A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS SUPPLEMENT (continued 4)
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McGovern, John. N. Y., 1850- ——. A Chicago author and compiler, among whose works are Famous Women of the World; American Statesmen; The Dream City; Empire of Information.
MacGowan, Alice. O., 1858- ——. A Chattanooga writer. The Last Word; Return. Lo. Pa.
McGrath, Harold. N. Y., 1872- ——. A Syracuse journalist. Arms and the Woman; The Puppet Crown; The Grey Cloak; The Man on the Box. Bo.
McHenry, James. I., 1785-1845. A physician of Philadelphia whose poems and sensational novels once attracted attention. His fictions include O’Halloran, or The Insurgent; The Wilderness; A Spectre of the Forest; The Hearts of Steel; The Betrothed of Wyoming; Meredith. His other works are The Pleasures of Friendship; Waltham; The Antediluvians, a Narrative Poem in Ten Books; The Usurper, a tragedy.
McIlvaine, Charles. Pa., 1849- ——. A Philadelphia mycologist. Fungi, Mushrooms, Toadstools (with McAdam); A Legend of Polecat Hollow. Bo.
McIntosh, Burr. Pa., 186- - ——. A New York author and publisher. The Little I Saw of Cuba; Boy of the Twentieth; Football and Love. Ne.
McIntyre, John T——. Pa., 1871- ——. The Ragged Edge, a novel of ward politics.
Mackenzie, Arthur Stanley. N. S., 1865- ——. A professor of physics at Bryn Mawr College from 1891. The Laws of Gravitation. Am.
Mackenzie, William Douglas. South Africa, 1859- ——. A Congregational clergyman, president of Hartford Theological Seminary from 1903. The Ethics of Gambling; The Revelation of the Christ; Christianity and the Progress of Man; South Africa: its Heroes and Wars; John Mackenzie, South African Missionary and Statesman. Rev.
Mackie, Pauline Bradford. See Hopkins, Mrs. P. B.
McKnight, Charles. Pa., 1826- ——. Old Fort Duquesne; Our Western Border One Hundred Years Ago.
McKnight, George. N. Y., 1840-1897. A physician at Sterling, New York. Firm Ground, a volume of religious sonnets, reprinted as Thoughts in Life and Faith.
Mackubin, Ellen. Il., 18— - ——. A novelist of New York. The King of the Town, a novel. Hou.
MacLandburgh, Florence. O., 1850- ——. The Automaton Ear, and Other Sketches.
Maclane, Mary. Manitoba, 1881- ——. The Story of Mary Maclane. S.
McLaughlin, Mary Louise. O., 18— - ——. A Cincinnati ceramic artist. China Painting; Pottery Decoration; Suggestions to China Painters; Painting in Oil; The Second Madame. Clke. Put.
McLaws, [Emily] Lafayette. Ga., 18— - ——. A novelist of Augusta, Georgia. When the Land was Young; Jezebel. Lo.
Maclay, Edgar Stanton. Ch., 1863- ——. An historical writer at Setauket, Long Island. The History of the United States Navy; Reminiscences of the Old Navy; History of American Privateers. Ap. Put.
Maclean, John Patterson. O., 1848- ——. An archæologist of Cleveland. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man; Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man; The Mound Builders; History of the Clan Maclean; Introduction to the Study of the Gospel of Saint John; Critical Examination of Evidence of Norse Discovery of America; Historical Examination of Fingal’s Cave. Clke.
McLeod, Mrs. Georgiana A—— [Hulse]. Fl., 18- ——1890. An educator of Baltimore. Sunbeams and Shadows; Ivy Leaves from the Old Homestead; Theirs and Mine; Sea Drifts; Bright Memories.
Macloskie, George. I., 1834- ——. A professor of biology at Princeton University from 1874. Elementary Botany. Ho.
McManus, Blanche. See Mansfield, Mrs. Blanche.
McMurrich, James Playfair. Ont., 1859- ——. A professor of anatomy at the University of Michigan from 1895. Invertebrate Morphology; The Development of the Human Body. Ho.
McNeill, George Edwin. Ms., 1837- ——. A trades-union organizer of Boston. The Labour Movement the Problem of a Day; History of Coöperation in Massachusetts; History of the Development of the Shoe Industry; History of Shoemakers’ Unions; Eight Hour Primer; The Slave of Fortune, a novel; The Silver Dollar; Accidents and Accident Insurance; Unfrequented Paths.
MacNutt, William Fletcher. N. S., 1839- ——. A San Francisco physician. Diseases of the Kidney and Bladder.
McPherson, Logan Grant. O., 1863- ——. A Pittsburgh journalist. The Monetary and Banking Problem. Ap.
MacVane, Silas Marcus. P. E. I., 1842- ——. A professor of history at Harvard University from 1886. The Wages Question; Austrian Theory of Value; Working Principles of Political Economy; The South African Question; Translation of Seignobos’s History of Europe since 1814. Ho.
Madison, Mrs. Lucy [Foster]. Mo., 1865- ——. A littérateur of New York city. A Maid of the First Century; A Maid at King Alfred’s Court; A Colonial Maid.
Main, Hubert Platt. Ct., 1839- ——. A writer of Newark, New Jersey. A Dictionary of American Musicians and Hymn Writers.
Main, Thomas. S., 1828-1896. A mechanical engineer, professor of shipbuilding in the Webb Academy of Shipbuilding, New York city. History of the Steam Engine.
Major, Charles. “Edwin Caskoden.” Ind., 1856- ——. A lawyer and novelist of Shelbyville, Indiana. When Knighthood was in Flower, a popular romance; The Bears of Blue River; Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall; A Forest Hearth. Bo. Mac.
Mallon, Mrs. Isabel Allardice [Sloan]. “Ruth Ashmore.” Md., 1862-1898. A popular writer on deportment. Side Talks with Girls; The Business Girl. Scr.
Maltbie, Milo Roy. Il., 1871- ——. A writer on economics. Municipal Functions, a Study of Municipal Socialism; English Local Government of Today. Mac.
Mangasarian, Mangasar M——. Ty., 1859- ——. A Chicago lecturer. The Religion of the Future; Omar Khayyám; A New Catechism; Christian Science, a Comedy in Four Acts; The Abysmal Monster.
Mann, Cameron. N. Y., 1851- ——. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Dakota. Future Punishment; Comments of the Bystanders at the Cross.
Mann, Charles Holbrook. N. Y., 1839- ——. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Orange, New Jersey. Interior Spiritual Living; Sermons on Marriage; What God hath Cleansed; The Christ of God; Psychiasis; God and Man in the Bible. Put.
Mann, Henry. S., 1848- ——. A journalist of New York city. Ancient and Mediæval Republics; Features of Society in Old and New England; English Free Trade; Handbook for American Citizens; The Land we Live In; Turning Points in Natural History.
Mansfield, Mrs. Blanche [McManus]. La., 18— - ——. An author and illustrator of New York city. The True Mother Goose; Childhood’s Songs of Long Ago; Bachelor Ballads; How the Dutch came to Manhattan; Voyage of the Mayflower.
Marble, Mrs. Annie [Russell]. Ms., 1864- ——. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Books that Nourish Us; Thoreau: his Home, Friends, and Books. Cr. Mac.
March, Alden. Pa., 1869- ——. An editor on the staff of the Philadelphia Press from 1891. The Conquest of the Philippines and Our Other Island Possessions.
Marcou, Jules. F., 1824-1898. A geologist in government service for many years. Recherches Géologiques sur la Jura Salinois; Origin of the Name America; First Discoveries of California; Life of Louis Agassiz. Mac.
Maretzek, Max. A., 1821-1897. A noted opera manager and composer. Crotchets and Quavers, an autobiography.
Marks, Arthur Handly. Ga., 1864-1892. A writer of Winchester, Tennessee; from 1886 to 1889 in the consular service at London and Berlin. Igerne, and Other Writings.
Marks, William Dennis. Mo., 1849- ——. A mechanical engineer who has published The Relative Proportions of the Steam Engine; The Finances of Gas and Electricity Manufacturing Enterprises. Lip.
Marshall, Mrs. Caroline Louise [Kingsbury]. Wis., 1849- ——. A writer of Eldora, Iowa. The Girl Ranchers; Two Wyoming Girls.
Marshall [Caroline], Nina Lovering. N. Y., 1861- ——. An educator of New York city. The Mushroom Book. Dou.
Marshall, Edward. N. Y., 1868- ——. A New York journalist, a correspondent of the Journal during the Spanish war. Lizette, a novel; The Story of the Rough Riders, First United States Volunteer Cavalry; The Middle Wall. Dil.
Marshall, Henry Rutgers. N. Y., 1852- ——. An architect of New York city. Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics; Æsthetic Principles; Instinct and Reason. Mac.
Martin, Benjamin Ellis. N. Y., 18— - ——. A littérateur of New York city. About England with Dickens; Old Chelsea; In the Footprints of Charles Lamb; The Stones of Paris in History and Letters (with C. M. Martin). Scr.
Martin, Chalmers. Ky., 1859- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburgh. Apostolic and Modern Missions. Rev.
Martin, George Madden. Ky., 1866- ——. Emmy Lou: her Book and Heart; The House of Fulfilment. Mac.
Martin, Mrs. Jane [Percy]. E., 1847- ——. A story-writer of Pendleton, Oregon. Lost and Saved.
Martin, Samuel Albert. Pa., 1853- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Wilson College, at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from 1895. The Man of Uz.
Martin, Mrs. Victoria [Claflin] [Woodhull]. O., 1838- ——. A once prominent reform agitator, now (1904) resident in England. Origin, Tendencies, and Principles of Government; Social Freedom; Garden of Eden Stirpiculture; Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit; The Human Body the Temple of God.
Marvin, Winthrop Lippitt. N. H., 1863- ——. A Boston journalist. The American Merchant Marine: its History and Romance. Scr.
Mason, Mrs. Agnes Louisa [Carter]. N. Y., 18- ——. A verse-writer of Montclair, New Jersey. The White Nun. Put.
Mason, Mrs. Amelia [Gere]. Ms., 184- - ——. A Chicago writer. The Women of the French Salons; Woman in the Golden Ages. Cent.
Mason, Mrs. Caroline [Atwater]. R. I., 1853- ——. A writer of Batavia, New York. A Titled Maiden; A Minister of the World; The Minister of Carthage; The Quiet King; A Wind Flower; A Woman of Yesterday; A Lily of France; Lux Christi: an Outline Study of India; The Little Green God; Holt of Heathfield. Dou. Mac. Rev.
Mason, Lowell. Ms., 1792-1872. A famous Boston musician, who, beside publishing various collections of sacred and secular music which included many pieces of his own composition, was the author of Musical Letters from Abroad, and several musical text-books.
Mason, Mary Augusta. N. Y., 18— - ——. An adopted daughter of C. M. Dickinson (page 98). With the Seasons, a collection of verse of more than average merit. Ran.
Mason, Rufus Osgood. N. H., 1830-1903. A physician of New York city. Sketches and Impressions; Telepathy and the Subliminal Self; Hypnotism and Suggestion.
Mason, William. Ms., 1829- ——. Son of L. Mason, supra. A musician of New York city. Easy System for Beginners (with Hoadley); Pianoforte Technics (with Matthews); Touch and Technic; Memories of a Musical Life. Cent.
Mason, William Pitt. N. Y., 1853- ——. A professor of chemistry at the Troy Polytechnic Institute. Water Supply; Water Analysis; Notes on Qualitative Analysis. Wil.
Massey, George Betton. Md., 1856- ——. A Philadelphia physician. Electricity in the Diseases of Women; Conservative Gynæcology and Electro-therapeutics.
Mather, Mrs. Margaret Morgan [Herbert]. 184- -1900. Daughter of W. H. Herbert (page 182). History of Polo; Hunting Then and Now; Biography of Fox, a celebrated polo pony.
Mathews, Alfred. O., 1852- ——. A Philadelphia writer. Ohio and the Western Reserve. Ap.
Mathews, F[erdinand] Schuyler. S. I., 1854- ——. An artist and illustrator of Boston. The Golden Flower; The Beautiful Flower Garden; Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden; Familiar Trees and their Leaves; Familiar Features of the Roadside; Familiar Life in Field and Forest; The Writing Table of the Twentieth Century; The Field Book of American Wild Flowers; Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music; The Field Book of American Wild Birds. Ap.
Mathews, Frances Aymar. N. Y., 18— - ——. A novelist of New York city. The New Yorkers, and Other People; A Married Man; One Man in a Thousand; To-night at Eight; His Way and Her Will; My Lady Reggy Goes to Town, and several plays.
Mathews, Shailor. Me., 1863- ——. A professor in the University of Chicago. Select Mediæval Documents; The Social Teaching of Jesus; History of New Testament Times in Palestine; The French Revolution. Mac.
Mathews, Stanley. O., 1824-1889. An Ohio jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1881-89. A Summary of the Law of Partnership.
Matson, Henry. O., 1829-1901. A clergyman in Oberlin, Ohio. References for Literary Workers; Knowledge and Culture. Mg.
Matthewman, Lisle de Vaux. E., 1867- ——. A journalist of New York city. Crankisms; Brevities; Rips and Raps. Co. Sto.
Matthews, William Baynham. Va., 1850- ——. A lawyer of Washington city. Forms of Pleading; Guide for Executors and Administrators; Digest of Land Decisions.
Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. N. J., 1873- ——. New York in Fiction; The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature (with Taber). Do.
Maxwell, Perriton. N. Y., 1866- ——. A journalist of New York city. Masterpieces of Art and Nature; American Art and Artists.
Maxwell, Samuel. N. Y., 1826-1901. A Nebraska lawyer and congressman. Maxwell’s Nebraska Digest (1877); Practice in Justice Courts; Pleading and Practice; Criminal Procedure; Code Pleading.
Mayer, Henry. G., 1868- ——. A caricaturist of note. Autobiography of a Monkey; In Laughland; A Trip to Toyland; Adventures of a Japanese Doll; Alphabet of Little People. Dut. Sto.
Mayo, Earl Williams. N. Y., 1873- ——. A New York littérateur. A Border Rivalry.
Mead, Edward Campbell. Ms., 1837- ——. A farmer of Keswick, Virginia. Genealogical History of the Lee Family of Virginia and Maryland; Australia in 1859; Sketches of the War; Historic Homes of the South-West Mountains, Virginia.
Mead, Mrs. Lucia True [Ames]. N. H., 1856- ——. Wife of E. D. Mead (page 252). See Ames, Lucia.
Mead, Theodore Hoe. N. Y., 1837- ——. A manufacturer of New York city. Our Mother Tongue; Health without Medicine; Horsemanship for Women. Do.
Mead, [William] Leon. N. Y., 1861- ——. A New York littérateur. The Rockets, a volume of verse; In Thraldom: a physiological romance; Wild Cat Ledge; The Bow-Legged Ghost, and Other Stories; On Nature’s Reeds, a collection of verse; and several plays.
Means, David MacGregor. Ms., 1847- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Boss: an Essay on the Government of American Cities; Industrial Freedom. Ap.
Mears, David Otis. Ms., 1842- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Life of Edward Norris Kirk, supra; The Deathless Book; Oberlin Lectures; Inspired Through Suffering. Lo. Rev.
Mechem, Floyd Russell. N. Y., 1858- ——. Tappan professor of law in the University of Michigan from 1892. Agency; Public Officers; Cases on Agency; Elements of Partnership; The Law of Sales of Personal Property; Outlines of the Law of Agency.
Meeker, Nathan Cook. O., 1817-1879. An author and journalist of Colorado. The Adventures of Captain Armstrong; Life in the West (1868); Rosa Robbins, or Life with John A. Logan and his Men.
Meekins, Lynn Roby. Md., 1862- ——. A Baltimore journalist. The Robb’s Island Wreck; Some of Our People; Adam Rush. S. Lip.
Mees, Theophilus Martin Konrad. O., 1848- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Columbus, Ohio. Doctrinal History of Predestination from 1517 to 1580; School Government and Methods.
Meigs, William Montgomery. Pa., 1852- ——. Son of J. F. Meigs, supra, grandson of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Life of Josiah Meigs; Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll; The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787. Lip.
Mell, Patrick Hues. Ga., 1850- ——. Son of P. H. Mell (page 252). A scientist of Auburn, Alabama. Wild Grasses of Alabama; Life of Patrick Hues Mell, Senior; Climatology of Alabama; Microscopic Study of the Cotton Plant, are among his works.
Memminger, Allard. S. C., 1854- ——. A physician of Charleston. Diagnosis by the Urine.
Mercer, Henry Chapman. Pa., 1856- ——. An archæologist of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Hill Caves of Yucatan; Lenape Stone; Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern United States. Gi.
Meredith, William Tuckey. Pa., 1839- ——. A banker of New York city. Not of her Father’s Race, a novel.
Merington, Marguerite. E., 18— - ——. A playwriter of New York city. Captain Letterblair; Daphne, or the Pipes of Arcadia; Love Finds the Way. Cent.
Merriam, Charles Edward. Ia., 1874- ——. An instructor in political science in the University of Chicago from 1903. The History of the Theory of Sovereignty since Rousseau; Economics and Public Law; A History of American Political Theories. Mac.
Merrick, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Thomas]. La., 1825- ——. A New Orleans writer. Old Times in Dixie Land: a Southern Matron’s Memories.
Merrill, Catherine. Ind., 1824-1900. A once prominent educator at Indianapolis. The Soldier of Indiana, a Record of the State’s Relation to the Civil War.
Merrill, George Edmands. Ms., 1846- ——. A Baptist clergyman, president of Colgate University from 1899. The Story of the Manuscripts; Crusaders and Captives; The Reasonable Christ; Parchments of the Faith.
Merrill, Joseph. Ms., 1814-1898. A local historian who published a History of Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1881.
Merriman, Charles Eustace. 18— - ——. A littérateur who has published Letters from a Son to his Self-Made Father.
Merriman, Mrs. Effie [Woodward]. Min., 1856- ——. A Minneapolis writer for children. Among her books are Pards; A Queer Family; The Little Millers; How Women may Earn Money.
Merriman, Mrs. Helen [Bigelow]. Ms., 1844- ——. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts. What Shall Make us Whole? Religio Pictoris. Hou.
Merriman, Roger Bigelow. Ms., 187- - ——. Son of Mrs. H. Merriman, supra. Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell.
Merriman, Titus Mooney. Q., 1822- ——. A Baptist clergyman in Cambridge. Trail of History; William, Prince of Orange; Pilgrims, Puritans, and Roger Williams Vindicated.
Merwin, Samuel. Il., 1874- ——. A story-writer of Plainfield, New Jersey. His Little World; The Road to Frontenac; The Upper Hand; The Story of Hunch Badeau; The Merry Anne. With H. K. Webster, infra, he wrote Calumet K; The Short Line War. Bar. Mac.
Messmer, Sebastian Gebhard. Sd., 1847- ——. A Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Green Bay from 1892. Praxis Synodalis; Canonical Procedure; Spirago’s Method. Ben.
Meyer, Mrs. Annie Nathan. N. Y., 1867- ——. A New York writer. Helen Brent, M. D.; My Park Book; Robert Annys: Poor Priest.
Mielziner, Moses. G., 1828-1903. A Hebrew rabbi, Talmud professor in Union College, Cincinnati, from 1879. Slavery Among the Ancient Hebrews; Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce; Introduction to the Talmud; Legal Maxims of the Talmud.
Mifflin, John Houston. Pa., 1807-1883. An artist and author of Columbia, Pennsylvania. He was a portrait and miniature painter of much delicacy. Rhymes of an Artist.
Mifflin, Lloyd. Pa., 1846- ——. Son of J. H. Mifflin, supra. A poet and artist of Columbia, Pennsylvania. At the Gates of Song, a volume of one hundred and fifty sonnets; On the Slopes of Helicon, and Other Poems; Memorial Day Ode; The Hills: a Poem; Conversation as a Fine Art; Echoes of Greek Idyls; Lyrics; The Fields of Dawn, and Later Sonnets; Castalian Days. Est. Hou.
Mifflin, Samuel Wright. Pa., 1805-1885. Cousin of J. H. Mifflin, supra. A civil engineer of Pennsylvania. Location of Railway Engineers.
Miller, Adolph Caspar. Cal., 1866- ——. A professor of economics in the University of California from 1902. The Monetary Problem in the University of California.
Miller, Alfred Stanley. Pa., 1856- ——. A metallurgist, professor of mining metallurgy and geology in the University of Idaho from 1897. Manual of Assaying; The Cyanide Process. Wil.
Miller, Mrs. Alice [Duer]. N. Y., 18— - ——. Sister of C. Duer, supra. Poems (with C. Duer); Calderon’s Prisoner. Scr.
Miller, Andrew James. Ga., 1855- ——. An Alabama journalist. Old School Days; The Making of a Pirate; The Toastmaster.
Miller, Charles Armond. W. Va., 1864- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city. Ad Astra and Other Verses on Sacred Themes; The Way of the Cross. Rev.
Miller, Frank Justus. Tn., 1858- ——. A professor of Latin in the University of Chicago from 1892. Dido, an Epic Tragedy; Studies in Roman Poetry. Sil.
Miller, Freeman Edwin. Ind., 1864- ——. An educator of Oklahoma, professor in the Oklahoma Agricultural College 1894-98. Oklahoma, and Other Poems; Songs from the Southwest Country.
Miller, John Bleecker. N. Y., 1856- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Trade Organizations in Politics; Trade Organizations in Religion.
Miller, Marion Mills. O., 1864- ——. A classical scholar of New York city. The Sicilian Idyls of Theocritus.
Miller, Mrs. Mary [Rogers]. Ia., 1868- ——. An educator of New York city. The Brook Book. Dou.
Miller, Samuel Almond. O., 1836-1897. A lawyer and geologist of Cincinnati. American Palæozoic Fossils; North American Geology and Palæontology; Mesozoic Fossils; Cenozoic Fossils.
Mills, Benjamin Fay. N. J., 1857- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Oakland, California, formerly prominent as an orthodox evangelist. Power from on High; Victory through Surrender; God’s Word; Twentieth Century Religion.
Mills, Herbert Elmer. N. H., 1861- ——. A professor of economics at Vassar College from 1890. The French Revolution in San Domingo; Practical Economic Problems; The Labour Problem.
Mills, Weymer Jay. N. J., 1880- ——. Historic Houses of New Jersey; Through the Gates of Old Romance. Lip.
Millspaugh, Charles Frederic. N. Y., 1854- ——. A Chicago botanist. American Medical Plants; Weeds of West Virginia; Flora of West Virginia.
Minot, Charles Sedgwick. Ms., 1852- ——. A professor of histology in the medical school of Harvard University from 1892. Human Embryology.
Minton, Henry Collin. Pa., 1855- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of systematic theology in the San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1892. Christianity Supernatural; The Cosmos and the Logos.
Mitchell, Clifford. Ms., 1854- ——. A homœopathic physician of Chicago. Manual of Urinary Analysis; Renal Therapeutics; Dental Chemistry; The Physician’s Chemistry; The Chronicles of the Omelette Club; Diseases of the Urinary Organs.
Moffat, William David. N. J., 1865- ——. Son of J. C. Moffat (page 258). A New York writer of stories for boys, business manager of The Book-Buyer and Scribner’s Magazine. The County Pennant; The Crimson Banner; Brad Mattoon; Not Without Honor, a novel.
Moffett, Cleveland. N. Y., 1803- ——. A journalist who has published Real Detective Stories; Careers of Danger and Daring. Cent.
Moffett, Samuel Erasmus. Mo., 1860- ——. A New York journalist. The Tariff; Chapters on Silver; Suggestions on Government.
Moise, Penina. S. C., 1797-1880. A verse-writer of Charleston. Fancy’s Sketch Book.
Moldehnke, Charles Edward. P., 1860- ——. An Egyptologist. The Trees of Ancient Egypt; The New York Obelisk; Egyptian Origin of Our Alphabet; Egyptian Classics.
Monroe, Mrs. Harriet [Earhart]. Pa., 1842- ——. An author and lecturer of Washington city. The Art of Conversation; Heroine of the Mining Camp; Historical Lutheranism; Washington: its Sights and Insights. Bar. Fu.
Monroe, Will Seymour. Pa., 1863- ——. A professor of psychology in the Westfield, Massachusetts, Normal School. Educational Labours of Henry Barnard; Comenius’s School of Infancy; Bibliography of Education; Child Study Outlines; Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform. Ap. He. Scr.
Moody, Mrs. Helen [Watterson]. O., 1860- ——. A journalist of New York city. The Unquiet Sex, a volume of essays. Scr.
Moody, William Godwin. 18— - ——. Land and Labor in the United States; Our Labor Difficulties. Scr.
Moody, William Vaughn. Ind., 1869- ——. A poet whose work displays qualities which place it above the level of much recent American poetry. Poems; The Masque of Judgment, a dramatic poem; The Fire-Bringer; The History of English Literature (with R. M. Lovett). Hou. Scr. Sm.
Mooney, James. Ind., 1861- ——. An ethnologist of note. Medical Mythology of Ireland; Funeral Customs of Ireland; Holiday Customs of Ireland; Myths of the Cherokees; Sionian Tribes of the East; The Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance.
Moore, Albert Weston. Ms., 1842- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, Massachusetts. The Rational Basis of Orthodoxy. Hou.
Moore, Mrs. Alice Rogers. 18— - ——. In the Fireflies’ Glow, a collection of juvenile tales.
Moore, Charles. Mch., 1855- ——. A writer of Washington city. Charities of the District of Columbia; The Northwest under Three Flags. Har.
Moore, James W——. Pa., 1844- ——. A professor of mechanics at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. The Elements of Natural Philosophy.
Moore, John Bassett. Del., 1860- ——. A professor of international law at Columbia University. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition; History and Digest of International Arbitrations to which the United States has been a Party.
Moore, John Trotwood. Al., 1858- ——. A Summer Hymnal; Ole Mistis; Songs and Stories from Old Tennessee. Co.
Moore, Thomas Joseph. Pa., 1864- ——. A verse-writer of New York city. Elecampane, and Other Poems. Clke.
Moore, William Thomas. Ky., 1832- ——. A clergyman of the Christian (Disciples) sect. Views of Life; Living Pulpit of the Christian (Disciples) Church (edited); Life of Timothy Coup.
Moran, Mrs. Jane Wormley [Blackburn]. Va., 1842- ——. A novelist of Charlottesville, Virginia. Miss Washington of Virginia; What a Man can Do with a Woman’s Life.
