Chapter 7

A Dictionary of American Authors (part 2)

Colesworthy, Daniel Clement. Me., 1810-1893. A once noted bookseller of Boston, who was also a writer. Some of his poems for children, like “Don’t Kill the Birds” and “Little Words of Kindness,” have been extremely popular. Sunday School Hymns; Advice to an Apprentice; Opening Buds; Chronicles of Casco Bay; A Group of Children, and Other Poems; School is Out; The Year; A Day in the Woods, in verse, comprise the most of his writings.
Collens, Thomas Wharton. La., 1812-1879. A well-known jurist of New Orleans, who wrote The Martyr Patriots, a tragedy; Humanics; Views of the Labour Movement; The Eden of Labour.
Collier, Mrs. Ada [Langworthy]. Ia., 1843- ——. A writer of Dubuque, whose Lilith, the Legend of the First Woman, is a poem of not a little merit.
Collier, Joseph Avery. Ms., 1828-1864. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of Kingston, New York. The Right Way, or the Gospel Applied to the Intercourse of Individuals and Nations; The Christian Home; The Young Men of the Bible; Pleasant Paths for Little Feet; Little Crowns; Dawn of Heaven.
Collier, Peter. N. Y., 1835-1896. A chemist of distinction for several years attached to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Sorghum, its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered; Investigations of Sorghum as a Sugar Producing Plant. Clke.
Collier, Robert Laird. Md., 1837-1890. A Unitarian clergyman who in his later years was a London correspondent of the New York Herald. Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons; Meditations on the Essence of Christianity; Henry Irving: a Sketch and a Criticism; English Home Life. A. U. A. Hou. Rob.
Collier, Thomas Stephens. N. Y., 1842-1893. A physician and poet whose home was at New London, Connecticut. Song Spray, a collection of poems, 1889.
Collins, Charles. Me., 1813-1875. A Methodist preacher and educator of Tennessee, who published Methodism and Calvinism Compared.
Collyer, Robert. E., 1823- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of New York, and one of the leading men among the clergy of his faith. He was born in Yorkshire, and learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he still followed after coming to America in 1849. He was then a Wesleyan local preacher, but his views changing he became a Unitarian, and in 1860 founded Unity Church in Chicago, over which he remained pastor till he went to New York in 1879. His influence, both within and without the Unitarian body, has been very great. The Life That Now Is; Nature and Life; A Man in Earnest; The Simple Truth, a Home Book; Lectures to Young Men and Women; History of Ilkley, in Yorkshire. Dut. Le.
Colman, Benjamin. Ms., 1673-1747. A famous Congregational minister of Boston, whose theological views were much more liberal than those of his contemporaries, and whose literary style was far more polished and flexible. Evangelical Sermons Collected; Twenty Sacramental Sermons. See Life by E. Turell, 1749; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Colman, Henry. Ms., 1785-1849. An agricultural writer of Massachusetts, who was a Congregational minister at Hingham, 1807-20, and afterwards a Unitarian minister at Salem. Report on Silk Culture; European Agriculture and Rural Economy; Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland; European Life and Manners.
Colton, Calvin. Ms., 1789-1857. An Episcopal clergyman of some note in his day as a political writer. Manual for Emigrants to America; History of American Revivals; Protestant Jesuitism; Public Economy for the United States, a plea for protection; Life of Henry Clay; Junius Tracts.
Colton, George Hooker. N. Y., 1818-1847. A verse-writer whose Tecumseh is a poem as ambitious in conception as it is mediocre in execution.
Colton, Walter. Vt., 1797-1851. Brother of C. Colton, supra. A journalist and educator who established the first newspaper in California, and built the first schoolhouse there. As chaplain in the United States navy he visited many parts of the world. Visit to Athens and Constantinople; Land and Lee in the Bosphorus and Ægean; Ship and Shore; Deck and Port; The Sea and the Sailor.
Colwell, Stephen. Va., 1800-1871. An iron merchant of Philadelphia, who wrote much on current topics, especially matters relating to political economy. Ways and Means of Commercial Payment; Money on Account; Removal of the Deposits from the Bank of the United States; Domestic Production and Internal Trade; Hints to Laymen; Charity and the Clergy; Politics for American Christians; New Themes for Protestant Clergy, include the more important of his writings.
Coman, Katherine. O., 1857- ——. A professor of history at Wellesley College. Outlines in Constitutional History of England; Outlines in Industrial History; The Growth of the English Nation.
Comegys, Benjamin Bartis. Del., 1819-1901. A banker of Philadelphia. Tour Round My Library, and Other Papers; Advice to Young Men and Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with Boys and Girls; How to Get On, a Book for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An Order of Worship; Old Stories with New Lessons. Hou. Rev.
Comfort, Mrs. Anna [Manning]. N. J., 1845- ——. Wife of G. F. Comfort, infra. A physician of Syracuse, who has written Woman’s Education and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. Clarke’s once famous Sex in Education.
Comfort, George Fisk. N. Y., 1833- ——. A professor at Syracuse University since 1872. He has published a series of German text-books and The Land Troubles in Ireland. Har.
Comly, John. Pa., 1774-1850. A Pennsylvania educator among the Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also a grammar and other text-books. See Journal of John Comly of Ryberry, 1853.
Comstock [kŭm´stŏk], Cyrus Ballou. Ms., 1831- ——. A colonel of the Engineer Corps in the United States army, and brevet major-general of U. S. Volunteers, who has made a number of important government surveys. Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of the Northwestern Lakes; Primary Triangulation of United States Lake Survey.
Comstock, John Henry. Wis., 1849- ——. A professor of entomology and general invertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University. Notes on Entomology; Report on Cotton Insects; Introduction to Entomology.
Comstock, John Lee. Ct., 1789-1858. An educational compiler of Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; System of Natural Philosophy; History of the Precious Minerals; Natural History of Quadrupeds. He wrote also A History of the Greek Revolution.
Comstock, Theodore Bryant. O., 1849- ——. A geologist of distinction, professor in Illinois University. Outlines of General Geology; Classification of Rocks.
Conant, Alban Jasper. Vt., 1821- ——. A naturalist who was for some time curator in the University of Wisconsin. Footprints of Vanished Races in the Valley of the Mississippi.
Conant, Mrs. Hannah O’Brien [Chaplin]. Ms., 1809-1865. Wife of T. J. Conant, infra, and daughter of J. Chaplin, supra. An Oriental scholar who assisted her husband in his literary work, made important translations from the German of Strauss, Neander, and Uhden, and was the author of History of the English Bible; Popular History of English Bible Translation; The Earnest Man, a sketch of Judson the missionary.
Conant, Mrs. Helen Peters [Stevens]. Ms., 1839-1899. Wife of S. S. Conant, infra. A magazinist of New York city. The Butterfly Hunters; Primers of German and Spanish Literature. Har.
Conant, Samuel Stillman. Me., 1831-1885. Son of T. J. Conant, infra. A journalist of New York, managing editor of Harper’s Weekly, 1869-85, and translator of Lermontoff’s Circassian Boy.
Conant, Thomas Jefferson. Vt., 1802-1891. A Baptist clergyman who was one of the foremost Hebrew scholars of his time. Baptism, its Meaning and its Use Philologically and Historically Considered. His editions of The Book of Job; The Book of Proverbs; Genesis; Psalms; Prophecies of Isaiah; Historical Books of the Old Testament from Joshua to Second Kings; The Gospel by Matthew, constitute a scholar’s version of the Scriptures, amply illustrated with critical and philological notes. Fu.
Condie, Daniel Francis. Pa., 1796-1875. A physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. Course of Examination for Medical Students; Catechism of Health; Epidemic Cholera; Diseases of Children.
Cone, Helen Gray. N. Y., 1859- ——. An instructor in the Normal College of New York city, whose writing has been mainly in verse. Oberon and Puck, verses Grave and Gay; The Ride to the Lady and Other Poems. Hou.
Congdon, Charles Taber. Ms., 1821-1891. A journalist of New York city for some years on the staff of the Tribune. Tribune Essays; Reminiscences of a Journalist; Recollections of a Reader; Autobiographical Papers.
Conkling, Alfred. N. Y., 1789-1874. A jurist of New York whose son was the noted statesman, Roscoe Conkling. Treatise on Organization and Jurisdiction of Superior, Circuit, and District Courts; Admiralty Jurisdiction; Powers of the Executive Department of the United States; Young Citizen’s Manual.
Conkling, Alfred Ronald. N. Y., 1850- ——. Grandson of A. Conkling, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Appleton’s Guide to Mexico; City Government in the United States; Handbook for Voters in New York city; Life of Roscoe Conkling. Ap.
Conn, Herbert William. Ms., 1859- ——. A biologist whose specialty is the bacteriology of milk; instructor and professor of biology at Wesleyan University from 1884. Evolution of To-Day; The Living World: Whence it Came and Whither it is Drifting. Put.
Connelly, Mrs. Celia [Logan] [Kellogg]. Pa., 1837-1904. A journalist and playwright of Washington. An American Marriage is one of her plays.
Connelly, Emma M. Ky., 18— - ——. A writer of New York city. Under the Surface; Tilting at Wind Mills, a Story of the Blue Grass Country; The Story of Kentucky. Lo.
Conrad, Frederick William. Pa., 1816-1898. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, editor of The Lutheran Observer from 1867. The Lutheran Doctrine of Baptism; Analysis of Luther’s Small Catechism: The Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Call to the Ministry; The Liturgical Question.
Conrad, Robert Taylor. Pa., 1810-1858. A lawyer of Philadelphia and mayor of that city in 1854, who was once noted as a dramatic poet. Aylmere, or the Bondman of Kent, is a tragedy in which Jack Cade is the chief figure, a rôle in which Edwin Forrest was very successful. Conrad of Naples, another tragedy, had also a measure of popularity.
Conrad, Timothy Abbott. N. J., 1803-1877. A conchologist who published Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Formations of North America; New Fresh-Water Shells of the United States; Miocene Shells of the United States; Palæontology of State of New York.
Converse, Mrs. Harriet [Maxwell]. N. Y., 184- -1903. A writer of verse and prose in New York city. Sheaves, a collection of verses; The Religious Festivals of the Iroquois Indians; Mythology and Folk-Lore of the North American Indian.
Conway, Katherine Eleanor. N. Y., 1853- ——. A journalist of Boston, on the editorial staff of The Pilot. Songs of the Sunrise Slope; A Dream of Lilies, a volume of poems; A Lady and Her Letters; Making Friends and Keeping Them.
Conway, Moncure Daniel. Va., 1832- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of extremely radical views, who was for many years settled in charge of a congregation in London. He has been a prolific writer in several fields, and among his many published books are The Rejected Stone; Idols and Ideals; Demonology and Devil Lore; The Wandering Jew; Sketch of Carlyle; The Earthward Pilgrimage; Sacred Anthology, a compilation; Emerson at Home and Abroad; George Washington and Mount Vernon; Omitted Chapters in Life and Letters of Edmund Randolph; Life of Thomas Paine; Tracts for To-Day; Natural History of the Devil; The Golden Hour; Testimonies Concerning Slavery; Human Sacrifices in England; Lessons for the Day; Travels in South Kensington; A Necklace of Stories; Pine and Palm, a novel; Prisons of Air, a novel; Autobiography. Har. Ho.
Conwell, Russell Herrman. Ms., 1842- ——. A Baptist minister of Philadelphia. Why the Chinese Emigrate; Woman and the Law; Life of President Hayes; Life of Bayard Taylor; Life of President Garfield; Joshua Giavencola, the Captain of the Vineyards of Lucerna. Lo. Mer.
Conyngham, David Power. I., 1840-1883. A New York journalist, editor of The Tablet. Sherman’s March Through the South; Lives of the Irish Saints and Martyrs; The Irish Brigade and its Campaigns. In fiction: Sarsfield, or the Last Great Struggle for Ireland; The O’Donnells of Glen Cottage; O’Mahoney, Chief of the Commeraghs; Rose Parnell, the Flower of Avondale.
Cook, Albert John. Mch., 1842- ——. A professor of zoölogy at Michigan Agricultural College. Injurious Insects of Michigan; Manual of the Apiary.
Cook, Albert Stanborough. N. J., 1853- ——. A professor of English at Yale University, who has edited Siever’s Old English Grammar; Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment; Sidney’s Defence of Poesy. Gi.
Cook, Clarence Chatham. Ms., 1828-1900. An art critic of New York city, and editor of The Studio. He edited Lübke’s History of Art, and published also The House Beautiful; Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks; The Central Park. Scr.
Cook, George Hammell. N. J., 1818-1889. A professor of geology at Rutgers College and State geologist, whose only published work is The Geology of New Jersey.
Cook, Joel. Pa., 1842- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, financial editor of the Public Ledger. Brief Summer Rambles near Philadelphia; An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Picturesque and Descriptive; The Siege of Richmond. My.
Cook, Joseph. N. Y., 1838-1901. A Boston lecturer whose Monday morning lectures at Tremont Temple were at one time very popular, but whose shallow, pretentious thought provoked much criticism from scholarly, accurate minds. Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes; Current Religious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms. Hou.
Cook, Marc. R. I., 1854-1882. A journalist of New York. The Wilderness Cure; Vandyke Brown Poems.
Cook, Richard Briscoe. Md., 1838- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Wilmington, Delaware. The Story of the Baptists in all Ages and Countries.
Cook, Theodore Pease. Ms., 1844- ——. Brother of M. Cook, supra. A journalist of Utica, who published a Life of Samuel J. Tilden. Ap.
Cooke, George Willis. Mch., 1848- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Lexington, Massachusetts, who has done much excellent work in criticism. George Eliot: a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson: his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets and Problems, Studies of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; The Clapboard Trees Parish, Dedham, a History. Hou.
Cooke, John Esten. Va., 1830-1886. A noted Virginia author who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He wrote much historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most famous of his romances. Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of Jefferson; Surry of Eagle’s Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Pokahontas; Henry St. John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and his Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley’s Idea; Professor Pressensee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier; Hilt to Hilt, include the greater part of his work in fiction. He wrote also Life of General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biography; Virginia, a History of the People. Ap. Har. Hou. Lip.
Cooke, Josiah Parsons. Ms., 1827-1894. A chemist of distinction who was professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1850, and lectured in many places on scientific topics. Religion and Chemistry; Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical Problems and Reactions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New Chemistry; The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; Laboratory Practice. Ap. Scr.
Cooke, Nicholas Francis. R. I., 1829-1885. A once prominent physician of Chicago. Satan in Society; Antiseptic Medication.
Cooke, Parsons. Ms., 1800-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn, strongly Calvinistic in doctrine and controversially inclined. History of German Anabaptism; A Century of Puritanism and a Century of its Opposites.
Cooke, Philip Pendleton. Va., 1816-1850. Brother of J. E. Cooke, supra. A Virginia lawyer whose verse was once very much admired, and whose Florence Vane still lingers in the anthologies. The Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Hart’s American Literature.
Cooke, Philip St. George. Va., 1809-1895. Uncle of J. E. Cooke, supra. A brigadier-general in the United States army who retired in 1873. Scenes and Adventures in the Army; Handy Book for United States Cavalry; Cavalry Tactics; Conquest of New Mexico and California.
Cooke, Mrs. Rose [Terry]. Ct., 1827-1892. A New England writer well known both as a poet and a writer of short stories of notable excellence. Poems by Rose Terry; Happy Dodd; Somebody’s Neighbors; The Sphinx’s Children and Other People’s; Steadfast; Huckleberries. In 1888 a complete collection of her poems was made, including the contents of her early volume and her later work in verse. The Two Villages is her best known poem, as it is one of her best. Hou.
Cookman, Alfred. 1828-1871. A Methodist clergyman who published Stayed on God. See Life by H. B. Ridgaway, 1871.
Coolbrith, Ina Donna. Il., 18— - ——. A California poet, formerly librarian of the Oakland Public Library. Her work, though uneven in quality, is nearly always musical. The Perfect Day and Other Poems; Songs from the Golden Gate. Hou.
Cooley, Le Roy Clark. N. Y., 1833- ——. A professor of physics at Vassar College. Text-Book of Physics; Text-Book of Chemistry; Easy Experiments in Physical Science; Natural Philosophy; Elements of Chemistry; Students’ Guide Book; Beginners’ Guide to Chemistry; Laboratory Studies in Elementary Chemistry.
Cooley, Thomas McIntyre. N. Y., 1824-1898. A jurist of prominence in Michigan, professor of history in the University of Michigan. Law of Taxation; Law of Torts; General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States; Treatise on Constitutional Limitations of the Legislative Power in the Several States; annotated editions of Blackstone’s Story’s Commentaries; Michigan, a History of Governments. Hou. Lit.
Coolidge, Susan. See Woolsey, Sarah.
Coombs, Mrs. Annie [Sheldon]. N. Y., 1858-1890. A novelist of New York city. As Common Mortals; A Game of Chance; The Garden of Armida. Ap.
Cooper, Ellwood. Pa., 1829- ——. A horticulturist of southern California, president of the State board of horticulture. Statistics of Trade with Hayti; Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees; Treatise on Olive Culture.
Cooper, James Fenimore. N. J., 1789-1851. The first American writer to gain general European recognition, and the first native novelist who won a national reputation. Although much that he wrote is nearly forgotten, the best of his work survives and is still popular. His first novel, Precaution, a conventional, mediocre piece of writing, appeared in 1820, and was followed, in 1821, by The Spy, the most famous of all his books, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe. Almost as famous is The Last of the Mohicans, a much greater work. Among his tales of the sea, The Pilot and The Red Rover are the best, as the five Leather Stocking tales—The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, The Prairie,—are the best of his stories of Indian life. His other fictions include The Bravo; Lionel Lincoln, or The Leaguer of Boston; The Water-Witch; The Two Admirals; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish; The Heidenmauer; The Headsman; Homeward Bound; Home as Found; The Monikins, the weakest of all his works; Mercedes of Castile; Wing-and-Wing; Wyandotté; Afloat and Ashore; Satanstoe; The Chainbearer; The Red Skins; Jack Tier; The Crater; The Oak Openings; The Sea Lions; The Ways of the Hour; Miles Wallingford. He wrote, also, History of the United States Navy; Sketches of Switzerland; Gleanings in Europe; Notions of the Americans. See Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant’s Memorial Discourse, 1852; Coffin’s Home of Cooper, 1872; Life, by Lounsbury, 1882; Bryant and his Friends, 1886; Richardson’s American Literature; The Bookman, March, 1897. Ap. Hou. Put.
Cooper, Myles. E., 1735-1785. An Episcopal clergyman who came to America in 1762, and was president of King’s (now Columbia) College, 1763-1775. Being an ardent loyalist, he was obliged to leave the colony, and returned to England. Friendly Advice to all Reasonable Americans on our Political Confusions; Poems on Several Occasions; Address to the Episcopalians of Virginia; The American Querist.
Cooper, Peter. N. Y., 1791-1883. A famous philanthropist of New York city who founded the Cooper Institute. Ideas for a System of Good Government; Financial Opinions, with Autobiography.
Cooper, Susan Fenimore. N. Y., 1813-1894. Daughter of J. F. Cooper, supra. A writer of rural sketches, whose life was passed at Cooperstown, New York. Rural Hours; Country Rambles; Rhyme and Reason; Country Life; The Shield, a Narrative; Mount Vernon and the Children of America. Hou.
Cooper, Thomas. E., 1759-1840. A noted scientist who came to America in 1795 with Dr. Priestley, infra, and was president of the College of South Carolina, 1820-34. Letters on the Slave Trade; Tracts Ethical, Theological, and Political; Information concerning America; The Bankrupt Law of America compared with that of England; Tracts on Medical Jurisprudence; Elements of Political Economy; An English Version of the Institutes of Justinian.
Cooper, William. Ms., 1694-1743. A once famous Congregational minister of Boston. Tract Defending Inoculation for the Small Pox, 1720; The Doctrine of Predestination unto Life.
Cope, Edward Drinker. Pa., 1840-1897. A noted Philadelphia naturalist. Origin of Genera; Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America; Primary Groups of Batrachia Anura; Systematic Relations of the Fishes; Vertebrate Palæontology of New Mexico; Tertiary Vertebrata of the West; The Origin of the Fittest, include the more important of his writings. Ap.
Cope, Gilbert. Pa., 1840- ——. A genealogist of Pennsylvania. Record of the Cope Family; The Browns of Nottingham; Genealogy of the Dutton Family; Genealogy of the Sharpless Family; History of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Coppée, Henry. Ga., 1821-1895. A prominent educator, president of Lehigh University, 1866-75, and professor there until his death. During the Mexican War he served as an officer in the American army. His most important work is a History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, which takes up the narrative at the period reached at the close of Irving’s “Mahomet and his Successors.” His other works comprise Elements of Logic; Elements of Rhetoric; Grant and his Campaigns; Manual of Battalion Drill; Evolutions of the Line; Manual of Court Martial. Lit.
Copway, George, or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. Mch., 1818-c. 1869. An Indian of the Ojibway tribe who was a journalist in New York City, and was well known as a lecturer. Recollections of a Forest Life; Copway’s “American Indian;” The Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation; The Ojibway Conquest, a poem; Running Sketches of Men and Places in Europe, include the most of his writings.
Corbin, Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth [Fairfield]. Ct., 1835- ——. A Chicago writer of fiction and other works. Rebecca; His Marriage Vow; Belle and the Boys; A Woman’s Philosophy of Love, a psychological treatise. Le.
Corbin, John. Il., 1870- ——. Son of Mrs. Corbin, supra. The Elizabethan Hamlet. Scr.
Cornelius, Elias. N. Y., 1794-1852. A missionary to the Cherokee Indians who wrote The Little Osage Captive, an Authentic Narrative.
Cornell, Alonzo Barton. N. Y., 1832- ——. A governor of New York, 1880-83, and a son of the founder of Cornell University. His only publication is True and Firm, a Biography of Ezra Cornell: a Filial Tribute. Bar.
Cornell, John Henry. N. Y., 1828-1894. A musician and organist of New York City. Primer of Modern Musical Tonality; Practice of Sight Singing; Easy Method of Modulation; Theory and Practice of Musical Form; A Manual of Roman Chant; Congregational Tune Book.
Cornell, William Mason. Ms., 1802-1895. A physician of Boston and elsewhere. Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday Schools; Life of Horace Greeley; Grammar of the English Language; Consumption Prevented; Treatise on Epilepsy; History of Pennsylvania, include the most of his writings. Fu. Lo.
Cornwall, Henry Bedinger. Ct., 1844- ——. A professor of mineralogy at Princeton College since 1873, who has published A Manual of Blow-Pipe Analysis.
Cornwallis, Kinahan. E., 1835- ——. A New York journalist who came to America about 1860. His more important works are Yarra Yarra, or the Wandering Aborigine, a Poetical Narrative; The New Eldorado of British Columbia; Wreck and Ruin, or Modern Society; My Life and Adventures, an Autobiography; Adrift with a Vengeance; Pilgrims of Fashion; The Gold Room and the New York Stock Exchange. Har.
Cornwell, Henry Sylvester. N. H., 1831-1886. A physician of New London, Connecticut, who wrote much thoughtful verse. The Land of Dreams and Other Poems (1879), is the only collection that has been made of his poems.
Corson, Hiram. Pa., 1828- ——. A Chaucerian and Early English scholar, professor at Cornell University since 1870. The Voice and Spiritual Education; Elocutionary Manual; Jottings on the Text of Hamlet; Introduction to the Study of Browning; Lectures on English Language and Literature; The Aims of Literary Study; Vocal Culture in Relation to Literary Study; Thesaurus of Early English; Handbook of Anglo-Saxon and Early English. He has also edited Chaucer’s Legende of Goode Women. Gi. Ho. Mac.
Corson, Juliet. Ms., 1842-1897. A cooking instructor of New York, founder of the School of Cooking there in 1876. Cooking Manual; Cooking School Text-Book; Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six; Meals for the Million; Practical American Cookery; Family Living on Five Hundred Dollars a Year; Diet for Invalids and Children. Do. Har.
Corthell, Elmer Lawrence. Ms., 1840- ——. A civil engineer of distinction. History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi.
Corwin, Edward Tanjore. N. Y., 1834- ——. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New Jersey, among whose works are Manual of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America; Manual of the Reformed Church in America; Corwin Genealogy.
Cossett, Franceway Ranna. N. H., 1790-1863. A Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman of Tennessee. He published The Life and Times of Ewing, which gives a history of the beginnings of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.
Cotheal, Alexander Isaac. N. Y., 1804-1894. An Oriental scholar of New York City who published Sketch of the Language of the Mosquito Indians; Atoff the Generous, a translation from the Arabic.
Cotting, John Ruggles. Ms., 1783-1867. A once noted Georgia scientist. Introduction to Chemistry; Lectures on Geology; Soils and Manures.
Cotton, John. E., 1585-1652. The foremost clergyman of his century in New England. He came to the Massachusetts colony in 1633, having been for 20 years vicar of St. Botolph’s church in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was at once made teacher of the church in the new settlement of Boston, and until his death exercised an influence in church and state unequalled by any one since in New England. He was a prolific writer, but his writings have no charm of style, and the power which he wielded was a force that lay in the man himself, not in his books. His principal works comprise The Bloody Tenet Washed and made White in the Blood of the Lamb, a reply to Roger Williams’s famous “Bloody Tenet of Persecution”; A Brief Exposition upon Ecclesiastes; The Covenant of Grace; The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; The Way of the Congregational Churches Cleared; The Way of Life; Treatise concerning Predestination; The New Covenant; Meat for Strong Men, Spiritual Milk for Babes. See Cotton Mather’s Magnalia; Lives by Norton, 1653; McClure, 1843; Tyler’s American Literature.
Coues [kŏwz], Elliott. N. H., 1842-1899. An eminent naturalist connected with the Smithsonian Institution. Key to North American Birds; Field Ornithology; Birds of the Northwest; Fur-Bearing Animals; Check List of North American Birds; Birds of the Colorado Valley; New England Bird Life (with W. A. Stearns); Biogen, a Speculation on the Origin of Life; The Dæmon of Darwin; Our Native Birds. Est. Le. Wn.
Coulter, John Merle. Ch., 1851- ——. A botanist who was president of the Indiana State University, 1891-93. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado (with T. C. Porter); Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany; Manual of Texan Botany; Text-Book of Western Botany (with Asa Gray, infra).
Councilman, William Thomas. Md., 1854- ——. A physician and instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Contribution to the Study of Inflammation; On Arterio Sclerosis; Syphilis of the Lungs; On the Ætiology of Malaria, and other works.
Courtenay [kŭrt´ni], Edward Henry. Md., 1803-1853. A civil engineer who was professor of mathematics in the University of Virginia, 1842-53, and published a Treatise on Differential Calculus and the Calculus of Variations.
Covell, James. Ms., 1796-1845. A Methodist clergyman of New York and Vermont who published a Dictionary of the Bible. Meth.
Cowan, Frank. Pa., 1844- ——. A Pennsylvania lawyer and journalist, who has travelled extensively and who entered Corea before that country had made any treaties with foreign nations. Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Zomara, a Romance of Spain; Southwestern Pennsylvania in Song and Story; The City of the Royal Palm, and Other Poems; A Visit in Verse to Honolulu; Fact and Fancy in New Zealand.
Cowdin, Jasper Barnett. 18— - ——. Esther’s Wedding and Other Poems.
Cowell, Benjamin. Ms., 1781-1860. A jurist of Providence who published an historical work, The Spirit of ’76.
Cowen, Patrick H. ——-18—. Digest of Criminal Decisions of the Court of New York; Reports of Criminal Cases; The Poor Laws of the State of New York.
Cowles [kōlz], Henry. Ct., 1803-1881. A Congregational clergyman who was professor of theology at Oberlin College, 1835-48. Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims; Hebrew History; Critical Notes on the Old and New Testament, in 16 volumes. Ap.
Cowley, Charles. E., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Lowell. Memories of the Indians and Pioneers of Lowell; Illustrated History of Lowell; Famous Divorces of all Ages; Our Divorce Courts.
Cox, Edward Travers. Va., 1821- ——. A geologist of New York City who made a number of important surveys, and published Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana.
Cox, Jacob Dolson. O., 1828-1900. An Ohio lawyer who served in the Union army during the Civil War as major-general, was governor of Ohio, 1860-67, Secretary of the Interior, 1869-1870, and president of Cincinnati University, 1885. Atlanta: The March to the Sea; The Second Battle of Bull Run as connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. Scr.
Cox, Palmer. Q., 1840- ——. An artist of New York City widely known by the various volumes of the Brownie Books, a series of juveniles consisting of very original humourous pictures and somewhat indifferent verses. Other works of his include Squibs, or Every-Day Life Illustrated; Hans Von Petter’s Trip to Gotham; How Columbus Found America; That Stanley; Queer People, such as Goblins, etc.; Queer People with Claws and Wings; Queer People with Wings and Stings. Cent.
Cox, Samuel Hanson. N. J., 1793-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of the New School party noted for his eccentricities and fondness for controversy. Quakerism not Christianity; Theopneuston, or Select Scriptures Considered; Interviews Memorable and Useful, are his most important writings.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan. O., 1824-1889. A noted Democratic Congressman from Ohio, and later from New York, who was a popular lecturer, humourist, and writer of travels. He was minister to Turkey, 1885-86. Eight Years in Congress; Why We Laugh; Three Decades of Federal Legislation; Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey; A Buckeye Abroad; Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain; Arctic Sunbeams; Orient Sunbeams; Free Land and Free Trade. Har.
Coxe, Arthur Cleveland. N. J., 1818-1896. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Western New York. A son of S. H. Cox, supra, having adopted an older spelling of his surname. A writer of much force and originality, holding opinions with great tenacity and much given to controversy. Christian Ballads; Halloween; Athanasius and Other Poems; Advent, a Mystery; Saul, a Mystery; Athwold, a Romaunt; St. Jonathan, the Lay of a Scald, include his writings in verse. His other works comprise Impressions of England; Thoughts on the Services; Apollos, or the Way of God; The Criterion, a Means of Distinguishing Truth from Error; Institutes of Christian History; Signs of the Times; L’Episcopat de l’Occident, a defence of Anglican theology; The Penitential. Ap. Dut. Lip.
