain Talks about Theatres; Forms for
Special Occasions; Revivals. Rev.
Johnson, John Butler.O., 1850-1902. A professor of
civil engineering in Washington University, at St. Louis, from 1883.
Theory and Practice of Surveying; Modern Framed Structures; Stadia and
Earth-Work Tables. Wil.
Johnson, Mrs. Laura [Winthrop].Ct., 1825-18—. Sister
of Theodore Winthrop, infra. A writer of New York city. Little
Blossom’s Reward; Poems of Twenty Years; Eight Hundred Miles in an
Ambulance. Lip.
Johnson, Oliver.Vt., 1809-1889. An editor and lecturer
of New York city, successively managing editor of The Independent,
editor of the Weekly Tribune, and editor of the Christian Union.
William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. Hou.
Johnson, Richard W.Ky., 1827-1897. A brigadier-general
in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general. A
Soldier’s Reminiscences in Peace and War; Life of Major-General George
H. Thomas.
Johnson, Robert Underwood.D. C., 1853- ——. A New York
writer on the editorial staff of The Century Magazine from 1873. The
Winter Hour and Other Poems. Cent.
Johnson, Mrs. Rosa V.See Jeffrey, Mrs.
Johnson, Rossiter.N. Y., 1840- ——. A writer of New
York city who edited Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia 1883-1902, and also
edited Famous Single Poems; Play-day Poems; Little Classics; The
Authorized History of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and other
works. His original writings include, Phaëton Rogers, a Novel of Boy
Life; History of the French War, Ending in the Conquest of Canada;
History of the War of 1812-15; A Short History of the War of Secession,
enlarged as Campfire and Battlefield; The End of a Rainbow, an American
Story; Idler and Poet (verse); Three Decades (verse). Ap. Do. Ho.
Hou. Scr.
Johnson, Samuel.Ct., 1696-1772. An Episcopal clergyman
of Stratford, Connecticut, who was president of Columbia (then Kings)
College, 1753-63. A System of Morality, republished by Franklin as
Elementa Philosophia; English and Hebrew Grammar. An influential writer
in his day. See Life and Correspondence by E. E. Beardsley; Life by
T. B. Chandler, 1805.
Johnson, Samuel.Ms., 1822-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of
radical views, pastor of an independent church in Lynn for many years.
Oriental Religions; Lectures, Essays, and Sermons; The Worship of
Jesus in its Past and Present Aspect. See Memoir by S. Longfellow,
infra.Hou.
Johnson, Samuel William.N. Y., 1830- ——. A professor
of chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University from
1856. Essays on Manures; Peat and Its Uses; How Crops Feed; Chemical
Notation and Nomenclature, and several translations of German
scientific works. Wil.
Johnson, Mrs. Sarah [Barclay].Va., 1837-1885. Daughter
of J. T. Barclay, supra. She lived for many years in Syria,
where her husband was consul-general. The Hadji in Syria was her only
published work.
Johnson, Thomas Cary.W. Va., 1859- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical polity in Union Seminary,
Virginia, from 1892. The History of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
Johnson, Virginia Wales.L. I., 1847- ——. A novelist
who has resided in Europe since 1875, and mainly in Italy. The Neptune
Vase is her finest effort. Her other works comprise, Joseph the Jew;
A Sack of Gold; The Calderwood Secret; Two Old Cats; Miss Nancy’s
Pilgrimage; A Foreign Marriage; An English Daisy Miller; The House of
the Musician; Tulip Place; The Fainalls of Tipton; America’s Godfather.
Est. Har. Hou. Scr.
Johnson, Walter Rogers.Ms., 1794-1852. A once prominent
chemist of Boston and elsewhere. The Use of Anthracite; Report on
Coals; Coal Trade of British America; Natural Philosophy; Memoir of L.
D. von Schweinitz, infra.
Johnston, Alexander.L. I., 1849-1889. A professor of
political economy at Princeton College, 1883-89. The Genesis of a New
England State; History of the United States for Schools; The United
States, its History and Constitution; History of Connecticut; History
of American Politics. Ho. Hou. Scr.
Johnston, Henry Phelps. 1842- ——. A professor of history
in the College of the City of New York. Loyalist History of the
Revolution; The Campaign of 1776 around New York; The Yorktown
Campaign; Yale and her Honor Roll in the American Revolution;
Observations on Judge Jones. Har.
Johnston, John.Me., 1806-1879. An educator who was
for many years professor of natural science in Wesleyan University.
Manual of Chemistry; Manual of Natural Philosophy; Primer of Natural
Philosophy; History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in Maine.
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston.Va., 1807-1891. A famous
general in the Confederate service who surrendered to General Sherman
on April 26, 1865. He published a Narrative of Military Operations,
a spirited defence of his military policy. See Life of, by R. M.
Hughes.Ap.
Johnston, Richard Malcolm.Ga., 1822-1898. A Baltimore
writer and educator whose humourous writings are very distinctly
original. Life of Alexander Stephens, infra (with W. H.
Browne, supra); Dukesborough Tales; Old Mark Langston; Two Gray
Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk; Ogeechee
Cross-Firings; Studies, Literary and Social; The Primes and Their
Neighbors; Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes; Widow Guthrie, a Novel; The
Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams; Mr. Fortner’s Marital Claims; Little
Ike Templin, stories for young people; English Classics: a Historical
Sketch. Ap. Har. Lip. Lo.
Johnston, William Preston.Ky., 1831-1899. An educator of
Louisiana, president of Tulane University from 1884. He was the son of
the Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnston. Besides a life of his
father he wrote The Prototype of Hamlet. Ap.
Johonnot, James.Vt., 1823-1888. An educator of Illinois
and Missouri. Principles and Practice of Teaching; Glimpses of the
Animate World; Book of Cats and Dogs; Friends in Feathers and Fur;
Some Curious Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers; Schoolhouses; Schoolhouse
Architecture. Ap.
Jones, Alexander.N. C., c. 1802-1863. A New York
journalist who was a physician in the earlier portion of his career.
Cuba in 1851; Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, 1852; The
Cymri of Seventy-Six.
Jones, Amanda Theodosia.O., 1835- ——. An educator and
inventor of Chicago. Her writings in verse comprise Ulah, and Other
Poems; Atlantis; A Prairie Idyl.
Jones, Charles Colcock.Ga., 1804-1863. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Georgia. Religious Instruction for Negroes; History of The
Church of God.
Jones, Charles Colcock.Ga., 1831-1893. Son of C. C.
Jones, supra. A lawyer and archæologist of Augusta, Georgia.
Ancient Tumuli in Georgia; Antiquities of the Southern Indians; The
History of Georgia; Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast; Biographical
Sketches of the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress; The
English Colonization of Georgia. Ap. Hou.
Jones, George.Me., 1800-1870. An Episcopal chaplain
in the United States navy. Sketches of Naval Life; Life Scenes from
the Gospels; Life Scenes from the Old Testament; Excursions to Cairo,
Jerusalem, etc.
Jones, Horatio Gates.Pa., 1822-1893. A lawyer of
Philadelphia who published many local histories and biographies, among
the latter being Andrew Bradford, Founder of the Newspaper Press in the
Middle States.
Jones, Hugh.E., 1669-1760. An Episcopal clergyman,
for sixty-five years rector of parishes in Virginia and Maryland. He
was author of The Present State of Virginia, a work much valued by
collectors of colonial literature.
Jones, James Athearn.Ms., 1790-1853. A journalist of
Philadelphia and elsewhere. Traditions of the North American Indians;
Haverhill, a novel.
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.W., 1843- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Chicago, editor of Unity from 1880. Practical Piety; The
Faith that Makes Faithful.
Jones, Joel.Ct., 1795-1860. A jurist of Philadelphia who
wrote much on theological topics, and was the first president of Girard
College. Manual of Pennsylvania Land Law; Jesus and the Coming Glory;
Knowledge of One Another in a Future State, are among his works.
Jones, John Beauchamp.Md., 1810-1866. A journalist whose
books enjoyed considerable popularity at one time, but have very little
literary merit. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary; Wild Western Scenes; Border
War; Love and Money; Life and Adventures of a Country Merchant; War
Path; Freaks of Fortune; The Rival Belles, are some of them. Lip.
Jones, Joseph.Ga., 1833-1893. Son of C. C. Jones, 1st,
supra. A physician, professor in Tulane University, New Orleans,
from 1869. Among his writings are, Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the
Rebellion; Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Hospital
Construction and Organization; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.
Jones, Joseph Huntington.Ct., 1797-1868. Brother of Joel
Jones, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The
Effects of Physical Causes on Christian Experience; Life of Ashbel
Green, supra; Revival of Religion.
Jones, Joseph Seawell.N. C., c. 1811-1855. A
Southern writer who published Defence of the Revolutionary History of
North Carolina; Memorials of North Carolina.
Jones, Joseph Stevens. 1811-1877. An extremely prolific
playwright of Boston, among whose best known productions are, Solon
Shingle; Eugene Aram; The Silver Spoon; The Liberty Tree; Moll Pitcher.
Jones, Leonard Augustus.Ms., 1832- ——. A lawyer of
Boston, editor of The American Law Register. Personal Property; The
Law of Mortgages of Real Property; On The Law of Pledges; Pledges
and Collateral Securities; Corporate Bonds and Mortgages; Chattel
Mortgages; Liens; Real Estate in Conveyancing; Forms in Conveyancing.
Hou.
Jones, Samuel Porter.Al., 1847- ——. A noted and
eccentric revival preacher. Sam Jones’s Sermons; Music Hall Sermons;
Sam Jones’s Own Book. Meth.
Jones, William Alfred.N. Y., 1817-1900. A critic and
essayist of Norwich, Connecticut. The Analyst; Essays upon Authors and
Books; Characters and Criticisms; Literary Studies.
Jordan, Mrs. Cornelia Jane [Matthews].Va., 1830- ——. A
Virginia writer of verse whose volume, Corinth, and Other Poems of the
War, was publicly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by order of General
Terry, as an objectionable and incendiary publication. Her other works
are, Flowers of Hope and Memory; Christmas Poem for Children; Richmond,
her Glory and her Graves; Useful Maxims for a Noble Life.
Jordan, David Starr.N. Y., 1851- ——. A noted
naturalist who became the first president of Leland Stanford Junior
University. Besides a great number of scientific papers and monographs,
he has published A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern
United States; Scientific Sketches; Contributions to American
Ichthology; The Factors in Organic Evolution. Gi. Mg.
Jordan, Mrs. Dulcie [Mason].N. Y., 1835-1895. A
journalist and verse-writer of Richmond, Indiana, who published
Rosemary Leaves, a volume of uneven but often pleasing verse.
Jordan, John Woolf.Pa., 1840- ——. A Philadelphia
antiquarian, editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History.
Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill; A Red Rose from the Olden Time;
Something about Trombones; Occupation of New York by the British.
Jordan, Thomas.Va., 1819-1895. A Confederate officer,
editor of The Mining Record. The South, its Products, Commerce, and
Resources (1861); Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Forrest.
Jouin, Louis.P., 1818-1899. A Jesuit educator of note,
professor at St. John’s College, Fordham. Elementa Philosophiæ Moralis;
Compendium Logicæ et Metaphysicæ; Evidences of Religion.
Joyce, Robert Dwyer.I., 1836-1883. An Irish journalist
who came to America in 1866 and settled in Boston. Ballads, Romances,
and Songs; Deirdrè, a Poem; Ballads of Irish Chivalry; Irish Fireside
Tales; Legends on the Wars in Ireland; Blanid; The Squire of Castleton,
an historical novel. Rob.
Judd, Sylvester.Ms., 1789-1860. An antiquarian of
Northampton, Massachusetts. Thomas Judd and his Descendants; History of
Hadley. See Memorials of, by A. Hall, supra.
Judd, Sylvester.Ms., 1813-1853. Son of S. Judd,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Augusta, Maine. His greatest
work is the remarkable story of Margaret: a Tale of the Real and the
Ideal. Other works of his include, Philo, a religious poem; Richard
Edney, a novel; The Church, a series of sermons. See Nichol’s
American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics.Rob.
Judson, Edward Z—— C——.Pa., 1822-1886. A writer of
sensational non-literary stories for weekly papers which gave him a
large income. He was also a temperance lecturer. Among his stories are,
Red Ralph the Ranger; The Sea Bandit; Buffalo Bill; The White Cruiser.
Judson, Mrs. Emily [Chubbuck]. “Fanny Forester.” N. Y.,
1817-1854. A once popular writer who was the third wife of the famous
Baptist missionary, Adoniram Judson. Alderbrook, a collection of
stories; Trippings in Author Land; An Olio of Domestic Verses.
Judson, Harry Pratt.N. Y., 1849- ——. A professor
of political science in the University of Chicago. Europe in the
Nineteenth Century; The Growth of the American Nation; Cæsar’s Army, a
Study of the Military Art of the Romans. Gi. Fl.
Judson, L—— Carroll. 18— - ——. Biography of the Signers
of the Declaration of Independence; Sages and Heroes of the American
Revolution; The Moral Probe, a collection of Essays. Le.
Julian, George Washington.Ind., 1817-1899. An Indiana
statesman, surveyor-general of New Mexico in 1885. Speeches on
Political Questions; Political Recollections from 1840-72; Life of
Joshua Giddings, supra. Mg.
June, Jennie.See Croly.
Junkin, David Xavier.Pa., 1808-1880. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Chicago and elsewhere. The Good Steward; Life of General
Hancock (with F. H. Norton); The Oath a Divine Ordinance. Ap.
Junkin, George.Pa., 1790-1868. Brother of D. X. Junkin,
supra. A Presbyterian clergyman once prominent among leaders
of the Old School party. He was the founder of Lafayette College,
Easton, Pennsylvania, and was twice its president. His more important
works include, Commentary on Hebrews; Political Fallacies; The Great
Apostasy; Sanctification; Justification; The Tabernacle. See
Biography by D. X. Junkin.
Junkin, Margaret. Daughter of G. Junkin, supra. See
Preston, Mrs.
K
Kaler, James Otis.Me., 1846- ——. A journalist of New
York city who has written much for juvenile readers. The Boy Captain;
Under the Liberty Tree; A Short Cruise; The Boys’ Revolt; Toby Tyler;
Left Behind; Mr. Stubbs’s Brother; Tom and Tip; Raising the Pearl;
Silent Pete; The Castaways; Little Joe; Stories of American History;
Jerry’s Family; Jenny Wren’s Boarding-House. Cr. Est. Har.
Kalisch, Isidor.P., 1816-1886. A Jewish clergyman who
came to the United States in 1849, and was rabbi of congregations in
Cleveland, Milwaukee, and elsewhere. He published Sketch of the Talmud,
and several important translations from the German and Hebrew.
Kane, Elisha Kent.Pa., 1820-1857. A surgeon in the
United States navy who was famous as an Arctic explorer. The United
States Grinnell Expedition of 1850; Second Grinnell Expedition. See
Lives by Elder and Schmucker.
Kane, Thomas Leiper.Pa., 1822-1883. Brother of E. K.
Kane, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, and a brigadier-general
in the Federal army in the Civil War. The Mormons; Alaska; Coahuila.
Kautz, August Valentine.G., 1828-1895. An officer
in the United States army who served in the Civil War and in
several subsequent Indian campaigns, and became a colonel and
brevet major-general. The Company Clerk; Customs of Service for
Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers; Customs of Service for
Officers. Lip.
Keating, John Marie.Pa., 1852-1893. A Philadelphia
physician. With General Grant in the East; Mothers’ Guide for
Management of Infants; Maternity, Infancy, and Childhood; Diseases
of the Heart (with W. A. Edwards), include his principal writings.
Lip.
Kedney, John Steinfort.N. J., 1819- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor in Seabury Divinity School at Faribault,
Minnesota, from 1871. Mens Christi, and Other Problems in Theology;
Catawba, and Other Poems; The Beautiful and the Sublime, an Analysis of
the Emotions; Hegel’s Æsthetics; Christian Doctrine Harmonized. Put.
Sc.
Keeler, Charles Augustus.Wis., 1871- ——. An
ornithologist and verse-writer of California. Evolution of Color in
North American Land Birds; A Light through the Storm.
Keeler, Ralph.O., 1840-1873. A journalist of California
and New York. Gloverson and his Silent Partner; Vagabond Adventures.
Keen, William Williams.Pa., 1837- ——. An eminent
Philadelphia surgeon, professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College
from 1889. Reflex Paralysis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of the
Human Body; Complications and Sequels of Continuous Fever; Early
History of Practical Anatomy.
Keenan, Henry Francis.N. Y., 1849- ——. A journalist
and novelist formerly of Rochester, New York. The Money-Makers, a
Social Problem; Trajan, the History of a Sentimental Young Man; The
Aliens; One of a Thousand; The Iron Game. Ap. Cas.
Keep, Josiah.Ms., 1849- ——. An educator of California.
Common Sea Shells of California; West Coast Shells.
Keep, Robert Porter.Ct., 1844-1904. An educator of
Norwich, Connecticut. Stories from Herodotus; Essential Uses of the
Moods in Greek and Latin; Greek Lessons. Har.
Keith, Alyn Yates.See Morris, Mrs.
Keller, Joseph Edward.Bv., 1827-1886. A Jesuit educator,
president of St. Louis University. Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII.
(1880).
Kelley, Hall Jackson.N. H., 1790-1874. An educator
of Boston who organized the first Sunday-school in New England, and
made an unsuccessful attempt to colonize Oregon in 1830. Geographical
Description of Oregon; Letters from an Afflicted Husband; History of
the Settlement of Oregon.
Kelley, James Douglas Jerrold.N. Y., 1847- ——. A
lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Question of Ships;
Our Navy; A Desperate Chance, a story. Scr.
Kelley, William Darrah.Pa., 1814-1890. A jurist of
Philadelphia who was in Congress from 1860, and was very prominent as
an abolitionist and a protectionist. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters
on Political Questions; Letters from Europe; Lincoln and Stanton; The
Old South and the New. Bai.
Kellogg, Alfred Hosea.Pa., 1837- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Detroit. Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt, an
attempted solution of the Exodus problem.
Kellogg, Elijah.Me., 1813-1901. A Congregational
clergyman of Harpswell, Maine, from 1844. He wrote many popular
juvenile books, including Elm Island Series; Forest Glen Series; Good
Old Times Series; Pleasant Cove Series; Whispering Pine Series, but
perhaps is best known as the author of the Address of Spartacus to the
Gladiators. See Bibliography of Maine.Le.
Kellogg, Samuel Henry.L. I., 1839-1899. A Presbyterian
missionary to India. Grammar of the Hindi Language; The Jews, or
Prediction and Fulfillment; The Light of Asia and the Light of the
World; From Death to Resurrection; The Genesis and Growth of Religion.
Mac.
Kellogg, Warren Franklin.N. Y., 1860- ——. A Boston
publisher. Recent French Art; Hunting in the Jungle, adapted from “Les
Animaux Sauvages.” Est.
Kelton, John Cunningham.Pa., 1828-1893. A
brigadier-general in the United States army. New Manual of the Bayonet;
Fencing with Foils; Pigeons as Couriers; Information for Riflemen.
Kendall, Amos.Ms., 1789-1869. A once famous journalist,
politician, and philanthropist of Washington. Life of Andrew Jackson;
Autobiography (edited by W. Stickney). Le.
Kendall, George Wilkins.N. H., 1807-1864. A journalist
of New Orleans. The War between the United States and Mexico; The Texan
Santa Fé Expedition. Ap.
Kendrick, Asahel Clark.Vt., 1809-1895. A noted Greek
scholar who was professor of Greek at Rochester University from 1850.
Echoes: metrical translations from the Greek and German; The Moral
Conflict of Humanity and Other Papers; Life of Mrs. Emily Judson,
supra; A Child’s Book of Greek; Introduction to the Greek
Language, are among his writings. He was one of the Revisers of the New
Testament, published independent commentaries and translations, and
edited Our Poetical Favorites. Bap. Hou.
Kenly, John Reese.Md., 1822-1891. A captain and major
of volunteers in the Mexican War, and brigadier-general in the Federal
army in the Civil War. Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer in the Mexican
War.
Kennan, George.O., 1845- ——. A noted traveller who
made a careful investigation of the Russian exile system for The
Century Magazine, and drew world-wide attention to the subject. Tent
Life in Siberia; Siberia and the Exile System. Cent. Put.
Kennedy, Crammond.S., 1842- ——. A lawyer of
Washington. James Stanly, a Sunday-school tale; The Liberty of the
Press; Corn in the Blade, a book of verse; Close Communion or Open
Communion.
Kennedy, John Pendleton.Md., 1795-1870. A once famous
novelist who was a prominent Maryland politician and secretary of the
navy in 1852. Annals of Quodlibet; At Home and Abroad; Swallow Barn;
Horse-Shoe Robinson; Rob of the Bowl; Life of William Wirt. See Life
by H. T. Tuckerman, infra.Put.
Kennedy, William Sloane.Pa., 1822-1861. A Congregational
clergyman of Ohio. Messianic Prophecies; Life of Christ; History of the
Plan of Union; Sacred Analysis.
Kennedy, William Sloane.O., 1850- ——. A littérateur
of Belmont, Massachusetts. Lives of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier;
Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Poems of the Weird and
Mystical; Reminiscences of Walt Whitman; Art of Life, a Ruskin
Anthology; Whittier, the Poet of Freedom; In Portia’s Gardens;
Bibliography and Literary History of Leaves of Grass. Fu. Lo. Mer.
Wn.
Kenrick, Francis Patrick.I., 1797-1863. The Roman
Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, 1851-63. An active controversialist
and a biblical scholar of distinction. Theologia Dogmatica; Theologia
Moralis; The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated; Vindication of
the Catholic Church; End of Religious Controversy Controverted, are
among his many works. He also published a translation of the Scriptures
with commentary.
Kenrick, Peter Richard.I., 1806-1896. Brother of F.
P. Kenrick. The first Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis. In the
Ecumenical Council of 1870 he actively opposed the dogma of papal
infallibility. The Holy House of Lorretto; Anglican Ordinations; Concia
in Concilio Vaticana.
Kent, James.N. Y., 1763-1847. A jurist of eminence who
was chancellor of New York, 1814-23, and professor of law at Columbia
College, 1793-1798, and again on retiring from the chancellorship of
the State. His famous Commentaries on American Law, a work of the
highest authority, reached a 13th edition in 1884, that of Holmes
and Barnes. He published also a treatise On the Charter of New York
City. See Duer’s Discourse on Life of Kent; Memoirs of, by W. Kent,
1898.Lit.
Kenyon, James Benjamin.N. Y., 1858- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of Syracuse who has written much verse of a pleasing if not
very striking kind. Out of the Shadows; The Fallen, and Other Poems;
Songs in All Seasons; In Realms of Gold; At the Gate of Dreams; An
Oaten Pipe. Lip.
Ker, David.E., 18— - ——. A journalist of New York
city. The Broken Image, and Other Tales; On the Road to Khiva; The Wild
Horseman of the Pampas; The Boy Slave in Bokhara; From the Hudson to
the Neva; Lost Among White Africans; Into Unknown Seas; The Lost City,
or the Boy Explorers in Central Asia; The Wizard King. Har. Lip.
Lo.
Kerr, Orpheus C.See Newell, R. H.
Kerr, Robert Pollok.Ms., 1850- ——. Presbyterianism for
the People; History of Presbyterianism; Hymns of the Ages; Voice of God
in History.
Ketchum, Mrs. Annie [Chambers].Ky., 1824-1904. An
educator and lecturer. Lotos Flowers (verse); Christmas Carillons, and
Other Poems; Botany for Academies and Colleges; The Teacher’s Empire;
Nellie Braden, a novel; Rilla Motto, a romance. Lip.
Key, Francis Scott.Md., 1780-1843. A lawyer of
Washington whose miscellaneous poems were collected and published
after his death. The Star-Spangled Banner, composed in 1814 during
the bombardment of Fort McHenry by English forces in whose hands
the author was a prisoner, is his only poem of note. See Boyle’s
Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Marylanders.
Keyes, Edward Lawrence.S. C., 1843- ——. Son of E. D.
Keyes, infra. A physician of New York city. The Tonic Treatment
of Syphilis; Venereal Diseases; Genito-Urinary Diseases. Ap.
Keyes, Emerson Willard.N. Y., 1828-1897. A lawyer of
New York. New York Court of Appeals Reports; History of United States
Savings Banks; Laws of New York Relating to Common Schools, with
Comments.
Keyes, Erasmus Darwin.Ms., 1810-1895. A major-general in
the Federal army in the Civil War, who resigned in 1864. Fifty Years’
Observation of Men and Events. Scr.
Keyser, Peter Dirck.Pa., 1835-1897. A surgeon of
Philadelphia who has published Operations for Cataracts, and other
works on diseases of the eye.
Kidder, Daniel Parrish.N. Y., 1815-1891. A Methodist
clergyman of prominence who held professorships in several theological
institutions. Homiletics; The Christian Pastorate; Mormonism and the
Mormons; Sketches of a Residence in Brazil; Helps to Prayer; co-author
with J. C. Fletcher, supra, of Brazil and the Brazilians.
Meth.
Kidder, Frederick.N. H., 1804-1885. A Boston merchant
among whose historical monographs are, The Boston Massacre; The
Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell.
Kiddle, Henry.E., 1824-1891. An educator who was
superintendent of the schools of New York city, 1870-79. Text-Book of
Physics; Elements of Astronomy; Dictionary of Education, include his
most important works.
Kieffer, Henry Martyn.Pa., 1845- ——. A German Reformed
clergyman of Norristown, and subsequently of Easton, Pennsylvania. The
Recollections of a Drummer Boy. Hou.
Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon.Ct., 1815-1859. A journalist
of Connecticut. The Skeptic and Other Poems; History of the County of
Litchfield; Chronicles of Litchfield.
Kilgore, Damon Young. 1827-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia.
Dangers which Threaten the Republic; Questions of the Day.
Kimball, Arthur Lalanne.N. J., 1856- ——. A professor
of physics at Amherst College from 1891. The Physical Properties of
Gases. Hou.
Kimball, Harriet McEwen.N. H., 1834- ——. A religious
verse-writer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Swallow Flights of Song;
Hymns; The Blessed Company of All Faithful People; Complete Poems
(1889). Ran.
Kimball, James William.Ms., 1812-1885. A religious
writer educated for the ministry, but whose life was spent in
commercial pursuits. Heaven my Father’s Home; Friendly Words with
Fellow Pilgrims; Encouragements to Faith; How to See Jesus; The
Christian Ministry.
Kimball, Richard Burleigh.N. H., 1816-1892. A lawyer of
New York city who founded the town of Kimball in Texas, and built the
first railroad in that State. His novels and other writings at one time
enjoyed considerable popularity. They include St. Leger; Undercurrents
of Wall Street Life; Letters from Cuba; Letters from England; Cuba
and the Cubans; Was He Successful?; To-day in New York; Stories of
Exceptional Life; Henry Powers, Banker, a Novel; Romance of a Student
Life Abroad.
King, Mrs. Anna [Eichberg].Sd., 1853- ——. A Boston
writer of short stories. Brown’s Retreat, and Other Stories; Kitwyk
Stories. Cent. Rob.
King, Charles.N. Y., 1844- ——. A United States army
officer, retired in 1879 with the rank of captain, whose military
novels and other works have been very popular. Among his many
publications are, Famous and Decisive Battles; Between the Lines;
Campaigning with Crook; Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel’s
Daughter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; Kitty’s Conquest; Under
Fire; Waring’s Peril; Foes in Ambush; Fort Frayne; Noble Blood. See
Bibliography of Wisconsin.Har. Lip. Ne.
King, Clarence.R. I., 1842-1901. A geologist for a
number of years in the government service. Mountaineering in the
Sierra Nevada; Systematic Geology.
King, Dan.Ct., 1791-1864. A Rhode Island physician. Life
and Times of Governor Dorr; Quackery Unmasked; Tobacco: What it Is and
What it Does.
King, David Bennett.Pa., 1848- ——. A lawyer of New
York city. Latin Pronunciation; The Irish Question. Scr.
King, Edward.Ms., 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in
Paris as correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The
Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches;
Kentucky’s Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume
of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph
Zalmonah; Under the Red Flag. Co. Hou. Le.
King, Grace Elizabeth.La., 1859- ——. A popular writer
of New Orleans. Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings;
New Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder
of New Orleans; Balcony Stories. Cent. Do. Har. Mac.
King, Henry Melville.Mo., 1838- ——. A Baptist
clergyman. Early Baptists Defended; Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection
of homilies; Our Gospels. Bap.
King, Horatio.Me., 1811-1897. An attorney in Washington
who was postmaster-general in 1861. Sketches of Travel, or Twelve
Months in Europe; Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration
of Buchanan. Lip.
King, Horatio Collins.Me., 1837- ——. Son of H. King,
supra. A journalist of New York city. Guide for Regimental
Courts Martial; The Brooklyn Congregational Council; The Plymouth
Silver Wedding.
King, James Wilson.Md., 1818- ——. A naval engineer,
chief of the bureau of steam engineering, 1869-73. European Ships of
War; The War Ships and Navies of the World.
King, Jonas.Ms., 1792-1869. A Congregational missionary
in Greece who lived at Athens from 1831. He was a profound Oriental
scholar, and his various works were written in Modern Greek, Classical
Greek, French, and Arabic. The Defence of Jonas King; Exposition of
an Apostolic Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures; Sermons;
Synoptical View of Palestine; Miscellaneous Works. See Life,
1879.
King, Rufus.O., 1817-1891. A prominent lawyer of
Cincinnati. History of Ohio. Hou.
King, Mrs. Sue [Petigru].See Bowen, Mrs.
King, Thomas Starr.N. Y., 1824-1864. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder
of his life. He was largely instrumental in securing the wavering
allegiance of California to the general government at the opening of
the Civil War, and as a religious writer his influence was widely felt.
Substance and Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P.
Whipple; The White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains;
Patriotism, and Other Papers. Hou.
King, William Basil.P. E. I., 1859- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York. The Daily Song: Thoughts on the Offices for
Morning and Evening Prayer; Griselda, a novel. S.
King, William Rufus.N. Y., 1839- ——. An engineering
officer in the United States army. Torpedoes, their Invention and Use;
Materials for Defensive Armor.
Kingsley, Calvin.N. Y., 1812-1870. A Methodist bishop.
The Resurrection of the Dead; Round the World.
Kinney, Coates.N. Y., 1826- ——. An Ohio lawyer and
journalist. Keuka, and Other Poems; Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. The
Rain upon the Roof is his most familiar poem. Clke.
Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine [Dodge] [Stedman].N.
Y., 1810-1889. Mother of E. C. Stedman, infra. A
verse-writer of Newark, New Jersey, but resident in Italy, 1850-65.
Felicitá; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. See Griswold’s Female
Poets of America.
Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta [Magill].Ct., 1806-1870.
A novelist of Chicago. Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest;
Walter Ogilby; Mark Logan. Lip.
Kip, Leonard.N. Y., 1826-1901. Brother of W. I. Kip,
infra. A lawyer of Albany. California Sketches; The Volcano
Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and
Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb
and Crusty’s; Thalöe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; A Tale of
the Incredible.
Kip, William Ingraham.N. Y., 1811-1893. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, 1853-93. A popular religious
writer whose works have gone into many editions. Double Witness of
the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas
Holidays in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North
America; Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of
Scripture; The Church of the Apostles; The Olden Time in New York.
Ap. Dut. Ran. Wh.
Kirk, Edward Norris.N. Y., 1802-1874. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church, 1842-74.
Sermons; The Parables of our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the
Holy Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; Christian Sympathy Awakened.
Kirk, Eleanor.See Ames, Mrs. E.
Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner [Olney]. “Henry Hayes.” Ct.,
1842- ——. Wife of J. F. Kirk, infra. A popular novelist of
Germantown, Philadelphia. Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness;
Walford; The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in
Idleness; A Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times,
short stories; A Daughter of Eve; Narden’s Choosing; Ciphers; The Story
of Lawrence Garthe. Hou.
Kirk, John Foster.N. B., 1824-1904. The secretary to the
historian Prescott for eleven years, and from 1885 lecturer on European
history at the University of Pennsylvania. History of Charles the Bold;
Supplement, to Allibone’s Dictionary. Lip.
Kirkbride, Thomas Story.Pa., 1809-1883. A physician
of Philadelphia, widely known for skillful treatment of the insane,
who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane,
1840-83. Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; Construction of
Hospitals for the Insane.
Kirke, Edmund.See Gilmore.
Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline Matilda [Stansbury].N. Y.,
1801-1864. A once popular writer of New York city. A New Home, Who’ll
Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners;
Holidays Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; Forest Life, include her
principal writings. See Hart’s American Literature.Cr.
Scr.
Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury.N. Y., 1828-1896. Daughter
of Mrs. Kirkland, supra. An educator of Chicago. Six Little
Cooks; Dora’s Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School;
Short Histories of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for
Young People. Mg.
Kirkland, John Thornton.N. Y., 1770-1840. A Unitarian
clergyman who was president of Harvard University, 1810-27. Life of
Fisher Ames; Eulogy of General Washington.
Kirkland, Joseph.N. Y., 1830-1894. Son of Mrs. Kirkland,
supra. A lawyer of Chicago who was a major in the Federal army
during the Civil War. His two novels of pioneer life in Illinois,
Zury, and The McVeys, are notably faithful, graphic studies. His other
writings include, The Captain of Company K; The Story of Chicago; Story
of the Chicago Massacre of 1812. Hou.
Kirkman, Marshall Monroe.Il., 1842- ——. The
vice-president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Railway
Disbursements; Railway Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car Traffic;
Railway Expenditures; Handling of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and
Government Control; How to Collect Railway Revenues without Loss.
Kirkwood, Daniel.Md., 1814-1895. An astronomer of
distinction, professor in Indiana University from 1850. Meteoric
Astronomy; Comets and Meteors; Asteroids and Minor Planets between Mars
and Jupiter.
Kirkwood, Robert.S., 1793-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Yonkers. Lectures on the Millennium; Universalism Explained; A Plea
for the Bible; Illustration of the Offices of Christ.
Kirwan.See Murray, Nicholas.
Klingle, George.See Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana.
Knapp, Arthur May.Ms., 1841- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman, pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1891. Feudal and
Modern Japan. Kt.
Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo.Ms., 1783-1838. A lawyer of New
York city, among whose many works are, The Genius of Freemasonry;
Travels in North America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron
Burr, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster; Female Biography.
Kneeland, Abner.Ms., 1774-1844. A Universalist clergyman
who became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston
in 1832. The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; Review
of Evidences of Christianity.
Kneeland, Samuel.Ms., 1821-1888. A naturalist and
surgeon of Boston. Science and Mechanism; An American in Iceland; The
Wonders of the Yo Semite; Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Lo.
Knight, Edward Henry.E., 1824-1883. An English writer
who settled in the United States in 1845, and was long connected with
the patent office in Washington. American Mechanical Dictionary; New
Mechanical Dictionary. Hou.
Knight, James.Md., 1810-1887. A physician of New York
city. Improvement of Health by Natural Means; Orthopædia; Static
Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent.
Knight, Sarah Kemble.Ms., 1666-1727. A teacher of Boston
among whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin. Her Narrative of a Journey
from Boston to New York in 1704 is a valuable historical record of
contemporary manners and customs written in a graphic, entertaining
style.
Knortz, Karl.P., 1841- ——. A German writer who came
to the United States in 1863, and settled in New York city. Märchen
und Sagen der nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerikanische Skizzen; An
American Shakespeare Bibliography; Humorische Gedichte; Longfellow:
eine literarhistorische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; Kapital und Arbeit in
Amerika; Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und Kirche in
Amerika; Shakespeare in Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; Brook Farm
and Margaret Fuller, include his principal writings. Ho.
Knox, Mrs. Adeline [Trafton].Me., 1845- ——. A novelist
of St. Louis. Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; An American Girl
Abroad; Dorothy’s Experience. Le.
Knox, Charles Eugene.N. Y., 1833-1900. A Presbyterian
clergyman, president of the theological seminary at Bloomfield, New
Jersey, from 1863. A Year with Saint Paul; Love to the End; David the
King; Graduated Sunday-school Text-Books. Meth. Ran.
Knox, George William.N. Y., 1853- ——. A Presbyterian
missionary in Japan, professor of ethics in the University of Japan
from 1886. His writings in Japanese include: A Brief System of
Theology; Outlines of Homiletics; Christ the Son of God; The Basis of
Ethics. In English he has published The Japanese Systems of Ethics.
Knox, John Jay.N. Y., 1828-1892. A financier of
distinction, comptroller of the currency, 1867-84. He published United
States Notes, a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the
United States Government. Scr.
Knox, Thomas Wallace.N. H., 1835-1896. A journalist
and traveller whose home was in New York city. His books of travel
for young people have been widely popular. Overland Through Asia;
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The
Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide
Around the World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on
Land and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since
Waterloo; Life of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The
Siberian Exiles; The Lost Army, include the greater number of his
books. Ap. Cas. Har. Mer. Put. We.
Kobbe, Gustav.N. Y., 1857——. A littérateur of New York
city. Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung;” New York
City and its Environs. Har.
Koehler, Sylvester Rosa.G., 1837-1900. An art critic
of Boston, editor of the American Art Review. His more important
publications are, American Art; Etching: an Outline of its Technical
Processes and History. Cas. Le.
Koopman [kope´man], Harry Lyman.Me., 1860——.
A verse-writer, librarian of Brown University. The Great Admiral;
Orestes, and Other Poems; Woman’s Will, with Other Poems; What to Read.
Kouns [koonz], Nathan Chapman.Mo., 1833-1890.
A Missouri lawyer, State librarian at Jefferson City from 1886, who
published two historical romances, Arius the Libyan; Dorcas the
Daughter of Faustina. Ap. Fo.
Kraitsir, Charles.Hy., 1804-1860. An educator and
philologist of New York city. The Poles in the United States;
Significance of the Alphabet; Glossology.
Krauth, Charles Porterfield.Va., 1823-1883. A prominent
Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor of moral science in the
University of Pennsylvania, 1868-83. The Conservative Reformation
and its Theology is his greatest work; and among others are, The
Evangelical Mass and the Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty Years’ War;
Christian Liberty; Infant Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic
System; Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession. See American Lutheran
Biographies.Lip.
Krebs, John Michael.Md., 1804-1867. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city. Righteousness and National Prosperity; The
American Citizen; Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus; The
Presbyterian Psalmist.
Krehbiel, Henry Edward.Mch., 1854——. A musical critic
on the staff of the New York Tribune. Notes on the Cultivation of
Choral Music; Review of the New York Musical Seasons, 1885-90; Studies
in the Wagnerian Drama; How to Listen to Music. Har. Scr.
Kroeger, Adolph Ernst.Sg., 1837-1882. A writer of St.
Louis. The Minnesingers of Germany; Our Forms of Government and the
Problems of the Future; translations of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge
and Science of Rights.
Kron, Karl.See Bagg.
Krotel, Gottlob Frederick.Wg., 1826- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman of New York city. Who are the Blessed?; Explanation of
Luther’s Small Catechism; several translations from the German.
Kunz [koonz], George Frederick. N. Y., 1856- ——. A
mineralogist of note, the foremost American specialist in precious
stones. He has published Gems and Precious Stones of North America.
Kunze [koont-se], John Christopher.Sxy.,
1744-1807. A once famous Lutheran clergyman of New York city, professor
of ancient languages in Columbia College. History of the Christian
Religion and of the Lutheran Church; Catechism and Liberty.
Kunze, Richard Ernest.G., 1838- ——. A physician of New
York city who has done much to promote a knowledge of medical botany.
Cactus; Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany; Germination and
Vitality of Seeds.
Kurtz, Benjamin.Pa., 1795-1865. A Lutheran clergyman,
for nearly thirty years the editor of The Lutheran Observer. Lutheran
Prayer-Book; Year-Book of the Reformation; Why are You a Lutheran?;
Faith, Hope, and Charity; Theological Sketch-Book, are his most
important works.
L
Labagh, Isaac Peter.N. Y., 1804-1879. An Episcopal
clergyman of Iowa, but formerly a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed
faith. Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy; The Great Events that are
Coming; The Two Witnesses, Moses and Elijah; Theoklesia.
La Borde, Maximilian.S. C., 1804-1873. An educator
who was professor in the University of South Carolina, 1842-73.
Introduction to Physiology; Story of Lethea and Verona; History of
South Carolina College.
Ladd, George Trumbull.O., 1842- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of prominence, professor of philosophy at Yale University
from 1881. Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred
Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology,
Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology;
Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; What
is the Bible? He has translated Lotze’s Philosophical Outlines, from
the German. Gi. Scr.
Ladd, Horatio Oliver.Me., 1839- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, but formerly of the Congregational faith, at one period
president of the University of New Mexico. History of the War with
Mexico; The Story of New Mexico. Do. Lo.
La Farge, John.N. Y., 1835- ——. A noted figure and
landscape artist of New York city. Lectures on Art. Mac.
Laighton, Albert.N. H., 1829-1887. A banker of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, cousin of Mrs. Thaxter, infra. Poems,
a collection of quiet, thoughtful verse, was published in 1878.
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte.Ga., 1798-1859. The second
of the four presidents of the Republic of Texas, 1838, and United
States minister to Central America, 1857-58. Verse Memorials. See
Bibliography of Texas.
Lamb, Mrs. Martha Joan Reade [Nash]. Ms.,
1829-1893. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the
Magazine of American History, 1883-93. The History of the City of New
York, her chief work, is the result of a vast amount of patient labour
and research. Her other works include, Spicy, a novel; Play-School
Stories; The Christmas Owl; Snow and Sunshine, a Story for Girls; Wall
Street in History. Bar. Do.
Lambert, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Perine] [Tucker].Al.,
1838- ——. A writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway
Idyl; Life of Mark Pomeroy.
Lamon, Ward Hill.Va., 1828-1893. An Illinois lawyer, law
partner of Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; Life of
Abraham Lincoln. Mg.
Lamson, Alvan.Ms., 1792-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of
Dedham, Massachusetts, 1818-60. History of the First Church in Dedham;
Sermons; The Church of the First Three Centuries.
Lamson, Daniel Lowell.N. H., 1834-18—. A physician of
Fryeburg, Maine. Lectures; Differential Diagnosis of Diseases.
Lamson, Mrs. Mary [Swift].Ms., 1822- ——. For five
years a teacher of Laura Bridgman, the noted blind deaf-mute, and for
three years in entire charge of her education. Life and Education of
Laura Dewey Bridgman. Hou.
Lance, William. 1791-1840. A lawyer and political writer of
Charleston, who published a Life of Washington in Latin.
Lander, Meta.See Lawrence, Mrs.
Lander, Sarah West.Ms., 1810-1872. A writer of Salem,
Massachusetts, whose Spectacles for Young Eyes, a series of volumes of
travel, was very popular.
Landon, Judson Stuart.Ct., 1832- ——. A lawyer of
Schenectady, justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
and lecturer in the Albany Law School. The Constitutional History and
Government of the United States. Hou.
Landon, Melville De Lancey. “Eli Perkins.” N. Y.,
1839- ——. A popular humourous lecturer. The Franco-Prussian War in a
Nutshell; Saratoga in 1901; Eli Perkins at Large; Eli Perkins’s Wit,
Humor, and Pathos; Fun and Fact, Thirty Years of Wit; Money: Silver,
Gold, or Bimetallism, include the most of his writing. Cas. Ke.
Langdell, Christopher Columbus.N. H., 1826- ——. A
legal writer of distinction, dean of the Harvard Law School. Cases
on the Law of Contracts; Summary of Equity Pleading; Cases in Equity
Pleading; Elementary Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Langdon, William Chauncey.Vt., 1831-1895. An Episcopal
clergyman of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Defects of our Practical
Catholicity; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic
Reform Movement in the Italian Church; Conflict of Practice and
Principle in the American Church.
Langley, Samuel Pierpont.Ms., 1834- ——. An astronomer
of eminence, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887.
Researches on Solar Heat; The New Astronomy. Hou.
Langston, John Mercer.Va., 1829-1897. A distinguished
educator of African birth, minister to Hayti, 1877-85, and president of
the Virginia Normal Institute at Petersburg from the latter date. He
published Freedom and Citizenship.
Lanier [la-neer´], Clifford Anderson.Ga.,
1844- ——. A Georgia writer of fiction. Two Hundred Bales; Thorn-Fruit.
Lanier, Sidney.Ga., 1842-1881. Brother of C. A. Lanier,
supra. A distinguished Southern writer over whose rank as a poet
much controversy has arisen. His verse can hardly be said to appeal
to many readers, and its formlessness at times repels rather than
attracts. A Centennial Ode, written for the opening of the Exposition
of 1876, first brought him into general notice. Subsequently he
lectured upon English literature in Baltimore. Poems; Tiger Lilies,
a novel; The Science of English Verse; The English Novel and its
Development; Florida: its Scenery, History, and Climate. He edited The
Boys’ Percy; The Boys’ Mabinogion; The Boys’ King Arthur; The Boys’
Froissart. See Century Magazine, April, 1884; Gosse’s Questions at
Issue.Lip. Scr.
Lanigan, George Thomas.Q., 1845-1886. A journalist of
Montreal, and subsequently of New York city. Canadian Ballads; Fables
Out of the World.
Lanman, Charles.Mch., 1819-1895. An artist and author of
Washington, at one time the private secretary of Daniel Webster. Essays
for Summer Hours; Summer in the Wilderness; Private Life of Daniel
Webster; Dictionary of Congress; The Red Book of Michigan; Leading Men
of Japan; Letters from a Landscape Painter; Tour to the River Saguenay;
Farthest North; Haphazard Personalities, include the most of his works.
Ap. Le. Lo.
Lanman, Charles Rockwell.Ct., 1850- ——. A professor of
Sanskrit at Harvard University from 1880. Noun Inflection in the Vedas;
A Sanskrit Reader, with Notes. Gi.
Lansing, John Gulian.La., 1851- ——. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman, professor of Old Testament Languages in the New Brunswick
Theological Seminary, New Jersey. American Revised Version of the Book
of Psalms; An Arabic Manual. Scr.
Lanza, Marchioness Clara [Hammond].Ks., 1858- ——.
Daughter of W. A. Hammond, supra. A novelist of New York city.
Tit for Tat; Mr. Perkins’s Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Tales of
Eccentric Life; A Modern Marriage; David Morton’s Transgression; A
Golden Pilgrimage.
Lapham [lăp´a̯m], Increase Allen.N. Y.,
1811-1875. A prominent scientist of Milwaukee. Antiquities of
Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its Geography, Topography, History, Geology, and
Mineralogy. See Popular Science Monthly, April, 1883.
Lapham, William Berry.Me., 1828-1894. An agricultural
editor of Maine, who published several histories of Maine localities,
including Woodstock, Paris, Norway, Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert
Island. See Bibliography of Maine.
Larcom, Lucy.Ms., 1824-1893. A popular verse and prose
writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the
Lowell factories, and was a contributor to the noted Lowell Offering.
Her writings in verse include, At the Beautiful Gate; Childhood Songs;
Wild Roses of Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter Gleams; Complete Poems.
Skipper Ben and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best known lyrics. Her
original work in prose comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories;
The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila among the Mountains; The Unseen Friend;
As It is in Heaven; A New England Girlhood, an autobiographic work.
See Life by D. D. Addison.Hou.
Larned, Augusta.Vt., 1835- ——. A journalist of New
York city. Home Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old Tales from Grecian
Mythology; Tales from the Norse Grandmother; Village Photographs, a
work of the nature of Miss Mitford’s “Our Village,” and with much of
the same charm; In Woods and Fields, a book of verse. Ho. Meth.
Put.
Larned, Josephus Nelson.Ont., 1836- ——. The
superintendent of the public library at Buffalo, 1877-1897. History for
Ready Reference; Talks About Labor. Ap.
Larned, Walter Cranston.Il., 1850- ——. A lawyer and
littérateur of Lake Forest, Illinois. Churches and Castles of Mediæval
France. Scr.
La Roche, René.Pa., 1794-1872. A Philadelphia physician.
Pneumonia: its Supposed Connection with Autumnal Fevers; Treatise on
Yellow Fever.
Larrabee, William Clark.Me., 1802-1859. A once prominent
Methodist clergyman and educator of Indiana, professor in De Pauw
University for a number of years. Scientific Evidences of Natural
and Revealed Religion; Wesley and his Co-Laborers; Asbury and his
Co-Laborers; Rosebower, a volume of essays. Meth.
Latham, Charles Sterrett.Cal., 1861-1890. A Translation
of Dante’s Eleven Letters, with Explanatory Notes and Historical
Comments. Hou.
Lathbury, Mary Artemisia.N. Y., 1841- ——. That Sweet
Story of Old; Bethlehem and her Children; Child’s History of Paul;
Fleda and the Voice; From Meadow Sweet to Mistletoe. Meth.
Lathrop, George Parsons.H. I., 1851-1898. A littérateur
of New York city, and more recently of New London. His writings in
verse include, Rose and Rooftree; Dreams and Days. In fiction they
comprise, Afterglow; An Echo of Passion; In the Distance; Newport;
Would You Kill Him?; True; Two Sides of a Story; Love Wins; Gold of
Pleasure; Behind Time. Other works are, A Study of Hawthorne; Spanish
Vistas; A Story of Courage: Annals of the Georgetown Convent (with
Mrs. Lathrop, infra). Cas. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Lathrop, Mrs. Rose [Hawthorne].Ms., 1851- ——.
Wife of G. P. Lathrop, supra, and daughter of N. Hawthorne,
supra. Along the Shore, a volume of verse; Some Memories of
Hawthorne. Hou.
Latimer, Charles.D. C., 1827-1888. An engineer of note
who published Roadmaster’s Assistants; The Divining Rod; Battle of
Standards.
Latimer, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wormeley].E., 1822-1904.
An educator of Baltimore. Familiar Talks on Shakespeare’s Comedies;
France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-90; Russia and Turkey in the
Nineteenth Century; England in the Nineteenth Century; Europe in Africa
in the Nineteenth Century; Italy in the Nineteenth Century. Mg.
Rob.
Latrobe, John Hazelhurst Boneval.Pa., 1803-1891. A
lawyer of Baltimore. Son of the architect Benjamin Latrobe. History of
Mason and Dixon’s Line; Three Great Battles; Justices’ Practice under
the Laws of Maryland; Reminiscences of West Point; Odds and Ends, a
book of verse; History of Maryland in Liberia.
Latta, Samuel Arminius.O., 1804-1852. A Methodist
clergyman of Ohio, subsequently a physician in Cincinnati, who
published The Chain of Sacred Wonders.
Laughlin, James Lawrence.O., 1850- ——. A political
economist of note, professor at Harvard University, 1883-87, and at
Chicago University from 1892. Facts About Money; Study of Political
Economy; Elements of Political Economy; History of Bi-Metallism in the
United States. Ap. Am.
Lawrence, Eugene.N. Y., 1823-1894. An historical writer
of New York city. Lives of the British Historians; Historical Studies;
Essays and Papers; Literature Primers; The Jews and their Persecutors;
Columbus and his Contemporaries. Har.
Lawrence, Mrs. Margaret Oliver [Woods]. “Meta Lander.”
Ms., 1813-1901. Daughter of L. Woods, infra. Light on
the Dark River; Fading Flowers; L’Espérance; The Tobacco Problem;
Marion Graham. Le.
Lawrence, William.O., 1819-1899. A jurist of Ohio
who was comptroller of the national treasury, 1880-85. Decisions of
Ohio Supreme Court; The Treaty Question; Law of Religious Societies
and Religious Corporations; Law of Claims Against the Government;
Organization of the United States Treasury Department; Decisions of the
First Comptroller of the Treasury.
Lawrence, William.Ms., 1850- ——. The seventh
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Life of Amos A. Lawrence;
Visions and Service, discourses in collegiate chapels. Hou.
Lawrence, William Beach.N. Y., 1800-1881. An eminent
jurist of New York city, and after 1850 of Newport, Rhode Island.
Letters on the Treaty of Washington; an edition of Wheaton’s Elements
of International Law; Visitation and Search; Institutions of the
United States; Commentaire sur les éléments du droit international;
Administration of Equity Jurisprudence, include his principal writings.
Lawson, James.S., 1799-1880. A New York city journalist.
Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite; Poems; Giordana, a tragedy. See
Wilson’s Poets and Poetry of Scotland.
Lawson, John.E., 16— -1712. The surveyor-general
of North Carolina, burned at the stake by hostile Indians. His
entertaining travels were published with the title of History of North
Carolina. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Lawton, William Cranston.Ms., 1853- ——. A classical
teacher and lecturer, formerly of Cambridge, now (1897) of Brooklyn and
professor in Adelphi College there. Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia
Dispersa, a book of verse; Art and Humanity in Homer. Hou. Mac.
Lay, Henry Champlin.Va., 1823-1885. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Easton (Maryland), but from 1859 to 1869 the third
bishop of Arkansas. Studies in the Church; The Church and the Nation.
Lazarus, Emma.N. Y., 1849-1887. A talented Jewish writer
of New York city who wrote much in verse and prose for The Century and
other periodicals. Alide, an Episode of Goethe’s Life; Poems; Admetus,
and Other Poems; Songs of a Semite; Poems and Ballads translated from
Heine. Her Complete Poems, with a brief memoir, appeared in 1889.
Hou.
Lazarus, Josephine.N. Y., 1846- ——. Sister of E.
Lazarus, supra. The Spirit of Judaism; The Love-Letters of a
Portuguese Nun, a translation from the French. Cas. Do.
Lazelle, Henry Martyn.Ms., 1832- ——. A United States
army officer, since 1887 in charge of the bureau of war records. One
Law in Nature; Improvements in the Art of War.
Lea, Henry Charles.Pa., 1825- ——. Son of I. Lea,
infra. A prominent writer and publisher of Philadelphia.
Superstition and Force; An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in
the Christian Church; Chapters from the Religious History of Spain;
Studies in Church History; Translations, and Other Rhymes; History of
the Inquisition. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Catholic
World, March, 1897.Har. Hou.
Lea, Isaac.Del., 1792-1886. A publisher and naturalist
of Philadelphia. Contributions to Geology; Observations on the Genus
Unio, in thirteen volumes; Fossil Footmarks in the Red Sandstones of
Pottsville.
Lea, Matthew Carey.Pa., 1823-1897. Son of I. Lea,
supra. A chemist of Philadelphia whose Manual of Photography is
a standard work.
Leaming, Jeremiah.Ct., 1717-1804. An Episcopal clergyman
of Connecticut. Defense of Episcopal Government; Evidences of the Truth
of Christianity; Dissertations.
Learned, Walter.Ct., 1847- ——. A verse-writer of New
London who has published Between Times, a collection of poems, and
translated Ten Tales from Coppée. Sto.
Leavitt, John McDowell.O., 1824- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman. Faith, a Poem; Afranius; The Siege of Babylon, a tragedy;
Hymns to Our King; New World Tragedies from Old World Life; Reasons
for Faith; Visions of Solyma.
Le Conte [le-kŏnt], John.Ga., 1818-1891. A
naturalist and physician, president of the University of California,
1875-81, and professor of physics there before and after his
presidency. Philosophy of Medicine; Study of the Physical Sciences;
Vital Statistics.
Le Conte, John Eaton.N. J., 1784-1860. Uncle of J. Le
Conte, supra. A naturalist who in early life served in the corps
of army engineers with the rank of major. Monographs of North American
Species of Utricularia, Gratiola, and Ruellia; North American Species
of Viola.
Le Conte, John Lawrence.N. Y., 1825-1883. Son of J. E.
Le Conte, supra. An entomologist of distinction, author of List
of Coleoptera of North America, and other technical publications.
Le Conte, Joseph.Ga., 1823-1901. Brother of John Le
Conte, supra. A geologist of eminence, professor of geology in
the University of California from 1869. Elements of Geology; Sight;
Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought; Religion and Science.
Ap.
Lee, Alfred.Ms., 1807-1887. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Delaware, and prominent as a Low Churchman. The
Harbinger of Christ; Life of St. Peter; Eventful Nights in Bible
History; Life of St. John; Treatise on Baptism. Har. Ran.
Lee, Benjamin.Ct., 1833- ——. Son of A. Lee,
supra. A physician of Philadelphia. Treatment for Angular
Curvature of the Spine; Tracts on Massage.
Lee, Benjamin Franklin.N. J., 1841- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of African birth, president of Wilberforce University from
1876. Wesley the Worker; Causes of the Success of Methodism.
Lee, Charles Alfred.Ct., 1810-1872. A physician of New
York city who published Elements of Geology for Popular Use; Human
Physiology.
Lee, Day Kellogg.N. Y., 1816-1869. A Universalist
clergyman of New York city. Summerfield, or Life on a Farm; Master
Builders, or Life at a Trade; Merrimack, or Life at a Loom.
Lee, Mrs. Eliza [Buckminster].N. H., 1794-1864. Sister
of J. S. Buckminster, supra. A once popular Boston writer. Life
of Richter; Sketches of a New England Village; Naomi; Florence, the
Parish Orphan; Parthenia, or the Last Days of Paganism.
Lee, Mrs. Hannah Farnham [Sawyer].Ms., 1780-1865. A
once prominent writer of Boston. Grace Seymour; Luther and his Times;
Sculpture and Sculptors; Three Experiments in Living, which was
extraordinarily popular both in America and England; Familiar Sketches
of the Old Painters; The Huguenots in France and America; Memoir of
Pierre Toussaint.
Lee, Henry.Va., 1756-1818. A famous general in the
American army during the Revolution. He published Memoirs of the War
in the Southern Departments of the United States. In his oration
in Congress on the death of Washington first occurs the familiar
phrase, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.”
Lee, Henry.Va., 1786-1837. Son of H. Lee, supra.
A Virginia writer who published The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas;
Life of Napoleon.
Lee, Jesse.Va., 1758-1816. A Methodist missionary,
called “the Apostle of Methodism,” who published a History of
Methodism, which is a valuable record of the early years of that faith.
See Life and Times by L. M. Lee.
Lee, Luther.N. Y., 1800-1889. A Wesleyan clergyman of
Michigan. Universalism Examined and Refuted; Church Polity; Immortality
of the Soul; Slavery in the Light of the Bible; Elements of Theology.
Lee, Mrs. Mary Catherine [Jenkins]. Ms., 18— - ——. A
novelist of Springfield, Massachusetts. A Quaker Girl of Nantucket; In
the Cheering-Up Business; A Soulless Singer. Hou.
Lee, Mary Elizabeth.S. C., 1813-1849. A writer of
Charleston, author of Historical Tales for Youth, and a volume of
Poems issued in 1851 with memoir by S. Gilman, supra.
Leech, Samuel Van Derlip.N. Y., 1837- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and temperance reformer. The Drunkard; Ingersoll and the
Bible; The Inebriates. Fu.
Leeds, David.E., 1652-1720. A prominent figure among the
early settlers of Burlington, New Jersey, and a violent opponent of the
Quakers. His writings, directed almost entirely against them, include
The Temple of Wisdom; The News of a Trumpet; Hue and Cry against Error;
A Trumpet Sounded; The Rebuker Rebuked; The Great Mystery of Fox-Craft
Discovered.
Leeser [lā´zer], Isaac.Wa., 1806-1868. A Jewish
rabbi of Philadelphia who published The Jews and the Mosaic Law;
Discourses on the Jewish Religion; Portuguese Forms of Prayer; a
Translation of the Scriptures from the original Hebrew.
Lefferts, George Morewood.L. I., 1846- ——. A physician
of New York city. Diseases of the Nose; Diagnosis of Nasal Catarrh;
Pharmacopœia for Diseases of the Throat and Nose.
Legare [lā-gree´], Hugh Swinton.S. C., 1799-1843.
A South Carolina jurist and essayist, attorney-general of the United
States in 1841. Constitutional History of Greece; Essay on Classical
Learning; Essay on Roman Literature.
Legare, James Matthews.S. C., 1823-1859. An inventor and
verse writer. Orta-Undis, and Other Poems.
Leggett, William.N. Y., 1802-1839. A journalist once
prominent in New York city. Leisure Hours at Sea; Tales by a Country
Schoolmaster; Naval Stories; Political Writings. See Memoir by T.
Sedgwick, infra.
Leidy [lī´dĭ], Joseph.Pa., 1823-1891. A
Philadelphia scientist of distinction who was a constant contributor to
scientific periodicals. Among his writings are, The Extinct Species of
the American Ox; Ancient Fauna of Nebraska; Cretaceous Reptiles of the
United States; Elementary Text-Book on Human Anatomy. Lip.
Leighton [lī´ton], William.Ms., 1833- ——. A
writer of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Sons of Godwin, a tragedy that
appeared simultaneously with Tennyson’s “Harold” on the same theme;
At the Court of King Edwin, a drama; Shakespeare’s Dream; Change; The
Subjection of Hamlet.
Leland, Charles Godfrey. “Hans Breitmann.” Pa.,
1824-1903. A very versatile Philadelphia author who lived much in
Europe, and was considered an authority upon Gypsy lore. Hans Breitmann
Ballads; The Music Lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems; Songs of the
Sea and Lays of the Land; The English Gypsies and their Language;
Origin of the Gypsies; The Gypsies; The Algonquin Legends of New
England; Egyptian Sketch Book; Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of
Slavery; Practical Education; Manual of Wood Carving; Memoirs, include
his more important works. See Allibone’s Dictionary and Supplement;
Appletons’ American Biography.Ap. Hou. Lip. Mac. Scr.
Leland, Henry Perry.Pa., 1828-1868. Brother of C. G.
Leland, supra. A Philadelphia writer who served as lieutenant in
a Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil War. The Americans in Rome;
The Grey Bay Mare, and Other Humorous Sketches.
Lemmon, John Gill.Mch., 1832- ——. A botanist attached
to the California department of forestry from 1880. Ferns of the
Pacific Coast; Discovery of the Potato.
Leonard, Agnes.See Hill, Mrs. Agnes.
Leonard, William Andrew.Ct., 1848- ——. The fourth
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio. Via Sacra; The Christmas Festival,
its Origin, etc.; Summary of Herbert Spencer’s “First Principles;”
Brief History of the Christian Church.
Leonowens, Mrs. Anna Harriette [Crawford].W.,
1834- ——. An Englishwoman who was governess in the royal family of
Siam for four years, came to New York in 1867, and has since taught
there. The English Governess at the Siamese Court; The Romance of the
Harem; Life and Travels in India; Our Asiatic Cousins. Co. Lo.
Le Plongeon, Mrs. Alice [Dixon].E., 1851- ——. The wife
of the archæologist and explorer, Dr. Le Plongeon. Here and There in
Yucatan.
Lesley, John Peter.Pa., 1819-1903. A Philadelphia
geologist of distinction. Man’s Origin and Destiny from the Platform of
the Sciences; Coal and its Topography; The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide.
Leslie, Eliza.Pa., 1787-1858. A Philadelphia writer of
tales and sketches whose work was extremely popular in her day. She was
a sister of the famous English artist Charles Robert Leslie. Among her
writings are, Domestic Cookery; Mrs. Washington Potts; The Behaviour
Book; Pencil Sketches; American Girl’s Book; The Dennings. She wrote
nothing that will live, but much that was of service to her generation.
See Hart’s American Literature.Bai.
Lesquereux [lā-ke-rü´], Leo.Sd., 1806-1889.
A Swiss paleontologist who came to America in 1848 and settled in
Columbus, Ohio. Catalogue of the Mosses of Switzerland; Musci Americani
Exsiccati (with Sullivant); Icones Muscarum; Land Plants in the Lower
Silurian; The Tertiary Flora; The Coal Flora; Mosses of North America
(with T. P. James).
Leslie, Madeline.See Baker, Mrs.
Lester, Charles Edwards.Ct., 1815-1890. A journalist
and littérateur of New York city, at one time consul at Genoa. Life
of Vespucius; The Napoleon Dynasty; Artists of America; The Glory and
Shame of England; My Consulship; Condition and Fate of England; Samuel
Houston and his Republic; Life of Charles Sumner; Our One Hundred
Years; America’s Advancement; The Mexican Republic; History of the
United States; Stanhope Burleigh, a novel; with several translations of
standard Italian authors, include the greater portion of his work.
Leverett, Frederick Percival.Ms., 1803-1836. A once
distinguished educator of Boston. Besides annotated editions of Juvenal
and other classics, he prepared a much valued Lexicon of the Latin
Language. Lip.
Le Vert, Mrs. Octavia [Walton].Ga., 1820-1877. A once
prominent social leader of Mobile, whose literary reputation was
greater than her actual accomplishment seemed to warrant. Souvenirs of
Travel was her only published book.
Lewis, Abram Herbert.N. Y., 1836- ——. A Seventh Day
Baptist clergyman of Plainfield, New Jersey, and a writer of much
prominence in his denomination. Sabbath and Sunday; Biblical Teachings
Concerning the Sabbath and Sunday; Critical History of the Sabbath;
Critical History of Sunday Legislation; Biography of the Puritan
Sunday; Paganism in Christianity. Ap. Put.
Lewis, Alonzo.Ms., 1794-1861. A verse-writer of Lynn,
once styled “The Lynn Bard.” Forest Flowers and Sea Shells; History of
Lynn. A complete edition of his poems was issued in 1883.
Lewis, Charles Bertrand. “M. Quad.” O., 1842- ——. A
journalist of Detroit on the staff of the Free Press for many years,
and since 1891 on that of The New York World. Quad’s Odds; Goaks and
Tears; The Lime Kiln Club.
Lewis, Charlton Thomas.Pa., 1834-1904. Grandson of Enoch
Lewis, infra. A lawyer and mathematician of Morristown, New
Jersey. History of the German People; Latin Dictionary for Schools;
Elementary Latin Dictionary. Har.
Lewis, Dio.N. Y., 1823-1886. A well-known Boston
physician and health reformer. New Gymnastics; Our Girls; Our
Digestion; Chastity; Weak Lungs and How to Make Them Strong, are among
his most important works.
Lewis, Elisha Joseph.Md., 1820- ——. A Philadelphia
physician. Hints to Sportsmen; The American Sportsman. Lip.
Lewis, Enoch.Pa., 1776-1856. An educator among the
Friends of Pennsylvania. Vindication of the Society of Friends; Oaths;
Baptism; Life of William Penn.
Lewis, Mrs. Estelle Anna Blanche [Robinson]. “Stella.”
Md., 1824-1880. A Brooklyn writer whose life was largely spent
in Europe. Her verse, which once received much more praise than its
degree of excellence at all warranted, is now nearly forgotten. Sappho
of Lesbos; Records of the Heart; Child of the Sea; Myths of the
Minstrel; Helémah, or the Fall of Montezuma.
Lewis, Mrs. Harriet. 1841-1878. Amber, the Adopted; Her Double
Life.
Lewis, Laurence.Pa., 1857-1890. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Courts in the 17th Century; History of the
Bank of North America; Memoir of Edward Shippen; Original Land Titles
in Philadelphia.
Lewis, Tayler.N. Y., 1802-1877. An educator of note who
was professor of Greek in Union College from 1849 until his death.
The Platonic Theology; The Bible and Science; Six Days of Creation;
Defence of Capital Punishment (with G. B. Cheever, supra); The
Divine-Human in the Scriptures; States’ Rights; Heroic Periods in the
Nation’s History; The Light by which we See Light.
Lieber [lee´be̯r], Francis.P., 1800-1872. An
eminent publicist, professor of political economy in the University
of South Carolina, 1835-56, and subsequently at Columbia College.
Reminiscences of Niebuhr; The West, and Other Poems; Manual of
Political Ethics; Laws of Property; Civil Liberty and Self-Government;
Legal and Political Hermeneutics; Instructions for the Armies in the
Field; The Character of the Gentleman; Miscellaneous Writings. See
Life and Letters of, by T. S. Perry; Life, by Harley.Lip.
Lieber, Oscar Montgomery.Ms., 1830-1862. Son of F.
Lieber, supra. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil
War. The Assayer’s Guide; The Analytical Chemist’s Assistant; The
Geology of Mississippi. Bai.
Light, George Washington.Me., 1809-1860. A journalist of
Boston. Life of Timothy Claxton; Keep Cool, Go Ahead, and a Few More
Poems.
Lillie, John.S., 1812-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Kingston, New York, who published The Perpetuity of the Earth.
Lillie, Mrs. Lucy Cecil [White].N. Y., 1855- ——. A
writer of popular juveniles. Mildred’s Bargain; Nan; The Story of Music
and Musicians; Rolf House; The Colonel’s Money; Jo’s Opportunity; The
Household of Glen Holly; The Story of English Literature; Prudence, a
Novel of Æsthetic London; Ruth Endicott’s Way; Alison’s Adventures.
Co. Har.
Lincoln, Abraham.Ky., 1809-1865. The sixteenth president
of the United States. His place in literature is determined by his
famous Gettysburg Address and the equally admirable Second Inaugural
Address. His Complete Works are contained in two volumes, edited by
Nicolay and Hay. See Lives by Holland, 1865; Arnold, 1868; Lamon,
1872; Nicolay and Hay, 1890; Herndon, 1892; Abraham Lincoln, an Essay,
by C. Schurz, 1892.
Lincoln, Mrs. Almira.See Phelps, Mrs. A.Cent.
Lincoln, Daniel Francis.Ms., 1841- ——. A physician of
Boston. School Hygiene; Electro-Therapeutics; School and Industrial
Hygiene.
Lincoln, Heman.Ms., 1821-1887. A Baptist divine,
professor of church history at Newton Theological Seminary from 1868.
Outline Lectures in Church History; Outline Lectures in History of
Doctrine.
Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanie [Gould].N. Y., 1846- ——.
Granddaughter of James Gould, supra. A writer of Washington
city. A Chaplet of Leaves, a book of verse; Marjorie’s Quest, a story
for young people; Her Washington Winter; A Genuine Girl. Hou.
Lincoln, John Larkin.Ms., 1817-1891. Brother of H.
Lincoln, supra. A professor of Latin in Brown University, well
known as a classical scholar, and editor of editions of Livy, Horace,
and Cicero. See In Memoriam: John Larkin Lincoln.
Lincoln, Mrs. Mary Johnson [Bailey].Ms., 1844- ——.
A Boston teacher of cookery, culinary editor of The American Kitchen
Magazine. Boston Cook Book; Carving and Serving; Twenty Lessons in
Cookery; Kitchen Text-Book. Rob.
Linderman, Henry Richard.Pa., 1825-1879. The director of
the United States mint at Philadelphia from 1873, whose annual report
for 1877 is a powerful argument for the gold standard. Money and Legal
Tender in the United States.
Lindsey, William.Ms., 1858- ——. A Boston littérateur.
Apples of Istakhar, a volume of verse; Cinder-Path Tales; At Start and
Finish.
Linen, James.S., 1808-1873. A bookbinder of New York
city. Songs of the Seasons; Poetical and Prose Writings.
Lining, John.S., 1708-1760. A physician and scientist
of Charleston who published in 1753 a History of Yellow Fever, the
earliest American treatise on the subject.
Linn, John Blair.Pa., 1777-1804. Son of W. Linn,
infra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Power
of Genius, a Poem; Valerian, a Poem; The Gallic Orphan, a drama;
Miscellanea.
Linn, John Blair.Pa., 1831-1899. Grandson of W. Linn,
infra. A Pennsylvania lawyer. Annals of Buffalo Valley;
Pennsylvania Archives (with W. H. Egle); History of Centre and Clinton
Counties.
Linn, William.Pa., 1752-1808. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia famous in his day as a preacher. Discourses on Leading
Personages of Scripture History; Signs of the Times. His sermon on the
death of Washington was formerly much quoted.
Linn, William.N. Y., 1790-1867. Son of W. Linn,
supra. A lawyer of Ithaca. Life of Thomas Jefferson; The
Roorback Papers; Legal and Commercial Commonplace Book.
Linton, William James.E., 1812-1897. An English engraver
and poet who came to the United States in 1867 and settled in New
Haven. Beside ably editing several poetical anthologies, he was the
author of Claribel, and Other Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable
History of Wood Engraving in America; The English Republic; The Flower
and the Star, and Other Stories; Practical Hints on Wood Engraving;
Wood Engraving, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and Translations; Three
Score and Ten Years; Life of Whittier. See Stedman’s Victorian
Poets; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1883.Le. Mac. Rob. Scr.
Lippard, George.Pa., 1822-1854. A sensational romancer
of Philadelphia, among whose now nearly forgotten tales are, Blanche of
Brandywine; Legends of Mexico; The Ladye Annabel.
Lippincott, Mrs. Esther J—— [Trimble].Pa., 1838-1888.
An educator of Pennsylvania, professor of literature in the Westchester
Normal School. Handbook of English and American Literature; Short
Course in Literature.
Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane [Clarke]. “Grace Greenwood.” N.
Y., 1823-1904. A popular littérateur of Philadelphia who wrote
much in the line of newspaper correspondence, but whose early fame
was gained as a writer for young people. Greenwood Leaves; Records
of Five Years; Poems; Life of Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands;
Recollections of My Childhood; Merrie England, include the most of her
books.
Lippitt, Francis James.R. I., 1812-1902. A soldier who
served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and was brevetted
brigadier-general of volunteers. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the
Three Arms; Treatise on Intrenchments; Special Operations of War; Field
Service in War; Massachusetts Criminal Law; Physical Proofs of Another
Life. Hou.
Lippmann, Julie Mathilde.L. I., 1864- ——. A writer
of Brooklyn. Through Slumbertown and Wakeland; Jack O’Dreams; Miss
Wildfire.
Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate.D. C., 1816-1890. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of Tennessee, who was professor in Vanderbilt
University. Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary Studies; Our
Country; Christian Heroism, are among his works.
Litchfield, Grace Denio [dē-nī´o]. N. Y., 1849- ——.
A fiction-writer of Washington. Only an Incident; The Knight of the
Black Forest; Criss-Cross; A Hard-Won Victory; Little Venice, and Other
Stories; Mimosa Leaves; Little He and She; In the Crucible. Lo.
Put.
Littell, Squier.N. J., 1803-1886. A Philadelphia
physician. Manual of Diseases of the Eye; Illustrations of the Prayer
Book.
Littell, William.N. J., c. 1780-1825. Cousin of
S. Littell, supra. A lawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky. Statute Law
of Kentucky; Selected Cases; Festoons of Fancy.
Little, George.Ms., 1754-1809. A United States naval
officer who published The American Cruiser; Life on the Ocean.
Little, Mrs. Sophia Louise [Robbins].R. I., 1799-18—.
A verse-writer of Newport, Rhode Island. The Last Days of Jesus,
and Other Poems (1877), is a reprint of the contents of her several
previous volumes.
Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk.N. Y., 1824-1901. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Long Island. Conciones ad Clenem;
Individualism; The Christian Ministry; The Philosophy of Religion.
Livermore, Abiel Abbot.N. H., 1811-1892. A Unitarian
clergyman who was president of the theological seminary at Meadville,
Pennsylvania, from 1863 to 1890. Lectures to Young Men; Discourses;
Commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon,
Hebrews to Revelation; The Marriage Offering; History of Wilton, New
Hampshire. A. U. A. El.
Livermore, Mrs. Mary Ashton [Rice].Ms., 1821- ——. A
noted lecturer upon temperance and woman-suffrage whose home is in
Melrose, Massachusetts. Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; Pen
Pictures; Thirty Years Too Late: a Temperance Tale; What Shall we Do
with Our Daughters?; My Story of the War. Le.
Livermore, Samuel.Circa 1786-1833. A lawyer of New
Orleans. Treatise on Law of Principal and Agent and Sales by Auction;
Contrariety of Laws of Different States and Nations.
Livingston, Edward.N. Y., 1764-1836. An eminent jurist
of New York city, and subsequently of New Orleans, who was secretary of
state, 1831-32, and minister to France, 1833-35. System of Penal Law
for Louisiana; Penal Law for the United States; Criminal Jurisprudence.
See Life by Hunt, 1864; Recollections of by Davezac; Appletons’
American Biography.
Livingston, Mrs. Margaret Vere [Farrington].Me.,
1863- ——. The wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Augusta, Maine. Tales
of King Arthur and His Knights; Fra Lippo Lippi, a Romance of Florence.
Put.
Livingston, Robert R.[5]N. Y., 1747-1813. Brother of
E. Livingston, supra. The chancellor of New York, 1771-1801.
He administered the oath of office to Washington at his inauguration
in 1789. Essays on Agriculture; Essay on Sheep. See Life by F. De
Peyster, 1878.
Livingston, William.N. Y., 1723-1790. An eminent
statesman who was governor of New Jersey, 1776-90. Philosophic
Solitude, a poem; Review of the Military Operations in North America,
1757; Digest of the Laws of New York. See Memoir by T. Sedgwick;
Tyler’s American Literature.
Lloyd, David Demarest.N. Y., 1851-1889. A journalist and
playwright of New York city. His plays include, For Congress; The Woman
Hater; The Dominie’s Daughter; The Senator.
Lloyd, Henry Demarest.N. Y., 1847-1903. Brother of D.
D. Lloyd, supra. A writer of Winnetka, Illinois, but formerly a
journalist of Chicago. A Strike of Millionaires against Miners, or the
Story of Spring Valley; Wealth Against Commonwealth. Har.
Locke, David Ross. “Petroleum V. Nasby.” N. Y.,
1833-1888. A widely known political humourist whose satires had much
effect upon public opinion. A Paper City, a novel; Swingin’ Round the
Cirkle; The Moral History of America’s Life Struggle; Ekkoes from
Kentucky; Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby; Nasby in Exile; Morals of
Abou Ben Adhem; The Demagogue, a novel; Hannah Jane, a poem. Le.
Locke, Mrs. Jane Erminia [Starkweather].Ms., 1805-1859.
A verse-writer of Boston. Poems; Rachel, or the Little Mourner; Boston,
a Poem; Eulogy in rhyme on the Death of Webster.
Locke, John Staples.Me., 1836- ——. A writer of Saco,
Maine. Shores of Saco Bay; Historical Sketches of Old Orchard; The Art
of Correspondence; A Brave Struggle, a novel; Pleasing Rhymes for Happy
Times; Bright Hours. Cas.
Locke, Richard Adams.N. Y., 1800-1871. A journalist of
New York city who published, in 1835, Great Astronomical Discoveries
lately made by Sir John Herschel, since known as “The Moon Hoax.” He
subsequently issued The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park, another hoax.
Lockhart, Arthur John.N. S., 1850- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and verse-writer. The Mask of Minstrels; Beside the
Narragaugus.
Lockwood, Henry Hayes.Del., 1814-1899. A United States
army officer. Manual of Naval Batteries; Exercises in Small Arms.
Lockwood, Ingersoll.N. Y., 1841- ——. Nephew of R. I.
Lockwood, infra. A lecturer and littérateur of New York city.
The Travels of Little Baron Trump; Wonderful Deeds of Little Giant
Roab; Extraordinary Experience of Little Captain Doppelkopp; Baron
Trump’s Journey Underground. Le.
Lockwood, Ralph Ingersoll.N. Y., 1798-1855. A lawyer
of New York city. Rosine Laval, a novel; The Insurgents, a novel;
Lockwood’s Reversed Cases.
Lockwood, Samuel.E., 1819-1894. A Reformed Dutch
clergyman who after 1867 was school superintendent of Monmouth County,
New Jersey, and wrote much on scientific themes. Temperance, Fortitude,
Justice; The American Oyster; Abnormal Entozoa in Man; The Life of an
Oyster; Animal Memoirs.
Lodge, Giles Henry.Ms., 1805-1880. A physician of
Boston, the author of a scholarly translation of Winckelmann’s History
of Ancient Art.
Lodge, Henry Cabot.Ms., 1850- ——. Nephew of G.
H. Lodge, supra. A Massachusetts politician of prominence,
representative in Congress, 1886-1892, and senator from 1893. Essay
on Anglo-Saxon Land Law; Life and Letters of George Cabot; Short
History of the English Colonies in America; Lives of Washington,
Webster, Hamilton; Studies in History; Historical and Political Essays;
Speeches; History of Boston; Hero Tales from American History (with T.
Roosevelt, infra). Cent. Har. Hou. Lit. Lgs.
Logan, Celia. Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, infra. See
Connelly, Mrs.
Logan, Cornelius Ambrose.Ms., 1836-1896. Son of C. A.
Logan, infra. A physician of Leavenworth, Kansas, minister to
Chili, 1873, and 1881-1883. Sanitary Relations of Kansas; Climatology
of the Missouri Valley; Physics of Infectious Diseases.
Logan, Cornelius Ambrosius.Md., 1806-1853. A dramatist
and theatrical manager of Cincinnati among whose plays are The Wag of
Maine; The Wool Dealer; Yankee Land.
Logan, James.I., 1674-1751. Chief justice of
Pennsylvania, and a man of much note in the early history of that
colony. He founded the Loganian Library at Philadelphia. Duties of Man;
Defence of Aristotle; Experimenta de Plantarum Generatione; Essays on
Languages; a translation, with notes, of Cicero’s De Senectute, printed
by Franklin in 1744.
Logan, John Alexander.Il., 1826-1886. A major-general
in the Federal army during the Civil War who was nominated as the
Republican candidate for vice-president in 1884. The Great Conspiracy;
The Volunteer Soldier of America.
Logan, John Henry.S. C., 1822-1885. A physician who was
a professor in the medical college at Atlanta. History of the Upper
Country of South Carolina; Students’ Manual of Chemico-Physics.
Logan, Olive. Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, supra. See
Sikes, Mrs.
Lomax, John Tayloe.Va., 1781-1862. A Virginia jurist.
Digest of United States Real Property Laws; Treatise on the Law of
Executors and Administrators.
Long, Charles Chaillé.Md., 1842- ——. A soldier who
served in the Federal army during the Civil War, became colonel in
the Egyptian army in 1869, and in 1887 was American consul-general in
Corea. Central Africa; The Three Prophets,—Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi,
Arabi Pacha. Ap. Har.
Long, John Davis.Me., 1838- ——. A prominent jurist
of Boston who was governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82. After-Dinner
and Other Speeches; a blank-verse translation of the Æneid; The New
American Navy. Do. Hou.
Long, Robert Carey.Circa 1819-1849. An architect of New
York city who published a work on Ancient Architecture in America.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.Me., 1807-1882. The most
widely read of American poets. He was born in Portland, Maine, and
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825 in the class with Nathaniel
Hawthorne. After three years of study in Europe he was professor of
modern languages at Bowdoin College, 1829-35, and filled the same
position at Harvard University, 1835-1854, his home being at Cambridge
from 1835. The range of his thought is not wide, and his genius was
rather adaptive than creative, but his poetry appeals to a larger
number of readers of verse than, perhaps, any other poet of his time.
Its finished execution is especially noteworthy in most of his later
work, his sonnets, for example, being nearly flawless specimens of
their kind. Coplas de Manrique, a verse translation from the Spanish
(1833); Outre-Mer, a prose volume of travels (1835); Hyperion, a prose
romance (1839); Voices of the Night (1839); Ballads, and Other Poems
(1841); Poems on Slavery (1842); The Spanish Student (1843); The
Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems (1846); Evangeline (1847); Kavanagh,
a prose tale (1849); Seaside and Fireside (1850); The Golden Legend
(1851); Hiawatha (1855); The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858);
Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1st series (1863); Flower de Luce (1867); New
England Tragedies (1868); Dante’s Divina Commedia; a translation
(1867-1870); The Divine Tragedy (1872); Three Books of Song (1872);
Aftermath (1874); The Masque of Pandora (1875); Kéramos (1878); Ultima
Thule (1880); In the Harbor (1882); Michael Angelo (1883). See
Lives by S. Longfellow, infra, Stoddard, Underwood, Austin; Atlantic
Monthly, December, 1863, and June, 1882; Scribner’s Magazine, November,
1878; Harper’s Magazine, June, 1882; Living Age, November 4, 1882;
Fortnightly Review, January, 1883; Century Magazine, October, 1883;
Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Stedman’s Poets of America; Works
on American Literature by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s
That Dome in Air; Bibliography of Maine; Memorial Address by D. R.
Goodwin.Hou.
Longfellow, Samuel.Me., 1819-1892. Brother of H. W.
Longfellow, supra. A Unitarian clergyman who held pastorates
at Fall River, Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose latest years were
spent in Cambridge. He was a poet with a very distinct individuality,
and as a hymn-writer had few equals, a large number of the best of
Unitarian hymns being from his pen. Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns
and Verses; Memoir of S. Johnson; Essays and Sermons. With S. Johnson,
supra, he edited Hymns of the Spirit. See Memoir and Letters,
edited by J. May; New England Magazine, October, 1894.Hou.
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble.Me., 1836- ——. Nephew
of H. W. Longfellow, supra. An architect of note, editor of the
Cyclopædia of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant. The Column
and the Arch. Scr.
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin.S. C., 1790-1870. A jurist
and educator of Georgia who became a Methodist minister in 1838,
and was subsequently president of several Southern colleges. He is
remembered for his genuinely humourous Georgia Scenes. Among his other
works are, Master William Mitten; Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts.
Longstreet, James.S. C., 1821-1904. A noted general of
the Confederate army. From Manassas to Appomattox. Lip.
Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus.Vt., 1831-1895. A physician of
New York city, professor in the University of the City of New York
from 1865. Lessons in Physical Diagnosis; Diseases of the Respiratory
Organs; Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of Old Age; Text-Book of Practical
Medicine.
Loomis, Augustus Ward.Ct., 1816- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, for many years a missionary among the Chinese of California.
Learn to Say No; Scenes in Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; The
Profits of Godliness; Confucius and the Chinese Classics; English and
Chinese Lessons.
Loomis, Eben Jenks.N. Y., 1828- ——. An astronomer
of Washington city, senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac office.
Wayside Sketches; An Eclipse Party in Africa. Rob.
Loomis, Elias.Ct., 1811-1889. An astronomer and
mathematician who was professor at Yale University from 1860. He
published a series of text-books in thirteen volumes, among which are,
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Treatise on Astronomy; Treatise on
Meteorology. Har.
Loomis, Justin Rudolph.N. Y., 1810-1898. An educator of
Pennsylvania, president of Lewisburg University, 1858-78. Elements of
Geology; Elements of Anatomy.
Loomis, Lafayette Charles.Ct., 1824- ——. A physician
and educator of Washington city. Mizpah: Prayer and Friendship; Mental
and Social Culture; Summer Guide to Central Europe; Index Guide to
Travel and Art Study in Europe. Lip. Scr.
Loomis, Samuel Lane.Ms., 1856- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston. Modern Cities and their Religious Problems.
Loomis, Silas Laurence.Ms., 1822-1896. Brother of L.
C. Loomis, supra. A physician and educator of Washington city.
Analytical Arithmetic; Normal Arithmetic. Lip.
Lord, David Nevins.Ct., 1792-1880. A merchant
and importer of New York city. Exposition of the Apocalypse;
Characteristics of Figurative Language; Louis Napoleon: is he to be
Anti-Christ?; Visions of Paradise, an Epic.
Lord, Eleazer.Ct., 1788-1871. Brother of D. N. Lord,
supra. A noted financier of New York city who was the founder
of the Manhattan Insurance Company. Among his rather numerous writings
are, Credit, Currency, and Banking; Six Letters on a National Currency;
The Epoch of the Creation; Analysis of Isaiah; The Prophetic Office.
Lord, John.N. H., 1809-1894. A Congregational clergyman
widely known as an historical lecturer, who did much to arouse an
interest in the study of history. History of the United States; Modern
History; Points of History; The Old Roman World; Ancient States and
Empires; Life of Emma Willard, infra; Beacon Lights of History;
Two German Giants. Ap. Fo.
Lord, John Chase.N. Y., 1805-1877. A prominent
Presbyterian clergyman of Buffalo. The Land of Ophir, and Other
Lectures; Occasional Poems. See Memoir, 1878.
Lord, William Wilberforce.N. Y., 1819- ——. Brother
of J. C. Lord, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Vicksburg,
Mississippi, and more recently of Cooperstown, New York, whose verse
attracted the praise of Wordsworth simultaneously with the ridicule of
Poe. Poems; Christ in Hades; André, a tragedy.
Lord, Willis.Ct., 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman
who held several theological professorships as well as pastorates in
Chicago and elsewhere. Men and Scenes Before the Flood; Christian
Theology for the People; The Blessed Hope.
Lorimer, George Claude.S., 1837-1904. A noted Baptist
clergyman of Boston, pastor of Tremont Temple. Isms Old and New; Under
the Evergreens; The Great Conflict; Jesus: the World’s Saviour; Studies
in Social Life. Le. Sc.
Loring, Charles Greeley.Ms., 1794-1868. A lawyer of
Boston. The Neutral Relations of England and the United States; English
Liability for Indemnity; Life of William Sturgis.
Loring, Edward Greeley.Ms., 1837-1881. A physician of
New York city. Text-Book of Ophthalmoscopy: I. The Normal Eye; II.
Diseases of the Retina. Ap.
Loring, Frederic Wadsworth.Ms., 1848-1871. A Boston
journalist killed by the Apaches in Arizona. Two College Friends, a
novel; The Boston Dip, and Other Verses.
Loring, George Bailey.Ms., 1817-1891. A noted
agriculturist of Salem, Massachusetts, United States commissioner of
agriculture, 1881-85, minister to Portugal, 1889-90. The Farmyard Club
of Jotham.
Loring, William Wing.N. C., 1818-1886. A soldier who,
after serving successively in the United States and Confederate armies,
served in the Egyptian army, 1869-79. A Confederate General in Egypt is
a narrative of personal adventure.
Loskiel, George Henry.R., 1740-1814. A Moravian bishop
in Pennsylvania whose two books have been many times reprinted. Etwas
fürs Herz; History of the Moravian Missions among the North American
Indians.
Lossing, Benson John.N. Y., 1813-1891. An artist and
wood-engraver of Poughkeepsie who made many valuable contributions to
American history. His later years were spent at Dover Plains, New York.
The more important of his many works include, Pictorial Field-Book of
the Revolution; Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812; Pictorial
Field-Book of the Civil War; Life of General Philip Schuyler; The Two
Spies: Nathan Hale and John André; Cyclopædia of United States History;
Mary and Martha Washington; History of the United States Navy for Boys;
Mount Vernon and its Associations; The Empire State, a History of New
York; Life of Washington; Lives of the Presidents (1847). Ap. Fu.
Har. Ho.
Lothrop, Amy.See Warner, Anna.
Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mulford [Stone]. “Margaret Sidney.”
Ct. 1844- ——. A popular writer of juvenile literature, living
at Concord, Massachusetts. Among her many books of this character are,
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; The Pettibone Name; So as by
Fire; Half Year at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; The Golden
West; How they Went to Europe; Hester, and Other New England Stories.
Lo.
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland.N. H., 1830- ——. A lawyer
of Boston. The Life of William H. Seward, infra.
Loughborough [luf´boro], Mrs. Mary Webster.N.
Y., 1836-1887. A writer of Little Rock, Arkansas. My Cave Life
in Vicksburg, an account of life in Vicksburg during the siege; For
Better, for Worse, and Other Stories.
Loughead, Mrs. Flora [Haines].Wis., 1855- ——. A writer
of Santa Barbara, California. The Libraries of California; The Man Who
was Guilty, a novel; Quick Cookery; The Abandoned Claim, a story for
young people; Practical Handbook of Science. Hou.
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.N. Y., 1838- ——. A
professor of English at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
University from 1871. History of the English Language; Life of James
Fenimore Cooper; Studies in Chaucer. Ho. Hou.
Love, William De Loss.N. Y., 1819-1898. A Congregational
clergyman. Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion.
Love, William De Loss.Ct., 1851- ——. Son of W. D.
Love, supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor in Hartford,
Connecticut, from 1885. The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England.
Hou.
Lowe, Mrs. Martha Ann [Perry].N. H., 1829-1902. A
verse-writer of Somerville, Massachusetts, whose husband, Charles Lowe,
was a Unitarian minister of prominence. The Olive and the Pine, a book
of verse; Love in Spain, and Other Poems; The Story of Chief Joseph
(verse); Life of Charles Lowe.
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.Ms., 1856- ——. A lawyer of
Boston. Essays on Government; Governments and Parties in Continental
Europe. Hou.
Lowell, Mrs. Anna Cabot [Jackson].Ms., 1819-1874.
Sister-in-law of J. R. Lowell, infra. Theory of Teaching;
Edward’s First Lessons in Grammar and Geometry; Outlines of Astronomy;
Letters to Madame Pulksky; Seed Grains for Thought, and several
compilations. Rob.
Lowell, Charles.Ms., 1782-1861. A prominent Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church from 1806 until his
death. Occasional Sermons; Practical Sermons; Meditations for the
Afflicted; Devotional Exercises for Communicants.
Lowell, Edward Jackson.Ms., 1845-1894. Grand-nephew of
C. Lowell, supra. A lawyer of Boston. The Hessians and Other
German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, an
exhaustive survey of the subject; The Eve of the French Revolution.
Har. Hou.
Lowell, Francis Cabot.Ms., 1855- ——. A Boston jurist.
Joan of Arc, a valuable historical biography. Hou.
Lowell, James Russell.Ms., 1819-1891. Son of C. Lowell,
supra. The foremost American man of letters. He was born in
Cambridge, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1838, where he
succeeded Longfellow as professor of belles-lettres in 1855. He was
one of the founders of The Atlantic Monthly, editing that periodical
from the start in 1857 until 1862, and co-editor of The North American
Review with C. E. Norton, infra, 1863-72. In 1877 he was
appointed minister to Spain, and in 1878 transferred to England, where
he remained as minister until 1885. He did much to make America and
American letters respected in England, and was very popular with the
English people both as a man and as a writer, a window having been
placed to his memory in the chapter-house of Westminster Abbey in
1893. His work in verse includes: A Year’s Life (1841); Poems (1844);
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848); A Fable for Critics (1848); The
Biglow Papers (1848); Poems (editions of 1848, 1849, 1854, 1858); The
Commemoration Ode (1865); The Biglow Papers, Second Series (1866);
Under the Willows, and Other Poems (1869); Three Memorial Poems (1876);
Heartsease and Rue (1888); Last Poems (1895). In prose his writing
comprises Conversations with Some of the Old Poets (1845); Life of
Keats (with an edition of his works) (1854); Fireside Travels (1864);
The President’s Policy (1864); Among My Books (1870); My Study Windows
(1871); Among My Books, Second Series (1876); Democracy, and Other
Addresses (1886); Political Essays (1888); Latest Literary Essays and
Addresses (1891); The Old English Dramatists (1892); Letters, edited by
C. E. Norton (1893). See Lives by E. E. Brown, Underwood, Lowell,
by G. W. Curtis; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Haweis’s
American Humourists; Stedman’s Poets of America; works on American
Literature, by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in
Air.Har. Hou.
Lowell, Mrs. Josephine [Shaw].Ms., 1843- ——.
Daughter-in-law of Mrs. Anna Lowell, supra. A philanthropist of
New York city. Public Relief and Private Charity. Put.
Lowell, Mrs. Maria [White].Ms., 1821-1855. The first
wife of J. R. Lowell, supra. A verse-writer whose only volume of
poems was privately printed. The Alpine Sheep is her best known poem.
Lowell, Percival.Ms., 1855- ——. Brother of A. L.
Lowell, supra. A Boston writer, traveller, and astronomical
investigator. Chosön, a sketch of Korea; The Soul of the Far East;
Noto: an Unexplored Corner of Japan; Occult Japan; Mars. Hou.
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence.Ms., 1816-1891. Son of C.
Lowell, supra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, head master
of St. Mark’s School, Southborough, 1869-73, and professor of Latin at
Union College, 1873-79. After the latter date he continued to live at
Schenectady, which is the locale of his book, A Story or Two
from an Old Dutch Town, as Southborough suggests that of his popular
story of school life, Antony Brade. His other works include The New
Priest in Conception Bay, a novel of life in Newfoundland, the scene
of his first rectorship; Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years
Ago, and Other Poems. The Defence of Lucknow is his most familiar poem.
Rob.
Lowrie, John Cameron.Pa., 1808-1900. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city. Travels in Northern India; Two Years
in Upper India; Manual of Foreign Missions; Missionary Papers;
Presbyterian Missions.
Lowrie, John Marshall.Pa., 1817-1867. Cousin of J. C.
Lowrie, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. Esther
and Her Times; Adam and His Times; A Week with Jesus; The Translated
Prophet; The Prophet Elisha; The Life of David.
Lucas, Daniel Bedinger.W. Va., 1836- ——. A lawyer of
Charlestown, West Virginia, who was a United States senator in 1887.
A Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid of Northumberland, a
dramatic poem; Ballads and Madrigals.
Luce, Stephen Bleecker.N. Y., 1827- ——. A rear-admiral
of the United States navy, retired in 1887, who, beside publishing a
treatise on Seamanship, has edited a collection of Naval Songs.
Lüders, Charles Henry.Pa., 1858-1891. A verse-writer
of Philadelphia. The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; Hallo, My Fancy! a
collection of verse (with S. D. Smith). Scr.
Ludlam, Reuben.N. J., 1831-1899. A Chicago physician,
dean of the Hahnemann Medical College. Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria;
Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women.
Ludlow, Fitzhugh.N. Y., 1836-1870. A littérateur and
journalist of New York city. The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The
Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures;
Augustus Jones, Jr. Le.
Ludlow, James Meeker.N. J., 1841- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of East Orange, New Jersey, from 1886. My Saint John;
Concentric Chart of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of
the times of Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra
and Nehemiah; That Angelic Woman, a novel. Fu. Har.
Ludlow, Noah Miller.N. Y., 1795-1886. An actor and
theatrical manager in the Southern States. Dramatic Life as I found It.
Lukens, Henry Clay.Pa., 1838- ——. A journalist of New
York city. The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora,
a travesty; Story of the Types; Jets and Flashes.
Lum, Daniel Dyer. 18— - ——. The Spiritual Delusion; Early
Social Life of Man; Utah and its People. Lip.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher.Ms., 1859- ——. A Los Angeles
writer. The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The
Spanish Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon: Indian folk-lore
stories; Some Strange Corners of our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand
Chimú; A New Mexico David, and Other Stories. Cent. Lam. Mg. Scr.
Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell [Chellis].N. H., 18— - ——. A
prolific writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, All
for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge;
Father Merrill. Cr. Lo.
Lundy, John Patterson.Pa., 1823-1892. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city. Review of Bishop Hopkins’s “Bible View of
Slavery;” Monumental Christianity; Forestry.
Lunt, Edward Clark. 186- - ——. A writer on economics. The
Present Condition of Economic Science.
Lunt, George.Ms., 1803-1885. A lawyer of Newburyport,
and later a resident of Scituate, among whose writings in verse and
prose are, The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems: Sonnets and
Miscellanies; Old New England Traits; Three Eras of New England. The
latest collection of his verse was made in 1883.
Lunt, William Parsons.Ms., 1805-1857. A Unitarian
clergyman of Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1835 until his death, whose
literary work was much admired for the beauty of its style. Union of
the Human Race; Gleanings.
Lupton, Nathaniel Thomas.Va., 1830-1893. An educator
and scientist of Alabama, State chemist from 1885, and author of The
Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture.
Lusk, William Thompson.Ct., 1838-1897. A prominent
obstetric physician of New York city. The Science and Art of Midwifery.
Luska, Sidney.See Harland, Henry.
Lyle, William.S., 1822- ——. A verse-writer of
Rochester, New York. The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems.
Lyman, Henry Munson.H. I., 1835- ——. A Chicago
physician, professor of medicine in Rush College. Insomnia and Other
Disorders of Sleep; Artificial Anæsthesia; Practice of Medicine.
Lyman, Joseph Bardwell.Ms., 1829-1872. An agricultural
journalist of New York city. Philosophy of Housekeeping; Resources of
the Pacific States; Women of the War; Cotton Culture.
Lyman, Theodore.Ms., 1792-1849. A noted philanthropist
of Boston, the founder of the Lyman School at Westborough. Three
Weeks in Paris; The Political State of Italy; Account of the Hartford
Convention; The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations.
Lyman, Theodore.Ms., 1833-1897. Son of T. Lyman,
supra. A scientist of note associated with the Museum of
Comparative Zoölogy in Cambridge from 1860. His principal work is the
Ophiuroidea of the Challenger Expedition.
Lynch, Anne C.See Botta, Mrs.
Lynch, James Daniel.Va., 1836- ——. A political writer
of Mississippi. Kemper County Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississippi;
Bench and Bar of Texas.
Lynch, William Francis.Va., 1801-1865. A naval officer
of prominence as an explorer. Narrative of the United States Exploring
Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea; Naval Life, or Afloat
and Ashore.
Lyon, Anne Bozeman.Al., 1860- ——. A Southern writer of
fiction. No Saint; A Sterlings Camp.
Lyon, David Gordon.Al., 1852- ——. An educator of
Cambridge, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from
1882. Keilschrifttexte Sargons Koenigs von Assyrien; An Assyrian
Manual. Scr.
Lyon, Irving Whitall.N. Y., 1840-1896. A Hartford
physician who wrote Colonial Furniture in New England. Hou.
Lyons, Albert Brown.H. I., 1841- ——. A prominent
chemist of Detroit who has published a Manual of Practical Assaying.
Lytle, William Haines.O., 1826-1863. A general in the
Federal army during the Civil War, remembered in literature for the
poem beginning, “I am Dying, Egypt, Dying.” See Poems of, edited,
with Memoir, by W. Venable, infra.Clke.
M
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. 1845- ——. A journalist and essayist
of New York city, editor of The Outlook. Norse Stories Retold from the
Eddas; My Study Fire; Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short Studies in
Literature; Essays in Literary Interpretation; Essays on Nature and
Culture; Essays on Books and Culture. Do. Rob.
McAdoo, Mrs. Mary Faith [Floyd].Tn., 1832- ——. Wife of
W. McAdoo, infra. The Nereid, a romance; Antethusia.
McAdoo, William Gibbs.Tn., 1820-1894. A jurist of
Tennessee. Poems; Elementary Geology of Tennessee (with H. C. White).
MacAfee, Mrs. Nelly Nichol [Marshall].Ky., 1845- ——. A
Kentucky writer of fiction. Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings
from Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wearing the Cross; Passion; A
Criminal through Love.
McAnally, David Rice.Tn., 1810- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, prominent in St. Louis and elsewhere in the Southwest, who,
besides a History of Methodism in Missouri, has written a number of
lives of Methodist bishops.
MacArthur, Arthur.S., 1815-1896. A prominent jurist
of Washington. Lectures on the Law; Reports of Supreme Court Cases;
Education in its Relation to Manual Industry. Ap.
MacArthur, Robert Stuart.Q., 1841- ——. A distinguished
Baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church
from 1870. Quick Truths in Quaint Texts; Calvary Pulpit, or Christ
and Him Crucified; Divine Balustrades, and Other Sermons. Bap. Fu.
Re.
McBride, James.Pa., 1788-1859. A writer of Hamilton,
Ohio. Pioneer Biography. See Bibliography of Ohio.
McCabe, James Dabney.Va., 1842-1883. A versatile and
prolific Southern writer whose principal work is a Life of General
Robert Lee, while among his many others are, Planting the Wilderness;
History of the War between France and Germany; History of the
Turko-Russian War; Paris by Sunlight and Gaslight; Our Young Folks
Abroad; The Great Republic; Lights and Shadows of New York Life;
Centennial History of the United States. Le. Lip.
McCabe, William Gordon.Va., 1841- ——. Cousin of J. D.
McCabe, supra. A Confederate officer, since 1888 head master of
a school in Petersburg, Virginia. The Defence of Petersburg; A Latin
Grammar.
McCall, George Archibald.Pa., 1802-1868. A soldier of
Philadelphia, who served in the Mexican war, and in the Civil War was
brigadier-general of volunteers in the Federal army. Letters from the
Frontier.
McCall, Hugh.S. C., 1767-1824. A United States army
officer. History of Georgia (1811-16).
McCall, John Cadwalader.Pa., 1793-1846. Cousin of G. A.
McCall, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Troubadour, and
other poems; Fleurette, and other rhymes.
McCall, Peter.N. J., 1809-1880. Cousin of G. A. McCall,
supra. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, mayor of that city,
1844-45. Rise and Progress of Civil Society; History of Pennsylvania
Law and Equity.
MacCarroll, James.I., 1815-1892. A musical and dramatic
critic of New York city. Letters of Terry Finnegan to D’Arcy McGee; The
New Gauger; Adventures of a Night; The New Life-Boat.
MacCarty, J—— Hendrickson.Pa., 1830- ——. A Methodist
clergyman. The Black Horse and Carry-All; Inside the Gates; Two
Thousand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; Fact and Fiction in Holy
Writ. Meth.
Macchetta, d’Allegri, Blanche Roosevelt [Tucker], Marchesa.O., 1853-1898. Home Life of Longfellow; Marked “In Haste;” Stage
Struck; Life of Doré; The Copper Queen; Verdi, Milan, and Othello.
Fo.
McClellan, Carswell.Pa., 1835-1892. Brother of H. B.