Morgan, Anne Eugenia Felicia. O., 1845- ——. A professor of philosophy at Wellesley College from 1878. Scripture Studies on the Origin and Destiny of Man; The White Lady.
Morgan, Mrs. Caroline [Starr]. 184- - ——. Wife of T. J. Morgan, infra. Ways that Win; Esther Lawrence; Charlotte’s Revenge; Marmaduke Multiply Stories.
Morgan, George Campbell. E., 1863- ——. A Congregational clergyman, widely known as a lecturer. Among his works are Discipleship; Hidden Years at Nazareth; God’s Methods with Man; Wherein?; Life Problems; True Estimate of Life; The Ten Commandments; All Things New; The Crises of the Christ. Rev.
Morgan, Thomas Hunt. Ky., 1866- ——. A professor of biology in Bryn Mawr College. The Development of the Frog’s Egg; Regeneration; Evolution and Adaptation (1903).
Morgan, Thomas Jefferson. Ind., 1839-1902. A Baptist clergyman in Yonkers, New York. Patriotic Citizenship; Studies in Pedagogy; The Negro in America. Bap.
Morison, George Shattuck. Ms., 1842-1903. Son of J. H. Morison, infra. A civil engineer of distinction. The New Epoch as developed by the Manufacture of Power. Hou.
Morison, John Hopkins. N. H., 1808-1896. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Milton, Massachusetts, 1846-1885. Life of Honorable Jeremiah Smith; Disquisitions and Notes on the Gospel of Saint Matthew; The Great Poets as Religious Teachers. See John Hopkins Morison, Memoir, 1897.
Morley, Margaret Warner. Ia., 1858- ——. A Boston writer on elementary botany and zoölogy. A Song of Life; Life and Love; A Few Familiar Flowers; Seed-Babies; Flowers and their Friends; The Bee People; The Honey Makers; Down North and Up Along, a volume of travels in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Gi. Mg.
Morris, Mrs. Alice A—— Parmelee. Ct., 186- - ——. A writer of New York city. Dragons and Cherry Blossoms. Do.
Morris, Clara. O., 1848- ——. An actress of note. Life on the Stage; A Pasteboard Crown; Stage Confidences. Lo. Scr.
Morris, Gouverneur. N. Y., 1876- ——. A New York littérateur, great-grandson of Gouverneur Morris, supra. A Bunch of Grapes; Tom Beauling; Aladdin O’Brien; The Pagan’s Progress; Ellen and Mr. Man. Bar. Cent.
Morris, Henry Crittenden. Il., 1868- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. The History of Colonization from the Earliest Times.
Morris, Martin Ferdinand. D. C., 1834- ——. A professor of law in Georgetown University from 1876. Lectures on the Development of Constitutional and Civil Liberty.
Morris, Mrs. Robert C. See Morris, Mrs. Alice.
Morris, Robert Tuttle. Ct., 1857- ——. A surgeon of New York city. How We treat Wounds To-day; Lectures on Appendicitis; Hopkins’s Pond, and Other Sketches. Put.
Morrison, Harry Steele. Il., 1880- ——. A littérateur of New York city. A Yankee Boy’s Success; The Adventures of a Boy Reporter. Pa. Sto.
Morrison, Joseph. Ont., 1848- ——. A surgeon and astronomer in Washington city. Treatise on Trigonometry.
Morrison, Mrs. Mary Jane [Whitney]. Me., 1832-1904. A writer of Waltham, Massachusetts. Stories True and Fancies New.
Morrison, Sara Elizabeth. Ind., 18— - ——. A Philadelphia writer for young people. Chilhowee Boys; Chilhowee Boys in War Times; Chilhowee Boys at College; Chilhowee Boys in Harness. Cr.
Morrow, Prince Albert. Ky., 1849- ——. A physician of New York city, among whose professional publications are System of Genito-Urinary Diseases; Atlas of Skin and Venereal Diseases; Venereal Diseases and Marriage. Wo.
Mortimer, Alfred [Garnett]. E., 1848- ——. An Episcopal clergyman resident in the United States from 1877 and long rector of Saint Mark’s Church, Philadelphia. Helps to Meditation; Sermons in Miniature; Laws of Penitence; Stories from Genesis; Notes on the Penitential Psalms; Laws of Happiness; Catholic Faith and Practice; Lenten Preaching; The Creeds; The Seven Last Words; Jesus and the Renunciation; Learn of Jesus Christ to Die. Dut. Lgs.
Morton, Frederick William. Ont., 1859- ——. A Chicago journalist. Woman in Epigram; Men in Epigram; The Revolt of the Covenanters; Love in Epigram.
Moses, Alfred Joseph. L. I., 1859- ——. A professor of mineralogy at Columbia University from 1897. Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis; Characters of Crystals. Vn.
Moses, Bernard. Ct., 1846- ——. A professor of history in the University of California from 1876. Politics (with W. W. Crane); Federal Government in Switzerland; Democracy and Social Growth in America; Establishment of Spanish Rule in America. Put.
Moss, Frank. N. Y., 1860- ——. A New York lawyer of prominence. The American Metropolis.
Moss, Lemuel. Ky., 1829-1904. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. What Baptists Stand for; A Day with Paul.
Moxom, Philip Stafford. Ont., 1848- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Springfield, Massachusetts, but formerly in the Baptist ministry. From Jerusalem to Nicæa; The Aim of Life; The Religion of Hope. Lit.
Muhleman, Maurice Louis. Il., 1852- ——. A deputy assistant treasurer of the United States at New York city from 1888. The Money of the United States; Monetary Systems of the World.
Mullany, John Francis. N. Y., 1853- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Syracuse, among whose writings are Old and New Spain; Dante and His Times; Bible Studies; The Old World Seen through American Eyes. Ben.
Mumford, John Kimberly. N. Y., 1863- ——. A New York journalist. Oriental Rugs.
Munn, Charles Clark. Ct., 1848- ——. Uncle Terry; Pocket Island; Rockhaven; The Hermit. Le.
Munro, Dana Carleton. R. I., 1866- ——. A professor of European history in the University of Wisconsin from 1902. Syllabus of Mediæval History; Mediæval History; Essays on the Crusades (joint author). Ap.
Munroe, James Phinney. N. Y., 1862- ——. A Boston writer. The Educational Ideal; Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars. He. Lit.
Münsterberg, Hugo. G., 1863- ——. An eminent psychologist, professor at Harvard University from 1897. Psychology and Life; American Traits; Grundzüge der Psychologie; The Americans. Hou.
Murfree, William Law. N. C., 1817-1892. A lawyer of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and, in later life, of St. Louis. His daughters, F. N. D. and M. N. Murfree, are mentioned on page 266. A Treatise on the Law of Sheriffs; Official Bonds; Practice before Justices of the Peace.
Murphy, Edgar Gardner. Ark., 1869- ——. An educator, of Montgomery, Alabama, but prior to 1903 in the Episcopal ministry. Words for the Church; The Larger Life. Lgs. Wh.
Muzzarelli, Antoine [Jules César Venceslas Ermanigilde]. F., 1847- ——. An educator, resident in the United States from 1877. Histoire de la Guerre Pacifique; Etude sur la Situation Politique de l’Amérique du Sud; La Question du Canal de Panama; Les Autonymes de la Langue Française; The Academic French Course; Le Pays de France. Am.
Muzzey, David Saville. Ms., 1870- ——. A writer of Lexington, Massachusetts. Rise of the New Testament; Spiritual Heroes. Dou. Mac.
Myer, Edmund John. Pa., 1840- ——. A vocal teacher of New York city, among whose professional works are The Voice from a Practical Standpoint; Position and Action in Singing; The Renaissance of the Vocal Art.
Myer, Isaac. Pa., 1836-1902. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Quabbalah; On Dreams; Scarabs; The Oldest Books in the World; Taken from Papyri and Monuments.
Myers, Cortland. N. Y., 1864- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, among whose books are Midnight in a Great City; Why Men do not Go to Church; The Lost Wedding Ring; The Best Place on Earth. Fu.
Myers, Mrs. Minnie [Walter]. Mi., 1852- ——. A writer of Memphis. Romance and Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast. Clke.
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Nagle, James C——. Va., 1865- ——. A civil engineer. A Field Manual for Railroad Engineers. Wil.
Nancrede, Charles Beylard. Pa., 1847- ——. A professor of surgery in the University of Michigan from 1887. Essentials of Anatomy; Lectures upon the Principles of Surgery.
Nash, Charles Ellwood. N. J., 1855- ——. A Universalist clergyman, president of Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois, from 1895. The Saviour of the World.
Nash, Henry Sylvester. O., 1854- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of New Testament interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from 1884. The Genesis of the Social Conscience: the Relation between the Establishment of Christianity in Europe and the Social Question; Ethics and Revelation; History of the Higher Criticism of the New Testament. Mac.
Nason, Frank Lewis. Wis., 1856- ——. A mining engineer. To the End of the Trail, a novel; Iron Ores of Missouri; The Blue Goose. Hou. Mac.
Naylor, James Ball. O., 1860- ——. A novelist. Ralph Marlowe; The Sign of the Prophet; In the Days of Saint Clair; The Cabin in the Woods.
Needham, James George. Il., 1868- ——. An entomologist, professor of biology in Lake Forest University, Illinois, from 1898. Elementary Lessons in Zoölogy; Outdoor Studies. Am.
Nehrling, Henry. Wis., 1853- ——. An ornithologist who has published Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt; Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty.
Neidhard, Charles. G., 1809- ——. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Homœopathy in England, France, and Germany; Answer to the Delusions of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; On Crotalus Horridus in Yellow Fever; Diphtheria in the United States.
Nelson, Aven. Ia., 1859- ——. A professor of botany in the University of Wyoming from 1887. Report on the Flora of Wyoming; The Trees of Wyoming and How to Know Them; Key to the Rocky Mountain Flora. Ap.
Nelson, William. N. J., 1847- ——. A lawyer and local historian of Paterson, New Jersey. The Indians of New Jersey; The Doremus Family in America; History of Paterson.
Nelson, Wolfred. Q., 1846- ——. A physician of New York City. Aperçu de Quelques Difficultés à vaincre dans la Construction du Canal de Panama; Five Years in Panama.
Nevin, Robert Peebles. Pa., 1820- ——. A Pittsburgh writer. Black Robes, or Missions and Ministers; Les Trois Rois, sketches of the history of Pittsburgh.
Nevins, Winfield Scott. Me., 1850- ——. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Old Naumkeag; Guide to the North Shore of Massachusetts; Witchcraft in Salem Village.
New, Clarence Herbert. N. Y., 1862- ——. A New York writer. Franc Elliott; Under the Pacific; Chronicles of Murphy’s Gulch. Lip.
Newcomb, Charles Benjamin. Ms., 1845- ——. A mental healer, of Boston. All’s Right with the World; Discovery of a Lost Trail. Lo.
Newell, Frederick Haynes. Pa., 1862- ——. A hydrographer attached to the United States Geological Survey from 1888, Agriculture by Irrigation; Hydrography of the United States; The Public Lands of the United States. Cr.
Newel, Peter Sheaf Hersey. Il., 1862- ——. A humorous artist and illustrator of books. Pictures and Rhymes. Har.
Newman, Albert Henry. S. C., 1852- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor of church history in McMaster University, Toronto, but prior to 1881 the holder of similar posts in the United States. The Baptist Churches in the United States; History of Anti-Pædobaptism; Manual of Church History; A Century of Baptist Achievement. Bap.
Niblack, Albert Parker. Ind., 1859- ——. A United States naval lieutenant. The Coast Indians of Alaska and Northern British America.
Niccols, Samuel Jack. 1838- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman in St. Louis. The Eastern Question in Prophecy (1877).
Nichols, Charles Wilbur de Lyon. Ct., 1854- ——. A New York philanthropist. The Decadents; The Greek Madonna.
Nichols, Francis Henry. L. I., 1868- ——. A newspaper correspondent and traveller. Through Hidden Shensi. Scr.
Nicholson, Meredith. Ind., 1866- ——. An Indianapolis writer. Short Flights (verse); The Hoosiers; The Main Chance. Bo.
Nicklin, Philip Houlbrouke. “Peregrine Prolix.” Pa., 1786-1842. A once prominent bookseller in Philadelphia. Letters Descriptive of Virginia Springs; A Pleasant Peregrination through the Prettiest Parts of Pennsylvania; Remarks on Literary Property; Papers on Free Trade.
Nicolls, William Jasper. Pa., 1854- ——. A civil and mining engineer of Philadelphia. Graystone, a novel; Nicolls’s Railway Builder; The Story of American Coal; Coal Catechism. Lip.
Nixon, Oliver Woodson. N. C., 1825- ——. A Chicago editor. How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon for the Union; Memories of a Forty-Niner.
Noble, Frederick Alphonso. Me., 1832- ——. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of Union Park Church, Chicago. Our Redemption; Divine Life in Man; Discourses on the Epistle to the Philippians. Rev.
Norris, Frank. Il., 1870-1902. A novelist of New York city, war correspondent of McClure’s Magazine during the Spanish-American War. Yvernette, a mediæval poem; Moran of the Lady Letty; McTegue; Blix; A Man’s Woman; The Octopus; The Pit. Dou. Lip.