Coxe, Eckley Brinton. Pa., 1839-1895. A Pennsylvania mining engineer who was the author of Theoretical Mechanics.
Coxe, John Redman. N. J., 1773-1864. A noted physician who was the first to introduce the practice of vaccination in Philadelphia. Inflammation; Importance of Medicine; Vaccination; Combustion; American Dispensatory; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Agaricus Atramentarius; The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen Epitomized; Refutation of Harvey’s Claim to the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood; Appeal to the Public.
Coxe, Margaret. N. J., 1800-18—. Claims of the Country on American Females; Wonders of the Deep; Ladies’ Companion.
Coxe, Tench. Pa., 1755-1824. A once noted Philadelphia writer on commerce and political economy. Inquiry into the Principles of a Commercial System for the United States; View of the United States; On the Navigation Act; Thoughts on Naval Power; Address on American Manufactures.
Coyle, John Patterson. Pa., 1852-1895. A Congregational clergyman formerly of North Adams, Massachusetts, but settled in Denver at the time of his death. The Imperial Christ, with a Biographical Introduction by George A. Gates; The Spirit in Literature and Life. Hou.
Cozzens, Frederick Swartwout. N. Y., 1818-1869. A wine merchant of New York City, once noted as a humourist, but now neglected. The Sparrowgrass Papers; Acadia, or a Sojourn among the Blue Noses; Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and Other Learned Men; Stone House on the Susquehanna; Prismatics; Fitz-Greene Halleck, a Memorial.
Cozzens, Issachar. R. I., 1781-18—. Uncle of F. S. Cozzens, supra. A mineralogist who published History of New York Island.
Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth. Ms., 1834-1878. A lawyer of Arizona. Nobody’s Husband; The Marvellous Country, or Three Years in Arizona; The Young Trail Hunters; The Young Silver Seekers; Crossing the Quicksands. Le.
Craddock, Charles Egbert. See Murfree, Mary Noailles.
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk. Me., 1850- ——. A Congregational clergyman of New York City and elsewhere. Through the Eye to the Heart; Childhood; The Ideal Sunday-School; The Rescue of Child Soul; Must the Old Testament Go?; The Sabbath for Man; Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus; Successful Men of To-Day; Practical Christian Sociology, include the larger number of his writings. Fu. Le.
Crafts, William. S. C., 1787-1826. A once noted lawyer and journalist of Charleston. See Poems, Essays, and Orations, with Memoir, by S. Gilman, infra, 1828.
Crafts, William Augustus. 1819- ——. A Boston writer. Life of General Grant; History of the United States; Pioneers in the Settlement of America.
Cram, Ralph Adams. N. H., 1863- ——. An architect of Boston. The Decadent, being the Gospel of Inaction; Black Spirits and White, a book of ghost stories; In the Island of Avalon, a book of verse. Cop. St.
Cranch, Christopher Pearse. Va., 1813-1892. Son of W. Cranch, infra. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister, but after a few years in the ministry gave up his profession and devoted himself to art. For many years he lived in Italy and Paris, but his later years were spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His early sympathies were with the New England Transcendentalists, and his best known poem, Thought, was written for The Dial. His work as a poet is uneven, but at its best is excellent. It never strongly appealed to popular tastes, but was always appreciated by thoughtful minds. Poems, 1844; The Bird and the Bell, and Other Poems; Ariel and Caliban, and Other Poems; Satan: a Libretto; The Æneid in English Blank Verse. The Last of the Huggermuggers; Kobboltzo, are juvenile prose tales. Hou. Le.
Cranch, Richard. E., 1726-1811. A lawyer of Braintree, Massachusetts, who published Views of the Prophets concerning Anti-Christ.
Cranch, William. Ms., 1769-1855. Son of R. Cranch, supra. A noted jurist who was chief justice of the District of Columbia, 1805-55. Reports of Cases in the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, 1801-41; Supreme Court Reports, 1800-1815.
Crandall, Charles Henry. N. Y., 1858- ——. A littérateur of Springdale, Connecticut. Wayside Music, a book of verse. Put.
Crane, Cephas Bennett. N. Y., 1833- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Boston. The Spiritual Court of the Christian Church.
Crane, Jonathan Townley. N. J., 1819-1880. A Methodist clergyman of New Jersey. Methodism and its Methods; The Right Way; Essay on Dancing; Popular Amusements; Arts of Intoxication; Holiness the Birthright of all God’s Children.
Crane, Oliver. N. J., 1822-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman who lived in Boston during his latest years. Minto and Other Poems; Virgil’s Aeneid translated literally into English dactylic hexameter.
Crane, Stephen. N. J., 1870-1900. A popular novelist of New York City. George’s Mother; The Black Riders and Other Lines, a collection of wilfully eccentric verse; The Red Badge of Courage, a striking historical romance of the Civil War in America; Maggie, a story of slum life. Ap. Cop.
Crane, Thomas Frederick. N. Y., 1844- ——. A professor of Romance languages at Cornell University. Italian Popular Tales; The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones of Jacques de Vitry; Tableaux de la Revolution Française; Le Romantisme Française; La Société Française au Dixseptiéme Siècle; Chansons Populaires de la France.
Crane, William Carey. Va., 1816-1885. A Baptist clergyman of Texas, president of Baylor University, 1863-1885, which was renamed Crane College in his honour, 1885. Discourses; Life of Sam. Houston, and lesser works.
Crawford, Mrs. Alice [Arnold]. Wis., 1850-1874. A Milwaukee writer who published A Few Thoughts for a Few Friends, a collection of verse.
Crawford, Francis Marion. Iy., 1854- ——. A son of the noted sculptor, Crawford. His life has been mainly spent in Italy, where he has devoted himself to novel-writing with great perseverance. His novels are of varying degrees of excellence and always entertaining, but none of them reach the high-water mark of enduring excellence. Mr. Isaacs; Dr. Claudius; A Roman Singer; To Leeward; An American Politician; Zoroaster; Adam Johnstone’s Sin; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Saracinesca; Marzio’s Crucifix; Paul Patoff; With the Immortals; Greifenstein; Sant’ Ilario; A Cigarette-maker’s Romance; Khaled; The Witch of Prague; The Three Fates; Don Orsino; Children of the King; Pietro Ghisleri; Marion Darche; The Ralstons; Katherine Lauderdale; Casa Braccio; Love in Idleness, a Tale of Bar Harbour; The Novel: What it Is; Constantinople, a book of travels; Taquisara. See Vedder’s American Writers. Mac. Mer. Scr.
Crawford, Nathaniel Morton. Ga., 1811-1871. A Baptist minister of Kentucky, president of Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1865-71, and the author of Christian Paradoxes.
Crayon, Porte. See Strother.
Creswell, Mrs. Julia [Pleasants]. Al., 1827-1886. A Southern writer who published Aphelia and Other Poems by Two Cousins; Callamura, an allegorical novel.
Crocker, George Glover. Ms., 1843- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies.
Crocker, Mrs. Hannah [Mather]. Ms., 1765-1847. A granddaughter of Cotton Mather, infra. Letters on Free Masonry; The School of Reform; Observations on the Rights of Woman.
Crocker, Uriel Haskell. Ms., 1832-1902. Brother of G. G. Crocker, supra. A lawyer of Boston. The Cause of Hard Times; Notes on Common Forms; Book of Massachusetts Law; Excessive Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress; Notes on General Statutes of Massachusetts (with G. G. Crocker). Lit.
Crockett, David. Tn., 1786-1836. A noted hunter and pioneer who enlisted in the Texan army in the revolt against Mexico, and was slain in the massacre at the Alamo, in San Antonio. Tour to the North and Down East; Life of David Crockett, by Himself (1834); Colonel Crockett’s Exploits in Texas; Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir Apparent; Leisure Hour Musings in Rhyme. See Life by E. S. Ellis; Bibliography of Texas.
Croffut, William Augustus. Ct., 1835- ——. A well-known journalist attached to many journals, East and West, and connected with the United States Geological Survey since 1888. The War History of Connecticut; A Helping Hand; Bourbon Ballads; Deseret, an Opera; A Midsummer Lark, a humorous volume of travels; The Vanderbilts; The Folks Next Door; The Prophecy, and Other Poems.
Croly, David Goodman. N. Y., 1829-1889. A journalist of New York City. Life of Horatio Seymour; History of Reconstruction; The Positivist Primer; Glimpses of the Future.
Croly, Mrs. Jane Cunningham. “Jennie June.” E., 1829-1901. Wife of D. G. Croly, supra. The founder of Sorosis, and editor of Demorest’s Magazine, 1860-87. The originator of duplicate correspondence. Talks on Women’s Topics; For Better or Worse; Knitters and Crochet; Letters and Monograms; Cookery Book for Young Beginners; Thrown upon her Own Resources. Cr.
Crooks, George Richard. Pa., 1822-1897. A Methodist clergyman and religious journalist. Life of John McClintock, infra; Life of Matthew Simpson; First Books in Latin and Greek (with J. McClintock); Latin-English Lexicon (with A. J. Schem). Fu. Har.
Crosby, Alpheus. N. H., 1810-1874. An educator of Massachusetts who published Greek Lessons; Greek Fables; Greek Tables; First Lessons in Geometry; an edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis.
Crosby, Howard. N. Y., 1826-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman long prominent in New York City who was chancellor of the University of New York city, 1870-81. The Christian Preacher; Notes on the New Testament; Life of Jesus; Christ and Science; At the Lord’s Table; Sermons; Lands of the Moslem; Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, with Notes; Bible Manual; Bible Companion; Bible View of the Jewish Church; The Seven Churches of Asia, or Worldliness in the Church; Thoughts on the Pentateuch; Commentary on the New Testament, include his principal works. Fu. Ran.
Crosby, Nathan. N. H., 1798-1885. Brother of A. Crosby, supra. A prominent lawyer of Lowell, who published First Half Century of Dartmouth College.
Crosby, William Otis. O., 1850- ——. A professor of geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published Common Minerals and Rocks; Contributions to the Geology of Eastern Massachusetts.
Cross, Charles Robert. N. Y., 1848- ——. A professor of physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Course in Elementary Physics; Lecture Notes on Mechanics and Optics.
Cross, David Wallace. N. Y., 1814-1891. A Cleveland lawyer of local fame as a sportsman. Fifty Years with the Rod and Gun.
Cross, Joseph. E., 1813-1893. An Episcopal clergyman who from 1829-1856 was a prominent Methodist divine. The more important of his writings include Headlands of Faith; Pisgah Views of the Promised Inheritance; A Year in Europe; Coals from the Altar; Pauline Charity; Prelections on Charity; Old Wine and New.
Cross, Mrs. Jane Tandy [Chinn] [Harding]. Ky., 1817-1870. Wife of J. Cross, supra. Wayside Flowerets; Heart Blossoms for my Little Daughters; Bible Gleanings; Driftwood; Gonzalo de Cordova, a translation from the Spanish; Duncan Adair, a novel.
Croswell, Andrew. 1709-1785. A Boston clergyman, very active as a controversialist. The Apostle’s Advice to the Jailor Improved; Heaven shut against Arminians and Antinomians.
Croswell, Harry. Ct., 1778-1858. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Trinity Church, New Haven, 1816-58, but in earlier life was a political journalist noted for his scathing editorials. Young Churchman’s Guide; Manual of Family Prayers; Guide to the Holy Sacrament.
Croswell, William. Ms., 1804-1851. Son of H. Croswell, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, the first rector of the Church of the Advent. Some of his hymns appear in various religious anthologies and hymnals. Poems Sacred and Secular.
Crowe, Winfield Scott. Ind., 1850- ——. A Universalist clergyman, of Newark, New Jersey, editor of the Universalist Monthly. The Man of Evolution; The God of Evolution; The Lordship of Jesus.
Crowell, Eugene. N. Y., 1817-1894. A writer of San Francisco, and later of New York city, who was a zealous defender of Spiritualism. The Identity of Primitive Christianity with Modern Spiritualism; The Spirit World; The Philosophy of Death; Spiritualism and Insanity; The Religion of Spiritualism.
Crowell, William. Ms., 1806-1871. A Baptist clergyman who published The Church Member’s Manual of Ecclesiastical Principles; Church Member’s Handbook; History of Baptist Literature for Fifty Years.
Cruger, Mrs. Julia Grinnell [Storrow]. “Julien Gordon.” F., 18— - ——. A popular novelist of New York city. A Diplomat’s Diary; Poppaea; A Successful Man; A Wedding and Other Stories; Mademoiselle Réséda; A Puritan Pagan. Lip.
Cruger, Mary. N. Y., 1834- ——. A writer of Montrose, New York. Hyperæsthesia; A Den of Thieves, or the Lay Reader of St. Mark’s; The Vanderheyde Manor House; How She Did It; Brotherhood. Fo. Lo.
Crummell, Alexander. N. Y., 1819-1898. A coloured Episcopal clergyman of Washington. The Future of Africa; Greatness of Christ, and Other Sermons; Africa and America.
Cruse, Christian Frederick. Pa., 1794-1864. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city whose translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius is a standard English version.
Cruse, Mary Anne. Al., 18— - ——. A writer and educator of Huntsville, Alabama. Besides a novel of the Civil War, Cameron Hall, she has written several popular Sunday-school books, such as The Little Episcopalian; Bessie Melville.
Cruttenden, Daniel Henry. N. Y., 1816-1874. An educator of New York city, among whose text-books are Systematic Arithmetic Series; The Philosophy of Language; Rhetorical Grammar.
Crynkle, Nym. See Wheeler, A. C.
Culbertson, Matthew Simpson. Pa., 1818-1862. A Presbyterian missionary to China. Darkness in the Flowery Kingdom, or Religious Notions in North China.
Cullum, George Washington. N. Y., 1809-1892. A brevet major-general in the United States army. Military Bridges with India-Rubber Pontoons; Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, 1802-90; System of Military Bridges. Hou.
Cumming, Kate. Al., c. 1835- ——. A resident of Mobile, prominent during the Civil War as an organizer of field hospitals in the Confederate army. Hospital Life in Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the End of the War.
Cummings, Amos Jay. N. Y., 1842-1902. A journalist of New York city. Horace Greeley Campaign Songster; Sayings of Uncle Rufus; Ziska Letters.
Cummings, Jeremiah W. D. C., 1823-1866. A once popular Roman Catholic clergyman of New York city. Italian Legends; Songs for Catholic Schools; Spiritual Progress; The Silver Stole.
Cummings, Thomas Seir. E., 1804-1894. A New York artist who was author of the Historic Annals of the National Academy from its Foundation to 1865.
Cummins, Ebenezer Harlow. N. C., 1790-1835. A clergyman and magistrate of Baltimore. Geography of Alabama; History of the Late War (1820).
Cummins, Maria Susanna. Ms., 1827-1866. A once famous novelist of Massachusetts, whose first book, The Lamplighter, enjoyed for a time a phenomenal popularity. Her subsequent stories include El Fureidîs, a tale of Palestine; Haunted Hearts; Mabel Vaughan. Cr. Hou.
Curry, Daniel. N. Y., 1809-1887. A Methodist divine of note. New York, an Historical Sketch; Life Story of Rev. D. W. Clark, supra; Fragments, Religious and Theological; Platform Papers.
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe. Ga., 1825-1903. A Baptist clergyman who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, achieved prominence as an educator, and was United States Minister to Spain in 1885. Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a Study; Southern States of the American Union.
Curry, Otway. O., 1804-1855. An Ohio journalist who published Love of the Past, a poem.
Curry, Samuel Silas. Tn., 1847- ——. An educator of Boston whose specialty is the culture of expression. The Province of Expression; Lessons in Vocal Expression; Imagination and Dramatic Instinct.
Curtin, Jeremiah. Wis., 1838- ——. Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland; Hero Tales of Ireland; Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World, collected from Oral Tradition in South Munster; Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars. His translations include Tales of Three Centuries, from the Russian of Zagoskin; The Romances of Sienkiewicz, from the Polish. Lit.
Curtis, Alva. N. H., 1797-1881. An Ohio physician and medical writer. Medical Discussions; Lectures on Midwifery; Theory and Practice of Medicine; Medical Criticisms.
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins. Ms., 1809-1874. A noted jurist of Boston. Reports of Cases in the Circuit Courts of the United States; United States Supreme Court Decisions; Digest and Decisions of United States Supreme Court. See Memoir by G. T. Curtis. Lit.
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, Jr. Ms., 1855-1891. Son of B. R. Curtis, supra. A municipal court judge of Boston. Dottings Round the Circle, a volume of travels.
Curtis, Mrs. Caroline Gardiner [Cary]. “Carroll Winchester.” N. Y., 1827- ——. A novelist of Boston. From Madge to Margaret; The Love of a Lifetime.
Curtis, Edward. R. I., 1838- ——. Brother of G. W. Curtis, infra. A physician of New York who has published Manual of General Medical Technology.
Curtis, George Ticknor. Ms., 1812-1894. Brother of B. R. Curtis, supra. An eminent lawyer of New York city, well known as a legal writer and biographer. Digest of English and American Admiralty Decisions; Digest of Decisions of Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the United States; American Conveyancer; Law of Patents; Equity Precedents; Inventor’s Manual; Law of Copyright; Rights and Duties of Merchant Seamen; Commentaries on the Jurisprudence, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisdiction of United States Courts; A History of the Constitution of the United States; Life of James Buchanan; Life of Daniel Webster; Creation or Evolution; Last Years of Daniel Webster; John Charaxes, a novel. Har. Lit.
Curtis, George William. R. I., 1824-1892. One of the foremost of American essayists, and a writer whose influence was as helpful as it was widespread. In boyhood he was one of the members of the famous Brook Farm Association at West Roxbury. To Putnam’s Monthly he contributed The Potiphar Papers, a spirited satire upon society; and Prue and I, a story far superior to his more ambitious novel, Trumps. For thirty-five years he filled the Easy Chair department of Harper’s Monthly, and from 1863-92 he was the political editor of Harper’s Weekly. He was zealous in the cause of civil service reform, and by his efforts as writer and lecturer accomplished very much in that direction. Beside the volumes already named, his writings include Nile Notes of a Howadji; Lotus Eating; The Howadji in Syria; James Russell Lowell, an Address; Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; From the Easy Chair; Speeches, Addresses, &c., edited by C. E. Norton, infra; Literary and Social Essays. See Life by E. Cary, 1895; Address by J. W. Chadwick, supra; Century Magazine, February, 1883; Smalley’s Studies of Men.
Curtis, Moses Ashley. Ms., 1808-1872. A botanist and Episcopal clergyman of North Carolina. Edible Fungi of North Carolina; Contributions to Mycology of North America; Catalogue of the Plants of North Carolina; Esculent Fungi; Indigenous and Native Plants of North Carolina.
Curtis, Samuel Ives. Ct., 1844- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary of Chicago. The Name Maccabee; The Levitical Priests; Ingersoll and Moses; The Date of our Gospels. Rev.
Curtis, Thomas F. E., 1815-1872. A Baptist divine who was for some years president of Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania. Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred Years (1857); The Human Element in the Inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures, a work which occupies the Colenso position on the subject and is in places more advanced.
Curtis, William Eleroy. O., 1850- ——. A prominent Washington journalist. The United States and Foreign Powers; Life of Zachariah Chandler; The Capitals of Spanish America; The Land of the Nihilist; Venezuela; The Yankees of the East: Japan Sketches; The True Thomas Jefferson. Har. St.
Curtiss, Mrs. Abby [Allin]. Ct., 1820- ——. A verse-writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Home Ballads (1850).
Curwen, Samuel. Ms., 1715-1802. A loyalist who lived in England during the American Revolution, but returned after its close to his native town of Salem. While an exile he kept a journal which contains much valuable information concerning loyalist exiles. It was first published in 1842, with the title Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Judge of Admiralty, an American Refugee in England, 1775-1884.
Cushing, Caleb. Ms., 1800-1879. A Massachusetts statesman and diplomatist, who was attorney-general of the United States, 1853-57. Historical and Political Review of the Late Revolution in France, 1833; Practical Principles of Political Economy; Life of William Henry Harrison; Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States, 1837; Reminiscences of Spain; History of Newburyport; The Treaty of Washington. See Appleton’s American Biography. Har.
Cushing, Luther Stearns. Ms., 1803-1856. A well-known authority on parliamentary practice and a Massachusetts jurist who was lecturer on Roman Law in Harvard University, 1848-56. Massachusetts Reports, 1848-53; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Trustee Process; Remedial Law; Reports of Controverted Election Cases in Massachusetts; Introduction to the study of Roman Civil Law; Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States; Lex Parliamentaria Americana; Rules of Proceeding and Debates in the Deliberative Assemblies. Lit.
Cushing, William. Ms., 1811-1895. Brother of L. S. Cushing, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself to literary research, and published Anonyms; Initials and Pseudonyms, useful guide-books of literary information. Cr.
Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth [Bacon]. Mch., 184- - ——. Wife of G. A. Custer, infra. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer; Tenting on the Plains, or General Custer in Kansas and Texas; Following the Guidon; The Boy General. Har. Scr.
Custer, George Armstrong. O., 1839-1876. A famous general in the Federal army during the Civil War, who afterwards became noted in campaigns against the Indians, and was killed with his entire command in a battle with the Sioux in the Black Hills. My Life on the Plains was his only publication.
Custis, George Washington Parke. Va., 1781-1857. An adopted son of General Washington. He published Recollections of Washington.
Cuthbert, James Hazard. S. C., 1822- ——. A Baptist divine of Washington. Our Mission as Baptists; Life of Richard Fuller, infra.
Cutler, Elbridge Jefferson. Ms., 1831-1870. A professor of modern languages at Harvard University, 1865-1870. War Poems; Stella. See Memoir by A. P. Peabody, infra, 1872.
Cutler, Mrs. Hannah Maria [Tracy] [Conant]. Ms., 1815-1896. A prominent woman-suffragist who became a physician in 1879, and practiced in Cobden, Illinois. Woman as She Was, Is, and Should Be; Phillipia, or A Woman’s Question; The Fortunes of Michael Doyle, or Home Rule for Ireland.
Cutler, Jervis. Ms., 1768-1844. A Western pioneer who published Topographical Description of the Western Country (1812). See Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler.
Cutler, Mrs. Lizzie [Petit]. Va., 1836- ——. A novelist of New York City. Light and Darkness; Household Mysteries, a romance of Southern life; The Stars of the Crowd, or Men and Women of the Day.
Cutter, George Washington. Ms., 1801-1865. A verse-writer of Washington. Buena Vista, and Other Poems; Song of Steam; Poems National and Patriotic.
Cutting, Hiram Adolphus. Vt., 1832-1892. A State geologist of Vermont. Mining in Vermont; Climatology of Vermont; Microscopic Revelations; Farm Pests; Notes on Building Stones; Lectures on Plants, Fertilization, etc.; Lectures on Milk, etc.; Farm Lectures; Vermont Agricultural Reports.
Cutting, Sewall Sylvester. Vt., 1813-1882. A Baptist clergyman and religious journalist. Historical Vindications; Struggles and Triumphs of Religious Liberty; Ancient Baptistries.
Cuyler [ky´ler], Theodore Ledyard. N. Y., 1822- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, formerly pastor of Lafayette Avenue Church of Brooklyn. Stray Arrows; Cedar Christian; The Empty Crib; Wayside Springs; Right to the Point; Thought Hives; God’s Light on Dark Clouds; Pointed Papers; Heart Life; From the Nile to Norway; Newly Enlisted, or Talks to Young Converts; The Young Preacher; Stirring the Eagle’s Nest; How To Be a Pastor; Christianity in the Home, comprise the greater number of his works. Rev.
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Dabney, Richard. Va., 1787-1825. A once noted instructor in Richmond, Virginia, whose Poems, Original and Translated, contain scholarly translations from Euripides, Alcæus, and other classic poets.
Dabney, Richard Heath. Va., 1859- ——. The Causes of the French Revolution. Ho.
Dabney, Robert Lewis. Va., 1820-1898. Nephew of R. Dabney, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1882 professor of moral philosophy in the University of Texas. Life of T. S. Sampson; Life and Campaigns of General Stonewall Jackson; Sacred Rhetoric, or Lectures on Preaching; Defence of Virginia and the South; The Sensualistic Philosophy of the 19th Century; A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology; The Christian Sabbath; Collected Discussions. Ran.
Dabney, Virginius. Va., 1835-1894. A staff officer in the Confederate service during the Civil War, who published Don Miff, a Symphony of Life; Gold That Did Not Glitter. Lip.
Daboll [da´bŏl], Nathan. 1750-1818. A once famous instructor of Connecticut. He prepared The Schoolmaster’s Assistant, long a standard text-book on arithmetic, and The Practical Navigator.
Daboll, Nathan. Ct., 1782-1863. Son of N. Daboll, supra. A probate judge of Connecticut. The author, with his son, of Daboll’s New Arithmetic, and compiler of the New England Almanac, begun by the father in 1773. The second of the name continued its preparation from 1818 to the year of his own death.
Da Costa, Jacob Mandes. W. I., 1833-1900. A Philadelphia physician connected with Jefferson Medical College since 1864, and a specialist in diseases of the throat and lungs. Epithelial Tumours and Cancers of the Skin; The Pathological Anatomy of Acute Pneumonia; The Physicians of the Last Century; Serous Apoplexy; Medical Diagnosis; Inhalation in Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages; Strain and Over-action of the Heart; Harvey and his Discovery. Lip.
Dadd, George H. E., c. 1813- ——. A veterinary surgeon who has published The Modern Horse Doctor; Manual of Veterinary Science; Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse; The American Cattle Doctor.
Dagg, John Leadley. Va., 1794-1884. A Baptist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1833, and was president of Mercer University, Georgia, 1844-56. Manual of Theology; Elements of Moral Science; Evidences of Christianity; English Grammar. Bap.
Dahlgren, John Adolph. Pa., 1809-1870. A famous United States naval officer, made admiral in 1863, who invented the cannon bearing his name, and conducted the siege of Charleston during the Civil War. Thirty-Two Pounder Practice for Rangers; System of Boat Armament in the United States Navy; Naval Percussion Locks and Primers; Ordnance Memoranda; Shells and Shell Guns; Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren; Notes on Maritime International Law, edited by Charles Cowley, supra. See Memoir by Mrs. Dahlgren, infra.
Dahlgren, Mrs. Madeleine [Vinton] [Goddard]. O., 1835-1898. Second wife of J. A. Dahlgren, supra, to whom she was married in 1865. A novelist of Washington. Idealities; Thoughts on Female Suffrage; South Sea Sketches; Etiquette of Social Life in Washington; Memoir of Admiral Dahlgren; South Mountain Magic, a Narrative; A Washington Winter, a Society Novel; The Lost Name; Divorced; Lights and Shadows of a Life. Lip.
Dalcho, Frederick. E., 1777-1836. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston, rector of St. Michael’s Church there, 1819-36, but in earlier life successively a physician and journalist. The Evidence of the Divinity of Our Saviour. Historic Account of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina; Ahiman Rezon, a work for freemasons.
Dale, James Wilkinson. Del., 1812-1881. A clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania. The Cup and the Cross, or the Baptism of Calvary; Classic Baptism; Judaic Baptism; Johannic Baptism; Christic and Patristic Baptism.
Dales, John Blakely. N. Y., 1815-1893. A United Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, whose principal writings include Roman Catholicism; Dangers and Duties of Young Men; The Gospel Minister.
Dall, Mrs. Caroline Wells [Healey]. Ms., 1822- ——. Wife of C. H. A. Dall, infra. A Washington writer whose early efforts were mainly in the line of social reforms, while her later works were concerned with general literature. Essays and Sketches; Historical Pictures Retouched; Life of Dr. Marie Zakrzewski; Woman’s Rights under the Law; The Romance of the Association, or one Last Glimpse of Charlotte Temple and Eliza Wharton; What we Really Know about Shakespeare; Woman’s Place in History; Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee; College, Market and Court; Woman’s Right to Labor; Essays on Confucius; Patty Gray’s Journey to the Cotton Islands; My First Holiday, or Letters from Colorado; Egypt’s Place in History, include her principal works. Le. Rob.
Dall, Charles Henry Appleton. Md., 1816-1886. A Unitarian missionary to Calcutta. The Temperance Movement in Modern Times; Theism, in Questions and Answers.
Dall, William Healey. Ms., 1845- ——. Son of C. H. and C. W. Dall, supra. A naturalist of distinction who has been connected with the United States Coast Survey and the Geological Survey. Alaska and its Resources (1870); Tribes of the Extreme Northwest; Scientific Results of the Exploration of Alaska; Coast Pilot of Alaska; Pacific Coast Pilot; Reports on the Mollusca of the Blake Expedition. Le.
Dallas, Alexander James. F., 1759-1817. A noted statesman who was secretary of state, 1796-1801, and secretary of the treasury under Madison. Features of Jay’s Treaty; Speeches on the Trial of Blount; Address to Constitutional Republicans; Causes and Character of the Late War (1815); Reports of Cases. See Life and Writings of, by G. M. Dallas, infra.
Dallas, George Mifflin. Pa., 1792-1864. Son of A. J. Dallas, supra. A statesman who was minister to Russia, 1837-39, vice-president of the United States, 1845-49, minister to England, 1856-61. Series of Letters from London; Eulogy on Andrew Jackson, as well as many single speeches and addresses. Lip.
Dalton [dawl´ton], John Call. Ms., 1825-1889. A physician of note who was a professor in various medical colleges. Observations on Trichina Spiralis; The Experimental Method in Medical Science; Doctrines of the Circulation; Topographical Anatomy of the Brain; History of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city; Treatise on Human Physiology; Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene.
Daly, Charles Patrick. N. Y., 1816-1899. A prominent jurist of New York City. Historical Sketch of the Judicial Tribunals of New York, 1823-46; Reports of Cases in Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York; First Settlement of Jews in North America; What we Knew of Maps and Map Drawing before Mercator.
Daly, John Augustin. N. C., 1838-1899. A dramatist and theatrical manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays from the German and the French, wrote Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under the Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffington, a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman.
