Chapter 10

A Dictionary of American Authors (part 5)

Noyes, Arthur Ames. Ms., 1866- ——. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published a treatise on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.
Noyes, Charles Henry. “Charles Quiet.” Mch., 1849-1898. A lawyer and verse-writer of Warren, Pennsylvania, who has published Studies in Verse. Lip.
Noyes, George Rapall. Ms., 1798-1868. A Unitarian clergyman eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University from 1840. He published translations with notes of the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs; and a translation of the New Testament. A. U. A.
Noyes, Henry Drury. N. Y., 1832-1900. An ophthalmologist of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; Text-Book on Diseases of the Eye.
Noyes, James. E., 1608-1656. A Puritan clergyman of Newbury, Massachusetts, pastor of the church there, 1635-56. The Temple Measured; Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State.
Noyes, James Oscar. N. Y., 1829-1872. A physician and journalist of New Orleans. Roumania; The Gypsies: their History, Origin, and Manner of Life.
Noyes, John Humphrey. Vt., 1811-1886. A noted religionist who founded the Oneida Community, and other associations of socialists. The Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith; History of American Socialisms; House Talks. Lip.
Nuttall [nŭt´al], Thomas. E., 1786-1859. A noted ornithologist and botanist, of English birth, whose life was mainly spent in the United States, but who returned to England in 1842. The Genera of North American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The North American Sylva; Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832 and 1834); Geological Sketch of the Valley of the Mississippi; A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America, being a new edition of the Manual of Ornithology revised and annotated by Montague Chamberlain. See Popular Science Monthly, March, 1895. Lit.
Nye, Bill. See Nye, Edgar.
Nye, Edgar Wilson. Me., 1850-1896. A humourous journalist whose writing, though very popular, is ephemeral in its nature and of little or no literary value. Bill Nye and the Boomerang; Forty Liars, and Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye’s Blossom Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye’s Thinks; The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of the United States; A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories; Comic History of England. Lip.
Nystrom, John William. 18— -1885. An engineer in the United States navy. Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships; Technological Education; The Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the Elements of Mechanics; New Treatise on Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Mechanics and Engineering; Principles of Dynamics; Treatise on Screw Propellers. Bai. Lip.
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Oakes, Urian. E., 1631-1681. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church in Cambridge, and president of Harvard College, 1675-81. He is chiefly remembered for his Elegy upon the Death of Thomas Shepard, a notable poem in six-lined stanzas, but his sermons, in point of style, are the best which were written in America during the colonial period. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Oakey, Alexander F. N. Y., 1850- ——. An architect of Buffalo. Building a Home; Home Grounds; The Art of Life and the Life of Art. Ap. Har.
Oakey, Emily Sullivan. N. Y., 1829-1883. An educator of Albany. Dialogues and Conversations; At the Foot of Parnassus, a collection of verse.
Ober, Frederick Albion. Ms., 1849- ——. A writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, well known as a traveller. Camps in the Caribbees; Young Folks’ History of Mexico; The Silver City; Travels in Mexico; Mexican Resources and Guide to Mexico; Montezuma’s Gold Mines; The Knockabout Club in the Antilles; The Knockabout Club in the Everglades; In the Wake of Columbus; Josephine, Empress of the French. Est. Le. Lo. Mer.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon. Pa., 1868- ——. Son of Mrs. Oberholtzer, infra. A Philadelphia journalist. The Referendum in America, a Discussion of Law-Making by Popular Vote.
Oberholtzer, Mrs. Sara Louisa [Vickers]. Pa., 1841- ——. A verse-writer of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Violet Lee, and Other Poems; Come for Arbutus; Hope’s Heart Bells, a novel; Daisies of Verse; Souvenirs of Occasions. Lip.
O’Brien, Fitz James. I., 1828-1862. A brilliant but erratic journalist of New York city. Poems and Stories; The Diamond Lens, and Other Stories. See Memoir by W. Winter, infra. Scr.
O’Brien, John. I., 1841-1879. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, professor of ecclesiastical history and sacred theology in Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Maryland, from 1877. He published, in 1879, A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Churches, which has since passed through fourteen editions. It is non-controversial in character, and is clear and forcible in its style.
O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. I., 1797-1880. An historical writer of Albany, and subsequently of New York city. History of New Netherlands; Jesuit Relations; Documentary History of New York. He edited many volumes of State and colonial records.
O’Connell, Jeremiah Joseph. I., 1821- ——. A Roman Catholic priest of the Benedictine order in North Carolina. Catholicity in the Carolinas and Georgia; Conferences on the Blessed Trinity.
O’Connor, Joseph. N. Y., 1841- ——. A journalist of Rochester, New York, whose collected Poems appeared in 1895. Put.
O’Connor, William Douglas. Ms., 1832-1889. A clerk in the civil service at Washington. Harrington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet, a defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; Three Tales; Hamlet’s Note-Book. Hou.
O’Conor, John Francis Xavier. N. Y., 1852- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the Society of Jesus, a professor in Boston College. Something Real; Lyric and Dramatic Poetry; Reading and the Mind.
Odenheimer, William Henry. Pa., 1817-1879. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, 1859-74, becoming bishop of Northern New Jersey in the latter year. Origin of the Prayer-Book; Essay on Canon Law; The Sacred Scriptures the Imperial Record of the Glory of the Holy Trinity; Jerusalem and its Vicinity; The Devout Churchman’s Companion; The True Catholic no Romanist; Thoughts on Immersion; Bishop White’s Opinions; Sermons, with Memoir. Dut.
Odiorne, Thomas. N. H., 1769-1851. An iron manufacturer of Malden, Massachusetts. The Progress of Refinement, a Poem; Fame and Miscellanies.
O’Donnell, Daniel Kane. Pa., 1838-1871. A Philadelphia journalist who published The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems.
O’Donnell, Jessie Fremont. N. Y., 1860- ——. A writer of Lowville, New York. Heart Lyrics; Horseback Sketches.
Officier, Morris. O., 1823-1874. A Lutheran missionary. Plea for a Lutheran Mission in Africa; Western Africa a Mission Field; African Bible Pictures.
O’Hara, Theodore. Ky., 1820-1867. An officer in the United States army during the Mexican War, and subsequently in the Confederate army. He is remembered for his poem, The Bivouac of the Dead, stanzas from which have been inscribed on tablets in several of the national cemeteries.
Olin, Mrs. Julia Matilda [Lynch]. N. Y., 1814-1879. Wife of S. Olin, infra. Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; Curious and Useful Questions on the Bible; The Perfect Light, comprise her most important writings.
Olin, Stephen. Vt., 1797-1851. A Methodist clergyman and educator, president of Wesleyan University from 1842. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land; Greece and the Golden Horn; College Life, its Theory and Practice; Youthful Piety. See Life and Letters, 1857. Meth. Har.
Oliver, Benjamin Lynde. Ms., 1788-1843. A lawyer of Boston. Hints on the Pursuit of Happiness; Rights of an American Citizen; Law Summary; Practical Conveyancing; Forms of Practice; Forms of Chancery. Lit.
Oliver, Mrs. Grace Atkinson [Little] [Ellis]. Ms., 1844-1899. A littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts. Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She edited Tales of Maria Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane Taylor.
Oliver, Mrs. Martha [Capps]. Il., 1845- ——. A writer of Jacksonville, Illinois. Her writings in verse for juvenile readers comprise, The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; The Far West.
Oliver, Peter. N. H., 1822-1855. Nephew of B. L. Oliver, supra. A lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Commonwealth, an historical review of the Puritan government of Massachusetts, presents a not altogether favourable picture of the period under discussion. Lit.
Olmsted [ŭm´sted or ŏm´sted], Alexander Fisher. N. C., 1822-1853. Son of D. Olmsted, infra. A professor of chemistry in the University of North Carolina who published Elements of Chemistry.
Olmsted, Denison. Ct., 1791-1859. A scientist who was professor of natural philosophy at Yale College from 1825. Letters on Astronomy; Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Students’ Commonplace Book; Introduction to Natural Philosophy.
Olmsted, Francis Allyn. N. C., 1819-1844. Son of D. Olmsted, supra. A physician who published Incidents of a Whaling Voyage.
Olmsted, Frederick Law. Ct., 1822-1903. A celebrated landscape architect of Boston. He designed the Central Park of New York city and the park systems of Boston, Buffalo, and many other American cities. Walks and Talks of an American Farmer; A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; A Journey through Texas; A Journey in the Back Country.
Olney, Jesse. Ct., 1798-1872. A noted educator of Connecticut. The National Preceptor; Geography and Atlas (1828), a standard work for a generation; History of the United States.
Olssen, William Whittingham. N. Y., 1827- ——. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor of mathematics in St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, New York, from 1871. Personality, Human and Divine; Revelation, Universal and Special.
Olsson [ōl´sŭn], Olof. Sn., 1841-1900. A Lutheran clergyman, president of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1891. At the Cross; Greetings from Afar, a volume of travel; The Christian Hope.
Onderdonk, Henry. L. I., 1804-1886. Nephew of H. U. Onderdonk, infra. An educator of Long Island, principal of Union Hall Academy, 1832-1865. Queens County in Olden Times; Annals of Hempstead, 1643-1832; Long Island and New York in Olden Times.
Onderdonk, Henry Ustick. N. Y., 1789-1858. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Episcopacy Tested by Scripture, republished as Episcopacy Examined and Re-Examined; Essay on Regeneration; Sermons and Charges; Family Devotions.
O’Neall, John Belton. S. C., 1793-1863. A South Carolina jurist. Digest of the Negro Law; Annals of Newberry District; Bench and Bar of South Carolina.
Opdyke, George. N. J., 1805-1880. A banker of New York city, and mayor of that city, 1862-63. Treatise on Political Economy; Report on the Currency; Official Documents and Addresses.
Optic, Oliver. See Adams, W. T.
O’Reilly, Henry. I., 1800-1886. A journalist of Rochester, New York. Sketches of Rochester; American Political Anti-Masonry.
O’Reilly, John Boyle. I., 1844-1890. A noted journalist of Boston, editor of The Pilot. In his youth he was concerned in a Fenian outbreak in Ireland, and banished to Australia. Escaping thence he came to America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where his talents speedily secured recognition. Much of his work in verse is ephemeral, but his best lines have the ring of true poetry. Songs, Legends, and Ballads; Moondyne; The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems; Songs of the Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he published, Stories and Sketches; The Ethics of Boxing. See Life by J. J. Boche, infra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42.
O’Reilly, Miles. See Halpine.
Orme, Mary. See Nichols, Mrs.
Ormond, Alexander Thomas. Pa., 1847- ——. Stuart professor of mental science and logic at Princeton University from 1883. Basal Concepts in Philosophy. Scr.
Orne, Mrs. Caroline [Chaplin]. Ms., 18— -1882. Niece of J. Chaplin, 1st, supra. A once popular magazinist, who was the author of more than two hundred and fifty stories.
Orne, Caroline Frances. Ms., 1818- ——. A Cambridge writer of verse, and also of stories for children. Her life has all been passed in Cambridge, her native place. A Day in the Woodlands; Lucy’s Party, and Other Tales; Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, with Other Poems; Morning Songs of American Freedom.
Orton, Edward. N. Y., 1829-1899. The State geologist of Ohio from 1883. Economic Geology of Ohio; Petroleum and Inflammable Gas. Clke.
Orton, James. N. Y., 1830-1877. A Congregational clergyman, well known as a naturalist, who was professor of natural history at Vassar College, 1869-1877. Comparative Zoölogy; The Andes and the Amazon; Underground Treasures; Liberal Education of Women. Bai. Har.
Orton, James Rockwood. N. Y., 1800-1867. A littérateur of New York city. Poetical Sketches; Arnold, and Other Poems; Camp Fires of the Red Men; Confidential Experiences of a Spiritualist. Mac.
Osborn, Henry Fairfield. Ct., 1857- ——. A professor of biology at Columbia College. From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the evolution idea. Mac.
Osborn, Henry Stafford. Pa., 1823-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor in Miami University, Ohio, 1871-73. Palestine Past and Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land; Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States; Manual of Bible Geography; Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries; Little Pilgrims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive Geography of Palestine; The Prospector’s Field Book and Guide; A Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining. Bai. Clke.
Osborn, John. Ms., 1713-1753. A physician of Middletown, Connecticut, whose Whaling Song was long popular among sailors.
Osborn, Laughton. N. Y., 1809-1878. An artist and littérateur of New York city. Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of Oil Painting; Travels by Sea and Land, and a number of comedies and tragedies, include the most of his writing.
Osborn, Selleck. Ct., 1783-1826. A journalist, once popular as a poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and Satirical.
Osborne, [Samuel] Duffield. L. I., 1858- ——. A littérateur of New York city. The Spell of Ashtaroth; The Robe of Nessus. Scr.
Oscanyan, Hatchik. Ty., 1818- ——. An Armenian writer of New York city who took the name of Christopher. Acaby, a satirical romance; Veronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young readers; The Sultan and His People, once a very popular work.
Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent [Locke]. Ms., 1811-1850. A verse-writer whose poems were for a time extremely popular. She was the wife of an artist, and lived some years in London. The Casket of Fate; A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England; The Happy Release, a play written for Sheridan Knowles; Poems. See Life by Griswold; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Osgood, Samuel. Ms., 1748-1813. A statesman who was a member of the Continental Congress, 1780-84, and naval officer of the port of New York, 1803-13. Letter on Episcopacy; Remarks on Daniel and Revelation; Theology and Metaphysics.
Osgood, Samuel. Ms., 1812-1880. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York city, 1849-69. In 1870 he entered the Episcopal ministry, but assumed no parochial duties. Studies in Christian Biography; God with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life Journey; The Hearthstone; Student Life; The Gospel Among the Animals; American Leaves; The New Hampshire Book (with C. J. Fox). His published orations upon patriotic events, notable men, and historic themes, are numerous. Har.
Osler, William. Ont., 1849- ——. A physician, professor in Johns Hopkins University from 1889. Clinical Notes on Small-Pox; Histology Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of Children; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors. Ap.
Osmun, Thomas Embley. “Alfred Ayres.” O., 1826-1902. An author of New York city. The Verbalist; The Orthoepist; an annotated edition of Cobbett’s Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; The Essentials of Elocution. Ap. Fu.
Ossoli [ŏs´o-lee], Sarah Margaret [Fuller], Marchioness d’. Ms., 1810-1850. A once famous writer of Boston whose personality was more than anything she ever wrote, and who is little more than a name to the present generation. She was a gifted woman, and as a teacher in Boston, editor of The Dial, and literary critic for The New York Tribune, was a prominent figure. In 1845 she went to Italy, and there was married to the Marquis d’Ossoli. Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Art, Literature, and the Drama; At Home and Abroad; A Summer on the Lakes. See Memoir by Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke; Lives by Higginson, Mrs. J. W. Howe; Galaxy Magazine, May, 1878; Lowell’s Fable for Critics.
Oswald, Felix Leopold. Bm., 1845- ——. A naturalist of Tennessee. Physical Education; Summerland Sketches; Zoölogical Sketches; Household Remedies; The Secret of the East, or the Origin of the Christian Religion; Days and Nights in the Tropics; The Bible of Nature; The Poison Problem. Ap. Lip. Lo.
Otis, Mrs. Eliza Henderson [Bordman]. Ms., 1796-1873. Daughter-in-law of H. G. Otis, infra. A philanthropist and social leader in Boston who wrote The Barclays of Boston, a novel.
Otis, Elwell Stephen. Md., 1838- ——. A United States army officer. The Indian Question.
Otis, Fessenden Nott. N. Y., 1825-1900. A physician of New York city. Lessons in Drawing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the Panama Railroad; Stricture of the Male Urethra; Clinical Lessons on Syphilis; Physiology of Syphilitic Infection.
Otis, George Alexander. Ms., 1830-1881. A surgeon who was curator of the Army Medical Museum at Washington. Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the United States Army, 1867-71; Amputation at the Hip Joint.
Otis, Harrison Gray. Ms., 1765-1848. Nephew of J. Otis, infra. A prominent citizen of Boston famous for his eloquence. Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention; Orations and Addresses.
Otis, James. Ms., 1725-1783. A celebrated orator and politician, and one of the most active advocates of American independence. He was an impetuous, vehement speaker, and seldom failed to carry his hearers with him. Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved; Vindication of the British Colonies; Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists; A Vindication of the Rights of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay. See Life by Tudor.
Otis, James. See Kaler.
Ott, Isaac. Pa., 1847- ——. A physician who has published Cocaine, Veratria, and Gelseminum; Action of Medicines; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System.
Otts, John Martin Philip. S. C., 1838-1901. A Presbyterian minister of Talladega, Alabama. Nicodemus with Jesus; Light and Life for a Dead World; The Southern Pen and Pulpit; Inter-denominational Literature; The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The Fifth Gospel; Unsettled Questions; At Mother’s Knee. Rev.
Overman, Frederick. G., c. 1810-1852. A mining engineer of Philadelphia. The Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of Steel; Political Mineralogy; Moulder’s and Founder’s Pocket Guide; Mechanics for the Millwright, etc.; Treatise on Metallurgy. Ap. Bai.
Owen, Catherine. See Nitsch, Mrs.
Owen, David Dale. S., 1807-1860. Brother of R. D. Owen, infra. The State geologist of Indiana. Report of a Geological Survey of Kentucky; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; Report of a Geological Reconnoissance.
Owen, John Jason. N. Y., 1803-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator of New York city. Commentary on the Gospels; Acts of the Apostles in Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book editions of Xenophon, Thucydides, and Homer.
Owen, Richard. S., 1810-1890. Brother of R. D. Owen, infra, and of D. D. Owen, supra. A geologist of New Harmony, Indiana. He succeeded his brother David as State geologist in 1860, and was author of a Key to the Geology of the Globe.
Owen, Robert Dale. S., 1801-1877. A prominent writer of New Harmony, Indiana, the son of Robert Owen, the noted Scottish socialist. He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate of Spiritualism. Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark; Moral Physiology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel; Threading my Way; Debatable Land between this World and the Next. See Woollen’s Biographical Sketches of Early Indiana; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42. Lip.
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Packard, Alpheus Spring. Me., 1839- ——. A naturalist of eminence, professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown University from 1878. Zoölogy; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology; Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast; Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine. Est. Ho.
Packard, Frederick Adolphus. Ms., 1794-1867. A Philadelphia writer, editor for nearly forty years of the publications of the American Sunday School Union. The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; Union Bible Dictionary, include his most important writings.
Packard, John Hooker. Pa., 1832- ——. Son of F. A. Packard, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia, surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1884. Manual of Minor Surgery; Lectures on Inflammation; Handbook of Operative Surgery; Sea Air and Sea Bathing. Lip.
Packard, Lewis Richard. Pa., 1836-1884. Son of F. A. Packard, supra. An educator who was professor of Greek at Yale University from 1866, and author of Studies in Greek Thought.
Packard, Silas Sadler. Ms., 1826-1898. An educator who founded a business college in New York city. Bryant and Stratton’s Bookkeeping Series; Complete Course of Business Training; Commercial Arithmetic; New Manual of Bookkeeping.
Paddock, Benjamin Henry. Ct., 1828-1891. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1873-1891. Ten Years in the Episcopate; The First Century of the Diocese of Massachusetts; The Pastoral Relation; The Foundation of Religious Belief. Ap.
Paddock, Mrs. Cornelia. 18— - ——. In the Toils; The Fate of Madame la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. Fo.
Page, Charles Edward. Me., 1840- ——. A physician of Boston. How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and Feet; Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.
Page, Charles Grafton. Ms., 1812-1868. An examiner in the Patent Office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy, Spirit Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed.
Page, David Perkins. N. H., 1810-1845. A once prominent educator of Albany whose Theory and Practice of Teaching was long popular.
Page, Emily Rebecca. Vt., 1834-1862. A verse-writer of Vermont whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the volume, Lily of the Valley.
Page, Richard Channing Moore. Va., 1841-1898. A physician of New York city, but during the Civil War a Confederate officer. Genealogy of the Page Family of Virginia; Sketch of Page’s Battery, Lee’s Army; Chart of Physical Diagnosis.
Page, Thomas Jefferson. Va., 1808-1899. A naval officer in the service of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-62. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay.
Page, Thomas Nelson. Va., 1853- ——. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, whose studies of Southern life are notable for a singular charm of style. In Old Virginia; Two Little Confederates; On Newfound River; Elsket, and Other Stories; The Old South; Pastime Stories; Essays, Social and Political; Unc’ Edinburg, a Plantation Echo; The Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; Befo’ de War (with A. C. Gordon, supra). Har. Scr.
Paige, Lucius Robinson. Ms., 1802-1896. A Universalist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1839, and subsequently filled several offices of trust in Cambridge. Commentary on the New Testament; History of Cambridge, 1630-1877, with Genealogical Register; History of Hardwick, Massachusetts. Hou.
Paine, Elijah. Vt., 1796-1853. A jurist and legal writer of New York city. Paine’s Reports; Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the State of New York (with W. Duer, supra).
Paine, Halbert Eleazar. O., 1826- ——. A Federal army officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer in Washington, whose Treatise on the Law of Elections to Public Offices is a much-valued work. Lit.
Paine, Harriet Eliza. “E. Chester.” Ms., 1845- ——. A Boston educator. Girls and Women, a helpful book for girls. Hou.
Paine, Martyn. Vt., 1794-1877. A physician of New York city. Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine; The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion; Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as distinguished from Materialism; Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defence of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical Arrangement of Materia Medica; Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical and Physical Doctrines. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Paine, Robert. N. C., 1799-1882. A prominent Methodist bishop whose Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular biography.
Paine, Robert Treat. Ms., 1773-1811. A once noted verse-writer of Boston whose spirited song, Adams and Liberty, has preserved his memory. He gave up his profession of law for literary pursuits, and received large sums for his poems, among which are, The Invention of Letters, and The Ruling Passion. His work was stilted and conventional, with the exception of the song named above. His collected Verse and Prose, edited by Prentiss, appeared in 1812. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Paine, Thomas. E., 1737-1809. A celebrated political and deistical writer of English birth who came to America in 1774, and in 1776 issued his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which was of great service to the American cause. In the American Crisis, published in numbers, 1776-83, he continued his defence of America. His other works include, The Rights of Man, a reply to Burke’s “Reflections on the French Revolution”; The Age of Reason, a work inferior to his other writings in matter and style, and fiercely assailed by the religious sentiment of his day. His works have been ably edited by M. D. Conway (1894-95), supra. See Lives by Chatham, Cobbett, Rickman, G. Chalmers, G. Vale, Sherwin, M. D. Conway; Atlantic Monthly, July, November, and December, 1859; Nineteenth Century, March, 1879; McMaster’s History of the People of the United States, Watson’s Men and Times of the Revolution; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 43. Put.
Paine, Timothy Otis. Me., 1824-1895. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Elmwood, Massachusetts. Solomon’s Temple and Capitol; Idolatrous High Places. Hou.
Palfrey [pawl´fri], Francis Winthrop. Ms., 1831-1889. Son of J. G. Palfrey, infra. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, and from 1872 register of bankruptcy in Boston. Antietam and Fredericksburg; Memoir of William Francis Bartlett. Hou. Scr.
Palfrey, John Gorham. Ms., 1796-1881. A Unitarian clergyman in Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University, 1831-37, subsequently a member of Congress, and postmaster of Boston, 1861-67. His literary reputation rests upon his History of New England, a painstaking, accurate work, but not especially attractive in style, and marred by want of perspective. Other works by him are, Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures; The Relation between Judaism and Christianity. Hou. Lit.
Palfrey, Sarah Hammond. “E. Foxton.” Ms., 1823- ——. Daughter of J. G. Palfrey, supra. A novelist and verse-writer of Cambridge. Her work in verse comprises, Prémices; Sir Pavon and St. Pavon; The Chapel; The Blossoming Rod; Agnes Wentworth. In fiction she has published Katharine Morne; Herman, or Young Knighthood. Le.
Palmer, Alonzo Benjamin. N. Y., 1815-1887. A physician who was medical professor in the University of Michigan from 1852. Homœopathy, What Is It?; The Treatment of the Science and Practice of Medicine; Epidemic Cholera; Temperance Teachings of Science; Diarrhœa and Dysentery.
Palmer, Mrs. Anna [Campbell]. “Mrs. George Archibald.” N. Y., 1854- ——. A writer of Elmira, New York. The Summerville Prize; Little Brown Seed; Lally Gay; Lally Gay and her Sister; Verses from a Mother’s Corner.
Palmer, Benjamin Morgan. S. C., 1818-1902. A Presbyterian minister of New Orleans. Life and Letters of James Thornwell, infra; Sermons; The Family in its Civil and Churchly Aspects; Formation of Character; The Broken Home; Theology of Prayer.
Palmer, Elihu. Ct., 1764-1806. A writer of New York city who was in his early career a Congregational minister, but became a deist and a political agitator. The Principles of Nature; Prospect or View of the Moral World from 1804.
Palmer, Mrs. Frances [Purdy]. N. Y., 1839- ——. A journalist and lecturer of Providence who has published A Dead Level, and Other Episodes.
Palmer, George Herbert. Ms., 1842- ——. Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard University. He has published The New Education, and an English translation of the Odyssey in rhythmic prose. Hou. Lit.
Palmer, Mrs. Henrietta [Lee]. Md., 1834- ——. Wife of J. W. Palmer, infra. The Stratford Gallery, or the Shakespeare Sisterhood; Home Life in the Bible; The Heroines of Shakespeare.
Palmer, Horatio Richmond. N. Y., 1834- ——. Elements of Musical Composition; Theory of Music.
Palmer, John Williamson. Md., 1825- ——. A physician and littérateur of Baltimore and subsequently of New York city. The Queen’s Heart: a Comedy; The Beauties and Curiosities of Engraving; After His Kind, a novel; The Golden Dagon, or Up and Down the Irrawaddi; The New and the Old, or California and India.
Palmer, Julius Auboineau. Ms., 1840-1899. About Mushrooms; Memories of Hawaii; One Voyage and its Consequences; Mushrooms of America; Again in Hawaii. Le. Lo. Wn.
Palmer, Lynde. See Peebles, Mrs.
Palmer, Mrs. Phœbe Worrell. N. Y., 1807-1874. A Wesleyan evangelist of New York city, whose writing is mainly concerned with the doctrine of perfection. The Way of Holiness; Entire Devotion; Faith and its Effect; Promises of the Father; Four Years in the Old World; Pioneer Experiences. See Life and Letters of, 1876.
Palmer, Ray. R. I., 1808-1887. A Congregational clergyman of Albany, widely known as a writer of hymns, the most famous of which is, “My Faith Looks up to Thee.” Home, or the Unlost Paradise; Spiritual Improvement; Closet Hours; Hymns and Poems; Hymns of My Holy Hours; Remember Me; Voices of Hope and Gladness. Bar. Le. Ran.
Palmer, William Pitt. Ms., 1805-1884. An insurance president of New York city known also as a verse-writer. Light; Echoes of Half a Century, a collection of poems.
Pancoast, Joseph. N. J., 1805-1882. An eminent surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College, 1838-74. Operative Surgery; Essays and Lectures; System of Anatomy. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Pancoast, Seth. Pa., 1823-1889. A Philadelphia physician, professor in Pennsylvania Medical College, 1854-62. The Cabala; Consumption; Ladies’ Medical Guide; Boyhood’s Perils; Bright’s Disease.
Pansy. See Alden, Mrs.
Parish, Elijah. Ct., 1762-1825. A Congregational minister, pastor at Byfield, Massachusetts, 1787-1825. He was co-author with Jedediah Morse, supra, of several geographical works, and wrote a New System of Modern Geography. See Sermons of, with Memoir, 1826.
Park, Edwards Amasa. R. I., 1808-1900. A Congregational clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts, professor in the Theological Seminary there, 1835-1881. Discourses and Treatises on the Atonement; Discourses on Some Theological Doctrines as Related to the Religious Character; Lives of S. Hopkins, supra, N. Emmons, supra, B. B. Edwards, supra, S. H. Taylor, infra, W. B. Homer.
Park, Roswell. Ct., 1807-1869. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president and chancellor of Racine College, 1852-63. Sketch of the History of West Point; Jerusalem, and Other Poems; Pantology, or Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge.
Park, Roswell. Ct., 1852- ——. A professor of surgery in the University of Buffalo from 1883 who has published Lectures on Surgical Pathology.
Parke, John. Del., 1754-1789. An officer in the American army during the Revolution, who published The Lyric Works of Horace. The translation, in rhymed verse, was dedicated to Washington, and in it the names of American patriots were substituted for those of the Roman worthies.
Parke, John Grubb. Pa., 1827-1900. A soldier of distinction who was superintendent of the United States Military Academy in 1887, and was retired from active service in 1889. United States Laws Relating to Public Works; Laws Relating to the Construction of Bridges over Navigable Waters.
Parker, Edward Griffin. Ms., 1825-1868. A lawyer of New York city. The Golden Age of American Oratory; Reminiscences of Rufus Choate.
Parker, Edwin Pond. Me., 1836- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, pastor of the South Church from 1860, Book of Praise; Memorial of H. Bushnell, supra; The Ministry of Natural Beauty.
Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth Lowber [Chandler]. “Bessie Chandler.” N. Y., 1856- ——. A writer of Batavia, New York, who has contributed much to magazines. A Woman who Failed and Others. Rob.
Parker, Foxhall Alexander. N. Y., 1821-1879. A commodore in the United States navy. Fleet Tactics under Steam; The Naval Howitzer Afloat; The Naval Howitzer Ashore; The Fleets of the World; The Battle of Mobile Bay; Elia, or Spain Fifty Years Ago, a translation from the Spanish.
Parker, Francis Wayland. N. H., 1837-1902. A prominent educator of Chicago, principal of Cook County Normal School, and formerly supervisor of the Boston schools. Talks on Teaching; The Practical Teacher; Course in Arithmetic; How to Teach Geography. Ap.