Norris, Homer Albert. Me., 1860- ——. A Boston musician. Practical Harmony on a French Basis; The Art of Counterpoint.
Norris, Mary Harriott. N. J., 1848- ——. A novelist of New York city and dean of Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. Editor of editions of George Eliot’s Silas Marner; Longfellow’s Evangeline; Scott’s Marmion, Kenilworth, and Quentin Durward, and author of Dorothy Delafield; Afterward; John Applegate, Surgeon; Lakewood; The Gray House of the Quarries; The Grapes of Wrath. Pa. Sto.
Norris, Richard Cooper. Md., 1863- ——. A Philadelphia physician. American Text Book of Obstetrics; Syllabus of Obstetrical Lectures.
Norris, William Fisher. Pa., 1839-1901. A Philadelphia surgeon who, in addition to many professional papers, has published (with C. A. Oliver) A Text Book of Ophthalmology and edited A System of Diseases of the Eye, by American, British, French, Dutch, and Spanish Authors.
North, Simeon. Ct., 1802-1884. An educator who was president of Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1839-1857. The American System of Collegiate Education; Faith in the World’s Conversion; Anglo-Saxon Literature; The Weapons in Christian Warfare; Obedience in Death; Half Century Letter of Reminiscences.
Northrop, Henry Davenport. N. Y., 1836- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Crown Jewels; History of the United States; World Renowned Authors; Grandfather’s Bible Stories.
Norton, Charles Benjamin. Ct., 1825-1891. American Breech-Loading Small-Arms; Life Insurance; The President and his Cabinet (1888); World’s Fairs from 1851 to 1893.
Norton, John Foote. Ct., 1809- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Natick, Massachusetts, who published town histories of Natick and Athol, Massachusetts, and of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
Norton, John Pease. Ct., 1877- ——. An instructor in economics at Yale University from 1901. Statistical Studies in the New York Money Market. Mac.
Norwood, Thomas Manson. Ga., 1830- ——. A lawyer of Savannah. Plutocracy, or American White Slavery, a novel.
Nott, Charles Cooper. N. Y., 1827- ——. A jurist of Washington city. Mechanics’ Lien Laws; Sketches of the War; Sketches of Prison Camps; Seven Great Hymns of the Church.
Nox, Owen. See Cory, C. B.
Noyes, Alexander Dana. N. J., 1862- ——. A New York journalist, financial editor of the Evening Post. Thirty Years of American Finance. Put.
Noyes, Carleton [Eldredge]. 18— - ——. An instructor in English at Harvard University. The Enjoyment of Art. Hou.
Noyes, Theodore Williams. D. C., 1848- ——. A journalist of Washington city. The National Capital; Notes of Travel; Newspaper Libels.
Noyes, William Albert. Ia., 1857- ——. A professor of chemistry at the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana. Elements of Qualitative Analysis; Organic Chemistry for the Laboratory.
Nutting, Mary Olivia. Vt., 1831- ——. Our Summer at Hillside Farm; Steps in the Upward Way; The Story of William the Silent and the Netherland War; The Days of Prince Maurice. C. P. S. Lo.
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Oakley, Henry Augustus. N. Y., 1827- ——. An insurance president of New York city. A Christmas Reverie, and Other Sketches.
Ober, Sarah Endicott. Ms., 1854- ——. For six years a Congregationalist missionary in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. Ginsey Krieder; Little Tommy; Stacy’s Room. Bap. C. P. S.
O’Bryan, William. I. 1778-1868. A Wesleyan preacher who in 1816 founded the sect of Bryanites, or Arminian Bible Christians. In 1831 he emigrated to the United States, and was long resident in Brooklyn. Travels in the United States of America (1836); The Rules of Society, a Guide for Those who Desire to be Arminian Bible Christians. See Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41.
Ogden, Henry Neely. Me., 1868- ——. A professor of civil engineering at Cornell University from 1896. Sewer Design. Wil.
Ogden, Rollo. N. Y., 1856- ——. The editor of the New York Evening Post from 1903. William Hickling Prescott in American Men of Letters Series. Hou.
Ogden, Ruth. See Ide, Mrs.
Ogg, Frederic Austin. Ind., 1878- ——. An instructor in History in Indiana University. Saxon and Slav; The Exploration and Diplomacy of the Mississippi. Mac.
O’Gorman, Thomas. Ms. 1843- ——. The Roman Catholic bishop of Sioux Falls from 1896. A History of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
O’Hagan, Anne. D. C., 1869- ——. A journalist of New York city. Cuba at a Glance (joint author).
Ohmann-Dumesnil, Arnaut Henry. Ia., 1857- ——. A dermatologist of St. Louis. Handbook of Dermatology; History of Syphilis.
Olcutt, Henry Steel. N. J., 1832- ——. The founder, in 1875, of the Theosophical Society, now (1904) resident at Adgar, near Madras, India. Outlines of First Course of Yale Agricultural Lectures (1860); People from the Outer World; Theosophy, Religion, and Occult Science; A Buddhist Catechism; Old Diary Leaves. Put.
Olmsted, Charles Sanford. N. Y., 1853- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Colorado. December Musings, and Other Poems; Discipline of Perfection.
Olney, Edward. N. Y., 1827-1887. An educator of note, professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan, 1863-1887, and author of a complete series of mathematical text-books which bear his name.
Onderdonk, James Lawrence. N. Y., 1854-1899. A lawyer in Idaho 1880-1886, and subsequently in Chicago. A Political Map of the United States; History of American Verse (1610-1897). Mg.
Oppenheim, Nathan. N. Y., 1865- ——. A New York physician. The Development of the Child; The Medical Diseases of Childhood; The Care of the Child in Health; Mental Growth and Control.
Orcutt, William Dana. N. H., 1870- ——. A Boston writer. Good Old Dorchester, a volume of town history; The Princess Kallisto, and Other Tales; Robert Cavelier: the Story of the Romance of the Sieur de La Salle. Lit.
Ordronaux, John. N. Y., 1830- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Hints on the Preservation of Health in Armies; The Jurisprudence of Medicine; Manual of Instructions for Military Surgeons. Vn.
O’Reilly, Bernard. I., 1820- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, formerly of New York city, but from 1887 domestic prelate of the papal household. Mirror of True Womanhood; Life of Pius IX.; True Men; Key of Heaven; The Two Brides, a novel; Life of Leo XIII.
Osborn, Herbert. Wis., 1856- ——. A professor of entomology in Ohio University from 1888. Insects affecting Domestic Animals; Pediculi and Mallophaga of Man and Lower Animals.
Osborne, Edward William. E. I., 1845- ——. The Protestant Episcopal bishop-coadjutor of Springfield from 1904, but previously a prominent clergyman of Boston. The Children’s Saviour; The Children’s Faith; The Saviour King. Lgs.
Osbourne, Lloyd. Cal., 1868- ——. A San Francisco writer. With his stepfather, Robert Louis Stevenson, he wrote The Wrong Box; The Wrecker; and The Ebb Tide. He is sole author of The Queen vs. Billy; The Renegade.
Otis, George Edmond. Ms., 1846- ——. A lawyer who has published The River of Dreams and Other Poems; Thurid and Other Poems.
Overall, John Wilford. Va., 1823-1899. A Catechism of the United States Constitution; The Negro as he Was and Will Be.
Overton, Gwendolen. Kan., 1876- ——. A novelist of Los Angeles. The Heritage of Unrest; The Captain’s Daughter; Captains of the World. Mac.
Owen, Mary Alicia. Mo., 1858- ——. Ole Rabbit’s Plantation Stories; Voodoo Tales; Oracles and Witches. Put.
Owen, Thomas McAdory. Al., 1866- ——. A bibliographer of Montgomery, Alabama. City Code of Bessemer; Bibliography of Alabama; Bibliography of Mississippi; Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900.
Owen, Wilber Allen. Mch., 1873- ——. A lawyer of Toledo. Questions and Answers on Pleading; Questions and Answers on Evidence; Law Quizzer.
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Packard, Charlotte Mellen. O., 1839- ——. A writer of verse and fiction. Helen Grey: what She Sought and what She Did.
Packard, Winthrop. 18— - ——. A Boston journalist. The Young Ice Whalers. Hou.
Page, Walter Hines. N. C., 1855- ——. An editor of New York city. The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths. Dou.
Paige, Elbridge Gerry. N. Y., 1813-1859. A journalist of New York city, still remembered for his Short Patent Sermons (1854).
Paine, Albert Bigelow. Ms., 1861- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Rhymes by Two Friends (with W. A. White); The Mystery of Evelyn de Lorme; Gobolinks (with Mrs. Ruth Stewart); The Dumpies (with F. Van der Beck); The Hollow Tree; Autobiography of a Monkey; In the Deep Woods; The Beacon Prize Medals, and Other Stories; The Van Dwellers; The Bread Line; The Little Lady: her Book; The Great White Way; Thomas Nast: his Period and his Pictures; The Commuters. Ba. Cent.
Paine, Dan L——. Ind., 1830-1895. An Indianapolis journalist. Club Moss, a collection of verse.
Paine, Levi Leonard. Ms., 1832-1902. A Congregational clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical history in Bangor Theological Seminary 1870-1902. A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism and its Outcome in the New Christology; The Ethnic Trinities, and Their Relation to the Christian Trinity. Hou.
Paine, Willis Seaver. N. Y., 1848- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Laws of the State of New York relating to Banks and Banking; The Law of Building Associations; Insolvent Savings Banks of New York.
Painter, Franklin Verzelius Newton. Va., 1852- ——. A professor of modern languages in Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, from 1852. A History of Education; History of Christian Worship; Introduction to English Literature; Introduction to American Literature; History of English Literature; Lyrical Vignettes; The Reformation Dawn; Poets of the South. Am. Ap.
Pallen, Conde B[enoist]. Mo., 1858- ——. A littérateur of New York city. The Philosophy of Literature; Epochs of Literature; New Rubáiyát, a book of verse; What is Liberalism?; The Death of Sir Launcelot, and Other Poems.
Palmer, Frederic. Ms., 1848- ——. Brother of J. A. and G. H. Palmer (page 282). An Episcopal clergyman, rector (1904) of Christ Church, Andover, Massachusetts. Studies in Theologic Definition underlying the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds; The Drama of the Apocalypse. Dut.
Palmer, Frederick. Pa., 1873- ——. A journalist of New York city. Going to War in Greece; In the Klondike; The Ways of the Service; The Vagabond; George Dewey, Admiral; With Kuroki in Manchuria. Dou. Scr.
Palmer, John McAuley. Ky., 1817-1900. A soldier and politician, governor of Illinois 1868-1872; and the presidential candidate of the gold democratic party in 1896. Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer; An Autobiography. Clke.
Pancoast, Henry Spackman. Pa., 1858- ——. An educator of Philadelphia. Introduction to English Literature; Introduction to American Literature. Ho.
Pangborn, Mrs. Georgia (Wood). N. Y., 1872- ——. A novelist of New York city. Roman Biznet. Hou.
Paret, J[ahial] Parmly. N. J., 1870- ——. Nephew of W. Paret, infra. A specialist in relation to amateur sports. The Woman’s Book of Sport; How to Play Lawn Tennis. Ap.
Paret, William. Md., 1826- ——. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maryland. Saint Peter and the Primacy.
Parker, Benjamin S——. Ind., 1833- ——. An Indiana verse-writer. The Cabin in the Clearing.
Parker, Herschel Clifford. L. I., 1867- ——. An instructor in physics at Columbia University from 1890. A Systematical Treatise on Electrical Measurements (1897).
Parker, Orson. Ms., 1800-1876. A once noted Michigan evangelist. The Fire and the Hammer, or Revivals and How to Promote Them (1876).
Parker, W[illiam] Gordon. N. Y., 1875- ——. An artist and author of New York city, whose stories for boys are illustrated by himself. Six Young Hunters; Grant Burton, the Runaway; Rival Boy Sportsmen; Two Boys in the Blue Ridge. Est. Le.
Parkes, Mrs. Elizabeth [Robins]. “C. E. Raimond.” Ky., 186- - ——. A novelist and actress, for many years resident in London. George Mandeville’s Husband; The Fatal Gift of Beauty, and Other Stories; The New Moon; An Open Question; The Magnetic North. Ap. S.
Parkhurst, Howard Elmore. Ms., 1848- ——. A musician and author of Englewood, New Jersey. The Birds’ Calendar; Songbirds and Waterfowl; Trees, Shrubs and Vines of Northeastern United States; How to Name the Birds. Scr.
Parrish, Randall. 18— - ——. A novelist. When Wilderness was King; My Lady of the North. Mg.
Parsons, Albert Ross. O., 1847- ——. A musician of note, president of the American College of Musicians. Beside many musical compositions, he is the author of New Light from the Great Pyramid; Parsifal; and a translation of Wagner’s Life of Beethoven.
Parsons, William Barclay. N. Y., 1859- ——. A civil engineer of New York city. Track; An American Engineer in China; Turnouts.
Pasko, Wesley Washington. N. Y., 1840-1897. An author and inventor. Men who Advertise; History of Butler County, Ohio; Dictionary of Advertising Terms; Biographical History of Indiana; History of Printing in New York.
Patch, John. Ms., 1807-1887. A lawyer and verse-writer, long resident in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The Poet’s Offering.
