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A dictionary of American authors

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Franklin, Thomas Levering. Pa., 1820-1899. An Episcopal clergyman of western New York, and more recently of Philadelphia. His writings include an important work on The Creed, and several tractates on Divorce.

Frazer, Persifor. Pa., 1844- ——. A distinguished geologist attached to the State geological survey of Pennsylvania who has published Tables for the Determination of Minerals; The Geology of Lancaster County. Lip.

Frederic, Harold. N. Y., 1856-1898. A novelist and journalist who served as the London correspondent of the New York Times from 1884. The scenes of several of his novels are placed in small American communities. Marsena, and Other Stories; The Copperhead; The Lawton Girl; In the Valley; Seth’s Brother’s Wife; The Damnation of Theron Ware; March Hares. Ap. Scr. St.

Fredet, Peter. F., 1801-1856. A Roman Catholic priest who came from France to America in 1831, and was professor in St. Mary’s Seminary at Baltimore from that date until his death. Ancient History; Modern History; Original Texts and Translations of the Bible; Treatise on the Eucharistic Mystery; Lay Baptism; Inspiration and Canon of Scripture; Interpretation of Scripture; Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation; Necessity of Baptism; Effect of Baptism.

Freedley, Edwin Troxell. Pa., 1827- ——. A Philadelphia writer and compiler of books of useful information, but of small literary value. The Business Man’s Legal Adviser; Leading Pursuits of Leading Men; Philadelphia and its Manufactures; Opportunities for Industry; History of American Manufactures; Common Sense in Business; Home Comforts. Lip.

Freeman, Barnardus. G., 1660-1743. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Long Island who came to America in 1700 and was especially noted for his influence over the Indians. De Spizel der Self Kennis (Mirror of Self-Knowledge); De Weegshale der Gerade Gods (Balance of God’s Grace).

Freeman, Frederick. Ms., 1800-1883. An Episcopal clergyman and educator who was a Presbyterian minister in the earlier portion of his career. History of Cape Cod; Annals of Barnstable County; Freeman Genealogy; Civilization and Barbarism illustrated by Especial Reference to Metacomet and the Extinction of his Race.

Freeman, James. Ms., 1759-1835. The first clergyman in the United States to bear the name Unitarian. While a lay reader at King’s Chapel in Boston, in 1782, he became a Unitarian in his views, and was ordained in 1787 minister of that church, the members of which adopted Mr. Freeman’s theology as their own, and he continued in that office until his death. The oldest Episcopal church in New England thus became the first Unitarian church in America. Mr. Freeman’s Sermons and Charges were published in 1832.

Freeman, James Midwinter. “Robert Ranger.” N. Y., 1827-1900. A Methodist clergyman of New York city who published many books for children under the pseudonym “Robert Ranger.” Other works of his include Illustration in Sunday-School Teaching; Handbook of Bible Manners and Customs; Short History of the English Bible; Book of Books. Meth.

Freeman, Samuel. Me., 1743-1831. A jurist of Portland, Maine. The Massachusetts Justice; Probate Directory; The Town Officer. See Bibliography of Maine.

Frémont, Mrs. Jessie [Benton]. Va., 1824-1902. Wife of J. C. Frémont, infra, and daughter of T. H. Benton, supra. A resident of Los Angeles. The Story of the Guard, a Chronicle of the War; A Year of American Travel; Souvenirs of My Time; Sketch of Senator Benton; Far West Sketches; Will and the Way Stories. Lo.

Frémont, John Charles. Ga., 1813-1890. A famous soldier and politician who in 1856 was the first Republican candidate for the presidency, and served during the Civil War as a major-general in the Federal army. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1842, and to Oregon and Northern California in 1843-44; Frémont’s Explorations; Memoirs of My Life. See Appleton’s American Biography; Lives by J. Bigelow, supra, C. Upham.

French, Alice. “Octave Thanet.” Ms., 1850- ——. A writer of novels and short stories whose home has been in Davenport, Iowa, and also in Arkansas. Knitters in the Sun; Otto the Knight, and other Trans-Mississippi Stories; Stories of a Western Town; An Adventure in Photography; Expiation. Hou. Scr.

French, Benjamin Franklin. Va., 1799-1877. A writer of New Orleans and subsequently of New York city. Biographia Americana; Memoirs of Eminent Female Writers; Historical Collections of Louisiana; History of the Iron Trade in the United States; Historical Annals of North America.

French, Henry Willard. Ct., 1853- ——. A lecturer and miscellaneous writer of Boston. Art and Artists in Connecticut; Our Boys in China; Our Boys in India; Through Arctics and Tropics; Gems of Genius; Nuna the Brahmin Girl; Lance of Kehama; Oscar Peterson; Colonel Thorndike’s Adventures; and the novels, The Only One; Castle Foam; Ego. Le. Lo.

French, John William. Ct., 1809-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington, 1842-56, and from the latter date till his death professor of ethics at West Point. He was the author of a work on Practical Ethics.

French, Mrs. L. Virginia [Smith]. Va., 1830-1881. A writer and educator of Memphis. Wind Whispers, a collection of poems; Legend of the South; Iztalixo, a Tragedy; My Roses, the Romance of a June Day.

French, William Henry. Md., 1815-1881. An officer who served in the army of the United States during the Mexican, Seminole, and Civil wars. His only published work is a manual of Instruction for Field Artillery.

Freneau [frē-nō´], Philip. N. Y., 1752-1832. A journalist of New York city who, during the Revolution, produced much patriotic verse that was very effective as well as popular, though none of it is marked by any high degree of excellence. Poems of Philip Freneau, written chiefly during the Late War (1786); Poems Written between the Years 1768 and 1794; Poems Written and Published during the American Revolution; Collection of Poems on American Affairs. Among his prose writings are, The Philosopher of the Forest; Essays by Robert Slender. See American Literatures by Hart, Nichol, and Richardson. Cr.

Frey, Albert Romer. N. Y., 1858- ——. A writer of New York city upon Shakesperean and dramatic topics, who has also published a work upon Sobriquets and Nicknames. Hou.

Frey, Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick. G., 1773-1850. A clergyman of Jewish descent who became a Christian in 1798, and, after coming to America in 1816, was for some ten years a Presbyterian minister and subsequently a Baptist preacher, especially active as a missionary to the Jews. Narrative of My Life: Hebrew Bible; Hebrew Grammar; Judah and Israel; Joseph and Benjamin; The Passover; Scripture Types.

Frieze, Henry Simmons. Ms., 1817-1889. A professor of Latin in the University of Michigan from 1854 until his death. He published editions of Quintilian and Virgil’s Æneid, and was the author of The Story of Giovanni Dupré.

Frisbie, Levi. Ct., 1748-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who published Sermons and Orations.

Frisbie, Levi. Ms., 1783-1822. Son of L. Frisbie, supra. A tutor and professor at Harvard College from 1805 till his death. Miscellaneous Writings of Professor Frisbie, edited with Memoir by Andrews Norton, infra, appeared in 1823.

Fritschel, Gottfried Leonhard Wilhelm. G., 1836-1889. A Lutheran clergyman who came from Germany to the United States in 1857, and was a professor of theology in the seminary at Mendota, Illinois, from that time. He published (in German) Meditations on the Passion of Christ; History of Protestant Missions among North American Indians in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Frost, John. Me., 1800-1859. An educator of Philadelphia who was a prolific writer and compiler of historical and other works of indifferent merit. Their number was very great, and the sale of some of them extensive. Among them are, Beauties of English History; Beauties of French History; Wild Scenes in a Hunter’s Life; Pioneer Mothers in the West; The Presidents of the United States; Pictorial History of the United States; History of the World. Har. Le.

Frothingham, Ellen. Ms., 1835-1902. Daughter of N. L. Frothingham, infra. A Bostonian who published several fine translations from Lessing (The Laocoön); Auerbach; Goethe (Hermann and Dorothea); Grillparzer (Sappho); “Marie-Herbert” (Poems of Therese).

Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon. Ms., 1793-1870. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston whose writing displays singular grace and refinement. Deism or Christianity; Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth; Metrical Pieces, Original and Translated.

Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. Ms., 1822-1895. Son of N. L. Frothingham, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views who resigned his charge in New York city in 1879, and returned to Boston the next year, devoting the remainder of his life to literary pursuits. He was at one period art critic for the New York Tribune. Stories from the Lips of the Teacher; Stories from the Old Testament; The Religion of Humanity; The Cradle of the Christ; Memoir of W. H. Channing, supra; The Safest Creed; Beliefs of the Unbelievers; Creed and Conduct; The Spirit of the New Faith; The Rising and the Setting Faith; Visions of the Future; Lives of Gerrit Smith, George Ripley, Theodore Parker; History of New England Transcendentalism; Boston Unitarianism; Recollections and Impressions. Hou. Put.

Frothingham, Richard. Ms., 1812-1880. A journalist and local historian of Charlestown, Massachusetts. History of the Siege of Boston; The Rise of the Republic; History of Charlestown; Life of General Joseph Warren; The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Lit.

Frothingham, Washington. N. Y., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany. Atheos, or Tragedies of Unbelief; The Martel Papers: Scenes in the Reign of Terror.

Fry, James Barnet. Il., 1827-1894. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who was retired from active service in 1881, and thereafter lived in New York city. Sketch of the Adjutant-General’s Department, 1775-1875; Historical and Legal Effects of Brevets in Great Britain and the United States from their Origin in 1692; Army Sacrifices; McDowell and Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run; Operations of the Army under Buell; New York and Conscription.

Fuller, Andrew S——. N. Y., 1828-1896. A horticultural writer and journalist of New York city, editor of Woodward’s Record of Horticulture. The Fruit Tree Culturist; The Grape Culturist; The Small Fruit Culturist; The Strawberry Culturist; Practical Forestry; The Propagation of Plants; The Nut Culturist.

Fuller, Anna. Ms., 1853- ——. A Boston novelist. Pratt Portraits; A Literary Courtship; Peak and Prairie; A Venetian June. Put.

Fuller, Edward. N. Y., 1860- ——. A Boston journalist, subsequently on the staff of the Providence Journal. The Complaining Millions of Men, a novel of social conditions in Boston.

Fuller, Henry Blake. Il., 1857- ——. A novelist of Chicago. The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani; The Chatelaine of La Trinité; The Cliff Dwellers; With the Procession; The Puppet-Booth, twelve one-act plays. Cent. Har.

Fuller, Hiram. Ms., c. 1815-1880. A journalist of New York city who at the outset of the Civil War supported the Confederate cause, and emigrated to England on that account. Subsequently he became an adventurer in Paris. The Groton Letters; Belle Brittan on a Tour; Sparks from a Locomotive; Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States.

Fuller, Margaret. See Ossoli.

Fuller, Richard. S. C., 1804-1876. A Baptist clergyman of Charleston, and subsequently of Baltimore. Argument on Baptist Close Communion; Sermons; Scriptural Baptism.

