Chapter 11

A Dictionary of American Authors (part 6)

Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana]. S. C., 1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she became a Unitarian, and published the next year Letters on the Trinity. In 1848 she married her second husband, an Episcopal clergyman, and was received into his church. The Northern Harp; The Southern Harp; The Parted Family, and Other Poems; The Temperance Lyre; and several prose works, including Charles Martin, or the Young Patriot; The Young Sailor; Forecastle Tom; A Southerner Among the Spirits. See Bibliography of Texas.
Shinn, Asa. N. J., 1781-1853. A Methodist Protestant minister in Ohio. Essay on the Plan of Salvation; Benevolence and Rectitude of the Supreme Being.
Shinn, Charles Howard. Ts., 1852- ——. A California writer who has published Mining Camps, a Study in American Frontier Government; The Story of the Mine. Ap. Scr.
Shinn, Earl. “Edward Strahan.” Pa., 1837-1886. A New York journalist, at one period art critic of The Nation. The New Hyperion: from Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine; Studies in Modern French Art. Lip.
Shinn, George Wolfe. Pa., 1839- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of Grace Church, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1875. Friendly Talks About Marriage; Manual of the Prayer Book; Manual of Church History; Questions about Our Church; Questions that Trouble Beginners in Religion; Stories for Christmas Time; Some Modern Substitutes for Christianity. Kt. Wh.
Shipp, Albert Micajah. N. C., 1819-1887. A Methodist clergyman and educator, professor of theology in Vanderbilt University from 1874, and author of The History of Methodism in South Carolina.
Shipp, Barnard. Mi., 1813- ——. A verse-writer of Natchez, and subsequently of Louisville. Fame, and Other Poems; Progress of Freedom, and Other Poems.
Shippen, Edward. N. J., 1827- ——. An eminent naval surgeon of Philadelphia who published Thirty Years at Sea.
Shirley, John Milton. N. H., 1831-1887. A lawyer of Andover, New Hampshire. The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire; Complete History of the Dartmouth College Case; Reports of Cases in Supreme Judicial Court.
Shirley, William. E., 1693-1771. A noted colonial soldier who planned the conquest of Cape Breton, and was governor of Massachusetts, 1741-45. Electra, a tragedy; The Birth of Hercules, a masque; Letter to the Duke of Newcastle, with Journal of the Siege of Louisburg; The Conduct of General Shirley Briefly Stated.
Shock, William Henry. Md., 1821- ——. A United States naval officer whose Steam Boilers: their Design, Construction, and Management, is a standard authority.
Shoemaker, Michael Myers. Ky., 1853- ——. A writer of travels. Eastward to the Land of Morning; The Kingdom of the White Woman, a volume of Mexican travel; Trans-Caspia: the Sealed Provinces of the Czar. Clke.
Shoup, Francis Asbury. Ind., 1834-1896. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Sewanee, Tennessee, professor of metaphysics in the University of the South, and a Confederate officer in the Civil War. Infantry Tactics; Artillery Division Drill; Elements of Algebra.
Shreve, Samuel Henry. N. J., 1829-1884. A civil engineer of New York city. The Strength of Bridges and Roofs.
Shreve, Thomas H——. D. C., 1808-1853. Cousin of S. H. Shreve, supra. A journalist of Louisville. Drayton, an American tale; Poems.
Shuck [shook], Mrs. Henrietta [Hall]. Va., 1817-1844. The wife of a missionary in China. Scenes in China (1852). See Life by Jeter, 1848.
Shurtleff, Ernest Warburton. Ms., 1862- ——. A Congregational clergyman and verse-writer of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poems; Easter Gleams; Song of Hope; When I was a Child; New Year’s Peace.
Shurtleff, Nathaniel Bradstreet. Ms., 1810-1874. An antiquarian of Boston. Elements of Phrenology; A Perpetual Calendar of Old and New Style; Topographical Description of Boston; Passengers of the Mayflower in 1620, comprise his principal writings. With D. Pulsifer he edited The Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in twelve volumes.
Sibler, Wilhelm. P., 1801-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Missouri. Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels of the Christian Year. See Biography (Lebeslauf), 1880.
Sibley, John Langdon. Me., 1804-1885. The librarian of Harvard University, 1841-77. History of the Town of Union, Maine; Biographical Sketches of Harvard University Graduates.
Sidney, Margaret. See Lothrop, Mrs.
Sigourney [sĭg´or-nĭ], Mrs. Lydia Howard [Huntly]. Ct., 1791-1865. One of the most popular of the earlier American writers, but now quite neglected. Her fifty-three volumes of prose and verse were adapted to an uncritical audience that demanded only gentle feeling and excellence of intention, and they served their purpose well in their day. Her verse is not without sweetness, but it never strays far beyond the realm of the commonplace. She was nearly all her life a resident of Hartford. Among her prose writings are, Myrtis; Post Meridian; Letters to My Pupils; Letters to Young Ladies; Traits of the Aborigines in America; Letters of Life (1866). Other works are, Pocahontas; Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse; Poetry for Children; Zinzendorf, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Allibone’s Dictionary; Stone’s First Editions of American Authors. Har.
Sikes, Mrs. Olive [Logan]. N. Y., 1841- ——. Wife of W. W. Sikes, infra. An actress and author, popular at one period as a lecturer. Photographs of Paris Life; Chateau Frissac, or Home Scenes in France; John Morris’s Money; Somebody’s Stockings; Apropos of Women and Theatres; Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes; The Mimic World; Get Thee Behind Me, Satan; They Met by Chance, a novel.
Sikes, William Wirt. N. Y., 1836-1883. A journalist of New York city who was consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1876-1883. British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore; One Poor Girl; Rambles and Studies in Old South Wales; Studies of Assassination.
Sill, Edward Rowland. Ct., 1841-1887. A poet and educator of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, professor in the University of California, 1874-82. His verse is small in quantity, but of rare quality. The Hermitage, and Other Poems; The Hermitage, and Later Poems; Poems (containing The Venus of Milo, and other poems). See Mrs. E. Ward’s Chapters from a Life. Ho. Hou.
Sill, John Mahelon Berry. N. Y., 1831-1901. A Michigan educator of prominence, principal of the State Normal School. Synthesis of the English Sentence; Practical Lessons in English.
Silliman, Augustus Ely. R. I., 1807-1884. Cousin of B. Silliman, 2d, infra. A banker of New York city who published A Gallop Among American Scenery.
Silliman, Benjamin. Ct., 1779-1864. A chemist of distinction, professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1802-55, and the founder in 1818 of Silliman’s Journal of Science and Art. Journal of Travels in England (1810); Narrative of a Visit to Europe (1853); Elements of Chemistry; Consistency of Modern Geology with Sacred History. See Life by G. P. Fisher; American Journal of Science, May, 1865; Popular Science Monthly, June, 1883.
Silliman, Benjamin. Ct., 1816-1885. Son of B. Silliman, supra. A professor of chemistry at Yale University from 1846 until his death, and editor of Silliman’s Journal. First Principles of Chemistry; American Contributions to Chemistry; Principles of Physics.
Silloway, Thomas William. Ms., 1828- ——. A Boston architect who became a Universalist minister in 1862. Theogonis; Text-Book of Modern Carpentry; Warming and Ventilation; Cathedral Towns of England (with L. Powers).
Silsbee, Mrs. Marianne Cabot [Devereux]. 1812-1889. A Boston writer who published A Half Century in Salem, and several compilations of poems. Hou.
Silver, Thomas. N. J., 1813-1888. A civil engineer well known as an inventor. A Trip to the North Pole, or Theory of the Origin of Icebergs.
Simmons, William Johnson. S. C., 1849- ——. A Baptist minister of African birth who has published Men of Mark.
Simms, Jeptha Root. Ct., 1807-1883. A once popular writer of Fort Plain, New York. History of Schoharie County; The American Spy: Nathan Hale; The Frontiersman; Trappers of New York.
Simms, Joseph. N. Y., 1833- ——. Nephew of J. R. Simms, supra. A writer on physiognomy. Nature’s Revelations of Character; Book of Scientific Lectures; Health and Character; Practical and Scientific Physiognomy; Human Faces: What They Mean.
Simms, William Gilmore. S. C., 1806-1870. A voluminous romancer and verse-writer of Charleston, long popular but now little read. Among his thirty romances, The Partisan; The Yemassee; Guy Rivers; Martin Faber; Border Beagles; Beauchampe, are as well known as any; and of some twelve volumes of verse, Atalantis; Lays of the Palmetto; Areytos, or Songs and Ballads of the South, are the most characteristic. Other works of his include, A History of South Carolina; Lives of Marion, General Greene, Captain John Smith, Chevalier Bayard. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by Trent. Stone’s First Editions of American Authors. Lov.
Simonds, William. “Walter Aimwell.” Ms., 1822-1859. A Boston journalist who was a very popular writer for young people. The Aimwell Stories; The Boys’ Own Guide; Boys’ Book of Morals and Manners.
Simpson, Edward. N. Y., 1824-1888. A naval officer of prominence, rear-admiral from 1884. Ordnance and Naval Gunnery; The Naval Mission to Europe; Report of the Gun Foundry Board.
Simpson, Henry. Pa., 1790-1868. A Philadelphia author who published Lives of Eminent Philadelphians.
Simpson, James Hervey. N. J., 1813-1883. A colonel of engineers and brevet brigadier-general in the United States army. A Military Reconnoissance from Santa Fé to the Navajo Country in 1849. The Shortest Route to California; Coronado’s March in Search of the Seven Cities of Cibola. Lip.
Simpson, Matthew. O., 1811-1884. A Methodist bishop famous as a pulpit orator. Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism; Sermons; Cyclopædia of Methodism. See Life of, by G. R. Crooks, supra. Har. Meth.
Sims, Clifford Stanley. Pa., 1839-1896. A lawyer of Arkansas, and latterly of New Jersey, whose principal work is The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames.
Sims, James Marion. S. C., 1813-1883. A celebrated surgeon of New York city to whose influence is due the establishment of gynæcology as a department of medicine. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery; Ovariotomy; The Story of My Life. See Life of, by T. A. Emmet, supra. Ap.
Sinclair, Carrie Bell. Ga., 1837- ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Heart Whispers, or Echoes of Song.
Skene, Alexander Johnston Chalmers. S., 1837-1900. A Brooklyn physician, professor of gynæcology in Long Island College Hospital from 1884. Diseases of the Bladder in Women; Diseases of Women from the Standpoint of the Physician. Ap.
Skinner, Charles Montgomery. N. Y., 1852- ——. A journalist and littérateur of Brooklyn, associate editor of The Eagle. Villon the Vagabond, and other plays; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land; Nature in a City Yard. Cent. Lip.
Skinner, Otis Ainsworth. Ms., 1807-1861. A Universalist minister of Boston and elsewhere. Family Prayer Book; Sermons on Doctrinal Subjects; Universalism Defended; Letters on Revivals; Moral Duties of Parents, are his principal works. See Life of, by T. B. Thayer, infra.
Skinner, Thomas Harvey. N. C., 1791-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of sacred rhetoric in Union Seminary, 1848-71. Religion of the Bible; Aids to Preaching and Hearing; Discussions in Theology; Thoughts on Evangelizing the World. Ran.
Slade, Daniel Denison. Ms., 1823-1896. A physician and scientist, professor of zoölogy at Harvard University from 1871. Diphtheria: its Nature and Treatment; Twelve Days in the Saddle, a Journey in New England in 1883. Evolution of Horticulture in New England. Put.
Slaughter, Philip. Va., 1808-1890. Cousin of W. B. Slaughter, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, historiographer of the diocese. The Colonial Church in Virginia; Man and Woman, are his most important writings.
Slaughter, William Bank. Va., 1798-1879. A Wisconsin lawyer of note who published Reminiscences of Distinguished People I Have Met.
Sleeper, John Sherburne. Ms., 1794-1878. A shipmaster and subsequently a journalist of Boston, editor of The Journal, 1834-54. Tales of the Ocean; Salt-Water Bubbles; Jack in the Forecastle; Mark Rowland, a Tale of the Sea.
Slenker, Mrs. Elmina [Drake]. N. Y., 1827- ——. A writer living at Snowville, Virginia. Studying the Bible; John’s Way; The Darwins; Mary Jones; Little Lessons for Little Folks.
Slicer, Henry. Md., 1801-1874. A Methodist clergyman, eight times chaplain of the United States Senate. Appeal on Christian Baptism; Discourse on Duelling, which materially helped forward the passage of the anti-duelling law in Congress.
Sloan, Samuel. N. C., 1815-1884. An architect of Philadelphia. City and Suburban Architecture; Constructive Architecture; The Model Architect; Homestead Architecture. Bai. Lip.
Sloane, Thomas O’Conor. N. Y., 1851- ——. A chemist of New York city, on the editorial staff of The Scientific American. Home Experiments in Science; Standard Electrical Dictionary.
Sloane, William Milligan. O., 1850- ——. A professor of history at Columbia College. The French War and the Revolution; Life of James M’Cosh, supra; Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Cent. Scr.
Slosson, Mrs. Annie [Trumbull]. Ct., 184- - ——. An author of New York city noted for the excellence of her short stories, and also known as an entomologist whose specialty is the study of moths. Aunt Liefy; Fishin’ Jimmy; Seven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehetabel Clark; Anna Malann; The China Hunter’s Club. Har. Ran.
Sluter, George Ludewig. G., 1837- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Arlington, New Jersey, from 1881. History of Our Beloved Church; Life of Tiberius; The Religion of Politics, are his principal writings.
Smalley, Eugene Virgil. O., 1841-1899. A journalist of St. Paul. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad; History of the Republican Party.
Smalley, George Washburn. Ms., 1833- ——. A noted journalist who was the London correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1867-95, and from 1895 American correspondent of The London Times. London Letters, and Some Others; Studies of Men. Har.
Smalley, John. Ct., 1734-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at New Britain from 1758 till his death. National and Moral Inability; Universal Salvation.
Smart, Mrs. Helen Hamilton [Gardener]. Va., 1853- ——. A Boston novelist whose writings are mainly concerned with the furtherance of social reforms. An Unofficial Patriot; Is This Your Son, My Lord?; Facts and Fictions of Life; Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; The Fortunes of Margaret Weld. Ar.
Smedes, Mrs. Susan [Dabney]. Mi., 1840- ——. A Mississippi writer now living in Washington, whose Memorials of a Southern Planter is much valued as an accurate picture of Southern life.
Smith, Arthur Donaldson. Pa., 1864- ——. An African explorer. Through Unknown African Countries.
Smith, Ashbel. Ct., 1805-1886. A Texas politician and physician. Account of the Geography of Texas; Permanent Identity of the Human Race.
Smith, Augustus William. N. Y., 1802-1866. An educator who was professor of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 1831-51, and president of that institution from 1851. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics.
Smith, Buckingham. Ga., 1810-1871. A Spanish-American scholar and antiquary of note, twice secretary of the United States legation at Mexico, and after 1859 a lawyer in Florida. Among his many publications are, Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language; Grammar of the Pima, or Nevome; Coleccion de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida; Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida.
Smith, Charles. Pa., 1765-1836. Son of William Smith, 1st, infra. A Philadelphia lawyer who published a Treatise on the Land Laws of Philadelphia.
Smith, Charles Adam. N. Y., 1809-1879. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Rhinebeck, New York, and elsewhere. The Catechumen’s Guide; Men of the Olden Time; Before the Flood and After; Among the Lilies; Inlets and Outlets; Stoneridge, pastoral sketches; Popular Exposition of the Gospels (with J. Morris). Lip.
Smith, Charles Henry. “Bill Arp.” Ga., 1826-1903. A lawyer and journalist of Rome, Georgia, well known as a humorous contributor to The Atlanta Constitution. Bill Arp’s Letters; Bill Arp’s Scrap Book: The Farm and the Fireside: A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War; Georgia as a Colony and State, 1733-1893. Gi.
Smith, Daniel. Ct., 1806-1852. A Methodist clergyman of New York State very active in the temperance cause. Wisdom in Miniature; Gems of Female Biography; Anecdotes for the Young; Teachers’ Assistant; Lectures to Young Men; Book of Manners; Anecdotes of the Christian Ministry. Meth.
Smith, Edward Delafield. N. Y., 1826-1878. A lawyer of New York city. Avidæ, a poem; Destiny, a poem; Oratory, a poem; Reports of Cases in the New York Court of Common Pleas; Addresses to Juries in Slave Trade Trials.
Smith, Eli. Ct., 1801-1857. A Congregational missionary at Beirut. Missionary Researches in Armenia (1853); and an Arabic translation of the Bible.
Smith, Elias. Ct., 1769-1846. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Clergyman’s Looking-Glass; History of Anti-Christ; Sermons on the Prophecies, are among his writings.
Smith, Elihu Hubbard. Ct., 1771-1798. A physician and verse-writer of New York city. Edwin and Angelina, an opera; American Poems, Original and Selected.
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes [Prince]. Me., 1806-1893. Wife of Seba Smith, infra. A once prominent writer of prose and verse, who was the first woman lecturer in America. Her later years were passed in Hollywood, South Carolina. Among her many works are, The Sinless Child, and Other Poems; The Newsboy, which first directed public attention to a hitherto neglected class; Riches Without Wings; Old New York, or Jacob Leisler, a tragedy; Woman and Her Needs; Bertha and Lily; The Western Captive.
Smith, Erasmus Peshine. N. Y., 1814-1882. A jurist and political economist. Manual of Political Economy.
Smith, Mrs. Erminnie Adelle [Platt]. N. Y., 1837-1886. An ethnologist who published an Iroquois-English dictionary. See Memorial, 1890.
Smith, Ethan. Ms., 1762-1849. A Congregational clergyman, city missionary of Boston, 1832-49. A View of the Trinity; A View of the Hebrews, in which the origin of the American Indians was traced to the ten tribes of Israel. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Smith, Mrs. Eugenia M. [Bryce]. Vt., 1852- ——. A fiction-writer of Dubuque. Winsome but Wicked; The Parson’s Sin; Our Money-Makers, a poultry book.
Smith, Florence. N. Y., 1845-1871. A verse-writer of New York city who published Piero’s Painting, and Other Poems.
Smith, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge]. See Griswold, Mrs. Frances.
Smith, Francis Henney. Va., 1812-1890. A Confederate officer who was professor of mathematics at Hampden Sidney College, Virginia, 1837-39, and superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, 1839-61 and 1865-90. Best Methods of Conducting Common Schools; College Reform; and a series of algebras.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Md., 1838- ——. An artist, civil engineer, and popular littérateur of New York city. Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy; Old Lines in New Black and White; A White Umbrella in Mexico; Colonel Carter of Cartersville, a novel; A Day at Laguerre’s, and Other Days; American Illustrators; A Gentleman Vagabond, and Some Others; Tom Grogan; Gondola Days; Caleb West. Hou. Scr.
Smith, Gerrit. N. Y., 1797-1874. A famous philanthropist of Peterboro, New York, who was an ardent opponent of slavery. Speeches in Congress; Sermons and Speeches; The Religion of Reason; The Theologies; Nature the Basis of a Free Theology. See Life of, by O. B. Frothingham, supra.
Smith, Gertrude. Cal., 1860- ——. Sister of M. C. Smith, infra. A Boston writer, whose early life was spent in the West. The Rousing of Mrs. Potter, and Other Stories; The Arabella and Araminta Stories; Dedora Heywood. Cop. Do. Hou.
Smith, Gustavus Woodson. Ky., 1822-1896. A Confederate general who lived in New York city from 1876. Notes on Life Insurance; Confederate War Papers.
Smith, Hamilton Lanphere. Ct., 1819-1903. An educator who was professor of natural philosophy at Hobart College from 1868. Natural Philosophy; First Lessons in Astronomy and Geology.
Smith, Henry Boynton. Me., 1815-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of eminence as a theologian, and professor of systematic theology in Union Seminary, New York city, 1854-74. Faith and Philosophy; Apologetics; Chronological History of the Church of Christ; Introduction to Christian Theology; System of Christian Theology. See Life and Work of, 1881; Life by Stearns, 1892. Scr.
Smith, Henry Hollingsworth. Pa., 1815-1890. A surgeon of Philadelphia. Minor Surgery; System of Operative Surgery; Practice of Surgery; Professional Visit to London and Paris.
Smith, Herbert Huntington. N. Y., 1851- ——. A scientist who has been engaged upon geological surveys in Ohio, New York, and Brazil. Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. Scr.
Smith, Horace Wemyss. Pa., 1825-1891. Son of R. P. Smith, infra. A Philadelphia journalist whose principal works include, Nuts for Future Historians to Crack; Yorktown Orderly Book; Life of Reverend William Smith, infra.
Smith, James. I., c. 1720-1806. A lawyer of York, Pennsylvania, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote The Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the Colonies in America, which materially aided the cause of the patriots.
Smith, James. Pa., 1737-1812. A once noted Kentucky pioneer. Shakerism Developed; Shakerism Detected; Remarkable Adventures in the Life of Colonel James Smith; Mode and Manner of Indian War. See Bibliography of Ohio.
Smith, Jerome Van Crowninshield. N. H., 1800-1879. A physician of Boston, where he was mayor in 1854, and subsequently of New York city. Class Book of Anatomy; Life of Andrew Jackson; Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts; Pilgrimage to Palestine; Turkey and the Turks; The Ways of Women.
Smith, Job Lewis. N. Y., 1827-1897. A physician of New York city who wrote a Treatise on Diseases of Children.
Smith, John. E., 1579-1631. A celebrated sea captain and adventurer who was one of the founders of Virginia, and of the company who settled at Jamestown in 1607. He was a forcible, vigourous writer, much given to magnifying his own exploits, and not always to be trusted in the absence of other testimony. A True Relation of Virginia; The Generall Historie of Virginia, which is partly original and partly compiled; A Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Country; A Description of New England (1616); An Accidence, or Pathway to Experience; A Sea Grammar; The True Travels of Captain John Smith, a work in which his imagination is under very little restraint as regards facts. See Lives by Hillard in Sparks’s American Biography, Mrs. Robinson, 1845, Simms, 1846, Deane, 1859, Warner, 1881, True, 1882; Tyler’s American Literature; North American Review, January, 1867; Appletons’ American Biography.
Smith, John. N. H., 1752-1809. A Congregational minister and educator, professor of languages at Dartmouth College and college pastor, 1778-1809, as well as librarian of the college for some thirty years. He was the author of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Grammars, as well as some minor publications. See Memoir by his Wife, 1815.
Smith, John Augustine. Va., 1782-1865. A physician of New York city, previously president of William and Mary College, 1814-26. Mutations of the Earth; Moral and Physical Science; Functions of the Nervous System.
Smith, John Cotton. Ms., 1826-1882. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of the Church of the Ascension, 1860-82. The Church’s Law of Development; Certain Aspects of the Church; Miscellanies; Old and New; The Liturgy as a Basis of Union.
Smith, John Hyatt. N. Y., 1824-1886. A prominent Baptist clergyman of Brooklyn, a member of Congress, 1880-82. Gilead; The Open Door.
Smith, John Jay. N. J., 1798-1881. A librarian of Philadelphia who edited many works, and was author of Notes for a History of the Library Company of Philadelphia; A Summer’s Jaunt Across the Water; Historical and Literary Curiosities (with J. F. Watson).
Smith, John Lawrence. S. C., 1818-1883. A chemist of note who was professor of chemistry in the University of Louisville. Mineralogy and Chemistry: Original Researches.
Smith, John Talbot. N. Y., 1855- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman in the diocese of Ogdensburg. History of Ogdensburg Diocese; A Woman of Culture, a novel; Solitary Island, a novel; Prairie Boy, a juvenile tale; Our Seminaries: an essay on Clerical Training.
Smith, Joseph. Pa., 1796-1868. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in western Pennsylvania. History of Jefferson College; Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism.
Smith, Joseph Edward Adams. “Godfrey Greylock.” 1822-1896. A writer of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Taghconic: the Romance and Beauty of the Hills; A History of Paper.
Smith, Joseph Mather. N. Y., 1789-1866. A physician of New York city. Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics; Illustrations of Medical Phenomena in Public Life.
Smith, Judson. Ms., 1837- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1884. Lectures in Church History; Lectures on Modern History.
Smith, Justin Almerin. N. Y., 1819-1896. A Baptist clergyman of Chicago, editor of The Standard from 1853. The Martyr of Vilvorde; Sinclair Thompson, the Shetland Apostle; The Spirit in the Word; Modern Church History; Patmos.
Smith, Mrs. Luella [Dowd]. Ms., 1847- ——. A verse-writer of Hudson, New York. Wayside Leaves; Wind Flowers.
Smith, Mrs. Lura Eugenie [Brown]. N. Y., 1864- ——. A journalist of Little Rock. On the Track and Off the Train.
Smith, Mrs. Margaret [Bayard]. Pa., 1778-1844. Wife of S. H. Smith, infra, and once a social leader in Washington. A Winter in Washington; What is Gentility?
Smith, Mrs. Mary Louise [Riley]. N. Y., 1842- ——. A popular verse-writer of New York city. Sometime, and Other Poems; The Inn of Rest; A Gift of Gentians, and Other Verses; Cradle and Armchair. Ran.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Prudence [Wells]. “P. Thorne.” N. Y., 1840- ——. A Cincinnati writer for young people. The Browns; Child Life on a Farm; Jolly Good Times at School; Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack; More Good Times at Hackmatack; Miss Ellis’s Mission. A. U. A. Rob.
Smith, Mrs. Mary Stuart [Harrison]. Pa., 1834- ——. The wife of a professor at the University of Virginia. She has made many translations from the German and French, and has also published, Heirs of the Kingdom; Virginia Cookery Book. Har.
Smith, Matthew Hale. Me., 1810-1879. Son of Elias Smith, supra. A clergyman of the Universalist and subsequently of the Presbyterian and other faiths, who was also a lawyer and a brilliant journalist, known as “Burleigh.” Universalism Examined, Renounced, and Exposed; Universalism not of God; Sabbath Evenings; Mount Calvary; Sunshine and Shadow in New York; Bulls and Bears of Wall Street, include his chief works.
Smith, Minna Caroline. Cal., 1860- ——. A journalist of Boston. The Boys of Cary Farm, a juvenile tale; Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle, from the French of Nodier. Lam. Lo.
Smith, Nathan. N. H., 1762-1828. A physician who was a medical professor in Dartmouth College, 1798-1813. Practical Essays on Typhus Fever; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.
Smith, Nathan Ryno. N. H., 1797-1877. Son of N. Smith, supra. A professor of surgery in the University of Maryland, 1840-70. Surgical Anatomy of the Arteries; Legends of the South, are among his works.
Smith, Oliver Hampton. N. J., 1794-1859. A once prominent United States senator from Indiana. Recollections of a Congressional Life; Early Indian Trials.
Smith, Persifor Frazer. Pa., 1808-1882. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Forms of Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, 1865-82.
Smith, Richard Penn. Pa., 1790-1854. Grandson of William Smith, 1st, infra. A lawyer and dramatist of Philadelphia, fifteen of whose plays were placed on the stage, and were once popular, Caius Marius being one of the best. He wrote also The Forsaken, a novel; The Actress of Padua, and Other Tales; Lives of Crockett and Martin Van Buren. His complete works in four volumes were issued in 1888.
Smith, Richard Somers. Pa., 1813-1877. A soldier and educator, president of Girard College, 1863-68, and for the last seven years of his life in charge of the department of drawing at the United States Naval Academy. Manual of Topographical Drawing; Manual of Linear Perspective.
Smith, Richmond Mayo. O., 1854-1901. A professor of political economy at Columbia College from 1883. Statistics and Economics; Emigration and Immigration; Statistics and Sociology. Mac. Scr.
Smith, Samuel. N. J., 1720-1766. A colonial treasurer of the province of West Jersey, who published a History of Nova Cæsarea, or New Jersey, from its Settlement to 1721.
Smith, Samuel Francis. Ms., 1808-1895. A Baptist clergyman near Boston, who wrote much religious verse, but will probably be longest remembered for the familiar “My Country, ’tis of thee.” He published, for juvenile readers and others, Knights and Sea Kings; Mythology and Early Greek History; Noble Workers; Poor Boys who Became Great; Rambles in Mission Fields. Lo.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope. Pa., 1750-1819. A Presbyterian divine, president of Princeton College, 1794-1812. Lectures on the Evidences of the Christian Religion; Moral and Political Philosophy; Sermons; Comprehensive View of Natural and Revealed Religion; On the Variety of Complexion and Figure of the Human Species, which was much noticed in its day.
Smith, Mrs. Sarah Louisa [Hickman]. Mch., 1811-1832. A Cincinnati verse-writer whose Poems appeared in 1829.
Smith, Seba. “Jack Downing.” Me., 1792-1868. A journalist of Portland, Maine, and, after 1842, of New York city, very popular as a humourist in the earlier part of his career. The Letters of Major Jack Downing; Powhatan, a metrical romance; New Elements of Geometry; Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life; My Thirty Years Out of the Senate; Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century.
Smith, Sebastian Bach. G., 1845-1895. A Roman Catholic clergyman at Paterson, New Jersey. Elements of Ecclesiastical Law; New Procedure in Criminal and Disciplinary Causes of Ecclesiastics in the United States.
Smith, Solomon Franklin. N. Y., 1801-1869. A once popular low comedian who left the stage in 1853, and was afterward a noted lawyer of St. Louis. Theatrical Apprenticeship; Theatrical Journey Work; Autobiography (1868). Har.
Smith, Stephen. N. Y., 1823- ——. A New York surgeon, professor of clinical surgery in the University of the City of New York from 1874. Handbook of Surgical Operations; Principles of Operative Surgery.
Smith, Uriah. N. H., 1832-1903. A Seventh Day Adventist writer of Battle Creek, Michigan. Looking Unto Jesus; Here and Hereafter; The Destiny of the Wicked; Nature and Destiny of Man; A Word for the Sabbath (verse); The United States in the Light of Prophecy; Daniel and the Revelation, a very popular work, the sale of which has reached 72,000 copies; The Sure Foundation; Scripture Pathways Cleared of Stumbling-Stones.
Smith, William. S., 1721-1803. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who came to America from Scotland in 1751, and in 1754 was made first provost of the University of Pennsylvania. A General Idea of the College of Mirania first brought him to the knowledge of Franklin, who was then laying plans for the university. He was author, also, of Brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania; Sermons; Discourses on Public Occasions. See Tyler’s American Literature; Life and Correspondence of H. W. Smith, supra; Fisher’s Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth.
