Chapter 6

A Dictionary of American Authors (part 1)

Abbe, Cleveland. N. Y., 1838- ——. A meteorologist of distinction who in 1871 became professor of meteorology in the national weather bureau and has since continued in that position. The more important of his many publications include Solar Spots and Terrestrial Temperature; A Plea for Terrestrial Physics; Atmospheric Radiation; Treatise on Meteorological Apparatus; Preparatory Studies for Deductive Methods in Meteorology.
Abbe, Frederick Randolph. Ct., 1827-1889. A Congregational clergyman in Massachusetts. The Temple Rebuilt, a Poem of Christian Faith.
Abbey, Henry. N. Y., 1842- ——. A resident of Kingston, New York, who has published several collections of pleasant unpretentious verse. Ballads of Good Deeds; The City of Success; May Dreams; Ralph and Other Poems; Stories in Verse.
Abbey, Richard. N. Y., 1805-1891. A prominent clergyman of the Southern Methodist Church, among whose many theological and controversial writings are, End of the Apostolical Succession; Creed of All Men; Diuturnity; Ecce Ecclesia, a reply to Ecce Homo; The City of God and the Church Makers.
Abbot, Abiel. N. H., 1765-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut and Massachusetts. History of Andover; Genealogy of the Abbot Family.
Abbot, Abiel. Ms., 1770-1828. A Congregational clergyman of Beverly, Massachusetts. Letters from Cuba. His Sermons with Memoir were published in 1831.
Abbot, Ezra. Me., 1819-1884. A Unitarian biblical scholar of much prominence, who was for many years a professor in the Divinity School of Harvard University, and widely known for the extent of his bibliographical acquirements. Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life; Authenticity of the Fourth Gospel; The Fourth Gospel and Other Critical Essays. With H. B. Hackett, infra, he prepared the American edition of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. See Memorial of, 1884. El.
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. Ms., 1836-1903. A religious and philosophical thinker of advanced views, for some years editor of The Index, whose home was at Cambridge. Scientific Theism; The Way out of Agnosticism. Lit.
Abbot, Gorham Dummer. Me., 1807-1874. A Congregational clergyman, long an educator of New York city. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, infra, but returned to an older spelling of his surname. Prayer-Book for the Young; Pleasure and Profit; The Family at Home.
Abbot, Henry Larcom. Ms., 1831- ——. A general in the United States army, of prominence as an engineer. Besides several series of Professional Papers, his writings include Lectures on the Defence of the Sea Coast of the United States; Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River. Vn.
Abbot, Willis John. Ct., 1863- ——. Grandson of J. S. C. Abbott, infra, but using an older spelling of the surname. A journalist of New York city. Blue Jackets of 1776; Blue Jackets of 1812; Blue Jackets of ’61, three volumes of history for young people; Battle Fields of ’61; Battle Fields and Camp Fires; Battle Fields and Victory; Life of Carter Harrison. Do.
Abbott, Arthur Vaughan. N. Y., 1854- ——. Son of B. V. Abbott, infra. A civil, electrical, and mechanical engineer of Chicago. Electrical Transmission of Energy; The Evolution of a Switchboard; History and Use of Testing Machines; Treatise on Fuel. Vn.
Abbott, Austin. Ms., 1831-1896. Son of Jacob Abbott, infra. A lawyer of New York city who was dean of the Law School of New York University at the time of his death. Besides preparing several works with his brother Benjamin, infra, he published Legal Remembrancer, Principles and Forms of Practice in Civil Actions in Courts of Record; The Law of Evidence; Select Cases on Code Pleading; Digest of New York Statutes.
Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan. Ms., 1830-1890. Son of Jacob Abbott, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Law Dictionary; Travelling Law School and Famous Trials; First Lessons in Government and Law; Patent Laws of All Nations; Year-Book of Jurisprudence for 1880; Judge and Jury. Har. Lit. Lo.
Abbott, Charles Conrad. N. J., 1843- ——. A naturalist and physician of Trenton, New Jersey, whose writings show a very close and sympathetic observation of nature. The Stone Age in New Jersey; Primitive Industry; A Naturalist’s Rambles about Home; Cyclopædia of Natural History; Upland and Meadow; Wasteland Wanderings; The Birds About Us; Days Out of Doors; Outings at Odd Times; Recent Rambles; Travels in a Treetop; Notes of the Night; A Colonial Wooing, a novel; Bird-Land Echoes. Ap. Cent. Har. Lip.
Abbott, Charles Edward. Me., 1811-1880. Brother of Jacob Abbott, infra. An educator in Connecticut. Down the Hill; Village Boys.
Abbott, Edward. Me., 1841- ——. Son of Jacob Abbott, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, but prior to 1878 a Congregational minister and editor of The Congregationalist. He is now [1897] the editor of The Literary World. Dialogues of Christ; The Long Look series of juvenile tales; A Trip Eastward; Revolutionary Times; Paragraph History of the United States; Paragraph History of the American Revolution. Rob.
Abbott, Jacob. Me., 1803-1879. An educator of New England, who was a voluminous and popular writer for young people. Among his numerous writings the best known are The Franconia Stories; Marco Paul’s Adventures; The Rollo Books; Histories of Celebrated Sovereigns; Harper’s Story Books. See Bibliography of Maine. Cr. Har.
Abbott, John Stevens Cabot. Me., 1805-1877. Brother of Jacob Abbott, supra. An historical writer, whose partisan spirit seriously impairs the value of his very readable works. He was for some years a Congregational minister, but after 1844 devoted himself to literature and educational work. Among his works are comprised The Mother at Home; Practical Christianity; Romance of Spanish History; American Pioneers and Patriots; History of Napoleon; Napoleon at St. Helena; History of the French Revolution; History of the Civil War in America; Lives of the Presidents; History of Maine from its Discovery by Northmen; Christopher Carson; History of Napoleon III.; History of Frederick the Great; History of Christianity. See Bibliography of Maine. Do. Har.
Abbott, Lyman. Ms., 1835- ——. Son of Jacob Abbott, supra. A Congregational minister of broad views, who as editor of The Outlook and successor to H. W. Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has exercised a wide influence. Christianity and Social Problems; Jesus of Nazareth; Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths; Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament; A Layman’s Story; How to Study the Bible; Life of Christ; In Aid of Faith; The Evolution of Christianity; A Study in Human Nature; Dictionary of Religious Knowledge (with T. J. Conant, infra). Bar. Do. Dut. Fo. Har. Hou. Meth. Put.
Abeel, David. N. J., 1804-1846. A Reformed Dutch missionary in China. Journal of a Residence in China; A Missionary Convention at Jerusalem; The Claims of the World to the Gospel. See Memoirs by G. B. Williamson, 1849.
Abert [ā´bert], Silvanus Thayer. Pa., 1828- ——. A civil engineer in the United States service. Notes Historical and Statistical upon the Projected Route for an Interoceanic Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific.
Adams, Mrs. Abigail [Smith]. Ms., 1744-1818. Wife of President John Adams, infra. Known to literature by her entertaining Letters edited by her grandson.
Adams, Brooks. Ms., 1848- ——. Son of Charles Francis Adams, infra. A lawyer of Boston. The Gold Standard; The Emancipation of Massachusetts, a careful study of the evolution of religious freedom; The Law of Civilization and Decay, an Essay in History. See The Forum, January, 1897. Hou. Mac.
Adams, Charles. N. H., 1808-1890. A Methodist clergyman who wrote extensively, and among whose works are Evangelism in the Middle of the 19th Century; Women of the Bible; The Poet Preacher, a Memorial of Charles Wesley; The Earth and its Wonders; Life of Cromwell; Life Sketches of Macaulay. Meth.
Adams, Charles Baker. Ms., 1814-1853. A naturalist, who published Contributions to Conchology; Monographs of Several Species of Shells.
Adams, Charles Coffin. 182- -1888. An Episcopal clergyman. Creation, a Recent Work of God; Life of Christ; Anthrosophy; The Bible, a Scientific Revelation.
Adams, Charles Follen. Ms., 1842- ——. A humourous verse-writer of Boston, principally known as the author of Leedle Yawcob Strauss. Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems; Dialect Ballads. Har. Le.
Adams, Charles Francis. Ms., 1807-1886. Son of President John Quincy Adams, infra. An eminent diplomatist, who was Minister to England during the period of the Civil War. He edited The Life and Works of John Adams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Life and Works of John Q. Adams; Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, with Memoir of Mrs. Adams. See Life by his son, C. F. Adams, infra. Hou.
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. Ms., 1835- ——. Son of C. F. Adams, supra. An officer in the Union army during the Civil War, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of the Union Pacific Railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives often differing materially from those of other writers in the same field. Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, its Historians and its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [infra], a Biography; Life of Charles Francis Adams. Hou. Le. Put.
Adams, Charles Kendall. Vt., 1835-1902. The president of Wisconsin University and formerly of Cornell University. Manual of Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; Christopher Columbus. Har.
Adams, Francis Colburn. Circa 1850. A writer of Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms. Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; Our World, or the Democrats’ Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; The Von Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family.
Adams, George Burton. Vt., 1851- ——. An historical writer, professor of history at Yale University. Civilization during the Middle Ages; The Growth of the French Nation. Fl. Scr.
Adams, Hannah. Ms., 1755-1832. An industrious and painstaking writer on religious and historical subjects, whose chief claim to distinction at present is that she was the first woman in America who made literature a profession. A View of Religious Opinions; History of New England; History of the Jews; Evidences of Christianity. See Memoir by herself, with additions by another hand, 1832.
Adams, Henry. Ms., 1838- ——. Son of Charles Francis Adams, supra. An historian and political biographer, living in Washington. Life of John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; History of the United States, 1801-17; Historical Essays; Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Adams, Henry Carter. Ia., 1852- ——. A political economist of note. Public Debts: an Essay in the Science of Finance; Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816. Ap.
Adams, Herbert Baxter. Ms., 1850-1901. A professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, and the secretary of the American Historical Association from its beginning. The Germanic Origin of New England Towns; Saxon Tithingmen in America; Norman Constables in America; Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; Methods of Historical Study; History of the United States Constitution. He edited the Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, infra. Hou.
Adams, Jasper. Ms., 1793-1841. An Episcopal clergyman, once noted as an educator at West Point, Charleston, and elsewhere, who published The Elements of Moral Philosophy.
Adams, John. N. S., 1704-1740. A clergyman of Newport and Philadelphia, much esteemed in his day as a poet. Poems on Several Occasions, a volume of his verses posthumously collected and printed, shows, however, no very especial marks of poetic talent.
Adams, John. Ms., 1735-1826. The second President of the United States, and a political writer of great ability and force. A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, a work relating to the constitutional rights of New England; Thoughts on Government; Novanglus: a History of the Dispute with America from 1754 to 1774; Defence of the American Constitution; Discourses on Davila: a Series of Papers on Political History. See complete Works in 10 volumes, 1850-56. See, also, Lives by J. Q. and C. F. Adams, 1871; John Adams, by Morse, 1885; Histories of the United States, by Bancroft, McMaster, Henry Adams, and Schouler; Parker’s Historic Americans; Appleton’s American Biography.
Adams, John Coleman. Ms., 1849- ——. Son of J. G. Adams, infra. A Universalist clergyman and editor of New York city. Christian Types of Heroism; The Fatherhood of God; The Leisure of God and Other Studies in Spiritual Evolution.
Adams, John Greenleaf. N. H., 1810-1887. A Universalist clergyman, among whose writings the chief are The Universalist Church, its Faith and its Works; Universalism of the Lord’s Prayer; Talks About the Bible to Young Folks; Fifty Notable Years, or Views of the Ministry of Universalism.
Adams, John Quincy. Ms., 1767-1848. Son of President John Adams, supra. The sixth President of the United States, and a statesman whose writings, though mainly political in their character, include several purely literary works. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory; The Bible and its Teachings; Poems of Religion and Society; Letters on Freemasonry; Lives of Celebrated Statesmen, and many State Papers. See Complete Works, edited by C. F. Adams, with Life; also Diary of; Lives by Seward, Quincy, Morse; Histories of the United States by Bancroft, McMaster, Schouler. Lip.
Adams, John Turvill. B. G., 1805-1882. A lawyer of Norwich, Connecticut. The Knight of the Golden Melice, an historical tale; The Lost Hunter.
Adams, Julius Walker. Ms., 1812-1899. An engineer of distinction, who was employed in many important engineering works. Sewers and Drains for Populous Districts.
Adams, Myron. N. Y., 1841-1895. A Congregational clergyman of Rochester, New York, from 1876 until his death. The Creation of the Bible; The Continuous Creation, an Application of the Evolutionary Philosophy to the Christian Religion. Hou.
Adams, Nehemiah. Ms., 1806-1878. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose most famous work, A South Side View of Slavery, provoked much hostile criticism. Among other works by him are Walks to Emmaus; Scriptural Argument for Endless Punishment; Remarks on Unitarian Belief; Life of John Eliot; Agnes and the Little Key; Evenings with the Doctrines.
Adams, Robert Chamblet. Ms., 1839- ——. Son of Nehemiah Adams, supra. History of England in Rhyme; History of the United States in Rhyme; On Board the Rocket; Aids to Endeavour, Evolution, a Summary of Evidence; Travels in Faith from Tradition to Reason; Pioneer Pith. Lo.
Adams, Samuel. Ms., 1722-1803. Cousin of President John Adams, supra. A statesman and orator who fills a large place in the annals of the American Revolution. See Lives by Wells, Hosmer, 1885; Harper’s Magazine, vol. 53.
Adams, William. Ct., 1807-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in New York city, 1835-80. The Three Gardens: Eden, Gethsemane, Paradise; Conversations of Jesus Christ with Representative Men; In the World, not of the World; Thanksgiving, Memories of the Day and Helps to the Habit.
Adams, William. I., 1813-1897. An Episcopal clergyman who was one of the founders of Nashotah Theological Seminary, Wisconsin, and professor of systematic divinity there from 1841. Mercy to Babes; Elements of Christian Science; New Treatise of Baptismal Regeneration.
Adams, William Taylor, “Oliver Optic.” Ms., 1822-1897. A prolific and popular writer of books for boys, who was for many years a teacher in the Boston public schools. Among his writings are Army and Navy Series; Young America Abroad Series; Lake Shore Series; Starry Flag Series. Le.
Ade, George. Il., 1866- ——. A Chicago journalist. Artie: a Story of the Streets and Town. S.
Adeler, Max. See Clark, C. H.
Adler, Felix. G., 1851- ——. An ethical reformer of New York city. Creed and Deed; The Moral Instruction of Children. Ap. Put.
Adler, Georg. G., 1821-1868. A philologist of New York city who was the author of a valuable German and English Dictionary and other educational works. Ap.
Agassiz [ag´a-see or ä-gäs-se´], Alexander. Sd., 1835- ——. Son of L. Agassiz, infra. Marine zoölogist. Born in Neuchatel, he came to America with his father, and has distinguished himself in lines of special scientific research. Exploration of Lake Titicaca; List of the Echinoderms; Three Cruises of the Blake: a Contribution to American Thalassography. Hou.
Agassiz, Mrs. Elizabeth [Cary]. Ms., 1822- ——. Wife of L. Agassiz, infra. Life of Louis Agassiz; Seaside Studies in Natural History (with A. Agassiz, supra).
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe. Sd., 1807-1873. A naturalist of eminence. Founder of the Museum of Natural History at Cambridge. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles; Lake Superior, Natural History of Fresh-Water Fishes of Central Europe; Etudes sur les Glaciers; Système Glacière; Methods of Study in Natural History; Geological Sketches; Structure of Animal Life; Journey in Brazil. See Whipple’s Character and Characteristic Men; Louis Agassiz and Evolution, Popular Science Monthly, vol. 32; Lives by Mrs. E. Agassiz, Holder, 1892, Jules Marcou, 1896; Lowell’s ode, Agassiz.
Agnew, David Hayes. Pa., 1810-1892. A physician who was for a long time professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. His writings were the outcome of wide experience. Handbook of Practical Anatomy; Principles and Practice of Surgery: a treatise on Surgical Diseases and Injuries. See Life of, by J. H. Adams, 1892. Lip.
Aikman, William. N. Y., 1824- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman. The Moral Power of the Sea; Life at Home, or the Family and its Members; The Altar in the Home; A Bachelor’s Talks about Married Life.
Aimwell, Walter. See Simonds.
Ainslie, Hew. S., 1792-1878. A Scottish poet who emigrated to America in 1822 and lived mainly in Kentucky. Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, a prose work with lyrics interspersed; Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems.
Akers, Elizabeth. See Allen, Mrs.
Albee, John. Ms., 1833- ——. Formerly a clergyman; now living at Chocorua, New Hampshire. Literary Art; St. Aspenquid: an Indian Idyl; Prose Idyls. Hou. Put.
Alcott [awl´kot], Amos Bronson. Ct., 1799-1888. A philosopher of a singularly unpractical type, whose personality was of greater interest than his writings. Conversations with Children on the Gospels; Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, Concord Days, Sonnets, and Canzonets; New Connecticut: a poem. See Miss E. P. Peabody’s Records of a School; Life, by F. B. Sanborn and W. T. Harris, 1893. Rob.
Alcott, Louisa May. Pa., 1832-1888. Daughter of A. B. Alcott, supra. A writer whose books for young people have been widely popular. They cannot, however, claim consideration as examples of literary art. Among them are Little Women; Little Men; An Old-Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs. Moods; Hospital Sketches; A Modern Mephistopheles, are works for older readers. The thoughtful poem, Thoreau’s Flute, is her finest effort. See Life, Letters, and Journals, edited by Mrs. Cheney; Recollections of, by Mrs. M. S. Porter, 1893. Rob.
Alcott, William Andrus. Ct., 1798-1859. Cousin of A. B. Alcott, supra. An energetic, earnest writer upon diet reform. The House I Live in; Vegetable Diet; Library of Health.
Alden [awl´den], Henry Mills. Vt., 1836- ——. A thoughtful and suggestive writer on religious themes who has been editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1869. God in his World; A Study of Death. Har.
Alden, Mrs. Isabella [Macdonald]. “Pansy.” N. Y., 1841- ——. A very prolific writer of religious tales for young people, the literary worth of which is inconsiderable. Four Girls at Chautauqua; Chautauqua Girls at Home, are among the earlier ones. Lo.
Alden, Joseph. N. Y., 1807-1885. An industrious contributor to educational and Sunday-school literature. He was for many years president of the Normal School at Albany. Example of Washington; Citizen’s Manual; Christian Ethics; The Science of Government; Studies in Bryant; Elements of Intellectual Philosophy. Ap. Le. Meth.
Alden, William Livingston. Ms., 1837- ——. Son of J. Alden, supra. A humourous writer who has for some time resided in London. A New Robinson Crusoe; Domestic Explosions; Shooting Stars; Moral Pirates; Cruise of the Canoe Club; Life of Christopher Columbus. Har. Ho. Put.
Aldrich [awl´dritch], Annie Reeve. N. Y., 1866-1892. A New York city writer of notably erotic verse and fiction. The Rose of Flame and Other Poems of Love; Songs about Life, Love, and Death; The Feet of Love: a novel. Put.
Aldrich, James. N. Y., 1810-1866. A littérateur of New York, who established The Literary Gazette in 1840, in which a number of his verses appeared. His Poems were privately printed by his daughter in 1884.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. N. H., 1837- ——. A poet and novelist whose work in both verse and prose is distinguished for grace of expression and delicacy of execution. Verse: The Bells; Ballad of Baby Bell; Pampinea; Flower and Thorn; Cloth of Gold; Friar Jerome’s Beautiful Book; XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets; The Sisters’ Tragedy; Wyndham Towers; Unguarded Gates; Mercedes and Later Lyrics; Judith and Holofernes. Prose: Prudence Palfrey; The Queen of Sheba; The Stillwater Tragedy; Marjorie Daw and Other Stories; Two Bites at a Cherry, with Other Tales; The Story of a Bad Boy; An Old Town by the Sea: a description of Portsmouth, the author’s birthplace; From Ponkapog to Pesth: Travel Sketches; Ponkapog Papers. See Stedman’s Poets of America; Vedder’s American Writers. Hou.
Alexander, Archibald. Va., 1772-1851. A Presbyterian clergyman who was professor at Princeton Theological Seminary 1812-51. Evidences of Christianity; The Canon of Scripture; Moral Science; Bible Dictionary, are some of his many works. See Life, by J. W. Alexander; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit. Scr.
Alexander, Caleb. N. Y., 1775-1828. A clergyman, much of whose life was spent in teaching at Onondaga, New York. He published Latin and English grammars; Essay on the Deity of Christ; The Columbian Dictionary; Grammar Elements: a literal prose version of Virgil.
Alexander, James Waddel. Va., 1804-1859. Son of A. Alexander, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Plain Words to a Young Communicant; Sacramental Discourses; Thoughts on Preaching; Life of Archibald Alexander; Consolation; The American Mechanic and Workingman, are among his writings. Ran. Scr.
Alexander, John Henry. Md., 1812-1867. A once noted Maryland scientist. History of the Metallurgy of Iron; Universal Dictionary of Weights and Measures, Ancient and Modern; International Tonnage; Treatise of Mathematical Instruments; Introits; Catena Dominica: a collection of religious poems.
Alexander, Joseph Addison. Pa., 1809-1860. Son of A. Alexander, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton College, and Theological Seminary, 1820-60. He was the author of Commentaries on the Psalms, Isaiah, Acts, Matthew, and Mark; and many theological reviews, often as sarcastic as they were forcible. See Life, by H. C. Alexander; Hart’s American Literature. Scr.
Alexander, Samuel Davies. N. J., 1819-1894. Son of A. Alexander, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city from 1855. Princeton College in the 18th Century. Scr.
Alexander, Stephen. N. Y., 1806-1883. An astronomer who was a professor at Princeton College, 1834-78. Physical Phenomena of Solar Eclipses; Certain Harmonies of the Solar System.
Alger [ă´jẽr], Horatio, Jr. Ms., 1832-1899. The author of a long series of popular juvenile tales, among which the Ragged Dick stories are best known. Co.
Alger, William Rounseville. Ms., 1822- ——. A Unitarian clergyman and lecturer of Boston. Symbolic History of the Cross; The School of Life; History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Solitudes of Nature and Man; The Friendships of Women; Poetry of the Orient; Life of Edwin Forrest. A. U. A. Lip. Rob.
Alice, Aunt. See Graves, Mrs.
Alice, Cousin. See Haven, Mrs.
Allan, William. Va., 1837-1889. A lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Battlefields of Virginia; Jackson’s Valley Campaign; Army of Northern Virginia. Hou. Lip.
Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold. Ms., 1841- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, prominent among leaders of modern religious thought, and a professor in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. The Continuity of Christian Thought: a Study of Modern Theology in the Light of its History; Life of Jonathan Edwards; The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the 19th Century; Religious Progress. Hou.
Allen, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann [Chase] [Akers], “Florence Percy.” Me. 1832- ——. A writer of verse, whose song, “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,” is her most famous though not her best poem. The Triangular Society; Queen Catharine’s Rose; Forest Buds; Poems by Florence Percy; The Silver Bridge; The High Top Sweeting. Hou. Scr.
Allen, Frederick De Forest. O., 1844-1897. A professor of classical philology at Harvard University from 1880. Remnants of Early Latin; Greek Versification in Inscriptions.
Allen, Fred Hovey. N. H., 1845- ——. A clergyman, author of the text of a number of popular art works, such as Great Cathedrals of the World; Modern German Masters; Recent German Art; Famous Paintings; Grand Modern Paintings; Glimpses of Parisian Art; History of the Reformation.
Allen, Harrison. Pa., 1841-1897. A surgeon of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1865. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy; System of Human Anatomy. Lip.
Allen, Ira. Ct., 1751-1814. An officer in the American army during the Revolutionary War, who was afterwards instrumental in settling the disputes between Vermont and its neighbours. Natural and Political History of Vermont.
Allen, James Lane. Ky., 1849- ——. At one time a teacher, now devoted to literature. A writer of short stories, notable for literary excellence. Flute and Violin; The Blue Grass Region and Other Sketches of Kentucky; John Gray: a Novel; The Kentucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A Summer in Arcady; The Choir Invisible; The Reign of Law; Two Gentlemen of Kentucky. Har. Lip. Mac.
Allen, Jerome. Vt., 1830-1894. An educator of New York, dean of the School of Pedagogy. Handbook of Experimental Chemistry; Methods for Teachers in Grammar; Mind Studies for Young Teachers; Temperament in Education.
Allen, Joel Asaph. Ms., 1838- ——. A naturalist who since 1885 has been curator of ornithology and mammalogy in the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. History of North American Pinnipeds; Monographs of North American Rodentia (with E. Coues, infra).
Allen, Joseph Henry. Ms., 1820-1898. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, who is also noted as the author of a number of valuable and popular classical text-books. Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy; Hebrew Men and Times; Christian History in Three Great Periods; Fragments of Christian History; Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation; Our Liberal Movement in Theology; Outline of Christian History, A. D. 50-1880; are some of his religious works. El. Gi. Rob.
Allen’s Wife, Josiah. See Holley.
Allen, Lewis Falley. Ms., 1800-1890. A once prominent cattle broker. Rural Architecture; The American Herd Book; American Cattle.
Allen, Nathan. Ms., 1813-1889. A physician of Lowell. The Law of Human Increase; The Opium Trade; Physical Development.
Allen, Paul. R. I., 1775-1826. A journalist of Philadelphia. Poems: Noah, a poem in five cantos; Life of Alexander I.; Lewis and Clark’s Novels. The Life of Washington, which bears his name, was written by John Neal, infra, and others.
Allen, Richard Lamb. Ms., 1803-1869. Brother of L. F. Allen, supra, with whom, in 1842, he founded the American Agriculturalist. Domestic Animals; Diseases of Domestic Animals; New American Farm Book (with L. F. Allen). See Last Letters of, with Memoir.
Allen, Stephen Merrill. N. H., 1819-1894. A banker and merchant of Boston. Fibrilia and Fibrous Manufactures, Ancient and Modern; Theories of Light; Religion and Science.
Allen, Timothy Field. Vt., 1837-1902. A physician of New York city, dean of the Homœopathic Medical College from 1882. Characeæ Americanæ; General Symptom-Register of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He has edited Encyclopædia of Pure Materia Medica.
Allen, William. Ms., 1784-1868. The author of an American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, the first edition of which appeared in 1809, the earliest work of the kind in the United States. From 1820 to 1829 he was president of Bowdoin College. Lectures to Young Men; Junius Unmasked; Wunissoo: a poem, with notes.
Allen, William Francis. Ms., 1830-1889. Brother of J. H. Allen, supra. A professor in the University of Wisconsin. He published Outline Studies in the History of Ireland; Monographs and Essays; and edited a collection of Slave Songs.
Allen, Willis Boyd. Me., 1855- ——. A Boston littérateur whose writings are popular with juvenile readers. Among them are The Red Mountain of Alaska; Pine Cones; Silver Rags; Kelp; The Mammoth Hunters. He has published In the Morning, a collection of verse. Est. Lo. Ran.
Allen, Zachariah. R. I., 1795-1882. A noted inventor and manufacturer of Providence. Practical Tourist; Practical Mechanics; Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature; Solar Light and Heat. See Memorial by A. Perry, 1883. Ap.
Allerton, Mrs. Ellen [Palmer]. N. Y., 1835-1893. A Kansas writer living at Padonia in that State. Poems of the Prairies.
Allibone, Samuel Austin. Pa., 1816-1889. A Philadelphia author widely known by his Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, a work of immense labour and research. It is of great value as a work of reference, but is not an infallible guide, and is more or less marred by trivial comment and moralizing. See Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. 15, 1891. Lip.
Allmond, Marcus Blakey. Va., 1851- ——. An educator of Louisville who has published Estelle, an Idyl of Old Virginia, a volume of verse; Agricola, an Eastern Idyl; Outlines of Latin Syntax.
Allston [awl´ston], Robert Francis Withers. S. C., 1801-1864. A South Carolina statesman well known at one time as an agricultural reformer. Memoir on Rice; Essay on Sea Coast Crops; Report on Public Schools.
Allston, Washington. S. C., 1779-1843. A once famous artist of Cambridge who was also known as a poet and romancer. Sylphs of the Seasons and Other Poems; The Romance of Monaldi; Lectures on Art. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists; Life and Letters, edited by J. Flagg, 1892.
Alsop [awl´sop], Richard. Ct., 1761-1815. A once noted political satirist, chief of the “Hartford Wits,” who wrote The Echo, a series of metrical parodies upon current publications, orations, state papers, and the like. Other works by Alsop are The Charms of Fancy; A Monody on the Death of Washington; The Enchanted Lake of the Fairy Morgana.
Alvord [awl´vord], Benjamin. Vt., 1813-1884. A United States officer who served in the Mexican and Civil wars. Tangencies of Circles and Spheres; Interpretation of Imaginary Roots in Questions of Maxima and Minima.
Ames, Charles Gordon. Ms., 1828- ——. A Unitarian clergyman who became pastor of the Church of the Disciples in Boston on the death of J. F. Clarke, infra. George Eliot’s Two Marriages; As Natural as Life: Studies of the Inner Kingdom.
Ames, Mrs. Eleanor Maria [Easterbrook], “Eleanor Kirk.” 1830- ——. A littérateur of Brooklyn. Up Broadway and Its Sequel; Information for Authors; Perpetual Youth.
Ames, Fisher. Ms., 1758-1808. Son of N. Ames, infra. A statesman whose speeches are marked examples of condensed effective statement as well as of felicitous expression. Laocoon and Other Essays. See Works of, with Memoir, 1854; Magoon’s Orators of the American Revolution.
Ames, Lucia True. N. H., 1856- ——. A Boston writer who has published Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers; Memoirs of a Millionaire, a novel. Hou. Put.
Ames, Mary Clemmer. See Hudson, Mrs.
Ames, Nathaniel. Ms., 1708-1764. A physician of Dedham, Massachusetts, who published, 1725-64, an Astronomical Diary and Almanac which contained much shrewd humour and original philosophy and was widely popular. See Tyler’s American Literatures; Essays, Humour and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, edited by S. Briggs, 1891.