McClellan, infra. A topographical assistant on the staff of
General A. A. Humphreys in the Civil War. Afterwards a civil engineer
in railroad and government service. The Personal Memoirs and Military
History of U. S. Grant versus The Record of the Army of the
Potomac. Hou.
McClellan, Ely.Pa., 1834-1893. Brother of C. McClellan,
supra. Assistant medical director, United States army. The
Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States.
McClellan, George.Ct., 1796-1847. A noted surgeon of
Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College, for
which institution he obtained the charter. The Principles and Practice
of Surgery. Lip.
McClellan, George Brinton.Pa., 1826-1885. Son of G.
McClellan, supra. A distinguished soldier, general-in-chief of
the armies of the United States, 1861-62; an unsuccessful candidate
for the presidency in 1864; governor of New Jersey, 1878-81. His
most important works include, The Armies of Europe; Organization and
Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; European Cavalry; McClellan’s Own
Story. See Appletons’ American Biography.
McClellan, Henry Brainerd.Pa., 1840- ——. Brother of C.
McClellan, supra. A major in the Confederate service during the
Civil War, who published an admirable Life of Major-General J. E. B.
Stuart. Hou.
McClelland, Alexander.N. Y., 1796-1864. A Reformed
Presbyterian clergyman and educator. Canon and Interpretation of
Scripture; Sermons.
MacClelland, Margaret Greenway. 18— -1895. A Virginia novelist.
Mammy Mystic; Old Ike’s Memories, a book of verse. Princess; Oblivion;
Jean Monteith; Madame Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett’s Lock; St.
John’s Wooing; The Old Post Road. Har. Ho. Mer.
MacClelland, Milo Adams.Pa., 1837- ——. A physician
of Knoxville, Illinois. Civil Malpractice, a Treatise on Surgical
Jurisprudence. Hou.
MacClenachan, Charles Thompson.D. C., 1829- ——. A
lawyer of New York city, long employed in the department of public
works, among whose writings are, Law of the Fire Department; The
Atlantic Cable of 1858; Book of the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish
Freemasonry.
McClintock, John.Pa., 1814-1870. A Methodist clergyman
of New York city, professor in Drew Theological Seminary at the time of
his death. He is best known by the Theological and Biblical Cyclopædia
which he began with James Strong, infra, but he was the author,
also, of Living Words; Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and
Methodology. See Life by G. R. Crooks, supra.Meth.
McClure, Alexander Kelly.Pa., 1828- ——. A Philadelphia
journalist, founder of The Times in 1873, and its editor since then.
Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains; The South: its
Industrial, etc., Condition. Lip.
McClure, Alexander Wilson.Ms., 1808-1865. A
Congregational clergyman of Boston, among whose writings are, Lectures
on Ultra Universalism; Life of John Cotton, supra.
McConnel, John Ludlam.Il., 1826- ——. A lawyer and
novelist of Jacksonville, Illinois, who was a soldier in the Mexican
War. His fictions are studies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon;
Grahame, or Youth and Manhood; The Glenns; Western Characters.
McConnell, Samuel D[6] Pa., 1846- ——. An Episcopal clergyman
of prominence as an independent thinker, rector of St. Stephen’s Church
in Philadelphia, 1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, subsequently.
Sons of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the Episcopal Church in the
United States; A Year’s Sermons; An Open Secret. Ar. Wh.
McCook, Henry Christopher.O., 1837- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a naturalist. Object and
Outline Teaching; The Last Year of Christ’s Ministry; The Last Days
of Jesus; Garfield Memorial Sermons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The
Gospel in Nature; The Mound-Making Art of the Alleghanies; Natural
History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey Ants and Occident Ants;
Tenants of an Old Farm; American Spiders. Fu. Lip.
McCord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah [Cheves].S. C., 1810-1880.
A writer of South Carolina. Sophisms of the Protective Policy,
translated from Bastral; Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; My Dreams, a volume
of verse.
McCormick, Richard Cunningham.N. Y., 1832- ——. An
Arizona journalist, governor of that Territory, 1866-69. Visit to the
Camp at Sebastopol; St. Paul’s to St. Sophia; Arizona: its Resources
(1865).
McCosh, James.S., 1811-1894. A metaphysician of eminence
and a Presbyterian divine of the Free Church. After being professor
in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1852-68, he came to America in 1868, and
was president of Princeton College, 1868-88, resigning in the latter
year, but holding an emeritus professorship until his death. As a
philosophical thinker he exercised an extended influence. His principal
writings include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive Thought; Christianity
and Positivism; Scottish Philosophy; Mill’s Philosophy; Method of
the Divine Government; First and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; The
Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel Sermons; Philosophy of Reality; The
Religious Aspect of Evolution; Realistic Philosophy defended; Whither?
O Whither Tell Me Where; The Development of Hypotheses; Philosophic
Series: I. Expository, II. Historical and Critical. See Life of,
edited by W. M. Sloane, infra.Meth. Scr.
McCoy, Mrs. Catherine [Webb] [Towles].Ms., 1823- ——. A
writer of Columbus, Georgia. Tales from the Freemason’s Fireside; The
Three Golden Links; Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.
McCrackan, William Denison.Bv., 1864- ——. An author
and lecturer of New York city, born in Munich of American parents. The
Rise of the Swiss Republic; Romance and Teutonic Switzerland; Swiss
Solutions of American Problems; Little Idyls of the Big World. Ar.
Kt.
MacCracken, Henry Mitchell.O., 1840- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, chancellor of the University of
the City of New York from 1891. Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant
and Lotze; A Metropolitan University; Leaders of the Church Universal.
MacCreary, George Washington.Ind., 1835-1890. An Indiana
jurist. Treatise on the American Law of Elections; Reports of the
Circuit Courts of the United States, Eighth District, 1879-83.
McCulloch, Hugh.Me., 1808-1895. A distinguished
financier, secretary of the treasury, 1865-69 and 1884-85. Men and
Measures of Half a Century was his only publication. Scr.
McDermott, Hugh Farrar. 1833-1890. A journalist of New York
city. Poems from an Editor’s Table; The Blind Canary, a book of verse.
McDonald, James Madison.Me., 1812-1876. A Congregational
clergyman who was pastor of a church in Princeton, New Jersey, 1856-76.
Credulity; My Father’s House, or the Heaven of the Bible; Life and
Writings of St. John; Ecclesiastes Explained; Key to the Book of
Revelation. Scr.
McDougal, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple] [Greene].R. I.,
1805-1875. A Rhode Island writer who resided in California from 1862.
The Original; The Mechanic; Might and Right, a History of the Dorr
Rebellion; Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; The Dwarf Boy, and Minor
Poems; Beyond the Veil.
MacDowell, Mrs. Katherine Sherwood [Bonner].Mi.,
1849-1883. A writer of Holly Springs, Mississippi, from 1873 to 1878
a resident of Boston and the private secretary of Longfellow. In Mrs.
Kirk’s novel of “Margaret Kent” she figures as the heroine. Dialect
Tales; Suwanee River Tales; Like unto Like. Har. Rob.
Mace, Mrs. Frances Parker [Laughton].Me., 1836- ——. A
popular verse-writer of San José, California. The authorship of Only
Waiting, her best known poem, has been claimed by several writers.
Legends, Lyrics, and Sonnets; Under Pine and Palm. Hou.
McFadden, Bernarr Adolphus.Mo., 1868- ——. A teacher of
physical training in New York city. The Athlete’s Conquest, a novel;
System of Physical Training.
MacFerrin, Anderson Purdy.Tn., 1818- ——. A Methodist
clergyman in Tennessee. Sermons for the Times; Heavenly Shadows and
Hymns.
MacFerrin, John Berry.Tn., 1807-1887. Brother of A. P.
MacFerrin, supra. A Methodist clergyman in Tennessee. History of
Methodism in Tennessee.
McGaffey, Ernest.O., 1861- ——. A lawyer of Chicago.
Poems of Gun and Rod; Poems. Do. Scr.
MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius.O., 1844-1878. A famous
journalist and war correspondent. During the Franco-Prussian war he was
the correspondent at Paris of the New York Herald, and he went through
the Russo-Turkish war as the correspondent of the London Daily News.
Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the Northern
Lights; Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. Har.
McGarvey, John William.Ky., 1829- ——. A clergyman
of the Christian denomination, professor of sacred history in the
University of Kentucky from 1865. Commentary on the Acts; Commentary on
Matthew and Mark; Lands of the Bible; Text and Canon; Credibility and
Inspiration of the Bible.
McGiffert, Arthur Cushman.N. Y., 1861- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman, professor of church history in Union Seminary
from 1893. Dialogue of Papias and Jason. He has published a translation
with prolegomena and notes of the Church History of Eusebius Pamphilus;
The Apostolic Age. Scr.
McGill, John.Pa., 1809-1872. A Roman Catholic bishop of
Richmond. Our Faith the Victory; The True Church Indicated; Life of
John Calvin, from the French.
McGlasson, Eva Wilder.See Brodhead, Mrs.
McIlvaine [ma̯k-il-văn´], Charles Petitt.N. J.,
1799-1873. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and long a
prominent figure among Low Churchmen. Evidences of Christianity; Oxford
Divinity; The Holy Catholic Church; The Truth and the Life, include his
chief works. Ran.
McIlvaine, Joshua Hall.Del., 1815-1897. A Presbyterian
clergyman of note in the Middle States who founded Evelyn College at
Princeton, New Jersey, in 1887. He was professor of belles-lettres at
Princeton College, 1860-70, and president of Evelyn College at the time
of his death. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Elocution,
the Sources and Elements of its Power; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture;
The Wisdom of the Apocalypse; Pastoral Directions to Inquiring Souls.
Ran. Scr.
McIntosh, Maria Jane.Ga., 1803-1878. A New York writer
whose novels and tales of domestic life enjoyed a long popularity. Her
writings include, Praise and Principle; Conquest and Self-Conquest;
Violet; Two Lives, or To Seem and To Be; Charms and Counter-Charms; The
Lofty and the Lowly; Meta Gray; Two Pictures; Evenings at Donaldson
Manor; Aunt Kitty’s Tales; Woman in America, her Work and her Reward;
The Cousins, a juvenile tale. Ap.
Mackaye, Mrs. Maria Ellery [Goodwin].R. I., 1830- ——.
An educator of Cambridge, author of The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other
French Studies. Le.
McKeever, Harriet Burn.Pa., 1807-1886. A Philadelphia
writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, Nothing but
Leaves; Edith’s Ministry; The Old Château; Crown Jewels. Meth.
McKellar, Thomas.N. Y., 1812- ——. A prominent
type-founder of Philadelphia who, beside publishing American
Printer, and was the author of Tam’s Fortnight Ramble, and Other
Poems; Droppings from the Heart; Lines for the Gentle and Loving;
Rhymes Atween Times. His verse is unpretentious, and seldom more than
commonplace in sentiment and execution. Lip.
McKenny, Thomas Lorraine.Md., 1785-1859. A writer for
many years in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sketches of a
Tour to the Lakes; Essays on the Spirit of Jacksonianism; History of
the Indian Tribes (with J. Hall); Memoirs, Official and Personal.
McKenzie, Alexander.Ms., 1830- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Cambridge from 1867. Cambridge Sermons; History of the
First Church in Cambridge; Some Things Abroad; The Two Boys. Lo.
Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell.N. Y., 1803-1848. A naval
officer of prominence in his day. Popular Essays on Naval Subjects;
The American in England; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commodore Decatur,
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; A Year in Spain. Har.
Mackenzie, Robert Shelton.I., 1809-1881. A journalist
of London who came to America in 1852, and from 1857 was the literary
editor of the Philadelphia Press. His writings include, Lives of
Dickens, Scott, and Guizot; Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine;
Partnership en Commandité, a work upon commercial law; Bits of
Blarney; Mornings at Matlock; Tressilian and his Friends.
Mackey [măk´ee], Albert Gallatin. S. C.,
1807-1881. A physician of Charleston whose life was principally devoted
to the study of freemasonry. Text-Book of Masonic Jurisprudence;
Lexicon of Freemasonry; The Mystic Tie; Book of the Chapter; Manual of
the Lodge; Cryptic Masonry; Masonic Ritualist; Masonic Parliamentary
Law; History of Freemasonry in South Carolina; Encyclopædia of
Freemasonry. He edited the Ahimon Rezon.
Mackey, John.S. C., 1765-1831. A journalist, and
educator of Charleston whose American Teacher’s Assistant (1826) was
the first comprehensive work on arithmetic published in America.
Mackie, John Milton.Ms., 1813-1894. A New England
writer, in early life a tutor in Brown University. Cosas de España;
Lives of Leibnitz, Schamyl, Samuell Gorton; Tai Ping Wang; From Cape
Cod to Dixie.
McKim, Randolph Harrison.Md., 1842- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany at Washington. Nature
of the Christian Ministry; Vindication of Protestant Principles; Future
Punishment; Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons; Christ and Modern
Unbelief; Christianity and Buddhism. Wh.
McKinney, Mordecai.Pa., c. 1796-1867. A jurist
of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States
Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistrate and
Civil Officer; Pennsylvania Tax Laws; Digest of Pennsylvania Banking
Laws.
McLaren, William Edward.N. Y., 1831- ——. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago. He was consecrated bishop in
1875, but prior to 1872 was a Presbyterian clergyman. Catholic Dogma
the Antidote of Doubt; The Practice of the Interior Life.
McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham.Il., 1861- ——. A
professor of American history at the University of Michigan from 1891.
Life of Lewis Cass, supra. Hou.
Maclean, Mrs. Clara Victoria [Dargan].S. C., c.
1840- ——. An educator of South Carolina. Her work in fiction includes
Riverlands; Helen Howard.
McLellan, Isaac.Me., 1806-1899. A verse-writer of New
York city of note as a sportsman. His verse, once popular, is now
nearly forgotten. The Year, and Other Poems; The Fall of the Indian;
Poems of the Rod and Gun (1883), with biographical sketch.
McLeod, Alexander.S., 1774-1833. A Reformed Presbyterian
minister of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day. Negro
Slavery Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness;
American Christian Expositor, include his chief works.
McLeod, Xavier Donald.N. Y., 1821-1865. Son of A.
McLeod, supra. A Roman Catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an
Episcopal clergyman. Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking;
Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary Queen of Scots; Our Lady of
Litanies; Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, include the more
important of his works.
McMahon, John Van Lear.Md., 1800-1871. A prominent
lawyer and politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is
an authority on the early history of the province.
McMaster, Gilbert.I., 1778-1854. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman of Duanesburgh, New York. The Shorter Catechism Analyzed;
Apology for the Psalms; Moral Character of Civil Government.
McMaster, Guy Humphrey.N. Y., 1829-1887. A jurist and
verse-writer of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of
Steuben County, but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the
well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum.
McMaster, John Bach.L. I., 1852- ——. A professor of
American history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883, and
prior to that date an instructor in engineering at Princeton College.
Bridge and Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of
the United States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; Pennsylvania and the
Federal Constitution (with F. D. Stone). Ap. Hou.
McMillan, Conway.Mch., 1867- ——. A professor of botany
in the University of Minnesota from 1891. Twenty-Two Common Insects of
Nebraska; The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.
McMurtrie, Henry.Pa., 1793-1865. An educator of
Philadelphia. Lexicon Scientiarum is his principal work.
McMurtrie, William.N. J., 1851- ——. A professor of
chemistry in the University of Illinois. Culture of the Sugar Beet;
Culture of Sumac; Grape Culture in the United States, are among his
publications.
McNamara, John.I., 1824-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of
Nebraska. Three Years on the Kansas Border; The Black Code of Kansas.
McNaughton, John Hugh.N. Y., 1829- ——. A verse-writer
of Caledonia, New York, many of whose songs have been set to music, and
proved extremely popular. Babble Brook Songs; Onnalinda, a romance in
verse.
Macomb, Alexander.D. C., 1782-1841. An officer of
prominence in the American army during the War of 1812, becoming
major-general in command of the army in 1828. Treatise on Martial Law;
Treatise on Practice of Courts-Martial; Pontiac, a drama. See Memoir
by G. H. Richards.
Macon, John Alfred.Al., 1851- ——. A journalist of New
York city. Uncle Gabe Tucker. Lip.
McPherson, Edward.Pa., 1830-1895. A journalist of
Gettysburg, editor of The Tribune Almanac from 1877, and for some years
American editor of the Almanach de Gotha. Political History of the
United States during the Civil War; Political History of the United
States during Reconstruction; Handbook of Politics.
MacQueary, Howard.Va., 1861- ——. A Universalist
clergyman of Minneapolis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman in
Ohio, but, on account of his denial of the Virgin birth of Christ, was
tried for heresy in 1891, and suspended from the Episcopal ministry.
Evolution of Man and Christianity; Topics of the Times, lectures on
theological and sociological themes. Ap.
McSherry, James.Md., 1819-1869. A lawyer of Frederick,
Maryland. Père Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; Williloft, or the Days of
James the First; History of Maryland.
McSherry, Richard.W. Va., 1817-1885. A physician of
prominence in Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. Early
History of Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on
Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; Health and How to Promote It,
are his principal writings. Ap.
McTyeire [măk-teer´], Holland Nimmons.S. C.,
1824-1889. A Methodist bishop in Tennessee. Manual of Discipline;
Duties of Masters; History of Methodism, are among his works.
McVickar, William Augustus.N. Y., 1827-1877. An
Episcopal clergyman who became rector of Christ Church, New York city,
in 1876. Life of Rev. John McVickar; City Missions. Hou.
Macy, Jesse.Ind., 1842- ——. A professor of political
science in Iowa College. Our Government; The English Constitution.
Mac.
Madison, James.Va., 1751-1836. The fourth President
of the United States. The Reports of the Debates in the National
Convention of 1788 are the most important writings of his earlier
career. His complete works have been issued in six volumes. See
Lives by Rives, J. Q. Adams, S. H. Gay; History of the United States,
Madison’s Administrations, by H. Adams.
Maffit, John Newland.I., 1795-1850. A once noted
Methodist preacher and lecturer. Tears of Contrition; Pulpit Sketches;
Poems.
Magill, Mary Tucker.Va., 1832- ——. Granddaughter of
H. St. George Tucker, infra. An educator and fiction-writer
of Winchester, Virginia. The Holcombes; Women, or Chronicles of the
Late War; School History of Virginia; Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems.
Lip.
Magoon, Elias Lyman.N. H., 1810- ——. An eminent
Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a lecturer and art
connoisseur of liberal thought and wide attainments. Proverbs for the
People; Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity;
Westward Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; Living Orators in
America.
Magruder, Allan Bowie. 18— - ——. The Bible Defended; Life of
John Marshall, infra. Hou.
Magruder, Julia.Va., 1854- ——. A novelist. Miss Ayr
of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At
Anchor; A Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet;
Princess Sonia. Cent. Har. Lgs. Lip. Lo. S. Scr.
Mahan [ma̯-hăn´], Alfred Thayer.N. Y.,
1840- ——. A distinguished officer in the United States navy whose
masterly works upon sea power in history have received official
recognition from both home and foreign governments. The Influence of
Sea Power upon History, 1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon the
French Revolution and Empire, 1783-1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters;
Life of Admiral Farragut; Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea
Power of Great Britain. Ap. Lit. Scr.
Mahan, Asa.N. Y., 1799-1889. A Congregational clergyman
and educator, president of Adrian College, 1860-1871, and after the
latter date resident in England. Critical History of Philosophy; The
Science of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The
Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection;
Logic; Theism and Anti-Theism in their Relations to Science; Critical
History of the American Civil War. Bar. Meth.
Mahan, Dennis Hart.N. Y., 1802-1871. A military
engineer of distinction whose text-books have been widely used.
Treatise on Field Fortifications; Elementary Course of Civil
Engineering; Elementary Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Industrial
Drawing; Descriptive Geometry; Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent
Fortifications; an edition of Moseley’s Mechanical Principles of
Engineering and Architecture, with additions. Wil.
Mahan, Milo.Va., 1819-1870. Brother of D. H. Mahan,
supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore. The Exercise of
Faith; History of the Church; Reply to Colenso; Palmoni, a Free
Inquiry; Comedy of Canonization.
Malcom, Howard.Pa., 1799-1879. A Baptist clergyman and
educator at one time prominent in Philadelphia. Nature and Extent of
the Atonement; Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule of Marriage; Travels in
Southeastern Asia.
Mallery, Garrick.Pa., 1831-1894. An army officer
in charge of the bureau of ethnology from its foundation in 1879.
Calendar of the Dakota Language; Introduction to the Study of Sign
Language among North American Indians; Greeting by Gesture; Israelite
and Indian, a Parallel in Planes of Culture; Picture Writing of the
American Indians, are among his important contributions to ethnology.
Malone, Walter.Mi., 1866- ——. A verse-writer of
Memphis, Tennessee. Songs of Dark and Dawn.
Maltby, Isaac.Ct., 1767-1819. A Boston author who was
general of militia. Elements of War; Courts-Martial and Military Law;
Military Tactics.
Manly, Basil.S. C., 1825-1892. A Baptist clergyman and
educator, professor in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville.
Kind Words Teacher; A Call to the Ministry; Bible Doctrine of
Inspiration Defended.
Manly, John Matthews.Al., 1865- ——. Pre-Shakesperean
Drama.
Mann, Cyrus.N. H., 1785-1859. A Congregational clergyman
of Westminster, Massachusetts, 1815-41. Epitome of the Evidences of
Christianity; History of the Temperance Reformation.
Mann, Horace.Ms., 1796-1859. A famous Massachusetts
educator and philanthropist, president of Antioch College, Ohio,
1852-59, and for twelve years secretary of the Massachusetts Board
of Education. He entirely remodelled the school system of his State.
Beside his twelve important annual reports on education, he published
Lectures on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man;
Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; Powers and
Duties of Women. See Life by Mrs. Mann; Boone’s Education in the
United States; Gordey’s Rise and Growth of the Normal School System;
Horace Mann, the Educator, by A. Winship.Le.
Mann, Mrs. Mary Tyler [Peabody].Ms., 1806-1887. Wife of
H. Mann, supra, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody, infra.
Flower People; Christianity in the Kitchen; Culture in Infancy (with E.
Peabody); Life of Horace Mann; Juanita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba.
Le. Lo.
Mann, Matthew Derbyshire.N. Y., 1845- ——. A physician,
professor of gynæcology in the University of Buffalo, who has published
a Text-Book on Prescription Writing, and edited The American System of
Gynæcology.
Mann, William Julius.G., 1819-1892. A Lutheran clergyman
of Philadelphia, author of Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. See
Memoir by E. T. Mann, 1893.
Manning, Jacob Merrill.N. Y., 1824-1882. A
Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church,
1857-82. Helps to a Life of Prayer; Half Truths and the Truth; Not of
Man, but of God; Sermons. Hou.
Mansfield, Edward Deering.Ct., 1801-1880. Son of J.
Mansfield, infra. A lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati. Utility
of Mathematics; Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political Grammar
of the United States; Legal Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of
General Scott; History of the Mexican War; American Education; Memoirs
of D. Drake, supra; Popular Life of General Grant; Personal
Memories. Clke.
Mansfield, Jared.Ct., 1759-1830. A mathematician,
professor at West Point, 1812-28, who published Essays: Mathematical
and Physical.
Mansfield, Lewis William.Ct., 1816- ——. A writer
of Cohoes, New York. The Morning Watch, a book of verse; Up-Country
Letters; Country Margins.
Manship, Andrew.Md., 1824- ——. A Methodist evangelist
of Philadelphia. Thirteen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished Memories;
Reminiscences from the Saddle-Bags of a Methodist Preacher; History of
Gospel Tents and Experience.
Manville, Mrs. Helen Adelia [Wood].N. Y., 1839- ——. A
verse-writer of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Heart Echoes, a volume of verse.
Manville, Marion. Daughter of Mrs. Manville, supra.
See Pope, Mrs.
Marble, Manton.Ms., 1835- ——. A journalist of New York
city, editor and proprietor of The World, 1862-76, and author of A
Secret Chapter of Political History.
March, Alden.Ms., 1795-1869. A once prominent surgeon of
Albany. Wounds of the Abdomen; Improved Forceps for Harelip Operations.
March, Charles Wainright.N. H., 1815-1864. A journalist
and essayist of New York city. Daniel Webster and His Contemporaries;
Sketches in Madeira, Portugal, and Spain.
March, Daniel.Ms., 1816-1902. A Congregational
clergyman. Walks and Homes of Jesus; Night Scenes in the Bible; Our
Father’s House; From Dark to Dawn; Home Life in the Bible; The First
Khedive, or Lessons in the Life of Joseph; Morning Light in Many Lands.
C. P. S.
March, Francis Andrew.Ms., 1825- ——. A philologist
of distinction, professor at Lafayette College from 1856, and the
successor of James Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the American
Language Association. Relation of the Study of Jurisprudence to the
Roman Period; Hamilton’s Theory of Perception; Method of Philological
Study of the English Language; Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon
Language; Anglo-Saxon Reader. Har.
Marcy, Erastus Edgerton.Ms., 1815-1900. A physician of
New York city. Theory and Practice of Medicine; Theory and Practice of
Homœopathy; Christianity and its Conflicts; Life Duties.
Marcy, Henry Orlando.Ms., 1837- ——. A physician of
Cambridge. Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia; professional
translations from the Italian of Ercolani. Ap.
Marcy, Randolph Barnes.Ms., 1812-1887. Brother of E. E.
Marcy, supra. A brigadier-general in the United States army.
Exploration of the Red River in 1852; Thirty Years of Army Life on the
Border; The Prairie Traveller; Border Reminiscences. Har.
Marden, Orison Swett.N. H., 1848- ——. A Boston writer
whose collections of brief biographies, comprise Pushing to the Front;
Architects of Fate. Hou.
Marguerittes, Julie de.See Rea, Mrs.
Markell, Charles Frederick.Md., 1855- ——. A Maryland
lawyer and journalist. Charmodine, a volume of verse.
Markham, Charles Edwin.Or., 1852- ——. An educator and
verse-writer of California. In Earth’s Shadow, a book of verse; Songs
of a Dream Builder; The Man with the Hoe.
Markham, Jared Clark.Ms., 1816- ——. An architect who
designed the Saratoga monument. Appeal in Behalf of National Monuments;
Monumental Art; Historic Sculpture.
Markoe, Thomas Masters.Pa., 1819-1901. A surgeon of New
York city, professor in Columbia College from 1860, and author of a
Treatise on Diseases of the Bones. Ap.
Marsh, Mrs. Caroline [Crane].Ms., 1816-1901. Wife of G.
P. Marsh, infra. The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters,
from the German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems;
Life of George P. Marsh. Scr.
Marsh, George Perkins.Vt., 1801-1882. A philologist
of distinction who was minister to Italy, 1861-82. Lectures on the
English Language; Man and Nature, re-written and enlarged with the
title, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin
and History of the English Language; Mediæval and Modern Saints and
Miracles. See Life by Mrs. Marsh, supra.Har. Scr.
Marsh, John.Ct., 1788-1864. A Congregational clergyman
long prominent as a temperance lecturer. Epitome of Ecclesiastical
History; Half Century Tribute to Temperance; Temperance Recollections.
Marsh, Othniel Charles.N. Y., 1831-1899. A
palæontologist, professor at Yale University from 1866. Odontornithes;
Dinocerata; Sauropoda, are among valuable scientific monographs by him.
Marshall, Edward Chauncey.N. Y., 1824-1898. An educator,
inventor, and journalist. Book of Oratory; History of the United States
Naval Academy; Ancestry of General Grant.
Marshall, Humphrey.Pa., 1722-1801. A famous botanist of
Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work
of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages.
Marshall, John.Va., 1755-1835. Chief Justice of the
United States from 1801 until his death. The Life of Washington;
Writings upon the Federal Constitution. See Lives by Van Santvord,
1854, Flanders, 1858, Magruder, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography.
Martin, Edward Sandford.N. Y., 1856- ——. A journalist
of New York city. Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of
the Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, some Views of Ours;
Windfalls of Observation; Lucid Intervals. Har. Scr.
Martin, François Xavier.F., 1764-1846. A New Orleans
jurist, chief justice of Louisiana, 1837-45. General Digest of
Louisiana Laws; Reports of Louisiana Supreme Court, 1813-30; History of
Louisiana to 1814.
Martin, Henry Newell.I., 1848-1896. A biologist of note,
professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. The Human
Body; Practical Biology (with T. H. Huxley); Handbook of Vertebrate
Dissection (with W. A. Moale). Ho.
Martin, John Hill.Pa., 1823- ——. A lawyer of
Philadelphia, legal editor of The Intelligencer from 1881. Bethlehem
and the Moravians; The Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Chester and its
Vicinity; Delaware County.
Martin, Mrs. Margaret [Maxwell].S., 1807- ——. An
educator of Columbia, South Carolina. Day Spring; Christianity in
Earnest; Religious Poems; Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina, include
the larger part of her writings.
Martin, William Alexander Parsons.N. Y., 1827- ——.
A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen
College, Peking. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of
Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he
has published The Chinese: their Education, Philosophy, and Letters;
The Lore of Cathay. Har.
Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne [Smith].N. H., 1805-1879. A
writer of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New
York city. Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France;
William Tyndale; Lady Alice Lisle.
Martyn, William Carlos.N. Y., 1841- ——. Son of Mrs.
Martyn, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city.
History of the Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim
Fathers of New England; History of the Dutch Reformation; Lives of John
Milton, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge. Fu.
Marvel, Ik.See Mitchell, D. G.
Marvin, Enoch Mather.Mo., 1823-1877. A bishop of the
Methodist Church South. The Work of Christ; Sermons; To the East by Way
of the West.
Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton [Briggs].Ms., 1823-1890.
A verse-writer of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, whose poem, Do They Miss
Me at Home, was long a popular song. Utterance, a Collection of Home
Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; Rose Hamilan, a tale. Hou.
Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Arthur.Me., 1844-1884. The
Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of verse. Lo.
Mason, David Hastings.Pa., 1828-1903. A Chicago
journalist who published a Short Tariff History of the United States.
Bai.
Mason, Emily Virginia.Ky., 1815- ——. A nurse in
Confederate hospitals, and after the Civil War an educator in Paris.
She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a
Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.
Mason, George Champlin.R. I., 1820-1894. An architect of
Newport, Rhode Island. Newport and its Environs; Application of Art to
Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart;
Reminiscences of Newport.
Mason, John.E., 1600-1672. A Puritan soldier who held a
place in the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding
to that filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. History of the
Pequot War is a vigorous narrative, first printed by Increase Mather
in 1677. See Tyler’s American Literature; Life by G. E. Ellis,
supra.
Mason, John Mitchell.N. Y., 1770-1829. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration
on the Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. Letters
on Frequent Communion; Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic
Principles. See Works in four volumes; Memoirs by Van Vechten,
1856.
Mason, Otis Tufton.Me., 1838- ——. An anthropologist of
note. The Hupa Indian Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture;
The Origins of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North
American Indians; The Antiquities of Guadeloupe. Ap. Scr.
Mather, Cotton.Ms., 1663-1728. Son of I. Mather,
infra. A famous Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor
of the North Church, 1683-1728, and his father’s colleague for the
greater part of that period. He was a prolific author, publishing
nearly four hundred works, large and small, but it is upon the Magnalia
Christi Americana that his reputation rests. Among other works are
Wonders of the Invisible World; Christian Philosopher; Psalterium
Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium; Memorable Providences Relating to
Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The Armour of Christianity; Batteries
Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; Death made Easie and Happy. His style
is disfigured by pedantry and strained analogies, and is at all times
far removed from simplicity, but the author is nevertheless easily
seen to be intensely in earnest in his endeavours to be of service to
his generation. See Lives by S. Mather, 1729, W. B. O. Peabody, A.
P. Marvin, 1889, B. Wendell, 1892; North American Review, July, 1840,
April, 1869; Tyler’s American Literature; Pond’s The Mather Family; Old
Colony Days, by Mrs. May Alden Ward.
Mather, Fred.N. Y, 1833-1900. A pisciculturist of note,
author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks.
Mather, Increase.E., 1639-1723. Son of R. Mather,
infra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the
North Church, and president of Harvard College, 1685-1701. Of his
nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable
Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the
Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction
the existence of mundane supernatural forces. His style is much
superior to that of his son. See Tyler’s American Literature;
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Mather, Moses.Ct., 1719-1806. A Congregational clergyman
of Darien, Connecticut, from 1744 till his death, who was of much
prominence in his day as a controversialist. Systematic View of
Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; Election Sermons. See Sprague’s
Annals of the American Pulpit.
Mather, Richard.E., 1596-1669. A Puritan clergyman who
came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester, 1636-69. He
was a man of large influence in the colony, and was one of the three
divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification
is as important as any of his many writings. See Life by I. Mather;
Tyler’s American Literature.
Mather, Samuel.Ms., 1706-1785. Son of C. Mather,
supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston who succeeded his
father and grandfather as pastor of the North Church, but in 1741
became the head of a new church, of which he was pastor till his death.
Among his writings are, Life of Cotton Mather, supra; Essay
on Gratitude; America Known to the Ancients, an attempt to prove the
Japhetic origin of the first inhabitants of the American continent.
See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Mather, William Williams.Ct., 1804-1859. A geologist of
Ohio. Geology of the First Geological District.
Mathews, Albert.N. Y., 1820-1903. A lawyer of New
York city. Walter Ashwood, a Love Story; A Bundle of Papers, by Paul
Siegvolk; Thoughts on Codification of the Common Law; Ruminations, and
Other Essays. Put.
Mathews, Cornelius.N. Y., 1817-1889. Cousin of A.
Mathews, supra. An author and playwright of New York city,
among whose non-dramatic works are, Indian Book of Fairy Tales; The
Enchanted Moccasins, and Other Legends; Money-Penny: a romance. Jacob
Leisler; The Politicians; Witchcraft, comprise some of his plays.
Mathews, James McFarlane.N. Y., 1785-1870. A Reformed
Dutch clergyman of New York city, at one period chancellor of the
University of the City of New York. What is Your Life?; The Bible and
Men of Learning; Fifty Years in New York.
Mathews, Joanna Hooe.N. Y., 1849-1901. Daughter of J.
M. Mathews, supra. A writer of Sunday-school tales, among which
are, The Bessie Books; The Sunbeams. Cas.
Mathews, Julia A——. 183- - ——. Daughter of J. M. Mathews,
supra. A writer of Sunday-school fiction, among which are,
The Bessie Harrington’s Venture; Jack Granger’s Cousin; Drayton Hall
Series. Ran.
Mathews, William.Me., 1818- ——. An educator and
essayist of Chicago, and later of Boston. Hours with Men and Books;
Getting on in the World; The Great Conversers; Literary Style; Men,
Places, and Things; Oratory and Orators; Wit and Humor, their Use and
Abuse; Nugæ Litterariæ. Rob. Sc.
Mathews, William Smith Babcock.N. H., 1837- ——. A
musical critic of Chicago. Outline of Musical Form; Dictionary of Music
and Musicians; How to Understand Music; New Musical Miscellanies.
Matthews, [James] Brander.La., 1852- ——. A littérateur
of New York city. Among his many writings the more important are, The
Theatres of Paris; French Dramatists of the 19th Century; Margery’s
Lovers, a Comedy; The Last Meeting, a Story; The Secret of the Sea,
and Other Stories; A Family Tree, and Other Stories; The Story of a
Story; Tom Paulding; Studies of the Stage; Americanisms and Briticisms;
Vignettes of Manhattan; His Father’s Son; Introduction to the Study
of American Literature; The Royal Marine; Tales of Fantasy and Fact.
Har. Scr.
Matthews, James Newton.Ind., 1852- ——. A physician and
verse-writer of Mason, Illinois. Tempe Vale, and Other Poems, includes
many of his contributions to The Century and other periodicals.
Ke.
Matthews, Stanley. 1824-1889. A Cincinnati jurist, associate
justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1881. A Summary of the
Law of Partnership for the Use of Business Men. Clke.
Matthews, Washington.I., 1843- ——. A surgeon in the
regular army, well known as an ethnologist. Among his writings are
included a Grammar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Ethnography and
Philology of the Hidatsa Indians; Gentile Organization of the Navajo
Indians.
Mattison, Hiram.N. Y., 1811-1868. A Methodist clergyman
of New York city, active as a controversialist. Bible Doctrine of
Immortality; The Trinity and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the Times;
Impending Crisis; Defence of American Methodism; Popular Amusements,
include his chief works. Meth.
Maturin [măt´u-rĭn], Edward.I., 1821-1881. An
educator of New York city. Beside Lyrics of Spain and Erin, he was the
author of several historical novels, comprising Eva; Bianca; Montezuma;
Benjamin: the Jew of Grenada. Har.
Maury [maw´rĭ], Ann.E., 1803-1876. Cousin of M.
F. Maury, infra. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family.
Maury, Dabney Herndon.Va., 1822-1900. Nephew of M. F.
Maury, infra. A Confederate major-general in the Civil War.
Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops; Recollections of a Virginian in the
Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. Scr.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine.Va., 1806-1873. A once famous
scientist, for many years in charge of the Hydrographical Office at
Washington, as well as of the Naval Observatory. During the Civil War
he entered the Confederate service, and from 1868-73 was a professor in
the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Treatise on Navigation;
Physical Geography of the Sea; Wind and Current Charts; Physical
Geography for Schools; The World we Live In. See North British
Review, May, 1858; Life by his daughter, Mrs. Corbin; Manly’s Southern
Literature.
Maury, Mrs. Sarah Mytton [Hughes].E., 1808-1849.
Sister-in-law of A. Maury, supra. Etchings from the Caracci;
The Englishwoman in America; The Statesmen of America; Progress of the
Catholic Church in America.
May, Caroline.E., c. 1820- ——. A writer of New
York city. American Female Poets; The Woodbine, a Holiday Gift; Poems;
Hymns on the Collects; Lays of Memory and Affection.
May, Edith.See Drinker, Mrs.
May, John Wilder.Ms., 1819-1883. A jurist of Boston. The
Law of Insurance; Law of Crimes; Criminal Law. Lit.
May, Margaret.See Tucker, Mrs.
May, Samuel.Ms., 1810-1899. A retired Unitarian
clergyman of Leicester, Massachusetts, of prominence in the
anti-slavery movement, and author of The Fugitive Slave Law and its
Victims.
May, Samuel Joseph.Ms., 1797-1871. Cousin of S. May,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse prominent in the
anti-slavery cause, and also in educational reforms. Education of the
Faculties; Revival of Education; Recollections of the Anti-Slavery
Conflict. See Memoir, 1873.
May, Sophie.See Clarke, Rebecca.
Mayer, Alfred Marshall.Md., 1836-1897. Nephew of B.
Mayer, infra. An astronomer, professor of physics in Stevens
Institute at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1871. Light (with C. Barnard);
Notes on Physics; The Earth a Great Magnet; Sound; Sport with Gun and
Rod in American Woods and Waters (edited). Ap. Cent.
Mayer, Brantz.Md., 1809-1879. A lawyer and journalist
of Baltimore, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War.
Mexico as It Was and as It Is; Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and Republican;
Observations on Mexican History and Archæology; Mexican Antiquities;
Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Memoir of Jared
Sparks, infra.
Mayer, Lewis.Pa., 1783-1849. A German Reformed clergyman
of eastern Pennsylvania. Lectures on Scriptural Subjects; The Sin
Against the Holy Ghost; History of the German Reformed Church.
Mayhew, Experience.Ms., 1673-1758. A missionary to the
Indians of Martha’s Vineyard. Indian Converts; Grace Defended.
Mayhew, Jonathan.Ms., 1720-1766. Son of Experience
Mayhew, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor
of the West Church, 1747-66. He was a bold thinker both in religion
and politics, and his influence over the colonial mind at an eventful
period was very great. He was as eloquent as he was original and
independent. A noted Sermon on the Repeal of the Stamp Act is an
effective example of his style. Seven Sermons; Sermons to Young Men.
See Memoir by Alden Bradford, 1838.
Maynard, Charles Johnson.Ms., 1845- ——. A naturalist
of Newton, Massachusetts. The Naturalist’s Guide; The Birds of Florida;
The Birds of Eastern North America; A Manual of Taxidermy; The
Butterflies of New England.
Mayo, Amory Dwight.Ms., 1823- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman, prominent since the Civil War in educational matters in the
Southern States. Graces and Powers of the Christian Life; Symbols of
the Capitol; Religion in Common Schools; Talks with Teachers.
Mayo, Robert.Va., 1784-1864. A writer long in the
civil service at Washington. View of Ancient Geography and History;
New System of Mythology; United States Pension Laws; Synopsis of the
Commercial and Revenue System; The Treasury Department, its Origin and
Operations.
Mayo, Mrs. Sarah Carter [Edgarton].Ms., 1819-1848. Wife
of A. D. Mayo, supra. The Palfreys; Ellen Clifford, and several
compilations of verse and prose.
Mayo, William Starbuck.N. Y., 1812-1895. A novelist and
physician of New York city. Kaloolah; The Berber; Never Again; Flood
and Field; Romance Dust, a collection of short stories. Put.
Mead, Charles Marsh.Vt., 1836- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, professor at Andover Seminary, 1866-1882, and since the
latter date a resident in Germany. He published The Soul Here and
Hereafter, a Biblical Study; Christ and Criticism; Supernatural
Revelation. Ran.
Mead, Edwin Doak.N. H., 1849- ——. A Boston writer
and lecturer upon social and historical topics, and editor of The New
England Magazine (1897). Martin Luther: a Study of the Reformation;
The Philosophy of Carlyle; The Roman Church and the Public Schools.
El.
Meade, William.Va., 1789-1862. The third Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Family Prayers; Old Churches of Virginia;
Lectures on the Pastoral Office; Reasons for Loving the Episcopal
Church. See Memorial by J. Johns.
Mears, John William.Pa., 1825-1881. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor in Hamilton College, 1870-81. The Bible in the
Workshop; The Martyrs of France; The Beggars of Holland; The Story of
Madagascar; The Heroes of Bohemia; From Exile to Overthrow.
Meehan, Thomas.E., 1826-1901. A botanist and nurseryman
of Germantown, Philadelphia, editor and publisher of “Meehan’s
Monthly,” a popular journal devoted to botany and floriculture.
American Handbook of Ornamental Trees; Flowers and Ferns of the United
States.
Meek, Alexander Beaufort.S. C., 1814-1865. An Alabama
jurist and journalist. Red Eagle; Songs and Poems of the South;
Romantic Passages in Southern History.
Meek, Fielding Bradford.Ind., 1817-1876. A
palæontologist in government service. Palæontology of the Upper
Missouri; Check List of North American Invertebrate Fossils; Report on
Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country.
Megapolensis, Johannes.Hd., 1603-1670. A Dutch clergyman
of the New Amsterdam colony, the first Protestant missionary to the
Indians. His Short Account of the Mohawk Indians appeared in 1651.
Meigs [mĕgs], Charles Delucena.Ba., 1792-1869. A
noted Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College,
1841-61. Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery; Science and Art of
Obstetrics; Treatment of Child-Bed Fevers; Acute and Chronic Diseases
of the Neck of the Uterus, and several translations from French medical
writers. See Memoir by J. F. Meigs, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary;
Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Meigs, James Aitkin.Pa., 1829-1879. A physician and
naturalist of Philadelphia, author of Cranial Characteristics,
and other scientific monographs. See Gross’s Sketches of
Contemporaries.
Meigs, John Forsyth.Pa., 1818-1882. Son of C. D.
Meigs, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Memoir of C. D. Meigs,
supra; Diseases of Children.
Meigs, Return Jonathan.Ct., 1734-1823. A noted soldier
in the American Revolution. Journal of Occurrences during the
Expedition to Quebec.
Meigs, Return Jonathan.Ky., 1801-1891. Grand-nephew of
R. J. Meigs, supra. A noted lawyer of Tennessee. Reports of
Tennessee Supreme Court Cases; Digest of Tennessee Decisions; The Code
of Tennessee.
Meline, James Florant.N. Y., 1811-1873. A New York
writer, an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Two
Thousand Miles on Horseback; Commercial Travelling; Mary Queen of Scots
and her Latest English Historian, an attack upon Froude’s view of the
subject; Life of Sixtus V. Clke.
Melish, John.S., 1771-1822. A once noted traveller of
Scottish birth. Travels in the United States, etc.; Description of the
Roads, etc.; Description of the United States (1816); Necessity of
Protecting Manufactures; Information for Emigrants; Statistical View of
the United States.
Mell, Patrick Hues.Ga., 1811-1888. A Baptist clergyman
and educator of Georgia, vice-chancellor of the University of Georgia.
Baptism; Corrective Church Discipline; Parliamentary Practice; The
Philosophy of Prayer; Church Polity; Predestination.
Mellen, Grenville.Me., 1799-1841. A lawyer and
littérateur of New York city, whose verse was once very popular and
much praised by critics, but is now forgotten. Our Chronicle of ’26, a
satire; The Martyr’s Triumph, and Other Poems; The Passions; Glad Tales
and Sad Tales, a collection of tales in prose; The Rest of the Nations.
See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Mellick, Andrew D——.N. J., 1844-1895. A lawyer of
Plainfield, New Jersey. The Story of an Old Farm; The Hessians in New
Jersey.
Melville, George Wallace.N. Y., 1841- ——. Chief of
the Bureau of Steam-Engineering in the United States navy from 1887. A
survivor of the ill-fated “Jeannette,” of which he was engineer. In the
Lena Delta, a Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and
his Companions. Hou.
Melville, Herman.N. Y., 1819-1891. A novelist of New
York city, for many years employed in the custom-house. His earliest
writings were very popular, but had nearly passed out of remembrance
before the author’s death. Typee; Omoo; White Jacket; Redburn; Mardi;
Pierre; Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales; Moby Dick; The Confidence Man;
Battle Pieces, a volume of verse; Clarel, a poem; John Marr and Other
Sailors; Timoleon, a collection of poems. Har.
Mendenhall, James William.O., 1844-1892. A Methodist
clergyman, editor of The Methodist Review from 1888. Echoes from
Palestine; Plato and Paul. Meth.
Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin.O., 1841- ——. A prominent
scientist, president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1894,
and author of A Century of Electricity. Hou.
Menken, Adah Isaacs.La., 1835-1868. An actress of
Jewish birth whose name originally was Dolores Adios Fuertes. She was
several times married and divorced, but is known by the name of her
first husband. Her verse is morbid, but still finds occasional readers.
Memories; Infelicia. See Every Saturday, September 12, 1868.Lip.
Mercein, Thomas Fitz Randolph.N. Y., 1825-1856. A
Methodist clergyman of New York State. Natural Goodness; The Wise
Master Builder; Childhood and the Church. Meth.
Mercer, Charles Fenton.Va., 1778-1858. A congressman
from Virginia, 1816-40, prominent as an opponent of slavery. The
Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States was
not published until 1863.
Mercur, James.Pa., 1842-1896. A scientist and army
officer, professor at West Point from 1884. Elements of the Art of War;
Military Mines, Blasting, and Demolitions. Wil.
Meriwether, Mrs. Elizabeth [Avery].Tn., 1832- ——.
A novelist of Memphis, Tennessee. The Master of Red Leaf; Black and
White; The Ku Klux Klan; My First and Last Love.
Meriwether, Lee.Mi., 1862- ——. Son of Mrs. Meriwether,
supra. A special agent of the United States Bureau of Labor. A
Tramp Trip: how to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day; The Tramp at Home;
Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean. Har. Scr.
Merriam, Augustus Chapman.N. Y., 1843-1895. A Greek
scholar, adjunct professor of Greek at Columbia College. Law Code of
Gortynia in Crete; Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab; The Phæacians of
Homer; Sixth and Seventh Books of Herodotus. Har.
Merriam, Clinton Hart.N. Y., 1855- ——. A naturalist of
note, chief of the United States Biological Survey. Vertebrates of the
Adirondack Region; Mammals of the Adirondacks. Ho.
Merriam, Florence Augusta.N. Y., 1863- ——. Sister
of C. H. Merriam, supra. A Washington writer. A-Birding on a
Bronco; My Summer in a Mormon Village; Birds Through an Opera Glass.
Hou.
Merriam, George Spring.Ms., 1843- ——. A littérateur of
Springfield, Massachusetts. A Living Faith; Life and Times of Samuel
Bowles, supra; The Way of Life; The Story of William and Lucy
Smith; A Symphony of the Spirit; The Chief End of Man; Reminiscences
and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs. Cent. El. Hou.
Merrill, Ayres Phillips.Ms., 1793-1873. A physician of
Memphis, and subsequently of New York city. Lectures on Fevers.
Merrill, George Perkins.Me., 1854- ——. A geologist,
professor in Columbian University, Washington, from 1893. Stones
for Building and Decoration; Handbook of the Geological Department,
Smithsonian Institution.
Merrill, Selah.Ct., 1837- ——. A Congregational
clergyman and archæologist, United States consul at Jerusalem, 1882-86.
East of the Jordan; Galilee in the Time of Christ; Greek Inscriptions
Collected in 1875-77 East of the Jordan; The Site of Calvary.
Scr.
Merrill, Stephen Mason.O., 1825- ——. A Methodist
bishop in Ohio. Christian Baptism; New Testament Idea of Hell; The
Second Coming of Christ; Aspects of Christian Experience; Digest of
Methodist Law; Outlines of Thought on Probation; Mary of Nazareth and
Her Family. Meth.
Merrill, William Emory.Wis., 1837- ——. A military
engineer in the United States army. Iron Truss Bridges; Improvement of
Tidal Rivers.
Merriman, Mansfield.Ct., 1841- ——. A civil engineer,
professor at Lehigh University from 1881. Continuous Bridges; Elements
of the Method of Least Squares; The Figure of the Earth; Mechanics of
Materials; Treatise on Hydraulics; Text-Book on Retaining Walls and
Masonry Dams; Introduction to Geodetic Surveying; Text-Book on Roofs
and Bridges. Ho.
Merritt, Timothy.Ct., 1775-1845. A Methodist clergyman
and journalist. Christian Manual; Convert’s Guide; Discussion against
Universal Salvation; Validity of Infant Baptism; Lectures on Universal
Salvation (with W. Fiske, supra).
Merwin, Elias.Ct., 1825-1891. A Boston lawyer, professor
of equity in Boston University from 1854. The Principles of Equity and
Equity Pleading. Hou.
Merwin, Henry Childs.Ms., 1853- ——. Son of E. Merwin,
supra. A Boston lawyer living in Concord, Massachusetts. The
Patentability of Inventions; Road, Track, and Stable, a book about
Horses. Lit.
Messenger, Mrs. Lilian Roselle.Ky., 1853- ——. In the
Heart of America (verse); The Vision of Gold, and Other Poems.
Metcalf, Richard.R. I., 1829-1881. A Unitarian
clergyman, pastor at Winchester, Massachusetts, 1866-81. Letter and
Spirit; The Abiding Memory, a collection of Sermons. A. U. A.
Metcalf, Theron.Ms., 1784-1875. A jurist of
Massachusetts. Principles of the Law of Contracts; Digest of
Massachusetts Supreme Court Cases, 1816-1823; Reports, 1840-1849.
Metcalfe, Henry.N. Y., 1847- ——. An instructor of
ordnance at West Point who has published The Cost of Manufactures;
Ordnance and Gunnery. Wil.
Metcalfe, Samuel L——.Va., 1798-1856. A physician and
scientist of New York city. Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West;
New Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism; Caloric. Lip.
Michie [my´key], Peter Smith.S., 1839-1901. A
military engineer, professor of mathematics at West Point from 1871.
Wave Motion Relating to Sound and Light; Life of General Upton,
infra; Analytical Mechanics; Hydromechanics; Practical Astronomy
(with Harlow). Wil.
Middleton, Henry.F., 1797-1876. A once prominent writer
of Charleston. Prospects of Disunion; The Government and the Currency;
Economical Causes of Slavery in the United States, and Obstacles to its
Abolition; The Government of India; Universal Suffrage.
Milburn, William Henry.Pa., 1823-1903. A Methodist
clergyman, famous as “the blind preacher,” who has been six times
chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Rifle, Axe, and
Saddle-Bags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; Pioneers and People of the
Mississippi Valley.
Miles, George Henry.Md., 1824-1871. A Maryland
lawyer and educator, professor of English literature at Mount St.
Mary’s College, Emmettsburg, Maryland, popular at one period as a
verse-writer and dramatist. Besides his dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De
Soto, he published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu Hassan the Wag, or
the Sleeper Awakened; A Review of Hamlet; The Truce of God.
Miles, Henry Adolphus.Ms., 1809-1895. A Unitarian
clergyman of Eastern Massachusetts. Lowell as It Was and Is (1845);
Grains of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a Friend; Modern Ideas of
the Birth of Jesus; Traces of Picture Writing in the Bible. El.
Miles, James Warley.S. C., 1818-1875. An Episcopal
clergyman of Charleston. Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Grounds of
all Religious Belief based on Reason (1849).
Miles, Nelson Appleton.Ms., 1839- ——. A noted soldier
of the United States army who served as a brigadier-general of
volunteers during the Civil War. He became a major-general in 1890.
Personal Recollections.
Miles, Pliny.N. Y., 1818-1865. A traveller who made his
home in London in his later years. Statistical Register; Elements of
Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory; Northufari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean
Steam Navigation; Postal Reform.
Miley, John.O., 1813-1895. A Methodist minister and
educator, professor of systematic theology in Drew Seminary, Madison,
New Jersey, from 1873. The Atonement in Christ; Systematic Theology.
Millard, David.N. Y., 1794-1873. A minister of the
Christian denomination, professor at Meadville Seminary, Pennsylvania,
1845-67. The True Messiah Exalted; Journal of Travels in Egypt, etc.,
1841. See Life by D. E. Millard, 1874.
Miller, Mrs. Annie [Jenness].N. H., 1859- ——. A dress
reformer of New York city, publisher of The Jenness Miller Magazine.
Physical Beauty; Mother and Babe; Barbara Thayer, a novel. Le.
Miller, Charles Henry.N. Y., 1842- ——. An art critic
of New York city. The Philosophy of Art in America.
Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner. “Joaquin Miller.” Ind.,
1841- ——. A poet and prose-writer who, after a life of adventure in
California, went to London in 1870, and speedily became famous as the
author of Songs of the Sierras. For a time his work continued popular,
but his fame has since greatly declined, though his writings continue
to be read. Since 1887 he has lived in Oakland, California. His more
important works include, Songs of the Sierras; The Ship of the Desert;
Songs of the Sunland; in prose: The Danites in the Sierras; Shadows of
Shasta; Memorie and Rime; ’49, or the Gold Seekers of the Sierras; The
One Fair Woman; The Destruction of Gotham; The Building of the City
Beautiful, a poetic romance. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement;
Vedder’s American Writers.Fu. St.
Miller, Elihu Spencer.N. J., 1817-1879. Son of S.
Miller, infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor in the
University of Pennsylvania. Treatise on the Law of Partition by Writ in
Pennsylvania; Caprices, a volume of verse.
Miller, Mrs. Emily Clark Huntington.Ct., 1833- ——. An
educator of Evanston, Illinois, president of the Woman’s College of the
Northwestern University, and a popular writer of semi-religious fiction
for young people. Among her various writings are, From Avalon and Other
Poems; The Royal Road to Fortune; The Kirkwood Series; Captain Fritz;
Little Neighbors. Dut.
Miller, Mrs. Harriet Mann. “Olive Thorne Miller.” N. Y.,
1831- ——. A writer of Brooklyn whose books and magazine articles
upon birds have been widely popular. A Bird-Lover in the West; Little
Brothers of the Air; Bird-Ways; In Nesting Time; Four-Handed Folk;
Little Folks in Feathers and Fur; Nimpo’s Troubles; Queer Pets at
Marcy’s; Our Home Pets; Little People of Asia. Dut. Har. Hou.
Miller, James Russell.Pa., 1840- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia. Week Day Religion; Home Making; In His
Steps; Silent Time; Come Ye Apart; The Marriage Altar; Practical
Religion; Bits of Pasture; Making the Most of Life; Mary of Bethany;
The Dew of Thy Youth; The Every Day of Life. Rev.
Miller, Joaquin.See Miller, C. H.
Miller, John.N. J., 1819-1895. Son of S. Miller,
infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who was a colonel in the
Confederate army during the Civil War, and who lived in Princeton, New
Jersey, from 1871. He was tried for heresy, but allowed to withdraw
from the Presbytery, and subsequently established several independent
churches in the vicinity of Princeton. Design of the Church; Commentary
on the Proverbs; Fetich in Theology; Metaphysics; Are Souls Immortal?;
Was Christ in Adam?; Is God a Creed?; Theology; Commentary on Romans.
Ran.
Miller, Mrs. Minnie [Willis] [Baines].N. H., 1845- ——.
A religious writer of Springfield, Ohio. The Silent Land; His Cousin
the Doctor; The Pilgrim Vision.
Miller, Olive Thorne.See Miller, Mrs. Harriet.
Miller, Samuel.Del., 1769-1850. A Presbyterian
clergyman, pastor of the Brick Church, New York city, 1793-1813, and
professor of ecclesiastical history at Princeton Theological Seminary
for the remainder of his life. Presbyterianism the Truly Primitive and
Apostolic Constitution of the Church of Christ; Letters on Clerical
Habits and Manners; Letters on Unitarians; Life of Jonathan Edwards;
Letters on the Christian Ministry; Letters on Church Government,
include his more important writings. See Life by his son.
Miller, Samuel Freeman.Ky., 1816-1890. A jurist of
Kentucky, and after 1850 of Iowa; a strong opponent of slavery. The
Supreme Court of the United States, a series of Biographies; Reports of
Supreme Court Decisions.
Miller, Stephen Franks.N. C., c. 1810-1867. A
once noted Georgia lawyer. Bench and Bar of Georgia; Wilkins Wylder,
or the Successful Man; Memoir of General Blackshear and the War in
Georgia, 1813-14. Lip.
Millet, Francis Davis.Ms., 1846- ——. An artist and
littérateur of New York city. A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories; The
Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. Har.
Milligan, Robert.I., 1814-1875. A Campbellite clergyman
and educator, president of Kentucky University, 1859-66. Brief
Treatise on Prayer; Reason and Revelation; Scheme of Redemption; The
Great Commission; Analysis of the New Testament Commentary on Hebrews.
Mills, Abraham.N. Y., 1769-1867. A once popular educator
of New York city who, besides editing a number of text-books, was
author of Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland;
Outlines of Rhetoric; Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks;
Compendium of the History of the Ancient Hebrews. Har.
Mills, Charles Karsner.Pa., 1845- ——. A physician of
Philadelphia, a specialist in nervous diseases. The Nursing and Care of
the Nervous and Insane.
Mills, Robert.S. C., 1781-1855. An architect of
Washington, the original designer of the Washington Monument.
Statistics of South Carolina; American Pharos, or Lighthouse Guide;
Guide to the National Executive Offices.
Miner, Alonzo Ames.N. H., 1814-1895. A prominent
Universalist clergyman of Boston. Bible Exercises; Right and Duty of
Prohibition; Old Forts Taken. See Life by Emerson, 1896.
Miner, Charles.Ct., 1780-1865. A journalist of the
Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. History of Wyoming; Essays from the Desk
of Poor Robert.
Mines, John Flavel.F., 1835-1891. A journalist of New
York city. The Heroes of the Last Lustre, a poem; A Tour Around New
York by Mr. Felix Oldboy. Har.
Minifie, William.E., 1805-1880. An architect and
educator of Baltimore. Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing; Text-Book of
Geometrical Drawing; Theory and Application of Color; Popular Lectures
on Drawing and Design.
Minor, John Barbee.Va., 1813-1895. A professor of law in
the University of Virginia. Virginia Report of 1799-1800; Synopsis of
the Law of Crimes and Punishments; Institutes of Common and Statute Law.
Minor, Lucian.Va., 1802-1858. Brother of J. B. Minor,
supra. A lawyer of Williamsburg, Virginia. Reasons for
Abolishing the Liquor Traffic; Travels in New England.
Minot, Henry Davis.Ms., 1859-1890. At the time of his
death a railway president in Minnesota. While a schoolboy of Roxbury,
Massachusetts, he wrote at the age of sixteen The Land-Birds and
Game-Birds of New England. Hou.
Minot, William.Ms., 1849-1900. A Boston lawyer. Taxation
in Massachusetts (1877); Local Taxation and Municipal Extravagance.
Minturn, Robert Bowne.N. Y., 1836- ——. From New York
to Delhi, a popular book of travels.
Mitchel, Frederick Augustus. 1839- ——. A son of O. M. Mitchel,
infra. Fiction editor of the American Press Association.
Chattanooga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Chickamauga, a
Romance of the American Civil War; Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer
and General. Hou.
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight.Ky., 1810-1862. An astronomer
of distinction, director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and a
prominent Union general in the Civil War. Planetary and Stellar Worlds;
The Orbs of Heaven; Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, etc.;
Astronomy of the Bible. See Headley’s Old Stars; Popular Science
Monthly, March, 1884; Life by F. A. Mitchel.
Mitchell, Annie Maria.Ms., 1847- ——. A writer of
religious juveniles, among which are Martha’s Gift; Freed Boy in
Alabama.
Mitchell, Donald Grant. “Ik Marvel.” Ct., 1822- ——.
A littérateur of New Haven, who is best known by his earlier and
still popular works, Dream Life; Reveries of a Bachelor, books of
a pleasantly sentimental cast. His other works include, My Farm at
Edgewood; Dr. Johns, a novel; Rural Studies; Fresh Gleaning from
the Old Fields of Europe; The Battle Summer, or Paris in 1848; The
Lorgnette; Fudge Doings; Seven Stories; Wet Days at Edgewood; About
Old Story-Tellers; The Woodbridge Record, a genealogy; Bound Together:
a Sheaf of Papers; Out of Town Places, a revision of Rural Studies;
English Lands, Letters, and Kings; American Lands and Letters.
Scr.
Mitchell, Edward Coppée.Ga., 1836-1887. A real estate
lawyer of Philadelphia. Separate Use in Pennsylvania; Contracts for
Land Sales in Pennsylvania; Equitable Relations of Buyer and Seller.
Mitchell, Edward Cushing.Ms., 1829-1900. Grandson of N.
Mitchell, infra. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president
of Leland University, New Orleans, from 1887. Les Sources du Nouveau
Testament; Hebrew Introduction; Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and
Text of the New Testament; The Critical Handbook.
Mitchell, Elisha.Ct., 1793-1857. An educator of note,
professor of geology in the University of North Carolina from 1825.
While exploring the mountain region of North Carolina, he lost his
life. He is buried on the summit of the mountain bearing his name.
Elements of Geology; Reports on North Carolina Geology.
Mitchell, Henry.Ms., 1830-1902. A hydrographer of
prominence, among whose scientific monographs are, Physical Hydrography
of the Maine Coast; The Estuary of the Delaware; Reclamation of Tide
Lands.
Mitchell, Hinckley Gilbert.N. Y., 1846- ——. A
Methodist clergyman and educator, a professor at Boston University from
1883. Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Lessons; Amos, an
Essay in Exegesis; The Pentateuch.
Mitchell, James Tyndale.Il., 1834- ——. A jurist of
Philadelphia. History of the District Court; Mitchell on Motions and
Rules.
Mitchell, John.Ct., 1794-1870. A Congregational minister
of Stratford, Connecticut. Letters to a Disbeliever in Revivals; Notes
from Over the Sea; Reminiscences of College Scenes and Characters; My
Mother; Rachel Kell, or the Diamond.
Mitchell, John Ames.Ms., 1845- ——. A journalist of New
York city, founder of Life in 1883, and its editor from that date. The
Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert; The Romance of the Moon;
The Last American; Amos Judd, a novel; That First Affair, and Other
Stories. Ho. Scr.
Mitchell, John Kearsley.W. Va., 1798-1858. A physician
of Philadelphia, of eminence as a medical lecturer. Indecision, and
Other Poems; St. Helena: a poem; Remote Consequences of Injuries of
Nerves; Cryptogamic Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers; Five
Essays on Fevers. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.Lip.
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn. “John Philip Varley.” Pa.,
1862- ——. Son of S. W. Mitchell, infra. A verse-writer of
promise. Sylvian, a Tragedy; Poems; Love in the Backwoods, prose
stories. Har. Hou.
Mitchell, Mrs. Lucy Myers [Wright].Per., 1845-1888. An
archæologist (the wife of S. S. Mitchell, an artist), who spent much of
her life abroad. Her only writing, a History of Ancient Sculpture, is
one of the best books in English upon Greek art. Do.
Mitchell, Maria.Ms., 1818-1889. Sister of H. Mitchell,
supra. A distinguished astronomer, professor at Vassar College
from 1865. Her scientific papers have not [1897] been collected. See
Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record; Life by Mrs. Kendall.
Mitchell, Nahum.Ms., 1769-1853. An eminent jurist of
Massachusetts, well known in his day as a musical composer. History of
the Early Settlement of Bridgewater; Grammar of Music.
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus. 1792-1888. A noted geographer of
Philadelphia who besides publishing a series of geographies was author
also of General View of the World; New Traveller’s Guide.
Mitchell, Silas Weir.Pa., 1829- ——. Son of J. K.
Mitchell, supra. A distinguished physician of Philadelphia, well
known also as novelist and poet. His professional writings include
Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked; Injuries of the Nerves;
Nurse and Patient; Fat and Blood; Doctor and Patient. In fiction he has
published Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker; Hephzibah Guinness; In War Time;
Roland Blake; Far in the Forest; Philip Vernon; Prince Little Boy, and
Other Tales out of Fairy Land; Characteristics; A Madeira Party; When
all the Woods are Green; and, in verse, Francis Drake, a Tragedy of the
Sea; The Mother, and Other Poems; The Cup of Youth; The Hill of Stones,
and Other Poems; A Psalm of Death; A Masque, and Other Poems. See
Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement.Cent. Hou. Lip.
Mitchell, Walter.Ms., 1826- ——. An Episcopal clergyman
of New York city. Two Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a novel;
Poems. Tacking Ship off Shore is the poem by which he is best known.
Hou. Wh.
Mitchell, William.Ct., 1793-1867. Brother of John
Mitchell, supra. A Congregational minister of Texas who
published A Doctrinal Guide for Young Christians; Coleridge and the
Moral Tendency of his Writings.
Mitchill, Samuel Latham.L. I., 1764-1831. A once famous
physician and man of letters of New York city who filled there a
position very similar to that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston at
a later day, the two men having many points of resemblance. He was
long a professor of chemistry in Columbia College, and for more than
a generation one of the prominent literary and social figures of
the metropolis. Among his writings are: Life of Tammany, the Indian
Chief; Picture of New York; Description of Schooley’s Mountain. See
Reminiscences of, by J. W. Francis, 1859; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Moak, Nathaniel Cleveland.N. Y., 1833-1892. An Albany
lawyer. Albany Penitentiary Statutes; English Reports; English Digest.
Moffat, James Clement.S., 1811-1890. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary,
1853-90. Comparative History of Religions; Life of Dr. Chalmers; Song
and Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scotland; Alwyn, a Romance of Study
(verse); The Church in Scotland; Church History in Brief; Rhyme of the
North Countrie; The Story of a Dedicated Life. Do. Ran.
Mombert, Jacob Isidor.G., 1829- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Paterson, New Jersey. Faith Victorious; Handbook of
the English Versions of the Bible; Great Lives; History of Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania; History of Charles the Great; Short History of
the Crusades. Ap. Ran.
Monfort, Francis Cassatt.Ind., 1844- ——. A
Presbyterian minister and editor of Cincinnati. Sermons for Silent
Sabbaths; Socialism and City Evangelization.
Monroe, Harriet.Il., 1860- ——. A verse-writer of
Chicago. Valeria, and Other Poems; Life of John Wellborn Root; The
Passing Show. Hou. Mg.
Monroe, James.Va., 1758-1831. The fifth President of the
United States. An able though not brilliant statesman. State Papers;
Tour of Observation in 1817; The People: the Sovereigns; View of the
Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States.
See Lives by J. Q. Adams, 1850, D. C. Gilman, 1885; Concise History
of the Monroe Doctrine by G. F. Tucker, 1885; Appletons’ American
Biography.
Montague, Charles Howard.Ms., 1858-1889. A journalist
of Boston, city editor of The Globe. The Romance of the Lilies; The
Face of Rosenfel; Two Strokes of the Bell; The Doctor’s Mistake; The
Countess Muta.
Montague, William Lewis.Ms., 1831- ——. A
Congregational clergyman, professor of modern languages at Amherst
College from 1862. Comparative Spanish Grammar; Manual of Italian
Grammar; Introduction to Italian Literature.
Montefiore, Joshua.E., 1762-1843. A Hebrew lawyer,
brother of Sir Moses Montefiore, who came to the United States, and
settled in St. Albans, Vermont. Commercial and Notatorial Precedents;
Commercial Dictionary; Traders’ Compendium; United States Traders’
Compendium; Law and Treatise on Bookkeeping; Laws of Land and Sea.
Montgomery, George Washington.Sp., 1804-1841. A United
States consul at Tampico. Tarcas de un Solitario, a collection of
tales; El Bastarde de Castilla; Journey to Guatemala in 1838.
Montgomery, George Washington.Me., 1810-1898. A
Universalist clergyman of Rochester, New York. Illustrations of the Law
of Kindness; Sermons.
Montgomery, Marcus Whitman.N. Y., 1839-1894. A
Congregational clergyman, instructor in Chicago Theological Seminary
from 1890. History of Jay County, Indiana; A Wind from the Holy Spirit;
The Mormon Delusion.
Monti, Luigi.Sy., 1830- ——. An educator of New York
city who appears in Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn as “The Young
Sicilian.” An American Consul Abroad; Leone, a novel. Le.
Mooar, George.Ms., 1830- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, professor in Pacific Theological Seminary at Oakland,
California, from 1870. The Religion of Loyalty; Prominent
Characteristics of Congregational Churches.
Moody, Dwight Lyman.Ms., 1837-1899. A celebrated
evangelist. Among his more important writings are The Second Coming
of Christ; The Way and the Word; Secret Power; The Way to God; Glad
Tidings; Great Joy; To All People; Bible Characters; How to Study the
Bible. Ran. Rev.
Moody, James.N. J., 1744-1809. A New Jersey farmer,
active as a Royalist spy during the Revolution. Lieutenant James
Moody’s Narrative of his Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of
Government.
Moody, Samuel.Ms., 1676-1747. A once famous
Congregational clergyman. The Doleful State of the Damned; Judas Hung
in Chains.
Moore, Mrs. Annie Aubertine [Woodward]. “Auber Forestier.”
Pa., 1841- ——. A Wisconsin translator of note from the Norse;
co-translator with Anderson of Björnson’s novels, and editor of Echoes
from Mist Land. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.Sc.
Moore, Charles Herbert.N. Y., 1840- ——. A professor
of art at Harvard University. The Development and Character of Gothic
Architecture, a work of much value; Examples for Elementary Practice
in Delineation. Hou. Mac.
Moore, Charles Leonard.Pa., 1854- ——. A lawyer and
verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems Antique and Modern; Banquet of
Palacios, a Comedy; A Book of Day Dreams (verse). Ho.
Moore, Clement Clarke.N. Y., 1779-1863. An educator
of New York city, professor of Oriental literature in the General
Theological Seminary, 1821-63. He published a Hebrew-English Lexicon
and a volume of Poems, but is more widely known as the author of the
famous poem, The Visit of St. Nicholas.
Moore, David Albert. “Paul Wright.” N. Y., 1814- ——. A
physician of Syracuse. A Panorama of Time; How She Won Him.
Moore, Erasmus Darwin.Ct., 1802-1889. A Congregational
minister and editor of Boston. Life Scenes in Mission Fields; The New
Heart.
Moore, Frank.N. H., c. 1828- ——. Son of J.
B. Moore, infra. A writer of New York city who has edited a
Cyclopædia of American Eloquence; The Rebellion Record, and other
compilations. Women of the War is one of his original works.
Moore, George Henry.N. H., 1823-1892. Son of J. B.
Moore, infra. The superintendent of the Lenox Library, New
York city, from 1872 till his death. History of the Jurisprudence of
New York; Treason of Charles Lee; Notes on the History of Slavery in
Massachusetts; Washington as an Angler; Employment of Negroes in the
Revolutionary Army.
Moore, Horatio Newton.N. J., 1814-1859. Orlando, a
Tragedy; The Regicide, a drama; Memoir of the Duanes; Mary Morris, a
novel; Lives of Marion and Wayne.
Moore, Jacob Bailey.N. H., 1797-1853. A journalist who
was postmaster of San Francisco, 1849-53. Laws of Trade in the United
States; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; Annals of Concord, New Hampshire.
Moore, John Weeks.N. H., 1807-1889. Brother of J. B.
Moore, supra. Historical Gatherings relating to Printers,
Printing, and Publishing (1820-86).
Moore, Joseph West. 18— - ——. Picturesque Washington; The
American Congress: a History of National Legislation and Political
Events, 1774-1895. Har.
Moore, Mrs. Susan Teackle [Smith].Md., 18— - ——.
Sister of F. H. Smith, infra. A novelist of Brooklyn. Ryle’s
Open Gate. Hou.
Moore, Thomas Vernon.Pa., 1818-1881. A Presbyterian
minister of Nashville. Last Words of Jesus; God’s University, or the
World a School; The Culdee Church; Corporate Life of the Church; The
Last Days of Jesus.
Moore, William Eves.Pa., 1823-1899. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, from 1872. New Digest of the General
Assembly; The Presbyterian Digest.
Moorehead, Warren King.Iy., 1866- ——. An archæologist
of Italian birth, but American parentage, curator of the Ohio State
Archæological Museum at Columbus. Primitive Man in Ohio; Fort Ancient:
the Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio; Wanneta the
Sioux, a Story of Indian Life; Field Work. Clke. Do. Put.
Mordecai, Alfred.N. C., 1804-1887. A soldier and
military engineer, secretary of the Pennsylvania Canal Company from
1867. Digest of Military Laws; Ordnance Manual; Reports of Gunpowder
Experiments; Artillery for United States Land Service.
More, Paul Elmer.Mo., 1864- ——. An instructor in
Sanskrit and Greek at Bryn Mawr College. The Great Refusal: Being
Letters of a Dreamer in Gotham. Hou.
Morfit, Campbell.Md., 1820-1897. A chemist who lived
in London from 1861. Practical Treatise on the Making of Soaps; Pure
Fertilizers and Phosphates; Arts of Tanning and Currying; Use and
Manufacture of Perfumery, are among his works.
Morford, Henry.N. J., 1823-1881. A journalist of New
York city who wrote a number of novels, dramas, and poems of ephemeral
merit. The Bells of Shandon is his best-known play, and among his
novels are, Shoulder Straps; Days of Shoddy; Only a Commoner. Other
works are, Rhymes of Twenty Years; Rhymes of an Editor; Sprees and
Splashes.
Morgan, Abel.W., 1673-1722. A Welsh Baptist minister
who came to Philadelphia from Wales in 1712. He was the author of Cyd
Gordiad, a Scripture concordance published in 1730, the second Welsh
book printed in America.
Morgan, Henry.Ct., 1823-1884. A once prominent Methodist
minister and lecturer of Boston. Ned Nevins, the Newsboy; The Fallen
Priest; Sketches and Sermons; The Shadowy Hand, or Life Struggles;
Boston Inside Out.
Morgan, [James] Appleton.Me., 1849- ——. A lawyer of
New York city. Laws of Literature; The Shakespearean Myth; A History of
the Shakespeare Text; Some Shakespearean Commentators; Shakespeare in
Fact and Criticism; Venus and Adonis: a Study in Warwickshire Dialect;
English Version of Legal Maxims. Clke.
Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1819-1881. A lawyer of Rochester, New York,
widely known as an ethnologist. League of the Iroquois; Systems of
Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family; The American Beaver
and his Works; Ancient Society; Horses and Horse Life of the American
Aborigines. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement.Ho.
Morgan, Morris Hicky.R. I., 1859- ——. A professor of
Greek and Latin at Harvard University. De ignis eliciendi modis apud
antiquos; Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis; The Art of Horsemanship by
Xenophon, a translation with Essays and Notes. Gi.
Moriarty, James Joseph.I., 1843-1887. A Roman Catholic
clergyman of New York state. Wayside Pencillings; Stumbling Blocks made
Stepping Stones on the Way to the Catholic Faith; All for Love; The
Keys of the Kingdom.
Moriarty, Patrick Eugene.I., 1804-1875. An Augustinian
priest of Philadelphia, father superior of his order in the United
States. Life of St. Augustine.
Morrell, Benjamin.Ms., 1795-1839. A navigator who
published a noted Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Seas.
Morrill, Justin Smith.Vt., 1810-1898. A distinguished
Vermont statesman, a member of Congress from 1855, and a senator from
1867. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons.
Morris, Caspar.Pa., 1805-1884. A noted Philadelphia
physician. Life of William Wilberforce; Lectures on Scarlet Fever;
Hospital Construction; Heart Voices and Home Songs.
Morris, Charles.Pa., 1833- ——. A Philadelphia author
and compiler. Manual of Classical Literature; The Aryan Race; The
Stolen Letter; The Detective’s Crime; Broken Fetters, an historical
review of the drinking habit. Lip. Sc.
Morris, Charles D’Urban.E., 1827-1886. An educator who
was professor of Latin and Greek in Johns Hopkins University from 1876.
A Compendious Grammar of Attic Greek; Compendious Grammar of the Latin
Language; Principia Latina.
Morris, Edmund.N. J., 1804-1874. A journalist and
agricultural writer of Burlington, New Jersey. Ten Acres Enough; How to
Get a Farm and Where to Find One; Farming for Boys.
Morris, Edward Joy.Pa., 1817-1881. A diplomatist who was
minister to Turkey, 1861-70. He published A Tour Through Turkey; The
Turkish Empire; Afraja, or Life and Love in Norway; Corsica, Social and
Political, all but the first-named being translations from the German.
Morris, Edwin Dafydd.N. Y., 1825- ——. A Presbyterian
minister and educator, professor of theology in Lane Seminary from
1874. Outlines of Christian Doctrine; Ecclesiology; Salvation After
Death; A Defence of Lane Seminary.
Morris, Mrs. Eugenia Laura [Tuttle]. “Alyn Yates Keith.”
Ct., 1833- ——. A writer of New Haven. A Spinster’s Leaflets; A
Hilltop Summer; Aunt Billy. Le.
Morris, George Pope.Pa., 1802-1864. A journalist of New
York city, long famous as a song-writer, and now chiefly remembered
for such poems as My Mother’s Bible; Woodman, Spare that Tree. He was
for many years editor of The Home Journal, and one of the prominent
literary figures of the metropolis. Briarcliff, a drama; The Little
Frenchman; Poems.
Morris, George Sylvester.Vt., 1840-1889. An educator and
philosophical writer, who was professor at the University of Michigan
from 1870. British Thought and Thinkers; Kant’s Critique of Pure
Reason, a Critical Exposition; Philosophy and Christianity; Hegel’s
Philosophy of the State and of History. Sc.
Morris, Gouverneur.N. Y., 1752-1816. A New York
statesman of distinction, prominent in the formative period of the
republic. Observations on the American Revolution. See Sparks’s
Memoirs of, with Selections from his Papers and Correspondence; Diary
and Letters, edited by Annie Cary Morris; Life by T. Roosevelt, infra,
1888.
Morris, Harrison Smith.Pa., 1856- ——. A littérateur
of Philadelphia. A Duet in Lyrics (verse, with J. A. Henry); Madonna,
and Other Poems. He has edited Tales from Ten Poets; In the Yule Log
Glow; Where Meadows Meet the Sea, and an edition of Lamb’s Tales from
Shakespeare with a continuation and completion. Lip.
Morris, Herbert William.W., 1818-1897. A Presbyterian
clergyman, from 1877 retired from the ministry and devoted to literary
pursuits. Science and the Bible; Present Conflict of Science with
Religion; The Testimony of the Ages; The Celestial Symbol Interpreted;
Natural Law and Gospel-Teachings.
Morris, James Cheston.Pa., 1831- ——. Son of Caspar
Morris, supra. A Philadelphia physician. The Milk Supply of
Large Cities; The Water Supply of Philadelphia; Annals of Hygiene.
Morris, John Gottlieb.Pa., 1803-1895. A noted
Lutheran divine of Baltimore, founder of The Lutheran Observer, and
long professor of natural history in the University of Maryland.
Catechumen’s and Communicant’s Companion; Popular Exposition of the
Gospels; Life of John Arndt; Life of Catherine de Bora; The Blind
Girl of Wittenberg; Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry; The Diet of
Augsburg; Journeys of Luther; Luther at Wartburg and Coburg; Lutheran
Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, comprise his chief works.
Morris, Phineas Pemberton.Pa., 1817-1888. A lawyer of
Philadelphia, professor of law in the University of Pennsylvania from
1862. The Law of Replevin; Mining Rights in Pennsylvania.
Morris, Ramsay.N. Y., 1858- ——. An actor and
playwright of New York city. He dramatized his own novel, Crucify Him,
with the title, The Tigress.
Morris, Robert.Ms., 1818-1888. A writer of Lagrange,
Kentucky. History of the Morgan Affair; Lights and Shadows of
Freemasonry; Code of Masonic Law; History of Freemasonry in Kentucky;
Freemasonry in the Holy Land; The Poetry of Freemasonry.
Morris, Thomas Asbury.W. Va., 1794-1874. A Methodist
bishop in Ohio. Church Polity; Essays, etc.; Sketches of Western
Methodism. Meth.
Morris, William Hopkins.N. Y., 1820-1900. Son of G. P.
Morris, supra. A brigadier-general of United States volunteers
in the Civil War, brevetted major-general. Field Tactics for Infantry;
Infantry Tactics.
Morrison, Charles Robert.N. H., 1819-1893. A jurist
of Concord, New Hampshire. Digest of New Hampshire Reports; Probate
Directory; Justice and Sheriff and Attorney’s Assistant; Town Officer;
Digest of Common-School Laws; Proofs of Christ’s Resurrection from a
Lawyer’s Standpoint.
Morrison, Leonard Allison.N. H., 1843- ——. A New
Hampshire antiquarian. History of the Morison or Morrison Family;
History of Wyndham in New Hampshire; Rambles in Europe, with Historical
Facts Relating to Scotch-American Families.
Morse, Abner.Ms., 1793-1865. A Congregational clergyman
and genealogist of Sharon, Massachusetts. Memorial of the Morses;
Genealogy of Early Planters in Massachusetts; Descendants of Several
Ancient Puritans, are his more important publications.
Morse, Mrs. Charlotte Dunning [Wood]. “Charlotte Dunning.” N.
Y., 1858- ——. A novelist. Upon a Cast, a society novel; A Step
Aside; Cabin and Gondola. Har. Hou.
Morse, Edward Sylvester.Me., 1838- ——. An eminent
biologist of Salem, Massachusetts, who has published First Book on
Zoölogy; Japanese Homes, and many scientific papers. Har.
Morse, James Herbert.Ms., 1841- ——. An educator and
verse-writer of New York city. Summer Haven Songs.
Morse, Jedidiah.Ct., 1761-1826. A Congregational
clergyman of New England, very active as a controversialist and eminent
as a geographer. He is sometimes styled the “Father of American
Geography,” his being the first school text-books in America of any
importance. Elements of Geography; American Gazetteer; Annals of the
American Revolution; Compendious History of New England; Geography Made
Easy; American Geography. See Life by W. Sprague, infra.
Morse, John Torrey.Ms., 1840- ——. Nephew of the wife
of O. W. Holmes, supra. A lawyer of Boston. Lives of Hamilton,
J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lincoln,
Franklin; Banks and Banking; Arbitration and Award; Famous Trials.
Hou. Lit.
Morse, Mrs. Lucy [Gibbons].N. Y., 1839- ——. A novelist
of New York city. Rachel Stanwood, a Story; The Chezzles, a Story of
Young People. Hou.
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese.Ms., 1791-1872. Son of J.
Morse, supra. The inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph.
Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States; Our
Liberties Defended; Imminent Dangers through Foreign Immigration.
Morse, Sidney Edwards.Ms., 1794-1871. Son of J. Morse,
supra. A journalist and geographer of New York city. System of
Modern Geography; Premium Questions on Slavery. With a younger brother
he founded The New York Observer in 1823.
Morton, Charles.E., 1620-1698. A Puritan clergyman
who came to New England in 1686, and was minister at Charlestown and
vice-president of Harvard College. The Ark: its Loss and Recovery;
System of Logic, long a text-book at Harvard.
Morton, Henry.N. Y., 1836-1902. A noted physicist,
president of the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New
Jersey, from 1870. The Student’s Practical Chemistry (with A. R. Leeds)
and many valuable scientific monographs. Lip.
Morton, James St. Clair.Pa., 1829-1864. Son of S. G.
Morton, infra. A Federal officer killed in the attack upon
Petersburg. Instruction in Engineering; New System of Fortifications;
Memoir on Fortification; Dangers and Defences of New York City.
Morton, Nathaniel.H., 1613-1685. The secretary of
the Plymouth Colony from 1647 till his death, whose New England’s
Memoriall is well known among colonial annals. See Tyler’s American
Literature.C. P. S.
Morton, Oliver Throck.Ind., 1860-1898. A lawyer of
Chicago. The Southern Empire, with Other Papers. Hou.
Morton, Samuel George.Pa., 1799-1851. A once prominent
Philadelphia physician and scientist, and president of the Academy of
Natural Sciences. Crania Americana; Crania Egyptica; Illustrated System
of Human Anatomy.
Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth [Apthorp].Ms., 1759-1846.
A verse-writer of Quincy, Massachusetts. Ouabi, an Indian Tale in four
cantos; My Mind and its Thoughts.
Morton, Thomas.E., c. 1575-1646. A famous
adventurer who, settling himself at Mount Wollaston, which he termed
Ma-re Mount, scandalized the colonists at Plymouth and Boston by
his sports and carousals. The New English Canaan is a sarcastic and
humourous description of his pious neighbours and their country. See
Motley’s Morton’s Hope and Merry Mount; Hawthorne’s Merry Mount; Mrs.
Jane Austin’s Betty Alden, chapters 8 and 9; Dictionary of National
Biography, vol. 39.
Morton, Thomas George.Pa., 1835-1903. Son of S. G.
Morton, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Surgery in the
Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of Practice from 1756; Transfusion of
Blood and its Practical Application.
Mosby, John Singleton.Va., 1833- ——. A famous
Confederate cavalry leader, consul at Hong Kong, 1878-85, and
subsequently a lawyer in San Francisco. War Reminiscences. See
Scott’s Partisan Life with Mosby; Crawford’s Mosby and his Men.Do.
Motley, John Lothrop.Ms., 1814-1877. A distinguished
historian, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was minister to
Austria, 1861-67, and to England, 1869-70. His writings are remarkable
for colour and dramatic vigour, while his estimates are tinged more or
less with personal feeling. But though not a dispassionate historian,
he is nevertheless quite removed from a spirit of blind partisanship.
His work evinces immense research, but the main lines of the narrative
are always clear. Morton’s Hope, a romance; Merry Mount, a romance;
The Rise of the Dutch Republic; The History of the United Netherlands;
Life and Death of John of Barneveld. See Correspondence of, edited
by G. W. Curtis, supra; Life, by O. W. Holmes; Allibone’s Dictionary,
Supplement.Har.
Mott, George Scudder.N. Y., 1829-1901. A Presbyterian
minister of Flemington, New Jersey. The Prodigal Son; The Resurrection
of the Dead; The Perfect Law. Ran.
Mott, Henry Augustus.S. I., 1852-1896. Grandson of V.
Mott, infra. A chemist of New York city. The Chemist’s Manual;
Was Man Created?; The Air We Breathe; Fallacy of the Present Theory of
Sound. Wil.
Mott, Valentine.L. I., 1785-1865. A celebrated surgeon
of New York city. Travels in Europe and the East; Mott’s Cliniques;
a translation of Velpeau’s Operative Surgery, and surgical papers.
See Lives by S. D. Gross and S. W. Francis; Appletons’ American
Biography.
Moulton, Mrs. Ellen Louise [Chandler].Ct., 1835- ——. A
prominent poet and prose-writer of Boston. Her verse is characterized
by a great degree of feeling, and her sonnets display a remarkable
mastery of technique. Her volumes of verse include, Poems; Swallow
Flights; In the Garden of Dreams; In Childhood’s Country. Her prose
comprises, This, That, and the Other; Juno Clifford; My Third Book;
three collections of Bed-Time Stories; Some Women’s Hearts; Random
Rambles, a volume of travel sketches; Ourselves and Our Neighbors; Miss
Eyre from Boston; Firelight Stories; Stories Told at Twilight; Lazy
Tours in Spain; Life of Arthur O’Shaughnessy. Cop. Har. Rob. St.
Moulton, Joseph White.Ct., 1789-1875. An antiquarian
writer of Roslyn, Long Island. History of the State of New York (with
J. Yates); Chancery Practice of New York.
Moulton, Richard Green.E., 1849- ——. An educator of
note, professor in the University of Chicago. Ancient Classical Drama;
The University Extension Movement; Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist.
Mac. Rev.
Moultrie, William.S. C., 1731-1805. A soldier of
distinction in the American army during the Revolution, made
major-general in 1782. He was governor of South Carolina, 1785-87 and
1794-1796. Memoirs of the Revolution (1802).
Mountford, William.E., 1816-1885. A Unitarian clergyman
of Boston who became a spiritualist in his later years. Martyria;
Euthanasy, or Happy Talk Toward the End of Life; Christianity the
Deliverance of the Soul; Minutes Past and Present; Thorpe, a Quiet
English Town. Hou.
Moustache, Vieux.See Gordon, C.
Mowatt, Mrs.See Ritchie, Mrs.
Mowry, Sylvester.R. I., 1830-1871. An army officer who
resigned in 1858. Arizona and Sonora: the Geography, History, and
Resources of the Silver Regions of North America.
Mowry, William Augustus.Ms., 1829- ——. An educator
of Boston. Talks with My Boys; Studies in Civil Government; Elements
of Civil Government; School History of the United States (with A. M.
Mowry). Rob. Sil.
Mudge, Enoch.Ms., 1776-1850. A once noted Methodist
itinerant preacher of New England. Notes on the Parables; Lynn, a Poem;
The Juvenile Expositor; Lectures to Seamen.
Mudge, Zachariah Atwell.Me., 1813-1888. Nephew of E.
Mudge, supra. A Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Among
his miscellaneous writings are, The Christian Statesman; Views from
Plymouth Rock; Witch Hill, a History of Salem Witchcraft; Life of
Abraham Lincoln; Footprints of Roger Williams; Arctic Heroes; Fur-clad
Adventurers; History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts; The Luck of
Alden Farm. Lo. Meth.
Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henry Ernst.Pa., 1753-1815. A
Lutheran divine of Philadelphia, famous as a botanist in his day.
Catalogus Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis; Descriptio uberior
Graminum et Plantarum Calamiarum Americæ Septentrionalis; English and
German Lexicon and Grammar. See G. H. E. Muhlenberg als Botaniker,
by Maisch, 1886.
Muhlenberg, William Augustus.Pa., 1796-1877. A
distinguished Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Holy
Communion, in New York city, 1846-77. He was the founder of St. Luke’s
Hospital, and organized the first Protestant Sisterhood in America. His
hymn, “I would not live alway,” is widely known. Church Poetry; Music
of the Church; People’s Psalter; Evangelical Catholic Papers; Christ
and the Bible, Family Prayers; Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods; St.
Johnland; Ideal and Actual. See Lives by Anne Ayres, supra, W. W.
Newton, infra; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1880.Ran. Wh.
Muir, James.S., 1757-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Alexandria, Virginia. An Examination of the Principles in the “Age of
Reason” in Ten Discourses; Sermons.
Muir, John.S., 1838- ——. A noted California scientist
and explorer, discoverer of the Muir Glacier in Alaska. The Mountains
of California. Cent.
Mulford, Elisha.Pa., 1833-1885. An Episcopal clergyman
of Cambridge, lecturer in the Episcopal Theological School there, and
prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Nation; The Foundations of
Civil Order and Political Life in the United States; The Republic of
God. Hou.
Mulford, Prentice.L. I., 1834-1891. A journalist of New
York city and San Francisco. The Swamp Angel; Life by Land and Sea;
Your Forces and How to Use Them.
Mullany, Patrick Francis. “Brother Azarias.” I.,
1847-1893. A Roman Catholic educator of the order of Brothers of
the Christian Schools; president of Rock Hill College, 1878-89, and
subsequently a resident of New York city. The Development of English
Literature: Old English Period; Philosophy of Literature; Psychological
Aspects of Education; Address on Thinking; Aristotle and the Christian
Church; Culture of the Spiritual Sense; Phases of Thought and
Criticism. Ap. Hou.
Müller, Nikolaus.G., 1809-1873. A German poet who
emigrated to New York city in 1853 and established himself there as a
printer. Zehn gepanzerte Sonette; Neuere Gedichte; Frische Blätter auf
die Wunden deutscher Krieger.
Munday, John William. “Charles Sumner Seeley.” Ind.,
1844- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. The Spanish Galleon; The Lost Canyon
of the Toltecs, both tales of adventure for boys. Mg.
Munde, Paul Fortunatus.Sxy., 1846-1902. A prominent
New York physician. Obstetric Palpation; Minor Surgical Gynæcology;
Management of Pregnancy.
Munford, William.Va., 1775-1825. A lawyer of Richmond,
Virginia, who, beside several volumes of Law Reports, published a
volume of Poems (1798) and a scholarly blank-verse translation of the
Iliad. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Munger, Theodore Thornton.N. Y., 1830- ——. A
Congregational clergyman of New Haven, prominent among liberal thinkers
of that faith. On the Threshold; The Freedom of Faith; Lamps and Paths;
The Appeal to Life. See Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883.Hou.
Munkittrick, Richard Kendall.E., 1853- ——. A humorous
writer of New York city, on the editorial staff of Puck. The Moon
Prince, a juvenile; Farming; The Acrobatic Muse, a collection of
humourous verse. Har. Wy.
Munroe, [Charles] Kirk.Wis., 1850- ——. A popular
writer, now resident in Florida, whose writings are mainly for juvenile
readers. Wakulla; Life of Mrs. Stowe (with her son); The Flamingo
Feather; Derrick Sterling; Chrystal Jack and Co.; The Golden Days of
’49; Dorymates; Under Orders; Prince Dusty; Campmates; Canoemates; Cab
and Caboose; Raftmates; The Coral Ship; The White Conquerors; The Fur
Seal’s Tooth; Big Cypress; Snow-Shoes and Sledges; Totem of the Bear;
Rick Dale; A Young War Chief; At War with Pontiac. Do. Har. Put.
Scr.
Munsell, Franklin.N. Y., 1857- ——. Son of J. Munsell,
infra. A publisher of Albany. Chips for the Chimney Corner; The
Bibliography of Albany.
Munsell, Joel.Ms., 1808-1880. A printer and publisher of
Albany. Outlines of the History of Printing; Every-Day Book of History
and Chronology; Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making.
Munsey, Frank Andrew.Me., 1854- ——. A prominent
magazine publisher of New York city. Afloat in a Great City; The Boy
Broker; Deringforth.
Munson, James Eugene.N. Y., 1835- ——. A phonographer
of New York city. The Complete Phonographer; Dictionary of Practical
Phonography; Phrase Book of Practical Phonography. Har.
Murat, Napoléon Achille.F., 1801-1847. The son of
Joachim Murat, King of Naples. In his youth he bore the title of
Prince of the Two Sicilies. He came to the United States in 1821, was
naturalized and settled at Tallahassee, Florida. He was mayor of that
place in 1824, and postmaster, 1826-28. Lettres d’un citoyen des États
Unis à ses amis d’Europe; Esquisses morales et politiques sur les États
Unis d’Amérique; Exposition des principes du gouvernement republicain
tel qu’il à été perfectionné en Amérique, which went through more than
fifty editions.
Murdoch, James Edward.Pa., 1811-1893. A noted actor and
lecturer. Orthophony (with W. Russell); The Stage; Plea for Spoken
Language; Analytic Elocution. Clke. Lip.
Murdock, Harold.Ms., 1862- ——. A bank cashier of
Boston. The Reconstruction of Europe, a Sketch of the Diplomatic and
Military History of Continental Europe from the Rise to the Fall of the
Second French Empire. Hou.
Murdock, James.Ct., 1776-1856. A Congregational
clergyman and educator of New Haven. He was the author of Sketches of
Modern Philosophy, and translator of Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History,
and other works, as well as of a Literal Translation of the New
Testament from the Ancient Syriac.
Murfree, Fanny Noailles Dickinson.Tn., 185- - ——.
Sister of M. N. Murfree, infra. Felicia, a Novel. Hou.
Murfree, Mary Noailles. “Charles Egbert Craddock.” Tn.,
1850- ——. A novelist of Tennessee whose stories are all concerned
with the life of the mountaineers in North Carolina and Tennessee.
They display close, sympathetic observation and strong, vivid
characterization. In the Tennessee Mountains; Where the Battle was
Fought; The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; Down the Ravine; His
Vanished Star; In the Clouds; The Story of Keedon Bluffs; The Despot of
Broomsedge Cove; In the “Stranger People’s” Country; The Phantoms of
the Footbridge; The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories;
The Juggler. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement.Har.
Hou.
Murphy, Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata [Noel].E., 1846-1881. The eldest daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough.
She married her father’s organist, came to America, and wrote stories
and sketches for the magazines. On the Rhine, and Other Sketches.
Murphy, Henry Cruse.L. I., 1810-1882. A lawyer and
journalist of Brooklyn. The Voyage of Verrazano; Henry Hudson in
Holland; Anthology of the New Netherlands.
Murphy, Thomas.I., 1823-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia. Pastoral Theology; Pastor and People; Duties of Church
Members.
Murray, David.N. Y., 1830- ——. An educator of New York
city, foreign adviser to the Japanese government on education. Manual
of Land Surveying; Outline History of Japanese Education; The Story of
Japan.
Murray, James Ormsbee. 1827-1899. An educator, professor of
English literature in Princeton College, and dean of the college from
1886. Life of Francis Wayland, infra.
Murray, John O’Kane.I., 1847-1885. A physician and
author of New York city. Popular History of the Catholic Church in
the United States; Catholic Pioneers of America; Lessons in English
Literature; The Prose and Poetry of Ireland; Little Lives of the Great
Saints; Catholic Heroes and Heroines of America.
Murray, Lindley.Pa., 1745-1826. A famous grammarian
whose life after 1784 was passed near York, England. Grammar of
the English Language; Power of Religion on the Mind; Compendium of
Religious Faith and Practice. See Memoirs written by Himself with
continuation by E. Frank, 1826; Dictionary of National Biography, vol.
39; Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Maine.Lip.
Murray, Nicholas. “Kirwan.” I., 1802-1861. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Elizabeth, New Jersey, famous in his day as a
controversialist. Letters by Kirwan to Bishop Hughes; Romanism at Home;
Men and Things; The Happy Home; Preachers and Preaching; Parish and
Other Pencillings. See Life by Prime.Har.
Murray, William Henry Harrison.Ct., 1840-1904. A noted
Congregational minister, pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, 1868-74.
Adventures in the Wilderness; Adirondack Tales; Deacons; Music Hall
Sermons; The Perfect Horse; Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How Deacon
Tubner Kept New Year’s; The Doom of Mamelons; Daylight Land; Words
Fitly Spoken. Le.
Murray, William Vans.Md., 1762-1803. A Maryland
statesman who was minister to the Netherlands from 1793 till his
death, and author of a treatise on The Constitution and Laws of the
United States.
Musick, John Roy.Mo., 1849-1901. A novelist and
historian of Kirksville, Missouri. The Banker of Bedford; History
Stories of Wisconsin; Calamity Row; Brother Against Brother; Mysterious
Mr. Howard; and a series of twelve Columbian historical novels,
including Columbia; Estevan; St. Augustine; Pocahontas; The Pilgrims;
A Century Too Soon, a story of Bacon’s Rebellion; The Witch of Salem;
Braddock; Independence; Sustained Honor; Humbled Pride; Union. Fu.
Lo.
Mussey, Reuben Dimond.N. H., 1780-1866. A Boston
physician who published Health: its Friends and its Foes.
Muzzey, Artemas Bowers.Ms., 1802-1892. A Unitarian
clergyman of Massachusetts who retired from active ministry in 1865.
The Blade and the Ear; Prime Movers of the Revolution; The Young Men’s
Friend; Moral Teacher; Christ in the Will, the Heart, and Life; The
Higher Education; Immortality in the Light of Scripture and Science;
Truths Consequent upon Belief in God; Education of Old Age, comprise
his chief works. A. U. A. Le. Lo.
Myer, Albert James.N. Y., 1827-1880. A brigadier-general
in the United States army, for some years chief signal officer and
author of Manual of Signals for Use in the Field.
Myers, Peter Hamilton.N. Y., 1812-1878. A lawyer and
romancer of Brooklyn. The First of the Knickerbockers, a tale; The
Young Patroon; The King of the Hurons; The Prisoner of the Border.
Myers, Philip Van Ness.N. Y., 1846- ——. An educator
of Cincinnati, professor of history and political economy in the
University of Cincinnati from 1890, and dean of the University from
1895. Life and Nature under the Tropics; Remains of Lost Empires;
Outlines of Ancient History; Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History; A
History of Greece; The Eastern Nations and Greece; A History of Rome;
General History. Gi. Har.
Myers, Mrs. Sarah Ann [Irwin].Del., 1800-1876. A writer
and artist of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Among her many contributions
to juvenile literature are, Margaret Gordon; Impatient Ellen; The
Silk-Weaver of Lyons.
Myrtle, Mollie.See Hill, Mrs. Agnes.
N
Nack, James.N. H., 1809-1879. A deaf and dumb
verse-writer of New York city. The Legend of the Ark; Earl Rupert; The
Immortal, a dramatic romance; The Romance of the King, and Other Poems.
See Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Nadal, Bernhard Harrison.Md., 1812-1870. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of Virginia who published New Life Dawning.
Meth.
Nadal, Ehrman Syme.W. Va., 1843- ——. Son of B. H.
Nadal, supra. A journalist who has lived much in London as
secretary of legation, 1870-1871, and 1877-1884. Essays at Home and
Elsewhere; Impressions of London Social Life; Zweiback, or Notes of a
Professional Exile. Cent. Scr.
Naphegi, Gabor.Hy., 1824-1884. A native of Buda-Pesth
who became a naturalized American citizen in 1868. Ghardia, or Ninety
Days in the Desert; The Album of Language; Hungary; Among the Arabs;
The Grand Review of the Dead (verse). Lip.
Napheys [nā´feez], George Henry.Pa., 1842-1876.
A prominent physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. The Body
and its Ailments; Modern Medical Therapeutics; Modern Surgical
Therapeutics; The Transmission of Life; Physical Life of Woman;
Prevention and Cure of Disease; Personal Beauty (with D. G. Brinton,
supra). My.
Nasby, Petroleum Vesuvius.See Locke, D. R.
Nash, Simeon.Ms., 1804-1879. A jurist of Gallipolis,
Ohio. Digest of Ohio Reports; Pleading and Practice under the Civil
Code; Morality and the State; Crime and the Family. Clke.
Nason, Elias.Ms., 1811-1887. A Congregational minister
of North Billerica, Massachusetts, among whose numerous religious
biographical and historical writings are, Gazetteer of Massachusetts;
Life of John A. Andrew; Lives of Moody and Sankey; Life of Charles
Sumner; Life of Henry Wilson, infra; History of Middlesex
County; Originality; Thou Shalt Not Steal; Fountains of Salvation.
Lo.
Nason, Mrs. Emma [Huntington].Me., 1845- ——. A
verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. White Sails (verse); The Tower, with
Legends and Lyrics. Hou. Lo.
Nason, Henry Bradford.Ms., 1831-1895. Cousin of Elias
Nason, supra. A professor of chemistry in the Troy Polytechnic
Institute. Table of Reactions for Qualitative Analysis; Table for
Qualitative Analysis in Colors, are among his published works.
Nast, William.G., 1807-1899. A Methodist minister
of Cincinnati, editor of The Christian Apologist for many years.
Christological Meditations; Gospel Records; A German Commentary on the
New Testament; Das Christenthum und seine Gegensätze.
Nauman, Mary.See Robinson, Mrs. Mary.
Navarro, Madame Mary Antoinette [Anderson] de.Cal.,
1859- ——. A once popular actress who retired from the stage in
1890, was married to M. de Navarro soon after, and has since lived in
England. A Few Memories, an autobiography. See Lives by Farrar,
1884, Winter, 1886.
Nead, Benjamin Matthias.Pa., 1847- ——. A lawyer and
journalist of Harrisburg. Sketches of Early Chambersburg; Guide to
County Officers; Early Government of Pennsylvania; Brief Review of the
Financial History of Pennsylvania.
Neal, Alice B. Wife of J. C. Neal, infra. See Haven,
Mrs.