Fuller, Richard Frederick. Ms., 1821-1869. Brother of M. Fuller, supra. A lawyer of Boston who published Visions in Verse; Chaplain Fuller, a life of his brother Arthur.

Fuller, Samuel. N. Y., 1802-1895. An Episcopal clergyman, professor at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut. Confirmation, its Authority and Nature; The Revelation of St. John Self-Interpreted.

Fuller, Samuel Richard. Ms., 1850- ——. Son of S. Fuller, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts. Personality, a volume of Sermons. Hou.

Fullerton, George Stuart. E. I., 1859- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania. The Conception of the Infinite and the Solution of the Mathematical Antinomies, a psychological treatise; A Plain Argument for God. Lip.

Fullerton, William Morton. Ct., 1865- ——. A journalist in Boston for several years, and since 1890 a member of the Paris staff of the London Times. Cairo, a descriptive essay; Patriotism and Science, a collection of essays. Mac. Rob.

Fulton, John. S., 1834- ——. An Episcopal clergyman noted as an able exponent of canon law, and professor of that subject at the Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia. Letters on Christian Unity; Index Canonum; The Laws of Marriage; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church in the Confederate States; The Beautiful Land, a description of Palestine; The Chalcedonian Decree. Wh.

Fulton, Justin Dewey. N. Y., 1828-1901. A Baptist clergyman, prominent in Boston and Brooklyn for his continued and violent attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Element in American History; The True Woman; Show Your Colors, a story of Boston Life; The Way Out; Witnessing for the Truth, or the Overthrow of the Papacy; Rome in America, include the most of his work, which is of interest as an example of religious bigotry if for no other reason.

Furness, Mrs. Helen Kate [Rogers]. 1837-1883. Wife of H. H. Furness, infra. A Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia who published A Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare. Lip.

Furness, Horace Howard. Pa., 1833- ——. Son of W. H. Furness, infra. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia, widely known in the literary world for his scholarly and exhaustive variorum editions of King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and others of Shakespeare’s plays. Lip.

Furness, William Henry. Ms., 1802-1896. A Unitarian clergyman of Philadelphia, from 1825 to 1875 pastor of the Unitarian church in that city. A theologian of radical views, but reverent temper. The Unconscious Truth of the Four Gospels; Jesus and his Biographers; History of Jesus; Thoughts on the Life and Character of Jesus; The Story of the Resurrection Told Once More; The Power of Spirit; Discourses; The Veil Lifted and Jesus becoming Visible; Verses: Translations and Hymns; The Faith of Jesus; a much admired translation of Schiller’s Song of the Bell. See Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June, 1896. El. Lip.

Futhey, John Smith. Pa., 1820-1888. A lawyer and antiquarian of Eastern Pennsylvania. History of Chester County; Historical Collections of Chester County.

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Gage, Mrs. Frances Dana [Barker]. O., 1808-1884. A prominent advocate of woman-suffrage who lectured much on that subject as well as upon temperance and anti-slavery. Elsie Magoon, a temperance story; Poems; Gertie’s Sacrifice; Nightcaps, a Series of Books; Sparks Upward. She wrote much over the signature “Aunt Fanny.” Lip.

Gage, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn. N. Y., 1826-1898. A noted woman suffragist of Fayetteville, New York. Woman’s Rights Catechism; Woman as an Inventor; Woman, Church, and State; History of Woman Suffrage (with Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton). Ke.

Gage, Simon Henry. N. Y., 1851- ——. A physiologist who has been professor of physiology at Cornell University. The Microscope and Histology; Anatomical Technology (with B. G. Wilder, infra).

Gage, William Leonard. N. H. 1832-1889. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, 1868-84. Trinitarian Sermons to a Unitarian Congregation; Songs of War Time; Light in Darkness; Life of Carl Ritter; Studies in Bible Lands; Verses; The Home of God’s People; A Leisurely Journey; Palestine, Historic and Descriptive; The Salvation of Faust; a number of translations from the German. Lo.

Gallagher [găl´a-ḡer], William Davis. Pa., 1808-1894. A journalist of Cincinnati prominent in the early literary annals of the Ohio Valley, whose home in later years was near Louisville. Miami Woods and Other Poems; A Golden Wedding, and Other Poems; Erato (verse). See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America. Clke.

Gallatin, Albert. Sd., 1761-1849. A financier of distinction. He came to America from Switzerland in 1780, and was active in political affairs. He was secretary of the treasury under President Jefferson; an associate of Adams and Clay in negotiating the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain in 1815; minister to France 1816-23; subsequently minister to Great Britain. After his retirement from public life he became a banker in New York city. Considerations on the Currency and Banking System of the United States; Synopsis of the Indian Tribes; Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America; Peace with Mexico; War Expenses. His writings have been edited in six volumes by H. Adams, supra. See Lives by H. Adams, J. A. Stevens. Lip.

Gallaudet [găl-aw-dĕt´], Edward Miner. Ct., 1837- ——. Son of T. H. Gallaudet, infra. Popular Manual of International Law; Life of T. H. Gallaudet, infra.

Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins. Pa., 1787-1851. A celebrated educator of deaf-mutes, who was superintendent of the institution for deaf-mutes at Hartford, the first in the United States, 1817-30. Child’s Book of the Soul; The Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Sermons Preached to an English Congregation in Paris; Bible Stories for the Young. See Lives by H. Humphrey, E. M. Gallaudet.

Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine. Prince. Hd., 1770-1841. The son of the Russian ambassador to France, he came to America in 1792, was educated as a Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman Catholic colony of Loretto in Pennsylvania in 1803. Defence of Catholic Principles; Appeal to the Protestant Public; Six Letters of Advice; Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy Scripture. See Lives by Lemcke, Heyden, Brownson.

Galloway, Charles Betts. Mi., 1849- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. Methodism a Child of Providence; Aaron’s Rod in Public Morals.

Galloway, Joseph. Md., 1731-1803. A Philadelphia lawyer who was a noted loyalist, and went to England after the evacuation of the city by the English. Historical and Political Reflections on the American Rebellion; The Prophetic History of the Church of Rome.

Gallup, Joseph Adams. Ct., 1769-1849. A Vermont physician, professor in Vermont Medical College, which he founded. Epidemic Diseases in Vermont; Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine.

Gammell, William. Ms., 1812-1889. An educator of Rhode Island, professor at Brown University, 1835-64. Life of Roger Williams; History of American Baptist Missions.

Gannett, Ezra Stiles. Ms., 1801-1871. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence in Boston for many years, who published a great number of single sermons and addresses. See Memoir by W. C. Gannett.

Gannett, Henry. Me., 1846- ——. The chief topographer of the United States Geological Survey since 1882. Boundaries of the United States; The Building of a Nation; Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States; Results of Primary Triangulation; Manual of Topographical Methods; Geographic Dictionaries of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey.

Gannett, William Channing. 1840- ——. Son of E. S. Gannett, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis, and subsequently of Rochester, New York. A Year of Miracle, a poem in Four Sermons; Memoir of E. S. Gannett, supra; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with F. L. Hosmer). A. U. A. El. Rob.

Garden, Alexander. S., circa 1685-1750. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston remembered for his vigorous opposition to Whitefield. Six Letters to the Reverend George Whitefield; Two Sermons. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Garden, Alexander. S., 1728-1791. A botanical writer of Charleston for whom Linnæus named the genus Gardenia. He went to England as a loyalist in 1783, and became vice-president of the Royal Society.

Garden, Alexander. S. C., 1757-1829. Son of A. Garden, 2d. An officer in the American army during the Revolution. Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War (1822). See edition of 1865.

Gardener, Mrs. Helen. See Smart, Mrs.

Gardiner, Frederick. Me., 1822-1889. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1869. The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old and New Testament in their Mutual Relations; Aids to Scripture Study. Hou.

Gardner, Augustus Kinsley. Ms., 1812-1876. Son of S. J. Gardner, infra. A physician of New York city. The French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children, a Handbook for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; translation of Scanzoni’s Diseases of Females.

Gardner, Charles Kitchell. N. J., 1787-1869. A United States army officer who was postmaster of Washington in President Polk’s administration. Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; Permanent Designation of Companies, and lesser works.

Gardner, Dorsey. Pa., 1842-1894. A journalist of New York city who was one of the revisers of the Webster International Dictionary. Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo; Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.

Gardner, Eugene C. Ms., 1836- ——. An architect of Springfield, Massachusetts. Homes and All About Them; The House that Jill Built; Homes and How to Make Them; Illustrated Homes; Home Interiors; Common Sense in Church-Building; Town and Country School Buildings.

Gardner, Samuel Jackson. Ms., 1788-1864. A lawyer of Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, New Jersey, whose essays over the signature “Decius” were issued in book form with the title Autumn Leaves.

Garfield, James Abram. O., 1831-1881. The twentieth president of the United States. A statesman of Ohio, prominent as a general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and subsequently as a congressman till his elevation to the presidency. In July, 1881, he was mortally wounded by an assassin, and died in the September following. His Complete Works have been edited by B. A. Hinsdale, infra. See Appleton’s American Biography; Life by J. R. Gilmore, infra, 1880; Eulogy by G. F. Hoar.

Garland, Hamlin. Wis., 1860- ——. A novelist who was for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western States, in which the scenes of his realistic fictions are mainly laid. Main Travelled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly; Little Norsk. St.

Garland, Landon Cabell. Va., 1810-1895. A mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges, and published Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.

Garman, Samuel. Pa., 1846- ——. A naturalist of Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz Museum there. The Reptiles and Batrachians of North America; Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda. Clke.

Garnett, James Mercer. Va., 1840- ——. A professor of English literature at the University of Virginia since 1882. Translation of Beowulf; Anglo-Saxon Poems; Translations of Elene, Judith, Athelstan, and Byrhtnoth.

Garretson, James Edmund. “John Darby.” Del., 1828-1895. A physician of Philadelphia, dean of the dental college there from 1879. System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; 19th Century Common Sense. Lip.

Garrett, Alexander Charles. I., 1832- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Northern Texas. Historical Continuity, a series of Sketches on the Church. Wh.

Garrigues, Henry Jacques. Dk., 1831- ——. A Danish physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school of New York city. Gastro-Elytrotomy; Practical Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery.

Garrison, James Harney. Mo., 1842- ——. A clergyman and editor of religious journals. Heavenward Way; Alone With God.

Garrison, Joseph Fithian. N. J., 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of Camden, New Jersey, professor of canon law at the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School for some years. The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; The American Prayer Book.

Garrison, William Lloyd. Ms., 1805-1879. A very celebrated anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its existence. His uncompromising attitude roused the fiercest opposition in both North and South, and he was at one time dragged through the streets of Boston by a mob who intended to hang him for his newspaper utterances, but he fortunately lived to see the triumph of his ideas and the liberation of the slave. Thoughts on African Colonization; Sonnets and Other Poems. See Johnson’s Garrison and his Times; Life by his Sons.