Smith, William. N. Y., 1728-1793. A jurist of New York city who was a loyalist during the Revolution, and in 1786 was appointed chief justice of Canada. History of the Province of New York from its Discovery to 1732. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Smith, William. S., 1754-1821. Nephew of W. Smith, 1st, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, and elsewhere, of some note as an educator in his day. Essays on the Christian Ministry. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Smith, William Andrew. Va., 1802-1870. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia whose Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery are considered the ablest presentation of the pro-slavery side of the question.
Smith, William Farrar. Vt., 1824-1903. A brevet major-general in the United States army who resigned in 1867. From Chattanooga to Petersburg under Generals Grant and Butler. Hou.
Smith, William Henry. O., 1833-1896. A journalist of Cincinnati, subsequently collector of Chicago. The St. Clair Papers; Political History of the United States.
Smith, William Loughton. S. C., 1758-1812. A diplomatist who was minister to Portugal (1797-1800) and to Spain (1800-01), and an active Federalist politician. Speeches; Comparative View of the Constitutions of the States; American Arguments for British Rights.
Smith, William L—— G——. Vt., 1814- ——. Uncle Tom’s Cabin as It Is.
Smith, William Rudolph. Pa., 1787-1868. A Wisconsin lawyer, author of Observations on Wisconsin Territory, 1831; History of Wisconsin.
Smith, William Russell. Al., 1813-1896. A lawyer of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who was a congressman prior to the Civil War, and during that period sat in the Confederate congress. The Alabama Justice; The Uses of Solitude, a poem; As It Is, a novel; Condensed Alabama Reports.
Smith, Worthington. Ms., 1795-1856. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont, pastor at St. Albans, 1823-1849, and president of the University of Vermont, 1849-56. His Select Sermons were much read. See Memoir by Torrey, 1861.
Smith, Zachariah Frederick. Ky., 1827- ——. An educator who was superintendent of public instruction in Kentucky for four years and author of a History of Kentucky.
Smock, John Conover. N. J., 1842- ——. A geologist, assistant in charge of the New York State Museum from 1885. Report on Clay Deposits; On Building-Stones in New York.
Smyth, Albert Henry. Pa., 1863- ——. An educator of Philadelphia, professor of English at the Central High School from 1886. Life of Bayard Taylor. Hou.
Smyth, Egbert Coffin. Me., 1829-1904. Son of W. Smyth, infra. A Congregational clergyman prominent among liberal thinkers in his denomination, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Andover Seminary from 1863. The Value of the Study of Church History in Ministerial Education; translation of Uhlhorn’s Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism (with W. Ropes).
Smyth, Herbert Weir. Del., 1857- ——. A professor of Greek in Bryn Mawr College from 1888. Der Diphthong EI in Griech; Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects. Mac.
Smyth, Julian Kennedy. N. Y., 1856- ——. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston. Footprints of the Saviour; Holy Names as Interpretations of the Story of the Manger and the Cross. Rob.
Smyth, [Samuel] Newman [Phillips]. Me., 1843- ——. Son of W. Smyth, infra. A Congregational clergyman of prominence and of liberal theology, pastor of the First Church at New Haven from 1882. Old Faiths in New Light; The Orthodox Theology of To-Day; The Religious Feeling; The Morality of the Old Testament; Personal Creeds; Christian Ethics; Dorner on the Future State; the Reality of Faith. Cas. Scr.
Smyth, Thomas. I., 1808-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of Charleston, pastor of the Second Church, 1832-73, and very active as a controversialist, among whose many writings are, Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession; History of the Westminster Assembly; Why Do I Live?; Solace for Bereaved Parents; Calvin and his Enemies; Ecclesiastical Republicanism.
Smyth, William. Me., 1797-1868. An educator who was professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College from 1825. Elements of Algebra; Treatise on Algebra; Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus; Lectures on Modern History.
Snead, Thomas Lowndes. Va., 1828-1890. A St. Louis lawyer who served in the Confederate army, and after 1865 resumed his profession in New York city. The Fight for Missouri in 1861. Scr.
Snelling, Henry Hunt. N. Y., 1817- ——. Brother of W. J. Snelling, infra. A writer living at Cornwall, New York, from 1871. History and Practice of Photography; Dictionary of the Photographic Art.
Snelling, William Joseph. Ms., 1804-1848. A journalist of Boston. The Polar Regions of the Western Continent Explored; Truth: a Satirical Poem; Six Months in a House of Correction.
Snethen, Nicholas. L. I., 1769-1845. A Methodist itinerant preacher, active in the formation of the Methodist Protestant denomination. Preaching the Gospel; Lay Representation; Lectures on Biblical Subjects. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Snider, Denton Jaques. O., 1841- ——. A literary lecturer of St. Louis. System of Shakespeare’s Dramas; A Walk in Hellas; Delphic Days, an idyl in the elegiac distich; Agamemnon’s Daughter, a classic romantic poem; An Epigrammatic Voyage; Goethe’s Faust: a Commentary; The Shakespearean Drama.
Snively, William Andrew. Pa., 1833-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville. Family Prayers for the Christian Year; Testimonies to the Supernatural; Parish Lectures on the Prayer Book; Æsthetics in Worship; The Oberammergau Passion Play. Wh.
Snow, Caleb Hopkins. Ms., 1796-1835. A Boston physician who published A History of Boston; Geography of Boston and Adjacent Towns.
Snow, Marshall Solomon. Ms., 1842- ——. A professor of history in Washington University, author of The City Government of St. Louis. J. H. U.
Snowden, James Ross. Pa., 1810-1878. A numismatist who was director of the mint, 1856-61. The Mint at Philadelphia; The Mint Manual of Coins; The Coins of the Bible and its Money Terms; Medals; The Cornplanter Memorial. Lip.
Soley, James Russell. Ms., 1850- ——. An educator, professor at the Naval Academy, 1871-82, and lecturer on international law at Newport Naval College from 1885. The Rescue of Greeley (with W. Schley, supra); Foreign Systems of Education; The Blockade and the Cruisers; The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes; History of the Naval Academy; The Sailor Boys of ’61. Est. Scr.
Somerville, William Clarke. Md., 1790-1826. A writer who was appointed minister to Sweden, but died before reaching there and was buried at the Marquis Lafayette’s home at Lagrange. Letters from Paris on the Causes of the French Revolution.
Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides. Gr., 1807-1883. A Greek scholar of distinction, professor at Harvard University, 1849-83. His chief work is a Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods; and among his other publications are, Greek Grammar for Learners; History of the Greek Alphabet. Scr.
Sotheran, Charles. E., 1847-1902. An English bibliographer who came to America in 1874, and, settling in New York city, engaged in journalism. Alessandro di Cagliostro: Impostor or Martyr; Shelley as Philosopher and Reformer.
Soule [soo´lay], Mrs. Caroline Augusta [White]. N. Y., 1824-1904. The widow of a Universalist minister who entered the ministry herself, was the first foreign missionary of that denomination, and in 1888 was in charge of a congregation in Glasgow, Scotland. House Life; The Pet of the Settlement; Wine or Water.
Soule [sole], Richard. Ms., 1812-1877. A lexicographer of Boston. Manual of English Pronunciation (with W. H. Wheeler, infra); Dictionary of English Synonyms; Pronouncing Handbook (with L. Campbell). Le.
Southgate, Horatio. Me., 1812-1894. The first and only Protestant Episcopal bishop of Constantinople. He was consecrated in 1844, but resigned his office in 1850, and held various rectorships subsequently, including that of Zion Church, New York city, 1859-72, in which latter year he retired from active duties. The Cross Above the Crescent; Parochial Sermons; Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, etc.; The War in the East; Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent.
Southworth, Mrs. Emma Dorothy Eliza [Nevitte]. D. C., 1819-1899. A voluminous writer of sensational romances, mainly of Southern life and some sixty in number, for many years a resident of Washington, but from 1876 of Yonkers, New York. The literary merit of her works is very slender. They were in nearly every case first issued serially in The New York Ledger, and have been very popular amongst uncritical readers. Among them are, Ishmael; The Widow’s Son; Retribution; The Family Doom. See Hart’s American Literature.
Spaeth [spāt], Adolph. Wg., 1839- ——. A prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of St. John’s Church from 1867. Die Evangelien des Kirchenjahrs; Brosamen von des Herrn Tische; Saarkörner; Luther in Lied seiner Zeitgenossen; Phœbe the Deaconess; Liederlust; Faith and Life Represented by Luther; Annotations on the Gospel according to St. John.
Spahr, Charles Barzillai. O., 1860-1904. A political economist, associate editor of The Outlook from 1886. The Distribution of American Wealth. Cr.
Spalding, John Franklin. Me., 1828-1902. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Colorado. The Threefold Ministry; Manual of Prayers; The Church and its Apostolic Ministry.
Spalding, John Lancaster. Ky., 1840- ——. Nephew of M. J. Spalding, infra. The Roman Catholic bishop of Peoria, and widely known as a thoughtful essayist and educator. Life of Archbishop Spalding; Essays and Reviews; Religious Mission of the Irish People and Catholic Colonization; Lectures and Discourses; America, and Other Poems; The Poet’s Praise; Education and the Higher Life; Means and Ends of Education; Things of the Mind; Songs, chiefly from the German. Mg.
Spalding, Lyman. N. H., 1775-1821. A physician at Portsmouth, in his native State, and subsequently of New York city, who was one of the early advocates of vaccination. Reflections on Fever; Reflections on Yellow Fever Periods.
Spalding, Martin John. Ky., 1810-1872. A Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, 1864-72, active as a controversialist. Review of D’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation; Modern Civilization; Evidences of Catholicity; Life of Bishop Flaget; Early Catholic Missions in Kentucky; Miscellanea. See Life by J. L. Spalding, supra; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Spalding, Mrs. Susan [Marr]. Me., 18— - ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia whose poems are much above the level of average verse. The Wings of Icarus, and Other Poems. Rob.
Sparhawk, Frances Campbell. Me., 1847- ——. A novelist and philanthropist of Newton, Massachusetts, who has written much in behalf of the Indian cause. A Chronicle of Conquest, a romance of the Indian school at Carlisle; Little Polly Blatchley; Miss West’s Class in Geography; Elizabeth, a colonial romance; The Query Club; A Lazy Man’s Work; Onoqua, an Indian Story; Senator Intrigue and Inspector Nosely. Le. Lo.
Sparks, Jared. Ct., 1789-1866. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Baltimore, 1819-23, professor of history at Harvard University, 1839-49, and president of Harvard University, 1849-53. He is best known by the American Biography which he edited, and of which he was in part the author. It includes sixty lives, of which he wrote those of Ethan Allen; Benedict Arnold; Marquette; La Salle; Pulaski; Ribault; Charles Lee; Ledyard. He was also author of a Life of Gouverneur Morris. He published editions of the works of Franklin and Washington, with notes and life of each; and also Correspondence of the American Revolution. His editing has been sometimes criticised because he occasionally toned down passages of unorthodox vigour and corrected the spelling of his subjects, but his eminent merits in other respects have been generally recognized. See Lives by Mayer, supra, 1867; G. E. Ellis, supra, 1869; Herbert Adams, supra. Har.
Sparks, William Henry. Ga., 1800-1882. A Mississippi planter, after 1850 a lawyer of New Orleans, who published Memories of Fifty Years. He was a popular verse-writer, his best-known poems being, Somebody’s Darling; The Dying Year.
Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry. N. Y., 1809-1897. A banker of Buffalo, author of a History of Legal Tender Money During the Great Rebellion.
Spaulding, Henry George. Ms., 1837- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, among whose writings are, The Teachings of Jesus; Later Heroes of Israel; Forty Hymns and their Authors.
Spaulding, Solomon. Ct., 1761-1816. A Congregational clergyman of New England who left the ministry in 1795 and was subsequently an iron-founder at Conneaut, Ohio, where he wrote a romance called The Manuscript Found, published in 1812, and sometimes asserted to be the basis of the Mormon Bible. See Patterson’s, Who Wrote the Mormon Bible? 1882.
Spear, Charles. Ms., 1801-1863. A Universalist minister of Boston active in prison reform. Names and Titles of Christ; Essays on the Punishment of Death; Plea for Discharged Convicts; Voices from Prison.
Spear, Samuel Thayer. N. Y., 1812-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, editor of The New York Independent from 1871. Family Power; Religion and the State; Constitutionality of the Legal Tender Act; The Law of the Federal Judiciary; The Law of Extradition; The Bible Heaven. Fu.
Spears, John Randolph. O., 1850- ——. A journalist of New York city. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn; The Port of Missing Ships, and Other Stories of the Sea. Mac. Put.
Speed, John Gilmer. Ky., 1853- ——. A journalist of New York city. Life of Keats.
Speer, William. Pa., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in China. China and the United States; The Great Revival of 1800; God’s Rule for Christian Giving.
Spencer, Mrs. Bella Zilfa. E., 1840-1867. A novelist who was the first wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States army. Ora, the Lost Wife; Tried and True; Surface and Depth.
Spencer, Mrs. Cornelia [Phillips]. N. Y., 1825- ——. A North Carolina writer who published The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina; History of North Carolina.
Spencer, Ichabod Smith. Vt., 1798-1854. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent in Brooklyn for many years. A Pastor’s Sketches; Sermons; Sacramental Discourses; Evidences of Divine Revelation.
Spencer, Jesse Ames. N. Y., 1816-1898. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New York, 1869-83, and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things; Studies in Eschatology; Papalism vs. Catholic Truth; Memorabilia of Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86. Wh.
Spencer, Mrs. Sara [Andrews]. N. Y., 1837- ——. A prominent woman-suffragist of Washington, proprietor of the Spencerian Business College. Problems on the Woman Question; Lessons in the English Language.
Spencer, Thomas. Ms., 1793-1857. A physician who was medical professor at Hobart College, 1835-57. Lectures on Vital Chemistry; Practical Observations on Epidemic Diarrhœa known as Cholera. See Memoir of, by S. Willard, 1858.
Spencer, Mrs. William Loring [Nuñez]. Fl., 18— - ——. A writer who is the second wife of General George E. Spencer, formerly of the United States army. Salt Lake Fruit; The Story of Mary, republished as Dennis Day; A Plucky One; Calamity Jane. Cas.
Spitzka, Edward Charles. N. Y., 1852- ——. A physician of New York city eminent as a neurologist. Insanity, its Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand. N. H., 1825- ——. The librarian of Congress, and editor of The American Almanac and Treasury of Facts. Library of Choice Literature; Library of Historical Characters.
Spofford, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Prescott]. Me., 1835- ——. A novelist and poet of Newburyport whose best work in both prose and verse is markedly original, and characterized by striking luxuriance of description. Azarian; Sir Rohan’s Ghost; The Amber Gods, and Other Stories; New England Legends; The Thief in the Night; The Marquis of Carabas, a romance; A Lost Jewel; Hester Stanley at St. Mark’s, a story for girls; The Scarlet Poppy, and Other Stories; Art Decoration Applied to Furniture; Home and Hearth; Essays on the Domestic Relations; Three Heroines of New England (with Alice Brown, supra, and L. Guiney, supra); The Servant Girl Question; A Master Spirit; Ballads About Authors; Poems; In Titian’s Garden, and Other Poems. See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1882. Cop. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Rob. Scr.
Spooner, Lysander. Ms., 1808-1887. A lawyer of Boston prominent as an abolitionist. Our Finances; The Deist’s Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity; A Defence for Fugitive Slaves; Unconstitutionality of Slavery; The Law of Prices; Poverty: Causes and Cure.
Spooner, Shearjashub. Vt., 1809-1859. A dentist of New York city. Guide to Sound Teeth; Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry; Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects; Anecdotes of Painters.
Sprague, Alfred White. Sh., 1821- ——. A Boston chemist who published Chemical Experiments; Elements of Natural Philosophy.
Sprague, Charles. Ms., 1791-1875. A cashier of the Globe Bank, Boston, 1825-65, well known in his lifetime as a verse-writer, and still pleasantly remembered for the genuine sentiment in such poems as The Family Meeting and The Winged Worshippers, though an Ode to Shakespeare was once much praised. His poems first appeared in 1841, the latest edition being that of 1876. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Sprague, Charles Ezra. N. Y., 1842- ——. The secretary of the Dime Savings Institution in New York city from 1878. Logical Symbolism; Handbook of Volapük.
Sprague, John Titcomb. Ms., 1810-1888. An officer of the United States army who was military governor of Florida in 1865. Origin, etc., of the Florida War (1848).
Sprague, Mary Aplin. O., 1849- ——. A novelist of Newark, Ohio. An Earnest Trifler. Hou.
Sprague, Peleg. Ms., 1793-1880. A once noted jurist of Boston. Speeches and Addresses; Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases.
Sprague, William Buell. Ct., 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of Albany whose Annals of the American Pulpit in ten volumes is the work by which he is best known. Other works of his include, Letters to a Daughter; The Daughter’s Own Book; Letters from Europe; Letters on Revivals; True Christianity, and Other Systems; Life of Edward Dorr Griffin, supra; Letters to Young Men; Women of the Bible; Visits to European Celebrities; Life of Jedidiah Morse, supra; Aids to Early Religion.
Sprecher, Samuel. Md., 1810- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, president of Wurtemburg Seminary at Springfield, Ohio, 1849-74, and author of The Groundwork of a System of Lutheran Theology.
Spring, Gardiner. Ms., 1785-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman, long prominent in New York city as pastor of the Brick Church, 1810-73. Power of the Pulpit; The Church in the Wilderness; Sermons; Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character; Pulpit Ministrations; Attractions of the Cross; The Bible Not of Man; The Mercy Seat, comprise his chief works. See Personal Reminiscences of. C. P. S.
Spring, Leverett Wilson. Vt., 1840- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator, professor of English literature at the University of Kansas, 1881-86, and professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1886. History of Kansas; Mark Hopkins: Teacher. Hou.
Springer, Mrs. Rebecca [Ruter]. Ind., 1832- ——. The wife of an Illinois senator, and author of Songs of the Sea, and two novels, Beechwood; Self.
Sproull [sprowl], Thomas. Pa., 1803-1892. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Pittsburg, who published Prelections on Theology.
Squier [skwīr], Ephraim George. N. Y., 1821-1888. An archæologist and diplomatist, consul to Peru, 1863-1865, and consul-general of Honduras at New York in 1868. Nicaragua; Mexican Hieroglyphics; Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (with E. H. Davis, supra); Antiquities of the State of New York; Waikna, or Adventures on the Mosquito Coast; The States of Central America; Serpent Symbols; Peru. Ho.
Squier, Miles Powell. Vt., 1792-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of Geneva, New York. The Problem Solved, or Sin Not of God; Reason and the Bible; Miscellaneous Writings; Autobiography.
Staley, Cady. N. Y., 1840- ——. A civil engineer, president of the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, and author of The Separate System of Sewerage (with G. S. Pierson).
Stall, Sylvanus. N. Y., 1847- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1880-87, and since then editor of Stall’s Lutheran Year Book. Methods of Church Work; Pastor’s Record; Talks to the King’s Children; Five-Minute Object Sermons to Children. Fu.
Stallo, John Bernhard. G., 1823-1900. A Cincinnati lawyer, minister to Italy in 1885. Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics; General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature. Ap.
Stanley, Anthony Dumond. Ct., 1810-1853. An educator who was a professor of mathematics at Yale University, 1836-53. Elementary Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry; Tables of Logarithms.
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, originally John Rowlands. W., 1841-1904. A noted African explorer. In 1855 he was adopted by a New Orleans merchant whose name he took. He was sent by the New York Herald in search of Livingstone in 1870, and was again sent to Africa by the Herald in 1874. In 1879 he accompanied an African expedition sent by the King of the Belgians, which resulted in the establishment of the Congo Free State. How I Found Livingstone; My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave, a Study of Central Africa; Coomassie and Magdala; Through the Dark Continent; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State; In Darkest Africa; My Dark Companions; My Early Travels in America and Asia; Slavery and the Slave Trade in India. See Stanley and Africa, 1890; Headley’s Adventures of Stanley; Lives by Montefiore, 1889, Little, 1890, Reddall, 1890; Packard’s Stanley and the Congo; Stanley and his Heroic Relief of Emin Pasha, by E. P. Scott; Wauters’s Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition; With Stanley’s Rear Column. Har.
Stansbury, Howard. N. Y., 1806-1863. An explorer who was a topographical engineer in the United States army, and published An Expedition to Great Salt Lake (1852). Lip.
Stanton, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cady]. N. Y., 1815-1902. Wife of H. B. Stanton, infra. A celebrated woman-suffragist and reformer who devoted the larger part of her life to suffrage and other reforms, and (with S. Anthony and F. Gage) published a History of the Woman Suffrage Movement.
Stanton, Frank Lebby. Ga., 1858- ——. A journalist and popular verse-writer of Atlanta. Songs of the Soil. Ap.
Stanton, Henry Brewster. Ct., 1805-1887. A journalist and reformer of New York city. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ireland; Random Recollections. Har.
Stanton, Henry Thompson. Va., 1834-1898. Son of R. H. Stanton, infra. An officer in the United States army and an Indian commissioner who wrote much humorous verse. The Moneyless Man, and Other Poems; Jacob Brown, and Other Poems. Clke.
Stanton, Richard Henry. Va., 1812-1891. A jurist of Kentucky. Code of Civil and Criminal Practice in Kentucky; Practical Treatise for Justices of the Peace; Manual for Kentucky Executors.
Stanton, Robert Livingstone. Ct., 1810-1885. Brother of H. B. Stanton, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman who published The Church and the Rebellion.
Stanton, Theodore. N. Y., 1851- ——. Son of H. B. and E. Stanton, supra. A journalist living in Paris. The Woman Question in Europe. Put.
Stanwood, Edward. Me., 1841- ——. A Boston journalist, managing editor of The Youth’s Companion. A History of Presidential Elections; History of Cotton Manufacture in New England. Hou.
Starr, Eliza Allen. Ms., 1824-1901. An art lecturer in Chicago. Patron Saints; Pilgrims and Shrines; Songs of a Lifetime.
Starr, Frederic Ratchford. N. S., 1821-1889. A noted dairy farmer of Litchfield, Connecticut. Didley Dumps, the Newsboy; May I Not?; What Can I Do?; Farm Echoes; From Shore to Shore.
Starr, Moses Allen. N. Y., 1854- ——. A physician of New York city, prominent as a neurologist. Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases; Lectures on Insanity; Brain Surgery.
Stauffer, Francis Henry. Pa., 1832- ——. A sensational novelist of Philadelphia, long a contributor to the Saturday Night. Among his serials published in that paper, none of them of much literary merit, are Ruth Brandon; Lucy Darrel; Devona the Dauntless.
Staunton, William. E., 1803-1889. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city who published an Ecclesiastical Dictionary, and wrote much on musical topics.
Stearns, Asahel. Ms., 1774-1839. A Massachusetts lawyer and Congressman, professor of law at Harvard University, 1817-29. Summary of the Law and Practice of Real Actions; General Laws, 1780-1822 (with L. Shaw).
Stearns, Charles. Ms., 1753-1826. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1785 till his death. The Ladies’ Philosophy of Love, a Poem; Principles of Morality and Religion.
Stearns, Charles Woodward. Ms., 1818-1887. A physician and surgeon of note as a Shakespearean scholar. Shakespeare’s Medical Knowledge; Shakespeare Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge; Concordance of the Constitution of the United States; The Black Men and the South and the Rebels.
Stearns, Edward Josiah. Ms., 1810-1890. An Episcopal clergyman and educator in Maryland. A Platform for All Parties; Notes on Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Practical Guide to English Pronunciation; The Faith of Our Forefathers, an Examination of Archbishop Gibbons’s “Faith of Our Fathers;” The Archbishop’s Champion Brought to Book. Wh.
Stearns, Frank Preston. Ms., 1846- ——. Great-nephew of L. M. Child, supra. A Boston writer upon art, literature, and history. The Real and Ideal in Literature; Life of Tintoretto; The Midsummer of Italian Art; Sketches from Concord and Appledore; Modern English Prose; Summer Travel in Europe. Put.
Stearns, John Glazier. N. H., 1795-1874. A Baptist clergyman once prominent in central New York. The Primitive Church; Letters on Freemasonry; The Sovereignty of God and Free Agency; The Influence of the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration.
Stearns, John William. Ms., 1829- ——. A professor in the University of Wisconsin from 1884. The History of Education in Wisconsin.
Stearns, Lewis French. Ms., 1847-1892. A Presbyterian clergyman, afterwards professor of systematic theology in Bangor Theological Seminary, 1880-92. The Evidence of Christian Experience; Present Day Theology, with Biographical Sketch by G. L. Prentiss, supra; Life of Henry Boynton Smith, supra. Hou. Scr.
Stearns, Oakman Sprague. Me., 1817-1893. A Baptist clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of biblical interpretation at Newton Theological Seminary from 1868. A Syllabus of Messianic Passages in the Old Testament; Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament.
Stearns, Samuel. Ms., 1747-1819. A physician and astronomer of Worcester, New York city, and lastly of Brattleboro, Vermont. Tour to London and Paris; Mystery of Animal Magnetism; American Oracle; The American Herbal or Materia Medica.
Stearns, William Augustus. Ms., 1805-1876. A Congregational clergyman, president of Amherst College, 1854-76. Infant Church Membership; A Plea for the Nation.
Stearns, Winfrid Alden. 185- - ——. Son of W. A. Stearns, supra. Labrador: a Sketch of its Peoples, etc.; Wrecked on Labrador; New England Bird Life (with E. Coues, supra).
Stebbins, Giles Badger. 1817-1900. After Dogmatic Theology, What?; The American Protectionist’s Manual; Chapters from the Bible of the Ages; Facts and Opinions Touching the American Colonization Society; Progress from Poverty.
Stebbins, Emma. N. Y., 1815-1882. A sculptress who lived many years in Rome, where she formed a friendship with Charlotte Cushman. Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memories of her Life. Hou.
Stebbins, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Moore] [Hewitt]. Ms., 1818- ——. Memorial of F. S. Osgood, supra; Songs of Our Lord; Heroines of History; Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Legendary.
Stebbins, Rufus Phineas. Ms., 1810-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of Ithaca, New York, and subsequently of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. A Study of the Pentateuch; A Common Sense View of the Books of the Old Testament.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence. Ct., 1833- ——. A poet and literary critic of New York city, for many years a member of the Stock Exchange there. His volumes of verse include, Poems: Lyric and Idyllic; The Prince’s Ball; The Battle of Bull Run; Alice of Monmouth; Idyl of the Great War, and Other Poems; The Blameless Prince; Hawthorne, and Other Poems; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems, Household Edition; The Star Bearer. His other works comprise, Octavius Brooks Frothingham and the New Faith; Victorian Poets; Poets of America; The Nature and Elements of Poetry. His most important labours as editor have been, A Library of American Literature (with E. M. Hutchinson, supra); The Works of Poe (with G. E. Woodberry, infra); A Victorian Anthology. See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors, 1897. Hou.
Steele, Daniel. N. Y., 1824- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator of note. Commentary on Joshua; Love Enthroned; Milestone Papers; Antinomianism Revived; Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers; Bible Readings; Sermons and Essays. Meth.
Steele, David. I., 1827- ——. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia from 1861. The Times in Which we Live, and the Ministry they Require; The Apologetics of History.
Steele, Mrs. Esther [Baker]. N. Y., 1835- ——. Wife of J. D. Steele, infra, and co-author with him of a General History and school histories of the United States; France; Ancient Peoples; Mediæval and Modern Peoples; Greece; Rome.
Steele, George McKendree. N. Y., 1823-1902. A Methodist clergyman and educator, principal of Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts. Outline Study of Political Economy. Meth.
Steele, Joel Dorman. N. Y., 1836-1886. A prominent educator of Elmira, New York, who published Barnes’s History of the United States and a series of text-books on the sciences, each intended for a course of study of fourteen weeks, including Natural Philosophy; Geology; Human Physiology; Zoölogy; Chemistry.
Steele, Mrs. Margaret. See Conkling, Mrs.
Steele, Thomas Sedgwick. Ct., 1845- ——. Canoe and Camera: a Tour Through the Maine Forests; Paddle and Portage from Moosehead Lake to the Aroostook River; A Voyage to Vikingland. Est.
Steendam, Jacob. H., 1616-16—?. The earliest verse-writer of New York. He was in the employ of the Dutch West India Company, and lived in New Amsterdam, now New York, from 1650 to 1663, about which time he returned to Holland. The place and date of his death are unknown. His four small volumes of verse include, Der Distelvink (The Thistle Finch); Klacht van Nieuw Amsterdam (The Complaint of New Amsterdam); Tlof van Nieuw Nederland (The Praise of New Netherland); Prichel Vaarsen (Spurring Verses). The literary merit of his work is small.
Steenstra, Peter Henry. H., 1833- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, professor of Old Testament criticism and interpretation in the Episcopal Theological School from 1867. The Being of God as Unity and Trinity. Hou.
Steiger, Ernst. Sxy., 1832- ——. A bibliographer and publisher of New York city. Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika; Das Copyright Law in den Vereinigten Staaten; Periodical Literature, a bibliography.
Stella. See Lewis, Mrs.
Stellhorn, Frederick William. G., 1841- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of Ohio, professor of theology in Capitol University, who has published a Lexicon of New Testament Greek; Annotations on the Acts of the Apostles; Annotations on the Gospels.
Stephen, Mrs. Elizabeth [Willison]. Al., 1856- ——. The wife of a Presbyterian clergyman in Rockport, Illinois. The Confessions of Two, a novel.
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton. Ga., 1812-1883. A distinguished Georgia statesman who was a representative in Congress from his State, 1843-59, vice-president of the Confederacy, subsequently a member of Congress, and in 1882 governor of Georgia. School History of the United States; History of the War between the States; Compendium of United States History. See Carroll’s Twelve Americans; Life by F. H. Norton; Life by Johnston and Browne; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1870; Appletons’ American Biography; Trent’s Southern Statesmen. Lip.
Stephens, Mrs. Ann Sophia [Winterbotham]. Ct., 1813-1886. A novelist and littérateur of New York city whose books were at one time much read. Among them are, Fashion and Famine, her best work; A Story of Western Life; The Old Homestead; Myra, the Child of Adoption; The Heiress; Wives and Widows; The Curse of Gold; A Popular History of the United States. She wrote not a little verse, her best known poem being the familiar Polish Boy.