Ammen, Daniel. O., 1820-1898. A rear-admiral of the United States navy, the designer of the Ammen life raft. The Atlantic Coast; Country Homes and their Improvement; The Old Navy and the New. Lip. Scr.
Amory, Thomas Coffin. Ms., 1812-1889. A lawyer of Boston. Life of James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts; Military Services of Major-General John Sullivan; Life of Sir Isaac Coffin.
Anagnos, Mrs. Julia Romana [Howe]. 1844-1886. Daughter of Dr. S. G. and Julia Ward Howe, infra, and wife of M. Anagnos, the Superintendent of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Stray Chords, a volume of verse; Philosophiæ Questor.
Anderson, Alexander. N. Y., 1775-1870. The first wood-engraver in the United States. He was the author of an illustrated General History of Quadrupeds.
Anderson, John Jacob. N. Y., 1821- ——. An educator of New York city who prepared a number of historical text books, among which are A History of France; Common School History of the United States. My.
Anderson, Mary. See Navarro.
Anderson, Rasmus Björn. Wis., 1846- ——. A Norse scholar of Norwegian descent who has translated Björnson’s novels and written much in relation to Norse mythology. America not Discovered by Columbus; Norse Mythology; Viking Tales of the North; The Younger Edda; The Elder Edda. Sc.
Anderson, Rufus. Me., 1796-1880. A clergyman, who was secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, 1824-74. Foreign Missions, their Relations and Claims; History of the American Board’s Missions in the Sandwich Islands, Turkey and India, Peloponnesus and Greek Islands. C. P. S.
Andrew, James Osgood. Ga., 1794-1871. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. Family Government; Miscellanies.
Andrews, Christopher Columbus. N. H., 1829- ——. A brevet major-general in the United States army, who was minister to Sweden 1869-77, and consul-general to Brazil 1882-85. Minnesota and Dakota (1857); Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States; Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties; History of the Campaign of Mobile; Digests of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States; Brazil, its Condition and Prospects (1887), third enlarged edition (1895). Ap.
Andrews, Elisha Benjamin. N. H., 1844- ——. A prominent educator, president of Brown University. Institutes of General History; Institutes of Economics; Brief Institutes of our Economical History; An Honest Dollar; Eternal Words and Other Sermons; History of the United States; Wealth and Moral Law; History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, 1870-95. Gi. Scr. Sil.
Andrews, Eliza Frances. Ga., 1840- ——. An educator of Macon, Georgia, whose writing is mainly in the line of fiction. A Mere Adventurer; A Family Secret; How he was Tempted; Prince Hal.
Andrews, Ethan Allen. Ct., 1787-1858. An educator who was at one time professor of ancient languages in the University of North Carolina. Beside a Latin-English Dictionary, he published a valuable series of classical text-books. Hou.
Andrews, Israel Ward. Ct., 1815-1888. President of Marietta College. His only published work of importance is a Manual of the Constitution of the United States. Va.
Andrews, Jane. Ms., 1833-1887. A writer of Newburyport whose books for children have long been deservedly popular. Seven Little Sisters who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air; The Seven Little Sisters Prove their Sisterhood; The Stories Mother Nature Told; Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now; Only a Year and what it Brought. Gi.
Andrews, Samuel James. Ct., 1817- ——. Brother of I. W. Andrews, supra. An Irvingite clergyman of Hartford, Connecticut. The Life of Our Lord upon Earth; God’s Revelations of Himself to Men. Scr.
Andrews, Sidney. 1837-1880. A Boston journalist. The Art of Flying; The South since the War.
Andrews, Stephen Pearl. Ms., 1812-1886. An eccentric writer of New York city, the originator of phonographic reporting and at one period prominent as an abolitionist. Among his many and varied works are Basic Outline of Universalogy, in which he advocated the adoption of a universal language called Alwato; Discourses in Chinese; Comparison of Common Law with Roman, French, or Spanish Law on Entails and Other Limited Property; Love, Marriage and Divorce.
Angell, Henry Clay. R. I., 1829- ——. A professor of ophthalmology in Boston University. Diseases of the Eye; How to Take Care of our Eyes; Records of W. M. Hunt. Rob.
Angell, James Burrill. R. I., 1829- ——. President of Michigan University since 1871. Manual of French Literature; Progress in International Law.
Angell, Joseph Kinnicut. R. I., 1794-1857. A legal writer of Rhode Island, among whose works are Treatise on the Common Law of Watercourses; The Law of Tide Waters; The Limitation of Actions. Lit.
Anspach, Frederick Rinehart. Pa., 1815-1867. A Lutheran clergyman of Hagerstown, Maryland. Sons of the Sires; Sepulchres of Our Departed; The Two Pilgrims.
Anthon, Charles. N. Y., 1797-1867. A noted classical scholar, for many years professor of ancient languages at Columbia College. He was the author of some fifty classical text-books, including a Classical Dictionary. Har.
Anthon, John. Mch., 1784-1863. Brother of Charles Anthon, supra. A jurist of New York city. Essay on the Study of Law; Analysis of Blackstone; Nisi Prius Cases; American Precedents.
Appleton, Jesse. N. H., 1772-1819. A Congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin College, 1807-19. Addresses; Lectures. His works, with Memoir by A. S. Packard, infra, appeared in 1837.
Appleton, John. 1804-1891. A former chief justice of Maine eminent as a legal reformer. The Rules of Evidence Stated and Discussed.
Appleton, John Howard. Me., 1844- ——. A professor of chemistry at Brown University since 1868. The Young Chemist; Qualitative Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Chemistry of Non Metals. Sil.
Appleton, Thomas Gold. Ms., 1812-1884. An artist and littérateur of Boston. A Sheaf of Papers; A Nile Journal; Windfalls; Syrian Sunshine; Chequer-Work; Faded Leaves, a volume of verse. See Life and Letters, edited by Susan Hale, 1885. Rob.
Apthorp, William Foster. Ms., 1848- ——. A musical newspaper critic of Boston. Musicians and Music Lovers and Other Essays. He has translated Zola’s Jacques Damour. Cop. Scr.
Archibald, Andrew Webster. N. Y., 1851- ——. A Congregational clergyman of prominence in Iowa. The Bible Verified.
Archibald, Mrs. George. See Palmer, Mrs. Anna.
Arey, Mrs. Harriet Ellen [Grannis]. Vt., 1819- ——. An educator whose home is in Cleveland. Household Songs and Other Poems; Home and School Training. Lip.
Arkwright, Peleg. See Proudfit, D.
Armitage, Thomas. E., 1819-1896. A prominent Baptist clergyman of New York city. Jesus, his Self Introspection; Lectures on Preaching; History of the Baptists.
Armstrong, George Dodd. N. J., 1813-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Norfolk, Virginia. The Summer of the Pestilence; The Doctrine of Baptisms; The Christian Doctrine of Slavery; Theology of Christian Experience; The Sacraments of the New Testament; The Books of Nature and Revelation, a criticism of the theory of evolution. Fu.
Armstrong, John. Pa., 1758-1843. An officer of note in the American army at the time of the Revolution. He was the author of the first of the famous Newburg Letters, and in later life published Notes on the War of 1812; Treatise on Gardening; Treatise on Agriculture; Memoirs of Generals Montgomery and Wayne.
Arnold, Albert Nicholas. R. I., 1814-1883. A Baptist clergyman who held professorships in several Baptist seminaries successively. Pre-requisites to Communion; Evils of Infant Baptism; One Woman’s Mission.
Arnold, George. N. Y., 1834-1865. A journalist and poet of New York city, whose verse is musical without being especially strong. Drift and Other Poems; Poems Grave and Gay. See Biographical Sketch by W. Winter, infra. Hou.
Arnold, Isaac Newton. N. Y., 1815-1884. A prominent Chicago lawyer and politician, member of Congress, 1861-65. Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of Benedict Arnold; Recollections of the Early Chicago and Illinois Bar. Mg.
Arnold, Lauren Briggs. N. Y., 1814-1888. An agriculturist of western New York who lectured frequently upon dairy husbandry and was the author of American Dairying.
Arnold, Samuel Greene. R. I., 1821-1880. A lawyer who was several times lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island. History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Life of Patrick Henry. Pr.
Arp, Bill. See Smith, C. H.
Arr, E. H. See Rollins, Mrs. Ellen.
Arria. See Pugh, Mrs.
Arrington, Alfred W. N. C., 1810-1867. A prominent lawyer in the Southwest, and, later, in Chicago. The Rangers and Regulators of the Tanaha; Sketches of the Southwest; Poems (with Memoir), 1869.
Arthur, Timothy Shay. N. Y., 1809-1885. A prolific writer of moral tales, with much more excellence of intention than literary merit to recommend them, but which have enjoyed a very extensive popularity. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room; Six Nights with the Washingtonians; Tales of Married Life, are some of the best known. His life was nearly all spent in Philadelphia. Co. Lip. Pet.
Ashhurst, John. Pa., 1839-1900. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia. Injuries of the Spine; Principles and Practice of Surgery. He edited the International Encyclopædia of Surgery. Lip.
Astor, William Waldorf. N. Y., 1848- ——. A noted millionaire of New York city, minister to Italy, 1882-85, and more recently the proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Pall Mall Magazine in London. Valentino, an Historical Romance of the 16th Century in Italy; Sforza, a Story of Milan. Scr.
Atkinson, Edward. Ms., 1827- ——. A Boston reformer active in matters of diet and political economy. The Distribution of Products; Labor and Capital; Industrial Progress of the Nation; The Science of Nutrition; Margin of Profits; Taxation and Work. Put.
Atkinson, John. N. J., 1835-1897. A clergyman of prominence in the Methodist church. The Living Way; Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey; The Garden of Sorrows; The Class Leader; Centennial History of American Methodism. Meth.
Atkinson, William Parsons. Ms., 1820-1890. Brother of E. Atkinson, supra. A professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Right Use of Books; History and the Study of History; Classical and Scientific Studies. Rob.
Atwater, Horace Cowles. N. Y., 1819-1879. A clergyman of the Methodist Church South, who published Incidents of a Southern Tour (1857).
Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss. Ct., 1813-1883. A professor of philosophy at Princeton College and long a noted contributor to the Princeton Review. He published a Manual of Elementary Logic. Lip.
Atwater, Wilbur Olin. N. Y., 1844- ——. A professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University since 1873. He has written extensively upon agricultural chemistry, and published Co-operative Experimenting as a Means of Studying the Effect of Fertilizers; Results of Field Experiments with Various Fertilizers.
Atwood, Anthony. N. J., 1801-1888. A Methodist clergyman, whose only published work is The Abiding Comforter.
Atwood, Isaac Morgan. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Universalist clergyman, president of the Theological Seminary at St. Lawrence University. Have we Outgrown Christianity; Glance at the Religious Progress of the United States; Latest Word of Universalism; Walks about Zion; Manual of Revelation.
Audubon, John James. La., 1780-1851. An ornithologist of eminence, whose entire life was devoted to the pursuit of his favorite study. Birds of America; Quadrupeds of North America; Ornithological Biography. See Audubon, the Naturalist, by Mrs. St. John; Journal of Life and Labours of Audubon.
Auringer, Obadiah Cyrus. N. Y., 1849- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York state, whose writings in verse include Scythe and Sword; The Heart of the Golden Roan; The Episode of Jane McCrea; The Book of the Hills. Lo.
Austen, Peter Townsend. N. Y., 1852- ——. A professor of chemistry at Rutgers College since 1877, who has contributed much to scientific journals, and published Chemical Lecture Notes; Organic Chemistry, from the German of Pinner. Wil.
Austin, Arthur Williams. Ms., 1807-1884. A lawyer of Boston. The Woman and the Queen, and Other Specimens of Verse, (1875).
Austin, Benjamin. Ms., 1752-1820. A Boston merchant, active as a political writer and an especially violent champion of democracy. Constitutional Republicanism is a collection of some of his contributions to the newspapers of his day.
Austin, Coe Finch. N. Y., 1831-1880. A botanist of Closter, New York, who published Musci Appalachani, a description of American mosses.
Austin, George Lowell. Ms., 1849-1893. A Boston physician whose miscellaneous writings include Perils of American Women, a Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother; Water-Analysis, a Handbook for Water-Drinkers; Under the Tide; Life of Franz Schubert; Popular History of Massachusetts; Life and Deeds of General Grant; Longfellow; Life of Wendell Phillips. Le.
Austin, Henry. Ms., 1858- ——. A lawyer of Boston, who has written The Law Concerning Farms; American Farm and Game Laws; American Fish and Game Laws; Liquor Law in New England.
Austin, Henry Willard. Ms., 1858- ——. A journalist and littérateur of Boston. Vagabond Verses.
Austin, James Trecothick. Ms., 1784-1870. A once prominent lawyer of Boston, who published a Life of Elbridge Gerry.
Austin, Mrs. Jane [Goodwin]. Ms., 1831-1894. A talented writer of historical fiction, much of whose life was spent in Boston. She was a careful student of colonial history, and will be long remembered for her series of romances relating to the Plymouth Pilgrims and their descendants. These include A Nameless Nobleman; Standish of Standish; Betty Alden: the First-Born Daughter of the Pilgrims; Dr. Le Baron and his Daughters; David Alden’s Daughter and Other Stories of Colonial Times. Other novels by her are Cipher; The Shadow of Moloch Mountain; Mrs. Beauchamp Brown; The Desmond Hundred; Dora Darling; Outpost. Nantucket Scraps is a volume of travel sketches; Moonfolk, a fairy tale. Hou. Le. Put. Rob.
Austin, Samuel. Ct., 1760-1830. A Congregational clergyman of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1790-1815, and afterwards president of the University of Vermont. Views of the Church; Theological Essays; Letters on Baptism.
Austin, William. Ms., 1778-1841. A Boston lawyer whose best claim to remembrance is that he was author of the famous sketch Peter Rugg: the Missing Man, which appeared in the New England Galaxy in 1824. It is a very remarkable imaginative study that in some respects anticipates the later work of Hawthorne. Other works of his are Letters from London (1804); The Human Character of Jesus Christ. See Literary Papers of, with Biographical Sketch, 1890. Lit.
Avery, Benjamin Parke. N. Y., 1829-1875. A Californian journalist who was appointed minister to China in 1874. Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse.
Ayres, Alfred. See Osmun.
Ayres, Anne. E., 1816-1896. The first member of an American sisterhood in the Protestant Episcopal Church, becoming a sister of the Holy Communion in 1845. Evangelical Sisterhoods; Life of W. H. Muhlenberg, infra.
Azarias, Brother. See Mullany.
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Bache [baych], Alexander Dallas. Pa., 1806-1867. A scientist who was superintendent of the United States Court Survey, 1843-67. His annual reports to Congress are works of great value. See Commemorative Address by B. A. Gould, infra, 1868.
Bache, Franklin. Pa., 1792-1864. Cousin of A. D. Bache, supra, and like him a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, infra. A Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College, 1841-64. A System of Chemistry for Students in Medicine; The Dispensatory of the United States (with G. B. Wood). See Memoir, by G. B. Wood, infra.
Bacheller, Irving. N. Y., 1859- ——. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. The Master of Silence, a romance; The Still House of O’Darrow; Eben Holden. Cas. Lo.
Bachman [bäk´man], John. N. Y., 1790-1874. A naturalist of Charleston, where he was pastor of a Lutheran church, 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, preparing the greater part of the text of The Quadrupeds of North America, and wrote several religious and scientific works. Two Letters on Heredity; Defence of Luther and the Reformation. See American Lutheran Biographies.
Backus, Isaac. Ct., 1724-1806. A Baptist clergyman of Rhode Island. A History of New England, with Particular Reference to the Baptists. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Bacon, Delia Salter. O., 1811-1859. The earliest exponent of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare. Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded; Tales of the Puritans; The Bride of Fort Edward: a Drama. See Hawthorne’s Recollections of a Gifted Woman; Mrs. Farrar’s Recollections of Seventy Years; Life, by Theodore Bacon; Saturday Review, vol. 67.
Bacon, Edwin Munroe. R. I., 1844- ——. A journalist of Boston. Dictionary of Boston; Boston of To-Day. Hou.
Bacon, Henry. Ms., 1839- ——. An artist who has lived principally in Paris. A Parisian Year; Parisian Art and Artists. Hou. Rob.
Bacon, Leonard. Mch., 1802-1881. Brother of D. S. Bacon, supra. The pastor of a Congregational church in New Haven, Connecticut, 1825-81, and a prominent figure in the denomination to which he belonged. Historical Discourses; Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays; Genesis of the New England Churches; Christian Self-Culture. See Century Magazine, vol. 3. Har.
Bacon, Leonard Woolsey. Ct., 1830- ——. Son of L. Bacon, supra. A Congregational clergyman. A Life Worth Living; Church Papers; Sermons; The Simplicity that is in Christ. Fu.
Bacon, Thomas Scott. N. Y., 1825- ——. An Episcopal controversialist of Maryland. Both Sides of the Controversy between the Roman and Reformed Churches; The Reign of God and the Reign of Law; The Beginnings of Religion; Primitive Man in Christian Thought; It is Written; The Primitive and Catholic Doctrine as to Holy Scripture.
Badeau, Adam. N. Y., 1831-1895. A general in the United States army. The Vagabond; Military History of General Grant; Conspiracy: a Cuban Romance; Aristocracy in England; Grant in Peace: a Personal Memoir. Ap. Har.
Bagg, Lyman Hotchkiss. “Karl Kron.” Ms., 1846- ——. Four Years at Yale; Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.
Bailey, James Montgomery. N. Y., 1841-1894. Widely known at one time as “The Danbury News Man.” A journalist of Danbury, Connecticut, who was among the earliest to exploit a kind of native humour chiefly concerned with local allusion and application. He has had many imitators whose methods have been much less legitimate than his. Life in Danbury; England from a Back Window; The Danbury Boom; Mr. Phillis’ Goneness; They All Do It. Le.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Mich., 1858- ——. A prominent horticulturist. American Grape Training; Crossbreeding and Hybridization; Field Notes on Apple Culture; Annals of Horticulture; The Horticulturist Rule-Book; The Nursery-Book: a Complete Guide to the Multiplication and Pollination of Plants; Talks Afield about Plants; Plant Breeding. Hou. Mac.
Bailey, Loring Woart. N. Y., 1839- ——. A professor of natural history in the University of New Brunswick. Mines and Minerals of New Brunswick; Geology of Southern New Brunswick; Elementary Natural History.
Bailey, William Whitman. N. Y., 1843- ——. Brother of L. W. Bailey, supra. A professor of botany at Brown University. New England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers; Botanical Collector’s Hand-Book. Pr.
Baird, Charles Washington. N. J., 1828-1887. Son of R. Baird, supra. A Presbyterian minister of Rye, New York. Eutaxia, or the Presbyterian Liturgies; Book of Public Prayer; History of Rye; History of the Huguenot Emigration to America. Do.
Baird, Henry Carey. Pa., 1825- ——. Nephew of Henry Carey, infra, and a political economist holding similar views. Rights of American Producers and Wrongs of British Free Trade Revenue Reformers; Protection of Home Labour and Home Production necessary to the Protection of the American Farmer; Miscellaneous Papers on Economic Questions. Bai.
Baird, Henry Martyn. Pa., 1832- ——. Son of R. Baird, infra. Professor of Greek at the University of New York from 1859. An historian who is conscientious but not absolutely impartial. Life of Robert Baird; Modern Greece; Narrative of a Residence and Travels; History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France; The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre; The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Har. Ran. Scr.
Baird, Robert. Pa., 1798-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman, active in the cause of temperance and in promoting the extension of Protestantism in Europe. History of the Temperance Societies; View of Religion in America; History of the Waldenses, Albigenses, and Vaudois; Protestantism in Italy. See Life, by H. M. Baird. Har.
Baird, Samuel John. O., 1817-1893. A Presbyterian clergyman whose writings are chiefly concerned with the polity and history of the Presbyterian church. The Church of Christ: its Constitution and Order; History of the Early Polity of the Presbyterian Church in the Training of Ministers; The Socinian Apostasy of the English Presbyterian Church; History of the New School.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton. Pa., 1823-1887. A naturalist of prominence, who was from 1878 the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The translator and editor of the Iconographic Encyclopedia, co-author with J. Cassin of Birds of North America and Mammals of North America; editor Annual Record of Science and Industry from 1872-78. A History of North American Birds, written in collaboration with T. M. Brewer and R. Ridgway, is one of his most valuable works. See Popular Science Monthly, vol. 33. Har. Lip. Lit.
Baker, Abijah Richardson. Ms., 1805-1876. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, Massachusetts. School History of the United States; The Catechism Tested by the Bible; Topics in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.
Baker, George Augustus. N. Y., 1849- ——. A lawyer of New York. Point Lace and Diamonds, a collection of sparkling society verse; The Bad Habits of Good Society; Mrs. Hephaestus and Other Short Stories; West Point: a Comedy. Sto.
Baker, George Melville. Me., 1832-1890. The author and compiler of Amateur Dramas, the Social Stage, and works of like character. Le.
Baker, George Pierce. R. I., 1866- ——. An instructor at Harvard University. Plot Book of Elizabethan Plays; Principles of Argumentation. Gi. Ho.
Baker, Mrs. Harriette Newell [Woods]. “Madeline Leslie.” Ms., 1815-1893. Wife of A. R. Baker, supra, and daughter of Leonard Woods, infra. Beside two novels,—Cora and the Doctor, The Courtesies of Wedded Life,—her writings include nearly two hundred moral and religious tales, among which Tim the Scissors Grinder is the best known.
Baker, Mrs. Julia Keim [Wetherill]. Mi., 1858- ——. A journalist of New Orleans. Wings: a Novel.
Baker, William Mumford. D. C., 1825-1883. A popular novelist who was a Presbyterian clergyman in the Southwest until 1870, and afterwards the pastor of a church in Boston. He was a vigourous writer of considerable originality, whose earlier works possess historic interest as pictures of a now past stage of civilization in the Southern States. Inside: a Chronicle of Secession; The Virginians in Texas; Oak Mot; The New Timothy; Mose Evans; His Majesty Myself; Blessed St. Certainty; Thirlmore; Carter Quarterman; A Year Worth Living; Colonel Dunwoddie: Millionaire; The Making of a Man; The Ten Theophanies: the Manifestations of Christ before his Birth in Bethlehem; John Westacott, a juvenile tale. Har. Le. Ran. Rob.
Balch, William Stevens. Vt., 1806-1887. A Universalist clergyman, long resident at Elgin, Illinois, and author of Lectures on Language; Grammar of the English Language; Ireland as I Saw It; A Peculiar People.
Baldwin, James Mark. S. C., 1861- ——. A professor of psychology at Princeton University since 1893. Psychology; Elements of Psychology; Mental Development in the Child and Man; a translation of Ribot’s “German Psychology of To-Day.” Ho. Mac.
Baldwin, John Denison. Ct., 1809-1883. A journalist of Worcester, Massachusetts. Raymond Hill, a Poem; Pre-Historic Nations; Ancient America. Har.
Baldwin, Joseph G. Va., 1811-1864. A once popular humourous writer who was a jurist of prominence in Alabama and afterwards of California, of which State he became chief justice. Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi; Party Leaders, able papers on Southern statesmen.
Baldwin, Mrs. Lydia Wood. Ms., 1836- ——. Rubina; A Yankee School-Teacher in Virginia. Fu.
Balestier, Charles Wolcott. 1861-1891. An American writer who established himself as a publisher in London, and whose sister was married to Rudyard Kipling the novelist. A Fair Device; Life of Blaine; A Victorious Defeat; Benefits Forgot; The Naulahka (with Rudyard Kipling); A Common Story. See Century Magazine, April, 1892. Ap. Har.
Ballou, Adin. R. I., 1803-1890. A Universalist clergyman of Milford, Massachusetts. Christian Non-Resistance Defended; Treatise on Spirit Manifestations; Primitive Christianity and its Corruptions; History of the Town of Milford. See New England Magazine, April, 1891.
Ballou, Hosea. N. H., 1771-1852. A Universalist theologian of note in New England, and one of the founders of American Universalism. With his son he established the Universalist Quarterly. Treatise on Atonement; Notes on the Parables; An Examination of the Doctrine of Future Retribution. See Lives, by M. M. Ballou; Whittemore, 1854; Safford, 1889. See Universalist Review, vol. 41.
Ballou, Hosea. Vt., 1796-1861. Nephew of H. Ballou, supra. A Universalist clergyman who was the first president of Tufts College, 1854-61. Ancient History of Universalism.
Ballou, Maturin Murray. Ms., 1820-1895. Son of H. Ballou, 2nd. The founder and editor of several periodicals in Boston which bore his name, and, in his later years, a traveler to all parts of the world. History of Cuba; Life of Hosea Ballou; Due West, or Round the World in Ten Months; Due South, or Cuba Past and Present; Due North: Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia; Under the Southern Cross: Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, etc.; Alaska: The New Eldorado; Aztec Land; The Story of Malta; The Pearl of India, a description of Ceylon; Equatorial America, a description of visits to the Lesser Antilles and to South American capitals; Footprints of Travel. Gi. Hou.
Ballou, Moses. Ms., 1811-1879. A nephew of H. Ballou, 1st, and, like him, a Universalist clergyman. The Divine Character Vindicated.
Bancroft, Aaron. Ms., 1755-1839. A Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1785-1839, who was prominent in the earlier days of the Unitarian movement as a writer in its behalf. Sermons on the Doctrines of the Gospel; A Life of Washington. Co.
Bancroft, Edward. Ms., 1744-1821. A physician who resided chiefly in London, where he was supposed to have been a spy of the English Government during the American Revolution. Natural History of Guiana; Researches concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colors; Charles Wentworth: a Novel; and several political works.
Bancroft, George. Ms., 1800-1891. Son of A. Bancroft, supra. An eminent historian who was United States minister to England, 1846-49, and to Prussia and Germany, 1867-74. He was inclined to view history from the philosophic standpoint, and his political experiences gave him insight into motives. In his estimates of men he made smaller allowance for the relative values of the testimony of different periods than is now customary among historians. He paid much attention to style, but sometimes erred in regard to over-ornament. His manner, however, where not laboured, is attractive and often dramatic. The first volume of The History of the United States appeared in 1834, the second in 1837, the third in 1840, and the succeeding ones 1852-74. A revised edition was issued in 1876, while volumes 11 and 12 of the first edition were published in 1882 as The History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States. The latest revised edition was printed 1884-85. Minor works include Martin Van Buren to the End of his Public Career; Literary and Historical Miscellanies; Memorial Address on Abraham Lincoln; A Plea for the Constitution of the United States wounded in the House of its Guardians. See Annual Cyclopedia, 1891; Century Magazine, vol. 11; Jameson’s Historical Writing in America, pp. 100-110. Ap. Har.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. O., 1832- ——. An historical writer whose works, exceedingly comprehensive in their scope, were prepared with the assistance of a number of collaborateurs. The Native Races of the Pacific States, 5 volumes; History of the Pacific States of North America, including Central America, Mexico, California, Oregon, British Columbia, 39 volumes; The Early American Chroniclers; Popular History of the Mexican People; Literary Industries. See Jameson’s Historical Writing in America, pp. 152-156. Ap. Har.
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse. Sd., 1830- ——. An archæologist of Swiss birth, whose life has been chiefly spent in the United States. The Art of War and Mode of Warfare; Tenure of Land and Inheritances of the Ancient Mexicans; Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Archæological Tour in Mexico in 1881; The Delight Makers, a novel of Pueblo Indian Life. Ap. Do.
Bangs, John Kendrick. N. Y., 1862- ——. A humourous writer of Yonkers, New York, and one of the founders of “Life.” Three Weeks in Politics; Coffee and Repartee; The Idiot; The Water Ghost; Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica; A House Boat on the Styx; The Bicyclers and Other Farces; Toppleton’s Client; A Rebellious Heroine. Har.
Bangs, Nathan. Ct., 1778-1862. An active Methodist theologian and controversialist, very prominent in the literary history of his church and a most prolific writer. Among his works are comprised History of the Methodist Episcopal Church to 1840; Errors of Hopkinsianism; Life of Arminius; Letters to a Young Preacher; Letters on Sanctification; Methodist Episcopacy. See Life and Times of, by Abel Stevens. Meth.
Banks, Louis Albert. Or., 1855- ——. A prominent Methodist clergyman. The Saloon Keeper’s Ledger, a series of Temperance Discourses; The Fisherman and his Friends; Common Folks’ Religion; Revival Quiver, a Record of Revival Campaigns; The People’s Christ; White Slaves, or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor; The Honeycombs of Life; Christ and His Friends. Fu. Le. Meth.
Banister, John. E., 16— -1692. A Virginia botanist who assisted the English naturalist, John Ray. Observations on the Natural Productions of Jamaica; Insects of Virginia; Curiosities of Virginia; The Unseen Lupus; The Pistolochia, or Serpentaria Virginiana. The genus Banisteria was named in his honour.
Banneker, Benjamin. Md., 1731-1806. An astronomer and mathematician of African descent, who assisted in the original survey of the District of Columbia and published an astronomical almanac 1792-1806. See Lives, by Latrobe, 1845; Norris, 1854; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1863; Catholic World, vol. 38.
Banvard, John. 1814-1891. An artist and poet whose famous panorama of the Mississippi covered 3 miles of canvas. He wrote much indifferent verse, and published books of a miscellaneous nature. Amasis, The Last of the Pharaohs, afterwards dramatized by him; Carrinia: a Drama; Description of the Mississippi River; Pilgrimage to the Holy Land; The Private Life of a King; A Tradition of the Temple: a Poem.
Banvard, Joseph. N. Y., 1810-1887. Brother of J. Banvard, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Massachusetts who beside contributing somewhat largely to Sunday-school literature wrote much in other directions. Romance of American History; Plymouth and the Pilgrims; Novelties of the New World, or Adventures and Discoveries of the First Explorers; Tragic Scenes in the History of Maryland; The American Statesman: a Memoir of Webster; Southern Explorers; Soldiers and Patriots of the Revolution; Priscilla: an Historical Tale. Lo. Mer.