Damon, Howard Franklin. Ms., 1833-1884. A hospital physician of Boston. Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; General Remarks on the Frequency of Skin Diseases. Lip.
Dana, Alexander Hamilton. E., 1807-1887. A lawyer of New York State. Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; Enigmas of Life, Death, and the Future State.
Dana, Charles Anderson. N. H., 1819-1897. A distinguished journalist of New York City. He was assistant secretary of war 1863-65, and since 1868 the editor of The New York Sun. His political writing is noted for its bitter partisanship, but the literary quality of his work is admirable. With J. G. Wilson, infra, he prepared a Life of General Grant, and was co-editor with George Ripley, infra, of the American Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. Ap.
Dana, Charles Louis. Vt., 1852- ——. A physician of note as a neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.
Dana, Edward Salisbury. Ct., 1849- ——. Son of J. D. Dana, infra, assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale University since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the Peabody Museum there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of Silliman’s Journal. Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics; Appendix II. (1875) and Appendix III. (1883) of Dana’s System of Mineralogy. Wil.
Dana, James. Ms., 1735-1812. A once famous Congregational clergyman of New Haven, who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the Will.
Dana, James Dwight. N. Y., 1813-1895. A celebrated geologist, professor at Yale University from 1850. System of Mineralogy; Manual of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Geology; Corals and Coral Islands; The Geological Story Briefly Told. Am. Do. Wil.
Dana, James Freeman. N. H., 1793-1827. A chemist and physician, the first professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College. Epitome of Chemical Philosophy; Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and its Vicinity (with S. L. Dana, infra).
Dana, Mrs. Katharine [Floyd]. L. I., 1835-1886. A writer of New York City. Our Phil and Other Stories. Hou.
Dana, Mrs. Mary. See Shindler, Mrs.
Dana, Richard Henry. Ms., 1787-1879. A poet and critic who was one of the founders of the North American Review in 1815. As a critic his Lectures on Shakespeare represent him fairly, and it must not be forgotten that he was one of the earliest in America to appreciate the genius of Wordsworth. The Idle Man, a publication begun in 1821 and extending to six numbers, includes his two novels, Tom Thornton; Paul Felton. His later publications include The Buccaneer, and Other Poems; Poems and Prose Writings. His verse is both imaginative and original, but at the same time unmelodious. See Atlantic Monthly, April, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, April, 1879; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends.
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. Ms., 1815-1882. Son of R. H. Dana, supra. A noted lawyer of Boston, best known in literature by the famous Two Years before the Mast, a narrative of personal adventure, which first appeared in 1840, and was reissued, enlarged, in 1869. His other works include The Seaman’s Friend, known in England as The Seaman’s Manual; Letters on Italian Unity; To Cuba and Back; Letters on the Somers Mutiny; Life of Major Vinton; Enemy Property and Enemy Territory. See Life by C. F. Adams, 1891.
Dana, Samuel Luther. N. H., 1795-1868. Brother of J. F. Dana, supra. A noted chemist of Lowell, who made many improvements in cotton-printing, and was one of the foremost agricultural writers of his time. Chemical Changes in the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid; Muck Mineral for Manures; Essay on Manures. See American Journal of Science, May, 1868.
Dana, William Coombs. Ms., 1810-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of Charleston. Hymns for Public Worship; A Transatlantic Tour; Life of Samuel Dana.
Dana, Mrs. William Starr. See Parsons, Mrs. Frances.
Dandridge, Mrs. Danske [Bedinger]. Dk., 1858- ——. A verse-writer of Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Joy, and Other Poems.
Dane, Nathan. Ms., 1752-1835. A very prominent lawyer of Massachusetts, who founded the Dane professorship at the Harvard University Law School. He published an Abridgment and Digest of American Law [in nine volumes].
Danenhower, John Wilson. Il., 1849-1887. An Arctic explorer who was second in command of the De Long Expedition in 1879, and published The Narrative of the Jeannette, 1882.
Danforth, John. Ms., 1660-1730. Son of S. Danforth, infra. A once noted Congregational clergyman of Dorchester, Massachusetts, who published many single sermons and occasional poems.
Danforth, Joshua Noble. Ms., 1798-1861. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts and Virginia, who published Gleanings and Groupings from a Pastor’s Portfolio.
Danforth, Samuel. E., 1626-1674. A once famous Puritan clergyman of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1650-74. An Astronomical Description of the Comet of 1664; An Election Sermon; The Cry of Sodom Inquired Into.
Danforth, Samuel. Ms., 1666-1727. Son of S. Danforth, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Taunton, Massachusetts, famous for his great learning and wide influence. Eulogy on Thomas Leonard; Essay Concerning the Singing of Psalms. The MS. of his Indian Dictionary is now the property of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Dangé, Henri. See Hammond, Mrs.
Daniel, John Moncure. Va., 1825-1865. A once noted Virginia journalist who edited The Richmond Examiner, and was minister to Italy 1853-60. See Writings of, with Memoir by his brother, 1868.
Daniel, John Warwick. Va., 1842- ——. A prominent Virginia lawyer who was an adjutant-general in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Attachments under the Code of Virginia; Negotiable Instruments.
Daniels, Mrs. Cora [Linn]. Ms., 1852- ——. A novelist of Franklin, Massachusetts. Sardia, a Story of Love; As It Is to Be. Ban. Le.
Daniels, William Haven. Ms., 1836- ——. A Methodist clergyman, prominent as an evangelist. D. L. Moody and his Work; That Boy, who Shall Have Him?; The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers; Moody, his Words, Work, and Workers; Illustrated History of Methodism in the United States; Graduated with Honour; Memorials of Gilbert Haven; Short History of the People called Methodists. Meth.
Dannelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Otis [Marshall]. Ga., 1838- ——. A Texas writer of verse. Cactus, or Thorns and Blossoms; Wayside Flowers.
Da Ponte, Lorenzo. Iy., 1749-1838. An Italian dramatist who furnished libretti for Mozart’s operas, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro. He came to America in 1805, and after 1828 was professor of Italian in Columbia College. He published his own Life (1823); History of the Florentine Republic and the Medici (1833).
Darby, John. See Garretson.
Darby, John. Ms., 1804-1877. An educator who was connected with various colleges North and South. Manual of Botany; The Botany of the Southern States; Chemistry, are some of his publications.
Darby, William. Pa., 1755-1834. A geographer who published Geographical Dictionary of Louisiana; Plan of Pittsburg and Adjacent Country; Emigrant’s Guide to the Western Country; Tour from New York to Detroit (1819); Geography and History of Florida; View of the United States (1823); Lectures on the Discovery of America; Mnemonica, a Register of Events from the Earliest Period; Geographical Dictionary.
Darden, Mrs. Fannie [Baker]. Al., 1829- ——. Romances of the Texas Revolution; Poems.
Dargan, Clara Victoria. See Maclean, Mrs.
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr. Pa., 1822-1888. A well-known artist and illustrator whose home was at Claymont, Delaware. His only writing is included in Sketches Abroad with Pen and Pencil.
Darling, Mrs. Flora [Adams]. N. H., 1840- ——. A writer of fiction whose writings include Mrs. Darling’s Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War; A Wayward Winning Woman; The Bourbon Lily; Was it a Just Verdict?; A Social Diplomat; From Two Points of View; The Senator’s Daughter.
Darling, Henry. Pa., 1823-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Hamilton College, 1881-1891. The Close Walk; Slavery and the War; Conformity to the World; Not Doing but Receiving.
Darling, Mary Greenleaf. Pa., 1848- ——. Battles at Home; In the World; Gladys, a Romance. Le. Lo.
Darling, William. S., 1815-1884. A distinguished New York physician who published Anatomography, or Graphic Anatomy; Essentials of Anatomy (with A. L. Ranney).
Darlington, William. Pa., 1782-1863. A famous botanist of West Chester, Pennsylvania, in whose honour Darlingtonia, a genus of pitcher-plants, was named. Mutual Influence of Habits and Disease; Agricultural Botany; Flora Cestrica; Memorials of John Bartram, supra, and Humphrey Marshall.
D’Arusmont, Madame Frances [Wright]. S., 1795-1852. A very energetic and versatile Scottish reformer who came several times to America, and finally settled in Cincinnati. Her attacks on social institutions aroused much hostility, her opposition to slavery making her the object of especial dislike. Popular Lectures on Free Inquiry; Biographical Notes and Political Letters of Fanny Wright D’Arusmont (1844); Altorf: a tragedy; Views of Society and Manners in America; A Few Days in Athens, include her principal works. See Gilbert’s The Pioneer Woman, 1855; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14.
Daveiss, Mrs. Maria [Thompson]. Ky., 1814-1896. A Kentucky author who wrote much for agricultural journals, and published Roger Sherman, a Tale of ’76; Woman’s Love; History of Mercer and Boyle Counties, Kentucky; Cultivation and Uses of the Chinese Sugar Cane.
Davenport, John. E., 1597-1670. A famous Puritan divine who, before coming to America in 1637, was a celebrated London preacher. In 1638 he was one of the founders of New Haven, and in 1660 concealed the noted regicides, Goffe and Whalley, from their pursuers. In 1666 he became pastor of the First Church in Boston. Instructions to Elders of the English Church; Catechism containing the Chief Heads of the Christian Religion; Discourse about Civil Government in New England. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 14.
David, Jean Baptist. F., 1761-1841. A Roman Catholic bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky. Among his many works are Vindication of Catholic Doctrine concerning Images; Address to Brethren of Other Professions; On the Rule of Faith; True Piety.
Davidson, Charles. O., 1852- ——. An instructor of Belmont, California. The Phonology of the Stressed Vowels of Beowulf; Studies in the English Mystery Plays.
Davidson, George. E., 1825- ——. An astronomer of distinction, founder of the Davidson Observatory in San Francisco. The United States Coast Survey of the Pacific Coast; Coast Pilot of Alaska; Voyages of Discovery on the Northwest Coast of America, 1539-1603.
Davidson, James Wood. S. C., 1829- ——. An educator of South Carolina and elsewhere, whose Living Writers of the South is quite wanting in discrimination and critical ability. His other works include School History of South Carolina; The Correspondent; The Poetry of the Future; Florida of To-Day. Ap.
Davidson, Lucretia Maria. N. Y., 1808-1825. A precocious verse-writer now quite forgotten. Amir Khan and Other Poems was issued in 1829. See Memoir by S. F. B. Morse, and Life by C. M. Sedgwick, infra.
Davidson, Margaret Miller. N. Y., 1823-1838. Sister to L. M. Davidson, and, like her, a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses were extravagantly lauded by contemporary writers, but by no critics of a later day. See Memoir by Washington Irving.
Davidson, Robert. Md., 1750-1812. A Presbyterian clergyman who was president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1804-09. Epitome of Geography in Verse for Schools; The Christian’s A, B, C, or the 119th Psalm in Metre; New Metrical Version of the Psalms, with Notes.
Davidson, Robert. Pa., 1808-1876. Son of R. Davidson, supra. A Presbyterian minister in Kentucky and other States, among whose writings are Elijah, a Sacred Drama, and Other Poems; The Christ of God, or the Relation of Christ to Christianity.
Davidson, Thomas. S., 1840-1900. A writer on art and philosophy who came to the United States in 1866 and settled at Cambridge. The Parthenon Frieze and Other Essays; The Place of Art in Education; Giordano Bruno and the Relation of his Philosophy to Free Thought; Handbook of Dante, from the Italian of Scartazzini, with Notes and Additions; Prolegomena to Tennyson’s “In Memoriam;” Aristotle, and Ancient and Modern Educational Ideals; The Education of the Greek People and its Influence on Civilization. Ap. Gi. Hou.
Davies, Charles. Ct., 1798-1876. A noted professor of mathematics in Columbia College from 1857. Beside a notable series of mathematical text-books, from A Primary Table Book to Elementary Geometry and Trigonometry, he published also editions of Legendre’s Geometry and Bourdon’s Algebra. Other works by him comprise Practical Mathematics; Elements of Surveying; Analytical Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Logic and Utility of Mathematics; The Metric System; Mathematical Dictionary (with W. G. Peck).
Davies, Samuel. Del., 1724-1761. A Presbyterian clergyman of great renown in his day as a preacher, and the fourth president of Princeton College. He wrote a number of hymns still in use, and his Sermons in 5 volumes appeared in London in 1767. See Sermons, 1851, with Memoir by Albert Barnes, supra.
Davies, Thomas Alfred. N. Y., 1809-1899. Brother of C. Davies, supra. A Federal officer in the Civil War. Cosmogony, or Mysteries of Creation; Adam and Ha-Adam; Genesis Disclosed; Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretical Geologists; How to Make Money and how to Keep It.
Davis, Andrew Jackson. N. Y., 1826- ——. A noted spiritualist of Poughkeepsie, among whose many mystical rhapsodical writings the following may be considered the most important: The Great Harmonia; Harmonial Man; Present Age and Inner Life; Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse; The Principles of Nature; The Penetralia; Genesis and Ethics of Conjugal Love; Autobiography, 1885. Ban.
Davis, Andrew McFarland. Ms., 1833- ——. Brother of H. Davis, infra. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge. Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Mac.
Davis, Asahel. Ms., 1791-18—. A Massachusetts antiquary who published Ancient America and Researches of the East (1847); History of New Amsterdam.
Davis, Augusta Cordelia. Me., 1836- ——. Poems from Yare.
Davis, Mrs. Caroline E—— [Kelly]. N. H., 1831- ——. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales. Among her fifty or more volumes are, No Cross, No Crown; Little Conqueror Series; Miss Wealthy’s Hope; That Boy. Lo.
Davis, Charles Henry. Ms., 1807-1877. Son of D. Davis, infra. A rear-admiral in the United States navy, and a noted hydrographer. Besides editing the American Nautical Almanac, he published Law of Deposit of Flood Tide; Geological Action of Tidal and Other Ocean Currents; and translated Gauss’s Theoria Motus Corporum Cœlestium. See Life, by C. H. Davis, infra, 1899.
Davis, Charles Henry. Ms., 1845- ——. Son of C. H. Davis, supra. A United States naval officer. Chronometer Rates as Affected by Temperature and Other Causes; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes.
Davis, Charles Henry Stanley. Ct., 1840- ——. A physician of Meriden, Connecticut. History of Wallingford and Meriden; The Voice as a Musical Instrument; Education and Training of Feeble Minded Children; Index to Periodical Literature.
Davis, Cushman Kellogg. N. Y., 1838-1900. A prominent Minnesota lawyer and United States senator, who wrote The Law in Shakespeare.
Davis, Daniel. Ms., 1762-1835. A Massachusetts jurist who was solicitor-general of his State, 1800-32. Criminal Practice; Precedents of Indictments.
Davis, Edwin Hamilton. O., 1811-1888. An archæologist whose chief work is Monuments of the Mississippi.
Davis, Emerson. Ms., 1798-1866. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1861-68. Historical Sketch of Westfield, Massachusetts; The Teacher Taught; The First Half Century, or Events and Changes, 1800-50.
Davis, George Thomas. Ms., 1810-1877. A Massachusetts lawyer whose speeches in Congress were published in 1852.
Davis, Henry Winter. Md., 1817-1865. A Maryland statesman and lawyer, conspicuously loyal to the Union during the Civil War. The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the 19th Century (1853); Speeches and Addresses in Congress (1867). Har.
Davis, Horace. Ms., 1831- ——. Nephew of G. Bancroft, supra. A manufacturer of California. Dolor Davis, a Sketch of his Life; American Constitutions and the Relation of the Three Departments as adjusted by a Century; Shakespeare’s Sonnets, an Essay.
Davis, Jefferson. Ky., 1808-1889. President of the Confederate States. After the fall of the Confederacy, in 1865, he was confined as a prisoner of war in Fortress Monroe, and upon his release, in 1867, he lived in retirement in Mississippi. His history, which appeared in 1881, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, is a valuable commentary on the Civil War as it appeared to one of the chief figures of the time, but it is as narrowly conceived as it is diffuse in statement and bitter in tone. See Lives, by Alfriend, 1868; E. A. Pollard, infra, 1869; Prison Life of, by Craven, 1866; Memoir by his Wife, 1890; London Times Biographies of Eminent Persons, 4th Series. Ap.
Davis, John A. G. Va., 1801-1840. A Virginia lawyer, professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1830-40. Estates Tail, Executive Devises, and Contingent Remainders under Virginia Statutes; Treatise on Criminal Law.
Davis, John Chandler Bancroft. Ms., 1822- ——. Brother of H. Davis, supra. A diplomatist who was agent for the United States before the Geneva court of arbitration on the Alabama claims, and afterwards, 1873-77, minister to Germany. The Massachusetts Justice; The Case of the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; Treaties of the United States, with Notes; United States Supreme Court Reports; Mr. Fish and the Alabama Claims. Hou.
Davis, John Woodbridge. N. Y., 1854-1902. Son of E. H. Davis, supra. A civil engineer who, besides contributing much to engineering journals, published Formulæ for the Calculation of Railroad Earth Work and Average Haul (1876), which speedily came into use as a text-book.
Davis, Lemuel Clarke. Md., 1835- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, editor of The Inquirer, and author of The Stranded Ship, a Story of Sea and Shore.
Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn [Moore]. Al., 1852- ——. A prominent writer of New Orleans, on the editorial staff of the Picayune. Minding the Gap, and Other Poems; In War Times at La Rose Blanche, sketches for young people; Under the Man-Fig, a novel; An Elephant’s Track and Other Stories; The Wire-Cutters. Har. Hou. Lo.
Davis, Matthew L. N. Y., 1766-1850. A Washington journalist who published a Life of Aaron Burr.
Davis, Nathan Smith. N. Y., 1817-1904. A Chicago physician, dean of the Northwestern University, whose principal writings include Lectures on Various Important Diseases; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Verdict of Science concerning the Effects of Alcohol on Man; Medical Education and Reform.
Davis, Noah Knowles. Pa., 1838- ——. A professor of moral science in the University of Virginia since 1873. The Theory of Thought, a Treatise on Deductive Logic; the Elements of Inductive Logic; the Elements of Deductive Logic. Har.
Davis, Peter Seibert. Md., 1828-1892. A German Reformed divine who wrote The Young Parson.
Davis, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine [Harding]. Pa., 1831- ——. Wife of L. C. Davis, supra. A novelist whose first story, Life in the Iron Mills, a powerful but sombre study of labouring-class life, attracted great attention in the earlier pages of The Atlantic Monthly. Her later works in fiction include Margret Howth; Waiting for the Verdict; Dallas Galbraith; A Law unto Herself; Kitty’s Choice; John Andross; Doctor Warrick’s Daughters; Silhouettes of American Life; Kent Hampden, a Story of a Boy; Natasqua; The Faded Leaf of History; Frances Waldeaux. Har. Lip. Scr.
Davis, Reuben. Tn., 1813-1890. A Mississippi lawyer and a general in the Confederate service, who was the author of Recollections of Mississippi and the Mississippians. Hou.
Davis, Richard Bingham. N. Y., 1771-1799. A verse-writer of New York city. See Poems, with Memoir edited by John T. Irving, 1807.
Davis, Richard Harding. Pa., 1864- ——. Son of L. C. and R. H. Davis, supra. A popular New York writer whose first book, Gallegher and Other Stories, brought him very suddenly into notice in 1890. His work is always characterized by dash and spirit, but exhibits some defects of style, and touches scarcely more than the superficial side of life. Van Bibber and Others; The Princess Aline; The Exiles; The West from a Car Window; Our English Cousins; About Paris; The Rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela; Stories for Boys. Har. Scr.
Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson. Va., 1864-1898. Daughter of Jefferson Davis, supra. An Irish Knight of the 19th Century, a Sketch of Robert Emmet; The Veiled Doctor. Har.
Davis, William Bramwell. O., 1832- ——. A physician and surgeon of Cincinnati. Report on Vaccination; Consumption and Life Insurance; Revaccination; Intestinal Obstruction; Progress of Therapeutics; The Alcohol Question.
Davis, William Morris. Pa., 1850- ——. A professor of physical geography in Harvard University since 1890. Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman; Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes; Elementary Meteorology. Gi. Har. Le.
Davis, William Watts Hart. Pa., 1820- ——. El Gringo, or New Mexico and her People; History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment; The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico; History of the Doylestown Guards. Har.
Dawes, Anna Laurens. Ms., 1851- ——. A daughter of Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and periodicals. How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and Future; Biography of Charles Sumner. Do. Gi.
Dawes, Rufus. Ms., 1803-1859. A witty jurist of Massachusetts, who won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of the Nashaway, and Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Historical Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.
Dawson, George. S., 1813-1883. A once influential Albany journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The Pleasures of Angling.
Dawson, Henry Barton. E., 1821-1889. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and editor of The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles of the United States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts; Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the Revolution. Scr.
Day, Henry. Ms., 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a volume of Spanish travels.
Day, Henry Noble. Ct., 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president, and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric, reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics; The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton; Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater number of his writings. Scr.
Day, Jeremiah. Ct., 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.
Day, Jeremiah. Ct., 1773-1867. Son of J. Day, supra. A noted mathematician who was president of Yale College, 1817-46. Introduction to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; Examination of Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane Trigonometry; Navigation and Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will and Contingent Volition.
Day, Richard Edwin. N. Y., 1852- ——. A journalist of Syracuse. Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.
Dayton, Amos Cooper. N. J., 1813-1865. A Baptist clergyman and physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith, was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel’s Daughter, a novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book; Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion.
Dean, Amos. Vt., 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures on Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of Civilization.
Dean, John. Ms., 1831-1888. A physician who published Microscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray Substance of the Medulla Oblongata.
Dean, John Ward. Me., 1815-1902. A noted antiquarian of Boston, editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and one of the founders of the Prince Society. Memoir of Nathaniel Ward, infra; Memoir of Michael Wigglesworth, infra; Life of John H. Sheppard; Life of William Blanchard Towne; Brief Memoir of Giles Firmin; The Embarkation of Cromwell for New England.
Dean, Paul. Vt., 1789-1860. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor in Boston, 1813-40, who was author of Lectures on Final Restoration.
Deane, Charles. Me., 1813-1889. An antiquarian writer of Cambridge, who published Some Notices of Samuell Gorton, with Memoir; First Plymouth Patent; and edited Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation; John Smith’s True Relation of Virginia, and other specimens of early American literature.
Deane, Margery. See Pitman, Mrs.
Deane, Samuel. Ms., 1784-1834. A Baptist clergyman of Scituate, Massachusetts. The Populous Village, a poem; History of Scituate.
Deane, Silas. Ct., 1737-1789. A diplomatist who, with Franklin and Lee, negotiated a treaty of peace and amity between France and the United States. He was subjected to much misrepresentation, and died abroad in poverty and exile. Letters to Robert Morgan; Paris Papers, or Mr. Silas Deane’s late Intercepted Letters to his Brother and Other Friends.
Deane, William Reed. Ms., 1809-1879. An antiquary of Mansfield, Massachusetts, who published genealogies of the families of Deane, Leonard, and Watson.
Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell. N. H., 1783-1851. A lawyer and public-spirited citizen of Boston, a son of Commodore Dearborn. Commerce of the Black Sea; Biography of Commodore Bainbridge; History of Navigation and Naval Architecture.
De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson. S. C., 1820-1867. A noted statistician of New Orleans, who founded De Bow’s Review. Industrial Resources of the South and West; Statistical View of the United States; The Southern States, their Agriculture, Commerce, etc. (1850).
De Charms, Richard. Pa., 1796-1864. A Swedenborgian divine of Baltimore and New York city. Freedom and Slavery in the Light of the New Jerusalem; The New Churchman Extra; Lectures at Charlestown.
De Costa, Benjamin Franklin. Ms., 1831-1904. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city, well known as an historical writer. The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America, illustrated by translations from the Icelandic Sagas; The Northmen in Maine; The Moabite Stone; Verrazano, the Explorer; The Rector of Roxburgh, a novel; and a number of historical monographs. See Bibliography of Maine.
Deems, Charles Force. Md., 1820-1893. A Methodist clergyman, prominent for many years in New York city as pastor of the Church of the Strangers. Triumphs of Peace, and Other Poems; Home Altar; Twelve College Sermons; Life of Dr. Adam Clarke; Devotional Melodies; Weights and Wings; The Light of the Nations; The Gospel of Common Sense as Contained in the Epistle of James; The Gospel of Spiritual Insight; A Scotch Verdict in re-Evolution; My Septuagint, comprise the larger number of his writings. Cas. Fu.
Deering, Nathaniel. Me., 1791-1881. A writer of Portland, Maine, whose work enjoyed a local fame. Carabasset, a tragedy; The Clairvoyants, a comedy performed both in Portland and Boston; Bozzaris, a tragedy. See Biographical Encyclopedia of Maine.
De Forest, John William. Ct., 1826- ——. A novelist of New Haven who was a Federal officer in the Civil War. His stories are skillfully constructed, and the characterization is strong, but they have hardly won the reputation that, as a whole, they deserve. History of the Indians of Connecticut to 1850; Oriental Acquaintances, or Travels in Asia Minor; European Acquaintances; Witching Times; The Lauson Tragedy; Seacliff, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty; Overland; Kate Beaumont; Honest John Vane; The Bloody Chasm; The Wetherel Affair; Justine Vane; Irene Vane; Irene the Missionary; Playing the Mischief. Ap. Har.
De Hart, William Chetwood. N. Y., 1800-1848. An officer in the United States army who published Observations on Military Law and Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial.
Dehon, Theodore. Ms., 1776-1817. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of South Carolina. A once popular preacher. Ninety Sermons on the Public Means of Grace.
De Kay, Charles. D. C., 1849- ——. Grandson of J. R. Drake, infra. A New York journalist and poet, literary editor of The Times since 1877. Hesperus; Vision of Nimrod; Vision of Esther; Love Poems of Louis Barnaval; The Bohemians, a Tragedy of Modern Life; Barye, his Life and Works. Ap.
De Kay, James Ellsworth. Pl., 1792-1851. A physician and naturalist of Oyster Bay, Long Island. Sketches of Turkey; Natural History of New York.
De Koven, James. Ct., 1831-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of Wisconsin, very prominent at one time as a leader of ritualistic thought, whose views more than once prevented his elevation to the episcopate. Sermons Preached on Various Occasions was issued after his death. Ap.
De Kroyft, Mrs. Susan Helen [Aldrich]. N. Y., 1818- ——. A writer living in Dansville, New York, who became blind soon after her marriage in 1845, her husband having died on their wedding day. A Place in thy Memory, a very popular collection of letters; Darwin and Moses, a lecture; Little Jakey, a story.
Delafield, Francis. N. Y., 1841- ——. A physician and surgeon of New York city, who was the first president of the Association of American Physicians and Pathologists. Handbook of Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy; Studies in Pathological Anatomy; Handbook of Pathological Anatomy.
De Lancey, Edward Floyd. N. Y., 1821- ——. A lawyer and historical writer of New York city. Memoir of James De Lancey; The Capture of Fort Washington the Result of Treason; Memoir of James W. Beekman; Memoir of William Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; Origin and History of Manors in the Province of New York; History of Mamaroneck, New York.
Deland, Ellen Douglas. N. Y., 1860- ——. A popular writer of stories for young people. Oakleigh; In the Old Herrick House; Malvern, a Neighbourhood Story. Har. We.
Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade [Campbell]. Pa., 1857- ——. A novelist and poet of Boston who became suddenly famous on the publication of John Ward, Preacher, a story upon lines similar to Mrs. Ward’s “Robert Elsmere.” Other works by her include The Old Garden and Other Verses; Sydney; The Story of a Child; Mr. Tommy Dove and Other Stories; Philip and his Wife; Florida Days, a volume of travels. Hou. Lit.
Delano, Amasa. Ms., 1763-1817. A once noted Massachusetts sea captain who was an extensive traveller, and published Narrative of Voyages and Travels.
Delavan, Edward Cornelius. N. Y., 1793-1871. A retired wine merchant of Schenectady, conspicuous as a temperance reformer. Adulterations of Liquors; Temperance in Wine Countries.
De Leon, Edwin. S. C., 1828-1891. A Washington journalist who was European diplomatic agent of the Confederacy during the Civil War period. Thirty Years of my Life on Three Continents; The Khedive’s Egypt; Askaros Kassis, the Copt, a novel; Under the Star and Under the Crescent. Lip.
Del Mar, Alexander. N. Y., 1836- ——. A New York writer on political economy. Gold Money and Paper Money; Essays on Political Economy; The Great Paper Bubble; What is Free Trade?; Resources, Productions, and Social Condition of Egypt; Why Should the Chinese Go?; History of the Precious Metals; History of Money in China; History of Money in Various Countries; The Science of Money; Money and Civilization; Statistical Handbook; The National Banking System; The Worship of Augustus Caesar.
De Long, George Washington. N. Y., 1844-1881. An Arctic explorer who was a lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Voyage of the Jeannette, including his journals of his latest expedition, edited by his wife, appeared in 1884.
Demarest, David D. N. J., 1819-1898. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey. History and Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church; Practical Catechetics; The Huguenots on the Hackensack.
Demarest, John Terhune. N. J., 1813-1897. A Dutch Reformed clergyman. Exposition of the Efficient Cause of Regeneration; Exposition of the First Epistle of Peter; Commentary on Second Epistle of Peter; Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Christocracy (with W. R. Gordon).
Demarest, Mrs. Mary Augusta [Lee]. N. Y., 1838-1888. A writer of popular, unpretentious verse, who published My Ain Countree and Other Poems.
Deming, Henry Champion. Ct., 1815-1872. A prominent lawyer of Hartford who published translations of the novels of Eugène Sue and a Life of General Grant.
Deming, Philander. N. Y., 1829- ——. A stenographic court reporter of Albany until 1882, whose sketches are characterized by much originality. Adirondack Stories; Tompkins and Other Folks. Hou.
Dempster, John. Fl., 1794-1863. A noted Methodist preacher and educator, and one of the founders of the theological school of Boston University. Lectures and Addresses was issued in 1864. Meth.
Denio [de-ni´o], Hiram. N. Y., 1799-1871. A Utica jurist who published Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court, and the Court for Correction of Errors.
