Chapter 9

A Dictionary of American Authors (part 4)

Jacobi, Mrs. Mary [Putnam]. E., 1842- ——. Wife of A. Jacobi, supra, and daughter of George P. Putnam, a noted publisher of New York, infra. A physician of prominence in New York city, and the first woman to enter and graduate from the Ecole de Médecine in Paris. The Value of Life; Cold Pack and Anæmia; Hysteria, and Other Essays; The Martyr to Science; Studies in Primary Education; Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage; Manual of Nursing; Found and Lost. Put.
Jacobs, Henry Eyster. Pa., 1844- ——. Son of M. Jacobs, infra. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor in the Lutheran Seminary from 1883, and editor of the Lutheran Review from 1882. The Lutheran Movement in England; The Lutherans; several translations of religious works from the German; History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. Fu.
Jacobs, John Adamson. Va., 1806-1869. An educator who was forty-five years superintendent of the deaf and dumb institution at Danville, Kentucky, his nephew of the same name succeeding him at his death. He published Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes.
Jacobs, Michael. Pa., 1808-1871. An educator who was professor in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, 1852-1871, and published Notes on the Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jacobs, Michael William. Pa., 1850- ——. Son of M. Jacobs, supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of a Treatise on the Law of Domicile. Lit.
Jacobs, Sarah Sprague. R. I., 1813- ——. A writer of Cambridge. Nonantum and Natick, a juvenile giving an account of the labours of John Eliot among the New England Indians; White Oak and its Neighbors.
Jacobus, Melancthon Williams. N. J., 1816-1876. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn and Pittsburg, professor of Oriental literature in the theological seminary at Allegheny City, 1851-76. Letters on the Public School Question; Notes on the New Testament, a very popular work; Notes on Genesis.
Jacoby, Ludwig Sigismund. Mg., 1811-1874. A Methodist clergyman of German birth who as general foreign agent of the Methodist church resided at Bremen, 1849-72. On his return to the United States he lived in St. Louis. Geschichte des Methodismus; Letzte Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff der christlichen Glaubenlehre; Biblische Hand-Concordanz.
Jacques, Daniel Harrison. Circa 1825-1877. A Southern physician who edited The Rural Carolinian. Hints about Physical Perfection; The Garden; The Farm; The Barnyard; The House; Florida as a Permanent Home; How to Grow Handsome; The Temperaments; How to Behave; How to Talk.
James, Edmund Janes. Il., 1855- ——. An educator well known as a political economist, since 1883 professor in the Wharton School of Finance in the University of Pennsylvania. Studien über den amerikanischen Zolltarif; Our Legal Tender Decisions; The Education of Business Men; The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply; with several translations from the German, comprise his more important works.
James, Edwin. Vt., 1797-1861. A geologist and botanist whose later years were spent in Burlington, Iowa. Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, 1818-19; Narrative of John Tanner; a translation of the New Testament into the Ojibway language.
James, Henry. N. Y., 1811-1882. A Swedenborgian writer of Cambridge who was a thinker of marked spirituality and originality. Spiritual Creation, which he did not live to complete, affords the best example of his felicitous style and matured thought. His other works include, Society the Redeemed Form of Man; Remarks on the Gospels; Moralism and Christianity; The Nature of Evil; Substance and Shadow; The Secret of Swedenborg; What Is the State?; The Church of Christ; Christianity the Lyric of Creation; Literary Remains, edited by W. James, infra. Hou.
James, Henry. N. Y., 1843- ——. Son of H. James, supra. A novelist and critic who since 1869 has resided in Europe, and mainly in London. He has been a prolific writer whose works have been much discussed by critics and general readers. In fiction his writings include, Roderick Hudson; The American; The Europeans; A Passionate Pilgrim, and Other Tales; Confidence; Washington Square; The Portrait of a Lady; Watch and Ward; Daisy Miller; An International Episode; The Siege of London; The Author of Beltraffio, and Other Tales; The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima; The Reverberator; The Aspern Papers, and Other Stories; A London Life; The Tragic Muse; The Lesson of the Master, and Other Tales; The Spoils of Poynton; What Maisie Knew; The Other House; The Private Life; The Wheel of Time; Terminations; Embarrassments; Theatricals, two comedies; The Real Thing, and Other Tales; Tales of Three Cities. Other works by Mr. James are, Transatlantic Sketches; French Poets and Novelists; Portraits of Places; Life of Hawthorne; The Madonna of the Future; A Little Tour in France; Picture and Text; Essays in London; Partial Portraits. See Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Vedder’s American Writers. Har. Hou. Mac. S.
James, Henry Ammon. Md., 1854- ——. A lawyer of New York city who has published Communism in America.
James, William. N. Y., 1842- ——. Son of H. James, 1st, supra. Professor of psychology at Harvard University. Principles of Psychology; Psychology, a briefer study of the subject; The Will to Believe, and Other Essays. Ho. Lgs.
Jameson, John Alexander. Vt., 1824-1890. A jurist of Chicago, for many years an assistant editor of The American Law Register. The Constitutional Convention, its History, Power, and Modes of Proceeding.
Jameson, John Franklin. Ms., 1859- ——. A professor of history in Brown University. William Usselinx, Founder of the Dutch and Swedish West India Companies; The History of Historical Writing in America; Dictionary of United States History. Hou.
Jamison, Mrs. Cecile Viets [Hamilton]. N. S., 1848- ——. The Story of an Enthusiast; Toinette’s Philip; Lady Jane; Seraph, the Little Violiniste. Cent. Hou. We.
Janes, Edwin Lines. Ms., 1807-1875. A Methodist clergyman. Wesley his Own Historian; Character and Career of Bishop Asbury; Memento of Edward Payson. Meth.
Janes, Lewis George. R. I., 1844-1901. A lecturer of Brooklyn, for twelve years president of the Brooklyn Ethical Association. A Study of Primitive Culture; Samuell Gorton, a Forgotten Founder of Our Liberties. Pr.
Janeway, Jacob Jones. N. Y., 1774-1858. A Presbyterian clergyman who held pastorates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and was engaged in general mission work. Exposition of the Acts, Romans, and Hebrews; Internal Evidences of the Holy Bible; Unlawful Marriage; Review of Dr. Schaff on Protestantism; The Abrahamic Covenant. See Memoir by T. L. Janeway.
Janney, Samuel Macpherson. Va., 1801-1880. A preacher among the Hicksite Friends who in 1869 was appointed one of the government superintendents of Indian affairs. Lives of William Penn and George Fox; Conversations on Religious Subjects; The Last of the Lenape, and Other Poems; Historical Sketch of the Christian Church; Summary of Christian Doctrines Held by Friends; Peace Principles Exemplified in the Early History of Pennsylvania; History of the Religious Society of Friends from its Rise to 1828.
Janvier, Francis de Haes. Pa., 1817-1885. Cousin of T. A. Janvier, infra. The Skeleton Monk, and Other Poems; The Sleeping Sentinel (verse); Patriotic Poems. Lip.
Janvier, Margaret Thomson. “Margaret Vandegrift.” La., 1845- ——. Sister of T. A. Janvier, infra. A Philadelphia writer of children’s books, among which are, Clover Bank; Under the Dog Star; Little Helpers; A Dead Doll, and Other Verses. Hou.
Janvier, Thomas Allibone. Pa., 1849- ——. A journalist and littérateur of Philadelphia, and subsequently of New York. An Embassy to Provence, a volume of travel; Color Studies: Four Stories; The Mexican Guide; Stories of Old New Spain; The Aztec Treasure House, a Romance; The Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories; In Old New York. Ap. Cent. Har. Scr.
Jarves, James Jackson. Ms., 1820-1888. An art connoisseur who lived in Hawaii, 1838-49, and subsequently for many years in Florence. Why and What Am I?; Art Studies; History of the Sandwich Islands (1843); Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands; Parisian Sights and French Principles; Italian Sights and Papal Principles; Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii; A Glimpse at the Art of Japan; Art Hints; The Art Idea; Art Thoughts; Italian Rambles; Pepero, the Boy Artist. Har. Hou.
Jarvis, Edward. Ms., 1803-1884. A once prominent physician of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Physiology and Health; Elementary Physiology; Condition of the Insane and Idiots in Massachusetts, are his more important publications.
Jarvis, Samuel Farmar. Ct., 1786-1851. An Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut. Sermons on Prophecy; No Union with Rome; Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church; The Religion of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Jay, Sir James. N. Y., 1732-1815. An elder brother of J. Jay, infra. A physician of New York city who was knighted by George III., and who published Reflections and Observations on Gout.
Jay, John. N. Y., 1745-1829. A famous New York statesman who was one of the authors of The Federalist. Of his state papers, the Address to the People of Great Britain is the most celebrated. His Correspondence and State Papers, edited by H. P. Johnston, appeared 1890-93. See Lives by Wm. Jay, infra; Pellew; Appleton’s American Biography. Put.
Jay, John. N. Y., 1817-1894. Son of W. Jay, infra. A lawyer and diplomat of New York who was minister to Austria, 1869-75, and a prominent opponent of slavery. Dignity of the Abolition Cause; Caste and Slavery in the American Church; America Free or America Slave, are some of his political and other pamphlets.
Jay, William. N. Y., 1789-1858. Son of J. Jay, supra. A philanthropist of New York city who was strongly opposed to slavery. Life of John Jay; War and Peace; Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Jay, W. M. L. See Woodruff.
Jeffers, William Nicholson. N. J., 1824-1883. A United States naval officer who became a commodore in 1878. Short Methods in Navigation; Theory and Practice of Naval Gunnery; Inspection and Proof of Cannon; Ordnance Instruction for the United States Navy.
Jefferson, Joseph. Pa., 1829- ——. A famous actor of New York city who has published an entertaining Autobiography. He is the author of the famous play, Rip Van Winkle, in which he has long been identified with the leading rôle. Cent. Do.
Jefferson, Thomas. Va., 1743-1826. The third president of the United States. A statesman whose literary monument is the world-famous Declaration of Independence. Other writings of his are, Notes on Virginia; Rights of British America; Manual of Parliamentary Practice. A ten-volume edition of his works was published in 1892. See Lives by Linn, 1834; Rayner, 1834; Tucker, 1837; Dwight, 1839; Randall, 1858; Parton, 1874; J. T. Morse, 1883; Domestic Life of, by Randolph, 1871; Edinburgh Review, July, 1830, and October, 1837; North American Review, April, 1830, and January, 1835; Allibone’s Dictionary; Jefferson at Monticello; Appleton’s American Biography; Henry Adams’s History of the Administration of Jefferson. Put.
Jeffrey, Mrs. Rosa Vertner [Griffith] [Johnson]. Mi., 1826-1894. A verse-writer of Lexington, Kentucky. Poems by Rosa; Florence Vale; The Crimson Hand, and Other Poems; Marah, a Novel; Woodburn, a Novel. Lip.
Jeffries, Benjamin Joy. Ms., 1833- ——. A prominent physician of Boston. Color Blindness: its Dangers and its Detection; The Eye in Health and Disease; Diseases of the Skin.
Jenkins, John Stilwell. N. Y., 1818-1852. A lawyer and journalist of Weedsport, New York. The Heroines of History; Lives of the Governors of New York; Lives of Jackson, Polk, and Calhoun; Political History of New York; History of the Mexican War; Generals of the Last War with Great Britain; Life of Silas Wright, include the larger part of his writings. Co.
Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple. Mch., 1856- ——. An educator, since 1891 professor of political, municipal, and social institutions at Cornell University. Henry C. Carey als National-ökonom; Road Legislation for the American State.
Jenks, John Whipple Potter. Ms., 1819-1894. A naturalist who was director of the museum of natural history at Brown University, 1872-94, and professor of agriculture and zoölogy there, 1875-94. Hunting in Florida; Jenks and Steele’s Zoölogy.
Jenks, William. Ms., 1778-1866. A once prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston who founded the American Oriental Society. Commentary on the Bible, long a popular work; Bible Atlas and Scripture Gazetteer.
Jenness, John Scribner. N. H., 1827-1879. A lawyer of New York city. The Isles of Shoals, an Historical Sketch; The First Planting of New Hampshire. He edited Transcripts of Original Documents relating to the Early History of New Hampshire.
Jennison, Lucy White. “Owen Innsley.” Ms., 1850- ——. A verse-writer who has lived mainly in Europe. Love Poems and Sonnets.
Jervey, Mrs. Caroline Howard [Gilman] [Glover]. S. C., 1823-1877. Daughter of S. Gilman, supra. A writer of fiction and verse. Vernon Grove; Helen Courtenay’s Promise.
Jervis, John Bloomfield. N. Y., 1795-1885. A civil engineer of New York who designed many important works, such as the Croton Dam and High Bridge. Railway Property; Labor and Capital. Bai.
Jessup, Henry Harris. Pa., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in Syria from 1856. The Women of the Arabs; The Children of the East; The Greek Church and Protestant Missions; Syrian Home Life, include his most important works. Do.