Gath. See Townsend, G. A.

Gay, Ebenezer. Ms., 1696-1787. A Unitarian clergyman of Hingham from 1718 until his death. The Old Man’s Calendar, a sermon preached on his eighty-fifth birthday, went through several editions in America and England, and was translated into several continental languages.

Gay, Eben Howard. Ms., 1858- ——. Nephew of S. H. Gay, infra. A banker of Boston who has published A Treatise on Municipal Bonds.

Gay, Sydney Howard. Ms., 1814-1888. Great-grandson of E. Gay, supra. A journalist of New York and Chicago, during the Civil War the managing editor of the New York Tribune. Life of James Madison; Bryant and Gay’s Popular History of the United States, of which the preface only was the work of Mr. Bryant. Hou. Scr.

Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur. La., 1805-1895. A jurist of New Orleans, profoundly versed in the history of his State. Histoire de la Louisiane; Romance of the History of Louisiana; Colonial History of Louisiana; Louisiana as a French Colony; The Spanish Domination in Louisiana; Philip the Second, a Biography; Louisiana Supreme Court Reports; School for Politics, a drama; Fernando de Lemos, a novel; Aubert Dubayet, a sequel to the preceding; School for Politics, a Dramatic Novel.

Gayler, Charles. N. Y., 1820-1892. A dramatist of New York city among whose many plays are, The Gold Hunters; Taking the Chances; Fritz. Among his various novels are, The Romance of a Poor Young Man; Out of the Streets, both of which were dramatized by their author.

Gaylord, Glance. See Bradley, Warren.

Geer, George Jarvis. Ct., 1821-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, long rector of St. Timothy’s Church, New York city, and the author of The Conversion of St. Paul, a series of Discourses.

Gemünder, George. Wg., 1816-1899. A violin-maker who came to America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city, 1852. He published Progress in Violin-Making.

Genin, John Nicholas. N. Y., 1819-1878. A noted hatter of New York city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Ages.

Genth, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William. G., 1820-1893. A professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1872. Ammonia Cobalt Bases (with O. W. Gibbs, infra); Minerals of North Carolina; First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania.

Genung [je-nŭng´], John Franklin. N. Y., 1850- ——. A professor at Amherst College. A Study of In Memoriam; The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated translation of Job; Practical Elements of Rhetoric; The Study of Rhetoric in College Courses. Gi. Hou.

George, Henry. Pa., 1839-1897. A very widely known political economist of New York city whose radical views upon economic and social topics have met with much criticism both in America and Europe. Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish Land Question; The Land Question; Social Problems.

George, Nathan Dow. N. H., 1808-1896. A Methodist clergyman, long prominent in Maine, and subsequently in Massachusetts. An Examination of Universalism; Universalism Not of God; Materialism Anti-Scriptural; Annihilation Not of the Bible. Meth.

Gerard, James Watson. N. Y., 1822-1900. A lawyer of New York city. The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real Estate in New York City; Title of the Corporation and Others to the Streets, Wharves, Lands, and Franchises in New York City; The Peace of Utrecht; Aquarelles (verse); Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a collection of humourous verse. Put.

Gerhard, William Paul. G., 1854- ——. A sanitary engineer of New York city. Theatre Fires and Panics; Anlagen von Haus-Entwässerungen; Diagram for Sewer Calculations; House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing; Guide to General House Inspection; Domestic Sanitary Appliances; Prinzipien der Haus-Kanalization, include his principal writings. Wil.

Gerhard, William Wood. Pa., 1809-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Diagnosis of Chest Diseases; Spotted Fever; Fevers; Clinical Guide.

Gerhart [gair´hart], Emmanuel Vogel. Pa., 1817-1904. A German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, professor of theology in Franklin and Marshall College. Philosophy and Logic; Monograph of the Reformed Church; Child’s Heidelberg Catechism; Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Gerrish, Theodore. Me., 1846- ——. A clergyman of Portland, Maine. Army Life; Will Newton, the Young Volunteer; Life in the World’s Wonderland; The Blue and the Gray, an army history (with J. Hutchinson).

Gholson, William Yates. O., 1807-1870. An Ohio jurist who published Speeches on Payment of the Public Debt of the United States.

Gianque, Florien. O., 1843- ——. A Cincinnati lawyer of Swiss descent. Laws of Election in Ohio; Election and Naturalization Laws of the United States; Manual for Ohio Road Supervisors; Manual for Guardians and Trustees; Manual for Assignees, Insolvent Debtors, etc.; Laws of Ohio relating to Roads, Ditches, Bridges, and Water-Courses; Manual for Notaries, etc.; Appendix to Ohio Revised Statutes. Clke.

Gibbes [ḡĭbz], Robert Wilson. Ms., 1809-1866. A physician, educator, and journalist of Columbia, South Carolina. Monograph of the Squalidæ; Typhoid Pneumonia; Documentary History of South Carolina; Documentary History of the American Revolution.

Gibbon, John [Oliver]. Pa., 1827-1896. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War who published The Artillerist’s Manual.

Gibbons, Henry. Del., 1808-1848. Son of W. Gibbons, infra. A physician of San Francisco, professor in the Pacific Medical College who was the author of an anti-tobacco treatise, Tobacco and its Effects.

Gibbons, James. Md., 1834- ——. A cardinal of the Roman Catholic church since 1886. The Faith of Our Fathers; Our Christian Heritage; The Ambassador of Christ.

Gibbons, James Sloan. Del., 1810-1892. Son of W. Gibbons, infra. A prominent financier and philanthropist of New York city. He was a noted abolitionist, and was a pioneer in the movement for preserving the forests. The Banks of New York; The Public Debt of the United States. He wrote the popular war song, “We are Coming, Father Abraham.”

Gibbons, Mrs. Phœbe [Earle]. Pa., 1821-190-. An author of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Dutch, and Other Essays; French and Belgians. Lip.

Gibbons, William. Pa., 1781-1845. A philanthropist and scientist of Wilmington, Delaware. He wrote Truth Vindicated, a notably clear exposition of the principles of the Friends.

Gibbs, George. L. I., 1815-1873. A lawyer and antiquarian of New York city. The Judicial Chronicle; Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon; Comparative Vocabulary; Research relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America; Suggestions relating to Scientific Observation in Russian America.

Gibbs, Josiah Willard. Ms., 1790-1861. A philologist who was professor of sacred literature at Yale University, 1824-61. Philological Studies; New Latin Analyst; Teutonic Etymology.

Gibbs, Josiah Willard. Ct., 1839-1903. Son of J. W. Gibbs, supra. A professor of physics at Yale University, and the author of scientific papers and monographs.

Gibbs, [Oliver] Wolcott. N. Y., 1822-1903. Brother of G. Gibbs, supra. A chemist of distinction, Rumford professor at Harvard University, and author of scientific papers.

Gibson, Louis Henry. Ind., 1854- ——. An architect of Indianapolis. Beautiful Houses, a Study in Housebuilding; Convenient Houses; Gradual Reduction Milling; Artistic Houses at Moderate Cost. Cr.

Gibson, William. Md., 1788-1868. A once famous physician of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-55. Principles and Practice of Surgery; Rambles in Europe. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Gibson, William. Md., 1826-1887. A United States naval officer retired in 1879. Sailing Directions for the Kattegat, etc.; Poems of Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and Other Poems; a translation of the Miscellaneous Poems of Goethe. Le.

Gibson, William Hamilton. Ct., 1850-1896. An artist and author of New York city who has illustrated his own writings. The Complete American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways; Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Happy Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a Rambler’s Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms. See New England Magazine, February, 1897. Har.

Giddings, Franklin Henry. Ct., 1855- ——. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia University since 1891. Report on Profit Sharing; The Modern Distributive Process (with J. B. Clark); The Principles of Sociology. Mac.

Giddings, Joshua Reed. Pa., 1795-1864. A once noted anti-slavery statesman and congressman of Ohio. The Exiles of Florida; The Rebellion: its Authors and its Causes; Speeches in Congress; Essays of Pacificus. See Life by G. W. Julian, infra.

Gihon, Albert Leary. Pa., 1833-1901. A United States naval surgeon. Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene; Need of Sanitary Reform in Ship Life; Sanitary Commonplaces Applied to the Navy; Prevention of Venereal Disease by Legislation.

Gilbert, Benjamin. Pa., 1711-1780. A miller of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, who wrote on theological themes. Truth Defended; Discourses on Perfection; Further Discourses on Sin, Election, Reprobation, and Baptism.

Gilbert, Charles Henry. Il., 1859- ——. An ichthyologist, professor of zoölogy at Stanford University. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America (with D. S. Jordan).

Gilbert, David McConaughy. Pa., 1836- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Virginia. The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1776-1876; The Synod of Virginia; The Annihilation Theory Briefly Examined; Muhlenberg’s Ministry in Virginia.

Gilbert, Grove Karl. N. Y., 1843- ——. A geologist attached to the United States Geological Survey. Geology of the Henry Mountains; Topographical Features of Lake Shores; Geology of Nevada, Utah, etc.; Lake Bonneville.

Gilder, Richard Watson. N. J., 1844- ——. A writer of New York City well known both as a poet and as the editor of The Century Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner’s Monthly, he has been editor-in-chief since 1881. The New Day, The Poet and his Master, Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems; Five Books of Song (1894), include all of his collected poems up to the year of issue. Cent.

Gilder, William Henry. Pa., 1835-1900. Brother of R. W. Gilder, supra. An Arctic explorer. Schwatka’s Search; Ice Pack and Tundra. Scr.

Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau. S. C., 1831- ——. A professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University from 1876, and editor of the American Journal of Philology from its establishment. He is the author of Essays and Studies, and has published a Latin Grammar, and editions of Justin Martyr and the Odes of Pindar. Gi. Har.

Giles, Chauncey. Ms., 1813-1893. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Philadelphia, and of much prominence in his denomination. The Nature of Spirit; The Second Coming of our Lord; Perfect Prayer; Man as a Spiritual Being; The Incarnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The Magic Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and Other Stories; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Jerusalem; The Spiritual World; The Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stories. Lip.

Giles, Ella Augusta. Wis., 1851- ——. A writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel; Flowers of the Spirit (verse). See Bibliography of Wisconsin.

Giles, Henry. I., 1809-1882. A Unitarian minister of Liverpool, England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United States. Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations of Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; Lectures on the Irish, and Other Subjects. See Hart’s American Literature.

Gill, Theodore Nicholas. N. Y., 1837- ——. A naturalist, professor of zoölogy in the Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia. Arrangement of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangement of the Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the Families of Mammals; Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; Scientific and Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.

Gill, William Fearing. Ms., 1844- ——. The Martyred Church (verse); Home Recreations; Life of Poe.

Gill, William Ireland. 18— - ——. Evolution and Progress; Analytical Processes; Christian Conception and Experience.