Stephens, Charles Asbury. Me., 1847- ——. A writer of Norway, Maine. Camping Out; Off the Geysers; Left on Labrador; Fox Hunting; On the Amazon; The Young Moose-Hunters; The Knockabout Club in the Woods and in the Tropics. Co. Est.
Stephens, Harriet Marion. 1823-1850. Home Scenes and Home Sounds; Hagar the Martyr, a novel.
Stephens, John Lloyd. N. J., 1805-1852. A traveller of note. Incidents of Travel in Central America; Yucatan; Egypt, Arabia, and the Holy Land; Greece, Turkey, and Russia. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Har.
Stephens, William. E., 1671-1753. A colonial governor of Georgia, 1743-1750, who published a Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia. See Biography by his son, entitled The Castle Builder, or the History of William Stephens of the Isle of Wight.
Stern, Simon Adler. Pa., 1838- ——. Florentine Nights; Excerpts; Jottings of Travel in China and Japan.
Sternberg, George Miller. N. Y., 1838- ——. A surgeon in the United States army. Photo-Micrographs; Malaria and Malarial Diseases; Bacteria, from the French of Maguin; Immunity: Protective Inoculations in Infectious Diseases; Manual of Bacteriology. Hou.
Sterne, Simon. Pa., 1839-1901. A prominent politician of New York city. Popular Government and Personal Representation; Constitutional History and Development of the United States; Suffrage in Cities; Hindrances to Prosperity. Lip. Put.
Sterne, Stuart. See Bloede.
Sterrett, John Robert Sitlington. Va., 1851- ——. A professor of Greek at Amherst College from 1892. Qua in re Hymni Homerici quinque majores inter se differunt; Inscriptions of Assos; Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor; The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor.
Stevens, Abel. Pa., 1815-1897. A Methodist clergyman of New York city of prominence as a writer, and long connected with the Methodist Book Concern. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States; History of Methodism; Life of Madame de Staël; Life of Nathan Bangs, supra; Character Sketches; Women of Methodism; Christian Work and Consolation; Church Polity; Tales from the Parsonage, are among his many publications. Har. Meth.
Stevens, Alexander Hodgdon. N. Y., 1789-1869. A surgeon of New York city, whose chief works are, Inflammation of the Eye; Lectures on Lithotomy; First Lines of Surgery.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin. Vt., 1833-1902. Brother of H. Stevens, infra. A bibliographer who edited Campaign in Virginia in 1781; Facsimiles of MSS. in European Archives Relating to America, 1773-83.
Stevens, Charles Ellis. Ms., 1853- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Sources of the Constitution of the United States in Relation to Colonial and English History. Mac.
Stevens, George Barker. N. Y., 1854- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven, professor in Yale Divinity School from 1886. Commentary on Galatians; The Pauline Theology; The Johannine Theology; Doctrine and Life. Scr.
Stevens, Henry. Vt., 1819-1886. A bibliographer of prominence, who lived in London after 1845. Historical Nuggets; Historical Collections; Recollections of James Lenox; The Tehuantepec Railway; Historical and Geographical Notes; The Bibles in the Caxton Exhibition; Catalogue of the American Books in the British Museum; and indexes to state papers in London relating to Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and New Jersey.
Stevens, John Austin. N. Y., 1827- ——. An author of New York city, and later of Newport, Rhode Island, who founded the Magazine of American History; The Valley of the Rio Grande; The Expedition of Lafayette against Arnold; Life of Albert Gallatin, supra. Hou.
Stevens, John Leavitt. Me., 1820-1895. A diplomatist who was minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1870-73, to Sweden, 1877-83, to Hawaii, 1889-93. History of Gustavus Adolphus.
Stevens, Thomas. E., 1855- ——. A noted cyclist who has published, Scouting for Stanley in East Africa; Around the World on a Bicycle: From San Francisco to Teheran, From Teheran to Yokohama; Through Russia on a Mustang. Cas. Scr.
Stevens, William Bacon. Me., 1815-1887. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania, consecrated in 1862. History of Georgia; The Bow in the Cloud; Sermons; Sabbaths of Our Lord; Parables of the New Testament Unfolded; History of Silk Culture in Georgia; The Sunday at Home. Co.
Stevenson, E[dward] Irenæus. N. J., 1858- ——. A littérateur of New York city, since 1881 the editor of The New York Independent, and for many years an editor of Harper’s Weekly. He has been the musical editor of several journals for a number of years. White Cockades, an Incident of the “Forty-five;” Janus, reissued as A Matter of Temperament, a musical novel; Left to Themselves, reissued as Philip and Gerald; Mrs. Dee’s Encore; A Square of Sevens. Har. Meth. Scr.
Stevenson, Sarah Hackett. Il., 1843- ——. A physician of Chicago. Boys and Girls in Biology; The Physiology of Woman.
Steward, Theophilus Gould. N. J., 1843- ——. A clergyman of African descent. Death, Hades, and the Resurrection; The End of the World; Genesis Re-read.
Stewart, Austin. Va., c. 1793-186-. An author and educator of African descent who published, Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman.
Stewart, Charles Samuel. N. J., 1795-1870. A Presbyterian clergyman, chaplain in the navy. Residence at the Sandwich Islands in 1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship Vincennes; Sketches of Society in Great Britain and Ireland in 1832; Brazil and La Plata in 1850-63; Personal Record of a Cruise.
Stewart, Mrs. Electra Maria [Sheldon]. N. Y., 1817- ——. A writer of Detroit. Early History of Michigan; The Clevelands, a religious juvenile tale.
Stewart, Ferdinand Campbell. Va., 1815- ——. A physician of New York city who removed to England in 1855. Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris.
Stewart, James. N. Y., 1799-1864. A physician of New York city. Diseases of Children; The Lungs.
Stewart, Thomas McCants. S. C., 1854- ——. A New York city lawyer of African descent. Liberia: the Americo-African Republic; Perils of a Great City.
Stickney, Albert. Ms., 1839- ——. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer and his Clients; A True Republic; Democratic Government: a Study of Politics; The Political Problem. Har.
Stickney, Mrs. Julia Granby [Noyes]. Ms., 1830- ——. A verse-writer of Groveland, Massachusetts. Poems on Lake Winnepesaukee.
Stiles, Ezra. Ct., 1727-1795. A Congregational clergyman, famous in colonial days, who was president of Yale College, 1778-95. Account of the Settlement of Bristol, Rhode Island; History of Three of the Judges of Charles the First, Whalley, Goffe, and Dixwell. See Life, by Abiel Holmes, supra; Life by Kingsley in Sparks’s American Biography; The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles.
Stiles, Henry Reed. N. Y., 1832- ——. Kinsman of E. Stiles, supra. A prominent physician of Brooklyn. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; History of Brooklyn, Long Island; The Wallabout Prison Ship.
Stiles, Joseph Clay. Ga., 1795-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman, after 1860 an evangelist in the South. Modern Reform Examined, or the Union of North and South on Slavery; The National Controversy.
Stiles, William Henry. Ga., 1808-1865. Brother of J. C. Stiles, supra. A Savannah lawyer who was an officer in the Confederate army. History of Austria.
Still, William. N. J., 1821-1902. A noted Philadelphia philanthropist of African descent. The Underground Railroad; Voting and Laboring; Struggle for the Rights of Colored People in Philadelphia.
Stillé [stĭl´le], Alfred. Pa., 1813-1900. A physician of Philadelphia. Elements of General Pathology; The Unity of Medicine; Humboldt’s Life and Character; War as an Element of Civilization; Othello and Desdemona: their Characters; The National Dispensatory (with Maisch); Therapeutics and Materia Medica; Epidemic Meningitis; Epidemic or Malignant Cholera. Lip.
Stillé, Charles Janeway. Pa., 1819-1899. Brother of A. Stillé, supra. A Philadelphia educator, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1868-80. Historical Development of American Civilization; Studies in Mediæval Civilization; Beaumarchais and the Lost Million, a chapter of the Secret History of the American Revolution; History of the United States Sanitary Commission; How a Free People Conduct a Long War; Northern Interest and Southern Independence; Life and Times of John Dickinson; General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania Line. Lip.
Stillé, Moreton. Pa., 1822-1855. Brother of A. Stillé, supra. A Philadelphia physician, co-author with F. Wharton of a Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence.
Stillman, Samuel. Pa., 1738-1807. A Baptist clergyman, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston from 1765 till his death, and a man of prominence in his day. His Select Sermons were published in 1808. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Stillman, William James. N. Y., 1828-1901. A littérateur and artist who was consul at Rome, 1861-65, and in Crete, 1865-69. He lived at Rome from 1886 to 1898 as correspondent of the London Times for Italy and Greece. History of the Cretan Insurrection; Poetic Localities of Cambridge; Herzegovina and the Late Uprising; Turkish Rule and Warfare; On the Track of Ulysses; Manual of Photography; Autobiography. Hou.
Stimpson, William. Ms., 1830-1872. A naturalist of eminence. Descriptiones Animalium Evertebratorum; Notes on North American Crustacea; Crustacea Dredged in the Gulf Stream.
Stimson, Alexander Lovett. Ms., 1816- ——. A lawyer and journalist. History of the Express Companies; New England Boys; Waifwood, a novel.
Stimson, Frederick Jesup. “J. S. of Dale.” Ms., 1855- ——. A lawyer and popular novelist of Boston. Labor in its Relations to Law; Handbook of the Labor Law of the United States; American Statute Law; Glossary of Technical Terms of the Common Law; Uniform State Legislation. In fiction he has published, Guerndale; The Crime of Henry Vane; The King’s Men; The Residuary Legatee; The Sentimental Calendar; In the Three Zones; First Harvests; Pirate Gold; King Noanett; Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge (with J. T. Wheelwright, infra). Hou. Lam. Lit. Scr.
Stimson, John Ward. N. J., 1850- ——. An artist of New York city, four years superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum art schools. The Law of Three Primaries.
Stimson, Lewis Atterbury. N. J., 1844- ——. A physician of New York city, professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York. Manual of Operative Surgery; Practical Treatise on Fractures; Treatise on Dislocations.
Stith, William. Va., 1689-1785. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1752-55. He wrote a History of Virginia, which though diffuse is not without interest and dignity of style. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Stockton, Francis Richard. Pa., 1834-1902. A widely popular humorist and novel-writer who first attracted general notice by his now famous Rudder Grange, a thoroughly original piece of humour. In the same vein are, The Rudder Grangers Abroad, and Other Stories; Pomona’s Travels; The Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine. His other works, which all display original inventive humour, are, Tales Out of School; The Ting-a-Ling Stories; Roundabout Rambles; What Might Have Been Expected; A Jolly Fellowship; The Floating Prince; The Story of Viteau; The Late Mrs. Null; The Lady or the Tiger?, his most celebrated work; The Christmas Wreck, and Other Stories; The Hundredth Man; The Bee Man of Orn; The Dusantes; Amos Kilbright; Ardis Claverden; The Great War Syndicate; The Stories of the Three Burglars; The Merry Chanter; The House of Martha; Kobel Land; The Clocks of Rondaine; The Watchmaker’s Wife; The Adventures of Captain Horn; A Chosen Few; Personally Conducted; A Story-Teller’s Pack, a volume of short stories; Stories of New Jersey; Captain Chap, or the Rolling Stones. See Vedder’s American Writers. Am. Cent. Do. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Stockton, Thomas Hewlings. N. J., 1808-1868. Half brother of F. R. Stockton, supra. A Methodist preacher of Baltimore and Philadelphia, chaplain to both houses of Congress successively, and famous for his eloquence. Floating Flowers from a Hidden Brook; Poems; Stand Up for Jesus, and Other Poems; The Book Above All. See Life by Wilson, 1869.
Stoddard, Amos. Ct., 1762-1813. Great-grandson of S. Stoddard, infra. A soldier of note in the early days of the Republic. Sketches of Louisiana (1812); The Political Crisis.
Stoddard, Charles Augustus. Ms., 1833- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Observer from 1885. Across Russia; Spanish Cities; Beyond the Rockies; Cruising Among the Caribbees. Scr.
Stoddard, Charles Warren. N. Y., 1840- ——. A lecturer on English literature in the Catholic University of America at Washington. Poems; Mashallah: a Flight into Egypt; South Sea Idyls; Summer Cruising in the South Seas; The Lepers of Molokai. Scr.
Stoddard, Mrs. Elizabeth Drew [Barstow]. Ms., 1823-1902. Wife of R. H. Stoddard, infra. A novelist and poet whose work in verse and fiction shows much individuality. The Morgesons; Temple House; Two Men; Lolly Dinks’s Doings, a juvenile tale; Poems. Cas. Hou.
Stoddard, John F——. N. Y., 1825-1873. An educator of New York State who published a Universal Algebra, and a widely circulated series of arithmetics.
Stoddard, John Lawson. Ms., 1850- ——. A popular stereopticon lecturer. Red Letter Days Abroad; Napoleon from Corsica to St. Helena. Hou. Mer.
Stoddard, Richard Henry. Ms., 1825-1903. A poet, journalist, and critic of New York city, literary editor of The Mail and Express from 1880. His verse is unequal in merit, but his best work has always won the praise of the discriminating few, though never much heeded by the average reader. He edited the Bric-a-Brac Series and other volumes, while his own writings include, Poems; Adventures in Fairy Land; Footprints; Life of Humboldt; Songs of Summer; The King’s Bell; The Book of the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode; Putnam the Brave; A Century After; Life of Washington Irving; The Lion’s Cub, with Other Verse; Under the Evening Lamp, a collection of essays on literary topics. See Stedman’s Poets of America; Vedder’s American Writers. Scr.
Stoddard, Solomon. Ms., 1643-1729. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1669 until his death. Appeal to the Learned; Guide to Christ; Safety in the Righteousness of Christ; Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained, a reply to Increase Mather’s “Order of the Gospel,” and one which occasioned much exciting controversy.
Stoddard, William Osborn. N. Y., 1835- ——. A journalist and inventor whose writings have been largely though not entirely for juvenile readers, and have been very popular. Little Smoke; The Windfall; Esau Hardery; Dab Kinzer; Saltillo Boys; Wrecked; Verses of Many Days; The Heart of It; The White Cave, an Australian Story; The Red Mustang; Two Arrows; Among the Lakes; The Quartet; Winter Fun; Men of Business; The Talking Leaves; The Volcano Under the City, a story of the draft riots in New York; Lives of the Presidents; Gid Granger; Chuck Purdy, comprise the greater part of his works. Ap. Cent. Fo. Har. Lo. Mer. Scr. Sto.
Stoever, Martin Luther. Pa., 1820-1870. A Pennsylvania educator, a professor in the college at Gettysburg, 1840-70. Brief Sketch of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg.
Stone, Andrew Leete. Ct., 1815-1892. A Congregational clergyman in San Francisco from 1866. Service the End of Living; Ashton’s Mothers; Memorial Discourses; Leaves from a Finished Pastorate.
Stone, David Marvin. Ct., 1817-1895. Brother of A. L. Stone, supra. A noted journalist of New York city, editor of The Journal of Commerce, 1849-93. He published Frank Forrest (1850), a work that passed into twenty editions.
Stone, Ebenezer Whitten. Ms., 1801-1880. An adjutant-general of the Massachusetts militia from 1851. Digest of Massachusetts Militia Laws; Compend of Instructions in Military Tactics; Manual of Percussion Aim.
Stone, Edwin Martin. Ms., 1805-1883. A Congregational clergyman of Providence. Life of Elhanan Winchester; History of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1630-1842; The Invasion of Canada in 1775; Our French Alliès in the Revolution.
Stone, Edwin Winchester. Ms., 1835-1878. Son of E. M. Stone, supra. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War. He was the war correspondent of The Providence Journal, and author of Rhode Island in the Rebellion.
Stone, James Kent. Ms., 1840- ——. Son of J. S. Stone, infra. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the order of Passionists, and known as Father Fidelis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman and president of Hobart College. The Invitation Heeded, issued in 1870, and giving his reasons for his recent change of faith, was widely read.
Stone, James Samuel. E., 1852- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago. Simple Sermons on Simple Subjects; The Heart of Merrie England; Readings in Church History; Woods and Dales of Derbyshire. Co.
Stone, John Augustus. Ms., 1801-1834. A dramatist and actor. He is best remembered by Metamora, a play written for Edwin Forrest, for whom he also wrote The Ancient Briton; and Fauntleroy. Other dramas by him are, Tancred; The Demoniac; La Roque.
Stone, John Seely. Ms., 1795-1882. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the Episcopal Theological School there, 1867-72, and prominent among the Low Churchmen of his day. The Living Temple; The Christian Sacraments; Sermons; Memoir of Bishop Griswold; The Christian Sabbath; The Contrast, or the Evangelical and Tractarian Systems Compared. Ran.
Stone, Thomas Treadwell. Me., 1801-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Bolton, Massachusetts. Sermons on War; Sermons; The Rod and Staff; Sketches of Oxford County, Maine.
Stone, William Leete. N. Y., 1792-1844. A journalist of prominence in New York city, and the first superintendent of public schools there. History of the Albany Constitutional Convention of 1821; Tales and Sketches; Matthias and his Impostures; Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; Ups and Downs of a Distressed Gentleman, a social satire; Letters on Animal Magnetism; Poetry and History of Wyoming; Lives of Brant, Red Jacket; Letters on Masonry. See Life by his son.
Stone, William Leete. N. Y.,1835- ——. Son of W. L. Stone, supra. A lawyer and historical writer of Jersey City. History of New York City; Life of Sir William Johnson; Burgoyne’s Campaigns; Life and Military Journals of General Riedesel; Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston; Life of William Leete Stone, supra; Visits to Saratoga Battle Grounds, include his principal publications.
Storer, David Humphreys. Me., 1804-1891. A Boston physician, dean of the Harvard Medical School, 1854-1868. Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts; Synopsis of North American Fishes; History of the Fishes of Massachusetts.
Storer, Francis Humphreys. Me., 1832- ——. Son of D. H. Storer, supra. An eminent chemist, professor of agricultural chemistry at Harvard University from 1870, and dean of the Bussey Institute. Alloys of Copper and Zinc; Manufacture of Paraffin Oils; First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Substances; Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (with C. W. Eliot, supra); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry. Scr.
Storer, Horatio Robinson. Ms., 1830- ——. Son of D. H. Storer, supra. A surgeon of note. Why Not? a Book for Every Woman; Is It I? a Book for Every Man; Nurses and Nursing; Criminal Abortion (with F. F. Heard, supra). Le. Lit.
Storey, Moorfield. Ms., 1845- ——. A Boston lawyer living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Life of Charles Sumner. Hou.
Stork, Charles Augustus. Md., 1838-1883. Son of T. Stork, supra. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at Gettysburg, 1881-83. Light on the Pilgrim’s Way. See the Stork Family in the Lutheran Church, 1886.
Stork, Theophilus. N. C., 1814-1874. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Life of Luther; Luther’s Christmas Tree; Luther and the Bible; Afternoon; Home Scenes in the New Testament; The Unseen World, are his principal works. Lip.
Storrs, Richard Salter. Ms., 1821-1900. A distinguished Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims from 1846. The Constitution of the Human Soul; Historical Addresses; Divine Origin of Christianity; Conditions of Success in Preaching without Notes; John Wycliffe and the First English Bible; Manliness in the Scholar; Love to Christ; Recognition of the Supernatural; Bernard of Clairvaux; Forty Years of Pastoral Life. Do. Ran. Scr.
Story, Isaac. Ms., 1774-1803. Cousin of J. Story, infra. A lawyer and verse-writer of Castine, Maine. An Epistle from Tarico to Inkle; Consolatory Odes; A Parnassian Shop.
Story, Joseph. Ms., 1779-1845. A jurist of eminence, Dane professor of law at Harvard University, 1829-45. His earliest work was The Power of Solitude, with Fugitive Poems, a somewhat callow performance; and his first legal production, which appeared in 1805, was a Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions. His subsequent works include, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; The Conflict of Laws, his most able effort; Equity Jurisprudence; The Law of Agency; Law of Bailments; Equity Pleadings; Law of Partnership; Law of Promissory Notes; Miscellaneous Writings. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by W. W. Story; Biographical Encyclopædia of Massachusetts. Har. Lit.
Story, William Wetmore. Ms., 1819-1895. Son of J. Story, supra. A poet, sculptor, and essayist. He studied law and practised at the bar in Boston for a short time, but after 1848 lived in Rome and became widely known as a sculptor. His prose writings include, The Law of Contracts; The Law of Sales; Life of Joseph Story; Proportions of the Human Figure; Roba di Roma; The American Question; Fiammetta, a novel; Conversations in a Studio; Excursions in Art and Letters. The Castle of St. Angelo; A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem; Nero, an Historical Play; and a two-volume edition of Poems, comprise his verse. He and She: a Poet’s Portfolio; and A Poet’s Portfolio: Later Readings, contain both poetry and prose. See Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia, 1895. Hou. Lip. Lit.
Stow, Baron. N. H., 1801-1869. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, of much prominence in his day, among whose writings are, Helen’s Pilgrimage; History of the English Baptist Mission to India; Christian Brotherhood; First Things. See Life by Neale, 1870; Memoir of by J. C. Stockbridge, 1895.
Stowe, Calvin Ellis. Ms., 1802-1886. A Congregational clergyman and educator who held successive professorships at Dartmouth College, Lane Seminary, Bowdoin College, and Andover Seminary. While at Lane Seminary he married his second wife, Harriet Beecher, the daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. Origin and History of the Books of the Bible; Elementary Instruction in Europe; Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews; Introduction to Biblical Criticism.
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher]. Ct., 1811-1896. Wife of C. E. Stowe, supra, and daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. In 1836 she was married to Professor Stowe at Cincinnati, and, in frequent visits to the slave States at that period, acquired a knowledge of Southern customs. In 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Maine, and, having by this time become deeply impressed with the wrong of slavery, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin for The National Era at Washington, in which paper it appeared serially from June, 1851, till April, 1852. It was then published in book form and speedily became world-famous, five hundred thousand copies being sold in America within five years, while translations of it appeared in twenty languages. As a moral agent few books have been of so much importance. From a literary point of view there is less to be said of it; and The Minister’s Wooing, a novel of the early days of the republic, must rank as her finest work. The quality of her other work is uneven, its highest level being represented by Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orr’s Island; Dred; The Chimney Corner; Religious Poems, among which is the well-known hymn, “Still, still with Thee.” Her lesser works comprise, My Wife and I; Sam Lawson’s Fireside Stories; We and Our Neighbors; Little Foxes; The Mayflower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands; Our Charley; Agnes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House and Home Papers; Stories about Our Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy’s First Winter; Men of Our Times, biographical sketches; The American Woman’s Home (with Catherine Beecher); Little Pussy Willow; Pink and White Tyranny; Palmetto Leaves; Betty’s Bright Idea; Footsteps of the Master; Bible Heroines; Poganuc People; A Dog’s Mission. See Life of, by her Son; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1882, August and September, 1896; The Century Magazine, September, 1896; New England Magazine, September, 1896; The Forum, August, 1896; The Outlook, July 25, 1896; Life of, by Mrs. Fields, supra. Fo. Hou.
Stowell, Charles Henry. N. Y., 1850- ——. A microscopist, professor of histology in the University of Michigan. Students’ Manual of Microscopy; Physiology and Hygiene; The Microscopical Structure of the Human Tooth; A Primer of Health; A Healthy Body; Essentials of Health. Sil.
Stowell, Mrs. Louisa Maria [Reed]. Mch., 1850- ——. Wife of C. H. Stowell, supra. An instructor in microscopical botany at the University of Michigan for twelve years. Microscopical Structure of Wheat; Microscopic Diagnosis (with C. H. Stowell).
Strachey, William. E., c. 1585-16—. The first secretary of the Virginia colony. He was the author of A True Repertory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas, supposed to have been the inspiration of Shakespeare’s Tempest; Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; For the Colony in Virginia Britannia: Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall, a compilation. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Strahan, Edward. See Shinn, Earl.
Stranahan, Mrs. Clara Cornelia [Harrison]. Ms., 183- - ——. An art writer of Brooklyn. A History of French Painting from its Earliest to its Latest Practice. Scr.
Straus, Oscar Solomon. Bv., 1850- ——. A municipal reformer of New York city, minister to Turkey in 1887. The Origin of Republican Government in the United States; Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious Liberty. Cent. Put.
Street, Alfred Billings. N. Y., 1811-1882. A verse-writer of Albany, and State librarian of New York from 1848. His verse is chiefly nature poetry and was popular for a time. His writings include, Frontenac; Woods and Waters; Forest Pictures; The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems; Drawings and Tintings; Fugitive Poems; Digest of Taxation in the United States. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Strickland, William. Pa., 1787-1854. A Philadelphia architect whose chief professional work was the Capitol at Nashville, Tennessee. Triangulation of the Entrance into Delaware Bay; Report on Canals and Railways; Public Works of the United States (with Gill and Campbell).
Strickland, William Peter. Pa., 1809-1884. A Methodist clergyman, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Bridgehampton, Long Island, 1865-77, whose principal writings comprise, Pioneers of the West; History of the American Bible Society; The Genius of Methodism; Light of the Temple; Old Mackinaw, or the Fortress of the Lakes; Christianity Demonstrated by Facts; The Astrologer of Chaldea, or the Life of Faith. Meth.
Strohm, Gertrude. O., 1843- ——. A writer living near Dayton, Ohio. Word Pictures; Universal Cookery Book; Flower Idyls; The Young Scholar’s Companion.
Strong, Augustus Hopkins. N. Y., 1836- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Rochester, New York, president of Rochester Theological Seminary from 1872. Systematic Theology; Philosophy and Religion.
Strong, George Crockett. Vt., 1832-1863. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War who fell in the assault on Fort Wagner. Cadet Life at West Point.
Strong, James. N. Y., 1822-1894. A Methodist clergyman and educator of eminence, professor in Drew Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, from 1868. With T. McClintock, supra, he edited a Biblical Encyclopædia, continuing the work alone after 1870. His other writings include, English Harmony of the Gospels; Greek Harmony of the Gospels; Irenics; The Tabernacle of Israel; Sacred Idyls; Future Life; Jewish Life; Our Lord’s Life; Commentary on Ecclesiastes; Concordance of the Bible. Meth.
Strong, Josiah. Il., 1847- ——. A Congregational clergyman, general agent of the Evangelical Alliance in America after 1886. Our Country; The New Era of the Coming Kingdom.
Strong, Latham Cornell. N. Y., 1845-1879. A journalist and verse-writer of Troy, New York. Castle Windows; Pots of Gold; Poke o’ Moonshine; Midsummer Dreams.
Strong, Nathan. Ct., 1748-1816. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Sermons; The Doctrine of Eternal Misery Consistent with the Infinite Benevolence of God.
Strong, Theodore. Ms., 1790-1869. A professor of mathematics at Rutgers College, 1827-63. Treatise on Elementary Algebra; On Differential and Integral Calculus.
Strong, Titus. Ms., 1787-1855. An Episcopal clergyman of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Tears of Columbia, a Political Poem; Candid Examination of the Episcopal Church; The Deerfield Captive; The Young Scholar’s Manual.
Strother [strŭth´e̯r], David Hunter. “Porte Crayon.” Va., 1816-1888. An artist of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, once popular as a magazinist. During the Civil War he was a colonel in the Union army, and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general. The Blackwater Chronicle; Virginia Illustrated. See Hart’s American Literature.
Stroud, George McDowell. Pa., 1795-1875. A Philadelphia jurist who published Sketch of Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States.
Stryker, Melanchthon Woolsey. N. Y., 1851- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, president of Hamilton College from 1892. Beside several hymnals, he has published Miriam, and Other Verse; Hamilton, Lincoln, and Other Addresses; The Letter of James the Just. Gi.
Stuart, Charles Beebe. N. H., 1814-1881. A military engineer in government service. Naval Dry Docks of the United States; Water Works of the United States; Civil and Military Engineers of the United States.
Stuart, Moses. Ct., 1780-1852. A Congregational clergyman and educator of Massachusetts, professor of sacred literature at Andover Seminary, 1809-1848. Among his writings are, Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans and the Hebrews; Hints on the Prophecies; Conscience and the Constitution; Critical History and Defence of the Old Testament Canon.
Stuart, Mrs. Ruth McEnery. La., 1856- ——. A Golden Wedding, and Other Tales; Carlotta’s Intended, and Other Stories; The Story of Babette; Sonny; Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pockets. Cent. Har.
Stuckenberg, John Henry Wilburn. G., 1835-1903. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, 1873-80, and minister in charge of the American chapel at Berlin from 1880. Christian Sociology; Life of Kant; Introduction to the Study of Philosophy.
Sturges, Mrs. Mary Jane [Upshur] [Stith]. Va., 1828- ——. A writer of New York city. Confederate Notes, a novel; Poems.
Sturgis, Frederick Russell. Ph., 1844- ——. A prominent physician and surgeon of New York city. Human Cestoids; Students’ Manual of Venereal Diseases.
Sturgis, Russell. Md., 1836- ——. An architect of New York city, a valued authority upon art, architecture, and archæology. European Architecture. Mac.
Sturtevant, Julian Monson. Ct., 1805-1886. A prominent educator of Jacksonville, Illinois, professor in Illinois College, 1830-86. Economics, or the Science of Wealth; Keys of Sect. Le. Put.
Sullivan, James. Me., 1744-1808. An eminent Boston jurist who was governor of Massachusetts, 1807-08. History of Land Titles of Massachusetts; Observations on the Government of the United States; The Path to Riches, or a Dissertation on Banks; The Altar of Baal Thrown Down, or the French Nation Defended; Impartial Review of Causes of the French Revolution. See Life by Amory, 1859.
Sullivan, James William. Pa., 1848- ——. A journalist of New York city, editor of social reform journals, 1893-96. Tenement Tales of New York; So the World Goes; Direct Legislation through the Initiative and Referendum, a widely circulated work. Ho.
Sullivan, Mrs. Margaret Frances [Buchanan]. I., 1847-1903. A journalist of Chicago. Ireland of To-Day (1881).
Sullivan, Thomas Russell. Ms., 1799-1862. Grandson of J. Sullivan, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Keene, New Hampshire, 1825-35, and from 1835 till his death an educator in Boston. Letters Against the Immediate Abolition of Slavery; Limits of Responsibility in Reforms.
Sullivan, Thomas Russell. Ms., 1849- ——. A novelist of Boston. Tom Sylvester; Roses of Shadow; Day and Night Stories; and several plays. Scr.
