A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS SUPPLEMENT
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Aaron, Samuel. Pa., 1800-1865. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Mount Holly, New Jersey, prominent as an anti-slavery advocate. He published a number of popular text-books. Faithful Translation.
Abbatt, William. N. Y., 1851- ——. An insurance clerk of New York city, who has contributed a number of historical papers to the press, and was at one time editor of The Interstate, an insurance periodical. The Crisis of the Revolution: the Story of Arnold and André; The Battle of Pell’s Point (or Pelham).
Abbott, Alexander Creever. Md., 1860- ——. A physician, professor of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania. The Principles of Bacteriology; Hygiene of Transmissible Diseases.
Abbott, Ernest Hamlin. N. Y., 1870- ——. Son of Lyman Abbott (page 2). Religious Life in America: a Record of Personal Observation.
Abbott, Frank Frost. Ct., 1860- ——. A professor of Latin in the University of Chicago. A History and Description of Roman Political Institutions. Gi.
Abbott, Mrs. Mary Perkins [Ives]. Ms., 1851-1904. A journalist of Chicago. Alexia, a romance; The Beverleys, a story. Mg.
Abbott, Russell Bigelow. Ind., 1823- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Albert Lea College, Minnesota. Bible History; History of Winona Presbytery.
Adams, Amos. Ms., 1728-1775. A Congregational clergyman of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who published A Concise Historical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils which Attended the Planting of New England, a work conceived in the true historical spirit.
Adams, Andy. Ind., 18— - ——. A Colorado prospector whose early life was spent as a cowboy in Texas. The Log of a Cowboy; A Texas Matchmaker. Hou.
Adams, Charles Josiah. O., 1850- ——. An Episcopal clergyman at Rossville, New York city. Where is My Dog? or, is Man Alone Immortal?; The Matterhorn Head, and Other Poems; Does Man Alone Reason?; How Baldy Won the County Seat, a novel.
Adams, Cyrus Cornelius. Il., 1849- ——. An editor on the staff of the New York Sun. A Handbook of Commercial Geography; Elementary Commercial Geography.
Adams, Francis Alexandre. N. Y., 1874- ——. A journalist of New York city. Who Rules America? Truths about Trusts; The Philippine Question; The Transgressors, a political novel.
Adams, Frederick Upham. Ms., 1859- ——. An author and inventor. Atmospheric Resistance and its Relation to the Speed of Railway Trains; The Kidnapped Millionaires; John Burt. Lo.
Adams, Frederick W. Vt., 1786-1858. A physician and violin-maker of Montpelier, Vermont. Theological Criticism, or Hints of the Philosophy of Man and Nature (1843).
Adams, James Barton. O., 1843- ——. A Denver journalist. Breezy Western Verse.
Adams, Mrs. Mary [Mathews]. I., 1840-1902. Wife of C. K. Adams (page 3). An educator and verse-writer of Madison, Wisconsin. The Choir Visible, a volume of verse; Sonnets and Songs; The Song at Midnight. Mg. Put.
Adams, Washington Irving Lincoln. N. Y., 1865- ——. A manufacturer of photographic supplies. Amateur Photography; In Nature’s Image; Sunshine and Shadow, a book for photographers; Woodland and Meadow; Personalia. Ba.
Addams, Jane. Il., 1860- ——. A Chicago writer and lecturer upon social reforms. Democracy and Social Ethics; The Function of the Social Settlement; Philanthropy and Social Progress (co-author). Mac.
Addison, Daniel Dulany. W. Va., 1863- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Brookline, Massachusetts. Life of Lucy Larcom, supra; Life of Edward Bass, First Bishop of Massachusetts; The Clergy in American Life and Letters; The Episcopalians. Hou. Mac.
Addums, Mozis. See Bagby, G. W.
Adler, Cyrus. Ark., 1863- ——. A Washington archæologist. Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales (with A. Ramsay).
Adler, Samuel. G., 1801-1891. A rabbi of New York city. Jewish Conference Papers; Benedictions; Kobez al Tad (Collections).
Albee, Mrs. Helen [Ricker]. O., 1864- ——. Wife of J. Albee (page 5). Mountain Playmates. Hou.
Alden, Carlos Coolidge. Il., 1866- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Abbott’s Forms of Pleading; Handbook of Code of Civil Procedure.
Alden, Raymond Macdonald. N. Y., 1873- ——. Son of Mrs. Isabella Alden (page 6). A professor of English literature in Leland Stanford University. American Literature Papers; Greek Literature Papers; Roman Literature Papers; The Rise of Formal Satire in England; The Art of Debate; On Seeing an Elizabethan Play; English Verse.
Alderman, Edwin Anderson. N. C., 1861- ——. An educator, president of the University of North Carolina, 1896-1900, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1900-04, and of the University of Virginia from 1904. Life of William Hooper, signer of the Declaration; School History of North Carolina.
Alemany, Joseph Sadoc. Sp., 1814-1888. A Roman Catholic missionary of Spanish birth, who came to the United States in 1841, and was made Archbishop of San Francisco in 1853. He resigned his office in 1883 and returned to Spain. Life of Saint Dominic.
Alexander, Archibald. 18— - ——. A professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Some Problems of Philosophy; Theories of the Will in the History of Philosophy; A Theory of Conduct. Scr.
Alexander, De Alva Stanwood. Me., 1845- ——. A lawyer and genealogist of Buffalo. The Alexanders of Maine.
Alexander, Esther Frances. “Francesca Alexander.” Ms., 184- - ——. An artist of Florence, Italy. The Story of Ida, edited by Ruskin; Christ’s Folk in the Apennine; The Hidden Servants. Mr. Ruskin at one time brought out a collection of Roadside Songs of Tuscany, collected, translated, and illustrated by Miss Alexander, and in 1897 a much more complete collection, with illustrations, was published under the title of Tuscan Songs. Hou. Lit.
Alexander, Gross. Ky., 1852- ——. A Methodist clergyman of Louisville, Kentucky. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; The Beginnings of Methodism in the South; The Son of Man.
Alexander, James Waddel. N. J., 1839- ——. Son of J. W. Alexander (page 7). A lawyer of New York city. Princeton, Old and New, a volume of recollections of undergraduate life. Scr.
Alexander, William DeWitt. H. I., 1833- ——. Surveyor-general of the Hawaiian Islands, from 1872. A Brief History of the Hawaiian People; History of the Later Years of the Hawaiian Monarchy; Brief Hawaiian Grammar.
Alger, Russell Alexander. O., 1836- ——. Secretary of war, 1897-99. The Spanish American War. Har.
Allen, Alfred. N. Y., 1866- ——. A novelist and playwright of New York city. His novels include The Heart of Don Vega; Judge Lynch; The Cup of Victory (with R. Hovey, page 197); Chivalry; The Triumph of Todd (with T. B. Sayre). Plays: Jack the Giant-Killer; A Burglar Honeymoon; Playmates; The Head of the House.
Allen, Charles. Ms., 1827- ——. A jurist of Boston. Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare Question. Hou.
Allen, Charles Dexter. Ct., 1865- ——. A journalist and banker of Hartford. American Book Plates; Ex Libris: Essays of a Collector.
Allen, Charles Warrenne. N. J., 1854- ——. A New York physician. Practitioner’s Manual; Handy Book of Medical Progress.
Allen, David Oliver. Ms., 1800-1883. A Congregational missionary in Bombay for many years. India, Ancient and Modern.
Allen, Ethan. Ct., 1737-1789. A famous soldier, major-general in the colonial army during the American Revolution. Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga; Reason the Only Oracle of Man; A Vindication of the Inhabitants of Vermont. See Life by De Puy (1859).
Allen, George. Vt., 1808-1876. A Roman Catholic educator, but prior to 1847 an Episcopal clergyman. Novena of Saint Anthony of Padua; Life of Philidor.
Allen, Horace Newton. O., 1858- ——. A diplomatist, United States minister to Korea from 1897. Korean Tales; A Chronological Index of Chief Events in the Foreign Intercourse of Korea.
Allen, James Lane. Ky., 1848- ——. A lawyer and littérateur of Chicago. Handbook of the Nebraska Code.
Allen, Jonathan Adams. Vt., 1825-1890. A prominent physician and surgeon of Chicago. Essays on Mechanism of Nervous Action; Medical Examination for Life Insurance.
Allen, Walter. Ms., 1840- ——. A Boston journalist. Governor Chamberlain’s Administration in South Carolina; Life of General Grant. Hou. Pa.
Allin, Arthur. Ont., 1869-1903. A professor of psychology and pedagogy at Ohio University from 1896. The Psychology of Belief; The Psychology of Attention.
Allston, Margaret. See Bergengren, Mrs.
Alsop, George. E., 1638-16—? An Englishman who emigrated to Maryland in 1658, and in 16— published A Character of the Province of Maryland, a jocular, good-humoured description of that province. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Altgeld, John Peter. G., 1847-1902. An Illinois politician, formerly governor of his State. Penal Machinery and its Victims; Live Questions; The Cost of Something for Nothing.
Altsheler, Joseph Alexander. Ky., 1862- ——. A novelist and journalist of New York city. The Rainbow of Gold; The Hidden Mine; The Son of Saratoga; A Soldier of Manhattan; A Knight of Philadelphia; A Herald of the West; The Last Rebel; In Circling Camps; In Hostile Red; The Wilderness Road; My Captive; Before the Dawn. Ap. Dou. Lip.
Ambauen, Andrew Joseph. Sd., 1847- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Dodgeville, Iowa. The Friend of Youth; Roses of Heaven; Guide to our Celestial Home; Devout Companion; Our Christian Duties; Floral Apostles.
Ames, Azel. Ms., 1845- ——. A sanitary engineer. The Mayflower and her Log; Sex in Industry; Elementary Hygiene for the Tropics. Hou.
Ames, Joseph Sweetman. Vt., 1864- ——. A professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University. The Theory of Physics; Elements of Physics; The Induction of Electric Currents.
Anders, James M——. 185- - ——. A physician of Philadelphia. Text Book of the Practice of Medicine; House Plants as Sanitary Agents.
Anderson, Edward L[owell]. O., 1842- ——. A lawyer of Cincinnati. Six Weeks in Norway; Soldier and Pioneer; How to Ride and School a Horse; A System of School Training for Horses; On Horseback in the School and on the Road; The Gallop; Modern Horsemanship; Vice in the Horse; Curb, Snaffle, and Spur. Clke. Lit.
Anderson, Edward Pretot. N. Y., 1855- ——. A littérateur who has published The Ashmeads, or Scenes in Northern Europe; Christian Giving and Living.
Anderson, Martin Brewer. Me., 1815-1890. An educator who was president of Rochester University, 1853-88. Papers and Addresses (1895).
Andrews, Charles McLean. Ct., 1863- ——. A professor at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, from 1889. The Historical Development of Modern Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the Present Time; River Towns of Connecticut; The Old English Manor. J. H. U. Put.
Andrews, Launcelot Winchester. Ont., 1856- ——. A professor of chemistry in the University of Iowa from 1885. An Introduction to the Study of Qualitative Analysis.
Andrews, William Page. Ms., 1848- ——. A littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts, who has edited the poems of Jones Very and published a number of translations from the German.
Anthony, Alfred Williams. R. I., 1860- ——. A professor at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. The Method of Jesus; Introduction to the Life of Jesus; The Sunday School: its progress in Method and Scope; The Higher Criticism in the New Testament. Sil.
Antin, Mary. See Graubau, Mrs. Mary Antin.
Antrobus, Suzanne. See Robinson, Mrs. Suzanne.
Apgar, Austin C[raig]. N. J., 1838- ——. A scientist of Trenton, New Jersey, since 1866 an instructor in natural science at the State Normal School. Geographical Charts; Geographical Hand Book; Geographical Drawing Book; Geography of New Jersey; Plant Analysis; Mollusks of the Atlantic Coast; Pocket Key of Trees; Trees of the Northern United States; Pocket Key of Birds; Birds of the United States. Am.
Appel, Theodore. Pa., 1823- ——. A German Reformed clergyman and educator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. College Recollections; Beginnings of the Theological Seminary; Letters to Boys and Girls about the First Christmas at Bethlehem; Life of John Williamson Nevin, supra.
Arbeely, Abraham Joseph. Sa., 1852- ——. A physician of New York city. A Complete Self-Teaching Manual of the Arabic and English Languages.
Archer, Frederic. E., 1838-1901. An organist, of Pittsburg. The Organ and the College Organist.
Archibald, Andrew Webster. N. Y., 1851- ——. A Congregational clergyman at Brockton, Massachusetts, from 1897. The Bible Verified; The Trend of the Centuries.
Armstrong, Leroy. Ind., 1854- ——. A journalist of Lafayette, Indiana. An Indiana Man; The Outlaws; Washington Brown, Farmer.
Arnold, Augusta Foote. N. Y., 1844- ——. A New York author. The Century Cook Book; The Sea Beach at Ebb Tide. Cent.
Arnold, Birch. See Bartlett, Alice.