Neal, John.Me., 1793-1876. A once famous littérateur of
Portland, Maine, who early gained a hearing, and, as poet, novelist,
dramatist, and magazinist, was constantly before the public for the
rest of his long life, though little of his work can be said to
survive, able as some of it is. The more important of his writings
include, Keep Cool, a novel; The Battle of Niagara, a poem; Goldau,
and Other Poems; Rachel Dyer, a novel; Downeasters, a novel; True
Womanhood; Bentham’s Morals and Legislation; Great Mysteries and Little
Plagues; Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life (1870). See
Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Allibone’s
Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography; Bibliography of Maine.
Neal, Joseph Clay.N. H., 1807-1847. A journalist of
Philadelphia who founded The Saturday Gazette, and was a popular
humourist in his day. Charcoal Sketches; Peter Ploddy, and Other
Oddities. See Griswold’s American Prose Writers.
Neely, Thomas Benjamin.Pa., 18— - ——. A Methodist
clergyman. Young Workers in the Church; The Church Lyceum;
Parliamentary Practice; Evolution of Episcopacy and Organic Methodism;
The Parliamentarian; The Governing Conference in Methodism. Meth.
Neill, Edward Duffield.Pa., 1823-1893. A Reformed
Episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but formerly a Presbyterian clergyman.
History of Minnesota; Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland History; The
Fairfaxes of England and America; History of the Virginia Company;
English Colonization of America in the 17th century; Founders of
Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Carolorum; Concise History of
Minnesota. Lip.
Neill, John.Pa., 1819-1880. Brother of E. D. Neill,
supra. A Philadelphia physician. Neill on the Veins; Compend of
Medicine (with F. G. Smith).
Neill, William.Pa., 1778-1860. A Presbyterian minister
of Philadelphia, president of Dickinson College, 1824-1829. Lectures
on Bible History; Divine Origin of the Christian Religion; Ministry of
Fifty Years.
Neilson, Joseph.N. Y., 1813-1888. Memoirs of Rufus
Choate, with some Consideration of his Studies, Opinions, and Style.
Hou.
Nelson, David.Ind., 1793-1844. A Presbyterian minister
and educator of Missouri and Illinois. His principal work, Cause and
Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read.
Nelson, Harry Leverett.Ms., 1858-1889. A lawyer of
Worcester, Massachusetts. Bird Songs About Worcester, a collection of
nature studies. Lit.
Nelson, Henry Addison.Ms., 1820- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor at Lane Seminary, 1868-74, and from 1886 editor of
The Church at Home and Abroad. Seeing Jesus; Sin and Salvation; Home
Whispers. Ran.
Nelson, Henry Loomis.N. Y., 1846- ——. A journalist of
New York city, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Weekly, 1894-99. The Money
We Need; Our Unjust Tariff Law; John Rantoul, a novel. Har. Hou.
Nesmith, James Ernest.Ms., 1856-1898. An artist and
verse-writer of Lowell, Massachusetts. Monadnoc, and Other Sketches in
Verse; Philoctetes, and Other Poems; Life and Addresses of Governor
Greenhalge.
Nevin, Alfred.Pa., 1816-1890. A prominent Presbyterian
clergyman and religious editor of Philadelphia. His more important
writings include, Words of Comfort for Doubting Hearts; The Voice of
God; The Man of Faith; Letters to Colonel Ingersoll; Christian’s Rest;
Guide to the Oracles; Triumph of Truth.
Nevin, Edwin Henry.Pa., 1814-1899. Brother of A. Nevin,
supra. A German Reformed clergyman of Philadelphia. The City
of God; Humanity and its Responsibilities; Thoughts About Christ; The
Minister’s Handbook.
Nevin, John Williamson.Pa., 1803-1886. Cousin of
A. Nevin, supra. An eminent German Reformed clergyman of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, president of Franklin and Marshall College,
1866-76. Prior to his presidency he had been active as a theologian
at Mercersburgh, and his works form the basis of what is styled the
“Mercersburgh Theology.” Among his writings are, History and Genesis
of the Heidelberg Catechism; The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The
Anxious Bench; Biblical Antiquities. See Life by T. Appel. 1889.
Nevin, William Channing.O., 1844- ——. Son of E.
H. Nevin, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. History of All
Religions; Life of Albert Barnes, supra; The Blue Ray of
Sunlight; A Slight Misunderstanding; A Wild Goose Chase; In the Nick of
Time; Joshua Whitcomb’s Tribulations; A Summer School Adventure.
Nevin, William Wilberforce.Pa., 1836-1899. Son of J. W.
Nevin, supra. A journalist and railway director of Philadelphia
who published Vignettes of Travel.
Nevins, William.Ct., 1797-1835. A Presbyterian minister
of Baltimore. Thoughts on Popery; Practical Thoughts; Select Remains,
with Memoir.
Nevius, Mrs. Helen S—— [Coan].N. Y., 1832- ——. Wife
of J. L. Nevius, infra. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (in
Chinese); Our Life in China; Life of J. P. Nevius. Rev.
Nevius, John Livingston.N. Y., 1829-1893. A Presbyterian
missionary in Ningpo. China and The Chinese; San-Poh, or North of the
Hills; Methods of Missionary Work; Demon Possession; and a number of
works in Chinese. See Life by his wife.Rev.
Newberry, John Strong.Ct., 1822-1892. A geologist who
was professor of geology in the School of Mines of Columbia College,
1866-92, and State geologist of Ohio from 1869. He published nine
volumes of reports relating to the geological survey of Ohio; Paleozoic
Fishes of North America, and many scientific papers.
Newcomb, Harvey.Ms., 1803-1863. A Congregational
clergyman of Western Pennsylvania and other localities among whose many
moral and religious works, mainly juvenile in character, are, Young
Lady’s Guide; How to be a Man; How to be a Lady; Manners and Customs of
North American Indians.
Newcomb, Simon.N. S., 1835- ——. An astronomer of
distinction, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, issued by the
Navy Department, from 1877, and professor of astronomy and mathematics
at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-93. Popular Astronomy; School
Astronomy; Geometry; Analytic Geometry; Essentials of Trigonometry;
Calculus; A Plain Man’s Talk on the Labor Question; Principles of
Political Economy; The A, B, C, of Finance, include his most important
publications. Har. Ho.
Newell, Robert Henry. “Orpheus C. Kerr.” N. Y.,
1836-1901. A journalist of New York city, at one time popular as a
humorist. Versatilities, a collection of humorous and other verses; The
Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems; Avery Glibun, an American romance;
The Walking Doll, a novel; There Was Once a Man; Studies in Stanzas.
Fo. Le.
Newell, Samuel.Me., 1784-1821. A noted Baptist
missionary in Bombay. The Conversion of the World (1818); Life of
Harriet Newell (his first wife) which was widely popular.
Newell, William Wells.Ms., 1839- ——. A folk-lore
scholar of Cambridge, editor of The Journal of American Folk-Lore
from 1888. Games and Songs of American Children; Words for Music, a
collection of verse. Har.
Newhall, Charles Stedman.Ms., 1842- ——. A clergyman
and educator of Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Trees of Northeastern
America; The Shrubs of Northeastern America; The Vines of Northeastern
America; The Leaf-Collector’s Handbook and Herbarium. His writings for
young people include Harry’s Trip to the Orient; Joe and the Howards;
Ruthie’s Story. Put.
Newman, John Philip.N. Y., 1826-1899. A Methodist
bishop at Omaha, at one time a prominent Washington pastor. From Dan
to Beersheba; Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh; Christianity
Triumphant; America for Americans; The Supremacy of Law. Fu.
Meth.
Newman, Samuel Phillips.Ms., 1796-1842. An educator
who was a classical professor in Bowdoin College. Practical System of
Rhetoric, long a popular work; Elements of Political Economy.
Newton, Richard.E., 1812-1887. An Episcopal clergyman
of Philadelphia, long prominent among extreme Low Churchmen. The
King’s Highway; The Great Pilot; Rills from the Fountain of Life;
Bible Promises; Natural History of the Bible, are among his writings.
Rev.
Newton, Richard Heber.Pa., 1840- ——. Son of R.
Newton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector
of All-Souls Church, and prominent as a very Broad Church theologian.
Among more conservative thinkers his views have excited much opposition
and needless alarm. Womanhood; The Morals of Trade; The Right and Wrong
Uses of the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings; Philistinism; Social
Studies; Church and Creed; The Children’s Church. Put. Ran.
Newton, Robert Safford.O., 1818-1881. A surgeon of New
York city. Eclectic Treatise in the Practice of Medicine; Antiseptic
Surgery.
Newton, William.E., c. 1820-189-. Brother of R.
Newton, supra. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of West Chester,
Pennsylvania. The First Two Visions of the Book of Daniel; The Morning
Star, and Other Poems; Nature’s Testimony to Nature’s God.
Newton, William Wilberforce.Pa., 1843- ——. Son
of R. Newton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Pittsfield,
Massachusetts. Essays of To-Day, Religious and Theological; The Legend
of St. Telemachus; The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems; Summer
Sermons; The Voice Out of Egypt; Ragnar, the Sea King; Paradise; The
Priest and the Man, or Abelard and Héloise, an historical novel; Life
of W. A. Muhlenberg, supra; and several collections of sermons
to children, including, The Wicket Gate; The Interpreter’s House;
Little and Wise; A Father’s Blessing. Hou. Ran. Wh.
Nichols, Edward Leamington.E., 1854- ——. A professor
of physics at Cornell University from 1887. Laboratory Manual of
Physics and Applied Mechanics; The Galvanometer. Mac.
Nichols, George Ward.Me., 1831-1885. A writer on art
and music who was president of the Cincinnati College of Music. The
Story of the Great March; Art Education Applied to Industry; Pottery;
Sanctuary, a story of the Civil War. Har.
Nichols, Ichabod.N. H., 1784-1859. A Unitarian minister
of Portland, Maine, 1814-55, and from the latter date a resident of
Cambridge. Natural Theology; Hours with the Evangelists; Remembered
Words. A. U. A.
Nichols, James Robinson.Ms., 1819-1888. A manufacturing
chemist of Boston who founded The Journal of Chemistry (now The Popular
Science News) in 1866. What, When, and Where?; Fireside Science;
Chemistry of the Farm; The New Agriculture.
Nichols, Mrs. Mary Sargeant [Neal] [Gove]. “Mary Orme.” N.
H., 1810- ——. A hydropathic physician. Lectures on Anatomy and
Physiology; Experience in Water Cure; A Woman’s Work in Water Cure and
Sanitary Education. As “Mary Orme” she published the novels, Uncle
John; Agnes Norris; The Two Loves, Eros and Anteros.
Nichols, Mrs. Rebecca S—— [Reed].Ms., 1820- ——. A
verse-writer of Cincinnati. Bernice, and Other Poems; Songs of the
Heart.
Nichols, Starr Hoyt.Ct., 1834- ——. A broker of New
York city, in earlier life a Unitarian minister. He has published Monte
Rosa, the Epic of an Alp.
Nichols, Thomas L——.Circa 1820- ——. An American
physician who settled in Malvern, England, near the opening of the
Civil War. Women in All Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty Years of
American Life; How to Cook; How to Behave; How to Live on Sixpence a
Day; Human Physiology the Basis of Sanitary Reforms.
Nichols, Walter Ripley.Ms., 1847-1886. A professor of
chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who published
Water Supply from a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint, and many
scientific papers.
Nicholson, Mrs. Eliza Jane [Poitevent]. “Pearl Rivers.”
Mi., 1849-1896. A journalist of New Orleans, owner and editor
of The Picayune, and the first woman in the world to own and manage a
great daily paper. Lyrics.
Nicholson, James Bartram.Mo., 1820- ——. A prominent
bookbinder of Philadelphia, author of a Manual of Bookbinding, an
exhaustive treatise on the subject. Bai.
Nicholson, William Rufus.Mi., 1822-1901. A Reformed
Episcopal bishop, dean of the theological seminary of that faith
in Philadelphia. The Blessedness of Heaven; Why I Became a Reformed
Episcopalian; The Real Presence; The Call to the Ministry.
Nicolay, John George.Bv., 1832-1901. The private
secretary of President Lincoln, and marshal of the United States
Supreme Court, 1872-87. The Outbreak of the Rebellion; Abraham Lincoln,
a History (with J. Hay, supra). Cent. Scr.
Nicum, John.Wg., 1851- ——. A prominent Lutheran
minister of Rochester, New York, who has published History of the New
York Ministerium; Gleichniss-Reden Jesu; Weihnachts Andacht; and a
translation of Wolf’s Lutherans in America.
Nieriker, Mrs. May [Alcott].Ms., 1840-1879. Daughter of
A. B. Alcott, supra. An artist who published Concord Sketches;
Studying Art Abroad. Rob.
Niles, Hezekiah.Del., 1777-1839. A journalist of
Baltimore, founder of Niles’s Register. The towns of Niles, Michigan,
and Niles, Ohio, were named in his honour. Quill Driving; Principles
and Acts of the Revolutionary Period. Bar.
Niles, John Milton.Ct., 1787-1856. A journalist of
Hartford who was postmaster-general in 1840. Lives of Perry, Laurence,
Pike, Harrison; The Civil Officer; History of the Revolution in Mexico
and Central America.
Niles, Samuel.R. I., 1674-1762. A Congregational
clergyman who was pastor of the church at Braintree, Massachusetts,
from 1711 till his death. Tristitiæ Ecclesiarum, a Brief and Sorrowful
Account of the Churches in New England; God’s Wonder-Working Providence
for New England in the Reduction of Louisburg; Vindication of the
Doctrine of Original Sin; The True Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin;
History of the French and Indian Wars.
Nipher, Francis Eugene.N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor
of physics in Washington University at St. Louis from 1874, who has
published Theory of Magnetic Measurement.
Nitsch, Mrs. Helen Alice [Matthews]. “Catherine Owen.”
E., 18— -1889. A writer on domestic science whose home was
at Plainfield, New Jersey. Choice Cookery; Culture and Cooking; Ten
Dollars Enough; Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; Molly Bishop’s
Family; Progressive Housekeeping. Har. Hou.
Noah, Mordecai Manuel.Pa., 1785-1851. A once noted
journalist of New York city, who endeavoured unsuccessfully to found
a Jewish colony on Grand Island, in the Niagara River. Travels in
England, France, and Spain; Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest. He wrote
several successful plays, among which are, The Siege of Tripoli; The
Fortress of Sorrente.
Noble, Annette Lucile.N. Y., 1844- ——. A
fiction-writer of Albion, New York, among whose works are, Uncle Jack’s
Executors; Eunice Lathrop, Spinster; Love and Shawl-Straps; After the
Failure; The Silent Man’s Legacy. Put.
Noble, Lucretia Gray.Ms., 18— - ——. A writer of
Wilbraham, Massachusetts, whose only novel, A Reverend Idol, was very
popular. Hou.
Noble, Edmund.S., 1853- ——. A journalist who travelled
in Russia, 1882-1884, and since 1884 has lived in Boston. The Russian
Revolt (1885). Hou.
Noble, Louis Legrand.N. Y., 1813-1882. An Episcopal
clergyman who held various rectorships successively in the State of
New York. Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; The Course of Empire, a
work relating to the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and Other Poems; A
Voyage to the Arctic Seas.
Nordheimer, Isaac.G., 1809-1842. An educator of New York
city, instructor in sacred literature at Union Theological Seminary,
1838-42. Hebrew Grammar; Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of
Scripture.
Nordhoff, Charles.P., 1830-1901. A littérateur and
journalist of New York city. Man-of-War Life; The Merchant Vessel;
Whaling and Fishing; Man-of-War Yarns; Cape Cod and All Along Shore;
Peninsular California; Northern California; Secession is Rebellion;
Communistic Societies of the United States; Politics for Young
Americans; God and the Future Life, include his more important works.
Do. Har.
Norman, Benjamin Moore.N. Y., 1809-1860. A bookseller of
New Orleans. Rambles in Yucatan; New Orleans and its Environs; Rambles
by Land and Water.
Norman, Henry.Ms., 1858- ——. A journalist of
prominence. The Peoples and Politics of the Far East; The Real Japan.
Scr.
Norris, George Washington.Pa., 1808-1875. A Philadelphia
physician. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Early History of
Medicine in Philadelphia.
Norris, Thaddeus.Pa., 1811-1877. A Philadelphia business
man who wrote much on sporting topics. American Angler’s Book; American
Fish Culture. Co.
North, Elisha.Ct., 1771-1843. A physician of New London,
Connecticut. Treatise on Spotted Fever; Outlines of the Science of
Life; Uncle Toby’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Phrenology. See Life and
Writings of, 1887.
Northend, Charles.Ms., 1814-1895. A prominent educator
of Connecticut. Teacher and Parent; Teachers’ Associations; Annals of
American Institutes of Instruction; Life of Elihu Burritt, supra.
Northend, William Dummer.Ms., 1823-1902. Brother of C.
Northend, supra. A lawyer of Salem, Massachusetts. Speeches and
Essays on Political Subjects; The Bay Colony. Est.
Northrop, Birdsey Grant.Ct., 1817-1898. A prominent
Connecticut educator, secretary of the State Board of Education,
1869-82. Education Abroad; Rural Improvement; Tree-Planting.
Northrup, Ansel Judd.N. Y., 1833- ——. A lawyer of
Syracuse. Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks; Grayling Fishing in
Northern Michigan; Sconset Cottage Life.
Norton, Andrews.Ms., 1786-1853. A Unitarian clergyman
of Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University,
1819-30, and prominent among conservative theologians of his faith.
Historical Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Internal
Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Tracts Concerning
Christianity; Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of the
Trinitarians. See Memoir by W. Newell.A. U. A.
Norton, Augustus Theodore.Ct., 1808-1884. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Alton, Illinois, author of a History of the Presbyterian
Church in Illinois.
Norton, Charles Eliot.Ms., 1827- ——. Son of A. Norton,
supra. A distinguished Dante scholar and a high authority on the
history of art, since 1875 professor of the history of art in Harvard
University. He has edited the Letters of J. R. Lowell, supra;
the Writings of G. W. Curtis, supra; the Goethe and Carlyle
Correspondence; the Letters of Carlyle; and has translated Dante’s Vita
Nuova and Divina Commedia. His other works include, Historical Studies
of Church-Building in the Middle Ages; Notes of Travel and Study in
Italy; Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories. Har. Hou.
Norton, Charles Ledyard.Ct., 1837- ——. A journalist
of New York city, at one time editor of Outing. Handbook of Florida;
Political Americanisms; Jack Benson’s Log; A Medal of Honor Man, a book
for boys. Lgs. We.
Norton, Frank Henry.Ms., 1836- ——. A journalist of New
York city. Lives of General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; Daniel Boone,
a romance.
Norton, George Habley.N. Y., 1824-1893. An Episcopal
clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia, who published Inquiry into the
Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church.
Norton, Herman.N. Y., 1799-1855. A Presbyterian
evangelist in New York State. The Christian and Deist in Contrast;
Signs of Danger and Promise; Startling Facts for American Protestants.
Norton, John.E., 1606-1663. A Puritan clergyman who came
to New England in 1635, and in 1653 succeeded John Cotton as teacher of
the church at Boston. He wrote much, and was a strenuous advocate of
religious persecution. Among his writings are, The Heart of New England
Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation; Life of Mr. John
Cotton. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Longfellow’s
New England Tragedies.
Norton, John.Ms., 1651-1716. Nephew of J. Norton,
supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church at
Hingham, 1678-1716, who is remembered for his Elegy on Anne Bradstreet,
a poem of some force and merit. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Norton, John Nicholas.N. Y., 1820-1881. Brother of
G. H. Norton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville,
among whose many works are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, Bowen,
Freeman, Provost, Stewart, Wilson, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons for
Families; The King’s Ferry-Boat; Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop
Berkeley, Archbishop Cranmer. Wh.
Norton, Mrs. Minerva [Brace].N. Y., 1837- ——. An
educator of Beloit, Wisconsin. In and Around Berlin; Service in the
King’s Gardens. Mg.
Norton, Sidney Augustus.O., 1835- ——. A scientist who
has been professor of chemistry in Ohio University from 1873. Elements
of Natural Philosophy; Elements of Physics; Elements of Inorganic
Chemistry; Organic Chemistry.
Norton, William Augustus.N. Y., 1810-1883. A professor
of civil engineering in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University,
from 1852. Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; First Book of Natural
Philosophy and Astronomy.
Nott, Eliphalet.Ct., 1773-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman
of note, president of Union College, 1804-66. Counsels to Young Men;
Lectures on Temperance. See Memoir by Van Santvoord, 1876.
Nott, Josiah Clark.S. C., 1804-1873. A physician of
Mobile, who wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, and was
co-author with Gliddon of the once famous Types of Mankind, and of
Indigenous Races of the Earth. Lip.
Nourse, James Duncan.Ky., 1817-1854. A journalist of
St. Louis. The Forest Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of the
Mississippi; God in History.
Nourse, Joseph Everett.D. C., 1819-1899. Cousin of J. D.
Nourse, supra. A professor in the Naval Academy, 1850-81. The
Maritime Canal of Suez; Astronomical and Meteorological Observations;
American Explorations in the Ice Zones. Lo.
Noyes, Arthur Ames.Ms., 1866- ——. A professor of
chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has
published a treatise on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.
Noyes, Charles Henry. “Charles Quiet.” Mch., 1849-1898.
A lawyer and verse-writer of Warren, Pennsylvania, who has published
Studies in Verse. Lip.
Noyes, George Rapall.Ms., 1798-1868. A Unitarian
clergyman eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in
Harvard University from 1840. He published translations with notes of
the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs;
and a translation of the New Testament. A. U. A.
Noyes, Henry Drury.N. Y., 1832-1900. An ophthalmologist
of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; Text-Book on
Diseases of the Eye.
Noyes, James.E., 1608-1656. A Puritan clergyman of
Newbury, Massachusetts, pastor of the church there, 1635-56. The Temple
Measured; Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State.
Noyes, James Oscar.N. Y., 1829-1872. A physician and
journalist of New Orleans. Roumania; The Gypsies: their History,
Origin, and Manner of Life.
Noyes, John Humphrey.Vt., 1811-1886. A noted religionist
who founded the Oneida Community, and other associations of socialists.
The Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian
Faith; History of American Socialisms; House Talks. Lip.
Nuttall [nŭt´al], Thomas.E., 1786-1859. A noted
ornithologist and botanist, of English birth, whose life was mainly
spent in the United States, but who returned to England in 1842. The
Genera of North American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The
North American Sylva; Manual of the Ornithology of the United States
and Canada (1832 and 1834); Geological Sketch of the Valley of the
Mississippi; A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North
America, being a new edition of the Manual of Ornithology revised and
annotated by Montague Chamberlain. See Popular Science Monthly,
March, 1895.Lit.
Nye, Bill.See Nye, Edgar.
Nye, Edgar Wilson.Me., 1850-1896. A humourous journalist
whose writing, though very popular, is ephemeral in its nature and of
little or no literary value. Bill Nye and the Boomerang; Forty Liars,
and Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye’s Blossom Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye’s
Thinks; The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of the United States; A Guest
at the Ludlow, and Other Stories; Comic History of England. Lip.
Nystrom, John William. 18— -1885. An engineer in the United
States navy. Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships; Technological
Education; The Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the Elements of
Mechanics; New Treatise on Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Mechanics
and Engineering; Principles of Dynamics; Treatise on Screw Propellers.
Bai. Lip.
O
Oakes, Urian.E., 1631-1681. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor of the church in Cambridge, and president of Harvard College,
1675-81. He is chiefly remembered for his Elegy upon the Death of
Thomas Shepard, a notable poem in six-lined stanzas, but his sermons,
in point of style, are the best which were written in America during
the colonial period. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Oakey, Alexander F.N. Y., 1850- ——. An architect of
Buffalo. Building a Home; Home Grounds; The Art of Life and the Life of
Art. Ap. Har.
Oakey, Emily Sullivan.N. Y., 1829-1883. An educator
of Albany. Dialogues and Conversations; At the Foot of Parnassus, a
collection of verse.
Ober, Frederick Albion.Ms., 1849- ——. A writer of
Beverly, Massachusetts, well known as a traveller. Camps in the
Caribbees; Young Folks’ History of Mexico; The Silver City; Travels
in Mexico; Mexican Resources and Guide to Mexico; Montezuma’s Gold
Mines; The Knockabout Club in the Antilles; The Knockabout Club in the
Everglades; In the Wake of Columbus; Josephine, Empress of the French.
Est. Le. Lo. Mer.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon.Pa., 1868- ——. Son of Mrs.
Oberholtzer, infra. A Philadelphia journalist. The Referendum in
America, a Discussion of Law-Making by Popular Vote.
Oberholtzer, Mrs. Sara Louisa [Vickers].Pa., 1841- ——.
A verse-writer of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Violet Lee, and Other
Poems; Come for Arbutus; Hope’s Heart Bells, a novel; Daisies of Verse;
Souvenirs of Occasions. Lip.
O’Brien, Fitz James.I., 1828-1862. A brilliant but
erratic journalist of New York city. Poems and Stories; The Diamond
Lens, and Other Stories. See Memoir by W. Winter, infra.Scr.
O’Brien, John.I., 1841-1879. A Roman Catholic clergyman
and educator, professor of ecclesiastical history and sacred theology
in Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Maryland, from 1877. He
published, in 1879, A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the
Eastern and Western Churches, which has since passed through fourteen
editions. It is non-controversial in character, and is clear and
forcible in its style.
O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey.I., 1797-1880. An historical
writer of Albany, and subsequently of New York city. History of New
Netherlands; Jesuit Relations; Documentary History of New York. He
edited many volumes of State and colonial records.
O’Connell, Jeremiah Joseph.I., 1821- ——. A Roman
Catholic priest of the Benedictine order in North Carolina. Catholicity
in the Carolinas and Georgia; Conferences on the Blessed Trinity.
O’Connor, Joseph.N. Y., 1841- ——. A journalist of
Rochester, New York, whose collected Poems appeared in 1895. Put.
O’Connor, William Douglas.Ms., 1832-1889. A clerk in the
civil service at Washington. Harrington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet,
a defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; Three Tales; Hamlet’s Note-Book.
Hou.
O’Conor, John Francis Xavier.N. Y., 1852- ——. A Roman
Catholic clergyman of the Society of Jesus, a professor in Boston
College. Something Real; Lyric and Dramatic Poetry; Reading and the
Mind.
Odenheimer, William Henry.Pa., 1817-1879. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, 1859-74, becoming bishop
of Northern New Jersey in the latter year. Origin of the Prayer-Book;
Essay on Canon Law; The Sacred Scriptures the Imperial Record of the
Glory of the Holy Trinity; Jerusalem and its Vicinity; The Devout
Churchman’s Companion; The True Catholic no Romanist; Thoughts on
Immersion; Bishop White’s Opinions; Sermons, with Memoir. Dut.
Odiorne, Thomas.N. H., 1769-1851. An iron manufacturer
of Malden, Massachusetts. The Progress of Refinement, a Poem; Fame and
Miscellanies.
O’Donnell, Daniel Kane.Pa., 1838-1871. A Philadelphia
journalist who published The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with
Other Poems.
O’Donnell, Jessie Fremont.N. Y., 1860- ——. A writer of
Lowville, New York. Heart Lyrics; Horseback Sketches.
Officier, Morris.O., 1823-1874. A Lutheran missionary.
Plea for a Lutheran Mission in Africa; Western Africa a Mission Field;
African Bible Pictures.
O’Hara, Theodore.Ky., 1820-1867. An officer in the
United States army during the Mexican War, and subsequently in the
Confederate army. He is remembered for his poem, The Bivouac of the
Dead, stanzas from which have been inscribed on tablets in several of
the national cemeteries.
Olin, Mrs. Julia Matilda [Lynch].N. Y., 1814-1879. Wife
of S. Olin, infra. Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; Curious
and Useful Questions on the Bible; The Perfect Light, comprise her most
important writings.
Olin, Stephen.Vt., 1797-1851. A Methodist clergyman and
educator, president of Wesleyan University from 1842. Travels in Egypt,
Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land; Greece and the Golden Horn; College
Life, its Theory and Practice; Youthful Piety. See Life and Letters,
1857.Meth. Har.
Oliver, Benjamin Lynde.Ms., 1788-1843. A lawyer of
Boston. Hints on the Pursuit of Happiness; Rights of an American
Citizen; Law Summary; Practical Conveyancing; Forms of Practice; Forms
of Chancery. Lit.
Oliver, Mrs. Grace Atkinson [Little] [Ellis].Ms.,
1844-1899. A littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts. Lives of Mrs.
Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She edited
Tales of Maria Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; Tales and Poems of
Ann and Jane Taylor.
Oliver, Mrs. Martha [Capps].Il., 1845- ——. A writer
of Jacksonville, Illinois. Her writings in verse for juvenile readers
comprise, The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; The Far West.
Oliver, Peter.N. H., 1822-1855. Nephew of B. L. Oliver,
supra. A lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Commonwealth, an
historical review of the Puritan government of Massachusetts, presents
a not altogether favourable picture of the period under discussion.
Lit.
Olmsted [ŭm´sted or ŏm´sted], Alexander Fisher.N.
C., 1822-1853. Son of D. Olmsted, infra. A professor of
chemistry in the University of North Carolina who published Elements of
Chemistry.
Olmsted, Denison.Ct., 1791-1859. A scientist who was
professor of natural philosophy at Yale College from 1825. Letters on
Astronomy; Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Students’ Commonplace
Book; Introduction to Natural Philosophy.
Olmsted, Francis Allyn.N. C., 1819-1844. Son of D.
Olmsted, supra. A physician who published Incidents of a Whaling
Voyage.
Olmsted, Frederick Law.Ct., 1822-1903. A celebrated
landscape architect of Boston. He designed the Central Park of New
York city and the park systems of Boston, Buffalo, and many other
American cities. Walks and Talks of an American Farmer; A Journey in
the Seaboard Slave States; A Journey through Texas; A Journey in the
Back Country.
Olney, Jesse.Ct., 1798-1872. A noted educator of
Connecticut. The National Preceptor; Geography and Atlas (1828), a
standard work for a generation; History of the United States.
Olssen, William Whittingham.N. Y., 1827- ——. An
Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor of mathematics in St.
Stephen’s College, Annandale, New York, from 1871. Personality, Human
and Divine; Revelation, Universal and Special.
Olsson [ōl´sŭn], Olof.Sn., 1841-1900. A Lutheran
clergyman, president of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois,
from 1891. At the Cross; Greetings from Afar, a volume of travel; The
Christian Hope.
Onderdonk, Henry.L. I., 1804-1886. Nephew of H. U.
Onderdonk, infra. An educator of Long Island, principal of
Union Hall Academy, 1832-1865. Queens County in Olden Times; Annals of
Hempstead, 1643-1832; Long Island and New York in Olden Times.
Onderdonk, Henry Ustick.N. Y., 1789-1858. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Episcopacy Tested by
Scripture, republished as Episcopacy Examined and Re-Examined; Essay on
Regeneration; Sermons and Charges; Family Devotions.
O’Neall, John Belton.S. C., 1793-1863. A South Carolina
jurist. Digest of the Negro Law; Annals of Newberry District; Bench and
Bar of South Carolina.
Opdyke, George.N. J., 1805-1880. A banker of New York
city, and mayor of that city, 1862-63. Treatise on Political Economy;
Report on the Currency; Official Documents and Addresses.
Optic, Oliver.See Adams, W. T.
O’Reilly, Henry.I., 1800-1886. A journalist of
Rochester, New York. Sketches of Rochester; American Political
Anti-Masonry.
O’Reilly, John Boyle.I., 1844-1890. A noted journalist
of Boston, editor of The Pilot. In his youth he was concerned in a
Fenian outbreak in Ireland, and banished to Australia. Escaping thence
he came to America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where his talents
speedily secured recognition. Much of his work in verse is ephemeral,
but his best lines have the ring of true poetry. Songs, Legends, and
Ballads; Moondyne; The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems; Songs
of the Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he published, Stories and
Sketches; The Ethics of Boxing. See Life by J. J. Boche, infra;
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42.
O’Reilly, Miles.See Halpine.
Orme, Mary.See Nichols, Mrs.
Ormond, Alexander Thomas.Pa., 1847- ——. Stuart
professor of mental science and logic at Princeton University from
1883. Basal Concepts in Philosophy. Scr.
Orne, Mrs. Caroline [Chaplin].Ms., 18— -1882. Niece of
J. Chaplin, 1st, supra. A once popular magazinist, who was the
author of more than two hundred and fifty stories.
Orne, Caroline Frances.Ms., 1818- ——. A Cambridge
writer of verse, and also of stories for children. Her life has all
been passed in Cambridge, her native place. A Day in the Woodlands;
Lucy’s Party, and Other Tales; Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, with
Other Poems; Morning Songs of American Freedom.
Orton, Edward.N. Y., 1829-1899. The State geologist of
Ohio from 1883. Economic Geology of Ohio; Petroleum and Inflammable
Gas. Clke.
Orton, James.N. Y., 1830-1877. A Congregational
clergyman, well known as a naturalist, who was professor of natural
history at Vassar College, 1869-1877. Comparative Zoölogy; The Andes
and the Amazon; Underground Treasures; Liberal Education of Women.
Bai. Har.
Orton, James Rockwood.N. Y., 1800-1867. A littérateur of
New York city. Poetical Sketches; Arnold, and Other Poems; Camp Fires
of the Red Men; Confidential Experiences of a Spiritualist. Mac.
Osborn, Henry Fairfield.Ct., 1857- ——. A professor of
biology at Columbia College. From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of
the evolution idea. Mac.
Osborn, Henry Stafford.Pa., 1823-1894. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, professor in Miami University, Ohio, 1871-73.
Palestine Past and Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land;
Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States; Manual
of Bible Geography; Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries;
Little Pilgrims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive Geography of
Palestine; The Prospector’s Field Book and Guide; A Practical Manual of
Minerals, Mines, and Mining. Bai. Clke.
Osborn, John.Ms., 1713-1753. A physician of Middletown,
Connecticut, whose Whaling Song was long popular among sailors.
Osborn, Laughton.N. Y., 1809-1878. An artist and
littérateur of New York city. Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the
Life of Jeremy Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of
Oil Painting; Travels by Sea and Land, and a number of comedies and
tragedies, include the most of his writing.
Osborn, Selleck.Ct., 1783-1826. A journalist, once
popular as a poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and
Satirical.
Osborne, [Samuel] Duffield.L. I., 1858- ——. A
littérateur of New York city. The Spell of Ashtaroth; The Robe of
Nessus. Scr.
Oscanyan, Hatchik.Ty., 1818- ——. An Armenian writer
of New York city who took the name of Christopher. Acaby, a satirical
romance; Veronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young readers; The Sultan
and His People, once a very popular work.
Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent [Locke].Ms., 1811-1850. A
verse-writer whose poems were for a time extremely popular. She was
the wife of an artist, and lived some years in London. The Casket of
Fate; A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England; The Happy Release, a
play written for Sheridan Knowles; Poems. See Life by Griswold;
Allibone’s Dictionary.
Osgood, Samuel.Ms., 1748-1813. A statesman who was a
member of the Continental Congress, 1780-84, and naval officer of the
port of New York, 1803-13. Letter on Episcopacy; Remarks on Daniel and
Revelation; Theology and Metaphysics.
Osgood, Samuel.Ms., 1812-1880. A Unitarian clergyman,
pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York city, 1849-69. In 1870
he entered the Episcopal ministry, but assumed no parochial duties.
Studies in Christian Biography; God with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life
Journey; The Hearthstone; Student Life; The Gospel Among the Animals;
American Leaves; The New Hampshire Book (with C. J. Fox). His published
orations upon patriotic events, notable men, and historic themes, are
numerous. Har.
Osler, William.Ont., 1849- ——. A physician, professor
in Johns Hopkins University from 1889. Clinical Notes on Small-Pox;
Histology Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of Children; Principles
and Practice of Medicine; Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors. Ap.
Osmun, Thomas Embley. “Alfred Ayres.” O., 1826-1902. An
author of New York city. The Verbalist; The Orthoepist; an annotated
edition of Cobbett’s Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; The
Essentials of Elocution. Ap. Fu.
Ossoli [ŏs´o-lee], Sarah Margaret [Fuller], Marchioness
d’.Ms., 1810-1850. A once famous writer of Boston whose
personality was more than anything she ever wrote, and who is little
more than a name to the present generation. She was a gifted woman,
and as a teacher in Boston, editor of The Dial, and literary critic
for The New York Tribune, was a prominent figure. In 1845 she went to
Italy, and there was married to the Marquis d’Ossoli. Woman in the
Nineteenth Century; Art, Literature, and the Drama; At Home and Abroad;
A Summer on the Lakes. See Memoir by Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J.
F. Clarke; Lives by Higginson, Mrs. J. W. Howe; Galaxy Magazine, May,
1878; Lowell’s Fable for Critics.
Oswald, Felix Leopold.Bm., 1845- ——. A naturalist
of Tennessee. Physical Education; Summerland Sketches; Zoölogical
Sketches; Household Remedies; The Secret of the East, or the Origin of
the Christian Religion; Days and Nights in the Tropics; The Bible of
Nature; The Poison Problem. Ap. Lip. Lo.
Otis, Mrs. Eliza Henderson [Bordman].Ms., 1796-1873.
Daughter-in-law of H. G. Otis, infra. A philanthropist and
social leader in Boston who wrote The Barclays of Boston, a novel.
Otis, Elwell Stephen.Md., 1838- ——. A United States
army officer. The Indian Question.
Otis, Fessenden Nott.N. Y., 1825-1900. A physician of
New York city. Lessons in Drawing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the
Panama Railroad; Stricture of the Male Urethra; Clinical Lessons on
Syphilis; Physiology of Syphilitic Infection.
Otis, George Alexander.Ms., 1830-1881. A surgeon who was
curator of the Army Medical Museum at Washington. Report of Surgical
Cases Treated in the United States Army, 1867-71; Amputation at the Hip
Joint.
Otis, Harrison Gray.Ms., 1765-1848. Nephew of J. Otis,
infra. A prominent citizen of Boston famous for his eloquence.
Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention; Orations and Addresses.
Otis, James.Ms., 1725-1783. A celebrated orator
and politician, and one of the most active advocates of American
independence. He was an impetuous, vehement speaker, and seldom failed
to carry his hearers with him. Rights of the British Colonies Asserted
and Approved; Vindication of the British Colonies; Considerations on
Behalf of the Colonists; A Vindication of the Rights of the House of
Representatives of Massachusetts Bay. See Life by Tudor.
Otis, James.See Kaler.
Ott, Isaac.Pa., 1847- ——. A physician who has
published Cocaine, Veratria, and Gelseminum; Action of Medicines;
Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System.
Otts, John Martin Philip.S. C., 1838-1901. A
Presbyterian minister of Talladega, Alabama. Nicodemus with Jesus;
Light and Life for a Dead World; The Southern Pen and Pulpit;
Inter-denominational Literature; The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The
Fifth Gospel; Unsettled Questions; At Mother’s Knee. Rev.
Overman, Frederick.G., c. 1810-1852. A mining
engineer of Philadelphia. The Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of
Steel; Political Mineralogy; Moulder’s and Founder’s Pocket Guide;
Mechanics for the Millwright, etc.; Treatise on Metallurgy. Ap.
Bai.
Owen, Catherine.See Nitsch, Mrs.
Owen, David Dale.S., 1807-1860. Brother of R. D. Owen,
infra. The State geologist of Indiana. Report of a Geological
Survey of Kentucky; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; Report of a
Geological Reconnoissance.
Owen, John Jason.N. Y., 1803-1869. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator of New York city. Commentary on the Gospels;
Acts of the Apostles in Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book editions of
Xenophon, Thucydides, and Homer.
Owen, Richard.S., 1810-1890. Brother of R. D. Owen,
infra, and of D. D. Owen, supra. A geologist of New
Harmony, Indiana. He succeeded his brother David as State geologist in
1860, and was author of a Key to the Geology of the Globe.
Owen, Robert Dale.S., 1801-1877. A prominent writer
of New Harmony, Indiana, the son of Robert Owen, the noted Scottish
socialist. He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate
of Spiritualism. Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark;
Moral Physiology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public
Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls
on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel;
Threading my Way; Debatable Land between this World and the Next.
See Woollen’s Biographical Sketches of Early Indiana; Dictionary of
National Biography, vol. 42.Lip.
P
Packard, Alpheus Spring.Me., 1839- ——. A naturalist
of eminence, professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown University from
1878. Zoölogy; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology;
Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common
Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast;
Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine. Est.
Ho.
Packard, Frederick Adolphus.Ms., 1794-1867. A
Philadelphia writer, editor for nearly forty years of the publications
of the American Sunday School Union. The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert
Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; Union Bible
Dictionary, include his most important writings.
Packard, John Hooker.Pa., 1832- ——. Son of F. A.
Packard, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia, surgeon to the
Pennsylvania Hospital from 1884. Manual of Minor Surgery; Lectures on
Inflammation; Handbook of Operative Surgery; Sea Air and Sea Bathing.
Lip.
Packard, Lewis Richard.Pa., 1836-1884. Son of F. A.
Packard, supra. An educator who was professor of Greek at Yale
University from 1866, and author of Studies in Greek Thought.
Packard, Silas Sadler.Ms., 1826-1898. An educator who
founded a business college in New York city. Bryant and Stratton’s
Bookkeeping Series; Complete Course of Business Training; Commercial
Arithmetic; New Manual of Bookkeeping.
Paddock, Benjamin Henry.Ct., 1828-1891. The fifth
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1873-1891. Ten Years in
the Episcopate; The First Century of the Diocese of Massachusetts; The
Pastoral Relation; The Foundation of Religious Belief. Ap.
Paddock, Mrs. Cornelia. 18— - ——. In the Toils; The Fate of
Madame la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. Fo.
Page, Charles Edward.Me., 1840- ——. A physician of
Boston. How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses:
their Feed and Feet; Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.
Page, Charles Grafton.Ms., 1812-1868. An examiner in
the Patent Office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy,
Spirit Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed.
Page, David Perkins.N. H., 1810-1845. A once prominent
educator of Albany whose Theory and Practice of Teaching was long
popular.
Page, Emily Rebecca.Vt., 1834-1862. A verse-writer
of Vermont whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the
volume, Lily of the Valley.
Page, Richard Channing Moore.Va., 1841-1898. A physician
of New York city, but during the Civil War a Confederate officer.
Genealogy of the Page Family of Virginia; Sketch of Page’s Battery,
Lee’s Army; Chart of Physical Diagnosis.
Page, Thomas Jefferson.Va., 1808-1899. A naval officer
in the service of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-62. La Plata, the
Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay.
Page, Thomas Nelson.Va., 1853- ——. A lawyer of
Richmond, Virginia, whose studies of Southern life are notable for a
singular charm of style. In Old Virginia; Two Little Confederates;
On Newfound River; Elsket, and Other Stories; The Old South; Pastime
Stories; Essays, Social and Political; Unc’ Edinburg, a Plantation
Echo; The Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse
Chan; Befo’ de War (with A. C. Gordon, supra). Har. Scr.
Paige, Lucius Robinson.Ms., 1802-1896. A Universalist
clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1839, and subsequently
filled several offices of trust in Cambridge. Commentary on the New
Testament; History of Cambridge, 1630-1877, with Genealogical Register;
History of Hardwick, Massachusetts. Hou.
Paine, Elijah.Vt., 1796-1853. A jurist and legal writer
of New York city. Paine’s Reports; Practice in Civil Actions and
Proceedings in the State of New York (with W. Duer, supra).
Paine, Halbert Eleazar.O., 1826- ——. A Federal army
officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer in Washington,
whose Treatise on the Law of Elections to Public Offices is a
much-valued work. Lit.
Paine, Harriet Eliza. “E. Chester.” Ms., 1845- ——. A
Boston educator. Girls and Women, a helpful book for girls. Hou.
Paine, Martyn.Vt., 1794-1877. A physician of New York
city. Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine;
The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion;
Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as distinguished from Materialism;
Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defence
of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical
Arrangement of Materia Medica; Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical
and Physical Doctrines. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Paine, Robert.N. C., 1799-1882. A prominent Methodist
bishop whose Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular
biography.
Paine, Robert Treat.Ms., 1773-1811. A once noted
verse-writer of Boston whose spirited song, Adams and Liberty, has
preserved his memory. He gave up his profession of law for literary
pursuits, and received large sums for his poems, among which are, The
Invention of Letters, and The Ruling Passion. His work was stilted
and conventional, with the exception of the song named above. His
collected Verse and Prose, edited by Prentiss, appeared in 1812. See
Allibone’s Dictionary.
Paine, Thomas.E., 1737-1809. A celebrated political
and deistical writer of English birth who came to America in 1774,
and in 1776 issued his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which was of
great service to the American cause. In the American Crisis, published
in numbers, 1776-83, he continued his defence of America. His other
works include, The Rights of Man, a reply to Burke’s “Reflections on
the French Revolution”; The Age of Reason, a work inferior to his
other writings in matter and style, and fiercely assailed by the
religious sentiment of his day. His works have been ably edited by M.
D. Conway (1894-95), supra. See Lives by Chatham, Cobbett,
Rickman, G. Chalmers, G. Vale, Sherwin, M. D. Conway; Atlantic Monthly,
July, November, and December, 1859; Nineteenth Century, March, 1879;
McMaster’s History of the People of the United States, Watson’s Men and
Times of the Revolution; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National
Biography, vol. 43.Put.
Paine, Timothy Otis.Me., 1824-1895. A Swedenborgian
clergyman of Elmwood, Massachusetts. Solomon’s Temple and Capitol;
Idolatrous High Places. Hou.
Palfrey [pawl´fri], Francis Winthrop.Ms.,
1831-1889. Son of J. G. Palfrey, infra. An officer in the
Federal army during the Civil War, and from 1872 register of bankruptcy
in Boston. Antietam and Fredericksburg; Memoir of William Francis
Bartlett. Hou. Scr.
Palfrey, John Gorham.Ms., 1796-1881. A Unitarian
clergyman in Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard
University, 1831-37, subsequently a member of Congress, and postmaster
of Boston, 1861-67. His literary reputation rests upon his History
of New England, a painstaking, accurate work, but not especially
attractive in style, and marred by want of perspective. Other works
by him are, Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures; The Relation between
Judaism and Christianity. Hou. Lit.
Palfrey, Sarah Hammond. “E. Foxton.” Ms., 1823- ——.
Daughter of J. G. Palfrey, supra. A novelist and verse-writer
of Cambridge. Her work in verse comprises, Prémices; Sir Pavon and St.
Pavon; The Chapel; The Blossoming Rod; Agnes Wentworth. In fiction she
has published Katharine Morne; Herman, or Young Knighthood. Le.
Palmer, Alonzo Benjamin.N. Y., 1815-1887. A physician
who was medical professor in the University of Michigan from 1852.
Homœopathy, What Is It?; The Treatment of the Science and Practice of
Medicine; Epidemic Cholera; Temperance Teachings of Science; Diarrhœa
and Dysentery.
Palmer, Mrs. Anna [Campbell]. “Mrs. George Archibald.” N.
Y., 1854- ——. A writer of Elmira, New York. The Summerville
Prize; Little Brown Seed; Lally Gay; Lally Gay and her Sister; Verses
from a Mother’s Corner.
Palmer, Benjamin Morgan.S. C., 1818-1902. A Presbyterian
minister of New Orleans. Life and Letters of James Thornwell,
infra; Sermons; The Family in its Civil and Churchly Aspects;
Formation of Character; The Broken Home; Theology of Prayer.
Palmer, Elihu.Ct., 1764-1806. A writer of New York city
who was in his early career a Congregational minister, but became a
deist and a political agitator. The Principles of Nature; Prospect or
View of the Moral World from 1804.
Palmer, Mrs. Frances [Purdy]. N. Y., 1839- ——. A journalist
and lecturer of Providence who has published A Dead Level, and Other
Episodes.
Palmer, George Herbert.Ms., 1842- ——. Alford professor
of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard
University. He has published The New Education, and an English
translation of the Odyssey in rhythmic prose. Hou. Lit.
Palmer, Mrs. Henrietta [Lee].Md., 1834- ——. Wife of
J. W. Palmer, infra. The Stratford Gallery, or the Shakespeare
Sisterhood; Home Life in the Bible; The Heroines of Shakespeare.
Palmer, Horatio Richmond.N. Y., 1834- ——. Elements of
Musical Composition; Theory of Music.
Palmer, John Williamson.Md., 1825- ——. A physician and
littérateur of Baltimore and subsequently of New York city. The Queen’s
Heart: a Comedy; The Beauties and Curiosities of Engraving; After His
Kind, a novel; The Golden Dagon, or Up and Down the Irrawaddi; The New
and the Old, or California and India.
Palmer, Julius Auboineau.Ms., 1840-1899. About
Mushrooms; Memories of Hawaii; One Voyage and its Consequences;
Mushrooms of America; Again in Hawaii. Le. Lo. Wn.
Palmer, Lynde.See Peebles, Mrs.
Palmer, Mrs. Phœbe Worrell.N. Y., 1807-1874. A Wesleyan
evangelist of New York city, whose writing is mainly concerned with the
doctrine of perfection. The Way of Holiness; Entire Devotion; Faith
and its Effect; Promises of the Father; Four Years in the Old World;
Pioneer Experiences. See Life and Letters of, 1876.
Palmer, Ray.R. I., 1808-1887. A Congregational clergyman
of Albany, widely known as a writer of hymns, the most famous of
which is, “My Faith Looks up to Thee.” Home, or the Unlost Paradise;
Spiritual Improvement; Closet Hours; Hymns and Poems; Hymns of My Holy
Hours; Remember Me; Voices of Hope and Gladness. Bar. Le. Ran.
Palmer, William Pitt.Ms., 1805-1884. An insurance
president of New York city known also as a verse-writer. Light; Echoes
of Half a Century, a collection of poems.
Pancoast, Joseph.N. J., 1805-1882. An eminent surgeon
of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College,
1838-74. Operative Surgery; Essays and Lectures; System of Anatomy.
See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Pancoast, Seth.Pa., 1823-1889. A Philadelphia physician,
professor in Pennsylvania Medical College, 1854-62. The Cabala;
Consumption; Ladies’ Medical Guide; Boyhood’s Perils; Bright’s Disease.
Pansy.See Alden, Mrs.
Parish, Elijah.Ct., 1762-1825. A Congregational
minister, pastor at Byfield, Massachusetts, 1787-1825. He was co-author
with Jedediah Morse, supra, of several geographical works, and
wrote a New System of Modern Geography. See Sermons of, with Memoir,
1826.
Park, Edwards Amasa.R. I., 1808-1900. A Congregational
clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts, professor in the Theological
Seminary there, 1835-1881. Discourses and Treatises on the Atonement;
Discourses on Some Theological Doctrines as Related to the Religious
Character; Lives of S. Hopkins, supra, N. Emmons, supra,
B. B. Edwards, supra, S. H. Taylor, infra, W. B. Homer.
Park, Roswell.Ct., 1807-1869. An Episcopal clergyman and
educator, president and chancellor of Racine College, 1852-63. Sketch
of the History of West Point; Jerusalem, and Other Poems; Pantology, or
Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge.
Park, Roswell.Ct., 1852- ——. A professor of surgery
in the University of Buffalo from 1883 who has published Lectures on
Surgical Pathology.
Parke, John.Del., 1754-1789. An officer in the American
army during the Revolution, who published The Lyric Works of Horace.
The translation, in rhymed verse, was dedicated to Washington, and in
it the names of American patriots were substituted for those of the
Roman worthies.
Parke, John Grubb.Pa., 1827-1900. A soldier of
distinction who was superintendent of the United States Military
Academy in 1887, and was retired from active service in 1889. United
States Laws Relating to Public Works; Laws Relating to the Construction
of Bridges over Navigable Waters.
Parker, Edward Griffin.Ms., 1825-1868. A lawyer of New
York city. The Golden Age of American Oratory; Reminiscences of Rufus
Choate.
Parker, Edwin Pond.Me., 1836- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Hartford, pastor of the South Church from 1860, Book of
Praise; Memorial of H. Bushnell, supra; The Ministry of Natural
Beauty.
Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth Lowber [Chandler]. “Bessie Chandler.”
N. Y., 1856- ——. A writer of Batavia, New York, who has
contributed much to magazines. A Woman who Failed and Others.
Rob.
Parker, Foxhall Alexander.N. Y., 1821-1879. A commodore
in the United States navy. Fleet Tactics under Steam; The Naval
Howitzer Afloat; The Naval Howitzer Ashore; The Fleets of the World;
The Battle of Mobile Bay; Elia, or Spain Fifty Years Ago, a translation
from the Spanish.
Parker, Francis Wayland.N. H., 1837-1902. A prominent
educator of Chicago, principal of Cook County Normal School, and
formerly supervisor of the Boston schools. Talks on Teaching; The
Practical Teacher; Course in Arithmetic; How to Teach Geography.
Ap.
Parker, Sir [Horatio] Gilbert.Ont., 1859- ——.
A popular novelist of Canadian birth. Pierre and His People; An
Adventurer of the North; A Romany of the Snows; A Lover’s Diary; When
Valmond came to Pontiac; The Seats of the Mighty; The Pomp of the
Lavillettes; The Battle of the Strong. Hou. St.
Parker, Mrs. Helen Fitch.N. Y., 1827-1874. Wife of H.
W. Parker, infra. Sunrise and Sunset; Morning Stars of the New
World; Rambles After Land Shells; Missions and Martyrs of Madagascar;
Frank’s Search for Sea Shells; Constance of Aylmer, a tale; Blind
Florette; Arthur’s Aquarium.
Parker, Henry Webster.N. Y., 1824- ——. Son of S.
Parker, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor
of mental science in Iowa College from 1879. The Story of a Soul, a
poem; Verse.
Parker, James Cutler Dunn.Ms., 1828- ——. Nephew of
R. G. Parker, infra. A Boston musician. Manual of Harmony;
Theoretical and Practical Harmony.
Parker, Joel.N. H., 1795-1875. A jurist of
Massachusetts, professor of law at Harvard University, 1847-75. The
War Power of Congress; The Right of Secession; The Non-Extension of
Slavery; Constitutional Law; Revolution and Construction; The Three
Powers of Government; Conflict of Decisions.
Parker, Joel.Vt., 1799-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of
New York city. Lectures on Unitarianism; Invitations to True Happiness;
Reasonings of a Pastor; Sermons; Notes on Twelve Psalms, include his
principal writings. Har.
Parker, Nathan Howe. 18— - ——. Iowa as it is in 1855; Kansas
and Nebraska Handbook for 1857-58; The Missouri Handbook (1865);
Missouri as it is in 1867, are among his various statistical works.
Parker, Mrs. Permelia Jane [Marsh].N. Y., 1836- ——.
A writer of Rochester, New York. Toiling and Hoping, a novel; The Boy
Missionary; Losing the Way; Under His Banner; The Midnight Cry, a novel
of the Millerite delusion; Rochester, a Story Historical; Life of S. F.
B. Morse, supra; The Morgan Boys; Around the Manger; Andy, the
Story of a Troublesome Boy. Cas. Do.
Parker, Peter.Ms., 1804-1888. A Congregational
missionary and diplomat in China, and after 1857 a resident of
Washington. Journal of an Expedition from Singapore to Japan; Statement
respecting Hospitals in China.
Parker, Richard Green.Ms., 1798-1869. An educator of
Boston. Natural Philosophy; Aids to English Composition.
Parker, Samuel.Ms., 1799-1866. A Congregational
clergyman of New York State, said to have been the first who suggested
the possibility of a railway through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific
Ocean. He published, Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.
Parker, Theodore.Ms., 1810-1860. A famous Unitarian
clergyman of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, whose extremely radical views
excited great opposition in his denomination, and resulted in his
becoming pastor of an independent congregation in Boston. He was very
outspoken in his championship of freedom for the slave, temperance, and
the rights of labour, and rapidly came to be a controlling influence
in contemporary thought. Since his death his influence has deepened
both in America and Europe. He was a prolific writer, but the purely
literary value of his work is not great. Miscellaneous Writings;
Sermons on Theism, Atheism, and Popular Theology; Occasional Sermons
and Speeches; Matters Pertaining to Religion; Additional Sermons and
Speeches; Sermons for the Times; Experience as a Minister; West Roxbury
Sermons; Prayers; Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of
Mind; Historic Americans; Views of Religion. His complete works, as
edited by Frances Power Cobbe, fill twelve volumes. See Lives by
John Weiss, 1864, Réville, 1865, O. B. Frothingham, 1874; The Story of
Theodore Parker, by Miss Cobbe; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860; North
American Review, April, 1864.A. U. A. Rob.
Parker, Thomas.E., 1595-1677. A learned Puritan
clergyman who was one of the founders of Newbury, Massachusetts, and
its first pastor. Parker River, in that region, is named in his honour.
Letter on Church Government; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Methodus
Gratiæ Diviniæ; Theses de Traductione Peccatoris ad Vitam.
Parker, Willard.N. H., 1800-1884. A distinguished
surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, 1839-1869. Cystotomy; Spontaneous Fractures;
The Concussion of Nerves, are among his professional monographs.
Parker, William Harwar.N. Y., 1826-1896. Brother of F.
Parker, supra. An officer in the Confederate navy during the
Civil War. Instruction for Naval Light Artillery; Recollections of a
Naval Officer. Scr.
Parkhurst, Charles Henry.Ms., 1842- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Madison Square Church from
1880, and very prominent as a municipal reformer. Forms of the Latin
Verb Illustrated by the Sanskrit; The Blind Man’s Creed; The Pattern
on the Mount; Three Gates on a Side; What Would the World Be Without
Religion?; The Swiss Guide; Our Fight with Tammany. Ran. Rev.
Scr.
Parkinson, William.Md., 1774-1848. A Baptist clergyman
of New York city. Ecclesiastical History; Public Ministry of the Word;
Sermons on Deuteronomy xxxii. See Sprague’s Annals of the American
Pulpit.
Parkman, Ebenezer.Ms., 1703-1789. A Congregational
pastor in Westborough, Massachusetts, from 1724 till his death.
Reformers and Intercessors.
Parkman, Francis.Ms., 1788-1852. Grandson of E. Parkman,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, author of The Offering
of Sympathy.
Parkman, Francis.Ms., 1823-1893. Son of F. Parkman,
supra. The foremost of American historians. He was born in
Boston, was a graduate of Harvard in 1844, and in 1846 explored the
wilderness beyond the Rocky Mountains, The Oregon Trail resulting from
this journey. For many years he was partially blind, but as far as
possible continued the historical work which he was meditating, while
as a relaxation he devoted much time to horticulture and published
a Book of Roses in 1866. The work of his life was the series of
historical narratives called France and England in North America, begun
in 1864 and completed in 1892. The work includes, in their order,
Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America; La
Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada;
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.; A Half Century of
Conflict; Montcalm and Wolfe. The Conspiracy of Pontiac forms a sequel
to the work, though first issued in 1857. The picturesque charm of his
style has been widely acknowledged, while his scholarship has never
been questioned. See Life and Uncollected Papers, by Farnham; Life
by H. D. Sedgwick, 1904; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874, May, 1894;
Canadian Magazine, October, 1884; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June,
1895; Vedder’s American Writers.Lit.
Parkman, George.Ms., 1791-1849. Grandson of E. Parkman,
supra. A Boston physician who published Insanity and the
Management of the Insane. See Trial of Webster for the Murder of Dr.
Parkman, 1850.
Parks, Leighton.N. Y., 1852- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Boston (1878-1904), and later of New York. His Star in the
East; Winning of the Soul, and Other Sermons. Dut. Hou.
Parley, Peter.See Goodrich, S. G.
Parloa, Maria.Ms., 1843- ——. A lecturer and writer
upon domestic economy, especially upon the science of food preparation.
First Principles of Household Management and Cookery; Kitchen
Companion; The Young Housekeeper; New Cook Book and Marketing Guide.
Est. Hou.
Parrish, Edward.Pa., 1822-1872. Son of Joseph Parrish,
1st, infra. An educator and pharmacist of Philadelphia, and
president of Swarthmore College, 1868-70. Introduction to Practical
Pharmacy; The Phantom Bouquet, a Treatise on Skeletonizing Leaves;
Essay on Education in the Society of Friends.
Parrish, John.Md., 1729-1807. A Quaker preacher of
Pennsylvania noted as an early opponent of slavery, who published
Remarks on the Slavery of the Black Race.
Parrish, Joseph.Pa., 1779-1840. Nephew of J. Parrish,
supra. An eminent Philadelphia physician who was the author of
Practical Observations on Strangulated Hernia. See Memoir by G. B.
Wood.
Parrish, Joseph.Pa., 1818-1891. Son of Joseph Parrish,
supra. A physician of Burlington, New Jersey, famous as an
authority upon the treatment of inebriates. Alcoholic Inebriety from
the Medical Standpoint.
Parry, Charles Christopher.E., 1823-1890. A botanist of
Davenport, Iowa, among whose writings are, Botanical Observations in
Western Wyoming; Botanical Observations in Southern Utah.
Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theodora [Smith] [Dana].N. Y.,
1861- ——. A writer of Albany whose books were published under
the name of Mrs. William Starr Dana. How to Know the Wild Flowers;
According to Season; Plants and Their Children. Am. Scr.
Parsons, Frank.N. J., 1855- ——. A lawyer of Boston.
The World’s Best Books; Our Country’s Need, or the Development of a
Scientific Industrial System. He has edited several legal works.
Parsons, George Frederic.E., 1840- ——. A journalist
of New York city. Life of J. W. Marshall, Discoverer of Gold in
California; Middle Ground, a novel.
Parsons, Jonathan.Ms., 1705-1776. A Presbyterian
minister of Newburyport, who adopted the views of Whitefield, and in
whose house that famous preacher died. Lectures on Justification;
Good News from a Far Country, said to be the first book published in
New Hampshire; Sixty Sermons; Freedom from Ecclesiastical and Civil
Slavery the Purchase of Christ. See Sprague’s Annals of the American
Pulpit.
Parsons, Theophilus.Ms., 1750-1813. A jurist
of Newburyport and after 1800 of Boston, and chief justice of
Massachusetts from 1801. Commentaries on the Law of the United States;
The Essex Result, a famous political pamphlet of 1777. See Memoir by
his son.
Parsons, Theophilus.Ms., 1797-1882. Son of T. Parsons,
supra. A noted legal writer, Dane professor of Law in Harvard
University from 1847, and an eminent Swedenborgian thinker. Treatise
on the Law of Contracts; Elements of Mercantile Law; The Laws of
Business; Maritime Law; Law of Promissory Notes; Principles of the
Law of Partnership; The Law of Marine Insurance; Treatise on the Law
of Partnership; Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a United
States Citizen; Memoir of Chief Justice Parsons, supra; The
Ministry of Sorrow; Deus Homo; The Infinite and the Finite; Essays;
Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swedenborg; The Mystery of
Life. Lip. Lit.
Parsons, Thomas William.Ms., 1819-1892. A poet of Boston
who for some years practised his profession of dentistry there. The
quality of his writing is uneven, but in such poems as the Lines on a
Bust of Dante, and When Francesca Sings, he is at his best. His work
includes a much-admired though incomplete translation in English verse
of Dante’s Divina Commedia, of which an edition was issued in 1893,
with introduction by C. E. Norton, supra, and memorial sketch by
Miss Guiney, supra; Ghetto di Roma; The Magnolia; The Old Home
at Sudbury; The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems; Poems (1893).
See Atlantic Monthly; Stedman’s Poets of America; Hovey’s Seaward,
an Elegy.Hou.
Parsons, Usher.Me., 1788-1868. A surgeon of Providence.
The Art of Making Anatomic Preparations; Prize Dissertations; Sailors’
Physician; History of the Battle of Lake Erie; Life of Sir William
Pepperell.
Partington, Mrs.See Shillaber.
Parton, James.E., 1822-1891. A popular littérateur of
English birth who came to America when very young and for the latter
part of his life resided in Newburyport. The permanent value of his
writing is not great, with the possible exception of his Life of
Voltaire. His other works include, Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew
Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General Butler in New Orleans; Famous
Americans of Recent Times; Smoking and Drinking; Captains of Industry;
Triumphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of America and Europe; The People’s
Book of Biography; Caricature and Other Comic Art; Topics of the Times
(1871). See New England Magazine, January, 1893.Cr. Har.
Hou.
Parton, Mrs. Sarah Payson [Willis] [Eldridge]. “Fanny Fern.”
Me., 1811-1872. Wife of J. Parton, supra, and sister of
N. P. Willis, infra. A once popular but now neglected writer
who for some sixteen years contributed a weekly article to The New
York Ledger. Her writing was fresh and piquant in style, but wholly
ephemeral in character. Rose Clark, a novel; Ruth Hall, a novel more
or less autobiographic; Fern Leaves; Folly as it Flies; Ginger Snaps;
Caper Sauce. See Memoir by J. Parton, supra.
Partridge, William Ordway.F., 1861- ——. A sculptor of
Milton, Massachusetts. Art for America; The Technique of Sculpture; The
Song Life of a Sculptor. Gi. Rob.
Parvin, Theodore Sutton.N. J., 1817-1901. An educator of
Iowa, professor in Iowa University, 1859-70. History of Iowa; History
of Templary in Iowa.
Parvin, Theophilus.Ar., 1829-1898. A Philadelphia
physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College, who was author of
The Science and Art of Obstetrics.
Paschall, George Washington.Ga., 1812-1878. A jurist of
Texas, and later of Washington, where he was professor of jurisprudence
in Georgetown College. Annotated Digest of Texas Laws; Decisions of
Texas Supreme Court; Annotated Constitution of the United States.
Patten, Claudius Buchanan. 1828-1886. A banker of Boston who
published, in 1885, England as Seen by an American Banker. Lo.
Patten, George Washington.R. I., 1808-1882. Son of W.
Patten, infra. An officer in the United States army who wrote
the noted lyrics, The Seminole’s Reply; Joys that We’ve Tasted. His
published books include, Army Manual; Infantry Tactics; Cavalry Drill;
Voices of the Border, a volume of verse.
Patten, Simon Nelson.Il., 1852- ——. A professor
of political economy in the University of Pennsylvania from 1888.
The Stability of Prices; The Consumption of Wealth; Economic Basis
of Protection; Principles of Rational Taxation; Educational Value
of Political Economy; Theory of Dynamic Economics; The Premises of
Political Economy; The Theory of Social Forces.
Patten, William.Ms., 1763-1839. A Congregational
clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island. Christianity the True Religion;
Reminiscences of Samuel Hopkins, supra.
Patterson, Christopher Stuart.Pa., 1842- ——. A lawyer
of Philadelphia, professor of the law of real estate in the University
of Pennsylvania from 1887. Memoir of Theodore Cuyler; Railway Accident
Law; Federal Restraints on State Action; The United States and the
State under the Constitution.
Patterson, Robert.I., 1743-1824. A professor of
mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, 1779-1814, and director
of the Philadelphia Mint. The Newtonian System; Treatise on Arithmetic.
Patterson, Robert.I., 1829- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Brooklyn, California, from 1880. The Fables of Infidelity
and the Facts of Faith; The American Sabbath; The Sabbath: Scientific,
American, and Christian; Christianity the Only Republican Religion;
Christ’s Testimony to the Scriptures; Egypt’s Place in History.
Patterson, Robert Mayne.Pa., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia. History of Presbyterianism in Philadelphia;
Paradise; Visions of Heaven; Elijah the Favored Man; History of the
Synod of Pennsylvania.
Patton, Alfred Spencer.E., 1825-1888. A Baptist minister
of Utica, and subsequently editor, in New York city, of The Baptist
Weekly. Light in the Valley; My Joy and Crown; Kincaid, the Hero
Missionary; The Losing and Taking of Mansoul.
Patton, Francis Landey.Ba., 1843- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, president of Princeton College from 1888.
Inspiration of the Scriptures; Summary of Christian Doctrine.
Patton, Jacob Harris.Pa., 1812-1903. An historical
writer of New York city. Concise History of the American People;
Yorktown, 1781-1881; The Democratic Party: its History and Influence;
Brief History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Natural
Resources of the United States; Political Economy for American Youth;
Four Hundred Years of American History; Political Parties in the United
States. Fo. Lov.
Patton, William.Pa., 1798-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New York city, founder of the Union Theological Seminary. The
Laws of Fermentation and the Wines of the Ancients; The Judgment of
Jerusalem Predicted in Scripture; Jesus of Nazareth; Bible Principles
and Bible Characters.
Patton, William Weston.N. Y., 1821-1889. Grandson of W.
Patton, supra. A Congregational clergyman in New York city, and
president of Howard University from 1877. Spiritual Victory; Prayer and
its Remarkable Answers; The Young Man’s Friend; Conscience and Law;
Slavery and Infidelity. Fa.
Paul, John.See Webb, C. H.
Paulding, James Kirke.Md., 1779-1860. A versatile
and once popular writer of New York city, the friend of Irving, and
co-author with him of The Salmagundi Papers in 1807. He was secretary
of the navy, 1837-41. His various writings include: The Diverting
History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, his most successful work;
Salmagundi, a second series, 1819; Koningsmarke, the Long Finne,
a novel; John Bull in America; The Dutchman’s Fireside; Lay of the
Scottish Fiddle, a travesty of the Lay of the Last Minstrel; Westward
Ho; Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham; The Puritan and his
Daughter; The New Mirror for Travellers; The Backwoodsman, a poem;
The Bucktails, a Comedy; Letters from the South; Life of George
Washington; Slavery in America, a spirited defence of that institution.
See Literary Life of Paulding by his son; Appletons’ American
Biography.Scr.
Payne, Charles Henry.Ms., 1830-1899. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, president of Ohio Wesleyan University, 1876-88.
The Social Glass and Christian Obligation; Daniel, the Uncompromising
Young Man; Guides and Guards in Character-Building; Methodism, its
History and Results; Temperance; Women and their Work in Methodism.
Meth.
Payne, Daniel Alexander.S. C., 1811-1893. A Methodist
bishop of African descent, president of Wilberforce University,
1865-76. Domestic Education; History of the African Methodist Church;
Recollections of Men and Things.
Payne, John Howard.N. Y., 1792-1852. A dramatist
and actor of New York city in whose drama of Clari, the Maid of
Milan, occurs the famous lyric, Home, Sweet Home, his chief claim to
remembrance. From 1841 till his death he was United States consul at
Tunis, his remains being removed from there to Washington in 1883. His
best plays include, Brutus; Virginius; Charles II. See American
Magazine of History, May, 1881; Biographical Sketch by Brainard,
1885.
Payne, William Harold.N. Y., 1836- ——. An educator of
Tennessee, chancellor of the University of Nashville, and president
of Peabody Normal College from 1888. School Supervision; Outlines
of Educational Doctrine; Contributions to the Science of Education;
Lectures on Pedagogy. Ap.
Payne, Will[iam Hudson].Il., 1865- ——. A journalist of
Chicago. Jerry the Dreamer, a novel. Har.
Payne, William Morton.Ms., 1858- ——. An educator and
literary critic of Chicago, professor of physical science in the High
School. Our New Education; Little Leaders. Wy.
Payson, Edward.N. H., 1783-1827. A Congregational
clergyman of Portland, Maine, whose three volumes of Sermons were for a
long time widely popular in the religious world. See Bibliography of
Maine.
Payson, Edward. 1814-1890. A writer of Deering, Maine. The Law
of Equivalents in its Relations to Political and Social Ethics; Doctor
Tom; The Maine Law in the Balance. Hou. Le.
Peabody, Andrew Preston.Ms., 1811-1893. A Unitarian
clergyman of eminence, pastor of a church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
1833-60, and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard
University, 1860-81. A conservative, tolerant thinker, greatly beloved
by all within the sphere of his influence. Sermons of Consolation;
Lectures on Christian Doctrine; Christianity the Fruit of Nature; Moral
Philosophy; Faults and Graces of Conversation; Sermons for Children;
Christianity and Science; King’s Chapel Sermons; Reminiscences of
European Travel; Christian Belief and Life; Baccalaureate Sermons;
Building a Character; Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Known; Harvard
Reminiscences; translations of the ethical writings of Cicero and
Plutarch’s Delay of Divine Justice. A. U. A. Hou. Lit. Rob.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer.Ms., 1804-1894. A noted
educator of Boston, very active in awakening American interest in the
kindergarten system, and in her early life associated in teaching with
A. B. Alcott, supra, as related in her Record of a School.
Her other works include: Chronological History of the United States;
Kindergarten Guide; Æsthetic Papers; Lectures to Kindergartners; First
Steps to History; Reminiscences of Dr. Channing; Last Evening with
Allston, and Other Papers. Le. Rob.
Peabody, Ephraim.N. H., 1807-1856. Cousin of A. P.
Peabody, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, rector of
King’s Chapel, 1846-56. Christian Days and Thoughts; Sermons (with
Memoir by S. A. Eliot), 1857.
Peabody, Francis Greenwood.Ms., 1847- ——. Son of E.
Peabody, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, Parkman
professor of theology at Harvard University, 1880-86, and Plummer
professor of Christian morals from 1886. Mornings in the College
Chapel. Hou.
Peabody, Oliver William Bourne.N. H., 1799-1848. A
lawyer and journalist of Boston, subsequently a Unitarian clergyman and
pastor of a church in Burlington, Vermont, 1845-48. He published Lives
of Generals Sullivan and Putnam, in Sparks’s American Biography, and an
edition of Shakespeare with Life and Notes.
Peabody, William Bourne Oliver.N. H., 1799-1847. Twin
brother of O. W. B. Peabody, supra. A Unitarian clergyman,
pastor of a church in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1820-47. He was
the author of Lives of A. Wilson, Cotton Mather, Brainerd, and
Oglethorpe, in Sparks’s American Biography; and Report on Birds of the
Commonwealth. As a verse-writer he is best represented by such poems as
Monadnock; Hymn of Nature; Winter Night.
Peacock, Thomas Brower.O., 1852- ——. A verse-writer of
Topeka, whose ambitious lines are quite without poetic merit. The Rhyme
of the Border War; The Vendetta; Poems of the Plains. Put.
Peale, Charles Wilson.Md., 1741-1827. An artist,
inventor, and miscellaneous writer of Philadelphia, among whose works
are, On Building Wooden Bridges; Domestic Happiness; Economy in Fuel.
See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Biography of, by R. Peale,
infra; Boyle’s Distinguished Marylanders.
Peale, Rembrandt.Pa., 1778-1860. Son of C. W. Peale,
supra. An artist of Philadelphia. Notes on Italy; Portfolio of
an Artist; Graphics. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists.
Pearson, Jonathan.N. H., 1813-1887. A genealogist
who was professor of chemistry and subsequently of botany at Union
College from 1839. Early Records of the County of Albany; Genealogy
of the First Settlers of Albany; Genealogies of the First Settlers of
Schenectady.
Pease, Theodore Claudius.N. Y., 1853-1893. A
Congregational clergyman of Malden, Massachusetts. The Christian
Ministry. Hou.
Peaselee, Edmund Randolph.N. H., 1814-1878. A physician
of New York city, medical professor in several institutions. Human
Histology; Ovarian Tumors. Ap.
Peattie, Mrs. Elia Wilkinson.Mch., 1862- ——. A
journalist of Chicago. The Judge, a novel; A Trip through Wonderland,
a volume of Alaska travel; With Scrip and Staff, a story of the
Children’s Crusade; A Mountain Woman. Wy.
Peck, George.N. Y., 1797-1876. A Methodist clergyman of
prominence who was editor of several denominational journals. Christian
Perfection; Early Methodism; Wyoming and its History; Universalism
Examined; History of the Apostles and Evangelists; Rule of Faith;
Manly Character, include his chief works. See Life and Times of, by
himself.Meth.
Peck, George Washington.Ms., 1817-1859. A journalist of
Boston and New York. Melbourne and the Chinchu Islands.
Peck, George Wesley.Pa., 1849- ——. Great-nephew of J.
T. Peck, infra. A Methodist clergyman of Western New York. The
Realization and Benefit of Ideals; Walk in the Light.
Peck, George Wilbur.N. Y., 1840- ——. A Wisconsin
politician, successively mayor of Milwaukee and governor of Wisconsin.
Peck’s Bad Boy; Compendium of Fun, and other works of his, represent
almost the lowest depths of vulgarity to which American humour has
descended.
Peck, Harry Thurston.Ct., 1856- ——. A professor of
Latin at Columbia College and a literary critic. Latin Pronunciation;
The Semitic Theory of Creation; The Personal Equation. Har.
Peck, Jesse Truesdell.N. Y., 1811-1883. Brother of G.
Peck, supra. A bishop in the Methodist church. The Central Idea
of Christianity; The True Woman; What Must I Do to be Saved?; The
Great Republic. Meth.
Peck, John Lord. 18— - ——. The Ultimate Generalization of
Science; The Political Economy of Democracy and Capital and Labor.
Peck, John Mason.Ct., 1789-1858. A Baptist general
missionary in the Western States. New Guide for Emigrants to the West
(1836); Father Clark, or the Pioneer Preacher.
Peck, Samuel Minturn.Al., 1854- ——. A popular lyric
poet and physician of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cap and Bells; Rings and
Love Knots; Rhymes and Roses; Fair Women of To-Day. Sto.
Peck, William Guy.Ct., 1820-1892. A soldier and
mathematician, professor in Columbia College from 1857. Elementary
Mechanics; Popular Astronomy; and a complete course of mathematical
text-books.
Peck, William Henry.Ga., 1830-189-. An educator of
Georgia and a prolific writer of sensational novels remarkable for an
entire absence of any literary quality. Among them are The McDonalds,
or the Ashes of Southern Homes; The Confederate Flag of the Ocean; The
Brother’s Vengeance. See Davidson’s Living Writers of the South.
Pedder, James.E., 1775-1859. An agricultural writer
who came to America in 1832, and settled in Philadelphia as a sugar
manufacturer. From 1844 to 1859 he edited The Boston Cultivator. The
Farmer’s Land Measure; The Yellow Shoestrings; Frank.
Peebles, Mrs. Mary Louise [Parmelee]. “Lynde Palmer.” N.
Y., 1833- ——. A writer of religious juvenile tales and other
works, among them being The Little Captain; Helps Over Hard Places;
The Good Fight; Where Honour Leads; A Question of Honour, a story; The
Magnet Stones; The Two Blizzards. Do. Kt.
Peers, Benjamin Orrs.Va., 1800-1842. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator of Kentucky, founder of the common school system
of Kentucky. American Education.
Peet, Harvey Prindle.Ct., 1794-1873. A noted educator of
deaf-mutes in New York city. Course of Instruction for the Deaf and
Dumb; Legal Rights of the Deaf and Dumb; History of the United States,
include his most important writings.
Peet, Stephen Denison.O., 1830- ——. A Congregational
minister, eminent as an anthropologist. The Ashtabula Disaster; History
of Ashtabula County, Ohio; Ancient Architecture in America; History of
Early Missions in Wisconsin; Picture Writing; Primitive Symbolisms; The
Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Peffer, William Alfred.Pa., 1831- ——. A prominent
lawyer and journalist of Kansas, and well known as a Populist
Congressman. Tariff Manual; The Way Out.
Peirce [pêrss], Benjamin.Ms., 1778-1831. A
merchant of Salem, Massachusetts, subsequently librarian of Harvard
University, who published a History of Harvard University from 1636 to
the American Revolution.
Peirce, Benjamin.Ms., 1809-1880. Son of B. Peirce,
supra. An eminent mathematician, professor of mathematics and
astronomy at Harvard University, 1833-67. Elementary Treatise on Plane
and Spherical Trigonometry; Elementary Treatise on Sound; Curves,
Functions, and Forces; Ideality in the Physical Sciences, compromise
his most important works.
Peirce, Benjamin Osgood.Ms., 1854- ——. Kinsman of
preceding. A professor of physics at Harvard University from 1884, and
author of Theory of the Newtonian Potential Functions. Gi.
Peirce, Bradford Kinney.Vt., 1819-1889. A Methodist
clergyman and journalist, editor of Zion’s Herald, 1872-88. Bible
Scholar’s Manual; The Eminent Dead; Notes on the Acts; The Word of
God Opened; A Half Century with Juvenile Delinquents; Trials of an
Inventor; Audubon’s Adventures; Stories from Life which the Chaplain
Told; The Chaplain with the Children; The Young Shetlander and His
Home; Hymns of the Higher Life. Meth.
Peirce, Charles Sanders.Ms., 1839- ——. Son of B.
Peirce, 2d, supra. A physician and lecturer on logic. Studies
in Logic; Photometric Researches.
Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver.Ms., 1822- ——. An officer
in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Peirce Family of the
Old Colony; Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy; Contributions,
Biographical, etc.
Peirce, James Mills.Ms., 1834- ——. Son of B. Peirce,
2d, supra. An educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics
in Harvard University from 1867. Text-Book of Analytical Geometry;
Elements of Logarithms, are among his technical works. Gi.
Peirson, Mrs. Lydia Jane [Wheeler].Ct., 1802-1862. A
verse-writer of Adrian, Michigan. Forest Leaves, and Other Poems; The
Forest Minstrel. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Pellew, [William] George.E., 1859-1892. A littérateur
of New York city. Jane Austen’s Novels, a Dissertation; In Castle and
Cabin, or Talks in Ireland; Woman and the Commonwealth; Life of John
Jay. Hou.
Pemberton, Ebenezer.Ms., 1704-1777. A Presbyterian
clergyman prominent as a loyalist in Boston at the opening of the
Revolution. Sermons on Several Subjects; Practical Discourses;
Salvation by Grace; Occasional Sermons. See Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit.
Pendleton, Edmund Monroe. 1815-1884. A physician who published
Scientific Agriculture (1876).
Pendleton, James Madison.Va., 1811-1891. A Baptist
clergyman of Upland, Pennsylvania. Three Reasons Why I Am a Baptist;
Church Manual; Christian Doctrines; Sermons; Distinctive Principles of
Baptists; Atonement of Christ. Bap.
Pendleton, Louis [Beauregard].Ga., 1861- ——. A
novelist of Philadelphia. Bewitched, and Other Stories; In the Wire
Grass, a novel of Southern Georgia; King Tom and the Runaways, a
juvenile tale; The Wedding Garment, a Tale of the Life to Come; The
Sons of Ham; Corona of the Nantahalas; In the Okefenokee, a juvenile
tale. Ap. Cas. Mer. Rob.
Pendleton, William Nelson.Va., 1809-1883. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator of Virginia, a Confederate officer during
the Civil War, and subsequently rector of Grace Church, Lexington,
Virginia. Science a Witness for the Bible. See Memoirs of, by E. P.
Lee.Lip.
Penhallow, Samuel.E., 1665-1726. A citizen of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, chief justice of New Hampshire, 1717-26.
He published in 1726 a realistic and valuable History of the Wars
of New England with the Eastern Indians. See Tyler’s American
Literature.
Penick, Charles Clifton.Va., 1843- ——. The third
Protestant Episcopal bishop of the West African Mission. He was
consecrated in 1877, resigned in 1883, and is now (1897) a general
agent at Baltimore of the commission on work among the coloured people.
More than a Prophet, or Chapters on St. John the Evangelist.
Penn, Arthur.See Matthews, J. B.
Pennell, Mrs. Elizabeth [Robins].Pa., 1855- ——. Niece
of C. G. Leland, supra, and wife of J. Pennell, infra.
A writer who has lived in London for many years. Life of Mary
Wollstonecraft; A Canterbury Pilgrimage; Two Pilgrims’ Progress; Our
Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Our Journey to the
Hebrides; To Gipsyland; Play in Provence; The Feasts of Autolycus.
Cent. Har. Mer. Rob. Scr.
Pennell, Joseph.Pa., 1859- ——. An artist living in
London who has illustrated his wife’s books, and published Pen Drawing
and Pen Draughtsmen; The Jew at Home; Modern Illustration. Ap.
Mac.
Penny, Virginia.Ky., 1826- ——. An educator who
has written much in relation to wider opportunities for women. The
Employment of Women; Five Hundred Occupations Adapted to Women; Think
and Act.
Pennypacker, Isaac Rusling.Pa., 1852- ——. A journalist
and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Gettysburg, and Other Poems.
Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker.Pa., 1843- ——. A jurist
of Philadelphia. Annals of Phœnixville; Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Reports; Historical and Biographical Sketches.
Pentecost, George Frederick.Il., 1843- ——. A
Congregational minister in Brooklyn, 1881-90, and subsequently an
evangelist in America and England. The Angel in the Marble; In the
Volume of the Book; Out of Egypt; The Christian and the Modern Dance;
Bible Studies; The Gospel of Luke; Grace Abounding in the Forgiveness
of Sins. Bar. Rev.
Pepper, George Dana Boardman.Ms., 1833- ——. A Baptist
clergyman and educator, president of Colby University from 1882.
Outlines of Theology.
Pepper, William.Pa., 1843-1898. An eminent Philadelphia
physician, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1881-94.
Higher Medical Education; Diseases of Children (with J. F. Meigs,
supra). Lip.
Perce, Elbert.N. Y., 1831-1869. A littérateur of New
York city. Old Carl the Cooper; The Last of His Name; The Battle Roll;
Gulliver Joi: his Three Voyages; and several translations from the
Swedish of Carlén.
Percival, James Gates.Ct., 1795-1856. A verse-writer
once popular, but now wholly neglected. His verse is not unmusical, but
seldom rises much above mediocrity. Seneca Lake and The Coral Grove
are still found lingering in anthologies. Prometheus; Clio; Dream
of a Day; Poems, include his poetical works. He was a geologist of
some reputation, and published Geological Surveys of Connecticut and
Wisconsin. See Life and Letters, by Julius Ward, infra; Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Percy, Florence.See Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth.
Perkins, Charles Callahan.Ms., 1823-1886. A prominent
art patron and critic of Boston. Raphael and Michael Angelo; Tuscan
Sculptors; Italian Sculptors; Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture;
Ghiberti et son école; Art in Education; History of the Boston Handel
and Haydn Society. Hou. Scr.
Perkins, Eli.See Landon.
Perkins, Mrs. Elmira [Johnson].Me., 1814-1896. A
missionary among the Indians in Oregon. Her later life was passed in
Boston. Harp of the Willows, a volume of verse.
Perkins, Frederic Beecher.Ct., 1828-1899. Grandson of
Lyman Beecher, supra. A librarian. Scrope, or the Lost Library,
a novel; Devil Puzzlers, and Other Studies; My Three Conversations with
Miss Chester; Life of Dickens; Check List of American Local History,
include the more important of his writings.
Perkins, George Henry.Ms., 1844- ——. A naturalist,
State entomologist of Vermont. The Injurious Insects of Vermont; The
Flora of Vermont.
Perkins, George Roberts.N. Y., 1812-1876. An educator
of New York State, who published Plane and Solid Geometry, and other
mathematical text-books.
Perkins, James Breck.Wis., 1847- ——. A lawyer of
Rochester, New York. France Under Mazarin; France Under the Regency;
France under Louis XV. Hou. Put.
Perkins, James Handasyd.Ms., 1810-1849. A Unitarian
clergyman of Cincinnati, very active in the cause of prison discipline
reform. Annals of the West. See Memoir by his cousin, W. H.
Channing, supra.
Perkins, Justin.Ms., 1805-1869. A Congregational
missionary in Persia. Residence of Eight Years in Persia; Missionary
Life in Persia.
Perkins, Maurice.Ct., 1836-1901. A professor of
chemistry at Union College from 1865, author of a Manual of Qualitative
Analysis.
Perkins, Samuel.Ct., 1767-1850. A lawyer of Windham,
Connecticut. History of the Late War between the United States and
Great Britain (1825); General Jackson’s Conduct in the Seminole War;
Historical Sketches of the United States.
Perkins, William Rufus.Pa., 1847-1895. An educator and
poet, professor of history in the Iowa State University, 1887-95. He
was the author of two careful historical monographs, History of the
Trappist Abbey of New Melleray; and History of the Amana Society;
and of Eleusis and Lesser Poems, a striking collection of musical
meditative verse. Mg.
Perrin, Raymond S——.N. Y., 1849- ——. The Student’s
Dreams; The Religion of Philosophy, or the Unification of Knowledge.
Put.
Perrine, William Henry.N. Y., 1827-1880. A Methodist
clergyman, professor for some years in Albion College, Michigan. The
Principles of Church Government with Special Application to the Polity
of Episcopal Methodism.
Perry, Amos.Ms., 1812-1899. A Providence writer who was
superintendent of the State census in 1865. Carthage and Tunis is his
only work of importance.
Perry, Arthur Latham.N. H., 1830- ——. A professor
of history and political economy at Williams College from 1853, and
a prominent advocate of free trade. Elements of Political Economy;
Introduction to Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy;
Origins of Williamstown. Scr.
Perry, Benjamin Franklin.S. C., 1805-1886. A lawyer of
South Carolina, provisional governor of his State at the close of the
Civil War. Reminiscences of Public Men; Sketches of Eminent Statesmen
(1887).
Perry, Bliss.Ms., 1860- ——. Son of A. L. Perry,
supra. Editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1899, and a professor
of English literature at Princeton University, 1893-1900. The Plated
City; Salem Kittredge, and Other Stories; The Broughton House; Powers
at Play. Ho. Lgs. Scr.
Perry, Carlotta.See Perry, Charlotte.
Perry, Charlotte Augusta. “Carlotta Perry.” Wis.,
1848- ——. A popular verse-writer of Milwaukee. Carlotta Perry’s Poems.
Perry, Edward Delevan.N. Y., 1854- ——. A professor of
Sanskrit in Columbia College. Indra in the Rigveda; A Sanskrit Primer.
Perry, Mary Alice.Ms., 1854-1883. A writer of fiction.
Esther Pennefather; More Ways Than One. Har.
Perry, Nora.Ms., 1832-1896. A poet and littérateur of
Boston. Her verse was popular, and had not unfrequently the genuine
poetic ring, while her stories for girls were animated and fresh. Her
verse includes, After the Ball, and Other Poems; Her Lover’s Friend,
and Other Poems; New Songs and Ballads; Legends and Lyrics. Her prose
work comprises, The Tragedy of the Unexpected, and Other Stories; For
a Woman, a novel; The Youngest Miss Lorton, and Other Stories; A Book
of Love Stories; A Rosebud Garden of Girls; A Flock of Girls and their
Friends; A Flock of Girls and Boys; Another Flock of Girls; Three
Little Daughters of the Revolution; Hope Benham. Hou. Lit.
Perry, Rufus Lewis.Tn., 1833-1895. A Baptist clergyman
of African descent, widely known as a linguist. Among his various
writings is The Cushite, or the Children of Ham as seen by Ancient
Historians and Poets.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant.R. I., 1845- ——. An educator of
Boston. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Life of Lieber;
From Opitz to Lessing, a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature; The
Evolution of the Snob; History of Greek Literature. Ho. Hou.
Perry, William Stevens.R. I., 1832-1898. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Iowa, prominent among High Churchmen.
The Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church; The
History of the American Episcopal Church; Life Lessons from the Book
of Proverbs; Some Summer Days Abroad; The General Ecclesiastical
Constitution of the American Church; The American Episcopate. Wh.
Peters, Christian Henry Frederick.Sd., 1813-1890. A
German astronomer, director of the observatory at Hamilton College,
1858-90, who discovered over forty asteroids. Celestial Charts.
Peters, Edward Dyer.Ms., 1849- ——. A metallurgist who
has published Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting.
Peters, George Nathaniel Henry.Pa., 1825- ——. A
Lutheran minister of Ohio. The Theocratic Kingdom of Christ.
Peters, John Charles.N. Y., 1819-1893. A physician
of New York city of note as a bacteriologist. Diseases of the Brain
and Nervous System; Diseases of Women; Diseases of the Eye; Notes on
Asiatic Cholera; A New Materia Medica, are among his works.
Peters, Mrs. Phillis [Wheatley].Sl., 1754-1784. A
verse-writer of African birth brought to Boston in childhood as a
slave. Poems on Various Occasions, Religious and Moral, appeared in
London in 1772, and won a fleeting popularity there, the author being
regarded as a prodigy. But there is little in her work that should keep
it in remembrance. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Peters, Samuel Andrew.Ct., 1735-1826. An Episcopal
clergyman of Hartford who published a famous General History of
Connecticut by a Gentleman of that Province, a curious satirical
production, to which may be traced the well-known fable of the
Connecticut Blue Laws. Other works of his include a Life of Rev. Hugh
Peters; History of Hebron, Connecticut.
Peterson, Arthur.Pa., 1851- ——. Son of H. Peterson,
infra. A naval officer who has published Songs of New Sweden.
Peterson, Charles Jacobs.Pa., 1818-1887. A Philadelphia
publisher and novelist, the founder of Peterson’s Magazine. Kate
Aylesford; Cruising in the Last War; Military Heroes of the United
States; Grace Dudley, or Arnold at Saratoga; Mabel, or Darkness and
Dawn; The Old Stone Mansion, include his principal writings.
Peterson, Frederick.Min., 1859- ——. A physician and
verse-writer. Poems and Swedish Translations; In the Shade of Ygdrasil
(verse).
Peterson, Mrs. Hannah [Bouvier].Pa., 1811-1870. First
wife of R. E. Peterson, infra. Familiar Astronomy.
Peterson, Henry.Pa., 1818-1891. Cousin of C. J.
Peterson, supra. A Philadelphia verse-writer, and editor for
many years of The Saturday Evening Post. The Modern Job, and Other
Poems; Faire-Mount; Bessie’s Lovers; Cæsar, a Dramatic Study.
Peterson, Robert Evans.Pa., 1812-1894. Brother of H.
Peterson, supra. A Philadelphia writer whose principal work is
The Roman Catholic not the Only True Religion. Lip.
Pettingill, Amos.N. H., 1780-1830. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of Connecticut. View of the Heavens; The Spirit of
Methodism. See Memoir of, by Hart, 1832.
Pettingill, John Hancock.Vt., 1815-1887. A
Congregational clergyman in Ohio, widely known as an earnest believer
in conditional immortality. The Theological Trilemma; Platonism
versus Christianity; Bible Terminology; Life Everlasting; The
Unspeakable Gift; Views and Reviews in Eschatology.
Peyton, John Lewis.Va., 1824-1896. A lawyer of Staunton,
Virginia, who served as an officer in the Confederate service.
Adventures of my Grandfather; History of Augusta County, Virginia; The
American Crisis; Over the Alleghanies; Memorials of Nature and Art.
Phelan, James.Mi., 1856-1891. A Memphis lawyer and
journalist. Philip Massinger and his Plays; History of Tennessee.
Hou.
Phelps, Mrs. Almira [Hart] [Lincoln].Ct., 1793-1884.
A noted educator of Baltimore who published many text-books on the
natural sciences. Among her works are, Geology for Beginners; Christian
Households; Ida Norman, a tale; Familiar Lectures on Botany; Hours with
my Pupils. See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record.Lip.
Phelps, Austin.Ms., 1820-1890. A Congregational
clergyman of Andover, Massachusetts, professor of sacred rhetoric
in the Theological Seminary there, 1848-79. The Still Hour; The New
Birth; The Theory of Preaching; English Style in Public Discourse; The
Solitude of Christ; Studies of the Old Testament; Men and Books; My
Study, and Other Essays; My Portfolio; My Note-Book. See Life by his
daughter, Mrs. Ward, 1891.C. P. S. Lo. Scr.
Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth [Stuart].Ms., 1815-1853. Wife
of A. Phelps, supra. A writer whose Sunnyside, and A Peep at
Number Five, stories descriptive of clerical life, were once widely
popular. She wrote, also, Last Sheaf from Sunnyside, and a number of
Sunday-school tales, the latter over the signature “H. Trusta.”
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Daughter of A. and E. S. Phelps,
supra. See Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth.
Phelps, John Wolcott.Vt., 1813-1885. Stepson of Mrs.
Almira Phelps, supra. A writer of Brattleboro, Vermont, who was
an officer in the United States army in the Mexican War and became a
brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the Civil War. In
1880 he was the presidential nominee of the American party. Sibylline
Leaves; Good Behavior; History of Madagascar; The Fables of Florian in
English Verse.
Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden.Ct., 1816-1895. A Baptist
clergyman of New Haven, and subsequently of Hartford. Eloquence of
Nature, and Other Poems; Sunlight and Heartlight, and Other Poems;
The Poet’s Song for Heart and Home; Bible Lands; Sermons in the Four
Quarters of the Globe.
Phelps, Thomas Stowell.Me., 1822-1901. A rear-admiral in
the United States navy who retired in 1885. Reminiscences of Washington
Territory (1882).
Phelps, William Lyon.Ct., 1865- ——. An instructor
at Yale University. The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement.
Gi.
Philbrick, Edward Southwick.Ms., 1827-1889. A sanitarian
who published American Sanitary Engineering, 1881.
Philbrick, John Dudley.N. H., 1818-1886. A prominent
educator of Boston who published nearly fifty valuable public-school
reports, and City School Systems in the United States.
Philips, Samuel.Md., 1823- ——. A German Reformed
clergyman, professor in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania,
from 1866. Gethsemane and the Cross; The Christian Home; The Voice of
Blood; The Communion of Saints.
Phillips, Barnet.Pa., 1828- ——. A journalist of New
York city, on the staff of The Times from 1872. The Struggle, a novel;
Burning their Ships.
Phillips, George.E., 1593-1644. A Puritan clergyman,
minister at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1630 till his death. He was
a noted controversialist of his day, and published a treatise on Infant
Baptism.
Phillips, George Searle. “January Searle.” E., 1818-1889.
A writer and lecturer of Yorkshire, England, who, after some years of
literary work in the United States, became, in 1873, an inmate of an
insane asylum in New Jersey. Chapters in the History of a Life; Life
of Ebenezer Elliott; Memoirs of Wordsworth; The Gypsies of the Dane’s
Dyke; Chicago and Her Churches.
Phillips, Henry.Pa., 1838-1895. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. History of American Colonial Paper Currency; History of
American Continental Paper Money; Pleasures of Numismatic Science;
Poems from the Spanish and German; Faust, from the German of Chamisso.
Phillips, Maude Gillette.Ms., 1860- ——. An educator
who has published A Popular Manual of English Literature. Har.
Phillips, Wendell.Ms., 1811-1884. A celebrated orator of
Boston, a vehement opponent of slavery, and an active champion of labor
reform and woman-suffrage. The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Contract;
Lectures, Orations, and Letters to 1861; Speeches, Lectures, and
Addresses; The Scholar in a Republic. See Lives by G. L. Austin, C.
Martyn; Appletons’ American Biography.
Phillips, Willard.Ms., 1784-1873. A lawyer of Boston.
Treatise on the Law of Insurance; Manual of Political Economy; The Law
of Patents; The Inventor’s Guide; Protection and Free Trade. See
Allibone’s Dictionary.
Phin, John.S., 1832- ——. A New York publisher of
technical journals. Open-Air Grape Culture; Chemical History of
the Creation; Practical Treatise on Lightning Rods; How to Use the
Microscope; Workshop Companion; Preparation and Use of Cements and
Glue; Dictionary of Practical Agriculture; Trade Secrets and Private
Recipes; A Pocket Dictionary of Monetary and Coinage Terms.
Phœnix, John.See Derby, George.
Phyfe, William Henry Pinkney.N. Y., 1855- ——. An
author of New York city. How Should I Pronounce? The School Pronouncer;
Seven Thousand Words Often Mispronounced; The Test Pronouncer; Five
Thousand Words Commonly Misspelled. Put.
Piatt [pē-ăt´], Donn.O., 1819-1891. A lawyer
and journalist of Washington, and during the Civil War a Federal
officer. Sunday Meditations; Memories of the Men who Saved the Union;
Poems and Plays; Life of General George H. Thomas; The Lone Grave of
the Shenandoah (verse). See Life of, by C. G. Miller, 1893.Clke.
Piatt, John James.Ind., 1835- ——. Nephew of D. Piatt,
supra. A poet who was consul at Cork, 1882-93. He has been a
prolific writer of verse, but The Morning Street, one of his earlier
poems, still ranks as his finest effort. Landmarks; Western Windows;
Poems of House and Home; Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley; Poems in
Sunshine and Firelight; The Lost Farm, and Other Poems; At the Holy
Well; A Dream of Church Windows (a revised edition of Poems of House
and Home); The Lost Hunting Ground; Little New World Idyls; Poems by
Two Friends (with W. D. Howells, supra); The Children Out of
Doors; and Nests at Washington (with Mrs. Piatt). His prose is included
in Penciled Fly-Leaves; A Return to Paradise. Clke. Hou. Ls.
Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan [Bryan].Ky., 1836- ——. Wife
of J. J. Piatt, supra. A poet whose range of expression is not
very wide, but, within its limits, genuine and original. A Woman’s
Poems; A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and Other Poems; That New
World, and Other Poems; Dramatic Persons and Moods; An Irish Garland;
In Primrose Time; The Witch in the Glass; Complete Poems (1894); An
Enchanted Castle; Child’s World Ballads. See Wide-Awake Magazine,
November, 1876.Clke. Hou. Lgs.
Picard, George Henry.O., 1850- ——. A physician and
novelist of New York city. A Matter of Taste; A Mission Flower; Old
Boniface.
Pick, Bernhard.P., 1842- ——. A Lutheran clergyman
of Pennsylvania, prior to 1884 a Presbyterian minister. Luther as a
Hymnist; Historical Sketch of the Jews; Life of Christ according to
Extra-Canonical Sources; Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers; The Talmud:
What It Is.
Pickard, Samuel Thomas.Ms., 1828- ——. A writer who for
many years edited the Portland (Maine) Transcript. Life and Letters of
John Greenleaf Whittier. Hou.
Pickering, Charles.Pa., 1805-1878. A grandson of Timothy
Pickering, the noted statesman. A naturalist of eminence. Races of
Men and their Geographical Distribution; Geographical Distribution of
Animals and Men; Chronological History of Plants. See Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Pickering, Edward Charles.Ms., 1846- ——. Son of
C. Pickering, supra. The director of Harvard Observatory at
Cambridge, and author of Elements of Physical Manipulation. Hou.
Pickering, Henry.N. Y., 1781-1838. The third son of the
statesman, Timothy Pickering. A verse-writer of New York who published
Ruins of Pæstum; Athens, and Other Poems; The Buckwheat Cake.
Pickering, John.Ms., 1777-1846. The eldest son of
Timothy Pickering. A lawyer of Boston and a linguist of eminence. Greek
and English Lexicon; Collection of Words and Phrases Supposed to be
Peculiar to the United States; Remarks on the Indian Languages of North
America. See Allibone’s Dictionary.Lip.
Pickering, Octavius.Pa., 1791-1868. Brother of J.
Pickering, supra. A Boston lawyer who published Reports of Cases
in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1822-40; and Life of
Timothy Pickering (completed by Upham).
Pickering, William Henry.Ms., 1858- ——. Son of C.
Pickering, supra. An astronomer, professor in Harvard University
from 1887. Walking Guide to the White Mountain Range.
Pickett, Albert James.N. C., 1810-1858. A writer of
Montgomery, Alabama, who published a History of Alabama.
Pierce, Edward Lillie.Ms., 1829-1897. A prominent Boston
lawyer. American Railroad Law; Life of Charles Sumner; The Law of
Railroads; Enfranchisement and Citizenship. Lit. Rob.
Pierce, Frederick Clifton.Ms., 1856- ——. An
Illinois writer who has written town histories of Barre and Grafton,
Massachusetts, and of Rockford, Illinois; The Harwood Genealogy; Pierce
History and Genealogy; Peirce History and Genealogy; Pearse and Pearce
Genealogy.
Pierce, Henry Niles.R. I., 1820-1899. The fourth
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Arkansas, consecrated in 1870. The
Agnostic, and Other Poems. Wh.
Pierpont, John.Ct., 1785-1866. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, pastor of the Hollis Street Church, 1819-45. He wrote a volume
of sacred verse, Airs of Palestine, and a number of domestic lyrics,
which were very popular, Passing Away being the best known of any.
He compiled several school readers, the most noted of which was The
American First-Class Book. See Atlantic Monthly, December, 1866.Lip.
Pierrepont, Edward Willoughby.N. Y., 1860-1885. A chargé
d’affaires at Rome at the time of his death. From Fifth Avenue to
Alaska.
Pierson, Arthur Tappan.N. Y., 1837- ——. A
Congregational clergyman of note. Acts of the Holy Spirit; Many
Infallible Proofs; The Crisis of Missions; The Miracles of Missions;
The Divine Art of Preaching; The Heart of the Gospel; Keys to the Word;
Lessons on Prayer, comprise his more important works. Fu. Ran.
Rev.
Pierson, Mrs. Cornelia [Tuthill].Ct., 1820-1870.
Daughter of Mrs. Tuthill, infra. Our Little Comfort; Wreaths and
Blossoms for the Church; When are we Happiest?; The Belle, the Blue,
and the Bigot, are among her works.
Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox.N. Y., 1817-1887. A
Presbyterian clergyman in Kentucky. Thomas Jefferson at Monticello;
In the Brush, or Old-Time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the
Southwest. Ap.
Pike, Albert.Ms., 1809-1891. A lawyer and journalist of
Little Rock, Memphis, and Washington successively, who served as an
officer in the Confederate army. His writings include, Hymns to the
Gods; Prose Sketches and Poems; Nugæ, a collection of Poems; Arkansas
Supreme Court Reports, 1840-45. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America.