Gillespie, George. S., 1683-1760. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Delaware. Treatise Against Deists and Free Thinkers; Letters to the Presbytery of New-York; Remarks upon Mr. George Whitefield.

Gillespie, William Mitchell. N. Y., 1816-1868. A professor of civil engineering at Union College, 1845-68. Rome as seen by a New Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher Surveying; Philosophy of Mathematics (from Comte). Ap.

Gillet, Ransom H——. N. Y., 1800-1876. A lawyer of Ogdensburg, New York. History of the Democratic Party; The Federal Government; Life of Silas Wright.

Gillett [jĭl-lĕt´], Ezra Hall. Ct., 1823-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of political economy in the University of New York from 1868. History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What Then? or the Soul’s To-Morrow; Ancient Cities and Empires. Scr.

Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Fidelia [Woolley]. N. Y., 1827- ——. A Universalist minister who published Pebbles from the Shore (verse); Editorials and Other Waifs.

Gillette, William Hooker. Ct., 1853- ——. An actor and playwright, among whose plays are Held by the Enemy; The Professor; Esmeralda; The Private Secretary.

Gilliss, James Melville. D. C., 1811-1865. An astronomer of distinction in charge of the naval observatory at Washington. United States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere; Observations at the Naval Observatory. Lip.

Gillmore, Quincy Adams. O., 1825-1888. A military engineer in charge of the Federal bombardment of Charleston in 1863. He was a major-general of volunteers in the Civil War, and a high authority on engineering matters. Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski; Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars; Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston; Compressive Strength, etc., of Building Stones of the United States.

Gilman, Arthur. Il., 1837- ——. An educator of Cambridge, and the organizer of Radcliffe College (long known as “the Harvard Annex”). First Steps in English Literature; Seven Historic Ages; First Steps in English History; History of the American People; Rome from the Earliest Times; Tales of the Pathfinders; Short Stories from the Dictionary; The Saracens; Colonization of America; The Discovery of America; The Making of the American Nation. He has also edited the Riverside Chaucer. Lo.

Gilman, Mrs. Caroline [Howard]. Ms., 1794-1888. Wife of S. Gilman, infra. A writer whose married life was passed in Charleston. Among her writings are included Recollections of a Southern Matron; Recollections of a New England Housekeeper; The Sibyl, or New Oracles from the Poets; Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Travelling in the United States; Ruth Raymond; Stories and Poems. Le.

Gilman, Chandler Robbins. O., 1802-1865. A physician of New York City, professor from 1841 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Legends of a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life of J. B. Beck, supra; The Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession; Tracts on Generation.

Gilman, Daniel Coit. Ct., 1831- ——. An educator of prominence, President of Johns Hopkins University from 1875. Our National Schools in Science; Life of James Monroe.

Gilman, Nicholas Paine. Il., 1849- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, formerly of Massachusetts, prominent as a writer upon economics and since 1895 professor of sociology at the Meadville Theological Seminary. Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee; The Laws of Daily Conduct; Socialism and the American Spirit. Hou.

Gilman, Samuel. Ms., 1791-1858. A Unitarian clergyman of Charleston, 1819-58. He published Memoirs of a New England Choir; The History of a Ray of Light; Pleasures and Pains of a Student’s Life; Contributions to Literature, and was the author of the noted college song, “Fair Harvard.”

Gilman, Mrs. Stella [Scott]. Al., 1844- ——. Wife of A. Gilman, supra. Mothers in Council.

Gilmer, George Rockingham. Ga., 1790-1859. A Georgia lawyer who was governor of his State, 1829-31, and three times a representative in Congress. The Georgians, an historical work (1855).

Gilmore, James Roberts. “Edmund Kirke.” Ms., 1823-1903. In earlier life a shipping merchant in New York city, but during and since the Civil War a journalist and miscellaneous writer. Among the Pines; My Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among the Guerillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder; The Advance Guard of Western Civilization. See Hart’s American Literature. Ap.

Gilmore, Joseph Henry. Ms., 1834- ——. A Baptist minister of Rochester, New York, professor of rhetoric in the University of Rochester since 1867. Outlines of the Art of Expression; Outlines of Logic; English Language and its Early Literature; English Literature; He Leadeth Me, and Other Poems.

Gilpin, Henry Dilwood. E., 1801-1860. Son of J. Gilpin, infra. A jurist of Pennsylvania who was attorney-general of the United States, 1840-41. He edited The Atlantic Souvenir, the first American literary annual, and published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; Opinions of the Attorneys-General. He also edited the Papers of President Madison in three volumes.

Gilpin, Joshua. Pa., 1765-1840. A Philadelphia writer who published Verses at the Fountain of Vaucluse; Farm of Virgil, and Other Poems; Memoir on a Canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware.

Girard, Charles. F., 1822-1895. A naturalist who came to the United States with Agassiz in 1847. Life in its Physical Aspects; Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; Herpetology of the Wilkes Expedition, are his more important publications. Lip.

Girardeau, John L. S. C., 1825-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina, professor of systematic theology in Columbia Theological Seminary from 1876. Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism Compared; The Will in its Theological Relations.

Gladden, Washington. Pa., 1836- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, of prominence as a writer upon social reforms. The Lord’s Prayers: Seven Homilies; The Christian League of Connecticut; Things New and Old; Amusements, their Uses and Abuses; Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the Hub to the Hudson; Being a Christian; Working-People and their Employers; The Christian Way; The Young Man and the Church; Applied Christianity; Parish Problems; Tools and the Man; Who Wrote the Bible?; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age; The Cosmopolis City Club; Burning Questions, a volume of sermons. Cent. Co. Hou.

Glazier, Willard. N. Y., 1841- ——. A captain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and the discoverer, in 1881, of the true source of the Mississippi River. Capture, Prison-Pen, and Escape; Three Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for the Union; Heroes of Three Wars; Peculiarities of Great Cities; Down the Great River. See Life by Owens, “Sword and Pen,” 1881.

Gleason, Mrs. Rachel Brooks. Vt., 1820- ——. A physician of Elmira, New York, for many years in charge of the Gleason Sanitarium. She has published Talks to My Patients.

Glisan, Rodney. Md., 1827- ——. A physician of Portland, Oregon, emeritus professor of obstetrics in Willamette University. Journal of Army Life; Modern Midwifery; Two Years in Europe.

Glyndon, Howard. See Searing, Mrs.

Gmeiner, John. Bv., 1847- ——. A Roman Catholic priest of Milwaukee, professor of homiletics in St. Francis de Sales Seminary. Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten; Sind wir den Weltende nahe?; Modern Scientific Views and Christian Doctrines Compared; The Spirits of Darkness and their Manifestations on Earth; The Church and the Various Nationalities in the United States.

Godfrey, Thomas. Pa., 1736-1763. A lieutenant in the colonial militia who possessed much poetic ability, and was the first dramatic author in America. The Court of Fancy; Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, with The Prince of Parthia, a Tragedy. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence. I., 1831-1902. A prominent journalist of New York city. He came to America in 1856. From 1865 to 1869 he was editor of The Nation, and, 1881-1899, of the Evening Post. Government; History of Hungary; Reflections and Comments; Problems of Democracy. Scr.

Godman, John D. Md., 1794-1830. A physician and naturalist of Cincinnati and New York. A man of great natural gifts whose career was one of failure and disappointment. Rambles of a Naturalist; American Natural History; Irregularities of Structure and Morbid Anatomy; Anatomical Investigations. See North American Review, January, 1835; Gross, Lives of Eminent American Physicians, 1861, and Autobiography, vol. 1.

Godwin, Parke. N. Y., 1816-1904. A journalist of New York city, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose writings he edited. He was long connected with the Evening Post, and was the editor of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 1853-55 and 1867-70. Pacific and Constructive Democracy; Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier; Vala, a mythological tale; Political Essays; History of France; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a collection of essays; Commemorative Addresses; Handbook of Universal Biography (edited). Har.

Goebel, Julius. G., 1857- ——. A philologist, professor at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. Ueber die Zukunft unseres Volkes in Amerika; Ueber Fragische Schuld und Sühne; Zur deutschen Frage in Amerika; Poetry in the Limburger Chronik.

Goff, Mrs. Harriet Newell [Kneeland]. N. Y., 1828- ——. A noted reformer of Brooklyn and elsewhere, prominent in the temperance, woman-suffrage, and other movements. Was it an Inheritance?; Who Cares?; Episodes in the Life of Mary Campbell.

Gooch, Mrs. Fannie. See Inglehart, Mrs.

Good, James Isaac. Pa., 1850- ——. A German Reformed clergyman and educator of Reading, Pennsylvania, professor in Ursinus Theological Seminary, 1890-93. Origin of the Reformed Church of Germany; Rambles Around Reformed Lands.

Goodale, Dora Reed. Ms., 1866- ——. Sister of Mrs. E. G. Eastman, supra, and author with her in their childhood of Verses from Sky-Farm; Apple Blossoms; In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers. She has contributed much verse to The Century and other periodicals, and has also published Heralds of Easter. Put.

Goodale, Elaine. See Eastman, Mrs. Elaine.

Goodale, George Lincoln. Me., 1839- ——. A botanist of prominence, professor of botany at Harvard University from 1878. The Wild Flowers of America; Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few Common Plants; Useful Plants of the Future. Wn.

Goode, George Brown. Ind., 1851-1896. An ichthyologist in the government service. Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas; Annual Resources of the United States; Game Fishes of the United States; Beginnings of Natural History in America; Britons, Saxons, and Virginians; American Fishes, a popular treatise; Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States; Oceanic Ichthyology (with T. H. Bean). Est.

Goodell, William. Malta, 1829-1894. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Lessons in Gynæcology.

Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor. Ct., 1869- ——. An architect of Boston whose border designs and initials for book illustration are of notable excellence. Mexican Memories.

Goodenow, John M. Ms., 1782-1838. An Ohio jurist who published American Jurisprudence in Contrast with the Doctrine of English Law.

Goodnow, Frank Johnson. L. I., 1859- ——. A professor of administrative law in Columbia University from 1884. Comparative Administrative Law; Municipal Home Rule. Mac.

Goodrich, Aaron. N. Y., 1807- ——. A Minnesota jurist, secretary of legation at Brussels 1861-68. He published A History of the So-called Christopher Columbus. Ap.

Goodrich, Charles Augustus. Ct., 1790-1862. Brother of S. G. Goodrich, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; History of the United States; View of Religions; Family Tourist; Great Events of American History; Outlines of Geography; Universal Traveller. He assisted his brother in the preparation of a number of works.

Goodrich, Chauncey Allen. Ct., 1790-1860. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Yale University, 1817-60. He published Greek and Latin Lessons; A Greek Grammar; was the editor and reviser of Webster’s Dictionary, and also edited Select British Eloquence, with careful critical notes. Har.