Arnold, Howard Payson. Ms., 1831- ——. A Boston writer. Gleanings from Pontresina and the Upper Engadine; Historic Sidelights. Har. Hou.
Arnold, Sarah Louise. Ms., 1859- ——. A Boston educator; dean of Simmons College. Waymarks for Teachers; Stepping Stones to Literature; Reading: how to Teach It; The Mother Tongue. Gi. Sil.
Ashley, Barnas Freeman. N. S., 1833- ——. A Baptist clergyman who has written a number of books for boys, among which are Tan Pile Jim; Dick and Jack’s Adventures on Sable Island; Air Castle Don. Lai.
Ashley, Roscoe Lewis. N. Y., 1872- ——. An educator in Los Angeles, California. The American Federal State; The American Government.
Ashley, William James. E., 1860- ——. A writer on economics; professor of economic history at Harvard University, 1892-1903. James and Philip Van Artevelde; An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory: Book I.; From the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century; What is Political Science?; Surveys, Historic and Economic. Lgs. Mac.
Ashmore, Ruth. See Mallon, Mrs.
Ashton, Laurence. Va., 1847- ——. A physician of Dallas, Texas. Puerperal Septicæmia.
Aspinwall, Mrs. Alicia [Towne]. 18— - ——. A popular writer of juvenile tales, living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Short Stories for Short People; The Echo Maid, and Other Stories. Dut.
Astor, John Jacob. N. Y., 1864- ——. Cousin of W. W. Astor (page 12). A Journey in Other Worlds, a scientific romance. Ap.
Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Franklin [Horn]. Cal., 1859- ——. A sensational novelist, for several years resident in London. The Doomswoman; American Wives and English Husbands; The Californians; Patience Sparhawk and her Time; Valiant Runaways; What Dreams may come; Hermia Suydam; Los Cerritos; His Fortunate Grace; Before the Gringo Came; A Whirl Asunder; A Daughter of the Vine; Senator North; The Aristocrats; The Conqueror; The Splendid Idle Forties. Rulers of Kings. Ap. Do. Har. Ll. Sto.
Atkinson, George Francis. Mch., 1854- ——. A professor of botany at Cornell University. Biology of Ferns; Elementary Botany; Lessons in Botany; Studies of American Fungi. Ho. Mac.
Atkinson, George Wesley. W. Va., 1845- ——. The governor of West Virginia, 1897-1901. History of Kanawha; West Virginia Pulpit; A. B. C. of the Tariff; Don’t, or Negative Chips from Blocks of Living Truths; Revenue Digest; Prominent Men of West Virginia; After the Moonshiners; Psychology Simplified.
Atkinson, William Biddle. Pa., 1832- ——. A prominent Philadelphia physician. Hints in the Obstetric Procedure; Therapeutics of Gynecology and Obstetrics; Physicians and Surgeons of the United States.
Atlee, Washington Lemuel. Pa., 1808-1878. A noted surgeon of Philadelphia. Ovarian Tumors and Ovariotomy.
Atterbury, Anson Phelps. N. Y., 1854- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Islam in Africa. Put.
Audsley, George Ashdown. S., 1838- ——. A Scottish architect and art writer of note, now (1904) living in New York city. With his brother, William James Audsley, he has published Colour in Dress: a Manual for Ladies; Floral Decoration of Churches; Cottage, Lodge, and Village Architecture; Outlines of Ornament in the Leading Styles; Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts, in ten volumes; Polychromatic Decoration as applied to Buildings in the Mediæval Styles; and (with James Lord Bowes) The Keramic Art of Japan. His separate works include Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting; Handbook of Christian Symbolism; The Art of Chromo-Lithography; Notes on Japanese Art; The Ornamental Arts of Japan; The Art of Organ-Building. Do.
Austin, John Mather. N. Y., 1805- ——. A clergyman who published Arguments in Support of the Doctrine of Universal Salvation; Voice to Youth; Voice to the Married; Life of John Quincy Adams.
Austin, John Osborne. R. I., 1849- ——. A wool merchant and genealogist of Providence. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; Ancestry of Thirty-three Rhode Island Families; The Ancestral Dictionary; One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families.
Austin, Mrs. Mary [Hunter]. Il., 1868- ——. An essayist and story-writer of California. The Land of Little Rain; The Basket Woman. Hou.
Austin, Oscar Phelps. Il., 184- - ——. A journalist of Washington city, chief of the bureau of statistics from 1898. Uncle Sam’s Soldiers; Uncle Sam’s Secrets; Colonial Systems of the World; Colonial Administration; Great Canals of the World; Steps in the Expansion of Our Territory; etc. Ap.
Avery, Elroy McKendree. Mch., 1844- ——. A prominent educator in Cleveland. Among his many school text-books are The Complete Chemist; School Physics; Modern Principles of Natural Philosophy; Modern Electricity and Magnetism; First Lessons in Physical Science; School Chemistry.
Avery, Isaac Wheeler. Fl., 1837-1897. A lawyer and journalist of Atlanta. Digest of the Georgia Supreme Court Reports; History of Georgia.
Ayer, Mrs. Harriet [Hubbard]. Il., 1854-1903. A New York journalist. Treatise on the Laws of Health and Beauty.
Ayer, Joseph Cullen. Ms., 1866- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Die Ethik Joseph Butlers: The Rise and Development of Christian Architecture.
Ayers, Howard. Wash., 1859- ——. An educator, president of the University of Cincinnati from 1899. The Vertebrate Ear.
Aylesworth, Barton Orville. Il., 1860- ——. A clergyman of the Christian (Disciples) denomination, president of the Colorado State College from 1900. Song and Fable; Thirteen and Twelve Others.
Ayres, Samuel Gardiner. N. Y., 1865- ——. A librarian of Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, from 1888. Drew Seminary Record; Fifty Literary Evenings; History of the English Bible (with C. F. Sitterly, infra).
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Babbitt, Edwin Dwight. N. Y., 1828- ——. A hygienic writer at Los Angeles. Principles of Light and Colour; Human Culture and Power; Health and Power.
Babcock, Mrs. Bernie [Smade]. O., 1868- ——. A novelist of Little Rock, Arkansas. The Daughter of a Republican; The Martyr; Justice to the Woman; At the Mercy of the State; An Uncrowned Queen. Mg. Rev.
Babcock, Maltbie Davenport. N. Y., 1858-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman of Baltimore. Thoughts for Everyday Living; Letters from Egypt and Palestine. Scr.
Babcock, Rufus. Ct., 1798-1875. A Baptist clergyman of Paterson, New Jersey, among whose works are Making Light of Christ; Tales of Truth for the Young; Emigrants’ Mother; and several religious biographies.
Babcock, William Henry. Mo., 1849- ——. A patent lawyer of Washington city. Lord Stirling’s Stand and other Poems; Lays from Over Sea; Cypress Beach; The Brides of the Tiger; An Invention of the Enemy; The Tower of Wye; Cian of the Chariots; Two Lost Centuries of Britain. Lip. Lo.
Babson, John James. Ms., 1809-1886. A local historian. History of Gloucester, Cape Ann, including the Town of Rockport (1860); Notes and Additions; The Fisheries of Gloucester from the First Catch by the English in 1623, to 1876.
Backus, Truman Jay. N. Y., 1842- ——. An educator, president of Packer Institute, Brooklyn. Great English Writers; Outlines of English Literature.
Bacon, Alice Mabel. Ct., 1858- ——. A teacher in the Hampton Institute, Virginia. Japanese Girls and Women; A Japanese Interior. Hou.
Bacon, Benjamin Wisner. Ct., 1860- ——. A professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School; The Genesis of Genesis; Triple Tradition of the Exodus; The Story of St. Paul. Hou.
Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Bahamas, 1855- ——. A writer of Tarrytown, New York. The New Jamaica; The Pocket Piece; Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow; The Hudson, from Ocean to Source. Put.
Bacon, Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam. Ct., 1876- ——. A writer of Stamford, Connecticut. Smith College Stories; Sister’s Vacation and Other Girls’ Stories; Fables for the Fair; The Imp and the Angel; The Madness of Philip, and Other Stories; Whom the Gods Destroyed; Middle-Aged Love Stories; The Memoirs of a Baby. Scr.
Bacon, Mrs. Louise Lee [Andrews]. Md., 1861- ——. Wife of H. Bacon (page 14). Our House Boat on the Nile.
Badcock, Mrs. Winnifred [Eaton]. “Onoto Watanna,” Japan, 1879- ——. A New York writer. The Old Jinriksha; Miss Nume of Japan; A Japanese Nightingale; The Wooing of Wistaria; The Heart of Hyacinth; Daughters of Nijo. Har., Mac.
Bagby, Albert Morris. Il., 1859- ——. A writer of New York city. Miss Träumerei: a Weimar Idyl, a popular musical novel.
Bagby, George William. “Mozis Addums.” Va., 1828-1883. A Virginia journalist and lecturer, of some note as a humourist. John M. Daniel’s Latin Key; What I Did with My Fifty Millions; Meekins’s Twinses. See Hart’s American Literature.
Bailey, Edgar Henry Summerfield. Ct., 1848- ——. A professor of chemistry in the University of Kansas. Qualitative Chemical Analysis.
Bailey, Mrs. Florence Augusta [Merriam]. N. Y., 1863- ——. Wife of V. Bailey, infra. An ornithologist who published several books under her maiden name (see page 253). Birds of Village and Field; Handbook of Birds of the Western United States. Hou.
Bailey, Pearce. N. Y., 1865- ——. A physician of New York city. Accident and Injury: their relation to Disease. Ap.
Bailey, Mrs. Urania Locke [Stoughton]. “Una Locke.” Ms., 1820-1882. A Providence writer. The School at Elm Oak and the School of Life; The Crooked Tree; Dr. Plassid’s Patients; Star Flowers; Holiday Tales (with F. L. Pratt). She wrote the popular religious poem, “The Master has come over Jordan.”
Bailey, Vernon. Mch., 1863- ——. A naturalist in government service. Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley; Pocket Gophers of the Mississippi Valley; Revision of Voles of the Genus Evotomys; Mammals of the District of Columbia.
Bailey, William Henry. N. C., 1831- ——. A prominent North Carolina lawyer whose later life has been passed in Houston, Texas. The Conflict of Judicial Decisions; Onus Probandi; Self-taught Law; The Detective Faculty; The Fifth North Carolina Digest (edited). Clke.
Baines-Miller, Mrs. Minnie [Willis]. N. H., 1845- ——. A writer of Springfield, Ohio. The Silent Land; His Cousin, the Doctor; The Pilgrim’s Vision; Mrs. Cherry’s Sister.
Baker, A—— George. Pa., 184— - ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, since 1887 in medical practice. History of the Germans in America; History of Knights of St. John of Malta; German-American Christianity and the Protestant Episcopal Church; Flora of Arabia and the Arabian Prophet; The Phonendoscope and its Practical Application.
Baker, Charles Richard. Ms., 1842-1898. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn, 1873-98. The Apostles’ Creed Tested by Experience; Prayers for the Christian Year. Wh.
Baker, Charles Whiting. Vt., 1865- ——. The managing editor of the Engineering News, New York city. Monopolies and the People. Put.
Baker, James Hutchins. Me., 1848- ——. An educator, president of the University of Colorado from 1891. Elementary Psychology; Education and Life. Lgs.
Baker, Moses Nelson. Vt., 1864- ——. Brother of C. W. Baker, supra, and associate editor of the Engineering News. Sewage Purification in America; Sewage Disposal in the United States; Sewerage and its Purification.
Baker, Osman Cleander. N. H., 1812-1871. A Methodist bishop. Guide in the Administration of Discipline in the Methodist Episcopal Church; Last Witness. Meth.
Baker, Ray Stannard. Mch., 1870- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Boys’ Book of Inventions; Our New Prosperity; Seen in Germany; Boys’ Second Book of Inventions.
Baker, Mrs. Sarah Schoonmaker [Tuthill]. “Aunt Friendly.” Ct., 1824- ——. Daughter of Mrs. Tuthill (page 342). A popular writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are Poor Little Joe; The Orange Seed; The Fisherman’s Boy; Cheerily, Cheerily; Timid Lucy; The Boy Patriot; The Boy Friend; The Children on the Plains; The Swedish Twins; Nono or the Golden House; Fireside Sketches from Swedish Life. She has lived in Sweden from 1876.
Baker, William Spohn. Pa., 1824-1897. A Philadelphian noted for his collections of Washingtoniana. Engraved Portraits of Washington; Medallic Portraits of Washington; Character Portraits of Washington; Washington’s Itinerary; Washington after the Revolution; Washington in Philadelphia; American Engravers and their Works; William Sharp, Engraver, and his Works; Origin and Antiquity of Engraving.
Balch, Elizabeth. N. Y., 1845-1890. A writer whose life was spent mainly in Europe. Mustard Leaves, or a Glimpse of London Society; Zorah, a Love Tale of Modern Egypt; An Author’s Love, the answers to Prosper Mérimée’s “Letters to an Inconnue.” Mac.
Baldwin, Foy Spencer. Mch., 1870- ——. A professor of economics in Boston University from 1895. History of Mining Legislation in England.