Denison, Charles Wheeler. Ct., 1809-1881. A clergyman who as a young man was editor of The Emancipator, an anti-slavery journal of New York. During the Civil War he served as chaplain in the Federal army. The American Village and Other Poems; Paul St. Clair, a temperance tale; Antonio, the Italian Boy; The Child Hunters, an exposure of the padrone system; Life of General Grant; Out at Sea, a volume of verse; Sunshine Castle, a tale. The Tanner Boy; The Bobbin Boy; Winfield, the Lawyer’s Son, form a series of biographies of noted men for juvenile reading.
Denison, Daniel. E., 1613-1682. A famous colonial soldier of Massachusetts. Irenicon, or Salve for New England’s Sore.
Denison, Frederic. Ct., 1819-1901. A Baptist divine of Rhode Island. The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and its Witnesses, 1626-1876; Picturesque Narragansett; Picturesque Rhode Island, are his principal writings.
Denison, John Henry. Ms., 1841- ——. A Congregational clergyman retired from active service, but at one time college pastor at Williamstown, Massachusetts. Christ’s Idea of the Supernatural. Hou.
Denison, John Ledyard. Ct., 1826- ——. Brother of F. Denison, supra. A publisher of Norwich, Connecticut. Picturesque History of the Wars of the United States; Illustrated History of the New World.
Denison, Mrs. Mary [Andrews]. Ms., 1826- ——. Wife of C. W. Denison, supra. A prolific author of tales, mainly of home life, some of them to be classed as Sunday-school literature, while others are of a more ambitious character. Among them are Opposite the Jail; That Husband of Mine, which was issued anonymously and enjoyed an extraordinary popularity for a short time; That Wife of Mine; Rothmell; His Triumph; Old Slip Warehouse; Home Pictures; Like a Gentleman; If She Will, She Will. Har. Le. Lip.
Dennie, Joseph. Ms., 1768-1812. A journalist and essayist of Philadelphia, whose reputation in his day vastly exceeded his deserts. The Lay Preacher, or Short Sermons for Idle Readers, is his only literary legacy. See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892.
Denton, Franklin Evert. O., 1859- ——. A journalist of Cleveland who published in 1883 The Early Poems of Franklin Denton.
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell. N. Y., 1834- ——. A very prominent lawyer and railway president of New York city, of wide fame as a ready after-dinner speaker. He has published Orations and After-Dinner Speeches; Later Speeches. Cas.
De Peyster, John Watts. N. Y., 1821- ——. An historical writer of New York city, and a general of the State militia. Life of Torstenson; The Dutch at the North Pole and the Dutch in Maine; Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War; Personal and Military History of General Kearney; Life of Sir John Johnston; Mary, Queen of Scots, a Study; The Character of Mary and a Justification of Bothwell; Bothwell, a drama; The Thirty Years’ War; Before, At, and After Gettysburg; Life of Baron Cohorn; Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus; The Real Napoleon Bonaparte.
De Puy, Henry Walter. N. Y., 1820- ——. A lawyer and journalist. Kossuth and his Generals; Louis Napoleon and his Times; Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of ’76.
De Puy, William Harrison. N. Y., 1821-1901. A Methodist clergyman of western New York. Threescore Years and Beyond; Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Home and Health; Home Economics, a very popular book. Meth.
Derby, Elias Hasket. Ms., 1803-1880. A noted railway attorney of Boston. Two Months Abroad; Catholic Letters; The Overland Route to the Pacific; Position and Prospects of the United States with Respect to Finance, Commerce, and Prosperity.
Derby, George. Ms., 1819-1874. Cousin of E. H. Derby, supra. A physician of Boston, prominent as a sanitarian, who published Anthracite and Health.
Derby, George Horatio. “John Phœnix.” Ms., 1823-1861. Son of J. B. Derby, infra. A topographical engineer in the United States army who was a popular humourist in his day. Phœnixiana; Squibob Papers.
Derby, James Cephas. N. Y., 1818-1892. A noted publisher of New York and San Francisco, and author of Fifty Years Among Authors, Books, and Publishers.
Derby, John Barton. Ms., 1792-1867. Half-brother of G. Derby, supra. A verse-writer whose later years were spent in Boston. Musings of a Recluse; The Sea; The Village.
De Saussure, Henry William. S. C., 1763-1839. A jurist of South Carolina, who was director of the United States Mint in 1794, and published Reports of the Courts of Chancery and Equity in South Carolina from the Revolution to 1813.
Deshon, George. Ct., 1823-1903. A Roman Catholic priest of the Paulist order, whose Guide for Young Catholic Women has had a very extended circulation.
De Smet, Peter John. Bm., 1801-1872. A noted Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians, who came to the United States in 1821. His writings, originally published in French, include The Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains; Indian Letters and Sketches; Western Missions and Missionaries; New Indian Sketches.
De Trobriand [trō-brĕe-ăan´], Philip Regis. F., 1816-1897. A military writer who came to the United States in 1841, entered the army, and, after serving through the Civil War, retired from active service in 1879, and resided in New Orleans. Les Gentilshommes de l’Ouest, a novel; Quatre ans de Campagnes à armée du Potomac.
De Vere, Mary Ainge, “Madeline Bridges.” N. Y., 18— - ——. A writer of Brooklyn, Long Island. Love Songs and Other Poems; Poems.
De Vere, Maximilian Schele. Sn., 1820-1898. A philologist of note who came from Sweden to the United States in 1843, and after 1844 was a professor in the University of Virginia. Outlines of Comparative Philology; Studies in English; Americanisms; Wonders of the Deep; Grammar of the Spanish Language; Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature; Romance of American History, include the most important of his works. Lip. Put. Scr.
Devereux, Thomas Pollock. N. C., 1793-1869. A North Carolina lawyer who published Reports of North Carolina Supreme Court, 1826-34; Reports in the Superior Court, 1834-40; Equity Reports, 1826-40.
De Vinne, Daniel. I., 1793-1883. A Methodist clergyman of New York city. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Slavery; Recollections of Fifty Years in the Ministry; Irish Primitive Church.
De Vinne, Theodore Low. Ct., 1828- ——. Son of D. De Vinne, supra. A noted printer of New York city. Printer’s Price List; Invention of Printing; Historic Types.
Dew, Thomas Roderick. Va., 1802-1846. An educator of Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1836-46. A Digest of the History and Laws of Ancient and Modern Nations is his chief work. Other writings of his include The Policy of the Government; Lectures on History; Usury; Essay in Favour of Slavery, which had a great influence in turning popular sentiment against emancipation. Ap.
De Walden, Thomas Blaides. E., 1811-1873. A New York actor of some note as an author and adapter of many plays, among which are The Upper Ten and the Lower Twenty; Kit; The Jesuit.
Dewees, William Potts. Pa., 1768-1841. A once popular physician of Philadelphia, professor of obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. His literary style was bad, yet his writings were widely circulated in the profession and highly valued. Medical Essays; Physical and Medical Treatment of Children; System of Midwifery; Practice of Medicine. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Dewey, Chester. Ms., 1783-1867. A botanist who as an educator was connected with various colleges, and lastly with the University of Rochester. Besides a History of Herbaceous Plants of Massachusetts, he wrote an elaborate monograph on the Carices of North America, the result of many years’ labour.
Dewey, Melvil. N. Y., 1851- ——. The librarian of Columbia College and director of the New York State library. Library School Rules; The Decimal Classification and Relation Index.
Dewey, Orville. Ms., 1794-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of conservative opinions, once prominent as a pastor in New York and Boston. Unitarian Belief; Discourses on Human Life; The Old World and the New; Letters on Revivals; Problems of Human Life and Destiny; Education of the Human Race, comprise his principal writings. See Autobiography and Letters, 1883. A. U. A.
De Witt, Benjamin. 1774-1819. A New York physician and scientist who published Oxygen; Minerals in New York.
De Witt, John. N. Y., 1821- ——. A Reformed Dutch clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1863-92. The Sure Foundation and how to Build on It; The Psalms, a New Translation (1891); What is Inspiration? Rev.
De Witt, John. Pa., 1842- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary since 1892, and the author of Sermons on the Christian Life.
De Witt, Simeon. N. Y., 1756-1834. A once famous surveyor who is commonly held responsible for the classical nomenclature of places in central and western New York. He published Elements of Perspective.
Dexter, Henry Martyn. Ms., 1821-1890. A Congregational clergyman of prominence in Boston as editor of The Congregationalist, 1867-90. He was a positive, dogmatic writer, much addicted to historical and religious controversy. His most important work is The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years. Handbook of Congregationalism; Pilgrim Memoranda; The Verdict of Reason; As to Roger Williams and his Banishment, a marked example of special pleading; History of the Old Plymouth Colony; History and the Study of History; The Right Use of Books; The Study of Politics, include the greater number of his other works. C. P. S. Har.
Dexter, Samuel. Ms., 1761-1816. A jurist of Boston who was secretary of war under President John Adams. Letters on Free Masonry; Progress of Science, a poem; Speeches and Political Papers.
Diaz, Mrs. Abby [Morton]. Ms., 1821-1904. A Boston writer who in youth was one of the famous company at Brook Farm, and was afterward prominent in relation to social reforms. Her books for juvenile readers, which are characterized by a strong vein of humour, include The William Henry Letters; William Henry and his Friends; Chronicles of the Stimpcett Family; The Cats’ Arabian Nights; The John Spicer Lectures; Lucy Maria; Polly Cologne; Jimmyjohns; A Story-book for Children. Other works are Bybury to Beacon Street, a discussion of social topics; Domestic Problems; Only a Flock of Women. Lo.
Dibble, Sheldon. N. Y., 1809-1845. A missionary to the Sandwich Islands who published History of the Sandwich Island Missions.
Dickenson, Baxter. Ms., 1795-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, author of Letters to Students.
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth. Pa., 1842- ——. A once famous lecturer on politics and woman-suffrage who, after a short and unsuccessful career as an actress, has since lived in retirement. A Paying Investment, a Plea for Education; A Ragged Register of People, Places, and Opinions; What Answer? a novel; and two plays, Mary Tudor; The Crown of Thorns. Har. Hou.
Dickinson, Charles Monroe. N. Y., 1842- ——. A journalist of Binghamton, New York, who published The Children, and Other Verses.
Dickinson, Daniel Stevens. Ct., 1800-1866. A Democratic politician, long prominent in the State of New York. Speeches and Correspondence, with a biography of him by his brother, appeared in 1867.
Dickinson, Emily. Ms., 1830-1886. A poet whose entire life was passed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in great seclusion, and who rarely published any of her work. Since her death attention has been drawn to the strikingly original nature of her poetry by the publication of three volumes of Poems, selected from her manuscripts. They display an utter disregard of technique as well as an almost startling originality of conception. See Letters of, 1847-1886, edited by Mrs. Todd. Rob.
Dickinson, John. Md., 1732-1808. A political writer of great influence during the period of the Revolution. Dickinson College, which he helped to found, was named in his honour. He wrote vigorously against the Stamp Act, and his various state papers display both eloquence and dignity. Petition to the King; Second Petition to the King; Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer; Letters of Fabius.
Dickinson, Jonathan. E., 16— -1722. A chief justice of Pennsylvania who came to the colony in 1696. His book, entitled God’s Protecting Providence Man’s Surest Help in Times of Danger, is a narrative of personal adventure, and has been several times reprinted since its first appearance in 1699.
Dickinson, Jonathan. Ms., 1688-1747. A Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who was one of the chief American theologians of his day, and the first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton College). He was a voluminous writer, and much given to controversy of a theological nature. Among his many works are included Familiar Letters upon Important Subjects in Religion; Reasonableness of Christianity; True Scripture Doctrine. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Dickinson, Richard William. N. Y., 1804-1874. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Scenes from Sacred History; Responses from the Sacred Oracles; Religious Teaching by Example; Life and Times of John Howard; The Resurrection of Christ Historically and Logically Viewed.
Dickinson, Rodolphus. Ms., 1787-1863. An Episcopal clergyman in Deerfield, Massachusetts, who published a much criticised New and Corrected Version of the New Testament; Geographical and Statistical View of Massachusetts.
Dickson, Andrew Flinn. S. C., 1825-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alabama. Plantation Sermons; The Temptation in the Desert; The Light, is it Waning?
Dickson, John. N. H., 1783-1852. A New York congressman, early prominent in opposition to slavery. Remarks on the Presentation of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.
Dickson, Samuel Henry. S. C., 1798-1872. A physician of eminence in Charleston, and afterwards in Philadelphia, where from 1858 to 1872 he was a professor in the Jefferson Medical College. He wrote much on medical and other topics, his literary style being greatly admired. Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, and Death; On the Correlation of Forces; Æsthetics of Suicide; Elements of Medicine; Dengue, its History, Pathology, and Treatment; Manual of Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Essays on Pathology and Therapeutics; Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Didier [dy´deer], Eugene Lemoine. Md., 1838- ——. Son of F. J. Didier, infra. A Baltimore littérateur whose style as a critic is somewhat aggressive. Life of Poe; Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte; Primer of Criticism; The Political Adventures of James G. Blaine (1884). Scr.
Didier, Franklin James. Md., 1794-1840. A Baltimore physician who was the author of Didier’s Letters from Paris; Franklin’s Letters to his Kinsfolk.
Dillaye, Stephen Devalson. N. Y., 1820-1884. The Money and Finances of the French Revolution of 1789.
Dillon, John Forrest. N. Y., 1831- ——. A noted jurist of Iowa, and, since 1879, of New York city. United States Circuit Court Reports; Municipal Corporations; Removal of Causes from State to Federal Courts; Municipal Bonds; Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America. Lit.
Diman, Jeremiah Lewis. R. I., 1831-1881. A Congregational clergyman who was professor of history and political economy in Brown University from 1864. Orations and Essays; The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories. See Memoirs by Caroline Hazard, infra. Hou.
Dimitry, Charles Patton. D. C., 1837- ——. A novelist and journalist of New Orleans. Guilty or not Guilty; Angela’s Christmas; The Alderly Tragedy; The House in Balfour Street.
Dimitry, John Bull Smith. D. C., 1835-1901. Brother of C. P. Dimitry, supra. A journalist of New York city. History and Geography of Louisiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Civil War.
Dimmock, George. Ms., 1852- ——. A naturalist of Cambridge, at one time editor of Psyche, a journal of entomology. Anatomy of Mouth Parts of Some Insects of the Order of Diptera.
Dinnies, Mrs. Anna Peyre [Shackelford]. S. C., 1816-1886. A verse-writer of New Orleans who published The Floral Year, a collection of one hundred poems.
Dinsmore, Robert. N. H., 1757-1836. A homely verse-writer of Windham, New Hampshire, who was known as “The Rustic Bard,” and published Incidental Poems, strongly imitative of Burns. See Whittier’s Old Portraits and Modern Sketches.
Dirck, Cornelius Lansing. N. Y., 1785-1857. A Presbyterian clergyman for many years connected with Auburn Theological Seminary, who published Sermons on Important Subjects.
Disosway, Gabriel Poillon. N. Y., 1798-1868. An antiquary of New York city. The Children’s Book of Sermons; The Earliest Churches of New York and its Vicinity.
Disturnell, John. N. Y., 1801-1877. A map-publisher of New York city who was an industrious compiler of guide-books and similar literature. New York as it Was and Is, 1876; Influence of Climate in North and South America; The Great Lakes of America; Traveller’s Guide to Hudson River; Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Mississippi, include some of his more important works.
Ditson, George Leighton. Ms., 1812- ——. A noted traveller who published Circassia, or a Tour to the Caucasus; Crimora; The Para Papers, or France, Egypt, and Ethiopia; The Crescent and the French Crusaders; The Fedariti of Italy, a Romance of Circassian Captivity.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde. Me., 1802-1887. A famous Massachusetts philanthropist the greater part of whose life was spent in efforts to improve the condition of the insane. The present enlightened treatment of the insane throughout the world is due in large measure to the impetus given in that direction by her labours in America and Europe. Her writings, except Prisons and Prison Discipline, are intended for children, and include The Garland of Flora; Conversations about Common Things; Alice and Ruth; Evening Hours. See Life by F. Tiffany, infra.
Dix, John Adams. N. H., 1798-1879. A general and statesman who while secretary of the treasury in 1861 issued the celebrated order, “If any one attempts to tear down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” A Winter in Madeira, and A Summer in Spain and Florence; Speeches and Occasional Addresses; Resources of the State of New York. See Memoir, by Morgan Dix, infra. Ap.
Dix, John Homer. Circa 1810-1884. An oculist and aurist of Boston who published Changes of the Blood, a translation from the French of Gibert; Treatise on Strabismus; Morbid Sensibility of the Retina; The Opthalmoscope and its Uses.
Dix, Morgan. N. Y., 1827- ——. Son of J. A. Dix, supra. A prominent Episcopal clergyman of New York city conspicuous among High Church theologians, and rector of Trinity Church since 1859. Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Lectures on the Calling of a Christian Woman; Memoir of J. A. Dix, supra; Gospel and Philosophy; The Sacramental System; The Seven Deadly Sins; Lectures on the First Prayer Book of King Edward VI.; The Two Estates,—Wedded in the Lord, Single for the Kingdom of Heaven’s Sake. Ap. Dut. Har.
Dixon, James Main. S., 1856- ——. A professor of English literature in Washington University, St. Louis, since 1892, and the author of A Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases.
Doane, George Hobart. Ms., 1830- ——. Son of G. W. Doane, infra. A prelate of the papal household at Rome since 1886, with the title of Monsignore. First Principles; Exclusion of Protestant Worship from Rome; Manual of Instructions and Prayers.
Doane, George Washington. N. J., 1799-1859. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey; consecrated bishop in 1832. Songs by the Way; Sermons on Various Occasions. The familiar hymn beginning “Softly now the light of day” is one of his most noted poems. See Life and Writings of, by W. C. Doane, infra.
Doane, William Croswell. N. J., 1832- ——. Son of G. W. Doane, supra. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Albany. He has contributed much to reviews and other periodicals on topics of the day, is the author of a number of poems, among which The Sculptor Boy is often quoted, and has published several works, including Sermons; Mosaics, or the Harmony of Collect Epistle and Gospel for the Sundays of the Christian Year. As a theologian his place is amongst liberal High Churchmen.
Dod, Albert Baldwin. N. J., 1805-1845. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of mathematics at Princeton College, 1830-45. Theological Essays was his only published work.
Dodd, Mrs. Anna Bowman [Blake]. L. I., 1855- ——. A New York writer whose volumes of travels have been very popular. The Republic of the Future, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral Days; Glorinda: a Story; Three Normandy Inns; In the Norfolk Broads. Cas. Rob.
Dodd, Stephen. N. J., 1777-1856. A Presbyterian minister of Connecticut, who published History of East Haven; Revolutionary Memorials.
Doddridge, Joseph. Pa., 1769-1826. An Episcopal clergyman of western Virginia. Logan, a drama; Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83.
Dodge, David Low. Ct., 1774-1852. A New York merchant who was the first president of the New York Peace Society. The Mediator’s Kingdom not of this World; War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ. See Memorials of, 1854.
Dodge, Ebenezer. Ms., 1819-1890. A Baptist clergyman, president of Madison (now Colgate) University, 1868-90. Evidences of Christianity; Christian Theology.
Dodge, Mary Abby. “Gail Hamilton.” Ms., 1838-1896. A noted essayist and magazinist of Hamilton, Massachusetts, whose aggressive, pungent style made her writings at one time extremely popular. Much of her work is ephemeral in its nature, but it is always readable and often brilliant. A New Atmosphere; Gala Days; Woman’s Wrongs; Red-Letter Days; Summer Rest; Battle of the Books; Twelve Miles from a Lemon; Sermons to the Clergy; First Love is Best; What Think ye of Christ?; Country Living and Country Thinking; Skirmishes and Sketches; Wool-Gathering; Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness; Little Folk Life; Nursery Noonings; Our Common School System; Divine Guidance; The Insuppressible Book; A Washington Bible Class; Biography of James G. Blaine. Ap. Har.
Dodge, Mrs. Mary Barker [Carter]. Pa., 18— - ——. Belfry Voices; The Gray Masque and Other Poems. Lo.
Dodge, Mrs. Mary [Mapes]. N. Y., 1838- ——. A writer of New York city who has edited the Saint Nicholas Magazine since 1873. Her writings for young people include Hans Brinker; Donald and Dorothy; Rhymes and Jingles; Irvington Stories; A Few Friends; The Land of Pluck; When Life is Young, poems for young people. She has also written Theophilus and Others; Along the Way: a volume of Short Poems. Scr.
Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell. Ms., 1810-1874. A Boston littérateur who was the author of Stories of a Grandfather about American History. Le.
Dodge, Richard Irving. N. C., 1827-1895. A colonel in the United States army who saw much service in Indian campaigns, and made careful study of the Indian character. The Black Hills; The Plains of the Great West; Our Wild Indians; A Living Issue.
Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. Ms., 1842- ——. A captain and brevet lieutenant-colonel in the United States army, prominent as a military historian. The Campaign of Chancellorsville; A Bird’s-Eye View of our Civil War; Great Captains; Alexander, a History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B. C. 301, with a detailed account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian; Hannibal; Cæsar; Gustavus Adolphus; Patroclus and Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle; Riders of Many Lands. Har. Hou.
Dods, John Bovee. N. Y., 1795-1872. A clergyman of New York city whose published works include Thirty Sermons; Philosophy of Mesmerism; Philosophy of Electrical Psychology; Immortality Triumphant; Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained.
Doe, Charles Henry. Ms., 1838-1900. A journalist of Worcester, Massachusetts. Buffets, a novel.
Doesticks, Q. K. Philander. See Thomson, Mortimer.
Doggett, David Seth. Va., 1810-1880. A Methodist bishop who lived at Richmond, Virginia, and published The War and its Close.
Dolbear, Amos Emerson. Ct., 1837- ——. A professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenomena. Matter, Ether, and Motion. Le.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Me., 1845- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston. The Citizen and the Neighbour; Jesus and the Men about Him; A Catechism of Liberal Faith; The American Citizen.
Dole, Edmund Pearson. Me., 1850- ——. Cousin of C. F. Dole, supra. Assistant attorney-general of the Hawaiian Islands. Talks About Law. Hou.
Dole, Nathan Haskell. Ms., 1852- ——. Brother of C. F. Dole, supra. A littérateur of Boston who, besides publishing translations from the Russian of Tolstoï and other writers, is the author of A Score of Famous Composers; The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse; Not Angels Quite; History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-1878; On the Point, a Summer Idyl; Flowers from Foreign Gardens. One of his most important works is a variorum edition of the Rubáyát of Omar Khayyám. Cr. Est. Kt. Mer.
Donald, Elijah Winchester. Ms., 1848-1904. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, rector of Trinity Church from 1892. The Expansion of Religion. Hou.
Donaldson, Frank. Md., 1822-1891. A Baltimore physician, professor of hygiene in the University of Maryland since 1866. Influence of City Life and Occupations in Consumption.
Donaldson, James Lowry. Md., 1814-1885. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who published Sergeant Atkins, a tale of the Florida War.
Donnelly, Eleanor Cecilia. Pa., 1838- ——. Sister of I. Donnelly, infra. A Philadelphia writer of religious verse, the greater part of which is occupied with Roman Catholic themes. Among her many volumes are Domus Dei; Out of Sweet Solitude; Hymns of the Sacred Heart; Children of the Golden Sheaf and Other Poems.
Donnelly, Ignatius. Pa., 1831-1901. A Minnesota writer who, besides publishing An Essay on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Atlantis: the Antediluvian World; Cæsar’s Column; Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel, was the author of The Great Cryptogram. In this work he claims to have discovered a cipher in the plays of Shakespeare which sufficiently establishes the fact that they were written by Lord Bacon, an eccentric exercise of ingenuity that has not been taken seriously by scholars. Ap. Har.
Doolittle, Benjamin. Ms., 1695-1749. A clergyman of Northfield, Massachusetts, 1718-49. Narrative of the Mischief of the French and Indians, 1744-48; Inquiry into Enthusiasm.
Dorchester, Daniel. Ms., 1827- ——. A noted Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Concessions of Liberalists to Orthodoxy; Problem of Religious Progress; Latest Drink Sophistries; The Liquor Problem in All Ages; The Why of Methodism; Christianity in the United States; Romanism versus the Public Schools. Meth.
Dorgan, John Aylmer. 1836-1866. A lawyer and verse writer of Philadelphia, whose only publication was a collection of verse entitled Studies. See Manhattan Magazine, June, 1883.
Dorr, Benjamin. Ms., 1796-1869. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1837-69. The Churchman’s Manual; The History of a Pocket Prayer-Book; Recognition of Friends in Another World; Sunday-School Teacher’s Encouragement; Prophecies and Types Relative to Christ; Memorials of Christ Church; Travels in the East; Memoir of John Fanning Watson, infra.
Dorr, Mrs. Julia Caroline [Ripley]. S. C., 1825- ——. A poet and novelist of Rutland, Vermont. Her verse, much of which reaches a high degree of excellence, includes Daybreak, an Easter Poem; Vermont; Friar Anselmo; Afternoon Songs; Legend of the Baboushka; Poems (complete edition). Her other writings comprise four novels: Lanmere; Sibyl Huntington; Expiation; Farmingdale; Bermuda, a volume of travel; Bride and Bridegroom, or Letters to a Young Married Couple; The Flower of England’s Face; A Cathedral Pilgrimage. Lip. Mac. Meth. Ran. Scr.
Dorsey, Mrs. Anna Hanson. D. C., 1815-1896. A prolific writer of dramas, novels, poems, and essays, long resident in Washington, and from 1840 an ardent Roman Catholic. Among her works are May Brooke; Guy the Leper, an epic poem; The Old House at Glenarra; Palms; Warp and Woof.
Dorsey, Ella Loraine. D. C., 1853-1901. Daughter of Mrs. Anna Dorsey, supra. A Washington writer of stories for boys. Midshipman Bob; Saxty’s Angel; The Two Tramps.
Dorsey, James Owen. Md., 1848-1895. An ethnologist who for a time was an Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians, but for many years has been engaged in linguistic studies for the Bureau of Ethnology. Omaha Sociology; Osage Traditions; Kansas Mourning and War Customs; The Dhegiha Language, are among his writings.
Dorsey, Mrs. Sarah Anne [Ellis]. Mi., 1829-1879. A Mississippi author who was the amanuensis of Jefferson Davis, supra, to whom she bequeathed her estate of Beauvoir on the Gulf of Mexico, where he died. Lucia Dare; Agnes Graham, both stories of the Civil War; Panola, a tale of Louisiana; Atalie, or a Southern Villeggiatura; Life of Governor Allen of Louisiana.
Dorsheimer, William. N. Y., 1832-1888. A prominent citizen of Buffalo who was twice lieutenant-governor of New York, and published A Life of Grover Cleveland (1884).
Doten, Lizzie. Ms., 1829- ——. A Boston spiritualist trance medium whose verses are claimed to be inspired by the spirits of Shakespeare, Burns, Poe, and other poets of the past. Poems of Progress; Poems from the Inner Life. Ban.
Doubleday, Abner. N. Y., 1819-1893. A colonel and brevet major-general in the United States army who retired from active service in 1873. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; Gettysburg made Plain. Har. Scr.
Doubleday, Charles William. E., 1829- ——. A soldier who accompanied Walker on the famous Nicaragua expedition, and later served as acting brigadier-general in the United States army. Reminiscences of the Filibuster War in America.
Douglas, Alice May. Me., 1865- ——. A writer of verse and juvenile tales whose home is at Bath, Maine. Her verse includes Phlox; May Flowers; Gems Without Polish. Jewel Gatherers; The Peacemaker; Self-Exiled from Russia, are among her tales for young readers.
Douglas, Amanda Minnie. N. Y., 1837- ——. A popular novelist of Newark, New Jersey, whose more than thirty works of fiction have obtained a wide circulation. They are readable, and not without skill in construction, but are not particularly strong on the literary side. Among them are In Trust; Stephen Dane; Claudia; With Fate Against Him; Sherburne House; In Wild Rose Time; Seven Daughters; Larry; Hope Mills. Do. Le.
Douglas, Marian. See Robinson, Mrs. A.
Douglas, Silas Hamilton. N. Y., 1816-1890. A professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, 1844-79. Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with A. R. Prescott).
Douglass, Frederick. Md., 1817-1895. A famous orator and the most distinguished member of the African race in America. He was born in slavery, but escaped to the North in 1838, educated himself, and soon became prominent as an anti-slavery speaker. As time went on, his style, always picturesque and eloquent, became polished and elegant. My Bondage and My Freedom; Narrative of My Experience in Slavery; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881). See Life by Holland, 1891.
Douglass, William. S., c. 1691-1752. A Scottish physician who came to America and settled in Boston in 1718. He was a man of very positive views, most of which were opposed to those of the age and the community in which he lived, and his time was well filled in controversies with the clergy, physicians, magistrates, and colonial governors. His principal work is a Summary, Historical and Political, of the British Settlements in America. Others of less note are Mercurius Novanglicanus, an almanac; Treatise on Small Pox; Midwifery; Practical History of a New, Eruptive, Miliary Fever. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Dow, Daniel. Ct., 1772-1849. A Congregational clergyman of Thompson, Connecticut. Familiar Letters to Rev. John Sherman; The Pedobaptist Catechism; The Sinaitic and Abrahamic Covenants; Free Inquiry Recommended on the Subject of Free Masonry.
Dow, Lorenzo. Ct., 1777-1834. An eccentric Methodist travelling preacher, especially vehement against the Jesuits. Polemical Works; The Stranger in Charleston, or the Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow; A Short Account of a Long Travel; Journal and Miscellaneous Writings; History of a Cosmopolite, an autobiographic work.
Dowd, Mary Alice. W. Va., 1855- ——. An educator of Stamford, Connecticut, who has published Vacation Verses.
Dowling, John. E., 1807-1878. A Baptist clergyman of New York city whose writings had a large circulation. Vindication of the Baptists; History of Romanism; Defence of the Protestant Scriptures; Power of Illustration; Nights and Mornings; Judson Offering; Exposition of the Prophecies concerning the Second Coming of Christ.