Jeter, Jeremiah Bell. Va., 1802-1880. A Baptist clergyman prominent in the South as a preacher and controversialist. Among his writings are, Campbellism Examined; Campbellism Re-Examined; The Seal of Heaven; The Christian Mirror; Recollections of a Long Life. See Life by W. E. Hatcher.
Jewett, Charles Coffin. Me., 1816-1868. A bibliographer who was the first superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Facts and Considerations Relative to Duties on Books; Notices of Public Libraries in the United States; Construction of Catalogues.
Jewett, George Baker. Me., 1818-1880. Brother of C. C. Jewett, supra. A New England educator whose principal works were Baptism versus Immersion; Critique on the Greek Text of the New Testament.
Jewett, Milo Parker. Vt., 1808-1882. An educator who was the first president of Vassar College. Baptism; The Relation of Boards of Health and Intemperance.
Jewett, Sarah Orne. Me., 1849- ——. A popular writer of quiet fiction whose life has been passed mainly at her birthplace in South Berwick, Maine, and in Boston. Her painstaking, accurate studies of phases of rural New England life and character have received much well-deserved praise. Old Friends and New; Play-Days; Country By-Ways; Deephaven; The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore; A Country Doctor; A Marsh Island; A White Heron, and Other Stories; The Story of the Normans, an historical work; The King of Folly Island, and Other People; Betty Leicester, a Story for Girls; Strangers and Wayfarers; A Native of Winby, and Other Tales; The Life of Nancy; The Country of the Pointed Firs. See Bibliography of Maine. Hou. Put.
Johnson, Alexander Bryan. E., 1786-1867. A prominent banker of Utica for nearly half a century. Treatise on Banking; The Philosophy of Human Knowledge; Religion in its Relations to the Present Life; The Physiology of the Senses; The Meaning of Words; Nature and Value of Capital; Encyclopædia of Instruction; Guide to the Right Understanding of Our American Union.
Johnson, Barton W——. Il., 1833-1894. A Campbellite minister and educator of Iowa. The Vision of the Ages; Commentary on John; The People’s New Testament; Young Folks in Bible Lands.
Johnson, Benjamin F., of Boone. See Riley, James Whitcomb.
Johnson, Charles Frederick. N. Y., 1836- ——. A professor of English literature in Trinity College. English Words, an Elementary Study of Derivations; Three Americans and Three Englishmen, lectures. Har.
Johnson, Clifton. Ms., 1865- ——. A writer and illustrator of Hadley, Massachusetts, best known by his photographic illustrations to White’s Selborne and other books. What They Say in New England; A Book of Country Clouds and Sunshine; The Country School in New England; The Farmer’s Boy; The New England Country; The Isle of the Shamrock. Ap. Le.
Johnson, Edward. E., 1600-1682. The principal founder of Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1640, and a prominent citizen of that town for the rest of his life. The Wonder-Working Providence of Zion’s Saviour in New England is a valuable account of New England “from the English planting in 1628 till 1652.” An edition, with Introduction and Notes by W. F. Poole, infra, appeared in 1867. See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island.
Johnson, Edwin A——. N. Y., 1829- ——. A Methodist clergyman. Half-Hour Studies of Life; The Live Boy, or Charley’s Letters; Winter Greeneries at Home; The Lilyvale Club and its Doings. Meth.
Johnson, Francis Howe. Ms., 1835- ——. A Congregational clergyman in Andover, Massachusetts. What is Reality? an Inquiry as to the Reasonableness of Natural Religion, and the Naturalness of Revealed Religion. Hou.
Johnson, Frank Grant. Ct., 1835- ——. A physician and inventor of Brooklyn. The Water Metre and the Actual Measurement System; The Nicholson and Other Pavements; Health Lifts; Infected Air and Disinfectants.
Johnson, Franklin. 1836- ——. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Chicago University, and previously pastor of a church in Cambridge. Quotations of the New Testament from the Old; True Womanhood; The New Psychic Studies in their Relation to Christian Thought; Heine’s Lyrical Interludes, with introduction and notes; Dies Irae, and Stabat Mater, with introduction and notes. Bap. Fu. Lo.
Johnson, Mrs. Helen [Kendrick]. N. Y., 1843- ——. Wife of Rossiter Johnson, infra, and daughter of A. C. Kendrick, infra. She has edited Our Familiar Songs; Tears for the Little Ones; The Nutshell Series, and other works; and has written Raleigh Westgate, or Epimenides in Maine; The Roddy Books; Woman and the Republic. Ap. Ho. Hou. Put.
Johnson, Herrick. N. Y., 1832- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, professor in McCormick Theological Seminary from 1880. Christianity’s Challenge; Plain Talks about Theatres; Forms for Special Occasions; Revivals. Rev.
Johnson, John Butler. O., 1850-1902. A professor of civil engineering in Washington University, at St. Louis, from 1883. Theory and Practice of Surveying; Modern Framed Structures; Stadia and Earth-Work Tables. Wil.
Johnson, Mrs. Laura [Winthrop]. Ct., 1825-18—. Sister of Theodore Winthrop, infra. A writer of New York city. Little Blossom’s Reward; Poems of Twenty Years; Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance. Lip.
Johnson, Oliver. Vt., 1809-1889. An editor and lecturer of New York city, successively managing editor of The Independent, editor of the Weekly Tribune, and editor of the Christian Union. William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. Hou.
Johnson, Richard W. Ky., 1827-1897. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general. A Soldier’s Reminiscences in Peace and War; Life of Major-General George H. Thomas.
Johnson, Robert Underwood. D. C., 1853- ——. A New York writer on the editorial staff of The Century Magazine from 1873. The Winter Hour and Other Poems. Cent.
Johnson, Mrs. Rosa V. See Jeffrey, Mrs.
Johnson, Rossiter. N. Y., 1840- ——. A writer of New York city who edited Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia 1883-1902, and also edited Famous Single Poems; Play-day Poems; Little Classics; The Authorized History of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and other works. His original writings include, Phaëton Rogers, a Novel of Boy Life; History of the French War, Ending in the Conquest of Canada; History of the War of 1812-15; A Short History of the War of Secession, enlarged as Campfire and Battlefield; The End of a Rainbow, an American Story; Idler and Poet (verse); Three Decades (verse). Ap. Do. Ho. Hou. Scr.
Johnson, Samuel. Ct., 1696-1772. An Episcopal clergyman of Stratford, Connecticut, who was president of Columbia (then Kings) College, 1753-63. A System of Morality, republished by Franklin as Elementa Philosophia; English and Hebrew Grammar. An influential writer in his day. See Life and Correspondence by E. E. Beardsley; Life by T. B. Chandler, 1805.
Johnson, Samuel. Ms., 1822-1882. A Unitarian clergyman of radical views, pastor of an independent church in Lynn for many years. Oriental Religions; Lectures, Essays, and Sermons; The Worship of Jesus in its Past and Present Aspect. See Memoir by S. Longfellow, infra. Hou.
Johnson, Samuel William. N. Y., 1830- ——. A professor of chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University from 1856. Essays on Manures; Peat and Its Uses; How Crops Feed; Chemical Notation and Nomenclature, and several translations of German scientific works. Wil.
Johnson, Mrs. Sarah [Barclay]. Va., 1837-1885. Daughter of J. T. Barclay, supra. She lived for many years in Syria, where her husband was consul-general. The Hadji in Syria was her only published work.
Johnson, Thomas Cary. W. Va., 1859- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of ecclesiastical polity in Union Seminary, Virginia, from 1892. The History of the Southern Presbyterian Church.
Johnson, Virginia Wales. L. I., 1847- ——. A novelist who has resided in Europe since 1875, and mainly in Italy. The Neptune Vase is her finest effort. Her other works comprise, Joseph the Jew; A Sack of Gold; The Calderwood Secret; Two Old Cats; Miss Nancy’s Pilgrimage; A Foreign Marriage; An English Daisy Miller; The House of the Musician; Tulip Place; The Fainalls of Tipton; America’s Godfather. Est. Har. Hou. Scr.
Johnson, Walter Rogers. Ms., 1794-1852. A once prominent chemist of Boston and elsewhere. The Use of Anthracite; Report on Coals; Coal Trade of British America; Natural Philosophy; Memoir of L. D. von Schweinitz, infra.
Johnston, Alexander. L. I., 1849-1889. A professor of political economy at Princeton College, 1883-89. The Genesis of a New England State; History of the United States for Schools; The United States, its History and Constitution; History of Connecticut; History of American Politics. Ho. Hou. Scr.
Johnston, Henry Phelps. 1842- ——. A professor of history in the College of the City of New York. Loyalist History of the Revolution; The Campaign of 1776 around New York; The Yorktown Campaign; Yale and her Honor Roll in the American Revolution; Observations on Judge Jones. Har.
Johnston, John. Me., 1806-1879. An educator who was for many years professor of natural science in Wesleyan University. Manual of Chemistry; Manual of Natural Philosophy; Primer of Natural Philosophy; History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in Maine.
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston. Va., 1807-1891. A famous general in the Confederate service who surrendered to General Sherman on April 26, 1865. He published a Narrative of Military Operations, a spirited defence of his military policy. See Life of, by R. M. Hughes. Ap.
Johnston, Richard Malcolm. Ga., 1822-1898. A Baltimore writer and educator whose humourous writings are very distinctly original. Life of Alexander Stephens, infra (with W. H. Browne, supra); Dukesborough Tales; Old Mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea and Other Georgia Folk; Ogeechee Cross-Firings; Studies, Literary and Social; The Primes and Their Neighbors; Mr. Billy Downs and his Likes; Widow Guthrie, a Novel; The Chronicles of Mr. Bill Williams; Mr. Fortner’s Marital Claims; Little Ike Templin, stories for young people; English Classics: a Historical Sketch. Ap. Har. Lip. Lo.
Johnston, William Preston. Ky., 1831-1899. An educator of Louisiana, president of Tulane University from 1884. He was the son of the Confederate general, Albert Sidney Johnston. Besides a life of his father he wrote The Prototype of Hamlet. Ap.
Johonnot, James. Vt., 1823-1888. An educator of Illinois and Missouri. Principles and Practice of Teaching; Glimpses of the Animate World; Book of Cats and Dogs; Friends in Feathers and Fur; Some Curious Flyers, Creepers, and Swimmers; Schoolhouses; Schoolhouse Architecture. Ap.
Jones, Alexander. N. C., c. 1802-1863. A New York journalist who was a physician in the earlier portion of his career. Cuba in 1851; Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, 1852; The Cymri of Seventy-Six.
Jones, Amanda Theodosia. O., 1835- ——. An educator and inventor of Chicago. Her writings in verse comprise Ulah, and Other Poems; Atlantis; A Prairie Idyl.
Jones, Charles Colcock. Ga., 1804-1863. A Presbyterian clergyman of Georgia. Religious Instruction for Negroes; History of The Church of God.
Jones, Charles Colcock. Ga., 1831-1893. Son of C. C. Jones, supra. A lawyer and archæologist of Augusta, Georgia. Ancient Tumuli in Georgia; Antiquities of the Southern Indians; The History of Georgia; Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast; Biographical Sketches of the Delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress; The English Colonization of Georgia. Ap. Hou.
Jones, George. Me., 1800-1870. An Episcopal chaplain in the United States navy. Sketches of Naval Life; Life Scenes from the Gospels; Life Scenes from the Old Testament; Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.
Jones, Horatio Gates. Pa., 1822-1893. A lawyer of Philadelphia who published many local histories and biographies, among the latter being Andrew Bradford, Founder of the Newspaper Press in the Middle States.
Jones, Hugh. E., 1669-1760. An Episcopal clergyman, for sixty-five years rector of parishes in Virginia and Maryland. He was author of The Present State of Virginia, a work much valued by collectors of colonial literature.
Jones, James Athearn. Ms., 1790-1853. A journalist of Philadelphia and elsewhere. Traditions of the North American Indians; Haverhill, a novel.
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. W., 1843- ——. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago, editor of Unity from 1880. Practical Piety; The Faith that Makes Faithful.
Jones, Joel. Ct., 1795-1860. A jurist of Philadelphia who wrote much on theological topics, and was the first president of Girard College. Manual of Pennsylvania Land Law; Jesus and the Coming Glory; Knowledge of One Another in a Future State, are among his works.
Jones, John Beauchamp. Md., 1810-1866. A journalist whose books enjoyed considerable popularity at one time, but have very little literary merit. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary; Wild Western Scenes; Border War; Love and Money; Life and Adventures of a Country Merchant; War Path; Freaks of Fortune; The Rival Belles, are some of them. Lip.
Jones, Joseph. Ga., 1833-1893. Son of C. C. Jones, 1st, supra. A physician, professor in Tulane University, New Orleans, from 1869. Among his writings are, Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Surgical Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion; Hospital Construction and Organization; Medical and Surgical Memoirs.