Patch, Kate, Mrs. [Whiting]. N. J., 1870- ——. A writer of Framingham, Massachusetts. Middleway; Rainy Days and Sunny Days; Old Lady and Young Laddie; Prince Yellowtop.
Paterson, Stephen Van Rensselaer. N. J., 1817-1872. A verse-writer of New Jersey, whose version of The Moss Rose, from the German of Krummacher, is his best-known poem. Poems of Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey (with W. Paterson, infra).
Paterson, William. N. J., 1817-1899. Twin brother of S. V. R. Paterson, supra. A jurist of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Co-author, with his brother Stephen, of Poems of Twin Graduates of the College of New Jersey.
Paton, Lewis Bayles. N. Y., 1864- ——. A professor of Old Testament exegesis at Hartford Theological Seminary. The Early History of Syria and Palestine.
Paton, William Agnew. N. Y., 1848- ——. A journalist who has published Down the Islands: a Voyage to the Caribbees; Picturesque Sicily. Scr.
Pattee, Fred Lewis. N. H., 1863- ——. A professor of English literature at Pennsylvania State College. The Wine of May, and Other Poems; A History of American Literature; The Foundations of English Literature; Mary Garvin. Sil.
Pattee, William Sullivan. Me., 1846- ——. A lawyer of Minneapolis, dean of the law department of the University of Minnesota from 1888. Illustrative Cases in Contracts; Illustrative Cases in Equity; Illustrative Cases in Personalty; Illustrative Cases in Realty; Elements of Contracts; Elements of Realty.
Patterson, Charles Brodie. N. S., 1854- ——. A lecturer on metaphysics. Seeking the Kingdom; Beyond the Clouds; New Thought Essays; Studies in Spiritual Science; Dominion and Power; The Will to be Well.
Patterson, John Henry. O., 1844- ——. A manufacturer, of Dayton, Ohio. He organized the National Cash Register Company in 1885. Concerning the Forefathers.
Pattison, Robert Everett. Vt., 1800-1874. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of several Baptist institutions. Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians.
Pattison, Thomas Harwood. E., 1838-1904. A Baptist clergyman, professor of homiletics at the Theological Seminary, Rochester, New York. Present Day Lectures; History of the English Bible; The Making of the Sermon; Public Worship; The Ministry of the Sunday School.
Patton, William Macfarland. Va., 1845- ——. A professor of engineering in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Practical Treatise on Foundations; General Treatise on Civil Engineering. Wil.
Payson, William Farquhar. N. Y., 1876- ——. A New York novelist. The Copymaker, a story; The Titlemongers; John Vytal; The Triumph of Love; Debonnaire.
Peabody, Cecil Hobart. Vt., 1855- ——. A professor of naval architecture and marine engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1893. Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine; Valve Gear for Steam Engines; Steam Boilers. Wil.
Peabody, James Chute. Ms., 1828-1900. A Newburyport journalist who published Key Notes, a book of verse; and a translation of Dante’s Inferno.
Peabody, Josephine Preston. N. Y., 1874- ——. A Cambridge poet. The Wayfarers, a book of verse; Fortune and Men’s Eyes: Poems with a Play; Marlowe, a drama; Old Greek Folk Stories; The Singing Leaves. Hou. Sm.
Peabody, Selim Hobart. Vt., 1829-1903. An educator, president of the University of Illinois, 1880-1891. Natural History for Children; Elements of Astronomy; American Patriotism.
Peacock, Virginia Tatnall. Pa., 1873- ——. A Washington journalist. Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century. Lip.
Peake, Elmore Elliott. O., 1871- ——. A Wisconsin writer. The Darlingtons, a novel; The Pride of Tellfair.
Peale, Albert Charles. Pa., 1849- ——. A geologist in the government service. Lists and Analysis of the Mineral Springs in the United States.
Pearse, John Barnard. Pa., 1842- ——. A Philadelphia chemist of note. A Concise History of the Iron Manufacture of the American Colonies up to the Revolution, and of Pennsylvania to the Present.
Pearson, Charles William. E., 1846- ——. A Unitarian clergyman in Quincy, Illinois, but prior to 1902 in the Methodist ministry and a professor in Northwestern University. Methodism: a Retrospect and an Outlook; The Carpenter Prophet.
Peary, Mrs. Josephine [Diebitsch]. D. C., 18— - ——. Wife of R. E. Peary, infra, an Arctic explorer. My Arctic Journal; The Snow Baby. Sto.
Peary, Robert Edwin. Pa., 1854- ——. A noted Arctic explorer; a civil engineer in the United States navy, with the relative rank of lieutenant. Northward over the Great Ice: a Narrative of Life and Work in Northern Greenland in 1886 and 1891-1897; Snowland Folk. Sto.
Peaslee, John Bradley. N. H., 1842- ——. A prominent educator of Cincinnati, superintendent of schools in that city, 1874-1886. Thoughts and Experiences In and Out of School (1900); Trees and Tree Planting; Occasional Poems and Sacred Songs.
Peck, William Farley. N. Y., 1840- ——. A journalist of Rochester, New York. History of Rochester; Landmarks of Monroe County.
Peckham, Mrs. Mary Chace [Peck]. Ms., 1839-1892. Wife of S. F. Peckham, infra. A writer and reformer of Providence. Father Gabriel’s Fairy; Windfalls Gathered Only for Friends, a collection of verse.
Peckham, Stephen Farnum. R. I., 1839- ——. A chemist of New York city. Elementary Chemistry; Report on Production; Technology and Uses of Petroleum.
Peebles, James Martin. Vt., 1822- ——. A physician and author of Battle Creek, Michigan. Seers of the Ages; Immortality and Our Homes Hereafter; Three Journeys Round the World; The Christ Question Settled.
Peet, Isaac Lewis. Ct., 1824-1898. Son of H. P. Peet (page 290), and, like him, a noted instructor of deaf-mutes in New York city. A monograph on Decimal Fractions; Language Lessons for the Deaf and Dumb; Manual of Vegetable Physiology; Psychical Status and Criminal Responsibility of the Uneducated Deaf Mute.
Peirce, Augustus. Ms., 1802-1849. A physician of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, who, while a student at Harvard College, wrote The Rebelliad, a witty, though somewhat coarse, mock heroic metrical satire, which appeared in 1818 and was very popular, the authorship long remaining undisclosed.
Peirce, Mrs. Melusina [Fay]. Vt., 1836- ——. A Newport writer on domestic science. Coöperative Housekeeping.
Pellew, Charles Ernest. E., 1863- ——. A professor of chemistry at Columbia University from 1897. Manual of Practical Medical and Physiological Chemistry.
Pendleton, Edmund. O., 1845- ——. A novelist. A Conventional Bohemian; A Virginia Inheritance; One Woman’s Way; A Complication in Hearts. Ap.
Penfield, Frederic Courtland. N. Y., 1855- ——. A diplomatist, now (1904) resident in New York city. He was consul-general to Egypt, 1893-1897, and has held other posts in the diplomatic service. Besides contributing to periodicals on economic and other topics, he has published Present Day Egypt; Mahmoud Pasha. Cent.
Penniman, Josiah Harmar. Ms., 1868- ——. A professor of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania. The War of the Theatres. Gi.
Penrose, Boies. Pa., 1860- ——. A United States senator from Pennsylvania. History of the City Government of Philadelphia.
Penrose, Charles Bingham. Pa., 1862- ——. A Philadelphia physician. Text Book of Diseases of Women.
Pepper, Charles Melville. O., 1859- ——. A journalist of Washington city. To-morrow in Cuba. Har.
Pepper, George Wharton. Pa., 1867- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Borderland of Federal and State Decisions; Pleading at Common Law and Under the Codes; Digest and Encyclopædia of Pennsylvania Law (with W. D. Lewis).
Percival, Henry Robert. Pa., 1854-1903. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. A Digest of Theology; The Doctrine of the Episcopal Church; Invocation of Saints Treated Theologically and Historically; The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church. Lgs. Put.
Percival, Olive May Graves. Il., 1868- ——. An underwriter of Los Angeles. Mexico City: an Idler’s Notebook. S.
Perkins, William Oscar. Vt., 1831-1902. A Boston composer who in addition to many professional works published The War in South Africa, or Boer and Briton.
Perley, Sidney. Ms., 1858- ——. A lawyer of Salem, Massachusetts. Practice in the Probate Court of Massachusetts; History of Boxford, Massachusetts; Historic Storms of New England; Poets of Essex County; Principles of the Law of Interest; Mortuary Law; Massachusetts Adjudicated Forms. Hou.
Perry, J[oseph] Frank[lin]. Me., 1840- ——. A Boston physician. A Friend in Need; Health in Our Homes; Health of Our Children; Kennel Secrets; Kennel Diseases; Dogs in Health and Disease.
Perry, Mrs. Lilia Cabot. Ms., 185- - ——. Wife of T. S. Perry (page 293). Impressions, a book of verse; The Heart of the Weed; From the Garden of Hellas, a translation. Hou.
Perry, Nelson William. O., 1853-1898. An electrician who published Electric Railway Motors.
Peter, Philip Adam. G., 1832- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Ohio. The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century; Saint Paul, the Great Apostle to the Gentiles.
Peters, John Punnett. N. Y., 1852- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent as an archæologist. Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates; The Old Testament and the New Scholarship; Some Old Testament Problems; Early Hebrew Story. Mac. Put.
Peters, Madison Clinton. Pa., 1859- ——. A Baptist clergyman, of Baltimore, but formerly in the Reformed (German) ministry. Justice to the Jew; The Great Hereafter; Empty Pews; The Panacea for Poverty; The Path of Glory; Sanctified Spice; The Birds of the Bible; Hebrew Heroines of Sacred Story; Wrongs to be Righted; Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud; The Jew as a Patriot; Will Our Republic Live?
Phelps, Charles Edward. Vt., 1833- ——. A law professor in the University of Maryland. Juridical Equity; Falstaff and Equity.
Phelps, Charles Henry. Cal., 1853- ——. A New York lawyer, authority upon copyright law. Californian Verses.
Phelps, Edward Bunnell. Ct., 1863- ——. A journalist of New York city. War Risks; Tropical Hazards; Universal Club Book.
Phelps, Edward John. Vt., 1822-1900. A noted lawyer and diplomat, United States minister to England, 1885-89. Orations and Essays.
Phelps, William Franklin. N. Y., 1822- ——. An educator of St. Paul. Teachers’ Handbook; Normal Schools of Europe and America.
Philipson, David. Ind., 1862- ——. A Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati, professor of homiletics at the Hebrew Union College. The Jew in English Fiction; Old European Jewries; The Oldest Jewish Congregation in the West; Progress of the Jewish Reform Movement in the West; A Holiday Sheaf. Clke.
Phillips, David Graham. Ind., 1867- ——. A New York novelist. The Great God Success; Her Serene Highness; A Woman Ventures; Golden Fleece; The Master Rogue; The Cost. Bo. Har.
Phillips, John Herbert. Ky., 1853- ——. A superintendent of public schools in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1883. History and Literature in Grammar Schools; The Negro and Education. He.
Phillips, Morris. E., 1834-1904. For many years the proprietor of the New York Home Journal, now Town and Country, and formerly associated with N. P. Willis (page 427) in its management. At Home and Abroad (1893).
Pidgin, Charles Felton. Ms., 1844- ——. A Boston novelist. Quincy Adams Sawyer, an extremely popular tale; Blennerhassett; Mason’s Corner Folks; Practical Statistics; Stephen Holton; The Climax. Pa.
Pieper, Franz August Otto. P., 1852- ——. A Lutheran clergyman in St. Louis. Grundbekenntniss der lutheranische Kirche; Lehre von Christi Werke; Distinctive Doctrines of the Lutheran Church.
Pier, Arthur Stanwood. Pa., 1874- ——. A Boston novelist, now (1904) on the editorial staff of the Youth’s Companion. The Pedagogues, a story of the summer school of Harvard University; The Sentimentalists; The Triumph; Boys of Saint Timothy’s. Scr.
Piffard, Henry Granger. 1842- ——. A physician who has published Treatise on the Materia Medica and Therapeutics of the Skin; Elementary Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Guide to Urinary Analysis. Ap.
Pike, Granville Ross. O., 1855- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman in Chicago. The Divine Drama. Mac.
Pilch, Frederick Henry. N. J., 1842-1889. A New Jersey writer whose Homespun Verses appeared in 1889.
Pilsbry, Henry Augustine. Ia., 1862- ——. A conchologist of note, connected with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. The Manual of Conchology; Guide to the Study of Helices.
Pinkney, Ninian. Md., 1776-1825. A colonel in the United States army, who published in 1809 Travels in the South of France and in the Interior of Languedoc, a book widely popular in its day.
Pitkin, Helen. 18— - ——. A novelist of New Orleans. An Angel by Brevet. Lip.
Pittsinger, Mrs. Eliza A——. Ms., 1837- ——. A California verse-writer. Bugle Peals.
Plummer, Mary Wright. Ind., 1856- ——. A Brooklyn Librarian, director of the Pratt Institute free library. Hints to Small Libraries; Verses.
Plympton, Almira George. Ms., 18— - ——. A Massachusetts writer for young people. A Willing Transgressor; A Bud of Promise; Dear Daughter Dorothy; Betty, a Butterfly; The Little Sister of Wilifred; Robin’s Recruit; Penelope Prig; The Black Dog; Dorothy and Anton; Rags and Velvet Gowns; Wanlasset; Two Dogs and a Donkey; Child of Glee; A Flower of the Wilderness; Gerald and Geraldine and Other Stories; In the Shadow of the Black Pine. Lit.