Baldwin, George Colfax. N. J., 1817-1899. A Baptist clergyman of Troy, New York. Representative Men of the New Testament; Representative Women from Eve to Mary; Model Prayer; Notes of a Forty-one Years’ Pastorate. Bap.
Baldwin, Joseph. 1827-1899. An educator in Missouri and Alabama. School Management; Elementary Psychology; Psychology Applied to Teaching; School Management and its Methods.
Baldwin, Simeon Eben. Ct., 1840- ——. A Connecticut jurist, professor of constitutional law at Yale University from 1872. Baldwin’s Digest of the Connecticut Law Reports; Modern Political Institutions; Illustrative Cases on Railroad Law. Lit. Mac. West.
Baldwin, Thomas. Ct., 1753-1825. A Baptist clergyman of Boston. Letters in which the Distinguishing Sentiments of the Baptists are Explained; Open Communion Examined.
Ball, Thomas. Ms., 1819- ——. A sculptor of note. My Three Score Years and Ten, an Autobiography.
Ballantine, William Gay. D. C., 1848- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1891-96. Inductive Logic; Lectures on Job, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Gi.
Ballard, Addison. Ms., 1822- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor of logic in the University of New York. Arrows: or Teaching a Fine Art.
Ballard, Harlan Hogue. O., 1853- ——. Son of A. Ballard, supra. A librarian of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Three Kingdoms; Handbook of Blunders in Writing and Speaking; The World of Matter; The American Plant Book (with S. P. Thayer); Re-open Sesame; A Translation of the First Six Books of Virgil’s Æneid. Hou.
Ballard, Mrs. Julia Perkins [Pratt]. O., 1828-1894. Wife of A. Ballard, supra. A writer of children’s books of notable excellence. Gathered Lilies; Lift a Little; Little Gold Keys; The Hole in the Bag and Other Stories; Insect Lives, revised and republished as Among the Moths and Butterflies. Put.
Bancroft, Frederic. Il., 1860- ——. An historical writer of Washington. Life of William Henry Seward; The Negro in Politics; A History of the Confederates. Har.
Bancroft, Wilder Dwight. R. I., 1867- ——. A professor of chemistry at Cornell University from 1895. The Phase Rule.
Bangs, Lemuel Bolton. N. Y., 1842- ——. A physician and surgeon of New York city. An American Text Book of Genito-Urinary Diseases.
Banks, Charles Eugene. Ia., 1852- ——. A journalist and verse-writer of Rockford, Illinois. A Child of the Sun; Sword and Cross, and Other Poems; Quiet Music; Where Brooks run Softly; Hampton Roads. Ra. S.
Banta, David Demaree. Ind., 1833-1898. Local historian. Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, an unusually skilful performance of its kind.
Barbee, William J——. Ky., 1816-1892. An educator and physician prominent at one time in Kentucky, and a clergyman in the Campbellite denomination. The Scriptural Doctrine of Confirmation; Physical and Moral Aspects of Geology; The Cotton Question; First Principles of Geology; Life of the Apostle Peter.
Barber, Edwin Atlee. Md., 1851- ——. An archæologist of Philadelphia. Pottery and Porcelain of the United States; Anglo-American Pottery; Atlee and Barber genealogies.
Barber, Gershom Morse. N. Y., 1823- ——. A jurist of Cleveland. The Book of the Law; Notaries’ Guide.
Barbour, Mrs. A—— [Maynard]. N. Y., 18— - ——. A novelist of Helena, Montana. That Mainwaring Affair; Told in the Rockies; The Award of Justice; At the Time Appointed. Lip. Ra.
Barbour, Ralph Henry. Ms., 1870- ——. Phyllis in Bohemia; The Half-back; For the Honor of the School; Captain of the Crew; The Land of Joy; School and College Sports. Ap.
Bardeen, Charles Williams. Ms., 1847- ——. A school-book publisher of Syracuse. Roderick Hume; The Story of a New York Teacher; Verbal Pit-falls; A System of Rhetoric; Continuous Contracts for Teachers; Little Old Man; Teaching as a Business; Manual of Common School Law; Dictionary of Educational Biography.
Barker, Mrs. Ellen [Blackmer] [Maxwell]. Pa., 185- - ——. A writer of Washington city; The Bishop’s Conversion; Three Old Maids in Hawaii; The Way of Fire.
Barker, Jacob. Me., 1779-1871. A lawyer and financier. The Rebellion: its Consequences and the Congressional Committee.
Barker, Lewellys Franklin. Ont., 1867- ——. An anatomist. The Nervous System and its Constitutional Neurones.
Barnes, Charles Reid. Ind., 1858- ——. A professor of plant physiology in the University of Chicago from 1898. Handbook of Plant Dissection (with Arthur and Coulter); Keys to the Genera and Species of North American Mosses; Outlines of Plant Life; Plant Life. Ho.
Barnum, Samuel Weed. N. Y., 1820-1891. A Congregational clergyman. Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible; Romanism as It Is; A Vocabulary of English Rhymes.
Barr, Granville Walter. O., 1866- ——. A physician and novelist of Keokuk, Iowa. Shacklett, a story of American politics; Idiosyncrasy and Drugs; Short Stories; Larry McNoogan’s Cow; In the Last Ditch.
Barr, John Henry. Ind., 1861- ——. A mechanical engineer, professor of machine design at Sibley College, Cornell University from 1898. Kinematics of Machinery; Notes on Machine Design. Wil.
Barrett, John. Vt., 1866- ——. A journalist, minister to Siam, 1894-98. Admiral George Dewey: a Sketch of the Man; The Far East and Japan.
Barrows, Elijah Porter. Ct., 1805-1888. A clergyman, professor of Hebrew at Oberlin College from 1872. Memoir of Evertson Judson; Companion to the Bible; Sacred Geography and Antiquities.
Barry, Ethelred Breeze. N. H., 1870- ——. An author and illustrator of Arlington, Massachusetts. Little Tong’s Mission; The Countess of the Tenements; Miss De Peyster’s Boy; Little Dick’s Christmas.
Bartlett, Mrs. Alice Elinor [Bowen]. “Birch Arnold.” Wis., 1848- ——. A Detroit journalist. Until the Day Break; A New Aristocracy.
Bartlett, Frederick Orin. Ms., 1876- ——. A novelist of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joan of the Alley. Hou.
Bartley, Elias Hudson. N. J., 1849- ——. A physician of Brooklyn. Textbook of Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Manual of Clinical Chemistry.
Barton, William Eleazar. Il., 1861- ——. A Congregational clergyman, pastor in Boston from 1893 to 1899, and subsequently in Chicago. An associate editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra, and a writer of history, theology, and fiction. The Wind-Up of the Big Meetin’ on No Bus’ness; Life in the Hills of Kentucky; Early Ecclesiastical History of the Western Reserve; Sim Galloway’s Daughter-in-Law; The Truth about the Trouble at Roundstone; A Hero in Homespun: a Tale of the Loyal South; The Story of the Psalms; The Story of a Pumpkin Pie; How Boston Braved the King; Pine Knot; The Prairie Schooner; The Man with a Country; The Old World in the New Century; The Gospel of the Autumn Leaf; The Home of a Madonna; The Swaddling Clothes and the Star; Why I Believe the Bible. Ap. Pa. We.
Bashford, Herbert. Ia., 1871- ——. The state librarian of Washington. Nature Studies of the Northwest; Songs from Puget Sea.
Bashford, James Whitford. Wis., 1849- ——. A Methodist clergyman, president of Ohio Wesleyan University from 1889. The Science of Religion.
Bashore, Harvey Brown. Pa., 1864- ——. A physician of West Fairview, Pennsylvania. Outlines of Rural Hygiene.
Baskett, James Newton. Ky., 1849- ——. A writer on natural history, but earlier a civil engineer, whose home is at Mexico, Missouri. The Story of the Birds; The Story of the Fishes; The Story of the Mammals; The Story of the Amphibians and the Reptiles; At You-All’s House, a Missouri Nature Story; As the Light Led, a novel; Sweetbrier and Thistledown. Ap. Mac.
Bassett, Mrs. Adelaide Florence [Samuels]. See Samuels, A. F.
Bassett, John Spencer. N. C., 1867- ——. A professor at Trinity College at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina; Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina; The War of the Regulation; Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina. J. H. U.
Bastin, Edson Sewell. Wis., 1843-1897. A botanist, professor of botany at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Elements of Botany; Vegetable Histology; College Botany; Questions on College Botany; Laboratory Exercises in Botany.
Bates, Daniel M——. Del., c. 1849-1899. An Episcopal clergyman. The Apostolic Church; Translation into Wen-Li; Christ in Modern Thought.
Bates, David. Pa., c. 1810-1870. A Philadelphia verse-writer, best known by his lyric, Speak Gently; The Æolian; Poetical Works (1870).
Bates, Frank Green. 18— - ——. Rhode Island and the Formation of the Union. Mac.
Bates, Herbert. Ms., 1868- ——. A verse-writer who has published Songs of Exile. Sm.
Bates, Mrs. Josephine W——. 18— - ——. A Chicago novelist. A Blind Lead; Bunch Grass Stories. Lip.
Bates, Mrs. Lindon. See Bates, Mrs. Josephine.
Bates, Morgan. N. Y., 1848-1902. A journalist and playwright. Martin Brook, a novel. Har.
Bates, William Wallace. Me., 1827- ——. A United States Commissioner of Navigation from 1889 to 1892. American Marine; American Navigation. Hou.
Battenhall, Jesse Park. N. Y., 1851-1891. Adulteration of Food and Drink; Legal Chemistry, from the French of Naquet.
Battershall, Fletcher Williams. N. J., 1866- ——. Son of W. W. Battershall, infra. A novelist of Albany. A Daughter of the World; Mists.
Battershall, Walton Wesley. N. Y., 1840- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Albany, rector of St. Peter’s Church from 1874. Interpretations of Life and Religion. Bar.
Battle, Kemp Plummer. N. C., 1831- ——. A professor of history in the University of North Carolina from 1891. History of the Supreme Court of North Carolina; History of Raleigh, North Carolina; History of the University of North Carolina; Trials and Judicial Proceedings of the New Testament; Life of General Jethro Sumner.
Baum, Henry Mason. N. Y., 1848- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, editor of The Church Review from 1881. Rights and Duties of Rectors, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen; The Law of the Church in the United States.
Baum, L[yman] Frank. N. Y., 1856- ——. A Chicago playwright and writer of juvenile literature. Mother Goose in Prose; By the Candelabra’s Glare, a collection of verse; Father Goose: his Book; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; A New Wonderland; The Songs of Father Goose; American Fairy Tales; The Art of Decorating; The Army Alphabet; The Navy Alphabet; Dot and Tot of Merryland; The Master Key, an Electrical Fairy Tale; Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; The High Ki of Twi; The Magical Monarch of Mo. Among his plays are, The Maid of Arran; Matches; Kilmorne: The Wizard of Oz.
Bausman [bŏwss´man], Benjamin. Pa., 1824- ——. A German Reformed clergyman, pastor at Reading, Pennsylvania from 1863. Sinai and Zion; Wayside Gleanings in Europe.
Bayles, George James. N. Y., 1869- ——. An educator who has published Woman and the Law; Civil Church Law Cases. Cent.
Bayliss, Mrs. Clara [Kern]. Mch., 1848- ——. A writer of Springfield, Illinois. In Brook and Bayou; Lolami, the Little Cliff Dweller; Lolami in Tusayan.
Beach, Charles Fisk. N. Y., 1827- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, since 1897 a lawyer of Indianapolis. The Law of Trusts; Law of Monopolies in England and the United States; The American Probate Reports. Bo.
Beach, Charles Fisk. Ky., 1854- ——. Son of the preceding. A lawyer, since 1896 resident in London, England, who has published treatises on The Law of Receivers; Wills; Railways; Private Corporations; Modern Equity Jurisprudence; Public Corporations; Insurance; Contributory Negligence; Inventions; Contracts.
Beach, Harlan Page. N. J., 1864- ——. A missionary, formerly stationed in China. The Cross in the Land of the Trident; Knights of Labarum; Dawn on the Hills of T’ang. Rev.
Beal, James Hartley. O., 1861- ——. A professor of pharmacy in Scio College, Ohio. Notes on Equation Writing and Chemical Arithmetic; Pharmaceutical Interpretations.
Beale, Charles Willing. D. C., 1845- ——. A romance-writer of Arden, North Carolina. (His wife, Mrs. M. Beale, is mentioned on page 22.) The Ghost of Guir House; The Secret of the Earth. Ne.
Beale, Joseph Henry. Ms., 1861- ——. A lawyer, professor of law at Harvard from 1892, and at the University of Chicago from 1902. Cases on Criminal Law; Cases on Carriers; Cases on Damages; Criminal Pleadings and Practice; Cases on the Conflict of Laws; Cases on Public Service Corporations.