Parker, Sir [Horatio] Gilbert. Ont., 1859- ——. A popular novelist of Canadian birth. Pierre and His People; An Adventurer of the North; A Romany of the Snows; A Lover’s Diary; When Valmond came to Pontiac; The Seats of the Mighty; The Pomp of the Lavillettes; The Battle of the Strong. Hou. St.
Parker, Mrs. Helen Fitch. N. Y., 1827-1874. Wife of H. W. Parker, infra. Sunrise and Sunset; Morning Stars of the New World; Rambles After Land Shells; Missions and Martyrs of Madagascar; Frank’s Search for Sea Shells; Constance of Aylmer, a tale; Blind Florette; Arthur’s Aquarium.
Parker, Henry Webster. N. Y., 1824- ——. Son of S. Parker, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of mental science in Iowa College from 1879. The Story of a Soul, a poem; Verse.
Parker, James Cutler Dunn. Ms., 1828- ——. Nephew of R. G. Parker, infra. A Boston musician. Manual of Harmony; Theoretical and Practical Harmony.
Parker, Joel. N. H., 1795-1875. A jurist of Massachusetts, professor of law at Harvard University, 1847-75. The War Power of Congress; The Right of Secession; The Non-Extension of Slavery; Constitutional Law; Revolution and Construction; The Three Powers of Government; Conflict of Decisions.
Parker, Joel. Vt., 1799-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Lectures on Unitarianism; Invitations to True Happiness; Reasonings of a Pastor; Sermons; Notes on Twelve Psalms, include his principal writings. Har.
Parker, Nathan Howe. 18— - ——. Iowa as it is in 1855; Kansas and Nebraska Handbook for 1857-58; The Missouri Handbook (1865); Missouri as it is in 1867, are among his various statistical works.
Parker, Mrs. Permelia Jane [Marsh]. N. Y., 1836- ——. A writer of Rochester, New York. Toiling and Hoping, a novel; The Boy Missionary; Losing the Way; Under His Banner; The Midnight Cry, a novel of the Millerite delusion; Rochester, a Story Historical; Life of S. F. B. Morse, supra; The Morgan Boys; Around the Manger; Andy, the Story of a Troublesome Boy. Cas. Do.
Parker, Peter. Ms., 1804-1888. A Congregational missionary and diplomat in China, and after 1857 a resident of Washington. Journal of an Expedition from Singapore to Japan; Statement respecting Hospitals in China.
Parker, Richard Green. Ms., 1798-1869. An educator of Boston. Natural Philosophy; Aids to English Composition.
Parker, Samuel. Ms., 1799-1866. A Congregational clergyman of New York State, said to have been the first who suggested the possibility of a railway through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. He published, Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.
Parker, Theodore. Ms., 1810-1860. A famous Unitarian clergyman of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, whose extremely radical views excited great opposition in his denomination, and resulted in his becoming pastor of an independent congregation in Boston. He was very outspoken in his championship of freedom for the slave, temperance, and the rights of labour, and rapidly came to be a controlling influence in contemporary thought. Since his death his influence has deepened both in America and Europe. He was a prolific writer, but the purely literary value of his work is not great. Miscellaneous Writings; Sermons on Theism, Atheism, and Popular Theology; Occasional Sermons and Speeches; Matters Pertaining to Religion; Additional Sermons and Speeches; Sermons for the Times; Experience as a Minister; West Roxbury Sermons; Prayers; Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Mind; Historic Americans; Views of Religion. His complete works, as edited by Frances Power Cobbe, fill twelve volumes. See Lives by John Weiss, 1864, Réville, 1865, O. B. Frothingham, 1874; The Story of Theodore Parker, by Miss Cobbe; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860; North American Review, April, 1864. A. U. A. Rob.
Parker, Thomas. E., 1595-1677. A learned Puritan clergyman who was one of the founders of Newbury, Massachusetts, and its first pastor. Parker River, in that region, is named in his honour. Letter on Church Government; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Methodus Gratiæ Diviniæ; Theses de Traductione Peccatoris ad Vitam.
Parker, Willard. N. H., 1800-1884. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1839-1869. Cystotomy; Spontaneous Fractures; The Concussion of Nerves, are among his professional monographs.
Parker, William Harwar. N. Y., 1826-1896. Brother of F. Parker, supra. An officer in the Confederate navy during the Civil War. Instruction for Naval Light Artillery; Recollections of a Naval Officer. Scr.
Parkhurst, Charles Henry. Ms., 1842- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Madison Square Church from 1880, and very prominent as a municipal reformer. Forms of the Latin Verb Illustrated by the Sanskrit; The Blind Man’s Creed; The Pattern on the Mount; Three Gates on a Side; What Would the World Be Without Religion?; The Swiss Guide; Our Fight with Tammany. Ran. Rev. Scr.
Parkinson, William. Md., 1774-1848. A Baptist clergyman of New York city. Ecclesiastical History; Public Ministry of the Word; Sermons on Deuteronomy xxxii. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Parkman, Ebenezer. Ms., 1703-1789. A Congregational pastor in Westborough, Massachusetts, from 1724 till his death. Reformers and Intercessors.
Parkman, Francis. Ms., 1788-1852. Grandson of E. Parkman, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, author of The Offering of Sympathy.
Parkman, Francis. Ms., 1823-1893. Son of F. Parkman, supra. The foremost of American historians. He was born in Boston, was a graduate of Harvard in 1844, and in 1846 explored the wilderness beyond the Rocky Mountains, The Oregon Trail resulting from this journey. For many years he was partially blind, but as far as possible continued the historical work which he was meditating, while as a relaxation he devoted much time to horticulture and published a Book of Roses in 1866. The work of his life was the series of historical narratives called France and England in North America, begun in 1864 and completed in 1892. The work includes, in their order, Pioneers of France in the New World; The Jesuits in North America; La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada; Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV.; A Half Century of Conflict; Montcalm and Wolfe. The Conspiracy of Pontiac forms a sequel to the work, though first issued in 1857. The picturesque charm of his style has been widely acknowledged, while his scholarship has never been questioned. See Life and Uncollected Papers, by Farnham; Life by H. D. Sedgwick, 1904; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874, May, 1894; Canadian Magazine, October, 1884; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June, 1895; Vedder’s American Writers. Lit.
Parkman, George. Ms., 1791-1849. Grandson of E. Parkman, supra. A Boston physician who published Insanity and the Management of the Insane. See Trial of Webster for the Murder of Dr. Parkman, 1850.
Parks, Leighton. N. Y., 1852- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston (1878-1904), and later of New York. His Star in the East; Winning of the Soul, and Other Sermons. Dut. Hou.
Parley, Peter. See Goodrich, S. G.
Parloa, Maria. Ms., 1843- ——. A lecturer and writer upon domestic economy, especially upon the science of food preparation. First Principles of Household Management and Cookery; Kitchen Companion; The Young Housekeeper; New Cook Book and Marketing Guide. Est. Hou.
Parrish, Edward. Pa., 1822-1872. Son of Joseph Parrish, 1st, infra. An educator and pharmacist of Philadelphia, and president of Swarthmore College, 1868-70. Introduction to Practical Pharmacy; The Phantom Bouquet, a Treatise on Skeletonizing Leaves; Essay on Education in the Society of Friends.
Parrish, John. Md., 1729-1807. A Quaker preacher of Pennsylvania noted as an early opponent of slavery, who published Remarks on the Slavery of the Black Race.
Parrish, Joseph. Pa., 1779-1840. Nephew of J. Parrish, supra. An eminent Philadelphia physician who was the author of Practical Observations on Strangulated Hernia. See Memoir by G. B. Wood.
Parrish, Joseph. Pa., 1818-1891. Son of Joseph Parrish, supra. A physician of Burlington, New Jersey, famous as an authority upon the treatment of inebriates. Alcoholic Inebriety from the Medical Standpoint.
Parry, Charles Christopher. E., 1823-1890. A botanist of Davenport, Iowa, among whose writings are, Botanical Observations in Western Wyoming; Botanical Observations in Southern Utah.
Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theodora [Smith] [Dana]. N. Y., 1861- ——. A writer of Albany whose books were published under the name of Mrs. William Starr Dana. How to Know the Wild Flowers; According to Season; Plants and Their Children. Am. Scr.
Parsons, Frank. N. J., 1855- ——. A lawyer of Boston. The World’s Best Books; Our Country’s Need, or the Development of a Scientific Industrial System. He has edited several legal works.
Parsons, George Frederic. E., 1840- ——. A journalist of New York city. Life of J. W. Marshall, Discoverer of Gold in California; Middle Ground, a novel.
Parsons, Jonathan. Ms., 1705-1776. A Presbyterian minister of Newburyport, who adopted the views of Whitefield, and in whose house that famous preacher died. Lectures on Justification; Good News from a Far Country, said to be the first book published in New Hampshire; Sixty Sermons; Freedom from Ecclesiastical and Civil Slavery the Purchase of Christ. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Parsons, Theophilus. Ms., 1750-1813. A jurist of Newburyport and after 1800 of Boston, and chief justice of Massachusetts from 1801. Commentaries on the Law of the United States; The Essex Result, a famous political pamphlet of 1777. See Memoir by his son.
Parsons, Theophilus. Ms., 1797-1882. Son of T. Parsons, supra. A noted legal writer, Dane professor of Law in Harvard University from 1847, and an eminent Swedenborgian thinker. Treatise on the Law of Contracts; Elements of Mercantile Law; The Laws of Business; Maritime Law; Law of Promissory Notes; Principles of the Law of Partnership; The Law of Marine Insurance; Treatise on the Law of Partnership; Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a United States Citizen; Memoir of Chief Justice Parsons, supra; The Ministry of Sorrow; Deus Homo; The Infinite and the Finite; Essays; Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swedenborg; The Mystery of Life. Lip. Lit.
Parsons, Thomas William. Ms., 1819-1892. A poet of Boston who for some years practised his profession of dentistry there. The quality of his writing is uneven, but in such poems as the Lines on a Bust of Dante, and When Francesca Sings, he is at his best. His work includes a much-admired though incomplete translation in English verse of Dante’s Divina Commedia, of which an edition was issued in 1893, with introduction by C. E. Norton, supra, and memorial sketch by Miss Guiney, supra; Ghetto di Roma; The Magnolia; The Old Home at Sudbury; The Shadow of the Obelisk, and Other Poems; Poems (1893). See Atlantic Monthly; Stedman’s Poets of America; Hovey’s Seaward, an Elegy. Hou.
Parsons, Usher. Me., 1788-1868. A surgeon of Providence. The Art of Making Anatomic Preparations; Prize Dissertations; Sailors’ Physician; History of the Battle of Lake Erie; Life of Sir William Pepperell.
Partington, Mrs. See Shillaber.
Parton, James. E., 1822-1891. A popular littérateur of English birth who came to America when very young and for the latter part of his life resided in Newburyport. The permanent value of his writing is not great, with the possible exception of his Life of Voltaire. His other works include, Lives of Greeley, Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Franklin, Jefferson; General Butler in New Orleans; Famous Americans of Recent Times; Smoking and Drinking; Captains of Industry; Triumphs of Enterprise; Noted Women of America and Europe; The People’s Book of Biography; Caricature and Other Comic Art; Topics of the Times (1871). See New England Magazine, January, 1893. Cr. Har. Hou.
Parton, Mrs. Sarah Payson [Willis] [Eldridge]. “Fanny Fern.” Me., 1811-1872. Wife of J. Parton, supra, and sister of N. P. Willis, infra. A once popular but now neglected writer who for some sixteen years contributed a weekly article to The New York Ledger. Her writing was fresh and piquant in style, but wholly ephemeral in character. Rose Clark, a novel; Ruth Hall, a novel more or less autobiographic; Fern Leaves; Folly as it Flies; Ginger Snaps; Caper Sauce. See Memoir by J. Parton, supra.
Partridge, William Ordway. F., 1861- ——. A sculptor of Milton, Massachusetts. Art for America; The Technique of Sculpture; The Song Life of a Sculptor. Gi. Rob.
Parvin, Theodore Sutton. N. J., 1817-1901. An educator of Iowa, professor in Iowa University, 1859-70. History of Iowa; History of Templary in Iowa.
Parvin, Theophilus. Ar., 1829-1898. A Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College, who was author of The Science and Art of Obstetrics.
Paschall, George Washington. Ga., 1812-1878. A jurist of Texas, and later of Washington, where he was professor of jurisprudence in Georgetown College. Annotated Digest of Texas Laws; Decisions of Texas Supreme Court; Annotated Constitution of the United States.
Patten, Claudius Buchanan. 1828-1886. A banker of Boston who published, in 1885, England as Seen by an American Banker. Lo.
Patten, George Washington. R. I., 1808-1882. Son of W. Patten, infra. An officer in the United States army who wrote the noted lyrics, The Seminole’s Reply; Joys that We’ve Tasted. His published books include, Army Manual; Infantry Tactics; Cavalry Drill; Voices of the Border, a volume of verse.
Patten, Simon Nelson. Il., 1852- ——. A professor of political economy in the University of Pennsylvania from 1888. The Stability of Prices; The Consumption of Wealth; Economic Basis of Protection; Principles of Rational Taxation; Educational Value of Political Economy; Theory of Dynamic Economics; The Premises of Political Economy; The Theory of Social Forces.
Patten, William. Ms., 1763-1839. A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island. Christianity the True Religion; Reminiscences of Samuel Hopkins, supra.
Patterson, Christopher Stuart. Pa., 1842- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor of the law of real estate in the University of Pennsylvania from 1887. Memoir of Theodore Cuyler; Railway Accident Law; Federal Restraints on State Action; The United States and the State under the Constitution.
Patterson, Robert. I., 1743-1824. A professor of mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, 1779-1814, and director of the Philadelphia Mint. The Newtonian System; Treatise on Arithmetic.
Patterson, Robert. I., 1829- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, California, from 1880. The Fables of Infidelity and the Facts of Faith; The American Sabbath; The Sabbath: Scientific, American, and Christian; Christianity the Only Republican Religion; Christ’s Testimony to the Scriptures; Egypt’s Place in History.
Patterson, Robert Mayne. Pa., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. History of Presbyterianism in Philadelphia; Paradise; Visions of Heaven; Elijah the Favored Man; History of the Synod of Pennsylvania.
Patton, Alfred Spencer. E., 1825-1888. A Baptist minister of Utica, and subsequently editor, in New York city, of The Baptist Weekly. Light in the Valley; My Joy and Crown; Kincaid, the Hero Missionary; The Losing and Taking of Mansoul.
Patton, Francis Landey. Ba., 1843- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, president of Princeton College from 1888. Inspiration of the Scriptures; Summary of Christian Doctrine.
Patton, Jacob Harris. Pa., 1812-1903. An historical writer of New York city. Concise History of the American People; Yorktown, 1781-1881; The Democratic Party: its History and Influence; Brief History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Natural Resources of the United States; Political Economy for American Youth; Four Hundred Years of American History; Political Parties in the United States. Fo. Lov.
Patton, William. Pa., 1798-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, founder of the Union Theological Seminary. The Laws of Fermentation and the Wines of the Ancients; The Judgment of Jerusalem Predicted in Scripture; Jesus of Nazareth; Bible Principles and Bible Characters.
Patton, William Weston. N. Y., 1821-1889. Grandson of W. Patton, supra. A Congregational clergyman in New York city, and president of Howard University from 1877. Spiritual Victory; Prayer and its Remarkable Answers; The Young Man’s Friend; Conscience and Law; Slavery and Infidelity. Fa.
Paul, John. See Webb, C. H.
Paulding, James Kirke. Md., 1779-1860. A versatile and once popular writer of New York city, the friend of Irving, and co-author with him of The Salmagundi Papers in 1807. He was secretary of the navy, 1837-41. His various writings include: The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, his most successful work; Salmagundi, a second series, 1819; Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, a novel; John Bull in America; The Dutchman’s Fireside; Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a travesty of the Lay of the Last Minstrel; Westward Ho; Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham; The Puritan and his Daughter; The New Mirror for Travellers; The Backwoodsman, a poem; The Bucktails, a Comedy; Letters from the South; Life of George Washington; Slavery in America, a spirited defence of that institution. See Literary Life of Paulding by his son; Appletons’ American Biography. Scr.
Payne, Charles Henry. Ms., 1830-1899. A Methodist clergyman and educator, president of Ohio Wesleyan University, 1876-88. The Social Glass and Christian Obligation; Daniel, the Uncompromising Young Man; Guides and Guards in Character-Building; Methodism, its History and Results; Temperance; Women and their Work in Methodism. Meth.
Payne, Daniel Alexander. S. C., 1811-1893. A Methodist bishop of African descent, president of Wilberforce University, 1865-76. Domestic Education; History of the African Methodist Church; Recollections of Men and Things.
Payne, John Howard. N. Y., 1792-1852. A dramatist and actor of New York city in whose drama of Clari, the Maid of Milan, occurs the famous lyric, Home, Sweet Home, his chief claim to remembrance. From 1841 till his death he was United States consul at Tunis, his remains being removed from there to Washington in 1883. His best plays include, Brutus; Virginius; Charles II. See American Magazine of History, May, 1881; Biographical Sketch by Brainard, 1885.
Payne, William Harold. N. Y., 1836- ——. An educator of Tennessee, chancellor of the University of Nashville, and president of Peabody Normal College from 1888. School Supervision; Outlines of Educational Doctrine; Contributions to the Science of Education; Lectures on Pedagogy. Ap.
Payne, Will[iam Hudson]. Il., 1865- ——. A journalist of Chicago. Jerry the Dreamer, a novel. Har.
Payne, William Morton. Ms., 1858- ——. An educator and literary critic of Chicago, professor of physical science in the High School. Our New Education; Little Leaders. Wy.
Payson, Edward. N. H., 1783-1827. A Congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, whose three volumes of Sermons were for a long time widely popular in the religious world. See Bibliography of Maine.
Payson, Edward. 1814-1890. A writer of Deering, Maine. The Law of Equivalents in its Relations to Political and Social Ethics; Doctor Tom; The Maine Law in the Balance. Hou. Le.
Peabody, Andrew Preston. Ms., 1811-1893. A Unitarian clergyman of eminence, pastor of a church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1833-60, and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard University, 1860-81. A conservative, tolerant thinker, greatly beloved by all within the sphere of his influence. Sermons of Consolation; Lectures on Christian Doctrine; Christianity the Fruit of Nature; Moral Philosophy; Faults and Graces of Conversation; Sermons for Children; Christianity and Science; King’s Chapel Sermons; Reminiscences of European Travel; Christian Belief and Life; Baccalaureate Sermons; Building a Character; Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Known; Harvard Reminiscences; translations of the ethical writings of Cicero and Plutarch’s Delay of Divine Justice. A. U. A. Hou. Lit. Rob.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Ms., 1804-1894. A noted educator of Boston, very active in awakening American interest in the kindergarten system, and in her early life associated in teaching with A. B. Alcott, supra, as related in her Record of a School. Her other works include: Chronological History of the United States; Kindergarten Guide; Æsthetic Papers; Lectures to Kindergartners; First Steps to History; Reminiscences of Dr. Channing; Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers. Le. Rob.
Peabody, Ephraim. N. H., 1807-1856. Cousin of A. P. Peabody, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, rector of King’s Chapel, 1846-56. Christian Days and Thoughts; Sermons (with Memoir by S. A. Eliot), 1857.
Peabody, Francis Greenwood. Ms., 1847- ——. Son of E. Peabody, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, Parkman professor of theology at Harvard University, 1880-86, and Plummer professor of Christian morals from 1886. Mornings in the College Chapel. Hou.
Peabody, Oliver William Bourne. N. H., 1799-1848. A lawyer and journalist of Boston, subsequently a Unitarian clergyman and pastor of a church in Burlington, Vermont, 1845-48. He published Lives of Generals Sullivan and Putnam, in Sparks’s American Biography, and an edition of Shakespeare with Life and Notes.
Peabody, William Bourne Oliver. N. H., 1799-1847. Twin brother of O. W. B. Peabody, supra. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of a church in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1820-47. He was the author of Lives of A. Wilson, Cotton Mather, Brainerd, and Oglethorpe, in Sparks’s American Biography; and Report on Birds of the Commonwealth. As a verse-writer he is best represented by such poems as Monadnock; Hymn of Nature; Winter Night.
Peacock, Thomas Brower. O., 1852- ——. A verse-writer of Topeka, whose ambitious lines are quite without poetic merit. The Rhyme of the Border War; The Vendetta; Poems of the Plains. Put.
Peale, Charles Wilson. Md., 1741-1827. An artist, inventor, and miscellaneous writer of Philadelphia, among whose works are, On Building Wooden Bridges; Domestic Happiness; Economy in Fuel. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Biography of, by R. Peale, infra; Boyle’s Distinguished Marylanders.
Peale, Rembrandt. Pa., 1778-1860. Son of C. W. Peale, supra. An artist of Philadelphia. Notes on Italy; Portfolio of an Artist; Graphics. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists.
Pearson, Jonathan. N. H., 1813-1887. A genealogist who was professor of chemistry and subsequently of botany at Union College from 1839. Early Records of the County of Albany; Genealogy of the First Settlers of Albany; Genealogies of the First Settlers of Schenectady.
Pease, Theodore Claudius. N. Y., 1853-1893. A Congregational clergyman of Malden, Massachusetts. The Christian Ministry. Hou.
Peaselee, Edmund Randolph. N. H., 1814-1878. A physician of New York city, medical professor in several institutions. Human Histology; Ovarian Tumors. Ap.
Peattie, Mrs. Elia Wilkinson. Mch., 1862- ——. A journalist of Chicago. The Judge, a novel; A Trip through Wonderland, a volume of Alaska travel; With Scrip and Staff, a story of the Children’s Crusade; A Mountain Woman. Wy.
Peck, George. N. Y., 1797-1876. A Methodist clergyman of prominence who was editor of several denominational journals. Christian Perfection; Early Methodism; Wyoming and its History; Universalism Examined; History of the Apostles and Evangelists; Rule of Faith; Manly Character, include his chief works. See Life and Times of, by himself. Meth.
Peck, George Washington. Ms., 1817-1859. A journalist of Boston and New York. Melbourne and the Chinchu Islands.
Peck, George Wesley. Pa., 1849- ——. Great-nephew of J. T. Peck, infra. A Methodist clergyman of Western New York. The Realization and Benefit of Ideals; Walk in the Light.
Peck, George Wilbur. N. Y., 1840- ——. A Wisconsin politician, successively mayor of Milwaukee and governor of Wisconsin. Peck’s Bad Boy; Compendium of Fun, and other works of his, represent almost the lowest depths of vulgarity to which American humour has descended.
Peck, Harry Thurston. Ct., 1856- ——. A professor of Latin at Columbia College and a literary critic. Latin Pronunciation; The Semitic Theory of Creation; The Personal Equation. Har.
Peck, Jesse Truesdell. N. Y., 1811-1883. Brother of G. Peck, supra. A bishop in the Methodist church. The Central Idea of Christianity; The True Woman; What Must I Do to be Saved?; The Great Republic. Meth.
Peck, John Lord. 18— - ——. The Ultimate Generalization of Science; The Political Economy of Democracy and Capital and Labor.
Peck, John Mason. Ct., 1789-1858. A Baptist general missionary in the Western States. New Guide for Emigrants to the West (1836); Father Clark, or the Pioneer Preacher.
Peck, Samuel Minturn. Al., 1854- ——. A popular lyric poet and physician of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cap and Bells; Rings and Love Knots; Rhymes and Roses; Fair Women of To-Day. Sto.
Peck, William Guy. Ct., 1820-1892. A soldier and mathematician, professor in Columbia College from 1857. Elementary Mechanics; Popular Astronomy; and a complete course of mathematical text-books.
Peck, William Henry. Ga., 1830-189-. An educator of Georgia and a prolific writer of sensational novels remarkable for an entire absence of any literary quality. Among them are The McDonalds, or the Ashes of Southern Homes; The Confederate Flag of the Ocean; The Brother’s Vengeance. See Davidson’s Living Writers of the South.
Pedder, James. E., 1775-1859. An agricultural writer who came to America in 1832, and settled in Philadelphia as a sugar manufacturer. From 1844 to 1859 he edited The Boston Cultivator. The Farmer’s Land Measure; The Yellow Shoestrings; Frank.
Peebles, Mrs. Mary Louise [Parmelee]. “Lynde Palmer.” N. Y., 1833- ——. A writer of religious juvenile tales and other works, among them being The Little Captain; Helps Over Hard Places; The Good Fight; Where Honour Leads; A Question of Honour, a story; The Magnet Stones; The Two Blizzards. Do. Kt.
Peers, Benjamin Orrs. Va., 1800-1842. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Kentucky, founder of the common school system of Kentucky. American Education.
Peet, Harvey Prindle. Ct., 1794-1873. A noted educator of deaf-mutes in New York city. Course of Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb; Legal Rights of the Deaf and Dumb; History of the United States, include his most important writings.
Peet, Stephen Denison. O., 1830- ——. A Congregational minister, eminent as an anthropologist. The Ashtabula Disaster; History of Ashtabula County, Ohio; Ancient Architecture in America; History of Early Missions in Wisconsin; Picture Writing; Primitive Symbolisms; The Effigy Mounds of Wisconsin. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.
Peffer, William Alfred. Pa., 1831- ——. A prominent lawyer and journalist of Kansas, and well known as a Populist Congressman. Tariff Manual; The Way Out.
Peirce [pêrss], Benjamin. Ms., 1778-1831. A merchant of Salem, Massachusetts, subsequently librarian of Harvard University, who published a History of Harvard University from 1636 to the American Revolution.
Peirce, Benjamin. Ms., 1809-1880. Son of B. Peirce, supra. An eminent mathematician, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard University, 1833-67. Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Elementary Treatise on Sound; Curves, Functions, and Forces; Ideality in the Physical Sciences, compromise his most important works.
Peirce, Benjamin Osgood. Ms., 1854- ——. Kinsman of preceding. A professor of physics at Harvard University from 1884, and author of Theory of the Newtonian Potential Functions. Gi.
Peirce, Bradford Kinney. Vt., 1819-1889. A Methodist clergyman and journalist, editor of Zion’s Herald, 1872-88. Bible Scholar’s Manual; The Eminent Dead; Notes on the Acts; The Word of God Opened; A Half Century with Juvenile Delinquents; Trials of an Inventor; Audubon’s Adventures; Stories from Life which the Chaplain Told; The Chaplain with the Children; The Young Shetlander and His Home; Hymns of the Higher Life. Meth.
Peirce, Charles Sanders. Ms., 1839- ——. Son of B. Peirce, 2d, supra. A physician and lecturer on logic. Studies in Logic; Photometric Researches.
Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver. Ms., 1822- ——. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Peirce Family of the Old Colony; Indian History, Biography, and Genealogy; Contributions, Biographical, etc.
Peirce, James Mills. Ms., 1834- ——. Son of B. Peirce, 2d, supra. An educator of Cambridge, professor of mathematics in Harvard University from 1867. Text-Book of Analytical Geometry; Elements of Logarithms, are among his technical works. Gi.
Peirson, Mrs. Lydia Jane [Wheeler]. Ct., 1802-1862. A verse-writer of Adrian, Michigan. Forest Leaves, and Other Poems; The Forest Minstrel. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Pellew, [William] George. E., 1859-1892. A littérateur of New York city. Jane Austen’s Novels, a Dissertation; In Castle and Cabin, or Talks in Ireland; Woman and the Commonwealth; Life of John Jay. Hou.
Pemberton, Ebenezer. Ms., 1704-1777. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent as a loyalist in Boston at the opening of the Revolution. Sermons on Several Subjects; Practical Discourses; Salvation by Grace; Occasional Sermons. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Pendleton, Edmund Monroe. 1815-1884. A physician who published Scientific Agriculture (1876).
Pendleton, James Madison. Va., 1811-1891. A Baptist clergyman of Upland, Pennsylvania. Three Reasons Why I Am a Baptist; Church Manual; Christian Doctrines; Sermons; Distinctive Principles of Baptists; Atonement of Christ. Bap.
Pendleton, Louis [Beauregard]. Ga., 1861- ——. A novelist of Philadelphia. Bewitched, and Other Stories; In the Wire Grass, a novel of Southern Georgia; King Tom and the Runaways, a juvenile tale; The Wedding Garment, a Tale of the Life to Come; The Sons of Ham; Corona of the Nantahalas; In the Okefenokee, a juvenile tale. Ap. Cas. Mer. Rob.
Pendleton, William Nelson. Va., 1809-1883. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Virginia, a Confederate officer during the Civil War, and subsequently rector of Grace Church, Lexington, Virginia. Science a Witness for the Bible. See Memoirs of, by E. P. Lee. Lip.
Penhallow, Samuel. E., 1665-1726. A citizen of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, chief justice of New Hampshire, 1717-26. He published in 1726 a realistic and valuable History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Penick, Charles Clifton. Va., 1843- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of the West African Mission. He was consecrated in 1877, resigned in 1883, and is now (1897) a general agent at Baltimore of the commission on work among the coloured people. More than a Prophet, or Chapters on St. John the Evangelist.
Penn, Arthur. See Matthews, J. B.
Pennell, Mrs. Elizabeth [Robins]. Pa., 1855- ——. Niece of C. G. Leland, supra, and wife of J. Pennell, infra. A writer who has lived in London for many years. Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A Canterbury Pilgrimage; Two Pilgrims’ Progress; Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Our Journey to the Hebrides; To Gipsyland; Play in Provence; The Feasts of Autolycus. Cent. Har. Mer. Rob. Scr.
Pennell, Joseph. Pa., 1859- ——. An artist living in London who has illustrated his wife’s books, and published Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen; The Jew at Home; Modern Illustration. Ap. Mac.
Penny, Virginia. Ky., 1826- ——. An educator who has written much in relation to wider opportunities for women. The Employment of Women; Five Hundred Occupations Adapted to Women; Think and Act.
Pennypacker, Isaac Rusling. Pa., 1852- ——. A journalist and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Gettysburg, and Other Poems.
Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker. Pa., 1843- ——. A jurist of Philadelphia. Annals of Phœnixville; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports; Historical and Biographical Sketches.