Baraga, Friedric. A., 1797-1868. A Roman Catholic missionary who came to America in 1830 from Austria, and became bishop of Sault St. Marie in 1852. He devoted himself to mission work among the Chippewa or Ojibway Indians, and beside writing several books in their tongue prepared a Grammar and Dictionary of the Otchipewe Language.
Barbe, Waitman. W. Va., 1864- ——. A resident of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Ashes and Incense, a volume of notable verse; In the Virginias, a collection of short stories. Lip.
Barber, John Warner. Ct., 1798-1885. An industrious annalist whose compilations though of slight literary merit are valuable as historical material not so readily accessible elsewhere. Historical Collections of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Ohio, the four last being prepared with the assistance of Henry Howe, infra; History of New Haven; Elements of General History; Historical Scenes in the United States.
Barbour, John Humphrey. Ct., 1854-1900. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of New Testament interpretation at the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown, Connecticut. Beginnings of the Historic Episcopate.
Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo. N. Y., 1811-1889. An eminent lawyer of New York State. Equity Digest; Criminal Law; The Law of Set-Off; Practice of the Court of Chancery; Summary of the Law of Parties to Actions at Law, and many legal reports.
Barclay, James Turner. Va., 1807-1874. A leading clergyman of the Campbellite faith, for many years a missionary at Jerusalem. He is best known as the author of The City of the Great King, a description of Jerusalem.
Barker, Fordyce. N. H., 1818-1891. A New York physician of prominence and a professor in the Bellevue Hospital from 1860. On Sea-Sickness; On Puerperal Diseases. Ap.
Barker, George Frederic. Ms., 1835- ——. A professor of physics in the University of Pennsylvania since 1873. Correlation of Vital and Physical Forces; Text Book of Elementary Chemistry.
Barker, James Nelson. Pa., 1784-1858. A Philadelphia poet and playwright who was comptroller of the United States Treasury 1838-50. His dramas include Marmion; The Indian Princess; Superstition; Smiles and Tears.
Barlow, Joel. Ct., 1754-1812. A prominent literary figure in the early days of the republic. His verse for the most part is stilted and declamatory. The Columbiad, his most ambitious poem, is now unread, but Hasty Pudding, a poetical reminiscence of New England among Italian scenes, still affords pleasant reading, and is genuinely humourous. The Vision of Columbus, The Conspiracy of Kings, are his only other works of any note. See Life by Todd, 1896; Tyler’s Three Men of Letters, 1895; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 58.
Barnard, Charles. Ms., 1838- ——. A writer and lecturer of New York city who was an editorial contributor to The Century Dictionary. The Tone Masters; The Soprano; My Ten Rod Farm; Farming by Inches; A Simple Flower Garden; The Strawberry Garden; Legilda Romanoff; Knights of To-Day; Co-operation as a Business; A Dead Town, a Romance of the Old Country; Talks about the Weather; Talks about the Soil. Put. Scr.
Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter. Ms., 1809-1889. An educational writer who was president of Columbia College, 1864-89. History of the United States Coast Survey; Imaginary Metrological System of the Great Pyramid; The Undulatory Theory of Light; Letters on College Government. See Memoirs of, by John Fulton, 1896. Wil.
Barnard, Henry. Ct., 1811-1900. A noted advocate of educational reforms. National Education in Europe; School Architecture; Hints and Methods for Teachers; Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism; History of Education in Connecticut; Educational Biography; German Educational Reformers. See New England Magazine, vol. 4.
Barnard, John. Ms., 1681-1770. A Congregational minister of Boston who was among the earliest New England dissenters from Calvinism. A robust and logical thinker. Version of the Psalms; Sermons; The Strange Adventures of Philip Ashton. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Barnard, John Gross. Ms., 1815-1882. Brother of F. Barnard, supra. A major-general of the United States Army. Survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Phenomena of the Gyroscope; Dangers and Defences of New York; Sea Coast Defence; The Peninsular Campaign and its Antecedents; Problems of Rotary Motion.
Barnes, Albert. N. Y., 1798-1870. A leader of New School Presbyterian thought and an able scriptural commentator. He was a clergyman of Philadelphia, and was at one time tried for heresy. Notes on the New Testament; Scriptural Views of Slavery; The Atonement; Life at Three Score; Prayers for Family Worship; Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. See Theological Works of, 1875. Har.
Barnes, James. Md., 1865- ——. For King or Country, a Story of the Revolution; Admiral Farragut; Naval Actions of the War of 1812; A Princetonian. Ap. Har. Put.
Barnes, Mrs. Mary Downing [Sheldon]. N. Y., 1850-1898. An educator who published Studies in General History; Teachers’ Manual.
Barnum, Mrs. Frances Courtenay [Baylor]. Ark., 1848- ——. A novelist now living in Savannah. On Both Sides, an international novel; Behind the Blue Ridge; Juan and Juanita, a juvenile tale; Claudia Hyde. Hou. Lip.
Barnum, Phineas Taylor. Ct., 1810-1891. A showman of world-wide fame. Humbugs of the World; Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years’ Recollections; Lion Jack, or How Menageries are Made; Autobiography. See Saturday Review, vol. 71.
Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith [Huddleston]. E., 1831- ——. A novelist of English birth who was educated in Glasgow and came to America in 1854. Her literary career did not begin, however, until 1871. Her books exhibit many excellencies of construction and characterization, are wholesome in tone, and have been deservedly popular. Among the best of them may be named Jan Vedder’s Wife; Paul and Christina; A Daughter of Fife; A Border Shepherdess; The Bow of Orange Ribbon, a tale of colonial life in New York; Between Two Loves; Friend Olivia; Bernicia, a story in which Whitefield, the famous preacher, is a prominent figure. Other works by Mrs. Barr include: Scottish Sketches; Flower of Gala Water; Romance and Reality; Young People of Shakespeare’s Time; Cluny McPherson; The Hallam Succession; The Lost Silver of Briffault; The Last of the McAlisters; The King’s Highway; The Squire of Sandal Side; Master of his Fate; Christopher; Remember the Alamo, a story of Texas; She loved a Sailor; A Rose of a Hundred Leaves; Michael and Theodora; A Sister to Esau; Feet of Clay; The Household of McNeil; The Preacher’s Daughter; Love for an Hour is Love Forever; A Singer from the Sea; The Lone House. See Andover Review, vol. 11. Ap. Do. Har.
Barrett, Benjamin Fisk. Me., 1808-1892. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Philadelphia who wrote extensively in behalf of his faith. Among his many books are A Life of Swedenborg; The New View of Hell; Swedenborg and Channing; Heaven Revealed: a Popular Presentation of Swedenborg’s Disclosures about Heaven.
Barrett, Walter. See Scoville.
Barron, Elwyn Alfred. Tn., 1855- ——. A Chicago journalist on the editorial staff of The Inter-Ocean from 1879, who has written The Viking, a blank-verse drama; A Moral Crime, and other plays.
Barrow, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth [Mease]. “Aunt Fanny.” S. C., 1822-1894. A writer of juvenile tales which have been widely circulated. Among them are The Night Cap Series; The Pop Gun Series; The Six Mitten Books. Est.
Barrows, John Henry. Mich., 1847-1902. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago. The Gospels are True History; I believe in God the Father Almighty; Henry Ward Beecher, the Pulpit Jupiter; Life of Henry Ward Beecher. Fu. Lo.
Barrows, Mrs. Katherine Isabel Hayes [Chapin]. Vt., 1846- ——. Wife of S. J. Barrows, infra, and with him author of The Shaybacks in Camp, a volume of leisurely travel notes. Hou.
Barrows, Samuel June. N. Y., 1845- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, editor of The Christian Register since 1881. A Baptist Meeting House, a narrative of a transition from the Baptist to the Unitarian faith; The Doom of the Majority of Mankind. A. U. A.
Barrows, William. Ms., 1815-1891. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Church and the Children; The Indian’s Side of the Indian Question; Oregon, the Struggle for Possession; The United States of Yesterday and To-morrow; Twelve Nights in the Hunter’s Camp. Hou. Le. Lo. Rob.
Barry, John Daniel. Ms., 1866- ——. A littérateur of New York city. A Daughter of Thespis; The Intriguers, a novel; Mademoiselle Blanche; The Princess Margarethe, a fairy tale; The Congressman’s Wife. Ap. St.
Barry, John Stetson. Ms., 1819-1872. A Universalist clergyman. The Stetson Genealogy; History of Massachusetts.
Barry, Patrick. I., 1816-1890. A prominent horticulturist of Rochester, N. Y. Treatise on the Fruit Garden. Ju.
Barry, William. Ms., 1805-1885. Brother of J. S. Barry, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. Rights and Duties of Neighboring Churches; Thoughts on Christian Doctrine; History of Framingham; Antiquities of Wisconsin.
Bartholow, Roberts. Md., 1831- ——. A physician and medical professor of Philadelphia. Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Practice of Medicine; Medical Electricity; The Antagonism between Medicines and between Remedies and Diseases. Ap. Lip.
Bartlett, Elisha. R. I., 1804-1855. A Rhode Island physician. The Fevers of the United States; Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dickens’s Gallery.
Bartlett, John. Ms., 1820- ——. Formerly a Boston publisher, well known as the editor of Familiar Quotations, which reached a ninth edition in 1891; The Shakespeare Phrase-Book; A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare. Lit. Mac.
Bartlett, John Russell. R. I., 1805-1886. At one time Secretary of State in Rhode Island. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island; Memoir of Rhode Island Officers in the War of the Rebellion; Primeval Man; Genealogy of the Russell Family; Dictionary of Americanisms; Progress of Ethnology. He edited the Letters of Roger Williams. Lit.
Bartlett, Joseph. Ms., 1762-1827. A satirical poet whose New Vicar of Bray once attracted considerable attention.
Bartlett, Samuel Colcord. N. H., 1817-1898. President of Dartmouth College 1877-92. Life and Death Eternal, a Refutation of the Doctrine of Annihilation; Future Punishment; From Egypt to Palestine: observations of a Journey; Sources of History in the Pentateuch. See The Forum, vol. 2. Har.
Bartlett, William Holms Chambers. Pa., 1804-1893. A prominent scientist, who was from 1834-71 an instructor at West Point. Treatise on Optics; Analytical Mechanics; Spherical Astronomy.
Bartol, Cyrus Augustus. Me., 1813-1900. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, prominent as a leader of radical religious thought. Pictures of Europe; Christian Spirit and Life; Radical Problems; The Rising Faith; Principles and Portraits; Church and Congregation; Christian Body and Form. A. U. A. Rob.
Barton, Benjamin Smith. Pa., 1766-1815. A once noted physician of Philadelphia. Observations on Some Parts of Natural History; New Views on the Origin of the Tribes of North America; Elements of Botany.
Barton, William Paul Crillon. Pa., 1786-1856. Nephew of B. S. Barton, supra. He organized the United States Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and was known both as botanist and surgeon. Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; Flora of North America; Medical Botany; Compendium Floræ Philadelphiæ.
Bartram, John. Pa., 1699-1777. “The Father of American Botany.” A shrewd, careful observer whom Linnæus termed “the greatest natural botanist in the world.” Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, etc., as made by Mr. John Bartram in his Travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, etc. A similar record of travels in eastern Florida appeared in 1766. See Memorials of, by Darlington, 1849.
Bartram, William. Pa., 1739-1823. Son of J. Bartram, supra. A botanist and traveller of Pennsylvania. Travel Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc.; Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians.
Bascom, Henry Bidleman. N. Y., 1796-1850. A bishop of the Methodist church. Sermons from the Pulpit; Mental and Moral Science; Methodism and Slavery. See Life by Heuhle, 1854; Methodist Quarterly, vol. 45.
Bascom, John. N. Y., 1827- ——. A philosophical writer, from 1874-87, president of Wisconsin University, subsequently professor of political science at Williams College. Elements of Psychology; Æsthetics; Political Economy for Colleges; Science, Philosophy, and Religion; Natural Theology; The Science of Mind; The Words of Christ; Philosophy of English Literature; Comparative Psychology; Problems in Philosophy; Sociology, Social Theory; Ethics; The New Theology; Historical Interpretation of Philosophy; A Philosophy of Religion. Cr. Put.
Bassett, James. Ont., 1834- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in Persia. Hymns in Persian; Among the Turcomans; Persia, the Land of the Imams: a Narrative of Travel; Grammatical Note on the Simnuni Dialects of the Persian. Scr.
Batchelor, George. Ct., 1836- ——. A Unitarian clergyman. Social Equilibrium and Other Problems, Ethical and Religious. El.
Bates, Arlo. Me., 1850- ——. Professor of English literature in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and novelist. Talks on Writing English; The Pagans; Patty’s Perversities; A Wheel of Fire; In the Bundle of Time; A Lad’s Love; The Philistines; A Book o’ Nine Tales. His verse includes Berries of the Brier; Sonnets in Shadow; A Poet and his Self; Told in the Gate; The Torch-Bearers; Under the Beech-Tree. Ho. Hou. Rob. Scr.
Bates, Charlotte Fiske. See Rogé.
Bates, Mrs. Clara [Doty]. Mch., 1838-1895. A writer of juvenile tales. Classics of Babyland Versified; Child Lore; On the Way to Wonderland; Heart’s Content. Lo.
Bates, Mrs. Harriet Leonora [Vose]. “Eleanor Putnam.” It., 1856-1886. Wife of A. Bates, supra. A Woodland Wooing; Old Salem; Prince Vance (with A. Bates).
Bates, Katherine Lee. Ms., 1859- ——. A professor of literature at Wellesley College. The English Religious Drama; Hermit Island: a Story for Girls. Lo. Mac.
Bates, Mrs. Margret Holmes [Ernsperger]. O., 1844- ——. A fiction-writer of Indianapolis. Manitou; The Chamber Over the Gate.
Bates, Samuel Penniman. Ms., 1827-190-. A Pennsylvania educator of note. Mental and Moral Culture; Liberal Education; History of Pennsylvania Volunteers; History of the Colleges of Pennsylvania.
Batterson, Hermon Griswold. Ct., 1827-1903. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Missionary Tune Book; The Churchman’s Hymn Book; Christmas Carols and Other Verses; The Pathway of Faith; A Sketch Book of the American Episcopate. Lip.
Baxley, Isaac Rieman. Md., 1850- ——. A California versifier whose thought as a whole gains nothing by being expressed in verse. The Temple of Alanthur; The Prophet and Other Poems; Songs of the Spirit; The Bank of Mist.
Baxter, James Phinney. Me., 1831- ——. An historical writer of Portland, Maine. George Cleves of Casco Bay, 1630-67; Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine; Idyls of the Year, a collection of verse.
Baxter, Lydia. N. Y., 1809-1874. Gems by the Wayside, a collection of poems. The hymn, The Gates Ajar, is by her.
Baxter, Sylvester. Ms., 1850- ——. A journalist of Boston, prominent in exploiting the Metropolitan Park system. The Cruise of a Land Yacht, a Boy’s Book of Mexican Travel. Lit.
Baxter, William. E., 1820- ——. A clergyman of Cincinnati, whose War Lyrics as originally published in Harper’s Weekly were once widely popular. The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion; Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas. Meth.
Bayley, James Roosevelt. N. Y., 1814-1877. A clergyman who entered the Roman Catholic Church from the Episcopal and became archbishop of Baltimore. History of the Catholic Church of New York; Memoirs of Bruté, First Bishop of Vincennes; Pastorals for the People.
Baylies, Francis. Ms., 1783-1852. An eminent lawyer of Taunton, Massachusetts. Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth.
Baylor, Frances Courtenay. See Barnum, Mrs.
Beach, David Nelson. N. J., 1848- ——. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Cambridge, and, since 1895, of Minneapolis. The Newer Religious Thinking; How we Rose; Plain Words on Our Lord’s Work; The Intent of Jesus. Lit. Rob.
Beal, William James. Mch., 1833- ——. A botanical professor in the Michigan Agricultural College from 1870. The New Botany; The Grasses of North America.
Beale, Mrs. Maria [Taylor]. Va., 1849- ——. A novelist of Arden, North Carolina. Jack O’Doon. Ho.
Beard, George Miller. Ct., 1839-1883. A New York physician. American Nervous Diseases: Causes and Consequences; The Scientific Basis of Delusions; Clinical Researches in Electro-Surgery; Medical Uses of Electricity; Physiology of Mind-Reading; Stimulants and Narcotics; Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft and its Practical Application in Our Own Time. Some works of lesser note. Har. Wo.
Beardsley, Eben Edwards. Ct., 1808-1891. An Episcopal clergyman of New Haven. History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut; Lives of Samuel Johnson, the First President of King’s College, New York, William Samuel Johnson, President of Columbia College, and Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut. Hou.
Beasley, Frederick. N. C., 1777-1845. An Episcopal clergyman who was provost of the University of Pennsylvania. An Examination of the Oxford Divinity; Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind; Reply to Dr. Channing.
Beck, Theodric Romeyn. N. Y., 1791-1855. A medical writer of Albany. Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (with J. B. Beck).
Becker, George Ferdinand. N. Y., 1847- ——. A geologist in the United States service. Geology of the Comstock Lode; Atomic Weight Determinations; Geometrical Value of Volcanic Cones; A New Law of Thermo-Chemistry; Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope. Several lesser works.
Beckett, Sylvester Breakmore. Me., 1812-1882. An author and publisher of Portland, Maine. Hester, the Bride of the Islands, a Poem; Guide Book of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence.
Bedell [bē-dĕll´], Gregory Thurston. N. Y., 1817-1892. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and a valued writer of the evangelical school. The Divinity of Christ; The Profit of Godliness; Pastoral Theology; Principles of Pastorship; The Age of Indifference; Episcopacy; Fact and Law. A few minor works.
Bedell, Gregory Townsend. N. Y., 1793-1834. Father of G. T. Bedell, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, once famous as a preacher. Renunciation; Ezekiel’s Vision; Sermons were his chief works. See Life by Tyng, 1836.
Beecher, Catherine Esther. L. I., 1800-1878. Daughter of L. Beecher, infra. A New England educator of much celebrity at one time, who wrote with the ardour of sincerest conviction. Domestic Economy; Physiology and Calisthenics; Letters to the People; Religious Training of Children; Domestic Service, True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman. See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record. Har.
Beecher, Charles. Ct., 1815-1900. Son of L. Beecher, infra. A Congregational clergyman. Patmos; Pen Pictures of the Bible; The Eden Tableau; Redeemer and Redeemed. He edited his father’s Life and Correspondence. Har. Le.
Beecher, Edward. L. I., 1803-1895. Son of L. Beecher, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Illinois, and later of Brooklyn, whose attainments must be considered as the most solid of those of any of the famous children of Lyman Beecher. In his Conflict of Ages (1853) was struck the earliest note of the liberal theology now dominant in the Congregational churches. The more important of his other works include Papal Conspiracy Exposed; Baptism; History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Future Retribution. Ap.
Beecher, Mrs. Eunice White [Bullard]. Ms., 1812-1897. Wife of H. W. Beecher, infra. From Dawn to Daylight: a Simple Story; Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers; All around the House, or How to Make Homes Happy; Letters from Florida; Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him. Ap.
Beecher, Henry Ward. Ct., 1813-1887. Son of Lyman Beecher, infra. A Congregational clergyman widely famous as the pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 1847-87. He was an earnest, large-hearted man, though not a deep thinker, and his cheerful influence upon middle-class American thought was very extensive. His literary work can hardly be said to possess enduring excellence, and much of it is already forgotten, graphic and picturesque as it often is. Eyes and Ears; Life Thoughts; Star Papers; Yale Lectures on Preaching; Lectures to Young Men; Speeches on the American Rebellion; Doctrinal Beliefs and Unbeliefs; Life of Jesus the Christ. His only novel, Norwood, is a collection of successful character studies rather than a finished story. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Lyman Abbott, 1883; J. Howard, 1887; Barrows, 1893; Henry Ward Beecher: a Study, 1891; Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him, by his wife; North American Review, vol. 144. Ap. Fo. Har.
Beecher, Lyman. Ct., 1775-1863. A Congregational clergyman of wide fame. While in Boston he was a zealous opponent of Unitarianism, and as president of Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati was noted as an outspoken enemy of slavery. He was a bold thinker, much in advance of his contemporaries. Sermons on Temperance; Views in Theology; Scepticism; Political Atheism. See Life and Correspondence, edited by Charles Beecher, 1864. Har.
Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut. Ct., 1824-1900. Son of L. Beecher, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Elmira, N. Y. Our Seven Churches.
Beecher, Willis Judson. O., 1838- ——. A professor of Hebrew in the Auburn Theological Seminary. Farmer Tompkins and his Bible; Drill Lessons in Hebrew; Testimony of the Historical Books.
Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda [Eliot]. “Ethel Lynn.” N. J., 1827-1879. General Frankie, a juvenile tale; All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems. Co.
Beers, Henry Augustin. N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor of English literature at Yale University. The Ways of Yale; A Suburban Pastoral and Other Stories; From Chaucer to Tennyson; Life of N. P. Willis, infra; Outline Sketch of English Literature; Initial Studies in American Letters. Verse: Odds and Ends; The Thankless Muse. Fl. Ho. Hou. Meth.
Belcher, Joseph. E., 1794-1859. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, who came thither from England in 1844. His complete works number over 200 volumes. Among them are The Baptist Pulpit of the United States; The Clergy of America; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; Hymns and their Authors.
Belknap [bĕl´năp], Jeremy. Ms., 1744-1798. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, whose History of New Hampshire ranks as the best among local State histories, and is accurate as it is entertaining. His other works include American Biographies; The Foresters: an American Tale. See Atlantic Monthly, vol. 67.
Bell, Charles Henry. N. H., 1823-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer and Congressman, governor of his State, 1881-83. The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire. Hou.
Bell, John. I., 1796-1872. A physician and medical lecturer, among whose writings are Health and Beauty; Regimen and Longevity.
Bell, Lilian. Ky., 1867- ——. A Chicago novelist. The Love Affairs of An Old Maid; A Little Sister to the Wilderness. Har. St.
Bell, Zura. See Williamson, Julia.
Bellamy, Charles Joseph. Ms., 1852- ——. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts. The Breton Mills: a Novel; Everybody’s Lawyer; The Way Out: Suggestions for Social Reform. Put.
Bellamy, Edward. Ms., 1850-1898. Brother of C. J. Bellamy, supra. A socialist reformer whose Utopian theories embodied in the tale Looking Backward, 2000-1887, have been very widely read, and have resulted in the formation of several societies and communities that endeavour to put some of them in practice. His other works include Six to One: a Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process, a novel; Miss Ludington’s Sister: a Romance of Immortality; Equality; The Blindman’s World, and Other Stories; The Duke of Stockbridge. Ap. Hou.
Bellamy, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield [Croom]. “Kamba Thorpe.” Fl., 1838-1900. A novelist of Mobile. Four Oaks; Little Joanna; Penny Lancaster Farmer; Old Man Gilbert; The Luck of the Pendennings. Ap.
Bellamy, Joseph. Ct., 1719-1790. A Congregational minister of the Edwards school, settled at Bethlehem, Connecticut, for a half century. He founded a divinity school in his parish, and trained many men there who were afterwards famous among New England ministers. True Religion Delineated; The Law our Schoolmaster; The Half-Way Covenant; The Nature and Glory of the Gospel, are a few of his publications. See Bibliotheca Sacra, vol. 43; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Bellamy, William. Ms., 1846- ——. A Boston writer who has published, in verse, A Century of Charades; A Second Century of Charades. Hou.
Bellows, Henry Whitney. N. H., 1814-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known at one time as the president of the United States Sanitary Commission. Restatements of Christian Doctrine; Sermons; Relation of Public Amusements to Public Morality; The Old World in its New Face. See Unitarian Review, vol. 67. A. U. A. Har.
Belrose, Louis. Pa., 1845-1894. A writer whose only published work of note is Thorns and Flowers, a volume of verse.
Bemis, Edward Webster. Ms., 1860- ——. A professor of economics in the University of Chicago. History of Co-operation in the United States; Municipal Ownership of Gas in the United States.
Bender, Prosper. Q., 1844- ——. A Canadian physician, a littérateur, who since 1883 has practiced his profession in Boston. Old and New Canada; Literary Sheaves, or La Littérature au Canada-Français.
Benedict, David. Ct., 1779-1874. A Baptist clergyman of Pawtucket. History of the Baptists; History of All Religions; Fifty Years Among the Baptists; Compendium of Ecclesiastical History; History of the Donatists, comprise his principal works.
Benedict, Erastus Cornelius. Ct., 1800-1880. A jurist of New York city. The American Admiralty: its Jurisdiction and Practice.
Benedict, Frank Lee. N. Y., 1834- ——. A novelist of New York city. Miss Van Kortland; My Daughter Elinor; The Price She Paid; John Worthington’s Name; Miss Dorothy’s Charge; St. Simon’s Niece; ’Twixt Hammer and Anvil; Her Friend Laurence; A Late Remorse; Madame; The Shadow-Worshipper and Other Poems. Har. Lip.
Benezet, Anthony. F., 1713-1784. A Quaker philanthropist of Philadelphia, whose tracts on slavery first aroused the attention of Clarkson and Wilberforce to the subject. See Memoir by R. Vaux, 1817.
Benjamin, Judah Philip. W. I., 1811-1884. A prominent New Orleans lawyer who became attorney-general of the Confederacy during the Civil War. At its close he went to England, and speedily became eminent in his profession there. His Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property is the standard work on the subject. See The Athenæum, vol. 88.
Benjamin, Park. B. G., 1809-1864. A poet and journalist of New York city, whose verse, mainly lyrical in character, has not been collected. The Old Sexton is the best remembered example.
Benjamin, Park, Jr. N. Y., 1849- ——. Son of P. Benjamin, supra. A New York lawyer whose specialty is patent law. Shakings: Etchings for the Naval Academy; Wrinkles and Receipts: Suggestions for the Mechanic, Engineer, etc.; The Age of Electricity; The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: a History. Ap. Scr. Wil.
Benjamin, Samuel Green Wheeler. Gr., 1837- ——. A contributor to the field of general literature; at one period minister to Persia. Art in America; Contemporary Art in Europe; The Atlantic Islands; Troy: its Legend, Literature, and Topography; A Group of Etchers; Persia and the Persians; The Story of Persia; The Cruise of the Alice May in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Sea Spray, or Facts and Fancies of a Yachtsman. Ap. Har. Hou. Lo. Scr.
Bennett, Charles Wesley. N. Y., 1828-1891. A Methodist clergyman prominent in educational matters. National Education in Italy, France, Germany, England, and Wales, Popularly Considered; Christian Art and Archæology of the First Six Centuries. Meth.
Bennett, De Robique Mortimer. N. Y., 1818-1882. A noted free-thinker who was several times arrested and imprisoned on account of his extreme views. The World’s Reformers; Champions of the Church; From Behind the Bars; An Infidel Abroad; A Truth Seeker Around the World.
Bennett, Edmund Hatch. Vt., 1824-1898. A New England jurist, dean of the Boston University Law School. English Law and Equity Reports; Fire Insurance Cases; Leading Cases in Criminal Law. He has also edited many legal works of importance. Hou.
Bennett, Emerson. Ms., 1822- ——. A Philadelphia writer of sensational romances quite worthless as literature, but which have been very popular. Prairie Flower, Leni Leoti, are perhaps the most noted of his fifty or more novels.
Bensel, James Berry. N. Y., 1856-1886. A verse-writer whose lines are often musical and pathetic, though sometimes lacking in finish. In the King’s Garden, and Other Poems; King Cophetua’s Wife, a novel. Lo.
Benson, Carl. See Bristed.
Benson, Egbert. N. Y., 1746-1833. A jurist and politician. Vindication of the Captors of Major André; Memoir on Dutch Names of Places.
Benson, Eugene. N. Y., 1840- ——. An American artist long resident in Italy. Gaspara Stampa, a biography; Art and Nature in Italy. Rob.
Benton, Joel. N. Y., 1832- ——. A verse-writer and critic. Under the Apple Boughs, a collection of verse; Emerson as a Poet. Ho.
Benton, Thomas Hart. N. C., 1782-1858. An eminent statesman who represented Missouri in the United States Senate for 30 years. His political writing is notable for its simple, direct style and absence of invective. Speeches; Thirty Years’ View; History of the Workings of Congress, 1820-50; Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, 1789-1856. See Life by T. Roosevelt. Ap.
Berard, Augusta Blanche. N. Y., 1824-1901. An educational writer of West Point. School History of the United States; School History of England; Manual of Spanish Art and Literature; Reminiscences of West Point in the Olden Time.
Berg, Joseph Frederick. W. I., 1812-1871. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Philadelphia and a once noted controversialist. Lectures on Romanism; Rome’s Policy towards the Bible are among his writings.
Berg, Louis de Coppet. N. Y., 1856- ——. An architect and civil engineer of New York city, who has published a valuable work on Safe Building.
Bergh, Henry. N. Y., 1823-1888. A New York philanthropist who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The Streets of New York, a volume of sketches; Love’s Alternative, a drama; Married Off, a poem.
Bernheim, Gotthardt Dellman. 1827- ——. A Lutheran clergyman at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, from 1883. The Success of God’s Work; Localities of the Reformation; History of the German Settlements in North and South Carolina.
Berrian, William. 1787-1862. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Trinity Church, New York city, 1830-62. Travels in France and Italy; Devotions for the Sick Room; On Communion; Enter thy Closet; The Sailors’ Manual; Recollections of Departed Friends; Family and Private Prayers; Historical Sketch of Trinity Church.
Bessey, Charles Edwin. O., 1845- ——. A botanical professor in the University of Nebraska. Geography of Iowa; Botany for High Schools and Colleges; The Essentials of Botany. Ho.
Bethune [beh-thoon´], George Washington. N. Y., 1805-1862. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Brooklyn of considerable note as a preacher. Orations and Discourses; Fruits of the Spirit; History of a Penitent; Lays of Love and Faith, a volume of verse, are some of his works. He was an ardent fisherman, and edited Walton’s Complete Angler. See Memoir by Van Nest.
Betts, Craven Langstroth. N. B., 1853- ——. Songs from Béranger; The Perfume Holder: A Persian Love Poem; co-author with A. W. H. Eaton (infra) of Tales of a Garrison Town. Sto.