Bean, Tarleton Hoffman. Pa., 1846- ——. A naturalist, director of the New York Aquarium from 1895. The Fishes of Pennsylvania; The Salmon and Salmon Fisheries; Oceanic Ichthyology (with G. B. Goode, page 150); The Fishes of Long Island.
Beard, Daniel Carter. O., 1850-1900. An artist and illustrator of New York city. What to Do and How to Do It; The American Boys’ Handy Book; Six Feet of Romance; Moonlight; The American Boys’ Book of Sport; The Jack of All Trades. Scr.
Beard, Oliver Thomas. N. Y., 1832- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Bristling with Thorns.
Beard, Richard. Tn., 1799-1880. A Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman. Lectures on Theology; Why I am a Cumberland Presbyterian.
Beard, William Holbrook. O., 1825-1900. An artist of New York city. Humour in Animals, a collection of sketches; Action in Art, a text-book.
Beaton, David. S., 1848- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. Cyrus the Magician; Selfhood and Service. Rev.
Beattie, Francis Robert. Ont., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville, Kentucky. Utilitarian Theory of Morals; Methods of Theism; Radical Criticism; Presbyterian Standards; Apologetics; Calvinism and Modern Thought; Christianity and Modern Evolution.
Beauchamp, William Martin. N. Y., 1830- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Syracuse. Iroquois Trail; Indian Names of New York; Aboriginal Occupation of New York.
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant. La., 1818-1893. A noted brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Principles and Maxims of the History of War; Report of the Defence of Charleston; A Commentary on the Campaign and Battle of Manassas (1891).
Beck, Carl. G., 1856- ——. A Chicago surgeon. Manual of Surgical Asepsis; Text-Book on Fractures.
Bedford, Gunning S——. Md., 1806-1870. A physician of note in New York city. Diseases of Women and Children; Principles of the Practice of Obstetrics.
Bedlow, Henry. R. I., 1821- ——. A former mayor of Newport, Rhode Island. The White Tsar, and Other Poems (1895).
Beecher, Charles Emerson. N. Y., 1865-1904. A professor of historical geology at Yale University. Studies in Evolution; Brachiospongidæ. Scr.
Behrends, Adolphus Julius Frederick. H., 1839-1900. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the Central Church in Brooklyn from 1883. Socialism and Christianity; the Philosophy of Preaching; The World for Christ; The Old Testament under Fire. Fu. Scr.
Belasco, David. Cal., 1858- ——. A playwright of New York city, among whose many plays are May Blossom; La Belle Russe; Hearts of Oak; The Heart of Maryland.
Belden, Mrs. Jessie [Van Zile]. N. Y., 1857- ——. A novelist of Syracuse. Antonia; At the Sign of the Painters’ Arms; Fate at the Door; The King’s Ward. Pa.
Belknap, George Washington. N. H., 1832-1903. A retired rear-admiral in the United States navy. Deep Sea Soundings.
Bell, Agrippa Nelson. Va., 1820- ——. A prominent physician of New York city, author of Knowledge of Living Things; Climatology and Mineral Waters of the United States; beside many professional papers.
Bell, Alexander Melville. S., 1819- ——. An educator of note, resident in the United States from 1881. Principles of Speech and Elocution.
Bell, David Charles. S., 1817-1902. An educator who published A Reader’s Shakespeare; Theory of Elocution; Modern Reader and Speaker; The Standard Elocutionist. He was long a professor of literature at the University of Dublin, but from 1883 was a resident of Washington city.
Bellows, Albert Jones. Ms., 1804-1869. A Boston physician. How not to be Sick; The Philosophy of Eating. Hou.
Beman, Nathan Sidney Smith. N. Y., 1785-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman long settled in Troy, New York. The Old Ministry; The Influence of Freedom on Popular and National Education; Letters to John Hughes; Episcopacy Exclusive; Four Sermons on the Atonement.
Beman, Wooster Woodruff. Ct., 1850- ——. A professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1887. Plane and Solid Geometry (with D. E. Smith); Higher Arithmetic; Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, from the German of Klein; Elements of Algebra. Gi.
Bendire, Charles Emil. G., 1836-1897. An ornithologist of note, honorary curator of the department of oölogy in the United States National Museum, a captain and brevet-major in the United States army. Life Histories of North American Birds. See Science, February 12, 1897.
Benedict, George Grenville. Vt., 1826- ——. A military historian of Burlington, Vermont. Vermont at Gettysburg; Vermont in the Civil War; Army Life in Virginia.
Benjamin, Charles Henry. Me., 1856- ——. A professor of mechanical engineering at the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. Notes on Heat and Steam; Notes on Machine Design; Mechanical Laboratory Practice.
Benjamin, Mrs. Elizabeth Dundas [Bedell]. Pa., 18— -1890. Sister of Bishop G. T. Bedell, 1817-1892 (page 23). A religious writer of Stratford, Connecticut. Eleven Months in Horeb; The Church in the Wilderness; Brightside; Questions on the National and Religious Education of the Israelites; Hilda and I, republished in London as The Two Victors and again in New York as Our Roman Palace; The Brightside Children; Jim the Parson; Mrs. Gregory; The Garden of God.
Benjamin, Reuben Moore. N. Y., 1833- ——. An Illinois jurist, dean of the Bloomington Law School. Principles of Contract; Principles of Sales. Bo.
Bennett, Alfred Allen. N. H., 1850- ——. A professor of chemistry at Iowa State College from 1885. Inorganic Chemistry.
Bennett, Charles Edwin. R. I., 1858- ——. A classical philologist. A Latin Grammar and Appendix; Latin Composition; Foundations of Latin.
Bennett, Frank Marion. Mch., 1857- ——. A lieutenant in the United States navy. The Monitor and the Navy under Steam; The Steam Navy of the United States. Hou.
Bennett, John. O., 1865- ——. An author, of Charleston, South Carolina. Master Skylark; The Story of Barnaby Lee.
Bennett, Mary E——. “Elizabeth Glover.” Ct., 1841- ——. An author of New Haven, Connecticut. Cyril Rivers; Six Boys; Asaph’s Ten Thousand; Talks About a Fine Art; Family Manners; The Children’s Wing; Jefferson Wildrider; The Gentle Art of Pleasing. Ba.
Bennett, William Zebina. Vt., 1856- ——. A professor of chemistry at the University of Wooster, Ohio, from 1883. A Plant Analysis.
Benton, Angelo Ames. Crete, 1837- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Pekin, Illinois. The Church Cyclopedia; The Tome of Saint Leo.
Benton, Frank. Mch., 1852- ——. An entomologist in the service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Honey Bee; Bee Keeping.
Benton, James Gilchrist. N. H., 1820-1881. A soldier and inventor. A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery.
Berenson, Bernhard. Lithuania, 1865- ——. An art writer now (1898) living in Florence, Italy. The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance; Lorenzo Lotto: an Essay in Art Criticism; The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance; The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance; The Drawings of the Florentine Painters; The Study and Criticism of Italian Art. Mac. Put.
Bergen, Mrs. Fannie [Dickerson]. O., 1848- ——. Wife of J. Y. Bergen, infra. The Development Theory (with J. Y. Bergen); Glimpses at the Plant World; Animal and Plant Lore (compiled). Hou.
Bergen, Joseph Young. Me., 1851- ——. An educator, of Boston. The Development Theory (with F. D. Bergen); The Study of Evolution Simplified; Elements of Botany; and a series of text-books on physics (with E. H. Hall). Gi.
Bergengren, Mrs. Anna [Farquhar]. “Margaret Allston.” Ind., 1865- ——. Wife of R. Bergengren, infra. A Boston novelist. A Singer’s Heart; The Professor’s Daughter; Her Boston Experiences; The Devil’s Plough; Her Washington Experiences; An Evans of Suffolk. Pa.
Bergengren, Ralph Wilhelm Alexis. Ms., 1871- ——. A journalist of Boston. In Case of Need.
Bernadou, John Baptiste. Pa., 1858- ——. A United States naval officer in the employ of the naval department at Washington from 1888. A Trip through Northern Corea in 1883-84; Smokeless Powder, Nitrocellulose and Theory of the Cellulose Molecule. Wil.
Bernstein, Herman. G., 1876- ——. A New York writer. In the Gates of Israel, a collection of stories of the ghetto.
Betts, Samuel Rossiter. Ct., 1787-1868. A jurist of note. Admiralty Practice.
Beutenmuller, William. N. J., 1864- ——. A scientist of New York city, curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Butterflies; Moths.
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah. Ind., 1862- ——. An Indiana orator and politician. The Russian Advance. Har.
Bicknell, Anna Louisa. F., 183- - ——. The Story of Marie Antoinette; Life in the Tuileries under the Second Empire. Cent.
Bicknell, Frank Martin. Ms., 1854- ——. A littérateur of Malden, Massachusetts. The City of Stories; The Apprentice Boy; Antælus; The Bicycle Highwayman; The Double Prince. Est.
Bicknell, Thomas Williams. R. I., 1834- ——. A prominent educator of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Memoir of William Lord Noyes; A History of Barrington, Rhode Island; John Myles and Religious Toleration in Massachusetts.
Biddle, Arthur. Pa., 1852-1897. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Treatise on The Law of Stock Brokers (with G. Biddle); On the Law of Warranties in the Sale of Chattels; The Law of Insurance.
Biddle, Horace. O., 1811-1900. A lawyer of Logansport, Indiana. The Musical Scale; Elements of Knowledge; Prose Miscellany; A Few Poems; Biddle’s Poems; American Boyhood (verse); Glances at the World (verse); Last Poems.
Bierce, Ambrose. O, 1842- ——. A California littérateur. In the Midst of Life, first issued as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians; Can Such Things Be? Black Beetles in Amber; Fantastic Fables; The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (with A. Danziger). Cas. Put.
Bigelow, Andrew. Ms., 1795-1877. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. Leaves from a Journal; Travels in Malta and Sicily.
Bigelow, Frank Hagar. Ms., 1851- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington city, and a meteorologist of note. Solar Corona; Barometry of the United States.
Bigelow, Lafayette Jotham. N. Y., 1835-1870. A lawyer and journalist of Watertown, New York. Bench and Bar: a Digest of the Wit, Humor, and Asperities of the Law.
Bigelow, Marshall Train. Ms., 1822-1902. A noted printer and proofreader, of Cambridge. Punctuation and Other Typographical Matters; Mistakes in Writing English and How to Avoid Them.
Bill, Ledyard. Ct., 1836- ——. A former publisher of New York city, but from 1874 resident in Paxton, Massachusetts. Ten Pictures of the War: Lyrics; History of the Bill Family; A Winter in Florida; Minnesota: its Character and Climate; History of Paxton.
Billings, Frank. Wis., 1854- ——. A physician, dean of Rush Medical College, Chicago, from 1898. Your Book of Medicine.
Bingham, Caleb. Ct., 1757-1818. An educator and bookseller of Boston. Among his once noted compilations are: Young Lady’s Accidence; Child’s Companion; American Preceptor; Columbian Orator.
Bingham, J[oel] Foote. Ct., 1827- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut, prior to 1871 in the Congregational ministry. The Christian Marriage Ceremony; The Twin Sisters of Martigny, a Story of Italian Life; Francesca da Rimini, from the Italian of Silvio Pellico. Le. Ran.
Bingham, William. Pa., 1751-1804. A Philadelphian of much note in his day and a member of the United States Senate, 1795-1801. Letter from an American on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation (1784); A Description of Certain Tracts of Land in Maine.
Bingham, William. N. C., 1835- ——. An educator of North Carolina. A Grammar of the Latin Language; A Grammar of the English Language.
Birkmire, William Harvey. Pa., 1860- ——. An architect and engineer of New York. Construction of High Office Buildings; Skeleton Construction in Buildings; Architectural Iron and Steel; The Planning and Construction of American Theatres; Compound Riveted Girders. Wil.
Birney, William. Al., 1819- ——. Son of J. G. Birney (page 28). A lawyer of Washington city. Life and Times of Joseph G. Birney; Plea for Civil and Religious Liberty.
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. Ms., 1847- ——. A journalist of New York city. Money in City Elections; Cheap Money Experiments.
Bishop, Louis Faugeres. N. J., 1864- ——. A physician of New York city. Theory and Treatment of Rheumatism; Diagnosis and Treatment of Gout; Important Points in the Treatment of Pneumonia.
Bishop, Seth Scott. Wis., 1852- ——. A Chicago physician. Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat.
Bispham, George Tucker. Pa., 1838- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Principles of Equity.
Bittinger, Mrs. Lucy (Forney). O., 1859- ——. An historical writer of Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Memorials of Rev. J. B. Bittinger; History of the Forney Family of Hanover, Pennsylvania; The Germans in Colonial Times. Lip.
Bjerrgaard, Carl Henry Andrew. Dk., 1845- ——. A librarian at the Astor Library, New York city, from 1879. Mysticism and Nature Worship; Being and the Philosophical History of the Subject.
Black, Ebenezer Charlton. S., 1861- ——. A professor of English at Boston University from 1900 and resident in the United States from 1890. Minor Characters in Shakespeare; Recent Literary Developments.