Pentecost, George Frederick. Il., 1843- ——. A Congregational minister in Brooklyn, 1881-90, and subsequently an evangelist in America and England. The Angel in the Marble; In the Volume of the Book; Out of Egypt; The Christian and the Modern Dance; Bible Studies; The Gospel of Luke; Grace Abounding in the Forgiveness of Sins. Bar. Rev.
Pepper, George Dana Boardman. Ms., 1833- ——. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Colby University from 1882. Outlines of Theology.
Pepper, William. Pa., 1843-1898. An eminent Philadelphia physician, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1881-94. Higher Medical Education; Diseases of Children (with J. F. Meigs, supra). Lip.
Perce, Elbert. N. Y., 1831-1869. A littérateur of New York city. Old Carl the Cooper; The Last of His Name; The Battle Roll; Gulliver Joi: his Three Voyages; and several translations from the Swedish of Carlén.
Percival, James Gates. Ct., 1795-1856. A verse-writer once popular, but now wholly neglected. His verse is not unmusical, but seldom rises much above mediocrity. Seneca Lake and The Coral Grove are still found lingering in anthologies. Prometheus; Clio; Dream of a Day; Poems, include his poetical works. He was a geologist of some reputation, and published Geological Surveys of Connecticut and Wisconsin. See Life and Letters, by Julius Ward, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Percy, Florence. See Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth.
Perkins, Charles Callahan. Ms., 1823-1886. A prominent art patron and critic of Boston. Raphael and Michael Angelo; Tuscan Sculptors; Italian Sculptors; Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture; Ghiberti et son école; Art in Education; History of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society. Hou. Scr.
Perkins, Eli. See Landon.
Perkins, Mrs. Elmira [Johnson]. Me., 1814-1896. A missionary among the Indians in Oregon. Her later life was passed in Boston. Harp of the Willows, a volume of verse.
Perkins, Frederic Beecher. Ct., 1828-1899. Grandson of Lyman Beecher, supra. A librarian. Scrope, or the Lost Library, a novel; Devil Puzzlers, and Other Studies; My Three Conversations with Miss Chester; Life of Dickens; Check List of American Local History, include the more important of his writings.
Perkins, George Henry. Ms., 1844- ——. A naturalist, State entomologist of Vermont. The Injurious Insects of Vermont; The Flora of Vermont.
Perkins, George Roberts. N. Y., 1812-1876. An educator of New York State, who published Plane and Solid Geometry, and other mathematical text-books.
Perkins, James Breck. Wis., 1847- ——. A lawyer of Rochester, New York. France Under Mazarin; France Under the Regency; France under Louis XV. Hou. Put.
Perkins, James Handasyd. Ms., 1810-1849. A Unitarian clergyman of Cincinnati, very active in the cause of prison discipline reform. Annals of the West. See Memoir by his cousin, W. H. Channing, supra.
Perkins, Justin. Ms., 1805-1869. A Congregational missionary in Persia. Residence of Eight Years in Persia; Missionary Life in Persia.
Perkins, Maurice. Ct., 1836-1901. A professor of chemistry at Union College from 1865, author of a Manual of Qualitative Analysis.
Perkins, Samuel. Ct., 1767-1850. A lawyer of Windham, Connecticut. History of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain (1825); General Jackson’s Conduct in the Seminole War; Historical Sketches of the United States.
Perkins, William Rufus. Pa., 1847-1895. An educator and poet, professor of history in the Iowa State University, 1887-95. He was the author of two careful historical monographs, History of the Trappist Abbey of New Melleray; and History of the Amana Society; and of Eleusis and Lesser Poems, a striking collection of musical meditative verse. Mg.
Perrin, Mrs. Martha Chamberlin [Drinker]. Pa., 186- - ——. Chansons du Matin. Put.
Perrin, Raymond S——. N. Y., 1849- ——. The Student’s Dreams; The Religion of Philosophy, or the Unification of Knowledge. Put.
Perrine, William Henry. N. Y., 1827-1880. A Methodist clergyman, professor for some years in Albion College, Michigan. The Principles of Church Government with Special Application to the Polity of Episcopal Methodism.
Perry, Amos. Ms., 1812-1899. A Providence writer who was superintendent of the State census in 1865. Carthage and Tunis is his only work of importance.
Perry, Arthur Latham. N. H., 1830- ——. A professor of history and political economy at Williams College from 1853, and a prominent advocate of free trade. Elements of Political Economy; Introduction to Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; Origins of Williamstown. Scr.
Perry, Benjamin Franklin. S. C., 1805-1886. A lawyer of South Carolina, provisional governor of his State at the close of the Civil War. Reminiscences of Public Men; Sketches of Eminent Statesmen (1887).
Perry, Bliss. Ms., 1860- ——. Son of A. L. Perry, supra. Editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1899, and a professor of English literature at Princeton University, 1893-1900. The Plated City; Salem Kittredge, and Other Stories; The Broughton House; Powers at Play. Ho. Lgs. Scr.
Perry, Carlotta. See Perry, Charlotte.
Perry, Charlotte Augusta. “Carlotta Perry.” Wis., 1848- ——. A popular verse-writer of Milwaukee. Carlotta Perry’s Poems.
Perry, Edward Delevan. N. Y., 1854- ——. A professor of Sanskrit in Columbia College. Indra in the Rigveda; A Sanskrit Primer.
Perry, Mary Alice. Ms., 1854-1883. A writer of fiction. Esther Pennefather; More Ways Than One. Har.
Perry, Nora. Ms., 1832-1896. A poet and littérateur of Boston. Her verse was popular, and had not unfrequently the genuine poetic ring, while her stories for girls were animated and fresh. Her verse includes, After the Ball, and Other Poems; Her Lover’s Friend, and Other Poems; New Songs and Ballads; Legends and Lyrics. Her prose work comprises, The Tragedy of the Unexpected, and Other Stories; For a Woman, a novel; The Youngest Miss Lorton, and Other Stories; A Book of Love Stories; A Rosebud Garden of Girls; A Flock of Girls and their Friends; A Flock of Girls and Boys; Another Flock of Girls; Three Little Daughters of the Revolution; Hope Benham. Hou. Lit.
Perry, Rufus Lewis. Tn., 1833-1895. A Baptist clergyman of African descent, widely known as a linguist. Among his various writings is The Cushite, or the Children of Ham as seen by Ancient Historians and Poets.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant. R. I., 1845- ——. An educator of Boston. English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Life of Lieber; From Opitz to Lessing, a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature; The Evolution of the Snob; History of Greek Literature. Ho. Hou.
Perry, William Stevens. R. I., 1832-1898. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Iowa, prominent among High Churchmen. The Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church; The History of the American Episcopal Church; Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs; Some Summer Days Abroad; The General Ecclesiastical Constitution of the American Church; The American Episcopate. Wh.
Peters, Christian Henry Frederick. Sd., 1813-1890. A German astronomer, director of the observatory at Hamilton College, 1858-90, who discovered over forty asteroids. Celestial Charts.
Peters, Edward Dyer. Ms., 1849- ——. A metallurgist who has published Modern American Methods of Copper Smelting.
Peters, George Nathaniel Henry. Pa., 1825- ——. A Lutheran minister of Ohio. The Theocratic Kingdom of Christ.
Peters, John Charles. N. Y., 1819-1893. A physician of New York city of note as a bacteriologist. Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System; Diseases of Women; Diseases of the Eye; Notes on Asiatic Cholera; A New Materia Medica, are among his works.
Peters, Mrs. Phillis [Wheatley]. Sl., 1754-1784. A verse-writer of African birth brought to Boston in childhood as a slave. Poems on Various Occasions, Religious and Moral, appeared in London in 1772, and won a fleeting popularity there, the author being regarded as a prodigy. But there is little in her work that should keep it in remembrance. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Peters, Samuel Andrew. Ct., 1735-1826. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford who published a famous General History of Connecticut by a Gentleman of that Province, a curious satirical production, to which may be traced the well-known fable of the Connecticut Blue Laws. Other works of his include a Life of Rev. Hugh Peters; History of Hebron, Connecticut.
Peterson, Arthur. Pa., 1851- ——. Son of H. Peterson, infra. A naval officer who has published Songs of New Sweden.
Peterson, Charles Jacobs. Pa., 1818-1887. A Philadelphia publisher and novelist, the founder of Peterson’s Magazine. Kate Aylesford; Cruising in the Last War; Military Heroes of the United States; Grace Dudley, or Arnold at Saratoga; Mabel, or Darkness and Dawn; The Old Stone Mansion, include his principal writings.
Peterson, Frederick. Min., 1859- ——. A physician and verse-writer. Poems and Swedish Translations; In the Shade of Ygdrasil (verse).
Peterson, Mrs. Hannah [Bouvier]. Pa., 1811-1870. First wife of R. E. Peterson, infra. Familiar Astronomy.
Peterson, Henry. Pa., 1818-1891. Cousin of C. J. Peterson, supra. A Philadelphia verse-writer, and editor for many years of The Saturday Evening Post. The Modern Job, and Other Poems; Faire-Mount; Bessie’s Lovers; Cæsar, a Dramatic Study.
Peterson, Robert Evans. Pa., 1812-1894. Brother of H. Peterson, supra. A Philadelphia writer whose principal work is The Roman Catholic not the Only True Religion. Lip.
Pettingill, Amos. N. H., 1780-1830. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Connecticut. View of the Heavens; The Spirit of Methodism. See Memoir of, by Hart, 1832.
Pettingill, John Hancock. Vt., 1815-1887. A Congregational clergyman in Ohio, widely known as an earnest believer in conditional immortality. The Theological Trilemma; Platonism versus Christianity; Bible Terminology; Life Everlasting; The Unspeakable Gift; Views and Reviews in Eschatology.
Peyton, John Lewis. Va., 1824-1896. A lawyer of Staunton, Virginia, who served as an officer in the Confederate service. Adventures of my Grandfather; History of Augusta County, Virginia; The American Crisis; Over the Alleghanies; Memorials of Nature and Art.
Phelan, James. Mi., 1856-1891. A Memphis lawyer and journalist. Philip Massinger and his Plays; History of Tennessee. Hou.
Phelps, Mrs. Almira [Hart] [Lincoln]. Ct., 1793-1884. A noted educator of Baltimore who published many text-books on the natural sciences. Among her works are, Geology for Beginners; Christian Households; Ida Norman, a tale; Familiar Lectures on Botany; Hours with my Pupils. See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record. Lip.
Phelps, Austin. Ms., 1820-1890. A Congregational clergyman of Andover, Massachusetts, professor of sacred rhetoric in the Theological Seminary there, 1848-79. The Still Hour; The New Birth; The Theory of Preaching; English Style in Public Discourse; The Solitude of Christ; Studies of the Old Testament; Men and Books; My Study, and Other Essays; My Portfolio; My Note-Book. See Life by his daughter, Mrs. Ward, 1891. C. P. S. Lo. Scr.
Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth [Stuart]. Ms., 1815-1853. Wife of A. Phelps, supra. A writer whose Sunnyside, and A Peep at Number Five, stories descriptive of clerical life, were once widely popular. She wrote, also, Last Sheaf from Sunnyside, and a number of Sunday-school tales, the latter over the signature “H. Trusta.”
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Daughter of A. and E. S. Phelps, supra. See Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth.
Phelps, John Wolcott. Vt., 1813-1885. Stepson of Mrs. Almira Phelps, supra. A writer of Brattleboro, Vermont, who was an officer in the United States army in the Mexican War and became a brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the Civil War. In 1880 he was the presidential nominee of the American party. Sibylline Leaves; Good Behavior; History of Madagascar; The Fables of Florian in English Verse.
Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden. Ct., 1816-1895. A Baptist clergyman of New Haven, and subsequently of Hartford. Eloquence of Nature, and Other Poems; Sunlight and Heartlight, and Other Poems; The Poet’s Song for Heart and Home; Bible Lands; Sermons in the Four Quarters of the Globe.
Phelps, Thomas Stowell. Me., 1822-1901. A rear-admiral in the United States navy who retired in 1885. Reminiscences of Washington Territory (1882).
Phelps, William Lyon. Ct., 1865- ——. An instructor at Yale University. The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement. Gi.
Philbrick, Edward Southwick. Ms., 1827-1889. A sanitarian who published American Sanitary Engineering, 1881.
Philbrick, John Dudley. N. H., 1818-1886. A prominent educator of Boston who published nearly fifty valuable public-school reports, and City School Systems in the United States.
Philips, Samuel. Md., 1823- ——. A German Reformed clergyman, professor in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1866. Gethsemane and the Cross; The Christian Home; The Voice of Blood; The Communion of Saints.
Phillips, Barnet. Pa., 1828- ——. A journalist of New York city, on the staff of The Times from 1872. The Struggle, a novel; Burning their Ships.
Phillips, George. E., 1593-1644. A Puritan clergyman, minister at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1630 till his death. He was a noted controversialist of his day, and published a treatise on Infant Baptism.
Phillips, George Searle. “January Searle.” E., 1818-1889. A writer and lecturer of Yorkshire, England, who, after some years of literary work in the United States, became, in 1873, an inmate of an insane asylum in New Jersey. Chapters in the History of a Life; Life of Ebenezer Elliott; Memoirs of Wordsworth; The Gypsies of the Dane’s Dyke; Chicago and Her Churches.
Phillips, Henry. Pa., 1838-1895. A lawyer of Philadelphia. History of American Colonial Paper Currency; History of American Continental Paper Money; Pleasures of Numismatic Science; Poems from the Spanish and German; Faust, from the German of Chamisso.
Phillips, Maude Gillette. Ms., 1860- ——. An educator who has published A Popular Manual of English Literature. Har.
Phillips, Wendell. Ms., 1811-1884. A celebrated orator of Boston, a vehement opponent of slavery, and an active champion of labor reform and woman-suffrage. The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Contract; Lectures, Orations, and Letters to 1861; Speeches, Lectures, and Addresses; The Scholar in a Republic. See Lives by G. L. Austin, C. Martyn; Appletons’ American Biography.
Phillips, Willard. Ms., 1784-1873. A lawyer of Boston. Treatise on the Law of Insurance; Manual of Political Economy; The Law of Patents; The Inventor’s Guide; Protection and Free Trade. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Phin, John. S., 1832- ——. A New York publisher of technical journals. Open-Air Grape Culture; Chemical History of the Creation; Practical Treatise on Lightning Rods; How to Use the Microscope; Workshop Companion; Preparation and Use of Cements and Glue; Dictionary of Practical Agriculture; Trade Secrets and Private Recipes; A Pocket Dictionary of Monetary and Coinage Terms.
Phœnix, John. See Derby, George.
Phyfe, William Henry Pinkney. N. Y., 1855- ——. An author of New York city. How Should I Pronounce? The School Pronouncer; Seven Thousand Words Often Mispronounced; The Test Pronouncer; Five Thousand Words Commonly Misspelled. Put.
Piatt [pē-ăt´], Donn. O., 1819-1891. A lawyer and journalist of Washington, and during the Civil War a Federal officer. Sunday Meditations; Memories of the Men who Saved the Union; Poems and Plays; Life of General George H. Thomas; The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah (verse). See Life of, by C. G. Miller, 1893. Clke.
Piatt, John James. Ind., 1835- ——. Nephew of D. Piatt, supra. A poet who was consul at Cork, 1882-93. He has been a prolific writer of verse, but The Morning Street, one of his earlier poems, still ranks as his finest effort. Landmarks; Western Windows; Poems of House and Home; Idyls and Lyrics of the Ohio Valley; Poems in Sunshine and Firelight; The Lost Farm, and Other Poems; At the Holy Well; A Dream of Church Windows (a revised edition of Poems of House and Home); The Lost Hunting Ground; Little New World Idyls; Poems by Two Friends (with W. D. Howells, supra); The Children Out of Doors; and Nests at Washington (with Mrs. Piatt). His prose is included in Penciled Fly-Leaves; A Return to Paradise. Clke. Hou. Ls.
Piatt, Mrs. Sarah Morgan [Bryan]. Ky., 1836- ——. Wife of J. J. Piatt, supra. A poet whose range of expression is not very wide, but, within its limits, genuine and original. A Woman’s Poems; A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and Other Poems; That New World, and Other Poems; Dramatic Persons and Moods; An Irish Garland; In Primrose Time; The Witch in the Glass; Complete Poems (1894); An Enchanted Castle; Child’s World Ballads. See Wide-Awake Magazine, November, 1876. Clke. Hou. Lgs.
Picard, George Henry. O., 1850- ——. A physician and novelist of New York city. A Matter of Taste; A Mission Flower; Old Boniface.
Pick, Bernhard. P., 1842- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Pennsylvania, prior to 1884 a Presbyterian minister. Luther as a Hymnist; Historical Sketch of the Jews; Life of Christ according to Extra-Canonical Sources; Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers; The Talmud: What It Is.
Pickard, Samuel Thomas. Ms., 1828- ——. A writer who for many years edited the Portland (Maine) Transcript. Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Hou.
Pickering, Charles. Pa., 1805-1878. A grandson of Timothy Pickering, the noted statesman. A naturalist of eminence. Races of Men and their Geographical Distribution; Geographical Distribution of Animals and Men; Chronological History of Plants. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Pickering, Edward Charles. Ms., 1846- ——. Son of C. Pickering, supra. The director of Harvard Observatory at Cambridge, and author of Elements of Physical Manipulation. Hou.
Pickering, Henry. N. Y., 1781-1838. The third son of the statesman, Timothy Pickering. A verse-writer of New York who published Ruins of Pæstum; Athens, and Other Poems; The Buckwheat Cake.
Pickering, John. Ms., 1777-1846. The eldest son of Timothy Pickering. A lawyer of Boston and a linguist of eminence. Greek and English Lexicon; Collection of Words and Phrases Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States; Remarks on the Indian Languages of North America. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Lip.
Pickering, Octavius. Pa., 1791-1868. Brother of J. Pickering, supra. A Boston lawyer who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1822-40; and Life of Timothy Pickering (completed by Upham).
Pickering, William Henry. Ms., 1858- ——. Son of C. Pickering, supra. An astronomer, professor in Harvard University from 1887. Walking Guide to the White Mountain Range.
Pickett, Albert James. N. C., 1810-1858. A writer of Montgomery, Alabama, who published a History of Alabama.
Pierce, Edward Lillie. Ms., 1829-1897. A prominent Boston lawyer. American Railroad Law; Life of Charles Sumner; The Law of Railroads; Enfranchisement and Citizenship. Lit. Rob.
Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Ms., 1856- ——. An Illinois writer who has written town histories of Barre and Grafton, Massachusetts, and of Rockford, Illinois; The Harwood Genealogy; Pierce History and Genealogy; Peirce History and Genealogy; Pearse and Pearce Genealogy.
Pierce, Henry Niles. R. I., 1820-1899. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Arkansas, consecrated in 1870. The Agnostic, and Other Poems. Wh.
Pierpont, John. Ct., 1785-1866. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Hollis Street Church, 1819-45. He wrote a volume of sacred verse, Airs of Palestine, and a number of domestic lyrics, which were very popular, Passing Away being the best known of any. He compiled several school readers, the most noted of which was The American First-Class Book. See Atlantic Monthly, December, 1866. Lip.
Pierrepont, Edward Willoughby. N. Y., 1860-1885. A chargé d’affaires at Rome at the time of his death. From Fifth Avenue to Alaska.
Pierson, Arthur Tappan. N. Y., 1837- ——. A Congregational clergyman of note. Acts of the Holy Spirit; Many Infallible Proofs; The Crisis of Missions; The Miracles of Missions; The Divine Art of Preaching; The Heart of the Gospel; Keys to the Word; Lessons on Prayer, comprise his more important works. Fu. Ran. Rev.
Pierson, Mrs. Cornelia [Tuthill]. Ct., 1820-1870. Daughter of Mrs. Tuthill, infra. Our Little Comfort; Wreaths and Blossoms for the Church; When are we Happiest?; The Belle, the Blue, and the Bigot, are among her works.
Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox. N. Y., 1817-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman in Kentucky. Thomas Jefferson at Monticello; In the Brush, or Old-Time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the Southwest. Ap.
Pike, Albert. Ms., 1809-1891. A lawyer and journalist of Little Rock, Memphis, and Washington successively, who served as an officer in the Confederate army. His writings include, Hymns to the Gods; Prose Sketches and Poems; Nugæ, a collection of Poems; Arkansas Supreme Court Reports, 1840-45. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Pike, James Shepherd. Me., 1811-1882. A journalist of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, 1861-66. A Prostrate State; The Restoration of the Currency; The Financial Crisis; Horace Greeley in 1872; The First Blows of the Civil War; The New Puritan: New England Two Hundred Years Ago. Har.
Pike, Mrs. Mary Hayden [Green]. Me., 1825- ——. A once popular novelist. Ida May; Caste; Agnes; Bond and Free.
Pilcher, Elijah Homes. O., 1810-1887. A Methodist clergyman of Michigan who wrote a History of Protestantism in Michigan.
Pilling, James Constantine. D. C., 1840-1895. An ethnologist of distinction in the government service, among whose writings are Bibliographies of the Languages of the North American Indians, of the Eskimoan Languages, of the Siouan, of the Iroquoian, and others.
Pillsbury, Parker. Ms., 1809-1898. A noted anti-slavery agitator. Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles.
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth. S. C., 1812-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston. Life of General Thomas Pinckney. Hou.
Pindar, Susan. N. Y., c. 1820-1892. Susan Pindar’s Story Books; Legends of the Flowers.
Pinkerton, Allan. S., 1819-1884. A Chartist who came to America in 1842 and settled in Chicago, where he founded a famous detective agency. Among his many detective stories are, The Molly Maguires and the Detectives; Criminal Reminiscences; The Spy of the Rebellion; Thirty Years a Detective; Railroad Forgers and the Detectives.
Pinkney, Edward Coate. E., 1802-1828. A lyric poet of Baltimore who published his Poems in 1825. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Piper, Richard Upton. N. H., 1818- ——. A Chicago physician. Operative Surgery; The Trees of America.
Pise [pize], Charles Constantine. Md., 1802-1866. A once prominent Roman Catholic clergyman of Brooklyn. History of the Church to the Reformation; The Acts of the Apostles in Blank Verse; Father Rowland; Indian Cottage, a Unitarian Story; The Pleasures of Religion, and Other Poems; Horæ Vagabundæ; Alethia; Zenosius; Letters to Ada; Lives of St. Ignatius and his First Companions; Notes on a Protestant Catechism; Christianity and the Church.
Pitkin, Timothy. Ct., 1766-1847. A lawyer and politician of Connecticut, prominent as a Federalist congressman. A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States; Political and Civil History of the United States, 1763-1847.
Pitman, Benn. E., 1822- ——. A stenographer of Cincinnati, and in his later years an art instructor of the school of design at the University of Cincinnati. The Reporter’s Companion; Manual of Phonography; Phonographic Dictionary (with J. B. Howard).
Pitman, Mrs. Marie J—— [Davis]. N. Y., 1850-1888. A journalist and correspondent of Boston who published European Breezes and a number of juvenile stories.
Pittenger, William. O., 1840- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Philadelphia, a Federal soldier during the Civil War. Daring and Suffering; Oratory, Sacred and Secular; Extempore Speech.
Pitzer, Alexander White. Va., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Washington, professor of biblical literature in Howard University from 1875. Ecce Deus Homo; Christ the Teacher of Men; The New Life and Not the Higher Life.
Platt, Franklin. Pa., 1844-1900. A Pennsylvania geologist, president of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal Company from 1881. Coke Manufacturing; Waste in Mining Anthracite, and other volumes of geological reports.
Platt, William Henry. N. Y., 1821-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Rochester, New York, and more recently of Petersburg, Virginia. Influence of Religion in the Development of Jurisprudence; After Death—What?; God Out and Man In; The Philosophy of the Supernatural.
Pleasanton, Augustus James. D. C., 1808-1894. An army officer prominent for a short time as the author of a work on the Influence of the Blue Ray in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life.
Plumer [plŭm´er], William. N. H., 1789-1854. A New Hampshire lawyer who was an active congressional opponent of slavery. Lyra Sacra; A Pastoral on the Story of Ruth.
Plumer, William Swan. Pa., 1802-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of extreme Calvinistic views, professor of theology in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, 1856-80. His principal writings include, Pastoral Theology; Jehovah-jireh; Studies in the Book of Psalms; The Book of Our Salvation; Words of Truth and Love; The Saint and the Sinner; Vital Godliness; Commentary on Romans; A Word to the Weary. Har. Lip. Ran.
Plympton, George Washington. Ms., 1827- ——. A civil engineer of note, editor of Van Nostrand’s Engineering Magazine, 1870-86. The Blowpipe; The Starfinder; The Aneroid.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Ms., 1809-1849. A poet and romancer who is pronounced by some critics the foremost of American poets so far as melody and technique are concerned. He was born in Boston, his parents being actors then playing in that city, and, left an orphan at an early age, was adopted and educated by Mr. Allan, a Virginia merchant. At nineteen he published his first volume, Tamerlane, and Other Poems. He led a wandering, dissipated life, editing at various times Graham’s Magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger, and other periodicals, and died of delirium tremens in Baltimore. He criticized the work of his contemporaries with severity, yet in the main with justice, but in so doing raised up a host of literary enemies. Among his prose tales, The Gold Bug; The Fall of the House of Usher; Ligeia, are especially characteristic of his genius, while such poems as The Bells, The Raven, Annabel Lee, display wonderful melody and perfect mastery of metre. Beside Tamerlane, his writings include, The Conchologist’s First Book; Eureka, a Prose Poem; The Raven, and Other Poems; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The best edition of Poe is that edited by E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, in ten volumes (1895). See Lives by Stoddard, Didier, Ingram, Woodberry; Fortnightly Review, July, 1880; Poe and his Critics by Mrs. Whitman; Stedman’s Poets of America. Co. Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac. Sto.
Poinsett, Joel Roberts. S. C., 1779-1851. A South Carolina statesman, sent on a special mission to Mexico in 1822, minister to that country 1825-29, and secretary of war under President Van Buren. He was a botanist of some note, the genus Poinsettia having been named in his honour. Notes on Mexico, made in 1822.
Pollard, Edward Albert. Va., 1828-1872. A once noted journalist of Richmond, Virginia, and an active opponent of the policy of Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. Black Diamonds; Letters of the Southern Spy; Southern History of the War; Observations in the North; The Lost Cause; The Lost Cause Regained; Lee and his Lieutenants; Life of Jefferson Davis, with the Secret History of the Confederacy; The Virginia Tourist. Lip.
Pollard, Josephine. N. Y., 1834-1892. A littérateur of New York city, whose work was mainly intended for juvenile readers. The Gypsy Books; A Piece of Silver; Elfin Land; Vagrant Verses; Songs of Bird Life; The Decorative Sisters; The Boston Tea Party; Gellivor, a Christmas Legend. Meth. Ran.
Pomeroy, Brick. See Pomeroy, Marcus.
Pomeroy, John Norton. N. Y., 1828-1885. A lawyer of Rochester, New York, but subsequently professor of law in the University of California, 1878-85. Introduction to Municipal Law; Remedies and Remedial Rights; Specific Performance of Contract; Equity Jurisprudence; Riparian Rights; Introduction to United States Constitutional Law; Lectures on International Law in Time of Peace. Hou. Lit.
Pomeroy, Marcus Mills. “Brick Pomeroy.” N. Y., 1833-1896. A journalist successively of La Crosse, Wisconsin, New York city (where he established Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat), and Chicago. Sense; Nonsense; Gold Dust; Brick Dust; Our Saturday Nights; Home Harmonies; Perpetual Money.
Pond, Enoch. Ms., 1791-1882. A Congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, Maine, from 1832, and its president from 1856. Text-Book of Ecclesiastical History; Pastoral Theology; Memoir of Zinzendorf; Life of Increase Mather; Plato: his Life, Works, Opinions, and Influence; Christian Theology; History of God’s Church, are among his works. See Autobiography; Bibliography of Maine. C. P. S.
Pond, Frederick Eugene. “Will Wildwood.” Wis., 1856- ——. A sporting writer and editor of Chicago. Hand-book for Young Sportsmen; Memoirs of Eminent Sportsmen; Gun Trial and Field Records of America.
Pond, George Edward. Ms., 1837-1899. A journalist of New York and Philadelphia, editor of The Army and Navy Journal. The Shenandoah Valley in 1864. Scr.
Pond, Samuel William. Ct., 1808-1891. A Congregational missionary to the Indians in Minnesota. History of Joseph in the Dakota Language; Wowapi Inonpa, the Second Dakota Reading Book.
Pool, Maria Louise. Ms., 1845-1898. A novelist of Rockland, Massachusetts, for many years a writer for the New York Tribune. In Buncombe County; A Vacation in a Buggy; Tenting at Stony Beach; Dolly; Roweny in Boston; Mrs. Keats Bradford; Out of Step; The Two Salomes; Katharine North; Mrs. Gerald; Against Human Nature; In a Dike Shanty; In the First Person; Boss and Other Dogs. Har. Hou. S. St.
Poole, Herman. Ms., 1849- ——. A chemist and metallurgist. Geometry in Ten Lessons; Calorific Power of Fuels.
Poole, Mrs. Hester Martha [Hunt]. Vt., 1843- ——. A writer living at Metuchen, New Jersey, who has written much for periodicals on social and domestic topics. Fruits and How to Use Them.
Poole, William Frederick. Ms., 1821-1894. A bibliographer of Chicago, librarian of the Public Library there, 1874-87, and, from the latter date, of the Newberry Library, Chicago; best known as compiler (with W. I. Fletcher) of Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature. Two supplementary volumes carry the work forward to January, 1892. Other works of his are, Anti-Slavery Opinions before 1800; The Battle of the Dictionaries; Websterian Orthography; Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft. Clke. Hou.
Poore, Benjamin Perley. Ms., 1820-1887. A once well-known journalist of Washington. Campaign Life of Zachary Taylor; Early Life of Napoleon; Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe; Agricultural History of Essex County, Massachusetts; Life of Burnside; Political Register and Congressional Directory, 1776-1878; Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years. Hou.