Jones, Joseph Huntington. Ct., 1797-1868. Brother of Joel Jones, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Effects of Physical Causes on Christian Experience; Life of Ashbel Green, supra; Revival of Religion.
Jones, Joseph Seawell. N. C., c. 1811-1855. A Southern writer who published Defence of the Revolutionary History of North Carolina; Memorials of North Carolina.
Jones, Joseph Stevens. 1811-1877. An extremely prolific playwright of Boston, among whose best known productions are, Solon Shingle; Eugene Aram; The Silver Spoon; The Liberty Tree; Moll Pitcher.
Jones, Leonard Augustus. Ms., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Boston, editor of The American Law Register. Personal Property; The Law of Mortgages of Real Property; On The Law of Pledges; Pledges and Collateral Securities; Corporate Bonds and Mortgages; Chattel Mortgages; Liens; Real Estate in Conveyancing; Forms in Conveyancing. Hou.
Jones, Samuel Porter. Al., 1847- ——. A noted and eccentric revival preacher. Sam Jones’s Sermons; Music Hall Sermons; Sam Jones’s Own Book. Meth.
Jones, William Alfred. N. Y., 1817-1900. A critic and essayist of Norwich, Connecticut. The Analyst; Essays upon Authors and Books; Characters and Criticisms; Literary Studies.
Jordan, Mrs. Cornelia Jane [Matthews]. Va., 1830- ——. A Virginia writer of verse whose volume, Corinth, and Other Poems of the War, was publicly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by order of General Terry, as an objectionable and incendiary publication. Her other works are, Flowers of Hope and Memory; Christmas Poem for Children; Richmond, her Glory and her Graves; Useful Maxims for a Noble Life.
Jordan, David Starr. N. Y., 1851- ——. A noted naturalist who became the first president of Leland Stanford Junior University. Besides a great number of scientific papers and monographs, he has published A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States; Scientific Sketches; Contributions to American Ichthology; The Factors in Organic Evolution. Gi. Mg.
Jordan, Mrs. Dulcie [Mason]. N. Y., 1835-1895. A journalist and verse-writer of Richmond, Indiana, who published Rosemary Leaves, a volume of uneven but often pleasing verse.
Jordan, John Woolf. Pa., 1840- ——. A Philadelphia antiquarian, editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History. Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill; A Red Rose from the Olden Time; Something about Trombones; Occupation of New York by the British.
Jordan, Thomas. Va., 1819-1895. A Confederate officer, editor of The Mining Record. The South, its Products, Commerce, and Resources (1861); Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Forrest.
Jouin, Louis. P., 1818-1899. A Jesuit educator of note, professor at St. John’s College, Fordham. Elementa Philosophiæ Moralis; Compendium Logicæ et Metaphysicæ; Evidences of Religion.
Joyce, Robert Dwyer. I., 1836-1883. An Irish journalist who came to America in 1866 and settled in Boston. Ballads, Romances, and Songs; Deirdrè, a Poem; Ballads of Irish Chivalry; Irish Fireside Tales; Legends on the Wars in Ireland; Blanid; The Squire of Castleton, an historical novel. Rob.
Judd, Sylvester. Ms., 1789-1860. An antiquarian of Northampton, Massachusetts. Thomas Judd and his Descendants; History of Hadley. See Memorials of, by A. Hall, supra.
Judd, Sylvester. Ms., 1813-1853. Son of S. Judd, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Augusta, Maine. His greatest work is the remarkable story of Margaret: a Tale of the Real and the Ideal. Other works of his include, Philo, a religious poem; Richard Edney, a novel; The Church, a series of sermons. See Nichol’s American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Rob.
Judson, Edward Z—— C——. Pa., 1822-1886. A writer of sensational non-literary stories for weekly papers which gave him a large income. He was also a temperance lecturer. Among his stories are, Red Ralph the Ranger; The Sea Bandit; Buffalo Bill; The White Cruiser.
Judson, Mrs. Emily [Chubbuck]. “Fanny Forester.” N. Y., 1817-1854. A once popular writer who was the third wife of the famous Baptist missionary, Adoniram Judson. Alderbrook, a collection of stories; Trippings in Author Land; An Olio of Domestic Verses.
Judson, Harry Pratt. N. Y., 1849- ——. A professor of political science in the University of Chicago. Europe in the Nineteenth Century; The Growth of the American Nation; Cæsar’s Army, a Study of the Military Art of the Romans. Gi. Fl.
Judson, L—— Carroll. 18— - ——. Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution; The Moral Probe, a collection of Essays. Le.
Julian, George Washington. Ind., 1817-1899. An Indiana statesman, surveyor-general of New Mexico in 1885. Speeches on Political Questions; Political Recollections from 1840-72; Life of Joshua Giddings, supra. Mg.
June, Jennie. See Croly.
Junkin, David Xavier. Pa., 1808-1880. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago and elsewhere. The Good Steward; Life of General Hancock (with F. H. Norton); The Oath a Divine Ordinance. Ap.
Junkin, George. Pa., 1790-1868. Brother of D. X. Junkin, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman once prominent among leaders of the Old School party. He was the founder of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, and was twice its president. His more important works include, Commentary on Hebrews; Political Fallacies; The Great Apostasy; Sanctification; Justification; The Tabernacle. See Biography by D. X. Junkin.
Junkin, Margaret. Daughter of G. Junkin, supra. See Preston, Mrs.
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Kaler, James Otis. Me., 1846- ——. A journalist of New York city who has written much for juvenile readers. The Boy Captain; Under the Liberty Tree; A Short Cruise; The Boys’ Revolt; Toby Tyler; Left Behind; Mr. Stubbs’s Brother; Tom and Tip; Raising the Pearl; Silent Pete; The Castaways; Little Joe; Stories of American History; Jerry’s Family; Jenny Wren’s Boarding-House. Cr. Est. Har.
Kalisch, Isidor. P., 1816-1886. A Jewish clergyman who came to the United States in 1849, and was rabbi of congregations in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and elsewhere. He published Sketch of the Talmud, and several important translations from the German and Hebrew.
Kane, Elisha Kent. Pa., 1820-1857. A surgeon in the United States navy who was famous as an Arctic explorer. The United States Grinnell Expedition of 1850; Second Grinnell Expedition. See Lives by Elder and Schmucker.
Kane, Thomas Leiper. Pa., 1822-1883. Brother of E. K. Kane, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, and a brigadier-general in the Federal army in the Civil War. The Mormons; Alaska; Coahuila.
Kautz, August Valentine. G., 1828-1895. An officer in the United States army who served in the Civil War and in several subsequent Indian campaigns, and became a colonel and brevet major-general. The Company Clerk; Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers; Customs of Service for Officers. Lip.
Keating, John Marie. Pa., 1852-1893. A Philadelphia physician. With General Grant in the East; Mothers’ Guide for Management of Infants; Maternity, Infancy, and Childhood; Diseases of the Heart (with W. A. Edwards), include his principal writings. Lip.
Kedney, John Steinfort. N. J., 1819- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Seabury Divinity School at Faribault, Minnesota, from 1871. Mens Christi, and Other Problems in Theology; Catawba, and Other Poems; The Beautiful and the Sublime, an Analysis of the Emotions; Hegel’s Æsthetics; Christian Doctrine Harmonized. Put. Sc.
Keeler, Charles Augustus. Wis., 1871- ——. An ornithologist and verse-writer of California. Evolution of Color in North American Land Birds; A Light through the Storm.
Keeler, Ralph. O., 1840-1873. A journalist of California and New York. Gloverson and his Silent Partner; Vagabond Adventures.
Keen, William Williams. Pa., 1837- ——. An eminent Philadelphia surgeon, professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College from 1889. Reflex Paralysis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of the Human Body; Complications and Sequels of Continuous Fever; Early History of Practical Anatomy.
Keenan, Henry Francis. N. Y., 1849- ——. A journalist and novelist formerly of Rochester, New York. The Money-Makers, a Social Problem; Trajan, the History of a Sentimental Young Man; The Aliens; One of a Thousand; The Iron Game. Ap. Cas.
Keep, Josiah. Ms., 1849- ——. An educator of California. Common Sea Shells of California; West Coast Shells.
Keep, Robert Porter. Ct., 1844-1904. An educator of Norwich, Connecticut. Stories from Herodotus; Essential Uses of the Moods in Greek and Latin; Greek Lessons. Har.
Keith, Alyn Yates. See Morris, Mrs.
Keller, Joseph Edward. Bv., 1827-1886. A Jesuit educator, president of St. Louis University. Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII. (1880).
Kelley, Hall Jackson. N. H., 1790-1874. An educator of Boston who organized the first Sunday-school in New England, and made an unsuccessful attempt to colonize Oregon in 1830. Geographical Description of Oregon; Letters from an Afflicted Husband; History of the Settlement of Oregon.
Kelley, James Douglas Jerrold. N. Y., 1847- ——. A lieutenant-commander in the United States navy. The Question of Ships; Our Navy; A Desperate Chance, a story. Scr.
Kelley, William Darrah. Pa., 1814-1890. A jurist of Philadelphia who was in Congress from 1860, and was very prominent as an abolitionist and a protectionist. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on Political Questions; Letters from Europe; Lincoln and Stanton; The Old South and the New. Bai.
Kellogg, Alfred Hosea. Pa., 1837- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Detroit. Abraham, Joseph, and Moses in Egypt, an attempted solution of the Exodus problem.
Kellogg, Elijah. Me., 1813-1901. A Congregational clergyman of Harpswell, Maine, from 1844. He wrote many popular juvenile books, including Elm Island Series; Forest Glen Series; Good Old Times Series; Pleasant Cove Series; Whispering Pine Series, but perhaps is best known as the author of the Address of Spartacus to the Gladiators. See Bibliography of Maine. Le.
Kellogg, Samuel Henry. L. I., 1839-1899. A Presbyterian missionary to India. Grammar of the Hindi Language; The Jews, or Prediction and Fulfillment; The Light of Asia and the Light of the World; From Death to Resurrection; The Genesis and Growth of Religion. Mac.
Kellogg, Warren Franklin. N. Y., 1860- ——. A Boston publisher. Recent French Art; Hunting in the Jungle, adapted from “Les Animaux Sauvages.” Est.
Kelton, John Cunningham. Pa., 1828-1893. A brigadier-general in the United States army. New Manual of the Bayonet; Fencing with Foils; Pigeons as Couriers; Information for Riflemen.
Kendall, Amos. Ms., 1789-1869. A once famous journalist, politician, and philanthropist of Washington. Life of Andrew Jackson; Autobiography (edited by W. Stickney). Le.
Kendall, George Wilkins. N. H., 1807-1864. A journalist of New Orleans. The War between the United States and Mexico; The Texan Santa Fé Expedition. Ap.
Kendrick, Asahel Clark. Vt., 1809-1895. A noted Greek scholar who was professor of Greek at Rochester University from 1850. Echoes: metrical translations from the Greek and German; The Moral Conflict of Humanity and Other Papers; Life of Mrs. Emily Judson, supra; A Child’s Book of Greek; Introduction to the Greek Language, are among his writings. He was one of the Revisers of the New Testament, published independent commentaries and translations, and edited Our Poetical Favorites. Bap. Hou.
Kenly, John Reese. Md., 1822-1891. A captain and major of volunteers in the Mexican War, and brigadier-general in the Federal army in the Civil War. Memoirs of a Maryland Volunteer in the Mexican War.
Kennan, George. O., 1845- ——. A noted traveller who made a careful investigation of the Russian exile system for The Century Magazine, and drew world-wide attention to the subject. Tent Life in Siberia; Siberia and the Exile System. Cent. Put.
Kennedy, Crammond. S., 1842- ——. A lawyer of Washington. James Stanly, a Sunday-school tale; The Liberty of the Press; Corn in the Blade, a book of verse; Close Communion or Open Communion.
Kennedy, John Pendleton. Md., 1795-1870. A once famous novelist who was a prominent Maryland politician and secretary of the navy in 1852. Annals of Quodlibet; At Home and Abroad; Swallow Barn; Horse-Shoe Robinson; Rob of the Bowl; Life of William Wirt. See Life by H. T. Tuckerman, infra. Put.
Kennedy, William Sloane. Pa., 1822-1861. A Congregational clergyman of Ohio. Messianic Prophecies; Life of Christ; History of the Plan of Union; Sacred Analysis.
Kennedy, William Sloane. O., 1850- ——. A littérateur of Belmont, Massachusetts. Lives of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier; Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Poems of the Weird and Mystical; Reminiscences of Walt Whitman; Art of Life, a Ruskin Anthology; Whittier, the Poet of Freedom; In Portia’s Gardens; Bibliography and Literary History of Leaves of Grass. Fu. Lo. Mer. Wn.