Black, Henry Campbell. N. Y., 1860- ——. A noted legal writer of Washington city. Constitutional Prohibitions against Legislation Impairing the Obligation of Contracts; Treatise on the Law of Tax Titles; A Dictionary of Law; A Treatise on the Law of Judgments; Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors; Handbook of American Constitutional Law; Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of Laws; Handbook of Bankruptcy Law. He has also edited revised editions of “Pomeroy on Water Rights,” and “Dillon on Removal of Causes.”
Black, John Janvier. 18— - ——. A physician who published Forty Years in the Medical Profession. Lip.
Black, Mrs. Margaret Horton (Potter). Ill., 1881- ——. A novelist of Chicago. A Social Lion; Uncanonized; The House of the Mailly; Istar of Babylon; The Flame Gatherers. Har. Mac.
Black, William Murray. Pa., 1855- ——. An officer in the United States engineering corps. Improvement of Harbours; South Atlantic Coast; Public Works of the United States. Wil.
Blackman, William Fremont. N. Y., 1855- ——. A professor of sociology at Yale University from 1893. The Making of Hawaii: a Sociological Study. Mac.
Blackmar, Frank Wilson. Pa., 1854- ——. A professor of history in the University of Kansas from 1889. History of Federal and State Aid to Higher Education in the South West; The Study of History and Sociology; Spanish Institutions in the South West; Economics; The Story of Human Progress; Life of Charles Robinson, first Governor of Kansas. J. H. U.
Blair, Henry William. N. H., 1834- ——. A lawyer and congressman of Manchester, New Hampshire. His wife, Mrs. E. N. Blair, is mentioned on page 29. The Temperance Movement, or the Conflict of Man with Alcohol.
Blaisdell, Albert Franklin. N. H., 1847- ——. A retired physician and surgeon of Boston, whose later years have been given to educational writing. Outlines for the Study of English Classics; First Steps with English and American Authors; Our Bodies and How we Live; How to Keep Well; Child’s Book of Health; Stories of the Civil War; Readings from the Waverley Novels; Stories from English History; Practical Physiology; The Story of American History. Gi. Le.
Blanchard, Amy Ella. Md., 1856- ——. A Philadelphia writer of juvenile tales. A Girl of ’76; An Independent Daughter; Kittyboy’s Christmas; Thy Friend Dorothy; Girls Together; As Others See Us; Betty of Wye; Taking a Stand; Miss Vanity; Life’s Little Actions; A Dear Little Girl; Three Pretty Maids; Two Girls; Twenty Little Maidens; A Sweet Little Maid; A Revolutionary Maid; Because of Conscience; Dimple Dallas; Her Very Best; Mabel’s Mishap; A Daughter of Freedom; A Heroine of 1812; A Loyal Lass. Lip. We.
Blanchard, Rufus. N. H., 1821-1904. A cartographer of Chicago. History of Illinois; Political History of the United States; History of the Northwest and City of Chicago.
Blashfield, Edwin Howland. N. Y., 1848- ——. An artist of New York city. Italian Cities (with E. W. Blashfield). Scr.
Blatchford, Willis Stanley. Ct., 1859- ——. A naturalist, State geologist of Indiana, from 1894. Gleanings from Nature; A Nature Wooing.
Bleecker, Mrs. Ann Eliza [Schuyler]. N. Y., 1752-1783. A verse-writer of New York city whose Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse were issued in 1793.
Bliss, Edwin Munsell. Ty., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian theologian. Encyclopedia of Missions; The Turk in Armenia, Crete and Greece; Concise History of Missions.
Bliss, Frederick Jones. Sa., 1859- ——. Son of D. Bliss (page 30). An explorer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. A Mound of Many Cities; Excavations at Jerusalem, 1894-97.
Bliss, George. Ms., 1830-1897. A prominent lawyer of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Life Insurance; Annotated Edition of the New York Code of Civil Procedure, usually styled “Bliss’s Code.”
Bliss, William Julian Albert. D. C., 1867- ——. A physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University. A Manual of Experiments in Physics (with Ames).
Blitz, Antonio (pseud.). E., 1810-1877. A once famous prestidigitateur whose home was in Philadelphia. Fifty Years in the Magic Circle.
Block, Louis James. 1851- ——. A Chicago educator. Exile, a Dramatic Episode; Dramatic Sketches and Poems; The New World, with Other Verse; Capriccios. Put.
Blodgett, Mrs. Mabel [Fuller]. Me., 1869- ——. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. The Aspen Shade, a novel; Fairy Tales; In Poppy Land, a book of fairy tales; At the Queen’s Mercy, a tale of adventure.
Bloodgood, Freeman A——. Ia., 1867- ——. An Iowa Superintendent of Schools. Civil Government and School Law.
Bloodgood, Simeon DeWitt. N. Y., 1799-1866. The Sexagenary, or Reminiscences of the American Revolution; Treatise of Roads.
Bloomer, Mrs. Amelia [Jenks]. N. Y., 1818-1894. A noted reformer of Council Bluffs, long prominent in behalf of woman-suffrage. In 1895 the Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer were published, edited by her husband.
Bloomingdale, Charles. Pa., 1868- ——. A journalist of Philadelphia. Mr., Miss, and Mrs.; Whiffs from Bohemia; A Failure. Lip.
Blossom, Henry Martyn. Mo., 1866- ——. A St. Louis littérateur. The Documents in Evidence; Checkers: a Hard Luck Story; Room 4: Stories.
Blunt, Stanhope English. Ms., 1850- ——. A colonel in the ordnance department of the United States army. Firing Regulations for Small Arms; Instructions in Rifle and Carbine Firing in the United States Army. Scr.
Boardman, George Nye. Vt., 1823- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Chicago Seminary, 1871-93, and emeritus professor from 1893. Lectures on Natural Theology; The Will and Virtue; Congregationalism; A History of New England Theology; Regeneration. Ran.
Boardman, William Henry. Il., 1846- ——. An editor and publisher of New York. The Lovers of the Woods.
Boas, Franz. Wa., 1858- ——. An anthropologist. Baffin Land; The Central Eskimo.
Bödecker, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. G., 1846- ——. A dentist of New York city. The Anatomy and Pathology of the Teeth.
Body, Charles William Edmund. E., 1851- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, of New York, professor of Old Testament literature in the General Theological Seminary from 1894. The Permanent Value of Genesis. Lgs.
Bogart, Elizabeth. “Estelle.” N. Y., c. 1806-18—. A nearly forgotten verse-writer of New York city whose lines were very popular in their day. Her earliest poems appeared in 1825, and some thirty years later a volume of her fugitive verse was published entitled Driftings from the Stream of Life.
Bogue, Mrs. Lilian [Bell]. See Bell, Lilian (page 24).
Boies, Henry Martyn. Ms., 1837- ——. An inventor of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Prisoners and Paupers; The Science of Penology. Put.
Boise (boiz), James Robinson. Ms., 1815-1895. A professor of Greek at Chicago University, 1868-95. Notes on the Greek Text of Paul’s Epistles to Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians; Notes to Greek Text of Galatians and Romans.
Boise, Otis Bardwell. O., 1844- ——. A composer. Harmony Made Practical; Music and its Masters.
Bolles, John Augustus. Ct., 1809-1878. A Boston lawyer. Treatise on Usury and Usury Laws; Essay on a Congress of Nations.
Bolton, Charles Edward. Ms., 1841-1901. A lecturer, and writer upon economic reforms, long resident at Cleveland. His wife, Mrs. S. K. Bolton, is mentioned on page 32, and his son, C. K. Bolton, on page 30. A Few Civic Problems; A Model Village and Other Papers.
Bolton, Mrs. Ethel [Stanwood]. Ms., 1873- ——. Wife of C. K. Bolton (page 31) and daughter of E. Stanwood (page 357). A genealogist of Brookline, Massachusetts. History of the Stanwood Family (1899).
Bombaugh, Charles Carroll. Pa., 1828- ——. A journalist of Baltimore, formerly a practising physician. Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature; Book of Blunders (edited); The Literature of Kissing; Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Insurance Companies.
Bompiani, Mrs. Sophia Van Matre. O., 1835- ——. A writer long resident in Rome, Italy. Italian Explorers in Africa; A Short History of the Italian Waldenses.
Bonsal, Stephen. Md., 1863- ——. A journalist of New York city, special correspondent of the New York Herald in Cuba and elsewhere, and secretary of the United States Legations in Peking, Madrid, and Tokio, 1890-95. Morocco as It Is; The Condition of Cuba; The Fight for Santiago; The Golden Horseshoe, a novel of the Philippine War. Dou. Har.
Book, John William. Ind., 1850- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman of prominence in Indiana. Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church; Side Switches of the Short Line (with T. J. Jenkins); Thousand and One Objections to Secret Societies; Mollie’s Mistake, or Mixed Marriages; The Book of Books.
Bookwalter, John Wesley. Ind., 1837- ——. A manufacturer at Springfield, Ohio. If not Silver, What? Siberia and Central Asia. Sto.
Boone, Charles Theodore. Pa., 1838- ——. A lawyer of San Francisco. Law of Corporations; Law of Real Property; Law of Mortgages; Code Pleading; Banks and Banking; Test Book of Law and Practice.
Boone, Richard Gause. Cincinnati superintendent of schools from 1899. Education in the United States; History of Education in Indiana.
Booth, James Curtis. Pa., 1810-1888. A once noted chemist of Philadelphia, a smelting superintendent at the mint, 1849-88. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the State of Delaware (1841); Recent Improvements in the Chemical Arts (1852); Encyclopædia of Chemistry (with others).
Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington [Charlesworth]. E., 1865- ——. An evangelist, who with her husband founded the Volunteers of America, a religious military organization, in 1898. Branded; Look Up and Hope; Sleepy-Time Stories; Lights of Childland. Put.
Booth-Tucker, Frederick Saint George de Latour. E. I., 1853- ——. The commander of the Salvation Army in the United States. The Life of Catherine Booth; Life of General William Booth; In Darkest India and the Way Out.
Bosworth, Francke Huntington. O., 1843- ——. A physician of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Nose and Throat; Text Book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat.
Botsford, George Willis. Ia., 1862- ——. A former instructor in history at Harvard University. The Development of the Athenian Constitution; A History of Greece; The Story of Rome; An Ancient History for Beginners; A History of the Orient and Greece. Gi. Mac.
Boucher, Jonathan. E., 1738-1804. An Episcopal clergyman of Annapolis whose outspoken loyalty to the mother country in 1775 caused his expulsion from the colonies. He returned to England and became vicar of Epsom. A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1797); Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1833); A Cumberland Man. See Hawks’s Ecclesiastical History of the United States, vol. 2; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit, vol. 5; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 6; Lippincott’s Magazine, May, 1899; Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution, vol. 1.
Bourne, Edward Gaylord. N. Y., 1860- ——. A professor of history at Yale University from 1895. The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837; Essays in Historical Criticism; John Lothrop Motley. Hou. Scr.
Bourne, George. E., 1780-1845. A clerical abolitionist of note. The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable; Lectures on Ecclesiastical History; Pictures of Quebec; Slavery Illustrated in its Effects upon Women.
Boutell, Lewis Henry. Ms., 1826-1899. A Chicago lawyer who wrote a Life of Roger Sherman. Mg.
Bouve, Mrs. Pauline Carrington [Rust]. Ark., 18— - ——. A Boston writer. Their Shadows Before.
Bowden, John. I., 1751-1817. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence in his day, professor of belles-lettres at Columbia College, 1802-17. Essentials of Ordination; Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy; Observations on the Catholic Controversy.
Bowdoin, William Goodrich. Ms., 1860- ——. A writer of New York City. A Step Across the Gulf of Cuba; The Rise of the Book Plate; James MacNeill Whistler: the Man and His Work.
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop. N. Y., 1852- ——. A Brooklyn publisher, Boundary Disputes of Connecticut; Woodstock, an Historical Sketch.
Bowen, Eliza Andrews. Ga., 1828-1898. Cousin of E. F. Andrews (page 10). A Georgia writer for periodicals and newspapers. Astronomy by Observation. Ap.
Bowen, Herbert Wolcott. N. Y., 1856- ——. Brother of C. W. Bowen, supra. A New York lawyer. United States minister to Venezuela from 1901. Verses; Losing Ground; In Divers Tones, a collection of verse; De Genere Humano; International Law.
Bowen, John Wesley Edward. La., 1855- ——. A Methodist clergyman, professor in Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, from 1888. Africa and the American Negro; The Catholic Spirit of Methodism; The Theology and Psychology of the Negro Plantation Melodies; An Apology for the Higher Education of the Negro.
Bowman, Edward Morris. Vt., 1848- ——. A professor of music at Vassar College from 1891. Harmony: Historic Points and Modern Methods; Formation of Piano Touch; Relation of Musicians to the Public.
Bowser, Edward Albert. N. B., 1845- ——. A professor of mathematics and engineering in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from 1870, and a mathematician of prominence. Analytic Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Analytic Mechanics; Hydro-mechanics; Academic Algebra; College Algebra; Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry; Treatise on Trigonometry; Logarithmic Tables; Treatise on Roofs and Bridges. He. Vn.