Pope, Franklin Leonard. Ms., 1840-1895. An electrical engineer of New York city. Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph; Life and Work of Joseph Henry, supra.
Pope, John. Ky., 1822-1892. A prominent general in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Virginia Campaign of July and August, 1862.
Pope, Mrs. Marion [Manville]. Wis., 1859- ——. A verse-writer whose home in recent years has been in Valparaiso, Chili. Over the Divide, and Other Verses. Lip.
Porcher, Francis Peyre. S. C., 1825-1895. A physician and botanist of Charleston. Sketch of the Medical Botany of South Carolina; Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, are among his writings.
Porter, Benjamin Fickling. S. C., 1808- ——. A lawyer of Alabama. Alabama Supreme Court Reports; Offices of Executors and Administrators.
Porter, Charles Talbot. N. Y., 1826- ——. A mechanical engineer of prominence. Mechanics and Faith, a Study of the Spiritual Truths in Nature.
Porter, David. Ms., 1780-1843. A once noted commodore in the United States navy. Journal of a Cruise to the Pacific Ocean in 1812-15; Constantinople and its Environs. See Life of, by his son.
Porter, David Dixon. Pa., 1813-1891. Son of D. Porter, supra. An admiral of the Federal navy who commanded the fleet at the storming of Fort Fisher, and amused his latest years by the composition of sensational romances. Life of Commodore Porter, supra; Allan Dare and Robert le Diable; Adventures of Harry Marline; Arthur Merton, a romance; Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War; History of the Navy in the War of the Rebellion. Ap.
Porter, Ebenezer. Ct., 1772-1834. A Congregational clergyman and educator, of contemporary renown as a preacher. He was professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary, 1812-32, and president of that institution from 1827 till his death. Among his publications are, The Young Preacher’s Manual; A Rhetorical Reader, which reached its 300th edition; Lectures on Homiletics; Lectures on Eloquence and Style. See Memoir of, by Matthews, 1837.
Porter, Fitz-John. N. H., 1822-1901. A brevet brigadier-general dismissed from the service in 1863, reinstated by act of Congress, 1886. Narrative of the Services of the Fifth Army Corps in 1862 in Northern Virginia.
Porter, James. Ms., 1800-1888. A once prominent Methodist clergyman of Boston. History of Methodism; The Winning Worker; Hints to Self-Educated Ministers; Compendium of Methodism, comprise a portion of his writings. Meth.
Porter, John Addison. N. Y., 1822-1866. A professor of chemistry at Yale College, 1852-64. Principles of Chemistry; First Book of Chemistry.
Porter, John Addison. Ct., 1856-1900. Son of J. A. Porter, supra. The Corporation of Yale College; Administration of the City of Washington; Sketches of Yale Life.
Porter, Linn Boyd. “Albert Ross.” Ms., 1851- ——. A novelist of Cambridge whose writings have been extremely popular, although severely criticised from a literary point of view as well as from an ethical standpoint. Among them are, Thou Shalt Not; Speaking of Ellen; A Black Adonis; Out of Wedlock. Dil.
Porter, Mrs. Lydia Ann [Emerson]. Ms., 1816- ——. Cousin of R. W. Emerson, supra. An educator of Springfield, Vermont. Uncle Jerry’s Letters to Young Mothers; The Lost Will, are among her writings.
Porter, Noah. Ct., 1811-1892. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, president of Yale College, 1871-85, and a metaphysician of distinction. The Human Intellect; Books and Reading; Elements of Intellectual Science; Elements of Moral Science; The American Colleges and the American Public; Science and Sentiment; Bishop Berkeley; Fifteen Years in Yale College Chapel, a volume of sermons; The Science of Nature and the Science of Man. Scr.
Porter, Rose. N. Y., 1845- ——. An author of New Haven who has written and compiled a large number of religious books. Among her original works are, Summer Driftwood for the Winter Fire; A Modern St. Christopher; Our Saints, a Family Story; My Son’s Wife. Lo. Ran. Rev.
Porter, Thomas Conrad. Pa., 1822-1901. A German Reformed clergyman famous as a botanist, and professor of botany at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1866. Sketch of the Flora of Pennsylvania; Sketch of the Botany of the United States; Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with J. M. Coulter); The Carices of Pennsylvania; The Grasses of Pennsylvania.
Posse, Nils. Baron Posse. Sn., 1862-1895. A Boston instructor in gymnastics. Special Kinesiology of Educational Gymnastics; Medical Gymnastics; Scientific Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics. Le.
Post, Truman Marcellus. Vt., 1810-1866. A Congregational clergyman and editor of St. Louis, professor of history in Washington University. The Skeptical Era in Modern History. See Life of, by T. H. Post.
Post, Waldron Kintzing. N. Y., 1868- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Harvard Stories. Put.
Potter, Alonzo. N. Y., 1800-1865. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania and an active promoter of educational movements. The Principles of Science Applied to Domestic and Mechanic Arts; Religious Philosophy; Political Economy; co-author with G. B. Emerson, supra, of The School and the Schoolmaster. See Memoirs of, 1870.
Potter, Burton Willis. N. Y., 1843- ——. A lawyer of Worcester, Massachusetts. The Road and Roadside, a legal treatise. Lit.
Potter, Eliphalet Nott. N. Y., 1836-1901. Son of A. Potter, supra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1884-96. Parochial Sermons; Christian Evidences.
Potter, Henry Codman. N. Y., 1835- ——. Son of A. Potter, supra. The sixth Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. Sermons of the City; The Gates of the East; a Winter in Egypt and Syria; Sisterhoods and Deaconesses; Waymarks. Dut.
Potter, Platt. N. Y., 1800-1891. A jurist of Schenectady. Potter’s Dwarris; Treatise on Corporations; Equity Jurisprudence.
Potter, William James. Ms., 1830-1894. A Unitarian clergyman of New Bedford for many years, prominent as a radical thinker. Twenty-Five Sermons of Twenty-Five Years; Lectures and Sermons. El.
Potts, James Henry. Ont., 1848- ——. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Michigan Christian Advocate from 1877. Methodism in the Field; Golden Dawn; Spiritual Life; Our Thorns and Crowns; Faith Made Easy.
Potts, Stacey Gardner. Pa., 1799-1865. A jurist of Trenton, New Jersey. Village Tales; Precedents and Notes of Practice in the New Jersey Chancery Court.
Powell, Edward Payson. N. Y., 1833- ——. A clergyman who has held pastorates in Congregational and Unitarian churches successively, and has long been resident in Clinton, New York. Our Heredity from God; Liberty and Life. Ap.
Powell, John Wesley. N. Y., 1834-1902. An eminent geologist, director of the United States Geological Survey, 1879-94. Exploration of the Uinta Mountains; The Arid Regions of the United States; Introduction to the Study of the Indian Languages; Studies in Sociology; Canyons of the Colorado. Am. Fl.
Powell, Thomas. E., 1809-1887. An English writer who came to America in 1849, and was for many years connected with the Frank Leslie publications. He wrote a number of plays, among which are, True at Last; The Shepherd’s Well. Other works of his are, Florentine Tales; Tales from Boccaccio; Living Authors of England; Living Authors of America.
Powers, Edward. N. Y., 1830- ——. Brother of H. N. Powers, infra. A civil engineer who published a work entitled War and the Weather, or the Artificial Production of Rain.
Powers, Horatio Nelson. N. Y., 1826-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago, Bridgeport, and, in his latest years, of Piermont, New York, who was favourably known as a poet. His writings include, Early and Late; Poems; Ten Years of Song; Lyrics of the Hudson; Through the Year, a volume of religious essays. Lo. Rob.
Poyas, Catherine Gendron. S. C., 1813-1882. A verse-writer of Charleston. Huguenot Daughters, and Other Verses; A Year of Grief.
Pratt, Daniel Johnson. N. Y., 1827-1884. Annals of Public Education in the State of New York, 1626-1746.
Pratt, Mrs. Ella [Farman]. N. Y., 18— - ——. A popular writer for young people, long the editor of The Wide Awake, and more recently of Our Little Men and Women. Among her writings are, Good-for-Nothing Polly; A Girl’s Money; A Little Woman; A White Hand; Happy Children. Cr. Lo.
Pratt, Jacob Loring. 1835-1891. A clergyman of Maine. Evening Rest; Branches of Palm; Broken Fetters; The Mask Lifted; Bonnie Aerie; Mecca; The Crown of Silver. Lo.
Pratt, Orson. N. Y., 1811-1881. A Mormon apostle and educator, professor of mathematics in Deseret University. Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon; Cubic and Bi-Quadratic Equations; The Great First Cause; The Absurdities of Immaterialism.
Pratt, Parley Parker. N. Y., 1807-1857. Brother of O. Pratt, supra. A Mormon apostle and missionary. Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People; History of the Persecutions of Missouri; Key to the Science of Theology.
Pratt, Samuel Wheeler. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman at Monroe, Michigan, from 1883. A Summer at Peace Cottage, or Talks About Home Life; The Gospel of the Holy Spirit; Life of St. Paul. Ran.
Pray, Isaac Clark. Ms., 1813-1869. A journalist, playwright, and theatrical manager of New York city. Prose and Verse; The Book of the Drama; Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett, are among his miscellaneous works. Virginius; Hermit of Malta; Giulietta Gordoni, and the first and last acts of The Corsican Brothers, are a portion of his dramatic writings.
Pray, Lewis Glover. Ms., 1793-1882. A Boston philanthropist who published Child’s First Book of Thought; History of Sunday-Schools; The Sylphid’s School, and Other Pieces in Verse.
Preble, George Henry. Me., 1816-1885. A rear-admiral in the United States navy. History of the American Flag; Chronological History of Steam Navigation; The Preble Family in America.
Preble, Henry. Me., 1853- ——. An educator who was professor of Latin at Harvard University. He has edited a revised edition of Andrews and Stoddard’s Latin Grammar, and several volumes of Latin classics, and has published (with C. Parker) a Handbook of Latin Writing; and Latin Lessons (with L. C. Hull). Gi. Hou.
Prentice, George. Ms., 1834-18—. A Methodist clergyman, professor of modern languages at Wesleyan University. Life of Bishop Gilbert Haven, supra; Rome and Italy at the Opening of the Œcumenical Council, from the French of Pressensé; Life of Wilbur Fisk, supra. Hou.
Prentice, George Denison. Ct., 1802-1870. A once famous Kentucky journalist who was editor of The Louisville Journal, 1831-70, and widely known for his witticisms. Life of Henry Clay; Prenticeana. See Poems, with Memoir of, by J. J. Piatt; Lippincott’s Magazine, November, 1869; Harper’s Magazine, January, 1875. Clke.
Prentiss, Charles. Ms., 1774-1820. A journalist of Washington. Fugitive Essays in Prose and Verse; Poems; History of the United States; Trial of Calvin and Hopkins; Lives of Robert Treat Paine and General William Eaton.
Prentiss, Mrs. Elizabeth [Payson]. Me., 1818-1878. Wife of G. L. Prentiss, infra. A popular writer of religious fiction whose Stepping Heavenward has been widely read. Among her many other works are, Pemaquid; The Home at Graylock; Aunt Jane’s Hero; The Flower of the Family; Little Susy Series; Fred, Maria, and Me. See Life by her husband. Ran. Scr.
Prentiss, George Lewis. Me., 1816-1903. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of pastoral theology in Union Seminary from 1873. Memoir of Sargent Prentiss; Life of Elizabeth Prentiss, supra; Our National Bane; The Problem of the Veto Power; The Argument between Union Seminary and the General Assembly; Fifty Years of Union Seminary. Ran.
Prescott, Albert Benjamin. N. Y., 1832- ——. A chemist who has been dean of the school of pharmacy at Michigan University from 1876. Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis; Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors; Organic Analysis; Qualitative Analysis (with S. Douglas).
Prescott, George Benjamin. N. H., 1830-1894. A prominent electrician of New York city. History of the Electric Telegraph; Dynamo Electricity; Invention of Bell’s Telephone, are his principal writings.
Prescott, Mary Newmarch. Me., 1849-1888. Sister of Mrs. H. Spofford, infra. A popular magazine-writer of Newburyport who published Matt’s Follies, a juvenile tale.
Prescott, William Hickling. Ms., 1796-1859. A celebrated historian of Boston. While a student at Harvard College, he lost the use of one eye and not long afterwards the free use of the other, and, until in later life his eyesight improved, he was obliged to depend upon the reading of others in his historical researches. In 1837 his History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella appeared and brought him instant fame. It was followed by The Conquest of Mexico; The Conquest of Peru; an edition of Robertson’s Charles V., with Prescott’s own work on the cloister life of that monarch; History of Philip II.; Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. See Lives by R. Ogden (1904) and Ticknor, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary. Lip.
Preston, Harriet Waters. Ms., c. 1843- ——. A high authority upon Provençal literature and a writer of literary criticism and historical studies who has lived much in Europe. Her writings include, Aspendale; Love in the Nineteenth Century; Troubadours and Trouvères; A Year in Eden; Is That All? a novel; The Georgics of Virgil in English Verse; and a translation from the Provençal of Frédéric Mistral’s Mirèio.
Preston, Mrs. Margaret [Junkin]. Va., 1820-1897. A poet and prose-writer of Lexington, Virginia, and later of Baltimore. Old Song and New; Beechenbrook, a Rhyme of the War; Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse; For Love’s Sake; The Young Ruler’s Question; Silverwood, a novel; A Handful of Monographs. Hou.
Preston, Thomas Scott. Ct., 1824-1891. A Roman Catholic clergyman, but prior to 1849 in orders in the Episcopal Church. From 1881 he was a domestic prelate of the papal household with the title of Monsignore. Protestantism and the Bible; Reason and Revelation; Christ and the Church; The Ark of the Covenant; Sermons for the Seasons; Life of St. Mary Magdalene; Life of St. Vincent de Paul; Christian Unity; Purgatorian Manual.
Price, Bruce. N. Y., 1845-1903. An architect of New York city. A Large Country House.
Price, Eli Kirk. Pa., 1797-1884. A Philadelphia lawyer of eminence. Law of Limitations and Liens against Real Estate. See Memoir of, by Rothrock, 1880.
Price, Ira Maurice. O., 1856- ——. An educator of Chicago, professor of Semitic languages in the University of Chicago from 1892. Syllabus of Old Testament History. Rev.
Price, Thomas Randolph. Va., 1839-1903. A professor of English literature at Columbia College from 1882. The Teaching of the Mother Tongue; Shakespeare’s Verse Construction.
Priest, Josiah. N. Y., c. 1790-c. 1850. A harness-maker of New York State, some of whose books were very popular. Wonders of Nature; View of the Millennium; Stories of the Revolution; American Antiquities; Slavery in the Light of History and Scripture.
Prime, Benjamin Young. L. I., 1733-1791. A physician of Huntington, Long Island, who wrote patriotic verses during the Revolutionary period. The Patriot Muse, published in 1764, includes his earlier poems. Columbia’s Glory, or British Pride Humbled, is a long poem printed in 1791.
Prime, Edward Dorr Griffin. N. Y., 1814-1891. Son of N. S. Prime, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who was one of the editors of The New York Observer, to which he contributed the Letters of Eusebius. Around the World; Forty Years in the Turkish Empire, or Memoirs of Reverend William Goodell.
Prime, Nathaniel Scudder. L. I., 1785-1856. Son of B. Y. Prime, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Newburgh, New York. Familiar Illustration of Christian Baptism; History of Long Island.
Prime, Samuel Irenæus. N. Y., 1812-1885. Son of N. S. Prime, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, editor of The New York Observer for forty-five years. Among his many works are, Fifteen Years of Prayer; Irenæus Letters; The Old White Meeting-House; Life in New York; Annals of the English Bible; Songs of the Soul; Life of S. B. F. Morse, supra; Prayer and its Answer; Walking with God; Travels in Europe and the East; The Bible in the Levant; The Alhambra and the Kremlin; Under the Trees. See Autobiography, 1886. Ap. Har. Ran. Scr.
Prime, William Cowper. N. Y., 1825- ——. Son of N. S. Prime, supra. A lawyer and journalist, professor of the history of art at Princeton College from 1884. Boat Life in Egypt; Tent Life in the Holy Land; Pottery and Porcelain; The Owl Creek Letters; Coins, Medals, and Seals; I Go A-Fishing; Holy Cross; Along New England Roads; Among the Northern Hills. Har. Ran.
Prince, Mrs. Helen Choate [Pratt]. Ms., 1857- ——. A granddaughter of R. Choate, supra. A novelist now living in France. The Story of Christine Rochefort; A Transatlantic Chatelaine; The Strongest Master. Hou.
Prince, Le Baron Bradford. L. I., 1840- ——. Son of W. R. Prince, infra. A jurist of New Mexico. Agricultural History of Queen’s County, Long Island; E Pluribus Unum, or American Nationality; General Laws of New Mexico; History of New Mexico; The American Church and its Name.
Prince, Thomas. Ms., 1687-1758. A Congregational minister, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, 1718-58, and one of the most fair-minded, accurate historical writers that America has had. His library now forms a separate collection in the Boston Public Library. Earthquakes of New England (1755); Chronological History of New England. See Tyler’s American Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Prince, William. L. I., 1766-1842. A horticulturist of Flushing, Long Island, whose Treatise on Horticulture (1826) was the first comprehensive work on the subject published in the United States.
Prince, William Robert. L. I., 1795-1869. Son of W. Prince, supra. A horticulturist of Flushing. History of the Vine (with W. Prince); Pomological Manual; Manual of Roses.
Proctor, Edna Dean. N. H., 1838- ——. A littérateur formerly of Brooklyn, New York, now (1904) of South Framingham, Massachusetts. Poems; A Russian Journey; The Song of the Ancient People. Hou.
Proctor, Lucien Brock. N. H., 1826-1900. A legal writer of Albany. The Bench and Bar of the State of New York; Lives of the State Chancellors; Life of Thomas Emmet; Lawyer and Client; Bench and Bar of King’s County; Legal History of Albany and Schenectady Counties.
Proudfit, Alexander Moncrief. Pa., 1770-1843. An Associate Reformed Presbyterian clergyman. Discourses on the Parables; Theological Works (four volumes, 1815). See Life of, by Forsyth.
Proudfit, David Law. “Peleg Arkwright.” N. Y., 1842-1897. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a resident of New York city. Love Among the Gamins, and Other Poems; Mask and Domino (verse). Co.
Proudfit, John Williams. N. Y., 1803-1870. Son of A. M. Proudfit, supra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Greek in Rutgers College, 1840-64. Man’s Two-Fold Life.
Prudden, Theophile Mitchell. Ct., 1849- ——. A New York physician, professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Manual of Normal Histology (with Delafield); Dust and its Dangers; Water and Ice; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy; Story of the Bacteria. Put.
Pugh [pew], Mrs. Eliza Lofton [Phillips]. “Arria.” La., 1841- ——. A novelist of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Not a Hero; In a Crucible.
Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt. G., 1811-1884. A physician of Cleveland. The Homœopathic Domestic Physician; The Science of Medicine; The Woman’s Medical Guide.
Pumpelly [pum-pĕl´ly], Mrs. Mary Hollenback [Welles]. Pa., 1803-1879. A verse-writer whose religious historical Poems were collected in a volume in 1852.
Pumpelly, Raphael. N. Y., 1837- ——. Son of Mrs. Pumpelly, supra. A geologist of note, professor of mining engineering at Harvard University from 1866. Geological Researches in China; Across America and Asia; Notes of a Five-Years’ Journey Around the World. Ho.
Punchard, George. Ms., 1806-1881. A Boston journalist, for many years editor of The Traveller, but who, prior to 1845, was a Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. History of Congregationalism from A. D. 250; View of Congregationalism. C. P. S.
Purinton, Daniel Boardman. Pa., 1850- ——. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Ohio, president of Denison University from 1889. Christian Theism; The Battle of the Frogs, a poem. Put.
Purple, Samuel Smith. N. Y., 1822-1900. A physician of New York city. The Corpus Luteum; Menstruation; Contributions to the Practice of Midwifery; Observations on Wounds of the Heart.
Purves, George Tybout. Pa., 1852-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of New Testament literature at Princeton College from 1892. The testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity. Ran.
Putnam, Albigence Waldo. O., 1799-1869. A lawyer of Nashville; History of Middle Tennessee; Life and Times of General James Robertson; Life of General John Sevier.
Putnam, Eleanor. See Bates, Mrs. H.
Putnam, George Haven. E., 1844- ——. Son of G. P. Putnam, infra. A prominent publisher of New York city. Authors and Publishers; International Copyright; Authors and their Public in Ancient Times. Put.
Putnam, George Palmer. Me., 1814-1872. A well-known publisher of New York city, the founder of the present publishing house of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. The Tourist in Europe; American Facts; The World’s Progress. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Put.
Putnam, Mrs. Katharine Hunt [Palmer]. Ms., 1792-1869. A Boston writer. Scripture Text Book; The Old Testament Unveiled.
Putnam, James Osborne. N. Y., 1818-1903. A Buffalo lawyer who was minister to Belgium in 1880. Addresses, Speeches, and Miscellanies.
Putnam, Mrs. Mary [Lowell]. Ms., 1810-1898. Sister of J. R. Lowell, supra. A lifelong resident of Boston. Fifteen Days; History of the Court of Hungary; Records of an Obscure Man; Tragedy of Errors; Tragedy of Success.
Putnam, Ruth. 18— - ——. Daughter of G. P. Putnam, supra. Life of William the Silent. Put.
Putnam, Mrs. Sarah A.—— Brock. Va., c. 1845- ——. A writer of New York city. Richmond During the War; The Southern Amaranth; Kenneth, My King; Myra, a novel.
Pyle, Howard. Del., 1853- ——. Artist and littérateur of Wilmington, Delaware. The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood; Within the Capes: a novel; Otto of the Silver Hand; Twilight Land; The Garden Behind the Moon; Pepper and Salt, or Seasoning for Young Folk; A Modern Aladdin; The Rose of Paradise; Men of Iron, a romance of chivalry; Jack Ballister’s Fortunes. Cent. Har. Scr.
Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles. Ct., 1823-1904. Descendant of W. Pynchon, infra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Trinity College, 1874-83, and professor of chemistry there. Bishop Butler: a Religious Philosopher for All Time; Introduction to Chemical Physics. Ap.
Pynchon, William. E., 1590-1662. A noted colonist of New England who founded the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. In 1652 he returned to England. The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, first published in 1650, excited a storm of controversy, and was publicly burned on Boston Common as an heretical book. It was reprinted in 1655 as The Meritorious Price of Man’s Redemption, or Christ’s Satisfaction discussed and explained, with a rejoinder to Rev. John Norton’s Answer; The Jewes Synagogue; How the First Sabbath was Ordained; The Covenant of Nature made with Adam.
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Quackenbos, George Payn. N. Y., 1826-1881. An educator of New York city. School History of the United States; Natural Philosophy; a series of English grammars; An Advanced Course of Rhetoric.
Quackenbos, John Duncan. N. Y., 1848- ——. Son of G. P. Quackenbos, supra. An adjunct professor of English literature at Columbia College from 1884. Illustrated History of the World; History of the English Language; History of Ancient Literature; Practical Rhetoric. Har.
Qualtrough, Edward F——. N. Y., 1850- ——. A United States naval officer who has published The Sailor’s Handy Book and Yachtsman’s Manual; The Boat Sailor’s Manual. Scr.
Quiet, Charles. See Noyes, C. H.
Quinby, George Washington. Me., 1810-1884. A Universalist clergyman in Maine and Ohio. The Salvation of Christ; Brief Exposition of Universalism; Marriage and Its Duties; The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House; Heaven Our Home.
Quincy, Edmund. Ms., 1703-1788. A Boston merchant who wrote a Treatise on Hemp Husbandry. One of his daughters married John Hancock.
Quincy, Edmund. Ms., 1808-1877. Son of J. Quincy, 2d, infra. A Boston writer whose literary fame was hardly proportioned to his deserts. Wensley, and Other Stories; The Haunted Adjutant, and Other Stories; Life of President Josiah Quincy. Hou. Lit.
Quincy, Josiah. Ms., 1744-1775. Nephew of E. Quincy, 1st. A famous Boston lawyer and patriot, very prominent at the opening of the Revolutionary period. Observations on the Boston Port Bill. See Life of, by his son.
Quincy, Josiah. Ms., 1772-1864. Son of J. Quincy, supra. An eminent Massachusetts statesman, mayor of Boston, 1823-29; president of Harvard University, 1829-45; representative in Congress, 1805-13. History of Harvard University; Speeches and Orations in Congress; History of Boston; Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr. See Life by E. Quincy; Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell, My Study Windows. Lit.
Quincy, Josiah. Ms., 1802-1882. Son of J. Quincy, 2d, supra. A citizen of Boston, and mayor of that city, 1845-1849. Figures of the Past. Rob.
Quincy, Josiah Phillips. Ms., 1829- ——. Son of J. Quincy, 3d, supra. A littérateur of Boston. Charicles, a drama; Lyteria, a drama; The Peckster Professorship, a Story; The Protection of Majorities, and Other Papers. Hou. Rob.
Quincy, Samuel Miller. Ms., 1833-1887. Son of J. Quincy, 3d. A Boston lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Man Who was Not a Colonel; A Prisoner’s Diary.
Quint, Alonzo Hall. N. H., 1828-1896. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston. The Potomac and the Rapidan, or Army Notes; Records of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-65.
Quitman, Frederick Henry. Wa., 1760-1832. A Lutheran clergyman of Rhinebeck, New York. Treatise on Magic; Sermons on the Reformation, are his more important writings.
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Raff, George Wertz. O., 1825-1888. A savings bank president of Canton, Ohio. Guide to Executors and Administrators in Ohio; Manual of Pensions; The Law Relating to Roads in Ohio; War Claimant’s Guide.
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. Ty., 1784-1842. An eccentric naturalist and botanist of French parentage who, after years of travel, settled in Philadelphia. The value of his work is impaired as much by his inaccuracy as by his very eccentric methods. Among his many works are, Medical Flora of the United States; A Life of Travel and Researches; Annals of Kentucky; Recent and Fossil Conchology (edited by Binney and Tryon, 1864). See Silliman’s Journal, 1841; Life by R. E. Call. Mor.
Ragozin, Madame Zénaïde Alexeïevna. R., c. 1835- ——. A Russian historical writer, naturalized in the United States in 1874. The Story of Chaldea; The Story of Assyria; The Story of Media and Babylon; The Story of Vedic India. Put.
Raguet [ra-gā´], Condy. Pa., 1784-1842. A merchant and lawyer of Philadelphia. The Principles of Free Trade; Currency and Banking; An Inquiry into the Present State of the Circulating Medium of the United States (1815).
Rains, George Washington. N. C., 1817-1898. A Confederate army officer, professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia from 1867. Steam Portable Engines; Rudimentary Course of Analytical and Applied Chemistry; Chemical Qualitative Analysis.
Rainsford, William Stephen. I., 1850- ——. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of St. George’s Church from 1883, and an active worker in philanthropic and other reforms. Sermons Preached in St. George’s; The Church’s Opportunity in the City of To-Day. Do.
Ralph, Julian. N. Y., 1853-1903. A popular journalist and littérateur. On Canada’s Frontier; Dixie; Our Great West; Chicago and the World’s Fair; People We Pass; Alone in China, and Other Stories. Har.
Ralston, Samuel. I., 1756-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman in what is now Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, from 1796 till his death. On Baptism; The Last Plagues; The Currycomb, are among his writings.
Ralston, Thomas Neely. Ky., 1806-1891. A Methodist clergyman and religious editor of Kentucky. Elements of Divinity; Evidences of Christianity; Ecce Unitas; Bible Truths.
Ramsay, David. Pa., 1749-1815. A physician of Charleston, eminent among early American historians. History of the American Revolution; History of the United States; Life of Washington; History of South Carolina, include his chief works. See Tuckerman’s Sketch of American Literature; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Ramsay, Mrs. Vienna G—— [Morrell]. Me., 1817- ——. Facts on Missions; Evenings With the Children; A Legend of the White Hills, and other Poems. Lo.
Rand, Asa. N. H., 1783-1871. A Congregational clergyman in Maine and New York prominent as an opponent of slavery. Teachers’ Manual in English Grammar; The Slave-Catcher Caught in the Meshes of Eternal Law.
Rand, Benjamin. N. S., 1856- ——. An instructor in philosophy at Harvard University. Economic History Since 1763; A Bibliography of Economics; and also bibliographies of æsthetics, ethics, psychology, metaphysics, logic, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion.
Rand, Benjamin Howard. Ms., 1792-1862. A Philadelphia teacher of penmanship who published The American Penman and similar works.
Rand, Benjamin Howard. Pa., 1827-1883. Son of B. H. Rand, supra. A physician of Philadelphia. Outlines of Medical Chemistry; Elements of Medical Chemistry. Lip.
Rand, Edward Augustus. N. H., 1837-1903. An Episcopal clergyman, rector at Watertown, Massachusetts, from 1883. Christmas Jack; Behind Manhattan Gables; School and Camp Series; Sailor Boy Bob; Pushing Ahead; Fighting the Sea Series, are among his many books for juvenile readers. Lo. Meth. Wh.
Rand, Edward Sprague. Ms., 1834-1897. Formerly a floriculturist of Dedham, Massachusetts. Garden Flowers; Complete Manual of Orchid-Culture; Popular Flowers; Rhododendrons; Flowers for the Parlor and Garden; The Window Gardener; Life Memoirs, and Other Poems. Hou.
Rand, Mrs. Mary Frances [Abbott]. Me., 1840- ——. Wife of E. A. Rand, supra. Holly and Mistletoe; Home-Spun Yarns for Christmas Stockings.
Randall, David Austin. Ct., 1813-1884. A Baptist clergyman and religious editor of Ohio. God’s Handwriting in Egypt; The Wonderful Tent, or the Mosaic Tabernacle. Clke.