Kenrick, Francis Patrick. I., 1797-1863. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore, 1851-63. An active controversialist and a biblical scholar of distinction. Theologia Dogmatica; Theologia Moralis; The Primacy of the Apostolic See Vindicated; Vindication of the Catholic Church; End of Religious Controversy Controverted, are among his many works. He also published a translation of the Scriptures with commentary.
Kenrick, Peter Richard. I., 1806-1896. Brother of F. P. Kenrick. The first Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis. In the Ecumenical Council of 1870 he actively opposed the dogma of papal infallibility. The Holy House of Lorretto; Anglican Ordinations; Concia in Concilio Vaticana.
Kent, James. N. Y., 1763-1847. A jurist of eminence who was chancellor of New York, 1814-23, and professor of law at Columbia College, 1793-1798, and again on retiring from the chancellorship of the State. His famous Commentaries on American Law, a work of the highest authority, reached a 13th edition in 1884, that of Holmes and Barnes. He published also a treatise On the Charter of New York City. See Duer’s Discourse on Life of Kent; Memoirs of, by W. Kent, 1898. Lit.
Kenyon, James Benjamin. N. Y., 1858- ——. A Methodist clergyman of Syracuse who has written much verse of a pleasing if not very striking kind. Out of the Shadows; The Fallen, and Other Poems; Songs in All Seasons; In Realms of Gold; At the Gate of Dreams; An Oaten Pipe. Lip.
Ker, David. E., 18— - ——. A journalist of New York city. The Broken Image, and Other Tales; On the Road to Khiva; The Wild Horseman of the Pampas; The Boy Slave in Bokhara; From the Hudson to the Neva; Lost Among White Africans; Into Unknown Seas; The Lost City, or the Boy Explorers in Central Asia; The Wizard King. Har. Lip. Lo.
Kerr, Orpheus C. See Newell, R. H.
Kerr, Robert Pollok. Ms., 1850- ——. Presbyterianism for the People; History of Presbyterianism; Hymns of the Ages; Voice of God in History.
Ketchum, Mrs. Annie [Chambers]. Ky., 1824-1904. An educator and lecturer. Lotos Flowers (verse); Christmas Carillons, and Other Poems; Botany for Academies and Colleges; The Teacher’s Empire; Nellie Braden, a novel; Rilla Motto, a romance. Lip.
Key, Francis Scott. Md., 1780-1843. A lawyer of Washington whose miscellaneous poems were collected and published after his death. The Star-Spangled Banner, composed in 1814 during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by English forces in whose hands the author was a prisoner, is his only poem of note. See Boyle’s Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Marylanders.
Keyes, Edward Lawrence. S. C., 1843- ——. Son of E. D. Keyes, infra. A physician of New York city. The Tonic Treatment of Syphilis; Venereal Diseases; Genito-Urinary Diseases. Ap.
Keyes, Emerson Willard. N. Y., 1828-1897. A lawyer of New York. New York Court of Appeals Reports; History of United States Savings Banks; Laws of New York Relating to Common Schools, with Comments.
Keyes, Erasmus Darwin. Ms., 1810-1895. A major-general in the Federal army in the Civil War, who resigned in 1864. Fifty Years’ Observation of Men and Events. Scr.
Keyser, Peter Dirck. Pa., 1835-1897. A surgeon of Philadelphia who has published Operations for Cataracts, and other works on diseases of the eye.
Kidder, Daniel Parrish. N. Y., 1815-1891. A Methodist clergyman of prominence who held professorships in several theological institutions. Homiletics; The Christian Pastorate; Mormonism and the Mormons; Sketches of a Residence in Brazil; Helps to Prayer; co-author with J. C. Fletcher, supra, of Brazil and the Brazilians. Meth.
Kidder, Frederick. N. H., 1804-1885. A Boston merchant among whose historical monographs are, The Boston Massacre; The Expeditions of Captain John Lovewell.
Kiddle, Henry. E., 1824-1891. An educator who was superintendent of the schools of New York city, 1870-79. Text-Book of Physics; Elements of Astronomy; Dictionary of Education, include his most important works.
Kieffer, Henry Martyn. Pa., 1845- ——. A German Reformed clergyman of Norristown, and subsequently of Easton, Pennsylvania. The Recollections of a Drummer Boy. Hou.
Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon. Ct., 1815-1859. A journalist of Connecticut. The Skeptic and Other Poems; History of the County of Litchfield; Chronicles of Litchfield.
Kilgore, Damon Young. 1827-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Dangers which Threaten the Republic; Questions of the Day.
Kimball, Arthur Lalanne. N. J., 1856- ——. A professor of physics at Amherst College from 1891. The Physical Properties of Gases. Hou.
Kimball, Harriet McEwen. N. H., 1834- ——. A religious verse-writer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Swallow Flights of Song; Hymns; The Blessed Company of All Faithful People; Complete Poems (1889). Ran.
Kimball, James William. Ms., 1812-1885. A religious writer educated for the ministry, but whose life was spent in commercial pursuits. Heaven my Father’s Home; Friendly Words with Fellow Pilgrims; Encouragements to Faith; How to See Jesus; The Christian Ministry.
Kimball, Richard Burleigh. N. H., 1816-1892. A lawyer of New York city who founded the town of Kimball in Texas, and built the first railroad in that State. His novels and other writings at one time enjoyed considerable popularity. They include St. Leger; Undercurrents of Wall Street Life; Letters from Cuba; Letters from England; Cuba and the Cubans; Was He Successful?; To-day in New York; Stories of Exceptional Life; Henry Powers, Banker, a Novel; Romance of a Student Life Abroad.
King, Mrs. Anna [Eichberg]. Sd., 1853- ——. A Boston writer of short stories. Brown’s Retreat, and Other Stories; Kitwyk Stories. Cent. Rob.
King, Charles. N. Y., 1844- ——. A United States army officer, retired in 1879 with the rank of captain, whose military novels and other works have been very popular. Among his many publications are, Famous and Decisive Battles; Between the Lines; Campaigning with Crook; Stories of Army Life; Cadet Days; The Colonel’s Daughter; The Deserter; A War Time Wooing; Kitty’s Conquest; Under Fire; Waring’s Peril; Foes in Ambush; Fort Frayne; Noble Blood. See Bibliography of Wisconsin. Har. Lip. Ne.
King, Clarence. R. I., 1842-1901. A geologist for a number of years in the government service. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada; Systematic Geology.
King, Dan. Ct., 1791-1864. A Rhode Island physician. Life and Times of Governor Dorr; Quackery Unmasked; Tobacco: What it Is and What it Does.
King, David Bennett. Pa., 1848- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Latin Pronunciation; The Irish Question. Scr.
King, Edward. Ms., 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in Paris as correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or French Character Sketches; Kentucky’s Love; The Great South; Echoes from the Orient, a volume of poems; Europe in Storm and Calm; A Venetian Lover, a Poem; Joseph Zalmonah; Under the Red Flag. Co. Hou. Le.
King, Grace Elizabeth. La., 1859- ——. A popular writer of New Orleans. Monsieur Motte; Tales of a Time and Place; Earthlings; New Orleans, the Place and the People; Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Founder of New Orleans; Balcony Stories. Cent. Do. Har. Mac.
King, Henry Melville. Mo., 1838- ——. A Baptist clergyman. Early Baptists Defended; Mary’s Alabaster Box, a collection of homilies; Our Gospels. Bap.
King, Horatio. Me., 1811-1897. An attorney in Washington who was postmaster-general in 1861. Sketches of Travel, or Twelve Months in Europe; Turning on the Light, a Survey of the Administration of Buchanan. Lip.
King, Horatio Collins. Me., 1837- ——. Son of H. King, supra. A journalist of New York city. Guide for Regimental Courts Martial; The Brooklyn Congregational Council; The Plymouth Silver Wedding.
King, James Wilson. Md., 1818- ——. A naval engineer, chief of the bureau of steam engineering, 1869-73. European Ships of War; The War Ships and Navies of the World.
King, Jonas. Ms., 1792-1869. A Congregational missionary in Greece who lived at Athens from 1831. He was a profound Oriental scholar, and his various works were written in Modern Greek, Classical Greek, French, and Arabic. The Defence of Jonas King; Exposition of an Apostolic Church; Hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures; Sermons; Synoptical View of Palestine; Miscellaneous Works. See Life, 1879.
King, Rufus. O., 1817-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cincinnati. History of Ohio. Hou.
King, Mrs. Sue [Petigru]. See Bowen, Mrs.
King, Thomas Starr. N. Y., 1824-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, 1845-56, and of San Francisco for the remainder of his life. He was largely instrumental in securing the wavering allegiance of California to the general government at the opening of the Civil War, and as a religious writer his influence was widely felt. Substance and Show; Christianity and Humanity, with a Memoir by E. P. Whipple; The White Hills, a volume of travel in the White Mountains; Patriotism, and Other Papers. Hou.
King, William Basil. P. E. I., 1859- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York. The Daily Song: Thoughts on the Offices for Morning and Evening Prayer; Griselda, a novel. S.
King, William Rufus. N. Y., 1839- ——. An engineering officer in the United States army. Torpedoes, their Invention and Use; Materials for Defensive Armor.
Kingsley, Calvin. N. Y., 1812-1870. A Methodist bishop. The Resurrection of the Dead; Round the World.
Kinney, Coates. N. Y., 1826- ——. An Ohio lawyer and journalist. Keuka, and Other Poems; Lyrics of the Real and Ideal. The Rain upon the Roof is his most familiar poem. Clke.
Kinney, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine [Dodge] [Stedman]. N. Y., 1810-1889. Mother of E. C. Stedman, infra. A verse-writer of Newark, New Jersey, but resident in Italy, 1850-65. Felicitá; Poems; Bianca Capello: a Tragedy. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.
Kinzie, Mrs. Juliette Augusta [Magill]. Ct., 1806-1870. A novelist of Chicago. Wau-bun, or the Early Day in the Northwest; Walter Ogilby; Mark Logan. Lip.
Kip, Leonard. N. Y., 1826-1901. Brother of W. I. Kip, infra. A lawyer of Albany. California Sketches; The Volcano Diggings; Ænone, a Roman Tale; The Dead Marquise; Hannibal’s Man, and Other Tales; Under the Bells, a romance; Nestlenook, a novel; At Cobweb and Crusty’s; Thalöe; The Puntacooset Colony; Three Pines; A Tale of the Incredible.
Kip, William Ingraham. N. Y., 1811-1893. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, 1853-93. A popular religious writer whose works have gone into many editions. Double Witness of the Church; Lenten Fasts; Early Conflicts of Christianity; Christmas Holidays in Rome; Catacombs of Rome; Early Jesuit Missions in North America; Recantation, an Italian tale; The Unnoticed Things of Scripture; The Church of the Apostles; The Olden Time in New York. Ap. Dut. Ran. Wh.
Kirk, Edward Norris. N. Y., 1802-1874. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Mount Vernon church, 1842-74. Sermons; The Parables of our Lord; Lectures on Revivals; Canon of the Holy Scripture; The Waiting Saviour; Christian Sympathy Awakened.
Kirk, Eleanor. See Ames, Mrs. E.
Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner [Olney]. “Henry Hayes.” Ct., 1842- ——. Wife of J. F. Kirk, infra. A popular novelist of Germantown, Philadelphia. Through Winding Ways; A Midsummer Madness; Walford; The Story of Margaret Kent; Sons and Daughters; Love in Idleness; A Lesson in Love; Fairy Gold; Queen Money; Better Times, short stories; A Daughter of Eve; Narden’s Choosing; Ciphers; The Story of Lawrence Garthe. Hou.
Kirk, John Foster. N. B., 1824-1904. The secretary to the historian Prescott for eleven years, and from 1885 lecturer on European history at the University of Pennsylvania. History of Charles the Bold; Supplement, to Allibone’s Dictionary. Lip.
Kirkbride, Thomas Story. Pa., 1809-1883. A physician of Philadelphia, widely known for skillful treatment of the insane, who was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, 1840-83. Appeal for the Insane; Essays on Insanity; Construction of Hospitals for the Insane.
Kirke, Edmund. See Gilmore.
Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline Matilda [Stansbury]. N. Y., 1801-1864. A once popular writer of New York city. A New Home, Who’ll Follow?; Western Clearings; Fireside Talks on Morals and Manners; Holidays Abroad; A Book for the Home Circle; Forest Life, include her principal writings. See Hart’s American Literature. Cr. Scr.
Kirkland, Elizabeth Stansbury. N. Y., 1828-1896. Daughter of Mrs. Kirkland, supra. An educator of Chicago. Six Little Cooks; Dora’s Housekeeping; Speech and Manners for Home and School; Short Histories of English Literature, France, England, Italy, for Young People. Mg.
Kirkland, John Thornton. N. Y., 1770-1840. A Unitarian clergyman who was president of Harvard University, 1810-27. Life of Fisher Ames; Eulogy of General Washington.