Sullivan, William. Me., 1774-1839. Son of J. Sullivan, supra. A lawyer of Boston. Familiar Letters on Public Men of the Revolution; Historical Causes and Effects; Sea Life.
Sullivant, William Starling. O., 1803-1873. A botanist of Ohio. Musci Alleghanienses; Musci Cubenses; Icones Muscorum; Musci and Hepaticæ of the United States East of the Mississippi.
Sully, Thomas. E., 1783-1872. A distinguished portrait painter of Philadelphia. Hints to Young Painters.
Summerfield, John. E., 1798-1825. A Methodist clergyman, renowned for eloquence in his day. His Sermons and Sketches of Sermons were posthumously published. See Lives by Holland, 1829, Willett, 1857. Har.
Summers, Thomas Osmond. E., 1812-1882. A Methodist clergyman of Nashville. Commentary on the Gospels, Acts, and Ritual of the Methodist Church South; Treatise on Baptism; On Holiness; Talks Pleasant and Profitable, include his principal writings. See Life of, by Fitzgerald, 1884.
Sumner, Charles. Ms., 1811-1874. Son of C. P. Sumner, infra. A distinguished Massachusetts statesman who succeeded Daniel Webster in 1851 in the Senate of the United States. He was a fearless opponent of slavery, and, in consequence of this attitude of his, was assaulted in the Senate Chamber by Preston Brooks, of South Carolina, in 1856, and severely injured. The True Grandeur of Nations; Prophetic Voices Concerning America. His Complete Works, including his many orations and speeches, have been issued in fifteen volumes. See Lives by Pierce, Storey. Le.
Sumner, Charles Allen. Ms., 1835- ——. A stenographer of San Francisco. Shorthand and Reporting; Golden Gate Sketches; Travel in Southern Europe; Poems (with R. Sumner).
Sumner, Charles Pinckney. Ms., 1766-1839. A lawyer of Boston, high sheriff of Suffolk County from 1825 till his death. Eulogy on Washington; The Compass (verse); Letters on Speculative Masonry.
Sumner, George. Ct., 1793-1855. A Hartford physician, professor of botany at Trinity College, 1824-55. Compendium of Physiological and Systematic Botany.
Sumner, William Graham. N. J., 1840- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, prominent as a political economist, professor of political and social science at Yale University from 1872. A History of American Currency; What Social Classes Owe to Each Other; Problems in Political Economy; Collected Essays in Political and Social Science; Protectionism; Lives of Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris; The Financier and the Finances of the Revolution, a more extended life of Robert Morris. Do. Har. Ho. Hou.
Sunderland, Jabez Thomas. E., 1842- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, editor of The Unitarian from 1880. A Rational Faith; What is the Bible?; The Liberal Christian Ministry; Home Travel in Bible Lands; The Bible: its Origin and Place among the Sacred Books of the World; Orthodoxy and Revivalism. El. Put.
Sunderland, La Roy. R. I., 1802-1885. A writer who in early life was a zealous Methodist preacher, and after 1845 an equally zealous opponent of Christianity, slavery, Spiritualism, and Mormonism. Among his writings are, History of South America; Book of Human Nature; Book of Psychology; The Trance, and How Introduced; Anti-Slavery Manual; Mormonism Exposed.
Suplée [su-play´], Thomas Danly. Pa., 1848- ——. An educator of New Jersey. Frank Muller, or Labor and its Fruits; Pebbles from the Fountain of Castalia; Poems; Plain Talks; Riverside, a romance; Civil Government under the United States Constitution.
Suydam, John Howard. N. Y., 1832- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Jersey City from 1869. The Cruger Family; Cruel Jim; The Wreckmaster.
Swain, David Lowry. N. C., 1801-1868. A governor of North Carolina, 1832-35, who wrote a Revolutionary History of North Carolina.
Swain, James Barrett. N. Y., 1820-1895. A journalist of New York city, post-office inspector, 1881-85. Life and Speeches of Henry Clay; Historical Notes to Speeches of Henry Clay; A Military History of New York State.
Swan, James. S., 1754-1831. A soldier in the American army during the Revolution, afterwards adjutant-general of Massachusetts. The last fifteen years of his life were passed in a debtors’ prison in Paris. Dissuasion to Great Britain and the Colonies from the Slave Trade to Africa (1772); Causes qui sont opposées au Progrès du commerce entre la France et les États-Unis de l’Amérique (1790); On the Fisheries; Fisheries of Massachusetts; National Arithmetick; Address on Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce.
Swan, Josiah Rockwell. N. Y., 1802-1884. A prominent jurist of Columbus, Ohio. Treatise on Justices of the Peace and Constables in Ohio; Manual for Executors and Administrators; Pleading and Practice; Commentaries on Pleadings under the Ohio Code, constitute his principal writings.
Swan, William Draper. Ms., 1809-1864. An educator and bookseller of Boston. He published a popular series of school readers, and (with R. Swan and D. Leach) a series of widely used arithmetics.
Swank, James Moore. Pa., 1832- ——. The general manager of the American Iron and Steel Association since 1885. History of the Department of Agriculture; Iron Making and Coal Mining in Pennsylvania; Iron Manufacture in All Ages.
Swartz, Joel. Va., 1827- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Gettysburg from 1881. Dreamings of the Waking, with Other Poems; Lyra Lutherana.
Sweat, Mrs. Margaret Jane [Muzzey]. Me., 1823- ——. Ethel’s Love Life; Highways of Travel, or a Summer in Europe.
Sweet, Alexander Edwin. N. B., 1841-1901. A Texas journalist who served in the Confederate army. Three Dozen Good Stories from Texas Siftings.
Sweet, Homer De Lois. N. Y., 1826- ——. A civil engineer of Syracuse. The Averys of Groton, a genealogy; Twilight Hours in the Adirondacks.
Sweetser, Charles Humphreys. Ms., 1841-1871. A journalist of New York city and subsequently of Chicago. Songs of Amherst; History of Amherst College; Tourist’s and Invalid’s Guide to the Northwest.
Sweetser, Moses Foster. Ms., 1848-1897. A Boston writer who has published Europe for Two Dollars a Day; Artist Biographies; Summer Days Down East; guide-books to New England, the Middle States, the White Mountains, and the Maritime Provinces; In Distance and in Dream, a story. Hou. Kt.
Sweetser, William. Ms., 1797-1875. A physician who was professor of medicine at Bowdoin College, 1845-61. Treatise on Consumption; Digestion and its Disorders; Mental Hygiene; Human Life.
Swenson, Carl Aaron. Pa., 1857-1904. A Lutheran clergyman, founder and president of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, editor of several Swedish journals, and author of Sondagsskolboken; Minnen från Kyrkan; Vid Hemmets Härd.
Swett, John Appleton. Ms., 1808-1854. A physician of New York city. Diseases of the Chest. Ap.
Swett, Josiah. N. H., 1814-1890. An Episcopal clergyman long prominent in Vermont. English Grammar; Pastoral Visiting; Family Prayer; The Firmament in the Midst of the Waters.
Swett, Samuel. Ms., 1782-1866. A once prominent citizen of Boston who during the War of 1812 served in the American army as a topographical engineer. History and Topographical Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle; Who was Commander at Bunker Hill?; Sketches of Distinguished Men of Newbury and Newburyport.
Swett, Sophia Miriam. Me., 186- - ——. A writer of short stories and juvenile books, now (1897) living at Arlington, Massachusetts. Pennyroyal and Mint; The Lollipops’ Vacation; Captain Polly; Flying Hill Farm; The Mate of the Mary Ann; Cap’n Thistletop; The Ponkaty Branch Road. Est. Har. Lo. We.
Swett, Susan Hartley. Me., 186- - ——. Sister of S. M. Swett, supra. A writer of Arlington, Massachusetts. Field Clover and Beach Grass, a volume of short stories. Est.
Swett, William. N. H., 1825-1884. A deaf-mute who founded the Deaf-Mute Industrial School at Beverly, Massachusetts. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, in the White Mountains.
Swift, John Lindsay. Ms., 1828-1895. A Boston lawyer and journalist, deputy collector of the port of Boston from 1890. About Grant. Le.
Swift, Zephaniah. Ms., 1759-1823. A noted Connecticut jurist. System of the Laws of Connecticut; Digest of the Laws of Evidence; Digest of the Laws of Connecticut, a standard authority.
Swinburne, Louis Judson. N. Y., 1855-1887. A Colorado writer who was in Paris during the siege in 1871, and published a volume of observations on the subject entitled Paris Sketches.
Swing, David. O., 1830-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, tried for heresy in 1874, and acquitted, subsequently pastor of the Central Church there until his death. Sermons; Club Essays; Truths for To-day; Motives of Life; Old Pictures of Life, a collection of essays. Mg. St.
Swinton, John. S., 1829-1901. Brother of W. Swinton, infra. A journalist of New York city whose principal work is John Swinton’s Travels.
Swinton, William. S., 1833-1892. A journalist and educator, long prominent in New York city. Rambles Among Words; Twelve Decisive Battles of the War; Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; The “Times’s” Review of McClellan; History of the New York Seventh Regiment; Word Analysis; Bible Word Book; Studies in English Literature. Har. Scr.
Swisher, Mrs. Bella [French]. Ga., 1837-1894. A writer who resided in Texas from 1877. Struggling up to the Light, a novel; Rocks and Shoals; Florecita, a romance; History of Brown County, Wisconsin; Cassie; Homeless Though at Home; The Story of a Woman’s Love.
Swisshelm, Mrs. Jane Gray [Cannon]. Pa., 1815-1884. A journalist of Pittsburg, and subsequently of St. Cloud, Minnesota, prominent as an abolitionist. Letters to Country Girls; Half a Century, an autobiography. See Hart’s American Literature. Mg.
Sylvester, Herbert Milton. Ms., 1849- ——. A Boston lawyer who has published two volumes of sympathetic nature studies. Prose Pastorals; Homestead Highways. Hou.
Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. N. Y., 1825-1894. A lawyer of Troy, New York. Historical Sketches of Northern New York; History of the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts; Indian Legends of Saratoga; Historical Narratives of the Upper Hudson; Histories of Saratoga, Rensselaer, and Ulster Counties, New York.
Symmes, John Cleves. N. J., 1780-1829. A soldier of Newport, Kentucky. He was the author of The Theory of Concentric Spheres, an attempt to prove that the earth is hollow, open at the poles, and habitable in the interior. See Harper’s Magazine, October, 1882; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1873; McBride’s Pioneer Biography.
Sypher, Josiah Rinehart. Pa., 1832- ——. A journalist and lawyer of Philadelphia, war correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1862-65. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; School History of Pennsylvania; The Art of Teaching School; School History of New Jersey (with E. A. Apgar). Lip.
Szabad, Emeric. Hy., c. 1822- ——. A soldier under Garibaldi who came to America in 1861, and served in the Federal army. Hungary Past and Present; State Policy of Modern Europe; Modern War: its Theory and Practice.
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Tabb, John Banister. Md., 1845- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, professor of English literature in St. Charles’s College, Ellicott City, Maryland. His verse has received much well merited praise. Poems; Lyrics; An Octave to Mary. Cop.
Tafel, Johann Friedrich Leonhard. Wg., 1800- ——. A German educator who removed to the United States in 1853, and lived in St. Louis. Staat und Christenthum; Der Christ und der Atheist; A German-English and English-German Pocket Dictionary (with his son Ludwig Tafel).
Tafel, Rudolph Leonhard. Wg., 1831- ——. Son of J. F. L. Tafel, supra. Formerly an educator of St. Louis, but since 1868 a Swedenborgian minister in London, England. Emanuel Swedenborg as Philosopher and Man; Our Heavenward Journey; Authority in the New Church; The Preaching Gift; Investigation as to the Laws of English Pronunciation and Prosody.
Talbot, Charles Remington. 1851-1891. A writer of juvenile books who was an Episcopal clergyman at Wrentham, Massachusetts. Honor Bright; Miltiades Peterkin Paul; Royal Louise; Romulus and Remus, a dog story; A Midshipman at Large; The Impostor; A Romance of the Revolution. Lo.
Talbot, Henry Paul. Ms., 1864- ——. An associate professor of analytical chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis. Mac.
Talmage [tăl-mĭj or tăm-ĭj], Thomas De Witt. N. J., 1832-1902. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, 1869-1894, and subsequently of New York, widely known as a preacher. Though he was a prolific writer, the literary worth of his books is very slight. Crumbs Swept Up; Sermons; From Manger to Throne; Sports that Kill; Social Dynamite; The Pathway of Life; The Marriage Ring; Old Wells Dug Out; Every-Day Religion; Sundown; Fishing Too Near Shore, include his principal works. Fu.
Talvi. See Robinson, Mrs. Thérèse.
Tannehill, Wilkins. Pa., 1787-1858. A journalist of Nashville. Freemasons’ Manual; Sketches of the History of Literature; Sketches of the History of Roman Literature.
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker. Pa., 1835- ——. A bishop of the African Methodist Church. Paul vs. Pius Ninth; The Negro’s Origin, and Is the Negro Cursed?; Outline of the History and Government of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Tanner, Henry S——. N. Y., 1786-1858. A geographer of Philadelphia. Memoir on the Recent Surveys in the United States (1830); View of the Valley of the Mississippi; American Traveller; Central Traveller; New Picture of Philadelphia; Description of Canals and Railways in the United States (1840).
Tappan, David. Ms., 1752-1803. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1774-92, and Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1792 until his death. Sermons on Important Subjects; Lectures on Jewish Antiquities. See Memoir by Abiel Holmes, supra.
Tappan, Eli Todd. O., 1824-1888. A professor of mathematics at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1875-87, and afterwards Ohio commissioner of common schools. Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements of Geometry; Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry.
Tappan, Henry Philip. N. Y., 1805-1881. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of philosophy in the University of the City of New York, chancellor of the University of Michigan, 1852-1863. Elements of Logic; Treatise on Universal Education; Review of Edwards’s “Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will;” The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Determined by an Appeal to Consciousness; The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Applied to Moral Agency; A Step from the Old World to the New and Back Again; Introductions to Illustrious Personages of the Nineteenth Century.
Tappan, Lewis. Ms., 1788-1873. A merchant of New York city, proprietor of The Journal of Commerce, and active as an abolitionist. Life of Arthur Tappan, by his brother, a valuable contribution to anti-slavery literature.
Tappan, William Bingham. Ms., 1794-1849. A verse-writer and educator of Philadelphia and Boston. Poetry of the Heart; Poetry of Life; New England, and Other Poems; Songs of Judah; Lyrics; Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems; The Sunday School, and Other Poems; Early and Late Poems. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Tarbell, Frank Bigelow. Ms., 1853- ——. A professor of Greek in the University of Chicago from 1892. A History of Greek Art; The Philippics of Demosthenes, with Introduction and Notes. Fl. Gi.
Tarbell, Ida Minerva. Pa., 1857- ——. Madame Roland; Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. M. Davis). Scr.
Tarbell, John Adams. Ms., 1810-1864. A homœopathic physician of Boston. Sources of Health; Homœopathy Simplified.
Tarbox, Increase Niles. Ct., 1815-1888. A Congregational clergyman who was secretary of the American College and Education Society, 1851-84. Winnie and Walter Stories; When I was a Boy; Nineveh, or the Buried City; Uncle George’s Stories; Journeys and Labors of St. Paul; Life of General Israel Putnam; Sir Walter Raleigh and His Colony in America; Songs and Hymns for Common Life. Lo.
Tarr, Ralph Stockman. Ms., 1864- ——. A geologist, assistant professor of geology at Cornell University, 1892-1897, professor of dynamic geology and physical geography there from 1897. Elementary Geology; Economic Geology of the United States; Elementary Physical Geography. Mac.
Tatham, William. E., 1752-1819. An engineer and lawyer of Virginia who served in the American army during the Revolution. An Analysis of the State of Virginia; Remarks on Inland Canals; National Irrigation.
Taussig [tŏw´sig], Frank William. Mo., 1859- ——. A professor of political economy at Harvard University. Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States; The History of the Present Tariff, 1860-83; The Tariff History of the United States; The Silver Situation in the United States (1892); Wages and Capital. Ap. Put.
Taylor, Alfred. Pa., 1831-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Peeps at Our Sunday-Schools; Sunday-School Photographs; Hints about Sunday-School Work. Meth.
Taylor, Bayard. See Taylor, [James] Bayard.
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin. N. Y., 1819-1887. A popular verse-writer of Chicago whose work is always pleasing, though it never reaches a very high plane of inspiration. Songs of Yesterday; Old Time Pictures, and Sheaves of Rhyme; Dulce Domum; Between the Gates; Summer Savory; The River of Time; Pictures of Life in Camp and Field; Complete Poems (1887); Theophilus Trent, a novel. Ap. Sc.
Taylor, Charles. Ms., 1819- ——. A Methodist clergyman who was a missionary to China, 1848-54. Five Years in China; Baptism in a Nutshell.
Taylor, Charles Fayette. Vt., 1827-1899. A surgeon of New York city. Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure; Spinal Irritation; Sensation and Pain; Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature of the Spine; Treatment of Disease of the Hip Joint; Infantile Paralysis. Lip.
Taylor, Fitch Waterman. Ct., 1803-1865. An Episcopal chaplain in the United States navy. The Flag Ship, or a Voyage Around the World; The Broad Pennant, a work of similar nature.
Taylor, George Boardman. Va., 1832- ——. A Baptist missionary in Rome since 1873. Oakland Stories; Costar Grew; Roger Bemant, the Pastor’s Son; Walter Ennis, a tale of the Early Virginia Baptists; Life of J. B. Taylor, infra. Bap.
Taylor, George Henry. Vt., 1821- ——. Brother of C. F. Taylor, supra. A physician of New York city, among whose writings are, Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure; Health for Women; Massage; Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics.
Taylor, George Lansing. N. Y., 1835-1903. A Methodist clergyman of eastern New York. Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad Epic; Grant: an Elegy, and Other Poems; What Shall we Do with the Sunday-School?; The New Africa. Fu. Meth.
Taylor, Hannis. N. C., 1851- ——. A lawyer of Mobile, minister to Spain, 1893-97. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. Hou.
Taylor, Henry Osborn. N. Y., 1856- ——. A legal writer of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations, a standard work much used as a text-book in law schools; Ancient Ideals. Put.
Taylor, Hobart Chatfield. See Chatfield-Taylor.
Taylor, James Barnett. E., 1819-1871. A Baptist missionary in Virginia. Life of Lot Cary; Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers. See Life, by G. B. Taylor, supra. Bap.
Taylor, [James] Bayard [bi´ard]. Pa., 1825-1878. An author well known as poet, novelist, translator, and traveller. It was as a poet that he most desired to be remembered, but except in a few instances his verse does not reach a very lofty level of attainment, and, while often excellent in quality, lacks usually the element of spontaneity. His volumes of verse comprise, Ximena, and Other Poems; Rhymes of Travel; Poems and Ballads; Poems of Home and Travel; Poems of the Orient, his most original work; The Picture of St. John; The Poet’s Journal; Lars; The Masque of the Gods; Home Pastorals; Prince Deukalion; The Prophet, a tragedy; Centennial Ode. In fiction he published, Beauty and the Beast; Hannah Thurston; The Story of Kennett; John Godfrey’s Fortune; Joseph and his Friend. His travels include, Views Afoot; Eldorado; Byways of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt and Iceland; Greece and Russia; At Home and Abroad; India, China, and Japan; The Lands of the Saracen; Colorado. The translation of Faust is his greatest work, and the one on which his fame will most securely rest. Other works of his are, School History of Germany; Literary Essays and Notes; Studies in German Literature; The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions. See Catholic World, April, 1879; Lippincott’s Magazine, August, 1879; Stedman’s Poets of America; Life and Letters of, by Marie Hansen-Taylor and H. E. Scudder; Life by Smyth; Allibone’s Dictionary. Ap. Hou. My. Put.
Taylor, James Monroe. N. Y., 1848- ——. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Vassar College from 1886. Psychology.
Taylor, James Wickes. N. Y., 1819-1893. A United States consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 1870. The Victim of Intrigue, a Tale of Burr’s Conspiracy; History of Ohio, First Period: 1620-1787; Manual of Ohio School System; Forest and Fruit Culture in Manitoba; Mineral Resources of the United States (with Browne).
Taylor, John. Va., 1750-1824. A politician of prominence in his day as a senator from Virginia. Inquiry into the Principles and Polity of the United States Government; Agricultural Essays; Construction Construed; Tyranny Unmasked; New Views of the United States Constitution.
Taylor, John Louis. E., 1769-1829. A former chief justice of North Carolina, 1810-29. Superior Court Cases in Law and Equity; The North Carolina Law Repository; Term Reports; Duties of Executors and Administrators.
Taylor, John Neilson. N. J., 1805-1878. A lawyer of Brooklyn. American Law of Landlord and Tenant; The Law of Executors and Administrators in New York State. Lit.
Taylor, John Orville. N. Y., 1807-1890. An educational writer and reformer long prominent in New York State, and after 1879 a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The District School, or Popular Education.
Taylor, Marshall William. Ky., 1846-1887. A Methodist clergyman of African descent in Kentucky. Handbook for Schools; The Negro in Methodism.
Taylor, Nathaniel William. Ct., 1786-1858. A Congregational clergyman prominent in his day as the exponent of the New Haven type of theology, who was Dwight professor at Yale University, 1822-38. Practical Sermons; Moral Government of God; Essays, etc., upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology.
Taylor, Oliver Alden. Ms., 1801-1851. A Congregational clergyman of Manchester, Massachusetts. Brief Views of the Saviour; Life of Jesus. See Memoir by A. A. Taylor.
Taylor, Richard. La., 1826-1879. A son of President Taylor, and a Confederate officer. Destruction and Reconstruction. Ap.
Taylor, Richard Cowling. E., 1789-1851. An English geologist who came to America in 1830, among whose publications are, Geology and Natural History of the Northeast Extremity of the Alleghany Mountains; History and Description of Fossil Fuel; Statistics of Coal. Bai.
Taylor, Rufus. Ms., 1811-1894. Brother of O. A. Taylor, supra. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts, whose home was at Beverly, New Jersey, after 1878. Union to Christ; Love to God; Thoughts on Prayer; Cottage Piety Exemplified. Lip.
Taylor, Samuel Harvey. N. H., 1807-1871. An educator long prominent in Massachusetts, principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, 1837-71. Method of Classical Study. See Memorial compiled by his last class.
Taylor, Thomas House. S. C., 1799-1869. An Episcopal clergyman, prominent in New York city as the rector of Grace Church, 1834-67, and active as a Low Church controversialist. Sermons Preached in Grace Church.
Taylor, Walter Herron. Va., 1838- ——. A Confederate officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a banker in Norfolk. The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic; Four Years with General Lee. Ap.
Taylor, William. Va., 1821-1902. A noted Methodist missionary and evangelist, appointed bishop in Africa in 1884, among whose writings are, California Life Illustrated; Seven Years’ Street Preaching in San Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary Work; The Model Preacher; Reconciliation; The Election of Grace; Christian Adventures in South Africa; Our South American Cousins.
Taylor, William Mackergo. S., 1829-1895. A Presbyterian clergyman of eminence. He came from Scotland to New York city in 1871, and was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, 1871-1893. Contrary Winds; The Limitations of Life; The Lost Found; The Gospel Miracles; Prayer and Business; Life Truths; John Knox; Joseph the Prime Minister; Ruth the Gleaner and Esther the Queen; David, King of Israel; Elijah the Prophet; Peter the Apostle; Daniel the Beloved; Moses the Law-Giver; Paul the Missionary; The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation, comprise his most important works. Har. Ran. Scr.
Tefft, Benjamin Franklin. N. Y., 1813-1885. A Methodist clergyman of Maine. The Shoulder-Knot, a Story of the 17th Century; Memorials of Prison Life; Methodism Successful; Our Political Parties; Evolution and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; Life of Daniel Webster. Co. Le.
Tennent, Gilbert. I., 1703-1764. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, active in his day as a controversialist. XXIII Sermons; Discourses on Several Subjects; Sermons on Important Subjects.
Tenney, Edward Payson. 1835- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Cambridge, at one time President of Colorado College. Agamenticus; Constance of Acadia, a novel. Le. Rob.
Tenney, Sanborn. N. H., 1827-1877. A naturalist who was professor of natural history at Williams College from 1868. Elements of Zoölogy; Manual of Zoölogy; Geology for Teachers.
Tenney, Mrs. Sarah [Brownson]. Ms., 1839-1876. Wife of W. J. Tenney, infra, and daughter of O. Brownson, supra. Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live; At Anchor; Life of Demetrius Gallitzin, Prince and Priest.
Tenney, Mrs. Tabitha [Gilman]. N. H., 1762-1837. The wife of a noted physician of Exeter, New Hampshire. She wrote Female Quixotism, an amusing satirical novel, which was long popular.
Tenney, William Jewett. R. I., 1814-1883. A writer who lived at Elizabeth, New Jersey, for many years. He edited Appletons’ Annual Cyclopedia, 1861-82, and wrote a Military and Naval History of the Rebellion.
Terhune, Albert Payson. N. J., 1868- ——. Son of Mrs. Terhune, infra. A journalist and author of New York city. Syria from the Saddle, a volume of travels; Columbia Stories, a collection of sketches; The Great Cedarhurst Mystery. Sil.
Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia [Hawes]. “Marion Harland.” Va., 1835- ——. A popular novelist, lecturer, and writer on domestic topics, the wife of a Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York city. Her work in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; Beechdale; Judith; The Hidden Path; Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen Gardner’s Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With the Best Intentions; True as Steel; Sunnybank; From My Youth Up; My Little Love; A Gallant Fight; The Royal Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s Sister; Marion. Other works of hers are, Eve’s Daughters; Common Sense in the Household, a widely known manual of housewifery; Common Sense in the Nursery; The Cottage Kitchen; The Dinner Year-Book; Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea; The Story of Mary Washington; Loitering in Pleasant Paths. Cas. Do. Hou. Scr.
Terry, Adrian Russell. Ct., 1808-1864. A physician and educator who was for some years professor in Bristol College, Pennsylvania, and author of Travels in the Equatorial Regions of South America in 1832.
Terry, John Orville. L. I., 1796-1869. A rural versifier of Orient, Long Island, who published The Poems of J. O. T., consisting of Song, Satire, and Pastoral Descriptions.
Terry, Milton Spenser. N. Y., 1840- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator, since 1884 a professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illinois. Commentary on Judges, Ruth, and Samuel; Commentary on Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah; Commentary on Genesis and Exodus; Biblical Hermeneutics; Sibylline Oracles (from the Greek); The Song of Songs; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Rambles in the Old World. Meth.
Teuffel, Mrs. Blanche Willis [Howard] von. Me., 1847-1898. A novelist who resided in Stuttgart, Germany, from 1875. One Summer; Aulnay Tower; Aunt Serena; Guenn; The Open Door; No Heroes, a Story for Boys; A Fellowe and His Wife (with William Sharp); Seven on the Highway, short stories; One Year Abroad: European Travel Sketches. Hou.
Thacher, James. Ms., 1754-1844. A physician of Plymouth, Massachusetts, prominent in his youth as a military surgeon in the battles of the American Revolution. American Medical Biography; History of Plymouth; Essay on Demonology; American New Dispensatory; Observations on Hydrophobia; A Military Journal during the American Revolution, a work of great value; The Management of Bees; American Orchardist; Observations Relating to the Execution of Major André.
Thacher, John Boyd. N. Y., 1847- ——. A critical scholar and bibliographer of Albany, mayor of that city in 1897. Charlecote, a drama; The Continent of America, its Discovery and its Baptism; Little Speeches. Do.
Thacher, Mary Potter. See Higginson, Mrs. Mary.
Thacher, Samuel Cooper. Ms., 1785-1818. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New South Church, 1811-15. An Apology for Rational and Evangelical Christianity; The Unity of God; Sermons; Evidences Necessary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity.
Thacher, Thomas. E., 1620-1678. A Puritan clergyman, pastor and physician at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1644-66, and pastor of the Old South Church in Boston from 1666. He published, in 1677, A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New England How to Order Themselves and Theirs in the Small Pocks or Measels, supposed to be the first medical work published in New England. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Thanet, Octave. See French, Alice.
Tharin, Robert Seymour Symmes. Al., 1830- ——. A lawyer of Alabama who was prominent as a Unionist during the Civil War, and has since been employed in the auditor’s office in Washington. Arbitrary Arrests in the South; Letters on the Political Situation.
Thatcher, Benjamin Bussey. Me., 1809-1840. A Boston lawyer and littérateur. Indian Biography; Indian Traits; Traits of the Boston Tea Party; Tales of the American Revolution; Memoir of Phillis Wheatley. Har.
Thatcher, Oliver Joseph. O., 185- - ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, assistant professor of mediæval and English history in the University of Chicago from 1893. A Sketch of the History of the Apostolic Church; Europe in the Middle Age (with F. Schwill); A Short History of Mediæval Europe. Hou. Scr.
Thaxter, Adam Wallace. Ms., 1832-1864. A dramatist of Boston among whose plays are, The Sculptor; Olympia; Mary Tudor; The Painter of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto Nymph.
Thaxter, Mrs. Celia [Laighton]. N. H., 1835-1894. A poet whose childhood and much of whose later life was spent in the Isles of Shoals. Her verse is distinctly original and is largely the poetry of the shore, such poems as The Sandpiper; Courage; Kittery Church-Yard; The Spaniards’ Graves; The Watch of Boon Island, being characteristic of her work in verse. Her volumes of verse comprise, Drift-Weed; The Cruise of the Mystery; Idyls and Pastorals; Verses; Poems for Children; Poems, Appledore Edition (1896). She wrote, also, An Island Garden; Among the Isles of Shoals. See Letters of; Appletons’ Annual Cyclopedia, 1894. Hou. Lo.
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock. Ms., 1817-1897. A writer whose later life was spent abroad, and who was consul at Trieste, 1859-82. His most important work, a Life of Beethoven, the third volume of which was published in Berlin in 1887, has not been printed in English. It was unfinished in 1897. The Hebrews and the Red Sea; Signor Masoni, and Other Papers of the late J. Brown.
Thayer, Eli. Ms., 1819-1899. An educator of Worcester, Massachusetts, very prominent in the history of the settlement of Kansas. A History of the Kansas Crusade: its Friends and its Foes. Har.