Randall, Henry Stephens. N. Y., 1811-1876. A once prominent advocate of public instruction in New York State. Sheep Husbandry; Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry; Practical Shepherd; Life of Thomas Jefferson. Lip.
Randall, James Ryder. Md., 1839- ——. A journalist of Augusta, Georgia, and elsewhere in the South, who has written a number of spirited lyrics, the best known of which is the famous song, Maryland, My Maryland.
Randall, Samuel Sidwell. N. Y., 1809-1881. Cousin of H. S. Randall, supra. A superintendent of public schools in New York city, 1854-70. History of the State of New York; Mental and Moral Culture; Principles of Popular Education; Incitements to the Study of Geology, include his more important works. Har.
Randolph, Anson Davies Fitz. N. J., 1820-1896. A publisher and religious verse-writer of New York city. Hopefully Waiting; Verses; At the Beautiful Gate; The Palace of the King; Unto the Desired Haven. Ran.
Randolph, Sarah Nicholas. Va., 1839-190-. A great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. An educator of Baltimore. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Lord Will Provide; The Life of Stonewall Jackson. Har. Lip. Ran.
Ranger, Robert. See Freeman, J. M.
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames. N. H., 1828-1904. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Howard University. Auld Scotch Mither, and Other Poems; Subduing Kingdoms; The Hotel of God, and Other Sermons; Atheism of the Heart; Christ His Own Interpreter; Ingleside Rhaims.
Rankin, John. Tn., 1793-1886. A Presbyterian clergyman of Ripley, Ohio, famous as an abolitionist, and many times mobbed for his anti-slavery zeal. Letters on American Slavery; The Covenant of Grace. See Ritchie’s Life of, entitled The Soldier, the Battle, and the Victory.
Rankin, John Chambers. N. C., 1816-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of Baskingridge, New Jersey, from 1851. The Coming of the Lord.
Ranney, Ambrose Loomis. Ms., 1848- ——. A physician, professor of nervous diseases in the University of the City of New York. A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System; Practical Medical Anatomy; Lectures on Nervous Diseases, include his principal writings. Ap.
Rapelje, Stewart. N. Y., 1842-1896. A legal writer of New York city. Digest of Decisions of New York Courts to 1881; Digest of Federal Decisions and Statutes from the Earliest Period to 1880; Treatise on the Law of Witnesses; Dictionary of American and English Decisions.
Raphall, Morris Jacob. Sn., 1798-1868. A Jewish clergyman once prominent in New York city. Post-Biblical History of the Jews; Literature of the Jews in Spain; Social Condition of the Jews; Festivals of the Lord; The Path to Immortality. Ap.
Rarey, John S——. O., 1828-1866. A famous horse-tamer who wrote a Treatise on Horse-Taming that was very extensively circulated.
Rau, Charles. Bm., 1826-1887. An archæologist of distinction of Belgian birth who settled in the United States in 1848, and was curator of antiquities in the United States National Museum, 1875-87. Early Man in Europe; Prehistoric Fishing. Har.
Rauch, Friedrich Augustus. G., 1806-1841. A psychologist of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, prominent among thinkers of the German Reformed faith. Psychology: a View of the Human Soul; The Inner Life of the Christian.
Raum, Green Berry. Il., 1829- —— A commissioner of internal revenue, 1876-83; later United States commissioner of pensions. The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy (1884).
Ravenel, Henry William. S. C., 1814-1887. A botanist of Aiken, South Carolina, distinguished for his knowledge of fungi. Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati; Fungi Americani Exsiccati (with Cooke).
Rawle, Francis. E., 1660-1727. A Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania whose Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to become Rich is said to have been the first book printed by Franklin.
Rawle, William. Pa., 1759-1836. Great-grandson of F. Rawle, supra. A distinguished lawyer of Philadelphia. View of the Constitution of the United States; The Study of the Law. See Memoir of, by Wharton, 1840; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Rawle, William Brooke. Pa., 1843- ——. Grand-nephew of W. Rawle, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia who has published The Right Flank at Gettysburg; With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign.
Rawle, William Henry. Pa., 1823-1889. Grandson of W. Rawle, supra. A prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. Law of Covenants for Title; Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania in English Law; Equity in Pennsylvania. Lit.
Rawson, Albert Leighton. Vt., 1829-1902. A traveller of note who was the author of Histories of all Religions; Antiquities of the Orient; The Unseen World, and a number of dictionaries and vocabularies of Oriental tongues.
Ray, Anna Chapin. Ms., 1865- ——. A writer of West Haven, Connecticut, whose tales for juvenile reading have been popular. Cadets of Fleming Hall; Half a Dozen Boys; Half a Dozen Girls; In Blue Creek Cañon; Dick; Margaret Davis Tutor. Cr.
Ray, Isaac. Ms., 1807-1881. A physician of Philadelphia. Conversations on Animal Economy; Education in Relation to the Health of the Brain; Mental Hygiene; Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
Ray, Joseph. Va., 1807-1855. A mathematician and educator of Cincinnati, who published an Eclectic Series of Arithmetics long popular in the Western States.
Raymond, George Lansing. Il., 1839- ——. A professor of oratory at Princeton College from 1881. His writings in verse include, Colony Ballads; A Life in Song; Ballads of the Revolution, and Other Poems; Sketches in Song; Pictures in Verse. Other works of his are, The Orator’s Manual; Modern Fishers of Men, a novel; Poetry as a Representative Art; The Genesis of Art Form; Art in Theory; Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture as Representative Arts; Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music; Ideals Made Real. Put.
Raymond, Henry Jarvis. N. Y., 1820-1869. A journalist who founded and edited The New York Times. Life of Lincoln; Political Lessons of the Revolution; History of the Administration of Lincoln; Letters to Mr. Yancey. See Maverick’s Raymond and the New York Press.
Raymond, Miner. N. Y., 1811-1897. A Methodist clergyman of Illinois, theological professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illinois, from 1864. Systematic Theology. Meth.
Raymond, Rossiter Worthington. O., 1840- ——. A mining engineer of Brooklyn, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal from 1868. Among his technical and other writings are included, Mines and Mining of the Rocky Mountains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave Hearts, a novel; The Man in the Moon, and Other People; The Book of Job; Essays and a Metrical Paraphrase; The Merry-Go-Round; Two Ghosts, and Other Tales. Lo.
Rea, Mrs. Julie [de Marguerittes] [Foster]. E., 1814-1866. An opera singer and dramatic critic of Philadelphia. The Ins and Outs of Paris; Italy and the War of 1859; Parisian Pickings.
Read, Hollis. Vt., 1802-1887. A Presbyterian foreign missionary who after 1835 was settled over various New Jersey parishes. Journal in India; The Hand of God in History, a very popular book at one time; The Palace of the Great King; India and its People; The Coming Crisis of the World; The Negro Problem Solved; The Devil in History.
Read, Jane Maria. Ms., 1853- ——. A verse-writer of Colebrook Springs, Massachusetts, who has published, Between the Centuries, and Other Poems.
Read, John Meredith. Pa., 1837-1896. A lawyer of Albany who was minister to Greece 1873-79, and subsequently filled other important diplomatic positions. An Historical Inquiry Concerning Hendrick Hudson.
Read, Opie. Tn., 1852- ——. A journalist now living in Chicago who edited The Arkansaw Traveller for some years, and whose studies of Arkansas life have been widely read. My Young Master; An Arkansaw Planter; Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Kentucky Colonel; On the Suwannee River; Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The Captain’s Romance; The Jucklins, a novel.
Read, Thomas Buchanan. Pa., 1822-1872. A poet and artist of Philadelphia whose later years were spent in Florence and Rome. As a poet he is best known by the famous Sheridan’s Ride; Drifting; and The Closing Scene, and it is by these poems that he will continue to be remembered. Poems; Lays and Ballads; The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, a prose romance; The New Pastoral; The House by the Sea; The Wagoner of the Alleghanies, in which occurs the fine lyric beginning, “The maid who binds her warrior’s sash;” Sylvia; A Voyage to Iceland; A Summer Story; Sheridan’s Ride, and Other Poems. His complete poems were issued in 1882. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Lip.
Realf [rĕlf], Richard. E., 1834-1878. A journalist and verse-writer of Pittsburg who was a Federal officer during the Civil War. Guesses at the Beautiful. See Lippincott’s Magazine, February, 1879.
Reavis [rĕv´is], Logan Uriah. Il., 1831-1889. A St. Louis journalist, who published St. Louis the Future Great City of the World; Life of Horace Greeley; Thoughts for the Young Men and Women of America; Life of General Harney; Railway and River System.
Redden, Laura. See Searing, Mrs.
Redfield, Amasa Angell. N. Y., 1837-1902. A lawyer of New York city. Handbook of United States Tax Laws; Law and Practice of Surrogates’ Courts; Reports of Surrogates’ Courts of New York State, 1864-82; The Law of Negligence (with Shearman).
Redfield, Isaac Fletcher. Vt., 1804-1876. A lawyer who was chief justice of Vermont, 1852-60, and a resident of Boston after the latter date. The Law of Railways; The Law of Wills; Law of Carriers and Bailments; Leading American Railway Cases; Civil Pleading (with Herrick). Lit.
Redfield, William Charles. Ct., 1789-1857. A once noted meteorologist. On Whirlwind Storms, and many monographs upon meteorology. See Biography of, by D. Olmsted.
Redpath, James. E., 1833-1891. A New York journalist for many years on the staff of The Tribune, and prominent as an abolitionist. The Roving Editor; Handbook of Kansas Territory; Public Life of Captain John Brown; Echoes of Harper’s Ferry; Guide to Hayti; Talks About Ireland.
Redway, Jacques Wardlaw. Tn., 1849- ——. A geographer and educator of California. Complete Geography; Manual of Physical Geography; Manual of Geography and Travel.
Reed, Edwin. Me., 1835- ——. A Shakespearean scholar who has published Bacon vs. Shakspere, a history of the controversy, with arguments pro and con. Kt.
Reed, Henry. Pa., 1808-1854. An educator of Philadelphia, professor of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Lectures on English History; Lectures on English Literature; Lectures on the British Poets. See Memoir, by W. B. Reed, infra.
Reed, Henry. Pa., 1846- ——. Son of H. Reed, supra. A Philadelphia jurist who has published The Law of the Statute of Frauds.
Reed, Hugh. Ind., 1850- ——. A military educator of Virginia. Signal Tactics; Cadet Regulations; Military Science and Tactics; Broom Tactics.
Reed, James. Ms., 1834- ——. Son of S. Reed, infra. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston from 1858. Men and Women; Religion and Life; Swedenborg and the New Church. Hou.
Reed, John. Pa., 1786-1850. A Pennsylvania jurist, professor of law in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1834-50, and author of The Pennsylvania Blackstone.
Reed, Sampson. Ms., 1800-1880. A Swedenborgian writer of Boston, editor of The New Church Magazine for Children. Observations on the Growth of the Mind. Hou.
Reed, William Bradford. Pa., 1806-1876. Brother of H. Reed, 1st, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, minister to China, 1857-58. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed; Memoir of Henry Reed, supra.
Rees, John Krom. N. Y., 1851- ——. An astronomer, professor at Columbia College, and director of the Observatory from 1881. Report on the Solar Eclipse, 1878; International Time System; Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1882.
Reese, David Meredith. Pa., 1800-1861. An eminent physician of New York city, superintendent of the city public schools at one period. Strictures on Health; Review of the Anti-Slavery Society’s First Annual Report; Quakerism versus Calvinism; Phrenology Known by its Fruits; Medical Lexicon of Modern Terminology; Humbugs of New York.
Reese, John James. Pa., 1818-1892. A Philadelphia physician, professor of jurisprudence in the University of Pennsylvania. American Medical Formulary; Analysis of Physiology; Manual of Toxicology; Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence.
Reese, Lizette Woodworth. Md., 1856- ——. A verse-writer and educator of Baltimore. A Branch of May; A Handful of Lavender; A Quiet Road. Hou.
Reeve, James Knapp. N. Y., 1856- ——. A novelist of Franklin, Ohio. Vawder’s Understudy; The Three Richard Whalens. Sto.
Reeve, Tapping. L. I., 1744-1823. An eminent jurist of Litchfield, Connecticut. Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Servant and Master; Treatise on the Law of Descents in the Several United States.
Reeves, Marian Colhoun Legaré. S. C., c. 1854- ——. A novelist of Washington. Ingemisco; Randolph Honor; Sea Drift; A Little Maid of Arcadie; Wearithorne; and with Emily Read, Old Martin Boscawen’s Jest; Pilot Fortune. Hou.
Reichel, William Cornelius. N. C., 1824-1876. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, among whose writings are Moravianism in New York and Connecticut; Memorials of the Moravian Church; A Red Rose from the Olden Time.
Reichert, Edward Tyson. Pa., 1855- ——. A Philadelphia physician and educator, professor of physiology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1886. A Text-Book of Physiology.
Reid, Christian. See Tiernan, Mrs. Frances.
Reid, David Boswell. S., 1805-1863. A chemist who came to America in 1856, and was director of the medical inspection of the United States Sanitary Commission. Introduction to the Study of Chemistry; Rudiments of Chemistry of Daily Life; Ventilation for American Dwellings, are among his writings.
Reid, John Morrison. N. Y., 1820-1896. A Methodist clergyman and editor of religious journals who secured the library of Von Ranke for Syracuse University. Missions of the Methodist Church; Doomed Religions (edited). Meth.
Reid, Samuel Chester. N. Y., 1818-1897. A lawyer of New Orleans. The United States Bankrupt Law of 1841; The Battle of Chickamauga.
Reid, Whitelaw. O., 1837- ——. A journalist of prominence in New York city and editor of The Tribune from 1872. After the War, a Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools of Journalism; Newspaper Tendencies. See Hart’s American Literature. Clke.
Reid, William James. N. Y., 1834-1902. A United Presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889. Lectures on the Revelation; United Presbyterianism.
Reily, William McClellan. Pa., 1837- ——. A German Reformed clergyman and educator of Allentown, Pennsylvania, president of the Female College there from 1888. The Artist and his Mission.
Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin. Va., 1843- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city from 1880. Heavenward; Doom Eternal; Lutheran Literature: its Distinctive Traits; Work and Personality of Luther; Six Days of Creation; Lutheran Manual. Fu.
Remington, Frederic. N. Y., 1861- ——. A popular artist and illustrator, whose work in the main reflects the life of the far West. Pony Tracks. Har.
Remington, Joseph Price. Pa., 1847- ——. A professor of pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from 1874. The Practice of Pharmacy. Lip.
Remington, Stephen. N. Y., 1803-1869. A Baptist minister, but prior to 1845 a preacher of the Methodist faith. Reasons for Becoming a Baptist; A Defence of Restricted Communion.
Remsen, Ira. N. Y., 1846- ——. An eminent chemist, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. Chemical Experiments (with W. Randall). Ho.
Reno, Conrad. Al., 1859- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Employers’ Liability Acts. Hou.
Renwick, James. N. Y., 1792-1863. A once prominent scientist of New York city, professor of natural and experimental philosophy and chemistry at Columbia College from 1820 to 1853. Lives of Rittenhouse, Fulton, Count Rumford, in Sparks’s American Biography; Outlines of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the Steam Engine; Elements of Mechanics; Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clinton, include the greater number of his works. Har.
Repplier, Agnes. Pa., 1859- ——. A popular essayist of Philadelphia. Books and Men; Points of View; In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Miniature; Varia. Hou.
Requier, Augustus Julian. S. C., 1825-1887. A lawyer of Mobile prior to the Civil War, and subsequently of New York city. The Old Sanctuary, a romance; Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; The Spanish Exile.
Revere, Joseph Warren. Ms., 1812-1880. A grandson of Paul Revere, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Keel and Saddle: Retrospect of Forty Years’ Military Service (1872).
Rexdale, Robert (pseud.). Me., 1859- ——. A journalist and verse-writer of Portland, Maine. Drifting Songs and Sketches; Saved by the Sword, a novel; The Cuban Liberated.
Rexford, Eben Eugene. N. Y., 1848- ——. A popular verse and song writer of Shiocton, Wisconsin, whose poem Silver Threads Among the Gold has been set to music and widely sung. Brother and Lover; Grandmother’s Garden; John Fielding and his Enemy.
Reynolds, Elmer Robert. N. Y., 1846- ——. An ethnologist in the United States civil service from 1877. A Scientific Visit to the Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of the Choptank Indians; Aboriginal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Columbia, are among his professional monographs.
Reynolds, John. Pa., 1789-1865. An Illinois lawyer and journalist, governor of Illinois, 1832-34. Pioneer History of Illinois; Glance at the Crystal Palace; My Life and Times.
Reynolds, William Morton. Pa., 1812-1876. An Episcopal clergyman, but prior to 1864 a Lutheran clergyman. Discourse on the Swedish Churches. He translated, from the Swedish of Israel Acrelius, A History of New Sweden, with introduction and notes.
Rhees, William Jones. Pa, 1830- ——. The chief clerk of the Smithsonian Institution from 1852, who has published, among other works, The Smithsonian Institution; James Smithson and His Bequest.
Rhodes, Albert. Pa., 1840- ——. A writer who was successively United States consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, and Elberstadt, and since 1885 has been a resident of Paris. Jerusalem as It Is; The French at Home; Monsieur at Home.
Rhodes, James Ford. O., 1848- ——. An historian, of Boston. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. Har.
Rhodes, Mosheim. Pa., 1837- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of St. Louis from 1874. Life Thoughts for Young Men; Life Thoughts for Young Women; Recognition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The Throne of Grace; Expository Lectures on Philippians.
Rice, David Hall. Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer of Boston, living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Protective Philosophy; Digest of Decisions of Commissioner of Patents, 1869-80 (with C. Lepine).
Rice, Edwin Wilbur. N. Y., 1831- ——. A Congregational clergyman connected with the Sunday-School Union from 1871. People’s Lesson Book in Matthew; Stories of Great Painters; Historical Sketch of the United States; People’s Commentary on the Acts.
Rice, George Edward. Ms., 1822-1861. A verse-writer of Boston. Ephemera; Nugamenta; An Old Play in a New Garb, a fanciful adaptation of Hamlet.
Rice, Harvey. Ms., 1800-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cleveland. Mount Vernon, and Other Poems; Select Poems; Nature and Culture; Pioneers of the Western Reserve; Sketches of Western Life; The Founder of the City of Cleveland. Le.
Rice, Isaac Leopold. Bo., 1850- ——. A lawyer of New York city who has written What Is Music?
Rice, Nathan Lewis. Ky., 1807-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of note who held pastorates in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New York city, and was an active controversialist. Romanism the Enemy of Free Institutions; The Signs of the Times; Baptism; The Pulpit; Discourses.
Rich, Mrs. Helen [Hinsdale]. N. Y., 1827- ——. A verse-writer of Chicago. A Dream of the Adirondacks, and Other Poems; Madame de Staël. S.
Richards, Mrs. Cornelia Holroyd [Bradley]. N. Y., 1822-1892. Wife of W. C. Richards, infra, and sister of Mrs. Alice Haven, supra. At Home and Abroad, or How to Behave; Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on the Lord’s Prayer; Hester and I; Memoir of Mrs. Haven.
Richards, Mrs. Ellen Henrietta [Swallow]. Ms., 1842- ——. An instructor in sanitary chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wife of Professor Richards of the same institution. Chemistry of Cookery and Cleaning; Food Materials and their Adulterations; First Lessons in Minerals. Est.
Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth [Howe]. Ms., 1850- ——. Daughter of Mrs. J. W. Howe, supra. A writer of juvenile books, whose home is in Gardiner, Maine. The Joyous Story of Toto; Toto’s Merry Winter; In My Nursery; Five Mice; Captain January; Jim of Hellas; Queen Hildegarde, are among her books. Est. Rob.
Richards, Mrs. Maria [Tolman]. Ms., 1821- ——. An educator and lecturer of Providence. Life in Judea; Life in Israel.
Richards, William Carey. E., 1818-1892. A Baptist minister of Chicago, widely known as a lecturer upon physical science. Baptist Banquets; The Lord is My Shepherd; The Mountain Anthem; Our Father in Heaven, a series of sonnets; Science in Song. Le.
Richardson, Mrs. Abby [Sage]. Ms., 1837-1900. Wife of A. D. Richardson, infra. An educator and lecturer upon literature. Familiar Talks on English Literature; Stories from Old English Poetry; History of Our Country; Abelard and Heloise, a Mediæval Romance. She edited Songs from the Old Dramatists; Old Love Letters, and other works. Hou. Mg.
Richardson, Albert Deane. Ms., 1833-1869. A journalist of New York city, famous as the war correspondent of The Tribune during the Civil War. Beyond the Mississippi; Personal History of Ulysses Grant; The Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape; Garnered Sheaves. See Memoir.
Richardson, Charles Francis. Me., 1851- ——. A professor of English literature at Dartmouth College from 1882. Primer of American Literature; The Cross, a collection of verse; American Literature, 1607-1885; The Choice of Books. Co-editor with H. A. Clark of The College Book. Hou. Lip. Put.
Richardson, Hobart Wood. 1831-1889. A journalist of Portland, Maine. Paper Money; The National Banks; The Standard Dollar. Ap. Har.
Richardson, Nathaniel Smith. Ct., 1810-1883. An Episcopal clergyman who was editor of The American Church Review. Reasons Why I Am a Churchman; Reasons Why I Am Not a Papist; Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, are among his writings.
Richardson, William Adams. Ms., 1821-1896. A Massachusetts jurist, chief justice of the United States Court of Claims from 1885, and secretary of the United States Treasury, 1873-74. The Banking Laws of Massachusetts; History of the Court of Claims; Practical Information concerning the United States Public Debt; National Banking Laws.
Richardson, William Merchant. N. H., 1774-1838. Chief justice of New Hampshire, 1816-38. The New Hampshire Justice; The Town Officer.
Richmond, Mrs. Euphemia Johnson [Guernsey]. N. Y., 1825- ——. A writer of Upton, New York. Hope Raymond; Two Paths; The McAllisters, a temperance tale; The Jewelled Serpent; The Fatal Dower; Anna Maynard, the King’s Daughter, form a portion of her writings. Meth.
Ricord [rē-cor´], Mrs. Elizabeth [Stryker]. L. I., 1788-1865. Wife of J. B. Ricord, infra. An educator of Geneva, New York, and after 1845 a resident of Newark, New Jersey. Philosophy of the Mind; Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem.
Ricord, Frederick William. W. I., 1819-1897. Son of J. B. Ricord, infra. A lawyer and educator of Newark, New Jersey. History of Rome; The Youth’s Grammar; English Songs from Foreign Tongues; The Self-Tormentor, from the Latin of Terentius, with More English Songs.
Ricord, Jean Baptiste. F., 1777-1837. A French physician and naturalist who settled in New York city. Improved French Grammar; Recherches et expériences sur les poissons d’Amérique.
Riddle, Albert Gallatin. Ms., 1816-1902. A lawyer of Washington who wrote a number of romances of early life in Ohio. The House of Ross; Bart Ridgeley; Alice Brand; The Tory’s Daughter; Mark Loan; The Portrait; Personal Recollections of War Times; Students and Lawyers; Life of Benjamin Wade; Life of Garfield; Speeches and Arguments, include his principal works. Put.
Rideing, William Henry. E., 1853- ——. A Boston littérateur on the editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. Pacific Railway Illustrated; A Saddle in the Wild West; Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains; Boys Coastwise; Stray Moments with Thackeray; Alpenstock; Young Folks’ History of London; The Boyhood of Living Authors; Thackeray’s London; A Little Upstart, a novel; In the Land of Lorna Doone; The Captured Cunarder. Ap. Cop. Cr. Est.
Ridgaway, Henry Bascom. Md., 1830-1895. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Illinois, president of Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illinois, from 1882. Life of Alfred Cookman; The Lord’s Land, or Travels in Sinai and Palestine; Lives of Bishops Janes, Waugh, Simpson. Meth.
Ridgway, Robert. O., 1850- ——. An eminent ornithologist of Washington, curator of the department of birds in the National Museum from 1879. The Birds of Colorado; Ornithology of the Fortieth Parallel; Manual of North American Birds; History of North American Birds (with Baird and Brewer, supra). Lip.
Ridpath, John Clark. Il., 1840-1900. A professor of belles-lettres at De Pauw University. Popular and Academic Histories of the United States; History of Texas; Life of Garfield; History of the World; Christopher Columbus; Columbia, a Quadricentennial Story; Great Races of Mankind; Epic of Life, a poem. Meth.
Riggs, Elias. N. J., 1810-1901. A Congregational missionary in Constantinople, famous as a linguist, among whose writings are, Manual of the Chaldee Language; Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language; Notes of Difficult Passages of the New Testament; A Harmony of the Gospels, in Bulgarian. Ran.
Riggs, James Stevenson. N. Y., 1853- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1881, who has published The Bible in Art.
Riggs, Mrs. Kate Douglas [Smith] [Wiggin]. Pa., 1857- ——. A popular writer of New York city. Timothy’s Quest; Polly Oliver’s Problem; The Birds’ Christmas Carol; The Story of Patsy; A Summer in a Cañon; Children’s Rights; A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope’s English Experiences; The Village Watch-Tower; Marm Lisa; Nine Love Songs and a Carol. She has also written in collaboration with her sister, Nora Archibald Smith, The Story Hour; and The Republic of Childhood, a work on the kindergarten. Hou.
Riggs, Stephen Return. O., 1812-1883. A missionary to the Indians in Minnesota and Dakota. Forty Years Among the Sioux; The Bible in Dakota (with Williamson); and many translations and other writings relating to the Dakota Indians.
Riis, Jacob August. Dk., 1849- ——. A New York writer on social problems. How the Other Half Lives; The Children of the Poor; Nibsy’s Christmas; The Making of an American. Scr.
Riley, Charles Valentine. E., 1843-1895. A distinguished entomologist of Washington, at one period State entomologist of Missouri, and from 1881 till his death in charge of the entomological division of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Locust Plague in the United States; Potato Pests; Noxious, Beneficial, and Other Insects of Missouri.
Riley, Henry Hiram. Ms., 1813-1888. A lawyer of Constantine, Michigan, once known as a humourous writer. Paddleford and Its People; The Paddleford Papers, or Humors of the West. Le.
Riley, James. Ct., 1777-1840. A mariner who was enslaved by the Arabs of Africa in 1815 and ransomed by Mr. Willshire, the British consul, at Mogadore. In 1821 he settled in Ohio and founded the town of Willshire, named in honour of the consul. From his journals was prepared, in 1816, the Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce on the West Coast of Africa, with a Description of Timbuctoo.
Riley, James. I., 1848- ——. A verse-writer of Boston whose unpretentious Poems, published in 1886, reached a third edition in 1888.
Riley, James Whitcomb. Ind., 1852- ——. A very popular poet of Indianapolis whose dialect poems of Hoosier life have been greatly praised. His earliest work appeared over the signature “Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone.” His dialect and other poems display much real feeling and originality. The Old Swimmin’ Hole and ’Leven More Poems; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Afterwhiles; Old-Fashioned Roses; Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood; Flying Islands of the Night; Neighborly Poems; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; Green Fields and Running Brooks; Poems Here at Home; Armazindy; A Child World. Bo. Cent. Lgs.
Riley, John Campbell. D. C., 1828-1879. A Washington physician who wrote a Compend of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Lip.
Rimmer, Caroline Hunt. Ms., 1851- ——. Daughter of W. Rimmer, infra. Animal Drawing. Hou.
Rimmer, William. E., 1816-1879. A Boston painter, sculptor, and teacher of art anatomy, who also practiced medicine, but gave up his profession to devote himself to art. Art Anatomy; Elements of Design. Hou.
Riordan, Roger. I., 1848- ——. A New York city journalist. A Score of Etchings; Sunrise Stories, a Glance at the Literature of Japan. Scr.
Ripley, George. Ms., 1802-1880. A Unitarian clergyman who was pastor in Boston, 1826-41, and then for several years the chief promoter of the famous Brook Farm experiment. In 1849 he became literary editor of The New York Tribune, and continued in that position until his death. With C. A. Dana, supra, he edited the American Cyclopædia, 1857-63, and also the revised edition of the same, 1873-76. His literary criticisms exerted a wide and beneficial influence. Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion; Letters to Andrews Norton, supra, on the Latest Form of Infidelity. See Modern Review, July, 1883; Appletons’ American Biography; Life by O. B. Frothingham, supra.
Ripley, Henry Jones. Ms., 1798-1875. A Baptist clergyman who held a pastorate in Georgia, 1819-26, and from 1826 to 1860 was a professor in the Theological Seminary at Newton, Massachusetts. Notes on the Gospels, Acts, Hebrews; Christian Baptism; Church Polity; The Exclusiveness of the Baptists.
Ripley, Roswell Sabine. O., 1823-1887. A Confederate army officer of prominence who wrote a History of the Mexican War.
Ritchie, Mrs. Anna Cora [Ogden] [Mowatt]. F., 1822-1870. A once popular actress who retired from the stage in 1854, and for the last ten years of her life lived in Florence and London. Her writings include several novels, The Fortune Hunter; The Mute Singer; Fairy Fingers; Evelyn; The Twin Roses; The Clergyman’s Wife; two successful plays, Fashion and Armand; Mimic Life, or Before and Behind the Curtain; Autobiography of an Actress, the last named an exceedingly popular book.
Ritter, Abraham. Pa., 1792-1860. A merchant of Philadelphia. History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia; Philadelphia and her Merchants.
Ritter, Mrs. Frances Malone [Raymond]. E., 1830-1890. Wife of F. L. Ritter, infra. Woman as a Musician; Some Famous Songs, an Art Historical Sketch; Songs and Ballads.
Ritter, Frédéric Louis. F., 1834-1891. A musician of Alsace who came to the United States in 1856, and, becoming professor of music at Vassar College in 1867, retained that position until his death. Music in England; Music in America; History of Music in the Form of Lectures; Manual of Musical History. Dit. Scr.
Rivers, Pearl. See Nicholson, Mrs.