Polk, William Mecklenburg. Tn., 1844- ——. A physician of New York city. The Biography of Leonidas Polk: Bishop and General.
Pollard, Percival. P., 1869- ——. A New York littérateur, born in Pomerania of English and German parentage, and resident in the United States from 1885. Figaro Pictures, a collection of short stories; Cape of Storms, a novel; The Imitator; Lingo Land; Posters in Miniature; Dreams of To-day; The Kiss that Killed. S.
Pollock, Edward. Pa., 1823-1858. A California lawyer and verse-writer whose Collected Poems was published in 1876.
Poor, Agnes Blake. Ms., 18— - ——. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. Brothers and Strangers; Boston Neighbours in Town and Out. Put.
Porter, Anthony Toomer. S. C., 1828-1902. An Episcopal clergyman, forty-three years rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, Charleston. Led on Step by Step, an autobiography. Put.
Porter, Horace. Pa., 1837- ——. A United States army officer, brevetted brigadier-general, and minister to France from 1897. West Point Life; Campaigning with Grant. Cent.
Porter, Jermain Gildersleeve. N. Y., 1852- ——. An astronomer of Cincinnati. Our Celestial Home: an Astronomer’s View of Heaven; The Stars in Song and Legend. Gi.
Porter, Robert Percival. E., 1852- ——. A journalist of Cleveland, superintendent of the Eleventh Census. The West; Free Trade Folly; Life of William McKinley; Industrial Cuba; Vested Wrongs; Other People’s Money; Municipal Ownership a Public Franchise. Put.
Post, Charles Cyrel. Mch., 1846- ——. A Florida journalist. Driven from Sea to Sea; Congressman Swanson; Metaphysical Essays; Men and Gods; From Wabash to the Rio Grande.
Post, George Edward. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of surgery in the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria. In Arabic he has published Flora of Syria, Palestine and Egypt; Text Book of Surgery; Text Book of Botany, and other works, and in English, Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai.
Post, Melville Davisson. W. Va., 1870- ——. A novelist of Wheeling. The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason; The Man of the Last Resort; Dwellers in the Hills. Put.
Potter, Elisha Reynolds. R. I., 1811-1882. A Rhode Island jurist. The Early History of Narragansett; A Brief Account of Emissions of Paper Money made by the Colony of Rhode Island; The Bible and Prayer in the Public Schools, include his more important works.
Potter, Margaret Horton. See Black, Mrs. Margaret.
Potter, Mary Knight. Ms., 18— - ——. A Boston writer. The Councils of Crœsus; Love in Art; The Art of the Vatican; Peggy’s Trial; The Art of the Louvre. Pa.
Potter, Samuel Otway Lewis. I., 1846- ——. A San Francisco physician among whose publications are Handbook of Materia Medica; Pharmacy and Therapeutics; Speech and its Defects.
Potts, Charles Sower. Pa., 1864- ——. A Philadelphia physician. Nervous and Mental Diseases.
Potts, William. Pa., 1838- ——. A civil service reformer of New York city. From a New England Hillside; Noblesse Oblige; The Monetary Problem; The Socialistic Method. Mac.
Poulsson, Anne Emilie. N. J., 1853- ——. A kindergarten educator in Boston. Nursery Finger Plays; In the Child’s World; Through the Farmyard Gate; Child Stories and Rhymes. Lo.
Powderly, Terence Vincent. Pa., 1849- ——. A noted labour leader, admitted to the bar in 1894. Thirty Years of Labor.
Powell, Aaron Macy. N. Y., 1832-1899. A philanthropist of Plainfield, New Jersey. State Regulation of Vice; Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers.
Powell, William Bramwell. N. Y., 1836- ——. A superintendent of public schools in Washington city from 1885. English Grammar Language Lessons; Rational Grammar of the English Language (with L. Connolly); History of the United States for Elementary Schools. Am.
Powell, William Henry. D. C., 1838-1901. A lieutenant-colonel in the United States army. The History of the Fifth Army Corps, 1861-1865; History of the Fourth United States Infantry; Tactical Queries; Records of Living Officers of the United States Army (1890). Put.
Prall, William. N. J., 1853- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Albany, New York. Civic Christianity; The State and the Church. Wh.
Pratt, Anna Maria. Ms., 18— - ——. A Cleveland author. Little Rhymes for Little People.
Pratt, Charles Stuart. Ms., 1854- ——. A writer of juvenile books. (His wife, Mrs. E. F. Pratt, is mentioned on page 302.) By-O-Baby Ballads; Baby’s Lullaby Book; Buz-Buz, and similar works.
Pratt, Cornelia Atwood. O., 18— - ——. A novelist who has published A Book of Martyrs; The Daughter of a Stoic; Dr. Berkeley’s Discovery (with R. Slee). Put. Scr.
Pratt, Edwin Hartley. Pa., 1849- ——. A Chicago surgeon. Orificial Surgery; Composite Man.
Pratt, Henry Sherring. O., 1859- ——. A professor of biology in Haverford College, Pennsylvania. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy. Gi.
Preble, William Pitt. Me., 1854- ——. Brother of H. Preble (page 302). A lawyer of New York city. Patent Case Index; Collisions in United States Waters.
Prichard, Sarah Johnson. Ct., 1830- ——. A writer of Waterbury, Connecticut. Martha’s Hooks and Eyes; Hugh’s Fire on the Mountain; Nat’s Shoes; Kate Morgan and her Soldiers; Kenny Carle’s Uniform; Joe and Jim; The Old Stone Chimney; Margie’s Matches; Faye Mar; Rose Marbury; Shawney and the Lighthouse; Aunt Sadie’s Cow; History of Waterbury, 1674-1784; The Only Woman of the Town.
Priestley, Joseph. E., 1733-1804. A celebrated English scientist and Unitarian theologian, who came to the United States in 1794 and settled in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. From 1780 to 1791 he had been pastor of a Unitarian chapel in Birmingham, but in the latter year his house and chapel were burned by a mob. He was one of the foremost scientists of his time, the discovery of oxygen being his most important contribution to scientific knowledge. Among his many works are: Rudiments of English Grammar; Theory of Language and Universal Grammar; History and Present State of Electricity (1767); Vision, Light, and Colours; Experiments and Observations relating to Natural Philosophy; Familiar Letters to the People of Birmingham; General History of the Christian Church; Notes on all the Books of Scripture; The Doctrines of Heathen Philosophy compared with those of Revelation. A collection of his Theological and Miscellaneous Works (excluding those upon science) appeared in twenty-six volumes in 1817-1832. See Brougham’s Lives of Philosophers; Dictionary of National Biography, volume 46.
Prince, John. Ms., 1820-1900. A citizen of Essex, Massachusetts, of prominence in state politics, and in earlier life a Universalist clergyman. Rural Lays and Sketches; A Wreath of Saint Crispin.
Prince, Samuel Thornton Kemeys. Ct., 1834- ——. A Chicago compiler of crop statistics. Crop Reports; Model Farmers and Their Methods.
Pritchett, Henry Smith. Mo., 1857- ——. An astronomer, superintendent of the government coast and geodetic survey 1897-1900, and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1900. Among numerous scientific monographs by him are: Determination of the Mass of Mars; The Rotation Period of Jupiter; Eclipses of the Satellites of Saturn.
Prolix, Peregrine. See Nicklin.
Pulitzer, Walter. 18— - ——. A littérateur of New York. That Duel at the Château Marsanac; Through the Shadows; Chess Harmonies; Prose Harmonies; Links of Life and Love. Fu.
Pullen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Jones] [Cavazza]. Me., 18— ——. A littérateur of Portland, Maine. Don Finimondone; Calabrian Sketches; Mr. Whitman. Lo.
Pupin, Michael Idvorsky. Hy., 1858- ——. A physicist and inventor who came to the United States in 1874. He became adjunct professor of mechanics at Columbia University in 1892, and in 1902 of electro-mechanics. Beside professional monographs he has published Thermodynamics of Reversible Cycles in Gases.
Putnam, Eben Frederic. Ms., 1868- ——. Son of F. W. Putnam, infra. A genealogist of Salem, Massachusetts. His principal work is a valuable History of the Putnam Family in England and America.
Putnam, Frederic Ward. Ms., 1839- ——. A noted archæologist of Cambridge, professor of American archæology and ethnology at Harvard University from 1886, and curator of the Peabody Museum there from 1874. His professional papers, reports, and other contributions to science are exceedingly numerous and valuable.
Putnam, George I[srael]. N. Y., 1860- ——. A newspaper publisher in Claremont, New Hampshire, but prior to 1889 an officer in the United States army. On the Offensive; and In Blue Uniform, are novels of army life. Scr.
Putnam, John Pickering. Ms., 1847- ——. An architect of Boston. The Metric System of Weights and Measures; The Open Fireplace in All Ages; The Principles of House Drainage; Imported Plumbing Appliances.
Putnam, Samuel Porter. N. H., 1838-1896. A writer who, after holding successive pastorates in Congregational and Unitarian churches, became known as an extremely radical thinker. Prometheus: a Poem; The Golden Throne: a Radical Romance; Four Hundred Years of Free Thought.
Pyle, Katherine. Del., 18— - ——. Sister of H. Pyle (page 306). A writer of Wilmington, Delaware. As the Goose Flies; The Christmas Angel; The Counterpane Fairy; In the Green Forest; When the Wind Blows; Stories of Humble Friends; Childhood. Dut. Lit.
Pyle, Walter Lytle. Pa., 1871- ——. A Philadelphia physician. A Manual of Personal Hygiene; Diseases of the Eye; Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine and Surgery; Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.
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Quad, M. See Lewis, C. B. (page 229).
Quayle, William Alfred. Mo., 1860- ——. A Methodist clergyman of Kansas City. The Poet’s Poet, and Other Essays; A Hero and Some Other Folk; In God’s Out of Doors.
Quesada, Gonzalo de. C., 1868- ——. Minister plenipotentiary at Washington from Cuba. Mi Primera Offenda; Patriotismo; Ygnacio Mora; History of Free Cuba.
Quin, Dan. See Lewis, Alfred Henry.
Quin, Minnie. Ga. An educator of Atlanta. May Blossoms, a book of verse.
Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Pa., 1875- ——. An instructor in English in the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Stories. Pen.
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Radford, Benjamin Johnson. Il., 1838- ——. A Christian (Disciples) clergyman of Eureka, Illinois. The Court of Destiny, and Other Poems.
Raimond, C. E. See Parkes, Mrs. Elizabeth.
Ranck, George Washington. Ky., 1831-1901. A writer of Lexington, Kentucky. History of Lexington; Girty, the White Indian; The Travelling Circus; Story of Bryan’s Station; The Bivouac of the Dead and its Author. Clke.
Randall, John Witt. Ms., 1813-1892. A Boston physician and naturalist. Consolations of Solitude, a book of verse (1856); Critical Notes on Etchers and Engravers; Poems of Nature and Life, edited by F. E. Abbott, and including Consolations of Solitude (1899). El.
Randall, Thomas. N. H., 1778-1869. A pastoral versifier of Eaton, New Hampshire, the author of The Farmer’s Meditations, or Shepherd’s Songs (1833).
Randolph, Alfred Magill. Va., 1836- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Southern Virginia. Reason, Faith and Authority in Christianity. Wh.
Randolph, Paschal Beverley. N. Y., 1825- ——. A physician of some note at one period as a miscellaneous writer. Waa-gu-Nah; Lara; The Grand Secret, a medical work; The Unveiling; It Isn’t All Right; Hesperina; Dealings with the Dead; Human Love; Rosicrucian’s Love; Wonderful Story of the Ravalette; Tom Clodd and his Wife; Pre-Adamite Man; Dhonla Bel; Edward Price; After Death, or Disembodied Man.
Rantoul, Robert. Ms., 1805-1852. A prominent anti-slavery congressman from Massachusetts. The Republic in the United States; Memoirs, Letters, and Speeches, edited by Luther Hamilton (1854).
Rapp, Wilhelm. G., 1828- ——. A Chicago journalist, editor Illinois Staats-Zeitung. Recollections of the German Fatherland by a German American.
Rathbone, St. George. Ky., 1854- ——. A sensational novelist among whose numerous fictions are The Spider’s Web; My Hildegarde; The Man from Denver.
Rathom, John Revelstoke. Australia, 1868- ——. A Chicago journalist. Four Years in the Chinese Navy.
Rauschenbusch, Augustus. G., 1816-190-. A Baptist clergyman, professor in the German Baptist Theological Seminary at Rochester, New York, 1853-1888. Saturday or Sunday—Which shall We Observe?; Biblische Traumbilder; A History of Infant Baptism.
Ravenel, Mrs. Harriot Horry [Rutledge]. S. C. 1832- ——. A biographer of Charleston, South Carolina. Life of Eliza Pinckney; The Life and Times of William Lowndes; Ashurst, a novel. Scr.
Ravenscroft, John Stark. Va., 1772-1830. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, consecrated in 1822. His Works in two volumes, including sermons and controversial papers, were issued in 1830.