Pike, James Shepherd.Me., 1811-1882. A journalist of New
York city who was minister to the Netherlands, 1861-66. A Prostrate
State; The Restoration of the Currency; The Financial Crisis; Horace
Greeley in 1872; The First Blows of the Civil War; The New Puritan: New
England Two Hundred Years Ago. Har.
Pike, Mrs. Mary Hayden [Green].Me., 1825- ——. A once
popular novelist. Ida May; Caste; Agnes; Bond and Free.
Pilcher, Elijah Homes.O., 1810-1887. A Methodist
clergyman of Michigan who wrote a History of Protestantism in Michigan.
Pilling, James Constantine.D. C., 1840-1895. An
ethnologist of distinction in the government service, among whose
writings are Bibliographies of the Languages of the North American
Indians, of the Eskimoan Languages, of the Siouan, of the Iroquoian,
and others.
Pillsbury, Parker.Ms., 1809-1898. A noted anti-slavery
agitator. Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles.
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth.S. C., 1812-1898. An
Episcopal clergyman of Charleston. Life of General Thomas Pinckney.
Hou.
Pindar, Susan.N. Y., c. 1820-1892. Susan Pindar’s
Story Books; Legends of the Flowers.
Pinkerton, Allan.S., 1819-1884. A Chartist who came
to America in 1842 and settled in Chicago, where he founded a famous
detective agency. Among his many detective stories are, The Molly
Maguires and the Detectives; Criminal Reminiscences; The Spy of
the Rebellion; Thirty Years a Detective; Railroad Forgers and the
Detectives.
Pinkney, Edward Coate.E., 1802-1828. A lyric poet of
Baltimore who published his Poems in 1825. See Griswold’s Poets and
Poetry of America.
Piper, Richard Upton.N. H., 1818- ——. A Chicago
physician. Operative Surgery; The Trees of America.
Pise [pize], Charles Constantine.Md., 1802-1866.
A once prominent Roman Catholic clergyman of Brooklyn. History of the
Church to the Reformation; The Acts of the Apostles in Blank Verse;
Father Rowland; Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story; The Pleasures of
Religion, and Other Poems; Horæ Vagabundæ; Alethia; Zenosius; Letters
to Ada; Lives of St. Ignatius and his First Companions; Notes on a
Protestant Catechism; Christianity and the Church.
Pitkin, Timothy.Ct., 1766-1847. A lawyer and politician
of Connecticut, prominent as a Federalist congressman. A Statistical
View of the Commerce of the United States; Political and Civil History
of the United States, 1763-1847.
Pitman, Benn.E., 1822- ——. A stenographer of
Cincinnati, and in his later years an art instructor of the school
of design at the University of Cincinnati. The Reporter’s Companion;
Manual of Phonography; Phonographic Dictionary (with J. B. Howard).
Pitman, Mrs. Marie J—— [Davis].N. Y., 1850-1888. A
journalist and correspondent of Boston who published European Breezes
and a number of juvenile stories.
Pittenger, William.O., 1840- ——. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of Philadelphia, a Federal soldier during the Civil War.
Daring and Suffering; Oratory, Sacred and Secular; Extempore Speech.
Pitzer, Alexander White.Va., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Washington, professor of biblical literature in Howard
University from 1875. Ecce Deus Homo; Christ the Teacher of Men; The
New Life and Not the Higher Life.
Platt, Franklin.Pa., 1844-1900. A Pennsylvania
geologist, president of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal Company from
1881. Coke Manufacturing; Waste in Mining Anthracite, and other volumes
of geological reports.
Platt, William Henry.N. Y., 1821-1898. An Episcopal
clergyman of Rochester, New York, and more recently of Petersburg,
Virginia. Influence of Religion in the Development of Jurisprudence;
After Death—What?; God Out and Man In; The Philosophy of the
Supernatural.
Pleasanton, Augustus James.D. C., 1808-1894. An army
officer prominent for a short time as the author of a work on the
Influence of the Blue Ray in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life.
Plumer [plŭm´er], William.N. H., 1789-1854. A New
Hampshire lawyer who was an active congressional opponent of slavery.
Lyra Sacra; A Pastoral on the Story of Ruth.
Plumer, William Swan.Pa., 1802-1880. A Presbyterian
clergyman of extreme Calvinistic views, professor of theology in
the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, 1856-80. His
principal writings include, Pastoral Theology; Jehovah-jireh; Studies
in the Book of Psalms; The Book of Our Salvation; Words of Truth and
Love; The Saint and the Sinner; Vital Godliness; Commentary on Romans;
A Word to the Weary. Har. Lip. Ran.
Plympton, George Washington.Ms., 1827- ——. A civil
engineer of note, editor of Van Nostrand’s Engineering Magazine,
1870-86. The Blowpipe; The Starfinder; The Aneroid.
Poe, Edgar Allan.Ms., 1809-1849. A poet and romancer who
is pronounced by some critics the foremost of American poets so far as
melody and technique are concerned. He was born in Boston, his parents
being actors then playing in that city, and, left an orphan at an early
age, was adopted and educated by Mr. Allan, a Virginia merchant. At
nineteen he published his first volume, Tamerlane, and Other Poems. He
led a wandering, dissipated life, editing at various times Graham’s
Magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger, and other periodicals, and
died of delirium tremens in Baltimore. He criticized the work of his
contemporaries with severity, yet in the main with justice, but in so
doing raised up a host of literary enemies. Among his prose tales,
The Gold Bug; The Fall of the House of Usher; Ligeia, are especially
characteristic of his genius, while such poems as The Bells, The Raven,
Annabel Lee, display wonderful melody and perfect mastery of metre.
Beside Tamerlane, his writings include, The Conchologist’s First
Book; Eureka, a Prose Poem; The Raven, and Other Poems; Tales of the
Grotesque and Arabesque; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The best
edition of Poe is that edited by E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry,
in ten volumes (1895). See Lives by Stoddard, Didier, Ingram,
Woodberry; Fortnightly Review, July, 1880; Poe and his Critics by Mrs.
Whitman; Stedman’s Poets of America.Co. Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac.
Sto.
Poinsett, Joel Roberts.S. C., 1779-1851. A South
Carolina statesman, sent on a special mission to Mexico in 1822,
minister to that country 1825-29, and secretary of war under President
Van Buren. He was a botanist of some note, the genus Poinsettia having
been named in his honour. Notes on Mexico, made in 1822.
Pollard, Edward Albert.Va., 1828-1872. A once noted
journalist of Richmond, Virginia, and an active opponent of the policy
of Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. Black Diamonds; Letters of the
Southern Spy; Southern History of the War; Observations in the North;
The Lost Cause; The Lost Cause Regained; Lee and his Lieutenants; Life
of Jefferson Davis, with the Secret History of the Confederacy; The
Virginia Tourist. Lip.
Pollard, Josephine.N. Y., 1834-1892. A littérateur of
New York city, whose work was mainly intended for juvenile readers. The
Gypsy Books; A Piece of Silver; Elfin Land; Vagrant Verses; Songs of
Bird Life; The Decorative Sisters; The Boston Tea Party; Gellivor, a
Christmas Legend. Meth. Ran.
Pomeroy, Brick.See Pomeroy, Marcus.
Pomeroy, John Norton.N. Y., 1828-1885. A lawyer
of Rochester, New York, but subsequently professor of law in the
University of California, 1878-85. Introduction to Municipal Law;
Remedies and Remedial Rights; Specific Performance of Contract;
Equity Jurisprudence; Riparian Rights; Introduction to United States
Constitutional Law; Lectures on International Law in Time of Peace.
Hou. Lit.
Pomeroy, Marcus Mills. “Brick Pomeroy.” N. Y., 1833-1896.
A journalist successively of La Crosse, Wisconsin, New York city (where
he established Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat), and Chicago. Sense; Nonsense;
Gold Dust; Brick Dust; Our Saturday Nights; Home Harmonies; Perpetual
Money.
Pond, Enoch.Ms., 1791-1882. A Congregational clergyman,
professor in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, Maine, from 1832, and
its president from 1856. Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History; Pastoral
Theology; Memoir of Zinzendorf; Life of Increase Mather; Plato: his
Life, Works, Opinions, and Influence; Christian Theology; History of
God’s Church, are among his works. See Autobiography; Bibliography
of Maine.C. P. S.
Pond, Frederick Eugene. “Will Wildwood.” Wis.,
1856- ——. A sporting writer and editor of Chicago. Hand-book for
Young Sportsmen; Memoirs of Eminent Sportsmen; Gun Trial and Field
Records of America.
Pond, George Edward.Ms., 1837-1899. A journalist of
New York and Philadelphia, editor of The Army and Navy Journal. The
Shenandoah Valley in 1864. Scr.
Pond, Samuel William.Ct., 1808-1891. A Congregational
missionary to the Indians in Minnesota. History of Joseph in the Dakota
Language; Wowapi Inonpa, the Second Dakota Reading Book.
Pool, Maria Louise.Ms., 1845-1898. A novelist of
Rockland, Massachusetts, for many years a writer for the New York
Tribune. In Buncombe County; A Vacation in a Buggy; Tenting at Stony
Beach; Dolly; Roweny in Boston; Mrs. Keats Bradford; Out of Step; The
Two Salomes; Katharine North; Mrs. Gerald; Against Human Nature; In a
Dike Shanty; In the First Person; Boss and Other Dogs. Har. Hou. S.
St.
Poole, Herman.Ms., 1849- ——. A chemist and
metallurgist. Geometry in Ten Lessons; Calorific Power of Fuels.
Poole, Mrs. Hester Martha [Hunt].Vt., 1843- ——.
A writer living at Metuchen, New Jersey, who has written much for
periodicals on social and domestic topics. Fruits and How to Use Them.
Poole, William Frederick.Ms., 1821-1894. A bibliographer
of Chicago, librarian of the Public Library there, 1874-87, and,
from the latter date, of the Newberry Library, Chicago; best known
as compiler (with W. I. Fletcher) of Poole’s Index to Periodical
Literature. Two supplementary volumes carry the work forward to
January, 1892. Other works of his are, Anti-Slavery Opinions before
1800; The Battle of the Dictionaries; Websterian Orthography; Cotton
Mather and Salem Witchcraft. Clke. Hou.
Poore, Benjamin Perley.Ms., 1820-1887. A once well-known
journalist of Washington. Campaign Life of Zachary Taylor; Early Life
of Napoleon; Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe; Agricultural History of
Essex County, Massachusetts; Life of Burnside; Political Register and
Congressional Directory, 1776-1878; Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty
Years. Hou.
Pope, Franklin Leonard.Ms., 1840-1895. An electrical
engineer of New York city. Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph;
Life and Work of Joseph Henry, supra.
Pope, John.Ky., 1822-1892. A prominent general in the
Federal army during the Civil War. The Virginia Campaign of July and
August, 1862.
Pope, Mrs. Marion [Manville].Wis., 1859- ——. A
verse-writer whose home in recent years has been in Valparaiso, Chili.
Over the Divide, and Other Verses. Lip.
Porcher, Francis Peyre.S. C., 1825-1895. A physician and
botanist of Charleston. Sketch of the Medical Botany of South Carolina;
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, are among his writings.
Porter, Benjamin Fickling.S. C., 1808- ——. A lawyer
of Alabama. Alabama Supreme Court Reports; Offices of Executors and
Administrators.
Porter, Charles Talbot.N. Y., 1826- ——. A mechanical
engineer of prominence. Mechanics and Faith, a Study of the Spiritual
Truths in Nature.
Porter, David.Ms., 1780-1843. A once noted commodore
in the United States navy. Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean
in 1812-15; Constantinople and its Environs. See Life of, by his
son.
Porter, David Dixon.Pa., 1813-1891. Son of D. Porter,
supra. An admiral of the Federal navy who commanded the fleet
at the storming of Fort Fisher, and amused his latest years by the
composition of sensational romances. Life of Commodore Porter,
supra; Allan Dare and Robert le Diable; Adventures of Harry
Marline; Arthur Merton, a romance; Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil
War; History of the Navy in the War of the Rebellion. Ap.
Porter, Ebenezer.Ct., 1772-1834. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, of contemporary renown as a preacher. He was
professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary, 1812-32,
and president of that institution from 1827 till his death. Among his
publications are, The Young Preacher’s Manual; A Rhetorical Reader,
which reached its 300th edition; Lectures on Homiletics; Lectures on
Eloquence and Style. See Memoir of, by Matthews, 1837.
Porter, Fitz-John.N. H., 1822-1901. A brevet
brigadier-general dismissed from the service in 1863, reinstated by act
of Congress, 1886. Narrative of the Services of the Fifth Army Corps in
1862 in Northern Virginia.
Porter, James.Ms., 1800-1888. A once prominent Methodist
clergyman of Boston. History of Methodism; The Winning Worker; Hints to
Self-Educated Ministers; Compendium of Methodism, comprise a portion of
his writings. Meth.
Porter, John Addison.N. Y., 1822-1866. A professor of
chemistry at Yale College, 1852-64. Principles of Chemistry; First Book
of Chemistry.
Porter, John Addison.Ct., 1856-1900. Son of J. A.
Porter, supra. The Corporation of Yale College; Administration
of the City of Washington; Sketches of Yale Life.
Porter, Linn Boyd. “Albert Ross.” Ms., 1851- ——. A
novelist of Cambridge whose writings have been extremely popular,
although severely criticised from a literary point of view as well as
from an ethical standpoint. Among them are, Thou Shalt Not; Speaking of
Ellen; A Black Adonis; Out of Wedlock. Dil.
Porter, Mrs. Lydia Ann [Emerson].Ms., 1816- ——. Cousin
of R. W. Emerson, supra. An educator of Springfield, Vermont.
Uncle Jerry’s Letters to Young Mothers; The Lost Will, are among her
writings.
Porter, Noah.Ct., 1811-1892. A Congregational clergyman
of Connecticut, president of Yale College, 1871-85, and a metaphysician
of distinction. The Human Intellect; Books and Reading; Elements of
Intellectual Science; Elements of Moral Science; The American Colleges
and the American Public; Science and Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley;
Fifteen Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume of sermons; The Science
of Nature and the Science of Man. Scr.
Porter, Rose.N. Y., 1845- ——. An author of New Haven
who has written and compiled a large number of religious books. Among
her original works are, Summer Driftwood for the Winter Fire; A Modern
St. Christopher; Our Saints, a Family Story; My Son’s Wife. Lo. Ran.
Rev.
Porter, Thomas Conrad.Pa., 1822-1901. A German
Reformed clergyman famous as a botanist, and professor of botany at
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1866. Sketch of the
Flora of Pennsylvania; Sketch of the Botany of the United States;
Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with J. M. Coulter); The Carices of
Pennsylvania; The Grasses of Pennsylvania.
Posse, Nils. Baron Posse. Sn., 1862-1895. A Boston
instructor in gymnastics. Special Kinesiology of Educational
Gymnastics; Medical Gymnastics; Scientific Aspect of Swedish
Gymnastics. Le.
Post, Truman Marcellus.Vt., 1810-1866. A Congregational
clergyman and editor of St. Louis, professor of history in Washington
University. The Skeptical Era in Modern History. See Life of, by T.
H. Post.
Post, Waldron Kintzing.N. Y., 1868- ——. A lawyer of
New York city. Harvard Stories. Put.
Potter, Alonzo.N. Y., 1800-1865. The third Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania and an active promoter of educational
movements. The Principles of Science Applied to Domestic and Mechanic
Arts; Religious Philosophy; Political Economy; co-author with G. B.
Emerson, supra, of The School and the Schoolmaster. See
Memoirs of, 1870.
Potter, Burton Willis.N. Y., 1843- ——. A lawyer of
Worcester, Massachusetts. The Road and Roadside, a legal treatise.
Lit.
Potter, Eliphalet Nott.N. Y., 1836-1901. Son of A.
Potter, supra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of
Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1884-96. Parochial Sermons; Christian
Evidences.
Potter, Henry Codman.N. Y., 1835- ——. Son of A.
Potter, supra. The sixth Protestant Episcopal bishop of New
York, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. Sermons of the City;
The Gates of the East; a Winter in Egypt and Syria; Sisterhoods and
Deaconesses; Waymarks. Dut.
Potter, Platt.N. Y., 1800-1891. A jurist of Schenectady.
Potter’s Dwarris; Treatise on Corporations; Equity Jurisprudence.
Potter, William James.Ms., 1830-1894. A Unitarian
clergyman of New Bedford for many years, prominent as a radical
thinker. Twenty-Five Sermons of Twenty-Five Years; Lectures and
Sermons. El.
Potts, James Henry.Ont., 1848- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, editor of The Michigan Christian Advocate from 1877.
Methodism in the Field; Golden Dawn; Spiritual Life; Our Thorns and
Crowns; Faith Made Easy.
Potts, Stacey Gardner.Pa., 1799-1865. A jurist of
Trenton, New Jersey. Village Tales; Precedents and Notes of Practice in
the New Jersey Chancery Court.
Powell, Edward Payson.N. Y., 1833- ——. A clergyman
who has held pastorates in Congregational and Unitarian churches
successively, and has long been resident in Clinton, New York. Our
Heredity from God; Liberty and Life. Ap.
Powell, John Wesley.N. Y., 1834-1902. An eminent
geologist, director of the United States Geological Survey, 1879-94.
Exploration of the Uinta Mountains; The Arid Regions of the United
States; Introduction to the Study of the Indian Languages; Studies in
Sociology; Canyons of the Colorado. Am. Fl.
Powell, Thomas.E., 1809-1887. An English writer who came
to America in 1849, and was for many years connected with the Frank
Leslie publications. He wrote a number of plays, among which are, True
at Last; The Shepherd’s Well. Other works of his are, Florentine Tales;
Tales from Boccaccio; Living Authors of England; Living Authors of
America.
Powers, Edward.N. Y., 1830- ——. Brother of H. N.
Powers, infra. A civil engineer who published a work entitled
War and the Weather, or the Artificial Production of Rain.
Powers, Horatio Nelson.N. Y., 1826-1890. An Episcopal
clergyman of Chicago, Bridgeport, and, in his latest years, of
Piermont, New York, who was favourably known as a poet. His writings
include, Early and Late; Poems; Ten Years of Song; Lyrics of the
Hudson; Through the Year, a volume of religious essays. Lo. Rob.
Poyas, Catherine Gendron.S. C., 1813-1882. A
verse-writer of Charleston. Huguenot Daughters, and Other Verses; A
Year of Grief.
Pratt, Daniel Johnson.N. Y., 1827-1884. Annals of Public
Education in the State of New York, 1626-1746.
Pratt, Mrs. Ella [Farman].N. Y., 18— - ——. A popular
writer for young people, long the editor of The Wide Awake, and
more recently of Our Little Men and Women. Among her writings are,
Good-for-Nothing Polly; A Girl’s Money; A Little Woman; A White Hand;
Happy Children. Cr. Lo.
Pratt, Jacob Loring. 1835-1891. A clergyman of Maine. Evening
Rest; Branches of Palm; Broken Fetters; The Mask Lifted; Bonnie Aerie;
Mecca; The Crown of Silver. Lo.
Pratt, Orson.N. Y., 1811-1881. A Mormon apostle and
educator, professor of mathematics in Deseret University. Divine
Authenticity of the Book of Mormon; Cubic and Bi-Quadratic Equations;
The Great First Cause; The Absurdities of Immaterialism.
Pratt, Parley Parker.N. Y., 1807-1857. Brother of O.
Pratt, supra. A Mormon apostle and missionary. Voice of Warning
and Instruction to All People; History of the Persecutions of Missouri;
Key to the Science of Theology.
Pratt, Samuel Wheeler.N. Y., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman at Monroe, Michigan, from 1883. A Summer at Peace Cottage, or
Talks About Home Life; The Gospel of the Holy Spirit; Life of St. Paul.
Ran.
Pray, Isaac Clark.Ms., 1813-1869. A journalist,
playwright, and theatrical manager of New York city. Prose and Verse;
The Book of the Drama; Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett, are among his
miscellaneous works. Virginius; Hermit of Malta; Giulietta Gordoni, and
the first and last acts of The Corsican Brothers, are a portion of his
dramatic writings.
Pray, Lewis Glover.Ms., 1793-1882. A Boston
philanthropist who published Child’s First Book of Thought; History of
Sunday-Schools; The Sylphid’s School, and Other Pieces in Verse.
Preble, George Henry.Me., 1816-1885. A rear-admiral in
the United States navy. History of the American Flag; Chronological
History of Steam Navigation; The Preble Family in America.
Preble, Henry.Me., 1853- ——. An educator who was
professor of Latin at Harvard University. He has edited a revised
edition of Andrews and Stoddard’s Latin Grammar, and several volumes of
Latin classics, and has published (with C. Parker) a Handbook of Latin
Writing; and Latin Lessons (with L. C. Hull). Gi. Hou.
Prentice, George.Ms., 1834-18—. A Methodist clergyman,
professor of modern languages at Wesleyan University. Life of Bishop
Gilbert Haven, supra; Rome and Italy at the Opening of the
Œcumenical Council, from the French of Pressensé; Life of Wilbur Fisk,
supra. Hou.
Prentice, George Denison.Ct., 1802-1870. A once famous
Kentucky journalist who was editor of The Louisville Journal, 1831-70,
and widely known for his witticisms. Life of Henry Clay; Prenticeana.
See Poems, with Memoir of, by J. J. Piatt; Lippincott’s Magazine,
November, 1869; Harper’s Magazine, January, 1875.Clke.
Prentiss, Charles.Ms., 1774-1820. A journalist of
Washington. Fugitive Essays in Prose and Verse; Poems; History of the
United States; Trial of Calvin and Hopkins; Lives of Robert Treat Paine
and General William Eaton.
Prentiss, Mrs. Elizabeth [Payson].Me., 1818-1878. Wife
of G. L. Prentiss, infra. A popular writer of religious fiction
whose Stepping Heavenward has been widely read. Among her many other
works are, Pemaquid; The Home at Graylock; Aunt Jane’s Hero; The Flower
of the Family; Little Susy Series; Fred, Maria, and Me. See Life by
her husband.Ran. Scr.
Prentiss, George Lewis.Me., 1816-1903. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, professor of pastoral theology in Union
Seminary from 1873. Memoir of Sargent Prentiss; Life of Elizabeth
Prentiss, supra; Our National Bane; The Problem of the Veto
Power; The Argument between Union Seminary and the General Assembly;
Fifty Years of Union Seminary. Ran.
Prescott, Albert Benjamin.N. Y., 1832- ——. A chemist
who has been dean of the school of pharmacy at Michigan University from
1876. Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis; Chemical Examination of
Alcoholic Liquors; Organic Analysis; Qualitative Analysis (with S.
Douglas).
Prescott, George Benjamin.N. H., 1830-1894. A prominent
electrician of New York city. History of the Electric Telegraph; Dynamo
Electricity; Invention of Bell’s Telephone, are his principal writings.
Prescott, Mary Newmarch.Me., 1849-1888. Sister of Mrs.
H. Spofford, infra. A popular magazine-writer of Newburyport who
published Matt’s Follies, a juvenile tale.
Prescott, William Hickling.Ms., 1796-1859. A celebrated
historian of Boston. While a student at Harvard College, he lost the
use of one eye and not long afterwards the free use of the other, and,
until in later life his eyesight improved, he was obliged to depend
upon the reading of others in his historical researches. In 1837 his
History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella appeared and brought him
instant fame. It was followed by The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest
of Peru; an edition of Robertson’s Charles V., with Prescott’s own
work on the cloister life of that monarch; History of Philip II.;
Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. See Lives by R. Ogden (1904)
and Ticknor, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary.Lip.
Preston, Harriet Waters.Ms., c. 1843- ——. A
high authority upon Provençal literature and a writer of literary
criticism and historical studies who has lived much in Europe.
Her writings include, Aspendale; Love in the Nineteenth Century;
Troubadours and Trouvères; A Year in Eden; Is That All? a novel;
The Georgics of Virgil in English Verse; and a translation from the
Provençal of Frédéric Mistral’s Mirèio.
Preston, Mrs. Margaret [Junkin].Va., 1820-1897. A poet
and prose-writer of Lexington, Virginia, and later of Baltimore. Old
Song and New; Beechenbrook, a Rhyme of the War; Colonial Ballads,
Sonnets, and Other Verse; For Love’s Sake; The Young Ruler’s Question;
Silverwood, a novel; A Handful of Monographs. Hou.
Preston, Thomas Scott.Ct., 1824-1891. A Roman Catholic
clergyman, but prior to 1849 in orders in the Episcopal Church. From
1881 he was a domestic prelate of the papal household with the title of
Monsignore. Protestantism and the Bible; Reason and Revelation; Christ
and the Church; The Ark of the Covenant; Sermons for the Seasons; Life
of St. Mary Magdalene; Life of St. Vincent de Paul; Christian Unity;
Purgatorian Manual.
Price, Bruce.N. Y., 1845-1903. An architect of New York
city. A Large Country House.
Price, Eli Kirk.Pa., 1797-1884. A Philadelphia lawyer
of eminence. Law of Limitations and Liens against Real Estate. See
Memoir of, by Rothrock, 1880.
Price, Ira Maurice.O., 1856- ——. An educator of
Chicago, professor of Semitic languages in the University of Chicago
from 1892. Syllabus of Old Testament History. Rev.
Price, Thomas Randolph.Va., 1839-1903. A professor of
English literature at Columbia College from 1882. The Teaching of the
Mother Tongue; Shakespeare’s Verse Construction.
Priest, Josiah.N. Y., c. 1790-c. 1850. A
harness-maker of New York State, some of whose books were very popular.
Wonders of Nature; View of the Millennium; Stories of the Revolution;
American Antiquities; Slavery in the Light of History and Scripture.
Prime, Benjamin Young.L. I., 1733-1791. A physician
of Huntington, Long Island, who wrote patriotic verses during the
Revolutionary period. The Patriot Muse, published in 1764, includes his
earlier poems. Columbia’s Glory, or British Pride Humbled, is a long
poem printed in 1791.
Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin.N. Y., 1814-1891. Son of N.
S. Prime, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who was one of the
editors of The New York Observer, to which he contributed the Letters
of Eusebius. Around the World; Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, or
Memoirs of Reverend William Goodell.
Prime, Nathaniel Scudder.L. I., 1785-1856. Son of B. Y.
Prime, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Newburgh, New York.
Familiar Illustration of Christian Baptism; History of Long Island.
Prime, Samuel Irenæus.N. Y., 1812-1885. Son of N. S.
Prime, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, editor of The New York
Observer for forty-five years. Among his many works are, Fifteen Years
of Prayer; Irenæus Letters; The Old White Meeting-House; Life in New
York; Annals of the English Bible; Songs of the Soul; Life of S. B. F.
Morse, supra; Prayer and its Answer; Walking with God; Travels
in Europe and the East; The Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and the
Kremlin; Under the Trees. See Autobiography, 1886.Ap. Har.
Ran. Scr.
Prime, William Cowper.N. Y., 1825- ——. Son of N. S.
Prime, supra. A lawyer and journalist, professor of the history
of art at Princeton College from 1884. Boat Life in Egypt; Tent Life
in the Holy Land; Pottery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Letters; Coins,
Medals, and Seals; I Go A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New England Roads;
Among the Northern Hills. Har. Ran.
Prince, Mrs. Helen Choate [Pratt].Ms., 1857- ——. A
granddaughter of R. Choate, supra. A novelist now living in
France. The Story of Christine Rochefort; A Transatlantic Chatelaine;
The Strongest Master. Hou.
Prince, Le Baron Bradford.L. I., 1840- ——. Son of
W. R. Prince, infra. A jurist of New Mexico. Agricultural
History of Queen’s County, Long Island; E Pluribus Unum, or American
Nationality; General Laws of New Mexico; History of New Mexico; The
American Church and its Name.
Prince, Thomas.Ms., 1687-1758. A Congregational
minister, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, 1718-58, and one
of the most fair-minded, accurate historical writers that America
has had. His library now forms a separate collection in the Boston
Public Library. Earthquakes of New England (1755); Chronological
History of New England. See Tyler’s American Literature; Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Prince, William.L. I., 1766-1842. A horticulturist of
Flushing, Long Island, whose Treatise on Horticulture (1826) was the
first comprehensive work on the subject published in the United States.
Prince, William Robert.L. I., 1795-1869. Son of W.
Prince, supra. A horticulturist of Flushing. History of the Vine
(with W. Prince); Pomological Manual; Manual of Roses.
Proctor, Edna Dean.N. H., 1838- ——. A littérateur
formerly of Brooklyn, New York, now (1904) of South Framingham,
Massachusetts. Poems; A Russian Journey; The Song of the Ancient
People. Hou.
Proctor, Lucien Brock.N. H., 1826-1900. A legal writer
of Albany. The Bench and Bar of the State of New York; Lives of the
State Chancellors; Life of Thomas Emmet; Lawyer and Client; Bench and
Bar of King’s County; Legal History of Albany and Schenectady Counties.
Proudfit, Alexander Moncrief.Pa., 1770-1843. An
Associate Reformed Presbyterian clergyman. Discourses on the Parables;
Theological Works (four volumes, 1815). See Life of, by Forsyth.
Proudfit, David Law. “Peleg Arkwright.” N. Y., 1842-1897.
A Federal officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a resident of
New York city. Love Among the Gamins, and Other Poems; Mask and Domino
(verse). Co.
Proudfit, John Williams.N. Y., 1803-1870. Son of A. M.
Proudfit, supra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Greek
in Rutgers College, 1840-64. Man’s Two-Fold Life.
Prudden, Theophile Mitchell.Ct., 1849- ——. A New York
physician, professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Manual of Normal Histology (with Delafield); Dust and its
Dangers; Water and Ice; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy; Story of the
Bacteria. Put.
Pugh [pew], Mrs. Eliza Lofton [Phillips]. “Arria.”
La., 1841- ——. A novelist of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Not
a Hero; In a Crucible.
Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt.G., 1811-1884. A physician of
Cleveland. The Homœopathic Domestic Physician; The Science of Medicine;
The Woman’s Medical Guide.
Pumpelly [pum-pĕl´ly], Mrs. Mary Hollenback [Welles].Pa., 1803-1879. A verse-writer whose religious historical Poems
were collected in a volume in 1852.
Pumpelly, Raphael.N. Y., 1837- ——. Son of Mrs.
Pumpelly, supra. A geologist of note, professor of mining
engineering at Harvard University from 1866. Geological Researches in
China; Across America and Asia; Notes of a Five-Years’ Journey Around
the World. Ho.
Punchard, George.Ms., 1806-1881. A Boston journalist,
for many years editor of The Traveller, but who, prior to 1845, was a
Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. History of Congregationalism
from A. D. 250; View of Congregationalism. C. P. S.
Purinton, Daniel Boardman.Pa., 1850- ——. A Baptist
clergyman and educator of Ohio, president of Denison University from
1889. Christian Theism; The Battle of the Frogs, a poem. Put.
Purple, Samuel Smith.N. Y., 1822-1900. A physician of
New York city. The Corpus Luteum; Menstruation; Contributions to the
Practice of Midwifery; Observations on Wounds of the Heart.
Purves, George Tybout.Pa., 1852-1901. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of New Testament literature at Princeton College
from 1892. The testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity.
Ran.
Putnam, Albigence Waldo.O., 1799-1869. A lawyer of
Nashville; History of Middle Tennessee; Life and Times of General James
Robertson; Life of General John Sevier.
Putnam, Eleanor.See Bates, Mrs. H.
Putnam, George Haven.E., 1844- ——. Son of G. P.
Putnam, infra. A prominent publisher of New York city. Authors
and Publishers; International Copyright; Authors and their Public in
Ancient Times. Put.
Putnam, George Palmer.Me., 1814-1872. A well-known
publisher of New York city, the founder of the present publishing house
of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. The Tourist in Europe; American Facts; The
World’s Progress. See Allibone’s Dictionary.Put.
Putnam, Mrs. Katharine Hunt [Palmer].Ms., 1792-1869. A
Boston writer. Scripture Text Book; The Old Testament Unveiled.
Putnam, James Osborne.N. Y., 1818-1903. A Buffalo
lawyer who was minister to Belgium in 1880. Addresses, Speeches, and
Miscellanies.
Putnam, Mrs. Mary [Lowell].Ms., 1810-1898. Sister of J.
R. Lowell, supra. A lifelong resident of Boston. Fifteen Days;
History of the Court of Hungary; Records of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of
Errors; Tragedy of Success.
Putnam, Ruth. 18— - ——. Daughter of G. P. Putnam,
supra. Life of William the Silent. Put.
Putnam, Mrs. Sarah A.—— Brock.Va., c.
1845- ——. A writer of New York city. Richmond During the War; The
Southern Amaranth; Kenneth, My King; Myra, a novel.
Pyle, Howard.Del., 1853- ——. Artist and littérateur
of Wilmington, Delaware. The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within
the Capes: a novel; Otto of the Silver Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden
Behind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk; A Modern
Aladdin; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, a romance of chivalry; Jack
Ballister’s Fortunes. Cent. Har. Scr.
Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles.Ct., 1823-1904. Descendant of W.
Pynchon, infra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president
of Trinity College, 1874-83, and professor of chemistry there. Bishop
Butler: a Religious Philosopher for All Time; Introduction to Chemical
Physics. Ap.
Pynchon, William.E., 1590-1662. A noted colonist of
New England who founded the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, in
1636. In 1652 he returned to England. The Meritorious Price of Our
Redemption, first published in 1650, excited a storm of controversy,
and was publicly burned on Boston Common as an heretical book. It was
reprinted in 1655 as The Meritorious Price of Man’s Redemption, or
Christ’s Satisfaction discussed and explained, with a rejoinder to Rev.
John Norton’s Answer; The Jewes Synagogue; How the First Sabbath was
Ordained; The Covenant of Nature made with Adam.
Q
Quackenbos, George Payn.N. Y., 1826-1881. An educator of
New York city. School History of the United States; Natural Philosophy;
a series of English grammars; An Advanced Course of Rhetoric.
Quackenbos, John Duncan.N. Y., 1848- ——. Son of G. P.
Quackenbos, supra. An adjunct professor of English literature at
Columbia College from 1884. Illustrated History of the World; History
of the English Language; History of Ancient Literature; Practical
Rhetoric. Har.
Qualtrough, Edward F——.N. Y., 1850- ——. A United
States naval officer who has published The Sailor’s Handy Book and
Yachtsman’s Manual; The Boat Sailor’s Manual. Scr.
Quiet, Charles.See Noyes, C. H.
Quinby, George Washington.Me., 1810-1884. A Universalist
clergyman in Maine and Ohio. The Salvation of Christ; Brief Exposition
of Universalism; Marriage and Its Duties; The Gallows, the Prison, and
the Poor House; Heaven Our Home.
Quincy, Edmund.Ms., 1703-1788. A Boston merchant who
wrote a Treatise on Hemp Husbandry. One of his daughters married John
Hancock.
Quincy, Edmund.Ms., 1808-1877. Son of J. Quincy,
2d, infra. A Boston writer whose literary fame was hardly
proportioned to his deserts. Wensley, and Other Stories; The Haunted
Adjutant, and Other Stories; Life of President Josiah Quincy. Hou.
Lit.
Quincy, Josiah.Ms., 1744-1775. Nephew of E. Quincy, 1st.
A famous Boston lawyer and patriot, very prominent at the opening of
the Revolutionary period. Observations on the Boston Port Bill. See
Life of, by his son.
Quincy, Josiah.Ms., 1772-1864. Son of J. Quincy,
supra. An eminent Massachusetts statesman, mayor of Boston,
1823-29; president of Harvard University, 1829-45; representative
in Congress, 1805-13. History of Harvard University; Speeches and
Orations in Congress; History of Boston; Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr.
See Life by E. Quincy; Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell, My
Study Windows.Lit.
Quincy, Josiah.Ms., 1802-1882. Son of J. Quincy, 2d,
supra. A citizen of Boston, and mayor of that city, 1845-1849.
Figures of the Past. Rob.
Quincy, Josiah Phillips.Ms., 1829- ——. Son of J.
Quincy, 3d, supra. A littérateur of Boston. Charicles, a drama;
Lyteria, a drama; The Peckster Professorship, a Story; The Protection
of Majorities, and Other Papers. Hou. Rob.
Quincy, Samuel Miller.Ms., 1833-1887. Son of J. Quincy,
3d. A Boston lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil
War. The Man Who was Not a Colonel; A Prisoner’s Diary.
Quint, Alonzo Hall.N. H., 1828-1896. A prominent
Congregational clergyman of Boston. The Potomac and the Rapidan, or
Army Notes; Records of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-65.
Quitman, Frederick Henry.Wa., 1760-1832. A Lutheran
clergyman of Rhinebeck, New York. Treatise on Magic; Sermons on the
Reformation, are his more important writings.
R
Raff, George Wertz.O., 1825-1888. A savings bank
president of Canton, Ohio. Guide to Executors and Administrators in
Ohio; Manual of Pensions; The Law Relating to Roads in Ohio; War
Claimant’s Guide.
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel.Ty., 1784-1842. An
eccentric naturalist and botanist of French parentage who, after years
of travel, settled in Philadelphia. The value of his work is impaired
as much by his inaccuracy as by his very eccentric methods. Among his
many works are, Medical Flora of the United States; A Life of Travel
and Researches; Annals of Kentucky; Recent and Fossil Conchology
(edited by Binney and Tryon, 1864). See Silliman’s Journal, 1841;
Life by R. E. Call.Mor.
Ragozin, Madame Zénaïde Alexeïevna.R., c.
1835- ——. A Russian historical writer, naturalized in the United
States in 1874. The Story of Chaldea; The Story of Assyria; The Story
of Media and Babylon; The Story of Vedic India. Put.
Raguet [ra-gā´], Condy.Pa., 1784-1842. A merchant
and lawyer of Philadelphia. The Principles of Free Trade; Currency and
Banking; An Inquiry into the Present State of the Circulating Medium of
the United States (1815).
Rains, George Washington.N. C., 1817-1898. A Confederate
army officer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia from
1867. Steam Portable Engines; Rudimentary Course of Analytical and
Applied Chemistry; Chemical Qualitative Analysis.
Rainsford, William Stephen.I., 1850- ——. A prominent
Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of St. George’s Church
from 1883, and an active worker in philanthropic and other reforms.
Sermons Preached in St. George’s; The Church’s Opportunity in the City
of To-Day. Do.
Ralph, Julian.N. Y., 1853-1903. A popular journalist and
littérateur. On Canada’s Frontier; Dixie; Our Great West; Chicago and
the World’s Fair; People We Pass; Alone in China, and Other Stories.
Har.
Ralston, Samuel.I., 1756-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman
in what is now Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, from 1796 till his
death. On Baptism; The Last Plagues; The Currycomb, are among his
writings.
Ralston, Thomas Neely.Ky., 1806-1891. A Methodist
clergyman and religious editor of Kentucky. Elements of Divinity;
Evidences of Christianity; Ecce Unitas; Bible Truths.
Ramsay, David.Pa., 1749-1815. A physician of Charleston,
eminent among early American historians. History of the American
Revolution; History of the United States; Life of Washington; History
of South Carolina, include his chief works. See Tuckerman’s Sketch
of American Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Ramsay, Mrs. Vienna G—— [Morrell].Me., 1817- ——.
Facts on Missions; Evenings With the Children; A Legend of the White
Hills, and other Poems. Lo.
Rand, Asa.N. H., 1783-1871. A Congregational clergyman
in Maine and New York prominent as an opponent of slavery. Teachers’
Manual in English Grammar; The Slave-Catcher Caught in the Meshes of
Eternal Law.
Rand, Benjamin.N. S., 1856- ——. An instructor in
philosophy at Harvard University. Economic History Since 1763; A
Bibliography of Economics; and also bibliographies of æsthetics,
ethics, psychology, metaphysics, logic, history of philosophy,
philosophy of religion.
Rand, Benjamin Howard.Ms., 1792-1862. A Philadelphia
teacher of penmanship who published The American Penman and similar
works.
Rand, Benjamin Howard.Pa., 1827-1883. Son of B. H.
Rand, supra. A physician of Philadelphia. Outlines of Medical
Chemistry; Elements of Medical Chemistry. Lip.
Rand, Edward Augustus.N. H., 1837-1903. An Episcopal
clergyman, rector at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1883. Christmas
Jack; Behind Manhattan Gables; School and Camp Series; Sailor Boy Bob;
Pushing Ahead; Fighting the Sea Series, are among his many books for
juvenile readers. Lo. Meth. Wh.
Rand, Edward Sprague.Ms., 1834-1897. Formerly a
floriculturist of Dedham, Massachusetts. Garden Flowers; Complete
Manual of Orchid-Culture; Popular Flowers; Rhododendrons; Flowers for
the Parlor and Garden; The Window Gardener; Life Memoirs, and Other
Poems. Hou.
Rand, Mrs. Mary Frances [Abbott].Me., 1840- ——. Wife
of E. A. Rand, supra. Holly and Mistletoe; Home-Spun Yarns for
Christmas Stockings.
Randall, David Austin.Ct., 1813-1884. A Baptist
clergyman and religious editor of Ohio. God’s Handwriting in Egypt; The
Wonderful Tent, or the Mosaic Tabernacle. Clke.
Randall, Henry Stephens.N. Y., 1811-1876. A once
prominent advocate of public instruction in New York State. Sheep
Husbandry; Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry; Practical Shepherd; Life of
Thomas Jefferson. Lip.
Randall, James Ryder.Md., 1839- ——. A journalist
of Augusta, Georgia, and elsewhere in the South, who has written a
number of spirited lyrics, the best known of which is the famous song,
Maryland, My Maryland.
Randall, Samuel Sidwell.N. Y., 1809-1881. Cousin of H.
S. Randall, supra. A superintendent of public schools in New
York city, 1854-70. History of the State of New York; Mental and Moral
Culture; Principles of Popular Education; Incitements to the Study of
Geology, include his more important works. Har.
Randolph, Anson Davies Fitz.N. J., 1820-1896. A
publisher and religious verse-writer of New York city. Hopefully
Waiting; Verses; At the Beautiful Gate; The Palace of the King; Unto
the Desired Haven. Ran.
Randolph, Sarah Nicholas.Va., 1839-190-. A
great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. An educator of Baltimore. The
Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Lord Will Provide; The Life of
Stonewall Jackson. Har. Lip. Ran.
Ranger, Robert.See Freeman, J. M.
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames.N. H., 1828-1904. A Presbyterian
clergyman, president of Howard University. Auld Scotch Mither, and
Other Poems; Subduing Kingdoms; The Hotel of God, and Other Sermons;
Atheism of the Heart; Christ His Own Interpreter; Ingleside Rhaims.
Rankin, John.Tn., 1793-1886. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Ripley, Ohio, famous as an abolitionist, and many times mobbed for his
anti-slavery zeal. Letters on American Slavery; The Covenant of Grace.
See Ritchie’s Life of, entitled The Soldier, the Battle, and the
Victory.
Rankin, John Chambers.N. C., 1816-1900. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Baskingridge, New Jersey, from 1851. The Coming of the
Lord.
Ranney, Ambrose Loomis.Ms., 1848- ——. A physician,
professor of nervous diseases in the University of the City of New
York. A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied Anatomy of
the Nervous System; Practical Medical Anatomy; Lectures on Nervous
Diseases, include his principal writings. Ap.
Rapelje, Stewart.N. Y., 1842-1896. A legal writer of
New York city. Digest of Decisions of New York Courts to 1881; Digest
of Federal Decisions and Statutes from the Earliest Period to 1880;
Treatise on the Law of Witnesses; Dictionary of American and English
Decisions.
Raphall, Morris Jacob.Sn., 1798-1868. A Jewish clergyman
once prominent in New York city. Post-Biblical History of the Jews;
Literature of the Jews in Spain; Social Condition of the Jews;
Festivals of the Lord; The Path to Immortality. Ap.
Rarey, John S——.O., 1828-1866. A famous horse-tamer
who wrote a Treatise on Horse-Taming that was very extensively
circulated.
Rau, Charles.Bm., 1826-1887. An archæologist of
distinction of Belgian birth who settled in the United States in 1848,
and was curator of antiquities in the United States National Museum,
1875-87. Early Man in Europe; Prehistoric Fishing. Har.
Rauch, Friedrich Augustus.G., 1806-1841. A psychologist
of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, prominent among thinkers of the German
Reformed faith. Psychology: a View of the Human Soul; The Inner Life of
the Christian.
Raum, Green Berry.Il., 1829- —— A commissioner
of internal revenue, 1876-83; later United States commissioner of
pensions. The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and
Southern Oligarchy (1884).
Ravenel, Henry William.S. C., 1814-1887. A botanist of
Aiken, South Carolina, distinguished for his knowledge of fungi. Fungi
Caroliniani Exsiccati; Fungi Americani Exsiccati (with Cooke).
Rawle, Francis.E., 1660-1727. A Quaker colonist of
Pennsylvania whose Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to
become Rich is said to have been the first book printed by Franklin.
Rawle, William.Pa., 1759-1836. Great-grandson of F.
Rawle, supra. A distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia. View of
the Constitution of the United States; The Study of the Law. See
Memoir of, by Wharton, 1840; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Rawle, William Brooke.Pa., 1843- ——. Grand-nephew of
W. Rawle, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia who has published The
Right Flank at Gettysburg; With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign.
Rawle, William Henry.Pa., 1823-1889. Grandson of W.
Rawle, supra. A prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. Law of
Covenants for Title; Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania in
English Law; Equity in Pennsylvania. Lit.
Rawson, Albert Leighton.Vt., 1829-1902. A traveller of
note who was the author of Histories of all Religions; Antiquities
of the Orient; The Unseen World, and a number of dictionaries and
vocabularies of Oriental tongues.
Ray, Anna Chapin.Ms., 1865- ——. A writer of West
Haven, Connecticut, whose tales for juvenile reading have been popular.
Cadets of Fleming Hall; Half a Dozen Boys; Half a Dozen Girls; In Blue
Creek Cañon; Dick; Margaret Davis Tutor. Cr.
Ray, Isaac.Ms., 1807-1881. A physician of Philadelphia.
Conversations on Animal Economy; Education in Relation to the Health of
the Brain; Mental Hygiene; Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
Ray, Joseph.Va., 1807-1855. A mathematician and educator
of Cincinnati, who published an Eclectic Series of Arithmetics long
popular in the Western States.
Raymond, George Lansing.Il., 1839- ——. A professor of
oratory at Princeton College from 1881. His writings in verse include,
Colony Ballads; A Life in Song; Ballads of the Revolution, and Other
Poems; Sketches in Song; Pictures in Verse. Other works of his are,
The Orator’s Manual; Modern Fishers of Men, a novel; Poetry as a
Representative Art; The Genesis of Art Form; Art in Theory; Painting,
Sculpture, and Architecture as Representative Arts; Rhythm and Harmony
in Poetry and Music; Ideals Made Real. Put.
Raymond, Henry Jarvis.N. Y., 1820-1869. A journalist
who founded and edited The New York Times. Life of Lincoln; Political
Lessons of the Revolution; History of the Administration of Lincoln;
Letters to Mr. Yancey. See Maverick’s Raymond and the New York
Press.
Raymond, Miner.N. Y., 1811-1897. A Methodist clergyman
of Illinois, theological professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at
Evanston, Illinois, from 1864. Systematic Theology. Meth.
Raymond, Rossiter Worthington.O., 1840- ——. A mining
engineer of Brooklyn, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal
from 1868. Among his technical and other writings are included, Mines
and Mining of the Rocky Mountains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the
Pacific Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave Hearts, a novel; The Man in
the Moon, and Other People; The Book of Job; Essays and a Metrical
Paraphrase; The Merry-Go-Round; Two Ghosts, and Other Tales. Lo.
Rea, Mrs. Julie [de Marguerittes] [Foster].E.,
1814-1866. An opera singer and dramatic critic of Philadelphia. The Ins
and Outs of Paris; Italy and the War of 1859; Parisian Pickings.
Read, Hollis.Vt., 1802-1887. A Presbyterian foreign
missionary who after 1835 was settled over various New Jersey parishes.
Journal in India; The Hand of God in History, a very popular book at
one time; The Palace of the Great King; India and its People; The
Coming Crisis of the World; The Negro Problem Solved; The Devil in
History.
Read, Jane Maria.Ms., 1853- ——. A verse-writer of
Colebrook Springs, Massachusetts, who has published, Between the
Centuries, and Other Poems.
Read, John Meredith.Pa., 1837-1896. A lawyer of Albany
who was minister to Greece 1873-79, and subsequently filled other
important diplomatic positions. An Historical Inquiry Concerning
Hendrick Hudson.
Read, Opie.Tn., 1852- ——. A journalist now living in
Chicago who edited The Arkansaw Traveller for some years, and whose
studies of Arkansas life have been widely read. My Young Master; An
Arkansaw Planter; Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Kentucky Colonel;
On the Suwannee River; Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The
Captain’s Romance; The Jucklins, a novel.
Read, Thomas Buchanan.Pa., 1822-1872. A poet and artist
of Philadelphia whose later years were spent in Florence and Rome. As
a poet he is best known by the famous Sheridan’s Ride; Drifting; and
The Closing Scene, and it is by these poems that he will continue to
be remembered. Poems; Lays and Ballads; The Pilgrims of the Great St.
Bernard, a prose romance; The New Pastoral; The House by the Sea; The
Wagoner of the Alleghanies, in which occurs the fine lyric beginning,
“The maid who binds her warrior’s sash;” Sylvia; A Voyage to Iceland; A
Summer Story; Sheridan’s Ride, and Other Poems. His complete poems were
issued in 1882. See Allibone’s Dictionary.Lip.
Realf [rĕlf], Richard.E., 1834-1878. A journalist
and verse-writer of Pittsburg who was a Federal officer during the
Civil War. Guesses at the Beautiful. See Lippincott’s Magazine,
February, 1879.
Reavis [rĕv´is], Logan Uriah.Il., 1831-1889. A
St. Louis journalist, who published St. Louis the Future Great City of
the World; Life of Horace Greeley; Thoughts for the Young Men and Women
of America; Life of General Harney; Railway and River System.
Redden, Laura.See Searing, Mrs.
Redfield, Amasa Angell.N. Y., 1837-1902. A lawyer of
New York city. Handbook of United States Tax Laws; Law and Practice of
Surrogates’ Courts; Reports of Surrogates’ Courts of New York State,
1864-82; The Law of Negligence (with Shearman).
Redfield, Isaac Fletcher.Vt., 1804-1876. A lawyer
who was chief justice of Vermont, 1852-60, and a resident of Boston
after the latter date. The Law of Railways; The Law of Wills; Law of
Carriers and Bailments; Leading American Railway Cases; Civil Pleading
(with Herrick). Lit.
Redfield, William Charles.Ct., 1789-1857. A once
noted meteorologist. On Whirlwind Storms, and many monographs upon
meteorology. See Biography of, by D. Olmsted.
Redpath, James.E., 1833-1891. A New York journalist
for many years on the staff of The Tribune, and prominent as an
abolitionist. The Roving Editor; Handbook of Kansas Territory; Public
Life of Captain John Brown; Echoes of Harper’s Ferry; Guide to Hayti;
Talks About Ireland.
Redway, Jacques Wardlaw.Tn., 1849- ——. A geographer
and educator of California. Complete Geography; Manual of Physical
Geography; Manual of Geography and Travel.
Reed, Edwin.Me., 1835- ——. A Shakespearean scholar who
has published Bacon vs. Shakspere, a history of the controversy,
with arguments pro and con. Kt.
Reed, Henry.Pa., 1808-1854. An educator of Philadelphia,
professor of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania.
Lectures on English History; Lectures on English Literature; Lectures
on the British Poets. See Memoir, by W. B. Reed, infra.
Reed, Henry.Pa., 1846- ——. Son of H. Reed,
supra. A Philadelphia jurist who has published The Law of the
Statute of Frauds.
Reed, Hugh.Ind., 1850- ——. A military educator of
Virginia. Signal Tactics; Cadet Regulations; Military Science and
Tactics; Broom Tactics.
Reed, James.Ms., 1834- ——. Son of S. Reed,
infra. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston from 1858. Men and
Women; Religion and Life; Swedenborg and the New Church. Hou.
Reed, John.Pa., 1786-1850. A Pennsylvania jurist,
professor of law in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1834-50,
and author of The Pennsylvania Blackstone.
Reed, Sampson.Ms., 1800-1880. A Swedenborgian writer of
Boston, editor of The New Church Magazine for Children. Observations
on the Growth of the Mind. Hou.
Reed, William Bradford.Pa., 1806-1876. Brother of H.
Reed, 1st, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, minister to China,
1857-58. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed; Memoir of Henry Reed,
supra.
Rees, John Krom.N. Y., 1851- ——. An astronomer,
professor at Columbia College, and director of the Observatory from
1881. Report on the Solar Eclipse, 1878; International Time System;
Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1882.
Reese, David Meredith.Pa., 1800-1861. An eminent
physician of New York city, superintendent of the city public schools
at one period. Strictures on Health; Review of the Anti-Slavery
Society’s First Annual Report; Quakerism versus Calvinism;
Phrenology Known by its Fruits; Medical Lexicon of Modern Terminology;
Humbugs of New York.
Reese, John James.Pa., 1818-1892. A Philadelphia
physician, professor of jurisprudence in the University of
Pennsylvania. American Medical Formulary; Analysis of Physiology;
Manual of Toxicology; Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence.
Reese, Lizette Woodworth.Md., 1856- ——. A verse-writer
and educator of Baltimore. A Branch of May; A Handful of Lavender; A
Quiet Road. Hou.
Reeve, James Knapp.N. Y., 1856- ——. A novelist of
Franklin, Ohio. Vawder’s Understudy; The Three Richard Whalens.
Sto.
Reeve, Tapping.L. I., 1744-1823. An eminent jurist of
Litchfield, Connecticut. Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child,
of Guardian and Ward, of Servant and Master; Treatise on the Law of
Descents in the Several United States.
Reeves, Marian Colhoun Legaré.S. C., c.
1854- ——. A novelist of Washington. Ingemisco; Randolph Honor; Sea
Drift; A Little Maid of Arcadie; Wearithorne; and with Emily Read, Old
Martin Boscawen’s Jest; Pilot Fortune. Hou.
Reichel, William Cornelius.N. C., 1824-1876. A Moravian
clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, among whose
writings are Moravianism in New York and Connecticut; Memorials of the
Moravian Church; A Red Rose from the Olden Time.
Reichert, Edward Tyson.Pa., 1855- ——. A Philadelphia
physician and educator, professor of physiology in the University of
Pennsylvania from 1886. A Text-Book of Physiology.
Reid, Christian.See Tiernan, Mrs. Frances.
Reid, David Boswell.S., 1805-1863. A chemist who came
to America in 1856, and was director of the medical inspection of
the United States Sanitary Commission. Introduction to the Study of
Chemistry; Rudiments of Chemistry of Daily Life; Ventilation for
American Dwellings, are among his writings.
Reid, John Morrison.N. Y., 1820-1896. A Methodist
clergyman and editor of religious journals who secured the library of
Von Ranke for Syracuse University. Missions of the Methodist Church;
Doomed Religions (edited). Meth.
Reid, Samuel Chester.N. Y., 1818-1897. A lawyer of
New Orleans. The United States Bankrupt Law of 1841; The Battle of
Chickamauga.
Reid, Whitelaw.O., 1837- ——. A journalist of
prominence in New York city and editor of The Tribune from 1872. After
the War, a Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools of Journalism;
Newspaper Tendencies. See Hart’s American Literature.Clke.
Reid, William James.N. Y., 1834-1902. A United
Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889. Lectures on the
Revelation; United Presbyterianism.
Reily, William McClellan.Pa., 1837- ——. A German
Reformed clergyman and educator of Allentown, Pennsylvania, president
of the Female College there from 1888. The Artist and his Mission.
Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin.Va., 1843- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman of New York city from 1880. Heavenward; Doom Eternal;
Lutheran Literature: its Distinctive Traits; Work and Personality of
Luther; Six Days of Creation; Lutheran Manual. Fu.
Remington, Frederic.N. Y., 1861- ——. A popular artist
and illustrator, whose work in the main reflects the life of the far
West. Pony Tracks. Har.
Remington, Joseph Price.Pa., 1847- ——. A professor
of pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from 1874. The
Practice of Pharmacy. Lip.
Remington, Stephen.N. Y., 1803-1869. A Baptist minister,
but prior to 1845 a preacher of the Methodist faith. Reasons for
Becoming a Baptist; A Defence of Restricted Communion.
Remsen, Ira.N. Y., 1846- ——. An eminent chemist,
professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. Chemical
Experiments (with W. Randall). Ho.
Reno, Conrad.Al., 1859- ——. A lawyer of Boston.
Employers’ Liability Acts. Hou.
Renwick, James.N. Y., 1792-1863. A once prominent
scientist of New York city, professor of natural and experimental
philosophy and chemistry at Columbia College from 1820 to 1853. Lives
of Rittenhouse, Fulton, Count Rumford, in Sparks’s American Biography;
Outlines of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the Steam Engine; Elements
of Mechanics; Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clinton, include the
greater number of his works. Har.
Repplier, Agnes.Pa., 1859- ——. A popular essayist
of Philadelphia. Books and Men; Points of View; In the Dozy Hours,
and Other Papers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Miniature; Varia.
Hou.
Requier, Augustus Julian.S. C., 1825-1887. A lawyer of
Mobile prior to the Civil War, and subsequently of New York city. The
Old Sanctuary, a romance; Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; The
Spanish Exile.
Revere, Joseph Warren.Ms., 1812-1880. A grandson of Paul
Revere, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Keel
and Saddle: Retrospect of Forty Years’ Military Service (1872).
Rexdale, Robert (pseud.). Me., 1859- ——. A
journalist and verse-writer of Portland, Maine. Drifting Songs and
Sketches; Saved by the Sword, a novel; The Cuban Liberated.
Rexford, Eben Eugene.N. Y., 1848- ——. A popular verse
and song writer of Shiocton, Wisconsin, whose poem Silver Threads Among
the Gold has been set to music and widely sung. Brother and Lover;
Grandmother’s Garden; John Fielding and his Enemy.
Reynolds, Elmer Robert.N. Y., 1846- ——. An ethnologist
in the United States civil service from 1877. A Scientific Visit to
the Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of the Choptank Indians;
Aboriginal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Columbia, are among
his professional monographs.
Reynolds, John.Pa., 1789-1865. An Illinois lawyer and
journalist, governor of Illinois, 1832-34. Pioneer History of Illinois;
Glance at the Crystal Palace; My Life and Times.
Reynolds, William Morton.Pa., 1812-1876. An Episcopal
clergyman, but prior to 1864 a Lutheran clergyman. Discourse on the
Swedish Churches. He translated, from the Swedish of Israel Acrelius, A
History of New Sweden, with introduction and notes.
Rhees, William Jones.Pa, 1830- ——. The chief clerk of
the Smithsonian Institution from 1852, who has published, among other
works, The Smithsonian Institution; James Smithson and His Bequest.
Rhodes, Albert.Pa., 1840- ——. A writer who was
successively United States consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, and
Elberstadt, and since 1885 has been a resident of Paris. Jerusalem as
It Is; The French at Home; Monsieur at Home.
Rhodes, James Ford.O., 1848- ——. An historian, of
Boston. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850.
Har.
Rhodes, Mosheim.Pa., 1837- ——. A Lutheran clergyman
of St. Louis from 1874. Life Thoughts for Young Men; Life Thoughts for
Young Women; Recognition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The Throne of
Grace; Expository Lectures on Philippians.
Rice, David Hall.Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer of Boston,
living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Protective Philosophy; Digest of
Decisions of Commissioner of Patents, 1869-80 (with C. Lepine).
Rice, Edwin Wilbur.N. Y., 1831- ——. A Congregational
clergyman connected with the Sunday-School Union from 1871. People’s
Lesson Book in Matthew; Stories of Great Painters; Historical Sketch of
the United States; People’s Commentary on the Acts.
Rice, George Edward.Ms., 1822-1861. A verse-writer of
Boston. Ephemera; Nugamenta; An Old Play in a New Garb, a fanciful
adaptation of Hamlet.
Rice, Harvey.Ms., 1800-1891. A prominent lawyer of
Cleveland. Mount Vernon, and Other Poems; Select Poems; Nature and
Culture; Pioneers of the Western Reserve; Sketches of Western Life; The
Founder of the City of Cleveland. Le.
Rice, Isaac Leopold.Bo., 1850- ——. A lawyer of New
York city who has written What Is Music?
Rice, Nathan Lewis.Ky., 1807-1877. A Presbyterian
clergyman of note who held pastorates in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and
New York city, and was an active controversialist. Romanism the Enemy
of Free Institutions; The Signs of the Times; Baptism; The Pulpit;
Discourses.
Rich, Mrs. Helen [Hinsdale].N. Y., 1827- ——. A
verse-writer of Chicago. A Dream of the Adirondacks, and Other Poems;
Madame de Staël. S.
Richards, Mrs. Cornelia Holroyd [Bradley].N. Y.,
1822-1892. Wife of W. C. Richards, infra, and sister of Mrs.
Alice Haven, supra. At Home and Abroad, or How to Behave;
Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on the Lord’s Prayer; Hester and I;
Memoir of Mrs. Haven.
Richards, Mrs. Ellen Henrietta [Swallow].Ms.,
1842- ——. An instructor in sanitary chemistry in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, wife of Professor Richards of the same
institution. Chemistry of Cookery and Cleaning; Food Materials and
their Adulterations; First Lessons in Minerals. Est.
Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth [Howe].Ms., 1850- ——.
Daughter of Mrs. J. W. Howe, supra. A writer of juvenile books,
whose home is in Gardiner, Maine. The Joyous Story of Toto; Toto’s
Merry Winter; In My Nursery; Five Mice; Captain January; Jim of Hellas;
Queen Hildegarde, are among her books. Est. Rob.
Richards, Mrs. Maria [Tolman].Ms., 1821- ——. An
educator and lecturer of Providence. Life in Judea; Life in Israel.
Richards, William Carey.E., 1818-1892. A Baptist
minister of Chicago, widely known as a lecturer upon physical science.
Baptist Banquets; The Lord is My Shepherd; The Mountain Anthem; Our
Father in Heaven, a series of sonnets; Science in Song. Le.
Richardson, Mrs. Abby [Sage].Ms., 1837-1900. Wife of A.
D. Richardson, infra. An educator and lecturer upon literature.
Familiar Talks on English Literature; Stories from Old English Poetry;
History of Our Country; Abelard and Heloise, a Mediæval Romance. She
edited Songs from the Old Dramatists; Old Love Letters, and other
works. Hou. Mg.
Richardson, Albert Deane.Ms., 1833-1869. A journalist of
New York city, famous as the war correspondent of The Tribune during
the Civil War. Beyond the Mississippi; Personal History of Ulysses
Grant; The Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape; Garnered Sheaves. See
Memoir.
Richardson, Charles Francis.Me., 1851- ——. A
professor of English literature at Dartmouth College from 1882. Primer
of American Literature; The Cross, a collection of verse; American
Literature, 1607-1885; The Choice of Books. Co-editor with H. A. Clark
of The College Book. Hou. Lip. Put.
Richardson, Hobart Wood. 1831-1889. A journalist of Portland,
Maine. Paper Money; The National Banks; The Standard Dollar. Ap.
Har.
Richardson, Nathaniel Smith.Ct., 1810-1883. An Episcopal
clergyman who was editor of The American Church Review. Reasons Why I
Am a Churchman; Reasons Why I Am Not a Papist; Evidences of Natural
and Revealed Religion, are among his writings.
Richardson, William Adams.Ms., 1821-1896. A
Massachusetts jurist, chief justice of the United States Court of
Claims from 1885, and secretary of the United States Treasury, 1873-74.
The Banking Laws of Massachusetts; History of the Court of Claims;
Practical Information concerning the United States Public Debt;
National Banking Laws.
Richardson, William Merchant.N. H., 1774-1838. Chief
justice of New Hampshire, 1816-38. The New Hampshire Justice; The Town
Officer.
Richmond, Mrs. Euphemia Johnson [Guernsey].N. Y.,
1825- ——. A writer of Upton, New York. Hope Raymond; Two Paths; The
McAllisters, a temperance tale; The Jewelled Serpent; The Fatal Dower;
Anna Maynard, the King’s Daughter, form a portion of her writings.
Meth.
Ricord [rē-cor´], Mrs. Elizabeth [Stryker].L. I.,
1788-1865. Wife of J. B. Ricord, infra. An educator of Geneva,
New York, and after 1845 a resident of Newark, New Jersey. Philosophy
of the Mind; Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem.
Ricord, Frederick William.W. I., 1819-1897. Son of J.
B. Ricord, infra. A lawyer and educator of Newark, New Jersey.
History of Rome; The Youth’s Grammar; English Songs from Foreign
Tongues; The Self-Tormentor, from the Latin of Terentius, with More
English Songs.
Ricord, Jean Baptiste.F., 1777-1837. A French physician
and naturalist who settled in New York city. Improved French Grammar;
Recherches et expériences sur les poissons d’Amérique.
Riddle, Albert Gallatin.Ms., 1816-1902. A lawyer of
Washington who wrote a number of romances of early life in Ohio. The
House of Ross; Bart Ridgeley; Alice Brand; The Tory’s Daughter; Mark
Loan; The Portrait; Personal Recollections of War Times; Students
and Lawyers; Life of Benjamin Wade; Life of Garfield; Speeches and
Arguments, include his principal works. Put.
Rideing, William Henry.E., 1853- ——. A Boston
littérateur on the editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. Pacific
Railway Illustrated; A Saddle in the Wild West; Boys in the Mountains
and on the Plains; Boys Coastwise; Stray Moments with Thackeray;
Alpenstock; Young Folks’ History of London; The Boyhood of Living
Authors; Thackeray’s London; A Little Upstart, a novel; In the Land of
Lorna Doone; The Captured Cunarder. Ap. Cop. Cr. Est.
Ridgaway, Henry Bascom.Md., 1830-1895. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of Illinois, president of Garrett Biblical
Institute at Evanston, Illinois, from 1882. Life of Alfred Cookman; The
Lord’s Land, or Travels in Sinai and Palestine; Lives of Bishops Janes,
Waugh, Simpson. Meth.
Ridgway, Robert.O., 1850- ——. An eminent ornithologist
of Washington, curator of the department of birds in the National
Museum from 1879. The Birds of Colorado; Ornithology of the Fortieth
Parallel; Manual of North American Birds; History of North American
Birds (with Baird and Brewer, supra). Lip.
Ridpath, John Clark.Il., 1840-1900. A professor of
belles-lettres at De Pauw University. Popular and Academic Histories of
the United States; History of Texas; Life of Garfield; History of the
World; Christopher Columbus; Columbia, a Quadricentennial Story; Great
Races of Mankind; Epic of Life, a poem. Meth.
Riggs, Elias.N. J., 1810-1901. A Congregational
missionary in Constantinople, famous as a linguist, among whose
writings are, Manual of the Chaldee Language; Grammar of the Modern
Armenian Language; Notes of Difficult Passages of the New Testament; A
Harmony of the Gospels, in Bulgarian. Ran.
Riggs, James Stevenson.N. Y., 1853- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1881, who has
published The Bible in Art.
Riggs, Mrs. Kate Douglas [Smith] [Wiggin].Pa.,
1857- ——. A popular writer of New York city. Timothy’s Quest; Polly
Oliver’s Problem; The Birds’ Christmas Carol; The Story of Patsy;
A Summer in a Cañon; Children’s Rights; A Cathedral Courtship, and
Penelope’s English Experiences; The Village Watch-Tower; Marm Lisa;
Nine Love Songs and a Carol. She has also written in collaboration with
her sister, Nora Archibald Smith, The Story Hour; and The Republic of
Childhood, a work on the kindergarten. Hou.
Riggs, Stephen Return.O., 1812-1883. A missionary to the
Indians in Minnesota and Dakota. Forty Years Among the Sioux; The Bible
in Dakota (with Williamson); and many translations and other writings
relating to the Dakota Indians.
Riis, Jacob August.Dk., 1849- ——. A New York writer on
social problems. How the Other Half Lives; The Children of the Poor;
Nibsy’s Christmas; The Making of an American. Scr.
Riley, Charles Valentine.E., 1843-1895. A distinguished
entomologist of Washington, at one period State entomologist of
Missouri, and from 1881 till his death in charge of the entomological
division of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Locust
Plague in the United States; Potato Pests; Noxious, Beneficial, and
Other Insects of Missouri.
Riley, Henry Hiram.Ms., 1813-1888. A lawyer of
Constantine, Michigan, once known as a humourous writer. Paddleford and
Its People; The Paddleford Papers, or Humors of the West. Le.
Riley, James.Ct., 1777-1840. A mariner who was enslaved
by the Arabs of Africa in 1815 and ransomed by Mr. Willshire, the
British consul, at Mogadore. In 1821 he settled in Ohio and founded the
town of Willshire, named in honour of the consul. From his journals was
prepared, in 1816, the Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American
Brig Commerce on the West Coast of Africa, with a Description of
Timbuctoo.
Riley, James.I., 1848- ——. A verse-writer of Boston
whose unpretentious Poems, published in 1886, reached a third edition
in 1888.
Riley, James Whitcomb.Ind., 1852- ——. A very
popular poet of Indianapolis whose dialect poems of Hoosier life
have been greatly praised. His earliest work appeared over the
signature “Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone.” His dialect and other poems
display much real feeling and originality. The Old Swimmin’ Hole and
’Leven More Poems; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Afterwhiles;
Old-Fashioned Roses; Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood;
Flying Islands of the Night; Neighborly Poems; An Old Sweetheart of
Mine; Green Fields and Running Brooks; Poems Here at Home; Armazindy; A
Child World. Bo. Cent. Lgs.
Riley, John Campbell.D. C., 1828-1879. A Washington
physician who wrote a Compend of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
Lip.
Rimmer, Caroline Hunt.Ms., 1851- ——. Daughter of W.
Rimmer, infra. Animal Drawing. Hou.
Rimmer, William.E., 1816-1879. A Boston painter,
sculptor, and teacher of art anatomy, who also practiced medicine, but
gave up his profession to devote himself to art. Art Anatomy; Elements
of Design. Hou.
Riordan, Roger.I., 1848- ——. A New York city
journalist. A Score of Etchings; Sunrise Stories, a Glance at the
Literature of Japan. Scr.
Ripley, George.Ms., 1802-1880. A Unitarian clergyman
who was pastor in Boston, 1826-41, and then for several years the
chief promoter of the famous Brook Farm experiment. In 1849 he became
literary editor of The New York Tribune, and continued in that position
until his death. With C. A. Dana, supra, he edited the American
Cyclopædia, 1857-63, and also the revised edition of the same, 1873-76.
His literary criticisms exerted a wide and beneficial influence.
Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion; Letters to Andrews Norton,
supra, on the Latest Form of Infidelity. See Modern Review,
July, 1883; Appletons’ American Biography; Life by O. B. Frothingham,
supra.
Ripley, Henry Jones.Ms., 1798-1875. A Baptist clergyman
who held a pastorate in Georgia, 1819-26, and from 1826 to 1860 was a
professor in the Theological Seminary at Newton, Massachusetts. Notes
on the Gospels, Acts, Hebrews; Christian Baptism; Church Polity; The
Exclusiveness of the Baptists.
Ripley, Roswell Sabine.O., 1823-1887. A Confederate army
officer of prominence who wrote a History of the Mexican War.
Ritchie, Mrs. Anna Cora [Ogden] [Mowatt].F., 1822-1870.
A once popular actress who retired from the stage in 1854, and for the
last ten years of her life lived in Florence and London. Her writings
include several novels, The Fortune Hunter; The Mute Singer; Fairy
Fingers; Evelyn; The Twin Roses; The Clergyman’s Wife; two successful
plays, Fashion and Armand; Mimic Life, or Before and Behind the
Curtain; Autobiography of an Actress, the last named an exceedingly
popular book.
Ritter, Abraham.Pa., 1792-1860. A merchant of
Philadelphia. History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia;
Philadelphia and her Merchants.
Ritter, Mrs. Frances Malone [Raymond].E., 1830-1890.
Wife of F. L. Ritter, infra. Woman as a Musician; Some Famous
Songs, an Art Historical Sketch; Songs and Ballads.
Ritter, Frédéric Louis.F., 1834-1891. A musician of
Alsace who came to the United States in 1856, and, becoming professor
of music at Vassar College in 1867, retained that position until his
death. Music in England; Music in America; History of Music in the Form
of Lectures; Manual of Musical History. Dit. Scr.
Rivers, Pearl.See Nicholson, Mrs.
Rivers, Richard Henderson.Tn., 1814-1894. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of Alabama, for many years pastor in Louisville,
1883-87. Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; Our Young People; Life of
Robert Paine; Arrows From Two Quivers.
Rivers, William James.S. C., 1822- ——. An educator of
South Carolina and Maryland, professor in Washington College in the
latter State from 1873. History of South Carolina to the Close of the
Proprietary Government in 1719; Catechism of the Constitution of South
Carolina.
Rives [reevz], Amélie. Granddaughter of W. C. Rives,
infra. See Troubetzkoy.
Rives, Mrs. Judith Page [Walker].Va., 1802-1882. Wife of
W. C. Rives, infra. Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe; Home and
the World; The Canary Bird; Epitome of the Bible.
Rives, William Cabell.Va., 1793-1868. A prominent
Virginia statesman, twice minister to France, and during the Civil War
a member of the Confederate Congress. Lives of John Hampden, James
Madison; Ethics of Christianity.
Robbins, Chandler.Ms., 1810-1882. A Unitarian clergyman
of Boston, pastor of the Second Church, 1833-74. Liturgy for the Use of
a Christian Church; History of the Second or Old North Church; Memoir
of Benjamin Curtis, supra; Portrait of a Christian Drawn from
Life. See Frothingham’s Boston Unitarianism. A. U. A.
Robbins, Eliza.Ms., 1786-1853. An educator in Boston for
many years. Elements of Mythology; Grecian History; Tales from American
History, are among her published works.
Robbins, Mrs. Mary Caroline [Pike].Me., 1842- ——.
Daughter of J. S. Pike, supra. The wife of a physician of
Hingham, Massachusetts. A writer for the magazines on art, landscape
gardening, and kindred topics. The Rescue of An Old Place. Hou.
Robbins, Royal.Ct., 1787-1861. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Kensington, Connecticut, 1816-61. Outlines of
Ancient History; The World Displayed.
Roberts, Mrs. Anna Smith [Rickey].Pa., 1827-1858. Wife
of S. W. Roberts, infra. A verse-writer who published Forest
Flowers of the West.
Roberts, Benjamin Titus.N. Y., 1823-1893. A Free
Methodist clergyman of North Chili, New York, founder of Chesbrough
Academy there in 1865, and president of that institution, 1869-1893.
Fishers of Men; Why Another Sect; First Lessons on Money; Ordaining
Women.
Roberts, Charles George Douglas.N. B., 1860- ——.
A popular Canadian poet and littérateur, formerly a professor of
literature in King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and in recent
years a resident of New York city. His work in verse includes, Orion,
and Other Poems; In Divers Tones; The Book of the Native. His prose
comprises, Earth’s Enigmas, a collection of short stories; The Forge
in the Forest, an Acadian Romance; A History of Canada; Around the
Camp Fire; Canadian Guide Book; Reube Dare’s Shad Boat; Raid from
Beausejour, and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage. Ap. Cr.
Lam. Lo. Meth.
Roberts, Edmund Quincy.N. H., 1784-1836. A diplomatist
who did much to promote trade in Farther India. Embassy to the Eastern
Courts (1857).
Roberts, Ellis Henry.N. Y., 1827- ——. Formerly a
journalist of Utica; now (1897) president of a national bank in New
York city. He was a member of Congress from 1871 to 1875. Government
Revenue; New York: the Planting and Growth of the Empire State.
Hou.
Roberts, John Bingham.Pa., 1852- ——. A Philadelphia
physician. Paracentesis of the Pericardium; Compendium of Anatomy.
Roberts, Oran Milo.S. C., 1815-1898. A Texas jurist who
was governor of Texas, 1879-83, and professor of law in the University
of Texas from 1883. He wrote a description of his State, entitled
Governor Robinson’s Texas.
Roberts, Robert Ellis.N. Y., 1809-1888. A prominent
merchant and citizen of Detroit. Sketches of Detroit; The City of the
Straits.
Roberts, Solomon White.Pa., 1811-1882. A distinguished
civil engineer of Pennsylvania. The Destiny of Pittsburg.
Roberts, William.W., 1809-1887. A Welsh Presbyterian
clergyman of Utica from 1875. He published, in Welsh, The Abrahamic
Covenant; The Election of Grace.
Roberts, William Henry.W., 1844- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor of theology in Lane Seminary, 1886-93, and stated
clerk of the General Assembly from 1884. History of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Status of Theological
Seminaries; The Presbyterian System.
Robertson, John.Va., 1787-1873. A Virginia jurist.
Riego, or the Spanish Martyr, a tragedy; Opuscula, a book of verse.
Robinson, Mrs. Annie Douglas [Green]. “Marian Douglas.” N.
H., 1842- ——. A writer of Bristol, New Hampshire. Picture Poems
for Young Folks; Peter and Polly, or Home Life in New England One
Hundred Years Ago. Do.
Robinson, Charles.Ms., 1818-1894. A noted Kansas
politician, three times governor of the State as candidate of the Free
State party, 1856-59. The Kansas Conflict (1892). Har.
Robinson, Charles Seymour.Vt., 1829-1899. A Presbyterian
clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known as an hymnologist.
Besides Laudes Domini, and other hymnals, he published Church Work, a
volume of sermons; Studies on the New Testament; Studies of Neglected
Texts; The Pharaohs of the Bondage and the Exodus; Simon Peter, his
Life and Work; Studies in Mark’s Gospel; Simon Peter’s Later Life and
Labors; Sermons in Songs; Sabbath Evening Sermons. Fu.
Robinson, Edith.Ms., 1858- ——. A Boston novelist. A
Forced Acquaintance; Penhallow Tales; A Loyal Little Maid. Cop. Hou.
Kt.
Robinson, Edward.Ct., 1794-1863. A distinguished
Congregational clergyman and Biblical scholar of New York city,
a professor in Union Seminary, 1837-63, and the founder of the
Bibliotheca Sacra. Harmony of the Four Gospels, in Greek; Harmony
of the Four Gospels, in English; Biblical Researches in Palestine;
Physical Geography of the Holy Land; A Greek and English Lexicon
of the New Testament. See Life by R. D. Hitchcock; Allibone’s
Dictionary.Hou. Rev.
Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman.Ms., 1815-1894. A Baptist
clergyman and educator, president of Brown University, 1872-89. Yale
Lectures on Preaching; Principles and Practice of Morality; Christian
Evidences. Ho. Sil.
Robinson, Fayette.Va., ——-1859. Mexico and her
Military Chieftains; Account of the Organization of the United States
Army; California and the Gold Regions (1849); Spanish Grammar; Wizard
of the Wave, a romance; and a number of translations from the French.
Robinson, Frank Torrey.Ms., 1845-1898. A journalist
and art critic of Boston, and more recently one of the curators of
the Metropolitan Museum of New York city. Quaint New England; Living
New England Artists; History of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of
Volunteer Militia.
Robinson, Mrs. Harriet Jane [Hanson].Ms., 1825- ——.
Wife of W. S. Robinson, infra. A prominent woman-suffragist
of Malden, Massachusetts. In her early life she was one of the
contributors to the noted Lowell Offering. Massachusetts in the Woman
Suffrage Movement; Captain Mary Miller, a drama; Early Factory Labor in
New England; The New Pandora, a drama in blank verse. Put. Rob.
Robinson, Harry Perry.E. I., 1860- ——. An English
littérateur resident in the United States from 1883, and now (1897)
living in Chicago. A brother of Philip Robinson, the English writer.
Men Born Equal, a novel; monographs on railway topics. Har.
Robinson, Horatio Nelson.N. Y., 1806-1867. A
mathematician and educator of Cincinnati, Ohio, after 1854 a resident
of Eldridge, New York. University Algebra; Mathematical Recreations;
Treatise on Surveying and Navigation; Treatise on Astronomy; Analytical
Geometry and Conic Sections, include the greater number of his
writings. Am.
Robinson, John Hovey.Me., 1825- ——. A physician who
wrote a large number of sensational romances of slight literary merit,
among which are, White Rover; Nightshade; Silver-Knife.
Robinson, Mrs. Leora [Bettison].Ark., 1840- ——. A
writer and educator of Tallahassee. House with Spectacles; Than; Patsy.
Robinson, Mrs. Martha Harrison.Va., 18— - ——. A
writer of Philadelphia who has published a number of translations from
the French, and Helen Erskine, an original novel. Lip.
Robinson, Mrs. Mary Dommet [Nauman].Pa., 185- - ——. A
novelist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Twisted Threads; Sidney Elliot;
The Enchanted Princess; Clyde Wardleigh’s Promise; Eva’s Adventures in
Shadowland. Lip.
Robinson, Rowland Evans.Vt., 1833-1900. A farmer of
Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Danvis Folks, a novel; Vermont: a Study of
Independence; Uncle ’Lisha’s Shop; In New England Fields and Woods.
Hou.
Robinson, Mrs. Sarah Tappan Doolittle [Lawrence].Ms.,
1827- ——. Wife of C. Robinson, supra. A writer of Lawrence,
Kansas, who published, in 1856, Kansas: its Exterior and Interior Life,
a work giving valuable information concerning a critical period in the
history of the State.
Robinson, Solon.Ct., 1803-1880. A journalist of New York
city long known as an agricultural writer for The Tribune, and after
1870 a resident of Jacksonville, Florida. Hot Corn, or Life Scenes in
New York, a very popular book for a short period; Facts for Farmers,
which was extensively circulated; How to Live, or Domestic Economy
Illustrated; Me-won-i-toc.
Robinson, Stillman Williams.Vt., 1838- ——. A civil
engineer, professor of physics at Ohio State University from 1878.
Practical Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels; Railroad Economics; Strength
of Wrought Iron Bridge Materials.
Robinson, Stuart.I., 1816-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman
of prominence in Louisville. Discourses of Redemption; The Church of
God. Ap.
Robinson, Mrs. Therese Albertine Luise [Von Jakob]. “Talvi.”
G., 1797-1869. Wife of E. Robinson, supra. An able
and learned author who wrote both in English and German, using the
pseudonym Talvi in the latter case. Characteristik der Volkslieder
germanischen Nationen; Die Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians; Aus der
Geschichte der ersten Ansiedelungen in den Vereinigten Staaten; Die
Colonisation von New England; Fifteen Years, a Picture from the
Last Century; Historical View of the Language and Literature of
the Slavic Nations. She also wrote a number of stories which her
daughter translated from the German, including Psyche; Heloise; Life’s
Discipline; The Exiles.
Robinson, Tracy.N. Y., 1833- ——. An official of the
Panama Railway, 1861-74, and subsequently a resident of New York city.
Song of the Palm, and Other Poems.
Robinson, William Stevens. “Warrington.” Ms., 1818-1876.
A journalist of Boston long known as the Boston correspondent of the
New York Tribune and the Springfield Republican. The Salary Grab;
Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Warrington’s Pen Portraits; Personal
and Political. See Memoir by Mrs. Robinson.Le.
Roche, James Jeffrey.I., 1847- ——. A popular Boston
journalist, since 1890 the editor of The Pilot. Songs and Satires;
Ballads of Blue Water; Life of John Boyle O’Reilly, supra; The
Story of the Filibusters; Her Majesty the King. Hou. St.
Rochester, Thomas Fortescue.N. Y., 1823-1887. A once
prominent physician of Buffalo. The Army Surgeon; Medical Men and
Medical Matters in 1776.
Rockwell, Alphonso David.Ct., 1840- ——. A physician of
New York city. Relation of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery; Medical
and Surgical Uses of Electricity (with G. M. Beard, supra).
Rockwell, Charles.Ct., 1806-1882. A Congregational
clergyman who held pastorates in the New England and other States.
Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea; The Catskill Mountains and
the Region Around.
Rockwell, Joel Edson.Vt., 1816-1882. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Stapleton, Staten Island. Sketches of the Presbyterian
Church; The Young Christian Warned; Scenes and Impressions Abroad; My
Sheet Anchor; Seed Thoughts.
Rockwell, John Arnold.Ct., 1803-1861. A jurist of
Norwich, Connecticut. Spanish and American Law in Relation to Mines
and Titles to Real Estate.
Rodenbough, Theophilus Francis.Pa., 1838- ——. A
Federal army officer, assistant inspector-general of New York State,
1880-83. From Everglade to Cañon with the Second United States Cavalry;
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute; Uncle Sam’s Medal of Honor.
Rodman, Thomas Jefferson.Ind., 1815-1871. An army
officer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He invented the method of
hollow casting. Report of Experiments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon
Powder.
Rodney, Cæsar Augustus.Del., 1772-1824. A noted Delaware
jurist, prominent in Congress, and the first United States minister
to Argentina. Reports on the Present State of the United Provinces of
South America (with T. Graham) (1824).
Roe, Azel Stevens.N. Y., 1798-1886. A once popular
novelist who was for many years a wine merchant of New York city. True
to the Last; A Long Look Ahead; Time and Tide; To Love and To Be Loved;
James Montjoy; True Love Rewarded; How Could He Help It?; Looking
Around; Woman Our Angel; The Cloud in the Heart.
Roe, Edward Payson.N. Y., 1838-1888. A Presbyterian
clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, devoted himself to novel-writing. His stories,
which are nearly all of a semi-religious character, have been
extraordinarily popular, but it must be admitted that their literary
merit is very slight, the style being weak and inflated and the
construction poor. The best that can be said in their favour is that
they are well-intentioned. Barriers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut
Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near
to Nature’s Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A Knight of the Nineteenth
Century; A Day of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl’s Wooing; An
Original Belle; Driven Back to Eden; Nature’s Serial Story; The Earth
Trembled; Miss Lou; Taken Alive, and Other Stories. He also published
two horticultural books, The Home Acre; Success with Small Fruits.
Do.
Roe, Edward Reynolds. 18— - ——. A novelist of Chicago.
Brought to Bay; The Grey and the Blue; God Reigns: Lay Sermons; From
the Beaten Path; May and June.
Roebling, John Augustus.P., 1800-1869. A civil engineer
of note who built the suspension bridge across the Ohio between
Cincinnati and Covington, and was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Long and Short Span Railway Bridges.
Roebling, Washington Augustus.P., 1837- ——. Son of
J. A. Roebling, supra. A famous civil engineer of Brooklyn who
completed the Brooklyn Bridge. He has published Military Suspension
Bridges. See Schuyler’s Studies in American Architecture.
Roemer, Jean.E., 1806-1892. An educator of New York
city, vice-president of the College of the City of New York from
1869. Dictionary of English-French Idioms; Polyglot Readers; Cavalry;
Principles of General Grammar; Cours de lecture et de traduction;
Origins of the English People and Language; Left in the Wilderness.
Ap.
Rogé, Mrs. Charlotte Fiske [Bates].N. Y., 1838- ——.
An educator and verse-writer of Cambridge and New York city who has
written Risk, and Other Poems, and edited The Cambridge Book of Poetry
and other works. Cr. Hou.
Rogers, Fairman.Pa., 1833-1900. A professor of civil
engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, 1855-70. The Magnetism
of Iron Vessels.
Rogers, Henry Darwin.Pa., 1808-1866. A noted geologist
who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-46, and held
the chair of natural history in the Scottish University of Glasgow from
1857 till his death. The Geology of Pennsylvania; Geological Map of
Pennsylvania. Lip.
Rogers, Henry Wade.N. Y., 1853- ——. A lawyer and
educator, president of Northwestern University, 1890-1900. Illinois
Citations; Expert Testimony.
Rogers, Horatio.R. I., 1836- ——. A Providence jurist
who has published The Private Libraries of Providence; Mary Dyer of
Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr; and edited Hadden’s Journal and
Orderly Books. Pr.
Rogers, James Webb.N. C., 1822-1896. A writer who in
early life was an Episcopal clergyman in Tennessee, and during the
Civil War a Confederate officer. He became a Roman Catholic in 1878
and settled in Washington as a lawyer. Lafitte, or the Greek Slave;
Arlington, and Other Poems; Parthenon.
Rogers, Robert Cameron.N. Y., 1862- ——. A littérateur
of Buffalo. The Wind in the Clearing, and Other Poems; Will of the
Wasp, a yarn of the War of 1812; Old Dorset, a collection of short
stories. Put.
Rogers, Robert William.Pa., 1864- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in Drew Theological
Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, from 1893. Two Texts of Esarhaddon;
Unpublished Inscriptions of Esarhaddon; The Inscriptions of Sennacherib.
Rogers, William Barton.Pa., 1804-1882. Brother of H. D.
Rogers, supra. An eminent scientist of Boston, the founder of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1862, and its president,
1862-70, and again, 1878-81. The Geology of the Virginias; Elements of
Mechanical Philosophy; The Strength of Materials. See The Brothers
Rogers, by W. Ruschenberger, infra, 1885; Life by E. Rogers, 1896.Ap.
Rohlfs, Mrs. Anna Katharine [Green].L. I., 1846- ——.
A very popular novelist of Buffalo whose detective romances display
much inventive skill. The Sword of Damocles; The Leavenworth Case;
A Strange Disappearance; Hand and Ring; The Mill Mystery; Behind
Closed Doors; Cynthia Wakeham’s Money; Marked “Personal”; Miss Hurd;
An Enigma; Dr. Izard; Old Stone House, and Other Stories; 7 to 12;
X, Y, Z; The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock; That Affair Next Door;
Risifi’s Daughter, a Drama; The Defence of the Bride, and Other Poems.
Put.
Rolfe, John Carew.Ms., 1859- ——. Son of W. J. Rolfe,
infra. A professor of Latin in the University of Michigan.
Heauton Timorumenos of Terence. Gi.
Rolfe, William James.Ms., 1827- ——. A distinguished
Shakespearean scholar and educator of Cambridge. He has published
Shakespeare the Boy; two annotated editions of Shakespeare, the
Friendly Edition in twenty volumes, and a School Edition in forty
volumes; and a series of annotated editions of selections from
Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, Gray, Goldsmith, Scott, and other
English poets. He has also edited Craik’s English of Shakespeare; and
is co-author with J. H. Hanson of several classical text-books, and
with J. A. Gillet of The Cambridge Physics. Har. Hou.
Rollins, Mrs. Alice Marland [Wellington].Ms., 1847-1897.
A littérateur of New York city. My Welcome Beyond, and Other Poems; The
Ring of Amethyst, and Other Poems; The Story of a Ranch; All Sorts of
Children; The Three Tetons; From Palm to Glacier; Uncle Tom’s Tenement,
a study of New York tenement-house life. Put.
Rollins, Mrs. Ellen Chapman [Hobbs]. “E. H. Arr.” N. H.,
1831-1881. A writer of Philadelphia. New England Bygones; Old-Time
Child-life. See Memoir by Gail Hamilton, 1882.Lip.
Ronayne, Maurice.I., 1828-1903. A Roman Catholic
clergyman and educator of New York city, professor of history at St.
Francis Xavier’s College from 1888. Religion and Science; God Knowable
and Known.
Rood, Ogden Nicholas.Ct., 1831-1902. A physicist of
note, professor of physics at Columbia College from 1863, and author of
Modern Chromatics. Ap.
Roosa [ro´zah], Daniel Bennett St. John.N. Y.,
1838- ——. A prominent physician of New York city, and a professor at
the University of the City of New York, 1863-82. Treatise on the Ear; A
Doctor’s Suggestions; On the Necessity of Wearing Glasses.
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell.N. Y., 1829- ——. A lawyer
of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, 1888-89. The
Game Fish of North America; Coast and Game Birds of the Northern
States; Florida and the Game Water Birds; Love and Luck; Progressive
Petticoats; Five Acres Too Much, a Satire. Har.
Roosevelt, Theodore.N. Y., 1858- ——. Nephew of R.
B. Roosevelt, supra. The twenty-fifth president of the United
States. The Naval War of 1812; Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Ranch Life
and the Hunting Trail; The Winning of the West; The Wilderness Hunter;
Essays on Practical Politics; History of the City of New York; American
Ideals, and Other Essays; The Rough Riders; The Strenuous Life:
Essays and Addresses; The Deer Family (with others); Lives of Thomas
H. Benton, supra, Gouverneur Morris, supra, and Oliver
Cromwell. Cent. Hou. Lgs. Mac. Put.
Ropes, John Codman.R., 1836-1899. A lawyer of Boston
well known as a military historian. The Army under Pope; The Campaign
of Waterloo; Atlas of Waterloo; The First Napoleon; The Story of the
Civil War. Hou. Put. Scr.
Rose, Aquila.E., 1695-1723. A printer and verse-writer
of Philadelphia whose Poems on Several Occasions were collected after
his death.
Rosengarten, Joseph George.Pa., 1835- ——. A lawyer
of Philadelphia. The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States.
Lip.
Rosenthal, Lewis.Md., 1856- ——. A journalist who has
published America and France: the Influence of the United States on
France in the Eighteenth Century. Ho.
Ross, Albert.See Porter, L. B.
Ross, Clinton.N. Y., 1861- ——. A novelist of New
York city. The Silent Workman; The Countess Bettina; The Speculator;
Adventures of Three Worthies; Improbable Tales; Two Soldiers and a
Politician; The Puppet; The Scarlet Coat; Battle Tales; Bobbie McDuff;
The Meddling Hussy; Zuleika. Lam. Put. St.
Ross, Frederick Augustus.Va., 1796-1883. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Huntsville, Alabama. Slavery as Ordained of God.
Rosser, Leonidas.Va., 1815-1892. A Methodist clergyman
of Virginia. Baptism; Experimental Religion; Class Meetings;
Recognition in Heaven; Open Communion; Initial Life; Reply to Howell’s
“Evils of Baptism.”
Rotch [rōch], Abbott Lawrence.Ms., 1861- ——.
A meteorologist who founded the Blue Hill meteorological observatory
in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1885, and who has published many valuable
meteorological papers.
Rothrock, Joseph Trimble.Pa., 1839- ——. A professor
of botany in the University of Pennsylvania from 1877. Botany of the
Wheeler Expedition; Vacation Cruisings; Flora of Alaska; Revision
of the North American Gaurineæ, include his principal publications.
Lip.
Round, William Marshall Fitz.R. I., 1845- ——. A writer
active in prison reforms. His books for juvenile readers include,
Achsah; Child Marion Abroad; Torn and Mended; Hal; Rosecroft. Le.
Rouquette [roŏ-ket´], Adrien Emmanuel.La.,
1813-1887. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New Orleans,
known as the Abbé Rouquette. Les Savannes; Poésies américaines; Wild
Flowers; Sacred Poetry; Le Thébaïde en Amérique; L’Antoniade, ou la
Solitude avec Dieu; Poëmes patriotiques.
Rouquette, François Dominique.Pa., 1810-1890. Brother
of A. E. Rouquette, supra. A lawyer who resided in France for
part of his life. Les Meschacébéennes; Fleurs d’Amérique; and a work in
French and English on the Choctaw Indians.
Rowe, Mrs. Henrietta Gould.Me., 1835- ——. A writer
of Bangor, Maine. Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine;
Queenshithe.
Rowland, Henry Augustus.Ct., 1804-1859. A Congregational
clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Common Maxims of Infidelity; The Path
of Life; Light in a Dark Valley; The Way of Peace. See Memorial of,
by Fairchild, 1860.
Rowson, Mrs. Susanna [Haswell].E., 1762-1824. A once
famous novelist whose Charlotte Temple was the most popular tale of its
day. Born in England, she came to Boston as a child, but returned to
England in 1784 and there married. In 1793 she came again to America,
and after a short career as an actress opened a school in Boston, which
was very successful. Her writings include Victoria; Mary, or the Test
of Honour; The Fille de Chambre; The Inquisitor; The Trials of the
Heart; Reuben and Rachel; Lucy Temple, a sequel to Charlotte Temple;
Miscellaneous Poems; The Slaves of Algiers, an opera; The Volunteers, a
farce; The French Patriot, a comedy. See Memoir by E. Nason, supra,
1870.
Royall, Mrs. Anne.Va., 1769-1854. A once well-known and
unpopular Washington journalist, editor of the Washington Paul Pry,
whose literary style was quite devoid of merit. The Black Book; The
Tennessean, a novel; Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the
United States; A Southern Tour: Letters from Alabama.
Royce, Josiah.Cal., 1855- ——. A professor of the
history of philosophy at Harvard University. The Religious Aspect of
Philosophy; California: a Study of American Character; The Feud of
Oakfield Creek, a novel; Primer of Logical Analysis; The Spirit of
Modern Philosophy. Hou.
Rudder, William.B. G., 1820-1880. An Episcopal clergyman
of Philadelphia, rector of St. Stephen’s Church. Sermons; A Rationale
of the Church’s Liturgic Worship. Co. Lip.
Rude, Mrs. Ellen [Sergeant].N. Y., 1838- ——. A
verse-writer of Duluth who has published Magnolia Leaves (verse).
Ruffner, Henry.Va., 1798-1861. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Virginia, and a noted opponent of slavery. Fathers of the Desert: a
History of Monachism; Future Punishment.
Ruffner, William Henry.Va., 1824- ——. Son of W.
Ruffner, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and
from 1870 State superintendent of public instruction in Virginia.
Charity and the Clergy.
Ruggles, Henry Joseph.N. Y., 1813- ——. A lawyer of
New York city. The Method of Shakespeare as an Artist; The Plays of
Shakespeare founded on Literary Forms. Hou.
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count.Ms., 1753-1814. A
statesman and philosopher. After serving Great Britain in the War of
the Revolution, he entered the service of the Elector of Bavaria, rose
to the position of minister of war, and was created Count of the Holy
Roman Empire, taking his title Rumford from Rumford, now Concord, New
Hampshire. Essays: Political, Economical, and Philosophical, 1798-1806.
See Cuvier’s Éloge de Rumford; Sparks’s American Biography; Life by
G. E. Ellis, supra; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1871.
Runcie, Mrs. Constance [Faunt Le Roy].Ind., 1836- ——.
A writer whose home was many years at St. Joseph, Missouri. Divinely
Led; Poems, Dramatic and Lyric; Woman’s Work; Felix Mendelssohn;
Children’s Stories and Fables.
Runkle, John Daniel.N. Y., 1822-1902. A noted
mathematician, professor of mathematics in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 1870-78. Elements of Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry.
Gi.
Rupp, Isaac Daniel.Pa., 1803-1878. An industrious local
historian of Pennsylvania, who, besides writing histories of nearly
thirty counties in his State, published also Events in Indian History;
History of Religious Denominations in the United States; Early History
of Western Pennsylvania; Thirty Thousand Names of German Emigrants.
Ruschenberger [roo´shĕn-ber-ḡer], William S. W.N. Y., 1807-1895. A noted naval surgeon and naturalist of
Philadelphia. Elements of Natural History; A Voyage Around the World;
Three Weeks in the Pacific; Notes and Commentaries during Voyages to
Brazil and China; Lexicon of Natural History Terms; Account of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in Philadelphia, 1787-1887; The
Brothers Rogers.
Rush, Benjamin.Pa., 1745-1813. An eminent physician
of Philadelphia who was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence and treasurer of the United States Mint, 1799-1813.
Treatise on Diseases of the Mind; Essays, Literary, Moral, and
Philosophical; Sixteen Introductory Lectures. See Thacher’s Medical
Biography; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography.
Rush, Benjamin.Pa., 1811-1877. Son of R. Rush,
infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Appeal for the Union; Letters
on the Rebellion, 1862.
Rush, Jacob.Pa., 1746-1820. Brother of B. Rush, 1st. A
Philadelphia jurist. Charges on Moral and Religious Subjects; Character
of Christ; Christian Baptism.
Rush, James.Pa., 1786-1869. Son of B. Rush, 1st. A
distinguished Philadelphia citizen, the founder of the Ridgeway
Library, to which he left one million dollars. He was a physician by
profession, but lived the life of a recluse. The Philosophy of the
Human Voice; Analysis of the Human Intellect; Rhymes of Contrast on
Wisdom and Folly. Lip.
Rush, Richard.Pa., 1780-1859. Son of B. Rush, 1st,
supra. A Philadelphia statesman who was secretary of the
treasury, 1825-29. Codification of the Laws of the United States
(1815); Court of London (1819-25); Washington in Domestic Life;
Occasional Productions. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Russell, Addison Peale.O., 1826- ——. An Ohio
journalist and essayist, now (1897) living in retirement in
Wilmington, Ohio. Half Tints; Library Notes; Thomas Corwin, a Sketch;
Characteristics; A Club of One; In a Club Corner; Sub-Cœlum. Clke.
Hou.
Russell, Francis Thayer.Ms., 1828- ——. Son of
W. Russell, infra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of
Waterbury, Connecticut, rector of St. Margaret’s School there, and
voice instructor in the General Theological Seminary in New York city.
The Use of the Voice.
Russell, Irwin.Mi., 1853-1879. A Southern writer of
dialect verse. Dialect Poems. Cent.
Russell, Israel Cook.N. Y., 1852- ——. A professor of
geology in the University of Michigan from 1892, and a geologist in
the United States Geological Survey, 1880-92. Lakes of North America;
Lake Lahontan; Quarternary History of Moro Valley; Glaciers of North
America; Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada; Volcanoes of North
America, and many geological reports. Am. Gi.
Russell, William.S., 1798-1873. An elocutionist of note,
widely known in his day as a teacher. Orthophony, or Vocal Culture;
Pulpit Elocution; Lessons in Enunciation; Grammar of Composition.
Hou.
Russell, William Eustis.Ms., 1857-1896. A popular
Massachusetts statesman, mayor of his native city of Cambridge,
1884-88, and governor of Massachusetts, 1890-93. Speeches and Messages.
Lit.
Rutherford, Mildred.Ga., 1852- ——. An educator of
Athens, Georgia. Her series of literary text-books includes, English
Authors; American Authors; Classic Authors; French and German Authors.
Rutledge, Edward.S. C., 1797-1832. An Episcopal
clergyman who was professor of moral philosophy at the University of
Pennsylvania. The Family Altar; History of the Church of England.
Ruttenber, Edward Manning.Vt., 1824- ——. An antiquary
of Newburg, New York, who has published a History of Newburg; History
of Orange County; History of the Hudson River Tribes.
Ryan, Abram Joseph. “Father Ryan.” Va., 1839-1888. A
Roman Catholic priest and verse-writer of the South whose verse has
been much over-praised in some quarters. It is spirited and fluent, but
has not the literary quality needful to preserve it. Poems, Patriotic,
Religious, and Miscellaneous; The Conquered Banner, and Other Poems; A
Crown for Our Queen.
Ryan, Father.See Ryan, Abram.
Ryan, Mrs. Marah Ellis [Martin].Pa., 1860- ——. An
actress and novelist living at Fayette Springs, Pennsylvania. A Pagan
of the Alleghanies; Merze; On Love’s Domains; Told in the Hills; Squaw
Eloise.
Ryan, Patrick John.I., 1831- ——. A Roman Catholic
archbishop of Philadelphia. What Catholics do Not Believe; Some of the
Causes of Modern Religious Scepticism.
Ryan, Stephen Vincent.Ont., 1825-1896. The Roman
Catholic bishop of Buffalo from 1860. The Claims of a Protestant
Episcopal Bishop to Apostolical Succession and Valid Orders Disproved.
Rylance, Joseph Hine.E., 1826- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, rector of St. Mark’s in the Bowery from
1871, and prominent among Broad Churchmen. Preachers and Preaching;
Essays on Miracles; Social Questions; Pulpit Talks on Topics of the
Time; Christian Rationalism. Wh.
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Sabin, Elijah Robinson.Ct., 1776-1818. A Methodist
evangelist of New England. The Road to Happiness; Charles Observator.
Sabin, Joseph.E., 1821-1881. An English publisher
and bibliophile who came to America in 1848, and finally, settling
in New York city, became widely known as a bookseller and collector
of rare books. The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England,
with Scriptural Proofs; Bibliotheca Americana; Bibliography of
Bibliographies.
Sabine, Lorenzo.N. H., 1803-1877. Son of E. R. Sabin,
supra, but choosing another spelling of his surname. A secret
government agent in relation to the Ashburton Treaty, and secretary
of the Boston Board of Trade in his later years, as well as member of
Congress from Massachusetts. The American Loyalists; Life of Commodore
Edward Preble, in Sparks’s American Biography; Notes on Duels and
Duelling; Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas.
Lit.
Sachs, Bernard.Md., 1858- ——. A physician of New York
city, well known as a neurologist. Nervous and Mental Diseases of
Childhood, and many professional monographs.
Sachse, Julius Friedrich.Pa.,1842- ——. A journalist
of Philadelphia. The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania; The
Genesis of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.
Sadlier [săd-leer´], Anna Teresa.Q., 1856- ——.