Goodrich, Frank Boot. “Dick Tinto.” Ms., 1826-1894. Son to S. G. Goodrich, infra. A dramatist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. The Court of Napoleon; Man upon the Sea; Tri-Colored Sketches of Paris; The Tribute Book; World-Famous Women; Women of Beauty and Heroism; History of Maritime Adventure. Lip.

Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. “Peter Parley.” Ct., 1793-1863. Brother of Charles A. Goodrich, supra. A once famous writer and compiler of Boston and New York. He published nearly two hundred volumes, mainly juvenile and educational, some of which achieved a wide popularity. Among them are, History of All Nations; Tales of Peter Parley about America; Recollections of a Lifetime, an autobiography. See Allibone’s Dictionary.

Goodwin, Daniel. N. Y., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. James Pitts and his Sons in the American Revolution; The Dearborns; The Lord’s Table; Provincial Pictures.

Goodwin, Daniel Raynes. Me., 1811-1890. An Episcopal clergyman who was a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and of much prominence as a Low Churchman. Southern Slavery in its Present Aspects; Christianity Neither Ascetic nor Fanatic; The Christian Ministry; Shall we Return to Rome?; The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; The New Ritualistic Divinity; Christian Eschatology. See Bibliography of Maine.

Goodwin, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth [Bradbury]. Ms., 1827-1893. A Boston writer for young people, among whose works are Madge; Christine’s Fortune; Dorothy Gray; Dr. Howells’s Family; Fortunes of Miss Follen. Ap.

Goodwin, Isaac. Ms., 1786-1832. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts, and the father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin, supra. History of the Town of Stirling; The Town Officer; The New England Sheriff.

Goodwin, John Abbott. Ms., 1824-1884. Son of I. Goodwin, supra. A Lowell writer who published The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans nor Persecutors; The Pilgrim Republic, an historical review of the Plymouth colony. Hou.

Goodwin, Mrs. Lavinia Stella [Tyler]. Vt., 1833- ——. The Mysterious Miner; The Little Helper; Little Folks’ Own. Le.

Goodwin, Mrs. Maud [Wilder]. N. Y., 1856- ——. An historical novelist of New York city. The Colonial Cavalier, or Southern Life before the Revolution; The Head of a Hundred; White Aprons, an historical romance; Dolly Madison, a biography. Lit. Scr.

Goodwin, Nathaniel. Ct., 1782-1855. A Hartford genealogist and probate judge. Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Goodwin, William Watson. Ms., 1831- ——. Nephew of I. Goodwin, supra. An eminent Greek scholar, Eliot professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1860. He has published Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb; A Greek Grammar. Gi.

Goodyear, William Henry. Ct., 1846- ——. An art educator of New York city, the son of the noted inventor, Charles Goodyear. Roman and Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the Lotus; Ancient and Modern History. Bar. Fl.

Gookin, Daniel. E., c. 1612-1687. A colonial writer of Massachusetts, the friend of John Eliot, the “Indian apostle,” and a man far in advance of the general sentiment of his time and country in regard to the treatment of the Indians. For the last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England. The first of these remained in manuscript until 1792, and the second until 1836. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Gordon, Adoniram Judson. N. H., 1836-1895. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon Church from 1869 until his death. Grace and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Missions; Ecce Venit. See Life of, by E. B. Gordon, 1896. Bap. Rev.

Gordon, Archibald D. I., 1848-1895. A dramatic critic and playwright of New York city. The Ugly Duckling; Is Marriage a Failure?; That Girl from Mexico, are among his plays.

Gordon, Armistead Churchill. Va., 1855- ——. A lawyer of Staunton, Virginia, co-author with T. N. Page, infra, of a volume of verse entitled Befo’ the War; Echoes in Negro Dialect; Congressional Currency. Put.

Gordon, Clarence. “Vieux Moustache.” N. Y., 1835- ——. A writer of Newburg, New York. His writings, intended for juvenile reading, include Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in One; Boarding-School Days.

Gordon, George Angier. S., 1853- ——. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church from 1884. The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy, and Life; Immortality and the New Theodicy. Hou.

Gordon, George Henry. Ms., 1823-1886. A lawyer of Boston who served as a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion; Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. Hou.

Gordon, Julien. See Cruger, Mrs. Julia.

Gordon, M. Lafayette. Pa., 1843-1900. A Congregational clergyman and physician, formerly a missionary to Japan, and subsequently a professor in Dōshisha University, Kyōto. An American Missionary in Japan. Hou.

Gordon, Thomas F——. Pa., 1787-1866. A Philadelphia lawyer and antiquarian. Digest of the Laws of the United States; History of Pennsylvania to 1776; History of New Jersey to 1789; History of America; Cabinet of American History; History of Ancient Mexico; Gazetteers of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Gordon, William Robert. N. Y., 1811-1896. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York and New Jersey. Supreme Godhead of Christ; Particular Providence, A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The Peril of our Ship of State; Revealed Truth Impregnable; The Reformed Church in America; Christocracy (with J. T. Demarest, supra), include his principal writings.

Gore, James Howard. Va., 1856- ——. A professor of mathematics in Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia. Geodesy; Elements of Geodesy; and several annotated editions of German works for college study. Gi. Hou. Wil.

Gorgas, Ferdinand James Samuel. Va., 1834- ——. A Baltimore dentist, professor in the College of Dental Surgery from 1860. Lectures on Dental Science and Therapeutics; Dental Materia Medica.

Gorrie, Peter Douglas. S., 1813-1884. A Methodist clergyman of New York. Churches and Sects in the United States; Episcopal Methodism as it Was and Is; Lives of Eminent Methodists.

Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch. W. I., 1841-1885. A United States naval officer who superintended the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to New York, and after leaving the navy engaged in shipbuilding. His only publication is a work on Egyptian Obelisks.

Gorton, David Allyn. N. Y., 1832- ——. Descendant of S. Gorton, infra. A physician of Brooklyn. The Monism of Man, or the Unity of the Divine and Human; The Principles of Mental Hygiene; The Drift of Medical Philosophy; Neurasthenia. Put.

Gorton, Samuell. E., 1592-1677. The founder of a small sect sometimes called “Nothingarians,” which survived him for about a century. Simplicitie’s Defence against Seven Headed Policy; An Incorruptible Key composed of the CX. Psalm; Saltmarsh Returned from the Dead; An Antidote Against the Common Plague of the World; Certain Copies of Letters. See Life of, by L. G. Janes, 1896; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

Goss, Warren Lee. Ms., 1838- ——. A writer of Norwich, Connecticut, and more recently of Rutherford, New Jersey. The Soldier’s Story of the Captivity at Andersonville; Jack Alden; Tom Clifton; Jed; Recollections of a Private. Cr. Le.

Gouge, William M——. Pa., 1796-1863. A financial writer, for thirty years in the Treasury Department at Washington. History of the American Banking System (1835); Expediency of Dispensing with Bank Paper; Fiscal History of Texas.

Gough [gŏf], John Bartholomew. E., 1817-1886. A celebrated temperance lecturer. He came to America in 1829, fell into habits of dissipation, but reformed and signed the pledge in 1842. Entering into the temperance movement as a lecturer, he soon rose to fame. Autobiography (1846); Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or Gleanings from my Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; Platform Echoes. See Life, by Carlos Martyn, infra.

Gould [goold], Augustus Addison. N. H., 1805-1866. Son of N. D. Gould, infra. A conchologist of Boston. System of Natural History; Mollusca and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of the North Pacific Expedition; The Invertebrata of Massachusetts.

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. Ms., 1787-1859. An educator of Massachusetts who published The Prize Book; Adam’s Latin Grammar; and editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. Ms., 1824-1896. Son of B. A. Gould, supra. A distinguished astronomer, from 1868-1885 director of the Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova, and subsequently a resident of Cambridge. Uranometry of the Southern Heavens; Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey.

Gould, Edward Sherman. Ct., 1808-1885. Son of J. Gould, infra. A merchant and author of New York city. The Sleep Rider; The Very Age, a comedy; John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New York life; Classified Elocution; Good English.

Gould, Ezra Palmer. Ms., 1841-1900. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of New Testament literature in the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School. Commentary on Corinthians; Notes on the Lessons of 1885.

Gould, Hannah Flagg. Vt., 1789-1865. Sister of B. A. Gould, 1st, supra. A verse-writer of Newburyport whose work was simple in conception but not unpleasing. The Snow Flake and the Frost still find a place in anthologies, and afford a fair example of her style. Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth’s Coronal; Mother’s Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and selected; Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. See North American Review, October, 1835.

Gould, James. Ct., 1770-1836. A jurist of Connecticut who published The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions.

Gould, John W.[4] Ct., 1814-1838. Son of J. Gould, supra. Forecastle Yarns; Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro.

Gould, Nathaniel Duren. Ms., 1781-1864. A musician and penman of Boston who published A History of Church Music.

Goulding, Francis Robert. Ga., 1810-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman of Georgia whose Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, a tale for boys, has long been popular. Other works of his include Marooner’s Island; Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little Josephine; Cousin Aleck; Adventures among the Indians; Boy Life on the Water. Do.

Gouley, John William Severin. La., 1832- ——. A physician, professor in the University of New York. External Perineal Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary Organs; Diseases of Man. Ap.

Graebner, August Lawrence. Mch., 1849- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at St. Louis from 1887. Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America; Life of John Sebastian Bach.

Grafton, Charles Chapman. Ms., 1832- ——. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac, and, prior to his consecration in 1889, rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Vocation, or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister’s Life.

Graham, David. E., 1808-1852. A lawyer of New York city. Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; Courts of Law and Equity in New York State.

Graham, John Andrew. Ct., 1764-1841. A lawyer of Rutland, Vermont. Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont (1797); Speeches; Memoirs of Horne Tooke.

Graham, Mrs. Margaret [Collier]. Ia., 1850- ——. A California writer who has published Stories of the Foot-Hills. Hou.

Graham, Sylvester. Ct., 1794-1851. A once well-known vegetarian and lecturer upon temperance. He advocated the use of unbolted wheat, since called Graham flour. Lectures on the Science of Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; Philosophy of Sacred History.

Grahame, Nellie. See Dunning, Mrs.

Granbery, John Cowper. Va., 1829- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South who published a Bible Dictionary.

Grant, Asahel. N. Y., 1807-1844. A physician who was a missionary in Persia. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. See Memoir, 1847; Grant and the Nestorians, 1853.

Grant, Robert. Ms., 1852- ——. A lawyer of Boston well known as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He has written several satirical works, including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle; and the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face to Face; The Bachelor’s Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are, The Art of Living; The Oldest School in America. Hou. Scr.

Grant, Ulysses Simpson. O., 1822-1885. The eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War as lieutenant, and in the Civil War as major-general, 1861-64, and subsequently became lieutenant-general in command of the entire army. Report of the Armies of the United States; Personal Memoirs. See Military Life of, by A. Badeau, supra; Life by J. G. Wilson; Appleton’s American Biography. Cent.