Thayer, Mrs. Emma [Homan] [Graves]. N. Y., 1842- ——. A writer and artist of Salida, Colorado. Wild Flowers of Colorado; Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast; An English American, a novel.
Thayer, James Bradley. Ms., 1831-1902. A professor in the Harvard Law School at Cambridge. A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson; Cases on Constitutional Law; A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law.
Thayer, Joseph Henry. Ms., 1828-1901. A Congregational clergyman, professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation in the Divinity School of Harvard University from 1884. Books and Their Use; The Change of Attitude Toward the Bible; A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Har. Hou.
Thayer, Martin Russell. Va., 1819- ——. A jurist of Philadelphia. The Duties of Citizenship; The Great Victory: its Cost and Value; The Law as a Progressive Science; On Libraries; Life and Works of Francis Lieber; The Battle of Germantown.
Thayer, Stephen Henry. N. H., 1839- ——. A banker of New York city living at Tarrytown, New York, who has published Songs of Sleepy Hollow.
Thayer, Sylvanus. Ms., 1785-1872. Cousin of M. R. Thayer, supra. A military engineer of distinction, superintendent of West Point Academy, 1817-1833, and from 1836-68 in charge of the military defences of Boston. Papers on Practical Engineering.
Thayer, Thomas Baldwin. Ms., 1812-1882. A Universalist clergyman of Lowell. Over the River; Christianity vs. Infidelity; Historical Doctrine of Endless Punishment; Bible Class Assistant; Theology of Universalism.
Thayer, William Makepeace. Ms., 1820-1898. A Congregational clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Franklin, Massachusetts, devoted himself to authorship. His books, which have been extraordinarily popular, are mainly intended for juvenile reading. Among them are, Youths’ History of the Rebellion; The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer Boy; The Printer Boy; The Poor Boy and the Merchant Prince; Turning Points in Successful Careers; Marvels of the New West; The White House Series; Aim High: Hints for Young Men; Life of Garfield; Men Who Win; Women Who Win. Cr. Wh.
Thayer, William Roscoe. Ms., 1859- ——. Formerly an instructor at Harvard University. His writings in verse include, The Confessions of Hermes; Hesper; Poems, New and Old. He has published, also, The Dawn of Italian Independence; The Best Elizabethan Plays. Gi. Hou.
Thébaud [tay-bo´], Augustine J——. F., 1807-1885. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New York city. The Irish Race in the Past and Present; Louisa Kirkbride, a tale of New York; The Church and the Moral World; The Twit-Twats, a bird allegory.
Theller, Edward Alexander. Q., c. 1810-1859. A Canadian physician who, for his activity in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, was imprisoned and sentenced to death. He escaped to the United States, and was subsequently a journalist in California and superintendent of schools in San Francisco. Canada in 1837-38.
Thieblin, Nicolas Leon. Iy., 1834-1889. A journalist of London, and, after 1874, of New York city. He was Spanish correspondent of The Herald in the Carlist war. A Little Book About Great Britain; Spain and the Spaniards. Le.
Thoburn, James Mills. O., 1836- ——. A Methodist missionary, bishop in India and Malaysia since 1888. Missionary Addresses; My Missionary Apprenticeship in New York; India and Malaysia; Light in the East; The Deaconess and Her Vocation; Christless Nations. Meth.
Thomas, Abel Charles. Pa., 1807-1880. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, and for a short time in Lowell, where he established the Lowell Offering, a periodical written by the factory operatives. Allegories and Divers Day Dreams; Centenary of Universalism; Discussions on Universalism; The Christian Helper; Autobiography.
Thomas, Amos Russell. N. Y., 1826-1895. A Philadelphia physician, dean of Hahnemann Medical College. Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy.
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin. Ms., 1813-1878. Grandson of I. Thomas, infra. A jurist of Worcester, Massachusetts. Digest of Laws of Massachusetts in Relation to Powers, Duties, and Liabilities of Towns and Town Officers; Life of Isaiah Thomas, infra.
Thomas, Cyrus. Tn., 1825- ——. A noted ethnologist and entomologist in the government service. Actididæ of North America; Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illinois; Study of the Manuscript Troano; Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts; Aids to the Study of the Maya Chronicles; The Cherokees and Shawnees in Pre-Columbian Times; Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains; Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology. Clke.
Thomas, David. Pa., 1776-1859. A pomologist and engineer, once prominent in western New York. Travels in the West (1819).
Thomas, Ebenezer Smith. Ms., 1780-1844. Nephew of I. Thomas, infra. A Cincinnati journalist who published Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years (1840); Reminiscences of South Carolina.
Thomas, Mrs. Edith [Carpenter]. N. H., c. 1864-1901. A writer of Millville, New Jersey. Lorenzo di Medici: an Historical Portrait; Your Money or Your Life, a novel. Put. Scr.
Thomas, Edith Matilda. O., 1854- ——. A poet and prose-writer, formerly of Geneva, Ohio, but since 1888 of New York city and its vicinity. The best of her poems are marked by great refinement of expression as well as subtlety of thought. Beside a volume of prose papers, The Round Year, she has published in verse, A New Year’s Masque; A Winter Swallow, with Other Verse; Fair Shadow Land; Lyrics and Sonnets; The Inverted Torch; In Sunshine Land; In the Young World, the two last named being intended for juvenile reading. Hou. Scr.
Thomas, Frederick William. R. I., 1811-1864. Son of E. S. Thomas, supra. A journalist, novelist, and educator who was also a Methodist clergyman. The Emigrant, a Poem; The Beechen Tree, and Other Poems; Sketches of Character; Randolph of Roanoke. His novels include, Clinton Bradshaw; East and West; Howard Pinckney.
Thomas, Isaiah. Ms., 1749-1831. A noted printer of Worcester, Massachusetts, who was the founder of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester. He published The Massachusetts Spy till 1801; The New England Almanac; and wrote a valuable History of Printing. See Life of, by B. F. Thomas, supra.
Thomas, Jesse Burgess. Il., 1832- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Newton, Massachusetts, from 1887. The Old Bible and the New Science; The Mould of Doctrine; Significance of the Historical Element in Scripture.
Thomas, John Jacobs. N. Y., 1810-1895. Son of D. Thomas, supra. An agricultural writer of Albany, long on the editorial staff of The Country Gentleman. He edited Rural Affairs, and was author of The American Fruit Culturist; Farm Implements: their Construction and Use; Farm Implements and Farm Machinery. He was a much-esteemed authority in his department.
Thomas, Joseph. N. Y., 1811-1891. Son of D. Thomas, supra. An eminent lexicographer of Philadelphia. A Pronouncing Gazetteer and Dictionary of the World; Gazetteer of the United States; Medical Dictionary; Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology; First Book of Etymology; Travels in Egypt and Palestine. Lip.
Thomas, Lewis Foulke. Md., 1815-1868. Son of E. S. Thomas, supra. A lawyer and verse-writer of Washington. India, and Other Poems; Cortez the Conqueror, a drama; Osceola, a drama; Rhymes of the Routes.
Thomas, Martha McCannon. Md., 1825- ——. Daughter of E. S. Thomas, supra. Life’s Lessons, a Tale; Captain Phil, a story of the Civil War. Ho.
Thomas, Mary von Erden. S. C., 1825- ——. Daughter of E. S. Thomas, supra. A computer in the Coast Survey Office at Washington from 1854. Winning the Battle, a novel.
Thomas, Reuen. E., 1840- ——. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the Harvard Church at Brookline, Massachusetts, from 1875. Through Death to Life; Divine Sovereignty; Grafenburg People; Leaders of Thought in the Modern Church. Lo.
Thomas, Robert Baily. Ms., 1766-1846. Editor for fifty-three years of The Farmer’s Almanack, which he first published in 1793 and which is still issued yearly.
Thomas, Theodore Gaillard. S. C., 1832-1903. An eminent physician of New York city who published Diseases of Women; Abortion and its Treatment. Ap.
Thomes, William Henry. Me., 1824-1895. A journalist and traveller. Life in the East Indies; A Whaleman’s Adventures; A Slaver’s Adventures; Running the Blockade; The Belle of Australia; On Land and Sea; Lewey and I; Ocean Rovers.
Thompson, Alexander Ramsey. N. Y., 1822-1895. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city who published Christianity and Patriotism; Casting Down Imaginations, and was the author of many hymns.
Thompson, Augustus Charles. Ct., 1812-1901. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the Eliot Church at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1842. Lyra Cœlestis, or Hymns on Heaven; Christian’s Consolation; Songs in the Night; The Mercy Seat; Foreign Missions; Moravian Missions; Future Probation and Foreign Missions; Our Birthdays; Protestant Missions. Cr. Scr.
Thompson, Benjamin. See Rumford.
Thompson, Charles Lemuel. Pa., 1839- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Times of Refreshing: a History of American Revivals; Etchings in Verse. Ran.
Thompson, Charles Miner. Vt., 1864- ——. Grandson of D. P. Thompson, infra. A Boston writer on the editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. The Nimble Dollar, with Other Stories; Life of Ethan Allen. Hou.
Thompson, Daniel Greenleaf. Vt., 1850-1897. Son of D. P. Thompson, infra. A lawyer of New York city. First Book in Latin; A System of Psychology; The Problem of Evil; The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind; Social Progress; Philosophy of Fiction in Literature; Politics in a Democracy; Woman’s New Opportunity. Lgs.
Thompson, Daniel Pierce. Ms., 1795-1868. A lawyer of Montpelier, Vermont, whose semi-historical fictions, though somewhat artless in construction, are vigorously conceived narratives of early life in Vermont, and have been very popular. Gaut Gurley; May Martin; Green Mountain Boys; Locke Amsden; Lucy Hosmer; The Doomed Chief; The Rangers; Tales of the Green Mountains; Centeola, and Other Tales; History of Montpelier. Cr. Le.
Thompson, Hugh Miller. I., 1830-1902. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. Unity and its Restoration; Copy, a collection of essays; Sin and its Penalty; First Principles; The World and the Logos; The World and the Kingdom; The World and the Man; The World and the Wrestlers; Absolution. Wh.
Thompson, [James] Maurice. Ind., 1844-1901. A writer of Crawfordsville, Indiana, who was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, and State geologist of Indiana, 1885-89. His work in fiction includes, A Tallahassee Girl; His Second Campaign; At Love’s Extremes; A Fortnight of Folly; The Ocala Boy; King of Honey Island. Other works are, Hoosier Mosaics, a volume of sketches; The Witchery of Archery; Songs of Fair Weather; Byways and Bird Notes; Sylvan Secrets; The Story of Louisiana; Poems (1892); Lincoln’s Grave, a Poem. Hou. Lo. Scr. St.
Thompson, John Reuben. Va., 1823-1873. A journalist and lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, editor of The Southern Literary Messenger, 1847-59, and very popular in the South as a lyrist. See Manly’s Southern Literature.
Thompson, Joseph Parrish. Pa., 1819-1879. An eminent Congregational clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, 1845-71, and from 1872 a resident in Berlin, Germany. The Theology of Christ; Man in Genesis and Geology; Lectures to Young Men; Church and State in the United States; The United States as a Nation; Egypt Past and Present; The Workman: his False Friends and his True Friends; Life of Christ; American Comments on European Questions; Christianity and Emancipation; The Holy Comforter, include his principal works. Ran.
Thompson, Lewis O——. N., 1839-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman of Peoria, Illinois. The Presidents and their Administrations; Nothing Lost; How to Conduct Prayer Meetings; The Prayer Meeting and its Improvement; Nineteen Christian Centuries in Outline. Lo.
Thompson, Maurice. See Thompson, J. M.
Thompson, Mortimer. “Q. K. Philander Doesticks.” 1830-1875. A once popular humourous writer and lecturer. Doesticks: What he Says; Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah, a travesty of “Hiawatha;” The Witches of New York; Nothing to Say; History and Records of the Elephant Club.
Thompson, Richard Wigginton. Va., 1809-1900. An Indiana jurist who was secretary of the United States navy, 1877-81. The Papacy and the Civil Power; Footprints of the Jesuits; History of Protective Tariff Laws. Cr. Har. Meth.
Thompson, Robert Ellis. I., 1844- ——. A political economist of Philadelphia. He was editor of The Penn Monthly, 1870-80; professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1870-92; president of the Central High School from 1894. History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States; Elements of Political Economy; Social Science and National Economy; Hard Times and What to Learn from Them; Protection to Home Industry; De Civitate Dei. Ap. Bai. Gi. Wat.
Thompson, William Tappan. O., 1812-1882. A prominent journalist of Savannah, the rough, extravagant humour of whose studies of Georgia life was once popular. Major Jones’s Courtship; Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel; Major Jones’s Characters of Pineville; The Live Indian, a Farce; John’s Alive. See Manly’s Southern Literature. Ap.
Thompson, Seymour Dwight. Il., 1842-1904. A lawyer of Saint Louis. On the Liability of Stockholders in Corporations; Charging the Jury; The Law of Carriers of Passengers; The Law of Negligence in Relations not resting in Contract; Liabilities of Directors; Homesteads and Exemptions.
Thompson, Zadock. Vt., 1796-1856. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of natural history in the University of Vermont, and State geologist, 1845-48. History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical; Gazetteer of Vermont; Geography and Geology of Vermont; Guide to Lake George.
Thomson, Charles. I., 1729-1824. A writer of Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, who was secretary of the first Continental Congress. He published Inquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians; Synopsis of the Four Evangelists; a noted translation of the Bible, that of the Old Testament being the earliest English version of the Septuagint.
Thomson, Charles West. Pa., 1798-1879. An Episcopal clergyman at York, Pennsylvania, 1849-66, who wrote The Limner, in prose; and in verse, The Phantom Barge; The Sylph; Elinor; The Love of Home.
Thomson, Edward. E., 1810-1870. A Methodist clergyman, president of Ohio Wesleyan University, 1846-60. Evidences of Revealed Religion; Our Oriental Missions; Educational Essays; Moral and Religious Essays; Biographical Sketches; Letters from Europe; Letters from India. See Life of, by his son. Meth.
Thomson, Edward William. Ont., 1849- ——. A civil engineer of Boston who was for some years editor-in-chief of The Toronto Globe. Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories, a striking collection of short stories; Walter Gibbs, a book for boys; and the metrical portions of M. S. Henry’s version of Aucassin and Nicolette. Cop. Cr.
Thomson, James Bates. Vt., 1808-1883. An educator of Brooklyn who was a mathematician and conchologist. He published a School Algebra; Arithmetical Analysis, and a popular series of arithmetics.
Thomson, Samuel. N. H., 1769-1843. A physician of Boston who originated the Thomsonian school of medicine, so called. Materia Medica and Family Physician; New Guide to Health; Life and Medical Discoveries.
Thomson, Samuel Harrison. Ky., 1813-1882. Cousin of W. M. Thomson, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator. The Mosaic Account of the Creation; Geology an Interpreter of Scripture.
Thomson, William Hanna. Sa., 1833- ——. Son of W. M. Thomson, infra. A physician of New York city. The Great Argument, or Jesus Christ in the Old Testament; The Parables and Their Home; Materialism and Modern Physiology of the Nervous System. Har. Put.
Thomson, William McClure. O., 1806-1894. A Presbyterian missionary in Beyrout, 1833-76, widely known as author of The Land and the Book. He wrote also The Land of Promise. Har.
Thorburn, Grant. “Lawrie Todd.” S., 1773-1863. A Scottish nail-maker who came to America in 1794, and subsequently established himself in New York city as a seedsman. He was a noted figure in his day, not only as the hero of Galt’s novel, Lawrie Todd, but because of his eccentricities. Lawrie Todd’s Notes on Virginia; Fifty Years’ Reminiscences of New York; Men and Manners in Great Britain; Hints to Merchants, Married Men, and Bachelors; Forty Years’ Residence in America. See Autobiography.
Thoreau [thō´rō], Henry David. Ms., 1817-1862. A unique figure in literature, whose fame, circumscribed in his lifetime, has steadily widened since his death. He was all his life a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, devoting himself to the study of nature, and occasionally working at his trade of pencil-making, surveying, or lecturing, for his support. A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, and Walden were the only works by him which were published in his lifetime. Those since issued include, Excursions; Maine Woods; Cape Cod; A Yankee in Canada. Early Spring in Massachusetts; Summer; Autumn; Winter, are selections from Thoreau’s Journal edited by H. G. O. Blake. Still other works are, Miscellanies; Letters to Various Persons; Familiar Letters; Poems of Nature. See North American Review, October, 1865; Fraser’s Magazine, April, 1866; Memoir by Emerson in Thoreau’s Miscellanies; Thoreau: the Poet Naturalist, by W. E. Channing, 1873; Life and Aims of, by Page, 1877; Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition; Harvard Register, April, 1881; Life by Sanborn, 1882; Thoreau: a Glimpse, by S. H. Jones, 1890; Life by Salt, 1890; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896; Foley’s American Authors, 1897. Hou.
Thorne, P. See Smith, Mrs. Mary.
Thorne, William Henry. E., 18— - ——. An aggressive essayist and critic, editor of The Globe Review from 1889. He came to the United States from England in 1855, and after some years spent in the Presbyterian ministry became a Roman Catholic layman. Modern Idols: Studies in Biography and Criticism; Quintets, and Other Verses. Lip.
Thornton, Jessy Quinn. W. Va., 1810-1888. An Oregon jurist of note. Oregon and California in 1848; History of the Provisional Government of Oregon; The Gold Mines of California.
Thornton, John Wingate. Me., 1818-1878. A Boston lawyer of genealogical tastes. Colonial Schemes of Popham and Gorges; The Landing at Cape Anne; First Records of Anglo-American Civilization; The Pulpit of the American Revolution; Historical Relation of New England to the English Commonwealth, include his principal publications.
Thornton, William. W. I., 17— -1827. A physician and architect of Philadelphia who removed to Washington, where he drew the plans of the first Capitol building, and was at the head of the Patent Office, 1802-27. Cadmus, or the Elements of Written Language.
Thornton, William. E., 1846- ——. A physician of Boston. The Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of Man.
Thornwell, James Henley. S. C., 1812-1862. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in the theological seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, prominent alike for his rigid Calvinism and his extreme pro-slavery opinions. Arguments of Romanists Discussed and Refuted; Discourses on Truth; Rights and Duties of Masters; The State of the Country.
Thorpe, Francis Newton. Ms., 1857- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Government of the People of the United States; The Story of the Constitution. Meth.
Thorpe, Kamba. See Bellamy, Mrs.
Thorpe, Mrs. Rosa [Hartwick]. Ind., 1850- ——. A verse-writer chiefly known as the author of Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight. Temperance Poems; Ringing Ballads; and several juvenile prose works, including The Year’s Best Days; The Chester Girls; Fred’s Dark Days; The Fenton Family; Minna Bruce. Le.
Thorpe, Thomas Bangs. Ms., 1815-1878. An artist and author of New Orleans, 1836-53, and in later life of New York city. Niagara as It Is is his finest painting. His writings include, The Hive of the Bee Hunter; Tom Owen the Bee Hunter; Mysteries of the Backwoods; Our Army of the Rio Grande; Our Army at Monterey; A Voice to America; Scenes in Arkansas; Lynde Weirs, an Autobiography.
Throop, Montgomery Hunt. N. Y., 1827-1892. A lawyer of New York city. The Future: a Political Essay; Validity of Verbal Agreements; Annotated Code of Civil Procedure; The New York Justices’ Manual; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decisions; Revised Statutes of the State of New York.
Thurber, Charles Herbert. N. Y., 1864- ——. An educator of Chicago, a professor in the University of Chicago from 1895. In and Out of Ithaca; The Higher Schools of Prussia.
Thurber, George. R. I., 1821-1890. A botanist who edited The American Agriculturist, 1863-90. He published American Weeds and Useful Plants, a revision of Darlington’s Agricultural Botany.
Thurston, Robert Henry. R. I., 1839-1903. An eminent mechanical engineer and inventor, professor in Stevens Technological Institute at Hoboken, 1871-85, and director of Sibley College, Cornell University, from 1885. Friction and Lubrication; Manual of the Steam Engine; Manual of Steam Boilers; Engine and Boiler Trials; History of the Growth of the Steam Engine; Materials of Engineering; Friction and Lost Work; Steam-Boiler Explosions in Theory and Practice; Heat as a Form of Energy; Robert Fulton, his Life and its Results, include his most important works. Ap. Do. Hou. Wil.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Ms., 1853- ——. An historical writer in Wisconsin, and secretary of the State Historical Society. Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers; The Story of Wisconsin; Our Cycling Tour in England; The Colonies, 1492-1750. He is also the editor of the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. See Bibliography of Wisconsin. Bur. Le. Lgs. Mg.
Thwing [twing], Charles Franklin. Me., 1853- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Minneapolis from 1886. American Colleges; The Reading of Books; The Working Church; The Family: an Historical and Social Study (with Mrs. Thwing); The College Woman. Le. Put.
Thwing, Edward Payson. Mo., 1830-1893. A Congregational clergyman and professor of vocal culture. The Preacher’s Cabinet; Out-Door Life in Europe; Windows of Character; The King in His Beauty; Ex-Oriente; Drill Book in Vocal Culture. Fu.
Ticknor, Caleb B——. Ct., 1805-1840. A homœopathic physician of New York city. Medical Philosophy; Guide to Mothers and Nurses.
Ticknor, Caroline. Ms., 18— - ——. A Boston writer of short stories. A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories; Miss Belladonna, a Child of To-day. Kt. Lit.
Ticknor, Francis Orrery. Ga., 1822-1874. A physician near Columbus, Georgia. Virginians of the Valleys, and Other Poems, edited by Paul Hayne, supra, appeared in 1879. Lip.
Ticknor, George. 1791-1871. A noted Boston historian who was professor of modern languages at Harvard University, 1820-35. A History of Spanish Literature, the fruit of many years’ study and research, is his principal work. It is a recognized authority in its department, but is cold and lifeless in its treatment of the subject. Other works by him are, Life of W. H. Prescott, supra; Life of Lafayette. See London Quarterly Review, October, 1850; Lippincott’s Magazine, May, 1876; Life, Letters, and Journals; Allibone’s Dictionary and Supplement. Foley’s American Authors, 1897. Hou. Lip.
Tidball, John Caldwell. W. Va., 1825- ——. A Federal officer during the Civil War who has published a Manual of Heavy Artillery Service.
Tidball, Mrs. Mary Langdon. 18— -1904. Wife of J. C. Tidball, supra. A novelist of Virginia. Barbara’s Vagaries. Har.
Tidball, Thomas Allen. Va., 1847- ——. Cousin of J. C. Tidball, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, rector of the Church of the Epiphany. Christ in the New Testament; The Character of Christ its Own Witness; The Holy Spirit as Energizing the Sacrament. Wh.
Tiedeman, Christopher Gustavus. S. C., 1857-1903. A legal writer, professor of law in the University of Missouri, 1881-91, and from 1891 professor of constitutional law in the University of the City of New York. The Law of Real Property; Limitations of the Police Power; Commercial Paper; The Unwritten Constitution of the United States; Law of Sales; Law of Municipal Corporations. Put.
Tiernan, Mrs. Frances [Fisher]. “Christian Reid.” N. C., 18— - ——. A popular novelist whose writings include, Valerie Aylmer; Mabel Lee; Morton House; A Daughter of Bohemia; Miss Churchill; Bonny Kate; Ebb Tide; Nina’s Atonement, and Other Stories; After Many Days; Heart of Steel; Hearts and Hands; A Question of Honor; A Summer Idyl; A Gentle Belle; Roslyn’s Fortune; A Comedy of Elopement; The Picture of Las Cruces; The Land of the Sun; A Woman of Fortune. Ap.
Tiernan, Mrs. Mary Spear [Nicholas]. 1836-1891. A Georgia novelist. Homoselle; Suzette; Jack Horner. Ho. Hou.
Tiffany, Alexander Ralston. Ont., 1796-1868. A jurist of Palmyra, Michigan, The Justices’ Guide; Criminal Law; Form Book for Michigan Attorneys.
Tiffany, Charles Comfort. Md., 1829- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, but prior to 1866 a Congregational clergyman. Expression in Church Architecture; History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Tiffany, Francis. Md., 1827- ——. A Unitarian clergyman living in Cambridge, pastor at West Newton, Massachusetts, 1865-82. Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix, supra; Bird Bolts; Life of Charles Francis Barnard; This Goodly Frame, the Earth, a volume of travels in America, Japan, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. El. Hou.
Tiffany, Joel. 18— - ——. Treatise on Government and Constitutional Law; Man and His Destiny; Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York; The Book of Forms (with H. Smith); Laws of Trusts and Trustees (with E. Bullard); Treatise on Practice and Pleadings in the Courts of Record (with H. Smith).
Tiffany, Osmond. Md., 1823- ——. A custom-house clerk in Baltimore from 1869. The Canton Chinese; Brandon, a Tale of the American Revolution; Life of General Otho Williams.
Tiffany, Otis Henry. Md., 1825- ——. A Methodist clergyman of prominence. Pulpit and Platform Addresses and Sermons. Meth.
Tigert, John James. Ky., 1856- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator in Nashville. Handbook of Logic; The Preacher Himself; A Voice from the South; Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism.
Tilden, Samuel Jones. N. Y., 1814-1886. A distinguished lawyer and statesman, governor of New York in 1874, and the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1876. Writings and Speeches, edited by John Bigelow. See Lives of, by Cook, 1876, J. Bigelow, 1895. Har.
Tilden, William Phillips. Ms., 1811-1890. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. The Work of the Ministry; Buds for the Bridal Wreath. See Autobiography. El. Le.
Tillett, Wilbur Fisk. N. C., 1854- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator, vice-chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Nashville. 1882-95. Our Hymns and their Authors; Discussions in Theology.
Tillinghast, Nicholas. Ms., 1804-1856. A Massachusetts educator, principal of the Normal School at Bridgewater, 1840-53. Elements of Plane Geometry; Prayers for Schools.
Tillman, Samuel Dyer. N. Y., 1815-1875. A lawyer who practiced in Seneca Falls, New York, and, removing to New York city in 1850, devoted himself to scientific pursuits, and published a Treatise on Musical Sounds.
Tillman, Samuel Escue. Tn., 1847- ——. A soldier and educator, professor of chemistry at West Point from 1880. Elementary Lessons in Heat; Essential Principles of Chemistry.
Tilton, Benjamin Trowbridge. R. I., 1868- ——. Brother of W. F. Tilton, infra. A physician of New York city, translator of Die Specielle Chirurgie, in two volumes, and Allgemeine Chirurgie from the German of Tillmanns. Ap.
Tilton, Theodore. N. Y., 1835- ——. A journalist and verse-writer who was editor of The New York Independent, 1863-72, and since 1883 has lived in Europe. The American Board and Slavery; The King’s Ring; Sanctum Sanctorum or an Editor’s Proof Sheets; Life of Victoria Woodhull; Tempest-Tossed, a novel; Swabian Stories; The Sexton’s Tale, and Other Poems; Thou and I, a volume of verse.
Tilton, William Frederic. Ms., 1867- ——. An historical writer. Die Spanische Armada; The Life of Philip the Second.
Timayenis, Telemachus Thomas. A. M., 1853- ——. A writer of New York city of Greek parentage, resident in the United States from 1870. The Modern Greek, its Pronunciation and Relations to Ancient Greek; A History of Greece; Greece in the Times of Homer; Contes Tirés de Shakespeare; Talks with Æsop; In Search of Happiness, a play. Ap. Scr.
Timrod, Henry. S. C., 1829-1867. Son of W. H. Timrod, infra. A poet and journalist of Charleston, and, in his last years, of Columbia, South Carolina, whose verse has very real merit. Spring in Carolina is one of his best poems. See Poems (1873), with Memoir by Paul Hayne, supra; Manly’s Southern Literature.
Timrod, William Henry. S. C., 1792-1838. A bookbinder of Charleston who published a volume of Lyrics.
Tincker, Mary Agnes. Me., 1833- ——. A popular novelist who lived in Italy, 1873-87, and subsequently in Boston. Signor Monaldini’s Niece; The Jewel in the Lotus; Aurora; Two Coronets; By the Tiber; The House of Yorke; A Winged Word; Grapes and Thorns; Six Sunny Months; San Salvador. Hou. Lip. Rob.
Tinto, Dick. See Goodrich, F. B.
Titchener, Edward Bradford. E., 1867- ——. A professor of psychology at Cornell University from 1892, and Sage professor of psychology there from 1895; the American editor of Mind, and co-editor of The American Journal of Psychology. Beside translating Knelpe’s Outlines of Psychology and other German works, he has published An Outline of Psychology. Mac.
Titcomb, Sarah Elizabeth. Ms., 1841-1895. A Boston writer who published Early New England People; Mind-Cure on a Material Basis; Aryan Sun Myths the Origin of Religions.
Titcomb, Timothy. See Holland, J. G.
Todd, Albert. R. I., 1854- ——. A lieutenant in the United States army who has published The Campaigns of the Rebellion.
Todd, Charles Burr. Ct., 1849- ——. A magazinist of Redding, Connecticut. Life and Letters of Joel Barlow, supra; General History of the Burr Family; History of Redding, Connecticut; Story of the City of New York; The Story of the City of Washington. Put.
Todd, David Peck. N. Y., 1855- ——. Son of S. E. Todd, infra. A professor of astronomy at Amherst College from 1881. Stars and Telescopes (with W. T. Lynn); Astronomy for Beginners, and many scientific papers. Am. Rob.
Todd, John. Vt., 1800-1873. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1842-72. Among his many popular works are included, Lectures to Children; Student’s Manual; Truth Made Simple; Hints to Young Men; The Daughter at School; Mountain Gems; Woman’s Rights; Sunset Land; Old-Fashioned Lives; Future Punishment. See Life; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1876. Le. Ran.
Todd, Lawrie. See Thorburn, Grant.
Todd, Mrs. Mabel [Loomis]. Ms., 1858- ——. Wife of D. P. Todd, supra, and daughter of E. J. Loomis, supra. She has edited The Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, supra; A Cycle of Sonnets, and is the author of a work on Total Eclipses of the Sun. Rob.
Todd, Mrs. Marion. N. Y., 1841- ——. A lawyer and lecturer of Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Railways of Europe and America, or Government Ownership; Protective Tariff Delusion. Ar.
Todd, Sereno Edwards. N. Y., 1820-1898. A journalist of New York city, at one period agricultural editor of The Times, and afterward living at Orange, New Jersey. The Apple Culturist; Young Farmer’s Manual; The American Wheat Culturist; Country Homes; Rural Poetry and Country Lyrics. Har.