Boyd, Ellen Wright. Vt., 1833- ——. An educator at Albany, principal of Saint Agnes’s School. Outlines of Religious Instruction; English Cathedrals; Famous Art Galleries.
Boyer, Emanuel Roth. Pa., 1857-1900. A Chicago educator. Text Book on Elementary Biology. He.
Boylan, Mrs. Grace [Duffie]. Mch., 1861- ——. A Chicago journalist. If Tam O’ Shanter’d Had a Wheel, and Other Poems; Kids of Many Colours; The Kiss of Glory, a novel; The Old House and Other Poems.
Boyland, George Halsted. O., 1845- ——. A physician who served in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian war and published Six Months under the Red Cross with the French Army.
Boynton, Charles Brandon. Ms., 1806-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of Cincinnati. Journey Through Kansas (1855); The Russian Empire; The Four Great Powers; History of the American Navy During the Rebellion; Doctrines and Duties. Ap.
Boynton, Henry Van Ness. Ms., 1835- ——. Son of C. B. Boynton, supra. A journalist of Washington city, brevetted brigadier-general for service in the Federal army during the Civil War. Sherman’s Historical Raid; Was General Thomas Slow at Nashville? The National Military Park; Chickamauga-Chattanooga. Clke.
Boynton, Henry Walcott. Conn., 1869——. A writer of Andover, Massachusetts. Life of Washington Irving; The Golfer’s Rubáiyát; Journalism and Literature and Other Essays. Hou.
Brace, De Witt Bristol. N. Y., 1859- ——. A professor of physics at the University of Nebraska from 1887. Laws of Radiation and Absorption.
Braden, James Andrew. O., 1872- ——. A journalist of Akron, Ohio. Far Past the Frontier; Connecticut Boys in the Western Reserve.
Bradford, Gamaliel. Ms., 1831- ——. A Boston writer on political science. The Lesson of Popular Government; Types of American Character. Mac.
Bradford, Joseph. See Hunter, W. R.
Bradley, John Edwin. Il., 1830- ——. An educator, president of Illinois College from 1892. Science and Industry; Work and Play: Talks with Students; School Incentives; Healthfulness of Intellectual Pursuits; Unconscious Education.
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Pa., 1861- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. For Love of Country, a novel; Stephen Decatur, a brief biography; For the Freedom of the Sea; Heroes of Our Early Wars; Under Tops’ls and Tents; When Blades are Out and Love’s Afield; The Quiberon Touch; American Fights and Fighters; Reuben James; Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West; Hohenzollern; A Hazing Interregnum; In the Wasp’s Nest; Woven with the Ship; The Southerners; The Conquest of the Southwest; The Bishop; Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer; A Doctor of Philosophy; A Little Traitor to the South; The Corner in Coffee; Indian Fights and Fighters; The Records. Dou. Lip. Scr. Sm.
Bragg, William Chittenden. Mo., 1845- ——. A lawyer of Saint Louis. Digest of Missouri Court of Appeals; Missouri Masonic Laws.
Brain, Belle M——. O., 1859- ——. An educator of Springfield, Ohio. Fuel for Missionary Fires; Weapons for Temperance Warfare; The Morning Watch; Quaint Thoughts of an Old Time Army Chaplain; The Transformation of Hawaii. Rev.
Braine, Robert D——. O., 1861- ——. A musician of Springfield, Ohio. Messages from Mars, or the Strange Revelations of the Telescope Plant.
Branch, Anna Hempstead. Ct., 18— - ——. A writer of New London, Connecticut; The Heart of the Road and Other Poems. Hou.
Brandenburg, Edwin Charles. D. C., 1865- ——. A professor of law at Columbian University, Washington city. The Law of Bankruptcy; Digest of Bankruptcy Decisions. He is one of the editors of the supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States.
Brannon, Henry. W. Va., 1837- ——. A supreme court judge of West Virginia. Treatise on the Rights and Privileges Guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Brantley, William Theophilus. Ga., 1852- ——. A lawyer of Baltimore. The Law of Personal Property.
Brayton, Alembert Winthrop. N. Y., 1848- ——. A mathematician of Indianapolis. Birds of Indiana; Mammals of Ohio; Fishes of the Southern Allegheny Region.
Brearley, William Henry. Mch., 1846- ——. A journalist of Detroit, and subsequently of New York city. Recollections of the East Tennessee Campaign; Wanted, a Copyist; Leading Events of the American Revolution; King Washington (with A. Skeel, infra). Lip.
Breckenridge, John. Ky., 1797-1841. A once noted Presbyterian clergyman. Roman Catholic Controversy (1836).
Brent, Charles Henry. Ont., 1862- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Philippines. With God in the World; The Consolations of the Cross; With God in the Nation; With God in the Creed. Lgs.
Brent, Henry Johnson. D. C., 1811-1880. A New York littérateur who founded the Knickerbocker Magazine with Lewis Gaylord Clark (page 63). Among his writings are Life almost Alone, a novel; Was it a Ghost?
Brevoort, James Carson. N. Y., 1818-1887. A civil engineer of New York city. Verrazano the Navigator.
Brewer, Daniel Chauncey. Ms., 1861- ——. A Boston lawyer who has published Madeleine, a Poem in Fragments.
Brewer, David Josiah. A. M., 1837- ——. An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1889. The Pew to the Pulpit; The Twentieth Century from Another View Point; American Citizenship. Rev. Scr.
Brewster, Anne M—— Hampton. Pa., 1818-1892. A writer whose later life was passed in Rome. Compensation, or Always a Future; St. Martin’s Summer.
Brewster, Charles Warren. N. H., 1812-1868. A journalist of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Fifty Years in a Printing Office; Rambles about Portsmouth.
Brewster, Chauncey Bunce. Ct., 1848- ——. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. Key of Life: Good Friday Addresses.
Brewster, Frederick Carroll. Pa., 1825-1898. A jurist of Philadelphia, attorney-general of his state in 1869. Equity Practice in Pennsylvania; Treatise on Practice in the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas; Molière in Outline; Life and Novels of Benjamin Disraeli.
Bridge, Horatio. Me., 1806-1893. A United States naval officer. Journal of an African Cruiser.
Bridge, Norman. Vt., 1844- ——. A physician long resident in Chicago, but more recently in Pasadena, California. The Penalties of Taste and Other Essays; The Rewards of Taste; Lectures on Tuberculosis. S.
Bridgman, Elijah Cole. Ms., 1801-1861. A missionary to China. Chrestomathy in Canton Dialect, the first practical manual of that dialect prepared in China.
Bridgman, Frederic Arthur. Al., 1847- ——. A noted painter of Oriental subjects. Winters in Algeria; Anarchy in Art; The Idol and the Ideal.
Bridgman, Marcus Fayette. Vt., 1824-1899. A physician and verse-writer of Boston. Mosaics; Under the Pine; Tales at the Manse.
Briggs, LeBaron Russell. Ms., 1855- ——. A professor of English at Harvard University from 1885, dean of the University from 1891, and president of Radcliffe College from 1903. Original Charades; School, College, and Character; Routine and Ideals. Hou. Scr.
Brigham, Gershom Nelson. Vt., 1820-1886. A homœopathic physician of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Catarrhal Diseases; Pulmonary Consumption; Harvest Moon, a volume of verse.
Brigham, Mrs. Sarah J—— [Lathbury]. N. Y., 1835- ——. A writer and illustrator for children. The Pleasant Land of Play; Under Blue Skies.
Brigham, Sarah Prentice. Ms., 1833- ——. A writer for young people. Alice Field; The Stolen Gold Piece; The Forged Letter and Other Stories.
Brimmer, Martin. Ms., 1829-1896. A once prominent citizen of Boston. Egypt: Three Essays on the History, Religion, and Art of Ancient Egypt. Hou.
Brine, Mrs. Mary D[ow] [Northam]. N. Y., 18— - ——. A popular New York city writer of juvenile and other works, mainly in verse, among which Grandma’s Attic Treasures is best known. Others are Grandma’s Memories; Aunt Patience; The Mother’s Song; From Gold to Gray; Bessie and Bee; Bessie the Cash Girl; My Boy and I. Cas. Dut. Meth.
Briscoe, Margaret Sutton. See Hopkins, Mrs. Margaret.
Bristol, Frank Milton. N. Y., 1851- ——. A Methodist clergyman, long prominent in Chicago. Providential Epochs; The Ministry of Art; Shakespeare and America.
Brittan, Harriette G——. 1823-1897. A missionary in India. Scenes and Incidents of Every-day Life in Africa; Kardoo, the Hindoo girl; Shoshie, the Indian Zenana Teacher; A Woman’s Talks about India.
Brocklesby, John. E., 1811-1889. An educator, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Trinity College, 1842-73, and of astronomy and natural philosophy, 1873-84. Elements of Meteorology; Views of the Microscopic World; Elements of Physical Geography; The Amateur Microscopist.
Bronson, Walter Cochrane. Ms., 1862- ——. A professor of literature at Brown University from 1892. A Short History of American Literature. He.
Brooks, Francis. Tn., 1867-1898. Margins; Complete Poems.
Brooks, Fred Emerson. N. Y., 1850- ——. A popular writer of humorous verse. Pickett’s Charge and Other Poems; Old Ace and Other Poems.
Brooks, Geraldine. Pa., 1875- ——. Daughter of E. S. Brooks (page 38). A writer of New York city. Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days; Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic; Romances of Colonial Days. Cr.
Brooks, Henry S——. E., 183- - ——. A littérateur of New York city. The California Mountaineer; Doña Paula’s Treasure; A Catastrophe in Bohemia, and Other Stories.
Brooks, Hildegard. Sxy., 1875- ——. A novelist of Newburgh, New York. Without a Warrant; The Master of Caxton; Daughters of Desperation. Scr.
Brooks, John Graham. N. H., 1846- ——. A noted lecturer on economics, residing in Cambridge. The Social Unrest. Mac.
Brower, Jacob Vradenburg. Mch., 1844- ——. A Minnesota explorer. The Mississippi River and its Utmost Source; Prehistoric Man at the Head Waters of the Mississippi; The Missouri River and its Sources; Quivira; Harakey; Mille Lac; Minnesota: Discovery of its Area, 1541-1665.
Brown, Abbie Farwell. Ms., 18— - ——. A Boston writer for young people. A Pocketful of Posies; In the Days of Giants; The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts; The Lonesomest Doll; The Curious Book of Birds; The Flower Princess. Hou.
Brown, Calvin Smith. Tn., 1866- ——. An instructor in English in Rutgers College from 1901. The Later English Drama.
Brown, Charles Reynolds. W. Va., 1862- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Oakland, California. Two Parables; The Main Points. Rev.
Brown, Elmer Ellsworth. N. Y., 1861- ——. A professor of education in the University of California. The Making of Our Middle Schools. Lgs.
Brown, Ernest William. E., 1866- ——. A professor of applied mathematics at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. Treatise on the Lunar Theory. Mac.
Brown, Glenn. Va., 1854- ——. An architect of Washington city. Treatise on Water Closets; Healthy Foundations for Houses; History of the United States Capitol; European and Japanese Gardens.
Brown, Howard Nicholson. N. Y., 1849- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, rector of King’s Chapel from 1895. The Spiritual Life; Sunday Stories; Sermons in King’s Chapel.
Brown, Hubert William. 18— - ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, for many years a missionary in Mexico. Latin America. Rev.
Brown, John Howard. N. Y., 1840- ——. A Boston writer who has edited the Cyclopædia of American Biography. American Naval Heroes.
Brown, John Newton. Ct., 1803-1868. A Baptist clergyman who edited an Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge and was the author of Memorials of Baptist Martyrs; Poems; The New Hampshire Confession.
Brown, Joseph Brownlee. S. C., 1824-1888. A thinker of transcendental tendencies, best remembered by his short poem, The Cry of the Ten Thousand.
Brown, Katherine Louise. Ms., 1857- ——. An educator of Boston. Little People; The Plant Baby and its Friends; Alice and Tom.
Brown, Marshall Stewart. N. H., 1870- ——. A professor of history and political science in New York University. Epoch-Making Papers in United States History; History of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Brown, Moses True. N. H., 1827-1900. An elocutionist, long resident in Boston. The Synthetic Philosophy of Expression. Hou.
Brown, Ray. Ct., 1865- ——. An illustrator of New York city. Book of Child’s Songs; Stage Lyrics; American Ships and Sailors. Do.
Brown, Solyman. Ct., 1790-1876. A Swedenborgian minister of New York city. Essay on American Poetry (1814); Dentologia; Dental Hygeia.
Brown, William Adams. N. Y., 1865- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of systematic theology in Union Theological Seminary from 1898. Musical Instruments and Their Homes; The Essence of Christianity. Do. Scr.
Brown, William Garrott. Al., 1868- ——. A librarian of Cambridge. A Short Life of Andrew Jackson; a similar Life of Stephen A. Douglas; The Lower South in American History; A History of Alabama; A Gentleman of the South; The Foe of Compromise, and Other Essays; The History of the United States since the Civil War; Selden: a Memory of the Black Belt; Golf. Hou. Mac.