Gratacap, Louis Pope. N. Y., 1850- ——. A naturalist connected with the American Museum of Natural History in New York city who has published Philosophy of Ritualism, or Apologia Pro Ritu.

Graves, Mrs. Adelia Cleopatra [Spencer]. “Aunt Alice.” O., 1821-1895. An educator of Tennessee. Life of Columbus; Poems for Children; Seclusarval, or the Arts of Romanism; Jephtha’s Daughter, a drama.

Graves, James Robinson. Vt., 1820-1896. Brother-in-law of Mrs. A. C. Graves, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Nashville, prominent as a controversialist. The Great Iron Wheel, or Republicanism Backward; The Little Iron Wheel; The Intermediate State; Old Landmarks; Intercommunion of Churches; The Redemptive Work of Christ; The New Great Iron Wheel; Denominational Sermons; Parables and Prophecies of Christ.

Gray, Albert Zabriskie. N. Y., 1840-1889. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, warden of Racine College, Wisconsin, 1882-88. Racine and her Labour of Love; The Land and the Life; Jesus Only, and Other Devotional Poems; Mexico as it Is. Ran.

Gray, Asa. N. Y., 1810-1888. An eminent botanist of Cambridge, and one of the highest authorities in his department. He was professor at Harvard University 1842-88, and was in charge of the botanical garden at Cambridge. Elements of Botany, now called Structural and Systematic Botany; How Plants Grow; A Free Examination of Darwin’s “Origin of Species;” Darwiniana; Natural Science and Religion; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States; Synoptical Flora of North America; How Plants Behave; Field, Forest, and Garden Botany; Lessons in Botany; School and Field Book of Botany; Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition (1854); Scientific Papers selected by C. S. Sargent. See Letters of, edited by Mrs. Gray. Am. Ap.

Gray, Barry. See Coffin, R. B.

Gray, David. S., 1836-1888. A journalist of Buffalo, on the editorial staff of The Courier, 1856-82. See Letters, Poems, and Selected Writings.

Gray, Elisha. O., 1835-1901. An electrician and inventor who published Experimental Researches in Electric Harmonic Telegraphy.

Gray, Francis Calley. Ms., 1790-1856. A Boston lawyer prominent as an enlightened patron of arts and education who published a work on Prison Discipline.

Gray, George Seaman. N. Y., 1835-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman who, after retiring from the ministry, engaged in business in Cincinnati. Eight Studies of the Lord’s Day. Hou.

Gray, George Zabriskie. N. Y., 1838-1889. Brother of A. Z. Gray, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the Theological School, 1876-89, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Scripture Doctrine of Recognition; The Children’s Crusade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Century; Husband and Wife; The Church’s Certain Faith. Hou. Wh.

Gray, John Chipman. Ms., 1839- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Royall professor of law at Harvard University from 1883. Restraints on the Alienation of Property; Rule against Perpetuities; Select Cases. Lit.

Graydon, Alexander. Pa., 1752-1818. A citizen of Harrisburg who published Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years (1811), a lively, entertaining autobiography.

Graydon, William. Pa., 1759-1840. Brother of A. Graydon, supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg. Digest of the Laws of the United States; Justice and Constable’s Assistant; Forms of Conveyancing.

Grayson, William John. S. C., 1788-1863. A South Carolina statesman. Chicora, and Other Poems; The Hireling and Slave, a poem; The Country, a poem; Life of James Petigru. Har.

Greeley, Horace. N. H., 1811-1872. A famous journalist of New York city, founder and editor of The Tribune. In 1872 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency. For a generation he was one of the most influential leaders of American public opinion. Letters from Texas; Glances at Europe; Essays in Political Economy; What I Know About Farming; The American Conflict; Recollections of a Busy Life. See Lives by Parton, 1868; Reavis, Ingersoll; Appleton’s American Biography.

Greely, Adolphus Washington. Ms., 1844- ——. An arctic explorer in the United States service. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, and was thus at the head of the Weather Bureau until its transfer to the Department of Agriculture in 1891. Three Years of Arctic Service; American Weather; Handbook of Arctic Discoveries; Explorers and Travellers. Do. Rob. Scr.

Green, Alexander Little Page. Tn., 1806-1874. A Methodist clergyman of Nashville who was the author of The Church in the Wilderness.

Green, Anna Katharine. See Rohlfs, Mrs.

Green, Ashbel. N. J., 1762-1848. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1812-22. Sermons from 1790 to 1836; Sermons on the Assembly’s Catechism; History of Presbyterian Missions. See Autobiography and Memoir by J. H. Jones, 1849. Ran.

Green, Beriah. Ct., 1795-1874. A reformer and anti-slavery leader of Ohio and New York. History of the Quakers; Sermons and Discourses.

Green, Duff. Ga., 1780-1875. A Washington lawyer and journalist. Facts and Suggestions; How to Pay off the National Debt.

Green, Francis Matthews. Ms., 1835-1902. A United States naval commander. The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes; List of Geographical Positions.

Green, George Walton. N. Y., 1854-1903. A New York city lawyer and politician. Repudiation.

Green, Horace. Vt., 1802-1866. A physician of New York city, president of the New York Medical College, 1850-60. Diseases of the Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment of Croup; Surgical Treatment of the Polypi of the Larynx; Report of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases.

Green, Jacob. Pa., 1790-1841. Son of Ashbel Green, supra. A Philadelphia scientist who was professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College. Chemical Diagrams; Chemical Philosophy; Astronomical Recreations; Trilobites; The Botany of the United States; Notes of a Traveller; Diseases of the Skin.

Green, Joseph. Ms., 1706-1780. A Boston loyalist, widely known in his day for his political lampoons and his ready wit. He went to England in 1775, and never returned. The Wonderful Lament of Old Mr. Tanner; Poems and Satires. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American Literature.

Green, Mrs. Julia [Boynton]. N. Y., 1861- ——. A verse-writer of Rochester, New York, who has published Lines and Interlines.

Green, Rufus Smith. N. Y., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian minister, president of Elmira College for Women since 1893. History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; Both Sides, or Jonathan and Absalom.

Green, Samuel Abbott. Ms., 1830- ——. A physician and antiquarian of Boston. Groton during the Indian Wars; History of Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series.

Green, Seth. N. Y., 1817-1888. A noted pisciculturist, from 1870 until his death the superintendent of the New York Fish Commission. Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; Fish Hatching and Fish Catching.

Green, William Henry. N. J., 1825-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature at Princeton College from 1851. The Pentateuch Vindicated; Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argument of Job Unfolded; Moses and the Prophets; Newton Lectures for 1885; The Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch; The Unity of the Book of Genesis. Scr. Wil.

Green, William Mercer. N. C., 1798-1887. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. His only publications were Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft and Bishop Otey.

Greene, Aella. Ms., 1838-1903. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts. Rhymes of Yankee Land; Into the Sunshine, and Other Poems; Stanza and Sequel, and Other Poems; John Peters; Gathered from Life.

Greene, Albert Gorton. R. I., 1802-1868. A lawyer of Providence who is chiefly remembered for his humourous poem, Old Grimes. He published Canonchet.

Greene, Asa. Ms., 1788-1837. A bookseller of New York city of note among his contemporaries as a humourist. Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth; Perils of Pearl Street; A Yankee Among the Nullifiers; A Glance at New York; Debtor’s Prison; Travels of Ex-Barber Fribbleton in America.

Greene, Belle C. See Greene, Mrs. Isabella.

Greene, Charles Ezra. Ms., 1842-1903. A professor of civil engineering in the University of Michigan from 1872. Graphical Method for Analysis of Bridge Trusses; Trusses and Arches; Notes on Rankine’s Civil Engineering. Wil.

Greene, Charles Warren. Ms., 1840- ——. Nephew of S. S. Greene, infra. A Massachusetts physician who has written upon natural science. Animals, their Homes and Habits; Birds, their Homes and Habits.

Greene, Edward Lee. R. I., 1843- ——. A professor of botany in the University of California. Illustrations of West American Oaks; Flora Franciscanæ.

Greene, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple]. See McDougal, Mrs.

Greene, Francis Vinton. R. I., 1850-1900. A captain in the United States army who resigned in 1886. The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78; Sketches of Army Life in Texas; The Mississippi, a military work; Life of General Greene. Ap. Scr.

Greene, George Washington. R. I., 1811-1883. An historian who was professor of American history at Cornell University from 1872. Historical Studies; The German Element in the American War of Independence; Short History of Rhode Island; Historical View of the American Revolution; Life of General Nathanael Greene; Biographical Studies; History and Geography of the Middle Ages. Hou.

Greene, Homer. Pa., 1853- ——. A story-writer of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The Blind Brother; Burnham Breaker; Coal and the Coal Mines; The Riverpark Rebellion. Cr. Hou.

Greene, Mrs. Isabella Catherine [Colton]. Vt., 1844- ——. A novelist and writer for young people, long a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire. A New England Conscience; Adventures of an Old Maid; A New England Idyl; The Hobbledehoy. Lo.

Greene, Nathaniel. N. H., 1797-1877. A Boston journalist, postmaster of Boston 1829-40 and 1845-49. He published a translation of Sforzosi’s History of Italy; Tales from the German; Tales and Sketches from the German, Italian, and French.

Greene, Samuel Stillman. Ms., 1810-1883. An educator of Providence, professor at Brown University, 1851-83, who published Analysis of the English Language and several text-books on English Grammar.

Greene, Mrs. Sarah Pratt [McLean]. Ct., 1858- ——. A writer whose first novel, Cape Cod Folks, was widely popular, while the fact that certain of the dramatis personæ were portraits of living people gave rise to much litigation. Her other works include Towhead; Some Other Folks; Peter Patrick; Vesty of the Basins; Flood Tide. Har.

Greene, William Batchelder. Ms., 1819-1878. Son of N. Greene, supra. In early life a member of the noted Brook Farm Community. He was subsequently a Unitarian minister, and during the Civil War served as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. Remarks on the Science of History; Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc., Fragments; Reflections and Modern Maxims. Put.

Greene, William Houston. Pa., 1854- ——. A Philadelphia chemist, professor in the Central High School from 1880. Medical Chemistry; Lessons in Chemistry. Lip.

Greenhow, Robert. Va., 1800-1854. A surgeon and scholar whose latest years were spent in California. History of Tripoli; History of Oregon and California (1846).

Greenleaf, Benjamin. Ms., 1786-1864. An educator of Bradford, Massachusetts, who published a popular series of text-books on arithmetic and the higher mathematics.

Greenleaf, Jonathan. Ms., 1785-1865. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn. Sketches of Ecclesiastical History of Maine; History of New York Churches; Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.

Greenleaf, Moses. Ms., 1788-1834. Brother of J. Greenleaf, supra. Statistical View of Maine (1816); Survey of Maine (1829).