Toland, Mrs. Mary B—— M——. 18— - ——. Sir Rae; Stella; Iris; Onti Ora; Aegle and the Elf; Eudora; Legend Layamone; Tisáyac of the Yo-Semite; Atlina, the Queen of the Floating Isle. Lip.
Tomes, Robert. N. Y., 1817-1882. A physician and littérateur. Panama in 1855; Bourbon Prince; My College Days; Richard the Lion-Hearted; Oliver Cromwell; The Americans in Japan; Battles of America by Sea and Land; The War with the South; The Champagne Country. Har.
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. N. J., 1859- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Elizabeth, New Jersey, popular as a writer of juvenile tales, among which are, The Search for Andrew Field; The Boy Soldiers of 1812; The Boy Officers of 1812; Three Colonial Boys; Tecumseh’s Young Braves; Three Young Continentals. Hou. Le. We.
Tompson, Benjamin. Ms., 1642-1714. A colonial educator, the master of a preparatory school in Cambridge for nearly forty years from 1670, and a satirical verse-writer of some merit. New England’s Crisis, a poem on King Philip’s War. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Tone, William Theobald Wolfe. I., 1791-1828. A son of Wolfe Tone, the Irish patriot and French general. After serving in the French army he came to America in 1816 and was in the artillery service of the United States for ten years. L’État civil et politique de l’Italie sous la domination des Goths; School of Cavalry, a proposed system for the United States cavalry. He also edited his father’s autobiography.
Toner, Joseph Meredith. Pa., 1825-1896. An eminent physician of Washington city, among whose writings are, Abortion in its Medical and Moral Aspects; Maternal Instinct; Medical Men of the Revolution.
Toppan, Robert Noxon. Pa., 1836-1901. A lawyer of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Historical Summary of Metallic Money; Biographical Sketches of Old Newbury. Lit.
Torrey, Bradford. Ms., 1843- ——. An essayist of Boston, a member of the editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. Birds in the Bush; The Foot-Path Way; A Rambler’s Lease; A Florida Sketch-Book; Spring Notes from Tennessee. Hou.
Torrey, Charles Turner. Ms., 1813-1846. An anti-slavery reformer who was imprisoned in Baltimore for aiding in the escape of slaves, and died in imprisonment. Memoir of William Saxton; Home, or the Pilgrim’s Faith Reward. See Memoir of the Martyr Torrey, 1847.
Torrey, John. N. Y., 1796-1873. A distinguished botanist and physician of New York city, professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1827-55, and United States assayer, 1853-73. Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously Within Thirty Miles of New York; Flora of the Northern and Middle States; Flora of New York State.
Torrey, Joseph. Ms., 1797-1867. A Congregational clergyman and educator, professor in the University of Vermont, 1827-67. A Theory of Art; translation of Neander’s History of the Christian Religion. Scr.
Totten, Benjamin J——. W. I., 1806-1877. A naval officer of New Bedford. Totten’s Naval Text-Book.
Totten, Charles Adelle Lewis. Ct., 1851- ——. A military inventor. Strategos, the American War Game; Yale Military Lectures; Nativity: its Facts and Fancies. Ap.
Totten, Joseph Gilbert. Ct., 1788-1864. A military engineer of distinction, brevetted major-general in 1864. Essays on Hydraulic and Other Cements.
Totten, Silas. N. Y., 1804-1873. An Episcopal clergyman, president of Trinity College, 1837-48. New Introduction to Algebra; The Analogy of Truth.
Toucey, Sinclair. Ct., 1818-1887. A publisher of New York city, president of the American News Company, 1864-87. Papers from Over the Water.
Toulmin, Henry. E., 1767-1823. A jurist who was the Kentucky secretary of state, 1796-1804, and president of Transylvania University, and subsequently lived in Alabama. A Description of Kentucky; Magistrate’s Assistant; Collection of the Acts of Kentucky; Review of the Criminal Law of Kentucky (with J. Blair); Digest of the Territorial Laws of Alabama.
Tourgée [toor-zhay´], Albion Winegar. O., 1838- ——. A writer who settled in North Carolina at the close of the Civil War and practised law there, becoming a member of the judiciary. Some of his experiences are related in his novel, A Fool’s Errand, which made a great sensation when first issued. He was subsequently editor of Our Continent, in Philadelphia, and in 1897 became consul at Bordeaux. His other works include, Bricks Without Straw; Figs and Thistles; Hot Plowshares; An Appeal to Cæsar; Black Ice; With Gauge and Swallow; Pactolus Prime; Mervale Eastman; Button’s Inn; An Outing with the Queen of Hearts; Letters to a King; John Eax; A Royal Gentleman; The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House. Cas. Fo. Lip. Meth. Rob.
Towle [tōle], George Makepeace. D. C., 1841-1893. A Boston journalist and littérateur. History of Henry V.; Glimpses of History; Modern France; Certain Men of Mark; American Society; Beaconsfield; England and Russia in Asia; England in Egypt; Young People’s History of England; Young People’s History of Ireland; The Nation in a Nutshell; Heroes of History; The Literature of the English Language; Heroes and Martyrs of Invention. Ap. Har. Hou. Le. Rob.
Towler, John. E., 1811- ——. An English educator who settled in America in 1850, was a professor in Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1853-82, and subsequently lived at Orange, New Jersey. Beside publishing a number of works on photography, he wrote Der Kleine Engländer, and was co-editor of Hilpert’s German and English Dictionary.
Towles, Catherine. See McCoy, Mrs.
Town, Ithiel. Ct., 1784-1844. An architect of New York city who built the State capitols of North Carolina and Indiana. School-House Architecture; Atlantic Steamships; Improvement in Construction of Bridges.
Town, Salem. Ms., 1779-1864. A once noted educator of New York and Indiana. System of Speculative Masonry; Analysis of English Derivatives; and, with N. Holbrook, a popular series of readers.
Towne, Edward Cornelius. Ms., 1834- ——. A Congregational clergyman of New Haven. The Question of Hell; Electricity and Life.
Townsend, Calvin. 18— - ——. Analysis of the United States Constitution; Compendium of Commercial Law; Analysis of Letter-Writing; Shorter Course in Civil Government. Am.
Townsend, Charles. 18— - ——. Essays on Mind, Matter, Force, etc.; Primordial Principles of the Universe.
Townsend, Edward Davis. Ms., 1817-1893. An adjutant-general of the United States army, at the time of his death on the retired list as brigadier-general. He was chief executive officer of the war department in Washington during the Civil War. Catechism of the Bible; Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States. Ap.
Townsend, Edward Waterman. O., 1855- ——. A journalist of New York city whose studies of Bowery life and dialect have been widely popular. Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories; Chimmie Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds; A Daughter of the Tenements, a novel; Near a Whole City Full, a collection of short dramatic stories. In collaboration he has written several plays, including Chimmie Fadden; A Daughter of the Tenements; The Marquis of Michigan. Ll.
Townsend, Eliza. Ms., 1789-1854. A verse-writer of Boston whose collected Poems and Miscellanies appeared in 1856. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Townsend, George Alfred. “Gath.” Del., 1841- ——. A journalist of New York city and Chicago famous as a war correspondent, among whose writings are, Washington Outside and Inside; Tales of the Chesapeake; Bohemian Days; Campaigns of a Non-Combatant; The Entailed Hat, a novel; Poems; Life of Garibaldi; The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln; Katy of Catoctin, a National Romance; Mrs. Reynolds and Hamilton. See Hart’s American Literature. Ap. Har.
Townsend, Howard. N. Y., 1823-1867. A physician of Albany. The Sunbeam and the Spectroscope; Food and its Digestion; Sinai Bible.
Townsend, John Kirk. Pa., 1809-1851. A naturalist of Washington. A Journey to the Columbia River (1839), republished in London as Sporting Adventures in the Rocky Mountains.
Townsend, Luther Tracy. Me., 1838- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator of prominence, professor in Boston University, 1873-93, a pastor in Baltimore from 1893. God-Man; Credo; The Fate of Republics; Outlines of Christian Theology; Sword and Garment; The Arena and the Throne; The Intermediate World; Search and Manifestations; The Mosaic Record and Modern Science; Bible Miracles and Modern Thought; Outlines of Theology; The Supernatural Factor in Religious Revivals; Real and Pretended Christianity; The Bible and Other Ancient Literature in the Nineteenth Century; The Chinese Problem; The Intermediate World; The Art of Speech. Ap. Le. Meth.
Townsend, Mrs. Mary Ashley [Van Voorhees]. “Xariffa.” N. Y., 1832-1901. A popular verse-writer of New Orleans. Xariffa’s Poems; Down the Bayou, and Other Poems; Distaff and Spindle; The Captain’s Story, a Poem; The Brother Clerks. Lip.
Townsend, Virginia Frances. Ct., 1836- ——. Kinswoman to L. T. Townsend, supra. A novelist. A Woman’s Word; One Woman’s Two Lovers; Lenox Dare; Protestant Queen of Navarre; Only Girls; Sirs, Only Seventeen; A Boston Girl’s Ambition; Six in All; But a Philistine; That Queer Girl, are a few of her works. Le. Lip. Meth.
Toy, Crawford Howell. Va., 1836- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, professor of Hebrew in Harvard University Divinity School. Quotations in the New Testament; History of the Religion of Israel; Judaism and Christianity, the Progress of Thought from the Old Testament to the New. Lit. Scr.
Tracy, Charles Chapin. Pa., 1838- ——. A Presbyterian foreign missionary. Letters to Members of Oriental Families; Myra, or a Child’s Story of Missionary Life.
Tracy, Ira. Vt., 1806-1875. Brother of J. Tracy, infra. A Congregational missionary in the East Indies, author of Duty to the Heathen.
Tracy, Joseph. Vt., 1794-1874. A Congregational clergyman, secretary of the Massachusetts Colonization Society. Three Last Things; The Great Awakening, a History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield.
Tracy, Roger Sherman. Vt., 1841- ——. A physician of New York city. Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders; Essentials of Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; The New Liber Primus. Ap.
Trafton, Adeline. Daughter of M. Trafton, infra. See Knox, Mrs.
Trafton, Mark. Me., 1810-1901. A Methodist clergyman of prominence in his day, member of Congress, 1855-57. Rambles in Europe; Safe Investment; Baptism: its Subjects and Mode; Scenes in My Life. Meth.
Train, Elizabeth Phipps. Ms., 1857- ——. A novelist of Duxbury, Massachusetts. Dr. Lamar; Autobiography of a Professional Beauty; A Social Highwayman; A Marital Liability. Her translations from the French include, The Apostate; The Shadow of Dr. Laroque; Recollections of the Court of the Tuileries. Cr. Lip.
Train, George Francis. Ms., 1830-1904. A lecturer of New York city widely known for his eccentricities. An American Merchant in Europe; Young America Abroad; Young America in Wall Street; Spread Eagleism; Union Speeches; Irish Independency, include his chief writings.
Trall, Russell Thacher. Ct., 1812-1877. A homœopathic physician of New York city, and subsequently of Florence, New Jersey. The Bath: the History and Uses of, in Health and Disease; Digestion and Dyspepsia; The Mother’s Hygienic Handbook; The Human Voice; Popular Physiology; The True Temperance Platform; Encyclopedia of Hydropathy; Uterine Diseases, include most of his writing.
Trautwine, John Cresson. Pa., 1810-1883. A civil engineer of eminence. Method of Calculating Cubic Contents of Excavations and Embankments; Field Practice of Laying out Railroad Curves; Civil Engineer’s Pocket-Book. Wil.
Treadwell, Daniel. Ms., 1791-1872. The inventor of the power-press, and Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1834-45. The Relations of Science to the Useful Arts; The Practicability of Constructing Cannon of Great Calibre; Construction of Hooped Cannon.
Treadwell, Seymour Boughton. C., 1795-1867. A politician of Jackson, Michigan. American Liberties and American Slavery Politically Illustrated (1838).
Treat, John Harvey. N. H., 1839- ——. A business man and writer of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Notes on the Rubric of the Communion Office; Truro Baptisms, 1711-1800; The Catholic Faith; Genealogy of the Treat Family.
Treat, Mrs. Mary Lua Adelia [Davis] [Allen]. N. Y., 1835- ——. A naturalist of Vineland, New Jersey. Chapters on Ants; Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden; Home Studies in Nature; My Garden Pets. Am. Ju. Lo.
Tremain, Henry Edwin. N. Y., 1840- ——. A lawyer of New York city who was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Sailor’s Creek to Appomattox Court House, or the Last Hours of Sheridan’s Cavalry.
Trent, William Peterfield. Va., 1862- ——. A professor of English and history at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, from 1888. English Culture in Virginia; Life of William Gilmore Simms, supra; Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime. See The Bookman, May, 1897. Hou. J. H. U.
Trescot, William Henry. S. C., 1822-1898. A lawyer and diplomatist of Washington. Diplomacy of the Revolution; Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams.
Trott, Nicholas. E., 1663-1740. A Charleston jurist, very eminent in the Carolinas in his day. Laws of South Carolina (1734); Clavis Linguæ Sanctæ; Laws relating to the Church and Clergy in America.
Troubat, Francis Joseph. Pa., 1802-1868. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Practice in Civil Actions in Pennsylvania Supreme Court (with W. Haley); The Law of Limited Partnership in the United States; Treatise on the Law of Partnerships.
Troubetzkoy, Mrs. Amélie [Rives] [Chanler]. Va., 1863- ——. A novelist whose second husband is a Russian prince. Though her work excited much unfavourable criticism, yet it enjoyed a sudden brief popularity. The Quick or the Dead; A Brother to Dragons; Virginia of Virginia; Barbara Dering; The Witness of the Sun; Athelwold, a tragedy; Herod and Marianne, a drama. Har. Lip.
Trowbridge, Catherine Maria. Ct., 1818- ——. A writer of South Manchester, Connecticut, who has made many contributions to juvenile literature, a few among them being, Christian Heroism; Victory at Last; Will and Will Not; Snares and Safeguards; Changing Paths.
Trowbridge, John. Ms., 1843- ——. A physicist of note, professor at Harvard University from 1880, Rumford professor of the application of science to the useful arts there from 1888. What is Electricity?; The New Physics; Three Boys on an Electrical Boat; The Electrical Boy. Ap. Hou. Rob.
Trowbridge, John Townsend. N. Y., 1827- ——. A popular writer of Arlington, Massachusetts, whose work in verse and prose reaches a high grade of excellence. His novel, Neighbor Jackwood, when first issued in 1857, was a strong moral agent in stimulating anti-slavery sentiment. His other fictions include, Lucy Arlyn; Coupon Bonds, and Other Stories; Farnell’s Folly; Neighbors’ Wives; Martin Merrivale; Cudjo’s Cave; Three Scouts. Among his very many juvenile tales are, The Drummer Boy; The Prize Cup; The Lottery Ticket; The Tide-Mill Stories; The Toby Trafford Series; The Little Master; Jack Hazard Series. His published volumes of verse include, The Vagabonds (his best known poem), and Other Poems; The Emigrant’s Story, and Other Poems; A Home Idyl, and Other Poems; The Lost Earl; The Book of Gold, and Other Poems. At Sea and Midsummer are two of his finest poems. Cent. Co. Har. Hou. Le. Lo.
Trowbridge, William Petit. Mch., 1828-1892. An engineer and scientist in charge of the engineering department of the School of Mines, Columbia College, 1877-92. Steam Generator; Heat as a Source of Power; Turbine Wheels; Stationary Steam Engines. Wil.
True, Charles Kittridge. Me., 1809-1878. A Methodist clergyman and educator, professor at Wesleyan University, 1849-60. Elements of Logic; Shawmut, or the Settlement of Boston; John Winthrop and the Great Colony; Lives of Raleigh, John Knox, John Harvard, Captain John Smith; The Thirty Years’ War; Heroes of Holland. Meth.
True, John Preston. Me., 1859- ——. A Boston writer. Their Club and Ours, a popular juvenile tale; Shoulder Arms, a tale of life in a military school. Lo. Meth.
Truman, Benjamin Cummings. R. I., 1835- ——. A California writer, military governor of Tennessee during the Civil War. The South During the War; Semi-Tropical California; Occidental Sketches; Winter Resorts of California; From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate; Homes and Happiness in the Golden Gate; The Field of Honor, a history of duelling. Fo.
Trumbull, Benjamin. Ct., 1735-1820. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at North Haven, Connecticut, for sixty years. Plea in Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the Contested (Western) Lands; Divine Origin of the Holy Scriptures; General History of the United States (1810); A Complete History of Connecticut, 1630-1764.
Trumbull, Gurdon. Ct., 1841-1903. Brother of J. H. Trumbull, infra. An artist and ornithologist who published, American Game Birds, or Names and Portraits of Birds which Interest Gunners, with Descriptions. Har.
Trumbull, Henry Clay. Ct., 1830-1903. Brother of J. H. Trumbull, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Philadelphia, editor of The Sunday-School Times. A Model Superintendent; The Threshold Covenant; The Knightly Soldier; Kadesh-Barnea; Teaching and Teachers; The Blood Covenant, a Primitive Rite; The Sunday-School, its Origin, Methods, and Auxiliaries; Children in the Temple; Some Army Sermons; The Worth of an Historic Consciousness; Principles and Practice; Friendship the Master Passion; Studies in Oriental Social Life. Wat.
Trumbull, James Hammond. Ct., 1821-1897. A Hartford philologist, an acknowledged authority upon Indian languages. The Composition of Indian Geographical Names; Best Method of Studying the Indian Languages; Indian Names of Places; On the Algonkin Verb; The True Blue-Laws of Connecticut. He had edited The Colonial Records of Connecticut; Roger Williams’s Key to the Languages of North America, and other works.
Trumbull, John. Ct., 1750-1831. A noted jurist of Hartford, famous in his day as a satirical poet. With Barlow and others he published The Anarchiad, a series of satirical essays, and he was the author of The Progress of Dulness; but MacFingal, a Hudibrastic poem, the first canto of which appeared in 1775, is his best title to remembrance. It bristles with sharp points of satire, and quite deserved the extensive popularity it for a time enjoyed. See Stedman’s Poets of America; Tyler’s Literary History of the American Revolution.
Tryon, George Washington. Pa., 1838-1888. A conchologist of Philadelphia. Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North America; Marine Conchology; Structural and Systematic Conchology; Manual of Conchology.
Tucker, George. Ba., 1775-1861. Kinsman of Saint George Tucker, infra. A Virginia lawyer and educator, professor of moral philosophy and political economy in the University of Virginia, 1825-45. Among his writings are included, Life of Jefferson; Political History of the United States; Essays Moral and Philosophical; Theory of Money and Banks; Essays on Subjects of Taste; Principles of Rent, Wages, and Profits; The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel; A Voyage to the Moon, a satirical romance.
Tucker, George Fox. Ms., 1852- ——. A lawyer of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Manual of Wills; Manual of Business Corporations; Manual of the Constitution of Massachusetts, the Interpretation of Statutes, Special Writs, and Motions for New Trials; The Monroe Doctrine; Notes on the United States Revised Statutes (with J. M. Gould); A Quaker Home, a novel; Uncle Calup’s Christmas Dinner; Your Will: how to Make It. Hou. Lit.
Tucker, Henry Holcombe. Ga., 1819-1890. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Georgia, editor of The Christian Index, at Atlanta, from 1878. Religious Liberty; The Gospel in Enoch; The Old Theology Restated in Sermons. The Position of Baptism in the Christian System is a noted sermon by him.
Tucker, Henry Saint George. Va., 1780-1848. Son of Saint George Tucker, infra. An eminent Virginia lawyer. Lectures on Natural Law and Government; Lectures on Constitutional Law; Commentaries on the Law of Virginia.
Tucker, Henry Saint George. Va., 1828-1863. Grandson of Saint George Tucker, infra. A lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate army. Hansford, a Tale of Bacon’s Rebellion; The Southern Cross.
Tucker, Joshua Thomas. Ms., 1812-1897. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. The Sinless One, a life of Christ; Christ’s Infant Kingdom.
Tucker, Mrs. Margaretta [Ames]. “Margaret May.” N. H., 1836- ——. A verse-writer of Boston. For My Friend, a collection of verses; Driftwood, and Other Poems, are among her writings, some of which have been set to music.
Tucker, Mrs. Mary Eliza. See Lambert, Mrs.
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly. Va., 1784-1851. Son of Saint George Tucker, infra. A Virginia jurist, professor of law at William and Mary College, 1834-51. The Partisan Leader (1836) is his most noted book. It is a political novel, having for its theme the revolt of the Southern States, and in 1861 it was republished as A Key to the Southern Conspiracy. Other works of his are, George Balcombe, a novel; Principles of Pleading.
Tucker, Pomeroy. N. Y., 1802-1870. A Canandaigua journalist who published a work on The Origin of Mormonism.
Tucker, Saint George. Ba., 1752-1828. The stepfather of John Randolph the statesman. A Virginia jurist who published Letters on the Alien and Sedition Laws; The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, a collection of political satires; an annotated Blackstone; but is known to general literature only by the lyric beginning, “Days of my Youth, ye have Glided Away.” See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Tucker, William Jewett. Ct., 1839- ——. A Congregational clergyman and educator. He was professor in Andover Theological Seminary, 1879-93, and has been president of Dartmouth College from 1893. The New Movement in Humanity. Hou.
Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman. N. Y., 1861-1892. Son of C. K. Tuckerman, infra. An architect of New York city, superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum Art Schools in 1888. A Short History of Architecture. Scr.
Tuckerman, Bayard. N. Y., 1855- ——. A writer of New York city. History of English Prose Fiction; Life of Lafayette; Life of William Jay, supra; Life of Peter Stuyvesant. Do. Put.
Tuckerman, Charles Keating. Ms., 1821-1896. Brother of H. T. Tuckerman, infra. A diplomat who was minister to Greece, 1868-72, and lived in Europe subsequently. The Greeks of To-Day (1872); Poems; Personal Recollections of Notable People. Do.
Tuckerman, Edward. Ms., 1817-1886. Nephew of J. Tuckerman, infra. A professor of botany at Amherst College, 1858-86. Genera Lichenum; Synopsis of the North American Lichens; Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild within Thirty Miles of Amherst. See Memoir of, by Farlow.
Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. Ms., 1821-1877. Brother of E. Tuckerman, supra. A lawyer and littérateur of Boston whose only published book was a volume of poems.
Tuckerman, Henry Theodore. Ms., 1813-1871. Nephew of J. Tuckerman, infra. A writer once ranked among the first of American essayists, but whose criticisms, though delicate and discriminating, lack the force and originality of many later writers in the same field. Much of his life was spent abroad, largely in Italy, his intimate acquaintance with Italian affairs appearing in his earliest works, The Italian Sketch-Book; Isabel, or Sicily, a Pilgrimage (1839), republished as Sicily and Pilgrimage (1852). His subsequent writings include, Thoughts on the Poets; The Book of the Artists; Essays Biographical and Critical; Artist Life; Rambles and Reveries; Characteristics of Literature; The Criterion; Maga Papers about Paris; Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer; Life of J. P. Kennedy, supra; America and Her Commentators; The Optimist, a series of essays; A Sheaf of Verse; Poems; Mental Portraits; The Collector, a volume of essays. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Foley’s American Writers.
Tuckerman, Joseph. Ms., 1778-1840. A Unitarian clergyman, minister at Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1801-28, long eminent as a philanthropist. Gleams of Truth; Principles and Results of the Ministry at Large in Boston. Elevation of the Poor (1874), is a collection of his most important writings. See Memoir by Mary Carpenter; Allibone’s Dictionary. Rob.
Tudor, William. Ms., 1779-1830. A Boston merchant who founded the ice trade with the tropics. Gebel Teir; Life of James Otis, supra; Letters on the Eastern States; Miscellanies.
Tully, William. Ct., 1785-1859. A noted New England botanist and physician, medical professor at Yale University, 1829-42. Essays upon Fever (with T. Miner); Materia Medica, or Pharmacology; Therapeutics.
Tunis, John. N. Y., 1858-1896. An Episcopal clergyman of Millbrook, New Jersey, but prior to 1892 in the Unitarian ministry. The Faith By Which We Stand.
Tuomy, Michael. I., 1808-1857. A professor of geology in the University of Alabama, 1847-57, State geologist of South Carolina from 1844, and of Alabama from 1848. Geological and Agricultural Survey of South Carolina; Report on the Geology of South Carolina; Fossils of South Carolina (with F. Holmes); First and Second Biennial Reports on the Geology of Alabama.
Tupper, Henry Allen. S. C., 1828-1902. A Baptist clergyman of Richmond, Virginia. Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention; Truth in Romance. Bap.
Turchin, John Basil (Ivan Vasilevitch Turchinoff). R., 1822-1901. A Russian soldier who came to America in 1856, served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and in 1873 established the Polish colony of Radone in Illinois. The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga.
Turnbull, Laurence. S., 1821-1900. An eminent physician of Baltimore. Hints and Observations on Military Hygiene; Imperfect Hearing; Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Ear; Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Anæsthesia; The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph. Lip.
Turnbull, Robert. S., 1809-1877. A Baptist clergyman of Hartford, 1845-1869. The Theatre; Olympia Morata; The Genius of Scotland; The Genius of Italy; Pulpit Orators of France and Switzerland; The Student Preacher; Theophany; The World We Live In; Life Pictures; Christ in History.
Turnbull, Robert James. Fl., 1775-1833. A lawyer and political writer of Charleston. A Visit to the Philadelphia Penitentiary, much noticed at the time of its appearance in 1797; The Crisis, a work on nullification; The Principle of Dernier Ressort.
Turnbull, William Paterson. S., 1830-1871. A Philadelphia ornithologist. Birds of East Lothian; Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Turner, Mrs. Eliza [Sproat]. Pa., 1826- ——. A verse-writer of Pennsylvania. Out-of-Door Rhymes.
Turner, Henry McNeal. S. C., 1833- ——. A bishop of the African Methodist Church, author of a work on Methodist Polity.
Turner, Samuel Epes. Md., 1846-1896. A Sketch of the Germanic Constitution from Early Times to the Dissolution of the Empire. Put.
Turner, Samuel Hulbeart. Pa., 1790-1861. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the General Theological Seminary in New York city, 1818-61, best known by his Commentaries on Hebrews, Romans, Ephesians, and Galatians. Other works by him are, Companion to the Book of Genesis; Thoughts on Scripture Prophecy; Comparing Spiritual Things with Spiritual; Biographical Notices of Jewish Rabbis. See Autobiography; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Turner, Thomas Sloss. Ky., 1860- ——. A Texas journalist and verse-writer. Life’s Brevity, and Other Poems; Heart Melodies; A Dream of Bachelors.
Tuthill [tŭt´il], Cornelia. Daughter of Mrs. L. Tuthill, infra. See Pierson, Mrs.
Tuthill, Mrs. Louisa Caroline [Huggins]. Ct., 1798-1879. A once popular writer of moral tales for young people, whose home was at Princeton, New Jersey, from 1849. Among her many publications are, I Will be a Gentleman; I Will be a Lady; Tales for the Young; True Manliness; I Will be a Sailor; I Will be a Soldier; Onward, Right Onward; Romantic Belinda; Ancient Architecture. See Hart’s Female Prose-Writers of America.
Tuttle, Charles Richard. N. S. 1850- ——. General History of Michigan; Border Wars of Two Centuries; History of Indiana; History of Canada; History of Wisconsin (with D. Durrie); The Boss Devil of America (verse).
Tuttle, Mrs. Emma [Rood]. O., 1839- ——. Wife of Hudson Tuttle, infra. A lecturer and verse-writer of Berlin Heights, Ohio. Blossoms of Our Spring; Gazelle; From Soul to Soul, Poems; Stories for Our Children; The Lyceum Guide.
Tuttle, Herbert. Vt., 1846-1894. A professor at Cornell University, 1883-1894, occupying the chair of modern European history from 1891. The History of Prussia; German Political Leaders. See Biographical Sketch, by H. B. Adams, supra, in vol. iv. of The History of Prussia. Hou.
Tuttle, Hudson. O., 1836- ——. A spiritual medium of Berlin Heights, Ohio. Life in the Spheres; Arcana of Nature; Career of the God Idea; Career of the Christ Idea; Career of Religious Ideas; Origin and Development of Man; Clair, a Tale; Camile, or Love and Labor; Heloise; Love or Religion. Ban.
Tuttle, Joseph Farrand. N. J., 1818-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman. Life of William Tuttle; The Way Lost and Found; Annals of Morris County, New Jersey.
Twain, Mark. See Clemens.
Twichell, Joseph Hopkins. Ct., 1838- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford from 1865. Life of John Winthrop, infra; Some Old Puritan Love Letters (edited). Do.
Tyler, Bennet. Ct., 1783-1858. A Congregational clergyman, president of Dartmouth College, 1822-28, and subsequently minister at Portland, Maine. History of New Haven Theology; The Sufferings of Christ; New England Revivals; Lectures on Christian Nurture, include his principal works.
Tyler, John Mason. Ms., 1851- ——. Son of W. S. Tyler, infra. A professor of biology at Amherst College. The Whence and the Whither of Man. Scr.
Tyler, Joseph. 18— -1895. Son of B. Tyler, supra. A Congregational missionary in South Africa for forty years, for the last ten years of his life a resident of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Forty Years Among the Zulus. C. P. S.
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Va., 1853- ——. A son of President John Tyler and president of William and Mary College from 1888. The Letters and Times of the Tylers; Parties and Patronage in the United States.
Tyler, Moses Coit. Ct., 1835-1900. A professor of American history at Cornell University from 1881. From 1860 to 1881 he was a member of the Congregational ministry, but in the latter year took orders in the Episcopal Church. He is best known by an admirable History of American Literature During the Colonial Period, 1606-1765, which is as readable as it is scholarly, the style being both vigorous and original. Other works of his are, The Brawnville Papers; Life of Patrick Henry; Three Men of Letters (Berkeley, Dwight, Joel Barlow); The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783; Manual of English Literature. Hou. Put. Sh.
Tyler, Ransom Hebbard. Ms., 1813-1881. A lawyer and bank president of Fulton, New York. The Bible and Social Reform; American Ecclesiastical Law; Commentaries on the Law of Infancy and Covertures; Ejectment and Adverse Enjoyment; Usury; Pawns and Loans; Fixtures; Boundaries, Fences, and Window Lights.