Ravogli, Augustus. Iy., 1851- ——. A dermatologist of Cincinnati. Hygiene of the Skin; Structure and Development of the Human Skin.
Ray, William. Ct., 1771-1827. A writer who published Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Sentimental, and Humorous.
Raymond, Bradford Paul. Ct., 1846- ——. A Methodist clergyman, president of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, from 1889. Christianity and the Christ. Meth.
Raymond, Mrs. Evelyn [Hunt]. N. Y., 1843- ——. A Baltimore writer of juvenile fiction. Mixed Pickles; Monica; The Little Lady of the Horse; Little Red School House; Among the Lindens; A Daughter of the West; The Mushroom Cave; A Cape May Diamond; The Boys and Girls of Brantham; My Lady Barefoot; Divided Skates; A Story of Delight; The Sun Maid; Reels and Spindles; A Pair of Them; The Doings of Nancy. Cr. Dut. Lit. Wi.
Raymond, William Galt. Ia., 1869- ——. An engineering professor at the Troy Polytechnic Institute from 1892. Plane Surveying.
Rayner, Mrs. Emma. E., 18— - ——. A Boston novelist. Free to Serve; In Castle and Colony; Visiting the Sin; Doris Kingsley: Child and Colonist; Handicapped among the Free.
Rea, George Bronson. N. Y., 1869- ——. A journalist and electrical engineer of New York city. Facts and Fancies about Cuba.
Read, John Elliot. Ms., 1845- ——. An agricultural journalist of Amherst, Massachusetts. Farming for Profit; Within and Beyond the States; Life Triumphant.
Rector, Elbridge Lee. Ts., 1847- ——. A lawyer of San Saba, Texas. The Science of Money and Exchange.
Reddall, Henry Frederic. E., 1852- ——. From the Golden Gate to the Golden Horn; Who Was He?; School-boy Life in Merrie England; Courtship, Love, and Wedlock; Fancy, Fact, and Fable; Life of Henry M. Stanley. Meth.
Rede, Wyllys. Il., 1859- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, of Brunswick, Georgia. The Communion of Saints; Striving for the Mastery. Lgs.
Redfield, Henry Stephen. N. Y., 1851- ——. A professor of law at Columbia University from 1901. Cases on Pleading and Practice.
Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth [Armstrong]. Me., 1842- ——. A Chicago philanthropist. The Bible Triumphant; Earnest Words; Hindu Literature; Primitive Buddhism: its Origin and Destiny. Sc.
Reed, Helen Leah. N. B., 186- - ——. A Boston writer. Miss Theodora, a novel; Brenda: her School and her Club; Brenda’s Summer at Rockley; Brenda’s Cousin at Radcliffe; Brenda’s Bargain; Irma and Nap. Lit.
Reed, Henry Albert. N. Y., 1844- ——. An army officer who has published Topographical Drawing and Sketching; Photography Applied to Surveying. Wil.
Reed, Myron Winslow. 1836-1899. A Congregational clergyman of Denver. Temple Talks. Bo.
Reed, Myrtle. Il., 1874- ——. A Chicago writer. The Love Letters of a Musician; Later Love Letters of a Musician; The Spinster Book; Lavender and Old Lace; The Master’s Violin; The Book of Clever Beasts. Put.
Reed, Mrs. Rebecca Perley [Page]. Me., 1840- ——. A Milwaukee author. Above and Below, a juvenile tale; Everybody’s Providence; From Shore to Shore; Ethel’s Gift.
Reed, Verner Z——. O., 1863- ——. A Colorado writer. Lo-To-Kah; Tales of the Sunland; Adobeland Stories.
Reeder, Charles. Md., 1817-1900. A merchant and manufacturer in Baltimore. Caloric: a Review of the Dynamic Theory of Heat.
Reemelin, Charles [Gustavus], originally Rümelin, Carl Gustav. Wg., 1814- ——. A vine-culturist long resident in and near Cincinnati. He emigrated to America in 1832, and after being naturalized in the United States adopted the English form of his name. Vine-Dresser’s Manual; The Wine Maker’s Manual; Politics as a Science; A Critical Review of American Politics (1881). In 1892 he published an autobiography covering the events of his life till that year. Clke.
Rees, James. Pa., 1802-1885. A Philadelphia journalist and playwright, among whose plays are The Headsman; Washington at Valley Forge; Changes; Marion; Pat Lyon; Anthony Wayne; Benjamin Franklin. His other works include The Dramatic Authors of America; Mysteries of City Life; The Tinker Spy; Footprints of a Letter-Carrier; Life of Edwin Forrest; Shakespeare and the Bible.
Reeve, Charles McCormick. N. Y., 1847- ——. A Minneapolis lawyer and soldier, warden of the Minnesota state prison from 1899. How we Went and What we Saw. Put.
Reeves, Alfred Gandy. N. J., 1859- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Cases on Wills. West.
Reeves, Arthur Middleton. Ind., 1856-1891. Icelandic scholar. The Finding of Wineland the Good: the history of the Icelandic Discovery of America; Lad and Lass: a Story of Life in Iceland; Jan: a short story.
Reid, Mayne. I., 1818-1883. An Irish writer who came to the United States in 1838, fought in the Mexican War as captain in the United States service, and for a number of years lived and wrote in Philadelphia, but subsequently made his home in London. He was a prolific writer of tales of adventure for boys. Among them are The Rifle Ranger; The Quadroon; Osceola; The White Chief; The Yellow Chief; The Lost Mountain, a tale of Sonora; The Lone Ranch; The Land of Fire; The Boy Tar; Afloat in the Forest; Boy Hunters; Forest Exiles; Plant Hunters; Desert Home. See Dictionary of National Biography, volume 47; Memoir by his wife, 1890. Put.
Reid, Sydney [Robert Charles Forneri]. Ont., 1857- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Josey and the Chipmunk. Cent.
Reid, W[illiam] Max. N. Y., 1839- ——. A merchant of Amsterdam, New York. The Mohawk Valley: its Legends and its History. Put.
Reinhardt, Charles William. Wg., 1858- ——. An illustrator and draftsman of New York city. Lettering for Draftsmen, Engineers, and Students; The Technic of Mechanical Drafting. Vn.
Reinsch, Paul Samuel. Wis., 1869- ——. A professor of physical science in the University of Wisconsin from 1899. The Common Law in the Early American Colonies; World Politics as Influenced by the Oriental Situation (1900); Colonial Administration. Mac.
Remsburg, John Eleazer. O., 1848- ——. A writer and lecturer in behalf of atheism. His principal writings include Life of Thomas Paine; Bible Morals; The Image-Breaker.
Réno, Mrs. Itti [Kinney]. Tn., 1862- ——. A novelist of Washington city. Miss Breckenridge: a Daughter of Dixie; An Exceptional Case.
Renouf, Edward. N. Y., 1848- ——. A professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University from 1885. Vollhard’s Experiments in General Chemistry, translation; Inorganic Preparations.
Restarick, Henry Bond. E., 1854- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Honolulu. Lay Readers; their History and Work; The Love of God; Addresses on the Seven Last Words.
Reynolds, Cuyler. N. Y., 1866- ——. A writer, of Albany, New York. Janet, a Character Study; The Rosamond Tales; The Banquet Book of Classified Familiar Quotations, Toasts, etc.
Reynolds, Elhanan Winchester. N. Y., 1827-1867. A Universalist clergyman. Our Campaigns, or Thoughts on the Career of Life; Records of Rubbleton Parish, once a popular book; The True Story of the Barons of the South.
Rhees, Rush. Il., 1860- ——. A Baptist clergyman, president of the University of Rochester from 1900. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: a Study.
Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen. N. Y., 1863- ——. A blind writer, of New York city. Only Dollie; The Little Girl Next Door; Winifred’s Neighbours.
Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell, (Hegan). Ky., 1870- ——. A writer of Louisville, Kentucky. (Wife of C. Y. Rice, infra.) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; Lovey Mary. Cent.
Rice, Cale Young. Ky., 1872- ——. A verse-writer of Louisville, Kentucky. From Dusk to Dusk; With Omar; Song Surf; David.
Rice, Joseph M——. Pa., 1857- ——. A New York physician, editor of The Forum from 1897. The Public School System of the United States (1893); The Rational Spelling-Book. Cent.
Rice, Rosella. O., 1827-18—. Mabel, a novel; Other People’s Windows.
Rice, Wallace [de Groot Cecil]. Ont., 1859- ——. A Chicago journalist. Under the Stars (with B. Eastman, supra); Flying Sands; Great Travellers; Heroic Deeds.
Rice, William North. Ms., 1845- ——. A professor of geology at Wesleyan University from 1884. Twenty-five Years of Scientific Progress, and Other Essays; Geology of Bermuda; Christian Faith in an Age of Science.
Richards, Charles Herbert. N. H., 1839- ——. A Congregational clergyman in Philadelphia. Religious Rights of a Christian State; The improvement of Worship; Evolution of a Redeemed Humanity; Will Phillips, or Ups and Downs of Christian Boy Life; God Our Help; What is your Life?
Richards, George. Ms., 1849- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Law of Insurance.
Richards, Joseph William. E., 1864- ——. A professor of metallurgy in Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who has published an important Treatise on Aluminium. Bai.
Richards, Thomas Addison. E., 1820-1900. Brother of W. C. Richards (page 314). A New York artist, professor of art in the University of the City of New York from 1868. The American Artist; Georgia Illustrated; Summer Stories of the South; Pictures and Painters.
Richardson, Ernest Cushing. Ms., 1860- ——. The librarian of Princeton University from 1890. Bibliographical Synopsis of the Ante-Nicene Fathers; Classification: Theoretical and Practical. Scr.
Richardson, Leander. O., 1856- ——. A New York journalist and playwright. As Yankees See Us; The Dark City; Sketches of London Life; Lord Dunmersey, a novel; As Ye Sow, a novel.
Richardson, Rufus Byam. Ms., 1845- ——. An archæologist, head of the American Archæological School at Athens. Vacation Days in Greece. Scr.
Richardson, Warfield Creath. Ky., 1823- ——. A writer of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Gaspar, a metrical romance; The Fall of the Alamo, an epic poem.
Richman, Irving Berdine. Ia., 1861- ——. A lawyer of Muscatine, Iowa. Rhode Island: its Making and its Meaning; John Brown among the Quakers, and Other Sketches; Appenzell: Pure Democracy and Pastoral Life in Inner-Rhoden. Put.
Richmond, Mary E——. Il., 1861- ——. A charity organizer of Philadelphia. Friendly Visiting among the Poor. Mac.
Ricker, Nathan Clifford. Me., 1843- ——. The dean of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois. Construction of Trussed Roofs.
Rickert, Edith. O., 1871- ——. The Reaper, a novel of the Shetland Islands. Hou.
Ricketson, Daniel. Ms., 1813-1898. A philanthropist of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The History of New Bedford (1858); The Autumn Sheaf, a Collection of Miscellaneous Poems; The Factory Bell, and other Poems; New Bedford of the Past. See Daniel Ricketson and his Friends (1900).
Ricketts, Palmer Chamberlaine. Md., 1850- ——. The president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic of Troy, New York, from 1901, of which institution he published a history in 1895. Wil.
Riley, Benjamin Franklin. Al., 1849- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor of English in the University of Georgia, 1893-1900. Physical History of Alabama.
Riley, Franklin Lafayette. Mi., 1868- ——. A professor of history in the University of Mississippi from 1897. Colonial Origins of New England Senates; School History of Mississippi. J. H. U.
Ripley, William Zebina. Ms., 1867- ——. A professor of sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a lecturer on anthropology at Columbia University. Besides many contributions to scientific periodicals, he has published Financial History of Virginia; The Races of Europe: a sociological study. Ap.
Rishell, Charles Wesley. Pa., 1850- ——. A Methodist clergyman, professor of historical theology in Boston University from 1896. The History of Christianity; Official Recognition of Women in the Church; The Higher Criticism; The Foundations of Christian Faith. Meth.
Rishell, James Dyson. Pa., 1858- ——. Brother of C. W. Rishell, supra. A professor of law in Northern Illinois College from 1897. Elfrida: a Historical Drama. Lip.
Risley, Richard Voorhees. N. Y., 1874-1904. A novelist of New York city. The Sentimental Vikings; Men’s Tragedies; The Anvil; The Sledge; The Life of a Woman. Scr.
Rivers, George Robert Russell. R. I., 1853-1900. An historical novelist of Milton, Massachusetts. The Count’s Snuff-Box; Captain Shays, a Populist of 1786; The Governor’s Garden. Lit.
Rives, Hallie Erminie. Ky., 1874- ——. Cousin of Amélie Rives (page 317). A novelist of New York city. Smoking Flax; As the Hart Panteth; A Fool in Spots; Singing Wire; The Furnace of Earth; Hearts Courageous; The Castaway. Bo.
Roark, Ruric Nevel. Ky., 1859- ——. An educator, dean of the department of pedagogy in the Kentucky State College. Psychology in Education; Method in Education; General Outline of Pedagogy.
Robb, Mrs. Isabella Adams [Hampton]. Ont., 1863- ——. A Cleveland writer. Nursing: its Principles and Practice; Nursing Ethics.
Robbins, Hayes. N. Y., 1873- ——. A social economist of New York city. (Joint author.) Outlines of Social Economics; Outlines of Political Science. Ap.