Beverley, Robert. Va., 1675-1716. A writer whose one work, a History of the Present State of Virginia, 1705, is full of life and vigour. In it occurs the phrase “the almighty power of gold,” which anticipates Irving’s “almighty dollar.” See Tyler’s American Literature; Jameson’s Historical Writing in America, pp. 62-67.
Bianciardi, Mrs. Elizabeth Dickinson [Rice]. Ms., c. 1833-1885. At Home in Italy. Hou.
Bickmore, Albert Smith. Me., 1839- ——. An ethnologist, since 1885 the curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. Travels in the East Indian Archipelago; The Ainos or Hairy Men of Jesso, Saghalien, etc.; Sketch of a Journey from Canton to Hankow.
Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel. Pa., 1874- ——. A journalist and publisher of Philadelphia. A Dual Role, and Other Stories; An Allegory and Three Essays; The Madeira Islands; The Froggy Fairy Book.
Biddle, Charles John. Pa., 1819-1873. Son of N. Biddle, infra. An officer in the United States Army, and afterwards a journalist in Philadelphia, who is best known by his careful monograph, The Case of Major André.
Biddle, Nicholas. Pa., 1786-1844. A financier of Philadelphia famous in political history as the president of the United States Bank. A Commercial Digest; History of the Expedition under Lewis and Clark to the Missouri River. See Memoir, by Conrad.
Biddle, Richard. Pa., 1796-1847. Brother of N. Biddle, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery.
Bigelow, Mrs. Edith Evelyn [Jaffray]. N. Y., 1861- ——. Wife of P. Bigelow, infra. Diplomatic Disenchantments, a novel. Har.
Bigelow, Erastus Brigham. Ms., 1814-1879. A noted New England inventor of carpet looms. The Tariff Question considered in regard to the Policy of England and the Interest of the United States; The Tariff Policy of England and United States Contrasted.
Bigelow, Jacob. Ms., 1787-1879. A famous physician of Boston who established Mount Auburn cemetery. History of Mount Auburn; A Brief Exposition of Rational Medicine; Modern Inquiries, classical, professional, and miscellaneous; Remarks on Classical and Utilitarian Studies; American Medical Botany; Nature in Disease. See Memoir, by Ellis.
Bigelow, John. N. Y., 1817- ——. A prominent New York journalist, at one time United States Minister to France. Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Life of Samuel Tilden; Jamaica in 1850; Les États Unis d’Amérique en 1863; Some Recollections of Antoine Pierre Berryer; France and Hereditary Monarchy; Wit and Wisdom of the Haytiens; Molinos the Quietist; France and the Confederate Navy: an International Episode; The Mystery of Sleep. He has edited complete editions of the works of Franklin and Tilden. Har. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Bigelow, John, Jr. N. Y., 1854- ——. Son of John Bigelow, supra. A United States cavalry officer. The Principles of Strategy, illustrated chiefly from American Campaigns. Lip.
Bigelow, Melville Madison. Mch., 1846- ——. A lawyer and law lecturer of Boston. The Law of Bills; English Procedure in the Norman Period; The Law of Fraud; Elements of Equity; Elements of the Law of Torts; Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I.; Law of Wills, Notes, and Cheques; The Law of Fraud on its Civil Side; The Law of Estoppel and its Application to Practice; Leading Cases in the Law of Torts, comprise his principal works. He has also edited the 8th edition of Story’s Conflict of Laws, and published a volume of original verse, Rhymes of a Barrister. Hou. Lit.
Bigelow, Poultney. N. Y., 1855- ——. Son of John Bigelow, supra. The German Emperor and his Eastern Neighbors; The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser; History of the German Struggle for Liberty; White Man’s Africa; The Children of the Nations. Har.
Biglow, William. Ms., 1773-1844. An educator of Boston. History of Natick; History of Sherburne; The Youth’s Library; Introduction to the Making of Latin.
Billings, John Shaw. Ind., 1838- ——. Formerly surgeon U. S. A. Upon the consolidation of the New York city libraries, he was made chief librarian. His chief work is a voluminous Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s office. Others are Hygienics of the United States Army Barracks; Mortality and Vital Statistics of the United States Army.
Billings, Josh. See Shaw, Henry.
Binney, Amos. Ms., 1803-1847. A once prominent physician and naturalist of Boston. Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States.
Binney, Horace. Pa., 1780-1875. A noted jurist of Philadelphia. Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1799-1814; Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia; Inquiry into the Formation of Washington’s Farewell Address.
Binney, William Greene. Ms., 1833- ——. Son of A. Binney, supra. A well-known conchologist of Burlington, New Jersey. Besides completing his father’s work on mollusks he has written Bibliography of North American Conchology; Land and Fresh Water Shells of North America; Catalogues of the Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of North America.
Bird, Frederick Mayer. Pa., 1838- ——. Son of R. M. Bird, infra. An Episcopal clergyman widely known as an hymnologist. He has edited The Lutheran Ministerium Hymns (with Smucker); Songs of the Spirit (with Bishop Odenheimer); published Charles Wesley seen in his Finer and Less Familiar Pieces; and contributed extensively to the critical literature of his subject.
Bird, Robert Montgomery. Del., 1803-1854. A romantic novelist of Philadelphia whose Nick of the Woods was his most popular work. His two Mexican stories, Calavar: a Knight of the Conquest; The Infidel, or the Fall of Mexico, were commended by the historian Prescott. His other works include Peter Pilgrim, a collection of Tales and Sketches, notable as containing almost the earliest description of the Mammoth Cave; Sheppard Lee; The Hawks of Hawk Hollow; Adventures of Robin Day; and three successful dramas, The Broker of Bogota; Oraoosa; The Gladiator.
Birney, James Gillespie. Ky., 1792-1857. A statesman famous for his opposition to slavery. Ten Letters on Slavery and Colonization; Addresses and Speeches; American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery, are among his writings. See Nation, vol. 50; Birney and his Times, by W. Birney.
Bishop, Joel Prentiss. N. Y., 1814-1901. An eminent jurist of Boston. Commentaries on Criminal Law; Marriage and Divorce; The Law of Married Women; Thoughts for the Times; First Book of The Law; Directions and Forms; Criminal Procedure; Statutory Crimes; Prosecution and Defence; The Written Laws, are among the more important works of his. Lit.
Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes. Ms., 1837-1902. A writer of entertaining travels. A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America; The Voyage of the Paper Canoe; Four Months in a Sneak Box. Le.
Bishop, Robert Hamilton. S., 1777-1855. A Presbyterian clergyman of Ohio, president of Miami University, 1824-41. Sermons; Elements of Logic; Philosophy of the Bible; Science of Government; Western Peacemaker; Memoirs of David Rice.
Bishop, William Henry. Ct., 1847- ——. A novelist and professor in Yale University. Fish and Men in the Maine Islands; A Househunter in Europe; Writing to Rosina: a novelette; A Pound of Cure: a Story of Monte Carlo; Detmold; The House of a Merchant Prince; The Golden Justice; Choy Susan and Other Stories; The Brown Stone Boy and Other Queer People; Old Mexico and her Lost Provinces, a volume of travel; The Garden of Eden. Cas. Cent. Har. Ho. Hou. Ke. Scr.
Bisland, Elizabeth. See Wetmore, Mrs.
Bissell, Edwin Cone. N. Y., 1832-1894. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. Analysis of the Codes; The Historic Origin of the Bible; The Pentateuch: its Origin and Structure; Biblical Antiquities; Practical Introductory Hebrew Grammar; Genesis Printed in Colours, showing original sources of compilation. Fu. Ran. Scr.
Bixby, James Thompson. N. Y., 1843- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Yonkers, New York. Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge, reprinted with the title Religion and Science as Allies; The Crisis in Morals. Ap. Rob.
Bixby, John Munson. “E. Grayson.” Ct., 1800-1876. A lawyer of New York city, whose two novels were issued under a pseudonym. Standish the Puritan; Overing, or the Heir of Wycherly.
Black, Alexander. N. Y., 1859- ——. A Brooklyn journalist, literary editor of the Brooklyn Times. The Story of Ohio; Photography Indoors and Out; Miss Jerry, a Picture Play. Hou. Lo. Scr.
Black, James. Pa., 1823-1894. A noted Pennsylvania advocate of temperance who was the presidential nominee of the prohibitionists in 1872. Is Prohibition a Necessity; History of the Prohibition Party; The Prohibition Party.
Black, James Rush. S., 1827- ——. An Ohio physician, since 1876 a professor of hygiene in the medical college of Columbus. Ten Laws of Health, a valuable work on hygiene; Guide to Protection against Epidemic Disease.
Black, Warren Columbus. Mi., 1843- ——. A Methodist clergyman of Mississippi. Temperance and Teetotalism; Christian Womanhood.
Black, William Henry. Ind., 1854- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of St. Louis. God our Father; Womanhood; Sermons for the Sunday School.
Blackburn, William Maxwell. Ind., 1828-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, since 1886 president of Pierre University, South Dakota. Among his many works, chiefly on religion and biography, are History of the Christian Church; Geneva’s Shield; Exiles of Madeira; Judas the Maccabee; The Rebel Prince; College Days of Calvin; Young Calvin in Paris; St. Patrick and the Early Irish Church; Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots; The Theban Legion; and the Uncle Alick series of juvenile tales. Meth.
Blackwell, Mrs. Antoinette Louisa [Brown]. N. Y., 1825- ——. A Unitarian minister prominent in the woman-suffrage movement. Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; The Island Neighbours: a novel of American life; The Sexes Throughout Nature; The Physical Basis of Immortality; The Philosophy of Individuality. Har.
Blackwell, Elizabeth. E., 1821- ——. A physician of New York city who, with her sister Emily, organized the woman’s medical college of the New York Infirmary. Laws of Life, or the Physical Education of Girls; Counsel to Parents in the Moral Education of their Children; Pioneer Work in opening the Medical Profession to Women. Lgs.
Blaikie, William. N. Y., 1843-1904. A lawyer and athlete of New York city. How to Get Strong; Sound Bodies for our Boys and Girls. Har.
Blaine, James Gillespie. Pa., 1830-1893. A very prominent Republican leader who was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1884. Twenty Years of Congress, an able and reasonably impartial work; Eulogy on James Abram Garfield. See Appleton’s American Biography, vol. 1, and Annual Cyclopedia, 1893; Lives, by Cressey, 1884; Balestier, 1884; Ramsdell; Dodge, 1895; Mr. Blaine and his Foreign Policy, 1884; North American Review, vol. 147.
Blair, Andrew Alexander. Ky., 1846- ——. A chemist of Philadelphia. The Chemical Analysis of Iron; Methods in Analysis of Iron, Steel, Copper, and Alloys of Copper, Zinc, and Tin. Lip.
Blair, Mrs. Eliza [Nelson]. N. H., 1859- ——. A writer of Manchester, New Hampshire. Her novel, ’Lisbeth Wilson, gives an excellent picture of New Hampshire rural life a half century ago. Le.
Blair, James. S., 1656-1743. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia who founded William and Mary College, and was its president for 50 years. The State of His Majesty’s Colony in Virginia; Our Saviour’s Divine Sermon on the Mount, a series of 117 sermons written in a simple, unornamental style; moderate in tone and very much to the point. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Blake, Mrs. Euphemia [Vale]. E., 1824-1904. Daughter of G. Vale, infra. Teeth, Ether, and Chloroform; History of Newburyport; Arctic Experiences, a history of the Polaris Expedition.
Blake, James Vila. N. Y., 1842- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago. Poems; Essays; A Grateful Spirit; Anchor of the Soul; St. Solifer; Legends from Story Land. Ke.
Blake, John Lauris. N. H., 1788-1857. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston long prominent as an educator. Text Book of Geography and Chronology; Family Encyclopædia of Agriculture and Domestic Economy; Farmer’s Every-Day Book; Modern Farmer; Letters on Confirmation; General Biographical Dictionary; Book of Nature Laid Open; Wonders of the Earth; Wonders of Art.
Blake, Mrs. Lillie [Devereux] [Umstead]. N. C., 1835- ——. A prominent advocate of woman-suffrage. Fettered for Life; Southwold; Rockford; Woman’s Place To-Day; The Hypocrite, or Sketches of American Society.
Blake, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [McGrath]. I., 1840- ——. A Boston writer of prose and verse. Poems; Youth in Twelve Centuries; Verses by the Way. Her prose includes On the Wing, sketches of American travel; A Summer Holiday: travel experiences in Europe; Mexico: Picturesque, Political, Progressive (with Mrs. Sullivan, infra). Hou. Le.
Blake, William Phipps. N. Y., 1826- ——. A mineralogist of prominence. Silver Ores and Silver Mines; California Minerals; Production of the Precious Metals; Iron and Steel; Ceramic Art and Glass; History of Hamden, Ct.; Life of Captain Jonathan Mix.
Blauvelt, Augustus. N. Y., 1832- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New Jersey, deposed from the ministry on account of his liberal doctrinal views embodied in papers in the Century Magazine. The Kingdom of Satan; The Present Religious Crisis.
Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna [Hahn-Hahn]. R., 1831-1891. A writer of Russian birth but naturalized in the United States, who visited India, and, embracing Buddhism, founded the Theosophical Society of New York. Isis Unveiled; The Secret Doctrine; Voices of Silence; Key to Theosophy. See Memoirs of, by Sinnett, 1886; Review of Reviews, vol. 3.
Bledsoe, Albert Taylor. Ky., 1808-1877. A Southern clergyman who left the Episcopal for the Methodist church, and wrote extensively on metaphysics and mathematics. Liberty and Slavery; Examination of Edwards on the Will; Philosophy of Mathematics; Is Davis a Traitor? or was Secession a Constitutional Right previous to the War of 1861?; Theodicy. Lip. Meth.
Bliss, Daniel. Vt., 1826- ——. A Congregational missionary, president of the Protestant college at Beyrout since 1864. Mental Philosophy; Natural Philosophy (in Arabic).
Bliss, Porter Cornelius. N. Y., 1838-1885. A journalist and diplomat of some repute as a philologist. The Ethnography of Gran Chaco, a district of Argentina; Historia Secreta de la mision, del ciudadano norte-Americano, Charles A. Washburn, cerca del gobierno de la república del Paraguay; The Conquest of Turkey 1877-78 (with L. Blodgett, infra).
Bliss, William Dwight Porter. Iy., 1856- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, prominent as a leader among Christian Socialists. A Handbook of Socialism; The Social Faith of the Catholic Church; What is Christian Socialism? He has edited The Encyclopædia of Socialism. Fu. Scr.
Bliss, William Root. Ct., 1825- ——. A business man of New York city. Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House; The Old Colony Town and other Sketches; Colonial Times on Buzzard’s Bay; Quaint Nantucket; Paradise in the Pacific. Hou.
Blodget, Lorin. N. Y., 1823-1901. An eminent statistician of Philadelphia who published more than 150 volumes, mainly reports upon finance, revenue, and industrial progress. The Climatology of the United States; Commercial and Financial Resources of the United States. Lip.
Bloede, Gertrude. “Stuart Sterne.” Sxy., 1845- ——. A poet and novelist of Brooklyn who has usually written under a pseudonym. Angelo; Giorgio and Other Poems; Beyond the Shadow; Pièro da Castiglione, a tale in verse of the time of Savonarola; The Story of Two Lives: a novel. Hou.
Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara Sophia [Jessup]. Pa., 1824-1899. A Philadelphia writer who passed much time abroad, and chiefly in England. Miscellaneous Poems; On Dangerous Ground, a romance of American Society; Sensible Etiquette; Gondaline’s Lesson and Other Poems; Slander and Gossip; The Warden’s Tale and Other Poems. Co.
Blot, Pierre. F., 1818-1874. A once noted cooking instructor of New York city. What to Eat and How to Cook It; Lectures on Cookery; Handbook of Practical Cookery. Ap.
Blunt, Edmond March. N. H., 1770-1862. A bookseller of Newburyport whose chief work, The American Coast Pilot (1796), is still in use.
Blunt, George William. Ms., 1802-1878. Son of E. M. Blunt, supra. Hydrographer. Atlantic Memoir; Sheet Anchor; Harbour Laws of New York; Plan to Avoid the Centre of Violent Gales.
Blunt, Joseph. Ms., 1792-1860. Son of E. M. Blunt, supra. A lawyer who was one of the founders of the Republican party. Historical Sketch of the Formation of the American Confederacy; Speeches, Reviews, and Reports; Merchants’ and Shipmasters’ Assistant.
Boardman, George Dana. Bh., 1828-1903. A prominent Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. Coronation of Love; Studies in the Creative Week; Epiphanies of the Risen Lord; Studies in the Mountain Instruction; University Lectures on the Ten Commandments; The Divine Man. Ap. Bap.
Boardman, Henry Augustus. N. Y., 1808-1880. A once noted Presbyterian divine of Philadelphia. The Bible in the Family; The Bible in the Counting-House; The Christian Ministry not a Priesthood; Earthly Suffering and Heavenly Glory; A Handful of Corn, are among his writings. Lip. Ran.
Bogart, William Henry. N. Y., 1810-1888. A writer of New York state. Life of Daniel Boone; Who Goes There? or Men and Events. Le.
Bok, Edward William. H., 1863- ——. Editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal. The Young Man in Business; Successward, a Young Man’s Book for Young Men. Rev.
Boker, George Henry. Pa., 1823-1890. A poet and diplomat of Philadelphia, United States Minister to Turkey and Russia successively. His verse is of uneven excellence, but at its best is notably good, as, for example, the familiar Dirge for a Soldier. Of his four tragedies, Calaynos; Anne Boleyn; Lenor de Guzman; Francesca da Rimini, the first and last are the finest, the last having been revived with success in very recent years. His volumes of verse include The Lesson of Life; Poems of War; The Book of the Dead; Königsmark; Street Lyrics; Our Heroic Themes. Plays of lesser rank are The Widow’s Marriage; The Betrothal. See Atlantic Monthly, vol. 65; Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. 45. Lip.
Bollan, William. E., 17— -1776. An English lawyer who settled in Boston in 1740, and was subsequently colonial agent in London for Massachusetts. He was active in its behalf and wrote many political tracts for that end, among which The Mutual Interests of Great Britain and the American Colonies Considered, is a favourable example.
Boller, Alfred Pancoast. Pa., 1840- ——. An engineer of note whose specialty is bridge construction. Practical Treatise on the Construction of Iron Highway Bridges; Report on Thames River Bridge. Wil.
Bolles, Albert Sidney. Ct., 1845- ——. A political economist of prominence, professor in the University of Pennsylvania. Chapters in Political Economy; The Conflict between Labour and Capital; Industrial History of the United States; Financial History of the United States, 1774-1860; Elements of Commercial Law. Ap.
Bolles, Frank. Ms., 1856-1894. A writer of nature studies of the school of Jefferies and Thoreau, though with important differences from either. From Blomidon to Smoky; At the North of Bearcamp Water; Land of the Lingering Snow; Chocorua’s Tenants, a volume of verse. Hou.
Bolster, William Wheeler. Me., 1823- ——. A lawyer of Auburn, Maine. Digest of the Law of Tax Titles; The Authority and Duty of Town Officers.
Bolton, Charles Knowles. O., 1867- ——. Son of S. K. Bolton, infra; librarian of Brookline, Massachusetts. The Boltons of Old and New England; Gossiping Guide to Harvard; Saskia the Wife of Rembrandt; Notes on Special Collections in American Libraries (with W. C. Lane). Verse: Poems: from Heart and Nature; The Wooing of Martha Pitkin; the Love Story of Ursula Wolcott. Cop. Lam.
Bolton, Henry Carrington. N. Y., 1843-1903. Scientist and professor of chemistry at Trinity College. Application of Organic Acids to the Examination of Minerals; Literature of Uranium; Literature of Manganese; Student’s Guide in Quantitative Analysis; Counting-out Rhymes of Children; their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution. Wil.
Bolton, Mrs. Sarah [Knowles]. Ct., 1841- ——. A miscellaneous writer of Cleveland whose successive collections of biographical sketches have been extremely popular. Famous Givers and Their Gifts; How Success is Won; Poor Boys who Became Famous; Girls who Became Famous; Famous American Authors; Famous American Statesmen; Successful Women; Social Studies in England; Famous Types of Womanhood; Famous Voyages and Explorers; Famous Leaders among Men; The Inevitable, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse. Cr. Lo.
Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Tittle [Barritt]. Ky., 1820-1893. A writer whose name is kept in mind by her oft quoted poem, Paddle Your Own Canoe. The Songs of a Life Time; Life and Poems of, 1880.
Bomberger, John Henry Augustus. Pa., 1817-1890. A German Reformed theologian, president of Ursinus College, 1870-90. Infant Salvation and Baptism; Revised Liturgy; Reformed not Ritualistic.
Bond, George Phillips. Ms., 1825-1865. An astronomer of note, professor in Harvard University. On the Construction of the Rings of Saturn; The Method of Least Squares; Mathematical Memoirs upon Mechanical Quadrations.
Boner, John Henry. N. C., 1845- ——. A poet and littérateur of New York city. Whispering Pines: poems.
Bonner, Sherwood. See MacDowell.
Bonney, Charles Carroll. N. Y., 1831-1903. A lawyer of Chicago. Rules of Law for Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by Railway; Summary of the Law of Marine, Fire, and Life Insurance; Our Remedy in the Laws.
Booth, Henry Matthias. N. Y., 1843-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. The Heavenly Vision and other Sermons; Sunrise, Noonday, and Sunset of the Day of Grace; First Communion. Ran.
Booth, Mary Louise. L. I., 1831-1889. Editor of Harper’s Bazar from its establishment in 1867 to 1889. She made over 30 valuable translations from the French. A History of the City of New York was her only piece of original writing.
Bostwick, Mrs. Helen Louise [Barron]. N. H., 1826- ——. A verse-writer of Bucyrus, Ohio. Buds, Blossoms and Berries.
Botta, Mrs. Anne Charlotte [Lynch]. Vt., 1820-1891. Wife of V. Botta, infra. A well-known New York writer whose weekly receptions were for many years the nearest approach in New York city to a salon. Handbook of Universal Literature; Leaves from the Diary of a Recluse; Poems. Hou.
Botta, Vincenzo. Iy., 1818-1894. An Italian educator who came to the United States in 1853, and was for a long period a professor of Italian Literature in the University of New York. The System of Education in Piedmont; Life of Cavour; Historical Account of Modern Philosophy in Italy; Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet. Scr.
Botts, John Minor. Va., 1802-1869. A Virginia lawyer eminent for his devotion to the Union during the Civil War. Letters on the Nebraska Question; The Great Rebellion: its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure. Har.
Boudinot [boo´de-not], Elias. Pa., 1740-1821. A philanthropist of Burlington, New Jersey, and the first president of the American Bible Society. The Second Advent of the Messiah; The Age of Revelation, a reply to Paine; The Star in the West, an attempt to identify the American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. See Life, edited by J. J. Boudinot, 1896.
Boughton, Willis. N. Y., 1854- ——. An educator, professor of English literature in Ohio University from 1892. A History of Ancient Peoples; Mythology in Art. Put.
Bourke, John Gregory. Pa., 1846-1896. A United States army officer. The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, a valuable contribution to ethnology; An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre; On the Border with Crook. Scr.
Bouton, John Bell. N. H., 1830-1902. Son of N. Bouton, infra. A New York littérateur. Loved and Lost: essays; Round the Block, a novel; Treasury of Travel and Adventure; Memoir of General Bell; Roundabout to Moscow, an Epicurean Journey; Uncle Sam’s Church. Ap. Lam.
Bouton, Nathaniel. Ct., 1797-1878. State historian of New Hampshire. He is best known for his edition of ten volumes of Provincial Records and for a History of Concord, New Hampshire.
Boutwell, George Sewall. Ms., 1818- ——. A Massachusetts statesman; Governor of the State, 1852-53; Secretary of the Treasury, 1869-73. Thoughts on Educational Topics; Manual of the Direct and Excise Tax System of the United States; The Taxpayer’s Manual; Speeches and Papers relating to the Rebellion; Why I am a Republican: a History of the Republican Party; The Lawyer, the Statesman, the Soldier; The Constitution of the United States at the end of the First Century. Ap. He.
Bouvé, Edward Tracy. 18— - ——. A Boston writer of fiction. Centuries Apart. Lit.
Bouvet, [Marie] Marguerite. La., 1865- ——. A writer of excellent juvenile books. Sweet William; Prince Tip-Top; Little Marjorie’s Love Story; My Lady; A Child of Tuscany; Pierrette. Mg.
Bouvier [boo-veer´], Hannah. Daughter of J. Bouvier, infra. See Peterson, Mrs.
Bouvier, John. Iy., 1787-1851. A jurist of Philadelphia. Law Dictionary; Institutes of American Law. Lip.
Bovee, Christian Nestell. N. Y., 1820-1904. An epigrammatic writer, some of whose sayings have been much quoted. Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies; Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.
Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll. Ms., 1808-1892. Son of N. Bowditch, infra. An eminent physician of Boston. Life of Nathaniel Bowditch for the Young; The Young Stethoscopist; Public Hygiene in America.
Bowditch, Nathaniel. Ms., 1773-1838. A famous mathematician of Salem, Massachusetts, whose translation of La Place’s Mécanique Céleste, with extensive commentary, was his greatest work. The New American Navigator was his only original work of note. See Memoir, by H. I. Bowditch.
Bowen, Eli. Pa., 1824-188-. A once popular Pennsylvania author. Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pictorial Sketch Book of Pennsylvania; Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; The Creation of the Earth; United States Post-Office System; Coal and Coal Oil.
Bowen, Francis. Ms., 1811-1890. A professor of philosophy at Harvard University for many years, and eminent both as philosopher and political economist. He opposed the systems of Kant, Fichte, Cousin, Comte, and Mill, and was answered by the latter in a third edition of his Logic. Critical Essays in Speculative Philosophy; Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann; Treatise on Logic; American Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; A Layman’s Study of the English Bible considered in its Literary and Secular Aspects; Gleanings from a Literary Life. Scr.
Bowen, John Eliot. N. Y., 1858-1890. A New York journalist. The Conflict of East and West in Egypt; Songs of Toil, a translation from Carmen Sylva.
Bowen, Mrs. Sue [Petigru] [King]. S. C., 1824-1875. A novelist of Charleston, South Carolina. Sylvia’s World; Gerald Gray’s Wife; Lily; Busy Moments of an Idle Woman, a collection of stories.
Bowker, Richard Rogers. Ms., 1848- ——. The editor for some years of the Publishers’ Weekly. Work and Wealth: a Summary of Economics; A Primer for Political Education; Economics for the People; The Library List; Electoral Reform. Har.
Bowles, Samuel. Ms., 1826-1878. Journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts, editor of the Springfield Republican. Across the Continent; Our New West. See Life of, by Merriam, 1885.
Bowne, Borden Parker. N. J., 1847- ——. A philosophical writer and professor of philosophy in Boston University. The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer; Studies in Theism; Metaphysics: a Study of First Principles; Introduction to Psychological Theory; Philosophy of Theism; Principles of Ethics. Har. Meth.
Boyd, James Robert. N. Y., 1804-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman, formerly professor of moral philosophy at Hamilton College. Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism; Moral Philosophy; The Westminster Shorter Catechism, with Analysis; Elements of Logic; Last Days of a Christian Philosopher; Memoir of Doddridge, are some among his rather numerous publications. Har.
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. N., 1848-1895. A writer of Norwegian birth, long resident in New York, and a professor in Columbia College at the time of his death. His novels and sketches are pleasantly written, but as essays in fiction are not much above average merit. Gunnar; A Norseman’s Pilgrimage; Tales from Two Hemispheres; Falconberg; A Daughter of the Philistines; Queen Titania; Ilka on the Hill Top and Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their Lives and Works; Literary and Social Silhouettes; The Story of Norway, an historical work; Social Strugglers; Essays on Scandinavian Literature; Essays on German Literature; Idylls of Norway and Other Poems; the Norseland series of books for boys, including: Norseland Tales; Boyhood in Norway; The Modern Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; The Golden Calf. Fl. Har. Mac. Scr.
Boynton, Edward Carlisle. Vt., 1825-1893. A United States army officer. History of West Point.
Bozman, John Leeds. Md., 1757-1823. A once noted Maryland lawyer. Historical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War; History of Maryland. See Memoir by S. A. Harrison, 1888.
Brace, Charles Loring. Ct., 1826-1890. Son of J. P. Brace, infra. A noted clergyman and philanthropist of New York city who founded the Children’s Aid Society, and gave much of his time to philanthropic work. Norse-folk; Home Life in Germany; The Races of the Old World; Gesta Christi; The Dangerous Classes of New York. See Life, chiefly told in his own Letters. Scr.
Brace, John Peirce. Ct., 1793-1872. A once prominent educator of Litchfield, Connecticut. Lectures to Young Converts; Tales of the Devil; The Fawn of the Pale Faces: a Novel.
Brackenridge, Henry Marie. Pa., 1786-1871. Son of H. H. Brackenridge, infra. A noted Florida jurist. History of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South America; Views of Louisiana; Recollections of Persons and Places in the West; Essay on Trusts and Trustees; History of the Western Insurrection.
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. S., 1748-1816. A Pennsylvania lawyer and humourist whose writing enjoyed great popularity in the early years of the 19th century. His principal work was Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O’Regan, his Servant, a rough, sharp piece of humourous fiction, partaking, to some extent, of the nature of an autobiography. See edition of 1848, with illustrations by Darley; Hart’s American Literature.
Brackett, Albert Gallatin. N. Y., 1829-1896. A United States cavalry officer. General Lane’s Brigade in Central Mexico; History of the United States Cavalry, 1854. Har.
Brackett, Anna Callender. Ms., 1836- ——. An educational writer. The Education of American Girls; Woman and the Higher Education; The Technique of Rest. Har.
Brackett, Edward Augustus. Me., 1819- ——. A sculptor of Boston. Twilight Hours, a volume of verse.
Bradford, Alden. Ms., 1765-1843. Secretary of State for Massachusetts, 1812-24. Eulogy on Washington; History of Massachusetts, 1764-1820; Life of Jonathan Mayhew; History of the Federal Government; Biographical Notices of Distinguished Men of Massachusetts; New England Chronology, 1497-1843.