Rivers, Richard Henderson. Tn., 1814-1894. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Alabama, for many years pastor in Louisville, 1883-87. Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; Our Young People; Life of Robert Paine; Arrows From Two Quivers.
Rivers, William James. S. C., 1822- ——. An educator of South Carolina and Maryland, professor in Washington College in the latter State from 1873. History of South Carolina to the Close of the Proprietary Government in 1719; Catechism of the Constitution of South Carolina.
Rives [reevz], Amélie. Granddaughter of W. C. Rives, infra. See Troubetzkoy.
Rives, Mrs. Judith Page [Walker]. Va., 1802-1882. Wife of W. C. Rives, infra. Souvenirs of a Residence in Europe; Home and the World; The Canary Bird; Epitome of the Bible.
Rives, William Cabell. Va., 1793-1868. A prominent Virginia statesman, twice minister to France, and during the Civil War a member of the Confederate Congress. Lives of John Hampden, James Madison; Ethics of Christianity.
Robbins, Chandler. Ms., 1810-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Second Church, 1833-74. Liturgy for the Use of a Christian Church; History of the Second or Old North Church; Memoir of Benjamin Curtis, supra; Portrait of a Christian Drawn from Life. See Frothingham’s Boston Unitarianism. A. U. A.
Robbins, Eliza. Ms., 1786-1853. An educator in Boston for many years. Elements of Mythology; Grecian History; Tales from American History, are among her published works.
Robbins, Mrs. Mary Caroline [Pike]. Me., 1842- ——. Daughter of J. S. Pike, supra. The wife of a physician of Hingham, Massachusetts. A writer for the magazines on art, landscape gardening, and kindred topics. The Rescue of An Old Place. Hou.
Robbins, Royal. Ct., 1787-1861. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Kensington, Connecticut, 1816-61. Outlines of Ancient History; The World Displayed.
Roberts, Mrs. Anna Smith [Rickey]. Pa., 1827-1858. Wife of S. W. Roberts, infra. A verse-writer who published Forest Flowers of the West.
Roberts, Benjamin Titus. N. Y., 1823-1893. A Free Methodist clergyman of North Chili, New York, founder of Chesbrough Academy there in 1865, and president of that institution, 1869-1893. Fishers of Men; Why Another Sect; First Lessons on Money; Ordaining Women.
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. N. B., 1860- ——. A popular Canadian poet and littérateur, formerly a professor of literature in King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and in recent years a resident of New York city. His work in verse includes, Orion, and Other Poems; In Divers Tones; The Book of the Native. His prose comprises, Earth’s Enigmas, a collection of short stories; The Forge in the Forest, an Acadian Romance; A History of Canada; Around the Camp Fire; Canadian Guide Book; Reube Dare’s Shad Boat; Raid from Beausejour, and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage. Ap. Cr. Lam. Lo. Meth.
Roberts, Edmund Quincy. N. H., 1784-1836. A diplomatist who did much to promote trade in Farther India. Embassy to the Eastern Courts (1857).
Roberts, Ellis Henry. N. Y., 1827- ——. Formerly a journalist of Utica; now (1897) president of a national bank in New York city. He was a member of Congress from 1871 to 1875. Government Revenue; New York: the Planting and Growth of the Empire State. Hou.
Roberts, John Bingham. Pa., 1852- ——. A Philadelphia physician. Paracentesis of the Pericardium; Compendium of Anatomy.
Roberts, Oran Milo. S. C., 1815-1898. A Texas jurist who was governor of Texas, 1879-83, and professor of law in the University of Texas from 1883. He wrote a description of his State, entitled Governor Robinson’s Texas.
Roberts, Robert Ellis. N. Y., 1809-1888. A prominent merchant and citizen of Detroit. Sketches of Detroit; The City of the Straits.
Roberts, Solomon White. Pa., 1811-1882. A distinguished civil engineer of Pennsylvania. The Destiny of Pittsburg.
Roberts, William. W., 1809-1887. A Welsh Presbyterian clergyman of Utica from 1875. He published, in Welsh, The Abrahamic Covenant; The Election of Grace.
Roberts, William Henry. W., 1844- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology in Lane Seminary, 1886-93, and stated clerk of the General Assembly from 1884. History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Status of Theological Seminaries; The Presbyterian System.
Robertson, John. Va., 1787-1873. A Virginia jurist. Riego, or the Spanish Martyr, a tragedy; Opuscula, a book of verse.
Robinson, Mrs. Annie Douglas [Green]. “Marian Douglas.” N. H., 1842- ——. A writer of Bristol, New Hampshire. Picture Poems for Young Folks; Peter and Polly, or Home Life in New England One Hundred Years Ago. Do.
Robinson, Charles. Ms., 1818-1894. A noted Kansas politician, three times governor of the State as candidate of the Free State party, 1856-59. The Kansas Conflict (1892). Har.
Robinson, Charles Seymour. Vt., 1829-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known as an hymnologist. Besides Laudes Domini, and other hymnals, he published Church Work, a volume of sermons; Studies on the New Testament; Studies of Neglected Texts; The Pharaohs of the Bondage and the Exodus; Simon Peter, his Life and Work; Studies in Mark’s Gospel; Simon Peter’s Later Life and Labors; Sermons in Songs; Sabbath Evening Sermons. Fu.
Robinson, Edith. Ms., 1858- ——. A Boston novelist. A Forced Acquaintance; Penhallow Tales; A Loyal Little Maid. Cop. Hou. Kt.
Robinson, Edward. Ct., 1794-1863. A distinguished Congregational clergyman and Biblical scholar of New York city, a professor in Union Seminary, 1837-63, and the founder of the Bibliotheca Sacra. Harmony of the Four Gospels, in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels, in English; Biblical Researches in Palestine; Physical Geography of the Holy Land; A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament. See Life by R. D. Hitchcock; Allibone’s Dictionary. Hou. Rev.
Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman. Ms., 1815-1894. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Brown University, 1872-89. Yale Lectures on Preaching; Principles and Practice of Morality; Christian Evidences. Ho. Sil.
Robinson, Fayette. Va., ——-1859. Mexico and her Military Chieftains; Account of the Organization of the United States Army; California and the Gold Regions (1849); Spanish Grammar; Wizard of the Wave, a romance; and a number of translations from the French.
Robinson, Frank Torrey. Ms., 1845-1898. A journalist and art critic of Boston, and more recently one of the curators of the Metropolitan Museum of New York city. Quaint New England; Living New England Artists; History of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Militia.
Robinson, Mrs. Harriet Jane [Hanson]. Ms., 1825- ——. Wife of W. S. Robinson, infra. A prominent woman-suffragist of Malden, Massachusetts. In her early life she was one of the contributors to the noted Lowell Offering. Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement; Captain Mary Miller, a drama; Early Factory Labor in New England; The New Pandora, a drama in blank verse. Put. Rob.
Robinson, Harry Perry. E. I., 1860- ——. An English littérateur resident in the United States from 1883, and now (1897) living in Chicago. A brother of Philip Robinson, the English writer. Men Born Equal, a novel; monographs on railway topics. Har.
Robinson, Horatio Nelson. N. Y., 1806-1867. A mathematician and educator of Cincinnati, Ohio, after 1854 a resident of Eldridge, New York. University Algebra; Mathematical Recreations; Treatise on Surveying and Navigation; Treatise on Astronomy; Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections, include the greater number of his writings. Am.
Robinson, John Hovey. Me., 1825- ——. A physician who wrote a large number of sensational romances of slight literary merit, among which are, White Rover; Nightshade; Silver-Knife.
Robinson, Mrs. Leora [Bettison]. Ark., 1840- ——. A writer and educator of Tallahassee. House with Spectacles; Than; Patsy.
Robinson, Mrs. Martha Harrison. Va., 18— - ——. A writer of Philadelphia who has published a number of translations from the French, and Helen Erskine, an original novel. Lip.
Robinson, Mrs. Mary Dommet [Nauman]. Pa., 185- - ——. A novelist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Twisted Threads; Sidney Elliot; The Enchanted Princess; Clyde Wardleigh’s Promise; Eva’s Adventures in Shadowland. Lip.
Robinson, Rowland Evans. Vt., 1833-1900. A farmer of Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Danvis Folks, a novel; Vermont: a Study of Independence; Uncle ’Lisha’s Shop; In New England Fields and Woods. Hou.
Robinson, Mrs. Sarah Tappan Doolittle [Lawrence]. Ms., 1827- ——. Wife of C. Robinson, supra. A writer of Lawrence, Kansas, who published, in 1856, Kansas: its Exterior and Interior Life, a work giving valuable information concerning a critical period in the history of the State.
Robinson, Solon. Ct., 1803-1880. A journalist of New York city long known as an agricultural writer for The Tribune, and after 1870 a resident of Jacksonville, Florida. Hot Corn, or Life Scenes in New York, a very popular book for a short period; Facts for Farmers, which was extensively circulated; How to Live, or Domestic Economy Illustrated; Me-won-i-toc.
Robinson, Stillman Williams. Vt., 1838- ——. A civil engineer, professor of physics at Ohio State University from 1878. Practical Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels; Railroad Economics; Strength of Wrought Iron Bridge Materials.
Robinson, Stuart. I., 1816-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in Louisville. Discourses of Redemption; The Church of God. Ap.
Robinson, Mrs. Therese Albertine Luise [Von Jakob]. “Talvi.” G., 1797-1869. Wife of E. Robinson, supra. An able and learned author who wrote both in English and German, using the pseudonym Talvi in the latter case. Characteristik der Volkslieder germanischen Nationen; Die Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians; Aus der Geschichte der ersten Ansiedelungen in den Vereinigten Staaten; Die Colonisation von New England; Fifteen Years, a Picture from the Last Century; Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations. She also wrote a number of stories which her daughter translated from the German, including Psyche; Heloise; Life’s Discipline; The Exiles.
Robinson, Tracy. N. Y., 1833- ——. An official of the Panama Railway, 1861-74, and subsequently a resident of New York city. Song of the Palm, and Other Poems.
Robinson, William Stevens. “Warrington.” Ms., 1818-1876. A journalist of Boston long known as the Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune and the Springfield Republican. The Salary Grab; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Warrington’s Pen Portraits; Personal and Political. See Memoir by Mrs. Robinson. Le.
Roche, James Jeffrey. I., 1847- ——. A popular Boston journalist, since 1890 the editor of The Pilot. Songs and Satires; Ballads of Blue Water; Life of John Boyle O’Reilly, supra; The Story of the Filibusters; Her Majesty the King. Hou. St.
Rochester, Thomas Fortescue. N. Y., 1823-1887. A once prominent physician of Buffalo. The Army Surgeon; Medical Men and Medical Matters in 1776.
Rockwell, Alphonso David. Ct., 1840- ——. A physician of New York city. Relation of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery; Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity (with G. M. Beard, supra).
Rockwell, Charles. Ct., 1806-1882. A Congregational clergyman who held pastorates in the New England and other States. Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea; The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around.
Rockwell, Joel Edson. Vt., 1816-1882. A Presbyterian clergyman of Stapleton, Staten Island. Sketches of the Presbyterian Church; The Young Christian Warned; Scenes and Impressions Abroad; My Sheet Anchor; Seed Thoughts.
Rockwell, John Arnold. Ct., 1803-1861. A jurist of Norwich, Connecticut. Spanish and American Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate.
Rodenbough, Theophilus Francis. Pa., 1838- ——. A Federal army officer, assistant inspector-general of New York State, 1880-83. From Everglade to Cañon with the Second United States Cavalry; Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute; Uncle Sam’s Medal of Honor.
Rodman, Thomas Jefferson. Ind., 1815-1871. An army officer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He invented the method of hollow casting. Report of Experiments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon Powder.
Rodney, Cæsar Augustus. Del., 1772-1824. A noted Delaware jurist, prominent in Congress, and the first United States minister to Argentina. Reports on the Present State of the United Provinces of South America (with T. Graham) (1824).
Roe, Azel Stevens. N. Y., 1798-1886. A once popular novelist who was for many years a wine merchant of New York city. True to the Last; A Long Look Ahead; Time and Tide; To Love and To Be Loved; James Montjoy; True Love Rewarded; How Could He Help It?; Looking Around; Woman Our Angel; The Cloud in the Heart.
Roe, Edward Payson. N. Y., 1838-1888. A Presbyterian clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, devoted himself to novel-writing. His stories, which are nearly all of a semi-religious character, have been extraordinarily popular, but it must be admitted that their literary merit is very slight, the style being weak and inflated and the construction poor. The best that can be said in their favour is that they are well-intentioned. Barriers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near to Nature’s Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A Knight of the Nineteenth Century; A Day of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl’s Wooing; An Original Belle; Driven Back to Eden; Nature’s Serial Story; The Earth Trembled; Miss Lou; Taken Alive, and Other Stories. He also published two horticultural books, The Home Acre; Success with Small Fruits. Do.
Roe, Edward Reynolds. 18— - ——. A novelist of Chicago. Brought to Bay; The Grey and the Blue; God Reigns: Lay Sermons; From the Beaten Path; May and June.
Roebling, John Augustus. P., 1800-1869. A civil engineer of note who built the suspension bridge across the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington, and was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge. Long and Short Span Railway Bridges.
Roebling, Washington Augustus. P., 1837- ——. Son of J. A. Roebling, supra. A famous civil engineer of Brooklyn who completed the Brooklyn Bridge. He has published Military Suspension Bridges. See Schuyler’s Studies in American Architecture.
Roemer, Jean. E., 1806-1892. An educator of New York city, vice-president of the College of the City of New York from 1869. Dictionary of English-French Idioms; Polyglot Readers; Cavalry; Principles of General Grammar; Cours de lecture et de traduction; Origins of the English People and Language; Left in the Wilderness. Ap.
Rogé, Mrs. Charlotte Fiske [Bates]. N. Y., 1838- ——. An educator and verse-writer of Cambridge and New York city who has written Risk, and Other Poems, and edited The Cambridge Book of Poetry and other works. Cr. Hou.
Rogers, Fairman. Pa., 1833-1900. A professor of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, 1855-70. The Magnetism of Iron Vessels.
Rogers, Henry Darwin. Pa., 1808-1866. A noted geologist who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-46, and held the chair of natural history in the Scottish University of Glasgow from 1857 till his death. The Geology of Pennsylvania; Geological Map of Pennsylvania. Lip.
Rogers, Henry Wade. N. Y., 1853- ——. A lawyer and educator, president of Northwestern University, 1890-1900. Illinois Citations; Expert Testimony.
Rogers, Horatio. R. I., 1836- ——. A Providence jurist who has published The Private Libraries of Providence; Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr; and edited Hadden’s Journal and Orderly Books. Pr.
Rogers, James Webb. N. C., 1822-1896. A writer who in early life was an Episcopal clergyman in Tennessee, and during the Civil War a Confederate officer. He became a Roman Catholic in 1878 and settled in Washington as a lawyer. Lafitte, or the Greek Slave; Arlington, and Other Poems; Parthenon.
Rogers, Robert Cameron. N. Y., 1862- ——. A littérateur of Buffalo. The Wind in the Clearing, and Other Poems; Will of the Wasp, a yarn of the War of 1812; Old Dorset, a collection of short stories. Put.
Rogers, Robert William. Pa., 1864- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, from 1893. Two Texts of Esarhaddon; Unpublished Inscriptions of Esarhaddon; The Inscriptions of Sennacherib.
Rogers, William Barton. Pa., 1804-1882. Brother of H. D. Rogers, supra. An eminent scientist of Boston, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1862, and its president, 1862-70, and again, 1878-81. The Geology of the Virginias; Elements of Mechanical Philosophy; The Strength of Materials. See The Brothers Rogers, by W. Ruschenberger, infra, 1885; Life by E. Rogers, 1896. Ap.
Rohlfs, Mrs. Anna Katharine [Green]. L. I., 1846- ——. A very popular novelist of Buffalo whose detective romances display much inventive skill. The Sword of Damocles; The Leavenworth Case; A Strange Disappearance; Hand and Ring; The Mill Mystery; Behind Closed Doors; Cynthia Wakeham’s Money; Marked “Personal”; Miss Hurd; An Enigma; Dr. Izard; Old Stone House, and Other Stories; 7 to 12; X, Y, Z; The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock; That Affair Next Door; Risifi’s Daughter, a Drama; The Defence of the Bride, and Other Poems. Put.
Rolfe, John Carew. Ms., 1859- ——. Son of W. J. Rolfe, infra. A professor of Latin in the University of Michigan. Heauton Timorumenos of Terence. Gi.
Rolfe, William James. Ms., 1827- ——. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar and educator of Cambridge. He has published Shakespeare the Boy; two annotated editions of Shakespeare, the Friendly Edition in twenty volumes, and a School Edition in forty volumes; and a series of annotated editions of selections from Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, Gray, Goldsmith, Scott, and other English poets. He has also edited Craik’s English of Shakespeare; and is co-author with J. H. Hanson of several classical text-books, and with J. A. Gillet of The Cambridge Physics. Har. Hou.
Rollins, Mrs. Alice Marland [Wellington]. Ms., 1847-1897. A littérateur of New York city. My Welcome Beyond, and Other Poems; The Ring of Amethyst, and Other Poems; The Story of a Ranch; All Sorts of Children; The Three Tetons; From Palm to Glacier; Uncle Tom’s Tenement, a study of New York tenement-house life. Put.
Rollins, Mrs. Ellen Chapman [Hobbs]. “E. H. Arr.” N. H., 1831-1881. A writer of Philadelphia. New England Bygones; Old-Time Child-life. See Memoir by Gail Hamilton, 1882. Lip.
Ronayne, Maurice. I., 1828-1903. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New York city, professor of history at St. Francis Xavier’s College from 1888. Religion and Science; God Knowable and Known.
Rood, Ogden Nicholas. Ct., 1831-1902. A physicist of note, professor of physics at Columbia College from 1863, and author of Modern Chromatics. Ap.
Roosa [ro´zah], Daniel Bennett St. John. N. Y., 1838- ——. A prominent physician of New York city, and a professor at the University of the City of New York, 1863-82. Treatise on the Ear; A Doctor’s Suggestions; On the Necessity of Wearing Glasses.
Roosevelt, Blanche. See Macchetta d’Allegri, Marchesa.
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell. N. Y., 1829- ——. A lawyer of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, 1888-89. The Game Fish of North America; Coast and Game Birds of the Northern States; Florida and the Game Water Birds; Love and Luck; Progressive Petticoats; Five Acres Too Much, a Satire. Har.
Roosevelt, Theodore. N. Y., 1858- ——. Nephew of R. B. Roosevelt, supra. The twenty-fifth president of the United States. The Naval War of 1812; Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail; The Winning of the West; The Wilderness Hunter; Essays on Practical Politics; History of the City of New York; American Ideals, and Other Essays; The Rough Riders; The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses; The Deer Family (with others); Lives of Thomas H. Benton, supra, Gouverneur Morris, supra, and Oliver Cromwell. Cent. Hou. Lgs. Mac. Put.
Ropes, John Codman. R., 1836-1899. A lawyer of Boston well known as a military historian. The Army under Pope; The Campaign of Waterloo; Atlas of Waterloo; The First Napoleon; The Story of the Civil War. Hou. Put. Scr.
Rose, Aquila. E., 1695-1723. A printer and verse-writer of Philadelphia whose Poems on Several Occasions were collected after his death.
Rosengarten, Joseph George. Pa., 1835- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States. Lip.
Rosenthal, Lewis. Md., 1856- ——. A journalist who has published America and France: the Influence of the United States on France in the Eighteenth Century. Ho.
Ross, Albert. See Porter, L. B.
Ross, Clinton. N. Y., 1861- ——. A novelist of New York city. The Silent Workman; The Countess Bettina; The Speculator; Adventures of Three Worthies; Improbable Tales; Two Soldiers and a Politician; The Puppet; The Scarlet Coat; Battle Tales; Bobbie McDuff; The Meddling Hussy; Zuleika. Lam. Put. St.
Ross, Frederick Augustus. Va., 1796-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of Huntsville, Alabama. Slavery as Ordained of God.
Rosser, Leonidas. Va., 1815-1892. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia. Baptism; Experimental Religion; Class Meetings; Recognition in Heaven; Open Communion; Initial Life; Reply to Howell’s “Evils of Baptism.”
Rotch [rōch], Abbott Lawrence. Ms., 1861- ——. A meteorologist who founded the Blue Hill meteorological observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1885, and who has published many valuable meteorological papers.
Rothrock, Joseph Trimble. Pa., 1839- ——. A professor of botany in the University of Pennsylvania from 1877. Botany of the Wheeler Expedition; Vacation Cruisings; Flora of Alaska; Revision of the North American Gaurineæ, include his principal publications. Lip.
Round, William Marshall Fitz. R. I., 1845- ——. A writer active in prison reforms. His books for juvenile readers include, Achsah; Child Marion Abroad; Torn and Mended; Hal; Rosecroft. Le.
Rouquette [roŏ-ket´], Adrien Emmanuel. La., 1813-1887. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New Orleans, known as the Abbé Rouquette. Les Savannes; Poésies américaines; Wild Flowers; Sacred Poetry; Le Thébaïde en Amérique; L’Antoniade, ou la Solitude avec Dieu; Poëmes patriotiques.
Rouquette, François Dominique. Pa., 1810-1890. Brother of A. E. Rouquette, supra. A lawyer who resided in France for part of his life. Les Meschacébéennes; Fleurs d’Amérique; and a work in French and English on the Choctaw Indians.
Rowe, Mrs. Henrietta Gould. Me., 1835- ——. A writer of Bangor, Maine. Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine; Queenshithe.
Rowland, Henry Augustus. Ct., 1804-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Common Maxims of Infidelity; The Path of Life; Light in a Dark Valley; The Way of Peace. See Memorial of, by Fairchild, 1860.
Rowson, Mrs. Susanna [Haswell]. E., 1762-1824. A once famous novelist whose Charlotte Temple was the most popular tale of its day. Born in England, she came to Boston as a child, but returned to England in 1784 and there married. In 1793 she came again to America, and after a short career as an actress opened a school in Boston, which was very successful. Her writings include Victoria; Mary, or the Test of Honour; The Fille de Chambre; The Inquisitor; The Trials of the Heart; Reuben and Rachel; Lucy Temple, a sequel to Charlotte Temple; Miscellaneous Poems; The Slaves of Algiers, an opera; The Volunteers, a farce; The French Patriot, a comedy. See Memoir by E. Nason, supra, 1870.
Royall, Mrs. Anne. Va., 1769-1854. A once well-known and unpopular Washington journalist, editor of the Washington Paul Pry, whose literary style was quite devoid of merit. The Black Book; The Tennessean, a novel; Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States; A Southern Tour: Letters from Alabama.
Royce, Josiah. Cal., 1855- ——. A professor of the history of philosophy at Harvard University. The Religious Aspect of Philosophy; California: a Study of American Character; The Feud of Oakfield Creek, a novel; Primer of Logical Analysis; The Spirit of Modern Philosophy. Hou.
Rudder, William. B. G., 1820-1880. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, rector of St. Stephen’s Church. Sermons; A Rationale of the Church’s Liturgic Worship. Co. Lip.
Rude, Mrs. Ellen [Sergeant]. N. Y., 1838- ——. A verse-writer of Duluth who has published Magnolia Leaves (verse).
Ruffner, Henry. Va., 1798-1861. A Presbyterian clergyman of Virginia, and a noted opponent of slavery. Fathers of the Desert: a History of Monachism; Future Punishment.
Ruffner, William Henry. Va., 1824- ——. Son of W. Ruffner, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and from 1870 State superintendent of public instruction in Virginia. Charity and the Clergy.
Ruggles, Henry Joseph. N. Y., 1813- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Method of Shakespeare as an Artist; The Plays of Shakespeare founded on Literary Forms. Hou.
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count. Ms., 1753-1814. A statesman and philosopher. After serving Great Britain in the War of the Revolution, he entered the service of the Elector of Bavaria, rose to the position of minister of war, and was created Count of the Holy Roman Empire, taking his title Rumford from Rumford, now Concord, New Hampshire. Essays: Political, Economical, and Philosophical, 1798-1806. See Cuvier’s Éloge de Rumford; Sparks’s American Biography; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1871.
Runcie, Mrs. Constance [Faunt Le Roy]. Ind., 1836- ——. A writer whose home was many years at St. Joseph, Missouri. Divinely Led; Poems, Dramatic and Lyric; Woman’s Work; Felix Mendelssohn; Children’s Stories and Fables.
Runkle, John Daniel. N. Y., 1822-1902. A noted mathematician, professor of mathematics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1870-78. Elements of Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry. Gi.
Rupp, Isaac Daniel. Pa., 1803-1878. An industrious local historian of Pennsylvania, who, besides writing histories of nearly thirty counties in his State, published also Events in Indian History; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; Early History of Western Pennsylvania; Thirty Thousand Names of German Emigrants.
Ruschenberger [roo´shĕn-ber-ḡer], William S. W. N. Y., 1807-1895. A noted naval surgeon and naturalist of Philadelphia. Elements of Natural History; A Voyage Around the World; Three Weeks in the Pacific; Notes and Commentaries during Voyages to Brazil and China; Lexicon of Natural History Terms; Account of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Philadelphia, 1787-1887; The Brothers Rogers.
Rush, Benjamin. Pa., 1745-1813. An eminent physician of Philadelphia who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and treasurer of the United States Mint, 1799-1813. Treatise on Diseases of the Mind; Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical; Sixteen Introductory Lectures. See Thacher’s Medical Biography; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography.
Rush, Benjamin. Pa., 1811-1877. Son of R. Rush, infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Appeal for the Union; Letters on the Rebellion, 1862.
Rush, Jacob. Pa., 1746-1820. Brother of B. Rush, 1st. A Philadelphia jurist. Charges on Moral and Religious Subjects; Character of Christ; Christian Baptism.
Rush, James. Pa., 1786-1869. Son of B. Rush, 1st. A distinguished Philadelphia citizen, the founder of the Ridgeway Library, to which he left one million dollars. He was a physician by profession, but lived the life of a recluse. The Philosophy of the Human Voice; Analysis of the Human Intellect; Rhymes of Contrast on Wisdom and Folly. Lip.
Rush, Richard. Pa., 1780-1859. Son of B. Rush, 1st, supra. A Philadelphia statesman who was secretary of the treasury, 1825-29. Codification of the Laws of the United States (1815); Court of London (1819-25); Washington in Domestic Life; Occasional Productions. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Russell, Addison Peale. O., 1826- ——. An Ohio journalist and essayist, now (1897) living in retirement in Wilmington, Ohio. Half Tints; Library Notes; Thomas Corwin, a Sketch; Characteristics; A Club of One; In a Club Corner; Sub-Cœlum. Clke. Hou.
Russell, Francis Thayer. Ms., 1828- ——. Son of W. Russell, infra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Waterbury, Connecticut, rector of St. Margaret’s School there, and voice instructor in the General Theological Seminary in New York city. The Use of the Voice.
Russell, Irwin. Mi., 1853-1879. A Southern writer of dialect verse. Dialect Poems. Cent.
Russell, Israel Cook. N. Y., 1852- ——. A professor of geology in the University of Michigan from 1892, and a geologist in the United States Geological Survey, 1880-92. Lakes of North America; Lake Lahontan; Quarternary History of Moro Valley; Glaciers of North America; Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada; Volcanoes of North America, and many geological reports. Am. Gi.
Russell, William. S., 1798-1873. An elocutionist of note, widely known in his day as a teacher. Orthophony, or Vocal Culture; Pulpit Elocution; Lessons in Enunciation; Grammar of Composition. Hou.
Russell, William Eustis. Ms., 1857-1896. A popular Massachusetts statesman, mayor of his native city of Cambridge, 1884-88, and governor of Massachusetts, 1890-93. Speeches and Messages. Lit.
Rutherford, Mildred. Ga., 1852- ——. An educator of Athens, Georgia. Her series of literary text-books includes, English Authors; American Authors; Classic Authors; French and German Authors.
Rutledge, Edward. S. C., 1797-1832. An Episcopal clergyman who was professor of moral philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. The Family Altar; History of the Church of England.
Ruttenber, Edward Manning. Vt., 1824- ——. An antiquary of Newburg, New York, who has published a History of Newburg; History of Orange County; History of the Hudson River Tribes.
Ryan, Abram Joseph. “Father Ryan.” Va., 1839-1888. A Roman Catholic priest and verse-writer of the South whose verse has been much over-praised in some quarters. It is spirited and fluent, but has not the literary quality needful to preserve it. Poems, Patriotic, Religious, and Miscellaneous; The Conquered Banner, and Other Poems; A Crown for Our Queen.
Ryan, Father. See Ryan, Abram.
Ryan, Mrs. Marah Ellis [Martin]. Pa., 1860- ——. An actress and novelist living at Fayette Springs, Pennsylvania. A Pagan of the Alleghanies; Merze; On Love’s Domains; Told in the Hills; Squaw Eloise.
Ryan, Patrick John. I., 1831- ——. A Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia. What Catholics do Not Believe; Some of the Causes of Modern Religious Scepticism.
Ryan, Stephen Vincent. Ont., 1825-1896. The Roman Catholic bishop of Buffalo from 1860. The Claims of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop to Apostolical Succession and Valid Orders Disproved.
Rylance, Joseph Hine. E., 1826- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of St. Mark’s in the Bowery from 1871, and prominent among Broad Churchmen. Preachers and Preaching; Essays on Miracles; Social Questions; Pulpit Talks on Topics of the Time; Christian Rationalism. Wh.
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Sabin, Elijah Robinson. Ct., 1776-1818. A Methodist evangelist of New England. The Road to Happiness; Charles Observator.
Sabin, Joseph. E., 1821-1881. An English publisher and bibliophile who came to America in 1848, and finally, settling in New York city, became widely known as a bookseller and collector of rare books. The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, with Scriptural Proofs; Bibliotheca Americana; Bibliography of Bibliographies.