Greenleaf, Simon. Ms., 1783-1853. Brother of B. Greenleaf, supra. A distinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and professor of law at Harvard University from 1835 till his death. His greatest work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, has passed into fifteen editions. His other writings include Origin and Principles of Freemasonry; Full Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31; Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. See Bibliography of Maine.

Greenough [green´o], Henry. Ms., 1807-1883. An architect of Cambridge whose writings include the novels Ernest Carroll; Apelles and his Contemporaries, and various essays on art.

Greenough, James Bradstreet. Me., 1833-1901. A professor of Latin at Harvard University from 1873, who published with J. H. Allen, supra, a series of classical text-books. Other works of his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic Fantasia. Gi.

Greenough, Mrs. Richard. See Greenough, Mrs. Sarah.

Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana [Loring]. 1827-1885. The wife of the noted sculptor Richard Greenough. In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law; Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; Mary Magdalene, and Other Poems. Rob.

Greenwald, Emanuel. Md., 1811-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Order of Family Prayer; The Lutheran Reformation; The Baptism of Children; Meditations for Passion Week; Romanism and the Reformation; The True Church; Meditations for the Closet, include the most of his controversial and other writings. See Life by Haupt, 1889.

Greenwood, Francis William Pitt. Ms., 1797-1843. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of King’s Chapel, 1824-43. History of King’s Chapel; Sermons to Children; Sermons of Consolation; Sermons on Various Subjects; Essays; Lives of the Apostles; Miscellaneous Writings. A. U. A.

Greenwood, Grace. See Lippincott, Mrs. Sarah.

Greenwood, James Mickleborough. Il., 1836- ——. An educator and school superintendent of Kansas City who has published Principles of Education Practically Applied. Ap.

Greer, David Hummell. W. Va., 1844- ——. Protestant Episcopal bishop-coadjutor of New York from 1904. The Preacher and his Place; From Things to God; Visions. Scr. Wh.

Greey [gree], Edward. E., 1835-1888. An English writer of French descent who came to America in 1868, and was for many years a dealer in Japanese curios in New York city. His writings include the dramas, Vendome, and Mirah; Blue Jackets, a novel; The Golden Lotus; the juvenile tales Young Americans in Japan; The Wonderful City of Tokio; The Bear Worshippers of Yezo; and translations from the Japanese of the novels, The Loyal Ronins; The Captive of Love. Le.

Gregg, Alexander. S. C., 1819-1893. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Texas. History of the Old Cheraws, an Account of the Indian Tribes in the Valley of the Pedee.

Gregory, Daniel Seeley. N. Y., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Lake Forest University, Illinois, 1878-86. Christian Ethics; Why Four Gospels; Practical Logic; The Tests of Philosophic Systems; Christ’s Trumpet Call to the Ministry. Fu.

Gregory, John Milton. N. Y., 1822-1898. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Michigan and Illinois. Handbook of History; New Political Economy; The Seven Laws of Teaching.

Greylock, Godfrey. See Smith, J. E. A.

Griffin, Edward Dorr. Ct., 1777-1837. A Congregational clergyman of Boston and elsewhere who was president of Williams College, 1821-36. Lectures in Park Street Church, Boston; Sixty Sermons on Practical Subjects. See Recollections of, by P. Cooke, 1856.

Griffin, George. Ct., 1778-1860. Brother of E. D. Griffin, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Sufferings of Our Saviour; Evidences of Christianity; The Gospel its Own Evidence.

Griffin, Gilderoy Wells. Ky., 1840-1891. A journalist who was a consul in Australia and elsewhere. Studies in Literature; Danish Days; Visit to Stratford; New Zealand, her Commerce and Resources; Life of George Prentice, infra.

Griffin, Solomon Bulkley. Ms., 1852- ——. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has published Mexico of To-Day (1886). Har.

Griffis, William Elliot. Pa., 1843- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, pastor at Schenectady 1877-86, in charge of the Shawmut Congregational Church in Boston 1886-92, and subsequently settled at Ithaca, New York. An authority upon Japanese topics. The Mikado’s Empire; Japanese Fairy World; Corea: the Hermit Nation; The Tokio Guide; The Yokohama Guide; Japan in History, Folk-Lore, and Art; The Religions of Japan; Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us; The Lily Among Thorns, a biblical study; Life of Matthew Calbraith Perry; Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations; Townsend Harris, first American Envoy in Japan; Honda the Samurai: a Story of Modern Japan. Do. Har. Hou. Scr.

Griffith, Robert Eglesfield. Pa., 1798-1850. A physician and botanist who was from 1838 a medical professor in the University of Virginia. Medical Botany; Universal Formulary.

Griffiths, John Willis. N. Y., 1809-1882. A naval architect of New York city. Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, a work of great value; The Ship Builders’ Manual; The Progressive Ship Builder.

Grimke [grim´ke], Archibald Henry. S. C., 1849- ——. A Massachusetts lawyer of African descent. Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist. Fu.

Grimke, Frederick. S. C., 1791-1863. Son of J. F. Grimke, infra. An Ohio jurist. Ancient and Modern Literature; Nature and Tendencies of Free Institutions. Clke.

Grimke, John Faucheraud. S. C., 1752-1819. A jurist of South Carolina. Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate Directory; Duty of Justices of the Peace.

Grimke, Sarah Moore. S. C., 1792-1873. Daughter of J. F. Grimke, supra. A reformer who was very prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; Letters on the Condition of Women.

Grimke, Thomas Smith. S. C., 1786-1834. Son of J. F. Grimke, supra. A reformer of Charleston, active in temperance and in the promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on Science, Education, and Literature.

Grimshaw, Robert. Pa., 1850- ——. A civil engineer, lecturer on physics at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. History, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; Fifty Years Hence. Bai. Cas. Wil.

Grimshaw, William. I., 1782-1852. A Philadelphia writer who published a once popular series of school histories, and also Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen’s Lexicon; Ladies’ Lexicon; The American Chesterfield; Life of Napoleon. Lip.

Grinnell [grin´el], George Bird. N. Y., 1849- ——. An ornithologist and the editor of “Forest and Stream” of New York city. He has enjoyed a long and friendly acquaintance with the Indians of the Great Plains. The Story of a Prairie People; The Story of the Indian; Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. Ap. Scr.

Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell. Vt., 1821-1891. A distinguished citizen of Iowa; in early life a Presbyterian minister. He founded the Iowa town of Grinnell in 1854, and was president of Iowa College, formerly Grinnell University. It was to him that Horace Greeley is said to have made the famous remark, “Go West, young man, go West.” Home of the Badgers; Cattle Industries of the United States; Men and Events of Forty Years. Lo.

Griscom, John. N. J., 1774-1852. A once noted educator who was professor of chemistry at Rutgers College, 1812-28. A Year in Europe; Monitorial Instruction. See Memoirs of, by his Son.

Griscom, John Hawkins. N. Y., 1809-1874. Son of J. Griscom, supra. An eminent physician of New York city. Animal Mechanism and Physiology; Prison Hygiene; Use and Abuses of Air; Use of Tobacco and Evils Resulting Therefrom; Physical Indications of Longevity. Har.

Griswold, Alexander Viets. Ct., 1766-1843. Third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Discourses on the Most Important Doctrines; The Reformation and the Apostolic Office; Remarks on Prayer Meetings. See Memoirs, by J. S. Stone, infra.

Griswold, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge] [Smith]. R. I., 1826-1900. A Brooklyn writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are The Bishop and Nannette Series; Miriam’s Reward.

Griswold, Mrs. Harriet [Tyng]. Ms., 1842- ——. In early life a schoolteacher in Columbus, Wisconsin, who has published Apple Blossoms, a volume of poems; Home Life of Great Authors; Waiting on Destiny; Lucille and her Friends. Her poem, Under the Daisies, has had a wide popularity as a song. Mg.

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot. Vt., 1815-1857. An industrious compiler and literary editor who possessed but a slight amount of critical insight and discrimination. His best known publications are, Female Poets of America; Prose Writers of America; Poets and Poetry of America; Sacred Poets of England and America. His other works include Washington and the Generals of the Revolution; The Republican Court; Scenes in the Life of the Saviour; Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire (with H. B. Wallace, infra). See Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Ap. Co.

Griswold, William Macrillis. Me., 1853-1899. Son of R. W. Griswold, supra. A literary worker of Cambridge who has published A Manual of Misused Words, and many valuable indexes to periodicals.

Gronlund, Laurence. Dk., 1847-1899. A lecturer upon socialistic topics in many cities of the United States. The Coöperative Commonwealth in its Outlines; Ça Ira, or Danton in the French Revolution; Our Destiny. Le.

Gross, Joseph B——. 18— -1891. Brother of S. D. Gross, infra. A Lutheran clergyman, among whose writings are The Heathen Religion in its Symbolical Development; Teachings of Providence; Truth in Religion; Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles; Old Faith and New Thoughts.

Gross, Samuel David. Pa., 1805-1884. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia who was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College 1856-82, and a member of many medical associations in America and Europe. A System of Surgery; Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the 19th Century; Manual of Military Surgery; History of American Medical Literature; John Hunter and his Pupils; Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the Intestines; Diseases of the Urinary Organs. He also edited American Medical Biography. See Autobiography, edited by his sons, 1887.

Gross, Samuel Weissell. O., 1837-1889. Son of S. D. Gross, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded his father as professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College in 1882. Tumors of the Mammary Gland; Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied Disorders. Ap.

Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus. Ms., 1845- ——. A professor of European History at Amherst College, and from 1873-90 professor of history at Roberts College, Constantinople. Constantinople. Rob.

Grote, Augustus Radcliffe. 18— -1903. A scientist, formerly of Buffalo, but afterward living in Bremen, Germany. Notes on the Bombycidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Zygænidæ of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of America (with C. T. Robinson); Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other Poems.

Grubé, Bernhard Adam. G., 1715-1808. A Moravian missionary who came to America in 1746 and settled in Pennsylvania. He published Delaware Indian Hymn Book; Harmony of the Gospels.

Grund, Francis Joseph. Bo., 1805-1863. A journalist of Philadelphia who published Exercises in Arithmetic; Americans in their Moral, Religious, and Social Relations; Aristocracy in America; Life of General Harrison (in German); Thoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe (1860).

Guernsey, Alfred Hudson. Vt., 1818-1902. A writer of New York city, at one period editor of Harper’s Monthly. The Spanish Armada; The World’s Opportunities; Carlyle, his Life, Books, and Theories; Emerson, Poet and Philosopher. Ap.

Guernsey, Clara Florida. N. Y., 1836- ——. A Rochester writer of juvenile tales, among which are, The Boys of Eaglewood School; The Silver Library; Friends in Need; The Merman and the Figure Head. Lip.

Guernsey, Egbert. Ct., 1823-1903. A homœopathic physician of New York city, editor of The Medical Times from 1872. History of the United States; Homœopathic Domestic Practice; The Gentleman’s Book of Homœopathy.