Bradford, Alexander Warfield. N. Y., 1815-1867. A New York jurist of prominence. He edited American Antiquities, and prepared many volumes of legal reports, among which the six commonly called Bradford’s Reports have become standard authority.
Bradford, Amory Howe. Ms., 1846- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Montclair, New Jersey. The Pilgrim in Old England; Old Wine: New Bottles; Spirit and Life, Thought for To-Day; Heredity and Christian Problems. Fo. Mac.
Bradford, William. E., 1590-1657. Governor of the Plymouth Colony, 1621-57. He left in manuscript a History of the Plimoth Plantation, the leisurely composition of 20 years, which was drawn from by Morton, Prince, and Hutchinson as a basis for their respective histories, and after being lost for nearly a century was found in the library of the Bishop of London in 1855, and published soon after. He was the earliest American historian, and his work exhibits judicial impartiality, broad conceptions, and a direct, vigourous style. See Tyler’s American Literature; Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims; Mrs. Austin’s Betty Alden and Standish of Standish. Hou.
Bradlee, Caleb Davis. Ms., 1831-1897. A Unitarian clergyman. Sermons for the Church; Sermons for All Sects; Life of Starr King. El.
Bradley, Mrs. Mary Emily [Neeley]. Md., 1835-1898. A writer of tales for girls. Among her 20 or more volumes of this class are Douglass Farm; Story of a Summer; Brave Girls; Grace’s Visit. Hidden Sweetness is a volume of verse. Le. Lo.
Bradley, Warren Ives. “Glance Gaylord.” Ct., 1847-1868. A talented writer of tales for boys. Among his twelve volumes, all written before he was twenty-one, Culm Rock is as well known as any.
Bradstreet, Mrs. Anne [Dudley]. E., 1612-1672. The first American woman of letters, and called by her contemporaries “The Tenth Muse.” Her prose work includes a brief autobiographic sketch, Religious Experiences; Meditations Divine and Moral, a series of shrewd, strong aphorisms. In her lifetime she was known only as a poet, and her verse, the bulk of which is considerable, comprises elegies, epitaphs; The Four Monarchies, a rhymed chronicle of ancient history; The Four Elements; The Four Humours of Man; The Four Ages of Man; The Four Seasons of the Year; Dialogue between Old England and New; Contemplations. She followed artificial models, and her lines reflect the grotesque conceits of the time, but here and there are gleams of real poetic vigour, while in the poem Contemplations, the least laboured of them all, she exhibits true poetic inspiration. See Works of, edited by John Harvard Ellis, with sketch of the author, 1867; Tyler’s American Literature; Life, by Helen Campbell; New England Magazine, 1887.
Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins. Ct., 1796-1828. A Hartford journalist whose Poems were published first in 1825, and reissued as Literary Remains in 1832 in an enlarged edition, with Memoir by his friend Whittier. His verse was temporarily popular, but his chief claim to present remembrance is the fine poem beginning, “I saw two clouds at morning.”
Brainerd, David. Ct., 1718-1747. A famous missionary among the Indians of New England. Selections from his journals have been printed, entitled Miriabilia Dei apud Indicos; Divine Grace Displayed. See Life, by Jonathan Edwards, 1749, enlarged, 1822; Sparks’s American Biography.
Branch, Mrs. Mary Lydia [Bolles]. Ct., 1840- ——. A New York writer, best known by her poem, The Petrified Fern. The Kanter Girls is a story for young people. Scr.
Brannan, William Penn. “Vandyke Brown.” O., 1825-1866. A portrait painter of Cincinnati. Vagaries of Vandyke Brown; The Harp of a Thousand Strings, or Laughter for a Life Time.
Brattle, Thomas. Ms., 1657-1713. A once famous Boston merchant. Eclipse of the Sun and Moon observed in New England; Lunar Eclipse in New England, 1707.
Brazza, Cora [Slocomb], Countess di. La., 1862- ——. A writer of New York city. An American Idyl; A Literary Farce; Guide to the Old and New Lace in Italy. Ar.
Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson. Ky., 1800-1871. A once noted Presbyterian clergyman of Lexington, Kentucky. Popery; Internal Evidence of Christianity; Memoranda of Foreign Travel; Travels in France, Germany, etc. His chief work was a system of theology, The Knowledge of God, Objectively and Subjectively Considered. He was a writer of very positive views, and one of the leaders in the division of the Presbyterian church into Old and New School in 1837.
Breed, David Riddle. Pa., 1848- ——. A Presbyterian minister of Chicago since 1885. More Light; Abraham, the Typical Life of Faith; History of the Preparation of the World for Christ; Heresy and Heresy. Rev.
Breed, William Pratt. N. Y., 1816-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. His works are mainly religious juveniles, and among them are Jenny Geddes; Home Songs for Home Birds; Grapes from the Great Vine; A Board and Abroad. Fu.
Breidenbaugh, Edward Swoyer. Pa., 1849- ——. A professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania College. Notes on Inorganic Chemistry; Mineralogy of the Farm, are among his purely technical papers and monographs.
Breitman, Hans. See Leland.
Brewer, Thomas Mayo. Ms., 1821-1880. A Massachusetts ornithologist who was the principal author of the History of North American Birds prepared with Ridgway and S. F. Baird, supra. Oölogy of North America is also by him.
Brewer, William Henry. N. Y., 1828- ——. A professor of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven since 1864. Botany of California.
Brewerton, George Douglas. C., 1820-1901. A United States army officer. The War in Kansas, a Rough Trip to the Border; Fitzpoodle at Newport; Ida Lewis, the Heroine of Lime Rock; The Automaton Company; The Automaton Battery.
Bridge, James Howard. “Harold Brydges.” E., 1858- ——. A Fortnight in Heaven: an Unconventional Romance; Uncle Sam at Home.
Bridges, Madeline. See De Vere.
Bridges, Robert. “Droch.” Pa., 1858- ——. A littérateur of New York city; literary critic of Life from 1883, and assistant editor of Scribner’s Magazine since 1887. Overheard in Arcady, dialogues about contemporary writers; Suppressed Chapters and Other Bookishness. Scr.
Briggs, Charles Augustus. 1841- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman prominent among the leaders of newer religious thought and a professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York, since 1875. In 1892 he was tried for heresy and acquitted. Biblical Study; American Presbyterianism; Messianic Prophecy, notable for its display of the true historical spirit; The Authority of Holy Scripture; The Messiah of the Apostles; The Messiah of the Gospels; The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch; The Bible, the Church, and the Reason; Whither? a Theological Question for the Times. See New Englander, vol. 55; Andover Review, vol. 16; Catholic World, vol. 53. Scr.
Briggs, Charles Frederick. Ms., 1804-1877. A journalist and editor of New York city, the valued friend of many of the prominent literary Americans of his time. Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of the Great Panic; The Haunted Merchant; The Trippings of Tom Pepper; Working a Passage, or Life on a Liner. See Lowell’s Fable for Critics.
Brigham, Amariah. Ms., 1798-1849. A physician of Hartford, and subsequently superintendent of the lunatic asylum at Utica, New York. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Brain.
Brigham, William Tufts. Ms., 1841- ——. A lawyer and naturalist now at Honolulu in charge of the government museum. Volcanic Manifestations in New England; Guatemala: the Land of the Quetzal, a volume of travels. Scr.
Brightly, Francis Frederick. Pa., 1845- ——. Son of F. C. Brightly, infra. Digest of the Laws of Philadelphia, 1701-1887.
Brightly, Frederick Charles. E., 1812-1888. An eminent Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on Law of Costs; Nisi Prius Reports; Equitable Jurisdiction of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Digest of the Laws of the United States, 1789-1869; Digest of the Decisions of the Federal Courts; Bankrupt Law of the United States; Leading Cases in the Law of Elections, include the larger number of his legal writings.
Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Pa., 1837-1899. An archæological writer and publisher, as well as physician, of Philadelphia, whose researches in aboriginal history and literature were very extensive. He was professor of archæology in the University of Pennsylvania from 1880. The Myths of the New World; The Religious Sentiment; American Hero-Myths; Aboriginal American Authors; The Floridian Peninsula; Races and Peoples; Essays of an Americanist; The Lenape and their Legends. He edited The Maya Chronicles; The Comedy-Ballet of Güeguence; Aboriginal American Anthology. See Popular Science Monthly, vol. 38. Co. Gi. Ho.
Brisbin, James Sanks. Pa., 1837-1892. A United States cavalry officer. Campaign Lives of Grant and Colfax; The Beef Bonanza; Trees and Tree Planting. Har. Lip.
Bristed, Charles Astor. “Carl Benson.” N. Y., 1820-1874. Son of J. Bristed, infra. A magazinist of New York city. Five Years in an English University; The Upper Ten Thousand; Pieces of a Broken-down Critic; The Interference Theory of Government; Anacreontics.
Bristed, John. E., 1778-1855. An Episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island. His principal works, none of which rise much above the level of dullness, are Critical and Philosophical Essays; Resources of the United States, 1818; Anglo-American Churches; Edward and Anna: a Novel; A Pedestrian Tour through the Highlands of Scotland.
Bristol, Mrs. Augusta [Cooper]. N. H., 1835- ——. An educator of Vineland, New Jersey. Poems; The Relation of the Maternal Function to the Woman’s Intellect; The Philosophy of Art; Science and its Relations to Character; The Present Phase of Woman’s Advancement; The Web of Life, a collection of verse.
Britton, Nathaniel Lord. S. I., 1859- ——. A botanical professor in the School of Mines at Columbia College. Catalogue of the Flora of Staten Island; The Geology of Staten Island; Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey; An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada, and the British Possessions, from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the 102d Meridian (with A. Brown). Scr.
Britts, Mrs. Mattie [Dyer]. N. Y., 1842- ——. Daughter of S. Dyer, infra. The author of many juvenile tales, among which are Edward Lee; Nobody’s Boy.
Broaddus, Andrew. Va., 1770-1848. A Baptist clergyman once noted as a pulpit orator. History of the Bible; Form of Church Discipline; Letters and Sermons.
Broadus, John Albert. Va., 1827-1895. A Baptist clergyman, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Preparation and Delivery of Sermons; Lectures on Preaching; Sermons and Addresses; Jesus of Nazareth. Bap.
Brockett, Linus Pierpont. Ct., 1820-1893. A prolific writer of Hartford, among whose many productions are History of Education; Our Great Captains; The Year of Battles: a History of the Franco-German War of 1870; Epidemics and Contagious Diseases; The Silk Industry in America; Our Western Empire, an account of the resources of the United States west of the Mississippi; The Great Metropolis.
Brodhead, Mrs. Eva Wilder [McGlasson]. 18— - ——. A popular novelist. One of the Visconti; Diana’s Livery; An Earthly Paragon; Ministers of Grace; Bound In Shallows. Har. Scr.
Brodhead, John Romeyn. Pa., 1814-1873. A painstaking, accurate writer, whose work, if somewhat lacking in picturesqueness, is of lasting value. History of the State of New York; The Government of Sir Edmund Andros over New England. Har.
Brooks, Arthur. Ms., 1845-1895. Brother of Phillips Brooks, infra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. A volume of his Sermons was reprinted in London with the title, Christ for To-Day. Wh.
Brooks, Charles. Ms., 1795-1872. A once prominent Massachusetts educator. History of Medford; The Christian in his Closet; Daily Monitor; Family Prayer-Book; Elements of Ornithology; Introduction to Ornithology, and ten volumes of biography.
Brooks, Charles Timothy. Ms., 1813-1883. A Unitarian clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, 1837-73, whose English versions of Schiller, Richter, Goethe, and Schefer take high rank. His other work includes Songs of Field and Flood; The Simplicity of Christ; William Ellery Channing: a Centennial Memory; Poems Original and Translated. See Memoir by Wendte. Rob.
Brooks, Edward. N. Y., 1831- ——. The principal of the Millersville Normal School, Pennsylvania, 1866-83, and since then superintendent of the Philadelphia public schools. His writings are mainly, though not entirely, mathematical, and among them are The Normal Written Arithmetic; Philosophy of Arithmetic; Mental Science and Methods of Culture; The Story of the Iliad; The Story of the Odyssey.
Brooks, Elbridge Gerry. N. H., 1816-1878. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia. Universalism a Practical Power; Our New Departure; Universalism in Life and Doctrine. See Life by E. S. Brooks.
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter. Ms., 1846-1902. A Boston writer for young people. Life Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks; In No Man’s Land; Historic Boys; In Leisler’s Times; Chivalric Days; Storied Holidays; Historic Girls; Story of the American Indian; The Story of New York; Story of the American Sailor; Story of the United States; The True Story of Columbus; Heroic Happenings; A Son of Issachar; The True Story of George Washington; The Century Book for Young Americans; A Boy of the First Empire; Great Men’s Sons; The Story of Miriam of Magdala; The True Story of Abraham Lincoln; The Story of the American Soldier; The Century Book of Famous Americans; Under the Tamaracks; The Long Walls (with J. Alden). Cent. Lo. Put.
Brooks, Mrs. Maria [Gowen]. Ms., 1795-1845. Called by Southey “Maria del Occidente.” A poet whose fate it has been to be utterly neglected after being once extravagantly praised. Zephiel, or The Bride of Seven, her chief work, is a poem whose incidents are taken from the story of Sara in the apocryphal book of Tobit. It is a work of considerable power but extravagant sentiment. Idomen, or the Vale of Yumuri, is to some extent autobiographic. See Griswold’s Female Poets; Harper’s Magazine, January and May, 1879; Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record.
Brooks, Nathan Covington. Md., 1819-1898. A prominent educator of Baltimore, who besides publishing an excellent series of classical text-books, chief among which are editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Virgil’s Æneid, is the author of A Complete History of the Mexican War.
Brooks, Noah. Me., 1830-1903. A New York writer of popular books for boys. The Boy Emigrants; The Fairport Nine; Our Baseball Club; Abraham Lincoln; The Boy Settlers; American Statesmen; Tales of the Maine Coast; Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery; How the Republic is Governed; Short Studies in American Party Politics; Washington in Lincoln’s Time, a volume of gossipy recollections; The Mediterranean Trip. Cent. Scr.
Brooks, Phillips. Ms., 1835-1893. The sixth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. He was rector of Holy Trinity Church at Philadelphia, 1862-69, and of Trinity Church, Boston, from 1869 until his consecration as bishop in 1891. He was a leader of Broad Church opinion, but had no hostility towards forms of thought opposed to his. For many years before his death he had been accounted the foremost preacher in America. The Influence of Jesus; Lectures on Preaching; The Candle of the Lord and Other Sermons; The Light of the World and Other Sermons; Sermons in English Churches; Twenty Sermons; Sermons for the Principal Festivals and Fasts; Tolerance; A Century of Church Growth in Boston; Essays and Addresses; Letters of Travel; The Oldest School in America. O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular poem by him. See Phillips Brooks in Boston; Five Years’ Editorial Estimates; Phillips Brooks, by Dunbar; Annual Cyclopedia, 1893; Andover Review, vol. 15; Phillips Brooks in Massachusetts, by J. H. Ward, infra. Dut. Mer.
Brooks, William Keith. O., 1848- ——. A professor of morphology at Johns Hopkins University. Hand-book of Invertebrate Zoölogy; Development of the American Oyster; Conifer, a Study in Morphology; Development of Lingula; The Law of Heredity. Wn.
Bross, William. N. J., 1813-1890. A Chicago journalist. History of Chicago (1866); Tom Quick, a romance of Indian warfare; Chicago and her Future Growth.
Brotherton, Mrs. Alice [Williams]. Ind., 18— - ——. A magazinist of Cincinnati, whose work is mainly in verse. Beyond the Veil; The Sailing of King Olaf; What the Wind told the Tree-Tops, prose and verse for children.
Brougham [broo´am or broo´m], John. I., 1814-1880. A once noted dramatist who was the author of over a hundred comedies and farces, many of which, like Vanity Fair and The Irish Emigrant, have been very successful. See Life, by William Winter.
Brown, Abram English. Ms., 1849- ——. A resident of Bedford, Massachusetts. Beneath Old Roof Trees, a volume of local history; Beside Old Hearthstones; History of Bedford; Bedford Old Families; Glimpses of New England Life; Flag of the Minute Men. Le.
Brown, Alexander. Va., 1843- ——. A writer of Nelson County, Virginia, who has published The Cabells and their Kin, a genealogy; The Genesis of the United States. Hou.
Brown, Alice. N. H., 1857- ——. A Boston writer on the staff of the Youth’s Companion. Fools of Nature, a novel; Meadow Grass, a collection of New England stories; By Oak and Thorn, a volume of English travel; Robert Louis Stevenson: a Study (with L. Guiney, infra); Life of Mercy Otis Warren. Cop. Hou. Scr.
Brown, Anna Robeson. Pa., 1873- ——. Daughter of H. A. Brown, infra, and great-niece of C. B. Brown, infra. A novelist who has published Sir Mark; The Black Lamb. Ap.
Brown, Charles Brockden. Pa., 1771-1810. A novelist of Philadelphia, and the first of native authors who adopted literature as a profession. In his novels probability plays a very small part, the local colour is faint, though the scenes are American, and all are overshadowed by an overpowering element of mystery. In spite of extravagances and faults, his work possesses undeniable power of a very high order, and does not deserve the neglect into which it has fallen. Wieland; Ormond, or the Secret Witness; Arthur Mervyn, in some respects the most powerful of his works; Edgar Huntley, or the Memories of a Sleep Walker; Clara Howard, reprinted in England as Philip Stanley; Jane Talbot. See Lives by Dunlap, 1815, Prescott, 1831; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 61; Nichol’s American Literature. My.
Brown, Charles Rufus. N. H., 1849- ——. A professor of Old Testament interpretation at Union Theological Seminary since 1883. An Aramaic Method: Text and Grammar. Scr.
Brown, David Paul. Pa., 1795-1872. A Philadelphia lawyer who was the author of two unsuccessful tragedies, Sestorius; The Trial; a melodrama and a comedy, equally unsuccessful, and The Forum, or Forty Years’ Practice at the Philadelphia Bar. His Forensic Speeches were edited by his son in 1873.
Brown, Emma Elizabeth. N. H., 1847- ——. A writer of popular biographies living at Newton, Massachusetts. Her works include lives of Washington; Grant; Garfield; Wendell Holmes; Russell Lowell; From Night to Light, a story of Bible times; The Child Toilers of Boston Streets; An Hundred Years Ago, a story in verse. Lo. Me.
Brown, Francis. N. H., 1849- ——. A professor of Hebrew and cognate languages at Union Theological Seminary since 1890. Assyriology: its Use and Abuse; The Teachings of the Apostles (with R. D. Hitchcock). Scr.
Brown, Goold. R. I., 1791-1857. An educator of New York city and a once famous grammarian. Grammar of English Grammars; Institutes of English Grammar; First Lines of English Grammar.
Brown, Helen Dawes. Ms., 1857- ——. A lecturer on English literature in New York city. The Petrie Estate, a novel; Two College Girls; Little Miss Phœbe Gay. Hou.
Brown, Henry Armitt. 1846-1878. A lawyer and orator of Philadelphia, whose Four Historical Orations have been much admired. See Memoir, by Hoppin; Atlantic Monthly, August, 1880.
Brown, Henry Billings. Ms., 1836- ——. A justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1890. Admiralty Reports for Western, Lake, and River Districts.
Brown, James Allen. Pa., 1821-1883. A Lutheran clergyman and educator, professor in Gettysburg Seminary, 1864-77. The New Theology.
Brown, John Walker. N. Y., 1814-1849. An Episcopal clergyman who won some fleeting notice as a poet. Christmas Bells, a Tale of Holy Tide, and Other Poems.
Brown, Mrs. Phoebe [Hinsdale]. N. Y., 1783-1861. A hymn-writer remembered for her popular religious lyric, “I love to steal awhile away.”
Brown, Samuel Gilman. Me., 1813-1885. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Hamilton College, 1867-81. Biography of Self-Taught Men; Life of Rufus Choate. Lit.
Brown, Theron. Ct., 1832- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, who has written several books for young people, among which are The Blount Family; Walter Neil’s Example; Life Songs, a collection of verse. Le. Lo.
Brown, Thomas Edwin. D. C., 1841- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Rochester, New York. Studies in Modern Socialism and Labor Problems.
Brown, Thurlow Weed. —— -1866. A Wisconsin journalist prominent as a temperance advocate. Why I am a Temperance Man; Minnie Hermon, the Landlord’s Daughter; Temperance Tales.
Browne, Charles Farrar, “Artemus Ward.” Me., 1834-1867. A very genuine though grotesque humorist, whose satire is invariably good-natured and whose humour is based on shrewd sense. While a printer in the office of The Plaindealer, in Cleveland, he began publishing his series of letters from “Artemus Ward, Showman.” Later he became known as a popular humorous lecturer, and was lecturing in England with success at the time of his death. Artemus Ward: his Book; Artemus Ward Among the Mormons; Artemus Ward in London; Artemus Ward: His Travels; Artemus Ward’s Lecture at Egyptian Hall. See Haweis’s American Humorists.
Browne, Francis Fisher. Vt., 1843- ——. A literary critic of Chicago and editor of The Dial since 1880. Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln; Volunteer Grain, a collection of poems. Wy.
Browne, Irving. N. Y., 1835-1899. A lawyer of Albany. Humorous Phases of the Law; Short Studies of Great Lawyers; Judicial Interpretation of Common Words and Phrases; Law and Lawyers in Literature; Iconoclasm and Whitewash; The Character of the Nurse’s Deceased Husband in Romeo and Juliet; Our Best Society, a comedy; The Elements of Criminal Law. See The Green Bag, vol. 1.
Browne, John Ross. I., 1817-1875. A writer of amusing travels, illustrated by original drawings, which enjoyed a transient but profitable popularity. An American Family in Germany; Yusef, a Crusade in the East; Land of Thor, a volume of Icelandic experiences; Etchings of a Whaling Voyage; Crusoe’s Island; Adventures in the Apache Country. Ap. Har.
Browne, Junius Henri. N. Y., 1833-1902. A journalist of New York city. Four Years in Secessia; The Great Metropolis, a Mirror of New York; Sights and Sensations in Europe. See Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. 40.
Browne, William Hand. Md., 1828- ——. An historical writer of Baltimore who, besides assisting Scharf and other writers, has also written Maryland, the History of a Palatinate; George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert, barons Baltimore. Do. Hou.
Browne, William Hardcastle. Pa., 1840- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Digest of the Law of Divorce and Alimony in the United States; Famous Women of History; Bible Heroes.
Brownell, Henry Howard. R. I., 1820-1872. Nephew of T. C. Brownell, infra. A writer who served in the Civil War as ensign under Farragut, and was present in the two engagements described in his famous battle poems, The Bay Fight, The River Fight, which rank among the finest verses of their kind. Poems; People’s Book of Ancient and Modern History; Discoverers of North and South America; Lyrics of a Day; War Lyrics.
Brownell, Thomas Church. Ms., 1779-1865. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. Family Prayer-Book; Commentary on the Prayer-Book; Youthful Christian’s Guide; Consolation for the Afflicted; Christian’s Walk and Consolation; Religion of Heart and Life, comprise the greater number of his works.
Brownell, William Crary. N. Y., 1851- ——. A New York journalist and critic. Newport; French Art; Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture; French Traits: an essay in Comparative Criticism. See The Bookman, December, 1896. Scr.
Brownlee, William Craig. S., 1784-1860. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city, and a very active controversialist, whose batteries were chiefly directed at the Quakers and Roman Catholics. Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers; The Roman Catholic Controversy; Treatise on Popery; Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life; Christian Youths’ Book; Christian Father at Home; Deity of Christ; History of the Western Apostolic Church; The Converted Murderer; The Whigs of Scotland, a romance.
Brownlow, William Gannaway. Va., 1805-1877. A Methodist preacher and journalist of Knoxville, Tennessee, conspicuous for his fidelity to the Union during the Civil War. At its close he served two terms as governor of his state. The Iron Wheel Examined and its False Spokes Extracted, a reply to attacks upon Methodism; Ought American Slavery to be Perpetuated; Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus. Vt., 1803-1876. A prominent philosophical thinker who in early life was successively a Presbyterian, a Universalist clergyman, a Socialist leader associated with Robert Owen, and a Unitarian clergyman, as well as an able political speaker at all times. In 1844 he became a Roman Catholic, and in Brownson’s Review, from that date until 1864, he ably defended the Roman Catholic faith from the standpoint of a liberal. His philosophy is more or less influenced by the thought of Cousin. New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church; Charles Elwood, or the Infidel Converted (1840), a more or less autobiographic novel; Leaves from my Experience; Essays and Reviews; The Spirit-Rapper, an autobiography; The American Republic, a work on political ethics; Conversations on Liberalism. See Complete Works, in 20 volumes, 1882-87, published in Detroit by his son Henry F. Brownson; Catholic World, volumes 45 and 46; Atlantic Monthly, June, 1896.
Bruce, Wallace. N. Y., 1844- ——. A poet and lecturer of Poughkeepsie. From the Hudson to the Yosemite; The Land of Burns; The Connecticut Daylight; in verse, The Hudson; Yosemite; Old Homestead Poems; Wayside Poems; In Clover and Heather; Here’s a Hand. Har.
Brush, Mrs. Christine [Chaplin]. Me., 1842-1892. Daughter of J. Chaplin, infra. An artist in water-colours whose home was in Brooklyn. Her most important book, The Colonel’s Opera Cloak, a novel, was first published anonymously. Her only other works are the two stories, Inside our Gate; One Summer’s Lessons in Perspective. Rob.
Bryan, Mrs. Mary [Edwards]. Fl., 1846- ——. A journalist of New York city who has written the novels Manch; Wild Work, a story of the reconstruction period in Louisiana; The Bayou Bride; Kildee.
Bryant, John Howard. Ms., 1807-1902. Brother of W. C. Bryant, infra. A poet and farmer of Princeton, Illinois. Poems; Poems written from Youth to Old Age, 1824-84.
Bryant, William Cullen. Ms., 1794-1878. A poet and journalist of New York city. In early life he began the practice of law, but soon abandoned it for journalism and, removing to New York in 1825, became in 1828 the editor of the Evening Post, with which he remained associated until his death. His earliest poem, The Embargo, a political satire, was published when its author was but thirteen, but the first collection of his poems was not made until 1821, the famous Thanatopsis being one of the eight which the volume comprised. The quantity of Bryant’s verse is small, the quality high, but not uniformly so. Its tone is usually calmly philosophic, and it rarely makes any very effective appeal to the sympathies, its coldness arising partly from lack of humour, partly from natural reserve. The Embargo; The Spanish Revolution; The Ages; The Fountain of Youth, and Other Poems; The White-Footed Deer; The Flood of Years; Thirty Poems; translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, both in unrhymed heroic pentameter; Letters of a Traveller, a prose work; Orations and Addresses. See Commemorative Address by G. W. Curtis; Lives by J. Bigelow, Parke Godwin, A. J. Symington; Stedman’s Poets of America; Appleton’s American Biography; Wilson’s Bryant and his Friends, 1886; Gosse’s Questions at Issue; Magazine of American History, vol. 23; Atlantic Monthly, March, 1897. Ap. Cr. Hou.
Bryant, William McKendree. Ind., 1843- ——. A prominent educator of St. Louis. Philosophy of Landscape Painting; The World Energy and its Self-Conservation; Syllabus of Psychology; Ethics and the New Education; Text Book of Psychology; Life, Death, and Immortality. Sc.
Bryce, Lloyd. L. I., 1851- ——. A novelist of New York city, editor of the North American Review, 1889-96. Paradise; A Dream of Conquest; The Romance of An Alter Ego; Friends in Exile.
Brydges, Harold. See Bridge, J. H.
Buchanan, James. Pa., 1791-1868. The fifteenth president of the United States. Mr. Buchanan’s Administration (1866) is his own defence of his policy as President. See Life of, by G. T. Curtis, infra.
Buchanan, Joseph. Va., 1785-1829. A once noted mechanical inventor of Kentucky who published The Philosophy of Human Nature.
Buchanan, Joseph Rodes. Ky., 1814-1899. Son of J. Buchanan, supra. A Boston physician who claimed to have invented the sciences of sarcognomy and psychometry. He published Buchanan’s Journal of Medicine, 1849-56, and wrote Outlines of Lectures on the Neurological System of Anthropology; Eclectric Practice of Medicine and Surgery; The New Education; Therapeutic Sarcognomy; Manual of Psychometry. See One of a Thousand.
Buck, Dudley. Ct., 1839- ——. A composer and organist of Brooklyn. Dictionary of Musical Terms; The Influence of the Organ in History.
Buck, Gurdon. N. Y., 1807-1877. An eminent surgeon of New York city. He wrote much for medical journals and a treatise on Contributions to Reparative Surgery.
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker. Ct., 1779-1861. A Boston journalist of note who published, 1831-34, The New England Magazine, in which Dr. Holmes began his famous “Autocrat,” and The Boston Courier, 1828-48. Specimens of Newspaper Literature; Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life.
Buckley, James Monroe. N. J., 1836- ——. A Methodist clergyman, editor since 1881 of the New York Christian Advocate. Two Weeks in the Yosemite Valley; Supposed Miracles; Christians and the Theatre; Oats or Wild Oats; The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist; Faith-Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena; Travels in Three Continents, Europe, Africa, Asia. Cent. Har. Lo. Meth.
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens. N. H., 1784-1812. A talented Unitarian clergyman of Boston, the first appointed lecturer on biblical criticism at Harvard University. Sermons, with Memoir by S. C. Thacher, 1814.
Buel, Jesse. Ct., 1778-1839. A noted agriculturist of Albany who effected many reforms in farming. He established the Albany Argus, The Cultivator, and published The Farmer’s Instructor, in ten volumes; and also The Farmer’s Companion, or Essays in Husbandry. Har.
Buel, Samuel. N. Y., 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of High Church proclivities, who was professor of divinity at the General Theological Seminary of New York from 1871. The Apostolic System Defended; Eucharistic Presence, Sacrifice, and Adoration; A Treatise on Dogmatic Theology. Wh.