Sabine, Lorenzo. N. H., 1803-1877. Son of E. R. Sabin, supra, but choosing another spelling of his surname. A secret government agent in relation to the Ashburton Treaty, and secretary of the Boston Board of Trade in his later years, as well as member of Congress from Massachusetts. The American Loyalists; Life of Commodore Edward Preble, in Sparks’s American Biography; Notes on Duels and Duelling; Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas. Lit.
Sachs, Bernard. Md., 1858- ——. A physician of New York city, well known as a neurologist. Nervous and Mental Diseases of Childhood, and many professional monographs.
Sachse, Julius Friedrich. Pa.,1842- ——. A journalist of Philadelphia. The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania; The Genesis of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania.
Sadlier [săd-leer´], Anna Teresa. Q., 1856- ——. Daughter of Mrs. Sadlier, infra. Seven Years and Mair; The King’s Page; Ethel Hamilton; Names that Live: a volume of biographies; Women of Catholicity; The Silent Woman of Alood; and many translations from the French, Italian, and German. Har. Sad.
Sadlier, Mrs. Mary Anne [Madden]. I., 1820-1903. A prominent writer of Roman Catholic Sunday-school tales, wife of J. Sadlier, a New York publisher. Among her many writings are, Alice Riordan; Red Hand of Ulster; The Daughter of Tyrconnell; The Old House by the Boyne.
Sadtler, Samuel Philip. Pa., 1847- ——. A chemist of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1875. Chemical Experimentation; Handbook of Industrial Organic Chemistry; A Text-Book of Chemistry (with H. Trimble). Lip.
Safford, James Merrill. O., 1822- ——. The State geologist of Tennessee from 1854, professor in Vanderbilt University from 1875. A Geological Reconnoissance of Tennessee; Geology of Tennessee.
Safford, Truman Henry. Vt., 1836-1901. An astronomer of note, famous in childhood as a mathematician, and professor of astronomy at Williams College from 1876. Mathematical Teaching and its Modern Methods.
Safford, William Harrison. W. Va., 1821- ——. A lawyer of Chillicothe, Ohio. Life of Blennerhasset; The Blennerhasset Papers. Clke.
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge. Ms., 1814-1901. A philologist of distinction, professor of Arabic at Yale University, 1841-56. General and Biographical Monographs (1885).
Saltus, Edgar Evertson. N. Y., 1858- ——. A novelist of New York city. Balzac: a Study; The Philosophy of Disenchantment; The Anatomy of Negation; Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure; The Truth about Tristram Varick; Eden; A Transaction in Hearts; When Dreams Come True; The Pace that Kills. Hou.
Saltus, Francis Saltus. N. Y., 1849-1889. Brother of E. E. Saltus, supra. An erratic verse-writer, much of whose life was passed abroad. His verse is not without a certain luxurious power, but it is wilful in the extreme, diffuse, and unpruned. Honey and Gall; Shadows and Ideals; The Witch of Endor; The Bayadere, and Other Sonnets. Lip. Put.
Sampson, Ezra. Ms., 1749-1823. A Congregational clergyman at Plympton, Massachusetts, 1775-95, subsequently a journalist in Hartford. Beauties of the Bible; The Historical Dictionary; The Sham Patriot Unmasked; The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Men. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit. Har.
Sampson, John Patterson. N. C., 1837- ——. A minister of the African Methodist church, prior to 1882 a lawyer in Washington. Common Sense Physiology; The Disappointed Bride; Temperament and Phrenology of Mixed Races; Jolly People; Illustrations in Theology.
Sampson, William. I., 1764-1836. A once famous lawyer of New York city who came to America in 1798, having previously been a barrister in Dublin. Sampson Against the Philistines, or the Reform of Lawsuits; Memoir of William Sampson, are his chief works.
Samson, George Whitefield. Ms., 1819-1896. A Baptist clergyman and educator of New York city, president of Rutgers Female College from 1871. A voluminous writer whose principal works comprise, Elements of Art Criticism; Physical Media in Spiritual Manifestations; The Atonement; The Divine Law as to Wines; Idols of Fashion and Culture; Tested Truths as to Relations of Capital and Labor; Outlines of the History of Ethics; Spiritualism Tested, originally issued as To Daimonion; Guide to Self-Education; The Bible Revisers’ Greek Text; Guide to Bible Interpretation. Lip.
Samuels, Adelaide Frances. Ms., 1845- ——. Sister of E. A. Samuels, infra. A writer for juveniles. Dick and Daisy Series; Dick Travers Abroad Series; Daisy Travers. Le.
Samuels, Edward Augustus. Ms., 1836- ——. A Boston naturalist. Ornithology and Oölogy of New England; Among the Birds; Mammalogy of New England; The Living World (with A. Arnold).
Samuels, Samuel. Pa., 1825- ——. A noted seaman and inventor who organized the Steam Heating Company of New York city in 1881. From Forecastle to Cabin. Har.
Samuels, Mrs. Susan Blagge [Caldwell]. Ms., 1848- ——. Wife of E. A. Samuels, supra. A popular writer for juveniles. The Golden Rule Series. Le.
Sanborn, Alvan Francis. Ms., 1866- ——. Moody’s Lodging House, and Other Tenement Sketches; Meg McIntyre’s Raffle, and Other Stories. Cop.
Sanborn, Edwin David. N. H., 1808-1885. An educator who was professor of literature at Dartmouth College, 1863-85, and author of a History of New Hampshire.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin. N. H., 1831- ——. A noted journalist and reformer living at Concord, Massachusetts, and connected with The Springfield Republican from 1868. Life of Thoreau; Life and Letters of John Brown; Life of Dr. S. E. Howe, supra. Fu. Hou. Rob.
Sanborn, Helen Josephine. Me., 1857- ——. A Winter in Central America, a volume of travels. Le.
Sanborn, Kate. See Sanborn, Katherine.
Sanborn, Katherine Abbott. N. H., 1839- ——. Daughter of E. D. Sanborn, supra. A popular and versatile writer of ephemeral books, who was professor of English literature at Smith College prior to 1886. Home Pictures of English Poets; Vanity and Insanity of Genius; Adopting an Abandoned Farm; Abandoning an Adopted Farm; A Truthful Woman in Southern California; My Literary Zoo, and a number of compilations. Ap. Fu. Hou.
Sanborn, Mrs. Mary [Farley]. 18— - ——. A novelist of Boston. Sweet and Twenty; It Came to Pass; Paula Ferris. Le.
Sandeman, Robert. S., 1718 or 1723-1771. The founder of the Sandemanian sect, who came to America in 1764 and gathered a church at Danbury, Connecticut, where he died. Letters on Theron and Aspasio; Thoughts on Christianity.
Sanders, Daniel Clarke. Ms., 1768-1850. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of the University of Vermont, 1800-14, subsequently pastor at Medfield, Massachusetts. A History of the Indian Wars with the First Settlers of the United States, which he published in 1812, is now a very rare book. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Sanders, Mrs. Elizabeth [Elkins]. Ms., 1762-1851. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts. Conversations, principally on the Aborigines of North America; First Settlers of New England; Reviews.
Sanderson, John. Pa., 1783-1844. An educator of Philadelphia, classical professor in the High School, 1836-44, and of some note in his day as a humourist. The American in Paris; The American in England; and the first two volumes of the Biography of the Signers of the Declarations of Independence. See Hart’s American Literature.
Sanderson, John Philip. Pa., 1818-1864. An officer in the Federal army. Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on Foreign Immigration; Republican Landmarks.
Sanderson, Joseph. I., 1823- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman in New York and other localities. Jesus on the Holy Mount; Memorial Tributes; The Bow in the Cloud.
Sands, Alexander Hamilton. Va., 1828-1887. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, who entered the Baptist ministry not long before his death. History of a Suit in Equity; Recreations of a Southern Barrister; Practical Law Forms; Sermons by a Village Pastor.
Sands, Robert Charles. N. Y., 1799-1832. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city who wrote a Life of Paul Jones; The Talisman (with Bryant and Verplanck); co-author with Eastburn of the once noted poem Yamoyden. See Life by Verplanck; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Sanford, Henry Shelton. Ct., 1823-1891. A diplomatist who was secretary of the United States legation at Paris, 1849-53, chargé d’affaires there till April, 1854, and minister to Belgium, 1861-69; and who founded the town of Sanford, Florida, in 1870. Penal Codes in Europe; The Avendslood Correspondence.
Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth [Munson]. N. Y., 1838- ——. A journalist of New York city, editor of Harper’s Bazar, 1889-99, and a popular verse-writer whose domestic poems display sentiment of a very genuine kind. Her writings in verse comprise, On the Road Home; Easter Bells; Poems of the Household; Home Fairies and Heart Flowers. She has also written a Manual of Missions of the Reformed Church, and several books for girls, including Hours with Girls; Home and Heaven; Splendid Times; Five Happy Weeks; May Stanhope and her Friend; Miss Dewbury’s School; Little Knights and Ladies. Maidie’s Problem. Har. Hou. Meth. Wh.
Santayana, George. Sp., 1863- ——. An instructor in philosophy at Harvard University. Sonnets and Other Poems; The Sense of Beauty: being the Outlines of Æsthetic Theory. St.
Sargent, Charles Sprague. Ms., 1841- ——. Grand-nephew of L. M. Sargent, infra. A botanist of eminence, Arnold professor of arboriculture at Harvard University from 1879, editor of Garden and Forest from 1888. The Silva of North America; Report on the Forests of North America; The Woods of the United States; Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan. Ap. Hou.
Sargent, Epes. Ms., 1813-1880. A once prominent Boston journalist and littérateur, who perhaps will be longest remembered by the familiar poem, Life on the Ocean Wave. His verse includes, Songs of the Sea; Poems; The Woman who Dared. In fiction he published, Wealth and Worth; What’s to be Done?; Fleetwood; Peculiar, a tale of the Great Rebellion. He wrote the dramas, Bride of Genoa; Velasco; Change Makes Change; The Priestess. His miscellaneous writings comprise, Life of Henry Clay; American Adventures by Land and Sea; Arctic Adventures by Sea and Land; Original Dialogues; Planchette, the Despair of Science; Memoir of Franklin. He edited a popular series of school and critical editions of many English poets, and Harper’s Cyclopedia of Poetry. Co. Har. Le. Rob.
Sargent, Fitzwilliam. Ms., 1820- ——. Grand-nephew of W. Sargent, 1st, and father of John Singer Sargent, the artist. A Philadelphia surgeon who went to live in Switzerland in 1854. Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery.
Sargent, Henry Winthrop. Ms., 1810-1882. A noted horticulturist of Fishkill, New York. Skeleton Routes through England, etc.; Treatise on Landscape Gardening. Ap.
Sargent, John Osborne. Ms., 1811-1891. Brother of E. Sargent, supra. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. He translated Grün’s Last Knight; and published, also, Papers for the Times by a Berkshire Farmer; and Horatian Echoes: Translation of the Odes of Horace. Hou.
Sargent, Lucius Manlius. Ms., 1786-1867. Brother of H. W. Sargent, supra, and a distant cousin of W. Sargent, 1st, infra. A once prominent temperance advocate of Boston. Temperance Tales, a very popular work; Dealings with the Dead; The Irrepressible Conflict; Hubert and Ellen, and Other Poems; Translations from the Minor Latin Poets. See Reminiscences of, by Sheppard, 1889.
Sargent, Nathan. Vt., 1794-1875. A journalist and politician. Life of Henry Clay; Public Men and Events (1875).
Sargent, Winthrop. Ms., 1753-1820. A patriot soldier in the Revolutionary War, governor of Northwest Territory, 1798-1800, and of Mississippi Territory, 1790 and 1801. Papers Relating to Certain American Antiquities; Boston, a poem.
Sargent, Winthrop. Pa., 1825-1870. Grandson of W. Sargent, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Life of Major André, a work displaying much research. He also edited the History of Braddock’s Expedition, from Original Papers.
Sartwell, Henry Parker. Ms., 1792-1867. A botanist and physician of Penn Yan, New York, who from 1840 devoted his attention to the genus Carex. His herbarium of more than eight thousand specimens is in Hamilton College. Carices Americanæ Exsiccatæ.
Satterlee, Henry Yates. N. Y., 1843- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Washington, prior to 1896 a prominent clergyman of New York city. A Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed. Scr.
Saunders, Frederick. E., 1807-1902. The librarian of the Astor Library, New York city, 1859-96. New York in a Nut-Shell; Salad for the Solitary and Salad for the Social; Memoirs of the Great Metropolis; The Story of Some Famous Books; Story of the Discovery of the New World by Columbus (1892); Pastime Papers; Stray Leaves of Literature; Character Studies. Ran. Wh.
Savage, Edward Hartwell. N. H., 1812-1893. A Boston policeman and justice of the peace. Boston Police Recollections; Five Thousand Boston Events, 1630-1880.
Savage, James. Ms., 1784-1873. A Boston lawyer eminent as a genealogist. He is best known as the author of a Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, upon which twenty years of labour were expended.
Savage, John. I., 1828-1888. A journalist of New York city, and subsequently of Washington. Poems; Picturesque Ireland; Lays of the Folkstead; Modern Revolutionary History of Ireland; Our Living Representative Men; Life of Andrew Johnson; Fenian Heroes and Martyrs; Sibyl, a tragedy; and several other plays.
Savage, Minot Judson. Me., 1841- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence among radical thinkers, pastor of Unity Church, Boston, 1874-96, and, since the latter year, of the Church of the Messiah in New York city. Christianity the Science of Manhood; Beliefs About Man; Belief in God; Life Questions; Poems; The Religion of Evolution; The Religion of Morals; Talks About Jesus; The Modern Sphinx; Man, Woman, and Child; Social Problems; My Creed; Religious Reconstruction; Signs of the Times; Helps for Daily Living; Four Great Questions Concerning God; The Evolution of Christianity; Is This a Good World?; Jesus and Modern Life; A Man; Light on the Cloud; Bluffton, a novel; The Minister’s Handbook. See Men of Progress of Massachusetts. El.
Savage, Philip Henry. Ms., 1868-1899. Son of M. J. Savage, supra. A Boston littérateur. First Poems and Fragments. Cop.
Savage, Richard Henry. N. Y., 1846-1903. A novelist. My Official Wife; For Life and Love; A Daughter of Judas; The Anarchist; Delilah of Harlem; In the Old Chateau; The Little Judge of Lagunitas; The Masked Venus; The Flying Halcyon; Miss Devereux of the Mariquita; After Many Years, and Other Poems. Ne.
Sawtelle, Henry Allen. Me., 1832-1885. A Baptist clergyman of San Francisco and elsewhere. Open Communion; Things to Think Of. Ne.
Sawyer, Mrs. Caroline Mehetabel [Fisher]. Ms., 1812-1894. Wife of T. J. Sawyer, infra. The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition.
Sawyer, Frederick William. Me., 1810-1875. A Boston lawyer. Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Guide; Plea for Amusements; Hits at American Whims.
Sawyer, Leicester Ambrose. N. Y., 1807-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, after 1860 a resident of Whitesboro, New York, prominent as a biblical scholar. Elements of Biblical Interpretation; Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; A Critical Exposition of Baptism; Organic Christianity; Reconstruction of Bible Theories. He made a translation of the Scriptures, of which the New Testament was published.
Sawyer, Lemuel. N. C., 1777-1852. A North Carolina lawyer. Life of John Randolph; Autobiography.
Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson. Vt., 1804-1899. A Universalist clergyman and educator, after 1869 a professor of theology at Tufts College. Doctrine of Eternal Salvation; Who Is God,—the Son or the Father?; Endless Punishment in the Very Words of its Advocates.
Saxe, John Godfrey. Vt., 1816-1887. A lawyer and littérateur of Vermont and subsequently of New York, widely known as a humourous poet. Progress; A New Rape of the Lock; The Proud Miss McBride; The Money King; Clever Songs of Many Nations; The Masquerade; Leisure Day Rhymes; Fables and Lyrics in Rhyme. Hou.
Say, Thomas. Pa., 1787-1834. A zoölogist who was the first curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1825 he removed to New Harmony, Indiana, and was the agent of the Owen socialist colony there. Vocabularies of Indian Languages; American Conchology; American Entomology. His Complete Writings on Conchology have been edited by Binney, and those on Entomology by Le Conte. See Memoir by Ord.
Sayles, John. N. Y., 1825-1897. A Texas jurist, professor in Baylor University from 1880. Practice in the District and Supreme Courts of Texas; Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State of Texas; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions in the Courts of Texas; Probate Laws of Texas; Laws of Business; Constitution of Texas, with Notes; Notes on Texan Reports, include the larger number of his professional writings. See Bibliography of Texas.
Sayre, Lewis Albert. N. J., 1820-1900. A distinguished surgeon of New York city, professor of orthopædic surgery in Bellevue Hospital College. Practical Manual of the Treatment of Club-Foot; Lectures on Orthopædic Surgery; Spinal Curvature and its Treatment. Ap.
Scarborough, William Saunders. Ga., 1852- ——. An educator of African descent, professor of ancient languages in Wilberforce University, Ohio, from 1877. First Lessons in Greek; Theory and Functions of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb.
Schaeffer [shā´fe̯r], Charles Frederick. Pa., 1807-1879. Son of F. D. Shaeffer, infra. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor of systematic theology in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1864-76. A System of Lutheran Theology is one of several important works which he translated from the German. See American Lutheran Biographies.
Schaeffer, Charles William. Md., 1813-1896. Nephew of C. F. Schaeffer, supra. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of eminence, professor of church history in the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary from 1864. History of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Family Prayers.
Schaeffer, Frederick David. G., 1760-1836. A once prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Antwort auf eine Vertheidigung der Methodisten; Eine herzliche Anrede.
Schaff [shäf], Philip. Sd., 1819-1893. A distinguished German Reformed divine who came to the United States in 1844, and was professor of church history in the seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, 1844-63. In 1873 he became professor of sacred literature in Union Seminary in New York city. Principles of Protestantism; History of the Christian Church; Creeds of Christendom; Theological Propædeutics; Christ and Christianity; Critical Edition of the Heidelberg Catechism; Bible Revision; Through Bible Lands; Progress of Religious Freedom; Church and State in the United States; The Person of Christ; Literature and Poetry; A Companion to the Greek Testament and the English Version, include his principal original works. He has edited the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge; Lange’s Commentary, and other important works. Fu. Har. Ran. Scr. Wh.
Scharf, John Thomas. Md., 1843-1898. An historical writer of Baltimore. Chronicles of Baltimore; History of Maryland; History of Baltimore; History of Western Maryland; History of the City of St. Louis; History of Philadelphia; History of the Confederate Navy; History of Delaware.
Schauffler [show´fler], William Gottlieb. G., 1798-1883. A Congregational missionary in Turkey well known as a linguist. He translated the Bible into Hebrew-Spanish and Turkish, and also wrote Essay on the Right Use of Property; Meditations on the Last Days of Christ. See Autobiography, 1887. Ran.
Schayer, Mrs. Julia [Thompson] [von Storch]. Me., 1840- ——. A Washington writer. The Tiger Lily, and Other Stories.
Schem [shem], Alexander Jacob. G., 1826-1881. A statistician of note who was assistant superintendent of schools in New York city, 1874-81. Latin-English Dictionary (with G. Crooks, supra); Statistics of the World; Cyclopædia of Education (with H. Kiddle, supra).
Schenck, William Edward. N. J., 1819-1903. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. Children in Heaven; Nearing Home; The Fountain for Sin; Church Extension in Cities.
Schereschewsky, Samuel Isaac Joseph. R., 1831- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of the China Mission. He was consecrated in 1877, but resigned his office in 1883 and lived for some years in Cambridge, but since 1895 has lived at Shanghai. He is the author of a translation of the Bible into Chinese.
Schiefflin [shĕf´lin], Samuel Bradhurst. N. Y., 1811-1900. A business man of New York city who wrote on religious topics. Message to the Ruling Elders; Foundations of History; Words to Christian Teachers; The Church in Ephesus and the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.
Schindler, Solomon. Sil., 1842- ——. A Hebrew clergyman now (1897) living in Cambridge but formerly in charge of Temple Adath Israel, Boston. Young West, a sequel to “Looking Backward;” Messianic Exhortations and Modern Judaism; Dissolving Views on the History of Judaism. Ar. Le.
Schley, Winfield Scott. Md., 1839- ——. A naval officer and explorer who published (with J. R. Soley, infra) The Rescue of Greeley. Scr.
Schmauk [shmowk], Theodore Emmanuel. Pa., 1860- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, editor of The Lutheran from 1889, and author of The Negative Criticism.
Schmidt, Henry Immanuel. Pa., 1806-1889. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of New York city, professor of German in Columbia College, 1848-80. History of Education; The Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper; Course of American Geography.
Schmucker, Beale Melanchthon. Pa., 1827-1888. Son of S. S. Schmucker, infra. A Lutheran clergyman of Pittsville, Pennsylvania, 1881-88. A liturgical scholar of note, editor of The Church Book of the General Council, and of The Church Service, 1888.
Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim. Va., 1823-1863. Son of S. S. Schmucker, infra. A Philadelphia author who was in the early part of his career a Lutheran minister. His various writings, which display industry rather than original talent, comprise for the most part Errors of Modern Infidelity; The Spanish Wife, a play; History of the Four Georges; History of All Religions; Court and Reign of Catharine II.; Lives of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster, Clay, Dr. Kane, Frémont; Memorable Scenes in French History; History of the Modern Jews; History of Napoleon Third; Arctic Explorations; History of the Civil War in the United States (1863). Co.
Schmucker, Samuel Simon. Md., 1799-1873. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, 1826-64. He was an advocate of American Lutheranism as characterized by indifference to the distinctive doctrines of Lutheranism. Elements of Popular Theology; Psychology; Lutheran Manual; Lutheran Symbols, or American Lutheranism Vindicated; Church of the Redeemer; The Unity of Christ’s Church, are his chief works. Ran.
Schneck, Benjamin Shroder. Pa., 1806-1874. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Chambersburg from 1855. Die deutsche Kanzel; The Burning of Chambersburg; Mercersburg Theology.
Schodde, George Henry. Pa., 1854- ——. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of Ohio, professor at Capitol University from 1880. The Book of Enoch translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes; A Day in Capernaum, from the German of Delitzsch.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. N. Y., 1793-1864. An eminent ethnologist and geologist, thirty years of whose life were spent among the Indians, chiefly at Mackinaw. His later life was passed in Washington. He discovered the source of the Mississippi. Among his many works are included, View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Algic Discoveries; Historical Information Concerning the Indian Tribes; Narrative of an Expedition to Itasca Lake; Oneota, reissued as The Indian and His Wigwam; The Myth of Hiawatha; Personal Memoirs of Thirty Years’ Residence with Indian Tribes; Scenes and Adventures in the Ozark Mountains; Life of General Cass, and several volumes of verse. His talents lay rather in accumulating facts than in perceiving their relations to each other. Lip.
Schoolcraft, Mrs. Mary [Howard]. S. C., ————-. Wife of H. R. Schoolcraft, supra. The Black Gauntlet, a Tale of Plantation Life. Lip.
Schouler [skool´er], James. Ms., 1839- ——. Son of W. Schouler, infra. A lawyer and historian of Boston, professor in the law school of Boston University. The Law of Bailments; The Law of Personal Property; The Law of Husband and Wife; Law of Executors and Administrators; Law of Wills; A History of the United States under the Constitution; Life of Thomas Jefferson; Historical Briefs. Do. Lit.
Schouler, William. S., 1814-1872. A journalist of Boston who published A History of Massachusetts during the Civil War.
Schroeder, John Frederick. Md., 1800-1857. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Flushing, Long Island. Life of Washington; Maxims of Washington; Class Book of Astronomy; Sunday Addresses. Ap.
Schuette, Conrad Herman Louis. G., 1843- ——. A Lutheran clergyman and educator of Ohio, professor in Capitol University from 1872. Church Member’s Manual; The State, the Church, and the School.
Schulte, Mrs. Mary Jemima [McColl]. E., 1847- ——. A verse-writer of Jersey City. Bide a Wee, and Other Poems.
Schurman, Jacob Gould. P. E. I., 1854- ——. A Canadian educator, since 1892 president of Cornell University. Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution; The Ethical Import of Darwinism; Belief in God; Agnosticism and Religion. Scr.
Schurz [shoorts], Carl. P., 1829- ——. A statesman of eminence, active in the support of civil service reform. He came to America in 1852; settled in Missouri, from which he went to Congress as senator; served as general in the Union army during the Civil War; removed to New York city in 1875, and was editor of The Evening Post, 1881-84. Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; Abraham Lincoln: an Essay. Hou. Le. Lip.
Schuyler [sky´le̯r], Aaron. N. Y., 1828- ——. A mathematician who was professor in Baldwin University and president of that institution, 1875-81, and since 1885 a professor in Kansas Wesleyan University. The Human Soul; Higher Arithmetic; Principles of Logic; Surveying and Navigation; Elements of Geometry; Empirical and Rational Psychology.
Schuyler, Anthony. N. Y., 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace Church at Orange, New Jersey, from 1868, and author of Household Religion.
Schuyler, Eugene. N. Y., 1840-1890. Son of G. W. Schuyler, infra. A diplomatist who was United States secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, 1870-76, secretary of legation and consul-general at Constantinople, 1876-78, and minister to Greece, 1882-84. Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer; Turkistan; American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce. Scr.
Schuyler, George Washington. N. Y., 1810-1888. A prominent State official of New York for many years. Colonial New York; Philip Schuyler and his Family. Scr.
Schuyler, Montgomery. N. Y., 1814-1896. Cousin of Anthony Schuyler, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, rector of Christ Church from 1854. The Church: its Ministry and Worship; The Pioneer Church.
Schuyler, Montgomery. N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of Anthony Schuyler, supra. A journalist of New York city on the staff of The Times. Studies in American Architecture. Har.
Schwatka, Frederick. Ill., 1849-1892. A naval officer and explorer. In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers; Nimrod in the North; Along Alaska’s Great River; The Children of the Cold. See Schwatka’s Search, by W. H. Gilder, supra. Cas.
Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander de. Pa., 1825-1887. Son of L. D. de Schweinitz, infra. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania, president of the Moravian College, 1867-84. The Moravian Manual; The Moravian Episcopate; Life of Zeisberger, the Western Pioneer and Apostle to the Indians; Some of the Fathers of the American Moravian Church; History of the Church known as the Unitas Fratrum; Systematic Benevolence.
Schweinitz, George Edmund de. Pa., 1858- ——. Son of E. A. de Schweinitz, supra. A Philadelphia physician of note as an ophthalmologist who has written Diseases of the Eye, and professional monographs and papers.
Schweinitz, Lewis David de. Pa., 1780-1834. A Moravian clergyman of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, famous in his day as a botanist. Conspectus Fungorum Lusatiæ; Synopsis Fungorum Carolinæ Superioris; Synopsis Fungorum in America; Boreali Media Digentium. See Memoir of, by W. R. Johnson, supra.
Scollard, Clinton. N. Y., 1860- ——. An educator of Clinton, New York, professor of English literature and Anglo-Saxon at Hamilton College, 1888-1896, and a well-known poet of the day. His writings in verse include, Pictures in Song; With Reed and Lyre; Old and New World Lyrics; Giovio and Giulia; Songs of Sunrise Lands; Hills of Song; Skenandoa; A Boy’s Book of Rhyme. In prose he has published, Under Summer Skies; On Sunny Shores; A Man-at-Arms. Hou. Lo. Sto.
Scott, Charles. Tn., 1811-1861. Son of E. Scott, infra. A lawyer of Jackson, Mississippi. Analogy of Ancient Craft Masonry to Natural and Revealed Religion; The Keystone of the Masonic Arch.
Scott, Eben[ezer] Greenough. Pa., 1836- ——. A writer of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Development of Constitutional Liberty in the English Colonies of America; Commentaries upon the Intestate System of Pennsylvania; Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America. Hou. Put.
Scott, Edward. Va., 1774-1852. A Tennessee lawyer, prominent in the State’s early history, who published Laws of the State of Tennessee, in 1822.
Scott, Henry Lee. N. C., 1814-1886. Son-in-law of Winfield Scott, infra. An army officer who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and was the author of A Military Dictionary.
Scott, John. Pa., 1820- ——. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of Cincinnati. Pulpit Echoes; The Land of Sojourn.
Scott, Mrs. Julia H—— [Kinney]. Pa., 1809-1842. A verse-writer of Towanda, Pennsylvania, whose Poems, with Memoir, were posthumously published.
Scott, Robert Nicholson. Tn., 1838-1887. Son of W. A. Scott, infra. An army officer, in charge of the publication of war records at Washington, 1877-87, who published a Digest of the Military Laws of the United States.
Scott, William Anderson. Tn., 1813-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman of San Francisco, professor in the Theological Seminary there from 1871. The Bible and Politics; Strauss and Renan; Daniel: a Model for Young Men; Achan in El Dorado; The Giant Judge; The Church in the Army; The Christ of the Apostles’ Creed; Trade and Letters, include his chief work.
Scott, Winfield. Va., 1786-1866. A famous general who served in the War of 1812, and was commander-in-chief of the American army during the war with Mexico. General Regulations of the Army; System of Infantry and Rifle Tactics; Autobiography (1864). See Lives by Mansfield, 1846, Headley, 1852, Victor, 1861; and United States histories.
Scouller, James Brown. Pa., 1820-1899. A prominent United Presbyterian clergyman. Manual of the United Presbyterian Church; History of the United Presbyterian Church; Calvinism: its History and Influence.
Scoville, Joseph A——. “Walter Barrett.” Ct., 1811-1864. A journalist of New York city, clerk of the Common Council, and at one period private secretary to Calhoun. Adventures of Clarence Bolton, or Life in New York; The Old Merchants of New York; Vigor, a novel; Marion.
Scripture, Edward Wheeler. N. H., 1864- ——. A scientist, director of the physical laboratory of Yale University. Thinking, Feeling, Doing, a popular psychology; The New Psychology; Studies from the Yale Physical Laboratory. Among his various monographs the more important are those on the association of ideas and the measurement of hallucinations. Fl.