Guernsey, Henry Newell. Vt., 1817-1885. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Application of Homœopathy to Obstetrics; Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects; The Keynote System; Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; Lectures on Materia Medica.

Guernsey, Lucy Ellen. N. Y., 1826-1899. Sister of C. F. Guernsey, supra. A writer of Rochester, New York, who published more than fifty juvenile tales, including Old Stanfield House; Through Unknown Ways; Winifred; Agnes Warrington’s Mistake. Do.

Guernsey, Rocellus Sheridan. N. Y., 1836- ——. Juries and Physicians on Insanity; Mechanics’ Lien Laws for New York City; Municipal Law and its Relations to the Constitution of Man; Key to Story’s “Equity Jurisprudence;” Living Authors at the New York Bar; Suicide, a History of the Penal Laws Relating to It; New York City and Vicinity during the War of 1812.

Guild, Mrs. Caroline Snowden [Whitmarsh]. Ms., 1827-1898. A religious writer of Boston. Violet; Daisy; Never Mind the Face; Some House Songs. Compiler of Hymns of the Ages; Prayers of the Ages. Hou.

Guild, Curtis. Ms., 1828- ——. A journalist of Boston, founder and editor of The Commercial Bulletin. Over the Ocean, a popular book of travels; Abroad Again; Britons and Muscovites; From Sunrise to Sunset, a volume of verse; A Chat About Celebrities. Le.

Guild, Reuben Aldridge. Ms., 1822-1899. A librarian of Brown University, 1848-93. Librarian’s Manual; Rhode Island in the Continental Congress (edited); History of Brown University; Chaplain Smith and the Baptists; Footprints of Roger Williams; Roger Williams, the Pioneer Missionary to the Indians.

Guiney [gī´nĭ], Louise Imogen. Ms., 1861- ——. A writer of Newton, Massachusetts, whose published works include Goose-Quill Papers; Brownies and Bogles; Three Heroines of New England Romance (with Mrs. Spofford and Alice Brown); Monsieur Henri, a Footnote to French History; A Little English Gallery; Lovers’ Saint Ruths, and Three Other Tales; Patrins, a collection of essays; Verse: Songs at the Start; The White Sail; A Roadside Harp. She has edited the select poems of Mangan, with a study of his life and work. Cop. Har. Hou. Lam. Lo. Rob.

Gummere [gŭm´ery], Francis Barton. N. J., 1855- ——. A professor of English in Haverford College, Pennsylvania. The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor; Handbook of Poetics; Germanic Origins, a study in Primitive Culture. Gi. Scr.

Gummere, John. Pa., 1784-1845. A once noted educator of Burlington, New Jersey. Treatise on Surveying; Theoretical and Practical Astronomy.

Gummere, Samuel R. Pa., 1789-1866. Brother of J. Gummere, supra, and also an educator of Burlington. Treatise on Geography; Compendium of Elocution.

Gunnison, Almon. Me., 1844- ——. A Universalist clergyman of prominence. Rambles Overland, a Trip Across the Continent; Wayside and Fireside Rambles.

Gunnison, Elisha Norman. Ms., 1837-1880. A journalist of York, Pennsylvania, who published One Summer Dream, and Other Poems; Our Stars.

Gunnison, John Williams. N. H., 1812-1853. A civil engineer killed by Mormons and Indians while making railway surveys in Utah. A History of the Mormons was his only published work.

Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley. O., 1856- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. The Metamorphosis of a Creed; The Transfiguration of Christ; Monk and Knight, an Historical Study in Fiction; Phidias, and Other Poems; October at Eastwood; Songs of Night and Day. Hou. Mg.

Gunter, Archibald Clavering. E., 1847- ——. A writer of popular sensational romances quite destitute of literary merit. Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The First of the English; The Ladies’ Juggernaut.

Gurowski, Adam. Po., 1805-1866. A Polish count who came to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state department at Washington. La Civilisation et la Russie; Pensées sur l’Avenir des Polonais; Aus meinem Gedankenbuche; Eine Tour durch Belgien; Impressions et Souvenirs; Die letzen Ereignisse in den drei Theilen des alten Polen; Le Panslavisme; Russia as It Is; The Turkish Question; A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in History; My Diary, 1861-66.

Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers. E., 1840-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo, and elsewhere, prominent as an organizer of charities. Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What is Charity Organization; How Paupers are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic of the Fall of Man. Put.

Gustafson, Axel. “Carl Johan.” Sn., 1849- ——. A Swedish writer who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation of Death: a Study of The Drink Question; The Drink Problem; Some Thoughts on Moderation. Fu.

Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel [Barnes] [Buddington]. Ct., 1841- ——. Wife of A. Gustafson, supra. Meg: a Pastoral, and Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; Genevieve Ward, a Biography. Le.

Gutheim, James Koppel. Wa., 1817-1886. A Jewish clergyman of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews.

Guyot [ḡe-o´], Arnold Henry. Sd., 1807-1884. A geographer of distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854 until his death was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was the founder of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography; Social Economy. See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra. Scr.

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Habberton, John. L. I., 1842- ——. A journalist of New York city whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings include Other People’s Children; The Barton Experiment; The Jericho Road; Who was Paul Grayson?; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest; The Bowsham Puzzle; Brueton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up Babies; Life of Washington; Some Folks; My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins; The Worst Boy in Town; The Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and Gall; The Lucky Lover. Fl. Fu. Har. Ho. Lip.

Habersham, Alexander Wylly. N. Y., 1826-1883. A naval officer who in later life was a tea merchant in Japan, and the author of My Last Cruise, an Account of the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Lip.

Hackett, Horatio Balch. Ms., 1808-1875. A Baptist clergyman, professor at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts, 1839-70, and from 1870 till his death professor in Rochester Seminary, New York. He was one of the American Revisers of the Bible, and editor of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the Apostles is his chief work. Others are, Memorials of Christian Men in the War; Illustrations of Scripture by a Tour in the Holy Land. See Memorials of, 1876.

Hackett, James Henry. N. Y., 1800-1871. A popular actor, noted for his impersonation of Falstaff. Notes and Comments on Shakespeare.

Hackley, Charles William. 1808-1861. An Episcopal clergyman who was professor of mathematics at Columbia College from 1843 until his death. Treatise on Algebra; Elementary Course in Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry.

Haddock, Charles Brickett. N. H., 1796-1861. Nephew of D. Webster, infra. A professor of rhetoric at Dartmouth College, 1819-50, and chargé d’affaires in Portugal, 1850-54. He originated the railway system of New Hampshire, and also the system of common schools in that State. His Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in 1840.

Hadley, Arthur Twining. Ct., 1856- ——. Son of J. Hadley, infra. President of Yale University from 1899; previously a professor of political science there. Private Property and Public Welfare; Railroad Transportation, its History and Laws; Report on the System of Weekly Payments. Put.

Hadley, James. N. Y., 1821-1872. A philologist who was Greek professor at Yale University, 1848-72. Lectures on Roman Law; A Greek Grammar; Elements of the Greek Language; Essays, Philological and Critical; Brief History of the English Language. See The New Englander, January, 1873. Ap.

Hageman, Samuel Miller. N. J., 1848- ——. Grandson of S. Miller, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Once, a novel; and several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices; Greenwood, and Other Poems; Silence; Saint Paul.

Hagen, Hermann August. P., 1817-1893. An entomologist of prominence who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, and was professor of comparative zoölogy at Harvard University. Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America; North American Astacidæ; Some Insect Deformities.

Hagen, Theodor von. G., 1823-1871. A musician who came to New York city from Germany in 1854. Civilisation und Musik; Musikalische Novellen.

Hager, Albert David. Vt., 1817-1888. A geologist, from 1877 librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Geology of Vermont (with C. H. Hitchcock, infra); Economic Geology of Vermont.

Hager, Mrs. Lucie Caroline [Gilson]. Ms., 1853- ——. A Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough, a New England Town and its People.

Hagert, Henry Schell. Pa., 1826-1885. A noted nisi prius lawyer of Philadelphia. Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen (1886).

Hague, Arnold. Ms., 1840- ——. Son of W. Hague, infra. A geologist in the government service. Volcanoes of California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin; Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District; Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe.

Hague, James Duncan. Ms., 1836- ——. Son of W. Hague, infra. An engineer attached to the United States Geological Survey who has published a work on Mining Industry.

Hague, Mrs. Parthenia Antoinette [Vardaman]. Ga., 1838- ——. A Florida writer. A Blockaded Family; Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War. Hou.

Hague, William. N. Y., 1808-1887. A Baptist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Christianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New; Guide to Conversion; Home Life; Authority of the Christian Sabbath; Self-Witnessing Character of the New Testament; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Life Notes, or Fifty Years’ Outlook. Le.

Haldeman [hŏl´de-man], Samuel Stehman. Pa., 1812-1880. A professor of comparative philology in the University of Pennsylvania, 1869-81. Zoölogical Contributions; Analytical Orthography; Word-Building; Tours of a Chess Knight; Elements of Latin Pronunciation; Pennsylvania Dutch; Outlines of Etymology; Affixes in their Origin and Application; Rhymes of the Poets. Lip.

Hale, Benjamin. Ms., 1797-1863. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1836-58. Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry; Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy; Education in its Relations to a Free Government; Historical Notices of Geneva College (1849). See Life of, by Malcolm Douglass, 1883.

Hale, Charles Reuben. Pa., 1837-1900. The Protestant Episcopal coadjutor bishop of Springfield, Illinois, with the title of Bishop of Cairo. The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate; Speeches and Addresses.

Hale, Edward Everett. Ms., 1822- ——. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?; Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to Boston. See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan. A. U. A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr.

Hale, Edwin Moses. N. H., 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic College. Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica; Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.

Hale, Enoch. Ms., 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and a nephew of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.

Hale, Horatio. R. I., 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario, from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois Book of Rites.

Hale, Lucretia Peabody. Ms., 1820-1900. Sister of E. E. Hale, supra. A writer who is best known by her humourous juvenile books. The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner, supra); The New Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). Hou. Rob.

Hale, Robert Beverly. Ms., 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale, supra. Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.

Hale, Salma. N. H., 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his State in Congress in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the Town of Keene. Har.

Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell]. N. H., 1788-1879. A once well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s Book for forty years. It was largely through her influence that Thanksgiving became a national festival. Among her numerous books Woman’s Record, a large biographical and critical work, is the most important. Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora’s Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Har.

Hale, Susan. Ms., 1833- ——. Sister of E. E. Hale, supra, and co-author with him of the Family Flight series of travels for young people. She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton, supra. Ap. Lo. Rob.

Hall, Abraham Oakey. N. Y., 1826-1898. A once prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived in Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays. Har.

Hall, Arethusa. Ms., 1802-1891. An educator in New England, and subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. See Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892.

Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston. E., 1847- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the Collects; The Example of the Passion.

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