Buell, Richard Hooker. Md., 1842- ——. A United States civil engineer. The Cadet Engineer; Safety Valves; The Compound Steam-Engine and its Steam-Generating Plant.
Bulfinch, Ellen Susan. Ms., 1844- ——. An artist of Cambridge. Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect. Hou.
Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf. Ms., 1809-1870. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, and son of Charles Bulfinch, the noted architect. Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Communion Thoughts; Contemplations of the Saviour; The Holy Land and its Inhabitants; The Harp and the Cross; Honour, or The Slave Dealer’s Daughter; Manual of the Evidences of Christianity; Studies in the Evidences of Christianity. A. U. A. Le.
Bulfinch, Thomas. Ms., 1796-1867. Brother of S. G. Bulfinch, supra. A Boston banker whose leisure was devoted to literary pursuits. Hebrew Lyrical History; The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; Boy Inventors; Legends of Charlemagne; Poetry of the Age of Fable; Oregon and Eldorado, or Romance of the Rivers. Le.
Bulkley, Peter. E., 1583-1659. A Congregational clergyman of Concord, Massachusetts. His one work, The Gospel Covenant, or The Covenant of Grace Opened, is a ponderous series of sermons notable for its intellectual vigour. See Tyler’s History of American Literature.
Bullard, Asa. Ms., 1804-1888. Brother-in-law of H. W. Beecher, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, long prominent in Sunday-school work. His principal writings are Sunnybank Stories; Shady Dell Stories; Fifty Years with the Sabbath School; Incidents in a Busy Life, an autobiography. Le. Lo.
Bullions, Peter. S., 1791-1864. A United Presbyterian clergyman of Troy, New York, well known as a classical scholar. Among his text-books for schools are Principles of English Grammar; Principles of Greek Grammar; Latin and English Dictionary.
Bullock, Alexander Hamilton. Ms., 1816-1882. A prominent Massachusetts politician, at one period governor of the State. Intellectual Leaderships; Address on Several Occasions, with Memoir by G. F. Hoar. Lit.
Bump, Orlando Franklin. N. Y., 1841-1881. A Baltimore lawyer, author of The Law and Practice of Bankruptcy; Federal Procedure.
Bumstead, Freeman Josiah. Ms., 1826-1879. A physician of New York city. Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases, and translations from the French of Ricord and Cullerier.
Bunce, Oliver Bell. N. Y., 1828-1890. A New York littérateur, editor of Appleton’s Journal for the period of its existence, and well known as the author of Don’t (1883), a small volume of social negations which was widely circulated. He wrote also Bachelor Bluff, his Opinions, a volume of essays; My House; Marco Bozzaris, a drama; Love in ’76, a comedy; Romance of the Revolution; four stories, including Life Before Him; Bensly; A Bachelor’s Story; The Adventures of Timias Terrystone; Happinolande and Other Legends, a collection of sketches. Ap. Co. Scr.
Bundy, Jonas Mills. N. H., 1835-1891. A New York journalist, prominent as editor of the Mail and Express from 1868. State Rights; Are we a Nation?; Life of Garfield (1880). Bar.
Bungay, George Washington. E., 1818-1892. A New York journalist well known as a temperance lecturer. He wrote many poems, among which The Creeds of the Bells has long been popular. His other writings include The Abraham Lincoln Songster; The Poets of Queen Elizabeth’s Time; Offhand Takings; Crayon Sketches; Pen Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers.
Bunner, Henry Cuyler. N. Y., 1855-1896. A New York journalist, the editor of Puck, and well known as a writer of graceful, delicate verse and very readable fiction. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane; Love in Old Cloathes; Zadoc Pine and Other Stories; The Story of a New York House; The Midge; In Partnership (with J. B. Matthews, infra); Short Sixes, a collection of humourous tales; The Woman of Honour. His verse includes Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere; Rowen: “second crop” Songs. Hou. Scr.
Burdett, Charles. N. Y., 1815-18—. A journalist and novelist of New York whose writings were transiently popular. Life of Kit Carson; The Second Marriage; The Beautiful Spy; Margaret Moncrieffe; Emma, or The Lost Found; Marion Desmond; The Gambler; The Adopted Child; Trials and Triumphs; Never too Late; Chances and Changes. Har.
Burdette, Robert Jones. Pa., 1844- ——. A newspaper humourist who was for some years editor of The Hawkeye, of Burlington, Iowa. Hawkeyes; Rise and Fall of the Mustache; Innach Garden and Other Comic Sketches; Life of William Penn. Ho.
Burgess, Edward. Ms., 1848-1891. A noted naval architect of Boston. English and American Yachts. See New England Magazine, vol. 5.
Burgess, George. R. I., 1809-1866. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Maine. Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of New England; The Christian Life; The Book of Psalms in English Verse; The Last Enemy Conquering and Conquered; Strife of Brothers, a poem, comprise the most of his writings. See Memoir, by A. Burgess; Bibliography of Maine. Ran.
Burgess, John William. Tn., 1844- ——. The dean of the school of physical science in Columbia College. The American University: When Shall it Be, Where Shall it Be, and What Shall it Be?; Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law; The Middle Period. Gi.
Burk, John Daly. I., 17— -1808. An Irish author who came to America in 1796, and for the last years of his life was a lawyer in Virginia. History of the Late War in Ireland; History of Virginia; Bunker Hill, a once popular tragedy; Bethlem Gaber, an historical drama.
Burleigh, George Shepard. Ct., 1821-1903. A writer of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Anti-Slavery Hymns; The Maniac and Other Poems; Signal Fires, or The Trail of the Pathfinder.
Burleigh, William Henry. Ct., 1812-1871. Brother of G. S. Burleigh, supra. An anti-slavery journalist of Hartford and elsewhere who won some notice as a poet. See Poems of with biographical sketch by Celia Burleigh. Hou.
Burnap, George Washington. N. H., 1802-1859. A Unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, prominent as a controversialist. Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered; What is a Unitarian; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures on the History of Christianity; Christianity, its Essence and Evidence, are his more important works.
Burnett, Mrs. Frances Eliza [Hodgson]. E., 1849- ——. A popular writer of fiction, whose first successful book was That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, a powerful tale of Lancashire life. Her other works, of varying degrees of excellence, include Earlier Stories, first and second series; Haworth; A Fair Barbarian; Through One Administration; Louisiana; Esmeralda; Vagabondia, Surly Tim, and Other Stories; The Pretty Sister of José; A Lady of Quality. As a writer for young people her success has been very marked; and besides Little Lord Fauntleroy, the most popular of all her books, her juvenile writings comprise Sara Crewe; Piccino and Other Child Stories; Little Saint Elizabeth; Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress; Giovanni and the Other; The One I Knew the Best of All, an autobiographic tale. See Vedder’s American Writers. Scr.
Burnett, James G. N. Y., 1868-1893. A verse-writer who published Love and Laughter, a collection of verse. Put.
Burnett, Peter Hardeman. Tn., 1807-1895. A California lawyer who was the first governor of that state. The Path which led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church; The American Theory of Government; Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer; Reasons why we should believe in God. Ap.
Burnett, Waldo Irving. Ms., 1828-1854. A naturalist of Boston. The Cell, its Physiology, Pathology, and Philosophy.
Burney, Stanford Guthrie. Tn., 1814- ——. A Cumberland Presbyterian divine, professor of systematic theology at Cumberland University. Treatise on Elocution; Baptismal Regeneration; Atonement and Law Reviewed; Chart of Duty; Soteriology; Studies in Moral Science; Studies in Psychology; Studies in Theology.
Burnham, Mrs. Clara Louise [Root]. Ms., 1854- ——. A popular novelist of Chicago. “No Gentlemen”; A Sane Lunatic; Dearly Bought; Next Door; Young Maids and Old; The Mistress of Beech Knoll; Miss Bagg’s Secretary, a West Point romance; Dr. Latimer, a story of Casco Bay; Sweet Clover; The Wise Woman. Hou.
Burr, Aaron. Ct., 1716-1757. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Princeton College. He married a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, infra, and his son was the noted politician of the same name. His Latin Grammar was long in use at Princeton as “the Newark Grammar.” His only other work was The Supreme Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Burr, Enoch Fitch. Ct., 1818- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Lyme, Connecticut, since 1850. Pater Mundi; Ad Fidem; Doctrine of Evolution; Ecce Cœlum; Sunday Afternoons for Little People; About Spiritualism; Toward the Strait Gate; Ecce Terra; Work in the Vineyard; From Dark to Day; Facts in Aid of Faith; Celestial Empires; Universal Beliefs; Long Ago as Interpreted by the 19th Century; Tempted to Unbelief; Dio the Athenian; The Voyage, and Other Poems; Aleph, the Chaldean.
Burr, George Lincoln. N. Y., 1857- ——. A professor of history at Cornell University from 1892. The Literature of Witchcraft; The Fate of Dietrick Flade; Charlemagne.
Burr, William Hubert. Ct., 1851- ——. A civil engineer of prominence, professor of engineering at Columbia College from 1893. Stresses in Bridge and Roof Trusses; The Theory of the Masonry Arch; Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering. Wil.
Burrage, Henry Sweetser. Ms., 1837- ——. The editor of Zion’s Advocate, Portland, Maine. Brown University in the Civil War; The Act of Baptism in the History of the Christian Church; History of the Anabaptists in Switzerland; History of Baptists in New England; History of the 36th Massachusetts Regiment; Baptist Hymn Writers and their Hymns. Bap.
Burrill, Alexander Mansfield. N. Y., 1807-1869. A noted New York jurist. Practice of the Supreme Court of New York; Law Dictionary and Glossary; Law and Practice of Voluntary Assignments; Circumstantial Evidence.
Burritt, Elihu. Ct., 1811-1879. A famous linguist who was called “The Learned Blacksmith,” from the fact that much of his education was obtained while working at the forge in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a noted peace reformer, and was for some years consul at Birmingham. Few of his writings have the literary quality to any extent, and they form rather dry reading. Sparks from the Anvil; A Voice from the Forge; Peace Papers for the People; Olive Leaves; Thoughts of Things at Home and Abroad; Handbook of the Nations; A Walk from John O’ Groat’s to Land’s End; The Mission of Great Sufferings; Walks in the Black Country; Lectures and Speeches; Ten-Minute Talks; Chips from Many Blocks; Prayers and Devotional Meditations. See Memorial, by C. Northend, 1879; Leisure Hour, vol. 28. Ran.
Burroughs, John. N. Y., 1837- ——. A noted essayist of Esopus, New York, whose keen, sympathetic studies of nature have been very popular both in America and England. Wake-Robin; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman: a Study. See Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 42; Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. 39. Hou.
Burrowes, George. N. Y., 1811-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of San Francisco, professor of Hebrew in the Presbyterian seminary there. Commentary on the Song of Solomon; Octorara, a Poem and Occasional Pieces; Advanced Growth in Grace.
Burt, Nathaniel Clark. N. J., 1825-1874. A Presbyterian clergyman of Ohio. Hours among the Gospels; The Far East; The Land and its Story, the Sacred Geography of Palestine. Ap.
Burton, Asa. Ct., 1752-1836. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Thetford, Vermont, for more than fifty years. Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysics, Ethics, and Theology. See Memoir by T. Adams.
Burton, Ernest De Witt. O., 1856- ——. A professor of sacred literature in the University of Chicago. Records and Letters of the Apostolic Age; Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek; A Harmony of the Four Gospels (with W. A. Stevens). Scr. Sil.
Burton, Richard [Eugene]. Ct., 1859- ——. A littérateur and journalist of Hartford, Connecticut. Dogs and Dog Literature; Dumb in June, and Other Poems; Memorial Day and Other Poems; Men of Progress (edited). Cop.
Burton, Warren. N. H., 1800-1866. An educational writer of Boston. Cheering Views of Man and Providence; My Religious Experience at my Native Home; The Divine Agency in the Material Universe; Uncle Sam’s Recommendations of Phrenology; The District School as it Was; Helps to Education; Culture of the Observing Faculties in the Family and School; Scenery Showing.
Burton, William Evans. E., 1804-1860. A popular comedian of New York city. The Actor’s Alloquy; Waggeries and Vagaries; Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor. Ap.
Bush, George. Vt., 1796-1859. A Swedenborgian clergyman who was long a professor of Hebrew in the University of New York. Beside Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, the Psalms, his writings include Life of Mohammed; New Church Miscellanies; Priesthood and Clergy unknown to Christianity; Mesmer and Swedenborg; Treatise on the Millennium; The Resurrection of Christ. Har.
Bushnell, Charles Ira. N. Y., 1826-1883. An antiquarian writer of New York city, among whose works are Crumbs for Antiquarians; Adventures of Sir Christopher Hawkins (edited).
Bushnell, Horace. Ct., 1802-1876. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, who was one of the foremost thinkers in his denomination. He was a fearless reasoner, and his literary style exhibits both clearness and beauty. Christian Nurture; God in Christ; Christ in Theology; The Vicarious Sacrifice; Politics the Law of God; Nature and the Supernatural; Moral Uses of Dark Things, his ablest work; Sermons for the New Life; Sermons on Living Subjects; Forgiveness and Law; The Age of Homespun; Woman Suffrage; Moral Tendencies and Results of Human History; Building Eras in Religion; The Character of Jesus; Work and Play; Christ and His Salvation. See Life and Letters, edited by his daughter, Mrs. Cheney; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1881.
Bushnell, William H. N. Y., 1823- ——. A littérateur of Washington. Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers of Chicago; The Hermit of the Colorado Hills, a Story of the Texan Pampas; Ah Meek the Beaver, or The Copper Hunters of Lake Superior.
Butler, Clement Moore. N. Y., 1810-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of the evangelical type, professor of ecclesiastical history in the Episcopal Divinity School at Philadelphia, 1864-1884. Book of Common Prayer Interpreted by its History; Old Truths and New Errors; The Flock Fed; St. Paul in Rome; Inner Rome; Manual of Ecclesiastical History from the 1st to the 18th Century; The Reformation in Sweden, are his most important works. Ran.
Butler, Frederick. Circa 1766-1843. A writer of Hartford. History of the United States to 1820; The Farmer’s Manual; Memorial of Lafayette and his Tour in the United States.
Butler, James Glentworth. N. Y., 1821- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York. The Bible Work, an extended scriptural commentary; The Fourfold Gospel. Fu.
Butler, John Jay. Me., 1814-1891. A Free Baptist clergyman of Michigan, professor of sacred literature in Hillsdale College from 1873. Natural and Revealed Theology; Commentary on the Gospels, are his principal works.
Butler, Nicholas Murray. N. J., 1862- ——. An educator of New York city, professor of philosophy in Columbia College. Horace Mann and American Systems of Education.
Butler, Noble. Pa., 1819-1882. A classical professor in the University of Louisville, who published A Practical and Critical English Grammar and other valuable text-books.
Butler, Thomas Belden. Ct., 1806-1873. A Connecticut jurist whose Philosophy of the Weather, 1856, appeared later in enlarged form as a Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System.
Butler, William. I., 1819-1899. A Methodist missionary. The Land of the Veda; From Boston to Bareilly and Back; Mexico in Transition from the Power of Political Romanism to Civil and Religious Liberty.
Butler, William Allen. N. Y., 1825-1902. A lawyer of New York city well known as a writer of poetical satires, among which Nothing to Wear has long been famous. Others are, Two Millions; General Average, a satire upon mercantile life; Barnum’s Parnassus. His prose writings include, Martin Van Buren, a Biography; Mrs. Limber’s Raffle, an able attack on the morality of church fairs; Domesticus, a Story; Oberammergau. Ap. Har. Scr.
Butterfield, Consul Willshire. N. Y., 1824-1899. A Wisconsin educator. Historical Account of the Expedition against Sandusky, 1782; System of Punctuation for Schools; History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicollet, 1634, comprise his chief works. Clke.
Butterfield, Daniel. N. Y., 1831-1901. A major-general in the United States army. Camp and Outpost Duty. Har.
Butterworth, Hezekiah. R. I., 1837- ——. A Boston writer, for many years editor of The Youth’s Companion. Besides publishing several volumes of Zig-Zag Journeys, Great Composers, The Knight of Liberty, In the Boyhood of Lincoln, The Patriot Schoolmaster, and other popular juvenile books, he is the author of two collections of musical verse, Songs of History; Poems for Christmas, Easter, and New Year’s. Ap. Cr. Est. Lo. Mer.
Butts, Mrs. Mary Frances [Barber]. R. I., 1836- ——. A writer of popular juvenile works. Three Girls; Lottie; Nellie’s New Home; Lizzie and her Friends; The Frolic Series, are some of them.
Byerly, William Ellwood. Pa., 1849- ——. A professor of mathematics at Harvard University. Elements of Differential Calculus; Elements of Integral Calculus. Gi.
Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall. Ms., 1838- ——. A United States consul at Zurich, subsequently a consul-general to Italy and now a resident of Des Moines. Switzerland; Switzerland and the Swiss: Historical and Descriptive; Florence; History of Switzerland; What I Saw in Dixie; Military History of Iowa; The Happy Isles, and Other Poems.
Byfield, Nathaniel. E., 1653-1733. A jurist of note in Massachusetts in the colonial period. Account of the Late War in England, 1689.
Byford, William Heath. O., 1817-1890. A physician of prominence in Chicago. Practice of Medicine and Surgery Applied to Diseases and Accidents Peculiar to Women; Theory and Practice of Obstetrics; Philosophy of Domestic Life, are his more important works.
Byington, Ezra Hoyt. Vt., 1828-1901. A Congregational clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts. Puritan in England and New England; Puritan as Colonist and Reformer; Christ of Yesterday, To-day, and Forever. Lit.
Byles, Mather. Ms., 1706-1788. A Congregational clergyman of Boston famous both as preacher and wit. After 43 years’ ministry in the Hollis Street Church, his Tory sympathies obliged him to give up his charge in 1776. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Tyler’s American Literature; Unitarian Review, vol. 27; Atlantic Monthly, vol. 59.
Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. N. Y., 1842-1893. A popular historical novelist of Boston. His best work is included in the three historical tales, Agnes Surriage; The Begum’s Daughter; Zachary Phips. Of lesser importance are Nimport; Tritons; Damen’s Ghost; Penelope’s Suitors; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with L. P. Hale, infra); The Chase of the Meteor, a book for boys. Hou.
Byrd, William. Va., 1674-1744. A colonial Virginian and man of letters, whose Journals, first published in 1841, are known as The Westover Manuscripts, from Westover, the family mansion of Byrd. A fuller collection, styled The Byrd Manuscripts, was printed in 1866, edited by T. Wynne. They are well worth reading for their wit, keen observations, and vigorous style. They comprise The Story of the Dividing Line, an account of the expedition to fix the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina; A Progress to the Mines; A Journey to the Land of Eden. See Hart’s American Literature; Tyler’s American Literature; Century Magazine, vol. 20.
Byrn, Marcus Lafayette. 18— - ——. A physician. Complete Practical Brewer; Rattlehead’s Travels, or the Recollections of a Backwoodsman; Complete Practical Distiller; Repository of Wit and Humour; Book of Nature, an expositor of the Science of Life and Sexual Physiology; Family Physician.
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Cabell, James Lawrence. Va., 1813-1889. An eminent Virginia physician. The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind.
Cabell, Mrs. Julia [Mayo]. Va., 18— -185-. An Odd Volume of Facts and Fiction in Prose and Verse; Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg.
Cable, George Washington. La., 1844- ——. A writer of fiction who has reproduced with much success the life and dialect among the creoles of Louisiana. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and is now a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. Old Creole Days; The Grandissimes; Madame Delphine; Dr. Sevier; John March, Southerner; Bonaventure; Strange True Stories of Louisiana; The Creoles of Louisiana; The Silent South; The Busy Man’s Bible; The Negro Question. See Vedder’s American Writers. Fl. Scr.
Cabot, James Elliot. Ms., 1821-1903. A Boston writer whose principal work is A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hou.
Cahan, Abraham. R., 1860- ——. A New York city journalist, editor of Zukunft. Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto; Raphael Narizokh (in Yiddish). Ap.
Cain, William. N. C., 1847- ——. A professor of civil engineering in the University of North Carolina. Theory of Voussoir; Solid and Braced Arches; Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges; Solid and Braced Elastic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; Practical Designing of Retaining Walls.
Caines, George. 1771-1825. A reporter of the New York Supreme Court. Lex Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors; Forms of New York Supreme Court; Summary of Practice in New York Supreme Court; Cases in the Court for Trial of Impeachments; New York Supreme Court Reports.
Caldwell, Charles. N. C., 1772-1853. A Kentucky physician, who beside publishing some 200 technical monographs and pamphlets, wrote The Life and Campaigns of General Greene, and translated Blumenbach’s Elements of Physiology. See Autobiography, 1855; Life, by Caruthers, infra; Sketches of Contemporaries, by S. D. Gross, infra.
Caldwell, George Chapman. Ms., 1834- ——. A professor of agricultural chemistry at Cornell University. Agricultural Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis; Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice (with A. Breneman); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with S. M. Babcock).
Caldwell, Joseph. N. J., 1773-1835. A once noted educator who was president of the University of North Carolina. A Compendious System of Elementary Geometry; Letters of Carleton.
Caldwell, Linus Boues. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator, of Tennessee. Wines of Palestine, or The Bible Defended; Beyond the Grave.
Caldwell, Merritt. Me., 1806-1848. A professor of metaphysics at Dickinson College. The Doctrine of the English Verb; Manual of Elocution; Philosophy of Christian Perfection; Christianity Tested by Eminent Men. See Memoir by S. M. Vail. Meth.
Caldwell, Samuel Lunt. Ms., 1820-1889. A Baptist clergyman whose later life was passed in Providence. Cities of Our Faith and Other Addresses and Discourses. Hou.
Caldwell, William Warner. Ms., 1823- ——. A resident of Newburyport who has published Poems, Original and Translated, and has translated many lyrics from the German.
Calef, Robert. Ms., c. 1648-1719. A Boston merchant who published in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible World, a satirical reply to Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World. Its line of argument was in direct opposition to the witchcraft persecutions, and the book was publicly burnt by Increase Mather in the grounds of Harvard College. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Calhoun [kăl-hoon´], John Caldwell. S. C., 1782-1850. A South Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under Monroe, and again under Tyler, vice-president under John Quincy Adams, and United States senator from 1845 till his death. He was one of the ablest of political leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of the first rank. His literary style is both vigourous and concise, and displays at times a remarkable intensity of expression. A Disquisition on Government; The Constitution and Government of the United States. See Works in 6 volumes; Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Jenkins; Von Holst. Ap.
Calkins, Norman Allison. N. Y., 1822-1895. The first assistant superintendent of primary schools in New York city for thirty-three years. Primary Object Lessons; How to Teach; Manual of Object Teaching; Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and Occupations; Natural History Series for Children.
Callender, James Thomas. E., 17— -1803. A writer who was exiled from England on account of his pamphlet, The Political Progress of Great Britain. He was at first the friend and soon the violent political opponent of Thomas Jefferson. Sketches of the History of America; The Prospect before Us.
Callender, John. Ms., 1706-1748. A Baptist clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is a careful monograph of Rhode Island history for the first century of the colony’s existence. See edition of 1838, with notes and memoir.
Calthrop, Samuel Robert. E., 1829- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse. Essay on Religion and Science; The Rights of the Body.
Calvert, George Henry. Md., 1803-1889. A littérateur of Newport, Rhode Island, who published a great number of volumes of verse that never was mistaken for poetry by any reader, and almost as many prose works. Among his writings are Goethe: his Life and Works; Dante and his Latest Translators; St. Beuve, the Critic; Count Julian, a tragedy; Three Score, and Other Poems; a translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos.
Cameron, Henry Clay. W. Va., 1827- ——. A professor at Princeton College since 1877. Princeton Roll of Honour; History of American Whig Society.
Camp, Walter. Ct., 1859- ——. A writer of prominence on athletic matters. Book of College Sports; American Football; Football Facts and Figures; Football (with L. F. Deland). Har. Hou.
Campbell, Alexander. I., 1788-1866. A Baptist clergyman of West Virginia, who was the founder of the sect of Campbellites, or Disciples of Christ. He established Bethany College in 1841, and was its first president. His writings, mainly controversial, are nearly sixty in number, among them being Christian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted by Infidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular Lectures and Addresses; Christianity as it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch; Six Letters to a Sceptic. See Hart’s American Literature; Memoir by Richardson, 1868.
Campbell, Alexander Augustus. Va., 1789-1846. A Presbyterian clergyman and physician, once prominent in Tennessee, whose only book was a work on Scripture Baptism.
Campbell, Alexander James. 18— - ——. Son of A. Campbell, supra. The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American Practical Cyclopædia; A True Friend, reflections on Life, Character, and Conduct.
Campbell, Bartley. Pa., 1843-1888. A journalist of Pittsburg, who turned his attention to the stage and became a popular playwright. My Partner; The Galley Slave; Matrimony; Siberia; The Big Bonanza; The White Slave; and Peril, comprising his most successful plays.
Campbell, Charles. Va., 1807-1876. An educator of Petersburg, Virginia, whose father, John Wilson Campbell, a bookseller there for many years, wrote a History of Virginia to 1781. The writings of Charles Campbell include History of the Colony of Virginia; Genealogy of the Spotswood Family; The Bland Papers; Memoir of John Daly Burk, supra. Lip.
Campbell, Douglas. N. Y., 1840-1893. Son of W. W. Campbell, infra. A lawyer of New York city, whose notable historical work, The Puritan in Holland, England, and America, has attracted much attention. Har.
Campbell, Douglas Houghton. Mch., 1859- ——. A professor of botany in Stanford University. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany; Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns. Mac.
Campbell, Mrs. Helen [Stuart]. 1839- ——. A writer who is deeply concerned in philanthropic and social reforms, and whose work covers a wide range of topics. In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in Housekeeping, are books for the housekeeper. Prisoners of Poverty; Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Life of Dr. Martha Scarborough; Women Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and Daylight in New York, relate to the social problems of the time. Six Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley’s Probation; Miss Melinda’s Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon’s Income; The What-to-Do-Club; Under Green Apple-Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson’s Boy, are fictions. Other works are Girls’ Handbook of Work and Play; A Sylvan City, a description of Philadelphia; The Ainslee Stories, for juvenile readers; Anne Bradstreet and her Time, supra. Fo. Hou. Lo. Rob.
Campbell, James Valentine. N. Y., 1823-1890. A Michigan jurist. Outlines of the Political History of Michigan.
Campbell, John Lyle. Va., 1818-1886. A professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee College, 1851-86. Manual of Scientific and Practical Agriculture; Idaho, Six Months in the New Gold Diggings; Guide to the Agricultural and Mineral West; Geology and Mineral Resources of the James River Valley, Virginia.
Campbell, John Poage. Va., 1767-1814. A once popular clergyman on the Ohio border. The Passenger; Strictures on Stone’s Letters on the Atonement; Vindex; Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craighead; The Pelagian Defeated; An Answer to Jones.
Campbell, William Henry. Md., 1808-1890. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, president of Rutgers College, 1863-82. Subjects and Modes of Baptism; Influence of Christianity in Civil and Religious Liberty; System of Catechetical Instruction.
Campbell, William W. N. Y., 1806-1881. A jurist of New York city. Annals of Tryon County, reissued as Border Warfare; Memoirs of Mrs. Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton; Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd.
Canfield, Henry Judson. Ct., 1789-1856. An agriculturist who published a serviceable Treatise on the Breed, Management, Structure, and Diseases of Sheep.
Cannon, Charles James. N. Y., 1810-1860. A New York littérateur who besides compiling a series of readers published, among other works, Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous; Pencillings from the Web of Life, and a number of dramas now forgotten.
Cannon, James Spencer. W. I., 1776-1852. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New Jersey, professor of metaphysics at Rutgers College, 1826-56. Lectures on Chronology; Lectures on Pastoral Theology.
Capen, Nahum. Ms., 1804-1886. A Boston publisher who was postmaster 1857-61, and introduced the custom of street letter-box collections. The Republic of the United States; Reminiscences of Spurzheim and Combe; History of Democracy, or Political Progress Historically Illustrated.
Capers, William. S. C., 1790-1855. A Methodist bishop once prominent in the South. Cathechisms for Negro Missions; Short Sermons and True Tales for Children. See Life, by Wightman, 1859.
Carey, Henry Charles. Pa., 1793-1879. Son of M. Carey, infra. One of the foremost of American political economists, who advocated protection as a preliminary step toward ultimate free trade. He opposed such theorists as Malthus and Ricardo, holding that human progress depends upon success in subjugating nature; that land values depend upon labour; and that the social well-being is directly dependent upon existing conditions. Principles of Political Economy; The Credit System; The Principles of Social Science; Lectures on the Currency; Letters on Political Economy; Letters on International Copyright; Financial Crises; The Unity of Law, comprise his chief works. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Memoir by Elder; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries. Bai. Lip.
Carey, Matthew. I., 1760-1839. An Irishman who came to America in 1785, entered into politics, and established himself in Philadelphia as a bookseller. His writings include The Olive Branch, or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic (1814), which soon entered a tenth edition; Vindiciæ Hibernicæ; Thoughts on Penitentiaries and Prison Discipline; Essays on Political Economy; The Yellow Fever of 1793.
Carleton, Henry Guy. N. M., 1856- ——. A journalist of New York city who is best known as a writer of plays, among which are Memnon; The Pembertons; Victor Durand.
Carleton, Osgood. 1742-1816. A Massachusetts mathematician. American Navigator; South American Pilot; Practice of Arithmetic.
Carleton, William. Mch., 1845- ——. A writer of homely verse which appeals with great force to imperfectly educated tastes, and has been very popular, but which is without literary merit. Farm Ballads; Farm Festivals; Farm Legends; City Legends; City Ballads; City Festivals; Rhymes of our Planet; Young Folks’ Centennial Rhymes; The Old Infant, and Similar Stories. Har.
Carman [William], Bliss. N. B., 1861- ——. A poet of Canadian birth, whose literary work has been done mainly in New York and Boston. Low Tide on Grand Pré; A Seamark; Behind the Arras; Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey, infra); More Songs from Vagabondia (with R. Hovey); Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea. Cop. Lam.