Downes, John. N. Y., 1799-1882. A mathematician of Washington. Peter Parley’s Almanacs for Old and Young; Logarithms and Logarithmic Sines and Tangents; United States Almanac Complete, or Ephemeris.
Downes, William Howe. Ct., 1854- ——. A Boston journalist, for many years on the staff of the Transcript, and an art critic. Spanish Ways and By-Ways; The Tin Army of the Potomac, or a Kindergarten of War.
Downie, David. S., 1838- ——. A Baptist missionary to India who has published a History of the Telugu Mission.
Downing, Andrew Jackson. N. Y., 1815-1852. A once noted horticulturist and landscape gardener of New York who did much to popularize a knowledge of rural art. Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening; Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Architecture of Country Houses; Cottage Residences; Rural Essays. See Garden and Forest, vol. 8. Wil.
Downing, Mrs. Frances [Murdaugh]. N. Y., c. 1835-1894. A writer of Charlottesville, North Carolina, who has published Pluto, or the Origin of Mint Julep, a story in verse after the manner of the “Ingoldsby Legends;” and several novels, including Nameless; Perfect Through Suffering; Florida; Five Little Girls and Two Little Boys.
Downing, Jack. See Smith, Seba.
Drake, Benjamin. Ky., 1794-1841. A Cincinnati journalist whose writings include Cincinnati in 1820; Tales and Sketches from the Queen City; Life of Black Hawk; Life of William Henry Harrison; Life of Tecumseh.
Drake, Charles Daniel. O., 1811-1892. Son of Daniel Drake, infra. An eminent lawyer of St. Louis who published Law of Attachments; Life of Daniel Drake. Lit.
Drake, Daniel. N. J., 1785-1852. Brother of B. Drake, supra. A distinguished physician of Cincinnati and Philadelphia who is best known by his valuable work on The Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, which embodies a vast amount of patient research. His other works include Pictures of Cincinnati and the Miami Country (1815); History of the Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera; Essays on Medical Education; Discourses; Pioneer Life in Kentucky. See Lives by Mansfield, 1855, C. D. Drake, supra, 1871; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries. Clke.
Drake, Francis Samuel. Ms., 1828-1885. Son of S. G. Drake, infra. A bookseller of Boston whose Dictionary of American Biography is incorporated in Appleton’s Cyclopedia of Biography. Other works of his are Life of General Knox; The Town of Roxbury; Tea Leaves; Indian History for Young Folks. Har. Lip.
Drake, Joseph Rodman. N. Y., 1795-1820. A talented physician of New York city, co-author with Halleck, infra, of The Croaker Papers in the Evening Post. His poetical fame rests on The Culprit Fay, a delicate, fanciful creation, and the often-quoted poem The American Flag. His poetry was once extremely popular, but has failed to interest the readers of the latter half of the 19th century. A selection from his poems was made by his daughter and published in 1836.
Drake, Samuel Adams. Ms., 1833- ——. Son of S. G. Drake, infra. A littérateur of Boston whose histories and books of home travel have been deservedly popular. Around the Hub, a Boy’s Book About Boston; The Heart of the White Mountains; Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston; Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast; Old Landmarks and Historic Fields of Middlesex; Captain Nelson; The Watch Fires of ’76; Burgoyne’s Invasion of 1777; The Taking of Louisburg; The Battle of Gettysburg; Our Colonial Homes; New England Legends and Folk-Lore; The Making of New England, 1580-1643; The Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies, 1578-1701; The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837; The Making of the Great West, 1512-1853; History of Middlesex County; The Pine-Tree Coast. Est. Har. Le. Rob. Scr.
Drake, Samuel Gardiner. N. H., 1798-1875. A Boston bookseller of antiquarian tastes who, beside editing several historical works, was the author of Memoir of Cotton Mather; Entertaining History of King Philip’s War; Book of the Indians; Old Indian Chronicle; Account of the Family of Drake; Memoir of Walter Raleigh; History and Antiquities of Boston; Indian Biography; Indian Captivities; Annals of Witchcraft in the United States; History of the French and Indian War. See Bibliography of Maine.
Draper, Andrew Sloan. N. Y., 1848- ——. A lawyer and educator of Albany, and, since 1894, president of the University of Illinois. What Ought the Common Schools to Do?; How to Improve the Country Schools; Powers and Obligations of Teachers; School Administration in Large Cities; Origin of the New York Common School System; A Teaching Profession; Authority of the State in Education; Legal Status of the Public Schools; Normal and Training School System of New York; Responsibility and Authority of Trustees; American Schools and American Citizenship; Public School Pioneering in New York and Massachusetts.
Draper, Henry. Va., 1837-1882. Son of J. W. Draper, infra. A professor in the University of New York. The Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope; Text-Book of Chemistry.
Draper, John Christopher. Va., 1835-1885. Son of J. W. Draper, infra. A New York physician, professor in the University of New York. Text-Book in Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; Practical Laboratory Course in Physics; Text-Book of Medical Physics.
Draper, John William. E., 1811-1882. A distinguished scientist who came from England to the United States in 1832, and from 1839 to 1881 was connected with the University of New York. History of the Civil War in America; History of the Intellectual Development of Europe; The Future Civil Policy of America; Human Physiology; Elements of Chemistry; Text-Book of Natural Philosophy; Text-Book on Physiology; Researches in Actino-Chemistry; Scientific Memoirs; History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 16.
Draper, Lyman Copeland. N. Y., 1815-1891. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin; King’s Mountain and its Heroes.
Drayton, John. S. C., 1766-1822. Son of W. H. Drayton, infra. A South Carolina statesman, twice governor of his State. View of South Carolina; Letters written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States.
Drayton, William Henry. S. C., 1742-1779. A prominent figure among statesmen of the Revolution and a member of the Continental Congress. A History of the American Revolution, which he left in manuscript, was afterwards published by his son.
Drinker, Anne. “Edith May.” Pa., 1827- ——. A verse-writer of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Poems by Edith May; Tales and Verses for Children; Katy’s Story.
Drisler, Henry. N. Y., 1818-1897. A classical scholar of distinction, professor at Columbia College from 1843, whose Greek-and-English Lexicon has long been a standard authority.
Droch. See Bridges, Robert.
Drone, Eaton Sylvester. O., 1842- ——. A legal writer on the staff of the New York Herald. The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions, embracing Copyright and Playright. Lit.
Drummond, Josiah Hayden. Me., 1827-1902. A lawyer who was attorney-general of Maine for some years, and published Maine Masonic Text-Book for Use of Lodges; History of Masonic Jurisprudence.
Drury, Augustus Waldo. 1851- ——. A clergyman of the sect of United Brethren in Christ who has written a Life of Otterbein, the founder of the sect.
Drury, John Benjamin. N. Y., 1838- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Ghent, New York, who has published Truths and Untruths of Evolution. Ran.
Duane, James Chatham. N. Y., 1824-1897. A retired brigadier-general of the United States army, author of A Manual for Engineer Troops.
Duane, William. N. Y., 1760-1835. A once prominent journalist and politician of Philadelphia. Military Dictionary; The Mississippi Question; An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences; Visit to Colombia in 1822; American Military Library; Handbook for Riflemen; Handbook for Infantry.
Duane, William. Pa., 1808-1882. Son of W. J. Duane, infra. A Philadelphia writer who published Relation of Landlord to Tenant in Pennsylvania; Law of Roads, etc., in Pennsylvania; Canada and the Continental Congress; Ligan, a collection of Tales and Essays.
Duane, William John. I., 1780-1865. Son to W. Duane, supra. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia who was secretary of the treasury in 1833, and was dismissed from office by President Jackson for declining to order the deposits removed from the Bank of the United States. The Law of Nations Investigated; Letters on Internal Improvement; Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of the Deposits, 1838.
Dubbs, Joseph Henry. Pa., 1838- ——. A German Reformed clergyman, professor of history in Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, since 1875. Otterbein and the Reformed Church; Historic Manual of the Reformed Church; Home Ballads and Metrical Versions; Why Am I Reformed?
Du Bois, Augustus Jay. O., 1849- ——. A professor of engineering at Yale University since 1877. Elements of Graphical Statics; The New Method of Graphical Statics; Strains in Framed Structures; Mechanics. Wil.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. Ms., 1868- ——. An educator of African descent, assistant professor of sociology in the University of Pennsylvania. The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States, 1638-1810. Lgs.
Du Bois, William Ewing. Pa., 1810-1881. A Philadelphia numismatist, assayer at the Mint. Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations; Pledges of History, an account of the Antique Coins in the United States Mint.
Du Bose, Mrs. Catherine Anne [Richards]. E., 1826- ——. A Georgia writer who published The Pastor’s Household, or Lessons on the Eleventh Commandment, a juvenile tale.
Ducatel, Julius Timoleon. Md., 1796-1849. A chemist of Baltimore, professor in the University of Maryland and author of a Manual of Toxicology.
Du Chaillu [dü-chä-yü´], Paul Belloni. F., 1835-1903. A noted French traveller who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Ivar the Viking; Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; A Journey to Ashango Land; My Apingi Kingdom; Wild Life under the Equator; Lost in the Jungle; The Country of the Dwarfs; Land of the Midnight Sun; Age of the Vikings; Stories of the Gorilla Country. The greater number of his works are intended for juvenile reading. Har.
Duché, Jacob. Pa., 1737-1798. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia who made the prayer at the opening of the Continental Congress. Becoming discouraged at the want of success of the colonists, he urged Washington to abandon the cause. He was thereupon considered an enemy of the country and his property was confiscated. Caspipina’s Letters; Discourses on Various Subjects.
Dudley, Dean. Me., 1823- ——. A Boston lawyer of antiquarian tastes. Pictures of Life in England and America; The Dudley Genealogies; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent; History of the First Council of Nice; Officers of the Army and Navy; History of the Dudley Family.
Dudley, Thomas Underwood. Va., 1837-1904. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. He served in the Confederate army as a colonel, and afterwards entered the ministry. A Wise Discrimination the Church’s Need.
Dudley, William Russell. Ct., 1849- ——. A professor of botany at Cornell University, who has published The Cayuga Flora.
Duer, Edward Louis. N. J., 1836- ——. A physician of Philadelphia. Post Mortem Discoveries; Treatment of Diphtheria.
Duer, John. N. Y., 1782-1858. A once prominent New York jurist whose specialty was insurance law. Duer’s Reports; Laws and Practice of Marine Insurance.
Duer, William Alexander. N. Y., 1780-1858. Brother of J. Duer, supra, and like him a prominent jurist. He was president of Columbia College, 1829-42. Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States.
Duff, Peter. N. B., 1802-1869. An educator of Pittsburg, where he founded Duff’s Mercantile College, one of the earliest institutions of the kind. The North American Accountant was his only publication of note.
Duffel, Mary Gordon. Al., c. 1840- ——. A resident of Alabama, who published A History of Alabama; Guide to the Mammoth Cave.
Duffield, George. Pa., 1794-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Detroit as a leader among New School Presbyterians. Dissertations on the Prophecies; Regeneration; Travels in the Holy Land; Claims of Episcopal Bishops Examined, include his most important writings.
Duffield, George. Pa., 1818-1888. Son of G. Duffield, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of some note as a hymn-writer, one of his most popular hymns being “Stand up for Jesus.”
Duffield, John Thomas. Pa., 1823-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman who was professor of mathematics in Princeton College for many years, and published The Princeton Pulpit and many religious monographs.
Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby. L. I., 1843-1887. Son of G. Duffield, 2d. A Presbyterian clergyman of Bloomfield, New Jersey. English Hymns, their Authors and History; Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns; Warp and Woof, a Book of Verse. Fu.
Duffield, William Ward. Pa., 1823- ——. An engineer of Kentucky who was a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. School of the Brigade and Evolutions of the Line.
Duganne, Augustine Joseph Hickey. Ms., 1823-1884. A journalist of New York city chiefly known as a poet. During the Civil War he served in the Federal army, and was for some time a captive in Southern prisons. Among his writings are Prison Life in the South; Camps and Prisons; History of Governments; The Lydian Queen, a tragedy; Home Poems; Parnassus in Pillory, a satire.
Dugdale, Richard L. F., 1841-1883. A writer on sociology. The Jukes, or Heredity in Crime; Further Studies of Criminals.
Duhring, Julia. Pa., 1836- ——. An essayist who has published Philosophers and Fools; Gentlefolks and Others; Amor in Society; Mental Life and Culture. Lip.
Duhring, Louis Adolphus. Pa., 1845- ——. Brother of J. Duhring, supra. A physician of Philadelphia, prominent as a dermatologist. Atlas of Skin Diseases; Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Epitome of Skin Diseases; Cutaneous Medicine. Lip.
Duke, William. Md., 1757-1840. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Maryland who published A Clew to Religious Truth.
Dulany, Daniel. Md., 1721-1797. A noted Maryland statesman. Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes on the British Colonies.
Dulles, Charles Winslow. E. I., 1850- ——. A surgeon of Philadelphia. What to Do First in Accidents or Poisoning; What to Do First in Accidents and Emergencies; Accidents and Emergencies.
Dulles, John Welsh. Pa., 1823-1887. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, at one time a missionary to India. The Soldier’s Friend; Life in India; The Ride Through Palestine.
Dummer, Jeremiah. Ms., c. 1680-1739. A noted scholar who was colonial agent for Massachusetts in London, 1710-21, and was a political friend of Bolingbroke. A Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the Late Expedition to Canada; A Defence of the New England Charters,—both excellent specimens of literary skill as well as patriotism. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Dumont, Mrs. Julia Louisa [Carey]. O., 1794-1857. A once noted educator of Vevay, Indiana. Life Sketches from Common Paths.
Dunbar, Charles Franklin. Ms., 1830-1900. A professor of political economy at Harvard University from 1871. Chapters on The Theory and History of Banking. Put.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. O., 1872- ——. A verse-writer of Dayton, Ohio, of African descent. Lyrics of Lowly Life. Do.
Duncan, William Cecil. N. Y., 1824-1864. A Baptist clergyman of New Orleans. Life of John the Baptist; History of the Baptists for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era; The Years of Jesus; Brief History of the Baptists.
Duncan, William Stevens. Pa., 1834- ——. A physician of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Medical Delusions; Physiology of Death.
Dunglison [dŭng´glĭ-son], Richard James. Md., 1834-1901. Son of R. Dunglison, infra. A physician of Philadelphia who published Practitioner’s Reference Book; Elementary Physiology.
Dunglison, Robley. E., 1798-1869. An eminent Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College from 1836, and one of the most learned men of his profession. His most important work is his Medical Dictionary, which has a very wide reputation. Other works are, Human Physiology; Elements of Hygiene; General Therapeutics; The Medical Student; The Practice of Medicine; Commentaries on Diseases of the Stomach and Bowels in Children. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Dunham, Carroll. N. Y., 1828-1877. A once prominent homœopathic physician of New York. Homœopathy the Science of Therapeutics; Lectures in Materia Medica.
Dunham, William Russell. N. H., 1833- ——. A physician of Keene, New Hampshire, who has published Theory of Medical Science.
Dunlap, Andrew. Ms., 1794-1835. A lawyer of Boston, and author of Admiralty Practice in Cases of Maritime Jurisdiction.
Dunlap, John A. Circa 1793-c. 1858. A justice of the peace in New York city. Practice of the Superior Court of New York in Civil Actions; Abridgement of the 13th and 14th books of Coke’s Reports.
Dunlap, Samuel Fales. Ms., 1825- ——. Son of A. Dunlap, supra, and, like him, a lawyer of Boston. Origin of Ancient Names; Vestiges of the Spirit History of Man.
Dunlap, William. N. J., 1766-1839. A once prominent artist, dramatist, and theatrical manager of New York city. Life of George Frederick Cooke; Life of Charles Brockden Brown; The American Theatre; History of New York; History, Rise, and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States; Thirty Years Ago, a novel; New Netherlands, Province of New York; The Father, a comedy; Leicester, a tragedy, include the greater part of his writings.
Dunlop, James. Pa., 1795-1856. A Pittsburg lawyer prominent as an opponent of slavery. Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1853; Digest of the General Laws of the United States.
Dunn, Jacob Piatt. Ind., 1855- ——. The State librarian of Indiana. History of Indiana; Massacres of the Mountains, a History of Indian Wars in the Far West. Har. Hou.
Dunn, Lewis Romaine. N. J., 1822-1876. A Methodist divine of New Jersey. Lizzie Hagar, the Orphan Girl; The Mission of the Spirit; Angels of God; Sermons on the Higher Life.
Dunning, Albert Elijah. Ct., 1844- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, editor of the Congregationalist. The Sunday-School Library; Bible Studies; Congregationalists in America. C. P. S. Hi.
Dunning, Mrs. Annie [Ketchum]. “Nellie Grahame.” N. Y., 1831- ——. A prolific writer of Sunday-school tales, mainly for the Presbyterian Board of Publication. Among them are Clementina’s Mirrour; A Story of Four Lives; Broken Pitchers; Contradictions. Lo.
Dunning, Charlotte. See Morse, Mrs.
Duponceau [du-pŏn´sō or dü´poN´so´], Pierre Etienne. F., 1760-1844. A Frenchman who came to America as aid to Baron Steuben, settled in Philadelphia, and became eminent as a lawyer. He was president of the American Philosophical Society, and his Memoir on the Indian Languages of North America attracted much attention amongst scholars.
Dupuy [dü-pwe´], Eliza Ann. Va., 1814-1881. A sensational novelist of Kentucky, for many years a regular contributor of serial stories to the New York Ledger. Among them are The Conspirator, a story of Aaron Burr; The Huguenot Exiles; The Concealed Treasure. Har.
Durbin, John Price. Ky., 1800-1876. A Methodist clergyman noted for his eloquence, who was missionary secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1850-72. Observations in Europe; Observations in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. See Life by J. A. Roche, 1879. Har.
Durfee, Job. R. I., 1790-1847. A Rhode Island jurist who was chief justice of his State, 1835-47. What Cheer, or Roger Williams in Exile; Panidea, a philosophical treatise. See Complete Works, with Memoir by his son, 1849.
Durivage, Francis Alexander. Ms., 1813-1881. Nephew to Edward Everett, infra. A magazinist of Boston, among whose writings are The Fatal Casket; Life Scenes from the World Around Us; Cyclopedia of History.
Durrie, Daniel Steele. N. Y., 1819-1892. An antiquarian writer of Madison, Wisconsin, who published Bibliographia Genealogica Americana; History of Madison.
Dutcher, Addison Porter. N. Y., 1818-1884. A physician of Cleveland. Selections from my Portfolio, essays on Popular and Scientific Subjects; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Sparks from the Forge of a Rough Thinker; Two Voyages to Europe. Lip.
Dutcher, Jacob C. Circa 1820- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York. Requisites of National Greatness; The Prodigal Son; Our Fallen Heroes; The Old Home by the River; Frank Lyttleton, or Winning his Way.
Dutton, Clarence Edward. Ct., 1841- ——. An officer in the United States army associated with the Geological Survey. Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah; Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District; Hawaiian Volcanoes; Mount Taylor and the Zuñi Plateau; The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.
Dutton, Henry. Ct., 1796-1869. A prominent jurist of Connecticut who issued a Digest of the Connecticut Reports.
Duval, John Pope. Va., 1790-c. 1855. A Florida lawyer who published in 1840 A Digest of the Laws of Florida.
Duyckinck [dī´kiṉk], Evert Augustus. N. Y., 1816-1878. A literary critic of New York city, who with his brother George, infra, was the author of an Encyclopædia of American Literature, first issued in 1855. Its estimates were sometimes over-indulgent, but on the whole the work gave a fairly just view of the subject at that time. Other works by the elder Duyckinck are History of the War for the Union; Biography of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America.
Duyckinck, George Long. N. Y., 1823-1863. Brother of E. A. Duyckinck, supra. A writer of New York city who, beside his share in The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of Lives of George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; Bishop Latimer.
Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. Ct., 1816-1889. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, infra. An educator of New York city. The Higher Christian Education; Modern Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman’s Higher Culture; The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the Dwight Family in America; History of the Strong Family.
Dwight, Edwin Welles. Ms., 1789-1841. A Congregational clergyman of Richmond, Massachusetts, whose only publication was a History of Berkshire County.
Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis. Ms., 1803-1862. A Congregational missionary to Armenia. Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia; Christianity Revived in the East; Catalogue of Armenian Literature in the Middle Ages.
Dwight, Henry Edwin. Ct., 1797-1832. The eighth son of Timothy Dwight, infra. An educator of New Haven who published Travels in the North of Germany.
Dwight, Henry Otis. Ty., 1843- ——. Son of H. G. O. Dwight, supra. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and a correspondent of the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. Turkish Life in War Times; Constantinople and its Problems. Rev. Scr.
Dwight, John Sullivan. Ms., 1813-1893. A distinguished musical critic of Boston, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, an outspoken, fearless, high-class critical periodical, 1852-81. In earlier life he spent five years at Brook Farm, and was a contributor to The Dial. He was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the poem God Save the State.
Dwight, Mary Ann. Ms., 1806-1858. A teacher of drawing and painting in New York city. Grecian and Roman Mythology; Introduction to the Study of Art; Art as a Branch of Education.
Dwight, Nathaniel. Ms., 1770-1831. Brother of Timothy Dwight, infra. A physician and clergyman of Rhode Island and Connecticut, who published the first school geography in America, and was author also of The Great Question Answered; A Compendious History of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Bar.
Dwight, Sereno Edwards. Ct., 1786-1850. The fifth son of Timothy Dwight, infra. A Congregational clergyman and educator. Life of David Brainerd; The Hebrew Wife, an argument in opposition to marriage with a deceased wife’s sister; Select Discourses. He edited the Works of Jonathan Edwards, infra, in ten volumes, with Life. See Memoir by W. T. Dwight.
Dwight, Theodore. Ms., 1764-1846. Brother of Timothy Dwight, infra. A once famous journalist of New York city, and a member of Congress, well known as a Federalist. History of the Hartford Convention; Character of Thomas Jefferson. See Life and Writings, 1840.
Dwight, Theodore. Ct., 1796-1866. Son of T. Dwight, supra. A New York littérateur whose varied writings include Tour in Italy; New Gazetteer of the United States; History of Connecticut; Summer Tour of New England; The Northern Traveller; The Roman Republic of 1849; The Kansas War; Life of Garibaldi; The Father’s Book; First Lessons in Modern Greek; School Dictionary of Roots and Derivatives.
Dwight, Theodore William. N. Y., 1822-1892. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, infra. A jurist of note who was professor of municipal law in Columbia College. Argument in the Rose Will Case; Trial by Impeachment; Prisons and Reformatories (with E. C. Wines, infra).
Dwight, Thomas. Ms., 1843- ——. A physician of Boston, successor to O. W. Holmes, infra, as professor of anatomy in the Harvard Medical School. Anatomy of the Head; The Intracranial Circulation. Hou.
Dwight, Timothy. Ms., 1752-1817. A Congregational clergyman who was a very prominent figure in the early history of the republic, and as president of Yale College, 1795-1817, of great influence as an educator as well. His most important work is Theology Explained and Defended in a Course of 173 Sermons, which has gone into more than one hundred editions. Other prose works are Genuineness and Authenticity of the Old Testament; Observations on Language; Essay on Light; Travels in New England and New York, which still furnishes entertaining reading. His writings in verse include The Conquest of Canaan, a very ponderous epic; Greenfield Hill, a pastoral; The Triumph of Infidelity, a satire. See Sparks’s American Biography; Allibone’s Dictionary; Tyler’s Three Men of Letters, 1895.
Dwight, Timothy. Ct., 1828- ——. Grandson of Timothy Dwight, supra. A Congregational clergyman, president of Yale University, 1886-99, and one of the members of the New Testament Revision Company. The True Ideal of an American University.
Dwight, William Buck. Ty., 1833- ——. Son of H. G. O. Dwight, supra. A scientist who has been curator of Vassar College Museum for many years.
Dyckman, Jacob. N. Y., 1788-1822. A physician of New York city who was the author of Pathology of Human Fluids.
Dyer, Mrs. Catherine Cornelia [Joy]. N. Y., 1817-1903. Wife of H. Dyer, infra. Henry and the Bird’s Nest; Sunny Days Abroad; Brief History of the Joy Family; Records of the Dyer Family.
Dyer, Heman. Vt., 1810-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Voice of the Lord upon the Waters; Records of an Active Life, an autobiography.
Dyer, Sidney. N. Y., 1814-1898. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a song-writer. Voices of Nature and Thoughts in Rhyme; Psalmist for Use of Baptist Churches; Songs and Ballads; The Drunkard’s Child; Ruth, a Cantata; Black Diamonds; Home and Abroad; Hoofs and Claws; Ocean Gardens and Palaces; Elmdale Lyceum; The Beautiful Ladder, or the Two Students.
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Eads, James Buchanan. Ind., 1820-1887. A civil engineer of distinction and the designer of the Mississippi jetties. System of Naval Defence; Mouth of the Mississippi, the Jetty System Explained; Discussion on Upright Bridges.
Eames, Mrs. Jane [Anthony]. Ms., 1816-1894. A writer of Concord, New Hampshire. A Budget of Letters; The Budget Closed; My Mother’s Jewel; The Christmas Gift; Letters from Bermuda, comprise the most of her writing.
Earle, Mrs. Alice [Morse]. Ms., 1851- ——. A writer on American antiquarian themes. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days; Margaret Winthrop, a biography; Costume of Colonial Times; Customs and Fashions in Old New England; The Sabbath in Puritan New England; China-Collecting in America; Colonial Dames and Goodwives; Colonial Days in Old New York. Hou. S. Scr.
Earle, Pliny. Ms., 1809-1892. A son of the inventor of the same name, and a prominent physician, who was superintendent of the State Insane Hospital at Northampton, Massachusetts, 1864-1885. Marathon and Other Poems; Institutions for the Insane in Prussia, Germany, and Austria; Visits to Thirteen Insane Asylums in Europe; The Curability of Insanity; Blood-Letting in Disorders; The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and his Descendants.
Earle, Thomas. Ms., 1796-1849. Brother of P. Earle, supra. A lawyer and philanthropist of Philadelphia. Essay on Penal Law; Right of States to Alter and Annul their Charters; Railroads and Internal Communications (1830); Life of Benjamin Lundy.
Early, Jubal Anderson. Va., 1816-1894. A distinguished general in the Confederate army who settled in New Orleans after the close of the Civil War. Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States; Campaigns of General Lee; Jackson’s Campaign against Pope.
Eastburn, James Wallis. E., 1797-1819. An Episcopal clergyman remembered as co-author with R. C. Sands of the once noted poem Yamoyden.
Eastburn, Manton. E., 1801-1872. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, and somewhat prominent as a dogmatic, aggressive Low Churchman. Lectures on Hebrew, Latin, and Greek Poetry; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians; Essays and Dissertations on Biblical Literature.
Eastman, Charles Gamage. Me., 1816-1861. A verse-writer of Montpelier, Vermont, who published in 1848 a volume of Poems, descriptive of rural life in New England, that was popular for a time.
Eastman, Mrs. Elaine [Goodale]. Ms., 1863- ——. A writer who, with her younger sister, Dora Goodale, infra, attracted much attention, when both were children, by the publication of several volumes of poems, of which the literary quality was very marked. She afterward became a teacher at various Indian schools, and in 1891 married Dr. Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian, educated at the Boston University; she now lives in South Dakota. Journal of a Farmer’s Daughter; The Coming of the Birds. See Goodale, D. R.
Eastman, Julia Arabella. N. Y., 1837- ——. A Massachusetts teacher who has written a number of juvenile tales, among which are Short Comings and Long Goings; Young Rick; Kitty Kent’s Trouble. Lo.
Eastman, Mrs. Mary [Henderson]. Va., 1818- ——. Wife of S. Eastman, infra. Romance of Indian Life; Dacotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux; American Aboriginal Portfolio; Chicora and other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered; Tales of Fashionable Life; Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, a reply to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Eastman, Philip. N. H., 1799-1869. A jurist of Maine. General Statutes of Maine; Digest of Maine Law Reports.
Eastman, Seth. Me., 1808-1875. An officer in the United States army stationed at Fort Snelling and other places on the Western frontier; afterwards a lieutenant-colonel and brevet brigadier-general. History, Condition, and Future Prospects of the Indians of the United States; Topographical Drawing.
Eaton, Amos. N. Y., 1776-1842. A once prominent scientist whose writings include Index to Geology of the Northern States; Natural History of New York; Geological Survey of the Erie Canal District; Philosophical Instructor; Manual of Botany of North America.
Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton. N. S., 1849- ——. An Episcopal clergyman and instructor of New York city. The Heart of the Creeds, a notable contribution to Broad church literature; Acadian Legends and Lyrics; Letter-Writing: its Ethics and Etiquette; The Church of England in Nova Scotia; Tales of a Garrison Town (with C. L. Betts, supra).
Eaton, Cyrus. Me., 1784-1875. An educator of Maine who was totally blind for the last thirty years of his life. Annals of Warren, Maine; Woman, a poem; History of Thomaston, Maine.
Eaton, Daniel Cady. Mch., 1834-1895. Grandson of Amos Eaton, supra. A professor of botany at Yale University. The Ferns of North America; Ferns of the Southwest. Wn.
Eaton, Daniel Cady. N. Y., 1837- ——. Cousin of D. C. Eaton, supra. A professor of the history of art at Yale University, 1869-76. Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture. Hou.
Eaton, Dorman Bridgeman. Vt., 1823-1899. A jurist of New York city, prominent in civil service reform, who published Civil Service in Great Britain, and edited the seventh edition of Kent’s Commentaries. Har.
Eaton, John Henry. Tn., 1790-1856. A once noted politician who was secretary of war, 1829-31, and minister to Spain, 1836-40. He wrote a Life of Andrew Jackson.
Eaton, Samuel John Mills. Pa., 1820-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Franklin, Pennsylvania, 1848-82. Petroleum; History of Venango County, Pennsylvania; Lake Side; Jerusalem, the Holy City; Palestine.
Eaton, Thomas Treadwell. Tn., 1845- ——. A Baptist minister of Louisville. My Angels; Talks to Children; Marriage and Law; Talks on Getting Married.