Kirkland, Joseph. N. Y., 1830-1894. Son of Mrs. Kirkland, supra. A lawyer of Chicago who was a major in the Federal army during the Civil War. His two novels of pioneer life in Illinois, Zury, and The McVeys, are notably faithful, graphic studies. His other writings include, The Captain of Company K; The Story of Chicago; Story of the Chicago Massacre of 1812. Hou.
Kirkman, Marshall Monroe. Il., 1842- ——. The vice-president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Railway Disbursements; Railway Revenue; Railway Service; Baggage Car Traffic; Railway Expenditures; Handling of Railway Supplies; Railway Rates and Government Control; How to Collect Railway Revenues without Loss.
Kirkwood, Daniel. Md., 1814-1895. An astronomer of distinction, professor in Indiana University from 1850. Meteoric Astronomy; Comets and Meteors; Asteroids and Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter.
Kirkwood, Robert. S., 1793-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of Yonkers. Lectures on the Millennium; Universalism Explained; A Plea for the Bible; Illustration of the Offices of Christ.
Kirwan. See Murray, Nicholas.
Klingle, George. See Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana.
Knapp, Arthur May. Ms., 1841- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1891. Feudal and Modern Japan. Kt.
Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo. Ms., 1783-1838. A lawyer of New York city, among whose many works are, The Genius of Freemasonry; Travels in North America by Ali Bey; American Biography; Lives of Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster; Female Biography.
Kneeland, Abner. Ms., 1774-1844. A Universalist clergyman who became a free-thinker, and established The Investigator in Boston in 1832. The Deist; Universal Benevolence; Universal Salvation; Review of Evidences of Christianity.
Kneeland, Samuel. Ms., 1821-1888. A naturalist and surgeon of Boston. Science and Mechanism; An American in Iceland; The Wonders of the Yo Semite; Volcanoes and Earthquakes. Lo.
Knight, Edward Henry. E., 1824-1883. An English writer who settled in the United States in 1845, and was long connected with the patent office in Washington. American Mechanical Dictionary; New Mechanical Dictionary. Hou.
Knight, James. Md., 1810-1887. A physician of New York city. Improvement of Health by Natural Means; Orthopædia; Static Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent.
Knight, Sarah Kemble. Ms., 1666-1727. A teacher of Boston among whose pupils was Benjamin Franklin. Her Narrative of a Journey from Boston to New York in 1704 is a valuable historical record of contemporary manners and customs written in a graphic, entertaining style.
Knortz, Karl. P., 1841- ——. A German writer who came to the United States in 1863, and settled in New York city. Märchen und Sagen der nordamerikanische Indianer; Amerikanische Skizzen; An American Shakespeare Bibliography; Humorische Gedichte; Longfellow: eine literarhistorische Studie; Aus der Wigwam; Kapital und Arbeit in Amerika; Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft; Staat und Kirche in Amerika; Shakespeare in Amerika; Amerikanische Lebensbilder; Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller, include his principal writings. Ho.
Knox, Mrs. Adeline [Trafton]. Me., 1845- ——. A novelist of St. Louis. Katharine Earle; His Inheritance; An American Girl Abroad; Dorothy’s Experience. Le.
Knox, Charles Eugene. N. Y., 1833-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of the theological seminary at Bloomfield, New Jersey, from 1863. A Year with Saint Paul; Love to the End; David the King; Graduated Sunday-school Text-Books. Meth. Ran.
Knox, George William. N. Y., 1853- ——. A Presbyterian missionary in Japan, professor of ethics in the University of Japan from 1886. His writings in Japanese include: A Brief System of Theology; Outlines of Homiletics; Christ the Son of God; The Basis of Ethics. In English he has published The Japanese Systems of Ethics.
Knox, John Jay. N. Y., 1828-1892. A financier of distinction, comptroller of the currency, 1867-84. He published United States Notes, a History of the Various Issues of Paper Money by the United States Government. Scr.
Knox, Thomas Wallace. N. H., 1835-1896. A journalist and traveller whose home was in New York city. His books of travel for young people have been widely popular. Overland Through Asia; Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field; Backsheesh; Underground Life; John; The Boy Travellers Series, in sixteen volumes; How to Travel; Pocket Guide Around the World; The Voyage of the Vivian; Hunting Adventures on Land and Sea; Marco Polo for Boys and Girls; Decisive Battles since Waterloo; Life of Robert Fulton; Hunters Three; In Wild Africa; The Siberian Exiles; The Lost Army, include the greater number of his books. Ap. Cas. Har. Mer. Put. We.
Kobbe, Gustav. N. Y., 1857——. A littérateur of New York city. Jersey Coast and Pines; Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung;” New York City and its Environs. Har.
Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. G., 1837-1900. An art critic of Boston, editor of the American Art Review. His more important publications are, American Art; Etching: an Outline of its Technical Processes and History. Cas. Le.
Koopman [kope´man], Harry Lyman. Me., 1860——. A verse-writer, librarian of Brown University. The Great Admiral; Orestes, and Other Poems; Woman’s Will, with Other Poems; What to Read.
Kouns [koonz], Nathan Chapman. Mo., 1833-1890. A Missouri lawyer, State librarian at Jefferson City from 1886, who published two historical romances, Arius the Libyan; Dorcas the Daughter of Faustina. Ap. Fo.
Kraitsir, Charles. Hy., 1804-1860. An educator and philologist of New York city. The Poles in the United States; Significance of the Alphabet; Glossology.
Krauth, Charles Porterfield. Va., 1823-1883. A prominent Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor of moral science in the University of Pennsylvania, 1868-83. The Conservative Reformation and its Theology is his greatest work; and among others are, The Evangelical Mass and the Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty Years’ War; Christian Liberty; Infant Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic System; Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession. See American Lutheran Biographies. Lip.
Krebs, John Michael. Md., 1804-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Righteousness and National Prosperity; The American Citizen; Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus; The Presbyterian Psalmist.
Krehbiel, Henry Edward. Mch., 1854——. A musical critic on the staff of the New York Tribune. Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music; Review of the New York Musical Seasons, 1885-90; Studies in the Wagnerian Drama; How to Listen to Music. Har. Scr.
Kroeger, Adolph Ernst. Sg., 1837-1882. A writer of St. Louis. The Minnesingers of Germany; Our Forms of Government and the Problems of the Future; translations of Fichte’s Science of Knowledge and Science of Rights.
Kron, Karl. See Bagg.
Krotel, Gottlob Frederick. Wg., 1826- ——. A Lutheran clergyman of New York city. Who are the Blessed?; Explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism; several translations from the German.
Kunz [koonz], George Frederick. N. Y., 1856- ——. A mineralogist of note, the foremost American specialist in precious stones. He has published Gems and Precious Stones of North America.
Kunze [koont-se], John Christopher. Sxy., 1744-1807. A once famous Lutheran clergyman of New York city, professor of ancient languages in Columbia College. History of the Christian Religion and of the Lutheran Church; Catechism and Liberty.
Kunze, Richard Ernest. G., 1838- ——. A physician of New York city who has done much to promote a knowledge of medical botany. Cactus; Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany; Germination and Vitality of Seeds.
Kurtz, Benjamin. Pa., 1795-1865. A Lutheran clergyman, for nearly thirty years the editor of The Lutheran Observer. Lutheran Prayer-Book; Year-Book of the Reformation; Why are You a Lutheran?; Faith, Hope, and Charity; Theological Sketch-Book, are his most important works.
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Labagh, Isaac Peter. N. Y., 1804-1879. An Episcopal clergyman of Iowa, but formerly a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed faith. Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy; The Great Events that are Coming; The Two Witnesses, Moses and Elijah; Theoklesia.
La Borde, Maximilian. S. C., 1804-1873. An educator who was professor in the University of South Carolina, 1842-73. Introduction to Physiology; Story of Lethea and Verona; History of South Carolina College.
Ladd, George Trumbull. O., 1842- ——. A Congregational clergyman of prominence, professor of philosophy at Yale University from 1881. Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze’s Philosophical Outlines, from the German. Gi. Scr.
Ladd, Horatio Oliver. Me., 1839- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, but formerly of the Congregational faith, at one period president of the University of New Mexico. History of the War with Mexico; The Story of New Mexico. Do. Lo.
La Farge, John. N. Y., 1835- ——. A noted figure and landscape artist of New York city. Lectures on Art. Mac.
Laighton, Albert. N. H., 1829-1887. A banker of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, cousin of Mrs. Thaxter, infra. Poems, a collection of quiet, thoughtful verse, was published in 1878.
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte. Ga., 1798-1859. The second of the four presidents of the Republic of Texas, 1838, and United States minister to Central America, 1857-58. Verse Memorials. See Bibliography of Texas.
Lamb, Mrs. Martha Joan Reade [Nash]. Ms., 1829-1893. An historical writer of New York city, editor of the Magazine of American History, 1883-93. The History of the City of New York, her chief work, is the result of a vast amount of patient labour and research. Her other works include, Spicy, a novel; Play-School Stories; The Christmas Owl; Snow and Sunshine, a Story for Girls; Wall Street in History. Bar. Do.
Lambert, Mrs. Mary Eliza [Perine] [Tucker]. Al., 1838- ——. A writer of Philadelphia. Poems; Loew’s Bridge, a Broadway Idyl; Life of Mark Pomeroy.
Lamon, Ward Hill. Va., 1828-1893. An Illinois lawyer, law partner of Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln; Life of Abraham Lincoln. Mg.
Lamson, Alvan. Ms., 1792-1864. A Unitarian clergyman of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1818-60. History of the First Church in Dedham; Sermons; The Church of the First Three Centuries.
Lamson, Daniel Lowell. N. H., 1834-18—. A physician of Fryeburg, Maine. Lectures; Differential Diagnosis of Diseases.
Lamson, Mrs. Mary [Swift]. Ms., 1822- ——. For five years a teacher of Laura Bridgman, the noted blind deaf-mute, and for three years in entire charge of her education. Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. Hou.
Lance, William. 1791-1840. A lawyer and political writer of Charleston, who published a Life of Washington in Latin.
Lander, Meta. See Lawrence, Mrs.
Lander, Sarah West. Ms., 1810-1872. A writer of Salem, Massachusetts, whose Spectacles for Young Eyes, a series of volumes of travel, was very popular.
Landon, Judson Stuart. Ct., 1832- ——. A lawyer of Schenectady, justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and lecturer in the Albany Law School. The Constitutional History and Government of the United States. Hou.
Landon, Melville De Lancey. “Eli Perkins.” N. Y., 1839- ——. A popular humourous lecturer. The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell; Saratoga in 1901; Eli Perkins at Large; Eli Perkins’s Wit, Humor, and Pathos; Fun and Fact, Thirty Years of Wit; Money: Silver, Gold, or Bimetallism, include the most of his writing. Cas. Ke.
Langdell, Christopher Columbus. N. H., 1826- ——. A legal writer of distinction, dean of the Harvard Law School. Cases on the Law of Contracts; Summary of Equity Pleading; Cases in Equity Pleading; Elementary Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Langdon, William Chauncey. Vt., 1831-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The Defects of our Practical Catholicity; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic Reform Movement in the Italian Church; Conflict of Practice and Principle in the American Church.
Langley, Samuel Pierpont. Ms., 1834- ——. An astronomer of eminence, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887. Researches on Solar Heat; The New Astronomy. Hou.
Langston, John Mercer. Va., 1829-1897. A distinguished educator of African birth, minister to Hayti, 1877-85, and president of the Virginia Normal Institute at Petersburg from the latter date. He published Freedom and Citizenship.
Lanier [la-neer´], Clifford Anderson. Ga., 1844- ——. A Georgia writer of fiction. Two Hundred Bales; Thorn-Fruit.
Lanier, Sidney. Ga., 1842-1881. Brother of C. A. Lanier, supra. A distinguished Southern writer over whose rank as a poet much controversy has arisen. His verse can hardly be said to appeal to many readers, and its formlessness at times repels rather than attracts. A Centennial Ode, written for the opening of the Exposition of 1876, first brought him into general notice. Subsequently he lectured upon English literature in Baltimore. Poems; Tiger Lilies, a novel; The Science of English Verse; The English Novel and its Development; Florida: its Scenery, History, and Climate. He edited The Boys’ Percy; The Boys’ Mabinogion; The Boys’ King Arthur; The Boys’ Froissart. See Century Magazine, April, 1884; Gosse’s Questions at Issue. Lip. Scr.
Lanigan, George Thomas. Q., 1845-1886. A journalist of Montreal, and subsequently of New York city. Canadian Ballads; Fables Out of the World.
Lanman, Charles. Mch., 1819-1895. An artist and author of Washington, at one time the private secretary of Daniel Webster. Essays for Summer Hours; Summer in the Wilderness; Private Life of Daniel Webster; Dictionary of Congress; The Red Book of Michigan; Leading Men of Japan; Letters from a Landscape Painter; Tour to the River Saguenay; Farthest North; Haphazard Personalities, include the most of his works. Ap. Le. Lo.