Carnegie, Andrew. S., 1835- ——. A noted steel-manufacturer of Pittsburg who came to America in 1845. He has made many important gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as a writer is distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism of his work. An American Four-in-Hand in Europe; Round the World; Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. Scr.
Carnochan, John Murray. Ga., 1817-1887. A New York surgeon of distinction. Treatise on Congenital Dislocations; Contributions to Operative Surgery. Har.
Carpenter, Edmund Janes. Ms., 1845- ——. A journalist of Boston. A Woman of Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; History of Roger Williams. Lit.
Carpenter, Esther Bernon. R. I., 1848-1893. A writer of southern Rhode Island, whose South Country Neighbours is a series of sympathetic studies in fiction of Rhode Island types of character. Rob.
Carpenter, Francis Bicknell. N. Y., 1830-1900. A portrait painter of New York city, who painted The Emancipation Proclamation in the Capitol at Washington. Six Months in the White House with Abraham Lincoln.
Carpenter, Henry Bernard. I., 1840-1890. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, brother of W. Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican bishop of Ripon. He wrote principally in verse, his only published books including The Oatmeal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metrical Romaunt of the Middle Ages; A Poet’s Last Songs. The last-named volume was issued after his death, with memorial sketch by J. J. Roche, infra. Hou.
Carpenter, Stephen Cullen. E., c. 17— -1820. An English journalist who came to America in 1803 and settled in Charleston. Memoir of Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise History of the United States (1809); An Overland Journey to India, published under the pseudonym “Donald Campbell.”
Carpenter, Stephen Haskins. N. J., 1831-1878. A Wisconsin educator, professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin. Evidences of Christianity; English of the 14th Century; Introduction to the Study of Anglo-Saxon; Elements of English Analysis. Gi.
Carr, Lucien. Mo., 1829- ——. An archæologist of Cambridge, assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, 1876-1894. The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; Missouri, a brief history of the State; Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky (with N. S. Shaler, infra). Clke. Hou.
Carrier, Augustus Stiles. N. Y., 1857. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor of Hebrew in McCormick Theological Seminary from 1892. The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.
Carrington, Henry Beebe. Ct., 1824- ——. A general in the United States army living in Boston. His principal writings include Crisis Thoughts; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or Indian Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field; The Washington Obelisk and its Voices. See One of a Thousand. Bar. Le. Lip.
Carrol, John. Md., 1735-1817. The first Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore. His writings are mainly of a controversial cast. Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between the Protestant and Catholic Churches; Discourse on General Washington.
Carroll, Anna Ella. Md., 1815-1894. A political writer who was the real author of the Federal campaign of 1862 in Tennessee. The Great American Battle, or The Contest between Christianity and Political Romanism; The Star of the West, or National Men and National Measures; The Union of the States; The War Powers of the General Government; The Relation of the National Government to the Revolted Citizens Defined. See S. E. Blackwell’s A Military Genius.
Carroll, Henry King. N. J., 1847- ——. A Methodist clergyman and religious statistician. The World of Missions; The Catholic Dogma of Church Authority; The Religious Forces of the United States.
Carryl, Charles Edward. N. Y., 1841- ——. A broker of New York city, the author of the popular juvenile tales, Davy and the Goblin; The Admiral’s Caravan. Cent. Hou.
Carson, Joseph. 1808-1876. A medical professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1850. Illustrations of Medical Botany; Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy.
Carter, Franklin. Ct., 1837- ——. President of Williams College. Life of Mark Hopkins, infra, and a scholarly translation of Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris. Hou.
Carter, James Gordon. Ms., 1795-1849. A once prominent educator of Massachusetts. Essays on Popular Education; Geography of New Hampshire; Geography of Massachusetts; Letters to William Prescott on the Free Schools of New England.
Carter, Nathaniel Franklin. N. H., 1830- ——. A Congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. The Ride for Life, and Other Poems; History of Pembroke, New Hampshire.
Carter, Nathaniel Hazeltine. N. H., 1787-1830. A New York journalist who published Letters from Europe (1827), and wrote many poems of reflection.
Carter, Peter. S., 1825- ——. A prominent New York publisher. Crumbs from the Land of Cakes, a volume of travels in Scotland; Scotia’s Bards; and three juvenile tales, including Bertie Lee; Donald Fraser; Effie’s Home.
Carter, Robert. N. Y., 1819-1879. A New York writer who was one of the editors of Appleton’s American Cyclopædia, to which he contributed many articles. A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England was his only book of importance.
Carter, Russel Kelso. Md., 1849- ——. A mathematician of Chester, Pennsylvania, prominent in the “Holiness” movement in the Methodist church and as a Faith healer. The Atonement for Sin and Sickness; Miracles of Healing.
Cartwright, Peter. Va., 1785-1872. A once famous Methodist preacher of Illinois. Controversy with the Devil; Autobiography of a Backwoods Preacher; Fifty Years a Presiding Elder.
Caruthers, William Alexander. Va., 1800-1850. A physician of Savannah who wrote a number of romances now quite forgotten. The Kentuckian in New York; The Cavaliers of Virginia; Knights of the Horse Shoe; Life of Charles Caldwell, supra.
Cary, Alice. O., 1820-1871. An Ohio writer who came with her sister Phœbe to New York city in 1852, and as poet and novelist became prominent in literary circles there. The weekly receptions of the sisters were attended by artists and writers for many years. Her books of verse include Lyra, and Other Poems; A Lover’s Diary; Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns; Early and Late Poems (with Phœbe Cary, infra). Her other works are Clovernook, a book of the type of Miss Mitford’s Our Village; Pictures of Country Life; the novels, Hagar; The Bishop’s Son; Married, not Mated. Snowberries, a juvenile; From Year to Year, a Token of Remembrance (with P. Cary). See Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary, by Mrs. [Clemmer] Hudson. Hou. Lip.
Cary, Edward. N. Y., 1840- ——. A journalist of New York city on the editorial staff of The Times. Life of George William Curtis, infra. Hou.
Cary, George Lovell. Ms., 1830- ——. A professor of New Testament literature at Meadville Theological School since 1862. Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament.
Cary, Phœbe. O., 1824-1871. Sister of A. Cary, supra. Poems and Parodies; Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love. She will be longest remembered by the well-known hymn, Nearer Home. Hou. Lip.
Casey, Silas. R. I., 1807-1882. A general in the United States army who published Infantry Tactics; Infantry Tactics for Colored Troops.
Cass, Lewis. N. H., 1782-1866. A statesman of Michigan who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1845. Inquiries Concerning the History, Traditions, and Languages of the Indians in the United States; France, its King, Court, and Government, 1840. See Lives by Schoolcraft, 1848; W. L. G. Smith, 1856; McLaughlin, 1891.
Cassin, John. Pa., 1813-1869. A naturalist of Philadelphia whose American Ornithology is a continuation of Audubon’s work on that subject. Other works of his are Ornithology of the Japan Expedition; Mammalogy and Ornithology of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition; Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, etc.; A General Synopsis of North American Ornithology. Lip.
Castlemon, Harry. See Fosdick.
Caswall, Henry. E., 1810-1870. An Episcopal clergyman of English birth, but ordained in the United States, where the most of his life was spent. He lived for a time in England, however, and was a prebend of Salisbury. An Epitome of the History of the American Episcopal Church (1836); Didascalus, or The Teacher; Mormonism and its Author; The Jerusalem Chamber, or Convocation and its Possibilities; The Californian Crusoe, a Tale of Mormonism; Scotland and the Scottish Church; The Western World Revisited; The Martyr of the Pongas; The American Church and the American Union, include the majority of his writings.
Caswell, Alexis. Ms., 1799-1877. A Baptist clergyman and educator; for 35 years a professor at Brown University, and its president, 1868-72. Lectures on Astronomy; Meteorological Observations.
Cathcart, William. I., 1826- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. The Baptists and the American Revolution; The Papal System; The Baptism of the Ages and the Nations; The Baptist Encyclopædia.
Catherwood, Mrs. Mary [Hartwell]. O., 1847-1902. A writer of Hoopeston, Illinois, whose historical romances dealing with the early days of Canada and the Northwest are as notable for their careful attention to historical details as for their graphic and picturesque style. A Woman in Armour; The Lady of Fort St. John; The Romance of Dollard; Story of Tonty; Old Kaskaskia; The Chase of St. Castin, and Other Tales; The Spirit of an Illinois Town; The White Islander, a story of Mackinac; Craque o’ Doom. Her books for young people include Old Caravan Days; The Dogberry Bunch; Rocky Fork; The Secrets of Roseladies. Cent. Hou. Lip. Lo. Mg.
Catlin, George. Pa., 1796-1872. An artist who spent many years among the Indians. Notes of Eight Years in Europe; Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Notes for the Emigrant to America; Life among the Indians, a Book for Youth; The Breath of Life, or Mal-Respiration and its Effects; O-Kee-Pa, a Religious Ceremony, and other Customs of the Mandans; Last Rambles Among the Indians of the Rocky Mountains; The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America. See Tuckerman’s Book of the Artists.
Catlin, George Lynde. S. I., 1840-1896. A journalist and diplomat, consul at Limoges, Stuttgart, and Zurich. Bilbigheim, a story; The Presidential Campaign of 1896, written in 1888; Titbits for Travellers; The Postilion of Nagold and Other Poems. Fu.
Caton, John Dean. N. Y., 1812-1895. A jurist of Chicago. A Summer in Norway; The Last of the Illinois and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies; The Antelope and the Deer of America; Miscellanies, Speeches, and Essays.
Caulkins, Frances Mainwaring. Ct., 1796-1869. A local historian of Connecticut. A History of Norwich; A History of New London.
Cawein, Madison Julius. Ky., 1865- ——. A poet of Louisville, Kentucky, whose verse is very musical, and shows much individuality. Days and Dreams; Moods and Memories; Intimations of the Beautiful; Blooms of the Berry; The Triumph of Music; Accolon of Gaul; Lyrics and Idyls; Poems of Nature and Love; Red Leaves and Roses; The Garden of Dreams; Undertones. Cop. Mor. Put.
Cesnola [ches-no´la], Luigi Palma di. It., 1832-1904. An archæologist who served in the Union army during the War and became a colonel, but for a number of years filled the position of director of the Metropolitan Museum of New York city. Cyprus, its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ap. Har.
Chadbourne, Paul Ansel. Me., 1823-1883. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1872-81. Relations of Natural History to Intellect, Taste, Wealth, and Religion; Natural Theology; Instinct in Animals and Men; Strength of Men and Stability of Nations; The Hope of the Righteous; The Public Services of the State of New York [with W. B. Moore]. Bar. Put.
Chadwick, Henry. N. H., 1824- ——. An authority on games and sports. Base Ball Players’ Book of Reference; Base Ball, How to Learn, Play, and Teach It; Base Ball Manual; Sports and Pastimes of American Boys.
Chadwick, John White. Ms., 1840- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Brooklyn, prominent among the more radical thinkers of his denomination. The Man Jesus; The Faith of Reason; The Bible of To-Day; Old and New Unitarian Belief; The Power of an Endless Life; The Revelation of God, and Other Sermons; Thomas Paine: the Method and Value of his Religious Teachings; George William Curtis: an Address; A Book of Poems; In Nazareth Town, and Other Poems. Har. Put. Rob.
Chaffin, William Ladd. Me., 1837- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Easton, Massachusetts, whose History of Easton is of notable excellence.
Chaillé, Stanford Emerson. Mi., 1830- ——. A prominent physician of New Orleans. Yellow Fever in Havana and Cuba; Laws of Population and Voters; Living, Dying, Registering, and Voting Population of Louisiana; Intimidation of Voters in Louisiana; Origin and Progress of Medical Jurisprudence, 1776-1876.
Chalkley, Thomas. E., 1675-1741. A Quaker itinerant preacher born in London, who spent his life preaching throughout New England and the Southern colonies. His writings, consisting of religious tracts and a Journal of his experiences, published as Life, Labours, and Travels, are noted for their quaint simplicity. His Journal has been very popular among the Friends, and has been several times reprinted. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 9.
Chalmers, Lionel. S., c. 1715-1777. A once noted physician of Charleston. Treatise on the Weather and Diseases of South Carolina; Essay on Fevers.
Chamberlain, Jacob. Ct., 1835- ——. A Reformed Dutch missionary to India. The Bible Tested is his most important work.
Chamberlain, Nathan Henry. Ms., 1830-1901. An Episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts, whose principal writings include The Autobiography of a New England Farm House; Samuel Sewell and the World he Lived In; The Sphinx in Aubrey Parish.
Chamberlayne, Israel. N. Y., 1795-1875. A Methodist clergyman. The Past and the Future; The Australian Captive; Saving Faith: its Rationale; The Great Specific against Despair of Pardon. Meth.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar. Vt., 1851- ——. A Boston journalist on the staffs of The Transcript and the Youth’s Companion. The Listener in the Town; The Listener in the Country. Cop.
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder. Il., 1843- ——. A prominent geologist of Wisconsin. Outline of a Course of Oral Instruction; Geology of Wisconsin.
Chambers, Charles Julius. O., 1850- ——. A journalist long connected with the New York Herald. A Mad World and its Inhabitants, a description of lunatic asylums founded on the author’s personal experience in one in disguise; On a Margin, a Story of These Times; Lovers Four and Maidens Five, a Story. Ap. Fu.
Chambers, Robert William. L. I., 1865- ——. A novelist and artist of New York city. In the Quarter; The King in Yellow; The Red Republic; The Maker of Moons; The Mystery of Choice; A King and a Few Dukes; With the Band, a book of ballads. Ne. Put. St.
Chambers, Talbot Wilson. Pa., 1819-1896. A noted Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city. The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street; Memoir of Theodore Frelinghuysen; The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible; Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament. Fu.
Champlin, James Tifft. Ct., 1811-1882. A Baptist clergyman of Portland, Maine, president of Colby University, 1857-73. First Principles of Ethics; Lessons on Political Economy; Text-Book of Intellectual Philosophy; Scripture Reading Lessons; The Constitution of the United States, with Brief Comments; and a series of classical text-books. See Bibliography of Maine.
Champlin, John Denison. Ct., 1834- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Common Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Persons and Places; Young Folks’ History of the War for the Union; Young Folks’ Catechism of Common Things; Young Folks’ Cyclopædia of Games and Sports; Young Folks’ Astronomy; Chronicle of the Coach: Charing Cross to Ilfracombe. With W. F. Apthorp, supra, he has edited a Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians, and with C. C. Perkins, infra, a Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings. Ho. Scr.
Champney, Mrs. Elizabeth [Williams]. O., 1850- ——. A popular New York writer for young people, and wife of the artist, J. Wells Champney, who has illustrated many of her books. The Three Vassar Girls Series; The Witch Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; Howling Wolf and his Trick-Pony; All Around a Palette; Children’s Art Sketches; In the Sky Garden; Fables in Astronomy, and other juveniles; and the novels, Bourbon Lilies; Sebia’s Tangled Web; Rosemary and Rue. Do. Est. Lo. Ran.
Chancellor, Charles Williams. Va., 1833- ——. An eminent physician of Baltimore. Prisons, Reformatories, and Charitable Institutions of Maryland; Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts; Contagious and Infectious Diseases; Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Maryland; Heredity; The Sewerage of Cities.
Chandler, Bessie. See Parker, Mrs.
Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret. Del., 1807-1835. A verse-writer whose themes were mainly those relating to the subject of anti-slavery, in which she was greatly interested. See Poetical Works and Essays, with Memoir by Benjamin Lundy.
Chandler, Peleg Whitman. Me., 1816-1889. A prominent lawyer of Boston. The Bankrupt Law of the United States; American Criminal Trials; Memoir of Governor Andrew; Observations on the Authenticity of the Gospels. Rob.
Chaney, George Leonard. Ms., 1836- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Hollis Street Church in Boston, 1862-79, and subsequently pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, where he edited the Southern Unitarian, 1893-96. F. Grant & Co., a story for boys; Tom, a Home Story; Aloha, travels in the Sandwich Islands; Every Day Life and Every Day Morals; Belief. Rob.
Chaney, Lucien West. N. Y., 1857- ——. A naturalist, professor of biology in Carleton College, Minnesota, since 1882, and author of Guides for the Laboratory.
Chanler, Mrs. Amélie Rives. See Troubetzkoy.
Channing, Edward. Ms., 1856- ——. Son of W. E. Channing, 2d. A professor of history at Harvard University since 1883. Guide to the Study of American History (with A. B. Hart, infra); Town and County Government of the English Colonies of North America; Narragansett Planters; The United States of America, 1765-1865. Gi. Mac.
Channing, Edward Tyrrel. R. I., 1790-1856. Brother of W. E. Channing, infra. A professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University. Life of William Ellery; Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (with Memoir by R. H. Dana, Jr.).
Channing, Walter. R. I., 1786-1876. Brother of W. E. Channing, infra. A physician of prominence in Boston for many years, and medical professor in Harvard University. The Prevention of Pauperism; Etherization in Childbirth; Professional Reminiscences of Foreign Travel; New and Old; Miscellaneous Poems; A Physician’s Vacation, or A Summer in Europe; Reformation of Medical Science.
Channing, William Ellery. R. I., 1780-1842. A Unitarian theologian of eminence, who became pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston in 1803. He was the foremost theologian in America in his time, and his influence is still great. He wrote upon philanthropic and social as well as religious and ethical questions, and was a noted opponent of slavery. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, Icelandic, Russian, and Hungarian. Evidences of Revealed Religion; Self-Culture; Essay on Milton; The Duty of the Free States, are among his most notable works. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Lives by W. H. Channing, infra; C. T. Brooks, supra; Reminiscences by Miss Peabody; Correspondence of Channing and Lucy Aikin; New England Magazine, December, 1896. A. U. A.
Channing, William Ellery. Ms., 1818-1901. Son of W. Channing, supra. A poet and essayist of Concord, Massachusetts, who married a sister of Margaret Fuller, infra. His verse is thoroughly original in tone and more or less willful in form. His work in verse includes The Youth of the Painter, a series of psychological essays; Poems 1843-47; The Woodman; The Wanderer; Near Home; Eliot; John Brown; Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; Conversations in Rome between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic, are prose volumes.
Channing, William Francis. Ms., 1820-1901. Son of W. E. Channing, 1st. A physician, scientist, and inventor. Davis’s Manual of Magnetism; Medical Application of Electricity; The American Fire Alarm Telegraph.
Channing, William Henry. Ms., 1810-1884. Nephew of W. E. Channing. A Unitarian clergyman who settled in England, and succeeded James Martineau as pastor of the Unitarian Chapel in Hope Street, Liverpool. The Christian Church and Social Reform; Memoirs of Wm. E. Channing; Memoirs of James H. Perkins; Memoirs of Margaret Fuller (with R. W. Emerson and J. F. Clarke). A. U. A.
Chapin, Aaron Lucius. Ct., 1817-1892. A Congregational clergyman of Wisconsin, who was president of Beloit College, 1849-86. First Principles of Political Economy.
Chapin, Alonzo Bowen. Ct., 1808-1858. An Episcopal clergyman of Hartford. Classical Spelling-Book; Organization and Order of the Primitive Church; Views of Gospel Truth; Glastenbury for 200 Years (1853); Puritanism not Protestantism.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell. N. Y., 1814-1881. A Universalist clergyman of New York city, long the foremost preacher in his denomination. The Crown of Thorns; Humanity in the City; Christianity the Perfection of True Manliness; Moral Aspects of City Life; Discourses on the Lord’s Prayer; Hours of Communion; Token for the Sorrowing; Characters in the Gospels. See Life, by Sumner Ellis.
Chapin, James Henry. Ind., 1832-1892. A Universalist clergyman and educator, professor of geology in St. Lawrence University, 1871-92. Sketches of the Huguenots; The Creation and Early Development of Mankind; From Japan to Granada, a Tour Around the World. See Life of, by G. S. Weaver. Put.
Chaplin, Mrs. Ada C. Ms., 1842-1883. A Massachusetts writer of religious juveniles, some of which are Christ’s Cadets; Charity Hurlburt; Our Gold Mine, the Story of American Baptist Missions in India.
Chaplin, Heman White. R. I., 1847- ——. Son of J. Chaplin, 2d. A lawyer of Boston, whose Five Hundred Dollars, and Other Stories of New England Life, are exceptionally faithful and delicate studies of character, and rank among the foremost of American short stories. Lit.
Chaplin, Mrs. Jane [Dunbar]. S., 1819-1884. Wife of J. Chaplin, 2d, infra, and daughter of Duncan Dunbar. Among her various writings, mainly religious juveniles, are The Transplanted Shamrock; Black and White; The Convent and the Manse.
Chaplin, Jeremiah. Ms., 1776-1841. A Baptist clergyman and educator, the first president of Colby University, 1822-33. The Evening of Life.
Chaplin, Jeremiah. Ms., 1813-1886. Son of J. Chaplin, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Newton, Massachusetts, who after leaving the ministry devoted himself to literary pursuits in Boston. The Memorial Hour; The Hand of Jesus; Riches of Bunyan; Life of Henry Dunster, First President of Harvard College; Chips from the White House; Life of Benjamin Franklin; Life of Galen; Life of Duncan Dunbar; Life of Charles Sumner (with Jane Chaplin). Lo.
Chapman, Alvan Wentworth. Ms., 1809-1899. A botanist for whom the genus Chapmannia was named. Flora of the Southern United States.
Chapman, George Thomas. E., 1786-1872. An Episcopal clergyman. Sketches of Alumni of Dartmouth College from 1771-1868.
Chapman, Henry Cadwalader. Pa., 1845- ——. Grandson of N. Chapman, infra. A physician of Philadelphia. Evolution of Life; History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.
Chapman, Nathaniel. Va., 1780-1853. A Philadelphia physician and professor of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, 1814-50. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, long a valued text-book; Select Speeches (edited); Lectures on Eruptive Fevers, Hemorrhages and Dropsies; Lectures on Thoracic Viscera. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Charles, Mrs. Emily [Thornton]. Ind., 1845-189-. A Washington journalist who published two volumes of verse. Hawthorn Blossoms; Lyrical Poems. Lip.
Chase, George. Me., 1849- ——. A professor of criminal law at Columbia College. The American Students’ Blackstone.
Chase, George Wingate. Ms., 1826-1867. A native and resident of Haverhill, Massachusetts. History of Haverhill, 1640-1860; The Freemason’s Monitor; Masonic Dictionary and Manual of Masonic Law; Tactics for Knights Templars and Appendant Authors.
Chase, Irah. Vt., 1793-1864. A Baptist clergyman of prominence who founded the theological seminary at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, and was professor there, 1825-45. Life of Bunyan; Design of Baptism; The Jewish Tabernacle; Infant Baptism an Invention of Men; The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, are his principal works.
Chase, Lucien B. Vt., 1817-1864. A member of Congress from Tennessee, who wrote the History of Polk’s Administration.
Chase, Philander. N. H., 1775-1852. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and, later, of Illinois. He founded Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio. A Plea for the West; Defence of Kenyon College; Reminiscences.
Chase, Pliny Earle. Ms., 1820-1886. An educator and scientist of Philadelphia. Numerical Relations of Gravity and Magnetism; Elements of Meteorology; Elements of Arithmetic; Common School Arithmetic.
Chase, Thomas. Ms., 1827-1892. Brother of P. E. Chase, supra. An educator of Pennsylvania, and president of Haverford College. He was co-editor with George Stuart of a series of classical text-books, and also published Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery, descriptive of his travels in Greece.
Chatard, Francis Silas Marean. Md., 1834- ——. The Roman Catholic bishop of Vincennes. Christian Truths.
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield. Il., 1865- ——. A novelist of Chicago. With Edge Tools; An American Peeress; Two Women and a Fool; The Land of the Castanet.
Chauncy [chän´sĭ or chaun´sĭ], Charles. E., 1592-1672. A Puritan clergyman, vicar of Ware, 1627-35. He came to America in 1638, and was 13 years minister at Scituate. He was the second president of Harvard College, succeeding Henry Dunster in 1654. His most important work is a series of Twenty-Six Sermons on Justification. Antisynodalia Scripta America, a controversial pamphlet, appeared in 1662. See Tyler’s American Literature; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 10.
Chauncy, Charles. Ms., 1705-1787. Great-grandson of C. Chauncy, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. A vigourous, logical thinker, who exercised a great influence upon colonial thought. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England; Discourse on Enthusiasm, directed against Whitefield, of whose teachings he was a strong opponent; Letters to Whitefield; Complete View of Episcopacy; The Mystery hid from the Ages; Benevolence of the Deity; Five Dissertations on the Fall and its Consequences; Validity of Presbyterian Ordination, comprise his principal works. See Tyler’s American Literature; Chauncy Memorials.
Chauvenet [shō-ve-nay´], William. Pa., 1820-1870. A mathematician who was chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, 1862-69. Binomial Theorem and Logarithms; Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy; Elementary Geometry. See Memoir, 1877. Lip.
Checkley, John. Ms., 1680-1753. An Episcopal clergyman of Rhode Island, noted in his day for his witty, reckless attacks on his theological opponents. Choice Dialogues about Predestination.
Cheetham, James. E., 1772-1810. An English journalist who came to America in 1798, and became editor of The American Citizen. Nine Letters on Burr’s Defection; Reply to Aristides; Life of Thomas Paine, a work written from a hostile point of view.
Cheever, Ezekiel. E., 1615-1708. A colonial educator of Boston, who was master of the Latin School for many years. Scripture Prophecies Explained, an essay on the millennium; Latin Accidence, for a century a standard introductory Latin text-book in New England.
Cheever, George Barrell. Me., 1807-1890. A noted Congregational clergyman of New York city. Deacon Giles’s Distillery; Studies in Poetry; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc; Lectures on Pilgrim’s Progress; Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; God Against Slavery; Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; The Guilt of Slavery; The Republic or the Oligarchy, Which?; Faith, Doubt, and Evidence; God’s Timepiece for Man’s Eternity; Lectures on Cowper; Windings of the River of the Water of Life, include his principal writings. Ran. Wi.
Cheever, Henry Theodore. Me., 1814-1897. Brother of G. B. Cheever, supra. A Congregational clergyman. Way Marks in the Moral War with Slavery; Correspondences of Faith and Views of Madame Guyon; The Island World of the Pacific; Life in the Sandwich Islands; The Whale and his Captors; The Pulpit and the Pew; Life of Nathaniel Cheever; Life of Walter Colton, infra; Captain Caugar. Har.
Chellis, Mary Dwinell. See Lund, Mrs.
Cheney, Mrs. Ednah Dow [Littlehale]. Ms., 1824-1904. A Boston writer, associated in early life with the prominent New England transcendentalists, who was long active in the woman-suffrage movement, and whose writing had more or less to do with philosophical themes. Her principal works comprise Hand-book of American History for Coloured People; Faithful to the Light, and Other Tales; Stories of the Olden Time; Gleanings in the Fields of Art; Life of Louisa Alcott, supra; Life of Christian Daniel Rauch, Sculptor; Memoir of John Cheney, Engraver; Memoir of Dr. Susan Dimock; Nora’s Return, a sequel to Ibsen’s Doll’s House; Sally Williams, the Mountain Girl.
Cheney, Mrs. Harriet Vaughan [Foster]. Ms., c. 1815- ——. Daughter of Hannah Foster, infra. Confessions of an Early Martyr; A Peep at the Pilgrims in 1636; The Rivals of Acadia; Sketches from the Life of Christ; The Sunday School, or Village Sketches (with her sister, Mrs. Cushing).
Cheney, John Vance. N. Y., 1848- ——. Son of S. P. Cheney, infra. A poet and essayist, for some years at the head of the public library in San Francisco, and now (1897) librarian of the Newberry Library in Chicago. His work in verse includes Thistle Drift; Wood Blooms; Queen Helen, and Other Poems. In prose, The Old Doctor, a Romance of Queer Village; The Golden Guess, a series of critical essays; That Dome in Air, a similar collection of critical studies. Ap. Cop. Le. Mg. Sto. Wy.
Cheney, Simeon Pease. N. H., 1818-1890. A once noted musical educator of Vermont. The American Singing Book; Wood Notes Wild, notations of Bird Music. Le.
Cheney, Theseus Apoleon. N. Y., 1830-1878. A writer who devoted his attention to the history of the western portion of his native State. Report on the Ancient Monuments of Western New York; Historical Sketch of the Chemung Valley; Historical Sketch of 18 Counties of Central and Southern New York; Laron; Relations of Government to Science; Antiquarian Researches.
Chenoweth, Mrs. Caroline [Van Dusen]. Ind., 1846- ——. A teacher of literature in Boston and New York. Stories of the Saints. Hou.
Chesebro [cheez´brō], Caroline. N. Y., 1825-1873. A writer of stories and sketches who was during the latter part of her life a teacher in the Packer Institute of Brooklyn. Her writing displays much individuality, and the novel, The Foe in the Household, her finest work, is a careful study of some unfamiliar phases of Pennsylvania life. Her other works include The Beautiful Gate and Other Sketches; Peter Carradine; The Children of Light; Susan the Fisherman’s Daughter; The Little Cross Bearers; Dream-Land by Daylight; Philly and Kit; Victoria; Amy Carr; The Glen Cabin.
Chester, Albert Huntington. N. Y., 1843- ——. A professor of chemistry and metallurgy at Rutgers College. Dictionary of the Names of Minerals; Catalogue of Minerals with their Chemical Composition and Synonyms. Wil.
Chester, Frederick Dixon Walthall. W. I., 1861- ——. A geologist of Delaware who has written many monographs upon local state geology.
Chester, Joseph Lemuel. Ct., 1821-1882. A Philadelphia journalist who went to England in 1858, living in London, and devoting himself to antiquarian research till he became one of the most famous genealogists of his day. His own writings include Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems; Treatise on the Laws of Repulsion; Educational Laws of Virginia: the personal narrative of Margaret Douglass, imprisoned for the crime of teaching free coloured children to read; John Rogers, the Compiler of the English Bible; Preliminary Investigation of the Alleged Ancestry of George Washington. His most important antiquarian work is an edition of the Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of Westminster Abbey, with notes, on which he spent 17 years’ labour. He edited also the parish registers of six London city churches. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. x.