Eberle, John. Pa., 1787-1838. A noted physician of Philadelphia, and later of Cincinnati. Botanical Terminology; Diseases and Physical Education of Children; Therapeutics and Materia Medica; Notes on Theory and Practice of Medicine. Lip.
Eckard, James Read. Pa., 1805-1887. A Presbyterian missionary to India. Faith and Justification (in the Tamil language); The Hindoo Traveller; Outline of English Law from Blackstone.
Eddy, Ansel Doane. Ms., 1798-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York who published the Christian Citizen; Duties, Dangers, and Securities of Youth.
Eddy, Clarence. Ms., 1851- ——. An organist of Chicago. The Church and Concert Organist; The Organ in Church.
Eddy, Daniel Clark. Ms., 1823-1896. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, and subsequently of Brooklyn, who wrote extensively, some of his books having been very popular. Among them are The Percy Family, and Walter’s Tour in the East, two series of volumes for young readers; Young Man’s Friend; Young Woman’s Friend; The Burman Apostle, a life of Judson; Roger Williams and the Baptists; The Unitarian Apostasy; Europa, or Scenes in the Old World; Waiting at the Cross; Angel Whispers.
Eddy, Henry Turner. Ms., 1844- ——. A mathematician, since 1874 a professor in the University of Cincinnati. Analytical Geometry; Researches in Graphical Statics; Thermodynamics; Maximum Stress under Concentrated Loads.
Eddy, Mrs. Mary Morse [Baker] [Glover] [Patterson]. N. H., 1822- ——. A resident of Concord, New Hampshire, widely known as the founder of the sect of Christian Scientists. Besides Christian Science; Science and Health, she has published a number of pamphlets on the general subject of Christian Science.
Eddy, Richard. R. I., 1828- ——. A Universalist clergyman of Melrose, Massachusetts. Universalism in America; History of the Sixtieth New York Regiment; The Martyr to Liberty.
Eddy, Thomas. Pa., 1758-1827. A philanthropist whose efforts were chiefly in the direction of prison reform, and who was the author of The State Prisons of New York. See Life by S. L. Knapp, 1834.
Eddy, Thomas Mears. O., 1823-1874. A Methodist minister of Chicago, who published Patriotism of Illinois, a history of that State during the Civil War.
Eddy, Zachary. Vt., 1815-1891. A Presbyterian minister of Augusta, Georgia. Immanuel, or the Life of Christ; Hymns of the Church; Songs of the Church.
Edes, Henry Herbert. Ms., 1849- ——. A Boston merchant of antiquarian tastes, who has published Charlestown’s Historic Points; Memorial of Josiah Barker.
Edes, Robert Thaxter. Me., 1838- ——. A physician of Washington. Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases; Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic or Ganglionic Nervous System; Therapeutical Handbook of United States Pharmacopœia; Text Book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica.
Edgar, Cornelius Henry. N. J., 1811-1884. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Easton, Pennsylvania. Lectures on Slavery; Discourses on the Death of Lincoln; Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted; Exposition of the Nine Last Wars (1867).
Edgren, August Hjalmar. Sn., 1840- ——. A Swedish scholar who came to the United States in 1862, and served for a time in the Federal army, and afterwards in the Swedish army. Since 1884 he has been professor of languages in the University of Nebraska. Complete Sanskrit Grammar; German and English Dictionary (with W. D. Whitney, infra); The Literature of America (in Swedish); Public Schools and Colleges of the United States; Swedish Literature in America; American Antiquities.
Edmonds, John Worth. N. Y., 1799-1874. A prominent jurist of New York city, noted as an ardent defender of Spiritualism. Spiritualism (with G. T. Dexter); Reports of Select Law Cases; Letters and Tracts on Spiritualism.
Edwards, Bela Bates. Ms., 1802-1852. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Andover Theological Seminary, and editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra. He published an Eclectic Reader; Biography of Self-made Men; Memoirs of E. Cornelius; but his principal work was in the line of religious editorship. See Memoir by E. A. Parks, infra.
Edwards, Charles. E., 1797-1868. A New York lawyer who was counsel to the British consulate. The Juryman’s Guide; Parties to Bills and Other Pleadings; Feathers from my Own Wings; Receivers in Chancery; Reports of Chancery Cases; Receivers in Equity; Referees; History and Poetry of Finger Rings; Pleasantries about Courts and Lawyers.
Edwards, Emory. Va., 1841- ——. A naval engineer who served in the United States navy as assistant engineer, 1864-68, and was subsequently employed in a similar capacity in the merchant marine service. A Catechism of the Marine Steam Engine; Modern American Locomotive Engines; Modern American Marine Engines, Boilers, and Screw Propellers; The Practical Steam Engineer’s Guide. Bai.
Edwards, George Wharton. Ct., 1860- ——. An artist and writer of short stories living at Plainfield, New Jersey. P’tit Matinic’, and Other Monotones; Thumb-Nail Sketches; The Rivalries of Long and Short Codiac; Break o’ Day and Other Stories. Cent.
Edwards, Harry Stillwell. Ga., 1854- ——. A littérateur and journalist of Macon, Georgia. Two Runaways and Other Stories; Sons and Fathers. Cent. Ra.
Edwards, James Thomas. N. J., 1838- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Baltimore. The Grass Family; The Voice Tree; The Silva of Chautauqua Lake.
Edwards, John. W., 1806-1887. A Welsh poet who came to America in 1828, and settled in central New York. He was long prominent amongst Welsh residents in the United States, and published two volumes of verse, The Crucifixion; The Omnipresence of God.
Edwards, John Ellis. N. C., 1814-1891. A Methodist clergyman of Richmond, Virginia. Life of John Wesley Childs; Random Sketches and Notes of European Travel; The Confederate Soldier; Log Meeting-House.
Edwards, Jonathan. Ct., 1703-1757. A Congregational clergyman who must be called the most subtle reasoner the New World has ever produced. He was the son of Timothy Edwards, a Congregational minister of East Windsor, Connecticut, and was minister at Northampton, Massachusetts, 1727-50. From 1751 to 1758 he served as missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, and the last month of his life was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He was the greatest defender of Calvinism that has ever lived, and as a preacher had an extraordinary influence. His famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” is the best example of the pitiless, ferocious realism of his style. His chief work is the celebrated Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, a masterpiece of acute, precise, and original thinking. His other works include Notes on the Mind and Natural Science, written when he was between 15 and 16 years of age; The Religious Affections; Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit; Nature of True Virtue; God’s Last End in the Creation; Treatise on Grace; Doctrine of Original Sin Defended; Inquiry into the Qualifications for Communion; Thoughts for the Revival of Religion; History of the Redemption; Life of David Brainerd. See Lives by S. E. Dwight, supra; S. Hopkins, infra; A. V. G. Allen, 1889, supra; Sparks’s American Biography, vol. 8; Tyler’s American Literature; Duyckinck’s Cyclopedia; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Edwards, Jonathan, Jr. Ms., 1745-1801. Son of Jonathan Edwards, supra. A Congregational clergyman of great ability who was president of Union College. Treatise on Liberty and Necessity; Discourses on the Atonement. See Memoir by Tryon Edwards, infra; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Edwards, Justin. Ms., 1787-1853. A Congregational clergyman, prominent in the temperance movement. Beside a Sabbath Manual; Temperance Manual, he published a great number of tracts. See Memoir by W. Hallock, 1854.
Edwards, Morgan. W., 1722-1795. A Welsh Baptist clergyman who came to America in 1761, and was the foremost colonial minister of his faith. He was one of the founders of Brown University. Materials Toward a History of the Baptists in Pennsylvania; Materials Toward a History of the Baptists in New Jersey.
Edwards, Ninian Wirt. Ky., 1809-1889. A prominent jurist of Illinois, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of that State. History of Illinois and Ninian Edwards.
Edwards, Tryon. Ct., 1809-1894. A grandson of Jonathan Edwards, Jr. A Congregational clergyman who edited the Works of Joseph Bellamy, supra, with Memoir; the Works of his grandfather; and published, among other works, Christianity a Philosophy of Principles; Self-Cultivation; Light for the Day; Wonders of the Word; Anecdotes for the Family.
Edwards, William Emory. Va., 1842-1903. Son of J. E. Edwards, supra. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia who was the author of John Newson, a Tale of College Life.
Edwards, William Henry. N. Y., 1822- ——. A naturalist of Coalburgh, West Virginia. The Butterflies of North America; Voyage up the Amazon. Hou.
Egan, Maurice Francis. Pa., 1852- ——. A journalist and littérateur, now professor at the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His prose writings include That Girl of Mine; That Lover of Mine; A Garden of Roses; Stories of Duty; The Life Around Us; The Theatre and Christian Parents; Modern Novelists; Lectures on English Literature; The Disappearance of Mr. Longworthy; A Primer of English Literature; A Gentleman; A Marriage of Reason; The Success of Patrick Desmond; The Flower of the Flock. In verse he has published Preludes; Songs and Sonnets, and Other Poems. Mg.
Egar, John Hodson. E., 1832- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Rome, New York. The Threefold Grace of the Holy Trinity; Christendom, Ecclesiastical and Political.
Eggleston, Edward. Ind., 1837-1902. A novelist long resident near Lake George, New York, who, in the early part of his career, was a Methodist minister. He was especially successful in depicting life in southern Indiana in pioneer days, his first important work, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, attracting widespread notice. Other fictions by him include The End of the World; The Circuit Rider; Roxy; The Graysons, a story of Illinois; The Faith Doctor; The Hoosier Schoolboy; Queer Stories; Schoolmasters’ Stories for Boys and Girls; Mr. Blake’s Walking-Stick; Duffels. Still other works are Sunday-School Manual; Counsel for Teachers; School History of the United States; Household History of the United States; First Book in American History; Stories of Great Americans; The Beginners of a Nation, the first volume in a History of Life in the United States. In collaboration with his daughter, Mrs. Seelye, infra, he wrote Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet; Pocahontas; Brandt and Red Jacket; Montezuma. See Vedder’s American Writers. Am. Ap. Cent. Do. Scr.
Eggleston, George Cary. Ind., 1839- ——. Brother of E. Eggleston, supra. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and afterwards filled several journalistic positions in New York city, becoming editor of the Commercial Advertiser in 1886. His writings are mainly for young people. How to Educate Yourself; A Man of Honor; A Rebel’s Recollections; How to Make a Living; How to Make Money; The Big Brother, or a Story of the Indian War; Captain Sam; Signal Boys; The Wreck of the Red Bird; Strange Stories from History for Young People; Red Eagle; Juggernaut: a Veiled Record (with Dolores Marbourg). Do. Fo. Har. Put.
Egle, William Henry. Pa., 1830-1901. A physician and local historian of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History of Pennsylvania; History of Dauphin County; History of Lebanon County; Historical Register; Pennsylvania Genealogies, Scotch-Irish and German; Pennsylvania in the Revolution; Notes and Queries relative to Interior Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Archives (edited with J. B. Linn, infra), in 12 volumes.
Egleston, Thomas. N. Y., 1832-1900. A metallurgist of note, professor of mineralogy at Columbia College from 1864. Metallurgy of Silver; Catalogue of Minerals; Lectures on Mineralogy; Life of John Patterson, Major-General in the Army of the Revolution. Wil.
Eidlitz, Leopold. Bo., 1823-1896. An architect of New York city. The Nature and Function of Art.
Elder, Cyrus. Pa., 1833- ——. Nephew of W. Elder, infra. A revenue commissioner of Pennsylvania. Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise; Man and Labor; Short Studies; May Gift, in verse.
Elder, George A. M. Ky., 1794-1838. A Roman Catholic priest who founded the College of St. Joseph, at Bardstown, Kentucky, and was its first president. He wrote Letters to Brother Jonathan.
Elder, Mrs. Susan [Blanchard]. La., 1835- ——. A littérateur of New Orleans who has written extensively for Roman Catholic periodicals. The Loss of the Papacy; James the Second; Savonarola; Ellen Fitzgerald, a Southern tale.
Elder, William. Pa., 1806-1885. A Philadelphia physician, prominent as an abolitionist. Periscopics, a volume of miscellanies; The Enchanted Beauty; Life of Dr. Kane, infra; The Debt and Resources of the United States (1863); Questions of the Day, Economic and Social; Conversations on the Principal Subjects of Political Economy. Bai.
Eliot, Charles William. Ms., 1834- ——. Son of S. A. Eliot, infra. A distinguished educator who has been president of Harvard University since 1869. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (with Storer).
Eliot, Jared. Ct., 1685-1763. Grandson of John Eliot, 1st, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Killingworth, Connecticut, 1707-63, famous in his day as an agriculturist, physician, and scientist. He was awarded a medal by the London Institute in 1786 “for producing malleable iron from American Black Sand.” Essays upon Field and Husbandry, and many single sermons.
Eliot, John. E., 1604-1690. A Puritan minister of Roxbury who came to America in 1631, and is famous in history as the “Indian Apostle.” He is chiefly remembered for his famous translation of the Bible into the Indian language, but he was the author of other works, among which are the Communion of Churches; The Harmony of the Gospels; Dying Speeches of Several Indians; The Indian Primer; Indian Logic Primer. See Sparks’s American Biography; Life by R. B. Caverly; Appleton’s American Biography; Hart’s American Literature.
Eliot, John. Ms., 1754-1813. A clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New North Congregational church, 1779-1813, and author of the New England Biographical Dictionary.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins. Ms., 1798-1862. A citizen of Boston who was mayor 1837-39, and published Observations on the Bible for the Use of Young Persons; Sketch of the History of Harvard College.
Eliot, Samuel. Ms., 1821-1898. A New England educator of prominence, at one time president of Trinity College. History of Liberty; Manual of United States History; Life and Times of Savonarola.
Eliot, William Greenleaf. Ms., 1811-1887. A Unitarian clergyman of St. Louis, chancellor of Washington University there, 1872-87. Doctrines of Christianity; Early Religious Education; Lectures to Young Men; Lectures to Young Women; Discipline of Sorrow; Manual of Prayer; The Unity of God; The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom; Home Life and Influence. A. U. A.
Ellet, Charles. Pa., 1810-1862. An engineer of note who built the first wire suspension bridge in America. He served during the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army, and was killed in an engagement on the Mississippi. Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley; Coast and Harbor Defences; The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, with Plans for Protecting the Delta from Inundation. Lip.
Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth Fries [Lummis]. N. Y., 1818-1877. A once popular miscellaneous writer whose historical works were the outcome of a good deal of research and are not without value, but whose productions as a whole have little of the quality of permanence. They include Domestic History of the American Revolution; Women of the American Revolution; Court Circles of the Republic; Queens of American Society; Pioneer Women of the West; Novelettes of the Musicians; Rambles in the West; The Practical Housekeeper; Family Pictures from the Bible; Evenings at Woodlawn; Poems, Original and Selected; Teresa Contarini, a tragedy; Scenes in the Life of Joanna of Sicily; The Characters of Schiller; Women Artists in All Ages. Har.
Ellinwood, Frank Fields. N. Y., 1826- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The Great Conquest; Oriental Religions and Christianity. Scr.
Elliot, Benjamin. S. C., 1786-1836. A South Carolina jurist who published Refutation of Calumnies respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery; The Militia System of South Carolina.
Elliot, George Henry. Ms., 1831-1900. A military engineer in the service of the United States. European Light-House Systems; The Presidio of San Francisco.
Elliot, Henry Rutherford. 1849- ——. A journalist of New York city. The Basset Claim, a Story of Life in Washington; The Common Chord, a Story of the Ninth Ward. Cas.
Elliot, Samuel Hayes. Vt., 1809-1869. A Congregational clergyman of New Haven. Rolling Ridge, or the Book of Four-and-Twenty Chapters; The Parish Side; Dreams and Realities; New England’s Chattels, or Life in a Northern Poor-House; The Attractions of New Haven.
Elliott, Charles. I., 1792-1869. A Methodist clergyman, at one period president of Iowa Wesleyan University. Treatise on Baptism; Delineation of Roman Catholicism; Life of Bishop Roberts; History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church; Political Romanism; Reminiscences of the Wyandotte Mission; Southwestern Methodism; The Bible and Slavery; Sinfulness of American Slavery. Meth.
Elliott, Charles. S., 1815-1892. A Presbyterian minister, professor of Hebrew at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. The Sabbath; The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; Vindication of the Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch.
Elliott, Charles Wyllys. Ct., 1817-1883. A New York writer, at one time a landscape gardener of note. The Book of American Interiors; Pottery and Porcelain; Remarkable Characters and Places in the Holy Land; Cottages and Cottage Life; Mysteries, or Glimpses of the Supernatural; St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Toussaint l’Ouverture; New England History, from its Discovery by the Northmen; Wind and Whirlwind, a novel. Ap. Hou.
Elliott, Ezekiel Brown. Sn., 1823-1888. A government statistician of note. Unification of International Coinage.
Elliott, Franklin Reuben. Ct., 1817-1878. A horticulturist of Cleveland. The Western Fruit Book; Popular Deciduous and Evergreen Trees; Handbook for Fruit Growers; Handbook of Practical Landscape Gardening.
Elliott, Henry Wood. O., 1846- ——. Son of F. R. Elliott, supra. An artist in the employ of the Smithsonian Institution. Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska; Our Arctic Provinces. Scr.
Elliott, John. Ct., 1768-1824. A Congregational minister at Madison, Connecticut, 1791-1824, co-author with S. Johnson of the first American dictionary of the English language.
Elliott, Jonathan. E., 1784-1846. A publicist of Washington who published American Diplomatic Code; Debate on Adoption of the Constitution; Funding System of the United States; Statistics of the United States; The Comparative Tariffs; Sketches of the District of Columbia. Lip.
Elliott, Mrs. Maud [Howe]. Ms., 1855- ——. Daughter of S. G. Howe, infra. A fiction-writer of Chicago. Atalanta in the South; Mammon; A Newport Aquarelle; The San Rosario Ranch; Honor; Phyllida. Mer. Rob.
Elliott, Sarah Barnwell. 18— - ——. Granddaughter of S. Elliott, infra. Jerry; John Paget, a novel of New York and Newport; The Felmeres. Ho.
Elliott, Stephen. S. C., 1771-1830. A naturalist of South Carolina, and a professor in the State Medical College. His son Stephen, 1800-1866, was the first Episcopal bishop of Georgia, and his grandson, Robert Woodward Barnwell Elliott, 1840-1887, the first bishop of Western Texas. The Botany of South Carolina and Georgia.
Elliott, William. S. C., 1788-1863. Nephew of S. Elliott, supra. A politician of Beaufort, South Carolina, who published the tragedy of Fiesco; Carolina Sports by Land and Water.
Ellis, Charles Mayo. Ms., 1818-1878. A Boston lawyer of prominence as an abolitionist, who published a History of Roxbury.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. O., 1840- ——. A popular writer of school text-books and juvenile tales, who was for a number of years an instructor in Trenton, New Jersey. Among his numerous writings are included The People’s Standard History of the United States; several school histories of the United States; From the Throttle to the President’s Chair; Lost in Samoa; The Camp Fires of General Lee; The Hunters of the Ozark; The Last War Trail; Righting the Wrong; Up the Tapajos; Down the Mississippi; Life of Daniel Boone; Storm Mountain. Am. Cas. Co. Mer.
Ellis, George Edward. Ms., 1814-1894. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston who was pastor of the Harvard Church in Charlestown, 1840-69, and for many years president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He was an enthusiastic historical student with positive convictions. They were, however, held without bitterness or prejudice. A Half Century of the Unitarian Controversy; Evidences of Christianity; The Red Man and the White in North America; The Organ and Church Music; Aims and Purposes of the Founders of Massachusetts; Memoirs of Count Rumford, Jared Sparks, Jacob Bigelow, Luther Bell, and others; Lives of John Mason, Anne Hutchinson, and William Penn, in Sparks’s American Biography; History of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay is his most important work. Hou. Lit.
Ellis, Sumner. Ms., 1828-1886. A Universalist clergyman of Boston and Chicago. At Our Best, and Other Essays; Life of E. H. Chapin, supra; Hints on Preaching. See Memorial by C. R. Moor, 1887. Meth.
Ellsworth, Erastus Wolcott. Ct., 1822- ——. An inventor of Connecticut who published in 1855 a volume of poems of very uneven excellence, some of which were popular for a time.
Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt. Ct., 1791-1858. A commissioner of patents who was a son of the noted jurist, Oliver Ellsworth. Digest of Patents from 1770 to 1859.
Ellsworth, Henry William. Ct., 1814-1864. Son of H. L. Ellsworth. A lawyer of Indiana. Sketch of the Upper Mississippi Valley; American Swine-Breeder.
Ellsworth, Mrs. Mary Wolcott [Janvrin]. N. H., 1830-1870. A writer for periodicals. Peace, or the Stolen Will; An Hour with the Children; Smith’s Saloon.
Ellwanger, George Herman. N. Y., 1848- ——. Brother of H. B. Ellwanger, infra. A writer of Rochester, New York. The Garden’s Story; The Story of My House; In Gold and Silver; Idyllists of the Country-Side. Love’s Demesne, a Garland of Contemporary Love Poems. Ap. Do.
Ellwanger, Henry Brooks. N. Y., 1851-1883. A horticulturist of Rochester, New York. The Rose, a Treatise on Cultivation, History, etc., of Roses. Do.
Elmendorf, John James. N. Y., 1827-1896. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of philosophy in Racine College, Wisconsin, 1867-88, and later connected with the Western Theological Seminary at Chicago. Manual of Rites and Ritual; History of Philosophy; Outlines of Logic; Aspects of Modern Philosophy; Moral Philosophy.
Elmer, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus. N. J., 1793-1883. A jurist of Bridgeton, New Jersey, who published a Digest of the Laws of New Jersey, commonly styled “Nixon’s Digest;” Genealogy of the Elmer Family; History of Cumberland County; History of New Jersey.
Elsberg, Louis. P., 1836-1885. A physician of New York city. Laryngoscopal Medication; The Throat and its Functions.
Elson, Louis Charles. Ms., 1848- ——. A Boston journalist, editor of the Vox Humana. History of Music; History of German Song; Curiosities of Music. Dit.
Elton, Romeo. Ct., 1790-1870. A once prominent clergyman of the Baptist faith, at one time a professor in Brown University, who was author of a Life of Roger Williams.
Elwell, Edward Henry. Me., 1825-1890. A journalist of Portland, Maine. Portland and Vicinity; The Boys of Thirty-Five, a Story of a Seaport Town.
Elwyn, Alfred Langdon. N. H., 1804-1884. A noted Philadelphia philanthropist. Bonaparte, a poem; Glossary of Supposed Americanisms; Melancholy and its Musings; Hints to the City on Intemperance.
Ely, Ezra Stiles. Ct., 1786-1861. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. Contrast between Calvinism and Hopkinsianism; Endless Punishment; The Science of the Human Mind; Sermons on Faith; Visits of Mercy; Memoir of Zebulon Ely; The Contrast; Ely’s Journal.
Ely, Richard Theodore. N. Y., 1854- ——. A political economist of distinction, professor of political economy at Wisconsin University since 1892. French and German Socialism in Modern Times; The Past and Present of Political Economy; Taxation in American States and Cities; Problems of To-Day; Political Economy; Social Aspects of Christianity; Outlines of Economics. See Bibliography of Wisconsin. Fl. Har. Meth.
Embury, Mrs. Emma Catharine [Manly]. N. Y., 1806-1863. A writer of verse and prose whose home was in Brooklyn. Her various works include Guido and Other Poems; The Blind Girl and Other Tales; The Waldorf Family, a Fairy Tale; Female Education; Glimpses of Home Life; Pictures of Early Life; Poems; Token of Flowers; Nature’s Gems, or American Wild Flowers; Love’s Token Flowers, a collection of verse.
Emerson, Alfred. Pa., 1859- ——. An archæologist, professor at Cornell University since 1891. Dissertatio de Hercule Homerico.
Emerson, Charles Noble. Ms., 1821-1869. A Massachusetts lawyer, commissioner of revenue, who published Internal Revenue Guide; Handbook of Internal Revenue for Popular Use.
Emerson, Edward Waldo. Ms., 1844- ——. Son of R. W. Emerson, infra. An instructor in art anatomy, living at Concord, Massachusetts. Emerson in Concord. Hou.
Emerson, Mrs. Ellen [Russell]. Ms., 1837- ——. A Boston writer upon art and Indian mythology. Indian Myths; Masks, Heads, and Faces, with Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art. Hou.
Emerson, Frederick. N. H., 1788-1857. A once prominent Boston educator who published a series of popular arithmetics, chief among which was the North American Arithmetic.
Emerson, George Barrell. Me., 1797-1881. An educator of Boston of much prominence and wide influence. Lectures on Education; The School and the Schoolmaster (with A. Potter, infra); Manual of Agriculture (with C. L. Flint); Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts; Reminiscences of an Old Teacher. See Harvard Register, May, 1881. Lit.
Emerson, Joseph. N. H., 1777-1833. A New England clergyman and educator, author of Lectures on the Millennium. See Life by R. Emerson, infra.
Emerson, Ralph. N. H., 1787-1862. Brother of J. Emerson, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Andover Theological Seminary, 1829-53, and author of Life of Joseph Emerson, and translation of Wisgon’s Augustinianism and Pelagianism.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Ms., 1803-1882. The most distinguished of American essayists, and by some critics ranked as the foremost American poet when the substance of his poetry is considered apart from its form. He was ordained in 1829 as a Unitarian minister in Boston, but retired from the profession in 1833, and the next year settled in Concord, Massachusetts, where the remainder of his life was spent. He succeeded Margaret Fuller as editor of The Dial, and was the most prominent figure among the Transcendentalists. As a lecturer he was frequently before the public, and in his writings faced a world-wide public as a philosophical thinker. His first volume of Poems appeared in 1847, followed in 1867 by May-Day and Other Pieces. His prose writings are comprised in Nature; Essays, first and second series; Representative Men; English Traits; Conduct of Life; Society and Solitude; Letters and Social Aims; Lectures and Biographical Sketches; Miscellanies; Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers. See Scribner’s Magazine, February, 1879; Century Magazine, April, 1883; Fraser’s Magazine, May, 1867; Harper’s Magazine, February, 1884; Conway’s Emerson at Home and Abroad; Correspondence between Carlyle and Emerson; Benton’s Emerson as a Poet; Emerson in Concord; Appletons’ American Biography; Stedman’s American Poets; Lives by Cabot (1887), Garnett, Ireland, Holmes, Cooke; Guernsey’s Emerson as Poet and Philosopher; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; New England Magazine, December, 1896; Emerson-Stirling Letters; Atlantic Monthly, January, and February, 1897; Peterson’s Magazine, February, 1897; The Forum, November, 1896; The Arena, March, 1896. Hou.
Emerton, Ephraim. Ms., 1851- ——. A professor of history at Harvard University. Introduction to the Study of Mediæval History; Synopsis of the History of Continental Europe; The Practical Method in Higher Historical Instruction; Sir William Temple und die Tripleallianz vom Jahre 1668; Mediæval Europe, 814-1300. Gi.
Emerton, James Henry. Ms., 1847- ——. A naturalist of eminence. Structure and Habits of Spiders; Life on the Seashore. Wn.
Emmerton, James Arthur. Ms., 1834-1888. A New England genealogist and physician. Eighteenth Century Baptisms in Salem, Massachusetts; Record of the 23d Massachusetts Regiment; Materials towards an Emmerton Genealogy.
Emmet, Thomas Addis. I., 1764-1827. An Irish patriot who came to the United States in 1804 and settled in New York city, where he practiced law. He was a brother of the famous Robert Emmet. Pieces of Irish History. See Memoir by C. G. Haynes.
Emmet, Thomas Addis. Va., 1828- ——. Grandson of T. A. Emmet, supra. A physician and surgeon of New York city, whose chief work is The Principles and Practice of Gynecology.
Emmons, Ebenezer. Ms., 1799-1863. A noted geologist who in the latter part of his life was attached to the State geological survey of North Carolina. Manual of Mineralogy and Geology; American Geology.
Emmons, George Foster. Vt., 1811-1884. A rear-admiral in the United States service who wrote The Navy of the United States from 1775 to 1853.
Emmons, Nathanael. Ct., 1745-1840. A once noted Congregational minister at Franklin, Massachusetts, 1773-1840. His theological works in six volumes, with Memoir by J. Ide, appeared in 1842. A later edition contains a Memoir by E. H. Park, infra. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Emmons, Samuel Franklin. Ms., 1841- ——. A geologist in government service. Descriptive Geology; Geological and Mining Industries of Leadville; Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals (with G. F. Becker, supra).
Emory, John. Md., 1789-1835. A Methodist bishop of prominence in his denomination. The Divinity of Christ Vindicated; Defence of Our Fathers. See Life by R. Emory, infra. Meth.
Emory, Robert. Pa., 1814-1848. Son of J. Emory, supra. A Methodist minister and educator who was president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1842-48. Life of Bishop Emory; History of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Meth.
Emory, William Helmsley. Md., 1811-1887. Cousin of J. Emory, supra. An army officer who retired from the United States service in 1876 with the rank of brigadier-general. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance in Missouri and California, 1848; Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission.
Endicott, Charles Moses. Ms., 1793-1863. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts, who was at one time commander of a merchantman. Life of John Endicott; The Persian Poet, a tragedy; Rights and Duties of Nations; Three Orations.
Endress, Christian. Pa., 1755-1827. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who published in German The Kingdom of Heaven not Susceptible of Union with Temporal Monarchy and Aristocracy.
Engelmann, George Julius. Mo., 1847-1903. A St. Louis physician, founder of the Polyclinic School of Medicine in that city. Labor among Primitive Peoples, or the Development of Obstetric Science.
England, John. I., 1786-1842. A Roman Catholic prelate who was appointed bishop of Charleston in 1820, and came to America in that year. He was eminent as a lecturer and orator, whose influence both within and without his church was widespread and beneficent. Letters on Slavery are among his writings. See Works, 8 vols., 1849.