Lanman, Charles Rockwell. Ct., 1850- ——. A professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University from 1880. Noun Inflection in the Vedas; A Sanskrit Reader, with Notes. Gi.
Lansing, John Gulian. La., 1851- ——. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of Old Testament Languages in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey. American Revised Version of the Book of Psalms; An Arabic Manual. Scr.
Lanza, Marchioness Clara [Hammond]. Ks., 1858- ——. Daughter of W. A. Hammond, supra. A novelist of New York city. Tit for Tat; Mr. Perkins’s Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Tales of Eccentric Life; A Modern Marriage; David Morton’s Transgression; A Golden Pilgrimage.
Lapham [lăp´a̯m], Increase Allen. N. Y., 1811-1875. A prominent scientist of Milwaukee. Antiquities of Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its Geography, Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy. See Popular Science Monthly, April, 1883.
Lapham, William Berry. Me., 1828-1894. An agricultural editor of Maine, who published several histories of Maine localities, including Woodstock, Paris, Norway, Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island. See Bibliography of Maine.
Larcom, Lucy. Ms., 1824-1893. A popular verse and prose writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, who in early life worked in the Lowell factories, and was a contributor to the noted Lowell Offering. Her writings in verse include, At the Beautiful Gate; Childhood Songs; Wild Roses of Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter Gleams; Complete Poems. Skipper Ben and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best known lyrics. Her original work in prose comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories; The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila among the Mountains; The Unseen Friend; As It is in Heaven; A New England Girlhood, an autobiographic work. See Life by D. D. Addison. Hou.
Larned, Augusta. Vt., 1835- ——. A journalist of New York city. Home Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old Tales from Grecian Mythology; Tales from the Norse Grandmother; Village Photographs, a work of the nature of Miss Mitford’s “Our Village,” and with much of the same charm; In Woods and Fields, a book of verse. Ho. Meth. Put.
Larned, Josephus Nelson. Ont., 1836- ——. The superintendent of the public library at Buffalo, 1877-1897. History for Ready Reference; Talks About Labor. Ap.
Larned, Walter Cranston. Il., 1850- ——. A lawyer and littérateur of Lake Forest, Illinois. Churches and Castles of Mediæval France. Scr.
La Roche, René. Pa., 1794-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Pneumonia: its Supposed Connection with Autumnal Fevers; Treatise on Yellow Fever.
Larrabee, William Clark. Me., 1802-1859. A once prominent Methodist clergyman and educator of Indiana, professor in De Pauw University for a number of years. Scientific Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; Wesley and his Co-Laborers; Asbury and his Co-Laborers; Rosebower, a volume of essays. Meth.
Latham, Charles Sterrett. Cal., 1861-1890. A Translation of Dante’s Eleven Letters, with Explanatory Notes and Historical Comments. Hou.
Lathbury, Mary Artemisia. N. Y., 1841- ——. That Sweet Story of Old; Bethlehem and her Children; Child’s History of Paul; Fleda and the Voice; From Meadow Sweet to Mistletoe. Meth.
Lathrop, George Parsons. H. I., 1851-1898. A littérateur of New York city, and more recently of New London. His writings in verse include, Rose and Rooftree; Dreams and Days. In fiction they comprise, Afterglow; An Echo of Passion; In the Distance; Newport; Would You Kill Him?; True; Two Sides of a Story; Love Wins; Gold of Pleasure; Behind Time. Other works are, A Study of Hawthorne; Spanish Vistas; A Story of Courage: Annals of the Georgetown Convent (with Mrs. Lathrop, infra). Cas. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip. Scr.
Lathrop, Mrs. Rose [Hawthorne]. Ms., 1851- ——. Wife of G. P. Lathrop, supra, and daughter of N. Hawthorne, supra. Along the Shore, a volume of verse; Some Memories of Hawthorne. Hou.
Latimer, Charles. D. C., 1827-1888. An engineer of note who published Roadmaster’s Assistants; The Divining Rod; Battle of Standards.
Latimer, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Wormeley]. E., 1822-1904. An educator of Baltimore. Familiar Talks on Shakespeare’s Comedies; France in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-90; Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century; England in the Nineteenth Century; Europe in Africa in the Nineteenth Century; Italy in the Nineteenth Century. Mg. Rob.
Latrobe, John Hazelhurst Boneval. Pa., 1803-1891. A lawyer of Baltimore. Son of the architect Benjamin Latrobe. History of Mason and Dixon’s Line; Three Great Battles; Justices’ Practice under the Laws of Maryland; Reminiscences of West Point; Odds and Ends, a book of verse; History of Maryland in Liberia.
Latta, Samuel Arminius. O., 1804-1852. A Methodist clergyman of Ohio, subsequently a physician in Cincinnati, who published The Chain of Sacred Wonders.
Laughlin, James Lawrence. O., 1850- ——. A political economist of note, professor at Harvard University, 1883-87, and at Chicago University from 1892. Facts About Money; Study of Political Economy; Elements of Political Economy; History of Bi-Metallism in the United States. Ap. Am.
Lawrence, Eugene. N. Y., 1823-1894. An historical writer of New York city. Lives of the British Historians; Historical Studies; Essays and Papers; Literature Primers; The Jews and their Persecutors; Columbus and his Contemporaries. Har.
Lawrence, Mrs. Margaret Oliver [Woods]. “Meta Lander.” Ms., 1813-1901. Daughter of L. Woods, infra. Light on the Dark River; Fading Flowers; L’Espérance; The Tobacco Problem; Marion Graham. Le.
Lawrence, William. O., 1819-1899. A jurist of Ohio who was comptroller of the national treasury, 1880-85. Decisions of Ohio Supreme Court; The Treaty Question; Law of Religious Societies and Religious Corporations; Law of Claims Against the Government; Organization of the United States Treasury Department; Decisions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury.
Lawrence, William. Ms., 1850- ——. The seventh Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Life of Amos A. Lawrence; Visions and Service, discourses in collegiate chapels. Hou.
Lawrence, William Beach. N. Y., 1800-1881. An eminent jurist of New York city, and after 1850 of Newport, Rhode Island. Letters on the Treaty of Washington; an edition of Wheaton’s Elements of International Law; Visitation and Search; Institutions of the United States; Commentaire sur les éléments du droit international; Administration of Equity Jurisprudence, include his principal writings.
Lawson, James. S., 1799-1880. A New York city journalist. Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite; Poems; Giordana, a tragedy. See Wilson’s Poets and Poetry of Scotland.
Lawson, John. E., 16— -1712. The surveyor-general of North Carolina, burned at the stake by hostile Indians. His entertaining travels were published with the title of History of North Carolina. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Lawton, William Cranston. Ms., 1853- ——. A classical teacher and lecturer, formerly of Cambridge, now (1897) of Brooklyn and professor in Adelphi College there. Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia Dispersa, a book of verse; Art and Humanity in Homer. Hou. Mac.
Lay, Henry Champlin. Va., 1823-1885. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Easton (Maryland), but from 1859 to 1869 the third bishop of Arkansas. Studies in the Church; The Church and the Nation.
Lazarus, Emma. N. Y., 1849-1887. A talented Jewish writer of New York city who wrote much in verse and prose for The Century and other periodicals. Alide, an Episode of Goethe’s Life; Poems; Admetus, and Other Poems; Songs of a Semite; Poems and Ballads translated from Heine. Her Complete Poems, with a brief memoir, appeared in 1889. Hou.
Lazarus, Josephine. N. Y., 1846- ——. Sister of E. Lazarus, supra. The Spirit of Judaism; The Love-Letters of a Portuguese Nun, a translation from the French. Cas. Do.
Lazelle, Henry Martyn. Ms., 1832- ——. A United States army officer, since 1887 in charge of the bureau of war records. One Law in Nature; Improvements in the Art of War.
Lea, Henry Charles. Pa., 1825- ——. Son of I. Lea, infra. A prominent writer and publisher of Philadelphia. Superstition and Force; An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church; Chapters from the Religious History of Spain; Studies in Church History; Translations, and Other Rhymes; History of the Inquisition. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Catholic World, March, 1897. Har. Hou.
Lea, Isaac. Del., 1792-1886. A publisher and naturalist of Philadelphia. Contributions to Geology; Observations on the Genus Unio, in thirteen volumes; Fossil Footmarks in the Red Sandstones of Pottsville.
Lea, Matthew Carey. Pa., 1823-1897. Son of I. Lea, supra. A chemist of Philadelphia whose Manual of Photography is a standard work.
Leaming, Jeremiah. Ct., 1717-1804. An Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut. Defense of Episcopal Government; Evidences of the Truth of Christianity; Dissertations.
Learned, Walter. Ct., 1847- ——. A verse-writer of New London who has published Between Times, a collection of poems, and translated Ten Tales from Coppée. Sto.
Leavitt, John McDowell. O., 1824- ——. An Episcopal clergyman. Faith, a Poem; Afranius; The Siege of Babylon, a tragedy; Hymns to Our King; New World Tragedies from Old World Life; Reasons for Faith; Visions of Solyma.
Le Conte [le-kŏnt], John. Ga., 1818-1891. A naturalist and physician, president of the University of California, 1875-81, and professor of physics there before and after his presidency. Philosophy of Medicine; Study of the Physical Sciences; Vital Statistics.
Le Conte, John Eaton. N. J., 1784-1860. Uncle of J. Le Conte, supra. A naturalist who in early life served in the corps of army engineers with the rank of major. Monographs of North American Species of Utricularia, Gratiola, and Ruellia; North American Species of Viola.
Le Conte, John Lawrence. N. Y., 1825-1883. Son of J. E. Le Conte, supra. An entomologist of distinction, author of List of Coleoptera of North America, and other technical publications.
Le Conte, Joseph. Ga., 1823-1901. Brother of John Le Conte, supra. A geologist of eminence, professor of geology in the University of California from 1869. Elements of Geology; Sight; Evolution and its Relation to Religious Thought; Religion and Science. Ap.
Lee, Alfred. Ms., 1807-1887. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Delaware, and prominent as a Low Churchman. The Harbinger of Christ; Life of St. Peter; Eventful Nights in Bible History; Life of St. John; Treatise on Baptism. Har. Ran.
Lee, Benjamin. Ct., 1833- ——. Son of A. Lee, supra. A physician of Philadelphia. Treatment for Angular Curvature of the Spine; Tracts on Massage.
Lee, Benjamin Franklin. N. J., 1841- ——. A Methodist clergyman of African birth, president of Wilberforce University from 1876. Wesley the Worker; Causes of the Success of Methodism.
Lee, Charles Alfred. Ct., 1810-1872. A physician of New York city who published Elements of Geology for Popular Use; Human Physiology.
Lee, Day Kellogg. N. Y., 1816-1869. A Universalist clergyman of New York city. Summerfield, or Life on a Farm; Master Builders, or Life at a Trade; Merrimack, or Life at a Loom.
Lee, Mrs. Eliza [Buckminster]. N. H., 1794-1864. Sister of J. S. Buckminster, supra. A once popular Boston writer. Life of Richter; Sketches of a New England Village; Naomi; Florence, the Parish Orphan; Parthenia, or the Last Days of Paganism.
Lee, Mrs. Hannah Farnham [Sawyer]. Ms., 1780-1865. A once prominent writer of Boston. Grace Seymour; Luther and his Times; Sculpture and Sculptors; Three Experiments in Living, which was extraordinarily popular both in America and England; Familiar Sketches of the Old Painters; The Huguenots in France and America; Memoir of Pierre Toussaint.
Lee, Henry. Va., 1756-1818. A famous general in the American army during the Revolution. He published Memoirs of the War in the Southern Departments of the United States. In his oration in Congress on the death of Washington first occurs the familiar phrase, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Lee, Henry. Va., 1786-1837. Son of H. Lee, supra. A Virginia writer who published The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas; Life of Napoleon.
Lee, Jesse. Va., 1758-1816. A Methodist missionary, called “the Apostle of Methodism,” who published a History of Methodism, which is a valuable record of the early years of that faith. See Life and Times by L. M. Lee.
Lee, Luther. N. Y., 1800-1889. A Wesleyan clergyman of Michigan. Universalism Examined and Refuted; Church Polity; Immortality of the Soul; Slavery in the Light of the Bible; Elements of Theology.
Lee, Mrs. Mary Catherine [Jenkins]. Ms., 18— - ——. A novelist of Springfield, Massachusetts. A Quaker Girl of Nantucket; In the Cheering-Up Business; A Soulless Singer. Hou.
Lee, Mary Elizabeth. S. C., 1813-1849. A writer of Charleston, author of Historical Tales for Youth, and a volume of Poems issued in 1851 with memoir by S. Gilman, supra.
Leech, Samuel Van Derlip. N. Y., 1837- ——. A Methodist clergyman and temperance reformer. The Drunkard; Ingersoll and the Bible; The Inebriates. Fu.