Brown, William Montgomery. O., 1855- ——. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Arkansas. The Church for Americans. Wh.
Browne, Causten. D. C., 1828- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Treatise on the Construction of the Statute of Frauds. Lit.
Browne, George Waldo. N. H., 1851- ——. A writer for young people who has published under his own name, A Daughter of Maryland; The Young Gunbearer; Two American Boys in Hawaii; The Hero of the Hills; The Paradise of the Pacific; The Hawaiian Islands; The Pearl of the Orient; The Philippine Islands, and other works; and under the pseudonym “Victor Saint Clair,” For Home and Honor; Zip the Acrobat; Break o’ Day Boys, and other juveniles. Est. Pa.
Brownson, Henry Francis. Ms., 1835- ——. Son of O. A. Brownson (page 41). A lawyer of Detroit who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. He is the author of a Life of Orestes A. Brownson; Equality and Democracy; Faith and Science; and of a translation of Balme’s Fundamental Philosophy.
Bruce, Henry [Goodnow]. 18— - ——. An historical writer. James Edward Oglethorpe and the Founding of the Georgia Colony; Samuel Houston and the Annexation of Texas. Do.
Bruce, Philip Alexander. Va., 1856- ——. An historical writer of Richmond, Virginia. The Plantation Negro as a Freeman; The Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century; Short History of the United States. Am. Mac. Put.
Bruce, Saunders Dewees. Ky., 1825-1902. A New York journalist, editor of Turf, Field, and Farm from 1866. The American Stud Book; Horse-Breeder’s Guide; The Thoroughbred Horse.
Brush, George Jarvis. L. I., 1831- ——. A mineralogist, professor of metallurgy in the Scientific School of Yale University. A Manual of Determinative Mineralogy.
Bryan, William Jennings. Il., 1860- ——. A noted politician of Lincoln, Nebraska, prominent in 1896 and 1900 as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. The First Battle: a Story of the Campaign of 1896.
Bryant, Anna Burnham. N. H., 186- - ——. A writer of juvenile books, among which are Fussbudgett’s Folks; Wellspring Series; Holly Berry Series; The Christmas Cat.
Buck, Albert Henry. N. Y., 1842- ——. Son of Gurdon Buck (page 42). A New York physician. Diseases of the Ear; Vest-pocket Medical Dictionary.
Buck, Jirah Dewey. N. Y., 1838- ——. A homœopathic physician of Cincinnati. A Study of Man; Mystic Masonry; Paracelsus and Other Essays; Nature and Aim of Theosophy; Why I Am a Theosophist. Clke.
Buckalew, Charles Rollin. Pa., 1821-1899. A prominent United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Proportional Representation; An Examination of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
Buckham, James. Vt., 1858- ——. The Heart of Life, a book of verse; Where Town and Country Meet.
Buehler, Huber Gray. Pa., 1864- ——. An educator at Lakeville, Connecticut. Practical Exercises in English; Modern English Grammar.
Buel, Clarence Clough. N. Y., 1856- ——. An assistant editor of the Century Magazine. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.
Buel, James William. Il., 1849- ——. An author of Philadelphia. Russian Nihilism and Exile Life in Siberia; The World’s Wonders; Sea and Land; The Beautiful Story; The Living World; The Story of Man; Heroes of the Dark Continent; America’s Wonderlands; The Magic City; Buel’s Manual of Self-Help; Beautiful Paris; The Great Operas; Great Achievements of the Century; Hero Tales.
Buell, Augustus C——. N. Y., 1846-1904. A civil engineer of note. Paul Jones, a biography; Life of William Penn; History of Andrew Jackson; Sir William Johnson. Ap. Scr.
Buell, Marcus Darius. N. Y., 1851- ——. A Methodist theologian, professor at Boston University from 1884. Studies in the Greek Text of the Gospel of Saint Mark.
Bugg, Lelia Hardin. Mo., 18— - ——. A Roman Catholic writer of Wichita, Kansas. The People of Our Parish; The Correct Thing for Catholics; Orchids, a novel; The Prodigal’s Daughter; A Lady. Mar.
Bulkeley, Lucius Duncan. N. Y., 1845- ——. A physician of New York city. Analysis of Eight Thousand Cases of Skin Diseases; Acne and its Treatment; Syphilis in the Innocent; Manual of Diseases of the Skin; Eczema and its Treatment.
Bull, Charles Stedman. N. Y., 1846- ——. A noted oculist. Choroditis Following Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Influenza of the Fifth Nerve in Iritis and Choroditis; Symptomatology and Pathology of Intercranial Tumours.
Bull, Mrs. Sara Chapman [Thorp]. 1850- ——. In 1870 she was married to Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist, and in 1882 she wrote his life. Hou.
Bullock, Charles Jesse. Ms., 1869- ——. An assistant professor in economics at Harvard University. Introduction to the Study of Economics; Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789; Essay on the Monetary History of the United States. Mac.
Bumpus, Hermon Carey. Me., 1862- ——. A professor of comparative anatomy in Brown University from 1892. A Laboratory Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy.
Buntline, Ned. See Judson, Edward (page 214).
Burdick, Francis Marion. N. Y., 1845- ——. A professor of law at Columbia University from 1891. Cases on Torts; Cases on Sales; The Law of Sales; Cases on Partnership; The Law of Partnership. Lit.
Burgess, [Frank] Gelett. Ms., 1866- ——. A humorous writer of Boston, editor of The Lark at San Francisco, 1895-97, and subsequently of other humorous periodicals. Viviette, or the Memoirs of the Romance Association; Goop Babies: a Manual of Instruction for Polite Infants; The Lively City o’ Ligg; The Burgess Nonsense Book; A Gage of Youth; The Picaroons (with T. Irwin); The Reign of Queen Isyl. Cent. Dou. Scr. Sm. Sto.
Burkett, Charles William. O., 1873- ——. A professor of agriculture in the New Hampshire Agricultural College. History of Ohio Agriculture; Feeding Farm Animals; Agriculture for Beginners (joint author). Gi.
Burnham, Benjamin Franklin. Vt., 1831- ——. A Boston jurist. Leading in Law and Curious in Court; The Life of Lives; Elsmere Elsewhere; Records of Jesus Reviewed.
Burnham, Sarah Maria. Vt., 1818-1901. An educator who taught in the schools of Cambridge, 1843-79. The Struggles of the Nations; Pleasant Memories of Foreign Travel; Roman Stories in the Time of Claudius I.; Precious Stones in Natural History and Literature; The History and Uses of Limestones and Marbles; Biographical Sketches of Some Ancient People.
Burr, William Henry. N. Y., 1819- ——. A stenographer of Washington city. Self-Contradictions of the Bible; Revelations of Antichrist.
Burrell, David James. Pa., 1849- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. The Religions of the World; Hints and Helps; The Gospel of Gladness; The Morning Cometh; The Religion of the Future; The Early Church; The Wondrous Cross; God and the People; The Spirit of the Age; For Christ’s Crown; The Golden Passional; The Unaccountable Man and Other Sermons; The Wonderful Teacher; The Church in the Fort; The Gospel of Certainty.
Burrill, Thomas Jonathan. Ms., 1839- ——. A naturalist, vice-president of the University of Illinois from 1882. The Bacteria; Uredinæ, or Parasitic Fungi of Illinois.
Burroughs, Stephen. N. H., 1765-1840. A once famous adventurer whose Memoirs of My Own Life (1811) were long popular. In his later years he was a successful and beloved educator in Canada.
Burton, Nathaniel Judson. Ct., 1824-1887. A Congregational clergyman whose son, R. E. Burton, is mentioned on page 46. In Pulpit and Parish: Yale Lectures on Preaching, and Other Writings. C. P. S.
Burton, Theodore Elijah. O., 1851- ——. A lawyer of Cleveland, member of Congress, 1889-91, and from 1895. Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression. Ap.
Busey, Samuel Clagett. Md., 1823- ——. A Washington physician. Acquired Forms; Lymph Channels; Reminiscences; A Souvenir; Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past.
Butler, Amos William. Ind., 1860- ——. A naturalist of Indianapolis. The Birds of Indiana.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin. N. H., 1818-1893. A noted lawyer and politician of Lowell, Massachusetts, major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. He published his Autobiography and Reminiscences in 1892.
Butler, Charles Henry. 1859- ——. Son of W. A. Butler (page 47). A lawyer of New York city. The Voice of the Nation; Our Relations with Spain; Freedom of Private Property on the Sea; Cuba Must be Free; Treaty-Making Power of the United States.
Butler, Howard Crosby. N. Y., 1872- ——. Scotland’s Ruined Abbeys; The Story of Athens; Architecture and Other Arts of Syria. Cas. Cent. Mac.
Butler, James Davie. Vt., 1815- ——. A Wisconsin educator, in earlier life a Congregational clergyman, who has published many monographs of antiquarian and historical interest.
Butler, William Morris. N. Y., 1850- ——. A physician of New York city. Home Care for the Insane.
Butler, William Orlando. Ky., 1791-1880. A soldier and politician. The Boatman’s Horn and Other Poems. See Life by Blair, 1848.
Butts, Edmund Luther. Min., 1868- ——. An army officer who has published a Manual of Physical Training for the United States Army. Ap.
Byford, Henry Turman. Ind., 1853- ——. A surgeon of Chicago. Manual of Gynecology; Diseases of Women (with W. H. Byford, page 48); American Text Book of Gynecology.
Byrne, Austin Thomas. Me., 1859- ——. A civil engineer. Highway Construction; Inspection of Materials and Workmanship Employed in Construction. Wil.
Byrne, William. I., 1836- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman, vicar-general of the archdiocese of Boston. Catholic Doctrine; Devout Manual.
Byrum, Enoch Edwin. Ind., 1861- ——. A clergyman of the Church of God denomination who has written The Secret of Salvation; Divine Healing; The Boy’s Companion; The Great Physician, and other works.
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Cabell, James Branch. Va., 1879- ——. A novelist who has published The Eagles of Shadow.
Cadwallader, Richard McCall. N. J., 1839- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Law of Ground Rents.
Caffin, Charles Henry. E., 1854- ——. Art critic of the New York Sun from 1901. American Masters of Painting; Photography as a Fine Art.
Caldwell, Joshua William. Tn., 1856- ——. A lawyer of Knoxville, Tennessee. Constitutional History of Tennessee; Bench and Bar of Tennessee.
Call, Annie Payson. Ms., 1853- ——. A teacher of nerve training. Power through Repose; As a Matter of Course. Lit.
Callahan, James Morton. Ind., 1864- ——. An historical lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. Neutrality of the American Lakes; Cuba and International Relations; American Relations in the Pacific and the Far East; Confederate Diplomacy; The American Expansion Policy; Introduction to American Foreign Policy; The United States and Canada. J. H. U.
Callender, Edward Belcher. Ms., 1851- ——. A Boston lawyer, author of Thaddeus Stevens, Commoner.
Callender, Guy Stevens. O., 1865- ——. An historical writer who published English Capital and American Resources in 1815-1860.
Cameron, Archibald. S., 1771-1836. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kentucky. The Faithful Steward; An Appeal to the Scriptures; A Defence of the Doctrines of Grace; A Reply to Some Arminian Questions in Divine Predestination.
Campbell, Floy. Mo., 1873- ——. Camp Arcady, a story for girls.
Campbell, James M——. S., 1840- ——. A Congregational clergyman at Lombard, Illinois. Clerical Types; Unto the Uttermost; The Indwelling Christ; After Pentecost—What?; Bible Questions. Fu. Rev.
Campbell, John. S., 1839- ——. A Brooklyn physician. The Land of Burns.
Campbell, John Lorne. Ont., 1845- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Cambridge, pastor of the Central Square Baptist Church. Heavenly Recognition and Other Sermons; Sanctification.
Campbell, John Tenbrook. Ind., 1833- ——. An Indiana civil engineer. National Finances; Labour Reform.
Candee, Helen Churchill. L. I., 1861- ——. A novelist and journalist of New York city. An Oklahoma Romance; How Women May Earn a Living; Susan Truslow; Not on the Flag. Mac.
Canfield, James Hulme. O., 1847- ——. An educator, president of Ohio State University, 1895-99, and librarian of Columbia University from 1899. Taxation; a Plain Talk for Plain People; Short History of Kansas; Local Government in Kansas; The College Student and his Problems. Mac.
Cannon, George Lyman. N. Y., 1860- ——. An educator of Denver. The Geology of Denver; Quarternary of the Platte Valley; Nature Studies about Denver.
Capps, Edward. Il., 1866- ——. A professor of Greek at the University of Chicago from 1892. From Homer to Theocritus. Scr.
Carhart, Henry Smith. N. Y., 1844- ——. A professor of physics at the University of Michigan from 1886. Primary Batteries; Elements of Physics; University Physics; Electrical Measurements.
Carpenter, Frank Oliver. Ms., 1858- ——. An educator of Boston. French Grammar for High Schools; Guide Book to the Franconia Notch.