Engles, William Morrison. Pa., 1797-1867. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, for many years editor of The Presbyterian. Records of the Presbyterian Church; English Martyrology; Sick-Room Devotion; Bible Dictionary; Sailor’s Companion; Soldier’s Pocket Book.
English, George Bethune. Ms., 1787-1828. A versatile adventurer who wrote The Grounds of Christianity Examined, which was answered by Edward Everett, and this brought a rejoinder from English entitled Five Smooth Stones out of the Brook. He published also Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar.
English, Thomas Dunn. Pa., 1819-1902. A physician and poet of Newark, New Jersey, widely known by his famous song Ben Bolt, first published in 1843. His various writings include Walter Woolfe, a novel; Poems; 1844, or the Power of the S. F., a political satire; Ambrose Fecit, or the Peer and the Painter; American Ballads; Book of Battle Lyrics; Jacob Schuyler’s Millions. Har.
Errett, Isaac. N. Y., 1820-1888. A Campbellite clergyman of Cincinnati. Debate on Spiritualism; Brief View of Missions; Walks about Jerusalem; Talks to Bereans; Letters to Young Christians; Evenings with the Bible, comprise the most of his writing.
Esling, Mrs. Catherine Harbeson [Waterman]. Pa., 1812- ——. A verse-writer of Philadelphia who published The Broken Bracelet and Other Poems in 1850.
Esling, Charles Henry Augustine. Pa., 1845- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia, author of Life of Saint Germaine Cousin, the Shepherdess of Pibrae.
Espy, James Pollard. Pa., 1785-1860. A meteorologist of Philadelphia, sometimes called “the storm king,” who published The Philosophy of Storms (1841).
Evans, Augusta Jones. See Wilson, Mrs. Augusta.
Evans, Edward Payson. N. Y., 1833- ——. An Oriental scholar who has lived chiefly in Europe. Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte; Progressive German Reader; translation of Stahr’s Life and Works of Lessing.
Evans, Mrs. Elizabeth Edson [Gibson]. R. I., 1833- ——. Wife of E. P. Evans, supra. The Abuse of Maternity; Laura, an American Girl; The Story of Kaspar Hauser; The Story of Louis XVII. of France.
Evans, Frederick William. E., 1808-1893. An elder among the Shakers of Lebanon, New York, from 1838. He wrote and lectured much, and possessed great influence in his sect. Compendium of Origin, History, and Doctrines of Shakers; Shaker Communism; Autobiography of a Shaker; Second Appearing of Christ; Test of Divine Inspiration, are his chief works.
Evans, Hugh Davy. Md., 1792-1868. A Baltimore lawyer, conspicuous for loyalty to the Union during the Civil War, who wrote on legal and High Church topics. Essay on Pleading; Maryland Common Law Practice; Essay on the Episcopate; Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage; Essays on the Validity of Anglican Ordination; Theophilus Americanus. Hou.
Evans, Lewis. Circa 1700-1756. A surveyor and geographer of Philadelphia who published Geographical, Historical, Political, and Mechanical Essays.
Evans, Mrs. Lizzie Phelps [Esterbrook]. Ms., 1846- ——. A writer of Somerville, Massachusetts. Aunt Nabby; From Summer to Summer.
Evans, Nathaniel. Pa., 1742-1767. An Episcopal clergyman stationed as a missionary in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Poems on Several Occasions, with Memoir by Wm. Smith, appeared in 1772.
Evans, Oliver. Del., 1755-1819. A once famous inventor who constructed the first high-pressure steam-engine. The Young Engineer’s Guide; Miller and Millwright’s Guide.
Evans [ĭv´anz], Thomas. Pa., 1798-1868. A Quaker controversialist of Philadelphia who was an active opponent of the doctrines of Thomas Hicks, infra, and published an Exposition of the Faith of the Religious Society of Friends.
Evans, Thomas Wiltberger. Pa., 1823-1897. A famous dentist, resident in Paris from 1848, through whose aid the Empress Eugénie escaped from that city in 1870. History of the American Ambulance in Paris during the Siege, 1870-71; Sanitary Institutions during the Austro-Prussian-Italian Conflict, 1868; Lettres sur le Gouvernement des États Unis; La Commission Sanitaire des États Unis.
Eve, Paul Fitzsimmons. Ga., 1806-1877. A distinguished surgeon of Nashville during the Civil War, surgeon-general of the Confederate army of Tennessee. Collection of Remarkable Cases in Surgery; One Hundred Cases of Lithotomy; The Inhumanity of Capital Punishment by Hanging.
Everest, Harvey William. N. Y., 1831- ——. A clergyman and educator of the Christian denomination. The Divine Demonstration: a Text-Book of Christian Evidence.
Everett, Alexander Hill. Ms., 1792-1847. Brother of E. Everett, infra. An able member of the diplomatic service of the United States who was minister to Spain, 1825-29, and to the Chinese Empire at the time of his death. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; Poems; Europe: a General Survey; America: a General Survey. See Allibone’s Dictionary.
Everett, Charles Carroll. Me., 1829-1900. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the theological faculty of Harvard University from 1878, and a profound and independent philosophical thinker. The Science of Thought; Religions before Christianity; Fichte’s Science of Knowledge, a Critical Exposition; Poetry, Comedy, and Duty; Ethics for Young People; The Gospel of Paul. Gi. Hou. Sc.
Everett, David. Ms., 1770-1813. A Boston journalist who wrote the famous lines beginning,— “You’d scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage.” Common Sense in Déshabillé, or the Farmer’s Monitor; Daranzel, or the Persian Poet, a tragedy.
Everett, Edward. Ms., 1794-1865. A distinguished Massachusetts statesman famous for his oratory. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1813, but soon retired from the profession and entered political life, becoming a congressman in 1825. After that date he was successively governor of Massachusetts, president of Harvard College, and secretary of state. He achieved a wide popularity, and his literary style was greatly admired. His work has, however, failed to retain its hold upon attention, and his polished sentences now find a constantly lessening circle of readers. Defence of Christianity; Orations and Speeches; Mount Vernon Papers; Importance of Practical Education. See Whipple’s Character and Characteristic Men; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography. Lit.
Everett, Edward Franklin. Ms., 1840-1899. A Boston genealogist who published genealogies of the families of Capen and Everett.
Everett, Erastus. Ms., 1813-1900. An educator once prominent in Brooklyn. System of English Versification; Progress, a poem.
Everett, William. Ms., 1839- ——. Son of E. Everett, supra. At one time an instructor in Harvard University, afterward master of the Adams Academy at Quincy, Massachusetts, member of Congress in 1893, and an active political speaker. College Essays; On the Cam: Lecture on Cambridge University; the poem Hesione, or Europe Unchained; School Sermons. His books for boys include Thine not Mine; Changing Base; Double Play. Rob.
Everhart, Benjamin Mablack. Pa., 1818-1904. A Pennsylvania botanist, co-author with J. B. Ellis of The North American Pyrenomycetes.
Everhart, James Bowen. Pa., 1821-1888. Brother of B. M. Everhart, supra. A Pennsylvanian politician and congressman who published Miscellanies; Poems; The Fox Chase, a Poem.
Everts, Orpheus. Ind., 1826- ——. A physician of Cincinnati. Giles & Co., or Views and Interviews concerning Civilization; What Shall we Do with the Drunkard? Clke.
Everts, William Wallace. N. Y., 1814-1890. A Baptist clergyman of Chicago, and later of Jersey City, among whose many published works are included The Pastor’s Hand-Book; Bible Prayer-Book; The Voyage of Life; Manhood, its Duties and Responsibilities; Promise and Training of Childhood; Words in Earnest; The Baptist Layman’s Book; The Sabbath; The Christian Apostolate; Life of John Foster. Bap. Fu. Rev.
Ewbank, Thomas. E., 1792-1870. A scientist of New York, at one period commissioner of patents. Thoughts on Matter and Force; Hydraulics; The World a Workshop; Life in Brazil; Experiments in Marine Propulsion; Reminiscences in the Patent Office. Har. Scr.
Ewell, Marshall Davis. Mch., 1844- ——. A lawyer of Chicago, and professor of law in Union College of Law in Chicago. Blackwell on Tax Titles; Treatise on the Law of Fixtures; Essentials of the Law; Manual of Medical Jurisprudence.
Ewer, Ferdinand Cartwright. Ms., 1826-1883. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city of the extreme ritualistic school, whose Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism attracted much attention at the time of their delivery. His other writings include The Operation of the Holy Spirit; Grammar of Theology; Two Eventful Nights, or the Fallibility of Spiritualism Exposed; Sanctity and Other Sermons. See American Church Review, December, 1883; Sermons of, with Memoir by C. T. Congdon, supra.
Ewing, Finis. Va., 1773-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman who with two others organized the Cumberland Presbyterian church in 1810. Lectures on Divinity is an exposition of the doctrines of the sect.
Ewing, Hugh Boyle. O., 1826- ——. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and minister to the Netherlands, 1866-70. A Castle in the Air; Ladron, a Tale of Early California.
Ewing, John. Md., 1732-1802. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1777-1802, and eminent in his day as a scientific observer. He published an Account of the Transit of Venus, and his Lectures on Natural Philosophy were issued after his death.
Eyster, Mrs. Nellie [Blessing]. Md., 1831- ——. A writer for young people, formerly living in Pennsylvania, now in California. Sunny Hours; Chincapin Charlie; Tom Harding; Lionel Wintour’s Diary; A Colonial Boy. Lo.
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Fabbri, Cora Randall. N. Y., 1871-1892. A verse-writer of Italian descent whose volume of Lyrics was published but a few days before her death. Har.
Fabens, Joseph Warren. Ms., 1821-1875. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, who was an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Dominican republic. The Camel Hunt, a Narrative of Personal Adventure; Story of Life on the Isthmus; Facts about Santo Domingo; The Last Cigar, and Eight Other Poems; In the Tropics (probably).
Fairbairn, Robert Brinckerhoff. N. Y., 1818-1899. An Episcopal clergyman, warden of St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, New York. The Child of Faith; Sermons Preached at St. Stephen’s; Morality in its Relation to the Grace of Redemption; Unity of Faith as Influenced by Speculative Philosophy. Wh.
Fairbanks, George Rainsford. N. Y., 1820- ——. A Confederate officer during the Civil War; since 1880 a resident of Fernandina, Florida. History and Antiquities of St. Augustine; History of Florida, 1512-1842.
Fairchild, Ashbel Green. N. J., 1795-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of Pennsylvania, among whose writings are The Great Supper, long a popular defence of Calvinism; Baptism; Faith and Works; Confession of Faith.
Fairchild, Herman Le Roy. Pa., 1850- ——. A lecturer on natural science who has written a History of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Fairchild, James Harris. Ms., 1817-1902. A Congregational clergyman, president of Oberlin College, 1866-89. Moral Philosophy; Needed Phases of Christianity; Oberlin, the Colony and the College; Elements of Theology; Woman’s Right to the Ballot.
Fairfield, Francis Gerry. Ct., 1844-1887. A New York city journalist who was in early life a Lutheran minister. The Clubs of New York; Ten Years with Spiritual Mediums. Ap.
Fairfield, Genevieve Genevra. N. Y., 1832- ——. Daughter of S. L. Fairfield, infra. Genevra, or the History of a Portrait; The Vice-President’s Daughter; The Wife of Two Husbands; The Innkeeper’s Daughter; Irene.
Fairfield, Mrs. Jane Frazee. N. J., c. 1810- ——. Wife of S. L. Fairfield, infra, of whom she wrote a Life in 1846. She afterwards published an Autobiography.
Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln. Ms., 1803-1844. An educator of Philadelphia and elsewhere, and an ambitious versifier, whose work received very little attention from the public. Abaddon, the Spirit of Destruction; Lays of Melpomene; The Sisters of St. Clara; Cities of the Plain; The Heir of the World; The Last Night of Pompeii; Poems and Prose Writings; Select Poems (1860). See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Fales, Edward Lippitt. 18— - ——. Underneath the Mistletoe, and Other Poems; Songs and Song Legends of Dahkotah Land.
Fall, Charles Gershom. Ms., 1845- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Dreams, a volume of verse; A Village Sketch and Other Poems; Employers’ Liability for Personal Injuries to their Employés.
Fallows, Samuel. E., 1835- ——. A bishop of the Reformed Episcopal faith. In early life he was a Methodist minister, and during the Civil War a brigadier-general in the Federal army. He left Methodism for the Reformed Episcopal church in 1875, and was advanced to the episcopate the next year. The Bible Story for Young People; Complete Hand-Book of Synonyms and Antonyms; Hand-Book of Abbreviations and Contractions; Hand-Book of Briticisms, Americanisms, etc.; The Home Beyond, or Views of Heaven; Past Noon; Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms. He has edited a Supplemental Dictionary of the English Language. Meth. Rev.
Fanning, David. N. C., c. 1756-1825. A once famous freebooter who acted with the royalists during the American Revolution, and was one of those persons exempted by name from benefits of the general pardon. He was the author of a Narrative of Adventures in North Carolina, edited by J. H. Wheeler, and printed privately in 1861.
Fanning, John Thomas. Ct., 1837- ——. A distinguished civil engineer of Minneapolis, whose Treatise on Water Supply Engineering has had wide circulation.
Farley, Harriet. N. H., 1817- ——. A factory operative of Lowell who, in 1841 and subsequently, edited The Lowell Offering, a periodical to which she and her companions in the mills were the contributors. It attracted much attention, from its literary character. A selection from its pages, Mind among the Spindles, was published in London in 1849. Shells from the Strand of Genius is partly original and partly selected. Fancy’s Frolics, a juvenile work, appeared many years later.
Farlow, William Gilson. Ms., 1844- ——. A professor of botany in Harvard University since 1874, and the foremost American authority on cryptogamic botany. Marine Algæ of New England; The Black Knot; The Gymnosporangia of the United States; Index of Fungi; The Potato Rot; Diseases of Orange and Olive Trees.
Farman, Ella. See Pratt, Mrs.
Farmer, Henry Tudor. E., 1782-1828. A writer of English birth who came to America in early life and settled in Charleston. He published Imagination (1819); The Maniac’s Dream, and Other Poems.
Farmer, John. Ms., 1789-1838. A genealogist of New England, whose Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England is a much valued work. His other writings include History of Billerica; History of Amherst; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; and an edition, with notes, of Belknap’s History of New Hampshire. See Savage’s edition of the Register, 1862; Memorial by Le Bosquet.
Farmer, John. N. Y., 1798-1859. A noted cartographer of Detroit who published A Gazetteer of Michigan.
Farmer, Mrs. Lydia [Hoyt]. O., 1842-1903. A miscellaneous writer of Cleveland. Aunt Belindy’s Points of View; Boys’ Book of Famous Rulers; A Story Book of Science; Girls’ Book of Famous Queens; The Prince of the Flaming Star, an Operetta; Life of Lafayette; A Short History of the French Revolution; A Knight of Faith; A Moral Inheritance; The Doom of the Holy City. Cr. Lo. Mer. Ran.
Farmer, Silas. Mch., 1839-1902. Son of J. Farmer, supra. A publisher and antiquarian of Detroit. History of Detroit and Michigan.
Farnam, Henry Wolcott. Ct., 1853- ——. A professor of political economy at Yale University. Die Innere Französische Gewerpolitik von Colbert bis Turgot.
Farnham, Mrs. Eliza Woodson [Burhans]. N. Y., 1815-1864. Wife of T. J. Farnham, infra. A philanthropist who from 1844 to 1848 was matron at the prison of Sing Sing, and later a resident of California. Woman and her Era is her most important work. Others are Life in Prairie Land; My Early Days; The Ideal Attained; California Indoors and Out.
Farnham, John Marshall Willoughby. Me., 1829- ——. A Presbyterian missionary to China; Homeward; Farnham Genealogy; The Missionary Complaint and Appeal.
Farnham, Thomas Jefferson. Vt., 1804-1848. A lawyer who in 1839 headed an expedition to Oregon. Travels in Oregon Territory (1842); Travels in California; Memorial of the Northwest Boundary Line; Mexico, its Geography, People, and Institutions (1846).
Farquharson, Martha. See Finley, Martha.
Farrar, Charles A. J. 18— -1893. A New England writer who published Moosehead Lake and the North Maine Wilderness; Camp Life in the Wilderness; The Lake and Forest Series; Wild-Woods Life; From Lake to Lake. Le.
Farrar, Mrs. Eliza Ware [Rotch]. Bm., 1791-1870. A writer of Cambridge who was the wife of a professor of mathematics in Harvard University. She was educated in England, where her first book, Congo in Search of his Master, was written. Her other works include The Children’s Robinson Crusoe; The Young Lady’s Friend; Life of Howard; The Story of Lafayette; Youth’s Love-Letters; Recollections of Seventy Years.
Farrar, Timothy. N. H., 1788-1874. A New Hampshire jurist. Report of Dartmouth College Case; Reviews of the Dred Scott Decision; Manual of the United States Constitution.
Farrington, Margaret Vere. See Livingston, Mrs. Margaret.
Farrow, Edward Samuel. Md., 1855- ——. An army officer and engineer. West Point and the Military Academy; A Military System of Gymnastic Exercises; Mountain Scouting; Pack Mules and Packing; Farrow’s Military Encyclopædia.
Fasquelle, Jean Louis. F., 1808-1862. A French educator who came to America in 1834, and was professor of modern languages at Michigan University, 1846-62. Lessons in French; French Course; Télémaque, with Notes and Grammatical References; General and Idiomatic Dictionary of the French and English Languages. Cas.
Faunce, David Worcester. Ms., 1829- ——. A Baptist minister of New England. Words and Works of Jesus; Words and Acts of the Apostles; The Christian in the World; A Young Man’s Difficulties with his Bible; The Resurrection in Nature and Revelation. Ran.
Fawcett, Edgar. N. Y., 1847-1904. A New York author who wrote much fiction, more or less ephemeral in character, but whose work as a poet takes far higher rank, some of it in the realm of pure fancy standing quite alone in excellence. His novels include An Ambitious Woman; Fabian Dimitry; A Gentleman of Leisure; A Hopeless Case; Olivia Delaplaine; Asses’ Ears; A New York Family; The Confessions of Claude; Purple and Fine Linen; A Mild Barbarian; The House at High Bridge; Social Silhouettes; The Adventures of a Widow; Tinkling Cymbals; Rutherford; Douglas Duane; Ellen Story; A Demoralizing Marriage; A Man’s Will; Miriam Balestier. In verse he published Short Poems for Short People; The Buntling Ball, a satire; Poems of Fantasy and Passion; Romance and Revery; Song and Story; Songs of Doubt and Dream; The New King Arthur. He wrote also Agnosticism, and Other Essays. Ap. Cas. Fu. Hou. Lip. Ra.
Fay, Amy. La., 1844- ——. A Chicago musician. Music Study in Germany. Mg.
Fay, Theodore Sedgwick. N. Y., 1807-1898. A writer who belonged to the generation of literary New Yorkers which included Halleck, Willis, and Bryant. He was secretary of legation at Berlin, 1837-53; minister to Switzerland, 1853-61; and thereafter lived in Berlin. The novel Norman Leslie is his best known work. Others are, Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man; The Minute Book, a record of travel; Countess Ida; Hoboken, a romance of New York; Sidney Clifton; Robert Rueful; Ulric, a volume of verse; Views of Christianity; Great Outlines of Geography; History of Switzerland; History of the Three Germanys. Bar.
Fearing, Lilian Blanche. Ia., 1863-1901. A lawyer of Chicago. The Sleeping World and Other Poems; In the City by the Lake (verse); Roberta. Ke.
Fellows, John. Ms., 1760-1844. The Veil Removed; Mysteries of Free Masonry.
Felt, Joseph Barlow. Ms., 1789-1869. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself to antiquarian research at Salem. Annals of Salem; History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency; Memoirs of Hugh Peters; The Customs of New England; Ecclesiastical History of New England, include the most of his writings.
Felton, Cornelius Conway. Ms., 1807-1862. A Greek scholar of eminence who was president of Harvard College, 1860-62. Besides his many translations from the Greek, among which The Clouds and The Birds of Aristophanes are the most noteworthy, he published Selections from Modern Greek Writers, with Notes; Familiar Letters from Europe; Greece, Ancient and Modern. Hou.
Fenner, Cornelius George. R. I., 1822-1847. A Unitarian clergyman at one time in charge of a church at Cincinnati. Poems of Many Moods.
Fern, Fanny. See Parton, Mrs.
Fernald, Charles Henry. Me., 1838- ——. A naturalist who has been professor of zoölogy at Massachusetts Agricultural College since 1886. Tortricidæ of North America; Butterflies of Maine; Grasses of Maine; Sphingidæ of New England.
Fernald, Chester Bailey. Ms., 1869- - ——. A littérateur of San Francisco. The Cat and the Cherub, and Other Stories. Cent.
Fernald, James Champlin. Me., 1838- ——. The Economics of Prohibition; The New Womanhood.
Ferrel, William. Pa., 1817-1891. A distinguished meteorologist employed at various times in the Coast Survey and the Signal Service. Recent Advances in Meteorology; Popular Treatise on the Winds; Motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth’s Surface. Wil.
Ferris, George Titus. Ct., 1840- ——. Great German Composers; Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers; Great Violinists and Pianists; Great Leaders. Ap.
Fessenden, Thomas Green. N. H., 1771-1837. An agricultural writer of Boston who edited the New England Farmer and similar journals, but in earlier life won considerable attention as a satirical poet under the name of Christopher Caustic. Country Lovers and The Terrible Tractoration are the poems by which he is remembered. He published Original Poems; The Ladies’ Monitor; American Clerk’s Companion; Democracy Unveiled; Pills, Poetical, Political, and Philosophical; Laws of Patents for New Inventions. See Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, and Other Pieces.
Festetitts, Mrs. Kate [Neely]. Va., 1837- ——. A writer of children’s books whose home has been in Washington since 1885. Ellie Randolph; A Year at Dangerfield.
Feuchtwanger, Lewis. G., 1805-1876. A once noted chemist of New York city who came to America from Germany in 1829. Popular Treatise on Gems; Elements of Mineralogy; Treatise on Fermented Liquors; Practical Treatise on Soluble or Water Glass.
Fewkes, Jesse Walter. Ms., 1850- ——. An ethnologist of Boston who has written valuable professional monographs and edited the Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology. Hou.
Ficklin, Joseph. Ky., 1833-1887. A professor of mathematics in the University of Missouri who published The Complete Algebra; Elements of Algebra, and a series of arithmetical text-books.
Field, Mrs. Caroline Leslie [Whitney]. Ms., 1853-1902. Daughter of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, infra. A writer of Guilford, Connecticut. High Lights, a novel; The Unseen King, and Other Verses. Hou.
Field, David Dudley. Ct., 1781-1867. A Congregational clergyman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. History of Pittsfield; Genealogy of the Brainerd Family; Histories of the Counties of Berkshire and Middlesex.
Field, David Dudley. Ms., 1805-1894. Son of D. D. Field, supra. A distinguished jurist of New York city. His Speeches, Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers have been edited by A. P. Sprague in three volumes. Speeches and Arguments before United States Supreme Court; The Electoral Votes of New York; Miscellaneous Papers. See Life by H. M. Field, infra. Ap.
Field, Eugene. Mo., 1850-1895. A journalist and author of Chicago whose writing has received much undiscriminating and damaging praise. The greater part of his work is purely ephemeral, but his poems for and about children possess both originality and beauty. The Denver Tribune Primer; Culture’s Garland; A Little Book of Profitable Tales; A Little Book of Western Verse; Second Book of Verse; Love Songs of Childhood; With Trumpet and Drum (verse); Echoes from the Sabine Farm (with R. M. Field); Songs and Other Verse; A Second Book of Verse; The Holy Cross, and Other Tales. Hou. Scr.
Field, George Washington. 18— -1889. Iowa County and Township Officers; Law of Damages; Private Corporations for Pecuniary Gain; Law of Private Corporations; Constitution and Jurisdiction of United States Supreme Courts; Field’s Lawyers’ Briefs; Field’s Medico-Legal Guide for Doctors and Lawyers; Legal Relations of Infants in the State of New York.
Field, Henry Martyn. Ms., 1822- ——. Son of D. D. Field, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman, and editor of the New York Evangelist, whose writings are chiefly concerned with his extensive travels. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn; From Egypt to Japan; Story of the Atlantic Telegraph; Among the Holy Hills; Our Western Archipelago; The Barbary Coast; On the Desert; Old Spain and New Spain; Gibraltar; Bright Skies and Dark Shadows; Summer Pictures, from Copenhagen to Venice; Blood is Thicker than Water; The Irish Confederates, or the Rebellion of 1798. Har. Scr.
Field, Henry Martyn. Ms., 1837- ——. A physician, professor in Dartmouth Medical School. Evacuant Medication is his only publication.
Field, Mrs. James A. See Field, Mrs. Caroline Leslie.
Field, Joseph M. E., 1810-1856. An actor and dramatist of St. Louis. The Drama in Pokerville, and Other Stories.
Field, Kate. See Field, Mary.
Field, Mary Katherine Kemble. Mo., 1838-1896. Daughter of J. M. Field, supra. A journalist of Washington. Planchette’s Diary; Ten Days in Spain; Pen Photographs of Dickens’s Readings; Hap-Hazard, Travel Sketches; History of Bell’s Telephone; Adelaide Ristori, a Biography; Life of Fechter. See The Arena, November, 1896. Hou.
Field, Maunsell Bradhurst. N. Y., 1822-1875. A lawyer of New York city. Adrian (with G. P. R. James); Poems; Memories of Many Men and Some Women, a volume of entertaining gossip.
Field, Thomas Warren. N. Y., 1816-1881. An educator of Brooklyn who was superintendent of public schools there, 1873-81. Pear Culture; Historic and Antiquarian Scenes in Brooklyn; Essay Toward an Indian Bibliography. Scr.
Fields, Mrs. Annie [Adams]. Ms., 1834- ——. Wife of J. T. Fields, infra. A Boston littérateur. Under the Olive, a volume of verse; The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems; A Shelf of Old Books; Whittier, Notes of his Life and Friendships; Memoir of J. T. Fields; How to Help the Poor; Authors and Friends. Har. Hou. Scr.
Fields, James Thomas. N. H., 1816-1881. A well-known publisher of Boston who edited the Atlantic Monthly, 1862-70. Yesterdays with Authors; Underbrush, a collection of essays; Ballads, and Other Verses. See Memoir by Mrs. Fields. Hou.
Fillmore, John Comfort. Ct., 1843-1898. A musician of Milwaukee. History of Piano-Forte Music; New Lessons in Harmony; Lessons in Musical History.
Filson, John. Pa., 1747-1788. An early explorer of the Western country. The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky; Map of Kentucky; Topographical Description of the Western Territory. See Life by R. T. Durret, 1884.
Finch, Francis Miles. N. Y., 1827- ——. A New York jurist, dean of the law school of Cornell University since 1892. He has published a number of poems, among which Nathan Hale and The Blue and the Gray are well known.
Finck, Henry Theophilus. Mo., 1854- ——. A musical journalist of New York city. Wagner and Other Musicians; Romantic Love and Personal Beauty; Chopin, and Other Musical Essays; Lotos-Time in Japan; The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; Spain and Morocco. Scr.
Findley, Samuel. Pa., 1818-1889. An Associate Reformed clergyman and educator. Rambles Among the Insects.
Findley, William. I., c. 1750-1821. A once noted Pennsylvania politician. Review of the Funding System; History of the Insurrection of the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania.
Finley, James Bradley. N. C., 1781-1856. A Methodist clergyman of Ohio, at one time chaplain in the state penitentiary. History of the Wyandot Mission; Memorials of Prison Life; Sketches of Western Methodism; Life Among the Indians. See Autobiography. Bibliography of Ohio. Meth.
Finley, John. Va., 1796-1866. A journalist of Richmond, Indiana, mayor of that town for a number of years. The Hoosier’s Nest and Other Poems were once widely circulated.
Finley, John Park. Mch., 1854- ——. A lieutenant in the signal service. Tornadoes; Manual of Instruction in Optical Telegraphy; Sailors’ Handbook of Storm Track, Fog and Ice Charts of the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Finley, Martha. “Martha Farquharson.” O., 1828- ——. A voluminous writer of religious and moral tales for girls, including more than twenty Elsie Books; The Mildred Books; Casella; Wanted—a Pedigree; and others. Do. Lip.
Finney, Charles Grandison. Ct., 1792-1875. A Congregational clergyman famous during his earlier career as a revivalist. He was president of Oberlin College, 1852-66. Lectures on Revivals; Systematic Theology; Lectures to Professing Christians; Character of Free Masonry; Sermons on Gospel Themes. See Autobiography; Life by G. F. Wright, 1890. Bar.
Finotti, Joseph Maria. Iy., 1817-1879. A Roman Catholic clergyman who was in charge of a Colorado parish at the time of his death. French Grammar; A Month of Mary; Life of Blessed Paul of the Cross; Italy in the Fifteenth Century; Diary of a Soldier; The French Zouave; Herman the Pianist; The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales. Bibliographia Catholica Americana, his most important work, was never completed.
Fish, Henry Clay. Vt., 1820-1877. A Baptist clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Primitive Piety Revived; The Price of Soul Liberty; Harry’s Conversion; Harry’s Conflicts; Handbook of Revivals; Bible Lands Illustrated, and several compilations. Bar. Do.
Fisher, Ebenezer. Me., 1815-1879. A Universalist clergyman who was the first president of the theological seminary at Canton, New York. The Christian Salvation. See Life, 1880.
Fisher, Frances. “Christian Reid.” See Tiernan, Mrs. F.
Fisher, George Jackson. N. Y., 1825-1893. A physician, for many years medical director at Sing Sing prison. Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Physicians of Westchester County, New York; Animal Substances Employed as Medicines by the Ancients; Diploteratology.
Fisher, George Park. Ms., 1827- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale University since 1861. The Supernatural Origin of Christianity; The Reformation; The Beginnings of Christianity; Faith and Rationalism; Discussions in History and Theology; Life of Benjamin Silliman, infra; The Grounds of Theistic and Rationalistic Belief; History of the Christian Church; The Christian Religion; Manual of Natural Theology; Manual of Christian Evidences; Outlines of Universal History; Nature and Method of Revelation; The Colonial Era. Fl. Scr.