Leeds, David. E., 1652-1720. A prominent figure among the early settlers of Burlington, New Jersey, and a violent opponent of the Quakers. His writings, directed almost entirely against them, include The Temple of Wisdom; The News of a Trumpet; Hue and Cry against Error; A Trumpet Sounded; The Rebuker Rebuked; The Great Mystery of Fox-Craft Discovered.
Leeser [lā´zer], Isaac. Wa., 1806-1868. A Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia who published The Jews and the Mosaic Law; Discourses on the Jewish Religion; Portuguese Forms of Prayer; a Translation of the Scriptures from the original Hebrew.
Lefferts, George Morewood. L. I., 1846- ——. A physician of New York city. Diseases of the Nose; Diagnosis of Nasal Catarrh; Pharmacopœia for Diseases of the Throat and Nose.
Legare [lā-gree´], Hugh Swinton. S. C., 1799-1843. A South Carolina jurist and essayist, attorney-general of the United States in 1841. Constitutional History of Greece; Essay on Classical Learning; Essay on Roman Literature.
Legare, James Matthews. S. C., 1823-1859. An inventor and verse writer. Orta-Undis, and Other Poems.
Leggett, William. N. Y., 1802-1839. A journalist once prominent in New York city. Leisure Hours at Sea; Tales by a Country Schoolmaster; Naval Stories; Political Writings. See Memoir by T. Sedgwick, infra.
Leidy [lī´dĭ], Joseph. Pa., 1823-1891. A Philadelphia scientist of distinction who was a constant contributor to scientific periodicals. Among his writings are, The Extinct Species of the American Ox; Ancient Fauna of Nebraska; Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States; Elementary Text-Book on Human Anatomy. Lip.
Leighton [lī´ton], William. Ms., 1833- ——. A writer of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Sons of Godwin, a tragedy that appeared simultaneously with Tennyson’s “Harold” on the same theme; At the Court of King Edwin, a drama; Shakespeare’s Dream; Change; The Subjection of Hamlet.
Leland, Charles Godfrey. “Hans Breitmann.” Pa., 1824-1903. A very versatile Philadelphia author who lived much in Europe, and was considered an authority upon Gypsy lore. Hans Breitmann Ballads; The Music Lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems; Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land; The English Gypsies and their Language; Origin of the Gypsies; The Gypsies; The Algonquin Legends of New England; Egyptian Sketch Book; Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery; Practical Education; Manual of Wood Carving; Memoirs, include his more important works. See Allibone’s Dictionary and Supplement; Appletons’ American Biography. Ap. Hou. Lip. Mac. Scr.
Leland, Henry Perry. Pa., 1828-1868. Brother of C. G. Leland, supra. A Philadelphia writer who served as lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment during the Civil War. The Americans in Rome; The Grey Bay Mare, and Other Humorous Sketches.
Lemmon, John Gill. Mch., 1832- ——. A botanist attached to the California department of forestry from 1880. Ferns of the Pacific Coast; Discovery of the Potato.
Leonard, Agnes. See Hill, Mrs. Agnes.
Leonard, William Andrew. Ct., 1848- ——. The fourth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio. Via Sacra; The Christmas Festival, its Origin, etc.; Summary of Herbert Spencer’s “First Principles;” Brief History of the Christian Church.
Leonowens, Mrs. Anna Harriette [Crawford]. W., 1834- ——. An Englishwoman who was governess in the royal family of Siam for four years, came to New York in 1867, and has since taught there. The English Governess at the Siamese Court; The Romance of the Harem; Life and Travels in India; Our Asiatic Cousins. Co. Lo.
Le Plongeon, Mrs. Alice [Dixon]. E., 1851- ——. The wife of the archæologist and explorer, Dr. Le Plongeon. Here and There in Yucatan.
Lesley, John Peter. Pa., 1819-1903. A Philadelphia geologist of distinction. Man’s Origin and Destiny from the Platform of the Sciences; Coal and its Topography; The Iron Manufacturer’s Guide.
Leslie, Eliza. Pa., 1787-1858. A Philadelphia writer of tales and sketches whose work was extremely popular in her day. She was a sister of the famous English artist Charles Robert Leslie. Among her writings are, Domestic Cookery; Mrs. Washington Potts; The Behaviour Book; Pencil Sketches; American Girl’s Book; The Dennings. She wrote nothing that will live, but much that was of service to her generation. See Hart’s American Literature. Bai.
Lesquereux [lā-ke-rü´], Leo. Sd., 1806-1889. A Swiss paleontologist who came to America in 1848 and settled in Columbus, Ohio. Catalogue of the Mosses of Switzerland; Musci Americani Exsiccati (with Sullivant); Icones Muscarum; Land Plants in the Lower Silurian; The Tertiary Flora; The Coal Flora; Mosses of North America (with T. P. James).
Leslie, Madeline. See Baker, Mrs.
Lester, Charles Edwards. Ct., 1815-1890. A journalist and littérateur of New York city, at one time consul at Genoa. Life of Vespucius; The Napoleon Dynasty; Artists of America; The Glory and Shame of England; My Consulship; Condition and Fate of England; Samuel Houston and his Republic; Life of Charles Sumner; Our One Hundred Years; America’s Advancement; The Mexican Republic; History of the United States; Stanhope Burleigh, a novel; with several translations of standard Italian authors, include the greater portion of his work.
Leverett, Frederick Percival. Ms., 1803-1836. A once distinguished educator of Boston. Besides annotated editions of Juvenal and other classics, he prepared a much valued Lexicon of the Latin Language. Lip.
Le Vert, Mrs. Octavia [Walton]. Ga., 1820-1877. A once prominent social leader of Mobile, whose literary reputation was greater than her actual accomplishment seemed to warrant. Souvenirs of Travel was her only published book.
Lewis, Abram Herbert. N. Y., 1836- ——. A Seventh Day Baptist clergyman of Plainfield, New Jersey, and a writer of much prominence in his denomination. Sabbath and Sunday; Biblical Teachings Concerning the Sabbath and Sunday; Critical History of the Sabbath; Critical History of Sunday Legislation; Biography of the Puritan Sunday; Paganism in Christianity. Ap. Put.
Lewis, Alonzo. Ms., 1794-1861. A verse-writer of Lynn, once styled “The Lynn Bard.” Forest Flowers and Sea Shells; History of Lynn. A complete edition of his poems was issued in 1883.
Lewis, Charles Bertrand. “M. Quad.” O., 1842- ——. A journalist of Detroit on the staff of the Free Press for many years, and since 1891 on that of The New York World. Quad’s Odds; Goaks and Tears; The Lime Kiln Club.
Lewis, Charlton Thomas. Pa., 1834-1904. Grandson of Enoch Lewis, infra. A lawyer and mathematician of Morristown, New Jersey. History of the German People; Latin Dictionary for Schools; Elementary Latin Dictionary. Har.
Lewis, Dio. N. Y., 1823-1886. A well-known Boston physician and health reformer. New Gymnastics; Our Girls; Our Digestion; Chastity; Weak Lungs and How to Make Them Strong, are among his most important works.
Lewis, Elisha Joseph. Md., 1820- ——. A Philadelphia physician. Hints to Sportsmen; The American Sportsman. Lip.
Lewis, Enoch. Pa., 1776-1856. An educator among the Friends of Pennsylvania. Vindication of the Society of Friends; Oaths; Baptism; Life of William Penn.
Lewis, Mrs. Estelle Anna Blanche [Robinson]. “Stella.” Md., 1824-1880. A Brooklyn writer whose life was largely spent in Europe. Her verse, which once received much more praise than its degree of excellence at all warranted, is now nearly forgotten. Sappho of Lesbos; Records of the Heart; Child of the Sea; Myths of the Minstrel; Helémah, or the Fall of Montezuma.
Lewis, Mrs. Harriet. 1841-1878. Amber, the Adopted; Her Double Life.
Lewis, Laurence. Pa., 1857-1890. A lawyer of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Courts in the 17th Century; History of the Bank of North America; Memoir of Edward Shippen; Original Land Titles in Philadelphia.
Lewis, Tayler. N. Y., 1802-1877. An educator of note who was professor of Greek in Union College from 1849 until his death. The Platonic Theology; The Bible and Science; Six Days of Creation; Defence of Capital Punishment (with G. B. Cheever, supra); The Divine-Human in the Scriptures; States’ Rights; Heroic Periods in the Nation’s History; The Light by which we See Light.
Lieber [lee´be̯r], Francis. P., 1800-1872. An eminent publicist, professor of political economy in the University of South Carolina, 1835-56, and subsequently at Columbia College. Reminiscences of Niebuhr; The West, and Other Poems; Manual of Political Ethics; Laws of Property; Civil Liberty and Self-Government; Legal and Political Hermeneutics; Instructions for the Armies in the Field; The Character of the Gentleman; Miscellaneous Writings. See Life and Letters of, by T. S. Perry; Life, by Harley. Lip.
Lieber, Oscar Montgomery. Ms., 1830-1862. Son of F. Lieber, supra. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War. The Assayer’s Guide; The Analytical Chemist’s Assistant; The Geology of Mississippi. Bai.
Light, George Washington. Me., 1809-1860. A journalist of Boston. Life of Timothy Claxton; Keep Cool, Go Ahead, and a Few More Poems.
Lillie, John. S., 1812-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kingston, New York, who published The Perpetuity of the Earth.
Lillie, Mrs. Lucy Cecil [White]. N. Y., 1855- ——. A writer of popular juveniles. Mildred’s Bargain; Nan; The Story of Music and Musicians; Rolf House; The Colonel’s Money; Jo’s Opportunity; The Household of Glen Holly; The Story of English Literature; Prudence, a Novel of Æsthetic London; Ruth Endicott’s Way; Alison’s Adventures. Co. Har.
Lincoln, Abraham. Ky., 1809-1865. The sixteenth president of the United States. His place in literature is determined by his famous Gettysburg Address and the equally admirable Second Inaugural Address. His Complete Works are contained in two volumes, edited by Nicolay and Hay. See Lives by Holland, 1865; Arnold, 1868; Lamon, 1872; Nicolay and Hay, 1890; Herndon, 1892; Abraham Lincoln, an Essay, by C. Schurz, 1892.
Lincoln, Mrs. Almira. See Phelps, Mrs. A. Cent.
Lincoln, Daniel Francis. Ms., 1841- ——. A physician of Boston. School Hygiene; Electro-Therapeutics; School and Industrial Hygiene.
Lincoln, Heman. Ms., 1821-1887. A Baptist divine, professor of church history at Newton Theological Seminary from 1868. Outline Lectures in Church History; Outline Lectures in History of Doctrine.
Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanie [Gould]. N. Y., 1846- ——. Granddaughter of James Gould, supra. A writer of Washington city. A Chaplet of Leaves, a book of verse; Marjorie’s Quest, a story for young people; Her Washington Winter; A Genuine Girl. Hou.
Lincoln, John Larkin. Ms., 1817-1891. Brother of H. Lincoln, supra. A professor of Latin in Brown University, well known as a classical scholar, and editor of editions of Livy, Horace, and Cicero. See In Memoriam: John Larkin Lincoln.
Lincoln, Mrs. Mary Johnson [Bailey]. Ms., 1844- ——. A Boston teacher of cookery, culinary editor of The American Kitchen Magazine. Boston Cook Book; Carving and Serving; Twenty Lessons in Cookery; Kitchen Text-Book. Rob.
Linderman, Henry Richard. Pa., 1825-1879. The director of the United States mint at Philadelphia from 1873, whose annual report for 1877 is a powerful argument for the gold standard. Money and Legal Tender in the United States.
Lindsey, William. Ms., 1858- ——. A Boston littérateur. Apples of Istakhar, a volume of verse; Cinder-Path Tales; At Start and Finish.
Linen, James. S., 1808-1873. A bookbinder of New York city. Songs of the Seasons; Poetical and Prose Writings.
Lining, John. S., 1708-1760. A physician and scientist of Charleston who published in 1753 a History of Yellow Fever, the earliest American treatise on the subject.
Linn, John Blair. Pa., 1777-1804. Son of W. Linn, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. The Power of Genius, a Poem; Valerian, a Poem; The Gallic Orphan, a drama; Miscellanea.
Linn, John Blair. Pa., 1831-1899. Grandson of W. Linn, infra. A Pennsylvania lawyer. Annals of Buffalo Valley; Pennsylvania Archives (with W. H. Egle); History of Centre and Clinton Counties.
Linn, William. Pa., 1752-1808. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia famous in his day as a preacher. Discourses on Leading Personages of Scripture History; Signs of the Times. His sermon on the death of Washington was formerly much quoted.
Linn, William. N. Y., 1790-1867. Son of W. Linn, supra. A lawyer of Ithaca. Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Roorback Papers; Legal and Commercial Commonplace Book.
Linton, William James. E., 1812-1897. An English engraver and poet who came to the United States in 1867 and settled in New Haven. Beside ably editing several poetical anthologies, he was the author of Claribel, and Other Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable History of Wood Engraving in America; The English Republic; The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories; Practical Hints on Wood Engraving; Wood Engraving, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and Translations; Three Score and Ten Years; Life of Whittier. See Stedman’s Victorian Poets; Atlantic Monthly, February, 1883. Le. Mac. Rob. Scr.