Daughter of Mrs. Sadlier, infra. Seven Years and Mair; The
King’s Page; Ethel Hamilton; Names that Live: a volume of biographies;
Women of Catholicity; The Silent Woman of Alood; and many translations
from the French, Italian, and German. Har. Sad.
Sadlier, Mrs. Mary Anne [Madden].I., 1820-1903. A
prominent writer of Roman Catholic Sunday-school tales, wife of J.
Sadlier, a New York publisher. Among her many writings are, Alice
Riordan; Red Hand of Ulster; The Daughter of Tyrconnell; The Old House
by the Boyne.
Sadtler, Samuel Philip.Pa., 1847- ——. A chemist of
Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1875.
Chemical Experimentation; Handbook of Industrial Organic Chemistry; A
Text-Book of Chemistry (with H. Trimble). Lip.
Safford, James Merrill.O., 1822- ——. The State
geologist of Tennessee from 1854, professor in Vanderbilt University
from 1875. A Geological Reconnoissance of Tennessee; Geology of
Tennessee.
Safford, Truman Henry.Vt., 1836-1901. An astronomer
of note, famous in childhood as a mathematician, and professor of
astronomy at Williams College from 1876. Mathematical Teaching and its
Modern Methods.
Safford, William Harrison.W. Va., 1821- ——. A lawyer
of Chillicothe, Ohio. Life of Blennerhasset; The Blennerhasset Papers.
Clke.
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge.Ms., 1814-1901. A philologist
of distinction, professor of Arabic at Yale University, 1841-56.
General and Biographical Monographs (1885).
Saltus, Edgar Evertson.N. Y., 1858- ——. A novelist
of New York city. Balzac: a Study; The Philosophy of Disenchantment;
The Anatomy of Negation; Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure; The Truth about
Tristram Varick; Eden; A Transaction in Hearts; When Dreams Come True;
The Pace that Kills. Hou.
Saltus, Francis Saltus.N. Y., 1849-1889. Brother of E.
E. Saltus, supra. An erratic verse-writer, much of whose life
was passed abroad. His verse is not without a certain luxurious power,
but it is wilful in the extreme, diffuse, and unpruned. Honey and
Gall; Shadows and Ideals; The Witch of Endor; The Bayadere, and Other
Sonnets. Lip. Put.
Sampson, Ezra.Ms., 1749-1823. A Congregational clergyman
at Plympton, Massachusetts, 1775-95, subsequently a journalist in
Hartford. Beauties of the Bible; The Historical Dictionary; The Sham
Patriot Unmasked; The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Men. See
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.Har.
Sampson, John Patterson.N. C., 1837- ——. A minister
of the African Methodist church, prior to 1882 a lawyer in Washington.
Common Sense Physiology; The Disappointed Bride; Temperament and
Phrenology of Mixed Races; Jolly People; Illustrations in Theology.
Sampson, William.I., 1764-1836. A once famous lawyer of
New York city who came to America in 1798, having previously been a
barrister in Dublin. Sampson Against the Philistines, or the Reform of
Lawsuits; Memoir of William Sampson, are his chief works.
Samson, George Whitefield.Ms., 1819-1896. A Baptist
clergyman and educator of New York city, president of Rutgers Female
College from 1871. A voluminous writer whose principal works comprise,
Elements of Art Criticism; Physical Media in Spiritual Manifestations;
The Atonement; The Divine Law as to Wines; Idols of Fashion and
Culture; Tested Truths as to Relations of Capital and Labor; Outlines
of the History of Ethics; Spiritualism Tested, originally issued as To
Daimonion; Guide to Self-Education; The Bible Revisers’ Greek Text;
Guide to Bible Interpretation. Lip.
Samuels, Adelaide Frances.Ms., 1845- ——. Sister of
E. A. Samuels, infra. A writer for juveniles. Dick and Daisy
Series; Dick Travers Abroad Series; Daisy Travers. Le.
Samuels, Edward Augustus.Ms., 1836- ——. A Boston
naturalist. Ornithology and Oölogy of New England; Among the Birds;
Mammalogy of New England; The Living World (with A. Arnold).
Samuels, Samuel.Pa., 1825- ——. A noted seaman and
inventor who organized the Steam Heating Company of New York city in
1881. From Forecastle to Cabin. Har.
Samuels, Mrs. Susan Blagge [Caldwell].Ms., 1848- ——.
Wife of E. A. Samuels, supra. A popular writer for juveniles.
The Golden Rule Series. Le.
Sanborn, Alvan Francis.Ms., 1866- ——. Moody’s Lodging
House, and Other Tenement Sketches; Meg McIntyre’s Raffle, and Other
Stories. Cop.
Sanborn, Edwin David.N. H., 1808-1885. An educator who
was professor of literature at Dartmouth College, 1863-85, and author
of a History of New Hampshire.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin.N. H., 1831- ——. A noted
journalist and reformer living at Concord, Massachusetts, and connected
with The Springfield Republican from 1868. Life of Thoreau; Life and
Letters of John Brown; Life of Dr. S. E. Howe, supra. Fu.
Hou. Rob.
Sanborn, Helen Josephine.Me., 1857- ——. A Winter in
Central America, a volume of travels. Le.
Sanborn, Kate.See Sanborn, Katherine.
Sanborn, Katherine Abbott.N. H., 1839- ——. Daughter
of E. D. Sanborn, supra. A popular and versatile writer of
ephemeral books, who was professor of English literature at Smith
College prior to 1886. Home Pictures of English Poets; Vanity and
Insanity of Genius; Adopting an Abandoned Farm; Abandoning an Adopted
Farm; A Truthful Woman in Southern California; My Literary Zoo, and a
number of compilations. Ap. Fu. Hou.
Sanborn, Mrs. Mary [Farley]. 18— - ——. A novelist of Boston.
Sweet and Twenty; It Came to Pass; Paula Ferris. Le.
Sandeman, Robert.S., 1718 or 1723-1771. The founder of
the Sandemanian sect, who came to America in 1764 and gathered a church
at Danbury, Connecticut, where he died. Letters on Theron and Aspasio;
Thoughts on Christianity.
Sanders, Daniel Clarke.Ms., 1768-1850. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, president of the University of Vermont,
1800-14, subsequently pastor at Medfield, Massachusetts. A History of
the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States, which he
published in 1812, is now a very rare book. See Sprague’s Annals of
the American Pulpit.
Sanders, Mrs. Elizabeth [Elkins].Ms., 1762-1851. A
writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Conversations, principally on the
Aborigines of North America; First Settlers of New England; Reviews.
Sanderson, John.Pa., 1783-1844. An educator of
Philadelphia, classical professor in the High School, 1836-44, and
of some note in his day as a humourist. The American in Paris; The
American in England; and the first two volumes of the Biography of the
Signers of the Declarations of Independence. See Hart’s American
Literature.
Sanderson, John Philip.Pa., 1818-1864. An officer in
the Federal army. Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on Foreign
Immigration; Republican Landmarks.
Sanderson, Joseph.I., 1823- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman in New York and other localities. Jesus on the Holy Mount;
Memorial Tributes; The Bow in the Cloud.
Sands, Alexander Hamilton.Va., 1828-1887. A lawyer of
Richmond, Virginia, who entered the Baptist ministry not long before
his death. History of a Suit in Equity; Recreations of a Southern
Barrister; Practical Law Forms; Sermons by a Village Pastor.
Sands, Robert Charles.N. Y., 1799-1832. A journalist
and verse-writer of New York city who wrote a Life of Paul Jones; The
Talisman (with Bryant and Verplanck); co-author with Eastburn of the
once noted poem Yamoyden. See Life by Verplanck; Griswold’s Poets
and Poetry of America.
Sanford, Henry Shelton.Ct., 1823-1891. A diplomatist who
was secretary of the United States legation at Paris, 1849-53, chargé
d’affaires there till April, 1854, and minister to Belgium, 1861-69;
and who founded the town of Sanford, Florida, in 1870. Penal Codes in
Europe; The Avendslood Correspondence.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth [Munson].N. Y.,
1838- ——. A journalist of New York city, editor of Harper’s Bazar,
1889-99, and a popular verse-writer whose domestic poems display
sentiment of a very genuine kind. Her writings in verse comprise, On
the Road Home; Easter Bells; Poems of the Household; Home Fairies
and Heart Flowers. She has also written a Manual of Missions of the
Reformed Church, and several books for girls, including Hours with
Girls; Home and Heaven; Splendid Times; Five Happy Weeks; May Stanhope
and her Friend; Miss Dewbury’s School; Little Knights and Ladies.
Maidie’s Problem. Har. Hou. Meth. Wh.
Santayana, George.Sp., 1863- ——. An instructor in
philosophy at Harvard University. Sonnets and Other Poems; The Sense of
Beauty: being the Outlines of Æsthetic Theory. St.
Sargent, Charles Sprague.Ms., 1841- ——. Grand-nephew
of L. M. Sargent, infra. A botanist of eminence, Arnold
professor of arboriculture at Harvard University from 1879, editor of
Garden and Forest from 1888. The Silva of North America; Report on the
Forests of North America; The Woods of the United States; Notes on the
Forest Flora of Japan. Ap. Hou.
Sargent, Epes.Ms., 1813-1880. A once prominent Boston
journalist and littérateur, who perhaps will be longest remembered by
the familiar poem, Life on the Ocean Wave. His verse includes, Songs of
the Sea; Poems; The Woman who Dared. In fiction he published, Wealth
and Worth; What’s to be Done?; Fleetwood; Peculiar, a tale of the Great
Rebellion. He wrote the dramas, Bride of Genoa; Velasco; Change Makes
Change; The Priestess. His miscellaneous writings comprise, Life of
Henry Clay; American Adventures by Land and Sea; Arctic Adventures by
Sea and Land; Original Dialogues; Planchette, the Despair of Science;
Memoir of Franklin. He edited a popular series of school and critical
editions of many English poets, and Harper’s Cyclopedia of Poetry.
Co. Har. Le. Rob.
Sargent, Fitzwilliam.Ms., 1820- ——. Grand-nephew of
W. Sargent, 1st, and father of John Singer Sargent, the artist. A
Philadelphia surgeon who went to live in Switzerland in 1854. Bandaging
and Other Operations of Minor Surgery.
Sargent, Henry Winthrop.Ms., 1810-1882. A noted
horticulturist of Fishkill, New York. Skeleton Routes through England,
etc.; Treatise on Landscape Gardening. Ap.
Sargent, John Osborne.Ms., 1811-1891. Brother of E.
Sargent, supra. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. He
translated Grün’s Last Knight; and published, also, Papers for the
Times by a Berkshire Farmer; and Horatian Echoes: Translation of the
Odes of Horace. Hou.
Sargent, Lucius Manlius.Ms., 1786-1867. Brother of
H. W. Sargent, supra, and a distant cousin of W. Sargent,
1st, infra. A once prominent temperance advocate of Boston.
Temperance Tales, a very popular work; Dealings with the Dead; The
Irrepressible Conflict; Hubert and Ellen, and Other Poems; Translations
from the Minor Latin Poets. See Reminiscences of, by Sheppard,
1889.
Sargent, Nathan.Vt., 1794-1875. A journalist and
politician. Life of Henry Clay; Public Men and Events (1875).
Sargent, Winthrop.Ms., 1753-1820. A patriot soldier in
the Revolutionary War, governor of Northwest Territory, 1798-1800, and
of Mississippi Territory, 1790 and 1801. Papers Relating to Certain
American Antiquities; Boston, a poem.
Sargent, Winthrop.Pa., 1825-1870. Grandson of W.
Sargent, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Life of Major André,
a work displaying much research. He also edited the History of
Braddock’s Expedition, from Original Papers.
Sartwell, Henry Parker.Ms., 1792-1867. A botanist and
physician of Penn Yan, New York, who from 1840 devoted his attention to
the genus Carex. His herbarium of more than eight thousand specimens is
in Hamilton College. Carices Americanæ Exsiccatæ.
Satterlee, Henry Yates.N. Y., 1843- ——. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Washington, prior to 1896 a prominent
clergyman of New York city. A Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed.
Scr.
Saunders, Frederick.E., 1807-1902. The librarian of
the Astor Library, New York city, 1859-96. New York in a Nut-Shell;
Salad for the Solitary and Salad for the Social; Memoirs of the Great
Metropolis; The Story of Some Famous Books; Story of the Discovery
of the New World by Columbus (1892); Pastime Papers; Stray Leaves of
Literature; Character Studies. Ran. Wh.
Savage, Edward Hartwell.N. H., 1812-1893. A Boston
policeman and justice of the peace. Boston Police Recollections; Five
Thousand Boston Events, 1630-1880.
Savage, James.Ms., 1784-1873. A Boston lawyer eminent
as a genealogist. He is best known as the author of a Genealogical
Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, upon which twenty
years of labour were expended.
Savage, John.I., 1828-1888. A journalist of New York
city, and subsequently of Washington. Poems; Picturesque Ireland; Lays
of the Folkstead; Modern Revolutionary History of Ireland; Our Living
Representative Men; Life of Andrew Johnson; Fenian Heroes and Martyrs;
Sibyl, a tragedy; and several other plays.
Savage, Minot Judson.Me., 1841- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of prominence among radical thinkers, pastor of Unity
Church, Boston, 1874-96, and, since the latter year, of the Church of
the Messiah in New York city. Christianity the Science of Manhood;
Beliefs About Man; Belief in God; Life Questions; Poems; The Religion
of Evolution; The Religion of Morals; Talks About Jesus; The Modern
Sphinx; Man, Woman, and Child; Social Problems; My Creed; Religious
Reconstruction; Signs of the Times; Helps for Daily Living; Four
Great Questions Concerning God; The Evolution of Christianity; Is
This a Good World?; Jesus and Modern Life; A Man; Light on the Cloud;
Bluffton, a novel; The Minister’s Handbook. See Men of Progress of
Massachusetts.El.
Savage, Philip Henry.Ms., 1868-1899. Son of M. J.
Savage, supra. A Boston littérateur. First Poems and Fragments.
Cop.
Savage, Richard Henry.N. Y., 1846-1903. A novelist. My
Official Wife; For Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; The Anarchist;
Delilah of Harlem; In the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of Lagunitas;
The Masked Venus; The Flying Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mariquita;
After Many Years, and Other Poems. Ne.
Sawtelle, Henry Allen.Me., 1832-1885. A Baptist
clergyman of San Francisco and elsewhere. Open Communion; Things to
Think Of. Ne.
Sawyer, Mrs. Caroline Mehetabel [Fisher].Ms., 1812-1894.
Wife of T. J. Sawyer, infra. The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition.
Sawyer, Frederick William.Me., 1810-1875. A Boston
lawyer. Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Guide; Plea for Amusements; Hits at
American Whims.
Sawyer, Leicester Ambrose.N. Y., 1807-1898. A
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, after 1860 a resident of
Whitesboro, New York, prominent as a biblical scholar. Elements of
Biblical Interpretation; Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; A
Critical Exposition of Baptism; Organic Christianity; Reconstruction of
Bible Theories. He made a translation of the Scriptures, of which the
New Testament was published.
Sawyer, Lemuel.N. C., 1777-1852. A North Carolina
lawyer. Life of John Randolph; Autobiography.
Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson.Vt., 1804-1899. A Universalist
clergyman and educator, after 1869 a professor of theology at Tufts
College. Doctrine of Eternal Salvation; Who Is God,—the Son or the
Father?; Endless Punishment in the Very Words of its Advocates.
Saxe, John Godfrey.Vt., 1816-1887. A lawyer and
littérateur of Vermont and subsequently of New York, widely known as
a humourous poet. Progress; A New Rape of the Lock; The Proud Miss
McBride; The Money King; Clever Songs of Many Nations; The Masquerade;
Leisure Day Rhymes; Fables and Lyrics in Rhyme. Hou.
Say, Thomas.Pa., 1787-1834. A zoölogist who was the
first curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1825
he removed to New Harmony, Indiana, and was the agent of the Owen
socialist colony there. Vocabularies of Indian Languages; American
Conchology; American Entomology. His Complete Writings on Conchology
have been edited by Binney, and those on Entomology by Le Conte. See
Memoir by Ord.
Sayles, John.N. Y., 1825-1897. A Texas jurist, professor
in Baylor University from 1880. Practice in the District and Supreme
Courts of Texas; Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the
State of Texas; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts
of Texas; Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Business; Constitution of
Texas, with Notes; Notes on Texan Reports, include the larger number of
his professional writings. See Bibliography of Texas.
Sayre, Lewis Albert.N. J., 1820-1900. A distinguished
surgeon of New York city, professor of orthopædic surgery in Bellevue
Hospital College. Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot;
Lectures on Orthopædic Surgery; Spinal Curvature and its Treatment.
Ap.
Scarborough, William Saunders.Ga., 1852- ——. An
educator of African descent, professor of ancient languages in
Wilberforce University, Ohio, from 1877. First Lessons in Greek; Theory
and Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.
Schaeffer [shā´fe̯r], Charles Frederick.Pa.,
1807-1879. Son of F. D. Shaeffer, infra. A Lutheran clergyman
and educator, professor of systematic theology in the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1864-76. A System of Lutheran
Theology is one of several important works which he translated from the
German. See American Lutheran Biographies.
Schaeffer, Charles William.Md., 1813-1896. Nephew of
C. F. Schaeffer, supra. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of
eminence, professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran
Seminary from 1864. History of the Lutheran Church in the United
States; Family Prayers.
Schaeffer, Frederick David.G., 1760-1836. A once
prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Antwort auf eine
Vertheidigung der Methodisten; Eine herzliche Anrede.
Schaff [shäf], Philip.Sd., 1819-1893. A
distinguished German Reformed divine who came to the United States
in 1844, and was professor of church history in the seminary at
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, 1844-63. In 1873 he became professor of
sacred literature in Union Seminary in New York city. Principles of
Protestantism; History of the Christian Church; Creeds of Christendom;
Theological Propædeutics; Christ and Christianity; Critical Edition of
the Heidelberg Catechism; Bible Revision; Through Bible Lands; Progress
of Religious Freedom; Church and State in the United States; The Person
of Christ; Literature and Poetry; A Companion to the Greek Testament
and the English Version, include his principal original works. He has
edited the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge; Lange’s
Commentary, and other important works. Fu. Har. Ran. Scr. Wh.
Scharf, John Thomas.Md., 1843-1898. An historical writer
of Baltimore. Chronicles of Baltimore; History of Maryland; History
of Baltimore; History of Western Maryland; History of the City of
St. Louis; History of Philadelphia; History of the Confederate Navy;
History of Delaware.
Schauffler [show´fler], William Gottlieb.G.,
1798-1883. A Congregational missionary in Turkey well known as a
linguist. He translated the Bible into Hebrew-Spanish and Turkish, and
also wrote Essay on the Right Use of Property; Meditations on the Last
Days of Christ. See Autobiography, 1887.Ran.
Schayer, Mrs. Julia [Thompson] [von Storch].Me.,
1840- ——. A Washington writer. The Tiger Lily, and Other Stories.
Schem [shem], Alexander Jacob.G., 1826-1881.
A statistician of note who was assistant superintendent of schools
in New York city, 1874-81. Latin-English Dictionary (with G. Crooks,
supra); Statistics of the World; Cyclopædia of Education (with
H. Kiddle, supra).
Schenck, William Edward.N. J., 1819-1903. A Presbyterian
minister of Philadelphia. Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; The
Fountain for Sin; Church Extension in Cities.
Schereschewsky, Samuel Isaac Joseph.R., 1831- ——.
The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of the China Mission. He was
consecrated in 1877, but resigned his office in 1883 and lived for some
years in Cambridge, but since 1895 has lived at Shanghai. He is the
author of a translation of the Bible into Chinese.
Schiefflin [shĕf´lin], Samuel Bradhurst.N. Y.,
1811-1900. A business man of New York city who wrote on religious
topics. Message to the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words
to Christian Teachers; The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and
Reformed Churches.
Schindler, Solomon.Sil., 1842- ——. A Hebrew clergyman
now (1897) living in Cambridge but formerly in charge of Temple Adath
Israel, Boston. Young West, a sequel to “Looking Backward;” Messianic
Exhortations and Modern Judaism; Dissolving Views on the History of
Judaism. Ar. Le.
Schley, Winfield Scott.Md., 1839- ——. A naval officer
and explorer who published (with J. R. Soley, infra) The Rescue
of Greeley. Scr.
Schmauk [shmowk], Theodore Emmanuel.Pa.,
1860- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, editor of
The Lutheran from 1889, and author of The Negative Criticism.
Schmidt, Henry Immanuel.Pa., 1806-1889. A Lutheran
clergyman and educator of New York city, professor of German in
Columbia College, 1848-80. History of Education; The Lutheran Doctrine
of the Lord’s Supper; Course of American Geography.
Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon.Pa., 1827-1888. Son of
S. S. Schmucker, infra. A Lutheran clergyman of Pittsville,
Pennsylvania, 1881-88. A liturgical scholar of note, editor of The
Church Book of the General Council, and of The Church Service, 1888.
Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim.Va., 1823-1863. Son of S. S.
Schmucker, infra. A Philadelphia author who was in the early
part of his career a Lutheran minister. His various writings, which
display industry rather than original talent, comprise for the most
part Errors of Modern Infidelity; The Spanish Wife, a play; History
of the Four Georges; History of All Religions; Court and Reign of
Catharine II.; Lives of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster, Clay,
Dr. Kane, Frémont; Memorable Scenes in French History; History of the
Modern Jews; History of Napoleon Third; Arctic Explorations; History of
the Civil War in the United States (1863). Co.
Schmucker, Samuel Simon.Md., 1799-1873. A Lutheran
clergyman and educator, professor in the Theological Seminary at
Gettysburg, 1826-64. He was an advocate of American Lutheranism
as characterized by indifference to the distinctive doctrines of
Lutheranism. Elements of Popular Theology; Psychology; Lutheran Manual;
Lutheran Symbols, or American Lutheranism Vindicated; Church of the
Redeemer; The Unity of Christ’s Church, are his chief works. Ran.
Schneck, Benjamin Shroder.Pa., 1806-1874. A Lutheran
clergyman, pastor at Chambersburg from 1855. Die deutsche Kanzel; The
Burning of Chambersburg; Mercersburg Theology.
Schodde, George Henry.Pa., 1854- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman and educator of Ohio, professor at Capitol University from
1880. The Book of Enoch translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes; A Day
in Capernaum, from the German of Delitzsch.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.N. Y., 1793-1864. An eminent
ethnologist and geologist, thirty years of whose life were spent
among the Indians, chiefly at Mackinaw. His later life was passed in
Washington. He discovered the source of the Mississippi. Among his
many works are included, View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Algic
Discoveries; Historical Information Concerning the Indian Tribes;
Narrative of an Expedition to Itasca Lake; Oneota, reissued as The
Indian and His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawatha; Personal Memoirs of Thirty
Years’ Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and Adventures in the
Ozark Mountains; Life of General Cass, and several volumes of verse.
His talents lay rather in accumulating facts than in perceiving their
relations to each other. Lip.
Schoolcraft, Mrs. Mary [Howard].S. C., ————-. Wife
of H. R. Schoolcraft, supra. The Black Gauntlet, a Tale of
Plantation Life. Lip.
Schouler [skool´er], James.Ms., 1839- ——.
Son of W. Schouler, infra. A lawyer and historian of Boston,
professor in the law school of Boston University. The Law of Bailments;
The Law of Personal Property; The Law of Husband and Wife; Law of
Executors and Administrators; Law of Wills; A History of the United
States under the Constitution; Life of Thomas Jefferson; Historical
Briefs. Do. Lit.
Schouler, William.S., 1814-1872. A journalist of Boston
who published A History of Massachusetts during the Civil War.
Schroeder, John Frederick.Md., 1800-1857. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator of Flushing, Long Island. Life of Washington;
Maxims of Washington; Class Book of Astronomy; Sunday Addresses.
Ap.
Schuette, Conrad Herman Louis.G., 1843- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman and educator of Ohio, professor in Capitol University from
1872. Church Member’s Manual; The State, the Church, and the School.
Schulte, Mrs. Mary Jemima [McColl].E., 1847- ——. A
verse-writer of Jersey City. Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.
Schurman, Jacob Gould.P. E. I., 1854- ——. A Canadian
educator, since 1892 president of Cornell University. Kantian Ethics
and the Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in
God; Agnosticism and Religion. Scr.
Schurz [shoorts], Carl.P., 1829- ——. A
statesman of eminence, active in the support of civil service reform.
He came to America in 1852; settled in Missouri, from which he went to
Congress as senator; served as general in the Union army during the
Civil War; removed to New York city in 1875, and was editor of The
Evening Post, 1881-84. Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; Abraham Lincoln:
an Essay. Hou. Le. Lip.
Schuyler [sky´le̯r], Aaron.N. Y., 1828- ——. A
mathematician who was professor in Baldwin University and president
of that institution, 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas
Wesleyan University. The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of
Logic; Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; Empirical and
Rational Psychology.
Schuyler, Anthony.N. Y., 1816-1900. An Episcopal
clergyman, rector of Grace Church at Orange, New Jersey, from 1868, and
author of Household Religion.
Schuyler, Eugene.N. Y., 1840-1890. Son of G. W.
Schuyler, infra. A diplomatist who was United States secretary
of legation at St. Petersburg, 1870-76, secretary of legation and
consul-general at Constantinople, 1876-78, and minister to Greece,
1882-84. Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer; Turkistan; American
Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce. Scr.
Schuyler, George Washington.N. Y., 1810-1888. A
prominent State official of New York for many years. Colonial New York;
Philip Schuyler and his Family. Scr.
Schuyler, Montgomery.N. Y., 1814-1896. Cousin of Anthony
Schuyler, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector
of Christ Church from 1854. The Church: its Ministry and Worship; The
Pioneer Church.
Schuyler, Montgomery.N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of Anthony
Schuyler, supra. A journalist of New York city on the staff of
The Times. Studies in American Architecture. Har.
Schwatka, Frederick.Ill., 1849-1892. A naval officer and
explorer. In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North;
Along Alaska’s Great River; The Children of the Cold. See Schwatka’s
Search, by W. H. Gilder, supra.Cas.
Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander de.Pa., 1825-1887. Son of
L. D. de Schweinitz, infra. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania,
president of the Moravian College, 1867-84. The Moravian Manual; The
Moravian Episcopate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and
Apostle to the Indians; Some of the Fathers of the American Moravian
Church; History of the Church known as the Unitas Fratrum; Systematic
Benevolence.
Schweinitz, George Edmund de.Pa., 1858- ——. Son of E.
A. de Schweinitz, supra. A Philadelphia physician of note as an
ophthalmologist who has written Diseases of the Eye, and professional
monographs and papers.
Schweinitz, Lewis David de.Pa., 1780-1834. A Moravian
clergyman of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, famous in his day as a botanist.
Conspectus Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Carolinæ Superioris;
Synopsis Fungorum in America; Boreali Media Digentium. See Memoir
of, by W. R. Johnson, supra.
Scollard, Clinton.N. Y., 1860- ——. An educator of
Clinton, New York, professor of English literature and Anglo-Saxon at
Hamilton College, 1888-1896, and a well-known poet of the day. His
writings in verse include, Pictures in Song; With Reed and Lyre; Old
and New World Lyrics; Giovio and Giulia; Songs of Sunrise Lands; Hills
of Song; Skenandoa; A Boy’s Book of Rhyme. In prose he has published,
Under Summer Skies; On Sunny Shores; A Man-at-Arms. Hou. Lo. Sto.
Scott, Charles.Tn., 1811-1861. Son of E. Scott,
infra. A lawyer of Jackson, Mississippi. Analogy of Ancient
Craft Masonry to Natural and Revealed Religion; The Keystone of the
Masonic Arch.
Scott, Eben[ezer] Greenough.Pa., 1836- ——. A writer of
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Development of Constitutional Liberty in
the English Colonies of America; Commentaries upon the Intestate System
of Pennsylvania; Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United
States of America. Hou. Put.
Scott, Edward.Va., 1774-1852. A Tennessee lawyer,
prominent in the State’s early history, who published Laws of the State
of Tennessee, in 1822.
Scott, Henry Lee.N. C., 1814-1886. Son-in-law of
Winfield Scott, infra. An army officer who served in the Mexican
and Civil Wars, and was the author of A Military Dictionary.
Scott, John.Pa., 1820- ——. A Methodist Protestant
clergyman of Cincinnati. Pulpit Echoes; The Land of Sojourn.
Scott, Mrs. Julia H—— [Kinney].Pa., 1809-1842. A
verse-writer of Towanda, Pennsylvania, whose Poems, with Memoir, were
posthumously published.
Scott, Robert Nicholson.Tn., 1838-1887. Son of W. A.
Scott, infra. An army officer, in charge of the publication
of war records at Washington, 1877-87, who published a Digest of the
Military Laws of the United States.
Scott, William Anderson.Tn., 1813-1885. A Presbyterian
clergyman of San Francisco, professor in the Theological Seminary there
from 1871. The Bible and Politics; Strauss and Renan; Daniel: a Model
for Young Men; Achan in El Dorado; The Giant Judge; The Church in the
Army; The Christ of the Apostles’ Creed; Trade and Letters, include his
chief work.
Scott, Winfield.Va., 1786-1866. A famous general who
served in the War of 1812, and was commander-in-chief of the American
army during the war with Mexico. General Regulations of the Army;
System of Infantry and Rifle Tactics; Autobiography (1864). See
Lives by Mansfield, 1846, Headley, 1852, Victor, 1861; and United
States histories.
Scouller, James Brown.Pa., 1820-1899. A prominent United
Presbyterian clergyman. Manual of the United Presbyterian Church;
History of the United Presbyterian Church; Calvinism: its History and
Influence.
Scoville, Joseph A——. “Walter Barrett.” Ct., 1811-1864.
A journalist of New York city, clerk of the Common Council, and at one
period private secretary to Calhoun. Adventures of Clarence Bolton, or
Life in New York; The Old Merchants of New York; Vigor, a novel; Marion.
Scripture, Edward Wheeler.N. H., 1864- ——. A
scientist, director of the physical laboratory of Yale University.
Thinking, Feeling, Doing, a popular psychology; The New Psychology;
Studies from the Yale Physical Laboratory. Among his various monographs
the more important are those on the association of ideas and the
measurement of hallucinations. Fl.
Scudder, Eliza.Ms., 1821-1896. Cousin of H. E. Scudder,
infra. A hymn-writer of Massachusetts. Hymns and Sonnets.
Hou.
Scudder, Henry Martyn.Cy., 1822-1895. Son of J. Scudder,
infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, pastor in
Chicago, 1883-87, and from 1887 a missionary in Japan. He published, in
the Tamil language, Liturgy of the Dutch Reformed Church; The Bazaar
Book; Sweet Savors of Divine Truth; Spiritual Teaching.
Scudder, Horace Elisha.Ms., 1838-1902. A Boston
littérateur, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1890-1898. Seven Little
People and their Friends; Dream Children; Stories from my Attic; The
Dwellers in Five-Sisters Court; Stories and Romances; Boston Town; Life
of Noah Webster; A History of the United States; A Short History of the
United States; Book of Fables; Book of Folk Stories; George Washington:
an Historical Biography; Men and Letters, essays; Childhood in
Literature and Art; Recollections of Samuel Breck; The Bodley Books, a
series of popular juveniles; James Russell Lowell: a Biography. Co.
Hou. Scr. Sh.
Scudder, John.N. J., 1793-1855. A Dutch Reformed
missionary and physician in Ceylon, 1820-39. Letters from the East;
Letters to Pious Young Men; Promises for Passing Over Jordan. See
Memoir by J. B. Waterbury, 1856.
Scudder, John Milton.O., 1829-1894. A Cincinnati
physician and educator, long a professor in the Eclectic Medical
Institute. Diseases of Women; Principles of Medicine; Specific
Medication; The Reproductive Organs; Specific Diagnosis.
Scudder, Moses Lewis.Ms., 1843- ——. A broker of
Chicago. Brief Honors, a romance; Almost an Englishman; National
Banking; Congested Prices; The Labor Value Prophecy.
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard.Ms., 1837- ——. Brother of H.
E. Scudder, supra. A naturalist of Cambridge. The Butterflies
of the Eastern United States and Canada; Butterflies, their Structure,
Changes, and Life Histories; Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies;
The Life of a Butterfly; Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the
World of Butterflies; A Century of Orthoptera; The Fossil Insects of
North America. Ho. Hou. Mac.
Scudder, Vida Dutton.E. I., 1861- ——. Niece of H.
E. Scudder, supra. An educator of Massachusetts, professor
in Wellesley College. How the Rain Sprites were Freed; The Life of
the Spirit in the Modern English Poets; The Witness of Denial; The
Prometheus Unbound of Shelley. Dut. He. Hou.
Seabury, Samuel.Ct., 1729-1796. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. He was the first American bishop and
the first presiding bishop. Being refused consecration by the Anglican
Church, he was consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, and through him the
Episcopal Church in the United States derives its succession from the
Church in Scotland. During the early days of the American Revolution
he attracted much attention by his pamphlets signed A. W. Farmer,
which sharply criticised the actions of the patriots. They include,
Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress; The
Continental Congress Canvassed; View of the Controversy between Great
Britain and her English Colonies. His Sermons have been issued in three
volumes. See Life by E. E. Beardsley, 1881; Seabury Centennial
Commemoration.
Seabury, Samuel.Ct., 1801-1872. Grandson of S. Seabury,
supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent among
High Churchmen, and professor in the General Theological Seminary.
Continuity of the Church of England; Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch
of Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Conscience; American Slavery
Justified; Theory and Use of the Calendar; Discourses on the Holy
Calendar.
Seabury, William Jones.N. Y., 1837- ——. Son of Samuel
Seabury, 2d. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the
Church of the Annunciation from 1868, and professor in the General
Seminary from 1873. Suggestions in Aid of Devotion; Introduction to the
Study of Ecclesiastical Polity. See American Church Review, July,
1885.
Seaman, Ezra Champion.N. Y., 1805-1880. The comptroller
of the treasury, 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan
State prisons. Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the
Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The
American System of Government; Views of Nature.
Seaman, Valentine.L. I., 1770-1817. A once prominent
physician of New York city, active in introducing the practice of
vaccination. Waters of Saratoga; Midwife’s Monitor; On Vaccination.
Searing, Mrs. Laura Catherine [Redden]. “Howard Glyndon.”
Md., 1840- ——. A verse-writer and journalist now living in
California, but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. Sounds
from Secret Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; Brother and Sister.
Hou.
Searle, Arthur.E., 1837- ——. A professor of astronomy
at Harvard University from 1887, who has published Outlines of
Astronomy.
Searle, January.See Phillips, E. S.
Searles, William Henry.O., 1837- ——. A civil engineer.
Field Engineering; The Railroad Spiral. Wil.
Sears, Barnas.Ms., 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman
and educator of prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton
Theological Seminary, 1836-48, and president of Brown University,
1855-67. Life of Luther; The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction
in Latin; Essays on Classical Literature (with B. B. Edwards,
supra, and C. C. Felton, supra).
Sears, Edmund Hamilton.Ms., 1810-1876. A Unitarian
clergyman and religious poet, pastor at Weston, Massachusetts, 1865-76.
He wrote the familiar Christmas hymn, “Calm on the listening ear of
night.” Regeneration; Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality,
originally published as Athanasia; The Fourth Gospel the Heart of
Christ; Christ in the Life; Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life;
Pictures of the Olden Time; That Glorious Song of Old. A. U. A.
Le.
Sears, George W——.Ms., 1821- ——. A writer of
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, who served in the Federal army during the
Civil War. Woodcraft; Forest Runes (verse).
Sears, [Joseph] Hamblen.Ms., 1865- ——. A writer of New
York city. The Governments of the World To-Day. Fl.
Seawell, Molly Elliot.Va., 1860- ——. A Washington
writer and newspaper correspondent. The Sprightly Romance of Marsac;
Hale Weston, a novel; The Berkeleys and their Neighbors; Throckmorton;
Maid Marian, and Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Little Jarvis;
Midshipman Paulding; Paul Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through Thick and
Thin; A Strange, Sad Comedy; Quarterdeck and Fok’sle. Ap. Lo. We.
Seccomb, John.Ms., 1708-1792. A Congregational minister
at Harvard, Massachusetts, 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova
Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey’s Will, a once extremely
popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the
Widow Abbey, a work as destitute of genuine wit and worth as its
predecessor. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American
Literature.
Seccomb, Joseph.Ms., 1706-1760. Brother of J. Seccomb,
supra. A Congregational minister at Kingston, New Hampshire,
from 1737, and author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations
of Christ as God.
Sedgwick, Arthur George.N. Y., 1844- ——. Son of T.
Sedgwick, 2d, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Principles and
Practices Governing the Trial of Title to Land (with F. S. Wait);
Elements of Damages. Lit.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.Ms., 1789-1867. A once famous
novelist whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American
literary women. Her work has very real excellence, but its merits were
hardly of a quality to preserve it, and it is now superseded by the
writings of others who have cultivated the same field with even more
skill. Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveller;
Clarence; Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include
her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad;
Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of
which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and
Ends; Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as
they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for
girls in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, her native town. See Life and
Letters, 1871.Har.
Sedgwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Buckminster [Dwight].Ms.,
1791-1864. Sister-in-law of C. M. Sedgwick, supra, and a teacher
for many years. Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books;
A Talk with My Pupils; Stories of the Spanish Conquest.
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight.Ms., 1785-1831. Brother of C. M.
Sedgwick, supra. An eminent lawyer of New York city who was a
noted opponent of slavery, and author of English Practice of the Common
Law.
Sedgwick, Mrs. Susan Livingston [Ridley]. 1789-1867. Wife of
T. Sedgwick, 1st, infra. A writer for young people. Walter
Thornley; The Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emigrants; Allen Prescott;
Alida, or Town and Country. Har.
Sedgwick, Theodore.Ms., 1780-1839. Brother of C. M.
Sedgwick, supra. A lawyer of Albany, and from 1819 a resident
of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Public and Private Economy; Hints to my
Countrymen.
Sedgwick, Theodore.N. Y., 1811-1859. Son of T. Sedgwick,
supra. A lawyer of New York city. Rules which Govern the
Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Court Law; Treatise on
the Measure of Damages, a work of much importance.
Seeley, Charles Sumner.See Munday, J. W.
Seely, [Edward] Howard.N. Y., 1856-1894. A littérateur
of New York city. A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch
Life; A Ranchman’s Stories; A Nymph of the West; The Jonah of Lucky
Valley, and Other Stories; A Border Leander. Ap. Do. Har.
Seelye [see´le], Mrs. Elizabeth [Eggleston].Min.,
1858- ——. Daughter of E. Eggleston, supra. A writer living at
Lake George, New York. The Story of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and
Red Jacket; Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with E. Eggleston); The Story of
Washington. Ap. Do.
Seelye, Julius Hawley.Ct., 1824-1895. A Congregational
clergyman long prominent as an educator. He was a professor of Amherst
College from 1850, and its president, 1876-90. Natural Religion; The
Way, the Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; Duty. Do.
Seemuller, Mrs. Annie Moncure [Crane].Md., 1838-1872. A
novelist of New York city whose somewhat striking fictions were popular
for a brief period. Emily Chester; Reginald Archer; Opportunity. See
Boyle’s Distinguished Marylanders.
Seguin [sā-gwin´], EdouardF., 1812-1880. A
French physician who came to the United States in 1848 and whose
specialty was the training of idiots. Among his many works on this and
other professional topics are, New Facts Concerning Idiocy; Family
Thermometer; Medical Thermometry; Théorie et practique de l’éducation
des idiots; Traitement moral, hygiène et éducation des idiots et des
autre enfants arrièrés; Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological
Methods.
Segur, Seth Willard.Vt., 1831-1875. A Congregational
clergyman of Ohio and subsequently of Massachusetts. Relation and
Responsibilities of Pastor and People; The True Manhood; The Nation’s
Hope; National Blessings and Duties.
Seiss [seess], Joseph Augustus.Md., 1823-1904.
An eminent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of the Church of
the Holy Communion, and a voluminous writer on religious themes. Among
his many works are, The Gospel in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a
re-statement of Piazzi Smyth’s famous theory of the Pyramid; Lectures
on the Apocalypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Luther and
the Reformation; The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; Life After
Death; Right Life; The Children of Silence, the Story of the Deaf;
Christ’s Descent into Hell; The Last Times; Voices from Babylon. See
American Lutheran Biographies.Co. Lip.
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.N. Y., 1861- ——.
A professor of political economy and finance in Columbia College.
Chapters on Mediæval Guilds in England; Owen and the Christian
Socialists; Railway Tariffs; Shifting and Incidence of Taxation;
Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice; Essays on Taxation.
Mac.
Selyns, Henricus.H., 1636-1701. A Dutch clergyman who
came to New York in 1600, remaining four years as pastor in Brooklyn
before returning to Holland. Settling permanently in New York in 1682,
he was pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church for the rest of his
life. His Poems, written in Dutch, have been translated by H. C.
Murphy, supra.
Semmes, Alexander Jenkins.D. C., 1828- ——. Cousin of
R. Semmes, infra. A surgeon in the Confederate navy who became
a Roman Catholic clergyman, president of Pio Nono College, Macon,
Georgia, from 1886. Medical Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; Notes
from a Surgical Diary, are among his writings.
Semmes, Raphael.Md., 1809-1877. A celebrated naval
officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War as commander
of the Alabama. Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War;
Campaign of General Scott in the Valley of Mexico; The Cruise of the
Alabama; Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War between the States.
See Sinclair’s Two Years in the Alabama, 1895.
Sergeant, Thomas.Pa., 1782-1860. A Philadelphia jurist.
Treatise on the Law of Pennsylvania relating to Proceedings by Foreign
Attachment; Constitutional Law; View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania;
Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers.
Seth, James.S., 1860- ——. A professor of moral
philosophy in Cornell University from 1896. A Study of Ethical
Principles. Scr.
Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Bayley].N. Y., 1774-1821.
The founder and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in
the United States. After the death of her husband she became a Roman
Catholic, took the veil as a Sister of Charity in 1809, and in 1812
founded at Emmettsburg, Maryland, the first American house of the
order. A volume entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: a
Fragment of Real History, was published in 1817. See Life by White;
Vie de Madame Seton by Madame de Barbary.
Seton, Robert.I., 1839- ——. A grandson of Mrs. Seton,
supra. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the
monsignori in the United States. Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of E.
Seton; Essays on Various Subjects, principally Roman.
Seton, William.N. Y., 1835- ——. A grandson of Mrs.
E. Seton, supra. A naval officer of the United States. Romance
of the Charter Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel’s Fate, and Other
Tales; The Poor Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of
the Tyrol; The Pioneer, a poem.
Severance, Mark Sibley.O., 1846- ——. Hammersmith: his
Harvard Days, a novel. Hou.
Sewall, Frank.Me., 1837- ——. A Swedenborgian clergyman
of Washington. Moody Mike, or the Power of Love; The Hem of his
Garment; The Pillow of Stones; The New Ethics; The New Metaphysics;
Angelo and Ariel, are among his writings. Lip. Ran.
Sewall, Mrs. Harriet [Winslow].Me., 1819-1889. A
religious verse-writer of Boston, some of whose lyrics are found in the
anthologies. A collection of her Poems, with Memoir by Mrs. E. Cheney,
supra, appeared in 1889.
Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell.Ms., 1748-1808. A lawyer of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, popular in his own day as a verse-writer.
His verse is for the most part forgotten, but his song, War and
Washington, is yet remembered, and in his Epilogue to Cato occurs the
famous couplet:—
“No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.”
Miscellaneous Poems (1801).
Sewall, Rufus King.Me., 1814-1903. A lawyer of
Wiscasset, Maine. Lectures on the Holy Spirit; Sketches of St.
Augustine; Ancient Dominions of Maine.
Sewall, Samuel.E., 1652-1730. A noted jurist of
Boston, best remembered for his connection with the Salem witchcraft
trials. The Selling of Joseph; Answer to Queries Respecting America;
Accomplishment of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to the Kennebec
Indians; Description of the New Heaven. See Diary of, Tyler’s
American Literature; Whittier’s Prophecy of Samuel Sewall.
Sewall, Stephen.Me., 1734-1804. A grand-nephew of S.
Sewall, supra. A Hebrew scholar, professor of Hebrew at Harvard
College, 1765-85, among whose writings are, Hebrew Grammar; Scripture
Account of the Shechinah; Carmina Sacra quæ Latine Græceque condidit
America.
Sewall, Thomas.Me., 1786-1845. A Washington physician,
professor of anatomy in Columbian University from 1821, who is chiefly
remembered for his work, The Pathology of Drunkenness, which had a wide
circulation.
Seward, George Frederick.N. Y., 1840- ——. A nephew of
W. H. Seward, infra, and minister to China, 1876-80. Chinese
Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects.
Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen.N. Y., 1835-1902. Cousin
of W. H. Seward, infra. A musical educator of note. Hadrian
Theology; The School of Life; A Plea for the Christian Year.
Seward, William Henry.N. Y., 1801-1872. A statesman of
distinction, secretary of state during the Civil War period. Diplomatic
History of the Civil War; Orations and Speeches; Life of J. Q. Adams,
supra; Travels Round the World. His complete works in five
volumes have been edited by G. E. Baker. See Autobiography; North
American Review, October, 1866; Bartlett’s Modern Agitators; Life by
Lothrop; and Histories of the Civil War.Ap. Co. Hou.
Seybert, Adam.Pa., 1773-1825. A Philadelphia chemist who
published The Statistical Annals of the United States, 1789-1818. It
was in a notice of this book for The Edinburgh Review that Sydney Smith
made the famous query, “Who reads an American book?”
Seyffarth [zif´fa͝art], Gustav.Sxy., 1796-1885.
A German scientist who was professor of Oriental archæology at Leipzig
University, 1825-55, and, coming to America in the latter year, was
professor at Concordia Seminary, in St. Louis, 1855-71. The remainder
of his life was passed in New York city. He was distinguished for the
extremely literal nature of his biblical interpretations. Among his
voluminous writings are, Rudimenta Hieroglyphica; Grammatica Ægyptiaca;
Egyptian Theology according to a Paris Mummy Coffin. See Literary
Life of, an autobiography, 1886.
Seymour, George Franklin.R. I., 1829- ——. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Springfield, and prominent among extreme
High Churchmen. Modern Romanism not Catholicism.
Seymour, Mrs. Mary Harrison [Browne].Ct., 1835- ——.
A writer of Hartford whose writings are mainly juvenile. Among them
are, Mollie’s Christmas Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Recompense;
Through the Darkness; Ned, Nellie, and Amy. Dut. Ran. Wh.
Seymour, Thomas Day.O., 1840- ——. A professor of
Greek at Yale University from 1880. Homeric Vocabulary; School Iliad;
Selected Odes of Pindar, with Notes; Introduction to the Language and
Verse of Homer; Homer’s Iliad, books i.-vi. Gi.
Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston.Va., 1818-1881. An inventor
of note. The Telegraph Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The Secession
War in America; History of America; Odd Fellowship.
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.Ky., 1841- ——. An eminent
geologist, professor of paleontology at Harvard University, 1868-87,
and of geology from 1887. Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a
Pioneer Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and its
Importance to the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of
Our Continent; Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers (with
W. M. Davis); The United States of America: a study of the American
Commonwealth; First Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea
and Land: Features of Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil
Branchiopods of the Ohio Valley; American Highways; Domesticated
Animals: their Relation to Man. Am. Ap. Clke. Gi. Hou. Scr.
Shanks, William Franklin Gore.Ky., 1837- ——. A
journalist of New York city. Recollections of Distinguished Generals; A
Noble Treason, a tragedy. Har.
Shanly, Charles Dawson.I., 1811-1875. A journalist and
verse-writer of New York city. The Walker in the Snow is his best-known
poem. A Jolly Bear and His Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; The
Truant Chicken.
Shapley, Rufus Edmond.Pa., 1840- ——. A Philadelphia
lawyer, author of Solid for Mulhooly, a political satire.
Sharswood, George.Pa., 1810-1883. An eminent
Philadelphia jurist. Professional Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common
Law; Lectures on Commercial Law; Sharswood’s Blackstone. Lip.
Shattuck, Mrs. Harriette [Robinson].Ms., 1850- ——.
Daughter of W. S. Robinson, supra. A writer of Malden,
Massachusetts, who has published The Story of Dante’s Divine Comedy;
Little Folks East and West; Woman’s Manual of Parliamentary Law.
Shaw, Albert.O., 1857- ——. A journalist of New York
city, the American editor of The Review of Reviews from 1891, and
a recognized authority on such themes as municipal government and
municipal reforms. Icaria: a Chapter in the History of Communism;
Local Government in Illinois; Coöperation in a Western City; Municipal
Government in Great Britain; Municipal Government in Continental
Europe. Cent.
Shaw, Charles.Me., 1782-1828. A lawyer of Montgomery,
Alabama, who published A Topographical Description of Boston from its
First Settlement (1817).
Shaw, Henry Wheeler. “Josh Billings.” Ms., 1818-1885.
A noted humourist whose shrewd, sensible sayings have been hardly
appraised at their full value owing to the laboriously bad spelling
in which they have been given to the world. Josh Billings’s Sayings;
Everybody’s Friend; Josh Billings’s Trump Kards; Josh Billings’s Spice
Box. See Life by F. S. Smith, 1883.
Shaw, Thomas.Ont., 1843- ——. A Canadian educator,
since 1893 professor of animal husbandry at the Minnesota Agricultural
Experiment Station. The First Principles of Agriculture; Weeds and How
to Eradicate Them.
Shea [shā], George.I., 1827-1895. Son of J. A.
Shea, infra. A jurist who was chief justice of the City Court of
New York. Alexander Hamilton: a Historical Study; Nature and Form of
the American Government. Hou.
Shea, John Augustus.I., 1802-1845. An Irish verse-writer
who came to America in 1827, and was a journalist in New York city. His
writings include, Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Ruddeki, an Eastern
Romance, in verse; Clontarf, a Poem.
Shea, John Dawson Gilmary.N. Y., 1824-1892. An
historical writer of note, for a number of years editor of Frank
Leslie’s Chimney Corner, in New York city. The Catholic Church in the
United States; Legendary History of Ireland; History of Catholic Indian
Missions; Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; Early
Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of New
Netherlands, 1633-44; The Operations of the French under De Grasse;
Life of Pius Ninth; The Catholic Church in Colonial Days; The Catholic
Hierarchy of the United States; Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll,
include his principal original works.
Shearman [sher´man], Thomas Gaskell.E.,
1834-1900. A lawyer and political economist of New York city. Law of
Practice and Pleadings; Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does
Protection Protect?; Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; Natural
Taxation; Henry George’s Mistake; Crooked Taxation.
Shecut, John Linnæus Edward Whitridge.S. C., 1770-1836.
A once eminent physician and scientist of Charleston. Flora
Carolinensis; Medical and Philosophical Essays; Elements of Natural
Philosophy; A New Theory of the Earth, comprise his chief works.
Shedd, Joel Herbert.Ms., 1834- ——. An eminent civil
engineer of Providence whose most important professional labour is the
Providence Water Works. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening
(with Follen), and many important professional papers.
Shedd, Mrs. Julia Ann [Clark].Me., 1834-1897. Wife of J.
H. Shedd, supra. Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors
and Sculpture; The Ghiberti Gates; Raphael: his Madonnas and Holy
Families. Hou.
Shedd, William Greenough Thayer.Ms., 1820-1894. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary,
1863-90, and a theologian of a very conservative type. History of
Christian Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral
Theology; Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless
Punishment; Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster
Standards; Calvinism Pure and Mixed; Literary Essays. Ran. Scr.
Sheeleigh, Matthias.Pa., 1820-1900. A Lutheran minister
at Fort Washington, near Philadelphia, from 1869. American Ecclesiad;
A Gettysburgiad; Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of Luther;
Outlines of Old and New Testament History.
Sheldon, David Newton.Ct., 1807-1889. A Baptist
clergyman who became a Unitarian in 1856. He was president of Colby
University, 1843-1853. Sin and Redemption.
Sheldon, Edward Austin.N. Y., 1823-1897. A noted
educator of Oswego, principal of the Normal School there from 1862.
Manual of Elementary Training; Lessons on Objects, are his principal
works.
Sheldon, Edward Stevens.Me., 1851- ——. A professor of
Romance philology at Harvard University from 1883. Short German Grammar
and monographs.
Sheldon, George William.S. C., 1843- ——. A journalist
and art critic of New York city, now (1897) in charge of the London
office of D. Appleton and Company, publishers. American Painters; The
Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of New York City; Hours with
Art and Artists; Artistic Homes; Artistic Country Seats; Selections in
Modern Art; Recent Ideals of American Art. Har.
Sheldon, Henry Clay.N. Y., 1845- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, professor of historic theology in Boston University from
1882. History of Christian Doctrine; History of the Christian Church.
Cr. Har.
Sheldon, Mary Downing. Daughter of E. A. Sheldon, supra.
See Barnes, Mrs.
Shelton, Frederick William.L. I., 1814-1881. An
Episcopal clergyman of Carthage Landing, New York, who wrote in
both prose and verse a number of humourous and satirical books. The
Trollopiad, or the Travelling Gentleman in America; The Rector of
St. Bardolph’s; Peeps from the Belfry, or the Parish Sketch-Book;
Salander and the Dragon, a romance; Up the River, a collection of rural
sketches; Chrystalline, a romance; The Gold Mania; Use and Abuse of
Reason.
Shepard, Charles Upham.R. I., 1804-1886. A geologist,
professor of geology at Amherst College, who published a valuable
Report on the Geology of Connecticut.
Shepard, Edward Morse.N. Y., 1850- ——. A lawyer of
Brooklyn, author of a Life of Martin Van Buren. Hou.
Shepard, Elihu Hotchkiss.Vt., 1795-1876. An educator
of St. Louis. Autobiography (1869); Early History of St. Louis and
Missouri.
Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald.Ms., 1816-1889. A Federal
officer in the Civil War who was consul at Swatow and Hankow, 1874-80.
Pebbles from Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social
Life; Household Tales.
Shepard, Thomas.E., 1605-1649. A Puritan clergyman who
came to America in 1635, and from 1636 until his death was minister
of what is now the Shepard Church in Cambridge. He won great renown
as a preacher, and as a theologian was a Calvinist of the extremest
type. New Englands Lamentations for Old Englands present Errours; The
Sound Beleever; The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticæ;
Subjection to Christ; The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and
Applied; Autobiography. His Sermons, with Memoir by Alger, were
printed in three volumes in 1853. See Tyler’s American Literature;
Memoir by S. Mather and Greenhill, 1652; Life by Cotton Mather in the
Magnalia.
Shepard, William.See Walsh, W. S.
Shepherd, William Robert.S. C., 1871- ——. History of
Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania. Mac.
Sheppard, Furman.N. J., 1823-1893. A Philadelphia lawyer
who published a Constitutional Text-Book.
Sheppard, Nathan.Md., 1834-1888. A journalist and
educator who was a special correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette
during the Franco-German war. Shut up in Paris during the Siege;
Darwinism Stated by Himself; Before an Audience; Saratoga Chips. Ap.
Fu.
Sherburne, John Henry.N. H., 1794-c. 1850. A
register of the navy in Washington. Osceola, a tragedy; Erratic Poems;
Life of John Paul Jones; The Tourist’s Guide in Europe; A Suppressed
History of the Administration of John Adams.
Sheridan, Philip Henry.N. Y., 1831-1888. A famous
soldier, lieutenant-general of the United States army, 1869-88, and
general for the two months preceding his death. Personal Memoirs
(1888). See Appletons’ American Biography; Life by H. E. Davies;
histories of the Civil War.
Sherman, Frank Dempster.N. Y., 1860- ——. A lyrist of
New York city, adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia College,
who has written much pleasing vers de société as well as other
verse. Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics for a Lute; Little-Folk Lyrics;
New Waggings of Old Tales (with J. K. Bangs, supra). Hou.
Sto.
Sherman, Henry.N. Y., 1808-1879. A Hartford lawyer,
author of An Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine Insurance to the
Present Time (1841); The Governmental History of the United States;
Slavery in the United States.
Sherman, John.Ct., 1772-1828. A Unitarian clergyman of
Trenton Falls, New York, where he conducted an academy. From 1797 to
1805 he was a Congregational minister at Mansfield, Connecticut, but
resigned his charge on account of his becoming a Unitarian. One God
in One Person Only, the first noteworthy defence of Unitarianism in
America; Philosophy of Language Illustrated; A Description of Trenton
Falls. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Sherman, John.O., 1823-1900. Brother of W. T. Sherman,
infra. A noted statesman of Ohio; United States senator, 1861-77
and 1881-97; secretary of the treasury, 1877-1881; and secretary of
state, 1897-1898. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate,
and Cabinet; Selected Speeches and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78. See
Life by Bronson, 1880.
Sherman, William Tecumseh.O., 1820-1891. A distinguished
soldier who was general of the United States army, 1869-84. The
Military Lessons of the War; Memoirs by Himself. See Appletons’
American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia; The Sherman
Letters; and histories of the Civil War.Ap.
Sherwin, Thomas.N. H., 1799-1869. A noted educator of
Boston, master of the High School, 1838-69, and author of treatises on
algebra.
Sherwood, Adiel.N. Y., 1791-1879. A Baptist minister
and educator of Georgia. Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and Jewish
Churches; Notes on the New Testament. See Memoir by his daughter,
1884.
Sherwood, Mrs. Emily [Lee].Ind., 1843- ——. A
Washington journalist who has published Willis Peyton, a novel.
Sherwood, James Manning.N. Y., 1814-1890. A Presbyterian
clergyman and editor of religious journals. A Plea for the Old
Foundations; The History of the Cross; Books and Authors. Fu.
Sherwood, Mrs. John.See Sherwood, Mrs. Mary.
Sherwood, John D[7]N. Y., 1818-1891. Cousin of J. M.
Sherwood, supra. A writer whose home was at Englewood, New
Jersey. Comic History of the United States; The Case of Cuba.
Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret [Brownlee].Pa.,
1841- ——. A verse-writer and journalist of Canton, Ohio, who has been
especially successful as a writer of army lyrics and poems for military
occasions. Camp Fire and Memorial Poems; Columbia.
Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wilson].N. H., 1830-1903.
A Washington novelist and miscellaneous writer, prominent as a social
leader. The Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of Home;
Home Amusements; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal
Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; The Art of Entertaining. Ap. Do. Har.
Lo.
Shew, Joel.N. Y., 1816-1855. A hydropathic physician of
New York State among whose writings are, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure;
Cholera Treated by Water; The Hydropathic Family Physician.
Shields, Charles Woodruff.Ind., 1825-1904. A
Presbyterian clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and
revealed religion at Princeton College from 1865, and active in behalf
of church unity. The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer according to
the Revision of the Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science
of the Sciences; The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in
their Relations to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic
Episcopate; The Question of Unity; The United Church of the United
States. Scr.
Shields, Mrs. Sarah Annie [Frost]. 18— - ——. Parlor Charades
and Proverbs; Laws and By-Laws of American Society; The Art of Dressing
Well; Almost a Woman; Sunshine for Rainy Days, are among her works.
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow. “Mrs. Partington.” N. H.,
1814-1890. A journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humourist,
whose latest years were spent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Life and
Sayings of Mrs. Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington’s
Mother Goose; Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide
Swath, a volume of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with
Captain Bob; The Double-Runner Club. See New England Magazine, June,
1891.Le.
Shimeall [shim´e-all], Richard Cunningham.N. Y.,
1803-1874. An Episcopal clergyman who adopted Reformed Dutch tenets in
1834, and subsequently became a Presbyterian. He was a noted biblical
scholar of millenarian views. The End of Prelacy; Christ’s Second
Coming; Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III.; Unseen World;
Political Economy of Prophecy, are his principal works.
Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana].S. C.,
1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was
at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a Unitarian, and
published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married
her second husband, an Episcopal clergyman, and was received into his
church. The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and
Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including
Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom;
A Southerner Among the Spirits. See Bibliography of Texas.
Shinn, Asa.N. J., 1781-1853. A Methodist Protestant
minister in Ohio. Essay on the Plan of Salvation; Benevolence and
Rectitude of the Supreme Being.
Shinn, Charles Howard.Ts., 1852- ——. A California
writer who has published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier
Government; The Story of the Mine. Ap. Scr.
Shinn, Earl. “Edward Strahan.” Pa., 1837-1886. A New York
journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation. The New Hyperion:
from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; Studies in Modern French Art.
Lip.
Shinn, George Wolfe.Pa., 1839- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, rector of Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1875.
Friendly Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of
Church History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble
Beginners in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; Some Modern
Substitutes for Christianity. Kt. Wh.
Shipp, Albert Micajah.N. C., 1819-1887. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt University
from 1874, and author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina.
Shipp, Barnard.Mi., 1813- ——. A verse-writer of
Natchez, and subsequently of Louisville. Fame, and Other Poems;
Progress of Freedom, and Other Poems.
Shippen, Edward.N. J., 1827- ——. An eminent naval
surgeon of Philadelphia who published Thirty Years at Sea.
Shirley, John Milton.N. H., 1831-1887. A lawyer of
Andover, New Hampshire. The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire;
Complete History of the Dartmouth College Case; Reports of Cases in
Supreme Judicial Court.
Shirley, William.E., 1693-1771. A noted colonial
soldier who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of
Massachusetts, 1741-45. Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a
masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of
Louisburg; The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated.
Shock, William Henry.Md., 1821- ——. A United States
naval officer whose Steam Boilers: their Design, Construction, and
Management, is a standard authority.
Shoemaker, Michael Myers.Ky., 1853- ——. A writer of
travels. Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White
Woman, a volume of Mexican travel; Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces
of the Czar. Clke.
Shoup, Francis Asbury.Ind., 1834-1896. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator of Sewanee, Tennessee, professor of metaphysics
in the University of the South, and a Confederate officer in the Civil
War. Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; Elements of Algebra.
Shreve, Samuel Henry.N. J., 1829-1884. A civil engineer
of New York city. The Strength of Bridges and Roofs.
Shreve, Thomas H——.D. C., 1808-1853. Cousin of S. H.
Shreve, supra. A journalist of Louisville. Drayton, an American
tale; Poems.
Shuck [shook], Mrs. Henrietta [Hall].Va.,
1817-1844. The wife of a missionary in China. Scenes in China (1852).
See Life by Jeter, 1848.
Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton.Ms., 1862- ——. A
Congregational clergyman and verse-writer of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Poems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; New Year’s
Peace.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet.Ms., 1810-1874. An
antiquarian of Boston. Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar
of Old and New Style; Topographical Description of Boston; Passengers
of the Mayflower in 1620, comprise his principal writings. With D.
Pulsifer he edited The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve
volumes.
Sibler, Wilhelm.P., 1801-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of
Missouri. Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year.
See Biography (Lebeslauf), 1880.
Sibley, John Langdon.Me., 1804-1885. The librarian of
Harvard University, 1841-77. History of the Town of Union, Maine;
Biographical Sketches of Harvard University Graduates.
Sidney, Margaret.See Lothrop, Mrs.
Sigourney [sĭg´or-nĭ], Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly].Ct., 1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American
writers, but now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and
verse were adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle
feeling and excellence of intention, and they served their purpose
well in their day. Her verse is not without sweetness, but it never
strays far beyond the realm of the commonplace. She was nearly all her
life a resident of Hartford. Among her prose writings are, Myrtis;
Post Meridian; Letters to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits
of the Aborigines in America; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are,
Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children;
Zinzendorf, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America;
Allibone’s Dictionary; Stone’s First Editions of American Authors.Har.
Sikes, Mrs. Olive [Logan].N. Y., 1841- ——. Wife of W.
W. Sikes, infra. An actress and author, popular at one period as
a lecturer. Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau Frissac, or Home Scenes
in France; John Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; Apropos of Women
and Theatres; Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; The Mimic
World; Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; They Met by Chance, a novel.
Sikes, William Wirt.N. Y., 1836-1883. A journalist of
New York city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1876-1883. British
Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old
South Wales; Studies of Assassination.
Sill, Edward Rowland.Ct., 1841-1887. A poet and educator
of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, professor in the University of California,
1874-82. His verse is small in quantity, but of rare quality. The
Hermitage, and Other Poems; The Hermitage, and Later Poems; Poems
(containing The Venus of Milo, and other poems). See Mrs. E. Ward’s
Chapters from a Life.Ho. Hou.
Sill, John Mahelon Berry.N. Y., 1831-1901. A Michigan
educator of prominence, principal of the State Normal School. Synthesis
of the English Sentence; Practical Lessons in English.
Silliman, Augustus Ely.R. I., 1807-1884. Cousin of B.
Silliman, 2d, infra. A banker of New York city who published A
Gallop Among American Scenery.
Silliman, Benjamin.Ct., 1779-1864. A chemist of
distinction, professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1802-55, and
the founder in 1818 of Silliman’s Journal of Science and Art. Journal
of Travels in England (1810); Narrative of a Visit to Europe (1853);
Elements of Chemistry; Consistency of Modern Geology with Sacred
History. See Life by G. P. Fisher; American Journal of Science, May,
1865; Popular Science Monthly, June, 1883.
Silliman, Benjamin.Ct., 1816-1885. Son of B. Silliman,
supra. A professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1846
until his death, and editor of Silliman’s Journal. First Principles of
Chemistry; American Contributions to Chemistry; Principles of Physics.
Silloway, Thomas William.Ms., 1828- ——. A Boston
architect who became a Universalist minister in 1862. Theogonis;
Text-Book of Modern Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; Cathedral Towns
of England (with L. Powers).
Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot [Devereux]. 1812-1889. A Boston
writer who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations
of poems. Hou.
Silver, Thomas.N. J., 1813-1888. A civil engineer well
known as an inventor. A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin
of Icebergs.
Simmons, William Johnson.S. C., 1849- ——. A Baptist
minister of African birth who has published Men of Mark.
Simms, Jeptha Root.Ct., 1807-1883. A once popular writer
of Fort Plain, New York. History of Schoharie County; The American Spy:
Nathan Hale; The Frontiersman; Trappers of New York.
Simms, Joseph.N. Y., 1833- ——. Nephew of J. R.
Simms, supra. A writer on physiognomy. Nature’s Revelations of
Character; Book of Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical
and Scientific Physiognomy; Human Faces: What They Mean.
Simms, William Gilmore.S. C., 1806-1870. A voluminous
romancer and verse-writer of Charleston, long popular but now little
read. Among his thirty romances, The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy
Rivers; Martin Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe, are as well known
as any; and of some twelve volumes of verse, Atalantis; Lays of
the Palmetto; Areytos, or Songs and Ballads of the South, are the
most characteristic. Other works of his include, A History of South
Carolina; Lives of Marion, General Greene, Captain John Smith,
Chevalier Bayard. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by Trent. Stone’s
First Editions of American Authors.Lov.
Simonds, William. “Walter Aimwell.” Ms., 1822-1859. A
Boston journalist who was a very popular writer for young people. The
Aimwell Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; Boys’ Book of Morals and Manners.
Simpson, Edward.N. Y., 1824-1888. A naval officer of
prominence, rear-admiral from 1884. Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The
Naval Mission to Europe; Report of the Gun Foundry Board.
Simpson, Henry.Pa., 1790-1868. A Philadelphia author who
published Lives of Eminent Philadelphians.
Simpson, James Hervey.N. J., 1813-1883. A colonel of
engineers and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. A
Military Reconnoissance from Santa Fé to the Navajo Country in 1849.
The Shortest Route to California; Coronado’s March in Search of the
Seven Cities of Cibola. Lip.
Simpson, Matthew.O., 1811-1884. A Methodist bishop
famous as a pulpit orator. Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of
Methodism; Sermons; Cyclopædia of Methodism. See Life of, by G. R.
Crooks, supra.Har. Meth.
Sims, Clifford Stanley.Pa., 1839-1896. A lawyer of
Arkansas, and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The
Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames.
Sims, James Marion.S. C., 1813-1883. A celebrated
surgeon of New York city to whose influence is due the establishment
of gynæcology as a department of medicine. Clinical Notes on Uterine
Surgery; Ovariotomy; The Story of My Life. See Life of, by T. A.
Emmet, supra.Ap.
Sinclair, Carrie Bell.Ga., 1837- ——. A verse-writer of
Philadelphia. Poems; Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.
Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers.S., 1837-1900. A
Brooklyn physician, professor of gynæcology in Long Island College
Hospital from 1884. Diseases of the Bladder in Women; Diseases of Women
from the Standpoint of the Physician. Ap.
Skinner, Charles Montgomery.N. Y., 1852- ——. A
journalist and littérateur of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle.
Villon the Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own
Land; Nature in a City Yard. Cent. Lip.
Skinner, Otis Ainsworth.Ms., 1807-1861. A Universalist
minister of Boston and elsewhere. Family Prayer Book; Sermons on
Doctrinal Subjects; Universalism Defended; Letters on Revivals; Moral
Duties of Parents, are his principal works. See Life of, by T. B.
Thayer, infra.
Skinner, Thomas Harvey.N. C., 1791-1871. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Union
Seminary, 1848-71. Religion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and
Hearing; Discussions in Theology; Thoughts on Evangelizing the World.
Ran.
Slade, Daniel Denison.Ms., 1823-1896. A physician and
scientist, professor of zoölogy at Harvard University from 1871.
Diphtheria: its Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a
Journey in New England in 1883. Evolution of Horticulture in New
England. Put.
Slaughter, Philip.Va., 1808-1890. Cousin of W.
B. Slaughter, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia,
historiographer of the diocese. The Colonial Church in Virginia; Man
and Woman, are his most important writings.
Slaughter, William Bank.Va., 1798-1879. A Wisconsin
lawyer of note who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I
Have Met.
Sleeper, John Sherburne.Ms., 1794-1878. A shipmaster and
subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal, 1834-54.
Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; Mark
Rowland, a Tale of the Sea.
Slenker, Mrs. Elmina [Drake].N. Y., 1827- ——. A writer
living at Snowville, Virginia. Studying the Bible; John’s Way; The
Darwins; Mary Jones; Little Lessons for Little Folks.
Slicer, Henry.Md., 1801-1874. A Methodist clergyman,
eight times chaplain of the United States Senate. Appeal on Christian
Baptism; Discourse on Duelling, which materially helped forward the
passage of the anti-duelling law in Congress.
Sloan, Samuel.N. C., 1815-1884. An architect
of Philadelphia. City and Suburban Architecture; Constructive
Architecture; The Model Architect; Homestead Architecture. Bai.
Lip.
Sloane, Thomas O’Conor.N. Y., 1851- ——. A chemist of
New York city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific American. Home
Experiments in Science; Standard Electrical Dictionary.
Sloane, William Milligan.O., 1850- ——. A professor of
history at Columbia College. The French War and the Revolution; Life
of James M’Cosh, supra; Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Cent.
Scr.
Slosson, Mrs. Annie [Trumbull].Ct., 184- - ——. An
author of New York city noted for the excellence of her short stories,
and also known as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of
moths. Aunt Liefy; Fishin’ Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of
Mehetabel Clark; Anna Malann; The China Hunter’s Club. Har. Ran.
Sluter, George Ludewig.G., 1837- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman, pastor at Arlington, New Jersey, from 1881. History of Our
Beloved Church; Life of Tiberius; The Religion of Politics, are his
principal writings.
Smalley, Eugene Virgil.O., 1841-1899. A journalist of
St. Paul. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; History of the
Republican Party.
Smalley, George Washburn.Ms., 1833- ——. A noted
journalist who was the London correspondent of The New York Tribune,
1867-95, and from 1895 American correspondent of The London Times.
London Letters, and Some Others; Studies of Men. Har.
Smalley, John.Ct., 1734-1820. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at New Britain from 1758 till his death. National and
Moral Inability; Universal Salvation.
Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton [Gardener].Va., 1853- ——.
A Boston novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the
furtherance of social reforms. An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son,
My Lord?; Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?;
Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; The Fortunes of Margaret
Weld. Ar.
Smedes, Mrs. Susan [Dabney].Mi., 1840- ——. A
Mississippi writer now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a
Southern Planter is much valued as an accurate picture of Southern life.
Smith, Arthur Donaldson.Pa., 1864- ——. An African
explorer. Through Unknown African Countries.
Smith, Ashbel.Ct., 1805-1886. A Texas politician and
physician. Account of the Geography of Texas; Permanent Identity of the
Human Race.
Smith, Augustus William.N. Y., 1802-1866. An educator
who was professor of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 1831-51,
and president of that institution from 1851. Elementary Treatise on
Mechanics.
Smith, Buckingham.Ga., 1810-1871. A Spanish-American
scholar and antiquary of note, twice secretary of the United States
legation at Mexico, and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many
publications are, Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of
the Pima, or Nevome; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia
de la Florida; Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the
Conquest of Florida.
Smith, Charles.Pa., 1765-1836. Son of William Smith,
1st, infra. A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Treatise on
the Land Laws of Philadelphia.
Smith, Charles Adam.N. Y., 1809-1879. A Lutheran
clergyman, pastor at Rhinebeck, New York, and elsewhere. The
Catechumen’s Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After;
Among the Lilies; Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches;
Popular Exposition of the Gospels (with J. Morris). Lip.
Smith, Charles Henry. “Bill Arp.” Ga., 1826-1903. A
lawyer and journalist of Rome, Georgia, well known as a humorous
contributor to The Atlanta Constitution. Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s
Scrap Book: The Farm and the Fireside: A Side Show of the Southern Side
of the War; Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893. Gi.
Smith, Daniel.Ct., 1806-1852. A Methodist clergyman
of New York State very active in the temperance cause. Wisdom in
Miniature; Gems of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers’
Assistant; Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; Anecdotes of the
Christian Ministry. Meth.
Smith, Edward Delafield.N. Y., 1826-1878. A lawyer of
New York city. Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports
of Cases in the New York Court of Common Pleas; Addresses to Juries in
Slave Trade Trials.
Smith, Eli.Ct., 1801-1857. A Congregational missionary
at Beirut. Missionary Researches in Armenia (1853); and an Arabic
translation of the Bible.
Smith, Elias.Ct., 1769-1846. A Congregational
clergyman of Massachusetts. The Clergyman’s Looking-Glass; History of
Anti-Christ; Sermons on the Prophecies, are among his writings.
Smith, Elihu Hubbard.Ct., 1771-1798. A physician and
verse-writer of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American
Poems, Original and Selected.
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince].Me., 1806-1893.
Wife of Seba Smith, infra. A once prominent writer of prose and
verse, who was the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years
were passed in Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are,
The Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed
public attention to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings;
Old New York, or Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha
and Lily; The Western Captive.
Smith, Erasmus Peshine.N. Y., 1814-1882. A jurist and
political economist. Manual of Political Economy.
Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt].N. Y., 1837-1886.
An ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. See
Memorial, 1890.
Smith, Ethan.Ms., 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman,
city missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of
the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced
to the ten tribes of Israel. See Sprague’s Annals of the American
Pulpit.
Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce].Vt., 1852- ——. A
fiction-writer of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our
Money-Makers, a poultry book.
Smith, Florence.N. Y., 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New
York city who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.
Smith, Francis Henney.Va., 1812-1890. A Confederate
officer who was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College,
Virginia, 1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military
Institute, 1839-61 and 1865-90. Best Methods of Conducting Common
Schools; College Reform; and a series of algebras.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson.Md., 1838- ——. An artist,
civil engineer, and popular littérateur of New York city. Well-Worn
Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White;
A White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A
Day at Laguerre’s, and Other Days; American Illustrators; A Gentleman
Vagabond, and Some Others; Tom Grogan; Gondola Days; Caleb West.
Hou. Scr.
Smith, Gerrit.N. Y., 1797-1874. A famous philanthropist
of Peterboro, New York, who was an ardent opponent of slavery. Speeches
in Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Religion of Reason; The
Theologies; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. See Life of, by O.
B. Frothingham, supra.
Smith, Gertrude.Cal., 1860- ——. Sister of M. C. Smith,
infra. A Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the
West. The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabella and
Araminta Stories; Dedora Heywood. Cop. Do. Hou.
Smith, Gustavus Woodson.Ky., 1822-1896. A Confederate
general who lived in New York city from 1876. Notes on Life Insurance;
Confederate War Papers.
Smith, Hamilton Lanphere.Ct., 1819-1903. An educator
who was professor of natural philosophy at Hobart College from 1868.
Natural Philosophy; First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.
Smith, Henry Boynton.Me., 1815-1877. A Presbyterian
clergyman of eminence as a theologian, and professor of systematic
theology in Union Seminary, New York city, 1854-74. Faith and
Philosophy; Apologetics; Chronological History of the Church of Christ;
Introduction to Christian Theology; System of Christian Theology.
See Life and Work of, 1881; Life by Stearns, 1892.Scr.
Smith, Henry Hollingsworth.Pa., 1815-1890. A surgeon of
Philadelphia. Minor Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; Practice of
Surgery; Professional Visit to London and Paris.
Smith, Herbert Huntington.N. Y., 1851- ——. A scientist
who has been engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, New York, and
Brazil. Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. Scr.
Smith, Horace Wemyss.Pa., 1825-1891. Son of R. P. Smith,
infra. A Philadelphia journalist whose principal works include,
Nuts for Future Historians to Crack; Yorktown Orderly Book; Life of
Reverend William Smith, infra.
Smith, James.I., c. 1720-1806. A lawyer of
York, Pennsylvania, who was one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. He wrote The Constitutional Power of Great Britain
over the Colonies in America, which materially aided the cause of the
patriots.
Smith, James.Pa., 1737-1812. A once noted Kentucky
pioneer. Shakerism Developed; Shakerism Detected; Remarkable Adventures
in the Life of Colonel James Smith; Mode and Manner of Indian War.
See Bibliography of Ohio.
Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield.N. H., 1800-1879. A
physician of Boston, where he was mayor in 1854, and subsequently of
New York city. Class Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jackson; Natural
History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; Turkey
and the Turks; The Ways of Women.
Smith, Job Lewis.N. Y., 1827-1897. A physician of New
York city who wrote a Treatise on Diseases of Children.
Smith, John.E., 1579-1631. A celebrated sea captain
and adventurer who was one of the founders of Virginia, and of the
company who settled at Jamestown in 1607. He was a forcible, vigourous
writer, much given to magnifying his own exploits, and not always
to be trusted in the absence of other testimony. A True Relation of
Virginia; The Generall Historie of Virginia, which is partly original
and partly compiled; A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the
Country; A Description of New England (1616); An Accidence, or Pathway
to Experience; A Sea Grammar; The True Travels of Captain John Smith, a
work in which his imagination is under very little restraint as regards
facts. See Lives by Hillard in Sparks’s American Biography, Mrs.
Robinson, 1845, Simms, 1846, Deane, 1859, Warner, 1881, True, 1882;
Tyler’s American Literature; North American Review, January, 1867;
Appletons’ American Biography.
Smith, John.N. H., 1752-1809. A Congregational minister
and educator, professor of languages at Dartmouth College and college
pastor, 1778-1809, as well as librarian of the college for some thirty
years. He was the author of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Grammars, as well
as some minor publications. See Memoir by his Wife, 1815.
Smith, John Augustine.Va., 1782-1865. A physician of New
York city, previously president of William and Mary College, 1814-26.
Mutations of the Earth; Moral and Physical Science; Functions of the
Nervous System.
Smith, John Cotton.Ms., 1826-1882. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of the Ascension,
1860-82. The Church’s Law of Development; Certain Aspects of the
Church; Miscellanies; Old and New; The Liturgy as a Basis of Union.
Smith, John Hyatt.N. Y., 1824-1886. A prominent Baptist
clergyman of Brooklyn, a member of Congress, 1880-82. Gilead; The Open
Door.
Smith, John Jay.N. J., 1798-1881. A librarian of
Philadelphia who edited many works, and was author of Notes for a
History of the Library Company of Philadelphia; A Summer’s Jaunt Across
the Water; Historical and Literary Curiosities (with J. F. Watson).
Smith, John Lawrence.S. C., 1818-1883. A chemist of
note who was professor of chemistry in the University of Louisville.
Mineralogy and Chemistry: Original Researches.
Smith, John Talbot.N. Y., 1855- ——. A Roman Catholic
clergyman in the diocese of Ogdensburg. History of Ogdensburg Diocese;
A Woman of Culture, a novel; Solitary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a
juvenile tale; Our Seminaries: an essay on Clerical Training.
Smith, Joseph.Pa., 1796-1868. A Presbyterian clergyman,
once prominent in western Pennsylvania. History of Jefferson College;
Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism.
Smith, Joseph Edward Adams. “Godfrey Greylock.” 1822-1896. A
writer of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taghconic: the Romance and Beauty
of the Hills; A History of Paper.
Smith, Joseph Mather.N. Y., 1789-1866. A physician of
New York city. Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics;
Illustrations of Medical Phenomena in Public Life.
Smith, Judson.Ms., 1837- ——. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, secretary of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1884. Lectures in Church
History; Lectures on Modern History.
Smith, Justin Almerin.N. Y., 1819-1896. A Baptist
clergyman of Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853. The Martyr of
Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the
Word; Modern Church History; Patmos.
Smith, Mrs. Luella [Dowd].Ms., 1847- ——. A
verse-writer of Hudson, New York. Wayside Leaves; Wind Flowers.
Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie [Brown].N. Y., 1864- ——. A
journalist of Little Rock. On the Track and Off the Train.
Smith, Mrs. Margaret [Bayard].Pa., 1778-1844. Wife of
S. H. Smith, infra, and once a social leader in Washington. A
Winter in Washington; What is Gentility?
Smith, Mrs. Mary Louise [Riley].N. Y., 1842- ——. A
popular verse-writer of New York city. Sometime, and Other Poems; The
Inn of Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; Cradle and Armchair.
Ran.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence [Wells]. “P. Thorne.” N. Y.,
1840- ——. A Cincinnati writer for young people. The Browns; Child
Life on a Farm; Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at
Hackmatack; More Good Times at Hackmatack; Miss Ellis’s Mission. A.
U. A. Rob.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart [Harrison].Pa., 1834- ——. The
wife of a professor at the University of Virginia. She has made many
translations from the German and French, and has also published, Heirs
of the Kingdom; Virginia Cookery Book. Har.
Smith, Matthew Hale.Me., 1810-1879. Son of Elias Smith,
supra. A clergyman of the Universalist and subsequently of the
Presbyterian and other faiths, who was also a lawyer and a brilliant
journalist, known as “Burleigh.” Universalism Examined, Renounced, and
Exposed; Universalism not of God; Sabbath Evenings; Mount Calvary;
Sunshine and Shadow in New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall Street,
include his chief works.
Smith, Minna Caroline.Cal., 1860- ——. A journalist of
Boston. The Boys of Cary Farm, a juvenile tale; Trilby, the Fairy of
Argyle, from the French of Nodier. Lam. Lo.
Smith, Nathan.N. H., 1762-1828. A physician who was a
medical professor in Dartmouth College, 1798-1813. Practical Essays on
Typhus Fever; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.
Smith, Nathan Ryno.N. H., 1797-1877. Son of N. Smith,
supra. A professor of surgery in the University of Maryland,
1840-70. Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries; Legends of the South, are
among his works.
Smith, Oliver Hampton.N. J., 1794-1859. A once prominent
United States senator from Indiana. Recollections of a Congressional
Life; Early Indian Trials.
Smith, Persifor Frazer.Pa., 1808-1882. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; Pennsylvania
Supreme Court Reports, 1865-82.
Smith, Richard Penn.Pa., 1790-1854. Grandson of William
Smith, 1st, infra. A lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia,
fifteen of whose plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular,
Caius Marius being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a
novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other Tales; Lives of Crockett and
Martin Van Buren. His complete works in four volumes were issued in
1888.
Smith, Richard Somers.Pa., 1813-1877. A soldier and
educator, president of Girard College, 1863-68, and for the last seven
years of his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United
States Naval Academy. Manual of Topographical Drawing; Manual of Linear
Perspective.
Smith, Richmond Mayo.O., 1854-1901. A professor of
political economy at Columbia College from 1883. Statistics and
Economics; Emigration and Immigration; Statistics and Sociology.
Mac. Scr.
Smith, Samuel.N. J., 1720-1766. A colonial treasurer of
the province of West Jersey, who published a History of Nova Cæsarea,
or New Jersey, from its Settlement to 1721.
Smith, Samuel Francis.Ms., 1808-1895. A Baptist
clergyman near Boston, who wrote much religious verse, but will
probably be longest remembered for the familiar “My Country, ’tis of
thee.” He published, for juvenile readers and others, Knights and Sea
Kings; Mythology and Early Greek History; Noble Workers; Poor Boys who
Became Great; Rambles in Mission Fields. Lo.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope.Pa., 1750-1819. A Presbyterian
divine, president of Princeton College, 1794-1812. Lectures on the
Evidences of the Christian Religion; Moral and Political Philosophy;
Sermons; Comprehensive View of Natural and Revealed Religion; On the
Variety of Complexion and Figure of the Human Species, which was much
noticed in its day.
Smith, Mrs. Sarah Louisa [Hickman].Mch., 1811-1832. A
Cincinnati verse-writer whose Poems appeared in 1829.
Smith, Seba. “Jack Downing.” Me., 1792-1868. A journalist
of Portland, Maine, and, after 1842, of New York city, very popular as
a humourist in the earlier part of his career. The Letters of Major
Jack Downing; Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Elements of Geometry;
Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty Years Out of
the Senate; Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century.
Smith, Sebastian Bach.G., 1845-1895. A Roman Catholic
clergyman at Paterson, New Jersey. Elements of Ecclesiastical Law; New
Procedure in Criminal and Disciplinary Causes of Ecclesiastics in the
United States.
Smith, Solomon Franklin.N. Y., 1801-1869. A once popular
low comedian who left the stage in 1853, and was afterward a noted
lawyer of St. Louis. Theatrical Apprenticeship; Theatrical Journey
Work; Autobiography (1868). Har.
Smith, Stephen.N. Y., 1823- ——. A New York surgeon,
professor of clinical surgery in the University of the City of New York
from 1874. Handbook of Surgical Operations; Principles of Operative
Surgery.
Smith, Uriah.N. H., 1832-1903. A Seventh Day Adventist
writer of Battle Creek, Michigan. Looking Unto Jesus; Here and
Hereafter; The Destiny of the Wicked; Nature and Destiny of Man; A Word
for the Sabbath (verse); The United States in the Light of Prophecy;
Daniel and the Revelation, a very popular work, the sale of which has
reached 72,000 copies; The Sure Foundation; Scripture Pathways Cleared
of Stumbling-Stones.
Smith, William.S., 1721-1803. An Episcopal clergyman of
Philadelphia who came to America from Scotland in 1751, and in 1754 was
made first provost of the University of Pennsylvania. A General Idea of
the College of Mirania first brought him to the knowledge of Franklin,
who was then laying plans for the university. He was author, also, of
Brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania; Sermons; Discourses
on Public Occasions. See Tyler’s American Literature; Life and
Correspondence of H. W. Smith, supra; Fisher’s Pennsylvania: Colony and
Commonwealth.
Smith, William.N. Y., 1728-1793. A jurist of New
York city who was a loyalist during the Revolution, and in 1786 was
appointed chief justice of Canada. History of the Province of New York
from its Discovery to 1732. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Smith, William.S., 1754-1821. Nephew of W. Smith,
1st, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island,
and elsewhere, of some note as an educator in his day. Essays on the
Christian Ministry. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Smith, William Andrew.Va., 1802-1870. A Methodist
clergyman of Virginia whose Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of
Slavery are considered the ablest presentation of the pro-slavery side
of the question.
Smith, William Farrar.Vt., 1824-1903. A brevet
major-general in the United States army who resigned in 1867. From
Chattanooga to Petersburg under Generals Grant and Butler. Hou.
Smith, William Henry.O., 1833-1896. A journalist of
Cincinnati, subsequently collector of Chicago. The St. Clair Papers;
Political History of the United States.
Smith, William Loughton.S. C., 1758-1812. A diplomatist
who was minister to Portugal (1797-1800) and to Spain (1800-01), and
an active Federalist politician. Speeches; Comparative View of the
Constitutions of the States; American Arguments for British Rights.
Smith, William L—— G——.Vt., 1814- ——. Uncle Tom’s
Cabin as It Is.
Smith, William Rudolph.Pa., 1787-1868. A Wisconsin
lawyer, author of Observations on Wisconsin Territory, 1831; History of
Wisconsin.
Smith, William Russell.Al., 1813-1896. A lawyer of
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who was a congressman prior to the Civil War,
and during that period sat in the Confederate congress. The Alabama
Justice; The Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; Condensed
Alabama Reports.
Smith, Worthington.Ms., 1795-1856. A Congregational
clergyman of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans, 1823-1849, and president of
the University of Vermont, 1849-56. His Select Sermons were much read.
See Memoir by Torrey, 1861.
Smith, Zachariah Frederick.Ky., 1827- ——. An educator
who was superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky for four years
and author of a History of Kentucky.
Smock, John Conover.N. J., 1842- ——. A geologist,
assistant in charge of the New York State Museum from 1885. Report on
Clay Deposits; On Building-Stones in New York.
Smyth, Albert Henry.Pa., 1863- ——. An educator of
Philadelphia, professor of English at the Central High School from
1886. Life of Bayard Taylor. Hou.
Smyth, Egbert Coffin.Me., 1829-1904. Son of W. Smyth,
infra. A Congregational clergyman prominent among liberal
thinkers in his denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history
at Andover Seminary from 1863. The Value of the Study of Church
History in Ministerial Education; translation of Uhlhorn’s Conflict of
Christianity and Heathenism (with W. Ropes).
Smyth, Herbert Weir.Del., 1857- ——. A professor of
Greek in Bryn Mawr College from 1888. Der Diphthong EI in Griech;
Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects. Mac.
Smyth, Julian Kennedy.N. Y., 1856- ——. A Swedenborgian
clergyman of Boston. Footprints of the Saviour; Holy Names as
Interpretations of the Story of the Manger and the Cross. Rob.
Smyth, [Samuel] Newman [Phillips].Me., 1843- ——. Son
of W. Smyth, infra. A Congregational clergyman of prominence and
of liberal theology, pastor of the First Church at New Haven from 1882.
Old Faiths in New Light; The Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Religious
Feeling; The Morality of the Old Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian
Ethics; Dorner on the Future State; the Reality of Faith. Cas.
Scr.
Smyth, Thomas.I., 1808-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Charleston, pastor of the Second Church, 1832-73, and very active
as a controversialist, among whose many writings are, Lectures on the
Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the
Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?; Solace for Bereaved Parents;
Calvin and his Enemies; Ecclesiastical Republicanism.
Smyth, William.Me., 1797-1868. An educator who was
professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College from 1825. Elements of
Algebra; Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation;
Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and
Integral Calculus; Lectures on Modern History.
Snead, Thomas Lowndes.Va., 1828-1890. A St. Louis
lawyer who served in the Confederate army, and after 1865 resumed his
profession in New York city. The Fight for Missouri in 1861. Scr.
Snelling, Henry Hunt.N. Y., 1817- ——. Brother of W.
J. Snelling, infra. A writer living at Cornwall, New York,
from 1871. History and Practice of Photography; Dictionary of the
Photographic Art.
Snelling, William Joseph.Ms., 1804-1848. A journalist of
Boston. The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a
Satirical Poem; Six Months in a House of Correction.
Snethen, Nicholas.L. I., 1769-1845. A Methodist
itinerant preacher, active in the formation of the Methodist Protestant
denomination. Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; Lectures on
Biblical Subjects. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Snider, Denton Jaques.O., 1841- ——. A literary
lecturer of St. Louis. System of Shakespeare’s Dramas; A Walk in
Hellas; Delphic Days, an idyl in the elegiac distich; Agamemnon’s
Daughter, a classic romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voyage; Goethe’s
Faust: a Commentary; The Shakespearean Drama.
Snively, William Andrew.Pa., 1833-1901. An Episcopal
clergyman of Louisville. Family Prayers for the Christian Year;
Testimonies to the Supernatural; Parish Lectures on the Prayer Book;
Æsthetics in Worship; The Oberammergau Passion Play. Wh.
Snow, Caleb Hopkins.Ms., 1796-1835. A Boston physician
who published A History of Boston; Geography of Boston and Adjacent
Towns.
Snow, Marshall Solomon.Ms., 1842- ——. A professor of
history in Washington University, author of The City Government of St.
Louis. J. H. U.
Snowden, James Ross.Pa., 1810-1878. A numismatist who
was director of the mint, 1856-61. The Mint at Philadelphia; The Mint
Manual of Coins; The Coins of the Bible and its Money Terms; Medals;
The Cornplanter Memorial. Lip.
Soley, James Russell.Ms., 1850- ——. An educator,
professor at the Naval Academy, 1871-82, and lecturer on international
law at Newport Naval College from 1885. The Rescue of Greeley (with W.
Schley, supra); Foreign Systems of Education; The Blockade and
the Cruisers; The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes; History of the
Naval Academy; The Sailor Boys of ’61. Est. Scr.
Somerville, William Clarke.Md., 1790-1826. A writer who
was appointed minister to Sweden, but died before reaching there and
was buried at the Marquis Lafayette’s home at Lagrange. Letters from
Paris on the Causes of the French Revolution.
Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides.Gr., 1807-1883. A
Greek scholar of distinction, professor at Harvard University, 1849-83.
His chief work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods;
and among his other publications are, Greek Grammar for Learners;
History of the Greek Alphabet. Scr.
Sotheran, Charles.E., 1847-1902. An English
bibliographer who came to America in 1874, and, settling in New York
city, engaged in journalism. Alessandro di Cagliostro: Impostor or
Martyr; Shelley as Philosopher and Reformer.
Soule [soo´lay], Mrs. Caroline Augusta [White].N.
Y., 1824-1904. The widow of a Universalist minister who entered
the ministry herself, was the first foreign missionary of that
denomination, and in 1888 was in charge of a congregation in Glasgow,
Scotland. House Life; The Pet of the Settlement; Wine or Water.
Soule [sole], Richard.Ms., 1812-1877. A
lexicographer of Boston. Manual of English Pronunciation (with W. H.
Wheeler, infra); Dictionary of English Synonyms; Pronouncing
Handbook (with L. Campbell). Le.
Southgate, Horatio.Me., 1812-1894. The first and only
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Constantinople. He was consecrated in
1844, but resigned his office in 1850, and held various rectorships
subsequently, including that of Zion Church, New York city, 1859-72, in
which latter year he retired from active duties. The Cross Above the
Crescent; Parochial Sermons; Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, etc.;
The War in the East; Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent.
Southworth, Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza [Nevitte].D. C.,
1819-1899. A voluminous writer of sensational romances, mainly of
Southern life and some sixty in number, for many years a resident of
Washington, but from 1876 of Yonkers, New York. The literary merit
of her works is very slender. They were in nearly every case first
issued serially in The New York Ledger, and have been very popular
amongst uncritical readers. Among them are, Ishmael; The Widow’s Son;
Retribution; The Family Doom. See Hart’s American Literature.
Spaeth [spāt], Adolph.Wg., 1839- ——. A
prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of St. John’s
Church from 1867. Die Evangelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von des
Herrn Tische; Saarkörner; Luther in Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phœbe
the Deaconess; Liederlust; Faith and Life Represented by Luther;
Annotations on the Gospel according to St. John.
Spahr, Charles Barzillai.O., 1860-1904. A political
economist, associate editor of The Outlook from 1886. The Distribution
of American Wealth. Cr.
Spalding, John Franklin.Me., 1828-1902. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Colorado. The Threefold
Ministry; Manual of Prayers; The Church and its Apostolic Ministry.
Spalding, John Lancaster.Ky., 1840- ——. Nephew of M.
J. Spalding, infra. The Roman Catholic bishop of Peoria, and
widely known as a thoughtful essayist and educator. Life of Archbishop
Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People
and Catholic Colonization; Lectures and Discourses; America, and Other
Poems; The Poet’s Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and
Ends of Education; Things of the Mind; Songs, chiefly from the German.
Mg.
Spalding, Lyman.N. H., 1775-1821. A physician at
Portsmouth, in his native State, and subsequently of New York city, who
was one of the early advocates of vaccination. Reflections on Fever;
Reflections on Yellow Fever Periods.
Spalding, Martin John.Ky., 1810-1872. A Roman Catholic
archbishop of Baltimore, 1864-72, active as a controversialist. Review
of D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization;
Evidences of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic
Missions in Kentucky; Miscellanea. See Life by J. L. Spalding,
supra; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Spalding, Mrs. Susan [Marr].Me., 18— - ——. A
verse-writer of Philadelphia whose poems are much above the level of
average verse. The Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. Rob.
Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.Me., 1847- ——. A novelist
and philanthropist of Newton, Massachusetts, who has written much in
behalf of the Indian cause. A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the
Indian school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s Class in
Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s
Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely.
Le. Lo.
Sparks, Jared.Ct., 1789-1866. A Unitarian clergyman,
pastor at Baltimore, 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard
University, 1839-49, and president of Harvard University, 1849-53.
He is best known by the American Biography which he edited, and of
which he was in part the author. It includes sixty lives, of which
he wrote those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle;
Pulaski; Ribault; Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of
Gouverneur Morris. He published editions of the works of Franklin and
Washington, with notes and life of each; and also Correspondence of the
American Revolution. His editing has been sometimes criticised because
he occasionally toned down passages of unorthodox vigour and corrected
the spelling of his subjects, but his eminent merits in other respects
have been generally recognized. See Lives by Mayer, supra, 1867; G.
E. Ellis, supra, 1869; Herbert Adams, supra.Har.
Sparks, William Henry.Ga., 1800-1882. A Mississippi
planter, after 1850 a lawyer of New Orleans, who published Memories
of Fifty Years. He was a popular verse-writer, his best-known poems
being, Somebody’s Darling; The Dying Year.
Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry.N. Y., 1809-1897. A banker of
Buffalo, author of a History of Legal Tender Money During the Great
Rebellion.
Spaulding, Henry George.Ms., 1837- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman of Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of
Jesus; Later Heroes of Israel; Forty Hymns and their Authors.
Spaulding, Solomon.Ct., 1761-1816. A Congregational
clergyman of New England who left the ministry in 1795 and was
subsequently an iron-founder at Conneaut, Ohio, where he wrote a
romance called The Manuscript Found, published in 1812, and sometimes
asserted to be the basis of the Mormon Bible. See Patterson’s, Who
Wrote the Mormon Bible? 1882.
Spear, Charles.Ms., 1801-1863. A Universalist minister
of Boston active in prison reform. Names and Titles of Christ; Essays
on the Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; Voices from
Prison.
Spear, Samuel Thayer.N. Y., 1812-1891. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871.
Family Power; Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal
Tender Act; The Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition;
The Bible Heaven. Fu.
Spears, John Randolph.O., 1850- ——. A journalist of
New York city. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing
Ships, and Other Stories of the Sea. Mac. Put.
Speed, John Gilmer.Ky., 1853- ——. A journalist of New
York city. Life of Keats.
Speer, William.Pa., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian
missionary in China. China and the United States; The Great Revival of
1800; God’s Rule for Christian Giving.
Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa.E., 1840-1867. A novelist who
was the first wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United
States army. Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; Surface and Depth.
Spencer, Mrs. Cornelia [Phillips].N. Y., 1825- ——. A
North Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in
North Carolina; History of North Carolina.
Spencer, Ichabod Smith.Vt., 1798-1854. A Presbyterian
clergyman prominent in Brooklyn for many years. A Pastor’s Sketches;
Sermons; Sacramental Discourses; Evidences of Divine Revelation.
Spencer, Jesse Ames.N. Y., 1816-1898. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New
York, 1869-83, and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His
other works include, History of the English Reformation; History of
the United States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East:
Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last
Things; Studies in Eschatology; Papalism vs. Catholic Truth;
Memorabilia of Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86. Wh.
Spencer, Mrs. Sara [Andrews].N. Y., 1837- ——. A
prominent woman-suffragist of Washington, proprietor of the Spencerian
Business College. Problems on the Woman Question; Lessons in the
English Language.
Spencer, Thomas.Ms., 1793-1857. A physician who was
medical professor at Hobart College, 1835-57. Lectures on Vital
Chemistry; Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as
Cholera. See Memoir of, by S. Willard, 1858.
Spencer, Mrs. William Loring [Nuñez].Fl., 18— - ——. A
writer who is the second wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of
the United States army. Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished
as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; Calamity Jane. Cas.
Spitzka, Edward Charles.N. Y., 1852- ——. A
physician of New York city eminent as a neurologist. Insanity, its
Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand.N. H., 1825- ——. The
librarian of Congress, and editor of The American Almanac and
Treasury of Facts. Library of Choice Literature; Library of Historical
Characters.
Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Prescott].Me.,
1835- ——. A novelist and poet of Newburyport whose best work in both
prose and verse is markedly original, and characterized by striking
luxuriance of description. Azarian; Sir Rohan’s Ghost; The Amber
Gods, and Other Stories; New England Legends; The Thief in the Night;
The Marquis of Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at
St. Mark’s, a story for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories;
Art Decoration Applied to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the
Domestic Relations; Three Heroines of New England (with Alice Brown,
supra, and L. Guiney, supra); The Servant Girl Question;
A Master Spirit; Ballads About Authors; Poems; In Titian’s Garden, and
Other Poems. See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1882.Cop. Do. Har.
Hou. Le. Rob. Scr.
Spooner, Lysander.Ms., 1808-1887. A lawyer of Boston
prominent as an abolitionist. Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the
Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defence for Fugitive
Slaves; Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; Poverty:
Causes and Cure.
Spooner, Shearjashub.Vt., 1809-1859. A dentist of New
York city. Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry;
Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors,
and Architects; Anecdotes of Painters.
Sprague, Alfred White.Sh., 1821- ——. A Boston chemist
who published Chemical Experiments; Elements of Natural Philosophy.
Sprague, Charles.Ms., 1791-1875. A cashier of the Globe
Bank, Boston, 1825-65, well known in his lifetime as a verse-writer,
and still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems
as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to
Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841,
the latest edition being that of 1876. See Griswold’s Poets and
Poetry of America.
Sprague, Charles Ezra.N. Y., 1842- ——. The secretary
of the Dime Savings Institution in New York city from 1878. Logical
Symbolism; Handbook of Volapük.
Sprague, John Titcomb.Ms., 1810-1888. An officer of
the United States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865.
Origin, etc., of the Florida War (1848).
Sprague, Mary Aplin.O., 1849- ——. A novelist of
Newark, Ohio. An Earnest Trifler. Hou.
Sprague, Peleg.Ms., 1793-1880. A once noted jurist of
Boston. Speeches and Addresses; Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime
Cases.
Sprague, William Buell.Ct., 1795-1875. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes
is the work by which he is best known. Other works of his include,
Letters to a Daughter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters from Europe;
Letters on Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of
Edward Dorr Griffin, supra; Letters to Young Men; Women of
the Bible; Visits to European Celebrities; Life of Jedidiah Morse,
supra; Aids to Early Religion.
Sprecher, Samuel.Md., 1810- ——. A Lutheran clergyman,
president of Wurtemburg Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, 1849-74, and
author of The Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.
Spring, Gardiner.Ms., 1785-1873. A Presbyterian
clergyman, long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick
Church, 1810-73. Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness;
Sermons; Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character; Pulpit
Ministrations; Attractions of the Cross; The Bible Not of Man; The
Mercy Seat, comprise his chief works. See Personal Reminiscences
of.C. P. S.
Spring, Leverett Wilson.Vt., 1840- ——. A
Congregational clergyman and educator, professor of English literature
at the University of Kansas, 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at
Williams College from 1886. History of Kansas; Mark Hopkins: Teacher.
Hou.
Springer, Mrs. Rebecca [Ruter].Ind., 1832- ——. The
wife of an Illinois senator, and author of Songs of the Sea, and two
novels, Beechwood; Self.
Sproull [sprowl], Thomas.Pa., 1803-1892. A
Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections
on Theology.
Squier [skwīr], Ephraim George.N. Y., 1821-1888.
An archæologist and diplomatist, consul to Peru, 1863-1865, and
consul-general of Honduras at New York in 1868. Nicaragua; Mexican
Hieroglyphics; Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H.
Davis, supra); Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna,
or Adventures on the Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America;
Serpent Symbols; Peru. Ho.
Squier, Miles Powell.Vt., 1792-1866. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Geneva, New York. The Problem Solved, or Sin Not of God;
Reason and the Bible; Miscellaneous Writings; Autobiography.
Staley, Cady.N. Y., 1840- ——. A civil engineer,
president of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and
author of The Separate System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson).
Stall, Sylvanus.N. Y., 1847- ——. A Lutheran clergyman
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1880-87, and since then editor of Stall’s
Lutheran Year Book. Methods of Church Work; Pastor’s Record; Talks to
the King’s Children; Five-Minute Object Sermons to Children. Fu.
Stallo, John Bernhard.G., 1823-1900. A Cincinnati
lawyer, minister to Italy in 1885. Concepts and Theories of Modern
Physics; General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature. Ap.
Stanley, Anthony Dumond.Ct., 1810-1853. An educator who
was a professor of mathematics at Yale University, 1836-53. Elementary
Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; Tables of Logarithms.