Tyler, Robert. Va., 1818-1877. The eldest son of President John Tyler. A lawyer of Philadelphia, and after the Civil War a journalist in Montgomery, Alabama. Ahasuerus, a Poem; Death, a Poem; Is Virginia a Repudiating State?
Tyler, Royall. Ms., 1757-1826. A Vermont jurist, chief justice of the supreme court of his State from 1800. Reports of Vermont Supreme Court Cases; The Contrast, a brilliant comedy, the first American play acted by regular comedians, and the earliest in which “Yankee dialect” is employed; May Day, a comedy; The Georgia Speculator, or Land in the Moon; The Algerine Captive; Moral Tales for American Youths; The Yankey in London.
Tyler, Samuel. Md., 1809-1878. A jurist of Frederick, Maryland. The Progress of Philosophy; Discourse on the Baconian Philosophy; Burns as a Poet and as a Man; Memoir of Chief Justice Taney; Commentary on the Law of Partnership.
Tyler, William Seymour. Pa., 1810-1897. A Congregational clergyman and educator, professor at Amherst College from 1836; latterly professor emeritus of the Greek language and literature. Prayer for Colleges; Theology of the Greek Poets; editions of Tacitus and the Iliad of Homer; History of Amherst College, 1821 to 1891. Har.
Tyng, Dudley Atkins. Md., 1825-1858. Son of S. H. Tyng, infra, 1st. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. Vital Truth and Deadly Error; Children of the Kingdom; Our Country’s Troubles.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson. Ms., 1800-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of St. George’s Church, 1844-85, and long prominent among Low Churchmen. Among his works are, The Christian Pastor; Family Commentary on the Gospels; Lectures on the Law and the Gospel; The Israel of God; Christ is All; The Rich Kinsman, the history of Ruth; The Prayer-Book Illustrated by Scripture; The Captive Orphan; Esther the Queen of Persia; Forty Years’ Experience in Sunday Schools. See Life of, by C. R. Tyng. Har.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson. N. Y., 1839-1898. Son of S. H. Tyng, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, for a number of years subsequent to 1881 the manager of an insurance company in Paris. The Square of Life; He Will Come; Our Church Work.
Tyson, James. 1841- ——. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1870. Manual of Physical Diagnosis; The Cell Doctrine; Introduction to Practical Histology; Practical Examination of the Urine; Treatise on Bright’s Disease. Lip.
Tyson, Job Roberts. Pa., 1804-1858. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Essay on the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania; The Lottery System of the United States; Social and Intellectual State of Pennsylvania prior to 1743; Resources and Commerce of Philadelphia.
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Underwood, Benjamin Franklin. 1839- ——. Formerly the editor of The Index in Boston. Influence of Christianity upon Civilization; Essays and Lectures.
Underwood, Francis Henry. Ms., 1825-1894. A Boston littérateur, the organizer of The Atlantic Monthly. He was American consul at Glasgow, 1885-89, and subsequently at Leith, where he died. Handbooks of English Literature: British Authors, and American Authors; Builders of American Literature; biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier; The Poet and the Man, Recollections of James Russell Lowell; Cloud Pictures; and the novels, Lord of Himself; Man Proposes; Dr. Gray’s Quest; Quabbin. Hou. Le.
Underwood, Lucien Marcus. N. Y., 1853- ——. Cousin of F. H. Underwood, supra. A professor of botany at Syracuse University from 1883. Systematic Plant Record; Our Native Ferns and How to Study Them; Our Native Ferns and Their Allies; North American Hepaticæ. Ho. Wh.
Upham, Charles Wentworth. N. B., 1802-1875. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1824-44, subsequently prominent as a politician in his city and State. Lectures on the Logos; Prophecy as an Evidence of Christianity; Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather; Life of Timothy Pickering; Life of Sir Henry Vane; Lectures on Witchcraft; Principles of Congregationalism.
Upham, Francis William. N. H., 1817-1895. Brother of T. C. Upham, infra. An educator of New York city, whose writings were chiefly a defence of the Scriptures as opposed to “the higher criticism.” The Debate Between the Church and Science; The Wise Men: Who They Were; The Star of Our Lord; Thoughts on the Gospels; St. Matthew’s Witness; The First Words from God.
Upham, Mrs. Grace Le Baron [Locke]. “Grace Le Baron.” Ms., 1845- ——. A Boston writer of popular juvenile tales. The Rosebud Club; Little Miss Faith; Little Daughter. Le.
Upham, Thomas Cogswell. N. H., 1799-1872. A professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College, 1824-72. Elements of Moral Philosophy; Treatise on the Will; Life of Madame Guyon; Principles of the Hidden Life; Disordered Mental Action; Elements of Intellectual Philosophy; Ratio Disciplinæ; Christ in the Soul; The Life of Faith; The Manual of Peace; Divine Union; American Cottage Life, a book of verse; Life of Madame Catherine Adorna; View of the Absolute Religion. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Maine. Har.
Upshur, Abel Parker. Va., 1790-1844. A Virginia lawyer and Congressman, secretary of the navy, 1841-1843, and of State, 1843-44. Inquiry into the Nature and Character of Our Federal Government.
Upshur, Mary. Niece of A. P. Upshur, supra. See Sturges, Mrs.
Upton, Emory. 1839-1881. An officer with the rank of major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. Infantry Tactics; The Armies of Asia and Europe; Tactics for NonMilitary Bodies. See Life of, by Michie. Ap.
Upton, Francis Henry. Ms., 1814-1876. An eminent lawyer of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Trade-Marks; The Law of Nations affecting Commerce During War.
Upton, George Putnam. Ms., 1834- ——. A Chicago journalist. Letters of Peregrine Pickle; The Great Fire; Woman in Music; The Standard Operas; The Standard Oratorios; The Standard Cantatas; The Standard Symphonies; Lives of Haydn, Liszt, and Wagner, from the German of Nohl; Memories, from the German of Max Müller. Mg.
Upton, Jacob Kendrick. N. H., 1837- ——. The assistant secretary of the treasury in 1880. Money in Politics; A Coin Catechism. Lo.
Urmy, Clarence [Thomas]. Cal., 1858- ——. An organist and verse-writer of San José, California. A Rosary of Rhyme; A Vintage of Verse. He has been a contributor to magazines.
Usher, Edward Preston. Ms., 1851- ——. A Boston lawyer living in Grafton, Massachusetts. Sales of Personal Property; Protestantism, a Study in the Direction of Religious Truth. Le.
Utter, Mrs. Rebecca [Palfrey]. Ms., 1844- ——. Daughter of C. Palfrey, supra, and wife of a Unitarian clergyman. The King’s Daughter, and Other Poems.
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Vachell, Horace Annesley. E., 1861- ——. A novelist many years resident in California, but in 1883 an English lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. The Romance of Judge Ketchum; The Model of Christian Gay; The Quicksands of Pactolus; An Impending Sword; John Christy. Do. Ho. Lip.
Vail, Alfred. N. J., 1807-1859. A scientist who was one of the inventors of the telegraph. He published a work on The American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.
Vail, Stephen Montford. N. Y., 1818-1880. A Methodist clergyman, at one time tried by his church for advocating an educated ministry. Outlines of Hebrew Grammar; Education in the Methodist Church; The Bible Against Slavery. Meth.
Vail, Thomas Hubbard. Va., 1812-1889. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kansas, consecrated bishop in 1864. Hannah, a Sacred Drama; The Comprehensive Church.
Vale, Gilbert. E., 1788-1866. A Brooklyn writer prominent as a free-thinker. Fanaticism; Life of Thomas Paine, supra.
Valentine, David Thomas. N. Y., 1801-1869. The clerk of the New York Common Council, 1831-69, and author of a Manual of the Corporation of New York City; History of New York City.
Valentine, Milton. Md., 1825- ——. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Gettysburg Theological Seminary from 1884. Natural Theology, or Rational Theism; The Relations of the Family to the Church; The Dynamics of Success; Knowledge by Service; Absolute Christianity; Truth’s Testimony to its Servants: Is the Lord’s Day only a Human Institution? Sil.
Valentini, Philipp Johann Joseph. P., 1828-1899. A New York archæologist among whose writings upon Mexican archæology are, The Landa Alphabet: a Spanish fabrication; Mexican Copper Tools; The Olmecas and the Tultecas.
Vallentine, Benjamin Bennaton. E., 1843- ——. A journalist of New York city, dramatic critic of The Herald. The Fitznoodle Papers; Fitznoodle in America; The Lost Train.
Van-Anderson, Mrs. Helen [Van Metre]. Ia., 1859- ——. A minister and lecturer of Boston. The Right Knock; It is Possible; The Story of Teddy; Journal of a Live Woman. Le.
Van Brunt, Henry. Ms., 1832-1903. An architect of note, the designer of Memorial Hall at Cambridge. Greek Lines, and Other Architectural Essays. Hou.
Van Buren, John Desh. N. Y., 1838- ——. A civil engineer of New York city. Investigation of Formulas for the Strength of Iron Parts of Steam Machinery; Quay and Other Retaining Walls.
Van Buren, Martin. N. Y., 1782-1862. The eighth President of the United States. An Inquiry into the Origin and Causes of Political Parties in the United States is his only writing of importance, except state papers. See Lives by Emmons, 1835, Grund (in German), 1835, Holland, 1836, Crockett, 1836, Mackenzie, 1846, Butler, 1862, Shepard, 1888, Bancroft, 1889; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Van Buren, William Holme. Pa., 1819-1883. An eminent surgeon of New York city. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Diseases of the Rectum; Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs (with Keyes); The Principles of Surgery. Ap.
Vandegrift, Margaret. See Janvier, Margaret.
Vandenhoff, George. E., 1820- ——. An actor and elocutionist of note. Plain System of Elocution; Leaves from an Actor’s Note Book; Dramatic Reminiscences; Clerical Assistant, or Elocutionary Guide; Common Sense; The Art of Reading Aloud.
Van Deusen, Mrs. Mary [Westbrook]. N. Y., 1829- ——. A writer of Rondout, New York, whose principal works include, Rachel Du Mont; Gertrude Willoughby, a novel; Colonial Dames of America; Voices of My Heart, a book of verse.
Van Dyke, Henry Jackson. Pa., 1822-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn. The Lord’s Prayer; The Church: Her Ministry and Sacraments.
Van Dyke, Henry Jackson. Pa., 1852- ——. Son of H. J. Van Dyke, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Brick Church from 1882. The Reality of Religion; The Story of the Psalms; The National Sin of Literary Piracy; The Poetry of Tennyson; Historic Presbyterianism; Straight Sermons to Young Men; The Christ Child in Art; Little Rivers; The Story of the Other Wise Man; God and Little Children; The Gospel for an Age of Doubt; The Builders, and Other Poems. Har. Mac. Ran. Scr.
Van Dyke, John Charles. N. J., 1856- ——. An art critic, librarian of the Sage Library at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Books and How to Use Them; Principles of Art; How to Judge a Picture; Serious Art in America; Art for Art’s Sake; History of Painting; Old Dutch and Flemish Masters. Cent. Fo. Lgs. Scr. Meth.
Van Dyke, Joseph Smith. N. J., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, minister at Cranbury, New Jersey, from 1869. Popery the Foe of the Church; Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic; Through the Prison to the Throne; From Gloom to Gladness; Giving or Entertainment,—Which?; Theism or Evolution. Fu.
Van Dyke, Theodore Strong. N. J., 1842- ——. Brother of J. C. Van Dyke, supra. A lawyer and sportsman of Southern California. Rifle, Rod, and Gun in California; Southern California; The Still Hunter; Game Birds at Home; Southern California the Italy of America. Fo.
Van Horne, Thomas B[udd]. 18— - ——. A clergyman, chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Army of the Cumberland; Life of Major-General Thomas. Clke. Scr.
Van Lennep, Henry John. A. M., 1815-1889. A Congregational missionary in Asia Minor, 1839-69. Ten Days Among Greek Brigands; Bible Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor; The Oriental Album. Har. C. P. S.
Vannah, Letitia Catharine. Me., 1857- ——. A verse-writer of Gardiner, Maine, who has published a volume of Verses.
Van Ness, Thomas. Md., 1859- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Second Church. The Coming Religion; The Ideal Commonwealth; My Visit to Count Tolstoi. Rob.
Van Ness, William Peter. N. Y., 1778-1826. A jurist of New York city. Examination of Charges against Aaron Burr; Laws of New York (with Woodworth); Concise Narrative of Jackson’s First Invasion of Florida.
Van Nest, Abraham Rynier. N. Y., 1823-1892. A Dutch Reformed clergyman in charge of American chapels abroad, and pastor in Philadelphia, 1878-86. Signs of the Times; Life of G. Bethune, supra.
Van Norden, Charles. Ct., 1843- ——. A Congregational clergyman at Suffield, Connecticut. The Outermost Rim and Beyond; The Psychic Factor. Ap. Ran.
Van Rensselaer [rĕn´sĕl-ar], Cortland. N. Y., 1808-1860. A Presbyterian clergyman who was secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education, 1846-60. Miscellaneous Sermons, Essays, and Addresses; Essays and Discourses.
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Mariana [Griswold]. N. Y., 1851- ——. An art critic of New York city. Art Out of Doors, a work on gardening; English Cathedrals; Six Portraits; Handbook of English Cathedrals; Henry Hobson Richardson; One Man who was Content, and Other Stories. Cent. Hou. Scr.
Van Rensselaer, Maunsell. N. Y., 1819-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Sister Louise: her Life Book; Annals of the Van Rensselaers in the United States.
Van Santvoord, Cornelius. N. J., 1816-1901. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York State. Memoir of Eliphalet Nott, supra; Limitation of the Liabilities of Ship Owners Under United States Laws.
Van Santvoord, George. N. J., 1819-1863. Brother of C. Van Santvoord, supra. A lawyer of Kinderhook, New York. Life of Algernon Sidney; Lives of the Chief Justices of the United States; The Indiana Justice; Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions; Precedents of Pleading; Practice in Equity Actions in New York Supreme Court.
Van Santvoord, Harold. N. Y., 1854- ——. Son of G. Van Santvoord, supra. A New York littérateur. Half Holidays, a volume of essays.
Van Schaack, Henry Cruger. N. Y., 1802-1887. Son of P. Van Schaack, infra. A lawyer of Manlius, New York. History of Manlius Village; An Old Kinderhook Mansion; Captain Thomas Morris; Life of Peter Van Schaack, infra.
Van Schaack, Peter. N. Y., 1747-1832. A once famous jurist of Kinderhook, New York. Laws of the Colony of New York; Conductor Generalis. See Life of, by his son, with Journal, Diary, and Letters.
Vanuxem, Lardner. Pa., 1792-1848. A scientist who was State geologist of New York, 1836-42. Geology of New York, Third District; Essay on the Ultimate Principles of Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, and Physiology (1827), an early declaration of the qualitative interconvertibility of heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
Van Zile, Edward Sims. N. Y., 1863- ——. A novelist and journalist of New York city on the staff of The World. Wanted, a Sensation; The Last of the Van Slacks; A Magnetic Man, and Other Stories; Don Miguel, and Other Stories; The Manhattaners; A Crown Prince. Cas. Lov.
Varley, John Philip. See Mitchell, L. E.
Varney, George Jones. Me., 1836-1901. Young People’s History of Maine; Gazetteer of Maine; A Brief History of Maine; The Story of Patriot’s Day. Le.
Varnum, Joseph Bradley. D. C., 1818-1874. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city. The Seat of Government of the United States; The Washington Sketch-Book.
Vasey, George. E., 1822-1893. A physician and botanist who was botanist of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, 1872-93. Beauties and Utilities of a Library; The Philosophy of Laughing and Smiling; A Descriptive Catalogue of Native Forest Trees of the United States; Grasses of the United States; Agricultural Grasses of the United States; Grasses of the South; Grasses of the Arid Districts; Descriptive Catalogue of the Grasses of the United States; Individual Liberty.
Vassar, John Guy. N. Y., 1811-1888. A philanthropist of Poughkeepsie, nephew of the founder of Vassar College. Twenty Years Around the World.
Vassar, Thomas Edwin. N. Y., 1834- ——. Cousin of J. G. Vassar, supra. A Baptist clergyman, author of Uncle John Vassar, or The Fight of Faith, a very popular work.
Vaughan [vawn], John. Pa., 1775-1807. A physician of Wilmington, Delaware, very eminent in his day. Chemical Syllabus; Observations on Animal Electricity.
Vaux [vauks], Calvert. E., 1824-1895. An English architect and landscape gardener who settled in the United States in 1851. With F. L. Olmsted, supra, he designed Central Park in New York city, and he was associated with him in many similar works throughout the country. He published Villas and Cottages in the earlier part of his career. See Annual Cyclopædia, 1895.
Vaux, Richard. Pa., 1816-1895. Son of R. Vaux, infra. A distinguished penologist of Philadelphia. His writings include every annual report of the Eastern Penitentiary for more than fifty years; Recorders’ Decisions; and many volumes on the subject of penology.
Vaux, Roberts. Pa., 1786-1836. A jurist and penologist of Philadelphia, prominent in all local philanthropic enterprises throughout his life. Memoirs of Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, and Anthony Benezet; Efforts to Improve the Discipline of the Prison at Philadelphia.
Vedder, Henry Clay. N. Y., 1853- ——. A journalist for many years, and subsequently professor of church history at Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, Pennsylvania. American Writers of To-day; A Short History of the Baptists. Bap. Sil.
Veeder, Mrs. Emily Elizabeth [Ferris]. N. Y., 1841- ——. A novelist and verse-writer of St. Louis. Her Brother Donnard; Entranced; The Unexpected; In the Garden, and Other Poems. Lip.
Venable, Charles Scott. Va., 1827-1900. A Confederate army officer, professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia from 1865, and author of a series of popular mathematical text-books.
Venable, Francis Preston. Va., 1856- ——. Son of C. S. Venable, supra. A professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina from 1880. A Short Course in Qualitative Analysis; The Development of the Periodic Law.
Venable, William Henry. O., 1836- ——. An educator and littérateur of Cincinnati. School History of the United States; Footprints of the Pioneers in the Ohio Valley; The Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley; Let Him First be a Man, a collection of essays on education. His writings in verse include, June on the Miami, and Other Poems; The Melodies of the Heart. Clke. Le.
Verdi, Tullio Suzzara. Iy., 1829- —— A homœopathic physician practicing in Washington from 1857. Maternity; Mothers and Daughters; The Infant Philosopher; Special Diagnosis for Popular Use.
Verplanck [vĕr-plănk´], Gulian Crommelin. N. Y., 1786-1870. A Shakespearean scholar of New York city whose carefully edited Shakespeare appeared in 1846. He was the author of Essays on Revealed Religion; Discourses on American History, Art, and Literature; Discourses and Addresses; Essay on the Doctrine of Contrasts; The Bucktail Bards. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Very, Jones. Ms., 1813-1880. A Unitarian clergyman living at Salem, Massachusetts, who must be accounted as one of the most purely spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in 1839, the poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model remarkable for their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A fuller edition of the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and revised edition of Poems and Essays in 1886. See Memoir, by W. P. Andrews, in Poems, 1883; Biographical Notice, by J. F. Clarke, supra, in Poems and Essays, 1886; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883. Hou.
Very, Lydia Louisa Anna. Ms., 1823-1901. Sister of J. Very, supra. For many years a teacher in Salem. Poems and Prose Writings.
Vethake, Henry. B. G., 1792-1866. A Philadelphia educator who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1836, and provost in 1854. Principles of Political Economy.
Vetromile, Eugene. Iy., 1819-1881. A noted Italian Jesuit missionary long resident among the Penobscot Indians. Travels in Europe, etc.; The Abenaki and Their History; and several works in the Abenaki language. See Bibliography of Maine.
Veysey, Arthur Henry. E., 1869- ——. A littérateur of New York city. A Cheque for Three Thousand, a novel. Dil.
Victor, Mrs. Frances Auretta [Fuller] [Barrett]. O., 1826-1902. Sister of Mrs. M. Victor, infra, with whom she published Poems of Sentiment and Imagination (1851). After her second marriage to a brother of O. Victor, infra, she removed to California. The River of the West; All Over Oregon; The New Penelope, and Other Stories; Atlantis Arisen. Ap. Lip.
Victor, Mrs. Metta Victoria [Fuller]. “Seeley Register.” Pa., 1831-1885. A novelist and verse-writer of New York city. Fresh Leaves from Western Woods; Last Days of Tul, a Yucatan romance; The Senator’s Son, a plea for the Maine Law; Two Mormon Wives; The Gold Hunters; Miss Slimmens’ Window, and Other Papers; Uncle Ezekiel; Too True; Alice Wilde; The Backwoods Bride; Maum Guinea; Jo Daviess’s Client; The Dead Letter; Figure Eight; Passing the Portal; Blunders of a Bashful Man; The Bad Boy’s Diary; The Naughty Girl’s Diary; The Rasher Family, comprise the greater portion of her works. Her poem Compound Interest is still quoted.
Victor, Orville James. O., 1827- ——. An author and editor of New York city. History of the Southern Rebellion; Incidents and Anecdotes of the War; History of American Conspiracies.
Viele, Egbert Ludovickus. N. Y., 1825-1902. A military engineer who served in the Civil War, and became Park Commissioner of New York City in 1883. Handbook for Active Service; Topographical Atlas of New York City.
Vincent, Francis. Del., 1822-1884. A journalist of Wilmington, Delaware, who published A History of Delaware.
Vincent, Frank. L. I., 1848- ——. A traveler of note. The Land of the White Elephant; Norsk, Lapp, and Finn; Through and Through the Tropics; The Republics of South America; Around and About South America; In and Out of Central America; Actual Africa; Lady of Cawnpore, a novel (with A. Lancaster). Ap. Fu. Har. Put.
Vincent, John Heyl. Al., 1832- ——. A Methodist bishop now living at Topeka, of much prominence as the founder of the celebrated Chautauqua Movement in 1878. Studies in Young Life; The Modern Sunday School; Little Footprints in Bible Lands; Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee; Better Not; The Chautauqua Movement; To Old Bethlehem; Our Own Church; Outline History of Greece; Outline History of Rome, include his more important works. See The Outlook, October, 1896. Fu. Fl. Meth.
Vincent, Marvin Richardson. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor in Union Seminary from 1888. Faith and Character; Student’s Handbook of the Topics and Literature of New Testament Introduction; Word Studies in the New Testament; Stranger and Guest; Gates into the Psalm Country; Amusement a Force in Christian Training; The Two Prodigals; The Minister’s Handbook; What Is It To Believe?; God and Bread; The Covenant of Peace; The Law of Sowing and Reaping; Bible Inspiration and Christ; That Monster, the Higher Critic; Christ as a Teacher; In the Shadow of the Pyrenees, from Basque Land to Carcassonne; The Age of Hildebrand. Do. Ran. Scr.
Vincent, Thomas McCurdy. O., 1832- ——. An army officer who has published The Military Power of the United States during the War of the Rebellion.
Vinght, Francisco Javier. C., 1823- ——. A Cuban educator, after 1848 a resident of New York, and professor of Spanish in the University of the City of New York. Spanish Grammar; Spanish and English Phrase Book; El Maestro de Francés; El Maestro de Inglés; Le Maître d’Espagnol; Lector y Traductor Inglés.
Vinton, Alexander Hamilton. R. I., 1807-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, prominent as a Low Churchman. Bohlen Lectures for 1877; Sermons. Wh.
Vinton, Arthur Dudley. N. Y., 1852- ——. Son of F. Vinton, infra. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. The Pomfret Mystery; The Unpardonable Sin.
Vinton, Francis. R. I., 1809-1872. Brother of A. H. Vinton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of Trinity Church, 1855-72. Arthur Tremaine, or Annals of Cadet Life; Evidences of Christianity; Manual Commentary on the General Canon Law of the Episcopal Church.
Vinton, Francis Laurens. Me., 1835-1879. Nephew of A. H. Vinton, supra. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, who rose to the rank of brigadier-general. The Guardian, a poem; Lectures on Machines; Theory of the Strength of Materials.
Vinton, John Adams. Ms., 1801-1877. A Congregational clergyman and genealogist. The Vinton Memorial; The Symmes Memorial; The Giles Memorial; The Sampson Family in America.
Virgin, William Wirt. Me., 1823-1893. A jurist who was justice of the supreme court of Maine. The Maine Civil Officer; Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine; Law and Equity Reports.
Vogdes, William. Pa., 1802-1886. A lawyer and educator of Philadelphia. United States Arithmetic; Elementary Treatise on Mensuration.
Von Holst. See Holst, H. E. von.
Vos, Geerhardus. H., 1862- ——. A Dutch clergyman, professor of biblical theology at Princeton Seminary from 1894. The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuchal Codes; Die Kämpfe und Streitigkeiten zwischen den Banu Umajja und den Banu Haschim; The Doctrine of the Covenants in Reformed Theology; Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Discipline.
Vose, George Leonard. Me., 1831- ——. A civil engineer, professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1881-86. Orographic Geology; Manual for Railway Engineers; Bridge Disasters in America; A Graphic Method for Solving Algebraic Problems; Elementary Course of Geometric Drawing; Life of G. W. Whistler, Civil Engineer. Le.
Vose, John. N. H., 1766-1840. An educator of Atkinson, New Hampshire, prominent in his day, and author of System of Astronomy; Compendium of Astronomy.
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Wackerhagen, Augustus. G., 1774-1865. A Lutheran clergyman of Columbia County, New York. Inbegriff des Glaubens und Sittenlehre.
Wade, William P——. 18- ——. Treatise on the Law of Notice; On the Operation and Construction of Retroactive Laws; Manual of American Mining Laws in the Western States; The Laws of Notice as Affecting Civil Rights and Remedies; The Law of Attachment and Garnishment.
Wadsworth, Marshman Edward. Me., 1847- ——. The State geologist of Michigan from 1888. Geology of the Iron and Copper Districts of Lake Superior; The Azoid System (with J. D. Whitney, infra); Lithological Studies, are among his writings.
Wagner, Arthur Lockwood. Il., 1853- ——. An officer in the United States army. Catechism of Outpost Duty; Organization and Tactics; The Service of Security and Information; The Campaign of Königgrätz.
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew. E., 1792-1854. A provisional Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, 1852-54. The Land of Bondage; Short Family Prayers; The Pathway and Abiding Places of Our Lord; Lessons on the Church Religious Education; Selected Sermons. See Lives by Doane, 1856, Norton, 1858. Ap. Dut.
Wait, William. N. Y., 1821-1880. An eminent lawyer of Fulton County, New York. Law and Practice in Civil Actions; New York Annotated Code of Procedure; Actions and Defences at Law and in Equity; Treatise on General Principles of the Law.
Waite, Charles Burlingame. N. Y., 1824- ——. A Chicago jurist, author of The Christian Religion to A. D. 200.
Waite, Mrs. Catherine [Van Valkenburg]. Ont., 1829- ——. Wife of C. B. Waite, supra. A Chicago lawyer, founder of The Chicago Law Times, and an active advocate of woman-suffrage. The Mormon Prophet and his Harem.
Waite, Henry Randall. N. Y., 1845- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published The Motive of St. Paul’s Life; Illiteracy and the Mormon Problem; A Boy’s Workshop. Lo.
Wakefield, Mrs. Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest. N. H., 1836-1870. A verse-writer remembered for her poem, Over the River. See Poems of, with Memoir, 1871.
Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont. Ct., 1804-1876. A Methodist clergyman of New York city among whose writings are, The Heroes of Methodism; Lost Chapters Recovered from Early American Methodism; Reminiscences; The American Temperance Cyclopedia. Meth.
Walcott, Charles Doolittle. N. Y., 1850- ——. A geologist of note, director of the United States Geological Survey from 1894. The Trilobite; Paleontology of the Eureka District; The Cambrian Faunas of North America; The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olinus Zone; Correlation Papers.
Walcott, Charles Melton. E., 1815-1868. An actor and playwright of Philadelphia among whose plays are, The Course of True Love; Hoboken; Washington, or Valley Forge; A Good Fellow.
Walden, Treadwell. N. Y., 1830- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Washington. Sunday-School Prayer Book; Our English Bible and its Ancestors; The Great Meaning of Metanoia. Co. Wh.
Waldo, Frank. O., 1857- ——. A meteorologist of Princeton, New Jersey, formerly a junior professor in the United States signal service. Beside a number of scientific monographs, he has published Modern Meteorology; Elementary Meteorology. Am.
Waldo, Samuel Putnam. Ct., 1780-1826. A writer of Hartford, Connecticut. Tour of President Monroe in 1818; Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson; Life of Stephen Decatur; Biographical Sketches.
Waldstein, Charles. N. Y., 1856- ——. An eminent archæologist, the director of the American School of Archæology at Athens from 1888. Excavations at the Heraion of Argos; The Balance of Emotion and Intellect; Essays on the Art of Pheidias; The Work of John Buskin; Study of Art in Universities. Gi. Har.
Wales, Philip Skinner. Md.; 1837- ——. A United States naval officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.
Walke, Henry. Va., 1808-1896. A naval officer appointed rear-admiral in 1870, and the author of Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War.
Walker, Alexander Joseph. Va., 1819-1893. A lawyer and journalist of New Orleans. Jackson and New Orleans; History of the Battle of Shiloh; Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louisiana; Life of General Andrew Jackson.
Walker, Amasa. Ct., 1799-1875. A political economist of Boston. The Science of Wealth; The Nature and Uses of Money. Lip.
Walker, Charles Manning. O., 1834- ——. A journalist of Indianapolis. History of Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta; Lives of Oliver Martin and Alvin Hovey. Clke.
Walker, Cornelius. Va., 1819- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the Virginia Theological Seminary from 1866. Sorrowing Not Without Hope; Outlines of Christian Theology; Lectures on Christian Ethics. Wh.
Walker, Edward Dwight. L. I., 1859-1890. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. Reincarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth.
Walker, Francis Amasa. Ms., 1840-1897. Son of A. Walker, supra. The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881, and during the Civil War a Federal officer, rising to the rank of colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. A distinguished authority on financial topics; an advocate of bimetallism. Wages; Money; Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry; Political Economy; The Indian Question; Land and its Rent; History of the Second Army Corps; Life of General Hancock; The Making of the Nation; Double Taxation in the United States; International Bimetallism. See Review of Reviews, February, 1897. Ap. Ho. Lit. Mac. Scr.
Walker, George Leon. Vt., 1830-1900. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of a church in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1879. History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat; Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England. Do. Sil.
Walker, James. Ms., 1794-1874. A Unitarian clergyman, minister at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1818-38, president of Harvard University, 1853-60. Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel; Discourses. A. U. A.