Scudder, Eliza. Ms., 1821-1896. Cousin of H. E. Scudder, infra. A hymn-writer of Massachusetts. Hymns and Sonnets. Hou.
Scudder, Henry Martyn. Cy., 1822-1895. Son of J. Scudder, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, pastor in Chicago, 1883-87, and from 1887 a missionary in Japan. He published, in the Tamil language, Liturgy of the Dutch Reformed Church; The Bazaar Book; Sweet Savors of Divine Truth; Spiritual Teaching.
Scudder, Horace Elisha. Ms., 1838-1902. A Boston littérateur, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1890-1898. Seven Little People and their Friends; Dream Children; Stories from my Attic; The Dwellers in Five-Sisters Court; Stories and Romances; Boston Town; Life of Noah Webster; A History of the United States; A Short History of the United States; Book of Fables; Book of Folk Stories; George Washington: an Historical Biography; Men and Letters, essays; Childhood in Literature and Art; Recollections of Samuel Breck; The Bodley Books, a series of popular juveniles; James Russell Lowell: a Biography. Co. Hou. Scr. Sh.
Scudder, John. N. J., 1793-1855. A Dutch Reformed missionary and physician in Ceylon, 1820-39. Letters from the East; Letters to Pious Young Men; Promises for Passing Over Jordan. See Memoir by J. B. Waterbury, 1856.
Scudder, John Milton. O., 1829-1894. A Cincinnati physician and educator, long a professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute. Diseases of Women; Principles of Medicine; Specific Medication; The Reproductive Organs; Specific Diagnosis.
Scudder, Moses Lewis. Ms., 1843- ——. A broker of Chicago. Brief Honors, a romance; Almost an Englishman; National Banking; Congested Prices; The Labor Value Prophecy.
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. Ms., 1837- ——. Brother of H. E. Scudder, supra. A naturalist of Cambridge. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada; Butterflies, their Structure, Changes, and Life Histories; Brief Guide to the Commoner Butterflies; The Life of a Butterfly; Frail Children of the Air: Excursions into the World of Butterflies; A Century of Orthoptera; The Fossil Insects of North America. Ho. Hou. Mac.
Scudder, Vida Dutton. E. I., 1861- ——. Niece of H. E. Scudder, supra. An educator of Massachusetts, professor in Wellesley College. How the Rain Sprites were Freed; The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets; The Witness of Denial; The Prometheus Unbound of Shelley. Dut. He. Hou.
Seabury, Samuel. Ct., 1729-1796. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. He was the first American bishop and the first presiding bishop. Being refused consecration by the Anglican Church, he was consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, and through him the Episcopal Church in the United States derives its succession from the Church in Scotland. During the early days of the American Revolution he attracted much attention by his pamphlets signed A. W. Farmer, which sharply criticised the actions of the patriots. They include, Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress; The Continental Congress Canvassed; View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her English Colonies. His Sermons have been issued in three volumes. See Life by E. E. Beardsley, 1881; Seabury Centennial Commemoration.
Seabury, Samuel. Ct., 1801-1872. Grandson of S. Seabury, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, prominent among High Churchmen, and professor in the General Theological Seminary. Continuity of the Church of England; Mary the Virgin; Historical Sketch of Augustine of Hippo; Supremacy of Conscience; American Slavery Justified; Theory and Use of the Calendar; Discourses on the Holy Calendar.
Seabury, William Jones. N. Y., 1837- ——. Son of Samuel Seabury, 2d. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of the Annunciation from 1868, and professor in the General Seminary from 1873. Suggestions in Aid of Devotion; Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity. See American Church Review, July, 1885.
Seaman, Ezra Champion. N. Y., 1805-1880. The comptroller of the treasury, 1849-53, and subsequently inspector of the Michigan State prisons. Essays on the Progress of Nations; Commentaries on the Constitution, Laws, People, and History of the United States; The American System of Government; Views of Nature.
Seaman, Valentine. L. I., 1770-1817. A once prominent physician of New York city, active in introducing the practice of vaccination. Waters of Saratoga; Midwife’s Monitor; On Vaccination.
Searing, Mrs. Laura Catherine [Redden]. “Howard Glyndon.” Md., 1840- ——. A verse-writer and journalist now living in California, but from 1868-76 on the staff of The New York Mail. Sounds from Secret Chambers; Poems; Idylls of Battle; Brother and Sister. Hou.
Searle, Arthur. E., 1837- ——. A professor of astronomy at Harvard University from 1887, who has published Outlines of Astronomy.
Searle, January. See Phillips, E. S.
Searles, William Henry. O., 1837- ——. A civil engineer. Field Engineering; The Railroad Spiral. Wil.
Sears, Barnas. Ms., 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman and educator of prominence in his day. He was professor at Newton Theological Seminary, 1836-48, and president of Brown University, 1855-67. Life of Luther; The Ciceronian or Prussian Mode of Instruction in Latin; Essays on Classical Literature (with B. B. Edwards, supra, and C. C. Felton, supra).
Sears, Edmund Hamilton. Ms., 1810-1876. A Unitarian clergyman and religious poet, pastor at Weston, Massachusetts, 1865-76. He wrote the familiar Christmas hymn, “Calm on the listening ear of night.” Regeneration; Foregleams and Foreshadows of Immortality, originally published as Athanasia; The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; Christ in the Life; Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life; Pictures of the Olden Time; That Glorious Song of Old. A. U. A. Le.
Sears, George W——. Ms., 1821- ——. A writer of Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, who served in the Federal army during the Civil War. Woodcraft; Forest Runes (verse).
Sears, [Joseph] Hamblen. Ms., 1865- ——. A writer of New York city. The Governments of the World To-Day. Fl.
Seawell, Molly Elliot. Va., 1860- ——. A Washington writer and newspaper correspondent. The Sprightly Romance of Marsac; Hale Weston, a novel; The Berkeleys and their Neighbors; Throckmorton; Maid Marian, and Other Stories; Children of Destiny; Little Jarvis; Midshipman Paulding; Paul Jones; Decatur and Somers; Through Thick and Thin; A Strange, Sad Comedy; Quarterdeck and Fok’sle. Ap. Lo. We.
Seccomb, John. Ms., 1708-1792. A Congregational minister at Harvard, Massachusetts, 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey’s Will, a once extremely popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the Widow Abbey, a work as destitute of genuine wit and worth as its predecessor. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American Literature.
Seccomb, Joseph. Ms., 1706-1760. Brother of J. Seccomb, supra. A Congregational minister at Kingston, New Hampshire, from 1737, and author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations of Christ as God.
Sedgwick, Arthur George. N. Y., 1844- ——. Son of T. Sedgwick, 2d, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Principles and Practices Governing the Trial of Title to Land (with F. S. Wait); Elements of Damages. Lit.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Ms., 1789-1867. A once famous novelist whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary women. Her work has very real excellence, but its merits were hardly of a quality to preserve it, and it is now superseded by the writings of others who have cultivated the same field with even more skill. Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveller; Clarence; Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, her native town. See Life and Letters, 1871. Har.
Sedgwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Buckminster [Dwight]. Ms., 1791-1864. Sister-in-law of C. M. Sedgwick, supra, and a teacher for many years. Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books; A Talk with My Pupils; Stories of the Spanish Conquest.
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight. Ms., 1785-1831. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick, supra. An eminent lawyer of New York city who was a noted opponent of slavery, and author of English Practice of the Common Law.
Sedgwick, Mrs. Susan Livingston [Ridley]. 1789-1867. Wife of T. Sedgwick, 1st, infra. A writer for young people. Walter Thornley; The Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emigrants; Allen Prescott; Alida, or Town and Country. Har.
Sedgwick, Theodore. Ms., 1780-1839. Brother of C. M. Sedgwick, supra. A lawyer of Albany, and from 1819 a resident of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Public and Private Economy; Hints to my Countrymen.
Sedgwick, Theodore. N. Y., 1811-1859. Son of T. Sedgwick, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Court Law; Treatise on the Measure of Damages, a work of much importance.
Seeley, Charles Sumner. See Munday, J. W.
Seely, [Edward] Howard. N. Y., 1856-1894. A littérateur of New York city. A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life; A Ranchman’s Stories; A Nymph of the West; The Jonah of Lucky Valley, and Other Stories; A Border Leander. Ap. Do. Har.
Seelye [see´le], Mrs. Elizabeth [Eggleston]. Min., 1858- ——. Daughter of E. Eggleston, supra. A writer living at Lake George, New York. The Story of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and Red Jacket; Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with E. Eggleston); The Story of Washington. Ap. Do.
Seelye, Julius Hawley. Ct., 1824-1895. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as an educator. He was a professor of Amherst College from 1850, and its president, 1876-90. Natural Religion; The Way, the Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; Duty. Do.
Seemuller, Mrs. Annie Moncure [Crane]. Md., 1838-1872. A novelist of New York city whose somewhat striking fictions were popular for a brief period. Emily Chester; Reginald Archer; Opportunity. See Boyle’s Distinguished Marylanders.
Seguin [sā-gwin´], Edouard F., 1812-1880. A French physician who came to the United States in 1848 and whose specialty was the training of idiots. Among his many works on this and other professional topics are, New Facts Concerning Idiocy; Family Thermometer; Medical Thermometry; Théorie et practique de l’éducation des idiots; Traitement moral, hygiène et éducation des idiots et des autre enfants arrièrés; Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological Methods.
Segur, Seth Willard. Vt., 1831-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Ohio and subsequently of Massachusetts. Relation and Responsibilities of Pastor and People; The True Manhood; The Nation’s Hope; National Blessings and Duties.
Seiss [seess], Joseph Augustus. Md., 1823-1904. An eminent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of the Church of the Holy Communion, and a voluminous writer on religious themes. Among his many works are, The Gospel in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a re-statement of Piazzi Smyth’s famous theory of the Pyramid; Lectures on the Apocalypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Luther and the Reformation; The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; Life After Death; Right Life; The Children of Silence, the Story of the Deaf; Christ’s Descent into Hell; The Last Times; Voices from Babylon. See American Lutheran Biographies. Co. Lip.
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson. N. Y., 1861- ——. A professor of political economy and finance in Columbia College. Chapters on Mediæval Guilds in England; Owen and the Christian Socialists; Railway Tariffs; Shifting and Incidence of Taxation; Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice; Essays on Taxation. Mac.
Selyns, Henricus. H., 1636-1701. A Dutch clergyman who came to New York in 1600, remaining four years as pastor in Brooklyn before returning to Holland. Settling permanently in New York in 1682, he was pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church for the rest of his life. His Poems, written in Dutch, have been translated by H. C. Murphy, supra.
Semmes, Alexander Jenkins. D. C., 1828- ——. Cousin of R. Semmes, infra. A surgeon in the Confederate navy who became a Roman Catholic clergyman, president of Pio Nono College, Macon, Georgia, from 1886. Medical Sketches of Paris; Gunshot Wounds; Notes from a Surgical Diary, are among his writings.
Semmes, Raphael. Md., 1809-1877. A celebrated naval officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War as commander of the Alabama. Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War; Campaign of General Scott in the Valley of Mexico; The Cruise of the Alabama; Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War between the States. See Sinclair’s Two Years in the Alabama, 1895.
Sergeant, Thomas. Pa., 1782-1860. A Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on the Law of Pennsylvania relating to Proceedings by Foreign Attachment; Constitutional Law; View of the Land Laws of Pennsylvania; Sketch of the National Judiciary Powers.
Seth, James. S., 1860- ——. A professor of moral philosophy in Cornell University from 1896. A Study of Ethical Principles. Scr.
Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Bayley]. N. Y., 1774-1821. The founder and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in the United States. After the death of her husband she became a Roman Catholic, took the veil as a Sister of Charity in 1809, and in 1812 founded at Emmettsburg, Maryland, the first American house of the order. A volume entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: a Fragment of Real History, was published in 1817. See Life by White; Vie de Madame Seton by Madame de Barbary.
Seton, Robert. I., 1839- ——. A grandson of Mrs. Seton, supra. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Jersey City, dean of the monsignori in the United States. Memoirs, Letters, and Journal of E. Seton; Essays on Various Subjects, principally Roman.
Seton, William. N. Y., 1835- ——. A grandson of Mrs. E. Seton, supra. A naval officer of the United States. Romance of the Charter Oak; The Pride of Lexington; Rachel’s Fate, and Other Tales; The Poor Millionaire; The Shamrock Gone West; Moida, a Tale of the Tyrol; The Pioneer, a poem.
Severance, Mark Sibley. O., 1846- ——. Hammersmith: his Harvard Days, a novel. Hou.
Sewall, Frank. Me., 1837- ——. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Washington. Moody Mike, or the Power of Love; The Hem of his Garment; The Pillow of Stones; The New Ethics; The New Metaphysics; Angelo and Ariel, are among his writings. Lip. Ran.
Sewall, Mrs. Harriet [Winslow]. Me., 1819-1889. A religious verse-writer of Boston, some of whose lyrics are found in the anthologies. A collection of her Poems, with Memoir by Mrs. E. Cheney, supra, appeared in 1889.
Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell. Ms., 1748-1808. A lawyer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, popular in his own day as a verse-writer. His verse is for the most part forgotten, but his song, War and Washington, is yet remembered, and in his Epilogue to Cato occurs the famous couplet:— “No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, But the whole boundless continent is yours.” Miscellaneous Poems (1801).
Sewall, Rufus King. Me., 1814-1903. A lawyer of Wiscasset, Maine. Lectures on the Holy Spirit; Sketches of St. Augustine; Ancient Dominions of Maine.
Sewall, Samuel. E., 1652-1730. A noted jurist of Boston, best remembered for his connection with the Salem witchcraft trials. The Selling of Joseph; Answer to Queries Respecting America; Accomplishment of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to the Kennebec Indians; Description of the New Heaven. See Diary of, Tyler’s American Literature; Whittier’s Prophecy of Samuel Sewall.
Sewall, Stephen. Me., 1734-1804. A grand-nephew of S. Sewall, supra. A Hebrew scholar, professor of Hebrew at Harvard College, 1765-85, among whose writings are, Hebrew Grammar; Scripture Account of the Shechinah; Carmina Sacra quæ Latine Græceque condidit America.
Sewall, Thomas. Me., 1786-1845. A Washington physician, professor of anatomy in Columbian University from 1821, who is chiefly remembered for his work, The Pathology of Drunkenness, which had a wide circulation.
Seward, George Frederick. N. Y., 1840- ——. A nephew of W. H. Seward, infra, and minister to China, 1876-80. Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects.
Seward, Theodore Frelinghuysen. N. Y., 1835-1902. Cousin of W. H. Seward, infra. A musical educator of note. Hadrian Theology; The School of Life; A Plea for the Christian Year.
Seward, William Henry. N. Y., 1801-1872. A statesman of distinction, secretary of state during the Civil War period. Diplomatic History of the Civil War; Orations and Speeches; Life of J. Q. Adams, supra; Travels Round the World. His complete works in five volumes have been edited by G. E. Baker. See Autobiography; North American Review, October, 1866; Bartlett’s Modern Agitators; Life by Lothrop; and Histories of the Civil War. Ap. Co. Hou.
Seybert, Adam. Pa., 1773-1825. A Philadelphia chemist who published The Statistical Annals of the United States, 1789-1818. It was in a notice of this book for The Edinburgh Review that Sydney Smith made the famous query, “Who reads an American book?”
Seyffarth [zif´fa͝art], Gustav. Sxy., 1796-1885. A German scientist who was professor of Oriental archæology at Leipzig University, 1825-55, and, coming to America in the latter year, was professor at Concordia Seminary, in St. Louis, 1855-71. The remainder of his life was passed in New York city. He was distinguished for the extremely literal nature of his biblical interpretations. Among his voluminous writings are, Rudimenta Hieroglyphica; Grammatica Ægyptiaca; Egyptian Theology according to a Paris Mummy Coffin. See Literary Life of, an autobiography, 1886.
Seymour, George Franklin. R. I., 1829- ——. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Springfield, and prominent among extreme High Churchmen. Modern Romanism not Catholicism.
Seymour, Mrs. Mary Harrison [Browne]. Ct., 1835- ——. A writer of Hartford whose writings are mainly juvenile. Among them are, Mollie’s Christmas Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Recompense; Through the Darkness; Ned, Nellie, and Amy. Dut. Ran. Wh.
Seymour, Thomas Day. O., 1840- ——. A professor of Greek at Yale University from 1880. Homeric Vocabulary; School Iliad; Selected Odes of Pindar, with Notes; Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer; Homer’s Iliad, books i.-vi. Gi.
Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston. Va., 1818-1881. An inventor of note. The Telegraph Companion; The Telegraph Manual; The Secession War in America; History of America; Odd Fellowship.
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate. Ky., 1841- ——. An eminent geologist, professor of paleontology at Harvard University, 1868-87, and of geology from 1887. Kentucky Geological Reports; Kentucky, a Pioneer Commonwealth; The Nature of Intellectual Property and its Importance to the State; The Interpretation of Nature; The Story of Our Continent; Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers (with W. M. Davis); The United States of America: a study of the American Commonwealth; First Book in Geology; Nature and Man in America; Sea and Land: Features of Coasts and Oceans; Aspects of the Earth; Fossil Branchiopods of the Ohio Valley; American Highways; Domesticated Animals: their Relation to Man. Am. Ap. Clke. Gi. Hou. Scr.
Shanks, William Franklin Gore. Ky., 1837- ——. A journalist of New York city. Recollections of Distinguished Generals; A Noble Treason, a tragedy. Har.
Shanly, Charles Dawson. I., 1811-1875. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. The Walker in the Snow is his best-known poem. A Jolly Bear and His Friends; The Monkey of Porto Bello; The Truant Chicken.
Shapley, Rufus Edmond. Pa., 1840- ——. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of Solid for Mulhooly, a political satire.
Sharswood, George. Pa., 1810-1883. An eminent Philadelphia jurist. Professional Ethics; Popular Lectures on Common Law; Lectures on Commercial Law; Sharswood’s Blackstone. Lip.
Shattuck, Mrs. Harriette [Robinson]. Ms., 1850- ——. Daughter of W. S. Robinson, supra. A writer of Malden, Massachusetts, who has published The Story of Dante’s Divine Comedy; Little Folks East and West; Woman’s Manual of Parliamentary Law.
Shaw, Albert. O., 1857- ——. A journalist of New York city, the American editor of The Review of Reviews from 1891, and a recognized authority on such themes as municipal government and municipal reforms. Icaria: a Chapter in the History of Communism; Local Government in Illinois; Coöperation in a Western City; Municipal Government in Great Britain; Municipal Government in Continental Europe. Cent.
Shaw, Charles. Me., 1782-1828. A lawyer of Montgomery, Alabama, who published A Topographical Description of Boston from its First Settlement (1817).
Shaw, Henry Wheeler. “Josh Billings.” Ms., 1818-1885. A noted humourist whose shrewd, sensible sayings have been hardly appraised at their full value owing to the laboriously bad spelling in which they have been given to the world. Josh Billings’s Sayings; Everybody’s Friend; Josh Billings’s Trump Kards; Josh Billings’s Spice Box. See Life by F. S. Smith, 1883.
Shaw, Thomas. Ont., 1843- ——. A Canadian educator, since 1893 professor of animal husbandry at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. The First Principles of Agriculture; Weeds and How to Eradicate Them.
Shea [shā], George. I., 1827-1895. Son of J. A. Shea, infra. A jurist who was chief justice of the City Court of New York. Alexander Hamilton: a Historical Study; Nature and Form of the American Government. Hou.
Shea, John Augustus. I., 1802-1845. An Irish verse-writer who came to America in 1827, and was a journalist in New York city. His writings include, Adolph; Parnassian Wild Flowers; Ruddeki, an Eastern Romance, in verse; Clontarf, a Poem.
Shea, John Dawson Gilmary. N. Y., 1824-1892. An historical writer of note, for a number of years editor of Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, in New York city. The Catholic Church in the United States; Legendary History of Ireland; History of Catholic Indian Missions; Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley; Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi; Novum Belgium, an Account of New Netherlands, 1633-44; The Operations of the French under De Grasse; Life of Pius Ninth; The Catholic Church in Colonial Days; The Catholic Hierarchy of the United States; Life and Times of Archbishop Carroll, include his principal original works.
Shearman [sher´man], Thomas Gaskell. E., 1834-1900. A lawyer and political economist of New York city. Law of Practice and Pleadings; Law of Negligence; Talks on Free Trade; Does Protection Protect?; Pauper Labor of Europe; The Single Tax; Natural Taxation; Henry George’s Mistake; Crooked Taxation.
Shecut, John Linnæus Edward Whitridge. S. C., 1770-1836. A once eminent physician and scientist of Charleston. Flora Carolinensis; Medical and Philosophical Essays; Elements of Natural Philosophy; A New Theory of the Earth, comprise his chief works.
Shedd, Joel Herbert. Ms., 1834- ——. An eminent civil engineer of Providence whose most important professional labour is the Providence Water Works. He has written a work on Landscape Gardening (with Follen), and many important professional papers.
Shedd, Mrs. Julia Ann [Clark]. Me., 1834-1897. Wife of J. H. Shedd, supra. Famous Painters and Paintings; Famous Sculptors and Sculpture; The Ghiberti Gates; Raphael: his Madonnas and Holy Families. Hou.
Shedd, William Greenough Thayer. Ms., 1820-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary, 1863-90, and a theologian of a very conservative type. History of Christian Doctrine; Sermons to the Natural Man; Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Theological Essays; Sermons to the Spiritual Man; Endless Punishment; Dogmatic Theology; The Pro-Revision of the Westminster Standards; Calvinism Pure and Mixed; Literary Essays. Ran. Scr.
Sheeleigh, Matthias. Pa., 1820-1900. A Lutheran minister at Fort Washington, near Philadelphia, from 1869. American Ecclesiad; A Gettysburgiad; Luther: a Song Tribute; Brief History of Luther; Outlines of Old and New Testament History.
Sheldon, David Newton. Ct., 1807-1889. A Baptist clergyman who became a Unitarian in 1856. He was president of Colby University, 1843-1853. Sin and Redemption.
Sheldon, Edward Austin. N. Y., 1823-1897. A noted educator of Oswego, principal of the Normal School there from 1862. Manual of Elementary Training; Lessons on Objects, are his principal works.
Sheldon, Edward Stevens. Me., 1851- ——. A professor of Romance philology at Harvard University from 1883. Short German Grammar and monographs.
Sheldon, George William. S. C., 1843- ——. A journalist and art critic of New York city, now (1897) in charge of the London office of D. Appleton and Company, publishers. American Painters; The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of New York City; Hours with Art and Artists; Artistic Homes; Artistic Country Seats; Selections in Modern Art; Recent Ideals of American Art. Har.
Sheldon, Henry Clay. N. Y., 1845- ——. A Methodist clergyman, professor of historic theology in Boston University from 1882. History of Christian Doctrine; History of the Christian Church. Cr. Har.
Sheldon, Mary Downing. Daughter of E. A. Sheldon, supra. See Barnes, Mrs.
Shelton, Frederick William. L. I., 1814-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Carthage Landing, New York, who wrote in both prose and verse a number of humourous and satirical books. The Trollopiad, or the Travelling Gentleman in America; The Rector of St. Bardolph’s; Peeps from the Belfry, or the Parish Sketch-Book; Salander and the Dragon, a romance; Up the River, a collection of rural sketches; Chrystalline, a romance; The Gold Mania; Use and Abuse of Reason.
Shepard, Charles Upham. R. I., 1804-1886. A geologist, professor of geology at Amherst College, who published a valuable Report on the Geology of Connecticut.
Shepard, Edward Morse. N. Y., 1850- ——. A lawyer of Brooklyn, author of a Life of Martin Van Buren. Hou.
Shepard, Elihu Hotchkiss. Vt., 1795-1876. An educator of St. Louis. Autobiography (1869); Early History of St. Louis and Missouri.
Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald. Ms., 1816-1889. A Federal officer in the Civil War who was consul at Swatow and Hankow, 1874-80. Pebbles from Castalia; Poetry of Feeling; Scenes and Songs of Social Life; Household Tales.
Shepard, Thomas. E., 1605-1649. A Puritan clergyman who came to America in 1635, and from 1636 until his death was minister of what is now the Shepard Church in Cambridge. He won great renown as a preacher, and as a theologian was a Calvinist of the extremest type. New Englands Lamentations for Old Englands present Errours; The Sound Beleever; The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel; Theses Sabbaticæ; Subjection to Christ; The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied; Autobiography. His Sermons, with Memoir by Alger, were printed in three volumes in 1853. See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by S. Mather and Greenhill, 1652; Life by Cotton Mather in the Magnalia.
Shepard, William. See Walsh, W. S.
Shepherd, William Robert. S. C., 1871- ——. History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania. Mac.
Sheppard, Furman. N. J., 1823-1893. A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Constitutional Text-Book.
Sheppard, Nathan. Md., 1834-1888. A journalist and educator who was a special correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette during the Franco-German war. Shut up in Paris during the Siege; Darwinism Stated by Himself; Before an Audience; Saratoga Chips. Ap. Fu.
Sherburne, John Henry. N. H., 1794-c. 1850. A register of the navy in Washington. Osceola, a tragedy; Erratic Poems; Life of John Paul Jones; The Tourist’s Guide in Europe; A Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams.
Sheridan, Philip Henry. N. Y., 1831-1888. A famous soldier, lieutenant-general of the United States army, 1869-88, and general for the two months preceding his death. Personal Memoirs (1888). See Appletons’ American Biography; Life by H. E. Davies; histories of the Civil War.
Sherman, Frank Dempster. N. Y., 1860- ——. A lyrist of New York city, adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia College, who has written much pleasing vers de société as well as other verse. Madrigals and Catches; Lyrics for a Lute; Little-Folk Lyrics; New Waggings of Old Tales (with J. K. Bangs, supra). Hou. Sto.
Sherman, Henry. N. Y., 1808-1879. A Hartford lawyer, author of An Analytical Digest of the Laws of Marine Insurance to the Present Time (1841); The Governmental History of the United States; Slavery in the United States.
Sherman, John. Ct., 1772-1828. A Unitarian clergyman of Trenton Falls, New York, where he conducted an academy. From 1797 to 1805 he was a Congregational minister at Mansfield, Connecticut, but resigned his charge on account of his becoming a Unitarian. One God in One Person Only, the first noteworthy defence of Unitarianism in America; Philosophy of Language Illustrated; A Description of Trenton Falls. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Sherman, John. O., 1823-1900. Brother of W. T. Sherman, infra. A noted statesman of Ohio; United States senator, 1861-77 and 1881-97; secretary of the treasury, 1877-1881; and secretary of state, 1897-1898. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet; Selected Speeches and Reports on Taxation, 1859-78. See Life by Bronson, 1880.
Sherman, William Tecumseh. O., 1820-1891. A distinguished soldier who was general of the United States army, 1869-84. The Military Lessons of the War; Memoirs by Himself. See Appletons’ American Biography; Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia; The Sherman Letters; and histories of the Civil War. Ap.
Sherwin, Thomas. N. H., 1799-1869. A noted educator of Boston, master of the High School, 1838-69, and author of treatises on algebra.
Sherwood, Adiel. N. Y., 1791-1879. A Baptist minister and educator of Georgia. Gazetteer of Georgia; Christian and Jewish Churches; Notes on the New Testament. See Memoir by his daughter, 1884.
Sherwood, Mrs. Emily [Lee]. Ind., 1843- ——. A Washington journalist who has published Willis Peyton, a novel.
Sherwood, James Manning. N. Y., 1814-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman and editor of religious journals. A Plea for the Old Foundations; The History of the Cross; Books and Authors. Fu.
Sherwood, Mrs. John. See Sherwood, Mrs. Mary.
Sherwood, John D N. Y., 1818-1891. Cousin of J. M. Sherwood, supra. A writer whose home was at Englewood, New Jersey. Comic History of the United States; The Case of Cuba.
Sherwood, Mrs. Katherine Margaret [Brownlee]. Pa., 1841- ——. A verse-writer and journalist of Canton, Ohio, who has been especially successful as a writer of army lyrics and poems for military occasions. Camp Fire and Memorial Poems; Columbia.
Sherwood, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wilson]. N. H., 1830-1903. A Washington novelist and miscellaneous writer, prominent as a social leader. The Sarcasm of Destiny; A Transplanted Rose; Amenities of Home; Home Amusements; Manners and Social Usages; Royal Girls and Royal Courts; Sweet Brier; Roxobel; The Art of Entertaining. Ap. Do. Har. Lo.
Shew, Joel. N. Y., 1816-1855. A hydropathic physician of New York State among whose writings are, Hydropathy, or the Water Cure; Cholera Treated by Water; The Hydropathic Family Physician.
Shields, Charles Woodruff. Ind., 1825-1904. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion at Princeton College from 1865, and active in behalf of church unity. The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer according to the Revision of the Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science of the Sciences; The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in their Relations to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic Episcopate; The Question of Unity; The United Church of the United States. Scr.
Shields, Mrs. Sarah Annie [Frost]. 18— - ——. Parlor Charades and Proverbs; Laws and By-Laws of American Society; The Art of Dressing Well; Almost a Woman; Sunshine for Rainy Days, are among her works.
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow. “Mrs. Partington.” N. H., 1814-1890. A journalist of Boston, once widely known as a humourist, whose latest years were spent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork; Mrs. Partington’s Mother Goose; Ike Partington Stories; Lines in Pleasant Places; Wide Swath, a volume of collected verse; Rhymes with Reason; Cruises with Captain Bob; The Double-Runner Club. See New England Magazine, June, 1891. Le.
Shimeall [shim´e-all], Richard Cunningham. N. Y., 1803-1874. An Episcopal clergyman who adopted Reformed Dutch tenets in 1834, and subsequently became a Presbyterian. He was a noted biblical scholar of millenarian views. The End of Prelacy; Christ’s Second Coming; Prophetic Career and Destiny of Napoleon III.; Unseen World; Political Economy of Prophecy, are his principal works.