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, originally John Rowlands. W.,
1841-1904. A noted African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New
Orleans merchant whose name he took. He was sent by the New York
Herald in search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa
by the Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition
sent by the King of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment
of the Congo Free State. How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince,
King, and Slave, a Study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala;
Through the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of its Free
State; In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in
America and Asia; Slavery and the Slave Trade in India. See Stanley
and Africa, 1890; Headley’s Adventures of Stanley; Lives by Montefiore,
1889, Little, 1890, Reddall, 1890; Packard’s Stanley and the Congo;
Stanley and his Heroic Relief of Emin Pasha, by E. P. Scott; Wauters’s
Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition; With Stanley’s Rear Column.Har.
Stansbury, Howard.N. Y., 1806-1863. An explorer who was
a topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An
Expedition to Great Salt Lake (1852). Lip.
Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cady].N. Y., 1815-1902. Wife of
H. B. Stanton, infra. A celebrated woman-suffragist and reformer
who devoted the larger part of her life to suffrage and other reforms,
and (with S. Anthony and F. Gage) published a History of the Woman
Suffrage Movement.
Stanton, Frank Lebby.Ga., 1858- ——. A journalist and
popular verse-writer of Atlanta. Songs of the Soil. Ap.
Stanton, Henry Brewster.Ct., 1805-1887. A journalist and
reformer of New York city. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great
Britain and Ireland; Random Recollections. Har.
Stanton, Henry Thompson.Va., 1834-1898. Son of R. H.
Stanton, infra. An officer in the United States army and an
Indian commissioner who wrote much humorous verse. The Moneyless Man,
and Other Poems; Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. Clke.
Stanton, Richard Henry.Va., 1812-1891. A jurist of
Kentucky. Code of Civil and Criminal Practice in Kentucky; Practical
Treatise for Justices of the Peace; Manual for Kentucky Executors.
Stanton, Robert Livingstone.Ct., 1810-1885. Brother of
H. B. Stanton, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman who published The
Church and the Rebellion.
Stanton, Theodore.N. Y., 1851- ——. Son of H. B. and E.
Stanton, supra. A journalist living in Paris. The Woman Question
in Europe. Put.
Stanwood, Edward.Me., 1841- ——. A Boston journalist,
managing editor of The Youth’s Companion. A History of Presidential
Elections; History of Cotton Manufacture in New England. Hou.
Starr, Eliza Allen.Ms., 1824-1901. An art lecturer in
Chicago. Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; Songs of a Lifetime.
Starr, Frederic Ratchford.N. S., 1821-1889. A noted
dairy farmer of Litchfield, Connecticut. Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May
I Not?; What Can I Do?; Farm Echoes; From Shore to Shore.
Starr, Moses Allen.N. Y., 1854- ——. A physician of
New York city, prominent as a neurologist. Familiar Forms of Nervous
Diseases; Lectures on Insanity; Brain Surgery.
Stauffer, Francis Henry.Pa., 1832- ——. A sensational
novelist of Philadelphia, long a contributor to the Saturday Night.
Among his serials published in that paper, none of them of much
literary merit, are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; Devona the Dauntless.
Staunton, William.E., 1803-1889. An Episcopal clergyman
of New York city who published an Ecclesiastical Dictionary, and wrote
much on musical topics.
Stearns, Asahel.Ms., 1774-1839. A Massachusetts lawyer
and Congressman, professor of law at Harvard University, 1817-29.
Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions; General Laws,
1780-1822 (with L. Shaw).
Stearns, Charles.Ms., 1753-1826. A Unitarian clergyman,
pastor at Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1785 till his death. The Ladies’
Philosophy of Love, a Poem; Principles of Morality and Religion.
Stearns, Charles Woodward.Ms., 1818-1887. A physician
and surgeon of note as a Shakespearean scholar. Shakespeare’s Medical
Knowledge; Shakespeare Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge; Concordance of
the Constitution of the United States; The Black Men and the South and
the Rebels.
Stearns, Edward Josiah.Ms., 1810-1890. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator in Maryland. A Platform for All Parties; Notes
on Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Practical Guide to English Pronunciation; The
Faith of Our Forefathers, an Examination of Archbishop Gibbons’s “Faith
of Our Fathers;” The Archbishop’s Champion Brought to Book. Wh.
Stearns, Frank Preston.Ms., 1846- ——. Great-nephew
of L. M. Child, supra. A Boston writer upon art, literature,
and history. The Real and Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; The
Midsummer of Italian Art; Sketches from Concord and Appledore; Modern
English Prose; Summer Travel in Europe. Put.
Stearns, John Glazier.N. H., 1795-1874. A Baptist
clergyman once prominent in central New York. The Primitive Church;
Letters on Freemasonry; The Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; The
Influence of the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration.
Stearns, John William.Ms., 1829- ——. A professor in
the University of Wisconsin from 1884. The History of Education in
Wisconsin.
Stearns, Lewis French.Ms., 1847-1892. A Presbyterian
clergyman, afterwards professor of systematic theology in Bangor
Theological Seminary, 1880-92. The Evidence of Christian Experience;
Present Day Theology, with Biographical Sketch by G. L. Prentiss,
supra; Life of Henry Boynton Smith, supra. Hou.
Scr.
Stearns, Oakman Sprague.Me., 1817-1893. A Baptist
clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of biblical interpretation at
Newton Theological Seminary from 1868. A Syllabus of Messianic Passages
in the Old Testament; Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament.
Stearns, Samuel.Ms., 1747-1819. A physician and
astronomer of Worcester, New York city, and lastly of Brattleboro,
Vermont. Tour to London and Paris; Mystery of Animal Magnetism;
American Oracle; The American Herbal or Materia Medica.
Stearns, William Augustus.Ms., 1805-1876. A
Congregational clergyman, president of Amherst College, 1854-76. Infant
Church Membership; A Plea for the Nation.
Stearns, Winfrid Alden. 185- - ——. Son of W. A. Stearns,
supra. Labrador: a Sketch of its Peoples, etc.; Wrecked on
Labrador; New England Bird Life (with E. Coues, supra).
Stebbins, Giles Badger. 1817-1900. After Dogmatic Theology,
What?; The American Protectionist’s Manual; Chapters from the Bible
of the Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching the American Colonization
Society; Progress from Poverty.
Stebbins, Emma.N. Y., 1815-1882. A sculptress who lived
many years in Rome, where she formed a friendship with Charlotte
Cushman. Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of her Life.
Hou.
Stebbins, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Moore] [Hewitt].Ms.,
1818- ——. Memorial of F. S. Osgood, supra; Songs of Our Lord;
Heroines of History; Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.
Stebbins, Rufus Phineas.Ms., 1810-1885. A Unitarian
clergyman of Ithaca, New York, and subsequently of Newton Centre,
Massachusetts. A Study of the Pentateuch; A Common Sense View of the
Books of the Old Testament.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence.Ct., 1833- ——. A poet and
literary critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock
Exchange there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic;
The Prince’s Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl
of the Great War, and Other Poems; The Blameless Prince; Hawthorne,
and Other Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; The Star
Bearer. His other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the
New Faith; Victorian Poets; Poets of America; The Nature and Elements
of Poetry. His most important labours as editor have been, A Library of
American Literature (with E. M. Hutchinson, supra); The Works
of Poe (with G. E. Woodberry, infra); A Victorian Anthology.
See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors, 1897.Hou.
Steele, Daniel.N. Y., 1824- ——. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of note. Commentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; Milestone
Papers; Antinomianism Revived; Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers;
Bible Readings; Sermons and Essays. Meth.
Steele, David.I., 1827- ——. A Reformed Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia from 1861. The Times in Which we Live, and
the Ministry they Require; The Apologetics of History.
Steele, Mrs. Esther [Baker].N. Y., 1835- ——. Wife of
J. D. Steele, infra, and co-author with him of a General History
and school histories of the United States; France; Ancient Peoples;
Mediæval and Modern Peoples; Greece; Rome.
Steele, George McKendree.N. Y., 1823-1902. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, principal of Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts.
Outline Study of Political Economy. Meth.
Steele, Joel Dorman.N. Y., 1836-1886. A prominent
educator of Elmira, New York, who published Barnes’s History of the
United States and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended
for a course of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy;
Geology; Human Physiology; Zoölogy; Chemistry.
Steele, Mrs. Margaret.See Conkling, Mrs.
Steele, Thomas Sedgwick.Ct., 1845- ——. Canoe and
Camera: a Tour Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from
Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River; A Voyage to Vikingland.
Est.
Steendam, Jacob.H., 1616-16—?. The earliest
verse-writer of New York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West
India Company, and lived in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to
1663, about which time he returned to Holland. The place and date
of his death are unknown. His four small volumes of verse include,
Der Distelvink (The Thistle Finch); Klacht van Nieuw Amsterdam (The
Complaint of New Amsterdam); Tlof van Nieuw Nederland (The Praise of
New Netherland); Prichel Vaarsen (Spurring Verses). The literary merit
of his work is small.
Steenstra, Peter Henry.H., 1833- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of Old Testament
criticism and interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from
1867. The Being of God as Unity and Trinity. Hou.
Steiger, Ernst.Sxy., 1832- ——. A bibliographer and
publisher of New York city. Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright
Law in den Vereinigten Staaten; Periodical Literature, a bibliography.
Stella.See Lewis, Mrs.
Stellhorn, Frederick William.G., 1841- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman of Ohio, professor of theology in Capitol University, who has
published a Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Annotations on the Acts of
the Apostles; Annotations on the Gospels.
Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Willison].Al., 1856- ——. The
wife of a Presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Illinois. The Confessions
of Two, a novel.
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton.Ga., 1812-1883. A
distinguished Georgia statesman who was a representative in Congress
from his State, 1843-59, vice-president of the Confederacy,
subsequently a member of Congress, and in 1882 governor of Georgia.
School History of the United States; History of the War between the
States; Compendium of United States History. See Carroll’s Twelve
Americans; Life by F. H. Norton; Life by Johnston and Browne; Harper’s
Magazine, February, 1870; Appletons’ American Biography; Trent’s
Southern Statesmen.Lip.
Stephens, Mrs. Ann Sophia [Winterbotham].Ct., 1813-1886.
A novelist and littérateur of New York city whose books were at one
time much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best work; A
Story of Western Life; The Old Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption;
The Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; A Popular History of
the United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem
being the familiar Polish Boy.
Stephens, Charles Asbury.Me., 1847- ——. A writer of
Norway, Maine. Camping Out; Off the Geysers; Left on Labrador; Fox
Hunting; On the Amazon; The Young Moose-Hunters; The Knockabout Club in
the Woods and in the Tropics. Co. Est.
Stephens, Harriet Marion. 1823-1850. Home Scenes and Home
Sounds; Hagar the Martyr, a novel.
Stephens, John Lloyd.N. J., 1805-1852. A traveller of
note. Incidents of Travel in Central America; Yucatan; Egypt, Arabia,
and the Holy Land; Greece, Turkey, and Russia. See Allibone’s
Dictionary.Har.
Stephens, William.E., 1671-1753. A colonial governor
of Georgia, 1743-1750, who published a Journal of the Proceedings in
Georgia. See Biography by his son, entitled The Castle Builder, or
the History of William Stephens of the Isle of Wight.
Stern, Simon Adler.Pa., 1838- ——. Florentine Nights;
Excerpts; Jottings of Travel in China and Japan.
Sternberg, George Miller.N. Y., 1838- ——. A surgeon
in the United States army. Photo-Micrographs; Malaria and Malarial
Diseases; Bacteria, from the French of Maguin; Immunity: Protective
Inoculations in Infectious Diseases; Manual of Bacteriology. Hou.
Sterne, Simon.Pa., 1839-1901. A prominent politician
of New York city. Popular Government and Personal Representation;
Constitutional History and Development of the United States; Suffrage
in Cities; Hindrances to Prosperity. Lip. Put.
Sterne, Stuart.See Bloede.
Sterrett, John Robert Sitlington.Va., 1851- ——. A
professor of Greek at Amherst College from 1892. Qua in re Hymni
Homerici quinque majores inter se differunt; Inscriptions of Assos;
Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor; The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor.
Stevens, Abel.Pa., 1815-1897. A Methodist clergyman
of New York city of prominence as a writer, and long connected with
the Methodist Book Concern. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in the United States; History of Methodism; Life of Madame de Staël;
Life of Nathan Bangs, supra; Character Sketches; Women of
Methodism; Christian Work and Consolation; Church Polity; Tales from
the Parsonage, are among his many publications. Har. Meth.
Stevens, Alexander Hodgdon.N. Y., 1789-1869. A surgeon
of New York city, whose chief works are, Inflammation of the Eye;
Lectures on Lithotomy; First Lines of Surgery.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin.Vt., 1833-1902. Brother of H.
Stevens, infra. A bibliographer who edited Campaign in Virginia
in 1781; Facsimiles of MSS. in European Archives Relating to America,
1773-83.
Stevens, Charles Ellis.Ms., 1853- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Philadelphia. The Sources of the Constitution of the
United States in Relation to Colonial and English History. Mac.
Stevens, George Barker.N. Y., 1854- ——. A
Congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven, professor in
Yale Divinity School from 1886. Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline
Theology; The Johannine Theology; Doctrine and Life. Scr.
Stevens, Henry.Vt., 1819-1886. A bibliographer of
prominence, who lived in London after 1845. Historical Nuggets;
Historical Collections; Recollections of James Lenox; The Tehuantepec
Railway; Historical and Geographical Notes; The Bibles in the Caxton
Exhibition; Catalogue of the American Books in the British Museum; and
indexes to state papers in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode
Island, and New Jersey.
Stevens, John Austin.N. Y., 1827- ——. An author of New
York city, and later of Newport, Rhode Island, who founded the Magazine
of American History; The Valley of the Rio Grande; The Expedition of
Lafayette against Arnold; Life of Albert Gallatin, supra.
Hou.
Stevens, John Leavitt.Me., 1820-1895. A diplomatist who
was minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1870-73, to Sweden, 1877-83, to
Hawaii, 1889-93. History of Gustavus Adolphus.
Stevens, Thomas.E., 1855- ——. A noted cyclist who has
published, Scouting for Stanley in East Africa; Around the World on
a Bicycle: From San Francisco to Teheran, From Teheran to Yokohama;
Through Russia on a Mustang. Cas. Scr.
Stevens, William Bacon.Me., 1815-1887. The fourth
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, consecrated in 1862.
History of Georgia; The Bow in the Cloud; Sermons; Sabbaths of Our
Lord; Parables of the New Testament Unfolded; History of Silk Culture
in Georgia; The Sunday at Home. Co.
Stevenson, E[dward] Irenæus.N. J., 1858- ——. A
littérateur of New York city, since 1881 the editor of The New York
Independent, and for many years an editor of Harper’s Weekly. He has
been the musical editor of several journals for a number of years.
White Cockades, an Incident of the “Forty-five;” Janus, reissued as A
Matter of Temperament, a musical novel; Left to Themselves, reissued as
Philip and Gerald; Mrs. Dee’s Encore; A Square of Sevens. Har. Meth.
Scr.
Stevenson, Sarah Hackett.Il., 1843- ——. A physician of
Chicago. Boys and Girls in Biology; The Physiology of Woman.
Steward, Theophilus Gould.N. J., 1843- ——. A clergyman
of African descent. Death, Hades, and the Resurrection; The End of the
World; Genesis Re-read.
Stewart, Austin.Va., c. 1793-186-. An author and
educator of African descent who published, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and
Forty Years a Freeman.
Stewart, Charles Samuel.N. J., 1795-1870. A Presbyterian
clergyman, chaplain in the navy. Residence at the Sandwich Islands in
1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of
Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832; Brazil and La Plata in
1850-63; Personal Record of a Cruise.
Stewart, Mrs. Electra Maria [Sheldon].N. Y., 1817- ——.
A writer of Detroit. Early History of Michigan; The Clevelands, a
religious juvenile tale.
Stewart, Ferdinand Campbell.Va., 1815- ——. A physician
of New York city who removed to England in 1855. Hospitals and Surgeons
of Paris.
Stewart, James.N. Y., 1799-1864. A physician of New York
city. Diseases of Children; The Lungs.
Stewart, Thomas McCants.S. C., 1854- ——. A New York
city lawyer of African descent. Liberia: the Americo-African Republic;
Perils of a Great City.
Stickney, Albert.Ms., 1839- ——. A lawyer of New
York city. The Lawyer and his Clients; A True Republic; Democratic
Government: a Study of Politics; The Political Problem. Har.
Stickney, Mrs. Julia Granby [Noyes].Ms., 1830- ——. A
verse-writer of Groveland, Massachusetts. Poems on Lake Winnepesaukee.
Stiles, Ezra.Ct., 1727-1795. A Congregational clergyman,
famous in colonial days, who was president of Yale College, 1778-95.
Account of the Settlement of Bristol, Rhode Island; History of Three of
the Judges of Charles the First, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. See
Life, by Abiel Holmes, supra; Life by Kingsley in Sparks’s American
Biography; The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles.
Stiles, Henry Reed.N. Y., 1832- ——. Kinsman of E.
Stiles, supra. A prominent physician of Brooklyn. History and
Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; History of Brooklyn, Long
Island; The Wallabout Prison Ship.
Stiles, Joseph Clay.Ga., 1795-1875. A Presbyterian
clergyman, after 1860 an evangelist in the South. Modern Reform
Examined, or the Union of North and South on Slavery; The National
Controversy.
Stiles, William Henry.Ga., 1808-1865. Brother of J. C.
Stiles, supra. A Savannah lawyer who was an officer in the
Confederate army. History of Austria.
Still, William.N. J., 1821-1902. A noted Philadelphia
philanthropist of African descent. The Underground Railroad; Voting and
Laboring; Struggle for the Rights of Colored People in Philadelphia.
Stillé [stĭl´le], Alfred.Pa., 1813-1900. A
physician of Philadelphia. Elements of General Pathology; The Unity
of Medicine; Humboldt’s Life and Character; War as an Element of
Civilization; Othello and Desdemona: their Characters; The National
Dispensatory (with Maisch); Therapeutics and Materia Medica; Epidemic
Meningitis; Epidemic or Malignant Cholera. Lip.
Stillé, Charles Janeway.Pa., 1819-1899. Brother of
A. Stillé, supra. A Philadelphia educator, provost of the
University of Pennsylvania, 1868-80. Historical Development of American
Civilization; Studies in Mediæval Civilization; Beaumarchais and
the Lost Million, a chapter of the Secret History of the American
Revolution; History of the United States Sanitary Commission; How
a Free People Conduct a Long War; Northern Interest and Southern
Independence; Life and Times of John Dickinson; General Anthony Wayne
and the Pennsylvania Line. Lip.
Stillé, Moreton.Pa., 1822-1855. Brother of A. Stillé,
supra. A Philadelphia physician, co-author with F. Wharton of a
Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.
Stillman, Samuel.Pa., 1738-1807. A Baptist clergyman,
pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston from 1765 till his death,
and a man of prominence in his day. His Select Sermons were published
in 1808. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Stillman, William James.N. Y., 1828-1901. A littérateur
and artist who was consul at Rome, 1861-65, and in Crete, 1865-69. He
lived at Rome from 1886 to 1898 as correspondent of the London Times
for Italy and Greece. History of the Cretan Insurrection; Poetic
Localities of Cambridge; Herzegovina and the Late Uprising; Turkish
Rule and Warfare; On the Track of Ulysses; Manual of Photography;
Autobiography. Hou.
Stimpson, William.Ms., 1830-1872. A naturalist of
eminence. Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum; Notes on North
American Crustacea; Crustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream.
Stimson, Alexander Lovett.Ms., 1816- ——. A lawyer
and journalist. History of the Express Companies; New England Boys;
Waifwood, a novel.
Stimson, Frederick Jesup. “J. S. of Dale.” Ms.,
1855- ——. A lawyer and popular novelist of Boston. Labor in its
Relations to Law; Handbook of the Labor Law of the United States;
American Statute Law; Glossary of Technical Terms of the Common Law;
Uniform State Legislation. In fiction he has published, Guerndale;
The Crime of Henry Vane; The King’s Men; The Residuary Legatee; The
Sentimental Calendar; In the Three Zones; First Harvests; Pirate Gold;
King Noanett; Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge (with J. T. Wheelwright,
infra). Hou. Lam. Lit. Scr.
Stimson, John Ward.N. J., 1850- ——. An artist of New
York city, four years superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum art
schools. The Law of Three Primaries.
Stimson, Lewis Atterbury.N. J., 1844- ——. A physician
of New York city, professor of surgery in the University of the City of
New York. Manual of Operative Surgery; Practical Treatise on Fractures;
Treatise on Dislocations.
Stith, William.Va., 1689-1785. An Episcopal clergyman of
Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1752-55. He wrote a
History of Virginia, which though diffuse is not without interest and
dignity of style. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Stockton, Francis Richard.Pa., 1834-1902. A widely
popular humorist and novel-writer who first attracted general notice by
his now famous Rudder Grange, a thoroughly original piece of humour.
In the same vein are, The Rudder Grangers Abroad, and Other Stories;
Pomona’s Travels; The Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine.
His other works, which all display original inventive humour, are,
Tales Out of School; The Ting-a-Ling Stories; Roundabout Rambles; What
Might Have Been Expected; A Jolly Fellowship; The Floating Prince; The
Story of Viteau; The Late Mrs. Null; The Lady or the Tiger?, his most
celebrated work; The Christmas Wreck, and Other Stories; The Hundredth
Man; The Bee Man of Orn; The Dusantes; Amos Kilbright; Ardis Claverden;
The Great War Syndicate; The Stories of the Three Burglars; The Merry
Chanter; The House of Martha; Kobel Land; The Clocks of Rondaine;
The Watchmaker’s Wife; The Adventures of Captain Horn; A Chosen Few;
Personally Conducted; A Story-Teller’s Pack, a volume of short stories;
Stories of New Jersey; Captain Chap, or the Rolling Stones. See
Vedder’s American Writers.Am. Cent. Do. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Stockton, Thomas Hewlings.N. J., 1808-1868. Half brother
of F. R. Stockton, supra. A Methodist preacher of Baltimore and
Philadelphia, chaplain to both houses of Congress successively, and
famous for his eloquence. Floating Flowers from a Hidden Brook; Poems;
Stand Up for Jesus, and Other Poems; The Book Above All. See Life by
Wilson, 1869.
Stoddard, Amos.Ct., 1762-1813. Great-grandson of S.
Stoddard, infra. A soldier of note in the early days of the
Republic. Sketches of Louisiana (1812); The Political Crisis.
Stoddard, Charles Augustus.Ms., 1833- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Observer from
1885. Across Russia; Spanish Cities; Beyond the Rockies; Cruising Among
the Caribbees. Scr.
Stoddard, Charles Warren.N. Y., 1840- ——. A lecturer
on English literature in the Catholic University of America at
Washington. Poems; Mashallah: a Flight into Egypt; South Sea Idyls;
Summer Cruising in the South Seas; The Lepers of Molokai. Scr.
Stoddard, Mrs. Elizabeth Drew [Barstow].Ms., 1823-1902.
Wife of R. H. Stoddard, infra. A novelist and poet whose work
in verse and fiction shows much individuality. The Morgesons; Temple
House; Two Men; Lolly Dinks’s Doings, a juvenile tale; Poems. Cas.
Hou.
Stoddard, John F——.N. Y., 1825-1873. An educator
of New York State who published a Universal Algebra, and a widely
circulated series of arithmetics.
Stoddard, John Lawson.Ms., 1850- ——. A popular
stereopticon lecturer. Red Letter Days Abroad; Napoleon from Corsica to
St. Helena. Hou. Mer.
Stoddard, Richard Henry.Ms., 1825-1903. A poet,
journalist, and critic of New York city, literary editor of The Mail
and Express from 1880. His verse is unequal in merit, but his best work
has always won the praise of the discriminating few, though never much
heeded by the average reader. He edited the Bric-a-Brac Series and
other volumes, while his own writings include, Poems; Adventures in
Fairy Land; Footprints; Life of Humboldt; Songs of Summer; The King’s
Bell; The Book of the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode; Putnam
the Brave; A Century After; Life of Washington Irving; The Lion’s Cub,
with Other Verse; Under the Evening Lamp, a collection of essays on
literary topics. See Stedman’s Poets of America; Vedder’s American
Writers.Scr.
Stoddard, Solomon.Ms., 1643-1729. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1669 until
his death. Appeal to the Learned; Guide to Christ; Safety in the
Righteousness of Christ; Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained,
a reply to Increase Mather’s “Order of the Gospel,” and one which
occasioned much exciting controversy.
Stoddard, William Osborn.N. Y., 1835- ——. A journalist
and inventor whose writings have been largely though not entirely
for juvenile readers, and have been very popular. Little Smoke; The
Windfall; Esau Hardery; Dab Kinzer; Saltillo Boys; Wrecked; Verses of
Many Days; The Heart of It; The White Cave, an Australian Story; The
Red Mustang; Two Arrows; Among the Lakes; The Quartet; Winter Fun; Men
of Business; The Talking Leaves; The Volcano Under the City, a story
of the draft riots in New York; Lives of the Presidents; Gid Granger;
Chuck Purdy, comprise the greater part of his works. Ap. Cent. Fo.
Har. Lo. Mer. Scr. Sto.
Stoever, Martin Luther.Pa., 1820-1870. A Pennsylvania
educator, a professor in the college at Gettysburg, 1840-70. Brief
Sketch of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Life and Times of
Henry Muhlenberg.
Stone, Andrew Leete.Ct., 1815-1892. A Congregational
clergyman in San Francisco from 1866. Service the End of Living;
Ashton’s Mothers; Memorial Discourses; Leaves from a Finished Pastorate.
Stone, David Marvin.Ct., 1817-1895. Brother of A. L.
Stone, supra. A noted journalist of New York city, editor of The
Journal of Commerce, 1849-93. He published Frank Forrest (1850), a work
that passed into twenty editions.
Stone, Ebenezer Whitten.Ms., 1801-1880. An
adjutant-general of the Massachusetts militia from 1851. Digest of
Massachusetts Militia Laws; Compend of Instructions in Military
Tactics; Manual of Percussion Aim.
Stone, Edwin Martin.Ms., 1805-1883. A Congregational
clergyman of Providence. Life of Elhanan Winchester; History of
Beverly, Massachusetts, 1630-1842; The Invasion of Canada in 1775; Our
French Alliès in the Revolution.
Stone, Edwin Winchester.Ms., 1835-1878. Son of E. M.
Stone, supra. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil
War. He was the war correspondent of The Providence Journal, and author
of Rhode Island in the Rebellion.
Stone, James Kent.Ms., 1840- ——. Son of J. S. Stone,
infra. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the order of Passionists,
and known as Father Fidelis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman and
president of Hobart College. The Invitation Heeded, issued in 1870, and
giving his reasons for his recent change of faith, was widely read.
Stone, James Samuel.E., 1852- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Chicago. Simple Sermons on Simple Subjects; The Heart
of Merrie England; Readings in Church History; Woods and Dales of
Derbyshire. Co.
Stone, John Augustus.Ms., 1801-1834. A dramatist and
actor. He is best remembered by Metamora, a play written for Edwin
Forrest, for whom he also wrote The Ancient Briton; and Fauntleroy.
Other dramas by him are, Tancred; The Demoniac; La Roque.
Stone, John Seely.Ms., 1795-1882. An Episcopal clergyman
of Cambridge, dean of the Episcopal Theological School there, 1867-72,
and prominent among the Low Churchmen of his day. The Living Temple;
The Christian Sacraments; Sermons; Memoir of Bishop Griswold; The
Christian Sabbath; The Contrast, or the Evangelical and Tractarian
Systems Compared. Ran.
Stone, Thomas Treadwell.Me., 1801-1895. A Unitarian
clergyman of Bolton, Massachusetts. Sermons on War; Sermons; The Rod
and Staff; Sketches of Oxford County, Maine.
Stone, William Leete.N. Y., 1792-1844. A journalist of
prominence in New York city, and the first superintendent of public
schools there. History of the Albany Constitutional Convention of 1821;
Tales and Sketches; Matthias and his Impostures; Maria Monk and the
Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; Ups and Downs of a Distressed Gentleman,
a social satire; Letters on Animal Magnetism; Poetry and History of
Wyoming; Lives of Brant, Red Jacket; Letters on Masonry. See Life by
his son.
Stone, William Leete.N. Y.,1835- ——. Son of W.
L. Stone, supra. A lawyer and historical writer of Jersey
City. History of New York City; Life of Sir William Johnson;
Burgoyne’s Campaigns; Life and Military Journals of General Riedesel;
Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston; Life of William Leete Stone,
supra; Visits to Saratoga Battle Grounds, include his principal
publications.
Storer, David Humphreys.Me., 1804-1891. A Boston
physician, dean of the Harvard Medical School, 1854-1868. Ichthyology
and Herpetology of Massachusetts; Synopsis of North American Fishes;
History of the Fishes of Massachusetts.
Storer, Francis Humphreys.Me., 1832- ——. Son
of D. H. Storer, supra. An eminent chemist, professor of
agricultural chemistry at Harvard University from 1870, and dean
of the Bussey Institute. Alloys of Copper and Zinc; Manufacture of
Paraffin Oils; First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities of
Chemical Substances; Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (with C. W. Eliot,
supra); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Agriculture in
Some of its Relations with Chemistry. Scr.
Storer, Horatio Robinson.Ms., 1830- ——. Son of D. H.
Storer, supra. A surgeon of note. Why Not? a Book for Every
Woman; Is It I? a Book for Every Man; Nurses and Nursing; Criminal
Abortion (with F. F. Heard, supra). Le. Lit.
Storey, Moorfield.Ms., 1845- ——. A Boston lawyer
living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Life of Charles Sumner. Hou.
Stork, Charles Augustus.Md., 1838-1883. Son of T.
Stork, supra. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at
Gettysburg, 1881-83. Light on the Pilgrim’s Way. See the Stork
Family in the Lutheran Church, 1886.
Stork, Theophilus.N. C., 1814-1874. A Lutheran clergyman
of Philadelphia. Life of Luther; Luther’s Christmas Tree; Luther and
the Bible; Afternoon; Home Scenes in the New Testament; The Unseen
World, are his principal works. Lip.
Storrs, Richard Salter.Ms., 1821-1900. A distinguished
Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, pastor of the Church of the
Pilgrims from 1846. The Constitution of the Human Soul; Historical
Addresses; Divine Origin of Christianity; Conditions of Success
in Preaching without Notes; John Wycliffe and the First English
Bible; Manliness in the Scholar; Love to Christ; Recognition of the
Supernatural; Bernard of Clairvaux; Forty Years of Pastoral Life.
Do. Ran. Scr.
Story, Isaac.Ms., 1774-1803. Cousin of J. Story,
infra. A lawyer and verse-writer of Castine, Maine. An Epistle
from Tarico to Inkle; Consolatory Odes; A Parnassian Shop.
Story, Joseph.Ms., 1779-1845. A jurist of eminence,
Dane professor of law at Harvard University, 1829-45. His earliest
work was The Power of Solitude, with Fugitive Poems, a somewhat callow
performance; and his first legal production, which appeared in 1805,
was a Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions. His subsequent works
include, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; The
Conflict of Laws, his most able effort; Equity Jurisprudence; The Law
of Agency; Law of Bailments; Equity Pleadings; Law of Partnership;
Law of Promissory Notes; Miscellaneous Writings. See Allibone’s
Dictionary; Life by W. W. Story; Biographical Encyclopædia of
Massachusetts.Har. Lit.
Story, William Wetmore.Ms., 1819-1895. Son of J. Story,
supra. A poet, sculptor, and essayist. He studied law and
practised at the bar in Boston for a short time, but after 1848 lived
in Rome and became widely known as a sculptor. His prose writings
include, The Law of Contracts; The Law of Sales; Life of Joseph Story;
Proportions of the Human Figure; Roba di Roma; The American Question;
Fiammetta, a novel; Conversations in a Studio; Excursions in Art and
Letters. The Castle of St. Angelo; A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem; Nero,
an Historical Play; and a two-volume edition of Poems, comprise his
verse. He and She: a Poet’s Portfolio; and A Poet’s Portfolio: Later
Readings, contain both poetry and prose. See Appletons’ Annual
Cyclopædia, 1895.Hou. Lip. Lit.
Stow, Baron.N. H., 1801-1869. A Baptist clergyman of
Boston, of much prominence in his day, among whose writings are,
Helen’s Pilgrimage; History of the English Baptist Mission to India;
Christian Brotherhood; First Things. See Life by Neale, 1870; Memoir
of by J. C. Stockbridge, 1895.
Stowe, Calvin Ellis.Ms., 1802-1886. A Congregational
clergyman and educator who held successive professorships at Dartmouth
College, Lane Seminary, Bowdoin College, and Andover Seminary. While at
Lane Seminary he married his second wife, Harriet Beecher, the daughter
of Lyman Beecher, supra. Origin and History of the Books of the
Bible; Elementary Instruction in Europe; Lectures on the Sacred Poetry
of the Hebrews; Introduction to Biblical Criticism.
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher].Ct., 1811-1896.
Wife of C. E. Stowe, supra, and daughter of Lyman Beecher,
supra. In 1836 she was married to Professor Stowe at Cincinnati,
and, in frequent visits to the slave States at that period, acquired
a knowledge of Southern customs. In 1850 she removed to Brunswick,
Maine, and, having by this time become deeply impressed with the
wrong of slavery, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin for The National Era at
Washington, in which paper it appeared serially from June, 1851, till
April, 1852. It was then published in book form and speedily became
world-famous, five hundred thousand copies being sold in America within
five years, while translations of it appeared in twenty languages. As a
moral agent few books have been of so much importance. From a literary
point of view there is less to be said of it; and The Minister’s
Wooing, a novel of the early days of the republic, must rank as her
finest work. The quality of her other work is uneven, its highest level
being represented by Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orr’s Island; Dred;
The Chimney Corner; Religious Poems, among which is the well-known
hymn, “Still, still with Thee.” Her lesser works comprise, My Wife and
I; Sam Lawson’s Fireside Stories; We and Our Neighbors; Little Foxes;
The Mayflower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands; Our
Charley; Agnes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House and Home Papers;
Stories about Our Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy’s First Winter;
Men of Our Times, biographical sketches; The American Woman’s Home
(with Catherine Beecher); Little Pussy Willow; Pink and White Tyranny;
Palmetto Leaves; Betty’s Bright Idea; Footsteps of the Master; Bible
Heroines; Poganuc People; A Dog’s Mission. See Life of, by her Son;
Atlantic Monthly, July, 1882, August and September, 1896; The Century
Magazine, September, 1896; New England Magazine, September, 1896; The
Forum, August, 1896; The Outlook, July 25, 1896; Life of, by Mrs.
Fields, supra.Fo. Hou.
Stowell, Charles Henry.N. Y., 1850- ——. A
microscopist, professor of histology in the University of Michigan.
Students’ Manual of Microscopy; Physiology and Hygiene; The
Microscopical Structure of the Human Tooth; A Primer of Health; A
Healthy Body; Essentials of Health. Sil.
Stowell, Mrs. Louisa Maria [Reed].Mch., 1850- ——. Wife
of C. H. Stowell, supra. An instructor in microscopical botany
at the University of Michigan for twelve years. Microscopical Structure
of Wheat; Microscopic Diagnosis (with C. H. Stowell).
Strachey, William.E., c. 1585-16—. The first
secretary of the Virginia colony. He was the author of A True Repertory
of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates upon and from the
Islands of the Bermudas, supposed to have been the inspiration of
Shakespeare’s Tempest; Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia;
For the Colony in Virginia Britannia: Lawes Divine, Morall, and
Martiall, a compilation. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Strahan, Edward.See Shinn, Earl.
Stranahan, Mrs. Clara Cornelia [Harrison].Ms.,
183- - ——. An art writer of Brooklyn. A History of French Painting
from its Earliest to its Latest Practice. Scr.
Straus, Oscar Solomon.Bv., 1850- ——. A municipal
reformer of New York city, minister to Turkey in 1887. The Origin of
Republican Government in the United States; Roger Williams, the Pioneer
of Religious Liberty. Cent. Put.
Street, Alfred Billings.N. Y., 1811-1882. A verse-writer
of Albany, and State librarian of New York from 1848. His verse
is chiefly nature poetry and was popular for a time. His writings
include, Frontenac; Woods and Waters; Forest Pictures; The Burning of
Schenectady, and Other Poems; Drawings and Tintings; Fugitive Poems;
Digest of Taxation in the United States. See Griswold’s Poets and
Poetry of America.
Strickland, William.Pa., 1787-1854. A Philadelphia
architect whose chief professional work was the Capitol at Nashville,
Tennessee. Triangulation of the Entrance into Delaware Bay; Report on
Canals and Railways; Public Works of the United States (with Gill and
Campbell).
Strickland, William Peter.Pa., 1809-1884. A Methodist
clergyman, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Bridgehampton, Long
Island, 1865-77, whose principal writings comprise, Pioneers of the
West; History of the American Bible Society; The Genius of Methodism;
Light of the Temple; Old Mackinaw, or the Fortress of the Lakes;
Christianity Demonstrated by Facts; The Astrologer of Chaldea, or the
Life of Faith. Meth.
Strohm, Gertrude.O., 1843- ——. A writer living near
Dayton, Ohio. Word Pictures; Universal Cookery Book; Flower Idyls; The
Young Scholar’s Companion.
Strong, Augustus Hopkins.N. Y., 1836- ——. A Baptist
clergyman of Rochester, New York, president of Rochester Theological
Seminary from 1872. Systematic Theology; Philosophy and Religion.
Strong, George Crockett.Vt., 1832-1863. A general in
the Federal army during the Civil War who fell in the assault on Fort
Wagner. Cadet Life at West Point.
Strong, James.N. Y., 1822-1894. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of eminence, professor in Drew Seminary at Madison, New
Jersey, from 1868. With T. McClintock, supra, he edited a
Biblical Encyclopædia, continuing the work alone after 1870. His other
writings include, English Harmony of the Gospels; Greek Harmony of the
Gospels; Irenics; The Tabernacle of Israel; Sacred Idyls; Future Life;
Jewish Life; Our Lord’s Life; Commentary on Ecclesiastes; Concordance
of the Bible. Meth.
Strong, Josiah.Il., 1847- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, general agent of the Evangelical Alliance in America after
1886. Our Country; The New Era of the Coming Kingdom.
Strong, Latham Cornell.N. Y., 1845-1879. A journalist
and verse-writer of Troy, New York. Castle Windows; Pots of Gold; Poke
o’ Moonshine; Midsummer Dreams.
Strong, Nathan.Ct., 1748-1816. A Congregational
clergyman of Hartford. Sermons; The Doctrine of Eternal Misery
Consistent with the Infinite Benevolence of God.
Strong, Theodore.Ms., 1790-1869. A professor of
mathematics at Rutgers College, 1827-63. Treatise on Elementary
Algebra; On Differential and Integral Calculus.
Strong, Titus.Ms., 1787-1855. An Episcopal clergyman of
Greenfield, Massachusetts. Tears of Columbia, a Political Poem; Candid
Examination of the Episcopal Church; The Deerfield Captive; The Young
Scholar’s Manual.
Strother [strŭth´e̯r], David Hunter. “Porte Crayon.”
Va., 1816-1888. An artist of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia,
once popular as a magazinist. During the Civil War he was a colonel in
the Union army, and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general. The
Blackwater Chronicle; Virginia Illustrated. See Hart’s American
Literature.
Stroud, George McDowell.Pa., 1795-1875. A Philadelphia
jurist who published Sketch of Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several
States.
Stryker, Melanchthon Woolsey.N. Y., 1851- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, president of Hamilton College from
1892. Beside several hymnals, he has published Miriam, and Other Verse;
Hamilton, Lincoln, and Other Addresses; The Letter of James the Just.
Gi.
Stuart, Charles Beebe.N. H., 1814-1881. A military
engineer in government service. Naval Dry Docks of the United States;
Water Works of the United States; Civil and Military Engineers of the
United States.
Stuart, Moses.Ct., 1780-1852. A Congregational clergyman
and educator of Massachusetts, professor of sacred literature at
Andover Seminary, 1809-1848. Among his writings are, Commentaries on
the Epistles to the Romans and the Hebrews; Hints on the Prophecies;
Conscience and the Constitution; Critical History and Defence of the
Old Testament Canon.
Stuart, Mrs. Ruth McEnery.La., 1856- ——. A Golden
Wedding, and Other Tales; Carlotta’s Intended, and Other Stories; The
Story of Babette; Sonny; Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pockets. Cent.
Har.
Stuckenberg, John Henry Wilburn.G., 1835-1903. A
Lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at Wittenberg College,
Springfield, Ohio, 1873-80, and minister in charge of the American
chapel at Berlin from 1880. Christian Sociology; Life of Kant;
Introduction to the Study of Philosophy.
Sturges, Mrs. Mary Jane [Upshur] [Stith].Va.,
1828- ——. A writer of New York city. Confederate Notes, a novel;
Poems.
Sturgis, Frederick Russell.Ph., 1844- ——. A prominent
physician and surgeon of New York city. Human Cestoids; Students’
Manual of Venereal Diseases.
Sturgis, Russell.Md., 1836- ——. An architect of New
York city, a valued authority upon art, architecture, and archæology.
European Architecture. Mac.
Sturtevant, Julian Monson.Ct., 1805-1886. A prominent
educator of Jacksonville, Illinois, professor in Illinois College,
1830-86. Economics, or the Science of Wealth; Keys of Sect. Le.
Put.
Sullivan, James.Me., 1744-1808. An eminent Boston jurist
who was governor of Massachusetts, 1807-08. History of Land Titles of
Massachusetts; Observations on the Government of the United States; The
Path to Riches, or a Dissertation on Banks; The Altar of Baal Thrown
Down, or the French Nation Defended; Impartial Review of Causes of the
French Revolution. See Life by Amory, 1859.
Sullivan, James William.Pa., 1848- ——. A journalist
of New York city, editor of social reform journals, 1893-96. Tenement
Tales of New York; So the World Goes; Direct Legislation through the
Initiative and Referendum, a widely circulated work. Ho.
Sullivan, Mrs. Margaret Frances [Buchanan].I.,
1847-1903. A journalist of Chicago. Ireland of To-Day (1881).
Sullivan, Thomas Russell.Ms., 1799-1862. Grandson of J.
Sullivan, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Keene, New Hampshire,
1825-35, and from 1835 till his death an educator in Boston. Letters
Against the Immediate Abolition of Slavery; Limits of Responsibility in
Reforms.
Sullivan, Thomas Russell.Ms., 1849- ——. A novelist
of Boston. Tom Sylvester; Roses of Shadow; Day and Night Stories; and
several plays. Scr.
Sullivan, William.Me., 1774-1839. Son of J. Sullivan,
supra. A lawyer of Boston. Familiar Letters on Public Men of the
Revolution; Historical Causes and Effects; Sea Life.
Sullivant, William Starling.O., 1803-1873. A botanist of
Ohio. Musci Alleghanienses; Musci Cubenses; Icones Muscorum; Musci and
Hepaticæ of the United States East of the Mississippi.
Sully, Thomas.E., 1783-1872. A distinguished portrait
painter of Philadelphia. Hints to Young Painters.
Summerfield, John.E., 1798-1825. A Methodist clergyman,
renowned for eloquence in his day. His Sermons and Sketches of Sermons
were posthumously published. See Lives by Holland, 1829, Willett,
1857.Har.
Summers, Thomas Osmond.E., 1812-1882. A Methodist
clergyman of Nashville. Commentary on the Gospels, Acts, and Ritual of
the Methodist Church South; Treatise on Baptism; On Holiness; Talks
Pleasant and Profitable, include his principal writings. See Life
of, by Fitzgerald, 1884.
Sumner, Charles.Ms., 1811-1874. Son of C. P. Sumner,
infra. A distinguished Massachusetts statesman who succeeded
Daniel Webster in 1851 in the Senate of the United States. He was a
fearless opponent of slavery, and, in consequence of this attitude of
his, was assaulted in the Senate Chamber by Preston Brooks, of South
Carolina, in 1856, and severely injured. The True Grandeur of Nations;
Prophetic Voices Concerning America. His Complete Works, including his
many orations and speeches, have been issued in fifteen volumes. See
Lives by Pierce, Storey.Le.
Sumner, Charles Allen.Ms., 1835- ——. A stenographer of
San Francisco. Shorthand and Reporting; Golden Gate Sketches; Travel in
Southern Europe; Poems (with R. Sumner).
Sumner, Charles Pinckney.Ms., 1766-1839. A lawyer of
Boston, high sheriff of Suffolk County from 1825 till his death. Eulogy
on Washington; The Compass (verse); Letters on Speculative Masonry.
Sumner, George.Ct., 1793-1855. A Hartford physician,
professor of botany at Trinity College, 1824-55. Compendium of
Physiological and Systematic Botany.
Sumner, William Graham.N. J., 1840- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, prominent as a political economist, professor of political
and social science at Yale University from 1872. A History of
American Currency; What Social Classes Owe to Each Other; Problems in
Political Economy; Collected Essays in Political and Social Science;
Protectionism; Lives of Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert
Morris; The Financier and the Finances of the Revolution, a more
extended life of Robert Morris. Do. Har. Ho. Hou.
Sunderland, Jabez Thomas.E., 1842- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman, editor of The Unitarian from 1880. A Rational Faith; What is
the Bible?; The Liberal Christian Ministry; Home Travel in Bible Lands;
The Bible: its Origin and Place among the Sacred Books of the World;
Orthodoxy and Revivalism. El. Put.
Sunderland, La Roy.R. I., 1802-1885. A writer who in
early life was a zealous Methodist preacher, and after 1845 an equally
zealous opponent of Christianity, slavery, Spiritualism, and Mormonism.
Among his writings are, History of South America; Book of Human Nature;
Book of Psychology; The Trance, and How Introduced; Anti-Slavery
Manual; Mormonism Exposed.
Suplée [su-play´], Thomas Danly.Pa., 1848- ——.
An educator of New Jersey. Frank Muller, or Labor and its Fruits;
Pebbles from the Fountain of Castalia; Poems; Plain Talks; Riverside, a
romance; Civil Government under the United States Constitution.
Suydam, John Howard.N. Y., 1832- ——. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman of Jersey City from 1869. The Cruger Family; Cruel Jim; The
Wreckmaster.
Swain, David Lowry.N. C., 1801-1868. A governor of North
Carolina, 1832-35, who wrote a Revolutionary History of North Carolina.
Swain, James Barrett.N. Y., 1820-1895. A journalist of
New York city, post-office inspector, 1881-85. Life and Speeches of
Henry Clay; Historical Notes to Speeches of Henry Clay; A Military
History of New York State.
Swan, James.S., 1754-1831. A soldier in the American
army during the Revolution, afterwards adjutant-general of
Massachusetts. The last fifteen years of his life were passed in a
debtors’ prison in Paris. Dissuasion to Great Britain and the Colonies
from the Slave Trade to Africa (1772); Causes qui sont opposées au
Progrès du commerce entre la France et les États-Unis de l’Amérique
(1790); On the Fisheries; Fisheries of Massachusetts; National
Arithmetick; Address on Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce.
Swan, Josiah Rockwell.N. Y., 1802-1884. A prominent
jurist of Columbus, Ohio. Treatise on Justices of the Peace and
Constables in Ohio; Manual for Executors and Administrators; Pleading
and Practice; Commentaries on Pleadings under the Ohio Code, constitute
his principal writings.
Swan, William Draper.Ms., 1809-1864. An educator and
bookseller of Boston. He published a popular series of school readers,
and (with R. Swan and D. Leach) a series of widely used arithmetics.
Swank, James Moore.Pa., 1832- ——. The general manager
of the American Iron and Steel Association since 1885. History of the
Department of Agriculture; Iron Making and Coal Mining in Pennsylvania;
Iron Manufacture in All Ages.
Swartz, Joel.Va., 1827- ——. A Lutheran clergyman,
pastor at Gettysburg from 1881. Dreamings of the Waking, with Other
Poems; Lyra Lutherana.
Sweat, Mrs. Margaret Jane [Muzzey].Me., 1823- ——.
Ethel’s Love Life; Highways of Travel, or a Summer in Europe.
Sweet, Alexander Edwin.N. B., 1841-1901. A Texas
journalist who served in the Confederate army. Three Dozen Good Stories
from Texas Siftings.
Sweet, Homer De Lois.N. Y., 1826- ——. A civil engineer
of Syracuse. The Averys of Groton, a genealogy; Twilight Hours in the
Adirondacks.
Sweetser, Charles Humphreys.Ms., 1841-1871. A journalist
of New York city and subsequently of Chicago. Songs of Amherst; History
of Amherst College; Tourist’s and Invalid’s Guide to the Northwest.
Sweetser, Moses Foster.Ms., 1848-1897. A Boston writer
who has published Europe for Two Dollars a Day; Artist Biographies;
Summer Days Down East; guide-books to New England, the Middle States,
the White Mountains, and the Maritime Provinces; In Distance and in
Dream, a story. Hou. Kt.
Sweetser, William.Ms., 1797-1875. A physician who
was professor of medicine at Bowdoin College, 1845-61. Treatise on
Consumption; Digestion and its Disorders; Mental Hygiene; Human Life.
Swenson, Carl Aaron.Pa., 1857-1904. A Lutheran
clergyman, founder and president of Bethany College in Lindsborg,
Kansas, editor of several Swedish journals, and author of
Sondagsskolboken; Minnen från Kyrkan; Vid Hemmets Härd.
Swett, John Appleton.Ms., 1808-1854. A physician of New
York city. Diseases of the Chest. Ap.
Swett, Josiah.N. H., 1814-1890. An Episcopal clergyman
long prominent in Vermont. English Grammar; Pastoral Visiting; Family
Prayer; The Firmament in the Midst of the Waters.
Swett, Samuel.Ms., 1782-1866. A once prominent citizen
of Boston who during the War of 1812 served in the American army
as a topographical engineer. History and Topographical Sketch of
Bunker Hill Battle; Who was Commander at Bunker Hill?; Sketches of
Distinguished Men of Newbury and Newburyport.
Swett, Sophia Miriam.Me., 186- - ——. A writer of
short stories and juvenile books, now (1897) living at Arlington,
Massachusetts. Pennyroyal and Mint; The Lollipops’ Vacation; Captain
Polly; Flying Hill Farm; The Mate of the Mary Ann; Cap’n Thistletop;
The Ponkaty Branch Road. Est. Har. Lo. We.
Swett, Susan Hartley.Me., 186- - ——. Sister of S. M.
Swett, supra. A writer of Arlington, Massachusetts. Field Clover
and Beach Grass, a volume of short stories. Est.
Swett, William.N. H., 1825-1884. A deaf-mute who founded
the Deaf-Mute Industrial School at Beverly, Massachusetts. Adventures
of a Deaf-Mute, in the White Mountains.
Swift, John Lindsay.Ms., 1828-1895. A Boston lawyer and
journalist, deputy collector of the port of Boston from 1890. About
Grant. Le.
Swift, Zephaniah.Ms., 1759-1823. A noted Connecticut
jurist. System of the Laws of Connecticut; Digest of the Laws of
Evidence; Digest of the Laws of Connecticut, a standard authority.
Swinburne, Louis Judson.N. Y., 1855-1887. A Colorado
writer who was in Paris during the siege in 1871, and published a
volume of observations on the subject entitled Paris Sketches.
Swing, David.O., 1830-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Chicago, tried for heresy in 1874, and acquitted, subsequently pastor
of the Central Church there until his death. Sermons; Club Essays;
Truths for To-day; Motives of Life; Old Pictures of Life, a collection
of essays. Mg. St.
Swinton, John.S., 1829-1901. Brother of W. Swinton,
infra. A journalist of New York city whose principal work is
John Swinton’s Travels.
Swinton, William.S., 1833-1892. A journalist and
educator, long prominent in New York city. Rambles Among Words;
Twelve Decisive Battles of the War; Campaigns of the Army of the
Potomac; The “Times’s” Review of McClellan; History of the New York
Seventh Regiment; Word Analysis; Bible Word Book; Studies in English
Literature. Har. Scr.
Swisher, Mrs. Bella [French].Ga., 1837-1894. A writer
who resided in Texas from 1877. Struggling up to the Light, a novel;
Rocks and Shoals; Florecita, a romance; History of Brown County,
Wisconsin; Cassie; Homeless Though at Home; The Story of a Woman’s Love.
Swisshelm, Mrs. Jane Gray [Cannon].Pa., 1815-1884. A
journalist of Pittsburg, and subsequently of St. Cloud, Minnesota,
prominent as an abolitionist. Letters to Country Girls; Half a Century,
an autobiography. See Hart’s American Literature.Mg.
Sylvester, Herbert Milton.Ms., 1849- ——. A Boston
lawyer who has published two volumes of sympathetic nature studies.
Prose Pastorals; Homestead Highways. Hou.
Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett.N. Y., 1825-1894. A lawyer
of Troy, New York. Historical Sketches of Northern New York; History of
the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts; Indian Legends of Saratoga;
Historical Narratives of the Upper Hudson; Histories of Saratoga,
Rensselaer, and Ulster Counties, New York.
Symmes, John Cleves.N. J., 1780-1829. A soldier of
Newport, Kentucky. He was the author of The Theory of Concentric
Spheres, an attempt to prove that the earth is hollow, open at the
poles, and habitable in the interior. See Harper’s Magazine,
October, 1882; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1873; McBride’s Pioneer
Biography.
Sypher, Josiah Rinehart.Pa., 1832- ——. A journalist
and lawyer of Philadelphia, war correspondent of The New York Tribune,
1862-65. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; School History of
Pennsylvania; The Art of Teaching School; School History of New Jersey
(with E. A. Apgar). Lip.
Szabad, Emeric.Hy., c. 1822- ——. A soldier
under Garibaldi who came to America in 1861, and served in the Federal
army. Hungary Past and Present; State Policy of Modern Europe; Modern
War: its Theory and Practice.
T
Tabb, John Banister.Md., 1845- ——. A Roman Catholic
clergyman and educator, professor of English literature in St.
Charles’s College, Ellicott City, Maryland. His verse has received much
well merited praise. Poems; Lyrics; An Octave to Mary. Cop.
Tafel, Johann Friedrich Leonhard.Wg., 1800- ——. A
German educator who removed to the United States in 1853, and lived
in St. Louis. Staat und Christenthum; Der Christ und der Atheist; A
German-English and English-German Pocket Dictionary (with his son
Ludwig Tafel).
Tafel, Rudolph Leonhard.Wg., 1831- ——. Son of J. F.
L. Tafel, supra. Formerly an educator of St. Louis, but since
1868 a Swedenborgian minister in London, England. Emanuel Swedenborg
as Philosopher and Man; Our Heavenward Journey; Authority in the New
Church; The Preaching Gift; Investigation as to the Laws of English
Pronunciation and Prosody.
Talbot, Charles Remington. 1851-1891. A writer of juvenile
books who was an Episcopal clergyman at Wrentham, Massachusetts. Honor
Bright; Miltiades Peterkin Paul; Royal Louise; Romulus and Remus,
a dog story; A Midshipman at Large; The Impostor; A Romance of the
Revolution. Lo.
Talbot, Henry Paul.Ms., 1864- ——. An associate
professor of analytical chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis.
Mac.
Talmage [tăl-mĭj or tăm-ĭj], Thomas De Witt.N.
J., 1832-1902. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, 1869-1894,
and subsequently of New York, widely known as a preacher. Though he
was a prolific writer, the literary worth of his books is very slight.
Crumbs Swept Up; Sermons; From Manger to Throne; Sports that Kill;
Social Dynamite; The Pathway of Life; The Marriage Ring; Old Wells Dug
Out; Every-Day Religion; Sundown; Fishing Too Near Shore, include his
principal works. Fu.
Talvi.See Robinson, Mrs. Thérèse.
Tannehill, Wilkins.Pa., 1787-1858. A journalist of
Nashville. Freemasons’ Manual; Sketches of the History of Literature;
Sketches of the History of Roman Literature.
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker.Pa., 1835- ——. A bishop of
the African Methodist Church. Paul vs. Pius Ninth; The Negro’s
Origin, and Is the Negro Cursed?; Outline of the History and Government
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Tanner, Henry S——.N. Y., 1786-1858. A geographer of
Philadelphia. Memoir on the Recent Surveys in the United States (1830);
View of the Valley of the Mississippi; American Traveller; Central
Traveller; New Picture of Philadelphia; Description of Canals and
Railways in the United States (1840).
Tappan, David.Ms., 1752-1803. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1774-92, and Hollis
professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1792 until his death.
Sermons on Important Subjects; Lectures on Jewish Antiquities. See
Memoir by Abiel Holmes, supra.
Tappan, Eli Todd.O., 1824-1888. A professor of
mathematics at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1875-87, and afterwards
Ohio commissioner of common schools. Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements
of Geometry; Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry.
Tappan, Henry Philip.N. Y., 1805-1881. A Dutch Reformed
clergyman, professor of philosophy in the University of the City of New
York, chancellor of the University of Michigan, 1852-1863. Elements of
Logic; Treatise on Universal Education; Review of Edwards’s “Inquiry
into the Freedom of the Will;” The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will
Determined by an Appeal to Consciousness; The Doctrine of the Freedom
of the Will Applied to Moral Agency; A Step from the Old World to the
New and Back Again; Introductions to Illustrious Personages of the
Nineteenth Century.
Tappan, Lewis.Ms., 1788-1873. A merchant of New
York city, proprietor of The Journal of Commerce, and active as an
abolitionist. Life of Arthur Tappan, by his brother, a valuable
contribution to anti-slavery literature.
Tappan, William Bingham.Ms., 1794-1849. A verse-writer
and educator of Philadelphia and Boston. Poetry of the Heart; Poetry
of Life; New England, and Other Poems; Songs of Judah; Lyrics; Sacred
and Miscellaneous Poems; The Sunday School, and Other Poems; Early and
Late Poems. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Duyckinck’s
American Literature.
Tarbell, Frank Bigelow.Ms., 1853- ——. A professor of
Greek in the University of Chicago from 1892. A History of Greek Art;
The Philippics of Demosthenes, with Introduction and Notes. Fl.
Gi.
Tarbell, Ida Minerva.Pa., 1857- ——. Madame Roland;
Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. M. Davis). Scr.
Tarbell, John Adams.Ms., 1810-1864. A homœopathic
physician of Boston. Sources of Health; Homœopathy Simplified.
Tarbox, Increase Niles.Ct., 1815-1888. A Congregational
clergyman who was secretary of the American College and Education
Society, 1851-84. Winnie and Walter Stories; When I was a Boy; Nineveh,
or the Buried City; Uncle George’s Stories; Journeys and Labors of St.
Paul; Life of General Israel Putnam; Sir Walter Raleigh and His Colony
in America; Songs and Hymns for Common Life. Lo.
Tarr, Ralph Stockman.Ms., 1864- ——. A geologist,
assistant professor of geology at Cornell University, 1892-1897,
professor of dynamic geology and physical geography there from 1897.
Elementary Geology; Economic Geology of the United States; Elementary
Physical Geography. Mac.
Tatham, William.E., 1752-1819. An engineer and lawyer
of Virginia who served in the American army during the Revolution. An
Analysis of the State of Virginia; Remarks on Inland Canals; National
Irrigation.
Taussig [tŏw´sig], Frank William.Mo.,
1859- ——. A professor of political economy at Harvard University.
Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States; The
History of the Present Tariff, 1860-83; The Tariff History of the
United States; The Silver Situation in the United States (1892); Wages
and Capital. Ap. Put.
Taylor, Alfred.Pa., 1831-1889. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia. Peeps at Our Sunday-Schools; Sunday-School
Photographs; Hints about Sunday-School Work. Meth.
Taylor, Bayard.See Taylor, [James] Bayard.
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin.N. Y., 1819-1887. A popular
verse-writer of Chicago whose work is always pleasing, though it never
reaches a very high plane of inspiration. Songs of Yesterday; Old Time
Pictures, and Sheaves of Rhyme; Dulce Domum; Between the Gates; Summer
Savory; The River of Time; Pictures of Life in Camp and Field; Complete
Poems (1887); Theophilus Trent, a novel. Ap. Sc.
Taylor, Charles.Ms., 1819- ——. A Methodist clergyman
who was a missionary to China, 1848-54. Five Years in China; Baptism in
a Nutshell.
Taylor, Charles Fayette.Vt., 1827-1899. A surgeon of New
York city. Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure; Spinal Irritation;
Sensation and Pain; Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature of the
Spine; Treatment of Disease of the Hip Joint; Infantile Paralysis.
Lip.
Taylor, Fitch Waterman.Ct., 1803-1865. An Episcopal
chaplain in the United States navy. The Flag Ship, or a Voyage Around
the World; The Broad Pennant, a work of similar nature.
Taylor, George Boardman.Va., 1832- ——. A Baptist
missionary in Rome since 1873. Oakland Stories; Costar Grew; Roger
Bemant, the Pastor’s Son; Walter Ennis, a tale of the Early Virginia
Baptists; Life of J. B. Taylor, infra. Bap.
Taylor, George Henry.Vt., 1821- ——. Brother of C.
F. Taylor, supra. A physician of New York city, among whose
writings are, Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure; Health for
Women; Massage; Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics.
Taylor, George Lansing.N. Y., 1835-1903. A Methodist
clergyman of eastern New York. Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad
Epic; Grant: an Elegy, and Other Poems; What Shall we Do with the
Sunday-School?; The New Africa. Fu. Meth.
Taylor, Hannis.N. C., 1851- ——. A lawyer of Mobile,
minister to Spain, 1893-97. The Origin and Growth of the English
Constitution. Hou.
Taylor, Henry Osborn.N. Y., 1856- ——. A legal writer
of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations, a
standard work much used as a text-book in law schools; Ancient Ideals.
Put.
Taylor, Hobart Chatfield.See Chatfield-Taylor.
Taylor, James Barnett.E., 1819-1871. A Baptist
missionary in Virginia. Life of Lot Cary; Lives of Virginia Baptist
Ministers. See Life, by G. B. Taylor, supra.Bap.
Taylor, [James] Bayard [bi´ard]. Pa., 1825-1878. An
author well known as poet, novelist, translator, and traveller. It was
as a poet that he most desired to be remembered, but except in a few
instances his verse does not reach a very lofty level of attainment,
and, while often excellent in quality, lacks usually the element of
spontaneity. His volumes of verse comprise, Ximena, and Other Poems;
Rhymes of Travel; Poems and Ballads; Poems of Home and Travel; Poems
of the Orient, his most original work; The Picture of St. John;
The Poet’s Journal; Lars; The Masque of the Gods; Home Pastorals;
Prince Deukalion; The Prophet, a tragedy; Centennial Ode. In fiction
he published, Beauty and the Beast; Hannah Thurston; The Story of
Kennett; John Godfrey’s Fortune; Joseph and his Friend. His travels
include, Views Afoot; Eldorado; Byways of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt
and Iceland; Greece and Russia; At Home and Abroad; India, China,
and Japan; The Lands of the Saracen; Colorado. The translation of
Faust is his greatest work, and the one on which his fame will most
securely rest. Other works of his are, School History of Germany;
Literary Essays and Notes; Studies in German Literature; The Echo
Club, and Other Literary Diversions. See Catholic World, April,
1879; Lippincott’s Magazine, August, 1879; Stedman’s Poets of America;
Life and Letters of, by Marie Hansen-Taylor and H. E. Scudder; Life by
Smyth; Allibone’s Dictionary.Ap. Hou. My. Put.
Taylor, James Monroe.N. Y., 1848- ——. A Baptist
clergyman and educator, president of Vassar College from 1886.
Psychology.
Taylor, James Wickes.N. Y., 1819-1893. A United States
consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 1870. The Victim of Intrigue, a Tale
of Burr’s Conspiracy; History of Ohio, First Period: 1620-1787; Manual
of Ohio School System; Forest and Fruit Culture in Manitoba; Mineral
Resources of the United States (with Browne).
Taylor, John.Va., 1750-1824. A politician of prominence
in his day as a senator from Virginia. Inquiry into the Principles
and Polity of the United States Government; Agricultural Essays;
Construction Construed; Tyranny Unmasked; New Views of the United
States Constitution.
Taylor, John Louis.E., 1769-1829. A former chief justice
of North Carolina, 1810-29. Superior Court Cases in Law and Equity; The
North Carolina Law Repository; Term Reports; Duties of Executors and
Administrators.
Taylor, John Neilson.N. J., 1805-1878. A lawyer of
Brooklyn. American Law of Landlord and Tenant; The Law of Executors and
Administrators in New York State. Lit.
Taylor, John Orville.N. Y., 1807-1890. An educational
writer and reformer long prominent in New York State, and after 1879 a
resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The District School, or Popular
Education.
Taylor, Marshall William.Ky., 1846-1887. A Methodist
clergyman of African descent in Kentucky. Handbook for Schools; The
Negro in Methodism.
Taylor, Nathaniel William.Ct., 1786-1858. A
Congregational clergyman prominent in his day as the exponent of
the New Haven type of theology, who was Dwight professor at Yale
University, 1822-38. Practical Sermons; Moral Government of God;
Essays, etc., upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology.
Taylor, Oliver Alden.Ms., 1801-1851. A Congregational
clergyman of Manchester, Massachusetts. Brief Views of the Saviour;
Life of Jesus. See Memoir by A. A. Taylor.
Taylor, Richard.La., 1826-1879. A son of President
Taylor, and a Confederate officer. Destruction and Reconstruction.
Ap.
Taylor, Richard Cowling.E., 1789-1851. An English
geologist who came to America in 1830, among whose publications are,
Geology and Natural History of the Northeast Extremity of the Alleghany
Mountains; History and Description of Fossil Fuel; Statistics of Coal.
Bai.
Taylor, Rufus.Ms., 1811-1894. Brother of O. A. Taylor,
supra. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts, whose home
was at Beverly, New Jersey, after 1878. Union to Christ; Love to God;
Thoughts on Prayer; Cottage Piety Exemplified. Lip.
Taylor, Samuel Harvey.N. H., 1807-1871. An educator long
prominent in Massachusetts, principal of Phillips Academy, Andover,
1837-71. Method of Classical Study. See Memorial compiled by his
last class.
Taylor, Thomas House.S. C., 1799-1869. An Episcopal
clergyman, prominent in New York city as the rector of Grace Church,
1834-67, and active as a Low Church controversialist. Sermons Preached
in Grace Church.
Taylor, Walter Herron.Va., 1838- ——. A Confederate
officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a banker in Norfolk. The
Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic; Four Years with General Lee.
Ap.
Taylor, William.Va., 1821-1902. A noted Methodist
missionary and evangelist, appointed bishop in Africa in 1884, among
whose writings are, California Life Illustrated; Seven Years’ Street
Preaching in San Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary Work; The
Model Preacher; Reconciliation; The Election of Grace; Christian
Adventures in South Africa; Our South American Cousins.
Taylor, William Mackergo.S., 1829-1895. A Presbyterian
clergyman of eminence. He came from Scotland to New York city in 1871,
and was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, 1871-1893. Contrary Winds;
The Limitations of Life; The Lost Found; The Gospel Miracles; Prayer
and Business; Life Truths; John Knox; Joseph the Prime Minister; Ruth
the Gleaner and Esther the Queen; David, King of Israel; Elijah the
Prophet; Peter the Apostle; Daniel the Beloved; Moses the Law-Giver;
Paul the Missionary; The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation, comprise
his most important works. Har. Ran. Scr.
Tefft, Benjamin Franklin.N. Y., 1813-1885. A Methodist
clergyman of Maine. The Shoulder-Knot, a Story of the 17th Century;
Memorials of Prison Life; Methodism Successful; Our Political Parties;
Evolution and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; Life of Daniel
Webster. Co. Le.
Tennent, Gilbert.I., 1703-1764. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia, active in his day as a controversialist. XXIII
Sermons; Discourses on Several Subjects; Sermons on Important Subjects.
Tenney, Edward Payson. 1835- ——. A Congregational clergyman
of Cambridge, at one time President of Colorado College. Agamenticus;
Constance of Acadia, a novel. Le. Rob.
Tenney, Sanborn.N. H., 1827-1877. A naturalist who was
professor of natural history at Williams College from 1868. Elements of
Zoölogy; Manual of Zoölogy; Geology for Teachers.
Tenney, Mrs. Sarah [Brownson].Ms., 1839-1876. Wife of
W. J. Tenney, infra, and daughter of O. Brownson, supra.
Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live; At Anchor; Life of Demetrius
Gallitzin, Prince and Priest.
Tenney, Mrs. Tabitha [Gilman].N. H., 1762-1837. The
wife of a noted physician of Exeter, New Hampshire. She wrote Female
Quixotism, an amusing satirical novel, which was long popular.
Tenney, William Jewett.R. I., 1814-1883. A writer who
lived at Elizabeth, New Jersey, for many years. He edited Appletons’
Annual Cyclopedia, 1861-82, and wrote a Military and Naval History of
the Rebellion.
Terhune, Albert Payson.N. J., 1868- ——. Son of Mrs.
Terhune, infra. A journalist and author of New York city. Syria
from the Saddle, a volume of travels; Columbia Stories, a collection of
sketches; The Great Cedarhurst Mystery. Sil.
Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia [Hawes]. “Marion Harland.”
Va., 1835- ——. A popular novelist, lecturer, and writer on
domestic topics, the wife of a Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York
city. Her work in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; Beechdale;
Judith; The Hidden Path; Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen Gardner’s
Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With the Best Intentions; True as Steel;
Sunnybank; From My Youth Up; My Little Love; A Gallant Fight; The Royal
Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s Sister; Marion. Other works
of hers are, Eve’s Daughters; Common Sense in the Household, a widely
known manual of housewifery; Common Sense in the Nursery; The Cottage
Kitchen; The Dinner Year-Book; Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea; The Story
of Mary Washington; Loitering in Pleasant Paths. Cas. Do. Hou.
Scr.
Terry, Adrian Russell.Ct., 1808-1864. A physician
and educator who was for some years professor in Bristol College,
Pennsylvania, and author of Travels in the Equatorial Regions of South
America in 1832.
Terry, John Orville.L. I., 1796-1869. A rural versifier
of Orient, Long Island, who published The Poems of J. O. T., consisting
of Song, Satire, and Pastoral Descriptions.
Terry, Milton Spenser.N. Y., 1840- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, since 1884 a professor in Garrett Biblical
Institute at Evanston, Illinois. Commentary on Judges, Ruth, and
Samuel; Commentary on Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah;
Commentary on Genesis and Exodus; Biblical Hermeneutics; Sibylline
Oracles (from the Greek); The Song of Songs; Prophecies of Daniel
Expounded; Rambles in the Old World. Meth.
Teuffel, Mrs. Blanche Willis [Howard] von.Me.,
1847-1898. A novelist who resided in Stuttgart, Germany, from 1875. One
Summer; Aulnay Tower; Aunt Serena; Guenn; The Open Door; No Heroes, a
Story for Boys; A Fellowe and His Wife (with William Sharp); Seven on
the Highway, short stories; One Year Abroad: European Travel Sketches.
Hou.
Thacher, James.Ms., 1754-1844. A physician of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, prominent in his youth as a military surgeon in the
battles of the American Revolution. American Medical Biography;
History of Plymouth; Essay on Demonology; American New Dispensatory;
Observations on Hydrophobia; A Military Journal during the American
Revolution, a work of great value; The Management of Bees; American
Orchardist; Observations Relating to the Execution of Major André.
Thacher, John Boyd.N. Y., 1847- ——. A critical scholar
and bibliographer of Albany, mayor of that city in 1897. Charlecote, a
drama; The Continent of America, its Discovery and its Baptism; Little
Speeches. Do.
Thacher, Mary Potter.See Higginson, Mrs. Mary.
Thacher, Samuel Cooper.Ms., 1785-1818. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New South Church, 1811-15. An
Apology for Rational and Evangelical Christianity; The Unity of God;
Sermons; Evidences Necessary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity.
Thacher, Thomas.E., 1620-1678. A Puritan clergyman,
pastor and physician at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1644-66, and pastor
of the Old South Church in Boston from 1666. He published, in 1677,
A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New England How to Order
Themselves and Theirs in the Small Pocks or Measels, supposed to be the
first medical work published in New England. See Sprague’s Annals of
the American Pulpit.
Thanet, Octave.See French, Alice.
Tharin, Robert Seymour Symmes.Al., 1830- ——. A lawyer
of Alabama who was prominent as a Unionist during the Civil War,
and has since been employed in the auditor’s office in Washington.
Arbitrary Arrests in the South; Letters on the Political Situation.
Thatcher, Benjamin Bussey.Me., 1809-1840. A Boston
lawyer and littérateur. Indian Biography; Indian Traits; Traits of the
Boston Tea Party; Tales of the American Revolution; Memoir of Phillis
Wheatley. Har.
Thatcher, Oliver Joseph.O., 185- - ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, assistant professor of mediæval and English history in
the University of Chicago from 1893. A Sketch of the History of the
Apostolic Church; Europe in the Middle Age (with F. Schwill); A Short
History of Mediæval Europe. Hou. Scr.
Thaxter, Adam Wallace.Ms., 1832-1864. A dramatist of
Boston among whose plays are, The Sculptor; Olympia; Mary Tudor; The
Painter of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto Nymph.
Thaxter, Mrs. Celia [Laighton].N. H., 1835-1894. A poet
whose childhood and much of whose later life was spent in the Isles of
Shoals. Her verse is distinctly original and is largely the poetry of
the shore, such poems as The Sandpiper; Courage; Kittery Church-Yard;
The Spaniards’ Graves; The Watch of Boon Island, being characteristic
of her work in verse. Her volumes of verse comprise, Drift-Weed; The
Cruise of the Mystery; Idyls and Pastorals; Verses; Poems for Children;
Poems, Appledore Edition (1896). She wrote, also, An Island Garden;
Among the Isles of Shoals. See Letters of; Appletons’ Annual
Cyclopedia, 1894.Hou. Lo.
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock.Ms., 1817-1897. A writer
whose later life was spent abroad, and who was consul at Trieste,
1859-82. His most important work, a Life of Beethoven, the third
volume of which was published in Berlin in 1887, has not been printed
in English. It was unfinished in 1897. The Hebrews and the Red Sea;
Signor Masoni, and Other Papers of the late J. Brown.
Thayer, Eli.Ms., 1819-1899. An educator of Worcester,
Massachusetts, very prominent in the history of the settlement of
Kansas. A History of the Kansas Crusade: its Friends and its Foes.
Har.
Thayer, Mrs. Emma [Homan] [Graves].N. Y., 1842- ——. A
writer and artist of Salida, Colorado. Wild Flowers of Colorado; Wild
Flowers of the Pacific Coast; An English American, a novel.
Thayer, James Bradley.Ms., 1831-1902. A professor in the
Harvard Law School at Cambridge. A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson;
Cases on Constitutional Law; A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the
Common Law.
Thayer, Joseph Henry.Ms., 1828-1901. A Congregational
clergyman, professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation in
the Divinity School of Harvard University from 1884. Books and Their
Use; The Change of Attitude Toward the Bible; A Greek-English Lexicon
of the New Testament. Har. Hou.
Thayer, Martin Russell.Va., 1819- ——. A jurist of
Philadelphia. The Duties of Citizenship; The Great Victory: its Cost
and Value; The Law as a Progressive Science; On Libraries; Life and
Works of Francis Lieber; The Battle of Germantown.
Thayer, Stephen Henry.N. H., 1839- ——. A banker of New
York city living at Tarrytown, New York, who has published Songs of
Sleepy Hollow.
Thayer, Sylvanus.Ms., 1785-1872. Cousin of M. R. Thayer,
supra. A military engineer of distinction, superintendent of
West Point Academy, 1817-1833, and from 1836-68 in charge of the
military defences of Boston. Papers on Practical Engineering.
Thayer, Thomas Baldwin.Ms., 1812-1882. A Universalist
clergyman of Lowell. Over the River; Christianity vs. Infidelity;
Historical Doctrine of Endless Punishment; Bible Class Assistant;
Theology of Universalism.
Thayer, William Makepeace.Ms., 1820-1898. A
Congregational clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living
at Franklin, Massachusetts, devoted himself to authorship. His books,
which have been extraordinarily popular, are mainly intended for
juvenile reading. Among them are, Youths’ History of the Rebellion;
The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer Boy; The Printer Boy; The Poor Boy and the
Merchant Prince; Turning Points in Successful Careers; Marvels of the
New West; The White House Series; Aim High: Hints for Young Men; Life
of Garfield; Men Who Win; Women Who Win. Cr. Wh.
Thayer, William Roscoe.Ms., 1859- ——. Formerly an
instructor at Harvard University. His writings in verse include, The
Confessions of Hermes; Hesper; Poems, New and Old. He has published,
also, The Dawn of Italian Independence; The Best Elizabethan Plays.
Gi. Hou.
Thébaud [tay-bo´], Augustine J——.F., 1807-1885.
A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New York city. The Irish
Race in the Past and Present; Louisa Kirkbride, a tale of New York; The
Church and the Moral World; The Twit-Twats, a bird allegory.
Theller, Edward Alexander.Q., c. 1810-1859. A
Canadian physician who, for his activity in the Canadian rebellion
of 1837, was imprisoned and sentenced to death. He escaped to the
United States, and was subsequently a journalist in California and
superintendent of schools in San Francisco. Canada in 1837-38.
Thieblin, Nicolas Leon.Iy., 1834-1889. A journalist of
London, and, after 1874, of New York city. He was Spanish correspondent
of The Herald in the Carlist war. A Little Book About Great Britain;
Spain and the Spaniards. Le.
Thoburn, James Mills.O., 1836- ——. A Methodist
missionary, bishop in India and Malaysia since 1888. Missionary
Addresses; My Missionary Apprenticeship in New York; India and
Malaysia; Light in the East; The Deaconess and Her Vocation; Christless
Nations. Meth.
Thomas, Abel Charles.Pa., 1807-1880. A Universalist
clergyman of Philadelphia, and for a short time in Lowell, where
he established the Lowell Offering, a periodical written by the
factory operatives. Allegories and Divers Day Dreams; Centenary of
Universalism; Discussions on Universalism; The Christian Helper;
Autobiography.
Thomas, Amos Russell.N. Y., 1826-1895. A Philadelphia
physician, dean of Hahnemann Medical College. Post Mortem Examinations
and Morbid Anatomy.
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin.Ms., 1813-1878. Grandson of I.
Thomas, infra. A jurist of Worcester, Massachusetts. Digest of
Laws of Massachusetts in Relation to Powers, Duties, and Liabilities of
Towns and Town Officers; Life of Isaiah Thomas, infra.
Thomas, Cyrus.Tn., 1825- ——. A noted ethnologist and
entomologist in the government service. Actididæ of North America;
Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illinois; Study of the Manuscript
Troano; Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts; Aids to
the Study of the Maya Chronicles; The Cherokees and Shawnees in
Pre-Columbian Times; Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky
Mountains; Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology. Clke.
Thomas, David.Pa., 1776-1859. A pomologist and engineer,
once prominent in western New York. Travels in the West (1819).
Thomas, Ebenezer Smith.Ms., 1780-1844. Nephew of
I. Thomas, infra. A Cincinnati journalist who published
Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years (1840); Reminiscences of
South Carolina.
Thomas, Mrs. Edith [Carpenter].N. H., c.
1864-1901. A writer of Millville, New Jersey. Lorenzo di Medici: an
Historical Portrait; Your Money or Your Life, a novel. Put. Scr.
Thomas, Edith Matilda.O., 1854- ——. A poet and
prose-writer, formerly of Geneva, Ohio, but since 1888 of New York city
and its vicinity. The best of her poems are marked by great refinement
of expression as well as subtlety of thought. Beside a volume of prose
papers, The Round Year, she has published in verse, A New Year’s
Masque; A Winter Swallow, with Other Verse; Fair Shadow Land; Lyrics
and Sonnets; The Inverted Torch; In Sunshine Land; In the Young World,
the two last named being intended for juvenile reading. Hou. Scr.
Thomas, Frederick William.R. I., 1811-1864. Son of E.
S. Thomas, supra. A journalist, novelist, and educator who was
also a Methodist clergyman. The Emigrant, a Poem; The Beechen Tree, and
Other Poems; Sketches of Character; Randolph of Roanoke. His novels
include, Clinton Bradshaw; East and West; Howard Pinckney.
Thomas, Isaiah.Ms., 1749-1831. A noted printer of
Worcester, Massachusetts, who was the founder of the American
Antiquarian Society at Worcester. He published The Massachusetts Spy
till 1801; The New England Almanac; and wrote a valuable History of
Printing. See Life of, by B. F. Thomas, supra.
Thomas, Jesse Burgess.Il., 1832- ——. A Baptist
clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Newton,
Massachusetts, from 1887. The Old Bible and the New Science; The Mould
of Doctrine; Significance of the Historical Element in Scripture.
Thomas, John Jacobs.N. Y., 1810-1895. Son of D. Thomas,
supra. An agricultural writer of Albany, long on the editorial
staff of The Country Gentleman. He edited Rural Affairs, and was author
of The American Fruit Culturist; Farm Implements: their Construction
and Use; Farm Implements and Farm Machinery. He was a much-esteemed
authority in his department.
Thomas, Joseph.N. Y., 1811-1891. Son of D. Thomas,
supra. An eminent lexicographer of Philadelphia. A Pronouncing
Gazetteer and Dictionary of the World; Gazetteer of the United States;
Medical Dictionary; Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and
Mythology; First Book of Etymology; Travels in Egypt and Palestine.
Lip.
Thomas, Lewis Foulke.Md., 1815-1868. Son of E. S.
Thomas, supra. A lawyer and verse-writer of Washington. India,
and Other Poems; Cortez the Conqueror, a drama; Osceola, a drama;
Rhymes of the Routes.
Thomas, Martha McCannon.Md., 1825- ——. Daughter of E.
S. Thomas, supra. Life’s Lessons, a Tale; Captain Phil, a story
of the Civil War. Ho.
Thomas, Mary von Erden.S. C., 1825- ——. Daughter of
E. S. Thomas, supra. A computer in the Coast Survey Office at
Washington from 1854. Winning the Battle, a novel.
Thomas, Reuen.E., 1840- ——. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor of the Harvard Church at Brookline, Massachusetts,
from 1875. Through Death to Life; Divine Sovereignty; Grafenburg
People; Leaders of Thought in the Modern Church. Lo.
Thomas, Robert Baily.Ms., 1766-1846. Editor for
fifty-three years of The Farmer’s Almanack, which he first published in
1793 and which is still issued yearly.
Thomas, Theodore Gaillard.S. C., 1832-1903. An eminent
physician of New York city who published Diseases of Women; Abortion
and its Treatment. Ap.
Thomes, William Henry.Me., 1824-1895. A journalist and
traveller. Life in the East Indies; A Whaleman’s Adventures; A Slaver’s
Adventures; Running the Blockade; The Belle of Australia; On Land and
Sea; Lewey and I; Ocean Rovers.
Thompson, Alexander Ramsey.N. Y., 1822-1895. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York city who published Christianity and
Patriotism; Casting Down Imaginations, and was the author of many hymns.
Thompson, Augustus Charles.Ct., 1812-1901. A
Congregational clergyman, pastor of the Eliot Church at Roxbury,
Massachusetts, from 1842. Lyra Cœlestis, or Hymns on Heaven;
Christian’s Consolation; Songs in the Night; The Mercy Seat; Foreign
Missions; Moravian Missions; Future Probation and Foreign Missions; Our
Birthdays; Protestant Missions. Cr. Scr.
Thompson, Benjamin.See Rumford.
Thompson, Charles Lemuel.Pa., 1839- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city. Times of Refreshing: a History of American
Revivals; Etchings in Verse. Ran.
Thompson, Charles Miner.Vt., 1864- ——. Grandson of D.
P. Thompson, infra. A Boston writer on the editorial staff of
The Youth’s Companion. The Nimble Dollar, with Other Stories; Life of
Ethan Allen. Hou.
Thompson, Daniel Greenleaf.Vt., 1850-1897. Son of D.
P. Thompson, infra. A lawyer of New York city. First Book in
Latin; A System of Psychology; The Problem of Evil; The Religious
Sentiments of the Human Mind; Social Progress; Philosophy of Fiction
in Literature; Politics in a Democracy; Woman’s New Opportunity.
Lgs.
Thompson, Daniel Pierce.Ms., 1795-1868. A lawyer of
Montpelier, Vermont, whose semi-historical fictions, though somewhat
artless in construction, are vigorously conceived narratives of early
life in Vermont, and have been very popular. Gaut Gurley; May Martin;
Green Mountain Boys; Locke Amsden; Lucy Hosmer; The Doomed Chief; The
Rangers; Tales of the Green Mountains; Centeola, and Other Tales;
History of Montpelier. Cr. Le.
Thompson, Hugh Miller.I., 1830-1902. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. Unity and its Restoration;
Copy, a collection of essays; Sin and its Penalty; First Principles;
The World and the Logos; The World and the Kingdom; The World and the
Man; The World and the Wrestlers; Absolution. Wh.
Thompson, [James] Maurice.Ind., 1844-1901. A writer
of Crawfordsville, Indiana, who was a Confederate soldier during the
Civil War, and State geologist of Indiana, 1885-89. His work in fiction
includes, A Tallahassee Girl; His Second Campaign; At Love’s Extremes;
A Fortnight of Folly; The Ocala Boy; King of Honey Island. Other works
are, Hoosier Mosaics, a volume of sketches; The Witchery of Archery;
Songs of Fair Weather; Byways and Bird Notes; Sylvan Secrets; The Story
of Louisiana; Poems (1892); Lincoln’s Grave, a Poem. Hou. Lo. Scr.
St.
Thompson, John Reuben.Va., 1823-1873. A journalist
and lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, editor of The Southern Literary
Messenger, 1847-59, and very popular in the South as a lyrist. See
Manly’s Southern Literature.
Thompson, Joseph Parrish.Pa., 1819-1879. An eminent
Congregational clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Broadway
Tabernacle, 1845-71, and from 1872 a resident in Berlin, Germany. The
Theology of Christ; Man in Genesis and Geology; Lectures to Young Men;
Church and State in the United States; The United States as a Nation;
Egypt Past and Present; The Workman: his False Friends and his True
Friends; Life of Christ; American Comments on European Questions;
Christianity and Emancipation; The Holy Comforter, include his
principal works. Ran.
Thompson, Lewis O——.N., 1839-1887. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Peoria, Illinois. The Presidents and their
Administrations; Nothing Lost; How to Conduct Prayer Meetings; The
Prayer Meeting and its Improvement; Nineteen Christian Centuries in
Outline. Lo.
Thompson, Maurice.See Thompson, J. M.
Thompson, Mortimer. “Q. K. Philander Doesticks.” 1830-1875. A
once popular humourous writer and lecturer. Doesticks: What he Says;
Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah, a travesty of “Hiawatha;” The Witches of New York;
Nothing to Say; History and Records of the Elephant Club.
Thompson, Richard Wigginton.Va., 1809-1900. An Indiana
jurist who was secretary of the United States navy, 1877-81. The Papacy
and the Civil Power; Footprints of the Jesuits; History of Protective
Tariff Laws. Cr. Har. Meth.
Thompson, Robert Ellis.I., 1844- ——. A political
economist of Philadelphia. He was editor of The Penn Monthly, 1870-80;
professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1870-92; president of the
Central High School from 1894. History of the Presbyterian Churches in
the United States; Elements of Political Economy; Social Science and
National Economy; Hard Times and What to Learn from Them; Protection to
Home Industry; De Civitate Dei. Ap. Bai. Gi. Wat.
Thompson, William Tappan.O., 1812-1882. A prominent
journalist of Savannah, the rough, extravagant humour of whose studies
of Georgia life was once popular. Major Jones’s Courtship; Major
Jones’s Sketches of Travel; Major Jones’s Characters of Pineville;
The Live Indian, a Farce; John’s Alive. See Manly’s Southern
Literature.Ap.
Thompson, Seymour Dwight.Il., 1842-1904. A lawyer of
Saint Louis. On the Liability of Stockholders in Corporations; Charging
the Jury; The Law of Carriers of Passengers; The Law of Negligence in
Relations not resting in Contract; Liabilities of Directors; Homesteads
and Exemptions.
Thompson, Zadock.Vt., 1796-1856. An Episcopal clergyman,
professor of natural history in the University of Vermont, and
State geologist, 1845-48. History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and
Statistical; Gazetteer of Vermont; Geography and Geology of Vermont;
Guide to Lake George.
Thomson, Charles.I., 1729-1824. A writer of Lower
Merion, Pennsylvania, who was secretary of the first Continental
Congress. He published Inquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of
the Delaware and Shawanese Indians; Synopsis of the Four Evangelists;
a noted translation of the Bible, that of the Old Testament being the
earliest English version of the Septuagint.
Thomson, Charles West.Pa., 1798-1879. An Episcopal
clergyman at York, Pennsylvania, 1849-66, who wrote The Limner, in
prose; and in verse, The Phantom Barge; The Sylph; Elinor; The Love of
Home.
Thomson, Edward.E., 1810-1870. A Methodist clergyman,
president of Ohio Wesleyan University, 1846-60. Evidences of Revealed
Religion; Our Oriental Missions; Educational Essays; Moral and
Religious Essays; Biographical Sketches; Letters from Europe; Letters
from India. See Life of, by his son.Meth.
Thomson, Edward William.Ont., 1849- ——. A civil
engineer of Boston who was for some years editor-in-chief of The
Toronto Globe. Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories, a striking
collection of short stories; Walter Gibbs, a book for boys; and the
metrical portions of M. S. Henry’s version of Aucassin and Nicolette.
Cop. Cr.
Thomson, James Bates.Vt., 1808-1883. An educator of
Brooklyn who was a mathematician and conchologist. He published
a School Algebra; Arithmetical Analysis, and a popular series of
arithmetics.
Thomson, Samuel.N. H., 1769-1843. A physician of Boston
who originated the Thomsonian school of medicine, so called. Materia
Medica and Family Physician; New Guide to Health; Life and Medical
Discoveries.
Thomson, Samuel Harrison.Ky., 1813-1882. Cousin of W.
M. Thomson, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator. The
Mosaic Account of the Creation; Geology an Interpreter of Scripture.
Thomson, William Hanna.Sa., 1833- ——. Son of W.
M. Thomson, infra. A physician of New York city. The Great
Argument, or Jesus Christ in the Old Testament; The Parables and Their
Home; Materialism and Modern Physiology of the Nervous System. Har.
Put.
Thomson, William McClure.O., 1806-1894. A Presbyterian
missionary in Beyrout, 1833-76, widely known as author of The Land and
the Book. He wrote also The Land of Promise. Har.
Thorburn, Grant. “Lawrie Todd.” S., 1773-1863. A Scottish
nail-maker who came to America in 1794, and subsequently established
himself in New York city as a seedsman. He was a noted figure in his
day, not only as the hero of Galt’s novel, Lawrie Todd, but because
of his eccentricities. Lawrie Todd’s Notes on Virginia; Fifty Years’
Reminiscences of New York; Men and Manners in Great Britain; Hints
to Merchants, Married Men, and Bachelors; Forty Years’ Residence in
America. See Autobiography.
Thoreau [thō´rō], Henry David.Ms., 1817-1862. A
unique figure in literature, whose fame, circumscribed in his lifetime,
has steadily widened since his death. He was all his life a resident
of Concord, Massachusetts, devoting himself to the study of nature,
and occasionally working at his trade of pencil-making, surveying,
or lecturing, for his support. A Week on the Concord and Merrimac
Rivers, and Walden were the only works by him which were published in
his lifetime. Those since issued include, Excursions; Maine Woods;
Cape Cod; A Yankee in Canada. Early Spring in Massachusetts; Summer;
Autumn; Winter, are selections from Thoreau’s Journal edited by H.
G. O. Blake. Still other works are, Miscellanies; Letters to Various
Persons; Familiar Letters; Poems of Nature. See North American
Review, October, 1865; Fraser’s Magazine, April, 1866; Memoir by
Emerson in Thoreau’s Miscellanies; Thoreau: the Poet Naturalist, by
W. E. Channing, 1873; Life and Aims of, by Page, 1877; Encyclopædia
Britannica, ninth edition; Harvard Register, April, 1881; Life by
Sanborn, 1882; Thoreau: a Glimpse, by S. H. Jones, 1890; Life by Salt,
1890; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896; Foley’s American Authors,
1897.Hou.
Thorne, P.See Smith, Mrs. Mary.
Thorne, William Henry.E., 18— - ——. An aggressive
essayist and critic, editor of The Globe Review from 1889. He came to
the United States from England in 1855, and after some years spent
in the Presbyterian ministry became a Roman Catholic layman. Modern
Idols: Studies in Biography and Criticism; Quintets, and Other Verses.
Lip.
Thornton, Jessy Quinn.W. Va., 1810-1888. An Oregon
jurist of note. Oregon and California in 1848; History of the
Provisional Government of Oregon; The Gold Mines of California.
Thornton, John Wingate.Me., 1818-1878. A Boston lawyer
of genealogical tastes. Colonial Schemes of Popham and Gorges; The
Landing at Cape Anne; First Records of Anglo-American Civilization; The
Pulpit of the American Revolution; Historical Relation of New England
to the English Commonwealth, include his principal publications.
Thornton, William.W. I., 17— -1827. A physician and
architect of Philadelphia who removed to Washington, where he drew the
plans of the first Capitol building, and was at the head of the Patent
Office, 1802-27. Cadmus, or the Elements of Written Language.
Thornton, William.E., 1846- ——. A physician of Boston.
The Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of Man.
Thornwell, James Henley.S. C., 1812-1862. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor in the theological seminary at Columbia, South
Carolina, prominent alike for his rigid Calvinism and his extreme
pro-slavery opinions. Arguments of Romanists Discussed and Refuted;
Discourses on Truth; Rights and Duties of Masters; The State of the
Country.
Thorpe, Francis Newton.Ms., 1857- ——. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. The Government of the People of the United States; The
Story of the Constitution. Meth.
Thorpe, Kamba.See Bellamy, Mrs.
Thorpe, Mrs. Rosa [Hartwick].Ind., 1850- ——. A
verse-writer chiefly known as the author of Curfew Must Not Ring
Tonight. Temperance Poems; Ringing Ballads; and several juvenile prose
works, including The Year’s Best Days; The Chester Girls; Fred’s Dark
Days; The Fenton Family; Minna Bruce. Le.
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs.Ms., 1815-1878. An artist and
author of New Orleans, 1836-53, and in later life of New York city.
Niagara as It Is is his finest painting. His writings include, The Hive
of the Bee Hunter; Tom Owen the Bee Hunter; Mysteries of the Backwoods;
Our Army of the Rio Grande; Our Army at Monterey; A Voice to America;
Scenes in Arkansas; Lynde Weirs, an Autobiography.
Throop, Montgomery Hunt.N. Y., 1827-1892. A lawyer
of New York city. The Future: a Political Essay; Validity of Verbal
Agreements; Annotated Code of Civil Procedure; The New York Justices’
Manual; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decisions;
Revised Statutes of the State of New York.
Thurber, Charles Herbert.N. Y., 1864- ——. An educator
of Chicago, a professor in the University of Chicago from 1895. In and
Out of Ithaca; The Higher Schools of Prussia.
Thurber, George.R. I., 1821-1890. A botanist who edited
The American Agriculturist, 1863-90. He published American Weeds and
Useful Plants, a revision of Darlington’s Agricultural Botany.
Thurston, Robert Henry.R. I., 1839-1903. An eminent
mechanical engineer and inventor, professor in Stevens Technological
Institute at Hoboken, 1871-85, and director of Sibley College, Cornell
University, from 1885. Friction and Lubrication; Manual of the Steam
Engine; Manual of Steam Boilers; Engine and Boiler Trials; History of
the Growth of the Steam Engine; Materials of Engineering; Friction and
Lost Work; Steam-Boiler Explosions in Theory and Practice; Heat as a
Form of Energy; Robert Fulton, his Life and its Results, include his
most important works. Ap. Do. Hou. Wil.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold.Ms., 1853- ——. An historical
writer in Wisconsin, and secretary of the State Historical Society.
Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox,
and Wisconsin Rivers; The Story of Wisconsin; Our Cycling Tour in
England; The Colonies, 1492-1750. He is also the editor of the Jesuit
Relations and Allied Documents. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.Bur. Le. Lgs. Mg.
Thwing [twing], Charles Franklin.Me., 1853- ——.
A Congregational clergyman of Minneapolis from 1886. American Colleges;
The Reading of Books; The Working Church; The Family: an Historical and
Social Study (with Mrs. Thwing); The College Woman. Le. Put.
Thwing, Edward Payson.Mo., 1830-1893. A Congregational
clergyman and professor of vocal culture. The Preacher’s Cabinet;
Out-Door Life in Europe; Windows of Character; The King in His Beauty;
Ex-Oriente; Drill Book in Vocal Culture. Fu.
Ticknor, Caleb B——.Ct., 1805-1840. A homœopathic
physician of New York city. Medical Philosophy; Guide to Mothers and
Nurses.
Ticknor, Caroline.Ms., 18— - ——. A Boston writer
of short stories. A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories; Miss
Belladonna, a Child of To-day. Kt. Lit.
Ticknor, Francis Orrery.Ga., 1822-1874. A physician near
Columbus, Georgia. Virginians of the Valleys, and Other Poems, edited
by Paul Hayne, supra, appeared in 1879. Lip.
Ticknor, George. 1791-1871. A noted Boston historian who was
professor of modern languages at Harvard University, 1820-35. A History
of Spanish Literature, the fruit of many years’ study and research, is
his principal work. It is a recognized authority in its department,
but is cold and lifeless in its treatment of the subject. Other works
by him are, Life of W. H. Prescott, supra; Life of Lafayette.
See London Quarterly Review, October, 1850; Lippincott’s Magazine,
May, 1876; Life, Letters, and Journals; Allibone’s Dictionary and
Supplement. Foley’s American Authors, 1897.Hou. Lip.
Tidball, John Caldwell.W. Va., 1825- ——. A Federal
officer during the Civil War who has published a Manual of Heavy
Artillery Service.
Tidball, Mrs. Mary Langdon. 18— -1904. Wife of J. C. Tidball,
supra. A novelist of Virginia. Barbara’s Vagaries. Har.
Tidball, Thomas Allen.Va., 1847- ——. Cousin of J.
C. Tidball, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia,
rector of the Church of the Epiphany. Christ in the New Testament; The
Character of Christ its Own Witness; The Holy Spirit as Energizing the
Sacrament. Wh.
Tiedeman, Christopher Gustavus.S. C., 1857-1903. A legal
writer, professor of law in the University of Missouri, 1881-91, and
from 1891 professor of constitutional law in the University of the City
of New York. The Law of Real Property; Limitations of the Police Power;
Commercial Paper; The Unwritten Constitution of the United States; Law
of Sales; Law of Municipal Corporations. Put.
Tiernan, Mrs. Frances [Fisher]. “Christian Reid.” N. C.,
18— - ——. A popular novelist whose writings include, Valerie
Aylmer; Mabel Lee; Morton House; A Daughter of Bohemia; Miss Churchill;
Bonny Kate; Ebb Tide; Nina’s Atonement, and Other Stories; After
Many Days; Heart of Steel; Hearts and Hands; A Question of Honor; A
Summer Idyl; A Gentle Belle; Roslyn’s Fortune; A Comedy of Elopement;
The Picture of Las Cruces; The Land of the Sun; A Woman of Fortune.
Ap.
Tiernan, Mrs. Mary Spear [Nicholas]. 1836-1891. A Georgia
novelist. Homoselle; Suzette; Jack Horner. Ho. Hou.
Tiffany, Alexander Ralston.Ont., 1796-1868. A jurist of
Palmyra, Michigan, The Justices’ Guide; Criminal Law; Form Book for
Michigan Attorneys.
Tiffany, Charles Comfort.Md., 1829- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, but prior to 1866 a Congregational
clergyman. Expression in Church Architecture; History of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States.
Tiffany, Francis.Md., 1827- ——. A Unitarian clergyman
living in Cambridge, pastor at West Newton, Massachusetts, 1865-82.
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix, supra; Bird Bolts; Life of Charles
Francis Barnard; This Goodly Frame, the Earth, a volume of travels in
America, Japan, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. El. Hou.
Tiffany, Joel. 18— - ——. Treatise on Government and
Constitutional Law; Man and His Destiny; Reports of Cases Argued and
Determined in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York; The
Book of Forms (with H. Smith); Laws of Trusts and Trustees (with E.
Bullard); Treatise on Practice and Pleadings in the Courts of Record
(with H. Smith).
Tiffany, Osmond.Md., 1823- ——. A custom-house clerk
in Baltimore from 1869. The Canton Chinese; Brandon, a Tale of the
American Revolution; Life of General Otho Williams.
Tiffany, Otis Henry.Md., 1825- ——. A Methodist
clergyman of prominence. Pulpit and Platform Addresses and Sermons.
Meth.
Tigert, John James.Ky., 1856- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator in Nashville. Handbook of Logic; The Preacher
Himself; A Voice from the South; Constitutional History of American
Episcopal Methodism.
Tilden, Samuel Jones.N. Y., 1814-1886. A distinguished
lawyer and statesman, governor of New York in 1874, and the Democratic
candidate for the presidency in 1876. Writings and Speeches, edited by
John Bigelow. See Lives of, by Cook, 1876, J. Bigelow, 1895.Har.
Tilden, William Phillips.Ms., 1811-1890. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston. The Work of the Ministry; Buds for the Bridal
Wreath. See Autobiography.El. Le.
Tillett, Wilbur Fisk.N. C., 1854- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, vice-chancellor of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville. 1882-95. Our Hymns and their Authors; Discussions in
Theology.
Tillinghast, Nicholas.Ms., 1804-1856. A Massachusetts
educator, principal of the Normal School at Bridgewater, 1840-53.
Elements of Plane Geometry; Prayers for Schools.
Tillman, Samuel Dyer.N. Y., 1815-1875. A lawyer who
practiced in Seneca Falls, New York, and, removing to New York city in
1850, devoted himself to scientific pursuits, and published a Treatise
on Musical Sounds.
Tillman, Samuel Escue.Tn., 1847- ——. A soldier and
educator, professor of chemistry at West Point from 1880. Elementary
Lessons in Heat; Essential Principles of Chemistry.
Tilton, Benjamin Trowbridge.R. I., 1868- ——. Brother
of W. F. Tilton, infra. A physician of New York city, translator
of Die Specielle Chirurgie, in two volumes, and Allgemeine Chirurgie
from the German of Tillmanns. Ap.
Tilton, Theodore.N. Y., 1835- ——. A journalist and
verse-writer who was editor of The New York Independent, 1863-72,
and since 1883 has lived in Europe. The American Board and Slavery;
The King’s Ring; Sanctum Sanctorum or an Editor’s Proof Sheets; Life
of Victoria Woodhull; Tempest-Tossed, a novel; Swabian Stories; The
Sexton’s Tale, and Other Poems; Thou and I, a volume of verse.
Tilton, William Frederic.Ms., 1867- ——. An historical
writer. Die Spanische Armada; The Life of Philip the Second.
Timayenis, Telemachus Thomas.A. M., 1853- ——. A writer
of New York city of Greek parentage, resident in the United States from
1870. The Modern Greek, its Pronunciation and Relations to Ancient
Greek; A History of Greece; Greece in the Times of Homer; Contes Tirés
de Shakespeare; Talks with Æsop; In Search of Happiness, a play. Ap.
Scr.
Timrod, Henry.S. C., 1829-1867. Son of W. H. Timrod,
infra. A poet and journalist of Charleston, and, in his last
years, of Columbia, South Carolina, whose verse has very real merit.
Spring in Carolina is one of his best poems. See Poems (1873), with
Memoir by Paul Hayne, supra; Manly’s Southern Literature.
Timrod, William Henry.S. C., 1792-1838. A bookbinder of
Charleston who published a volume of Lyrics.
Tincker, Mary Agnes.Me., 1833- ——. A popular novelist
who lived in Italy, 1873-87, and subsequently in Boston. Signor
Monaldini’s Niece; The Jewel in the Lotus; Aurora; Two Coronets; By the
Tiber; The House of Yorke; A Winged Word; Grapes and Thorns; Six Sunny
Months; San Salvador. Hou. Lip. Rob.
Tinto, Dick.See Goodrich, F. B.
Titchener, Edward Bradford.E., 1867- ——. A professor
of psychology at Cornell University from 1892, and Sage professor of
psychology there from 1895; the American editor of Mind, and co-editor
of The American Journal of Psychology. Beside translating Knelpe’s
Outlines of Psychology and other German works, he has published An
Outline of Psychology. Mac.
Titcomb, Sarah Elizabeth.Ms., 1841-1895. A Boston writer
who published Early New England People; Mind-Cure on a Material Basis;
Aryan Sun Myths the Origin of Religions.
Titcomb, Timothy.See Holland, J. G.
Todd, Albert.R. I., 1854- ——. A lieutenant in the
United States army who has published The Campaigns of the Rebellion.