Walker, James Barr. Pa., 1805-1887. A popular Presbyterian clergyman in Ohio and Illinois. Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation; Poetry of Reason and Conscience; Pioneer Life in the West; God Revealed in Nature and in Christ; Philosophy of Skepticism and Ultraism; The Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man; Living Questions of the Age; Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; Poems. Meth.
Walker, James Bradford Richmond. Ms., 1821-1885. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. Comprehensive Concordance to the Holy Scriptures. C. P. S.
Walker, James Murdock. S. C., 1813-1854. A South Carolina lawyer. The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State versus Bank of South Carolina; Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real Estate.
Walker, James Perkins. N. H., 1829-1868. A Boston publisher. Faith and Patience, a story for boys; Book of Raphael’s Madonnas; Sunny-Eyed Tim. See Memoir of, 1869.
Walker, Joseph Burbeen. N. H., 1822- ——. An agriculturist of New Hampshire. Land Drainage; Forests of New Hampshire; Prospective Agriculture in New Hampshire; Oats; Rogers the Ranger; Birth of the Federal Constitution.
Walker, Joseph Henry. Ms., 1829- ——. A Republican Congressman from Massachusetts whose home is in Worcester. A Few Facts and Suggestions on Money, Trade, and Banking. Hou.
Walker, Mrs. Katherine Kent [Child]. Vt., 1840- ——. A writer who is best known by a famous paper in The Atlantic Monthly on The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things. Bible Stories for the Young; Life of Christ; From the Crib to the Cross. Ran.
Walker, Mrs. Mary Spring. 18— - ——. A Boston writer. Wife of J. B. R. Walker, supra. The Family Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and her Bourbon; Rev. Dr. Willoughby and his Wine; Both Sides of the Street; Down in a Saloon; White Robes.
Walker, Robert James. Pa., 1801-1869. The secretary of the United States Treasury, 1845-49, and author of Letters on the Finances and Resources of the United States.
Walker, Sears Cook. Ms., 1805-1853. Brother of T. Walker, infra. An astronomer who published a number of professional monographs.
Walker, Timothy. Ms., 1806-1856. A jurist of Cincinnati. Elements of Geometry; Introduction to American Law. Lit.
Walker, William. Tn., 1824-1860. A famous adventurer who led a filibustering expedition into Nicaragua in 1855, and was afterwards court-martialled and shot by the authorities of Honduras. The War in Nicaragua. See Walker’s Expedition to Nicaragua, by W. V. Wells, 1856; Reminiscences of the Filibuster War by Doubleday, 1886; Joaquin Miller’s Walker in Nicaragua.
Walker, William McCreary. Md., 1813-1866. A United States naval officer who published a work on Screw Propulsion.
Walker, Williston. Me., 1860- ——. Son of G. L. Walker, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of Germanic and Western Church History in Hartford Theological Seminary from 1889. The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism; On the Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus; A History of the Congregational Church in the United States. Scr.
Wallace, Horace Binney. Pa., 1817-1852. Son of J. B. Wallace, infra. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. Literary Criticisms; Art and Scenery in Europe. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Wallace, John Bradford. N. J., 1778-1837. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Remarks on the Law of Bailment; Reports of Cases of the Third Circuit Court. See Memoir by his wife, 1848.
Wallace, John William. Pa., 1815-1884. Son of J. B. Wallace, supra. A master in chancery of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The Reporters, Chronologically Arranged; Cases in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Third Circuit; Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1863-1874; An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford, the Patriot Printer of 1776. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Wallace, Lew[is]. Ind., 1827- ——. A Federal major-general during the Civil War, subsequently a lawyer of Crawfordsville, Indiana, and minister to Turkey, 1881-85. Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ, has been extremely popular, but neither this nor his other romances have met the entire approval of literary critics. His other works include, The Fair God, an Aztec Story; The Prince of India; The Boyhood of Christ; Life of General Benjamin Harrison. Har.
Wallace, Mrs. Susan Arnold [Elston]. Ind., 1830- ——. Wife of L. Wallace, supra. The Storied Sea; Ginevra, a Christmas Story; The Land of the Pueblos; The Repose in Egypt. Har.
Wallace, William Ross. Ky., 1819-1881. A lawyer and verse-writer of New York city. Perdita; Alban; Meditations in America, and Other Poems. The Liberty Bell is his best-known poem. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Wallack, Lester (real name John Johnstone Wallack). N. Y., 1820-1888. A noted comedian and dramatist of New York city. The Veteran; Rosedale. See Galaxy Magazine, October, 1868; Autobiography of, 1889. Scr.
Wallis, Severn Teackle. Md., 1816-1894. A lawyer of Baltimore. Glimpses of Spain; Spain: her Institutions, Politics, and Public Men. A memorial edition of his writings in four volumes was published in 1896. Har.
Waln, Robert. Pa., 1765-1836. A Philadelphia merchant. Answer to the Anti-Protection Report of Henry Lee; Seven Letters to Elias Hicks, widely read at the time of their appearance.
Waln, Robert. Pa., 1794-1825. Son of R. Wain, supra. A Philadelphia littérateur. The Hermit in America; American Bards, a satire; Sisyphi Opus, with Other Poems; Life of Lafayette.
Walsh, Michael. I., 1763-1840. A once popular educator of Massachusetts who published a Mercantile Arithmetic, and a New System of Bookkeeping.
Walsh, Robert. Md., 1784-1859. A prominent Philadelphian who was United States consul at Paris, 1845-51. In 1811 he established the American Review of History and Politics, the first quarterly in the United States. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain; Letter on the Genius and Disposition of the French Government; Correspondence Respecting Russia; Didactics; The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science. See Edinburgh Review, May, 1820; North American Review, April, 1820.
Walsh, William Shepard. “William Shepard.” F., 1854-189-. Grandson of R. Walsh, supra. A Philadelphia littérateur, editor of Lippincott’s Magazine, 1886-90. Authors and Authorship; Pen Pictures of Earlier Victorian Authors; Faust: the Legend and the Poem; Paradoxes of a Philistine; Pen Pictures of Modern Authors; Our Young Folks’ History of the Roman Empire.
Walter, Nehemiah. I., 1663-1750. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1688 until his death. The Sense of Indwelling Sin in the Unregenerate; Sermons; Practical Discourses on the Holiness of Heaven.
Walter, Thomas. Ms., 1696-1725. Son of N. Walter, supra. A Congregational clergyman, the colleague of his father. Grounds and Rules of Music Explained; Infallibility May Sometimes Mistake.
Walter, William Bicker. Ms., 1796-1822. Great-grandnephew of T. Walter, supra. A verse-writer who published Poems; Sukey, suggested by Halleck’s “Fanny.”
Walters, William Thompson. Pa., 1820-1891. A merchant of Baltimore, long prominent as an art patron. Antoine Louis Barye, from the French of Various Critics; The Percheron Horse, from the French of Du Hays; Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century.
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm. Sxy., 1811-1887. A Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1839, and was president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at St. Louis, 1849-1887. Dr. Luther’s kleiner Katechismus ausgelegt von Dr. J. C. Dietrich, mit Zusätzen; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Evangelien-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Epistel-Postille; Amerikanisch-Lutherische Pastoral-theologie. He was the leader of what are known as Missouri Lutherans. See Biography of, by Günther (Lebensbild), 1890; Brömel’s Homiletische Characterbilder, 1874.
Walton, George Edward. O., 1839- ——. A Cincinnati physician, professor of medicine in Cincinnati College from 1880. The Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada.
Walworth [wŏ´wŏrth], Clarence Alphonsus. N. Y., 1820-1900. Son of Reuben Walworth, infra. A Roman Catholic clergyman who was one of the founders of the Paulist order in the United States, a prominent temperance advocate, and since 1864 rector of St. Mary’s, Albany. The Gentle Sceptic; The Doctrine of Hell; Andiatorocté, and Other Poems.
Walworth, Mrs. Ellen [Hardin]. Il., 1832- ——. Wife of M. T. Walworth, infra. A Saratoga writer who has published Saratoga, the Battle Ground.
Walworth, Ellen Hardin. N. Y., 1858- ——. Daughter of M. T. Walworth, infra. An Old World as Seen Through Young Eyes.
Walworth, Mrs. Jeanette Ritchie [Hadermann]. Pa., 1837- ——. A novelist of New York city. Dead Men’s Shoes; The Bar Sinister; The Man at Rossmere; At Bay; Southern Silhouettes; Forgiven at Last; Baldy’s Point; The Silent Witness; Heavy Yokes; An Old Fogy; The Little Radical; Uncle Scipio, are among her numerous fictions. Cas. Ho.
Walworth, Mansfield Tracy. N. Y., 1837-1873. Son of Reuben H. Walworth, infra. A lawyer once well known as a writer of extremely sensational romances. Among them are, Beverly; Warwick; Lulu; Delaplene; Stormcliff; Mission of Death; Tahara, a Leaf from Empire.
Walworth, Reuben Hyde. Ct., 1787-1867. An eminent jurist of Saratoga, the last Chancellor of the State of New York. Rules and Orders of the New York Court of Chancery; The Hyde Genealogy.
Walworth, Reubena Hyde. Ky., 1867-1898. Daughter of M. T. Walworth, supra. Where was Elsie?, a comedietta.
Ward, Aaron. N. Y., 1790-1867. A New York congressman and major-general of militia, the author of Around the Pyramids, a volume of travel.
Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ms., 1784-1864. A lawyer of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and subsequently of Newton in the same State. History of Shrewsbury; Genealogy of the Rice Family; The Ward Family.
Ward, Artemus. See Browne, C. F.
Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart [Phelps]. Ms., 1844- ——. Wife of Herbert D. Ward, infra, daughter of A. Phelps, supra. A popular New England novelist whose life was mainly passed at Andover and Gloucester until her marriage in 1888. She has more recently lived in Newton, Massachusetts. The publication in 1869 of The Gates Ajar, a tale whose theme is the life of departed spirits in the next world, aroused much discussion, and instantly made its author famous. She has since pursued the same motive in Beyond the Gates, and The Gates Between. Her latest works, as a whole, show an increase of power and a higher level of literary excellence. Hedged in; The Silent Partner; Sealed Orders, and Other Stories; Men, Women, and Ghosts; Friends: a Duet; Dr. Zay; The Story of Avis; An Old Maid’s Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise; Fourteen to One, a book of short stories; Donald Marcy; Jack the Fisherman; The Madonna of the Tubs; A Singular Life; The Supply at St. Agatha’s; The Master of the Magicians (with H. D. Ward); Come Forth (with H. D. Ward); What to Wear?; The Struggle for Immortality, a collection of essays; Chapters from a Life, an autobiography. Less widely known as a poet, her Poetic Studies, and Songs of the Silent World, perhaps represent her highest point of attainment. Her juvenile books include, Gypsey’s Rainy Day Book; My Cousin and I; The Trotty Book; Trotty’s Wedding Tour and Story Book. See Vedder’s American Writers. Hou.
Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton. N. Y., 1812- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in India, 1836-47, and subsequently a minister in Geneseo, New York. India and the Hindoos; Christian Gift, or Pastoral Letters Upon Character; Summer Vacation Abroad; History of the Churches of Rochester, New York.
Ward, Henry Augustus. N. Y., 1834- ——. Nephew of F. Ward, supra. A naturalist of note, professor in the University of Rochester, 1860-75. Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri; Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in Royal Museums of Europe.
Ward, Henry Dana. Ms., 1797-1884. A Baptist clergyman prominent as an opponent of freemasonry. Freemasonry: its Pretensions; The Gospel of the Kingdom; The History of the Cross; The Faith of Abraham and Christ.
Ward, Herbert Dickinson. Ms., 1861- ——. Son of W. H. Ward, infra. The Captain of the Kittie Wink; A Dash to the Pole; The New Senior at Andover; The White Crown, and Other Stories; The Burglar who Moved Paradise. Hou. Ll. Lo. Lov. Rob.
Ward, Mrs. H. O. See Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara.
Ward, James Harman. Ct., 1806-1861. A United States naval officer. Elementary Course of Instruction in Naval Gunnery; Manual of Naval Tactics; Steam for the Million.
Ward, James Warner. N. J., 1818- ——. A verse-writer; librarian, 1874-1895, of the Grosvenor library at Buffalo. Home-made Verses and Stories in Rhyme; Yorick, and Other Poems; Higher Water, a parody upon Hiawatha.
Ward, John. N. Y., 1838- ——. Cousin of S. Ward, infra. A soldier and physician of New York city. The Overland Route to California, and Other Poems.
Ward, Julius Hammond. Ms., 1837-1897. An Episcopal clergyman and journalist of Boston on the staff of The Boston Herald. Life of J. G. Percival, supra; The Bible in Modern Thought; Life of Bishop White, infra; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts; The Church in Modern Society; The White Mountains, a Guide to their Interpretation. Ap. Do. Hou.
Ward, Lester Frank. Il., 1841- ——. A botanist and geologist employed in the United States Geological Survey. Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity; Sketch of Paleontological Botany; Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group; Types of the Laramie Flora; Geographical Distribution of Fossil Plants; Dynamic Sociology; The Psychic Factors of Civilization; The Principles of Sociology. Ap. Gi.
Ward, Matthew Flournoy. Ky., 1826-1863. A writer of Louisville. Letters From Three Continents; English Items.
Ward, Mrs. May [Alden]. O., 1853- ——. President of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Petrarch; Dante: Sketch of his Life and Works; Old Colony Days. Rob.
Ward, Nathaniel. E., c. 1580-1652. A Puritan clergyman, minister at Ipswich, 1634-36, and a resident of the colony of Massachusetts until 1646, when he returned to England, and was rector of Shenfield in Essex, 1647-52. He is famous as the author of The Simple Cobler of Aggavvam in America, a piece of satire as able as it is vindictive and intolerant. The first code of laws made in New England was drafted by Ward in 1639, and formally adopted in 1644. It is styled The Body of Liberties. Mercurius Anti-mechanicus, or the Simple Cobbler’s Boy with his Lap-full of Caveats, is usually attributed to Ward, and probably with truth. Other writings ascribed to him are, A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army; A Sermon before Parliament (1647). See Tyler’s American Literature; Memoir by John Ward Dean, 1868.
Ward, Samuel. N. Y., 1814-1884. A once prominent banker of New York city who published Lyrical Recreations.
Ward, Thomas. N. J., 1807-1873. A littérateur of New York city. A Month of Freedom; Passaic: a Group of Poems; Flora, or the Gypsy’s Frolic, a pastoral opera; War Lyrics.
Ward, William Hayes. Ms., 1835- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Independent, and eminent as an Assyriologist. Notes on Oriental Antiquities.
Warden, David Baillie. I., 1788-1845. A consul and secretary of the United States legation at Paris from 1804 until his death. Origin and Nature of Consular Establishments; Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of the Negroes (1810); Description of the District of Columbia; Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis; L’art de vérifier les dates: chronologie historique de l’Amérique; A Statistical History of the United States.
Warden, Robert Bruce. Ky., 1824- ——. A lawyer formerly of Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washington. A Familiar Forensic View of Man and Law; A Voter’s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Douglas; Private Life of Salmon Chase.
Warder, John Aston. Pa., 1812-1883. A Cincinnati physician very active in promoting a general interest in forestry and landscape gardening. Hedge Manual; American Pomology.
Ware, Henry. Ms., 1764-1845. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of Hingham, 1787-1805. His election in the latter year to the Hollis professorship of divinity at Harvard University precipitated the dissensions which ultimately resulted in dividing the Congregational body into Unitarian and Trinitarian portions. Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists; Inquiry into Foundation, Evidences, and Truth of Religion. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Ware, Henry. Ms., 1794-1843. Son of H. Ware, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of the Second Church in Boston, 1817-30, and Parkman professor at Harvard University, 1830-42. The Vision of Liberty, an ode; Hints on Extemporaneous Speaking; Discourses on the Offices and Character of Christ; Sermons on Small Sins; On the Formation of Christian Character, which has been very widely read; Life of the Saviour; Lives of Priestley and Noah Worcester, infra. See Memoir by John Ware, infra; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit. A. U. A.
Ware, John. Ms., 1795-1864. Son of H. Ware, 1st, supra. A Boston physician, professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1832-58. History and Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Hints to Young Men on the Relation of the Sexes; Success in the Medical Profession; Life of Henry Ware, supra. A. U. A.
Ware, John Fothergill Waterhouse. Ms., 1818-1881. Son of Henry Ware, 2d, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, and subsequently of Boston. Wrestling and Waiting; Sermons; War Tracts; The Silent Pastor; Home Life. El. Le.
Ware, Mrs. Katherine Augusta [Rhodes]. Ms., 1797-1843. The wife of a United States naval officer. She published The Power of the Passions, and Other Poems.
Ware, Mrs. Mary Greene [Chandler], Ms., 1818- ——. Wife of J. Ware, supra. Elements of Character; Thoughts in My Garden; Death and Life.
Ware, Nathaniel A——. Ms., c. 1789-1854. A Southern writer whose later years were spent in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Views of the Federal Constitution; Notes on Political Economy.
Ware, William. Ms., 1797-1852. Son of H. Ware, 1st, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of New York city, 1821-36, whose historical novels are still popular. Letters from Palmyra, republished as Zenobia; Probus, afterwards called Aurelian; Julian; American Unitarian Biography (edited); Lectures on the Works of Washington Allston; Sketches of European Capitals; Life of Nathaniel Bacon in Sparks’s American Biography; Sermons Illustrative of Unitarian Christianity; Unitarianism the Doctrine of Matthew’s Gospel. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit. Est.
Ware, William Robert. Ms., 1832- ——. Son of H. Ware, 2d, supra. A professor of architecture in Columbia College School of Mines from 1881. He has published Modern Perspective. Mac.
Warfield, Benjamin Breckenridge. Ky., 1851- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of didactic and polemical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887. The Divine Origin of the Bible; Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; The Gospel of the Incarnation, include his more important works.
Warfield, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Ware]. Mi., 1816-1877. Daughter of N. Ware, supra. A Kentucky novelist who with her sister Eleanor wrote The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems; The Indian Chamber, and Other Poems. Her own separate writings include, The Household of Bouverie; The Romance of the Green Seal; Miriam Monfort; Hester Howard’s Temptation; A Double Wedding; Lady Ernestine; Miriam’s Memoirs; Sea and Shore; The Cardinal’s Daughter; Ferne Fleming; The Romance of Beauscincourt.
Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley. Ky., 1861- ——. A lawyer and educator, president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1891. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, an Historical Study.
Waring [wā´rĭng], George Edwin. N. Y., 1833-1898. An eminent sanitary engineer, superintendent of the street-cleaning department of New York city, 1895-97. The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns; A Farmer’s Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps; Village Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health; Book of the Farm; How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land Drainage; Sanitary Condition of City and Country Dwellings; Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal. Co. Hou. Vn.
Warman, Cy. Il., 1855- ——. A Colorado journalist who was for a time a railway engineer. Tales of an Engineer, with Rhymes of the Rail. Scr.
Warner, Adoniram Judson. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Federal officer during the Civil War, since 1866 a resident of Ohio. Appreciation of Money; Source of Value in Money.
Warner, Amos Griswold. Ia., 1861-1900. A professor of applied economics in Leland Stanford Junior University, who, beside reports as superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia, published, American Charities: a Study in Philanthropy and Economics; Three Phases of Coöperation in the West. Cr.
Warner, Anna Bartlett. “Amy Lothrop.” N. Y., 1820- ——. Sister of S. Warner, infra, and co-author with her of Say and Seal; Wych Hazel; Books of Blessing; Ellen Montgomery’s Bookshelf. Among her separate novels and religious and other works are, Dollars and Cents; My Brother’s Keeper; Stories of Vinegar Hill; The Fourth Watch; The Other Shore; Three Little Spades, a Child’s Book of Gardening; Gardening by Myself; Up and Down the House. Har. Lip. Ran.
Warner, Beverley Ellison. N. J., 1855- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New Orleans. English History in Shakespeare’s Plays. Lgs.
Warner, Charles Dudley. Ms., 1829-1900. A popular novelist and essayist of Hartford, editor of The Hartford Courant from 1867, and one of the editors of Harper’s Magazine, 1884-1898. As a humorous writer he presents the literary and not the newspaper aspect of American humour. My Summer in a Garden; Backlog Studies; Saunterings; Being a Boy; Baddeck and that Sort of Thing; Mummies and Moslems; In the Wilderness: Adirondack Essays; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Captain John Smith; In the Levant; My Winter on the Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On Horseback, a Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in Mexico and California; The Work of Washington Irving; Studies in the South and West; Southern California; A Little Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; The Golden House; As We Go; As We Were Saying; The Relation of Life to Literature; Our Italy. See Vedder’s American Writers; Foley’s American Authors. Har. Ho. Hou.
Warner, Eliza A——. 18— - ——. A writer of Northampton, Massachusetts, among whose works are, Tom Tracy; The Red House; Our Two Lives.
Warner, Susan. “Elizabeth Wetherell.” N. Y., 1818-1885. A once famous novelist of Highland Falls, New York, whose Wide, Wide World, a priggish religious tale appearing in 1849, attained an extraordinary popularity in America and England. Among her other works are, Queechy; The Old Helmet; Stephen, M. D.; The Hills of the Shatemuc; Melbourne House; Daisy; Diana; The Law and the Testimony, a theological work. Lip. Put.
Warner, Zebedee. Va., 1833- ——. A minister of the sect of United Brethren. Christian Baptism; Rise and Progress of the United Brethren Church; Life of Jacob Buchtel; The Roman Catholic not a True Christian Church.
Warren, Cornelia. Ms., 1857- ——. Miss Wilton, a novel. Hou.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble. N. Y., 1830-1882. A lieutenant-colonel in the engineer corps, major-general of United States volunteers, and brevet major-general in the United States army. Explorations in the Dacota Country in 1855; Exploration of the Country Between the Missouri and the Platte Rivers; The Battle of Five Forks, Virginia.
Warren, Henry White. Ms., 1831- ——. A Methodist bishop living in Denver. The Bible in the World’s Education; Lectures on the Bible in English; Sights and Insights, or Knowledge by Travel; Studies of the Stars; Recreations in Astronomy. Har. Meth.
Warren, Ira. Ont., 1806-1864. A journalist and physician of Boston. Causes and Cure of Puseyism; The Household Physician.
Warren, Israel Perkins. Ct., 1814-1892. A Congregational clergyman, editor of The Christian Mirror at Portland, Maine, from 1875. Three Judges; Chauncey Judd; The Seaman’s Cause; Sadduceeism; The Parousia; The Book of Revelation: an Exposition, include his principal works. Cr. Fu.
Warren, John. Ms., 1753-1815. A Boston physician, professor of anatomy at Harvard University from 1783. He was a brother of General Joseph Warren who fell at Bunker Hill. Mercurial Practice in Febrile Diseases.
Warren, John Collins. Ms., 1778-1856. Son of J. Warren, supra. A Boston physician who succeeded his father as professor of anatomy at Harvard University in 1815. He was one of the founders in 1820 of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and its chief surgeon till his death. He published, Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart; Surgical Observations on Tumors, and lesser works. See Life of, by E. Warren, 1860.
Warren, John Collins. Ms., 1842- ——. Son of J. M. Warren, infra. A professor of surgery at Harvard University from 1887. The Anatomy and Development of Rodent Ulcer; Pathology of Carbuncle and Columnal Adipose; The Healing of Arteries after Ligature in Men and Animals; Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics.
Warren, Jonathan Mason. Ms., 1811-1867. Son of J. C. Warren, supra. A Boston physician. Surgical Observations, with Cures and Operations. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Warren, Mrs. Mercy [Otis]. Ms., 1728-1814. Sister of James Otis, supra, very prominent as a literary figure in her day, and especially esteemed as a political satirist. The Group, a political satire; History of the American Revolution; three tragedies, including The Adulator, the Sack of Rome, The Ladies of Castille; Poems: Dramatic and Miscellaneous. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America; Mrs. Ellet’s Women of the Revolution; Life of, by Alice Brown, supra, 1896.
Warren, Nathan Boughton. N. Y., 1805-1898. An author of Troy, New York. The Ancient Plain Song of the Church; The Order of Daily Service, with the English Musical Notation; The Holidays; Hidden Treasure, a Goblin Story.
Warren, Samuel Edward. Ms., 1831- ——. An educator of Newton, Massachusetts. Elementary Projection Drawing; General Problems of Shades and Shadows; Problems in Stone Cutting; Descriptive Geometry; Machine Drawing; The Sunday Question, are among his published works.
Warren, Thomas Robinson. N. Y., 1828- ——. A traveller and merchant. Dust and Foam Tracks; The Yachtsman Primer; Shooting, Boating, and Fishing; On Deck; Juliette Irving and the Jesuit.
Warren, William. Me., 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman at Gorham, Maine. School Geography; Household Consecration; The Spirit’s Sword; Twelve Years Among Children; These for Those.
Warren, William Fairfield. Ms., 1833- ——. A Methodist clergyman, president of Boston University from 1873. Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; The True Key to Ancient Chronology; In the Footsteps of Arminius; Constitutional Law Questions in the Methodist Church; The Quest of the Perfect Religion; The Story of Gottlieb. Fl. Hou. Meth.
Warriner, Edward Augustus. Ms., 1829- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Victor La Tourette; Kear, a Poem; I Am That I Am, a Metrical Essay.
Warriner, Francis. Ms., 1805-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was a United States naval chaplain, 1831-1834. The Cruise of the Potomac.
Warrington. See Robinson, W. S.
Washburn, Charles Ames. Me., 1822-1889. A diplomatist who was minister to Paraguay, 1863-68. The History of Paraguay; From Poverty to Competence: Graduated Taxation; Political Evolution; Philip Thaxter; Gomery of Montgomery. Le.
Washburn, Edward Abiel. Ms., 1819-1881. An Episcopal clergyman of Broad Church views, rector of Calvary Church, New York city. The Social Law of God; Voices from a Busy Life, a volume of verse; The Relation of the Episcopal Church to Other Bodies; Epochs of Church History; Beatitudes, and Other Sermons. Dut. Wh.
Washburn, Emory. Ms., 1800-1877. A lawyer of Worcester, 1828-56; was governor of Massachusetts, 1854-56; and professor of law in Harvard University, 1856-76. Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts; History of Leicester, Massachusetts; Treatise on American Law of Real Property; American Law of Easements and Servitudes; Testimony of Experts; Lectures on the Study and Practice of the Law. Hou. Lit.
Washburn, Francis. N. Y., 1843- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Newburg, New York. Meditations on Charity; The Soul Athirst, and Other Sermons; Thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer. Wh.
Washburn, Israel. Me., 1813-1883. Brother of C. A. Washburn, supra; governor of Maine, 1861. Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal, of Livermore, Maine. See Bibliography of Maine.
Washburn, Peter Thacher. Ms., 1814-1870. A lawyer of Woodstock, Vermont, and governor of his State in 1869. Reports of the Supreme Court of Vermont; Digest of All Cases in the Vermont Supreme Court.
Washburn, William Tucker. Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer and novelist of New York city. Fair Harvard; The Unknown City, a story of New York; Spring and Summer, a collection of verse.
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. Me., 1816-1887. Brother of C. A. Washburn, supra, but adding an “e” to the family name. A statesman who was secretary of state in 1869, and minister to France, 1869-77. Sketch of Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle of 1823-24; Recollections of a Minister to France. Scr.
Washington, Booker Taliaferro. Va., 1856- ——. A distinguished educator of African descent, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1881. Up from Slavery.
Washington, Bushrod. Va., 1762-1829. Nephew of G. Washington, infra. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases in the Virginia Court of Appeals; Reports of Cases in the United States Circuit Court, Third District, 1803-27. See Life by H. Binney, 1858.
Washington, George. Va., 1732-1799. The first president of the United States, and known to general literature by his Farewell Address. His writings, including his Diary and Correspondence, have been edited in fourteen volumes by W. C. Ford, supra. See United States histories; Lives by Marshall, Bancroft, Irving, Paulding, Sparks, Weems, Ramsay, E. E. Hale, Lodge, and many others; Allibone’s Dictionary. Put.
Washington, Mrs. Lucy Hall [Walker]. Vt., 1835- ——. A temperance reformer and verse-writer, the wife of a Baptist clergyman at Port Jervis, New York. Echoes of Song; Memory’s Casket.
Wasson, David Atwood. Me., 1823-1887. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, prominent as a radical thinker, who lived at West Medford after his retirement from the ministry. Poems; Essays: Religious, Social, Political. See Memoir of, by O. B. Frothingham, supra. Le.
Waterbury, Jared Bell. N. Y., 1799-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman who was city missionary of Brooklyn. Advice to a Young Christian; Voyage of Life; Sketches of Eloquent Preachers; Southern Planters and Freedmen, are among his works.
Waterhouse, Benjamin. R. I., 1754-1846. A physician who was professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1783-1812, and of natural history at Brown University, 1784-91. Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine; The Principles of Vitality; The Botanist; The Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, a novel.
Waterman, Thomas Glasby. N. Y., 1788-1862. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who published The Justice’s Manual.
Waterman, Thomas Whitney. N. Y., 1821-1898. Son of T. G. Waterman, supra. A lawyer of Binghamton, New York, who edited many law books and wrote, The Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in New York; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices in Wisconsin and Iowa; Principles of Law and Equity; The Law of Set-Off; The Law of Trespass; The Law Relating to Specific Performance of Contracts; The Law of Corporations other than Municipal.
Waters, Mrs. Clara [Erskine] [Clement]. Mo., 1834- ——. An art-writer of Boston. Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art; Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works, a Handbook; Christian Symbols (with K. Conway, supra); Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works (with L. Hutton, supra); Life of Charlotte Cushman; Eleanor Maitland, a novel; Stories of Art and Artists; Naples, the City of Parthenope; Venice, Mediæval and Modern; Constantinople, the City of the Sultans; History of Painting for Beginners and Students; Rome the Eternal City. Est. Hou. Sto.
Waters, Robert. S., 1835- ——. An educator of Hoboken, New Jersey. Life of William Cobbett; Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself; How Genius Works its Wonders.
Waterston, Mrs. Anne Cabot Lowell [Quincy]. Ms., 1812-1899. Wife of R. C. Waterston, infra, and daughter of J. Quincy (1772-1864), supra. Verses by A. C. Q. W.; Adelaide Phillipps, a Record.
Waterston, Robert Cassie. Me., 1812-1893. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture; Arthur Lee and Tom Palmer.