Carpenter, George Rice. Labrador, 1863- ——. A professor of rhetoric in Columbia University from 1893. Life of John Greenleaf Whittier; Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition; Principles of English Grammar; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a brief biography; The Teaching of English. Hou. Lip. Mac. Sm.
Carpenter, Rolla Clinton. Mch., 1852- ——. A professor of engineering at Cornell University. Experimental Engineering; Heating and Ventilating Buildings: an elementary treatise. Wil.
Carpenter, William. E., 1830-1896. An eccentric English printer and stenographer who removed from England to Baltimore in 1879. He strenuously advocated the theory that the earth is flat, revolving on a central axis with the sun stationary over the centre. Among his various writings are, The Earth not a Globe, by Common Sense; Sir Isaac Newton’s Theoretical Astronomy Examined and Refuted by Common Sense; Water not Convex; Proctor’s Planet Earth; Something about Spiritualism.
Carpenter, William Henry. E., 1813-1899. A miscellaneous writer of Baltimore, who had resided in the United States for nearly seventy years. With T. S. Arthur (page 12), he wrote a series of state histories including History of Massachusetts; History of Georgia (1853); History of New Jersey (1858); History of Vermont (1853). Among his other works are Ruth Eversley; The Betrothed Maiden; the Regicide Daughter.
Carroll, John Joseph. I., 1856- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Chicago, of prominence as a Gaelic scholar. Notes and Observations on the Aryan Race and Tongue; Pre-Christian Occupation of Ireland by the Gaelic Aryans; Tale of the Wanderings of the Red Lance.
Carruth, Frances Weston. Ms., 1867- ——. A New York writer. Those Dale Girls; The Way of Belinda; Fictional Rambles in and about Boston. Mg.
Carruth, Fred Hayden. Min., 1862- ——. A journalist of Poughkeepsie. The Adventures of Jones; The Voyage of the Rattletrap; Mr. Milo Bush and Other Worthies; Handbook of Golf for Bears. Har.
Carryl, Guy Wetmore. N. Y., 1873-1904. Son of C. E. Carryl (page 53). A littérateur of Boston. Fables for the Frivolous; Mother Goose for Grown-ups; Grimm Tales Made Gay; Zut, and Other Parisians; The Lieutenant Governor; Far from the Madding Girls; The Transgression of Andrew Vane. The Garden of Years (verse). Har. Ho. Hou.
Carson, Hampton Lawrence. Pa., 1852- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Law of Criminal Conspiracy; History of the Supreme Court of the United States; History of the Centennial Celebration of the Framing of the United States Constitution.
Carson, William Henry. N. Y., 1859- ——. A novelist of New York city. Hester Blaire; The Fool; Tito.
Carter, James Coolidge. Ms., 1827- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Codification of Our Common Law.
Carus, Paul. E., 1852- ——. A philosophical writer of Chicago, editor of The Open Court. The Ethical Problem; Fundamental Problems; The Soul of Man; Primer of Philosophy; Truth in Fiction; Monism and Meliorism; The Religion of Science; Science, a Religious Revelation; The Gospel of Buddhism; Karma; A Story of Early Buddhism; Nirvana; Homilies of Science; The Idea of God; Buddhism and its Christian Critics; The Dawn of a New Era, and Other Essays; The Soul of Man; Whence and Whither?; Kant and Spencer; Eros and Psyche; History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil; The Chief’s Daughter; Godward.
Caruthers, Eli Washington. N. C., 1793-1865. A Presbyterian clergyman of Allamance, North Carolina. Life of David Caldwell; Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Character, chiefly in the Old North State.
Carver, Jonathan. Ct., 1732-1780. A traveller who made very important explorations in the region now known as Minnesota, and died in London in great poverty. Travels through the Interior Parts of North America in 1766-68; Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant. Under his name was published The New Universal Traveller. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 9; Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution; J. G. Gregory’s Jonathan Carver (1896).
Cary, Elizabeth Luther. L. I., 1867- ——. A literary critic of Brooklyn. Browning: Poet and Man; Tennyson: his Homes, his Friends and his Work; The Rossettis; William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poet and Thinker. Put.
Case, Mary Emily. N. Y., 1857- ——. An educator, professor of Latin at Wells College, Aurora, New York, from 1883. The Lore of the World. Cent.
Case, William Scoville. Ct., 1863- ——. A jurist of Hartford. Forward House. Scr.
Caskoden, Edwin. See Major, Charles.
Casler, John Overton. Va., 1838- ——. A Confederate officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a justice of the peace in Oklahoma City. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade; Lillian Stuart, a romance.
Castagnier, Georges. F., 1850- ——. An educator of New York city. Handbook of Greek and Roman History; Le Duc de Reichstadt. Am.
Cate, Eliza Jane. N. H., 1812-1884. A once popular New England writer. Lights and Shadows of Factory Life; Rural Scenes in New England.
Cathell, Daniel Webster. Md., 1839- ——. A physician of Baltimore. The Physician Himself.
Catlin, Henry Guy. Vt., 1843- ——. A mining engineer of New York city who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. Beside professional articles he has published Yellow Pine Basin, a novel. Sm.
Catlin, Mrs. Louise [Ensign]. N. Y., 1861- ——. A writer of Brooklyn. Marjory and Her Neighbours. Lo.
Caughey, James. I., c. 1810-1892. A noted revivalist. Methodism in Earnest; Revival Miscellanies; Earnest Christianity; Glimpses of Soul Saving.
Cavazza, Mrs. See Pullen.
Caverly, Abiel Moses. Vt., 1817-1879. A physician of Pittsburg, Vermont, who wrote and published a valuable history of that town.
Caverly, Robert Boodey. N. H., 1806-1887. A lawyer and author of Lowell. Genealogy of the Caverly Family; Epics, Lyrics and Ballads; Legends: Historic, Dramatic and Comic; History of the Indian Wars of New England; Heroism of Hannah Dustin; Battle of the Bush; The Merrimac and its Incidents.
Challen, James. N. J., 1802-18—. A once prominent clergyman of the Campbellite church, long resident in Cincinnati. The Gospel and its Elements; Christian Evidences; Baptism in Spirit and in Fire; Christian Morals; Frank Elliot; The Cave of Machpelah and Other Poems; Igdrasyl, or the Tree of Existence; The Island of the Giant Fairies.
Chamberlain, Alexander Francis. E., 1865- ——. An educator, lecturer on anthropology in Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1892. Modern Languages and Classics; Report on the Kootenay Indians; Language of the Mississaga Indians; The Mythology of the Columbian Discovery; The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought; The Child: a Study in the Evolution of Man. Mac.
Chamberlain, Henry Richardson. Il., 1859- ——. A journalist, London correspondent of the New York Sun from 1892. Six Thousand Tons of Gold.
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence. Me., 1828- ——. A governor of Maine, 1867-71, and president of Bowdoin College, 1871-83. Maine: her Place in History, Sovereignty and Sacrifice; The Two Souls; American Ideals; The New Nation; Ethics and Politics of the Spanish Question.
Chamberlain, Mellen. N. H., 1821-1900. A former librarian of the Boston Public Library. John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution, with Other Addresses. Hou.
Chamberlain, Montagu. N. B., 1844- ——. An ornithologist of Cambridge. Catalogue of Birds of New Brunswick; Catalogue of Mammals of New Brunswick; Catalogue of Birds of Canada; Systematic Table of Birds of Canada; Birds of Field and Grove. Hou.
Chambre, Albert Saint John. 18— - ——. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of Saint Anne’s Church, Lowell. Sermons on the Apostles’ Creed. Wh.
Chancellor, Eustathius. Va., 1854- ——. A physician who has published Researches upon Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Woman in the Social Sphere; Correlation of Physical and Vital Forces; The Pacific Slope and its Scenery.
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh. L. I., 1873- ——. A professor of literature in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Romances of Roguery: an Episode in the History of the Novel. Mac.
Chandler, Joseph Ripley. Ms., 1792-1880. A Philadelphia journalist and member of Congress. A Grammar of the English Language; The Pilgrims of the Rock; Civil and Religious Equality; Outlines of Penology.
Chanler, William Astor. N. Y., 1867- ——. A writer of New York city; elected to Congress in 1898. Through Jungle and Deserts: Travels in Eastern Africa. Mac.
Channing, Blanche Mary. E., 1863-1902. Daughter of W. H. Channing (page 57). A writer for young people. She came from England in 1890, and resided in Brookline, Massachusetts. Zodiac Stories; Winifred West; The Balaster Boys. Lullaby Castle and Other Poems. We.
Channing, Grace Ellery. See Stetson, Mrs. Grace.
Chapin, Charles Value. R. I., 1856- ——. A physician, health officer of Providence. Municipal Sanitation in the United States.
Chapman, Frank Michler. N. J., 1864- ——. A well-known ornithologist, assistant curator of the department of ornithology and mammalogy in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America; Bird-Life: a Guide to the Study of our Common Birds; Bird Studies with a Camera. Ap.
Chapman, John Abney. S. C., 1821- ——. A South Carolina author. The Walk, and Other Poems; Within the Veil; Annals of Newberry; History of South Carolina; Poems for Young and Old.
Chapman, John Jay. N. Y., 1862- ——. Grandson of John Jay, 2d (page 208). A lawyer of New York city. Emerson, and Other Essays; Causes and Consequences; Practical Agitation. Scr.
Chapple, Joseph Mitchell. Ia., 1867- ——. A Boston novelist, editor of the National Magazine. The Minor Chord; Boss Burt, Politician. Scr.
Charles, Frances. Cal., 1872- ——. In the Country God Forgot, an Arizona tale; The Siege of Youth. Lit.
Chase, Mrs. Jessie [Anderson]. O., 1865- ——. A writer of Brookline, Massachusetts. Sixty Composition Topics; A Study of English Words; Three Freshmen; Mayken. Am. Mg. Sil.
Cheney, Charles Edward. N. Y., 1836- ——. A bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, consecrated in 1873, and rector of Christ Church, Chicago, from 1860. The Evangelical Ideal of a Visible Church; A Word to Old-Fashioned Episcopalians; The Prayer which God Denied, and Other Sermons; Enlistment of the Christian Soldier; A King of France Unnamed in History.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. O., 1858- ——. A Cleveland lawyer and author, of African descent. The Conjure Woman; Frederick Douglass, a brief biography; The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories; The Marrow of Tradition; The House Behind the Cedars. Hou. Sm.
Cheyney, Edward Potts. Pa., 1861- ——. A professor of European history in the University of Pennsylvania. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England.
Child, Frank Samuel. N. Y., 1854- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Fairfield, Connecticut, known as a lecturer on historical subjects. The Boyhood of Beecher; Be Strong to Hope; The Friendship of Jesus; An Old New England Town; The Colonial Parson of New England; A Colonial Witch; A Puritan Wooing; The House with Sixty Closets; An Unknown Patriot; Friend or Foe, a Tale of the War of 1812; Little Dreamer’s Adventure. Ba. Hou. Le. Scr.
Childs, Thomas Spencer. Ms., 1825- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington city, but for many years prior to 1890 in the Presbyterian ministry. The Heritage of Peace; The Lost Faith; Difficulties of the Scriptures Tested by the Laws of Evidence; Christian Unity and Church Unity.
Chittenden, Hiram Martin. N. Y., 1858- ——. An engineer in the United States army, now (1904) Chief Engineer of the Fourth Army Corps. Beside many valuable professional papers he has published The Yellowstone National Park; The American Fur Trade of the Far West. Clke.
Chittenden, William Lawrence. N. J., 1862- ——. A ranchman in Texas. Ranch Verses. Put.
Christopher, E—— Earl. Tn., 1872- ——. The Invisibles, a novel.
Christy, David. O., 1802-18—. A miscellaneous writer, whose Cotton is King, or Slavery in the Light of Political Economy (1855) was once famous. Other works of his are Letters on the Geology of the West and South West; Chemistry of Agriculture; Lectures on Colonization; History of Missions in Africa; Elements of Slavery; Billy McConnell, the Witch Doctor; Pulpit Politics.
Chubb, Percival. E., 1860- ——. A New York educator and lecturer. The Teaching of English. Mac.
Church, William Conant. N. Y., 1836- ——. Son of P. Church (page 62). A journalist of New York city. Life of John Ericsson; Life of Ulysses S. Grant. Put.
Churchill, Winston. Mo., 1871- ——. A popular novelist who has published The Celebrity; Richard Carvel; The Crisis; Mrs. Keegan’s Elopement. Mac.
Claghorn, Kate Holladay. Il., 1863- ——. A New York writer who has published College Training for Women. Cr.
Clapp, Henry Austin. Ms., 1841-1904. A dramatic critic of Boston, for many years clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court. The Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic. Hou.
Clark, Frederick Thickstun. “Frederick Thickstun.” Pa., 1858- ——. A novelist of Denver, Colorado, whose stories deal with phases of Western life. A Mexican Girl; In the Valley of Havilah; On Cloud Mountain; The Mistress of the Ranch. Har. Hou.