Todd, Charles Burr.Ct., 1849- ——. A magazinist of
Redding, Connecticut. Life and Letters of Joel Barlow, supra;
General History of the Burr Family; History of Redding, Connecticut;
Story of the City of New York; The Story of the City of Washington.
Put.
Todd, David Peck.N. Y., 1855- ——. Son of S. E. Todd,
infra. A professor of astronomy at Amherst College from 1881.
Stars and Telescopes (with W. T. Lynn); Astronomy for Beginners, and
many scientific papers. Am. Rob.
Todd, John.Vt., 1800-1873. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor of the First Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1842-72. Among
his many popular works are included, Lectures to Children; Student’s
Manual; Truth Made Simple; Hints to Young Men; The Daughter at School;
Mountain Gems; Woman’s Rights; Sunset Land; Old-Fashioned Lives; Future
Punishment. See Life; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1876.Le.
Ran.
Todd, Lawrie.See Thorburn, Grant.
Todd, Mrs. Mabel [Loomis].Ms., 1858- ——. Wife of D. P.
Todd, supra, and daughter of E. J. Loomis, supra. She has
edited The Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, supra; A Cycle
of Sonnets, and is the author of a work on Total Eclipses of the Sun.
Rob.
Todd, Mrs. Marion.N. Y., 1841- ——. A lawyer and
lecturer of Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Railways of Europe and America, or
Government Ownership; Protective Tariff Delusion. Ar.
Todd, Sereno Edwards.N. Y., 1820-1898. A journalist of
New York city, at one period agricultural editor of The Times, and
afterward living at Orange, New Jersey. The Apple Culturist; Young
Farmer’s Manual; The American Wheat Culturist; Country Homes; Rural
Poetry and Country Lyrics. Har.
Toland, Mrs. Mary B—— M——. 18— - ——. Sir Rae; Stella;
Iris; Onti Ora; Aegle and the Elf; Eudora; Legend Layamone; Tisáyac of
the Yo-Semite; Atlina, the Queen of the Floating Isle. Lip.
Tomes, Robert.N. Y., 1817-1882. A physician and
littérateur. Panama in 1855; Bourbon Prince; My College Days; Richard
the Lion-Hearted; Oliver Cromwell; The Americans in Japan; Battles of
America by Sea and Land; The War with the South; The Champagne Country.
Har.
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.N. J., 1859- ——. A
Baptist clergyman of Elizabeth, New Jersey, popular as a writer of
juvenile tales, among which are, The Search for Andrew Field; The
Boy Soldiers of 1812; The Boy Officers of 1812; Three Colonial Boys;
Tecumseh’s Young Braves; Three Young Continentals. Hou. Le. We.
Tompson, Benjamin.Ms., 1642-1714. A colonial educator,
the master of a preparatory school in Cambridge for nearly forty
years from 1670, and a satirical verse-writer of some merit. New
England’s Crisis, a poem on King Philip’s War. See Tyler’s American
Literature.
Tone, William Theobald Wolfe.I., 1791-1828. A son of
Wolfe Tone, the Irish patriot and French general. After serving in
the French army he came to America in 1816 and was in the artillery
service of the United States for ten years. L’État civil et politique
de l’Italie sous la domination des Goths; School of Cavalry, a proposed
system for the United States cavalry. He also edited his father’s
autobiography.
Toner, Joseph Meredith.Pa., 1825-1896. An eminent
physician of Washington city, among whose writings are, Abortion in
its Medical and Moral Aspects; Maternal Instinct; Medical Men of the
Revolution.
Toppan, Robert Noxon.Pa., 1836-1901. A lawyer of
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Historical Summary of Metallic Money;
Biographical Sketches of Old Newbury. Lit.
Torrey, Bradford.Ms., 1843- ——. An essayist of Boston,
a member of the editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. Birds in the
Bush; The Foot-Path Way; A Rambler’s Lease; A Florida Sketch-Book;
Spring Notes from Tennessee. Hou.
Torrey, Charles Turner.Ms., 1813-1846. An anti-slavery
reformer who was imprisoned in Baltimore for aiding in the escape of
slaves, and died in imprisonment. Memoir of William Saxton; Home,
or the Pilgrim’s Faith Reward. See Memoir of the Martyr Torrey,
1847.
Torrey, John.N. Y., 1796-1873. A distinguished botanist
and physician of New York city, professor in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, 1827-55, and United States assayer, 1853-73. Catalogue of
Plants Growing Spontaneously Within Thirty Miles of New York; Flora of
the Northern and Middle States; Flora of New York State.
Torrey, Joseph.Ms., 1797-1867. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, professor in the University of Vermont,
1827-67. A Theory of Art; translation of Neander’s History of the
Christian Religion. Scr.
Totten, Benjamin J——.W. I., 1806-1877. A naval officer
of New Bedford. Totten’s Naval Text-Book.
Totten, Charles Adelle Lewis.Ct., 1851- ——. A military
inventor. Strategos, the American War Game; Yale Military Lectures;
Nativity: its Facts and Fancies. Ap.
Totten, Joseph Gilbert.Ct., 1788-1864. A military
engineer of distinction, brevetted major-general in 1864. Essays on
Hydraulic and Other Cements.
Totten, Silas.N. Y., 1804-1873. An Episcopal clergyman,
president of Trinity College, 1837-48. New Introduction to Algebra; The
Analogy of Truth.
Toucey, Sinclair.Ct., 1818-1887. A publisher of New York
city, president of the American News Company, 1864-87. Papers from Over
the Water.
Toulmin, Henry.E., 1767-1823. A jurist who was the
Kentucky secretary of state, 1796-1804, and president of Transylvania
University, and subsequently lived in Alabama. A Description of
Kentucky; Magistrate’s Assistant; Collection of the Acts of Kentucky;
Review of the Criminal Law of Kentucky (with J. Blair); Digest of the
Territorial Laws of Alabama.
Tourgée [toor-zhay´], Albion Winegar.O.,
1838- ——. A writer who settled in North Carolina at the close of the
Civil War and practised law there, becoming a member of the judiciary.
Some of his experiences are related in his novel, A Fool’s Errand,
which made a great sensation when first issued. He was subsequently
editor of Our Continent, in Philadelphia, and in 1897 became consul
at Bordeaux. His other works include, Bricks Without Straw; Figs and
Thistles; Hot Plowshares; An Appeal to Cæsar; Black Ice; With Gauge and
Swallow; Pactolus Prime; Mervale Eastman; Button’s Inn; An Outing with
the Queen of Hearts; Letters to a King; John Eax; A Royal Gentleman;
The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House. Cas. Fo. Lip. Meth. Rob.
Towle [tōle], George Makepeace.D. C., 1841-1893.
A Boston journalist and littérateur. History of Henry V.; Glimpses
of History; Modern France; Certain Men of Mark; American Society;
Beaconsfield; England and Russia in Asia; England in Egypt; Young
People’s History of England; Young People’s History of Ireland; The
Nation in a Nutshell; Heroes of History; The Literature of the English
Language; Heroes and Martyrs of Invention. Ap. Har. Hou. Le. Rob.
Towler, John.E., 1811- ——. An English educator who
settled in America in 1850, was a professor in Hobart College, Geneva,
New York, 1853-82, and subsequently lived at Orange, New Jersey. Beside
publishing a number of works on photography, he wrote Der Kleine
Engländer, and was co-editor of Hilpert’s German and English Dictionary.
Towles, Catherine.See McCoy, Mrs.
Town, Ithiel.Ct., 1784-1844. An architect of New York
city who built the State capitols of North Carolina and Indiana.
School-House Architecture; Atlantic Steamships; Improvement in
Construction of Bridges.
Town, Salem.Ms., 1779-1864. A once noted educator of New
York and Indiana. System of Speculative Masonry; Analysis of English
Derivatives; and, with N. Holbrook, a popular series of readers.
Towne, Edward Cornelius.Ms., 1834- ——. A
Congregational clergyman of New Haven. The Question of Hell;
Electricity and Life.
Townsend, Calvin. 18— - ——. Analysis of the United States
Constitution; Compendium of Commercial Law; Analysis of Letter-Writing;
Shorter Course in Civil Government. Am.
Townsend, Charles. 18— - ——. Essays on Mind, Matter, Force,
etc.; Primordial Principles of the Universe.
Townsend, Edward Davis.Ms., 1817-1893. An
adjutant-general of the United States army, at the time of his death on
the retired list as brigadier-general. He was chief executive officer
of the war department in Washington during the Civil War. Catechism of
the Bible; Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States. Ap.
Townsend, Edward Waterman.O., 1855- ——. A journalist
of New York city whose studies of Bowery life and dialect have been
widely popular. Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories; Chimmie
Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds; A Daughter of the Tenements, a
novel; Near a Whole City Full, a collection of short dramatic stories.
In collaboration he has written several plays, including Chimmie
Fadden; A Daughter of the Tenements; The Marquis of Michigan. Ll.
Townsend, Eliza.Ms., 1789-1854. A verse-writer of
Boston whose collected Poems and Miscellanies appeared in 1856. See
Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Townsend, George Alfred. “Gath.” Del., 1841- ——. A
journalist of New York city and Chicago famous as a war correspondent,
among whose writings are, Washington Outside and Inside; Tales of the
Chesapeake; Bohemian Days; Campaigns of a Non-Combatant; The Entailed
Hat, a novel; Poems; Life of Garibaldi; The Real Life of Abraham
Lincoln; Katy of Catoctin, a National Romance; Mrs. Reynolds and
Hamilton. See Hart’s American Literature.Ap. Har.
Townsend, Howard.N. Y., 1823-1867. A physician of
Albany. The Sunbeam and the Spectroscope; Food and its Digestion; Sinai
Bible.
Townsend, John Kirk.Pa., 1809-1851. A naturalist of
Washington. A Journey to the Columbia River (1839), republished in
London as Sporting Adventures in the Rocky Mountains.
Townsend, Luther Tracy.Me., 1838- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of prominence, professor in Boston University,
1873-93, a pastor in Baltimore from 1893. God-Man; Credo; The Fate of
Republics; Outlines of Christian Theology; Sword and Garment; The Arena
and the Throne; The Intermediate World; Search and Manifestations; The
Mosaic Record and Modern Science; Bible Miracles and Modern Thought;
Outlines of Theology; The Supernatural Factor in Religious Revivals;
Real and Pretended Christianity; The Bible and Other Ancient Literature
in the Nineteenth Century; The Chinese Problem; The Intermediate World;
The Art of Speech. Ap. Le. Meth.
Townsend, Mrs. Mary Ashley [Van Voorhees]. “Xariffa.” N.
Y., 1832-1901. A popular verse-writer of New Orleans. Xariffa’s
Poems; Down the Bayou, and Other Poems; Distaff and Spindle; The
Captain’s Story, a Poem; The Brother Clerks. Lip.
Townsend, Virginia Frances.Ct., 1836- ——. Kinswoman to
L. T. Townsend, supra. A novelist. A Woman’s Word; One Woman’s
Two Lovers; Lenox Dare; Protestant Queen of Navarre; Only Girls; Sirs,
Only Seventeen; A Boston Girl’s Ambition; Six in All; But a Philistine;
That Queer Girl, are a few of her works. Le. Lip. Meth.
Toy, Crawford Howell.Va., 1836- ——. A Unitarian
clergyman, professor of Hebrew in Harvard University Divinity School.
Quotations in the New Testament; History of the Religion of Israel;
Judaism and Christianity, the Progress of Thought from the Old
Testament to the New. Lit. Scr.
Tracy, Charles Chapin.Pa., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian
foreign missionary. Letters to Members of Oriental Families; Myra, or a
Child’s Story of Missionary Life.
Tracy, Ira.Vt., 1806-1875. Brother of J. Tracy,
infra. A Congregational missionary in the East Indies, author of
Duty to the Heathen.
Tracy, Joseph.Vt., 1794-1874. A Congregational
clergyman, secretary of the Massachusetts Colonization Society. Three
Last Things; The Great Awakening, a History of the Revival of Religion
in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield.
Tracy, Roger Sherman.Vt., 1841- ——. A physician of
New York city. Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders;
Essentials of Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; The New Liber Primus.
Ap.
Trafton, Adeline. Daughter of M. Trafton, infra. See
Knox, Mrs.
Trafton, Mark.Me., 1810-1901. A Methodist clergyman of
prominence in his day, member of Congress, 1855-57. Rambles in Europe;
Safe Investment; Baptism: its Subjects and Mode; Scenes in My Life.
Meth.
Train, Elizabeth Phipps.Ms., 1857- ——. A novelist of
Duxbury, Massachusetts. Dr. Lamar; Autobiography of a Professional
Beauty; A Social Highwayman; A Marital Liability. Her translations
from the French include, The Apostate; The Shadow of Dr. Laroque;
Recollections of the Court of the Tuileries. Cr. Lip.
Train, George Francis.Ms., 1830-1904. A lecturer of New
York city widely known for his eccentricities. An American Merchant
in Europe; Young America Abroad; Young America in Wall Street; Spread
Eagleism; Union Speeches; Irish Independency, include his chief
writings.
Trall, Russell Thacher.Ct., 1812-1877. A homœopathic
physician of New York city, and subsequently of Florence, New Jersey.
The Bath: the History and Uses of, in Health and Disease; Digestion and
Dyspepsia; The Mother’s Hygienic Handbook; The Human Voice; Popular
Physiology; The True Temperance Platform; Encyclopedia of Hydropathy;
Uterine Diseases, include most of his writing.
Trautwine, John Cresson.Pa., 1810-1883. A civil engineer
of eminence. Method of Calculating Cubic Contents of Excavations and
Embankments; Field Practice of Laying out Railroad Curves; Civil
Engineer’s Pocket-Book. Wil.
Treadwell, Daniel.Ms., 1791-1872. The inventor of the
power-press, and Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1834-45.
The Relations of Science to the Useful Arts; The Practicability of
Constructing Cannon of Great Calibre; Construction of Hooped Cannon.
Treadwell, Seymour Boughton.C., 1795-1867. A politician
of Jackson, Michigan. American Liberties and American Slavery
Politically Illustrated (1838).
Treat, John Harvey.N. H., 1839- ——. A business man and
writer of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Notes on the Rubric of the Communion
Office; Truro Baptisms, 1711-1800; The Catholic Faith; Genealogy of the
Treat Family.
Treat, Mrs. Mary Lua Adelia [Davis] [Allen].N. Y.,
1835- ——. A naturalist of Vineland, New Jersey. Chapters on Ants;
Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden; Home Studies in Nature; My
Garden Pets. Am. Ju. Lo.
Tremain, Henry Edwin.N. Y., 1840- ——. A lawyer of
New York city who was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil
War. Sailor’s Creek to Appomattox Court House, or the Last Hours of
Sheridan’s Cavalry.
Trent, William Peterfield.Va., 1862- ——. A professor
of English and history at the University of the South, Sewanee,
Tennessee, from 1888. English Culture in Virginia; Life of William
Gilmore Simms, supra; Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime.
See The Bookman, May, 1897.Hou. J. H. U.
Trescot, William Henry.S. C., 1822-1898. A lawyer and
diplomatist of Washington. Diplomacy of the Revolution; Diplomatic
History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams.
Trott, Nicholas.E., 1663-1740. A Charleston jurist, very
eminent in the Carolinas in his day. Laws of South Carolina (1734);
Clavis Linguæ Sanctæ; Laws relating to the Church and Clergy in America.
Troubat, Francis Joseph.Pa., 1802-1868. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Practice in Civil Actions in Pennsylvania Supreme Court
(with W. Haley); The Law of Limited Partnership in the United States;
Treatise on the Law of Partnerships.
Troubetzkoy, Mrs. Amélie [Rives] [Chanler].Va.,
1863- ——. A novelist whose second husband is a Russian prince.
Though her work excited much unfavourable criticism, yet it enjoyed
a sudden brief popularity. The Quick or the Dead; A Brother to
Dragons; Virginia of Virginia; Barbara Dering; The Witness of the Sun;
Athelwold, a tragedy; Herod and Marianne, a drama. Har. Lip.
Trowbridge, Catherine Maria.Ct., 1818- ——. A writer
of South Manchester, Connecticut, who has made many contributions to
juvenile literature, a few among them being, Christian Heroism; Victory
at Last; Will and Will Not; Snares and Safeguards; Changing Paths.
Trowbridge, John.Ms., 1843- ——. A physicist of note,
professor at Harvard University from 1880, Rumford professor of the
application of science to the useful arts there from 1888. What is
Electricity?; The New Physics; Three Boys on an Electrical Boat; The
Electrical Boy. Ap. Hou. Rob.
Trowbridge, John Townsend.N. Y., 1827- ——. A popular
writer of Arlington, Massachusetts, whose work in verse and prose
reaches a high grade of excellence. His novel, Neighbor Jackwood,
when first issued in 1857, was a strong moral agent in stimulating
anti-slavery sentiment. His other fictions include, Lucy Arlyn; Coupon
Bonds, and Other Stories; Farnell’s Folly; Neighbors’ Wives; Martin
Merrivale; Cudjo’s Cave; Three Scouts. Among his very many juvenile
tales are, The Drummer Boy; The Prize Cup; The Lottery Ticket; The
Tide-Mill Stories; The Toby Trafford Series; The Little Master; Jack
Hazard Series. His published volumes of verse include, The Vagabonds
(his best known poem), and Other Poems; The Emigrant’s Story, and Other
Poems; A Home Idyl, and Other Poems; The Lost Earl; The Book of Gold,
and Other Poems. At Sea and Midsummer are two of his finest poems.
Cent. Co. Har. Hou. Le. Lo.
Trowbridge, William Petit.Mch., 1828-1892. An engineer
and scientist in charge of the engineering department of the School of
Mines, Columbia College, 1877-92. Steam Generator; Heat as a Source of
Power; Turbine Wheels; Stationary Steam Engines. Wil.
True, Charles Kittridge.Me., 1809-1878. A Methodist
clergyman and educator, professor at Wesleyan University, 1849-60.
Elements of Logic; Shawmut, or the Settlement of Boston; John
Winthrop and the Great Colony; Lives of Raleigh, John Knox, John
Harvard, Captain John Smith; The Thirty Years’ War; Heroes of Holland.
Meth.
True, John Preston.Me., 1859- ——. A Boston writer.
Their Club and Ours, a popular juvenile tale; Shoulder Arms, a tale of
life in a military school. Lo. Meth.
Truman, Benjamin Cummings.R. I., 1835- ——. A
California writer, military governor of Tennessee during the Civil
War. The South During the War; Semi-Tropical California; Occidental
Sketches; Winter Resorts of California; From the Crescent City to the
Golden Gate; Homes and Happiness in the Golden Gate; The Field of
Honor, a history of duelling. Fo.
Trumbull, Benjamin.Ct., 1735-1820. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at North Haven, Connecticut, for sixty years. Plea in
Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the Contested (Western) Lands;
Divine Origin of the Holy Scriptures; General History of the United
States (1810); A Complete History of Connecticut, 1630-1764.
Trumbull, Gurdon.Ct., 1841-1903. Brother of J. H.
Trumbull, infra. An artist and ornithologist who published,
American Game Birds, or Names and Portraits of Birds which Interest
Gunners, with Descriptions. Har.
Trumbull, Henry Clay.Ct., 1830-1903. Brother of J. H.
Trumbull, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Philadelphia,
editor of The Sunday-School Times. A Model Superintendent; The
Threshold Covenant; The Knightly Soldier; Kadesh-Barnea; Teaching and
Teachers; The Blood Covenant, a Primitive Rite; The Sunday-School,
its Origin, Methods, and Auxiliaries; Children in the Temple; Some
Army Sermons; The Worth of an Historic Consciousness; Principles and
Practice; Friendship the Master Passion; Studies in Oriental Social
Life. Wat.
Trumbull, James Hammond.Ct., 1821-1897. A Hartford
philologist, an acknowledged authority upon Indian languages. The
Composition of Indian Geographical Names; Best Method of Studying the
Indian Languages; Indian Names of Places; On the Algonkin Verb; The
True Blue-Laws of Connecticut. He had edited The Colonial Records of
Connecticut; Roger Williams’s Key to the Languages of North America,
and other works.
Trumbull, John.Ct., 1750-1831. A noted jurist of
Hartford, famous in his day as a satirical poet. With Barlow and others
he published The Anarchiad, a series of satirical essays, and he was
the author of The Progress of Dulness; but MacFingal, a Hudibrastic
poem, the first canto of which appeared in 1775, is his best title
to remembrance. It bristles with sharp points of satire, and quite
deserved the extensive popularity it for a time enjoyed. See
Stedman’s Poets of America; Tyler’s Literary History of the American
Revolution.
Tryon, George Washington.Pa., 1838-1888. A conchologist
of Philadelphia. Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North America; Marine
Conchology; Structural and Systematic Conchology; Manual of Conchology.
Tucker, George.Ba., 1775-1861. Kinsman of Saint George
Tucker, infra. A Virginia lawyer and educator, professor of
moral philosophy and political economy in the University of Virginia,
1825-45. Among his writings are included, Life of Jefferson; Political
History of the United States; Essays Moral and Philosophical; Theory
of Money and Banks; Essays on Subjects of Taste; Principles of Rent,
Wages, and Profits; The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel; A Voyage to
the Moon, a satirical romance.
Tucker, George Fox.Ms., 1852- ——. A lawyer of
New Bedford, Massachusetts. Manual of Wills; Manual of Business
Corporations; Manual of the Constitution of Massachusetts, the
Interpretation of Statutes, Special Writs, and Motions for New Trials;
The Monroe Doctrine; Notes on the United States Revised Statutes (with
J. M. Gould); A Quaker Home, a novel; Uncle Calup’s Christmas Dinner;
Your Will: how to Make It. Hou. Lit.
Tucker, Henry Holcombe.Ga., 1819-1890. A Baptist
clergyman and educator of Georgia, editor of The Christian Index, at
Atlanta, from 1878. Religious Liberty; The Gospel in Enoch; The Old
Theology Restated in Sermons. The Position of Baptism in the Christian
System is a noted sermon by him.
Tucker, Henry Saint George.Va., 1780-1848. Son of Saint
George Tucker, infra. An eminent Virginia lawyer. Lectures
on Natural Law and Government; Lectures on Constitutional Law;
Commentaries on the Law of Virginia.
Tucker, Henry Saint George.Va., 1828-1863. Grandson
of Saint George Tucker, infra. A lieutenant-colonel in the
Confederate army. Hansford, a Tale of Bacon’s Rebellion; The Southern
Cross.
Tucker, Joshua Thomas.Ms., 1812-1897. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston. The Sinless One, a life of Christ; Christ’s Infant
Kingdom.
Tucker, Mrs. Margaretta [Ames]. “Margaret May.” N. H.,
1836- ——. A verse-writer of Boston. For My Friend, a collection of
verses; Driftwood, and Other Poems, are among her writings, some of
which have been set to music.
Tucker, Mrs. Mary Eliza.See Lambert, Mrs.
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly.Va., 1784-1851. Son of Saint
George Tucker, infra. A Virginia jurist, professor of law at
William and Mary College, 1834-51. The Partisan Leader (1836) is his
most noted book. It is a political novel, having for its theme the
revolt of the Southern States, and in 1861 it was republished as A Key
to the Southern Conspiracy. Other works of his are, George Balcombe, a
novel; Principles of Pleading.
Tucker, Pomeroy.N. Y., 1802-1870. A Canandaigua
journalist who published a work on The Origin of Mormonism.
Tucker, Saint George.Ba., 1752-1828. The stepfather of
John Randolph the statesman. A Virginia jurist who published Letters on
the Alien and Sedition Laws; The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar,
a collection of political satires; an annotated Blackstone; but is
known to general literature only by the lyric beginning, “Days of my
Youth, ye have Glided Away.” See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America.
Tucker, William Jewett.Ct., 1839- ——. A Congregational
clergyman and educator. He was professor in Andover Theological
Seminary, 1879-93, and has been president of Dartmouth College from
1893. The New Movement in Humanity. Hou.
Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman.N. Y., 1861-1892. Son of C. K.
Tuckerman, infra. An architect of New York city, superintendent
of the Metropolitan Museum Art Schools in 1888. A Short History of
Architecture. Scr.
Tuckerman, Bayard.N. Y., 1855- ——. A writer of New
York city. History of English Prose Fiction; Life of Lafayette; Life of
William Jay, supra; Life of Peter Stuyvesant. Do. Put.
Tuckerman, Charles Keating.Ms., 1821-1896. Brother of
H. T. Tuckerman, infra. A diplomat who was minister to Greece,
1868-72, and lived in Europe subsequently. The Greeks of To-Day (1872);
Poems; Personal Recollections of Notable People. Do.
Tuckerman, Edward.Ms., 1817-1886. Nephew of J.
Tuckerman, infra. A professor of botany at Amherst College,
1858-86. Genera Lichenum; Synopsis of the North American Lichens;
Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild within Thirty Miles of Amherst. See
Memoir of, by Farlow.
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard.Ms., 1821-1877. Brother of
E. Tuckerman, supra. A lawyer and littérateur of Boston whose
only published book was a volume of poems.
Tuckerman, Henry Theodore.Ms., 1813-1871. Nephew of
J. Tuckerman, infra. A writer once ranked among the first
of American essayists, but whose criticisms, though delicate and
discriminating, lack the force and originality of many later writers
in the same field. Much of his life was spent abroad, largely in
Italy, his intimate acquaintance with Italian affairs appearing in
his earliest works, The Italian Sketch-Book; Isabel, or Sicily, a
Pilgrimage (1839), republished as Sicily and Pilgrimage (1852). His
subsequent writings include, Thoughts on the Poets; The Book of the
Artists; Essays Biographical and Critical; Artist Life; Rambles and
Reveries; Characteristics of Literature; The Criterion; Maga Papers
about Paris; Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer; Life of J. P. Kennedy,
supra; America and Her Commentators; The Optimist, a series
of essays; A Sheaf of Verse; Poems; Mental Portraits; The Collector,
a volume of essays. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Foley’s American
Writers.
Tuckerman, Joseph.Ms., 1778-1840. A Unitarian clergyman,
minister at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1801-28, long eminent as a
philanthropist. Gleams of Truth; Principles and Results of the Ministry
at Large in Boston. Elevation of the Poor (1874), is a collection
of his most important writings. See Memoir by Mary Carpenter;
Allibone’s Dictionary.Rob.
Tudor, William.Ms., 1779-1830. A Boston merchant who
founded the ice trade with the tropics. Gebel Teir; Life of James Otis,
supra; Letters on the Eastern States; Miscellanies.
Tully, William.Ct., 1785-1859. A noted New England
botanist and physician, medical professor at Yale University, 1829-42.
Essays upon Fever (with T. Miner); Materia Medica, or Pharmacology;
Therapeutics.
Tunis, John.N. Y., 1858-1896. An Episcopal clergyman of
Millbrook, New Jersey, but prior to 1892 in the Unitarian ministry. The
Faith By Which We Stand.
Tuomy, Michael.I., 1808-1857. A professor of geology in
the University of Alabama, 1847-57, State geologist of South Carolina
from 1844, and of Alabama from 1848. Geological and Agricultural Survey
of South Carolina; Report on the Geology of South Carolina; Fossils of
South Carolina (with F. Holmes); First and Second Biennial Reports on
the Geology of Alabama.
Tupper, Henry Allen.S. C., 1828-1902. A Baptist
clergyman of Richmond, Virginia. Foreign Missions of the Southern
Baptist Convention; Truth in Romance. Bap.
Turchin, John Basil (Ivan Vasilevitch Turchinoff). R.,
1822-1901. A Russian soldier who came to America in 1856, served in the
Federal army during the Civil War, and in 1873 established the Polish
colony of Radone in Illinois. The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga.
Turnbull, Laurence.S., 1821-1900. An eminent physician
of Baltimore. Hints and Observations on Military Hygiene; Imperfect
Hearing; Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Ear; Advantages and
Disadvantages of Artificial Anæsthesia; The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.
Lip.
Turnbull, Robert.S., 1809-1877. A Baptist clergyman
of Hartford, 1845-1869. The Theatre; Olympia Morata; The Genius
of Scotland; The Genius of Italy; Pulpit Orators of France and
Switzerland; The Student Preacher; Theophany; The World We Live In;
Life Pictures; Christ in History.
Turnbull, Robert James.Fl., 1775-1833. A lawyer
and political writer of Charleston. A Visit to the Philadelphia
Penitentiary, much noticed at the time of its appearance in 1797; The
Crisis, a work on nullification; The Principle of Dernier Ressort.
Turnbull, William Paterson.S., 1830-1871. A Philadelphia
ornithologist. Birds of East Lothian; Birds of East Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.
Turner, Mrs. Eliza [Sproat].Pa., 1826- ——. A
verse-writer of Pennsylvania. Out-of-Door Rhymes.
Turner, Henry McNeal.S. C., 1833- ——. A bishop of the
African Methodist Church, author of a work on Methodist Polity.
Turner, Samuel Epes.Md., 1846-1896. A Sketch of the
Germanic Constitution from Early Times to the Dissolution of the
Empire. Put.
Turner, Samuel Hulbeart.Pa., 1790-1861. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor in the General Theological Seminary in New York
city, 1818-61, best known by his Commentaries on Hebrews, Romans,
Ephesians, and Galatians. Other works by him are, Companion to the
Book of Genesis; Thoughts on Scripture Prophecy; Comparing Spiritual
Things with Spiritual; Biographical Notices of Jewish Rabbis. See
Autobiography; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Turner, Thomas Sloss.Ky., 1860- ——. A Texas journalist
and verse-writer. Life’s Brevity, and Other Poems; Heart Melodies; A
Dream of Bachelors.
Tuthill [tŭt´il], Cornelia. Daughter of Mrs. L. Tuthill,
infra. See Pierson, Mrs.
Tuthill, Mrs. Louisa Caroline [Huggins].Ct., 1798-1879.
A once popular writer of moral tales for young people, whose home was
at Princeton, New Jersey, from 1849. Among her many publications are,
I Will be a Gentleman; I Will be a Lady; Tales for the Young; True
Manliness; I Will be a Sailor; I Will be a Soldier; Onward, Right
Onward; Romantic Belinda; Ancient Architecture. See Hart’s Female
Prose-Writers of America.
Tuttle, Charles Richard.N. S. 1850- ——. General
History of Michigan; Border Wars of Two Centuries; History of Indiana;
History of Canada; History of Wisconsin (with D. Durrie); The Boss
Devil of America (verse).
Tuttle, Mrs. Emma [Rood].O., 1839- ——. Wife of Hudson
Tuttle, infra. A lecturer and verse-writer of Berlin Heights,
Ohio. Blossoms of Our Spring; Gazelle; From Soul to Soul, Poems;
Stories for Our Children; The Lyceum Guide.
Tuttle, Herbert.Vt., 1846-1894. A professor at Cornell
University, 1883-1894, occupying the chair of modern European history
from 1891. The History of Prussia; German Political Leaders. See
Biographical Sketch, by H. B. Adams, supra, in vol. iv. of The History
of Prussia.Hou.
Tuttle, Hudson.O., 1836- ——. A spiritual medium of
Berlin Heights, Ohio. Life in the Spheres; Arcana of Nature; Career of
the God Idea; Career of the Christ Idea; Career of Religious Ideas;
Origin and Development of Man; Clair, a Tale; Camile, or Love and
Labor; Heloise; Love or Religion. Ban.
Tuttle, Joseph Farrand.N. J., 1818-1901. A Presbyterian
clergyman. Life of William Tuttle; The Way Lost and Found; Annals of
Morris County, New Jersey.
Twain, Mark.See Clemens.
Twichell, Joseph Hopkins.Ct., 1838- ——. A
Congregational clergyman of Hartford from 1865. Life of John Winthrop,
infra; Some Old Puritan Love Letters (edited). Do.
Tyler, Bennet.Ct., 1783-1858. A Congregational
clergyman, president of Dartmouth College, 1822-28, and subsequently
minister at Portland, Maine. History of New Haven Theology; The
Sufferings of Christ; New England Revivals; Lectures on Christian
Nurture, include his principal works.
Tyler, John Mason.Ms., 1851- ——. Son of W. S. Tyler,
infra. A professor of biology at Amherst College. The Whence and
the Whither of Man. Scr.
Tyler, Joseph. 18— -1895. Son of B. Tyler, supra. A
Congregational missionary in South Africa for forty years, for the last
ten years of his life a resident of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Forty Years
Among the Zulus. C. P. S.
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner.Va., 1853- ——. A son of President
John Tyler and president of William and Mary College from 1888. The
Letters and Times of the Tylers; Parties and Patronage in the United
States.
Tyler, Moses Coit.Ct., 1835-1900. A professor of
American history at Cornell University from 1881. From 1860 to 1881 he
was a member of the Congregational ministry, but in the latter year
took orders in the Episcopal Church. He is best known by an admirable
History of American Literature During the Colonial Period, 1606-1765,
which is as readable as it is scholarly, the style being both vigorous
and original. Other works of his are, The Brawnville Papers; Life of
Patrick Henry; Three Men of Letters (Berkeley, Dwight, Joel Barlow);
The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783; Manual of
English Literature. Hou. Put. Sh.
Tyler, Ransom Hebbard.Ms., 1813-1881. A lawyer and bank
president of Fulton, New York. The Bible and Social Reform; American
Ecclesiastical Law; Commentaries on the Law of Infancy and Covertures;
Ejectment and Adverse Enjoyment; Usury; Pawns and Loans; Fixtures;
Boundaries, Fences, and Window Lights.
Tyler, Robert.Va., 1818-1877. The eldest son of
President John Tyler. A lawyer of Philadelphia, and after the Civil War
a journalist in Montgomery, Alabama. Ahasuerus, a Poem; Death, a Poem;
Is Virginia a Repudiating State?
Tyler, Royall.Ms., 1757-1826. A Vermont jurist, chief
justice of the supreme court of his State from 1800. Reports of
Vermont Supreme Court Cases; The Contrast, a brilliant comedy, the
first American play acted by regular comedians, and the earliest in
which “Yankee dialect” is employed; May Day, a comedy; The Georgia
Speculator, or Land in the Moon; The Algerine Captive; Moral Tales for
American Youths; The Yankey in London.
Tyler, Samuel.Md., 1809-1878. A jurist of Frederick,
Maryland. The Progress of Philosophy; Discourse on the Baconian
Philosophy; Burns as a Poet and as a Man; Memoir of Chief Justice
Taney; Commentary on the Law of Partnership.
Tyler, William Seymour.Pa., 1810-1897. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, professor at Amherst College from 1836;
latterly professor emeritus of the Greek language and literature.
Prayer for Colleges; Theology of the Greek Poets; editions of Tacitus
and the Iliad of Homer; History of Amherst College, 1821 to 1891.
Har.
Tyng, Dudley Atkins.Md., 1825-1858. Son of S. H. Tyng,
infra, 1st. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. Vital Truth
and Deadly Error; Children of the Kingdom; Our Country’s Troubles.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson.Ms., 1800-1885. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city, rector of St. George’s Church, 1844-85, and
long prominent among Low Churchmen. Among his works are, The Christian
Pastor; Family Commentary on the Gospels; Lectures on the Law and the
Gospel; The Israel of God; Christ is All; The Rich Kinsman, the history
of Ruth; The Prayer-Book Illustrated by Scripture; The Captive Orphan;
Esther the Queen of Persia; Forty Years’ Experience in Sunday Schools.
See Life of, by C. R. Tyng.Har.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson.N. Y., 1839-1898. Son of S. H.
Tyng, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, for a
number of years subsequent to 1881 the manager of an insurance company
in Paris. The Square of Life; He Will Come; Our Church Work.
Tyson, James. 1841- ——. A Philadelphia physician, medical
professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1870. Manual of
Physical Diagnosis; The Cell Doctrine; Introduction to Practical
Histology; Practical Examination of the Urine; Treatise on Bright’s
Disease. Lip.
Tyson, Job Roberts.Pa., 1804-1858. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Essay on the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania; The Lottery
System of the United States; Social and Intellectual State of
Pennsylvania prior to 1743; Resources and Commerce of Philadelphia.
U
Underwood, Benjamin Franklin. 1839- ——. Formerly the editor
of The Index in Boston. Influence of Christianity upon Civilization;
Essays and Lectures.
Underwood, Francis Henry.Ms., 1825-1894. A Boston
littérateur, the organizer of The Atlantic Monthly. He was American
consul at Glasgow, 1885-89, and subsequently at Leith, where he died.
Handbooks of English Literature: British Authors, and American Authors;
Builders of American Literature; biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and
Whittier; The Poet and the Man, Recollections of James Russell Lowell;
Cloud Pictures; and the novels, Lord of Himself; Man Proposes; Dr.
Gray’s Quest; Quabbin. Hou. Le.
Underwood, Lucien Marcus.N. Y., 1853- ——. Cousin
of F. H. Underwood, supra. A professor of botany at Syracuse
University from 1883. Systematic Plant Record; Our Native Ferns and
How to Study Them; Our Native Ferns and Their Allies; North American
Hepaticæ. Ho. Wh.
Upham, Charles Wentworth.N. B., 1802-1875. A Unitarian
clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1824-44,
subsequently prominent as a politician in his city and State. Lectures
on the Logos; Prophecy as an Evidence of Christianity; Salem Witchcraft
and Cotton Mather; Life of Timothy Pickering; Life of Sir Henry Vane;
Lectures on Witchcraft; Principles of Congregationalism.
Upham, Francis William.N. H., 1817-1895. Brother of T.
C. Upham, infra. An educator of New York city, whose writings
were chiefly a defence of the Scriptures as opposed to “the higher
criticism.” The Debate Between the Church and Science; The Wise Men:
Who They Were; The Star of Our Lord; Thoughts on the Gospels; St.
Matthew’s Witness; The First Words from God.
Upham, Mrs. Grace Le Baron [Locke]. “Grace Le Baron.”
Ms., 1845- ——. A Boston writer of popular juvenile tales. The
Rosebud Club; Little Miss Faith; Little Daughter. Le.
Upham, Thomas Cogswell.N. H., 1799-1872. A professor of
philosophy at Bowdoin College, 1824-72. Elements of Moral Philosophy;
Treatise on the Will; Life of Madame Guyon; Principles of the Hidden
Life; Disordered Mental Action; Elements of Intellectual Philosophy;
Ratio Disciplinæ; Christ in the Soul; The Life of Faith; The Manual
of Peace; Divine Union; American Cottage Life, a book of verse; Life
of Madame Catherine Adorna; View of the Absolute Religion. See
Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Maine.Har.
Upshur, Abel Parker.Va., 1790-1844. A Virginia lawyer
and Congressman, secretary of the navy, 1841-1843, and of State,
1843-44. Inquiry into the Nature and Character of Our Federal
Government.
Upshur, Mary. Niece of A. P. Upshur, supra. See
Sturges, Mrs.
Upton, Emory. 1839-1881. An officer with the rank of
major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. Infantry
Tactics; The Armies of Asia and Europe; Tactics for NonMilitary
Bodies. See Life of, by Michie.Ap.
Upton, Francis Henry.Ms., 1814-1876. An eminent lawyer
of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Trade-Marks; The Law of
Nations affecting Commerce During War.
Upton, George Putnam.Ms., 1834- ——. A Chicago
journalist. Letters of Peregrine Pickle; The Great Fire; Woman in
Music; The Standard Operas; The Standard Oratorios; The Standard
Cantatas; The Standard Symphonies; Lives of Haydn, Liszt, and Wagner,
from the German of Nohl; Memories, from the German of Max Müller.
Mg.
Upton, Jacob Kendrick.N. H., 1837- ——. The assistant
secretary of the treasury in 1880. Money in Politics; A Coin Catechism.
Lo.
Urmy, Clarence [Thomas].Cal., 1858- ——. An organist
and verse-writer of San José, California. A Rosary of Rhyme; A Vintage
of Verse. He has been a contributor to magazines.
Usher, Edward Preston.Ms., 1851- ——. A Boston
lawyer living in Grafton, Massachusetts. Sales of Personal Property;
Protestantism, a Study in the Direction of Religious Truth. Le.
Utter, Mrs. Rebecca [Palfrey].Ms., 1844- ——. Daughter
of C. Palfrey, supra, and wife of a Unitarian clergyman. The
King’s Daughter, and Other Poems.
V
Vachell, Horace Annesley.E., 1861- ——. A novelist many
years resident in California, but in 1883 an English lieutenant in the
Rifle Brigade. The Romance of Judge Ketchum; The Model of Christian
Gay; The Quicksands of Pactolus; An Impending Sword; John Christy.
Do. Ho. Lip.
Vail, Alfred.N. J., 1807-1859. A scientist who was one
of the inventors of the telegraph. He published a work on The American
Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.
Vail, Stephen Montford.N. Y., 1818-1880. A Methodist
clergyman, at one time tried by his church for advocating an educated
ministry. Outlines of Hebrew Grammar; Education in the Methodist
Church; The Bible Against Slavery. Meth.
Vail, Thomas Hubbard.Va., 1812-1889. The first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kansas, consecrated bishop in 1864.
Hannah, a Sacred Drama; The Comprehensive Church.
Vale, Gilbert.E., 1788-1866. A Brooklyn writer prominent
as a free-thinker. Fanaticism; Life of Thomas Paine, supra.
Valentine, David Thomas.N. Y., 1801-1869. The clerk of
the New York Common Council, 1831-69, and author of a Manual of the
Corporation of New York City; History of New York City.
Valentine, Milton.Md., 1825- ——. A Lutheran clergyman,
professor of systematic theology at Gettysburg Theological Seminary
from 1884. Natural Theology, or Rational Theism; The Relations of the
Family to the Church; The Dynamics of Success; Knowledge by Service;
Absolute Christianity; Truth’s Testimony to its Servants: Is the Lord’s
Day only a Human Institution? Sil.
Valentini, Philipp Johann Joseph.P., 1828-1899. A New
York archæologist among whose writings upon Mexican archæology are,
The Landa Alphabet: a Spanish fabrication; Mexican Copper Tools; The
Olmecas and the Tultecas.
Vallentine, Benjamin Bennaton.E., 1843- ——. A
journalist of New York city, dramatic critic of The Herald. The
Fitznoodle Papers; Fitznoodle in America; The Lost Train.
Van-Anderson, Mrs. Helen [Van Metre].Ia., 1859- ——. A
minister and lecturer of Boston. The Right Knock; It is Possible; The
Story of Teddy; Journal of a Live Woman. Le.
Van Brunt, Henry.Ms., 1832-1903. An architect of note,
the designer of Memorial Hall at Cambridge. Greek Lines, and Other
Architectural Essays. Hou.
Van Buren, John Desh.N. Y., 1838- ——. A civil engineer
of New York city. Investigation of Formulas for the Strength of Iron
Parts of Steam Machinery; Quay and Other Retaining Walls.
Van Buren, Martin.N. Y., 1782-1862. The eighth
President of the United States. An Inquiry into the Origin and Causes
of Political Parties in the United States is his only writing of
importance, except state papers. See Lives by Emmons, 1835, Grund
(in German), 1835, Holland, 1836, Crockett, 1836, Mackenzie, 1846,
Butler, 1862, Shepard, 1888, Bancroft, 1889; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Van Buren, William Holme.Pa., 1819-1883. An eminent
surgeon of New York city. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Diseases
of the Rectum; Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs (with Keyes); The
Principles of Surgery. Ap.
Vandegrift, Margaret.See Janvier, Margaret.
Vandenhoff, George.E., 1820- ——. An actor and
elocutionist of note. Plain System of Elocution; Leaves from an Actor’s
Note Book; Dramatic Reminiscences; Clerical Assistant, or Elocutionary
Guide; Common Sense; The Art of Reading Aloud.
Van Deusen, Mrs. Mary [Westbrook].N. Y., 1829- ——. A
writer of Rondout, New York, whose principal works include, Rachel Du
Mont; Gertrude Willoughby, a novel; Colonial Dames of America; Voices
of My Heart, a book of verse.
Van Dyke, Henry Jackson.Pa., 1822-1891. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Brooklyn. The Lord’s Prayer; The Church: Her Ministry and
Sacraments.
Van Dyke, Henry Jackson.Pa., 1852- ——. Son of H. J.
Van Dyke, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city,
pastor of the Brick Church from 1882. The Reality of Religion; The
Story of the Psalms; The National Sin of Literary Piracy; The Poetry of
Tennyson; Historic Presbyterianism; Straight Sermons to Young Men; The
Christ Child in Art; Little Rivers; The Story of the Other Wise Man;
God and Little Children; The Gospel for an Age of Doubt; The Builders,
and Other Poems. Har. Mac. Ran. Scr.
Van Dyke, John Charles.N. J., 1856- ——. An art critic,
librarian of the Sage Library at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Books and
How to Use Them; Principles of Art; How to Judge a Picture; Serious
Art in America; Art for Art’s Sake; History of Painting; Old Dutch and
Flemish Masters. Cent. Fo. Lgs. Scr. Meth.
Van Dyke, Joseph Smith.N. J., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman, minister at Cranbury, New Jersey, from 1869. Popery the Foe
of the Church; Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic; Through the Prison to
the Throne; From Gloom to Gladness; Giving or Entertainment,—Which?;
Theism or Evolution. Fu.
Van Dyke, Theodore Strong.N. J., 1842- ——. Brother
of J. C. Van Dyke, supra. A lawyer and sportsman of Southern
California. Rifle, Rod, and Gun in California; Southern California;
The Still Hunter; Game Birds at Home; Southern California the Italy of
America. Fo.
Van Horne, Thomas B[udd]. 18— - ——. A clergyman, chaplain
in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Army of the
Cumberland; Life of Major-General Thomas. Clke. Scr.
Van Lennep, Henry John.A. M., 1815-1889. A
Congregational missionary in Asia Minor, 1839-69. Ten Days Among Greek
Brigands; Bible Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor; The
Oriental Album. Har. C. P. S.
Vannah, Letitia Catharine.Me., 1857- ——. A
verse-writer of Gardiner, Maine, who has published a volume of Verses.
Van Ness, Thomas.Md., 1859- ——. A Unitarian clergyman
of Boston, pastor of the Second Church. The Coming Religion; The Ideal
Commonwealth; My Visit to Count Tolstoi. Rob.
Van Ness, William Peter.N. Y., 1778-1826. A jurist of
New York city. Examination of Charges against Aaron Burr; Laws of New
York (with Woodworth); Concise Narrative of Jackson’s First Invasion of
Florida.
Van Nest, Abraham Rynier.N. Y., 1823-1892. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman in charge of American chapels abroad, and pastor
in Philadelphia, 1878-86. Signs of the Times; Life of G. Bethune,
supra.
Van Norden, Charles.Ct., 1843- ——. A Congregational
clergyman at Suffield, Connecticut. The Outermost Rim and Beyond; The
Psychic Factor. Ap. Ran.
Van Rensselaer [rĕn´sĕl-ar], Cortland.N. Y.,
1808-1860. A Presbyterian clergyman who was secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Education, 1846-60. Miscellaneous Sermons,
Essays, and Addresses; Essays and Discourses.
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Mariana [Griswold].N. Y.,
1851- ——. An art critic of New York city. Art Out of Doors, a work
on gardening; English Cathedrals; Six Portraits; Handbook of English
Cathedrals; Henry Hobson Richardson; One Man who was Content, and Other
Stories. Cent. Hou. Scr.
Van Rensselaer, Maunsell.N. Y., 1819-1900. An Episcopal
clergyman of New York city. Sister Louise: her Life Book; Annals of the
Van Rensselaers in the United States.
Van Santvoord, Cornelius.N. J., 1816-1901. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman of New York State. Memoir of Eliphalet Nott,
supra; Limitation of the Liabilities of Ship Owners Under United
States Laws.
Van Santvoord, George.N. J., 1819-1863. Brother of C.
Van Santvoord, supra. A lawyer of Kinderhook, New York. Life of
Algernon Sidney; Lives of the Chief Justices of the United States; The
Indiana Justice; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions; Precedents of
Pleading; Practice in Equity Actions in New York Supreme Court.
Van Santvoord, Harold.N. Y., 1854- ——. Son of G. Van
Santvoord, supra. A New York littérateur. Half Holidays, a
volume of essays.
Van Schaack, Henry Cruger.N. Y., 1802-1887. Son of P.
Van Schaack, infra. A lawyer of Manlius, New York. History of
Manlius Village; An Old Kinderhook Mansion; Captain Thomas Morris; Life
of Peter Van Schaack, infra.
Van Schaack, Peter.N. Y., 1747-1832. A once famous
jurist of Kinderhook, New York. Laws of the Colony of New York;
Conductor Generalis. See Life of, by his son, with Journal, Diary,
and Letters.
Vanuxem, Lardner.Pa., 1792-1848. A scientist who was
State geologist of New York, 1836-42. Geology of New York, Third
District; Essay on the Ultimate Principles of Chemistry, Natural
Philosophy, and Physiology (1827), an early declaration of the
qualitative interconvertibility of heat, light, electricity, and
magnetism.
Van Zile, Edward Sims.N. Y., 1863- ——. A novelist
and journalist of New York city on the staff of The World. Wanted,
a Sensation; The Last of the Van Slacks; A Magnetic Man, and Other
Stories; Don Miguel, and Other Stories; The Manhattaners; A Crown
Prince. Cas. Lov.
Varley, John Philip.See Mitchell, L. E.
Varney, George Jones.Me., 1836-1901. Young People’s
History of Maine; Gazetteer of Maine; A Brief History of Maine; The
Story of Patriot’s Day. Le.
Varnum, Joseph Bradley.D. C., 1818-1874. A lawyer and
littérateur of New York city. The Seat of Government of the United
States; The Washington Sketch-Book.
Vasey, George.E., 1822-1893. A physician and botanist
who was botanist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington,
1872-93. Beauties and Utilities of a Library; The Philosophy of
Laughing and Smiling; A Descriptive Catalogue of Native Forest Trees
of the United States; Grasses of the United States; Agricultural
Grasses of the United States; Grasses of the South; Grasses of the Arid
Districts; Descriptive Catalogue of the Grasses of the United States;
Individual Liberty.
Vassar, John Guy.N. Y., 1811-1888. A philanthropist of
Poughkeepsie, nephew of the founder of Vassar College. Twenty Years
Around the World.
Vassar, Thomas Edwin.N. Y., 1834- ——. Cousin of J. G.
Vassar, supra. A Baptist clergyman, author of Uncle John Vassar,
or The Fight of Faith, a very popular work.
Vaughan [vawn], John.Pa., 1775-1807. A physician
of Wilmington, Delaware, very eminent in his day. Chemical Syllabus;
Observations on Animal Electricity.
Vaux [vauks], Calvert.E., 1824-1895. An English
architect and landscape gardener who settled in the United States in
1851. With F. L. Olmsted, supra, he designed Central Park in
New York city, and he was associated with him in many similar works
throughout the country. He published Villas and Cottages in the earlier
part of his career. See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895.
Vaux, Richard.Pa., 1816-1895. Son of R. Vaux,
infra. A distinguished penologist of Philadelphia. His writings
include every annual report of the Eastern Penitentiary for more than
fifty years; Recorders’ Decisions; and many volumes on the subject of
penology.
Vaux, Roberts.Pa., 1786-1836. A jurist and penologist
of Philadelphia, prominent in all local philanthropic enterprises
throughout his life. Memoirs of Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, and
Anthony Benezet; Efforts to Improve the Discipline of the Prison at
Philadelphia.
Vedder, Henry Clay.N. Y., 1853- ——. A journalist for
many years, and subsequently professor of church history at Crozer
Theological Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania. American Writers of To-day;
A Short History of the Baptists. Bap. Sil.
Veeder, Mrs. Emily Elizabeth [Ferris].N. Y., 1841- ——.
A novelist and verse-writer of St. Louis. Her Brother Donnard;
Entranced; The Unexpected; In the Garden, and Other Poems. Lip.
Venable, Charles Scott.Va., 1827-1900. A Confederate
army officer, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia
from 1865, and author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.
Venable, Francis Preston.Va., 1856- ——. Son of C. S.
Venable, supra. A professor of chemistry at the University of
North Carolina from 1880. A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; The
Development of the Periodic Law.
Venable, William Henry.O., 1836- ——. An educator
and littérateur of Cincinnati. School History of the United States;
Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of
Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a
collection of essays on education. His writings in verse include, June
on the Miami, and Other Poems; The Melodies of the Heart. Clke.
Le.
Verdi, Tullio Suzzara.Iy., 1829- —— A homœopathic
physician practicing in Washington from 1857. Maternity; Mothers and
Daughters; The Infant Philosopher; Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.
Verplanck [vĕr-plănk´], Gulian Crommelin.N. Y.,
1786-1870. A Shakespearean scholar of New York city whose carefully
edited Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He was the author of Essays on
Revealed Religion; Discourses on American History, Art, and Literature;
Discourses and Addresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Contrasts; The
Bucktail Bards. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Very, Jones.Ms., 1813-1880. A Unitarian clergyman living
at Salem, Massachusetts, who must be accounted as one of the most
purely spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in
1839, the poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model
remarkable for their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A
fuller edition of the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and
revised edition of Poems and Essays in 1886. See Memoir, by W. P.
Andrews, in Poems, 1883; Biographical Notice, by J. F. Clarke, supra,
in Poems and Essays, 1886; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883.Hou.
Very, Lydia Louisa Anna.Ms., 1823-1901. Sister of J.
Very, supra. For many years a teacher in Salem. Poems and Prose
Writings.
Vethake, Henry.B. G., 1792-1866. A Philadelphia educator
who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and
provost in 1854. Principles of Political Economy.
Vetromile, Eugene.Iy., 1819-1881. A noted Italian Jesuit
missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians. Travels in
Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the
Abenaki language. See Bibliography of Maine.
Veysey, Arthur Henry.E., 1869- ——. A littérateur of
New York city. A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel. Dil.
Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta [Fuller] [Barrett].O.,
1826-1902. Sister of Mrs. M. Victor, infra, with whom she
published Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (1851). After her second
marriage to a brother of O. Victor, infra, she removed to
California. The River of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope,
and Other Stories; Atlantis Arisen. Ap. Lip.
Victor, Mrs. Metta Victoria [Fuller]. “Seeley Register.”
Pa., 1831-1885. A novelist and verse-writer of New York city.
Fresh Leaves from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance;
The Senator’s Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The
Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens’ Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel;
Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess’s
Client; The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders
of a Bashful Man; The Bad Boy’s Diary; The Naughty Girl’s Diary; The
Rasher Family, comprise the greater portion of her works. Her poem
Compound Interest is still quoted.
Victor, Orville James.O., 1827- ——. An author and
editor of New York city. History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents
and Anecdotes of the War; History of American Conspiracies.
Viele, Egbert Ludovickus.N. Y., 1825-1902. A military
engineer who served in the Civil War, and became Park Commissioner of
New York City in 1883. Handbook for Active Service; Topographical Atlas
of New York City.
Vincent, Francis.Del., 1822-1884. A journalist of
Wilmington, Delaware, who published A History of Delaware.
Vincent, Frank.L. I., 1848- ——. A traveler of note.
The Land of the White Elephant; Norsk, Lapp, and Finn; Through and
Through the Tropics; The Republics of South America; Around and About
South America; In and Out of Central America; Actual Africa; Lady of
Cawnpore, a novel (with A. Lancaster). Ap. Fu. Har. Put.
Vincent, John Heyl.Al., 1832- ——. A Methodist
bishop now living at Topeka, of much prominence as the founder of
the celebrated Chautauqua Movement in 1878. Studies in Young Life;
The Modern Sunday School; Little Footprints in Bible Lands; Earthly
Footsteps of the Man of Galilee; Better Not; The Chautauqua Movement;
To Old Bethlehem; Our Own Church; Outline History of Greece; Outline
History of Rome, include his more important works. See The Outlook,
October, 1896.Fu. Fl. Meth.
Vincent, Marvin Richardson.N. Y., 1834- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary
from 1888. Faith and Character; Student’s Handbook of the Topics and
Literature of New Testament Introduction; Word Studies in the New
Testament; Stranger and Guest; Gates into the Psalm Country; Amusement
a Force in Christian Training; The Two Prodigals; The Minister’s
Handbook; What Is It To Believe?; God and Bread; The Covenant of
Peace; The Law of Sowing and Reaping; Bible Inspiration and Christ;
That Monster, the Higher Critic; Christ as a Teacher; In the Shadow of
the Pyrenees, from Basque Land to Carcassonne; The Age of Hildebrand.
Do. Ran. Scr.
Vincent, Thomas McCurdy.O., 1832- ——. An army officer
who has published The Military Power of the United States during the
War of the Rebellion.
Vinght, Francisco Javier.C., 1823- ——. A Cuban
educator, after 1848 a resident of New York, and professor of Spanish
in the University of the City of New York. Spanish Grammar; Spanish and
English Phrase Book; El Maestro de Francés; El Maestro de Inglés; Le
Maître d’Espagnol; Lector y Traductor Inglés.
Vinton, Alexander Hamilton.R. I., 1807-1881. An
Episcopal clergyman of Boston, prominent as a Low Churchman. Bohlen
Lectures for 1877; Sermons. Wh.
Vinton, Arthur Dudley.N. Y., 1852- ——. Son of F.
Vinton, infra. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. The
Pomfret Mystery; The Unpardonable Sin.
Vinton, Francis.R. I., 1809-1872. Brother of A. H.
Vinton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector
of Trinity Church, 1855-72. Arthur Tremaine, or Annals of Cadet Life;
Evidences of Christianity; Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law
of the Episcopal Church.
Vinton, Francis Laurens.Me., 1835-1879. Nephew of A. H.
Vinton, supra. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil
War, who rose to the rank of brigadier-general. The Guardian, a poem;
Lectures on Machines; Theory of the Strength of Materials.
Vinton, John Adams.Ms., 1801-1877. A Congregational
clergyman and genealogist. The Vinton Memorial; The Symmes Memorial;
The Giles Memorial; The Sampson Family in America.
Virgin, William Wirt.Me., 1823-1893. A jurist who was
justice of the supreme court of Maine. The Maine Civil Officer; Digest
of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine; Law and Equity
Reports.
Vogdes, William.Pa., 1802-1886. A lawyer and educator
of Philadelphia. United States Arithmetic; Elementary Treatise on
Mensuration.
Von Holst.See Holst, H. E. von.
Vos, Geerhardus.H., 1862- ——. A Dutch clergyman,
professor of biblical theology at Princeton Seminary from 1894. The
Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten
zwischen den Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the
Covenants in Reformed Theology; Biblical Theology as a Science and as a
Discipline.
Vose, George Leonard.Me., 1831- ——. A civil engineer,
professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-86.
Orographic Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in
America; A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary
Course of Geometric Drawing; Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer.
Le.
Vose, John.N. H., 1766-1840. An educator of Atkinson,
New Hampshire, prominent in his day, and author of System of Astronomy;
Compendium of Astronomy.
W
Wackerhagen, Augustus.G., 1774-1865. A Lutheran
clergyman of Columbia County, New York. Inbegriff des Glaubens und
Sittenlehre.
Wade, William P——. 18- ——. Treatise on the Law of Notice; On
the Operation and Construction of Retroactive Laws; Manual of American
Mining Laws in the Western States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting
Civil Rights and Remedies; The Law of Attachment and Garnishment.
Wadsworth, Marshman Edward.Me., 1847- ——. The State
geologist of Michigan from 1888. Geology of the Iron and Copper
Districts of Lake Superior; The Azoid System (with J. D. Whitney,
infra); Lithological Studies, are among his writings.
Wagner, Arthur Lockwood.Il., 1853- ——. An officer
in the United States army. Catechism of Outpost Duty; Organization
and Tactics; The Service of Security and Information; The Campaign of
Königgrätz.
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew.E., 1792-1854. A provisional
Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, 1852-54. The Land of Bondage;
Short Family Prayers; The Pathway and Abiding Places of Our Lord;
Lessons on the Church Religious Education; Selected Sermons. See
Lives by Doane, 1856, Norton, 1858.Ap. Dut.
Wait, William.N. Y., 1821-1880. An eminent lawyer of
Fulton County, New York. Law and Practice in Civil Actions; New York
Annotated Code of Procedure; Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity;
Treatise on General Principles of the Law.
Waite, Charles Burlingame.N. Y., 1824- ——. A Chicago
jurist, author of The Christian Religion to A. D. 200.
Waite, Mrs. Catherine [Van Valkenburg].Ont., 1829- ——.
Wife of C. B. Waite, supra. A Chicago lawyer, founder of The
Chicago Law Times, and an active advocate of woman-suffrage. The Mormon
Prophet and his Harem.
Waite, Henry Randall.N. Y., 1845- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman who has published The Motive of St. Paul’s Life; Illiteracy
and the Mormon Problem; A Boy’s Workshop. Lo.
Wakefield, Mrs. Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest.N. H.,
1836-1870. A verse-writer remembered for her poem, Over the River.
See Poems of, with Memoir, 1871.
Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont.Ct., 1804-1876. A Methodist
clergyman of New York city among whose writings are, The Heroes of
Methodism; Lost Chapters Recovered from Early American Methodism;
Reminiscences; The American Temperance Cyclopedia. Meth.
Walcott, Charles Doolittle.N. Y., 1850- ——. A
geologist of note, director of the United States Geological Survey from
1894. The Trilobite; Paleontology of the Eureka District; The Cambrian
Faunas of North America; The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olinus
Zone; Correlation Papers.
Walcott, Charles Melton.E., 1815-1868. An actor and
playwright of Philadelphia among whose plays are, The Course of True
Love; Hoboken; Washington, or Valley Forge; A Good Fellow.
Walden, Treadwell.N. Y., 1830- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Washington. Sunday-School Prayer Book; Our English Bible
and its Ancestors; The Great Meaning of Metanoia. Co. Wh.
Waldo, Frank.O., 1857- ——. A meteorologist of
Princeton, New Jersey, formerly a junior professor in the United States
signal service. Beside a number of scientific monographs, he has
published Modern Meteorology; Elementary Meteorology. Am.
Waldo, Samuel Putnam.Ct., 1780-1826. A writer of
Hartford, Connecticut. Tour of President Monroe in 1818; Memoirs of
General Andrew Jackson; Life of Stephen Decatur; Biographical Sketches.
Waldstein, Charles.N. Y., 1856- ——. An eminent
archæologist, the director of the American School of Archæology at
Athens from 1888. Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of
Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John
Buskin; Study of Art in Universities. Gi. Har.
Wales, Philip Skinner.Md.; 1837- ——. A United States
naval officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.
Walke, Henry.Va., 1808-1896. A naval officer appointed
rear-admiral in 1870, and the author of Naval Scenes and Reminiscences
of the Civil War.
Walker, Alexander Joseph.Va., 1819-1893. A lawyer and
journalist of New Orleans. Jackson and New Orleans; History of the
Battle of Shiloh; Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louisiana; Life of
General Andrew Jackson.
Walker, Amasa.Ct., 1799-1875. A political economist of
Boston. The Science of Wealth; The Nature and Uses of Money. Lip.
Walker, Charles Manning.O., 1834- ——. A journalist of
Indianapolis. History of Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement of Ohio
at Marietta; Lives of Oliver Martin and Alvin Hovey. Clke.
Walker, Cornelius.Va., 1819- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman, professor in the Virginia Theological Seminary from 1866.
Sorrowing Not Without Hope; Outlines of Christian Theology; Lectures on
Christian Ethics. Wh.
Walker, Edward Dwight.L. I., 1859-1890. A journalist and
littérateur of New York city. Reincarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth.
Walker, Francis Amasa.Ms., 1840-1897. Son of A.
Walker, supra. The president of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology from 1881, and during the Civil War a Federal officer,
rising to the rank of colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general in
1865. A distinguished authority on financial topics; an advocate
of bimetallism. Wages; Money; Money in its Relations to Trade and
Industry; Political Economy; The Indian Question; Land and its Rent;
History of the Second Army Corps; Life of General Hancock; The Making
of the Nation; Double Taxation in the United States; International
Bimetallism. See Review of Reviews, February, 1897.Ap. Ho.
Lit. Mac. Scr.
Walker, George Leon.Vt., 1830-1900. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor of a church in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1879.
History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker:
Preacher, Founder, Democrat; Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New
England. Do. Sil.
Walker, James.Ms., 1794-1874. A Unitarian clergyman,
minister at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1818-38, president of Harvard
University, 1853-60. Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the
Philosophy of Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel;
Discourses. A. U. A.
Walker, James Barr.Pa., 1805-1887. A popular
Presbyterian clergyman in Ohio and Illinois. Philosophy of the Plan
of Salvation; Poetry of Reason and Conscience; Pioneer Life in the
West; God Revealed in Nature and in Christ; Philosophy of Skepticism
and Ultraism; The Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man; Living
Questions of the Age; Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; Poems. Meth.
Walker, James Bradford Richmond.Ms., 1821-1885. A
Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. Comprehensive Concordance to
the Holy Scriptures. C. P. S.
Walker, James Murdock.S. C., 1813-1854. A South Carolina
lawyer. The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State
versus Bank of South Carolina; Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of
Real Estate.
Walker, James Perkins.N. H., 1829-1868. A Boston
publisher. Faith and Patience, a story for boys; Book of Raphael’s
Madonnas; Sunny-Eyed Tim. See Memoir of, 1869.
Walker, Joseph Burbeen.N. H., 1822- ——. An
agriculturist of New Hampshire. Land Drainage; Forests of New
Hampshire; Prospective Agriculture in New Hampshire; Oats; Rogers the
Ranger; Birth of the Federal Constitution.
Walker, Joseph Henry.Ms., 1829- ——. A Republican
Congressman from Massachusetts whose home is in Worcester. A Few Facts
and Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking. Hou.
Walker, Mrs. Katherine Kent [Child].Vt., 1840- ——. A
writer who is best known by a famous paper in The Atlantic Monthly on
The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things. Bible Stories for the Young;
Life of Christ; From the Crib to the Cross. Ran.
Walker, Mrs. Mary Spring. 18— - ——. A Boston writer. Wife of
J. B. R. Walker, supra. The Family Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and her
Bourbon; Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his Wine; Both Sides of the Street;
Down in a Saloon; White Robes.
Walker, Robert James.Pa., 1801-1869. The secretary of
the United States Treasury, 1845-49, and author of Letters on the
Finances and Resources of the United States.
Walker, Sears Cook.Ms., 1805-1853. Brother of T. Walker,
infra. An astronomer who published a number of professional
monographs.
Walker, Timothy.Ms., 1806-1856. A jurist of Cincinnati.
Elements of Geometry; Introduction to American Law. Lit.
Walker, William.Tn., 1824-1860. A famous adventurer
who led a filibustering expedition into Nicaragua in 1855, and was
afterwards court-martialled and shot by the authorities of Honduras.
The War in Nicaragua. See Walker’s Expedition to Nicaragua, by W. V.
Wells, 1856; Reminiscences of the Filibuster War by Doubleday, 1886;
Joaquin Miller’s Walker in Nicaragua.
Walker, William McCreary.Md., 1813-1866. A United States
naval officer who published a work on Screw Propulsion.
Walker, Williston.Me., 1860- ——. Son of G. L. Walker,
supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of Germanic and
Western Church History in Hartford Theological Seminary from 1889. The
Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism; On the Increase of Royal
Power under Philip Augustus; A History of the Congregational Church in
the United States. Scr.
Wallace, Horace Binney.Pa., 1817-1852. Son of J. B.
Wallace, infra. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia.
Literary Criticisms; Art and Scenery in Europe. See Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Wallace, John Bradford.N. J., 1778-1837. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Remarks on the Law of Bailment; Reports of Cases of the
Third Circuit Court. See Memoir by his wife, 1848.
Wallace, John William.Pa., 1815-1884. Son of J. B.
Wallace, supra. A master in chancery of the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. The Reporters, Chronologically Arranged; Cases in the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Third Circuit; Cases Argued and
Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1863-1874; An Old
Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford, the Patriot Printer of 1776.
See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Wallace, Lew[is].Ind., 1827- ——. A Federal
major-general during the Civil War, subsequently a lawyer of
Crawfordsville, Indiana, and minister to Turkey, 1881-85. Ben Hur, a
Tale of the Christ, has been extremely popular, but neither this nor
his other romances have met the entire approval of literary critics.
His other works include, The Fair God, an Aztec Story; The Prince
of India; The Boyhood of Christ; Life of General Benjamin Harrison.
Har.
Wallace, Mrs. Susan Arnold [Elston].Ind., 1830- ——.
Wife of L. Wallace, supra. The Storied Sea; Ginevra, a Christmas
Story; The Land of the Pueblos; The Repose in Egypt. Har.
Wallace, William Ross.Ky., 1819-1881. A lawyer and
verse-writer of New York city. Perdita; Alban; Meditations in America,
and Other Poems. The Liberty Bell is his best-known poem. See
Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Wallack, Lester (real name John Johnstone Wallack). N.
Y., 1820-1888. A noted comedian and dramatist of New York
city. The Veteran; Rosedale. See Galaxy Magazine, October, 1868;
Autobiography of, 1889.Scr.
Wallis, Severn Teackle.Md., 1816-1894. A lawyer of
Baltimore. Glimpses of Spain; Spain: her Institutions, Politics, and
Public Men. A memorial edition of his writings in four volumes was
published in 1896. Har.
Waln, Robert.Pa., 1765-1836. A Philadelphia merchant.
Answer to the Anti-Protection Report of Henry Lee; Seven Letters to
Elias Hicks, widely read at the time of their appearance.
Waln, Robert.Pa., 1794-1825. Son of R. Wain,
supra. A Philadelphia littérateur. The Hermit in America;
American Bards, a satire; Sisyphi Opus, with Other Poems; Life of
Lafayette.
Walsh, Michael.I., 1763-1840. A once popular educator of
Massachusetts who published a Mercantile Arithmetic, and a New System
of Bookkeeping.
Walsh, Robert.Md., 1784-1859. A prominent Philadelphian
who was United States consul at Paris, 1845-51. In 1811 he established
the American Review of History and Politics, the first quarterly in the
United States. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain; Letter
on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government; Correspondence
Respecting Russia; Didactics; The Museum of Foreign Literature and
Science. See Edinburgh Review, May, 1820; North American Review,
April, 1820.
Walsh, William Shepard. “William Shepard.” F., 1854-189-.
Grandson of R. Walsh, supra. A Philadelphia littérateur, editor
of Lippincott’s Magazine, 1886-90. Authors and Authorship; Pen Pictures
of Earlier Victorian Authors; Faust: the Legend and the Poem; Paradoxes
of a Philistine; Pen Pictures of Modern Authors; Our Young Folks’
History of the Roman Empire.
Walter, Nehemiah.I., 1663-1750. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1688 until his death.
The Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Unregenerate; Sermons; Practical
Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven.
Walter, Thomas.Ms., 1696-1725. Son of N. Walter,
supra. A Congregational clergyman, the colleague of his father.
Grounds and Rules of Music Explained; Infallibility May Sometimes
Mistake.
Walter, William Bicker.Ms., 1796-1822. Great-grandnephew
of T. Walter, supra. A verse-writer who published Poems; Sukey,
suggested by Halleck’s “Fanny.”
Walters, William Thompson.Pa., 1820-1891. A merchant of
Baltimore, long prominent as an art patron. Antoine Louis Barye, from
the French of Various Critics; The Percheron Horse, from the French of
Du Hays; Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century.
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm.Sxy., 1811-1887. A
Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1839, and was president of
the Lutheran Theological Seminary at St. Louis, 1849-1887. Dr. Luther’s
kleiner Katechismus ausgelegt von Dr. J. C. Dietrich, mit Zusätzen;
Amerikanisch-Lutherische Evangelien-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische
Epistel-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Pastoral-theologie. He
was the leader of what are known as Missouri Lutherans. See
Biography of, by Günther (Lebensbild), 1890; Brömel’s Homiletische
Characterbilder, 1874.
Walton, George Edward.O., 1839- ——. A Cincinnati
physician, professor of medicine in Cincinnati College from 1880. The
Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada.
Walworth [wŏ´wŏrth], Clarence Alphonsus.N. Y.,
1820-1900. Son of Reuben Walworth, infra. A Roman Catholic
clergyman who was one of the founders of the Paulist order in the
United States, a prominent temperance advocate, and since 1864 rector
of St. Mary’s, Albany. The Gentle Sceptic; The Doctrine of Hell;
Andiatorocté, and Other Poems.
Walworth, Mrs. Ellen [Hardin].Il., 1832- ——. Wife
of M. T. Walworth, infra. A Saratoga writer who has published
Saratoga, the Battle Ground.
Walworth, Ellen Hardin.N. Y., 1858- ——. Daughter of M.
T. Walworth, infra. An Old World as Seen Through Young Eyes.
Walworth, Mrs. Jeanette Ritchie [Hadermann].Pa.,
1837- ——. A novelist of New York city. Dead Men’s Shoes; The Bar
Sinister; The Man at Rossmere; At Bay; Southern Silhouettes; Forgiven
at Last; Baldy’s Point; The Silent Witness; Heavy Yokes; An Old Fogy;
The Little Radical; Uncle Scipio, are among her numerous fictions.
Cas. Ho.
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy.N. Y., 1837-1873. Son of
Reuben H. Walworth, infra. A lawyer once well known as a writer
of extremely sensational romances. Among them are, Beverly; Warwick;
Lulu; Delaplene; Stormcliff; Mission of Death; Tahara, a Leaf from
Empire.
Walworth, Reuben Hyde.Ct., 1787-1867. An eminent jurist
of Saratoga, the last Chancellor of the State of New York. Rules and
Orders of the New York Court of Chancery; The Hyde Genealogy.
Walworth, Reubena Hyde.Ky., 1867-1898. Daughter of M. T.
Walworth, supra. Where was Elsie?, a comedietta.
Ward, Aaron.N. Y., 1790-1867. A New York congressman and
major-general of militia, the author of Around the Pyramids, a volume
of travel.
Ward, Andrew Henshaw.Ms., 1784-1864. A lawyer of
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and subsequently of Newton in the same
State. History of Shrewsbury; Genealogy of the Rice Family; The Ward
Family.
Ward, Artemus.See Browne, C. F.
Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart [Phelps].Ms., 1844- ——.
Wife of Herbert D. Ward, infra, daughter of A. Phelps,
supra. A popular New England novelist whose life was mainly
passed at Andover and Gloucester until her marriage in 1888. She has
more recently lived in Newton, Massachusetts. The publication in 1869
of The Gates Ajar, a tale whose theme is the life of departed spirits
in the next world, aroused much discussion, and instantly made its
author famous. She has since pursued the same motive in Beyond the
Gates, and The Gates Between. Her latest works, as a whole, show an
increase of power and a higher level of literary excellence. Hedged
in; The Silent Partner; Sealed Orders, and Other Stories; Men, Women,
and Ghosts; Friends: a Duet; Dr. Zay; The Story of Avis; An Old Maid’s
Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise; Fourteen to One, a book of short
stories; Donald Marcy; Jack the Fisherman; The Madonna of the Tubs; A
Singular Life; The Supply at St. Agatha’s; The Master of the Magicians
(with H. D. Ward); Come Forth (with H. D. Ward); What to Wear?; The
Struggle for Immortality, a collection of essays; Chapters from a Life,
an autobiography. Less widely known as a poet, her Poetic Studies,
and Songs of the Silent World, perhaps represent her highest point of
attainment. Her juvenile books include, Gypsey’s Rainy Day Book; My
Cousin and I; The Trotty Book; Trotty’s Wedding Tour and Story Book.
See Vedder’s American Writers.Hou.
Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton.N. Y., 1812- ——. A
Presbyterian missionary in India, 1836-47, and subsequently a minister
in Geneseo, New York. India and the Hindoos; Christian Gift, or
Pastoral Letters Upon Character; Summer Vacation Abroad; History of the
Churches of Rochester, New York.
Ward, Henry Augustus.N. Y., 1834- ——. Nephew of F.
Ward, supra. A naturalist of note, professor in the University
of Rochester, 1860-75. Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri; Description
of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in Royal Museums of Europe.
Ward, Henry Dana.Ms., 1797-1884. A Baptist clergyman
prominent as an opponent of freemasonry. Freemasonry: its Pretensions;
The Gospel of the Kingdom; The History of the Cross; The Faith of
Abraham and Christ.
Ward, Herbert Dickinson.Ms., 1861- ——. Son of W. H.
Ward, infra. The Captain of the Kittie Wink; A Dash to the Pole;
The New Senior at Andover; The White Crown, and Other Stories; The
Burglar who Moved Paradise. Hou. Ll. Lo. Lov. Rob.
Ward, Mrs. H. O.See Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara.
Ward, James Harman.Ct., 1806-1861. A United States naval
officer. Elementary Course of Instruction in Naval Gunnery; Manual of
Naval Tactics; Steam for the Million.
Ward, James Warner.N. J., 1818- ——. A verse-writer;
librarian, 1874-1895, of the Grosvenor library at Buffalo. Home-made
Verses and Stories in Rhyme; Yorick, and Other Poems; Higher Water, a
parody upon Hiawatha.
Ward, John.N. Y., 1838- ——. Cousin of S. Ward,
infra. A soldier and physician of New York city. The Overland
Route to California, and Other Poems.
Ward, Julius Hammond.Ms., 1837-1897. An Episcopal
clergyman and journalist of Boston on the staff of The Boston Herald.
Life of J. G. Percival, supra; The Bible in Modern Thought;
Life of Bishop White, infra; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts;
The Church in Modern Society; The White Mountains, a Guide to their
Interpretation. Ap. Do. Hou.
Ward, Lester Frank.Il., 1841- ——. A botanist and
geologist employed in the United States Geological Survey. Guide to the
Flora of Washington and Vicinity; Sketch of Paleontological Botany;
Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group; Types of the Laramie Flora;
Geographical Distribution of Fossil Plants; Dynamic Sociology; The
Psychic Factors of Civilization; The Principles of Sociology. Ap.
Gi.
Ward, Matthew Flournoy.Ky., 1826-1863. A writer of
Louisville. Letters From Three Continents; English Items.
Ward, Mrs. May [Alden].O., 1853- ——. President of
the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Petrarch; Dante:
Sketch of his Life and Works; Old Colony Days. Rob.
Ward, Nathaniel.E., c. 1580-1652. A Puritan
clergyman, minister at Ipswich, 1634-36, and a resident of the colony
of Massachusetts until 1646, when he returned to England, and was
rector of Shenfield in Essex, 1647-52. He is famous as the author
of The Simple Cobler of Aggavvam in America, a piece of satire as
able as it is vindictive and intolerant. The first code of laws made
in New England was drafted by Ward in 1639, and formally adopted in
1644. It is styled The Body of Liberties. Mercurius Anti-mechanicus,
or the Simple Cobbler’s Boy with his Lap-full of Caveats, is usually
attributed to Ward, and probably with truth. Other writings ascribed
to him are, A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army; A Sermon
before Parliament (1647). See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by
John Ward Dean, 1868.
Ward, Samuel.N. Y., 1814-1884. A once prominent banker
of New York city who published Lyrical Recreations.
Ward, Thomas.N. J., 1807-1873. A littérateur of New York
city. A Month of Freedom; Passaic: a Group of Poems; Flora, or the
Gypsy’s Frolic, a pastoral opera; War Lyrics.
Ward, William Hayes.Ms., 1835- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of New York city, editor of The Independent, and eminent as
an Assyriologist. Notes on Oriental Antiquities.
Warden, David Baillie.I., 1788-1845. A consul and
secretary of the United States legation at Paris from 1804 until his
death. Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments; Inquiry Concerning
the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes
(1810); Description of the District of Columbia; Bibliotheca Americana
Septentrionalis; L’art de vérifier les dates: chronologie historique de
l’Amérique; A Statistical History of the United States.
Warden, Robert Bruce.Ky., 1824- ——. A lawyer formerly
of Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washington. A Familiar Forensic View
of Man and Law; A Voter’s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen
Douglas; Private Life of Salmon Chase.
Warder, John Aston.Pa., 1812-1883. A Cincinnati
physician very active in promoting a general interest in forestry and
landscape gardening. Hedge Manual; American Pomology.
Ware, Henry.Ms., 1764-1845. A Unitarian clergyman of
Massachusetts, pastor of Hingham, 1787-1805. His election in the latter
year to the Hollis professorship of divinity at Harvard University
precipitated the dissensions which ultimately resulted in dividing the
Congregational body into Unitarian and Trinitarian portions. Letters to
Trinitarians and Calvinists; Inquiry into Foundation, Evidences, and
Truth of Religion. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Ware, Henry.Ms., 1794-1843. Son of H. Ware,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of
the Second Church in Boston, 1817-30, and Parkman professor at
Harvard University, 1830-42. The Vision of Liberty, an ode; Hints on
Extemporaneous Speaking; Discourses on the Offices and Character of
Christ; Sermons on Small Sins; On the Formation of Christian Character,
which has been very widely read; Life of the Saviour; Lives of
Priestley and Noah Worcester, infra. See Memoir by John Ware,
infra; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.A. U. A.
Ware, John.Ms., 1795-1864. Son of H. Ware, 1st,
supra. A Boston physician, professor of medicine at Harvard
University, 1832-58. History and Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Hints
to Young Men on the Relation of the Sexes; Success in the Medical
Profession; Life of Henry Ware, supra. A. U. A.
Ware, John Fothergill Waterhouse.Ms., 1818-1881. Son of
Henry Ware, 2d, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, and
subsequently of Boston. Wrestling and Waiting; Sermons; War Tracts; The
Silent Pastor; Home Life. El. Le.
Ware, Mrs. Katherine Augusta [Rhodes].Ms., 1797-1843.
The wife of a United States naval officer. She published The Power of
the Passions, and Other Poems.
Ware, Mrs. Mary Greene [Chandler], Ms., 1818- ——. Wife
of J. Ware, supra. Elements of Character; Thoughts in My Garden;
Death and Life.
Ware, Nathaniel A——.Ms., c. 1789-1854. A
Southern writer whose later years were spent in Philadelphia and
Cincinnati. Views of the Federal Constitution; Notes on Political
Economy.
Ware, William.Ms., 1797-1852. Son of H. Ware, 1st,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of New York city, 1821-36, whose
historical novels are still popular. Letters from Palmyra, republished
as Zenobia; Probus, afterwards called Aurelian; Julian; American
Unitarian Biography (edited); Lectures on the Works of Washington
Allston; Sketches of European Capitals; Life of Nathaniel Bacon
in Sparks’s American Biography; Sermons Illustrative of Unitarian
Christianity; Unitarianism the Doctrine of Matthew’s Gospel. See
Allibone’s Dictionary; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.Est.
Ware, William Robert.Ms., 1832- ——. Son of H. Ware,
2d, supra. A professor of architecture in Columbia College
School of Mines from 1881. He has published Modern Perspective.
Mac.
Warfield, Benjamin Breckenridge.Ky., 1851- ——.
A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of didactic and
polemical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887. The
Divine Origin of the Bible; Introduction to the Textual Criticism of
the New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; The Gospel of the
Incarnation, include his more important works.
Warfield, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Ware].Mi., 1816-1877.
Daughter of N. Ware, supra. A Kentucky novelist who with her
sister Eleanor wrote The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems; The Indian
Chamber, and Other Poems. Her own separate writings include, The
Household of Bouverie; The Romance of the Green Seal; Miriam Monfort;
Hester Howard’s Temptation; A Double Wedding; Lady Ernestine; Miriam’s
Memoirs; Sea and Shore; The Cardinal’s Daughter; Ferne Fleming; The
Romance of Beauscincourt.
Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley.Ky., 1861- ——. A lawyer and
educator, president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from
1891. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, an Historical Study.
Waring [wā´rĭng], George Edwin.N. Y., 1833-1898.
An eminent sanitary engineer, superintendent of the street-cleaning
department of New York city, 1895-97. The Sanitary Drainage of Houses
and Towns; A Farmer’s Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; Tyrol and
the Skirt of the Alps; Village Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements
of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health; Book of
the Farm; How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land Drainage; Sanitary
Condition of City and Country Dwellings; Modern Methods of Sewage
Disposal. Co. Hou. Vn.
Warman, Cy.Il., 1855- ——. A Colorado journalist who
was for a time a railway engineer. Tales of an Engineer, with Rhymes of
the Rail. Scr.
Warner, Adoniram Judson.N. Y., 1834- ——. A Federal
officer during the Civil War, since 1866 a resident of Ohio.
Appreciation of Money; Source of Value in Money.
Warner, Amos Griswold.Ia., 1861-1900. A professor of
applied economics in Leland Stanford Junior University, who, beside
reports as superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia,
published, American Charities: a Study in Philanthropy and Economics;
Three Phases of Coöperation in the West. Cr.
Warner, Anna Bartlett. “Amy Lothrop.” N. Y., 1820- ——.
Sister of S. Warner, infra, and co-author with her of Say and
Seal; Wych Hazel; Books of Blessing; Ellen Montgomery’s Bookshelf.
Among her separate novels and religious and other works are, Dollars
and Cents; My Brother’s Keeper; Stories of Vinegar Hill; The Fourth
Watch; The Other Shore; Three Little Spades, a Child’s Book of
Gardening; Gardening by Myself; Up and Down the House. Har. Lip.
Ran.
Warner, Beverley Ellison.N. J., 1855- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of New Orleans. English History in Shakespeare’s Plays.
Lgs.
Warner, Charles Dudley.Ms., 1829-1900. A popular
novelist and essayist of Hartford, editor of The Hartford Courant
from 1867, and one of the editors of Harper’s Magazine, 1884-1898.
As a humorous writer he presents the literary and not the newspaper
aspect of American humour. My Summer in a Garden; Backlog Studies;
Saunterings; Being a Boy; Baddeck and that Sort of Thing; Mummies and
Moslems; In the Wilderness: Adirondack Essays; Life of Washington
Irving; Life of Captain John Smith; In the Levant; My Winter on the
Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On Horseback, a Tour in Virginia, North
Carolina, and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in Mexico and California;
The Work of Washington Irving; Studies in the South and West; Southern
California; A Little Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; The Golden
House; As We Go; As We Were Saying; The Relation of Life to Literature;
Our Italy. See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American
Authors.Har. Ho. Hou.
Warner, Eliza A——. 18— - ——. A writer of Northampton,
Massachusetts, among whose works are, Tom Tracy; The Red House; Our Two
Lives.
Warner, Susan. “Elizabeth Wetherell.” N. Y., 1818-1885.
A once famous novelist of Highland Falls, New York, whose Wide,
Wide World, a priggish religious tale appearing in 1849, attained
an extraordinary popularity in America and England. Among her other
works are, Queechy; The Old Helmet; Stephen, M. D.; The Hills of the
Shatemuc; Melbourne House; Daisy; Diana; The Law and the Testimony, a
theological work. Lip. Put.
Warner, Zebedee.Va., 1833- ——. A minister of the sect
of United Brethren. Christian Baptism; Rise and Progress of the United
Brethren Church; Life of Jacob Buchtel; The Roman Catholic not a True
Christian Church.
Warren, Cornelia.Ms., 1857- ——. Miss Wilton, a novel.
Hou.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble.N. Y., 1830-1882. A
lieutenant-colonel in the engineer corps, major-general of United
States volunteers, and brevet major-general in the United States army.
Explorations in the Dacota Country in 1855; Exploration of the Country
Between the Missouri and the Platte Rivers; The Battle of Five Forks,
Virginia.
Warren, Henry White.Ms., 1831- ——. A Methodist bishop
living in Denver. The Bible in the World’s Education; Lectures on the
Bible in English; Sights and Insights, or Knowledge by Travel; Studies
of the Stars; Recreations in Astronomy. Har. Meth.
Warren, Ira.Ont., 1806-1864. A journalist and physician
of Boston. Causes and Cure of Puseyism; The Household Physician.
Warren, Israel Perkins.Ct., 1814-1892. A Congregational
clergyman, editor of The Christian Mirror at Portland, Maine, from
1875. Three Judges; Chauncey Judd; The Seaman’s Cause; Sadduceeism; The
Parousia; The Book of Revelation: an Exposition, include his principal
works. Cr. Fu.
Warren, John.Ms., 1753-1815. A Boston physician,
professor of anatomy at Harvard University from 1783. He was a brother
of General Joseph Warren who fell at Bunker Hill. Mercurial Practice in
Febrile Diseases.
Warren, John Collins.Ms., 1778-1856. Son of J. Warren,
supra. A Boston physician who succeeded his father as professor
of anatomy at Harvard University in 1815. He was one of the founders
in 1820 of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and its chief surgeon
till his death. He published, Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart;
Surgical Observations on Tumors, and lesser works. See Life of, by
E. Warren, 1860.
Warren, John Collins.Ms., 1842- ——. Son of J. M.
Warren, infra. A professor of surgery at Harvard University
from 1887. The Anatomy and Development of Rodent Ulcer; Pathology of
Carbuncle and Columnal Adipose; The Healing of Arteries after Ligature
in Men and Animals; Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics.
Warren, Jonathan Mason.Ms., 1811-1867. Son of J. C.
Warren, supra. A Boston physician. Surgical Observations, with
Cures and Operations. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Warren, Mrs. Mercy [Otis].Ms., 1728-1814. Sister of
James Otis, supra, very prominent as a literary figure in her
day, and especially esteemed as a political satirist. The Group, a
political satire; History of the American Revolution; three tragedies,
including The Adulator, the Sack of Rome, The Ladies of Castille;
Poems: Dramatic and Miscellaneous. See Griswold’s Female Poets of
America; Mrs. Ellet’s Women of the Revolution; Life of, by Alice Brown,
supra, 1896.
Warren, Nathan Boughton.N. Y., 1805-1898. An author of
Troy, New York. The Ancient Plain Song of the Church; The Order of
Daily Service, with the English Musical Notation; The Holidays; Hidden
Treasure, a Goblin Story.
Warren, Samuel Edward.Ms., 1831- ——. An educator of
Newton, Massachusetts. Elementary Projection Drawing; General Problems
of Shades and Shadows; Problems in Stone Cutting; Descriptive Geometry;
Machine Drawing; The Sunday Question, are among his published works.
Warren, Thomas Robinson.N. Y., 1828- ——. A traveller
and merchant. Dust and Foam Tracks; The Yachtsman Primer; Shooting,
Boating, and Fishing; On Deck; Juliette Irving and the Jesuit.
Warren, William.Me., 1806-1879. A Congregational
clergyman at Gorham, Maine. School Geography; Household Consecration;
The Spirit’s Sword; Twelve Years Among Children; These for Those.
Warren, William Fairfield.Ms., 1833- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, president of Boston University from 1873. Paradise Found:
the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; The True Key to Ancient
Chronology; In the Footsteps of Arminius; Constitutional Law Questions
in the Methodist Church; The Quest of the Perfect Religion; The Story
of Gottlieb. Fl. Hou. Meth.
Warriner, Edward Augustus.Ms., 1829- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Victor La Tourette; Kear, a Poem;
I Am That I Am, a Metrical Essay.
Warriner, Francis.Ms., 1805-1866. A Congregational
clergyman who was a United States naval chaplain, 1831-1834. The Cruise
of the Potomac.
Warrington.See Robinson, W. S.
Washburn, Charles Ames.Me., 1822-1889. A diplomatist
who was minister to Paraguay, 1863-68. The History of Paraguay; From
Poverty to Competence: Graduated Taxation; Political Evolution; Philip
Thaxter; Gomery of Montgomery. Le.
Washburn, Edward Abiel.Ms., 1819-1881. An Episcopal
clergyman of Broad Church views, rector of Calvary Church, New York
city. The Social Law of God; Voices from a Busy Life, a volume of
verse; The Relation of the Episcopal Church to Other Bodies; Epochs of
Church History; Beatitudes, and Other Sermons. Dut. Wh.
Washburn, Emory.Ms., 1800-1877. A lawyer of Worcester,
1828-56; was governor of Massachusetts, 1854-56; and professor of
law in Harvard University, 1856-76. Sketches of the Judicial History
of Massachusetts; History of Leicester, Massachusetts; Treatise
on American Law of Real Property; American Law of Easements and
Servitudes; Testimony of Experts; Lectures on the Study and Practice of
the Law. Hou. Lit.
Washburn, Francis.N. Y., 1843- ——. An Episcopal
clergyman of Newburg, New York. Meditations on Charity; The Soul
Athirst, and Other Sermons; Thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer. Wh.
Washburn, Israel.Me., 1813-1883. Brother of C. A.
Washburn, supra; governor of Maine, 1861. Notes, Historical,
Descriptive, and Personal, of Livermore, Maine. See Bibliography of
Maine.
Washburn, Peter Thacher.Ms., 1814-1870. A lawyer of
Woodstock, Vermont, and governor of his State in 1869. Reports of the
Supreme Court of Vermont; Digest of All Cases in the Vermont Supreme
Court.
Washburn, William Tucker.Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer and
novelist of New York city. Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story of
New York; Spring and Summer, a collection of verse.
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin.Me., 1816-1887. Brother of
C. A. Washburn, supra, but adding an “e” to the family name. A
statesman who was secretary of state in 1869, and minister to France,
1869-77. Sketch of Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle of 1823-24;
Recollections of a Minister to France. Scr.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro.Va., 1856- ——. A
distinguished educator of African descent, president of Tuskegee
Institute in Alabama from 1881. Up from Slavery.
Washington, Bushrod.Va., 1762-1829. Nephew of G.
Washington, infra. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of
Cases in the Virginia Court of Appeals; Reports of Cases in the United
States Circuit Court, Third District, 1803-27. See Life by H.
Binney, 1858.
Washington, George.Va., 1732-1799. The first president
of the United States, and known to general literature by his Farewell
Address. His writings, including his Diary and Correspondence, have
been edited in fourteen volumes by W. C. Ford, supra. See
United States histories; Lives by Marshall, Bancroft, Irving, Paulding,
Sparks, Weems, Ramsay, E. E. Hale, Lodge, and many others; Allibone’s
Dictionary.Put.
Washington, Mrs. Lucy Hall [Walker].Vt., 1835- ——. A
temperance reformer and verse-writer, the wife of a Baptist clergyman
at Port Jervis, New York. Echoes of Song; Memory’s Casket.
Wasson, David Atwood.Me., 1823-1887. A Unitarian
clergyman of Massachusetts, prominent as a radical thinker, who lived
at West Medford after his retirement from the ministry. Poems; Essays:
Religious, Social, Political. See Memoir of, by O. B. Frothingham,
supra.Le.
Waterbury, Jared Bell.N. Y., 1799-1876. A Presbyterian
clergyman who was city missionary of Brooklyn. Advice to a Young
Christian; Voyage of Life; Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; Southern
Planters and Freedmen, are among his works.
Waterhouse, Benjamin.R. I., 1754-1846. A physician who
was professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1783-1812, and of
natural history at Brown University, 1784-91. Lectures on the Theory
and Practice of Medicine; The Principles of Vitality; The Botanist;
The Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, a novel.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby.N. Y., 1788-1862. A lawyer of
Binghamton, New York, who published The Justice’s Manual.
Waterman, Thomas Whitney.N. Y., 1821-1898. Son of T. G.
Waterman, supra. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who edited
many law books and wrote, The Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the
Peace in New York; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices in
Wisconsin and Iowa; Principles of Law and Equity; The Law of Set-Off;
The Law of Trespass; The Law Relating to Specific Performance of
Contracts; The Law of Corporations other than Municipal.
Waters, Mrs. Clara [Erskine] [Clement].Mo., 1834- ——.
An art-writer of Boston. Handbook of Legendary and Mythological
Art; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works, a
Handbook; Christian Symbols (with K. Conway, supra); Artists of
the Nineteenth Century and their Works (with L. Hutton, supra);
Life of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; Stories of Art
and Artists; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, Mediæval and
Modern; Constantinople, the City of the Sultans; History of Painting
for Beginners and Students; Rome the Eternal City. Est. Hou. Sto.
Waters, Robert.S., 1835- ——. An educator of Hoboken,
New Jersey. Life of William Cobbett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself;
How Genius Works its Wonders.
Waterston, Mrs. Anne Cabot Lowell [Quincy].Ms.,
1812-1899. Wife of R. C. Waterston, infra, and daughter of J.
Quincy (1772-1864), supra. Verses by A. C. Q. W.; Adelaide
Phillipps, a Record.
Waterston, Robert Cassie.Me., 1812-1893. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston. Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture; Arthur
Lee and Tom Palmer.
Watson, Beriah Andre.N. Y., 1836-1892. A physician of
Jersey City. Amputations and their Complications; The Sportsman’s
Paradise, or the Lake Lands of Canada.
Watson, Elkanah.Ms., 1758-1842. A noted traveller and
agriculturist. Men and Times of the Revolution, his best-known work, is
mainly autobiographic. Other works of his are, Tour in Holland in 1784;
History of the Canals in the State of New York from 1788 to 1819; Rise
of Modern Agricultural Societies; History of Agricultural Societies on
the Berkshire System.
Watson, Henry Clay.Md., 1831-1869. A journalist of
Philadelphia, and subsequently of California. Camp-fires of the
Revolution; Camp-fires of Napoleon; Romance of History; Lives of the
Presidents; Nights in a Block-House; Old Bell of Independence; The
Yankee Teapot; Heroic Women of History; Universal Naval History. Le.
La.
Watson, James Craig.Ont., 1838-1880. A professor of
astronomy in the University of Wisconsin at the time of his death. He
discovered several asteroids and comets. Popular Treatise on Comets;
Theoretical Astronomy; Simple and Compound Interest Tables.
Watson, James Madison.N. Y., 1827-1900. An educator of
Elizabeth, New Jersey. Handbook of Gymnastics; Manual of Calisthenics,
and a series of Independent Readers.
Watson, John Fanning.N. J., 1780-1860. A bookseller,
and subsequently a banker, of Philadelphia. Historic Tales; Annals of
Philadelphia.
Watson, John Whittaker.N. Y., 1824-1890. A journalist of
New York city. Beautiful Snow and Other Poems; The Outcast and Other
Poems.
Watson, Paul Barron.N. J., 1861- ——. Grandson of J. F.
Watson, supra. A lawyer of Boston. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus;
Bibliography of Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America; The Swedish
Revolution under Gustavus Vasa, a very effective study of an important
epoch in Swedish history. Har. Lit.
Watson, Sereno.Ct., 1826-1892. A noted botanist of
Cambridge, curator of the Herbarium of Harvard University, 1888-92.
Bibliographical Index of North American Botany; Botany of California
(with Gray and Brewer).
Watson, William.Ms., 1834- ——. A professor of
mechanical engineering. Technical Education; Course in Descriptive
Geometry; Course in Shades and Shadows.
Watson, Winslow Cossoul.N. Y., 1803- ——. Son of E.
Watson, supra. Treatise on Practical Husbandry; Pioneer History
of the Champlain Valley; History of Essex County, New York.
Watterson, George.N. Y., 1783-1854. A Washington lawyer
who was the first librarian of Congress. Letters from Washington; The
Wanderer in Washington; Course of Study Preparatory to the Bar or
Senate; The Lawyer, or Man as He Ought Not to Be.
Watterson, Henry.D. C., 1840- ——. A journalist of
Louisville, long prominent as editor of The Courier-Journal. Oddities
of Southern Life and Character.
Wayland, Francis.N. Y., 1796-1865. A Baptist clergyman
eminent as a metaphysician, who was president of Brown University,
1827-55. Elements of Moral Science; Intellectual Philosophy; Human
Responsibility; Elements of Political Economy; Occasional Discourses;
Moral Law of Accumulation; Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural
Institution; Sermons to the Churches; Principles and Practice of
Baptist Churches; Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel. See
Allibone’s Dictionary; Lives by his sons, 1867, Murray, 1890.
Wayland, Heman Lincoln.R. I., 1830-1898. Son of F.
Wayland, supra. A Baptist clergyman, editor of The National
Baptist at Philadelphia, 1872-1894, and editor of The Examiner from
1894. Life and Labors of F. Wayland (with his brother); Faith and Works
of Charles Spurgeon.
Wayman, Alexander Washington.Md., 1821-1895. An African
Methodist bishop. My Recollections; Cyclopedia of African Methodism;
Wayman on Discipline.
Wead, Charles Kasson.N. Y., 1848- ——. An electrician
of Hartford. Aims and Methods of the Teaching of Physics; Lecture Notes
on Sound and Light.
Weaver, George Sumner.Vt., 1818- ——. A Universalist
clergyman. Lectures on Mental Science; Hopes and Helps for the Young;
Aims and Aids for Girls; The Ways of Life; The Christian Household; The
Open Way; Moses and Modern Science; The Heart of the Word; Lives and
Graves of Our Presidents.
Weaver, Jonathan.O., 1824-1901. A clergyman of
Ohio, bishop of the Church of the United Brethren. Discourses on
the Resurrection; Ministerial Salary; Divine Providence; Universal
Restoration not Sustained by the Word of God.
Webb, Alexander Stewart.N. Y., 1835- ——. Son of J. W.
Webb, infra. The president of the College of the City of New
York from 1869, and during the Civil War a general in the Federal army.
The Peninsula; McClellan’s Campaign of 1862. Scr.
Webb, Charles Henry. “John Paul.” N. Y., 1834- ——. A
journalist now living at Nantucket very popular as a humourist in the
earlier part of his career. Liffith Lank; St. Twel’mo’; John Paul’s
Book; Parodies in Prose and Verse; Vagrom Verse. See Hart’s American
Literature.Hou.
Webb, Mrs. Frances Isabel [Currie].N. J., 1857-1895. A
magazinist of New York city. A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day Books; A
Breath of Suspicion.
Webb, James Watson.N. Y., 1802-1884. A journalist of New
York city, minister to Brazil, 1861-69. Altowan, or Life in the Rocky
Mountains; Slavery and its Tendencies.
Webber, Charles Wilkins.Ky., 1819-1856. A journalist
and traveller who was killed in Walker’s expedition in Nicaragua.
Hunter-Naturalist; Tales of the Southern Border; Old Hicks the Guide;
Gold Mines of the Gila; Shot in the Eye; Adventures with Texas Rifle
Rangers; Wild Scenes and Song Birds; History of Mystery; Spiritual
Vampirism; Texan Virago; Wild Girl of Nebraska; Romance of Natural
History. See Bibliography of Texas.Lip.
Webber, Samuel.Ms., 1759-1810. An educator of Cambridge,
professor of mathematics in Harvard University, 1789-1806, and
president of the same, 1806-10. He published a System of Mathematics
that was for a long time the only text-book on that subject in use in
New England colleges.
Webber, Samuel.Ms., 1797-1880. Son of S. Webber,
supra. A physician of Charlestown, New Hampshire. Zogan, an
Indian Tale, in Verse; War, a Poem.
Webster, Albert Falvey.Ms., 1848-1876. A magazinist of
New York city the best of whose short stories are, Little Majesty; An
Operation in Money; Miss Eunice’s Glove.
Webster, Daniel.N. H., 1782-1852. A distinguished
statesman who was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. He
represented New Hampshire in Congress, 1813-17, and, removing to
Massachusetts in 1816, was a representative from that State, 1823-27.
He was a member of the Senate, 1827-41 and 1845-50, and secretary of
state, 1841-1843 and 1850-52. He died at Marshfield, Massachusetts,
October 24, 1852. He was a master of English style, the best of his
orations on especial occasions being those delivered at the second
Pilgrim centennial in 1820, on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker
Hill Monument in 1825, and the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson in 1826.
See Parton’s Famous Americans; Private Life of, by C. Lanman, supra;
Whipple’s Great Speeches of Webster, 1879; Atlantic Monthly, February,
1882; Lives by Curtis, Lyman, Smucker, Everett, Fletcher Webster,
Tefft, Lodge; Appletons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal
Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary; Reminiscences of, by Harvey;
Biographical Encyclopædia of Massachusetts.Co. Lit.
Webster, John White.Ms., 1793-1850. A chemist who was
professor at Harvard University, 1824-50, and was tried and executed in
1850 for the murder of Dr. Parkman, supra. Description of the
Island of St. Michael; Manual of Chemistry. See Reports of Trial by
Bemis and Stone.
Webster, Nathan Burnham.N. H., 1821-1900. An educator of
Norfolk, Virginia. Outlines of Chemistry.
Webster, Noah.Ct., 1758-1843. A famous lexicographer,
best known by his Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the
English Language (1828). His great dictionary is still published,
being revised and enlarged from time to time, and edited according to
the principles laid down by its originator. The unabridged edition
is now called the International Dictionary. Among his other works
are included, A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English
Language; The Prompter, or Common Sayings and Subjects; Rights of
Neutrals; Dissertations on the English Language; A Compendious
Dictionary of the English Language (1806). See North American
Review, April, 1829; Life by H. E. Scudder, 1882; Allibone’s
Dictionary.
Webster, Pelatiah.Ct., 1725-1797. A once famous
political economist of Philadelphia. Essays on Free Trade and Finance;
Essay on Credit; Political Essay on the Nature and Operation of Money,
are among his writings.
Webster, Richard.N. Y., 1811-1856. A Presbyterian
clergyman, pastor at Mauch Chunk, 1835-56. History of the Presbyterian
Church in America till 1760.