Chickering, Jesse. N. H., 1797-1855. A Boston physician who was a Unitarian minister in his earlier career, and later became a noted writer on political economy. Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts, 1765-1840; Emigration into the United States; Reports on the Census of Boston; Letter to the President on Slavery in Relation to Constitutional Government in Great Britain and the United States.
Chickering, John White. Ms., 1808-1888. A Congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, 1835-65. What it is to Believe in Christ, a very widely circulated tract; The Hillside Church.
Child, Francis James. Ms., 1825-1896. A professor at Harvard University, 1851-96, and the foremost authority upon all matters pertaining to ballad literature. He edited the American edition of The British Poets, in 130 volumes; English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Debate between the Body and the Soul, and other specimens of mediæval literature. As a Chaucerian scholar he had few equals. Observations on the Language of Chaucer; Observations on the Language of Gower’s Confessio Amantis. See Atlantic Monthly, December, 1896. Hou.
Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria [Francis]. Ms., 1802-1880. A once famous writer whose literary career began with the publication of Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times, in 1821, and closed with Aspirations of the World, in 1878. In 1833 she sacrificed much of her popularity by her Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans, and was ever after prominent as an abolitionist, assisting her husband in editing the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Among her other works are included The Rebels, a novel in which occur a speech by James Otis and a sermon by Whitefield, long supposed to be real and not imaginary; The First Settlers of New England; The Mother’s Book; The Girl’s Book; Philothea, a Greek romance; The Power of Kindness; Isaac T. Hopper, a True Life, a popular biography of a noted Quaker abolitionist; The Progress of Religious Ideas; Autumnal Leaves; Looking Toward Sunset; The Freedman’s Book; Miria, a Romance of the Republic. See Letters of; Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Hou. Rob.
Childs, George William. Md., 1829-1894. A noted journalist of Philadelphia who established the Public Ledger in 1864. Recollections of General Grant; Personal Recollections. Lip.
Chiles, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Hicks] [Hemdin]. Ky., 1820- ——. Among her writings are Louisa Elton, a reply to “Uncle Tom;” Bandits of Italy; Oswyn Dudley; Select Poems.
Chipman, Nathaniel. Ct., 1752-1843. A Vermont jurist who was professor of law at Middlebury College, 1816-43. Sketches of the Principles of Law; Reports and Dissertations. See Life, by D. Chipman, 1846.
Chittenden, Lucius Eugene. Vt., 1824-1900. A lawyer of New York city. Personal Reminiscences, 1840-1890; Recollections of Lincoln and his Administration; An Unknown Heroine, an historical episode of the War between the States; The Capture of Ticonderoga. Do. Har.
Chittenden, Russell Henry. Ct., 1856- ——. A professor of chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. Studies from the Laboratory of Physiology and Chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School; On Digestive Proteolysis.
Chivers, Thomas Holley. 1807-1858. A Georgia physician and versifier. Virginalia, or Songs of my Summer Nights; Atlanta, a Paul Epic in Three Lustra; Eonchs of Ruby.
Choate, Isaac Bassett. Me., 1833- ——. An educator of Boston. Elements of English Speech; Wells of English. Ap. Rob.
Choate, Rufus. Ms., 1799-1859. A lawyer of Boston and member of Congress, 1841-45, famous for his gifts as an orator, a distinguishing feature of his style being an extravagant use of long sentences. Addresses and Orations. See Memoir, by S. G. Brown, supra, 1862; Some Recollections of, by E. P. Whipple; Memoirs, by Neilson, 1884. Lit.
Chopin, Mrs. Kate [O’Flaherty]. Mo., 1851-1904. A writer of St. Louis. Bayou Folk; At Fault, a novel. Hou.
Choules [chōlz], John Overton. E., 1801-1856. A Baptist clergyman of Newport. History of Missions; Christian Offering; Young Americans Abroad; Cruise of Steam Yacht North Star.
Church, Albert Ensign. Ct., 1807-1878. A mathematical professor at West Point, 1833-78. Elements of Differential Calculus; Elements of the Calculus of Variations; Elements of Analytical Geometry; Elements of Descriptive Geometry; Elements of Analytical Trigonometry.
Church, Benjamin. Ms., 1639-1718. A famous colonial soldier, the conqueror of King Philip, and the founder of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip’s War is a personal narrative of his adventures. See edition by Dexter, 1867; History of the Eastern Expeditions against the Indians and French.
Church, Benjamin. R. I., 1734-1776. A Boston physician of considerable note as a political satirist and versifier. The Times, a political satire; Elegy on Dr. Mayhew; Address to a Provincial Bashaw; Elegy on the Death of Whitefield, comprise his chief poems.
Church, Mrs. Ella Rodman [MacIlvane]. N. Y., 1831- ——. A popular and prolific writer of miscellaneous works, among which are Flights of Fancy; Grandmother’s Recollections; The Catanese; Christmas Wreath; Golden Days; Flyers and Crawlers, or Talks about Insects; Talks by the Seashore; Among the Trees at Elmridge; Flower Talks at Elmridge; Home Animals; Some Useful Animals; How to Furnish a Home; Money-Making for Ladies. Ap. Har.
Church, Irving Porter. Ct., 1851- ——. A professor of engineering at Cornell University. Statics and Dynamics for Engineering Students; Mechanics of Materials; Hydraulics and Pneumatics, three works which were afterwards published as Mechanics of Engineering; Notes and Examples in Mechanics. Wil.
Church, John Adams. N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of P. Church, infra. A mining engineer of note. The Mining Schools of the United States; Notes on a Metallurgical Journey in Europe; The Comstock Lode; Report on the Striking of Artesian Water, Arizona.
Church, Pharcellus. N. Y., 1801-1886. A Baptist clergyman of prominence. Philosophy of Benevolence; Religious Dissensions, their Cause and Cure; Antioch, or Increase of Moral Power in the Church; Mapleton, or More Work for the Maine Law; Seed-Truths; Theodosia.
Church, Samuel Harden. Pa., 1858- ——. A Pittsburg writer, the author of Oliver Cromwell, a careful historical study. Put.
Chute, Horatio Nelson. Ont., 1847- ——. A mathematical educator of Michigan. Complete School Register; Arithmetical Cabinet; Manual of Practical Physics.
Cist, Henry Martyn. O., 1839-1902. A Cincinnati lawyer who served in the Federal army during the Civil War and became brigadier-general. The Army of the Cumberland.
Cist, Lewis Jacob. O., 1818-1885. Brother of H. M. Cist, supra. A banker of St. Louis and Cincinnati who published Trifles in Verse.
Claflin, Mrs. Mary Bucklin [Davenport]. Ms., 1825-1896. A Boston writer, the wife of ex-Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts. Brampton Sketches; Personal Recollections of Whittier; Real Happenings; Under the Elms. Cr.
Claiborne [klā´burn], John Francis Hamtramck. Mi., 1809-1884. A journalist of New Orleans. Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State; Life of General Dale, the Mississippi Partisan; Life of General Quitman. Har.
Claiborne, John Herbert. Va., 1828- ——. A physician of Virginia. Diphtheria; Dysmenorrhea; Clinical Reports from Private Practice.
Claiborne, Nathaniel Herbert. Va., 1777-1859. Uncle of J. F. H. Claiborne, supra. A Virginia congressman. Notes on the War in the South (1819).
Clap, Nathaniel. Ms., 1669-1745. A clergyman of Newport, of some distinction in his day. Advice to Children; The Lord’s Voice Crying to the People in some Extraordinary Dispensations.
Clap, Roger. E., 1609-1691. A colonist of Dorchester, whose Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times reprinted, and possess considerable historical value. They were first edited and published by Thomas Prince, infra, 1731.
Clap, Thomas. Ms., 1703-1767. A Congregational clergyman of distinction, president of Yale College, 1740-66. The Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History of Yale College; Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion of Meteors; The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale, comprise his chief works. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Clapp, Theodore. Ms., 1792-1866. A Unitarian minister of New Orleans for many years. Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years’ Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; Slavery, a Sermon.
Clark, Alexander. O., 1834-1879. A Methodist Protestant clergyman of Pittsburg. The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Sea Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; Ripples on the River, a collection of verses.
Clark, Alonzo Howard. Ms., 1850- ——. A naturalist in the United States National Museum at Washington, who has published Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; History of the Mackerel Fishery.
Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Vt., 1822-1899. A physician, at one time collector of customs at Oswego. The Commonwealth Reconstructed is his only book.
Clark, Charles Heber. “Max Adeler.” Md., 1841- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, author of several works of a humourous character which have been popular, though their literary merit is slight. Out of the Hurly Burly; Elbow Room, a Novel without a Plot; Random Shots; Fortunate Island and Other Stories.
Clark, Davis Wasgatt. Me., 1812-1871. A Methodist bishop of some note as a preacher. Mental Discipline; Death-Bed Scenes; Man all Immortal; Life of Bishop Hedding; Sermons; Elements of Algebra. Meth.
Clark, Edson Lyman. Ms., 1827- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts. The Arabs and the Turks; The Races of European Turkey; Turkey; Fundamental Questions chiefly relating to Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures. Do.
Clark, Francis Edward. Q., 1851- ——. A Congregational minister who during his pastorate in Portland, Maine, in 1881, established the Christian Endeavour Society. Danger Signals, the Enemies of Youth; Looking out on Life, a book for girls; Our Vacations, where to Go, etc.; Young People’s Prayer Meeting in Theory and Practice; The Children and the Church; Mossback Correspondence; Our Business Boys; Ways and Means, a history of the Christian Endeavour movement. Fu. Lo.
Clark, George Hunt. Ms., 1809-1881. An iron merchant of Hartford, of local fame as a verse-writer. Now and Then; The News; Undertow of a Trade Wind Surf.
Clark, George Whitfield. N. J., 1831- ——. A Baptist clergyman of New Jersey. Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Notes on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; Harmonic Arrangement of the Acts of the Apostles; Brief Notes on the New Testament; History of the First Baptist Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Clark, Henry James. Ms., 1826-1873. A naturalist of Cambridge. Mind in Nature; A Claim for Scientific Property.
Clark, James Gowdy. N. Y., 1830-1897. A verse-writer and composer of San Francisco. Poetry and Song.
Clark, James Henry. N. Y., 1814-1869. A physician of Newark, New Jersey. History of the Cholera in Newark in 1847; Sight and Hearing, how Preserved, how Lost; Medical Topography of Newark; The Medical Men of New Jersey in Essex District, 1666-1866.
Clark, John Alonzo. Ms., 1801-1843. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Young Disciple; The Pastor’s Testimony; A Walk about Zion; Gathered Fragments; Awake, Thou Sleeper; Glimpses of the Old World.
Clark, John Bates. R. I., 1847- ——. A political economist, professor of political economy in Columbia College. Capital and its Earnings; The Philosophy of Wealth. Gi.
Clark, Mrs. Kate [Upson]. Al., 1851- ——. A journalist of Brooklyn, who has written mainly for young people. That Mary Ann. Lo.
Clark, Lewis Gaylord. N. Y., 1810-1873. A once prominent magazinist of New York city, and editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine. Knick-Knacks is a collection of brief sketches contributed to that periodical.
Clark, Mrs. Mary [Latham]. Me., 1831- ——. A New England writer of religious juveniles, among which are The Mayflower Series; Daisy’s Mission.
Clark, Nathaniel George. Vt., 1825-1896. The foreign secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions from 1866. In earlier life he was of some note as an educator, and published Elements of the English Language. Scr.
Clark, Rufus Wheelwright. Ms., 1813-1886. Brother of Thomas M. Clark, infra. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Albany. Among his more than a hundred publications are Lectures to Young Men; Heaven and its Scriptural Emblems; Life Scenes of the Messiah; Romanism in America; The African Slave Trade; Heroes of Albany.
Clark, Simeon Taylor. Ms., 1836-1891. A physician of Lockport, and professor of medical jurisprudence in Niagara University. My Garden.
Clark, Mrs. Susanna Rebecca Graham. N. S., 1848- ——. A writer of Portland, Maine, who has written much juvenile literature. Yensie Walton; Our Street; The Triple E.; Achor; Herbert Gardenell’s Children; Tom’s Street; Go’s Goings. Lo.
Clark, Theodore Minot. Ms., 1845- ——. An architect in Boston, formerly instructor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect, Owner and Builder before the Law; Building Superintendence; Rural School Architecture. Mac.
Clark, Thomas. Pa., 1787-1866. An educator of Philadelphia. Naval History of the United States from the Commencement of the Revolutionary War, 1814; Sketches of United States Naval History.
Clark, Thomas March. Ms., 1812-1903. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island, and prominent among theologians of the Broad Church school. Primary Truths; The Dew of Youth and Other Lectures to Young Men and Women; Early Discipline and Culture; The Efficient Sunday School Teacher; Reminiscences. Ap. Wh.
Clark, Willis Gaylord. N. Y., 1810-1841. Twin brother of L. G. Clark, supra. A now forgotten verse-writer. See Literary Remains, with Memoir by L. G. Clark; Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Clarke, Dorus. Ms., 1799-1884. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Letters to Horace Mann; Oneness of the Christian Church; Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects; Saying the Catechism 75 Years Ago and the Historical Results; Review of the Oberlin Council; Letters to Young People in Manufacturing Villages; Revision of the English Version of the Bible; Essay on the Tri-Unity of God.
Clarke, Edward Hammond. Ms., 1820-1877. A prominent physician and medical writer of Boston. Sex in Education; The Building of a Brain; Visions: a Study of False Sight; Nature and Treatment of Polypus of the Ear. Hou.
Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth. Ms., 1847- ——. Chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey at Washington. Weights, Measures, and Money of All Nations; Elements of Chemistry. Ap.
Clarke, Isaac Edwards. Ms., 1830- ——. A lawyer in the United States Civil Service since 1871. Tribute to Bayard Taylor; Industrial and High Art Education in the United States.
Clarke, James Freeman. N. H., 1810-1888. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, who founded there the Church of the Disciples, and was its pastor from 1841 till his death. He was especially prominent among Unitarian writers of the latter half of the century, the tone of his thought being that of the liberal conservative. His first important work was Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors (1866). Other works of his include Ten Great Religions, Part I, an Essay in Comparative Theology; Ten Great Religions, Part II, a Comparison of all Religions; Christian Doctrine of Prayer; Thomas Didymus; Common Sense in Religion; Steps of Belief; Events and Epochs in Religious History; Self-Culture; Every Day Religion; The Ideas of the Apostle Paul; Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Vexed Questions in Theology; Anti-Slavery Days. See Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence, edited by E. E. Hale; Memoir by A. P. Peabody, 1889. A. U. A. Hou. Le.
Clarke, MacDonald. Ct., 1798-1842. An eccentric, unbalanced verse-writer of New York city, who was commonly styled “the Mad Poet.” Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; Review of the Eve of Eternity.
Clarke, Mrs. Mary Bayard [Devereux]. N. C., 1822-1886. A writer of Raleigh, North Carolina, who has published Reminiscences of Cuba; Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.
Clarke, Rebecca Sophia. “Sophie May.” Me., 1833- ——. A popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend’s Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; The Doctor’s Daughter. Le.
Clarke, Richard Henry. D. C., 1827- ——. A noted Roman Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States.
Clay, Cassius Marcellus. Ky., 1810-1903. A Kentucky congressman noted as a strong opponent of slavery, who was minister to Russia 1861-69. See Life and Memoirs, compiled by Himself.
Clay, Henry. Va., 1777-1852. A Kentucky statesman and orator, who was in public life for half a century, and was several times an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency. He is known in literature by his Speeches, several collections of which were published in his lifetime. See Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by G. D. Prentice, 1831; Swaim, 1843; Mallory, 1844; Sargent and Greeley, 1852; Colton, 1857; Carl Schurz, 1887.
Cleaveland, John. Ct., 1722-1799. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts. The Work of God at Chebacco (now Essex) in 1763; Essay to Defend Christ’s Sacrifice and Atonement against Aspersions cast on the Same by Dr. Mayhew; Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter of Reproof; Treatise on Infant Baptism.
Cleaveland, Nehemiah. Ms., 1796-1877. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, supra. An educator of Massachusetts, who published a History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates, 1806-79, edited and completed by A. S. Packard, infra.
Cleaveland, Parker. Ms., 1780-1858. Grandson of J. Cleaveland, supra. A professor in Bowdoin College, 1805-58, whose Mineralogy and Geology, 1816, gained for him the title of “the father of American mineralogy.”
Cleland, Thomas. Va., 1778-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kentucky, much inclined to controversy, who published Letters on Campbellism; The Socini-Arian Detected; Unitarianism Unmasked.
Clemens, Jeremiah. Al., 1814-1865. An Alabama statesman who won some notice as a novelist. Bernard Lyle; Mustang Gray; The Rivals, a Tale of the Times of Burr and Hamilton; Tobias Wilson, a Tale of the Great Rebellion.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. “Mark Twain.” Mo., 1835- ——. A celebrated humourist, who, after an eventful experience as a journalist, rose to fame by the publication of The Innocents Abroad, a volume of extravagantly humourous travels, which still remains his most popular book. Only a very small portion of his writing has any place as literature, but as an author he is one of the most popular and successful of his time. Other works of his are, A Tramp Abroad; Roughing It; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age (with C. D. Warner, infra); The Jumping Frog; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Merry Tales; A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Pudd’nhead Wilson; The American Claimant. The Prince and the Pauper; Joan of Arc, are works in a serious vein, the first being his most finished production. See Haweis’s American Humourists; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Vedder’s American Writers.
Clemens, Will Montgomery. O., 1860- ——. A Ken of Kipling; Life of Roosevelt; Famous Funny Fellows; Sixty and Six; Mistakes of Authors.
Clement, Mrs. Clara Erskine. See Waters, Mrs.
Clemmer, Mrs. Mary. See Hudson, Mrs.
Cleveland, Aaron. Ct., 1744-1815. A verse-writer who late in life became a Congregational minister. He was the great-grandfather of President Cleveland. The Philosopher and Boy; Slavery Considered, both productions in verse.
Cleveland, Charles Dexter. Ms., 1802-1869. Grandson of A. Cleveland, supra. An educator of Philadelphia, who published Compendiums of English, American, and Classical Literature; English Literature of the 19th Century; critical edition of Milton, with notes and life. Bar.
Cleveland, Cynthia Eloise. N. Y., 1845- ——. A Washington writer employed in the civil service. See Saw, or Civil Service in the Departments, a political novel; Is it Fate?
Cleveland, Henry Russell. Ms., 1808-1843. Son of R. J. Cleveland, infra. The Classical Education of Boys; Life of Henry Hudson.
Cleveland, Horace William Shaler. Ms., 1814-1900. Son of R. J. Cleveland, infra. A noted landscape gardener of Minneapolis. Hints to Riflemen; Landscape Architecture; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator. Har.
Cleveland, Richard Jeffry. Ms., 1773-1860. Cousin of A. Cleveland, supra. Voyages and Commercial Enterprises; Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past.
Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth. N. Y., 1846- ——. Great-granddaughter of A. Cleveland, supra, and the only sister of President Cleveland. During the first year of her brother’s first administration she was the mistress of the White House. George Eliot’s Poetry and Other Studies; The Long Run, a novel. Fu.
Clevenger, Shobal Vail. Iy., 1843- ——. A physician of Chicago, and son of the noted sculptor of the same name. Treatise on Government Surveying; Comparative Physiology and Psychology; Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and Sciences Useful to the Artist.
Clifford, Nathan. N. H., 1803-1881. A noted jurist of Maine, who was attorney-general during Polk’s administration, and published United States Circuit Court Reports.
Clingman, Thomas Lanier. N. C., 1812-1897. A North Carolina congressman who served during the Civil War as brigadier-general in the Confederate army. The two Carolina mountains, Clingman’s Peak and Clingman’s Dome, were named in his honour, he having been the first to measure their height. Speeches; Follies of the Positivist Philosophers.
Clinton, De Witt. N. Y., 1769-1828. A famous statesman and politician of New York state. Memoir of Antiquities of Western New York; Natural History and Internal Revenues of New York; Speeches to the Legislature. See Lives, by Hosack, 1829; Renwick, 1840; Campbell, 1849.
Clymer, Mrs. Ella Maria [Dietz]. Ms., 1856- ——. A New York writer, once an actress; for some time president of the woman’s club of New York, Sorosis. She has written three volumes of verse: The Triumph of Love; The Triumph of Time; The Triumph of Life.
Clymer, Meredith. Pa., 1817-1902. A distinguished physician and medical writer of New York city. Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.
Coan, Titus. Ct., 1801-1882. A missionary of note in the Sandwich Islands who wrote Life in Hawaii; Adventures in Patagonia. Do. Ran.
Coan, Titus Munson. H. I., 1836- ——. Son of T. Coan, supra. A New York littérateur. Ounces of Prevention; Topics of the Times (edited).
Cobb, Cyrus. Ms., 1834-1903. Son of S. Cobb, 1st, infra. An artist and sculptor of Boston who, besides writing much occasional verse, published Veterans of the Grand Army, a novel.
Cobb, Howell. Ga., 1795-18—. A Georgia lawyer. Penal Code of Georgia.
Cobb, Jonathan Holmes. Ms., 1799-1882. A manufacturer of Dedham, who founded the silk industry in the United States, and whose Manual of the Mulberry Tree and the Culture of Silk was once well known.
Cobb, Joseph Beckham. Ga., 1819-1858. A Southern author whose writings include The Creole, or the Siege of New Orleans, a novel; Mississippi Scenes; Leisure Labours.
Cobb, Lyman. Ms., c. 1800-1864. A once prominent educator who, besides many text-books on spelling and mathematics, published The Evil Tendency of Corporal Punishment; Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language. Har.
Cobb, Sylvanus. Me., 1799-1866. A Universalist clergyman of Massachusetts, editor for many years of The Christian Freeman. The New Testament, with Explanatory Notes; Compend of Divinity; Discussions. See Autobiography, and Memoir by his son, S. Cobb, 1867.
Cobb, Sylvanus. Me., 1823-1887. Son of S. Cobb, supra. A prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value. Among them are The King’s Talisman; The Patriot Cruiser; Ben Hamed.
Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes. Ga., 1823-1862. A Georgia lawyer who served as brigadier-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg. Digest of the Laws of Georgia; Historical Sketch of Slavery from the Earliest Periods; Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States.
Cobbett, Thomas. E., 1608-1685. A nonconformist English clergyman who came to America in 1637, and was minister at Ipswich from 1656 till his death. Infant Baptism; Civil Magistrate’s Power in Matters of Religion; Practical Discourse of Prayer; The Honour due from Children to their Parents.
Cocke [cōke], James Richard. Tn., 1863-1900. A physician of Boston. Hypnotism; Blind Leaders of the Blind, a novel. Ar. Le.
Cocke, Zitella. Al., c. 1847- ——. A verse-writer whose contributions to periodicals have been collected in a volume of verse entitled A Doric Reed. Cop.
Cocker, William Johnson. E., 1846- ——. An educator of Michigan. Handbook of Punctuation; The Government of the United States. Har.
Coddington, William. E., 1601-1678. The first governor of Rhode Island. Demonstrations of True Love unto the Rulers of Massachusetts.
Codman, John. Ms., 1782-1847. A Congregational clergyman of Dorchester. Sermons; Visit to England. See Memoir, by W. A. Allen, 1853.
Codman, John. Ms., 1814-1900. Son of J. Codman, supra. A noted captain in the merchant marine. Sailors’ Life and Sailors’ Yarns; Ten Months in Brazil; The Mormon Country; The Round Trip by Way of Panama; A Solution of the Mormon Problem; Winter Sketches from the Saddle.
Coffin, Charles Carleton. N. H., 1823-1896. A Boston journalist who became famous as the war correspondent of the Boston Journal during the Civil War, over the signature “Carleton.” His writings, mainly though not exclusively for young people, include My Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a narrative of personal experience; Following the Flag; Winning his Way; Building the Nation; Old Times in the Colonies; The Boys of ’76; The Story of Liberty; The Drumbeat of the Nation; Marching to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; Freedom Triumphant; Abraham Lincoln; Our New Way Round the World; Daughters of the Revolution. See Life of, by Griffis. Est. Har. Hou.
Coffin, Isaac Foster. Me., 1787-1861. An educator of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Journal of a Residence in Chili during the revolutionary scenes of 1817-19.
Coffin, James Henry. Ms., 1806-1873. A meteorologist who was professor of astronomy at Lafayette College. Solar and Lunar Eclipses Illustrated and Explained; Winds of the Northern Hemisphere; Psychometrical Table; Orbit and Phenomena of a Meteoric Fire Ball; Elements of Conic Sections and Analytical Geometry; Winds of the Globe. See Life, by J. C. Clyde, 1882.
Coffin, John Huntington Crane. Me., 1815-1890. A mathematician of distinction. Observations with the Mural Circle at the United States Naval Observatory; The Compass; Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.
Coffin, Joshua. Ms., 1792-1864. A Massachusetts antiquary prominent among the abolitionists, and one of the poet Whittier’s early instructors. He published a History of Ancient Newbury; The Toppans of Toppan’s Lane, a genealogy.
Coffin, Robert Allen. Ms., 1801-1878. Brother of J. H. Coffin, supra. An instructor in western Massachusetts. Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Town Organization; History of Conway, Massachusetts.
Coffin, Robert Barry. “Barry Gray.” N. Y., 1826-1886. A New York journalist and littérateur, whose books, popular at one time, are now nearly forgotten. Their humour is somewhat forced, and the style has no very marked merits. Matrimonial Infelicities; Who is the Heir?; Out of Town, a Rural Episode; Cakes and Ale at Woodbine; Castles in the Air; Left in the Lurch; The Home of Cooper.
Coffin, Robert Stevenson. Me., 1797-1827. A verse-writer of Boston who published The Oriental Harp; Poems of the Boston Bard. See Autobiography, 1825.
Coffin, Roland Folger. N. Y., 1826-1888. A marine reporter in New York city. An Old Sailor’s Yarns; The America’s Cup; History of American Yachting. Fu. Scr.
Coffin, Selden Jennings. N. Y., 1838- ——. Son of J. H. Coffin, supra. He succeeded his father as professor of astronomy at Lafayette College in 1873, and completed the latter’s Winds of the Globe. He has also published Record of the Men at Lafayette.
Coggeshall, George. Ct., 1784-c. 1850. A sea captain of some prominence as a writer. Voyages to Various Parts of the World, 1799-1844; History of American Privateers and Letters of Marque during our War with England, 1812-14; Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation from the Christian Era to 1860; Religious and Miscellaneous Poetry.
Coggeshall, William Turner. Pa., 1824-1867. A journalist of Cincinnati, whose principal writings include Signs of the Times, a work on spirit rappings; Home Hits and Hints; Stories of Frontier Adventure.
Cogswell, Jonathan. Ms., 1782-1864. A noted Congregational clergyman of New England and New Jersey. The Necessity of Capital Punishment; Discourses; Hebrew Theocracy; Calvary and Sinai; Godliness a Great Mystery; The Appropriate Work of the Holy Spirit. See E. O. Jameson’s Cogswells of America.
Cogswell, William. N. H., 1787-1850. A Congregational clergyman of New Hampshire, among whose works are, Manual of Theology and Devotion; Assistant to Family Religion; Christian Philanthropist; Theological Class Book; Harbinger of the Millennium; Letters to Young Men Preparing for the Ministry.
Cohen, Jacob Da Silva Solis. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Philadelphia physician and medical lecturer of prominence. Treatise on Inhalations; Diseases of the Throat; Croup in its Relations to Tracheotomy; The Throat and the Voice.
Coit, James Milnor. Pa., 1845- ——. An instructor in chemistry at St. Paul’s School, Concord. Elements of Chemical Arithmetic; Short Manual of Qualitative Analysis.
Coit, Thomas Winthrop. Ct., 1803-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1872 to 1885. Necessity of Preaching Doctrine; Theological Commonplace Book; Puritanism in New England and the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England.
Colburn, Warren. Ms., 1793-1833. A noted mathematician of Massachusetts, whose First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic was translated into many languages. Hou.
Colburn, Zerah. N. Y., 1832-1870. A nephew of the famous calculator of the same name. He was a well-known mechanical engineer who published The Locomotive Engine; Steam Boiler Explosions; Nature of Heat and its Mode of Action in the Phenomena of Combustion, etc.; Treatise on the Principles of the Locomotive Engine. Bai. Vn.
Colby, Frederick Myron. N. H., 1848- ——. A journalist of New Hampshire. The Daughter of Pharaoh, a Tale of the Exodus; Brave Lads and Bonnie Lassies, a juvenile.
Colden, Cadwallader. S., 1688-1776. A colonial physician, lieutenant-governor of the province of New York, 1761-76, and a prominent loyalist of his day. The History of the Five Indian Nations is his chief work. Among his many lesser writings is Principles of Actions on Matter. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Colden, Cadwallader David. L. I., 1769-1834. Nephew of C. Colden, supra. A commercial lawyer of prominence in New York who published Life of Robert Fulton; Vindication of the Steamboat Right granted by the State of New York.
Coleman, Leighton. Pa., 1837- ——. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Delaware. The Church in America, a history of the American Episcopal Church.
Coleman, Lyman. Ms., 1796-1882. A Congregational clergyman who was a classical professor at Lafayette College, 1861-82. Ancient Christianity Exemplified; Prelacy and Ritualism; The Apostolical and Primitive Church; Historical Geography of the Bible; Text-Book and Atlas of Bible Geography; Genealogy of the Lyman Family.
Coles, Abraham. N. J., 1813-1891. A New Jersey physician who published a volume containing thirteen original translations of the Dies Irae. His other works include Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Stabat Mater Speciosa; Old Gems in New Settings; The Microcosm, a psychological poem; The Evangel in Verse; The Light of the World; The Psalms in Verse, with notes. See Biographical Sketch, edited by J. A. Coles, 1892. Ap.
Coles, George. E., 1792-1858. A Methodist clergyman who published The Antidote, or Revelation Defended; Concordance of the Scriptures; Heroines of Methodism.