Robbins, Wilford Lash. Ms., 1859- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, dean of the cathedral of Albany, New York, for several years, and since 1903 the dean of the General Theological Seminary, New York city. An Essay Toward Faith; A Christian’s Apologetic.
Robert, Henry Martyn. S. C., 1837- ——. A retired brigadier-general in the United States army. Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies, an authoritative work.
Robert, Joseph Thomas. S. C., 184- - ——. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago, since 1896 prominent as a lecturer on parliamentary law. Robert’s Parliamentary Syllabus; Primer of Parliamentary Law; Parliamentary Manual. Dou. Sc.
Roberts, Brigham Henry. E., 1857- ——. A Mormon writer of prominence, elected to Congress from Utah in 1899. Life of John Taylor; Outlines of Ecclesiastical History; The Gospel; A New Witness of God; Missouri Persecutions; The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo.
Roberts, Charles Humphrey. O., 1847- ——. A Chicago lawyer. Down the O-hi-o, a novel of Quaker life. Mg.
Roberts, George Evan. Ia., 1857- ——. A director of the mint at Washington city from 1898. Coin at School in Finance; Iowa and the Silver Question; Money, Wages, and Prices.
Roberts, Mrs. Ina [Brevoort]. N. Y., 1874- ——. A novelist of New York city. The Lifting of a Finger.
Roberts, Isaac Philips. N. Y., 1833- ——. A director of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University. The Fertility of the Land; The Farmstead; The Farmer’s Business Handbook. Mac.
Roberts, Joseph. Del., 1814-1898. A United States army officer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1885. A Handbook of Artillery (1860).
Roberts, Peter. E., 1859- ——. A Congregational clergyman at Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. The Anthracite Coal Industry. Mac.
Roberts, William Charles. W., 1832-1903. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Lake Forest University, Illinois, 1886-1892. Letters on the Great Preachers of Wales.
Robertson, Harrison. Tn., 1856- ——. A novelist of Louisville, Kentucky, editor of the Courier-Journal. If I were a Man, a story; Red Blood and Blue; The Inlander; The Opponents. Scr.
Robertson, Louis Alexander. N. B., 1856- ——. A San Francisco verse-writer. The Dead Calypso and Other Verses; Beyond the Requiems; Cloistral Strains.
Robertson, Morgan Andrew. N. Y., 1861- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Spun Yarn; Futility; Shipmates; Where Angels Fear to Tread; Masters of Men; Sinful Peck; Down to the Sea; Tale of a Halo. Cent. Har.
Robins, Edward. F., 1862- ——. Nephew of C. G. Leland (page 228). A dramatic and musical critic of Philadelphia. Echoes of the Playhouse, a review of old-time English theatrical life; The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield; Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Statesman, Philosopher, and Private Citizen; Twelve Great Actors; Twelve Great Actresses; With Washington in Braddock’s Campaign. Put. S.
Robins, Henry Ephraim. Ct., 1827- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor of Christian ethics at the Theological Seminary, Rochester, New York, from 1882. Harmony of Ethics with Theology; The Christian Idea of Education; The Ethics of the Christian Life.
Robinson, Albert Gardner. Ms., 1855- ——. A journalist, war correspondent of the New York Evening Post during the Spanish-American War. The Porto Rico of To-day; The Philippines: the War and the People (1901). Scr.
Robinson, Andrew Rose. Ont., 1845- ——. A dermatologist of New York city. A Manual of Dermatology; Cancer of the Skin. Ap.
Robinson, Charles Mulford. N. Y., 1869- ——. A publicist of Rochester, New York. Modern Civic Art; The Improvement of Towns and Cities. Put.
Robinson, Conway. Va., 1805-1884. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia. Forms adapted to Virginia Practice; Practice in the Virginia Courts of Law and Equity; Early Voyages to America; Views of the Constitution of Virginia; Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States; History of the High Court of Chancery in England.
Robinson, Doane. Wis., 1856- ——. A journalist of Aberdeen, South Dakota. Coteaus of Dakota; History of South Dakota; History of Dakota.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Me., 1869- ——. A verse-writer of New York city. The Torrent and the Night Before; The Children of the Night; Captain Craig: a Book of Poems. Hou.
Robinson, James Harvey. Il., 1863- ——. A professor of history in Columbia University. The German Bundesrath; Petrarch, First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters; Introduction to History of Western Europe. Gi. Put.
Robinson, John. Ms., 1846- ——. A botanist of Salem, Massachusetts. Ferns in Their Homes and Ours; Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts.
Robinson, Mrs. Suzanne (Antrobus). Mch., 18— - ——. A New Orleans novelist. The King’s Messenger. Put.
Robinson, William Callyhan. Ct., 1834- ——. A lawyer, dean of the law department of the Catholic University of America from 1895, but earlier in his career an Episcopal clergyman. Life of Ebenezer Beriah Kelly; Notes on Elementary Law; Elementary Law; Clavis Rerum; The Law of Patents; Forensic Oratory; Elements of American Jurisprudence. Lit.
Rockhill, William Woodville. Pa., 1853- ——. A traveller, Oriental scholar, and diplomat; appointed United States minister to Greece in 1897. Udanvarga, the Northern Buddhist; A Life of the Buddha and the Early History of his Church; Land of the Lamas; Diary of a Journey in Mongolia and Tibet; Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet. Cent.
Rockwell, Alfred Perkins. Ct., 1834- ——. A mining engineer of Boston. Roads and Pavements in France. Wil.
Rockwood, Elbert William. Ms., 1860- ——. A professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa from 1888. Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry; Introduction to Chemical Analysis for Medical Students.
Rodney, George Brydges. Del., 1872- ——. An historical novelist. In Buff and Blue. Lit.
Roe, Mrs. Nora Ardelia [Metcalf]. Ms., 1856- ——. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Two Little Street Singers. Le.
Rodriguez, José Ignacio. C., 1831- ——. A lawyer of Cuban birth, a resident of Washington city from 1870. Vida de Don José de la Luz y Cabellero; Vida del Presbitero Don Felix Varela.
Rogers, Arthur [Kenyon]. R. I., 1864- ——. Son of H. Rogers (page 321). An Episcopal clergyman, rector (1904) of Holy Trinity Church at West Chester, Pennsylvania. Men and Movements in the English Church. Lgs.
Rogers, John Rankin. Me., 1838-1901. A politician, governor of the State of Washington, 1896-1900. The Irrepressible Conflict; Looking Forward; The Inalienable Rights of Man.
Rogers, Lebbeus Harding. O., 1847- ——. A writer of New York city. The Kite Trust; The Temples of Pæstum. Ap.
Rogers, Robert. N. H., 1727-1800. A famous American soldier who commanded the noted Rogers’s Rangers in the French and Indian War. A Concise Account of North America (1765); Journal of Major Rogers (1765); Ponteach, or The Savages of America, a blank-verse tragedy, now very rare; Diary of the Siege of Detroit in the War with Pontiac, first published in 1860. See Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution, volume 2.
Rohé, George Henry. Md., 1851-1899. A Maryland physician, superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane. Text-Book of Hygiene; Electricity in Medicine and Surgery; Handbook of Skin Diseases.
Rollins, Mrs. Clara Harriot [Sherwood]. Mo., 1874- ——. A Boston writer of short stories. A Burne-Jones Head; Threads of Life. Lam.
Rollins, Frank West. N. H., 1860- ——. A Boston banker whose residence is in Concord, New Hampshire. He was governor of New Hampshire, 1899-1901. The Ring in a Cliff; The Twin Hussars; Break o’ Day Tales; The Lady of the Violets; Old Home Week; Speeches. Le.
Romero [ro-may´-ro], Matias. Mexico, 1837-1898. A Mexican diplomatist who was secretary of the Mexican Legation at Washington, 1859-63, and minister plenipotentiary, 1863-68 and 1882-98. Coffee Culture on the Southern Coast of Chiapas; The State of Oaxaca; Mexico and the United States: a Study of Subjects affecting their Policy, Commerce, and Social Relations. Put.
Rood, Henry Edward. Pa., 1868- ——. A New York writer, assistant editor (1904) of Harpers’ Magazine. Hardwicke; In Pastures New.
Rood, John Romain. Mch., 1868- ——. A law instructor in the University of Michigan. The Law of Garnishment; Common Remedial Processes; Attachments, Garnishments, Judgments, and Executions.
Rooney, John Jerome. N. Y., 1866- ——. A broker of New York city. The Men Behind the Guns, a collection of verse on the Spanish-American War.
Rorer, Mrs. Sarah Tyson [Heston]. Pa., 1849- ——. A teacher of domestic economy, among whose many writings on culinary topics are Mrs. Rorer’s Cook Book; Canning and Preserving; Salads; Leftovers; Good Cooking; How to Use a Chafing Dish; A Book on Diet and Cookery; Hot Weather Dishes; Bread Making; Colonial Cookery.
Rose, Ray Clarke. N. Y., 1870- ——. A Chicago journalist. At the Sign of the Ginger Jar: some Verses Gay and Grave. Mg.
Roseboro, Viola. Tn., 18— - ——. A New York writer for magazines. Old Ways and New, a volume of short stories; Players and Vagabonds; Out of the Heart, a novel. Mac.
Rosenfeld, Morris. Po., 1862- ——. A Hebrew tailor of New York city. Songs from the Ghetto.
Rosenfeld, Sidney. Va., 1855- ——. A popular playwright. The Senator (with D. Lloyd); A Possible Case; The Stepping Stone; The Politician; and other plays.
Rosewater, Victor. Nebraska, 1871- ——. An Omaha journalist. Special Assessments, a Study in Municipal Finance. Mac.
Ross, Denman Waldo. O., 1853- ——. A writer of Cambridge. Early History of Landholding among the Germans.
Ross, Edward Alsworth. Il., 1866- ——. A professor of sociology in the University of Nebraska. Social Control; Honest Dollars.
Roth, Filibert. Wg., 1858- ——. A forestry expert in Government service. First Book of Forestry, and various professional monographs and government reports.
Rothwell, Richard Pennefather. Ont., 1836-1901. A civil and mining engineer of New York city, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal from 1873. The Mineral Industry: its Statistics, Technology, and Trade; Universal Bimetallism.
Rowan, Andrew Summers. Va., 185- - ——. A United States army officer. The Island of Cuba. Ho.
Rowlandson, Mrs. Mary [White]. 16— - ——. The wife of Joseph Rowlandson, first pastor of Lancaster, Massachusetts. She was taken captive by the Indians in 1676, and ransomed after three months’ captivity. In 1682 she published The Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson among the Indians.
Rowley, John. N. Y., 1866- ——. A prominent taxidermist of New York city. The Art of Taxidermy. Ap.
Rulison, Nelson Somerville. N. Y., 1842-1897. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central Pennsylvania. History of St. Paul’s Church, Cleveland, Ohio; A Study of Conscience.
Runkle, Bertha Brooks. N. J., 187- - ——. A novelist. The Helmet of Navarre, a popular romance. Cent.
Rusby, Henry Hurd. N. J., 1855- ——. A botanical writer of New York city. Essentials of Pharmacognosy; Morphology and Histology of Plants; Materia Medica of Buck’s Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences.
Rusling, James Fowler. N. J., 1834- ——. A lawyer of Trenton, New Jersey. Across America; Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days; European Days and Ways. Meth.
Russell, Charles Edward. Ia., 1860- ——. A Chicago journalist. Such Stuff as Dreams. Bur.
Russell, Frank. Ia., 1868-1903. An entomologist who published Explorations in the Far North.
Russell, Henry Benajah. Me., 1859- ——. A journalist of Hartford. Life of William McKinley; International Monetary Conferences; Our War with Spain. Har.
Russell, Isaac Franklin. Ct., 1867- ——. A professor of law in the University of the City of New York. Outline Study of Law; Lectures on Law for Women.
Russell, James Earl. N. Y., 1864- ——. An educator, dean of the Teachers’ College of Columbia University from 1898. The Extension of University Teaching; History, Organization and Methods of Secondary Education in Germany. Lgs.
Russo, Nicolas. Iy., 1845-1902. A Roman Catholic clergyman of New York city, for forty years a member of the Society of Jesus. The True Religion: Summa Philosophica.
Ryan, Daniel Joseph. O., 1855- ——. A lawyer of Portsmouth, Ohio. A History of Ohio; Arbitration between Capital and Labor.
Ryley, Mrs. Madeleine Lucette. E., 18— - ——. A dramatist among whose plays are The American Citizen; Lady Jemima; A Coat of Many Colours.
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Saalfield, Mrs. Adah Louise [Sutton]. L. I., 1865- ——. A writer for young people. Lingua Gemmæ; Mr. Bunny: his Book; Seeds of April’s Sowing.
Sabin, Edwin Legrand. Il., 1870- ——. A writer of Des Moines. The Making of Iowa; The Magic Mashie.
Sackett, Henry Woodward. N. Y., 1833- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Law of Libel for Newspaper Men.
Sage, Agnes Carolyn. L. I., 1854- ——. A writer for young people. Christmas Elves; The Jolly Ten; A Little Colonial Dame; A Little Daughter of the Revolution. C. P. S. Sto.
Sage, William. N. H., 1864- ——. Son of Mrs. Sage Richardson (page 314). A writer of New York city. Robert Tournay: a Romance of the French Revolution; The Claybornes; Frenchy: the Story of a Gentleman. Hou.