Webster, Warren.N. H., 1835-1896. An army surgeon during
the Civil War. The Army Medical Staff; Sympathetic Diseases of the Eye,
from the German of Mauthner.
Weed, Clarence Moores.O., 1864- ——. A professor of
zoölogy and entomology at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and
the Mechanic Arts, Durham, New Hampshire. Ten New England Blossoms and
their Insect Visitors; Insects and Insecticides; Fungi and Fungicides;
Spraying Crops. Hou. Ju.
Weed, Thurlow.N. Y., 1797-1882. A journalist of note
who founded The Albany Evening Journal in 1830. Letters from Europe;
Autobiography. See Memoir by Thurlow Weed Barnes.Hou.
Weeden, William Babcock.R. I., 1834- ——. A woollen
manufacturer of Providence. The Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws;
Social Law of Labor; The Economic and Social History of New England,
1620-1789. Hou. Rob.
Weeks, Edwin Lord.Ms., 1849-1903. An artist of note.
From the Black Sea through Persia and India. Har.
Weeks, John M——.Ct., 1788-1858. An inventor o£
Salisbury, Vermont. Manual on Bees; History of Salisbury.
Weeks, Robert Kelley.N. Y., 1840-1876. A lawyer and
verse-writer of New York city whose poems are not without individuality
and a very measurable degree of charm. Twenty Poems; Episodes and Lyric
Pieces. Ho.
Weeks, Stephen Beauregard.N. C., 1865- ——. An
historical writer. Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North
Carolina; Church and State in North Carolina; The Press of North
Carolina in the Eighteenth Century; Southern Quakers and Slavery. J.
H. U.
Weeks, William Raymond.Ct., 1783-1848. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Nine Sermons; Pilgrim’s Progress in
the Nineteenth Century; Scripture Catechism.
Weems, Mason Locke.Va., 1759-1825. An Episcopal
clergyman, famous as a book agent in his day, but at one time rector
of Pohick Church, Mount Vernon, where Washington attended. He was
an erratic personage whose regard for truth is far from being the
strongest feature of his biographies. His Life of Washington, which
as early as 1811 had reached an eleventh edition, is still the most
popular life of its subject, as from some points of view it is the most
entertaining. He wrote, also, Lives of Marion, Penn, and Franklin,
which are as untrustworthy as his more noted performance. Lip.
Weidemeyer, John William. 1819-1896. A writer of New York city.
Catalogue of North American Butterflies; Real and Ideal, a volume of
verse; Themes and Translations; American Fish and How to Catch Them;
From Alpha to Omega.
Weidner, Revere Franklin.Pa., 1851- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Augustana Seminary, Rock
Island, 1885-1891, and subsequently at the Lutheran Seminary, Chicago.
Commentary on Mark; Exegetical Theology; Historical Theology; System
of Dogmatic Theology; Grammar of New Testament Greek; Commentary on
the Hebrew Text of Obadiah; Method for Study of New Testament Greek.
Scr.
Weir, James.Ky., 1821- ——. A Kentucky romancer. Lonz
Powers, or the Regulators; Simon Kenton; Winter Lodge.
Weir, John Ferguson.N. Y., 1841- ——. The director of
the School of Fine Arts at Yale University from 1869, and professor of
painting and design there. The Way: the Nature and Means of Revelation.
Hou.
Weiss [wīss], John.Ms., 1818-1879. A Unitarian
clergyman of very radical views who was pastor at Watertown,
Massachusetts, and was prominent as an abolitionist. Wit, Humor, and
Shakespeare; American Religion; The Immortal Life; Life of Theodore
Parker. Rob.
Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer [Talley].Va., 1835- ——. A
verse-writer of New York city whose poems were first collected in 1859.
Weisse, John Adam.F., 1810-1888. A philologist, born
in Lorraine, who came to America in 1840, and ten years later settled
in New York city, where he was president of the New York Philological
Society. Key to the French Language; Origin, Progress, and Destiny of
the English Language and Literature; The Obelisk and Freemasonry.
Welby, Mrs. Amelia [Coppuck].Md., 1819-1852. A versifier
of Louisville whose sentimental lyrics attained an extraordinary
popularity in their author’s lifetime. Poems by Amelia. See
Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Coggeshall’s Poets of the West.
Welch, Adonijah Strong.Ct., 1821-1889. A lawyer and
educator of Michigan and Iowa, president of Iowa Agricultural College,
1869-83. Analysis of the English Sentence; Object Lessons; Talks on
Psychology; The Teacher’s Psychology.
Welch, John.O., 1805- ——. A jurist of Ohio.
Mathematical Curiosities; Index Digest of Ohio Decisions.
Welch, Philip Henry.N. Y., 1849-1889. A journalist
and humourist of New York city. The Tailor-made Girl; Said In Fun.
Scr.
Welch, Ransom Bethune.N. Y., c. 1825-1890. A
Presbyterian clergyman, professor of Christian theology at Auburn
Seminary. Faith and Modern Thought; Outlines of Christian Theology.
Welch, William Henry.Ct., 1850- ——. A Baltimore
physician, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University from
1884. General Pathology of Fever.
Weld, Mrs. Angelina Emily [Grimke].S. C., 1805-1879.
Wife of T. D. Weld, infra, and daughter of J. F. Grimke,
supra. Letters to Catharine Beecher, a review of the slavery
question; Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; Sacred Palmlands.
Weld, Horatio Hastings.Ms., 1811-1888. An Episcopal
clergyman of Riverton, New Jersey. Corrected Proofs; Life of Christ;
Women of the Scriptures.
Weld, Theodore Dwight.Ct., 1803-1895. A reformer of
Boston, long prominent as an abolitionist. The Bible Against Slavery;
American Slavery As It Is; Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the
United States.
Weller, George.Ms., 1790-1841. An Episcopal clergyman
once prominent in Tennessee and Mississippi. Vindication of the Church;
The Weller Tracts.
Welles, Charles Stuart.N. Y., 1848- ——. A physician
who has published Bohème (verse); Lilian; The New Marriage and Other
Uniform Laws.
Welles, Gideon.Ct., 1808-1878. A journalist and
politician, secretary of the navy, 1861-69. Lincoln and Seward.
Wellington, Arthur Mellen.Ms., 1847-1895. A civil
engineer of distinction. The Computation of Earthwork from Diagrams;
The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways; Car-Builders’
Dictionary; Field Work of Railway Location. See Annual Cyclopædia,
1895.Wil.
Wells, Mrs. Catherine Boott [Gannett].E., 1838- ——.
Daughter of E. S. Gannett, supra. A Boston essayist and novelist
who has contributed largely to periodicals. In the Clearings; Miss
Curtis; Two Modern Women; About People, a collection of essays; several
Sunday-school manuals of ethics and normal methods. Hou. Lip.
Wells, David Ames.Ms., 1828-1898. A distinguished writer
on economics. Familiar Science; Science of Common Things; Our Merchant
Marine; Primer of Tariff Reform; Practical Economics; Local Taxation;
Robinson Crusoe’s Money; Study of Mexico; Recent Economic Changes;
Relation of the Tariff to Wages; Principles of Taxation; Production and
Distribution of Wealth. Ap. Har. Put.
Wells, Henry Parkhurst.R. I., 1842- ——. A lawyer of
New York city. City Boys in the Woods; Fly Rods and Fly Tackle; The
American Salmon Fisherman. Har.
Wells, J—— C——. 18— - ——. A legal writer of Ohio.
Delineation of the Law of Limitation in Illinois; My Uncle Toby: his
Table Talks and Reflections; Questions of Law and Fact; Treatise on the
Doctrines of Res Adjudicata and Stare Decisis; On the Separate Property
of Married Women under the Separate Enabling Acts; E Pluribus Unum;
Magna Charta, or the Rise and Progress of Constitutional Civil Liberty
in England and America; The Jurisdiction of Courts; Powers and Duties
of Ohio County Commissioners.
Wells, Mrs. Kate Gannett.See Wells, Mrs. Catherine.
Wells, Samuel Roberts.Ct., 1820-1875. A phrenologist of
New York city, long a member of the publishing house of Fowler & Wells.
The New Physiognomy; Wedlock, or the Right Relations of the Sexes.
Wells, William Harvey.Ct., 1812-1885. An educator of
Chicago, superintendent of the city public schools, 1856-64. Historical
Authorship of English Grammar; several popular text-books on English
Grammar.
Wells, William Vincent.Ms., 1826- ——. Great-grandson
of S. Adams, supra. Explorations in Honduras; Walker’s
Expedition to Nicaragua; Life of Samuel Adams.
Welsh, Alfred Hix.O., 1850-1889. A professor of English
in Ohio State University from 1885. Development of English Literature
and Language; English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; The
Conflict of Ages; Man and His Relations; Plane Trigonometry. Sil.
Sc.
Welsh, Herbert.Pa., 1851- ——. A philanthropist of
Philadelphia, prominent as a champion of the rights of the Indians.
Civilization among the Sioux Indians; Four Weeks among some of the
Sioux Tribes; A Visit to the Navajo, Pueblo, and Hualpais Indians.
Wendell, Barrett.Ms., 1855- ——. An assistant professor
of English at Harvard University. The Duchess Emilia, a romance;
Rankell’s Remains, a novel; Life of Cotton Mather, supra;
English Composition; Stelligeri, and Other Essays; William Shakspere,
a Study in Elizabethan Literature; Ralegh in Guiana, a play. Do.
Scr.
Wesselhoeft, Conrad.G., 1834- ——. A well-known
homœopathic physician of Boston, professor of pathology and
therapeutics in the Boston University School of Medicine, who has
translated Hahnemann’s Organon and contributed extensively to
homœopathic journals.
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster [Pope].Ms.,
1840- ——. Wife of C. Wesselhoeft, supra. A Boston writer
of popular juvenile tales. Jerry the Blunderer; Sparrow the Tramp;
Flipwing the Spy; Old Rough the Miser; The Winds, the Woods, and the
Wanderer; Frowzle, the Runaway. Rob.
West, Andrew Fleming.Pa., 1853- ——. A professor of
Latin in Princeton College from 1883. The Philobiblion of Richard de
Bury; Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools. Scr.
West, Mary Allen.Il., 1837-1892. An Illinois educator
who was Knox County superintendent of schools, 1873-1892. Childhood:
its Care and Culture.
West, Nathaniel.I., 1794-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Philadelphia. The Ark of God the Safety of the Nation; Popery the
Prop of European Despotism; Babylon the Great; Right and Left Hand
Blessings of God; Complete Analysis of the Whole Bible.
West, Stephen.Ct., 1735-1819. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1759-1819. Essay on
Moral Agency; Life of Reverend Samuel Hopkins, supra; Evidence
of the Divinity of Christ; Duty and Obligation of Christians to Marry
Only in the Lord. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Westcott, Thompson.Pa., 1820-1888. A Philadelphia
journalist, editor of The Sunday Dispatch, 1848-84. Life of John Fitch,
the Inventor of the Steamboat; The Tax-payer’s Guide; Official Guide to
Philadelphia; Historic Mansions of Philadelphia. Co.
Weston, Mrs. Mary Catherine [North].N. Y., 1822-1882.
Calvary Catechism; Synopsis of the Bible; Jewish Antiquities; Biography
of Old and New Testament Characters. Dut.
Weston, Roxana. 1800-1891. A verse-writer of Skowhegan, Maine,
whose poems were published in 1889.
Wetherell, Elizabeth.See Warner, Susan.
Wetherill, Charles Mayer.Pa., 1825-1871. A professor of
chemistry at Lehigh University, 1866-71; The Manufacture of Vinegar.
Wetherill, Julie K.See Baker, Mrs. J.
Wetmore, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bisland].Ts., 1863- ——. A
journalist of New York city. A Flying Trip Around the World. Har.
Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery.Ct., 1798-1876. A once
prominent citizen of New York city. Lexington, and Other Fugitive
Poems; Observations on the War with Mexico.
Wharey, James.N. C., 1789-1842. A Presbyterian clergyman
of Goochland County, Virginia. Baptism; Sketches of Church History.
See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.Pa., 1845- ——. A
Philadelphia writer. The Wharton Family; Virgilia; St. Bartholomew’s
Eve; Colonial Days and Dames; Through Colonial Doorways; A Last Century
Maid, and Other Stories for Children; Martha Washington, a biography.
Lip. Scr.
Wharton, Charles Henry.Md., 1748-1833. An Episcopal
clergyman of Burlington, New Jersey, rector of St. Mary’s Church,
1798-1833. Reply to Bishop Carroll’s Address to the Roman Catholics
of America; Proofs of the Divinity of Christ; Concise View of the
Principal Points of Controversy between Protestant and Roman Catholic
churches.
Wharton, Francis.Pa., 1820-1889. Son of T. I.
Wharton, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, professor
of ecclesiastical and international law in the Episcopal Theological
School at Cambridge. Criminal Law of the United States; Medical
Jurisprudence; State Trials of the United States; The Silence of
Scripture; Treatise on Theism; Precedents of Indictments; The Law of
Homicide in the United States; The Conflict of Laws; Law of Agency and
Agents; Digest of International Law (with M. Stillé, supra); The
Law of Negligence; Commentary on the Law of Evidence in Civil Issues;
The Law of Contracts. Lip.
Wharton, Henry.Pa., 1827-1880. Son of T. I. Wharton,
infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Practical and Elementary
Treatise on the Law of Vicinage.
Wharton, Thomas Isaac.Pa., 1791-1856. A lawyer of
Philadelphia. Digest of Cases in United States Court, Third District;
Reports of Cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Memoir of William
Rawle, supra.
Wharton, Thomas Isaac.Pa., 1859-1896. Son of H. Wharton,
supra. A journalist. A Latter Day Saint; Hannibal of New York;
Bobbo.
Wheat, John Thomas.D. C., 1800-1888. An Episcopal
clergyman in Tennessee who published a very popular Preparation for
Holy Communion.
Wheatley, Charles Moore.E., 1822-1882. A mineralogist of
Phœnixville, Pennsylvania, who published a Catalogue of the Shells of
the United States.
Wheatley, Phillis.See Peters, Mrs.
Wheatley, Richard.E., 1831- ——. A Methodist clergyman
of New Jersey. Cathedrals and Abbeys in Great Britain and Ireland.
Har.
Wheaton, Henry.R. I., 1785-1848. A diplomatist and an
eminent authority upon international law, chargé d’affaires to Denmark,
1827-35, minister to Prussia, 1835-45. History of the Progress of the
Law of Nations; Elements of International Law (completed by Lawrence);
History of the Northmen; Reports of Cases in United States Supreme
Court; Digest of Supreme Court Decisions from 1789 to 1820; Life of
William Pinkney in Sparks’s American Biography. See Westminster
Review, July, 1847; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Whedon, Daniel Denison.N. Y., 1808-1885. A Methodist
clergyman, editor of The Methodist Quarterly Review, 1856-84. The
Freedom of the Will; Commentary on the New Testament; Commentary on the
Old Testament; Essays, Reviews, and Discourses; Statements: Theological
and Critical. Meth.
Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter. “Nym Crynkle.” N. Y.,
1835-1903. A dramatic and musical critic of New York city. The
Chronicles of Milwaukee; The Twins, a comedy; The Primrose Path of
Dalliance, a theatrical tale.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide.Ms., 1854- ——. A professor of
comparative philology at Cornell University from 1886, and of Greek
also from 1888. Life of Alexander the Great; The Greek Noun Accents;
Introduction to Study of History and Language. Put.
Wheeler, Charles Gardiner.Ms., 1855- ——. Nephew
of W. A. Wheeler, infra. A writer formerly of Winchendon,
Massachusetts, and later of Topsham, Maine. Who Wrote It? a literary
index, and Familiar Allusions, both begun by his uncle, were completed
by him. The Course of Empire: Outlines of the Chief Political Changes
in the History of the World. Hou.
Wheeler, Charles Stearns.Me., 1816-1843. A classical
scholar who published an edition of Herodotus from the text of
Schweighäuser.
Wheeler, Crosby Howard.Me., 1823-1896. A missionary to
Turkey. Little Children in Eden; Letters from Eden; Ten Years on the
Euphrates; Odds and Ends; Grace Illustrated.
Wheeler, David Hilton.N. Y., 1829-1902. A Methodist
clergyman, president of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania,
1883-87. Brigandage in South Italy; By-Ways of Literature; Our
Industrial Utopia and its Unhappy Citizens. Mg.
Wheeler, Henry Nathan.Ms., 1850- ——. Formerly an
instructor in mathematics at Harvard University and now engaged
in educational publishing work in Boston. Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry; The Elements of Logarithms; Second Lessons in Arithmetic.
Gi. Hou.
Wheeler, John Hill.N. C., 1806-1882. A diplomatist
who was minister to Nicaragua, 1854-57. History of North Carolina;
Legislative Manual of North Carolina; Reminiscences and Memoirs of
North Carolina.
Wheeler, Junius Brutus.N. C., 1830-1886. Brother of J.
H. Wheeler, supra. A military engineer, professor at West Point,
1866-85. Civil Engineering; Art and Science of War; Elements of Field
Fortifications; Military Engineering.
Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Sparks.E., 1835- ——. A Philadelphia
writer. Poems for the Fireside; Modern Cosmogony and the Bible.
Meth.
Wheeler, William Adolphus.Ms., 1833-1874. A librarian
of Boston who, besides editing an edition of Webster’s Dictionary, was
author of Noted Names of Fiction; Familiar Allusions; Who Wrote It? a
literary index. Hou. Le.
Wheelwright, John Tyler.Ms., 1856- ——. A Boston
lawyer. Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge (with F. Stimson, supra); A
Child of the Century, a novel; A Bad Penny. Lam. Scr.
Wheildon, William Willder.Ms., 1805-1892. A journalist
of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1827-70, and long a resident of Concord,
in the same State. Letters from Nahant; Contributions to Thought; New
History of the Battle of Bunker Hill; The Arctic Regions; Curiosities
of History.
Whelan, James.I., 1823-1878. A Roman Catholic bishop of
Nashville. Catena Aurena, or Papal Infallibility no Novelty.
Whelpley, Samuel.Ms., 1766-1817. A Baptist clergyman
(from 1806 Presbyterian) and educator of New Jersey. Letters on
Capital Punishment; a once popular Compend of History; The Triangle, a
theological discussion.
Whipple, Edwin Percy.Ms., 1819-1886. A Boston essayist
and critic, whose writing was as discriminating as it was vigourous
and epigrammatic in style. Character and Characteristic Men; Literature
and Life; Essays and Reviews; Success and its Conditions; Literature of
the Age of Elizabeth; Recollections of Eminent Men, with Other Papers;
American Literature, and Other Papers; Outlooks on Society, Literature,
and Politics; Rufus Choate, a volume of personal recollections. Har.
Hou.
Whipple, Squire.Ms., 1804-1888. A civil engineer of
note. The Way to Happiness; Treatise on Bridge Building; The Doctrine
of Central Forces.
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill.Ms., 1834-1903. An artist
who from 1863 to 1892 lived in London, and in Paris from the latter
date. Ten O’Clock; The Gentle Art of Making Enemies. Hou.
Whitaker, Alexander.E., 1588-after 1613. An Episcopal
clergyman who came to Virginia in 1611. He baptized Pocahontas, and
officiated at her wedding. Good Newes from Virginia, one of the
very first books written in the colony. See Tyler’s American
Literature.
Whitaker, Epher.N. J., 1820- ——, A Presbyterian
clergyman, pastor at Southold, Long Island, from 1851. The War of
Death; New Fruits from an Old Field; Ready for Duty; Collection of
Original Hymns; History of Southold, 1640-1740; Old Town Records.
Whitaker, Mrs. Mary Scrimgeour [Furman] [Miller].S. C.,
1820- ——. A New Orleans writer. Poems; Albert Hasting, a novel.
Whitaker, Nathaniel.L. I., 1732-1795. A Presbyterian
clergyman in New England and Virginia, popular in the colonial period.
Discourses on Reconciliation; Discourses on Toryism, which were widely
read.
Whitcher, Mrs. Frances Miriam [Berry].N. Y., 1812-1852.
A still popular humourist who was the wife of an Episcopal clergyman in
Elmira, New York. The Widow Bedott Papers; Widow Spriggins, and Other
Sketches.
White, Andrew Dickson.N. Y., 1832- ——. A distinguished
diplomatist and educator, minister to Germany, 1879-81, and to Russia,
1892, president of Cornell University, 1867-85, appointed ambassador
to Germany in 1897. Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History; The New
Germany; History of the Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of History
and Politics; Studies in General History; Paper Money Inflation in
France; The Warfare of Science with Theology. Ap.
White, Carlos.Vt., 1842- ——. Ecce Femina, an Attempt
to Solve the Woman Question.
White, Catherine Ann.N. Y., 1825-1878. A former Superior
of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York city. The Students’
Mythology; Classical Literature; Bible Literature.
White, Charles.Ind., 1795-1861. A Congregational
clergyman and educator, president of Wabash College, Crawfordsville,
Indiana, 1841-1861. Essays in Literature and Ethics.
White, Charles Abiathar.Ms., 1826- ——. The State
geologist of Iowa, 1865-70, and on the United States Geological Survey
from 1882. Report of Iowa Geological Survey; Physical Geography of Iowa.
White, Charles Ignatius.Md., 1807-1877. A Roman Catholic
clergyman of Washington, long pastor of St. Matthew’s Church. Life
of Mrs. Eliza Seton, supra. He translated, from the French,
Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, and other works.
White, Daniel Appleton.Ms., 1776-1861. A jurist of
Salem, Massachusetts. The Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Court of
Probate; New England Congregationalism in its Origin and Purity; Eulogy
on Nathaniel Bowditch.
White, Eliza Orne.N. H., 1856- ——. A writer of
Brookline, Massachusetts. Miss Brooks; When Molly was Six, a juvenile
tale; Winterborough; A Little Girl of Long Ago; The Coming of Theodora.
Hou. Rob.
White, Mrs. Ellen G—— [Harmon].Me., 1828- ——. Wife
of James White, infra. The Spirit of Prophecy.
White, Emerson Eldridge.O., 1829-1902. An Ohio educator,
superintendent of the Cincinnati public schools from 1883. The
Elements of Pedagogy; School Management.
White, Greenough.Ms., 1863-1901. An Episcopal clergyman
and educator, professor of English at the University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee, 1885-1887, and professor of ecclesiastical history
and polity there from 1894. Sketch of the Philosophy of American
Literature; The Rise of Papal Supremacy; Outline of the Philosophy of
English Literature. Gi.
White, Henry.Ms., 1790-1858. A Congregational clergyman
of Maine and New Hampshire, who published, The Early History of New
England.
White, Henry Clay.Md., 1850- ——. The State chemist of
Georgia from 1880. Complete History of the Cotton Plant; Elementary
Geology of Tennessee (with MacAdoo).
White, Horace.N. H., 1834- ——. A journalist, editor of
The Chicago Tribune, 1864-74, and since 1883 one of the editors of The
New York Evening Post. The Silver Question; The Tariff Question; Coin’s
Financial Fool; Money and Banking Illustrated by American History; The
Gold Standard. Gi.
White, James.Me., 1821- ——. A Seventh Day Adventist
elder who published Life Incidents of the Great Advent Movement.
White, James Terry.Ms., 1845- ——. A publisher of New
York city, but formerly a resident of San Francisco. His volumes of
original verse comprise, Christmas Greeting; Bouquet of California
Flowers; Flowers from Arcady; Captive Memories.
White, John.Ms., 1677-1760. A Congregational clergyman,
pastor at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1703-60. The Gospel Treasure in
Earthen Vessels; New England’s Lamentations for the Decay of Godliness
(1735).
White, John Blake.S. C., 1781-1857. An artist, lawyer,
and dramatist of Charleston. Foscari; Mysteries of the Castle;
Intemperance; Modern Honor; Triumph of Liberty.
White, John Silas.Ms., 1847- ——. An educator of New
York city, master of the Berkeley School from 1880. Boys’ and Girls’
Plutarch; Herodotus and Pliny. Gi.
White, John Williams.O., 1849- ——. A professor of
Greek at Harvard University from 1877. Greek and Latin at Sight; First
Lessons in Greek; The Beginner’s Greek Book; An Illustrated Dictionary
to Xenophon’s Anabasis (with M. H. Morgan). Gi.
White, Matthew.N. Y., 1857- ——. An editor and novelist
of New York city. One of the Profession; The Affair at Islington; A
Born Aristocrat.
White, Pliny Holton.Ct., 1822-1869. A Unitarian
clergyman of Coventry, Vermont, but prior to 1859 a lawyer there.
History of Coventry.
White, Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth [Waterman]. 18— - ——. Portraits
of My Married Friends; From Infancy to Womanhood, a Book for Young
Mothers; What Will the World Say?
White, Richard Grant.N. Y., 1822-1885. An eminent
Shakespearean scholar and littérateur of New York city. His critical
twelve-volume edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the
Riverside edition in 1883. His original works comprise, Words and Their
Uses; Every-Day English; England Without and Within; Biographical and
Critical Handbook of Christian Art; Shakespeare’s Scholar; Memoirs
of Shakespeare; Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel of Peace, a
political satire; Revelations: a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace;
The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, a novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves
of the Gorillas; The American View of the Copyright Question; The
Chronicles of Gotham. See Atlantic Monthly, February, 1882; Foley’s
American Authors.Hou.
White, Sallie Joy.See White, Mrs. Sarah.
White, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth [Joy].Me., 18— - ——. A
Boston journalist. Housekeepers and Homemakers; Business Openings for
Girls. Lo.
White, William.Pa., 1748-1836. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Memoir of the Episcopal Church;
Lectures on the Catechism; Comparative View of the Controversy Between
Calvinists and Arminians, are among his writings. See Life by Bird
Wilson, 1839; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.Dut.
White, William Allen.Ks., 1868- ——. The Real Issue,
and Other Stories; Stratagems and Spoils.
White, William Charles.Ms., 1777-1818. A lawyer and
dramatist of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Country Cousin; The Poor
Lodger; Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts.
White, William N——.N. Y., 1819-1861. A bookseller of
Athens, Georgia, who edited The Southern Cultivator. Gardening for the
South; Scientific Gardening.
Whitehead, Charles Edward.N. Y., 1829- ——. The
Campfires of the Everglades, or Wild Sports in the South.
Whitehead, William Adee.N. J., 1810-1884. A prominent
citizen of Newark, New Jersey. Biographical Sketch of William Franklin;
Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy; East Jersey Under
the Proprietary Governments.
Whiteley, Mrs. Isabel [Nixon].N. Y., 1859- ——. A
Philadelphia writer. The Falcon of Langéac, a romance. Cop.
Whitfield, Henry.E., 1597-1658. A Puritan clergyman
who came to New England in 1637, and was one of the founders of the
New Haven colony. He returned to England in 1650. Helps to stir up to
Christian Duties; The Light Appearing; Strength out of Weakness.
Whiting, Charles Goodrich.Vt., 1842- ——. A journalist
of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the editorial staff of The
Republican. The Saunterer: Essays on Nature. Hou.
Whiting, Henry.Ms., c. 1790-1851. A United States
army officer. Otway, the Son of the Forest, a Poem; Sanilæ, a Poem; The
Age of Steam; Life of Zebulon Pike, in Sparks’s American Biography.
Whiting, Lilian.N. Y., 1855- ——. A Boston journalist.
From Dreamland Sent, verse; The World Beautiful, two collections of
essays; After her Death; A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Kate
Field: A Record. Lit.
Whiting, Samuel.E., 1597-1679. A Puritan clergyman,
pastor at Lynn, Massachusetts, 1636-79. Oratio quam Comitijs Cantab.
Americanis, etc.; The Last Judgment; Abraham Interceding for Sodom.
Whiting, William.Ms., 1813-1873. Descendant of S.
Whiting, supra. A Boston jurist whose chief work, The War Powers
of the President and the Legislative Powers of Congress, has been
widely read. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.Le.
Whitlock, George Clinton.Vt., 1808- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and educator of Iowa. Elements of Geometry; New System of
Surveying.
Whitman, Bernard.Ms., 1796-1834. A Unitarian clergyman,
pastor at Waltham, Massachusetts, 1826-34, and prominent as a
controversialist. On Denying the Lord Jesus; Letters on Religious
Liberty; Village Sermons; Friendly Letters to a Universalist. See
Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Memoir by J. Whitman,
infra.
Whitman, Charles Otis.Me., 1842- ——. A naturalist of
note, head professor of zoölogy in the University of Chicago from 1892.
He established The Journal of Morphology in 1887. Methods of Research
in Microscopical Anatomy and Embryology.
Whitman, Jason.Ms., 1798-1848. Brother of B. Whitman,
supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Portland, Maine. Memoir of B.
Whitman, supra; Young Man’s Assistant; Young Lady’s Aid to
Usefulness; Week Day Religion; Discussions on the Lord’s Prayer.
Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen [Power].R. I., 1813-1878. A
poet of Providence whose Still Day in Autumn, her finest effort, still
finds an honoured place in anthologies. Hours of Life, and Other Poems;
Edgar Poe and his Critics. A complete edition of her poems appeared in
1879. See Easy Chair of Harper’s Magazine, September, 1878.
Whitman, Walter [commonly Walt]. N. Y., 1819-1892.
A poet regarding whose claims to the title much controversy has raged.
During the Civil War he served as a volunteer nurse in the Washington
hospitals, and, after holding a government clerkship till 1873,
removed to Camden, New Jersey, where the rest of his life was passed.
Leaves of Grass, his first book, appeared in 1855, a vigourous protest
against established rules of versification in its utter formlessness.
Drum Taps, which included the now famous Lincoln elegies, When Lilacs
Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, and O Captain, My Captain, followed in
1865. The republication of his poems in England in 1868 aroused instant
attention there, and excited extravagant praise in some quarters.
His rejection of rhyme and metre will probably always repel the mass
of readers. His later works include, After All Not to Create Only;
A Passage to India; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free; Two Rivulets;
November Boughs; Good Bye My Fancy; Sands at Seventy; Specimen Days and
Collect; in prose, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate; Democratic Vistas;
Memoranda During the War. See O’Connor’s Good Gray Poet; Burroughs’s
Notes on Whitman, and Study of Whitman; Walt Whitman, by R. M. Bucke;
Whitman, by W. Clarke; Whitman: a Study of Democracy, by Triggs;
Whitman: a Study, by J. H. Symonds; Annual Cyclopedia, 1892; Life of by
W. S. Kennedy, supra; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; In Re Walt Whitman;
Foley’s American Authors; T. Donaldson’s Walt Whitman the man.
Whitmarsh, Caroline.See Guild, Mrs.
Whitmore, William Henry.Ms., 1836-1900. A genealogist of
Boston. American Genealogy; Elements of Heraldry; History of the Old
State House, Boston; and many genealogies.
Whitney, Mrs. Adeline Dutton [Train].Ms., 1824- ——. A
very popular writer for girls. She has lived at Milton, Massachusetts,
for many years. Friendly Letters to Girl Friends; Faith Gartney’s
Girlhood; The Gayworthys; A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite’s Life;
Hitherto; We Girls; The Other Girls; Real Folks; Sights and Insights;
Odd or Even?; Bonnyborough; Boys at Chequasset; Homespun Yarns;
Ascutney Street; A Golden Gossip; Patience Strong’s Outings; Mother
Goose for Grown Folks. She has also written, The Open Mystery: A
Reading of the Mosaic Story; Just How, a Key to the Cook Books; and
in verse, Pansies; Daffodils; Holy Tides; Bird Talk; White Memories.
See Vedder’s American Writers.Hou.
Whitney, Anne.Ms., 1821- ——. A Boston sculptor and
poet. Her only volume, Poems, appeared in 1859. Bertha is her best
known poem.
Whitney, Caspar.Ms., 1861- ——. A journalist of
New York city, a prominent advocate of amateur sports. A Sporting
Pilgrimage; On Snow Shoes to the Barren Grounds. Har.
Whitney, James Amaziah.N. Y., 1839- ——. An
agricultural chemist. Relation of the Patent Laws to Development of
Agriculture; The Chinese and the Chinese Question; Shobab, a Tale of
Bethesda in verse; Sonnets and Lyrics; The Children of Lamech (verse).
Whitney, [Joseph] Ernest.Ct., 1858-1893. An instructor
in English for some years at Yale University. Poems of the Pike’s Peak
Region (1890).
Whitney, Josiah Dwight.Ms., 1819-1896. A professor
of geology at Harvard University from 1865, and State geologist of
California, 1860-74. The United States; The Metallic Wealth of the
United States; Barometric Hypsometry; Polypetalæ and Gamopetalæ;
Contributions to American Geology; Names and Places, Studies in
Geography and Topographical Nomenclature; Geological Survey of
California; Yosemite Guide Book; Geological Survey of Iowa. Lip.
Lit.
Whitney, Mrs. Louisa [Goddard].E., 1819-1882. Wife
of J. D. Whitney, supra. The Burning of the Convent; Peasy’s
Childhood: an Autobiography.
Whitney, Peter.Ms., 1744-1815. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Northborough, Massachusetts, 1767-1815. History of
Worcester County (1793).
Whitney, Thomas Richard.N. Y., 1804-1858. A journalist
of New York city, member of Congress, 1855-57. The Ambuscade, a Poem;
Defence of the American Policy.
Whitney, William Dwight.Ms., 1827-1894. Brother of J.
D. Whitney, supra. A philologist of eminence, professor of
Sanskrit at Yale University from 1854, and of comparative philology,
also, from 1870. He edited The Century Dictionary. Language and the
Study of Language; Compendious German Grammar; Oriental and Linguistic
Studies; Life and Growth of Language; Essentials of English Grammar;
Sanskrit Grammar; Practical French Grammar; Roots, Verb Forms, and
Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language; Max Müller’s Science of
Language. See Atlantic Monthly, March, 1895.Ap. Gi. Ho.
Scr.
Whiton, James Morris.Ms., 1833- ——. Grandson of J. M.
Whiton, infra. A Congregational clergyman of New York city. New
Points to Old Texts; Is Eternal Punishment Endless?; The Gospel of the
Resurrection; Beyond the Shadow; The Divine Satisfaction; Early Pupils
of the Spirit; The Evolution of Revelation; The Law of Liberty; Turning
Points of Thought and Conduct; Gloria Patri. Wh.
Whiton, John Milton.Ms., 1788-1856. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Antrim, New Hampshire. Sketches of the Early History of
New Hampshire, 1623-1833.
Whitsitt, William Heth.Tn., 1841- ——. A Baptist
clergyman of Louisville, professor of ecclesiastical history at the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1872. History of the Rise of
Infant Baptism; History of Communion Among Baptists; Life and Times of
Jude Caleb Wallace; A Question in Baptist History. Mor.
Whittaker, Frederick.E., 1838- ——. Son of H.
Whittaker, infra. A Federal cavalry officer during the Civil
War, and subsequently a journalist of New York city. A Defence of Dime
Novels by a Writer of Them; Life of General Custer; Cadet Button, a
Tale of American Army Life; Bel Rubio, a novel.
Whittaker, Henry.W., 1808-1881. A law-office clerk in
New York city. Practice and Pleading Under the Codes; Analysis of
Decisions in Practice and Pleading.
Whittaker, James Thomas.O., 1843-1900. A prominent
surgeon of Cincinnati. Lectures on Physiology; History of
Tuberculosis; Theory and Practice of Medicine. Clke.
Whittemore, Thomas.Ms., 1800-1861. A Universalist
clergyman of Boston. History of Modern Universalism; Notes and
Illustrations of the Parables; Commentaries on Daniel and Revelations;
Life of Hosea Ballou; Autobiography.
Whittier, John Greenleaf.Ms., 1807-1892. A famous New
England poet, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807, and
all his life a member of the Society of Friends. He was one of the
early abolitionists, and edited The Pennsylvania Freeman, 1838-39.
After 1840 he lived at Amesbury, Massachusetts. Among the most
characteristic of his shorter poems are, My Soul and I; The Eternal
Goodness; In School Days; The Last Walk in Autumn; The Playmates; My
Psalm. His prose writings include, The Stranger in Lowell (1845); The
Supernaturalism of New England (1847); Leaves from Margaret Smith’s
Journal (1849); Old Portraits and Modern Sketches (1850); Literary
Recreations and Miscellanies (1854). His work in verse comprises,
Legends of New England (1831); Moll Pitcher (1832); Mogg Megone (1836);
Poems (1838); Lays of My Home (1843); Voices of Freedom (1849); Songs
of Labor (1850); The Chapel of the Hermits (1853); A Sabbath Scene
(1853); The Panorama (1856); Home Ballads and Poems (1860); In War Time
(1862); National Lyrics (1865); Snow-Bound (1866); The Tent on the
Beach (1867); Among the Hills (1868); Ballads of New England (1870);
Miriam (1870); The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872); Hazel Blossoms (1875);
Mabel Martin (1876); Centennial Hymn (1876); The Vision of Echard, and
Other Poems (1878); The King’s Missive, and Other Poems (1881); The
Bay of Seven Islands, and Other Poems (1883); St. Gregory’s Guest, and
Other Poems (1886); At Sundown (1890-92). He was also the compiler of
Songs of Three Centuries; Child-Life; and Child-Life in Prose; and the
editor of John Woolman’s Journal. See Scribner’s Magazine, August,
1879; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1883; Century Magazine, December,
1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Steuart’s Letters to Living
Authors; Lives by Underwood, Brown, Pickard, W. J. Linton; Personal
Recollections of, by Mrs. Claflin; Whittier: Notes of his Life and of
his Friendships, in Authors and Friends, by Mrs. Fields; Memorial of,
from his Native City, 1893; Allibone’s Dictionary; Annual Cyclopedia,
1892; Whittier, by B. O. Flower; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; American
Song, by A. B. Simonds; Foley’s American Authors.Hou.
Whittingham, William Rollinson.N. Y., 1805-1879. The
fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland. Fifteen Sermons. See
Life, by W. F. Brand.Ap.
Whittlesey, Mrs. Sarah Johnson [Cogswell].N. C.,
1825-1896. Heart Drops from Memory’s Urn; The Stranger’s Stratagem, and
Other Stories; Herbert Hamilton; Bertha the Beauty; Spring Buds and
Summer Blossoms.
Wiard, Norman.Ont., 1826-1896. An inventor and military
engineer of distinction whose specialty was the manufacture of
ordnance. The Solution of the Ordnance Problem.
Wickersham, James Pyle.Pa., 1825-1891. An educator of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, State superintendent of public instruction,
1866-81, minister to Denmark, 1882. School Economy; Methods of
Instruction. Lip.
Wickes, Stephen.L. I., 1813-1889. A physician of Orange,
New Jersey. Living and Dying: their Psychics and Physics; History
of Medicine in New Jersey; Sepulture: its History, Methods, and
Requisites; History of the Newark Mountains.
Wickes, Thomas.N. Y., 1814-1870. Brother of S. Wickes,
supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Marietta, Ohio. Exposition of
the Apocalypse; The Son of Man; The Household; Economy of the Ages.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas.See Riggs, Mrs.
Wigglesworth, Edward.Ms., 1693-1765. Son of M.
Wigglesworth, infra. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis
professor of theology at Harvard University, 1722-65. An Answer to Mr.
Whitefield’s Reply to the College Testimony; Doctrine of Reprobation
Briefly Considered, are among his writings.
Wigglesworth, Edward.Ms., 1732-1794. Son of E.
Wigglesworth, supra. A Congregational clergyman who succeeded
his father in the Hollis professorship at Harvard University in 1765.
Calculations on American Population; Authority of Tradition Considered.
Wigglesworth, Edward.Ms., 1804-1876. Grandson of E.
Wigglesworth, 2d. A lawyer and merchant of Boston who published
Reflections, a collection of apothegms. El.
Wigglesworth, Michael.E., 1631-1705. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Malden, Massachusetts, 1656-1705. The Day of Doom,
his chief work, appearing in 1662, was for more than a century the most
popular poem in New England. It is an epic of the Last Judgment, not
without gleams of poetic merit, but full of what must be styled savage
theology. Meat Out of the Eater is a much inferior poem, but was very
popular for a long period. God’s Controversy with New England, also in
verse, and A Short Discourse on Eternity, comprise his remaining works.
Tyler’s American Literature; Life by John Ward Dean.
Wight, Orlando Williams.N. Y., 1824-1888. A Universalist
clergyman and physician, appointed State geologist of Wisconsin in
1874. The Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton; Lives and Letters of
Abelard and Héloise; Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good;
Maxims of Public Health; People and Countries Visited in a Winding
Journey round the World. Ap. Hou.
Wight, Peter Bonnett.N. Y., 1838- ——. An architect of
New York city. One Phase in the Revival of Fine Arts in America.
Wikoff, Henry.Pa., 1813-1884. A writer whose life after
1834 was passed mainly in Europe. He was commonly known as Chevalier
Wikoff. Reminiscences of an Idler; Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Life
of Count d’Orsay; My Courtship and its Consequences; Adventures of
a Roving Diplomatist; A New Yorker in the Foreign Office; The Four
Civilizations.
Wilbour, Charles Edwin.R. I., 1833-1896. An Egyptologist
who has published a Life of Victor Hugo and a number of translations
from the French.
Wilbur, Hervey.Ms., 1787-1852. A Congregational
clergyman and educator of Massachusetts among whose writings are,
Elements of Astronomy; Lexicon of Useful Knowledge.
Wilcox, Cadmus Marcellus.N. C., 1826-1890. A United
States army officer. Rifles and Rifle Practice; History of the Mexican
War.
Wilcox, Carlos.N. H., 1794-1827. A Congregational
clergyman of Hartford, popular as a verse-writer in his day. The Age of
Benevolence. See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Griswold’s Poets
and Poetry of America.
Wilcox, Mrs. Ella [Wheeler].Wis., 1855- ——. A very
popular verse-writer and novelist of New York city. Maurine, and Other
Poems; Drops of Water, temperance poems; Shells; Poems of Passion;
Poems of Pleasure; The Song of the Sandwich; The Beautiful Land of Nod,
poems and prose for children; Custer, and Other Poems. Her prose work
includes, Men, Women, and Emotions; Mal Moulée; Was It Suicide?; A
Double Life; Sweet Danger; Perdita and Other Stories; An Erring Woman’s
Love; Men, Women, and Emotions; Adventures of Miss Volney. See
Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Wilcox, Marrion.Ga., 1858- ——. A New Haven writer.
Real People; Señora Villena.
Wilcox, Phineas Bacon.Ct., 1798-1863. A lawyer of
Columbus, Ohio. Condensed Reports of Ohio Supreme Court; Ohio Forms and
Practice; A Few Thoughts by a Member of the Bar; Practical Forms in
Action, etc.; Practical Forms Under Code of Civil Procedure.
Wilde, Richard Henry.I., 1789-1847. A New Orleans lawyer
who wrote Conjectures and Researches Concerning Tasso, but is known
chiefly as the author of the graceful lyric, My Life is Like the Summer
Rose. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Mrs. Johnson’s Our
Familiar Songs.
Wilder, Alexander.N. Y., 1823- ——. A physician and
journalist of New York city. Lectures on Scientific and Literary
Subjects; Intermarriage of Kindred; Life Eternal; The Ganglionic
Nervous System, are his principal writings.
Wilder, Burt Green.Ms., 1841- ——. A physician,
professor of physiology at Cornell University from 1867. What Young
People Should Know; Emergencies; Health Notes for Students. Est.
Put.
Wilder, Daniel Webster.Ms., 1832- ——. A Kansas lawyer
and journalist who has published The Annals of Kansas.
Wildwood, Will.See Pond, F. E.
Wiley, Calvin Henderson.N. C., 1819-1887. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator in the Carolinas. Adventures of Old Dan Tucker;
Utopia, a Picture of Early Life at the South; Scriptural Views of
National Trials; Alamance, a novel; Roanoke, or Where is Utopia? See
Hart’s American Literature.
Wiley, Harvey Washington.Ind., 1844- ——. A chemist of
note, chief of the chemical division of the United States Department
of Agriculture from 1883. Principles and Practice of Agricultural
Analysis: Part I., Soils; Part II., Fertilizers; Part III.,
Agricultural Products.
Wiley, Isaac William.Pa., 1825-1884. A bishop of the
Methodist Church from 1872. The Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chan; The
Religion of the Family; China and Japan: a Record of Observations.
Meth.
Wilkes, Charles.N. Y., 1798-1877. A naval officer of
distinction. Narrative of United States Exploring Expedition During the
Years 1838-42; Western America; Theory of the Winds.
Wilkes, George.N. Y., 1820-1885. A journalist of New
York city, editor of The Spirit of the Times from 1850. History of
California (1845); Europe in a Hurry; Shakespeare from an American
Point of View.
Wilkeson, Frank.N. Y., 1845- ——. A journalist.
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac.
Put.
Wilkie, Franc[is] Bangs.N. Y., 1832-92. A Chicago
journalist. Petrolia, or the Oil Regions of the United States (1865);
Davenport, Past and Present; Walks About Chicago; The Chicago Bar;
Great Inventions and Their Influence on Civilization; The Gambler,
a Story of Chicago Life; Pen and Powder; Personal Reminiscences.
Hou.
Wilkins, John Hubbard.N. H., 1794-1861. A Boston writer
whose Elements of Astronomy (1822) was long popular as a text-book.
Wilkins, Mary Eleanor.Ms., 1862- ——. A novelist of
Randolph, Massachusetts, whose rank as a short-story writer is among
the very first, her work displaying the greatest skill in constructive
details as well as accurate perception in characterization. Her
fictions deal almost entirely with phases of New England rural life.
A Humble Romance, and Other Stories; A New England Nun, and Other
Stories; Young Lucretia, and Other Stories; The Pot of Gold, a
collection of juvenile tales; Jane Field; Pembroke; Madelon; Giles
Corey, Yeoman, a Play; Jerome, a Poor Man; The Adventures of Ann;
Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring; The Long Arm (with J. E. Chamberlin,
supra). Har. Lo. Rev.
Wilkinson, James.Md., 1757-1825. A soldier who served
in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812. Memories of My
Own Times. See Gayarré’s Spanish Domination in Louisiana, 1854;
Gilmore’s Advance Guard of Western Civilization, 1887.
Wilkinson, John.Va., 1821- ——. A Confederate naval
officer who has published, The Narrative of a Blockade Runner.
Wilkinson, William Cleaver.Vt., 1833- ——. A Baptist
clergyman and educator. Poems; A Free Lance in the Field of Life and
Letters; Webster, an Ode; The Baptist Principle; The Epic of Saul; The
Dance of Modern Society; College Greek Course in English, and other
text-books. Fl. Fu. Meth.
Willard, Ashton Rollins.Vt., 1858- ——. A lawyer
of Boston. A Sketch of the Life and Work of the Painter Domenico
Morelli; Legislative Handbook Relating to the Preparation of Statutes.
Hou.
Willard, Mrs. Emma [Hart].Ct., 1787-1870. A noted
educator of Troy, New York. Journal and Letters from France and
Great Britain; History of the United States; Universal History in
Perspective; Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood; Last Leaves of
American History; Poems. She wrote the well-known poem, Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep. See Life, by John Lord, supra; Hart’s American
Literature.
Willard, Frances Elizabeth.N. Y., 1839-1898. A
temperance reformer of prominence. Woman and Temperance; How to Win;
Woman in the Pulpit; Nineteen Beautiful Years; Glimpses of Fifty Years;
A Great Mother. See A Woman of the Century.Fu.
Willard, John.Ct., 1792-1862. An eminent jurist of New
York city. Equity Jurisprudence; Treatise on Executors, Administrators,
and Guardians; Real Estate and Conveyancing.
Willard, Joseph Augustus.Ms., 1816-1904. Son of Sidney
Willard, infra. Clerk of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for
Suffolk County, from 1865. His connection with courts of justice began
in 1846. Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers. Hou.
Willard, Samuel.Ms., 1640-1707. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, president of Harvard University, 1701-07. Of his
many works, A Complete Body of Divinity is the best known. Others are,
Peril of the Times Displayed; Covenant-Keeping the Way to Blessedness;
Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam. See Sprague’s Annals of the American
Pulpit.
Willard, Sidney.Ms., 1780-1856. A descendant of S.
Willard, supra. A professor of Hebrew at Harvard University,
1801-31. Hebrew Grammar; Memories of Youth and Manhood.
Willard, Sylvester David.Ct., 1825-1865. An Albany
physician, surgeon-general of New York at the time of his death. The
Willard Asylum for the Insane was named for him. Biographical Memoirs
of Physicians of Albany County; Annals of the Albany County Medical
Society.
Willcox, Orlando Bolivar.Mch., 1823- ——. A United
States army officer. Shoepack Recollections; Faca, an Army Memoir.
Willett, Joseph Edgerton.Ga., 1826-1897. A professor of
natural science in Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, from 1849. The
Wonders of Insect Life.
Willett, William Marinus.N. Y., 1803-1895. A Methodist
clergyman and educator. Scenes in the Wilderness; A New Life of
Summerfield; Life and Times of Herod the Great; Herod Antipas; The
Messiah; The Restitution of All Things.
Willey, Austin.N. H., 1806-1896. A Congregational
clergyman of Maine, long prominent as an abolitionist, and the editor
of The Advocate of Freedom, 1839-58. After the latter date he lived at
Northfield, Minnesota. Family Memorial; History of the Anti-Slavery
Cause in State and Nation.
Willey, Benjamin Glazier.N. H., 1796-1867. A
Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire who wrote a History of the
White Mountains.
Willey, Henry.N. Y., 1824- ——. A botanist, lawyer, and
journalist of New Bedford. List of North American Lichens; Introduction
to the Study of Lichens; Synopsis of the Genus Athona.
Williams, Alfred Mason.Ms., 1840-1896. A Providence
journalist, editor of The Journal. The Poets and Poetry of Ireland;
Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry; Sam Houston and the War of
Independence in Texas. Hou.
Williams, Mrs. Anna [Bolles]. “Jak.” Ct., 1840- ——.
A writer of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has written a number of
popular juvenile tales. Birchwood; Professor Johnny; The Fitch Club;
Who Saved the Ship?; Rolf and His Friends; Scotch Caps; Giant Dwarf;
Riverside Museum. Cr.
Williams, Mrs. Catherine R—— [Arnold].R. I.,
1787-1872. A Providence writer. Original Poems; Religion at Home;
Tales: National and Revolutionary; Fall River, an Authentic Narrative;
Neutral French; Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Island; Aristocracy:
a novel.
Williams, Charles Frederic.Ms., 1842-1895. The Tariff
Laws of the United States, with Explanatory Notes; Index of Cases
Overruled by the Courts of America, England, and Ireland from 1873 to
1887. He edited the last eight volumes of The American and English
Cyclopædia of Law.
Williams, Edwin.Ct., 1797-1854. A writer of New York
city. The Politician’s Manual; New Universal Gazetteer; Book of the
Constitution; New York as It Is; Arctic Voyages; The Fortunate Puzzler;
The Statesman’s Manual; The Twelve Stars of the Republic, comprise his
chief works.
Williams, Eleazer. 1787?-1858. An Episcopal clergyman at Green
Bay, Wisconsin, supposed by some persons to have been Louis XVII. of
France. He published A Spelling-Book in the Language of the Seven
Iroquois Nations, and other works in Iroquois. See The Lost Prince,
by Hanson.
Williams, Francis Howard.Pa., 1844- ——. A littérateur
of Philadelphia. His plays include, The Princess Elizabeth, a Lyric
Drama; The Higher Education; A Reformer in Ruffles; Master and Man;
Theodora, a Christmas Pastoral. Other works are, Atman, a Story; The
Flute Player, and Other Poems; Pennsylvania Poets of the Provincial
Period. Cas.
Williams, George Huntington.N. Y., 1856-1894. A
professor of inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins University from 1892.
Elements of Crystallography.
Williams, George Washington.Pa., 1849-1891. A writer
of African descent who served in the Federal army during the Civil
War, and as lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the Republican army of
Mexico, 1865-67, and who was minister to Hayti, 1885-86. History of the
Negro Race in America; The Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion;
History of the Reconstruction of the Insurgent States. Har.
Williams, Henry Shaler.N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor of
palæontology at Cornell University from 1871. The Bones, Ligaments, and
Muscles of the Domestic Cat; Geological Biology. Ho.
Williams, Henry Willard.Ms., 1821-1895. A Boston
physician, professor of ophthalmology at Harvard University, 1871-91.
Our Eyes and How to Take Care of Them; Diagnosis and Treatment of
Diseases of the Eye; Practical Guide to Study of Diseases of the Eye.
Williams, Jesse Lynch.Il., 1871- ——. A littérateur
of New York city. Princeton Stories; The Freshman, a book for boys.
Scr.
Williams, John.Ms., 1664-1729. A Congregational
clergyman of Deerfield, Massachusetts, carried captive to Canada,
with many of his parishioners, by the French and Indians in 1704. The
Redeemed Captive is a graphic account of heroism and suffering during
the period of captivity.
Williams, John. “Anthony Pasquin.” E., c.
1765-1818. An English journalist who came to the United States after
being very unpopular in England. Poems; Legislative Biography; The
Hamiltoniad; The Dramatic Censor; Life of Alexander Hamilton.
Williams, John.Ms., 1817-1899. The fourth Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, and presiding bishop from 1887.
Sermons; Studies on the English Reformation; Ancient Hymns of Holy
Church; Thoughts on the Gospel Miracles; The World’s Witness to Christ;
Studies in the Book of Acts. Wh.
Williams, Roger.W., 1607-1683. A famous clergyman,
minister at Salem, Massachusetts, but banished from the Massachusetts
Bay colony in 1635 on account of his views upon religious liberty. In
1636 he founded the city of Providence, and was the chief citizen of
the Rhode Island colony until his death. He was the first upholder of
the doctrine of liberty of conscience in its entirety, and actively
sustained his theories in many controversial works. Key Into the
Languages of America; The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of
Conscience; The Bloudy Tenent Yet More Bloudy by Mr. Cotton’s Endeavour
to wash it white in the Bloud of the Lambe; Mr. Cotton’s Letter Lately
Printed, Examined and Answered; George Fox Digg’d Out of his Burrowes,
include his principal works. See Tyler’s American Literature;
Mudge’s Footprints of Roger Williams; Allibone’s Dictionary; Johnson’s
Universal Cyclopedia; Appletons’ American Biography; Dexter’s As to
Roger Williams; Lives by Knowles, 1834, Gammell, 1846, Elton, 1852,
Straus, 1894; Bibliography of Rhode Island.
Williams, Samuel.Ms., 1743-1817. Grandson of J.
Williams, 1st. A Congregational clergyman, Hollis professor of
mathematics at Harvard University, 1780-88. A Natural and Civil History
of Vermont (1809); History of the American Revolution.
Williams, Samuel Wells.N. Y., 1812-1884. A secretary
and interpreter of the American Legation in China for many years;
after 1877 professor of Chinese at Yale University. China, the
Middle Kingdom; Easy Lessons in Chinese; Chinese Commercial Guide;
Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect;
Syllabic Dictionary of Chinese; Chinese Topography. See Allibone’s
Dictionary; Life by F. Williams, 1888.Scr.
Williams, Stephen West.Ms., 1790-1855. Great-grandson of
J. Williams, 1st. A physician who was medical professor in Willoughby
University, Ohio, 1838-53. Catechism of Medical Jurisprudence; American
Medical Biography; The Williams Family in America (1847).
Williams, Thomas.Ct., 1779-1876. A Congregational
clergyman of Providence. Ten Sermons on Important Subjects; The
Domestic Chaplain; Rhode Island Sermons.
Williams, William R.N. Y., 1804-1885. A noted Baptist
clergyman of New York city, pastor of Amity Street Church, 1832-85.
Religious Progress; God’s Rescues, or The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin,
and the Lost Son: Discourses on Luke; Miscellanies; Lectures on the
Lord’s Prayer; Lectures on Baptist History; Eras and Characters of
History. Bap. Har. Ran.
Williamson, Hugh.Pa., 1735-1819. A statesman and
physician who was a member of the Continental Congress. History of
North Carolina; Observations on the Climate of America.
Williamson, Isaac David.Vt., 1807-1876. A Universalist
clergyman of Cincinnati and other cities. Argument for the Truth
of Christianity; The Crown of Life; Philosophy of Odd Fellowship;
Philosophy of Universalism; Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science.
Williamson, Joseph.Me., 1828-1902. A lawyer of Belfast,
Maine. The Maine Register and State Reference Book; Bibliography of
Maine; History of Belfast. See Bibliography of Maine.
Williamson, Julia May. “Lura Bell.” Me., 1859- ——. A
verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. Echoes of Time and Tide; The Choir of
the Year.
Williamson, Robert Stockton.N. Y., 1824-1882. A soldier
and military engineer. Report of a Reconnoissance in California for
Pacific Railroad Route; Use of the Barometer on Surveys; Practical
Tables in Meteorology.
Williamson, Walter.Pa., 1811-1870. A homœopathic
physician of Philadelphia. Diseases of Females; Instructions Concerning
Diseases of Females.
Williamson, William Durkee.Ct., 1779-1840. A Bangor
lawyer, governor of Maine in 1820. History of Maine from its First
Discovery to the Separation from Massachusetts.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker.Me., 1806-1867. A once popular
New York littérateur, much overrated in the earlier part of his career,
and now neglected. His prose, though pleasing, is almost all of
ephemeral merit, and his verse is sentimental rather than thoughtful.
The latter includes the once widely read Sacred Poems; Melanie; Lady
Jane and Humorous Poems; Poems of Passion: while his prose comprises
Hurry Graphs; People I have Met; Pencillings by the Way; Inklings of
Adventures; Letters From Under a Bridge; Famous Persons and Places;
A Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean; The Convalescent; Out-Doors
at Idlewild; Paul Fane, a novel; Al Abri, and other works of lesser
importance. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1868. See
Life by Beers; Allibone’s Dictionary; Lowell’s Fable for Critics;
Foley’s American Authors.Cr. Scr.
Willis, William.Ms., 1794-1870. A Portland lawyer.
History of Portland; History of the Law, Courts, and Lawyers of Maine.
Williston, Seth.Ct., 1770-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman
in New York State. Discourses on the Sabbath; Moral Imperfections of
Christians; Harmony of Divine Truth; Millennial Discourses, are among
his writings.
Williston, Timothy.N. Y., 1805-1893. A Presbyterian
clergyman. Orthodox Paths Restored; Talks to My Bible Class; Christ’s
Millennial Reign; Premium Essays.
Willson, [Byron] Forceythe.N. Y., 1837-1867. A
verse-writer at one time on the staff of The Louisville Journal.
The Old Sergeant, and Other Poems. See Atlantic Monthly, March,
1875.Hou.
Willson, James McLeod.Pa., 1809-1866. Son of J.
R. Willson, infra. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia. The Deacon; Bible Magistracy; Civil Government; Social
Religious Covenanting; Witnessing.
Willson, James Renwick.Pa., 1780-1853. A Reformed
Presbyterian clergyman in New York and Pennsylvania. History of the
Church of Scotland; The Written Law; Historical Sketch of Opinions on
the Atonement.
Willson, Marcius.Ms., 1813- ——. An educator of
Vineland, New Jersey. Civil Polity and Political Economy; Mosaics of
Bible History; and many school text-books. Har.
Wilmer, Lambert A——.Circa 1805-1863. A Philadelphia
journalist. New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De
Soto; Our Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions of American
Newspapers (1859); Recantation: a Poem; Somnia; Liberty Triumphant.
Wilmer, Richard Hooker.Va., 1816-1900. The second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Alabama. The Recent Past from a Southern
Standpoint. Wh.
Wilmshurst, Zavarr.E., 1824-1887. A journalist of New
York city. The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other
Poems; The Siren; Ralph and Rose, a Poem.
Wilson, Alexander.S., 1766-1813. A Scottish
ornithologist and verse-writer who came to America in 1794. He is often
called the father of American ornithology. Watty and Meg, a narrative
poem; American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the
United States (continued by Charles Lucien Bonaparte). See Life
by G. F. Ord; Life by Brightwell, 1860; Allibone’s Dictionary.Co.
Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Jane [Evans].Ga., 1835- ——. A
once popular novelist living at Mobile. Her writings had at one time
an extraordinary vogue, but are now much less read. Beulah; Macaria;
Vashti; St. Elmo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; At the Mercy of
Tiberius. See Manly’s Southern Literature.Dil.
Wilson, Henry.N. H., 1812-1875. A Massachusetts
statesman who was vice-president of the United States at the time of
his death. History of Anti-Slavery Measures; Rise and Fall of the
Slave Power in America. See Life and Public Services of by G. E.
Nason.Hou.
Wilson, James Grant.S., 1832- ——. Son of W. Wilson,
infra. A littérateur of New York city who, besides editing
Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography, has published Poets and
Poetry of Scotland; Mr. Secretary Pepys and his Diary; Love in Letters;
Bryant and His Friends; Centennial History of the Diocese of New
York; Life of General Grant; Life of Fitz Greene Halleck; Sketches of
Illustrious Soldiers. Dil. Har.
Wilson, James Harrison.Il., 1837- ——. A United States
army officer. China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom;
Life of Andrew Alexander; Life of General Grant (with C. A. Dana,
supra). Ap.
Wilson, James Patriot.Del., 1769-1830. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia. Lectures on the Parables; Essay on Grammar;
Common Objections to Christianity; Easy Introduction to Hebrew, are
among his works.
Wilson, John.E., 1588-1667. A Puritan clergyman, the
first pastor in Boston, and long prominent in the ecclesiastical and
civil affairs of the colony. Some Helps to Faith; Famous Deliverances
of the English Nation, a poem; The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising
of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.
Wilson, John.S., 1802-1868. A Scottish printer who came
to America in 1846, and established himself in the printing business
in Cambridge. A Treatise on English Punctuation is his best-known
work, but he wrote others on Scripture Proofs of Unitarianism; The
Concessions of Trinitarians; Unitarian Principles Confirmed. A. U.
A.
Wilson, John Grover.Del., 1810-1885. A Philadelphia
clergyman, originally of the Methodist Protestant denomination, but
after 1855 the church of which he was pastor was known as the Ebenezer
Independent Church. Among his various works are, Discourses on
Prophecy; Writings in Prose and Verse; The Sabbath and Its Law; Atheism
and Theism.
Wilson, John Laird.S., 1832-1896. A journalist of
New York city, but prior to 1866 a United Presbyterian minister
in Scotland. The Battles of the Civil War; Life of John Wycliffe.
Su.
Wilson, John Leighton. 1809-1880. A Presbyterian missionary to
Africa. Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects (1857).
See Life by Du Bose, 1895.Har.
Wilson, Peter.S., 1746-1825. An educator of New York
city, classical professor at Columbia College, 1789-1792 and 1797-1820.
Rules of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek Prosody; Compendium of
Greek Prosody.
Wilson, Robert Anderson.N. Y., 1812- ——. A lawyer of
California. Mexico and its Religion, reissued as Mexico, California,
and Central America; New History of the Conquest of Mexico.
Wilson, Robert Burns.Pa., 1850- ——. An artist and
verse-writer of Louisville. Life and Love, a volume of verse.
Wilson, Samuel Farmer.Ct., 1805-1870. A New Orleans
journalist. History of the American Revolution, long a popular work.
Wilson, Samuel Graham. 18— - ——. A Presbyterian missionary in
Persia. Persian Life and Customs. Rev.
Wilson, Theodore Delevan.L. I., 1840-1896. A naval
architect of note in the government service. Ship Building, Theoretical
and Practical.
Wilson, Thomas.Pa., c. 1768-c. 1828. A
Philadelphia printer. Principal American Military and Naval Heroes
(1821); The Picture of Philadelphia for 1824.
Wilson, [Thomas] Woodrow.Va., 1856- ——. A professor of
jurisprudence at Princeton College. Congressional Government: A Study
in American Politics; The State Elements of Historical and Practical
Politics; An Old Master, and Other Political Essays; Division and
Reunion, 1829-1889; George Washington; Mere Literature, and Other
Essays. Har. He. Hou. Lgs. Scr.
Wilson, William.S., 1801-1860. A Scottish verse-writer
who became a bookseller and publisher in Poughkeepsie, New York, in
1854. Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing (1870).
Wilson, William Dexter.N. H., 1816-1900. An Episcopal
clergyman of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell University,
1868-86. History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified;
Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on
Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; Introduction to
the Study of the History of Philosophy. Ap.
Wilstach, John Augustine.D. C., 1824-1897. A lawyer
of Lafayette, Indiana, who has published a translation into English
verse, with variorum notes, of the complete works of Virgil; also a
translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia into English verse. Hou.
Wilstach, Joseph Walter.Ind., 1857- ——. Son of J. A.
Wilstach, supra. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana. Horatian Odes;
Montalembert: a Character Study.
Wiman, Erastus.Ont., 1834-1904. Formerly a prominent
capitalist of New York city. Chances of Success.
Winans, Ross.N. J., 1796-1877. An eminent inventor. One
Religion: Many Creeds.
Winchell, Alexander.N. Y., 1824-1891. A professor of
geology at the University of Michigan, 1854-73 and 1879-91. Sketches of
Creation; Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and
Religion; The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from
a Geologist’s Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; Walks
and Talks in the Geological Field. Har. Sc.
Winchell, Newton Horace.N. Y., 1839- ——. Brother of
A. Winchell, supra. State geologist of Minnesota. Geology of
Minnesota; Annual Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of
Minnesota from 1872.
Winchester, Carroll.See Curtis, Mrs.
Winchester, Elhanan.Ms., 1751-1797. A Universalist
clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earlier life a Baptist minister. New
Book of Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies
to be Fulfilled; Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. See Life of,
by E. M. Stone, 1836.
Winchester, Samuel Gover.Md., 1805-1841. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Philadelphia, and subsequently of Natchez. Companion for
the Sick; Family Religion; The Theatre.
Winebrenner, John.Md., 1797-1860. A German Reformed
clergyman of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founder in 1830 of the Church of
God, a sect commonly known as Winebrennerians. Regeneration; Practical
and Doctrinal Sermons; Brief Views of the Church of God.
Wines, Enoch Cobb.N. J., 1806-1879. A Congregational
clergyman, widely known as a philanthropist, who laboured extensively
in behalf of prison reform. Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip
to China; Hints on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School;
Commentaries on Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons
and Reformatories of the United States and Canada; State of Prisons and
Child-Saving Institutions Throughout the World.
Wines, Frederic Howard.Pa., 1838- ——. Son of E.
C. Wines, supra. Formerly a Presbyterian clergyman, but now
devoted in official and private capacities to various reforms connected
with the defective, dependent, and criminal classes. Punishment and
Reformation, an Historical Sketch of the Rise of the Penitentiary
System; The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects (with John
Koren). Cr. Hou.
Wing, Conway Phelps.O., 1809-1889. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, long active as an abolitionist.
Among his writings are, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania;
History of the Presbyteries of York and Carlisle.
Wingate, Charles Edgar Lewis.N. H., 1861- ——. A Boston
journalist. Shakespeare’s Heroines on the Stage. Cr.
Wingate, Charles Frederick.N. Y., 1847- ——. A sanitary
engineer of New York city. Views and Interviews on Journalism; Plumbing
and House Drainage; Twilight Tracts.
Wingate, George Wood.N. Y., 1840- ——. Brother of C.
F. Wingate, supra. A lawyer and soldier. Last Campaign of the
Twenty-Second Regiment; Manual of Rifle Practice; On Horseback Through
the Yellowstone.
Winser, Henry Jacob.Ba., 1833-1896. A journalist of New
York city, and subsequently of Newark, New Jersey, United States consul
at Sonneburg, Germany, 1869-81. The Great Northwest; The Yellowstone
National Park; The Seat of a Thousand Industries, a description of
Newark.
Winship, Albert Edward.Ms., 1845- ——. An educator of
Boston, editor of The Journal of Education, Methods and Principles in
Bible Study; Life of Horace Mann, supra.
Winslow, Mrs. Catherine Mary [Reignolds].E.,
183- - ——. Best known as Mrs. Erving Winslow. A once popular actress
of Boston, and since her retirement from the stage well known as a
public reader. Yesterdays with Actors; Readings (with notes) from the
Old English Dramatists, Le.
Winslow, Charles Frederick.Ms., 1811-1877. A physician.
Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; Force and Nature.
Winslow, Edward.E., 1595-1655. A notable member of the
Plymouth colony who succeeded Bradford as governor of that colony in
1633. Good Newes from New England; Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England’s
Salamander; The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians of
New England. See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode
Island.
Winslow, Mrs. Erving.See Winslow, Mrs. Catharine.
Winslow, Helen Maria.Vt., 1851- ——. A Boston
journalist. Concerning Cats; Literary Boston of To-Day.
Winslow, Hubbard.Vt., 1799-1864. A Presbyterian
clergyman who held charges in Boston and other localities, and among
whose writings are, Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine of the
Trinity; Controversial Theology; Christian Doctrines; Young Man’s Aid
to Knowledge, a very popular work; Intellectual Philosophy.
Winslow, Miron.Vt., 1789-1864. Brother of H. Winslow,
supra. A Presbyterian missionary in Ceylon and Madras. Hints
on Missions to India; Sketch of the Missions; Comprehensive Tamil and
English Dictionary.
Winslow, Stephen Noyes.Vt., 1826- ——. A Philadelphia
journalist. Biographies of Successful Philadelphia Merchants.
Winslow, William Copley.Ms., 1840- ——. Son of H.
Winslow, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston widely known
as an Egyptologist. Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek
City in Egypt; The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.
Winsor, Justin.Ms., 1831-1897. The librarian of Harvard
University. He was editor of The Memorial History of Boston; Narrative
and Critical History of America. His original works include, Reader’s
Handbook of the American Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical
Discovery in the Interior of North America in its Historical Relations,
1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle
in America between England and France, 1697-1763; Was Shakespeare
Shapleigh?; History of Duxbury; The Westward Movement. See
Bibliography of Maine.Hou.
Winter, William.Ms., 1836- ——. A prominent littérateur
and dramatic critic of New York city. Poems; The Trip to England; The
Jeffersons; English Rambles; Shakespeare’s England; Gray Days and Gold;
Old Shrines and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Witness, a Book of Verse;
The Wanderers, a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a Book of Lyrics;
The Queen’s Domain, and Other Poems; The Convert, and Other Poems;
Brown Heath and Blue Bells; George William Curtis: a Eulogy. See
Foley’s American Authors.Hou. Kt. Mac.
Winthrop, John.E., 1588-1649. The first governor of
Massachusetts. Arbitrary Government Described; History of New England
from 1630 to 1649. See Tyler’s American Literature; Letters of,
to Margaret Winthrop; Lives by R. C. Winthrop, infra, 1867, J. H.
Twichell, supra, 1891; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864.
Winthrop, John.Ms., 1714-1779. Great-grandson of
J. Winthrop, supra. A professor of mathematics and natural
philosophy at Harvard University, 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of
science in America in his century. Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of
Some Fiery Meteors; Lectures on the Parallax.
Winthrop, Laura. Sister of T. Winthrop, infra. See
Johnson, Mrs. L.
Winthrop, Robert Charles.Ms., 1809-1894. Descendant of
Governor Winthrop, supra. A Massachusetts statesman, a lifelong
resident of Boston, noted for the polish and refinement of his oratory.
Addresses and Speeches; a Life of Governor John Winthrop; Washington,
Bowdoin, and Franklin. See Smalley’s Studies of Men; Life by R. C.
Winthrop, Jr., 1897.Lit.
Winthrop, Theodore.Ct., 1828-1861. Descendant of
Governor Winthrop, supra. A brilliant young novelist who entered
the Federal army at the outbreak of the Civil War and was killed at the
battle of Big Bethel. John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; The
Canoe and the Saddle; Love and Skates; Life in the Open Air. See
Atlantic Monthly, August, 1861, and August, 1863; Life and Poems of,
edited by his sister; Nichol’s American Literature.Ho. Int.
Winthrop, William Woolsey.Ct., 1831-1899. Brother of
T. Winthrop, supra. A United States army officer, professor of
law at West Point. Treatise on Military Law; Digest of Opinions of the
Judge-Advocates-General of the Army. Lit. Wil.
Wirt, Mrs. Elizabeth Washington [Gamble].Va., 1784-1857.
Wife of W. Wirt, infra. Flora’s Dictionary.
Wirt, William.Md., 1772-1834. A famous Virginia
statesman and orator, attorney-general of the United States, 1817-28.
Life of Patrick Henry; Letters of the British Spy. See Memoir by J.
P. Kennedy, supra.Co. Har.
Wise, Daniel. “Francis Forrester.” E., 1813-1898. A
Methodist clergyman and religious editor of Boston. Personal Effort;
Heroic Methodists; Boy Travellers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My
Uncle Toby’s Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; Men
of Renown, are among his numerous works. Meth.
Wise, Henry Alexander.Va., 1806-1876. A Virginia
politician, minister to Brazil, 1844-47, governor of Virginia, 1856-60,
in whose administration occurred the celebrated John Brown raid. Seven
Decades of the Union; Memoir of John Tyler.
Wise, Henry Augustus.N. Y., 1819-1869. Cousin of H. A.
Wise, supra. A United States naval officer. Story of the Gray
African Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines;
Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul.
Wise, Isaac Mayer.Bo., 1819-1900. A Jewish rabbi of
Cincinnati from 1854, president of Hebrew Union College. History of
the Israelitish Nation; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: its Doctrines and
Duties; The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; History of
the Hebrew Second Commonwealth; Pronaos to Holy Writ. Clke.
Wise, John.Ms., 1652-1725. A Congregational clergyman
of Ipswich from 1780 until his death. A strong, vigourous writer,
almost the first of the American colonists to declare his belief in a
government founded on human equality. The Church’s Quarrel Espoused;
Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. See Tyler’s
American Literature.C. P. S.
Wise, John.Pa., 1808-1879. A once noted aëronaut. System
of Aëronautics; Through the Air, or Forty Years’ Experience as an
Aëronaut.
Wise, John Sergeant.B., 1846- ——. A lawyer of New York
city. Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog; The End of
an Era. Hou. Mac.
Wisner, William.N. Y., 1782-1871. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Rochester, New York. Incidents in the Life of a Pastor;
Civil Liberty.
Wisner, William Carpenter.N. Y., 1808-1880. Son of W.
Wisner, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman at Lockport, New York,
1837-76. Prelacy and Parity.
Wisser, John Philip.Mo., 1852- ——. An instructor
at West Point from 1878. Chemical Manipulations; Modern Gun Cotton;
Practical Instruction in Minor Tactics and Strategy; Report on Military
Schools of Europe. Ap.
Wistar, Caspar.Pa., 1761-1818. A Philadelphia physician,
professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1792-1818.
System of Anatomy for Use of Students in Medicine.
Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee [Furness].Pa., 1830- ——.
Daughter of W. H. Furness, supra. A noted and popular translator
of many German novels. With F. H. Hedge, supra, Metrical
Translations and Poems. Hou. Lip.
Wister, Owen.Pa., 1860- ——. Son of Mrs. S. B. Wister,
infra. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. The New Swiss
Family Robinson; The Dragon of Wantley, a romance; Red Men and White, a
collection of frontier stories; Lin McLean. Har. Lip.
Wister, Mrs. Owen.See Wister, Mrs. Sarah.
Wister, Mrs. Sarah [Butler].Pa., 1835- ——. Daughter
of Frances Kemble. A Philadelphia writer who has published, A Boat of
Glass, a poem; translations from Alfred de Musset.
Withers, Frederic Clarke.E., 1826-1901. An architect of
New York city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity Church in that
city. Church Architecture.
Witherspoon, John.S., 1722-1794. A Presbyterian
clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1768-94, eminent in his
day as a leader of opinion, both political and religious, and one
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Ecclesiastical
Characteristics; Thoughts on American Liberty; Sermons on Practical
Subjects; Leading Truths of the Gospel; Letters on Marriage; Sermons
on Various Subjects. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit;
American Historical Review, July, 1896.
Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight.Al., 1836-1898. A
Presbyterian clergyman in Louisville from 1882. Children of the
Covenant; Letters on Romanism.
Withington, Leonard.Ms., 1789-1885. A Congregational
clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1816-1885. The Puritan,
a series of Essays; Penitential Tears; Solomon’s Song Translated and
Explained.
Wolcott, Roger.Ct., 1679-1767. A colonial governor of
Connecticut, 1750-1754. Poetical Meditations. See Everest’s Poets of
Connecticut.
Wolf, Edmund Jacob.Pa., 1840- ——. A Lutheran
clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg from
1874. History of the Lutherans in America.
Wolfe, Theodore Frelinghuysen.N. J., 1843- ——.
A physician and littérateur of Ledgewood, New Jersey. A Literary
Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors; Literary
Shrines: the Haunts of Some Famous American Authors,—two widely
popular books. Among his professional works are volumes on Tetanus;
Anæsthesia, and other medical subjects. Lip.
Wolle, Francis.Pa., 1817-1893. A Moravian clergyman and
educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, eminent as a botanist. Desmids
of the United States; Fresh-Water Algæ; Diatomaceæ of North America.
Wn.
Wollenweber, Louis August.G., 1807-1888. A German
printer who came to America, and, after editing several German papers
in Philadelphia, removed to Reading, Pennsylvania. Sketches of Domestic
Life in Pennsylvania; Treu bis in den Tod; Zwei treue Kameraden.
Wood, Alphonso.N. H., 1810-1881. An educator of Brooklyn
whose text-books were very popular. Class-Book of Botany; First Lessons
in Botany; Leaves and Flowers; The American Botanist.
Wood, Benjamin.Ky., 1820-1900. A journalist of New
York city, member of Congress, 1861-65. Fort Lafayette, or Love and
Secession.
Wood, Charles.N. Y., 1851- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman of Germantown, Philadelphia. Saunterings in Europe.
Wood, De Volson.N. Y., 1832-1897. A professor of
mathematics and engineering at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New
Jersey, from 1872. Treatise on Resistance of Materials; Construction
of Bridges and Roofs; Elements of Analytical Mechanics; Elements
of Coördinate Geometry; The Mechanics of Fluids; Trigonometry;
Thermodynamics; Theory of Turbines. Wil.
Wood, George.Ms., 1799-1870. A treasury clerk at
Washington. Peter Schmeil in America; The Modern Pilgrim; Marrying Too
Late; Future Life (1858), reissued in 1869 as The Gates Wide Open.
Le.
Wood, George Bacon.N. J., 1797-1879. A Philadelphia
physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania,
1835-60. The Dispensatory of the United States (with F. Bache,
supra). The Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacology;
Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects; History of the
University of Pennsylvania; Lives of S. G. Morton, F. Bache. See
Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.Lip.
Wood, Henry.Vt., 1834- ——. A philosophical essayist
and novelist of Boston. Natural Law in the Business World; Political
Economy of Natural Law; God’s Image in Man; Ideal Suggestions Through
Mental Photography; Edward Burton, a novel; Studies in the Thought
World. Le.
Wood, Horace Gay.Vt., 1831-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer,
who practised in New York city in his latest years. The Relation of
Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the Law of Nuisances; Master and
Servant; The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation of Actions at Law and in
Equity; On the Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; Legal Remedies
of Mandamus and Prohibition.
Wood, Horatio Curtis.Pa., 1841- ——. Nephew of G.
B. Wood, supra, a medical professor in the University of
Pennsylvania from 1866. The Phalangidæ of the United States; Researches
upon American Hemp; Brain Work and Overwork; On Fever; Nervous Diseases
and their Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke; Therapeutics.
Lip.
Wood, James.N. Y., 1799-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman
and educator in Indiana. Old and New Theology; Treatise on Baptism;
Call to the Sacred Office; The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The
Gospel Fountain; Grace and Glory.
Wood, Mrs. Jean [Moncure].Va., 1754-1823. The wife of
James Wood, who was governor of Virginia, 1796-99. She was socially
prominent in her day. Flowers and Weeds of the Old Dominion, a book of
verse.
Wood, John.S., c. 1755-1822. A Scottish writer
who came to America in 1800 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. Among
his writings are General View of the History of Switzerland; History of
the Administration of John Adams.
Wood, John Seymour.N. Y., 1853- ——. A lawyer and
littérateur of New York city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts. Gramercy
Park, a story of New York; College Days, or Harry’s Career at Yale;
Yale Yarns; A Coign of Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Stories; A
Daughter of Venice. Ap. Cas. Do. Put.
Wood, Mrs. Julia Amanda [Sargent].N. H., 1826- ——. A
Roman Catholic writer of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Myrrha Lake; Hubert’s
Wife; Annette; Strayed From the Fold; From Error to Truth; The Brown
House at Duffield.
Wood, Mrs. Sarah Sayward [Barrell] [Keating].Ms.,
1759-1855. A novelist whose sentimental fictions include, Duval;
Ferdinand and Almira; Amelia, or the Influence of Virtue; Tales of the
Night; The Illuminated Baron.
Wood, William.E., 1580-1639. A Puritan colonist who came
to New England in 1629. He founded the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
New England’s Prospect, a descriptive work partly in verse. See
Tyler’s American Literature.
Wood, William Maxwell.Md., 1809-1880. A United States
naval surgeon. Wandering Sketches; A Shoulder to the Wheel of Progress;
Hints to the People on the Profession of Medicine; Fankwei, or the San
Jacinto in the Seas of India, China, and Japan.
Woodberry, George Edward.Ms., 1855- ——. A prominent
literary critic of New York city, professor of literature in Columbia
University, editor, with E. C. Stedman, of the complete works of Poe.
He has also edited a complete edition of Shelley, with Memoir and
Notes. A History of Wood Engraving; The North Shore Watch, and Other
Poems; Life of Edgar Allan Poe; Life of James Russell Lowell; Studies
in Letters and Life. Har. Hou.
Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill.Ms., 1819- ——. Kinsman of
W. C. Woodbridge, infra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor
at Rutgers Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1857.
Analysis of Theology; Faith: its True Position in the Life of Man.
Woodbridge, William Channing.Ms., 1794-1845. An educator
of Hartford. Universal Geography (with E. Willard, supra).
Modern School Geography; Letters from Hofwyl.
Woodbury, Augustus.Ms., 1825-1895. A Unitarian clergyman
of Providence from 1851. Plain Words to Young Men; The Second Rhode
Island Regiment; Historical Sketch of Rhode Island Prisons and Jails,
include his principal works.
Woodbury, Daniel Phineas.N. H., 1812-1864. A general in
the Federal army during the Civil War. Sustaining Walls; Theory of the
Arch.
Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.N. J., 1837- ——. A United
States army surgeon. Notes on Military Hygiene; Studies in the
non-emetic use of Ipecacuanha. Lip. Wil.
Woodruff, Hiram.N. J., 1817-1887. A noted horse-trainer
who wrote The Trotting Horse of America. Co.
Woodruff, Mrs. Julia Louisa Matilda [Curtiss]. “W. M. L. Jay.”
Ct., 1832- ——. An author and compiler of New York city. My
Winter in Cuba; Shiloh; Holden With the Cords; Bellevue; Daisy Seekers,
and various compilations. Dut.
Woods, Mrs. Kate [Tannatt].N. Y., 1838- ——. A writer
of Salem, Massachusetts. Six Little Rebels; Dr. Dick; Out and About;
The Wooing of Grandmother Grey; Grandfather Grey; Children’s Stories;
Toots and His Friends; The Duncans on Land and Sea. Cas. Le. Lo.
Woods, Katharine Pearson.W. Va., 1853- ——. The
Crowning of Candace; John: a Tale of King Messiah; From Dusk to Dawn; A
Web of Gold; Metzerott, Shoemaker, a protest against social injustice;
Mine and Thine. Ap. Cr. Do.
Woods, Leonard.Ms., 1774-1854. A Congregational
clergyman of Massachusetts, professor at Andover Seminary, 1808-54.
Letters to Unitarians; Inspiration of the Scriptures; Memoirs of
American Missionaries; Church Government; Lectures on Swedenborgianism;
Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection. See Park’s Life and
Character of.
Woods, Virna.O., 1864-1903. An educator of Sacramento,
California. A Modern Magdalene, a novel; The Amazons, a lyrical drama.
Fl. Le.
Woodward, Ashbel.Ct., 1804-1885. A physician of
Franklin, Connecticut. Vindication of General Israel Putnam;
Vindication of Army Surgeons; Life of General Nathaniel Lyon; Medical
Ethics, include his principal writings.
Woodward, Annie Aubertine. Sister of J. J. Woodward,
infra. See Moore, Mrs. A.
Woodward, Calvin Milton.Ms., 1837- ——. A St. Louis
educator, professor in Washington University from 1868. History of the
St. Louis Bridge; The Manual Training School: its Aims, Methods, and
Results.
Woodward, Joseph Janvier.Pa., 1833-1884. A United States
army surgeon. Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States
Armies, as observed during the present war (1864); Medical and Surgical
History of the Rebellion (with G. Otis). Lip.
Woodward, Francis Channing.Ct., 1812-1859. Nephew of S.
Woodworth, infra. A once popular writer of juvenile tales, among
which are, Uncle Frank’s Home Stories; Stories for Little Folks.
Woodward, Robert Simpson.Mch., 1849- ——. A
mathematician, professor of mechanics at Columbia University from 1893.
Latitudes and Longitudes of Certain Points in Missouri, Kansas, and New
Mexico, and many scientific papers of value.
Woodworth, Samuel.Ms., 1785-1842. A journalist and
verse-writer of New York city who wrote, The Champions of Freedom, an
historical romance; Melodies, Duets, Trios, Songs, and Ballads, but who
will be longest remembered as the author of the famous lyric, The Old
Oaken Bucket. See Foley’s American Authors.
Woolf, Benjamin Edward.E., 1836-1901. A popular
playwright, among whose plays are, The Mighty Dollar; The Professor;
The Doctor of Alcantara.
Woolley, Mrs. Celia [Parker].O., 1848- ——. A novelist,
formerly of Chicago, now (1897) in the Unitarian ministry at Geneva,
Illinois. Roger Hunt; A Girl Graduate; Rachel Armstrong, or Love and
Theology. Hou.
Woolman, John.N. J., 1720-1772. A Quaker itinerant
preacher of New Jersey, in whose writings occurs the earliest protest
in America against the slave trade. His ethical teachings have won
the highest praise from many quarters. Essays and Epistles; Serious
Considerations; On the Keeping of Negroes. His famous Journal, by
which he is most widely known, has been edited by the poet Whittier.
Hou.
Woolsey, Abby Howland. 18— -1893. A New York philanthropist.
A Century of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in England; Handbook for
Hospital Visitors; Hospital Laundries.
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey. “Susan Coolidge.” O.,
1845- ——. Niece of T. D. Woolsey, infra. A poet and popular
writer for young people. A resident of Newport, Rhode Island. Old
Convent School in Paris; The New Year’s Bargain; What Katy Did; A
Guernsey Lily; For Summer Afternoons; In the High Valley; A Short
History of Philadelphia; The Barberry Bush, and Other Stories About
Girls; Verses; A Few More Verses, include the more important of her
writings. Rob.
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight.N. Y., 1801-1889. A
Congregational clergyman, president of Yale University, 1846-71, long
eminent as a scholar and thinker. Political Science; Communism and
Socialism; Introduction to the Study of International Law; Essay on
Divorce and Divorce Legislation; Helpful Thoughts for Young Men; The
Religion of the Present and the Future; Eros, and Other Poems. Lo.
Scr.
Woolson, Mrs. Abba Louisa [Goold].Me., 1838- ——. A
Boston lecturer on English literature. Woman in American Society; Dress
Reform; Browsings Among Books; George Eliot and Her Heroines. Har.
Rob.
Woolson, Constance Fenimore.N. H., 1840-1894. A novelist
whose work was much above the average level of fiction, Horace Chase
being her best novel. Her other works include, Castle Nowhere; Lake
Country Sketches; Two Women, a poem; Rodman the Keeper: Southern
Sketches; Anne; For the Major; East Angels; Jupiter Lights; The Front
Yard, and Other Italian Stories; Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories;
Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu; The Old Stone House. See Appletons’
Annual Cyclopædia, 1894.Ap. Har.
Worcester, Alfred.Ms., 1855- ——. A physician of
Waltham, Massachusetts. Monthly Nursing; A New Way of Training Nurses;
Training Schools for Nurses in Small Cities; Small Hospitals.
Worcester, Joseph Emerson.N. H., 1784-1865. A
distinguished lexicographer and philologist of Cambridge. Geographical
Dictionary; Gazetteer of the United States; Sketches of the Earth and
Its Inhabitants; Elements of History; Outlines of Scriptural Geography;
Comprehensive Primary Dictionary. His greatest work is his well-known
quarto Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1860.
Lip.
Worcester, Noah.N. H., 1758-1837. A Unitarian clergyman,
pastor at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1813-37, who was prominent in the
Unitarian controversy. He edited The Friend of Peace. A Respectful
Address to the Trinitarian Clergy; The Atoning Sacrifice a Display
of Love, not Wrath; Last Thoughts on Important Subjects; Causes and
Evils of Contentions Among Christians. See Sprague’s Annals of the
American Pulpit.
Worcester, Noah.N. H., 1812-1847. A physician who was
professor of pathology in Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio.
Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Skin Diseases.
Worcester, Samuel.N. H., 1770-1821. Brother of N.
Worcester, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor
at Salem, Massachusetts, from 1803. Letters to Dr. Channing on the
Unitarian Controversy; Discourses on the Covenant with Abraham. See
Life of, by S. M. Worcester, infra.
Worcester, Samuel Melanchthon.Ms., 1801-1866. Son of
S. Worcester, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of
rhetoric at Amherst College, 1825-34; pastor at Salem, Massachusetts,
1834-60. Essays on Slavery; Life of Samuel Worcester, supra.
Worcester, Thomas.N. H., 1768-1831. Brother of N.
Worcester, 1st. A Unitarian clergyman. Call for Scripture Evidence that
Christ is God; The True God but One Person; New Chain of Plain Argument.
Work, Henry Clay.Ct., 1832-1884. A popular song-writer
of Chicago. Marching Through Georgia; Grandfather’s Clock, are perhaps
the best known of his songs.
Workman, Mrs. Fanny [Bullock].Ms., 1859- ——.
Daughter of A. H. Bullock, supra, and wife of W. H. Workman,
infra. A littérateur who has lived much abroad. With her husband
she has written, Algerian Memories: a Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to
the Sahara; Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia. Ran.
Workman, William Hunter.Ms., 1847- ——. A physician who
is co-author with Mrs. Workman, supra, of Algerian Memories, and
Sketches Awheel. Ran.
Worman, James Henry.P., 1835- ——. An educator who has
filled professorships in various colleges North and South. Complete
Grammar of the German Language; Elementary German Grammar; L’Echo de
Paris.
Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.E., 1832- ——. A
translator of prominence who has translated the novels of Balzac and
the plays of Molière, and is the author of The Other Side of War; Life
of Balzac; The United States Sanitary Commission; Hospital Transports.
Rob.
Wormley, Theodore George.Pa., 1826-1897. A Philadelphia
physician, professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania
from 1877. Methods of Analysis of Coals, etc.; The Micro-Chemistry of
Poisons. Lip.
Worthen, William Ezra.Ms., 1819-1897. A civil engineer
of prominence. Cyclopædia of Drawing; First Lessons in Mechanics;
Rudimentary Drawing for Schools.
Wright, Carroll Davidson.N. H., 1840- ——. A
statistician of distinction, United States Commissioner of Labor from
1885, and professor of political science in the Catholic University
at Washington from 1895. Census of Massachusetts, 1875; The Factory
System of the United States; The Relation of Political Economy to the
Labor Question; Annual Reports of Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics,
1873-88; Convict Labor; Strikes and Lockouts; Working Women in Large
Cities; Railroad Labor; Marriage and Divorce; Cost of Production of
Iron, Steel, etc.; Cost of Production of Textiles and Glass; Industrial
Evolution of the United States. Fl.
Wright, Chauncey.Ms., 1830-1875. An instructor in
mathematical physics at Harvard University. Philosophical Discussions;
Darwinism. See Biographical Sketch, by C. E. Norton, supra; Memoir,
J. B. Thayer.
Wright, Elizur.Ct., 1804-1885. A journalist of Boston
long prominent as a reformer. A Curiosity of Law; The Politics and
Mysteries of Life Insurance; Savings Bank Life Insurance; Myron Holley
and What He Did for Liberty and True Religion; a translation of La
Fontaine’s Fables.
Wright, Fanny.See D’Arusmont.
Wright, George Frederick.N. Y., 1838- ——. A
Congregational clergyman and geologist, since 1884 attached to the
United States Geological Survey in the Department of Glacial Geology.
The Glacial Boundary in Ohio; Studies in Science and Religion; Logic
of Christian Evidences; The Relation of Death to Probation; Divine
Authority of the Bible; The Ice Age in North America; Man and the
Glacial Period; Life of Charles Grandison Finney, supra. Ap.
Hou.
Wright, Hendrick Bradley.Pa., 1808-1881. A lawyer of
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Member of Congress, 1853-55, 1861-63, and
1877-80. A Practical Treatise on Labor; Historical Sketches of the
Wyoming Valley.
Wright, Henrietta Christian. 18— -1899. The Golden Fairy
Series; Children’s Stories of American Progress; Stories of the
Great Inventors; Stories in American Literature; Stories in English
Literature; Stories of American History; The Princess Liliwinkins.
Har. Scr.
Wright, Henry Clarke.Ct., 1797-1870. An anti-slavery
reformer and lecturer of prominence in his day. Man-Killing by
Individuals and Nations a Wrong; A Kiss for a Blow; Defensive War a
Denial of Christianity; Human Life Illustrated; Marriage and Parentage;
The Living Present and the Dead Past. Le.
Wright, John Stephen.Ms., 1815-1874. A Chicago
manufacturer who established The Prairie Farmer in 1840. Chicago: Past,
Present, and Future.
Wright, Mrs. Julia [MacNair].N. Y., 1840-1903. Wife
of W. J. Wright, infra. A prolific writer of temperance and
religious tales, the latter being strongly anti-Roman Catholic in
character. Among them are, Almost a Nun; Priest and Nun; Scenes of the
Convent; The Gospel in the Riviera; A Wife Hard Won; A Million Too
Much. Co. Lip.
Wright, Mrs. Mabel [Osgood].N. Y., 1859- ——. Daughter
of S. Osgood, supra, and great-niece, on the maternal side,
of Susanna Rowson, supra. A nature writer of Fairfield,
Connecticut. The Friendship of Nature, a series of out-door studies;
Birdcraft, a field-book of New England Birds; Tommy-Anne and the
Three Hearts: a Natural History Story; Citizen Bird, a bird book for
beginners. Mac.
Wright, Mrs. Mary [Tappan].O., 1851- ——. A writer of
Cambridge, the wife of Professor J. H. Wright, of Harvard University. A
Truce, and Other Stories; Aliens; The Test. Scr.
Wright, Marcus Joseph.Tn., 1831- ——. A
brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and
subsequently a lawyer of Memphis. Life of General Winfield Scott; Life
of Governor William Blount; Reminiscence of the Early Settlement of
McNairy County, Tennessee. Ap.
Wright, Robert Emmet.Pa., 1810- ——. A lawyer of
Allentown, Pennsylvania. Aldermen and Justices of the Peace; The Office
and Duties of Constable; Pennsylvania State Reports, 1861-65.
Wright, Robert William.Vt., 1816-1885. A Connecticut
lawyer and journalist. The Church Knaviad; Vision of Judgment; The
Pious Chi-Neh; Life: its True Genesis, a refutation of evolution;
Practical Legal Forms.
Wright, Thomas Lee.O., 1825- ——. A physician and
journalist of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Notes on the Theory of Human
Existence; Disquisition on the Ancient History of Medicine; Inebriism:
a Pathological and Psychological Study.
Wright, William.I., 1824-1866. A journalist of Paterson,
New Jersey. The Oil Regions of Pennsylvania (1865). Har.
Wright, William Bull.N. Y., 1840-1880. A physician and
educator of Buffalo. Highland Rambles, a Poem; The Brook, and Other
Poems.
Wright, William Burnet.O., 1836- ——. A Congregational
clergyman of Boston, and more recently of Buffalo. Ancient Cities from
the Dawn to the Daylight; The World to Come; Master and Men: the Sermon
on the Mountain practiced on the Plain. Hou.
Wright, William Henry.N. C., 1814-1845. A military
engineer in government service. Brief Practical Treatise on Mortars.
Wright, William James.Vt., 1831- ——. A Presbyterian
clergyman and educator, professor of metaphysics at Westminster
College, Missouri, from 1887. Tracts on Higher Mathematics.
Wyatt, William Edward.N. S., 1789-1864. An Episcopal
clergyman of Baltimore, rector of St. Paul’s Church, 1814-64. Christian
Offices; The Parting Spirit’s Address to His Mother.
Wyckoff, William Cornelius.N. Y., 1832-1882. Son of
W. H. Wyckoff, infra. The scientific editor of The New York
Tribune, 1869-78. Silk Goods in America; American Silk Manufacture.
Wyckoff, William Henry.N. Y., 1807-1877. A Baptist
clergyman and educator of New York city. American Bible Society and the
Baptists; Documentary History of the American Bible Union.
Wyeth, John Allan.Al., 1845- ——. A surgeon of New York
city, founder, in 1880, of the New York Polyclinic and Hospital, the
first graduate medical school in America. Essays on Surgical Anatomy
and Surgery; Text-Book on Surgery. Ap.
Wylie, Theodore William John.Pa., 1818-1898. A Reformed
Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. English, Latin, and Greek
Vocabulary; The God of Our Fathers; Washington as a Christian.
Wylie, Theophilus Adam.Pa., 1810-1895. A Reformed
Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of ancient languages
in the University of Indiana from 1864. History of the University of
Indiana.
Wyman, Edwin Allen.Me., 1834- ——. A clergyman of
Malden, Massachusetts. Acquaintance with God, or Salvation and
Character.
Wyman, Jeffries.Ms., 1814-1874. A physician and
scientist of distinction, Hersey professor of anatomy in Harvard
University, 1847-74. He was the author of Fresh-Water Shell-Mounds of
the St. John’s River, Florida, and many scientific monographs of much
value. See Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874; Biographical Memoirs of
National Academy of Science, vol. 3.
Wyman, Mrs. Lillie Buffum [Chace].R. I., 1837- ——.
Poverty Grass, a collection of short stories.
Wyman, Morrill.Ms., 1812-1903. Brother of J. Wyman,
supra. A physician of Cambridge. Practical Treatise on
Ventilation; Progress in School Discipline; Autumnal Catarrh.
Hou.
Wynne, James.N. Y., 1814-1871. A physician of New
York city. Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of America;
Importance of the Study of Legal Medicine; The Private Libraries of New
York.
Wynne, Mrs. Madelene [Yale].N. Y., 1847- ——. Daughter
of Mrs. Yale, infra. A Chicago artist and worker in silver. The
Little Room and Other Stories. Wy.
Wythe, George.Va., 1726-1806. A Virginia lawyer,
professor of law at William and Mary College, 1779-89, and a Signer of
the Declaration of Independence. Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the
High Court of Chancery (1795).
Wythe, Joseph Henry.E., 1822- ——. A Methodist
clergyman and physician of San Francisco. The Microscopist; Curiosities
of the Microscope; Agreement of Science and Revelation; The Science of
Life; Biblical Biology; Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology; Physiology
of the Soul. Meth.
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Xariffa.See Townsend, Mrs.
Y
Yale, Mrs. Catharine [Brooks].Vt., 1818-1900. A writer
of Deerfield, Massachusetts, wife of the inventor of the Yale lock.
Story of the Old Willard House of Deerfield, Mass.; Nim and Cum, and
the Wonderhead Stories. Hou. Wy.
Yarrow, Henry Crécy.Pa., 1840- ——. A physician in
Washington, curator of the reptile department in the National Museum.
Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among North American
Indians.
Yates, John Van Ness.N. Y., 1779-1839. A lawyer of
Albany. Collection of Pleadings and Practical Precedents, with Notes;
History of the State of New York (with J. Moulton); Principles and
Practice, etc., in Cases of Writs of Error (with T. Tillinghast).
Yeaman, George Helm.Ky., 1829- ——. A lawyer of New
York city, minister to Denmark, 1865-70. The Study of Government.
Yoakum, Henderson K——.Tn., 1810-1856. A lawyer of
Huntsville, Texas. History of Texas from its First Settlement to its
Annexation to the United States.
Youmans [yoo´manz], Edward Livingston.N. Y.,
1821-1887. An eminent scientist who, though partially blind for many
years, wrote and lectured extensively, beside editing The Popular
Science Monthly, 1872-87. Handbook of Household Science; The Culture
Demanded by Modern Life; Alcohol and the Constitution of Man; Chemical
Atlas; Correlation and Conservation of Forces (edited). See Life of,
by J. Fiske, supra.Ap.
Youmans, Eliza Ann.N. Y., 1826- ——. Sister of E. L.
Youmans, supra, and his assistant in his studies and researches.
First and Second Books of Botany; Descriptive Botany; Lessons in
Cookery. Ap.
Youmans, William Jay.N. Y., 1838-1901. Brother of E. L.
Youmans, supra. A physician and scientist of New York city, and
editor of The Popular Science Monthly, 1887-1900. Pioneers of Science
in America (edited); co-author with Huxley of Elements of Physiology
and Hygiene.
Young, Alexander.Ms., 1800-1854. A Unitarian clergyman
of Boston, pastor of the New South Church. Chronicles of the
Pilgrim Fathers; Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of
Massachusetts Bay, 1623-36. He edited The Library of Old English Prose
Writers.
Young, Alexander.Ms., 1836-1891. Son of A. Young,
supra. A Boston journalist on the editorial staff of The Post.
History of the Netherlands; Young Folks’ History of the Netherlands.
Est.
Young, Andrew White.N. Y., 1802-1877. A journalist of
Warsaw, New York. First Lessons in Civil Government; Citizens’ Manual
of Government and Law; The American Statesman; National Economy: a
History of the Protective System; History of Warsaw; History of Wayne
County, Indiana. Clke.
Young, Augustus.Vt., 1785-1857. A jurist of St. Albans,
Vermont. On the Quadrature of the Circle; Unity of Purpose.
Young, Charles Augustus.N. H., 1834- ——. An astronomer
of note, professor of astronomy at Princeton College from 1877. The
Sun; A General Astronomy; Elements of Astronomy; Lessons in Astronomy;
Uranography. Ap. Gi.
Young, Jesse Bowman.Pa., 1844- ——. A Methodist
clergyman, editor of The Central Christian Advocate from 1892. What a
Boy Saw in the Army; Days and Nights on the Sea. Meth.
Young, John Russell.Pa., 1841-1899. A journalist of
note who was minister to China, 1882-85, and librarian of Congress
from 1897. Around the World with General Grant. He edited The Memorial
History of Philadelphia.
Young, Mrs. Julia Evelyn [Ditto].N. Y., 1857- ——.
A novelist and verse-writer of Buffalo. Adrift, a Story of Niagara;
Glynne’s Wife, a Story in Verse; Thistle Down. Lip.
Young, Loyal.Ms., 1806- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman
in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. From Dawn to Dusk; Ecce Diluvium;
Interviews with Inspired Men; Commentary on Ecclesiastes.
Young, William.Il., 1847- ——. A dramatist of note
whose plays include, Pendragon; The Rajah; Jonquil; The Rogue’s March;
Ganelon; Joan of Arc; If I Were You; Young America; The House of
Mauprat (with J. G. Wilson). He has also written Wishmakers’ Town, a
volume of verse.
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Zabriskie, Francis Nicoll.N. Y., 1832-1891. A Dutch
Reformed clergyman. Golden Fruit from Bible Trees; The Story of a Soul;
Behold a Ladder; Life of Horace Greeley. Fu. Ran.
Zachos [zăk´os], John Celivergos.Ty., 1820-1898.
A Unitarian clergyman and educator. New American Speaker; Analytical
Educator; Phonic Primer.
Zahm, John Augustine.O., 1851- ——. A Roman Catholic
clergyman, procurator-general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross,
now (1897) living at Rome. Evolution and Dogma; Bible, Science and
Faith; Sound and Music; Catholic Science and Scientists. Mg.
Zeisberger, David.Ma., 1721-1808. A noted missionary
of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Delaware and English
Spelling-Book; Sermons for Children; Dictionary in German and Delaware;
Essay Toward an Onondaga Grammar. In 1888 his Diary from 1781 to 1798,
including the narrative of his eventful life among the Indians of Ohio,
was translated from the original manuscript in German by Eugene Bliss,
and for the first time published. See Life of, by E. de Schweinitz,
supra, 1870; Bibliography of Ohio.
Zenos, Andrew Constantinides.Ty., 1855- ——. A
Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical theology in McCormick
Theological Seminary, Chicago, from 1891. The Elements of the Higher
Criticism; Compendium of Church History. Fu.
Ziegler, Henry.Pa., 1816-1898. A Lutheran clergyman
in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Natural Theology; Apologetic Theology;
Catechetics; The Pastor; The Preacher; Dogmatic Theology; The Value to
the Lutheran Church of Her Confessions.
Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild.S. C., 1849- ——. An artist of
New York city. Horse, Foot, and Dragoons, or Sketches of Army Life; All
Hands. Har.