Fisher, Joshua Francis. Pa., 1807-1873. A municipal reformer of Philadelphia. The Degradation of our Representative System and its Reform; Reform of Municipal Elections; Nomination of Candidates.
Fisher, Michael Montgomery. Ind., 1834-1891. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of Latin at the University of Missouri from 1871. The Three Pronunciations of Latin; Education.
Fisher, Samuel Reed. Pa., 1810-1881. A German Reformed clergyman of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Exercises in the Heidelberg Catechism; The Rum Plague, a translation from Zschokke; The Family Assistant; Heidelberg Catechism Simplified.
Fisher, Samuel Ware. Pa., 1814-1874. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, who was president of Hamilton College, 1858-67. Three Great Temptations of Young Men; Occasional Sermons and Addresses.
Fisher, Sydney George. Pa., 1856- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States; The Making of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth. Co. Lip.
Fisher, Theodore Willis. Ms., 1837- ——. A physician, since 1881 clinical instructor in mental disease at Harvard University. Plain Talks About Insanity.
Fisher, Thomas. Pa., 1801-1856. A Philadelphia writer who published Dial of the Seasons; Song of the Sea Shells; Mathematics Simplified and Made Attractive.
Fisk, Samuel. Ms., 1828-1864. A Congregational clergyman who served as a soldier in the Federal army, and was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness. Mr. Dunn Browne’s Experiences in the Army.
Fisk, Wilbur. Vt., 1792-1839. A Methodist clergyman once famous as a pulpit orator, and the first president of Wesleyan University, 1831-39. Calvinistic Controversy; Travels in Europe; Sermons on Universalism. See Lives by G. Prentice, 1889, J. Holdich, 1890. Meth.
Fiske, John. Ct., 1842-1901. A philosopher and historian of Cambridge, who lectured and wrote extensively on American history, and was a thinker of the school of Darwin and Spencer. Myths and Myth-Makers; Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy; The Unseen World; Darwinism and Other Essays; Tobacco and Alcohol; Excursions of an Evolutionist; The Destiny of Man; The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge; American Political Ideas from the Standpoint of Universal History; The Critical Period of American History, 1783-89; The Beginnings of New England; Civil Government in the United States; The War of Independence, a work for young readers; The American Revolution; The Discovery of America; United States History for Schools; Life of Edward L. Youmans, infra; Virginia and Her Neighbours. Ap. Har. Hou.
Fiske, Nathan. Ms., 1733-1799. A Congregational clergyman of Brookfield, Massachusetts, who was a prolific author of essays and addresses. Beside separate sermons, his published works include Sermons (1794); The Moral Monitor, a collection of essays once very popular as a school reader.
Fiske, Nathan Welby. Ms., 1798-1847. Son of N. Fiske, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Amherst College, 1824-47. He was the father of Mrs. Helen Jackson, “H. H.,” infra. Manual of Classical Literature; Sermons; Young Peter’s Tour Around the World; Story of Aleck, or the History of Pitcairn’s Island. See Biography by H. Humphrey, 1850.
Fitch, Elijah. 1745-1788. A Congregational minister of Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The Beauties of Religion, a Poem Addressed to Youth; The Choice, a Poem. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Fitch, William Clyde. N. Y., 1865- ——. A dramatist of New York city, the author of Beau Brummell and other plays; The Knighting of the Twins, and Ten Other Tales; Some Correspondence and Six Conversations. Rob. St.
Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn. N. C., 1820- ——. A bishop of the Methodist Church South, living at Atlanta. California Sketches; Christian Growth; Centenary Cameos; Bible Nights; The Class Meeting; Life of Judge Longstreet, infra.
Fitzhugh, George. Va., 1807-1881. A lawyer of Port Royal, Virginia, noted as an advocate of slavery as the proper condition for the mass of mankind. Sociology for the South; Cannibals All, or Slaves without Masters.
Flagg, Edmund. Me., 1815-1890. A lawyer and journalist of St. Louis and elsewhere, living in West Salem, Virginia, in recent years. Venice, the City of the Sea, a history, is his most important work. Other writings of his include North Italy since 1849; Commercial Relations of the United States; Blanche of Artois; Edmond Dantes, a sequel to Monte Christo.
Flagg, Isaac. Ms., 1843- ——. Son of W. Flagg, infra. A professor of Greek at Cornell University, 1871-88, and professor at the University of California since 1891. The Hellenic Orations of Demosthenes; Versicles; The Seven Against Thebes, of Æschylus; Iphigenia among the Taurians, of Euripides. Gi.
Flagg, John Foster Brewster. Ms., 1804-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Ether and Chloroform and their Employment in Surgery, Dentistry, Midwifery, etc.
Flagg, Wilson. Ms., 1805-1884. A naturalist of Cambridge. Studies in the Field and Forest; Woods and By-Ways of New England; Halcyon Days; A Year among the Trees; A Year among the Birds.
Flanders, Henry. N. H., 1826- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Maritime Law; The Law of Shipping; Lives of the United States Chief Justices (1858); Memoirs of Cumberland; Exposition of the United States Constitution; The Law of Fire Insurance; Adventures of a Virginian.
Flash, Henry Lynden. O., 1835- ——. An officer in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Since 1887 he has lived in Los Angeles. He published a volume of Poems (1860).
Fleeta. See Hamilton, Kate.
Fleming, Mrs. May Agnes [Early]. N. B., 1840-1880. A prolific author of sensational romances, some of which were issued under the pseudonym “Cousin May Carleton.” Among them are Guy Earlscourt’s Wife; Lost for a Woman; Pride and Passion.
Fleming, George. See Fletcher, Julia.
Fletcher, James Cooley. Ind., 1823-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman, missionary to Brazil, 1851-54, author with D. P. Kidder of the once very popular work Brazil and the Brazilians, which first appeared in 1857, and reached an eighth edition in 1868. See Hart’s American Literature.
Fletcher, Julia Constance. “George Fleming.” B., 1853- ——. Daughter of J. C. Fletcher, supra. A novelist whose home is in Rome. Kismet; The Head of Medusa; Mirage; Vestigia; Andromeda; The Truth About Clement Ker; For Plain Women Only. Rob.
Fletcher, Robert. E., 1823- ——. An eminent anthropologist of Washington. Paul Broca and the French School of Anthropology; Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets; Human Proportion in Art and Anthropometry; Some Recent Experiments in Serpent Venom; The New School of Criminal Anthropology; Tattooing among Civilized People.
Fletcher, William Baldwin. Ind., 1837- ——. A physician, since 1883 superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. Cholera, its Characteristics, History, etc. Clke.
Flickinger, Daniel Krumler. O., 1824- ——. A clergyman belonging to the sect of United Brethren, and since 1885 a foreign missionary bishop of that faith. Off-hand Sketches of Men and Things in Western Africa; Ethiopia; The Churches, Marching Orders.
Flint, Abel. Ct., 1765-1825. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford who published a Geometry and Trigonometry with a Treatise on Surveying.
Flint, Austin. Ms., 1812-1886. A distinguished physician of New York city who held professorships in several New York medical colleges. Practice of Medicine; Continued Fever; Chronic Pleurisy; Dysentery; Physical Explanation and Diagnosis of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Diseases of the Heart; Essays on Conservative Medicine; Phthisis; Clinical Medicine; Manual of Auscultation and Percussion; Medical Ethics and Etiquette; Medicine of the Future. Ap.
Flint, Austin, Jr. Ms., 1836- ——. Son of Austin Flint, supra, and like his father an eminent physician of New York city, connected with several hospitals and medical colleges. Text-Book of Human Physiology; Manual of Chemical Examinations of Urine in Disease; Physiological Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercise; The Source of Muscular Power; Physiology of Man. Ap.
Flint, Charles Louis. Ms., 1824-1889. The secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, 1853-81, and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The Agriculture of Massachusetts; Grass and Forage Plants; Milch Cows and Dairy Farming; Manual of Agriculture (with G. B. Emerson, supra). Le.
Flint, Henry Martyn. Pa., 1829-1868. A journalist of Chicago. Life of Stephen A. Douglas; History and Statistics of United States Railroads: Mexico under Maximilian.
Flint, Joshua Barker. Ms., 1801-1864. A surgeon of Boston and subsequently of Louisville, where he was professor of surgery in the Kentucky school of medicine from 1849 till his death. He published The Practice of Medicine.
Flint, Micah P. Ms., 1807-1830. Son of T. Flint, infra. The Hunter and Other Poems (1826). See Coggeshall’s Poets of the West.
Flint, Timothy. Ms., 1780-1840. A Congregational clergyman of New England who after some years of missionary labour in the Ohio Valley devoted himself to literary pursuits in Cincinnati, New York, and elsewhere. His most important work in some respects, the Geography and History of the Mississippi Valley, materially advanced the settlement of that region. His other works include Recollections of Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi; Indian Wars in the West; Memoir of Daniel Boone; Lectures on Natural History, etc. Fiction: Francis Berrian; Arthur Clenning; George Mason; The Shoshonee Valley. See Bibliography of Ohio.
Flower, Benjamin Orange. Il., 1859- ——. Formerly the editor and publisher of The Arena at Boston. Civilization’s Inferno, or Studies in the Social Cellar; Lessons Learned from Other Lives; The New Time; Persons, Places, and Ideas; The Century of Sir Thomas More; Gerald Massey, Poet, Prophet, and Mystic. Ar.
Flower, Frank Abial. N. Y., 1854- ——. A Wisconsin statistician, curator of the state historical society. Old Abe, the Wisconsin War Eagle; Life of Matthew H. Carpenter; History of the Republican Party.
Floy, James. N. Y., 1806-1863. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, prominent as a botanist and as an anti-slavery leader. Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; Occasional Sermons, etc.; Literary Remains (1870).
Folger, Peter. E., 1617-1690. Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin. An emigrant from Norwich, England, in 1635. He settled successively at Watertown, Martha’s Vineyard, and in 1663 at Nantucket. He is remembered as the author of A Looking-Glass for the Times, a spirited doggerel ballad without literary merit, but a very manly appeal for religious toleration. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Follen, Charles Theodore Christian. G., 1796-1840. A German scholar who came to America in 1824. He was German instructor at Harvard University, 1830-34, but lost his position on account of his anti-slavery opinions, and in 1836 was ordained as a Unitarian clergyman. He published a German Reader; Practical German Grammar. See Works in five volumes, with Memoir, edited by Mrs. Follen.
Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee [Cabot]. Ms., 1787-1859. Wife of C. Follen, supra. A popular author for many years. Sketches of Married Life; Twilight Stories, a volume of excellent juvenile tales; The Well-spent Hour; The Skeptic; Poems; To Mothers in the Free States; Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs; Home Dramas; Little Songs for Little People; The Old Garret Stories. Le.
Folsom, Charles Follen. Ms., 1842- ——. A physician of Boston, professor in the Harvard Medical School, 1877-1885. Mental Diseases; Present Aspect of the Sewage Question Applied to Boston (1877).
Folsom, George. Me., 1802-1869. An antiquarian writer of New York city. Sketches of Saco and Biddeford; Dutch Annals of New York; Letters and Dispatches of Cortés, translated from the Spanish; Political Condition of Mexico.
Folwell, William Watts. N. Y., 1833- ——. An educator of Minnesota. Public Instruction in Minnesota; Lectures on Political Economy.
Fontaine, Edward. Va., 1814-1884. An Episcopal clergyman of Mississippi. How the World was Peopled, a series of ethnological lectures.
Fontaine, Francis. 18—. The Exile; Etowah, a Romance of the Confederacy.
Foote, Andrew Hull. Ct., 1806-1863. A rear-admiral of the United States navy. Africa and the American Flag (1854). See Life by J. M. Hoppin, infra.
Foote, Henry Stuart. Va., 1800-1880. A prominent Mississippi politician. He was governor of his State, 1853-54, and, though opposed to secession, a member of the Confederate Congress, where he was noted for his strong opposition to Jefferson Davis. Texas and the Texans; The War of the Rebellion, or Scylla and Charybdis; Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest; Personal Reminiscences.
Foote, Henry Wilder. Ms., 1838-1889. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, minister of King’s Chapel from 1861 till his death. Annals of King’s Chapel; Thy Kingdom Come, ten sermons on the Lord’s Prayer; The Insight of Faith. El. Rob.
Foote, Mrs. Mary Anna [Hallock]. N. Y., 1847- ——. A novelist and illustrator whose married life has been passed chiefly in the Rocky Mountain country, where the scene of much of her work is laid. The Led Horse Claim, a Romance of a Mining Camp; In Exile, and Other Stories; John Bodewin’s Testimony; The Chosen Valley; Cœur d’Alene; The Last Assembly Ball; The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories. Hou.
Foote, William Henry. Ct., 1794-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator of West Virginia. Sketches of North Carolina; Sketches of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia; The Huguenots, or Reformed French Church; Sketches of Virginia.
Forbes, Mrs. Harriette [Merrifield]. Ms., 1856- ——. A writer of Westborough, Massachusetts. The Hundredth Town, a series of historical sketches of Westborough; The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman.
Forbes, Robert Bennet. Ms., 1804-1889. A sea captain who was subsequently a Boston merchant. China and the China Trade (1844); Construction of Ships for the Merchant Service; Life Boats, Projectiles, and Other Means for Saving Life; Seamen Past and Present; Rambling Reminiscences; Notes on Some Few Wrecks and Rescues.
Forbes, Stephen Alfred. Il., 1844- ——. A professor of zoölogy in the University of Illinois and State entomologist. Studies of the Food of Birds, Fishes, and Insects; Contagious Diseases of Insects.
Force, Manning Ferguson. O., 1824-1899. Son of P. Force, infra. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and subsequently a prominent jurist of Cincinnati. From Fort Henry to Corinth; Marching Across Carolina; The Mound Builders; Prehistoric Man; Recollections of the Vicksburg Campaign, include the most of his writings. Clke. Scr.
Force, Peter. N. J., 1790-1868. A journalist and historian of Washington who began in 1833 a documentary history of the American colonies. Thirty years’ labour was spent upon the task, and nine volumes completed, entitled American Archives. His other works include Tracts and Other Papers relating to the Origin of the North American Colonies; Grinnell Land. His immense and valuable library was purchased by Congress in 1867.
Force, William Quereau. D. C., 1820-1880. Son of P. Force, supra. A meteorologist of Washington who assisted his father in preparing American Archives, and published Builder’s Guide; The Picture of Washington.
Ford, Corydon La. N. Y., 1813- ——. A physician of note who has held several medical professorships, and since 1886 has been professor emeritus in the Long Island College hospital. Questions on Anatomy, etc.; Questions on the Structure and Development of the Human Teeth; Syllabus of Lectures on Odontology, Human and Comparative.
Ford, Mrs. Emily Ellsworth [Fowler]. Ms., 1826-1893. Daughter of W. C. Fowler, infra, and granddaughter of Noah Webster. A Brooklyn writer who has published My Recollections, a volume of verse.
Ford, James Lauren. Mo., 1854- ——. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. Dr. Dodd’s School; The Third Alarm, are tales for juvenile readers. Other works of his are Hypnotic Tales; The Literary Shop; Bohemia Invaded; Dolly Dillenbeck. Ric. Sto.
Ford, Paul Leicester. L. I., 1865-1902. Son of Mrs. Emily Ford, supra. Bibliotheca Hamiltonia; Franklin Bibliography; The Honorable Peter Stirling; The True George Washington; The Story of an Untold Love; Janice Meredith. Do. Ho. Hou. Lip.
Ford, Mrs. Sallie [Rochester]. Ky., 1828- ——. Wife of S. H. Ford, infra. A St. Louis writer whose early writings were very popular, Grace Truman, her first book, having an extensive sale. Other works of hers are, Romance of Freemasonry; Raids and Romance of Morgan and his Men; Mary Bunyan, the Dreamer’s Blind Daughter; Evangel Wiseman; Ernest Quest.
Ford, Samuel Howard. Mo., 1819- ——. A Baptist clergyman of Memphis, Mobile, and elsewhere, living in retirement in St. Louis since 1887. The Origin of the Baptists; Servetus, Hero and Martyr.
Ford, Thomas. Pa., 1800-1850. An Illinois jurist who was governor of his State, 1842-46. History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847.
Ford, William Henry. Pa., 1839-1897. A Philadelphia surgeon twice president of the municipal board of health. He has published Healthy Dwelling-Houses and How to Build Them.
Ford, Worthington Chauncey. L. I., 1858- ——. Son of Mrs. Emily Ford, supra. A government statistician at Washington. American Citizens’ Manual; The Standard Silver Dollar.
Forester, Frank. See Herbert, W. H.
Forestier, Auber. See Moore, Mrs. Annie.
Forney, John Weiss. Pa., 1817-1881. A journalist of Philadelphia and Washington, of prominence as a politician, and secretary of the United States Senate, 1861-68. Life of General Hancock; Anecdotes of Public Men; The New Nobility, a story of England and America; What I Saw in Texas; A Centennial Commissioner in Europe; Letters from Europe; Forty Years of American Journalism. Ap. Har. Lip.
Forrester, Fanny. See Judson, Mrs.
Forrester, Francis. See Wise, Daniel.
Forry, Samuel. Pa., 1811-1844. A physician and surgeon of New York city. The Climate of the United States and its Endemic Influences; Meteorology.
Fort, George Franklin. N. J., 1809-1872. A governor of New Jersey, 1850-1854. Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry.
Fortier, Alcée. La., 1856- ——. An educator of Louisiana, professor of Romance languages in Tulane University. Le Château de Chambord; Gabriel d’Ennerich, an historical novelette; Bits of Louisiana Folk-Lore; Sept Grands Auteurs de xixe Siècle; Histoire de la Littérature Française; Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Folk Tales. He has also annotated college editions of several French texts. He. Ho. Hou.
Forwood, William Stump. Md., 1830-1892. A physician of Darlington, Maryland. History and Descriptive Account of Mammoth Cave, with Full Scientific Details of the Eyeless Fishes.
Fosdick, Charles Austin. “Harry Castlemon.” N. Y., 1842- ——. A voluminous author of juvenile books, among which The Gunboat Series; Rocky Mountain Series; Roughing It Series; The Steel Horse, or the Rambles of a Bicycle, are but a few of the whole number. Co.
Fosdick, William Whiteman. O., 1825-1862. A lawyer of Cincinnati, who published Malmiztic the Toltec, a novel; Ariel and Other Poems.
Foss, Samuel Walter. N. H., 1858- ——. A writer of popular dialect and other poems, whose home is in Somerville, Massachusetts. Back Country Poems; Whiffs from Wild Meadows (verse). Le.
Foster, Charles Hubbs. N. Y., 1833-1895. An actor and playwright of New York city, who wrote more than seventy-five plays, mostly melodramas, among which are, Twins of London; Twenty Years Dead; The Chain Gang.
Foster, Mrs. Hannah [Webster]. Ms., 1759-1840. A writer who was the wife of John Foster, minister at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1784-1827, and after his death a resident of Montreal. She was the daughter of Grant Webster, a merchant of Boston, and was probably born in that city. She wrote The Boarding School; Letters of a Preceptress; but is remembered chiefly for having been the author of the once famous story, The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton, which was largely based upon fact, and passed through more than thirty editions.
Foster, John Wells. Ms., 1815-1873. A geologist employed by the United States in a geological survey of the Lake Superior region, and subsequently a resident of Chicago. The Mississippi Valley; Mineral Wealth and Railroad Development; Prehistoric Races of the United States; Geology and Topography of the Lake Superior Land District (with J. D. Whitney, infra). Sc.
Foster, Mrs. Judith Ellen [Horton]. Ms., 1840- ——. A lawyer and prominent temperance advocate of Iowa. The Crime Against Ireland; Amendment Manual (Prohibition); The American Renaissance; Republican Contentions and Supreme Court Decisions.
Foster, Randolph Sinks. O., 1820-1903. A Methodist bishop of much prominence in his denomination. Objections to Calvinism; Christian Purity; Ministry Needed for the Times; Theism; Beyond the Grave; Centenary Thoughts; Studies in Theology. Meth.
Foster, Robert Verrell. Tn., 1845- ——. A Cumberland Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in the Theological Seminary at Lebanon, Tennessee, since 1877. Introduction to the Study of Theology; Old Testament Studies; Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans.
Foster, Stephen Collins. Pa., 1826-1864. A famous song-writer and composer of Pittsburg and New York city. He set to music 150 or more songs, the words in nearly all cases being his own. Some of them, like the Suwanee River, My Old Kentucky Home, Nelly Bly, are known in all English-speaking lands. See Atlantic Monthly, November, 1867.
Foster, Stephen Symonds. N. H., 1809-1881. A noted anti-slavery agitator of Worcester, Massachusetts. He married in 1845 Abby Kelly, also noted as an abolitionist. The Brotherhood of Thieves, a True Picture of the American Church and Clergy.
Foster, Mrs. Theodosia Maria [Toll]. “Faye Huntington.” N. Y., 1838- ——. An educator of Verona, New York, who has written much for young people. In Earnest; What Fide Remembers; A Baker’s Dozen; A Modern Exodus, are among her works. Lo.
Foster, William Eaton. Vt., 1851- ——. A librarian of Providence. The Civil Service Reform Movement; The Literature of Civil Service Reform in the United States; Stephen Hopkins, a Rhode Island Statesman; Town Government in Rhode Island.
Fowler, Henry. Ms., 1824-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman of Auburn, New York. The American Pulpit, a collection of sketches of American preachers.
Fowler, Lorenzo Niles. N. Y., 1811-1896. A lecturer, editor, and publisher of New York city who settled in London in 1863, and lectured frequently in England from that period. Marriage, its History and Ceremonies; Lectures on Man.
Fowler, Mrs. Lydia [Folger]. Ms., 1823-1879. Wife of L. N. Fowler, supra. A practicing physician for some years. Nora, the Lost and Redeemed; The Pet of the Household and How to Save It; Familiar Lessons on Phrenology and Physiology; Familiar Lessons on Astronomy.
Fowler, Orin. Ct., 1791-1852. A Congregational clergyman of Fall River, noted as a temperance and anti-slavery orator, who was a member of Congress, 1848-52. Treatise on Baptism; Historical Sketch of Fall River.
Fowler, Orson Squire. N. Y., 1809-1887. Brother of L. N. Fowler, supra, and with him a member of the New York publishing house of Fowler & Wells, 1844-63. He was an ardent phrenologist, and wrote much on his favourite topic. Memory and Intellectual Improvement; Physiology, Animal and Mental; Matrimony; Self-Culture; Hereditary Descent; Love and Parentage; Sexual Science; Amativeness; Human Science; Creative Science; The Self-Instructor in Phrenology (with L. N. Fowler).
Fowler, Philemon Halstead. N. Y., 1814-1879. A Presbyterian clergyman of Utica. History of Presbyterianism in central New York; The Presbyterian Element in our National Life and History.
Fowler, William Chauncey. Ct., 1793-1881. A Congregational clergyman and educator of New England, who married a daughter of Noah Webster, infra. Memorials of the Chaunceys; The Sectional Controversy, or Passages in United States Political History; History of Durham, Connecticut; Local Law in Massachusetts and Connecticut; Essays; English Grammar; The English Language in its Elements and Forms. Har.
Fowler, William Worthington. Vt., 1833-1881. Son of W. C. Fowler, supra. He was successively a lawyer, broker, and journalist of New York city. Ten Years in Wall Street; Fighting Fire, the Great Fires of History (1873); Woman on the American Frontier; Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street.
Fox, Ebenezer. Ms., 1763-1843. A Bostonian who was postmaster of his city 1830-36, and the author of The Revolutionary Adventures of Ebenezer Fox (1848).
Fox, John [William]. Ky., 186- ——. A Cumberland Vendetta. Har.
Fox, Norman. N. Y., 1836- ——. A Baptist minister of New York and Missouri. George Fox and the Early Friends; Rise of the Use of Pouring and Sprinkling for Baptism; A Layman’s Ministry; Inspiration of the Apostles in Speaking and Writing.
Foxton, E. See Palfrey, Sarah.
Foye, James Clark. N. H., 1841-1896. An educator who was a professor of chemistry at Lawrence University from 1867. Chemical Problems; Handbook of Mineralogy; Tables for Determination of United States Minerals.
France, Lewis Browne. D. C., 1833- ——. A lawyer and littérateur of Denver. Over the Old Trail; Pine Valley, a volume of short stories; Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado. Cr.
Francis, Convers. Ms., 1795-1863. Brother of Mrs. Lydia Child, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Watertown, Massachusetts, and subsequently Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence at Harvard University, 1843-63. Life of John Eliot (supra); Historical Sketch of Watertown; Errors of Education, include his principal writings.
Francis, James Bicheno. E., 1815-1892. A noted hydraulic engineer of Lowell. Lowell Hydraulic Experiments; The Strength of Cast Iron Columns.
Francis, John Wakefield. N. Y., 1789-1861. A physician of much prominence at one time in medical and literary circles of New York city. Use of Mercury; Cases of Morbid Anatomy; Febrile Contagion; The Anatomy of Drunkenness; Old New York, a volume of pleasant reminiscences, comprise his principal writings. See Life by Tuckerman.
Francis, Samuel Ward. N. Y., 1835-1886. Son of J. W. Francis, supra. A physician of New York city and subsequently of Newport, Rhode Island. Mott’s Clinics; Water; Inside and Out; Biographical Sketches of New York Surgeons and Physicians; Life and Death; Curious Facts Concerning Man and Nature.
Francis, Valentine Mott. N. Y., 1834. Son of J. W. Francis, supra. A physician of Newport who has published Hospital Hygiene.
Francke, Kuno. Sg., 1855- ——. A professor in Harvard University. Social Forces in German Literature: a Study in the History of Civilization. Ho.
Franklin, Benjamin. Ms., 1706-1790. A celebrated philosopher, statesman, and scientist who was born in Boston but went to Philadelphia in 1723, where he worked as a journeyman printer. In 1729 he became the proprietor of The Pennsylvania Gazette, and after that date his rise in life was rapid. He established the Philadelphia Library in 1731, the American Philosophical Society in 1744, and was one of the founders in 1749 of the institution which in 1753 became the University of Pennsylvania. In 1753 he was appointed, jointly with William Hunter, postmaster-general of the colonies. He was twice sent to London as colonial agent for Pennsylvania, and in 1770 was appointed agent for Massachusetts in England. In 1776 he helped draft the Declaration of Independence. During the next nine years he was first commissioner, then minister, to France; and was also a member of the commission which negotiated the treaty of peace with England. He was the discoverer of the identity of lightning with electricity, and the inventor of the lightning-rod. As a writer his influence has been felt throughout the world, his works including essays on politics, religion, commerce, science, and philosophy. The Busybody is a series of papers of the type of those in The Spectator, but furnishing much more lively reading. Poor Richard’s Almanac, published 1732-57, was everywhere popular, and had a great influence over the mass of readers. The work by which he is best known, however, is his famous Autobiography, which has been one of the most widely read books ever printed. His Complete Works in ten volumes have been edited by J. Bigelow, supra. See Edinburgh Review, July, 1806, and August, 1817; Contemporary Review, July, 1879; Harper’s Magazine, July, 1880; Godey’s Magazine, 1896; Appleton’s American Biography; Parker’s Historic Americans; Hale’s Franklin in France; Lives by Parton, McMaster, H. Mayhew, Morse; Mignet’s Vie de Franklin, 1873; Wetzel’s Franklin as an Economist. Put.
Franklin, Benjamin. R. I., 1819-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. The Creed and Modern Thought; The Church and the Era.
Franklin, Thomas Levering. Pa., 1820-1899. An Episcopal clergyman of western New York, and more recently of Philadelphia. His writings include an important work on The Creed, and several tractates on Divorce.
Frazer, Persifor. Pa., 1844- ——. A distinguished geologist attached to the State geological survey of Pennsylvania who has published Tables for the Determination of Minerals; The Geology of Lancaster County. Lip.
Frederic, Harold. N. Y., 1856-1898. A novelist and journalist who served as the London correspondent of the New York Times from 1884. The scenes of several of his novels are placed in small American communities. Marsena, and Other Stories; The Copperhead; The Lawton Girl; In the Valley; Seth’s Brother’s Wife; The Damnation of Theron Ware; March Hares. Ap. Scr. St.
Fredet, Peter. F., 1801-1856. A Roman Catholic priest who came from France to America in 1831, and was professor in St. Mary’s Seminary at Baltimore from that date until his death. Ancient History; Modern History; Original Texts and Translations of the Bible; Treatise on the Eucharistic Mystery; Lay Baptism; Inspiration and Canon of Scripture; Interpretation of Scripture; Doctrine of Exclusive Salvation; Necessity of Baptism; Effect of Baptism.
Freedley, Edwin Troxell. Pa., 1827- ——. A Philadelphia writer and compiler of books of useful information, but of small literary value. The Business Man’s Legal Adviser; Leading Pursuits of Leading Men; Philadelphia and its Manufactures; Opportunities for Industry; History of American Manufactures; Common Sense in Business; Home Comforts. Lip.
Freeman, Barnardus. G., 1660-1743. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Long Island who came to America in 1700 and was especially noted for his influence over the Indians. De Spizel der Self Kennis (Mirror of Self-Knowledge); De Weegshale der Gerade Gods (Balance of God’s Grace).
Freeman, Frederick. Ms., 1800-1883. An Episcopal clergyman and educator who was a Presbyterian minister in the earlier portion of his career. History of Cape Cod; Annals of Barnstable County; Freeman Genealogy; Civilization and Barbarism illustrated by Especial Reference to Metacomet and the Extinction of his Race.
Freeman, James. Ms., 1759-1835. The first clergyman in the United States to bear the name Unitarian. While a lay reader at King’s Chapel in Boston, in 1782, he became a Unitarian in his views, and was ordained in 1787 minister of that church, the members of which adopted Mr. Freeman’s theology as their own, and he continued in that office until his death. The oldest Episcopal church in New England thus became the first Unitarian church in America. Mr. Freeman’s Sermons and Charges were published in 1832.