Lippard, George. Pa., 1822-1854. A sensational romancer of Philadelphia, among whose now nearly forgotten tales are, Blanche of Brandywine; Legends of Mexico; The Ladye Annabel.
Lippincott, Mrs. Esther J—— [Trimble]. Pa., 1838-1888. An educator of Pennsylvania, professor of literature in the Westchester Normal School. Handbook of English and American Literature; Short Course in Literature.
Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane [Clarke]. “Grace Greenwood.” N. Y., 1823-1904. A popular littérateur of Philadelphia who wrote much in the line of newspaper correspondence, but whose early fame was gained as a writer for young people. Greenwood Leaves; Records of Five Years; Poems; Life of Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands; Recollections of My Childhood; Merrie England, include the most of her books.
Lippitt, Francis James. R. I., 1812-1902. A soldier who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms; Treatise on Intrenchments; Special Operations of War; Field Service in War; Massachusetts Criminal Law; Physical Proofs of Another Life. Hou.
Lippmann, Julie Mathilde. L. I., 1864- ——. A writer of Brooklyn. Through Slumbertown and Wakeland; Jack O’Dreams; Miss Wildfire.
Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate. D. C., 1816-1890. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Tennessee, who was professor in Vanderbilt University. Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary Studies; Our Country; Christian Heroism, are among his works.
Litchfield, Grace Denio [dē-nī´o]. N. Y., 1849- ——. A fiction-writer of Washington. Only an Incident; The Knight of the Black Forest; Criss-Cross; A Hard-Won Victory; Little Venice, and Other Stories; Mimosa Leaves; Little He and She; In the Crucible. Lo. Put.
Littell, Squier. N. J., 1803-1886. A Philadelphia physician. Manual of Diseases of the Eye; Illustrations of the Prayer Book.
Littell, William. N. J., c. 1780-1825. Cousin of S. Littell, supra. A lawyer of Frankfort, Kentucky. Statute Law of Kentucky; Selected Cases; Festoons of Fancy.
Little, George. Ms., 1754-1809. A United States naval officer who published The American Cruiser; Life on the Ocean.
Little, Mrs. Sophia Louise [Robbins]. R. I., 1799-18—. A verse-writer of Newport, Rhode Island. The Last Days of Jesus, and Other Poems (1877), is a reprint of the contents of her several previous volumes.
Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk. N. Y., 1824-1901. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Long Island. Conciones ad Clenem; Individualism; The Christian Ministry; The Philosophy of Religion.
Livermore, Abiel Abbot. N. H., 1811-1892. A Unitarian clergyman who was president of the theological seminary at Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1863 to 1890. Lectures to Young Men; Discourses; Commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon, Hebrews to Revelation; The Marriage Offering; History of Wilton, New Hampshire. A. U. A. El.
Livermore, Mrs. Mary Ashton [Rice]. Ms., 1821- ——. A noted lecturer upon temperance and woman-suffrage whose home is in Melrose, Massachusetts. Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; Pen Pictures; Thirty Years Too Late: a Temperance Tale; What Shall we Do with Our Daughters?; My Story of the War. Le.
Livermore, Samuel. Circa 1786-1833. A lawyer of New Orleans. Treatise on Law of Principal and Agent and Sales by Auction; Contrariety of Laws of Different States and Nations.
Livingston, Edward. N. Y., 1764-1836. An eminent jurist of New York city, and subsequently of New Orleans, who was secretary of state, 1831-32, and minister to France, 1833-35. System of Penal Law for Louisiana; Penal Law for the United States; Criminal Jurisprudence. See Life by Hunt, 1864; Recollections of by Davezac; Appletons’ American Biography.
Livingston, Mrs. Margaret Vere [Farrington]. Me., 1863- ——. The wife of an Episcopal clergyman in Augusta, Maine. Tales of King Arthur and His Knights; Fra Lippo Lippi, a Romance of Florence. Put.
Livingston, Robert R. N. Y., 1747-1813. Brother of E. Livingston, supra. The chancellor of New York, 1771-1801. He administered the oath of office to Washington at his inauguration in 1789. Essays on Agriculture; Essay on Sheep. See Life by F. De Peyster, 1878.
Livingston, William. N. Y., 1723-1790. An eminent statesman who was governor of New Jersey, 1776-90. Philosophic Solitude, a poem; Review of the Military Operations in North America, 1757; Digest of the Laws of New York. See Memoir by T. Sedgwick; Tyler’s American Literature.
Lloyd, David Demarest. N. Y., 1851-1889. A journalist and playwright of New York city. His plays include, For Congress; The Woman Hater; The Dominie’s Daughter; The Senator.
Lloyd, Henry Demarest. N. Y., 1847-1903. Brother of D. D. Lloyd, supra. A writer of Winnetka, Illinois, but formerly a journalist of Chicago. A Strike of Millionaires against Miners, or the Story of Spring Valley; Wealth Against Commonwealth. Har.
Locke, David Ross. “Petroleum V. Nasby.” N. Y., 1833-1888. A widely known political humourist whose satires had much effect upon public opinion. A Paper City, a novel; Swingin’ Round the Cirkle; The Moral History of America’s Life Struggle; Ekkoes from Kentucky; Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby; Nasby in Exile; Morals of Abou Ben Adhem; The Demagogue, a novel; Hannah Jane, a poem. Le.
Locke, Mrs. Jane Erminia [Starkweather]. Ms., 1805-1859. A verse-writer of Boston. Poems; Rachel, or the Little Mourner; Boston, a Poem; Eulogy in rhyme on the Death of Webster.
Locke, John Staples. Me., 1836- ——. A writer of Saco, Maine. Shores of Saco Bay; Historical Sketches of Old Orchard; The Art of Correspondence; A Brave Struggle, a novel; Pleasing Rhymes for Happy Times; Bright Hours. Cas.
Locke, Richard Adams. N. Y., 1800-1871. A journalist of New York city who published, in 1835, Great Astronomical Discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel, since known as “The Moon Hoax.” He subsequently issued The Lost Manuscript of Mungo Park, another hoax.
Lockhart, Arthur John. N. S., 1850- ——. A Methodist clergyman and verse-writer. The Mask of Minstrels; Beside the Narragaugus.
Lockwood, Henry Hayes. Del., 1814-1899. A United States army officer. Manual of Naval Batteries; Exercises in Small Arms.
Lockwood, Ingersoll. N. Y., 1841- ——. Nephew of R. I. Lockwood, infra. A lecturer and littérateur of New York city. The Travels of Little Baron Trump; Wonderful Deeds of Little Giant Roab; Extraordinary Experience of Little Captain Doppelkopp; Baron Trump’s Journey Underground. Le.
Lockwood, Ralph Ingersoll. N. Y., 1798-1855. A lawyer of New York city. Rosine Laval, a novel; The Insurgents, a novel; Lockwood’s Reversed Cases.
Lockwood, Samuel. E., 1819-1894. A Reformed Dutch clergyman who after 1867 was school superintendent of Monmouth County, New Jersey, and wrote much on scientific themes. Temperance, Fortitude, Justice; The American Oyster; Abnormal Entozoa in Man; The Life of an Oyster; Animal Memoirs.
Lodge, Giles Henry. Ms., 1805-1880. A physician of Boston, the author of a scholarly translation of Winckelmann’s History of Ancient Art.
Lodge, Henry Cabot. Ms., 1850- ——. Nephew of G. H. Lodge, supra. A Massachusetts politician of prominence, representative in Congress, 1886-1892, and senator from 1893. Essay on Anglo-Saxon Land Law; Life and Letters of George Cabot; Short History of the English Colonies in America; Lives of Washington, Webster, Hamilton; Studies in History; Historical and Political Essays; Speeches; History of Boston; Hero Tales from American History (with T. Roosevelt, infra). Cent. Har. Hou. Lit. Lgs.
Logan, Celia. Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, infra. See Connelly, Mrs.
Logan, Cornelius Ambrose. Ms., 1836-1896. Son of C. A. Logan, infra. A physician of Leavenworth, Kansas, minister to Chili, 1873, and 1881-1883. Sanitary Relations of Kansas; Climatology of the Missouri Valley; Physics of Infectious Diseases.
Logan, Cornelius Ambrosius. Md., 1806-1853. A dramatist and theatrical manager of Cincinnati among whose plays are The Wag of Maine; The Wool Dealer; Yankee Land.
Logan, James. I., 1674-1751. Chief justice of Pennsylvania, and a man of much note in the early history of that colony. He founded the Loganian Library at Philadelphia. Duties of Man; Defence of Aristotle; Experimenta de Plantarum Generatione; Essays on Languages; a translation, with notes, of Cicero’s De Senectute, printed by Franklin in 1744.
Logan, John Alexander. Il., 1826-1886. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War who was nominated as the Republican candidate for vice-president in 1884. The Great Conspiracy; The Volunteer Soldier of America.
Logan, John Henry. S. C., 1822-1885. A physician who was a professor in the medical college at Atlanta. History of the Upper Country of South Carolina; Students’ Manual of Chemico-Physics.
Logan, Olive. Daughter of C. A. Logan, 2d, supra. See Sikes, Mrs.
Lomax, John Tayloe. Va., 1781-1862. A Virginia jurist. Digest of United States Real Property Laws; Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators.
Long, Charles Chaillé. Md., 1842- ——. A soldier who served in the Federal army during the Civil War, became colonel in the Egyptian army in 1869, and in 1887 was American consul-general in Corea. Central Africa; The Three Prophets,—Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi Pacha. Ap. Har.
Long, John Davis. Me., 1838- ——. A prominent jurist of Boston who was governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82. After-Dinner and Other Speeches; a blank-verse translation of the Æneid; The New American Navy. Do. Hou.
Long, Robert Carey. Circa 1819-1849. An architect of New York city who published a work on Ancient Architecture in America.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Me., 1807-1882. The most widely read of American poets. He was born in Portland, Maine, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825 in the class with Nathaniel Hawthorne. After three years of study in Europe he was professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College, 1829-35, and filled the same position at Harvard University, 1835-1854, his home being at Cambridge from 1835. The range of his thought is not wide, and his genius was rather adaptive than creative, but his poetry appeals to a larger number of readers of verse than, perhaps, any other poet of his time. Its finished execution is especially noteworthy in most of his later work, his sonnets, for example, being nearly flawless specimens of their kind. Coplas de Manrique, a verse translation from the Spanish (1833); Outre-Mer, a prose volume of travels (1835); Hyperion, a prose romance (1839); Voices of the Night (1839); Ballads, and Other Poems (1841); Poems on Slavery (1842); The Spanish Student (1843); The Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems (1846); Evangeline (1847); Kavanagh, a prose tale (1849); Seaside and Fireside (1850); The Golden Legend (1851); Hiawatha (1855); The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1st series (1863); Flower de Luce (1867); New England Tragedies (1868); Dante’s Divina Commedia; a translation (1867-1870); The Divine Tragedy (1872); Three Books of Song (1872); Aftermath (1874); The Masque of Pandora (1875); Kéramos (1878); Ultima Thule (1880); In the Harbor (1882); Michael Angelo (1883). See Lives by S. Longfellow, infra, Stoddard, Underwood, Austin; Atlantic Monthly, December, 1863, and June, 1882; Scribner’s Magazine, November, 1878; Harper’s Magazine, June, 1882; Living Age, November 4, 1882; Fortnightly Review, January, 1883; Century Magazine, October, 1883; Hazeltine’s Chats About Books; Stedman’s Poets of America; Works on American Literature by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air; Bibliography of Maine; Memorial Address by D. R. Goodwin. Hou.
Longfellow, Samuel. Me., 1819-1892. Brother of H. W. Longfellow, supra. A Unitarian clergyman who held pastorates at Fall River, Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose latest years were spent in Cambridge. He was a poet with a very distinct individuality, and as a hymn-writer had few equals, a large number of the best of Unitarian hymns being from his pen. Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns and Verses; Memoir of S. Johnson; Essays and Sermons. With S. Johnson, supra, he edited Hymns of the Spirit. See Memoir and Letters, edited by J. May; New England Magazine, October, 1894. Hou.
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble. Me., 1836- ——. Nephew of H. W. Longfellow, supra. An architect of note, editor of the Cyclopædia of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant. The Column and the Arch. Scr.
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin. S. C., 1790-1870. A jurist and educator of Georgia who became a Methodist minister in 1838, and was subsequently president of several Southern colleges. He is remembered for his genuinely humourous Georgia Scenes. Among his other works are, Master William Mitten; Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts.
Longstreet, James. S. C., 1821-1904. A noted general of the Confederate army. From Manassas to Appomattox. Lip.
Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus. Vt., 1831-1895. A physician of New York city, professor in the University of the City of New York from 1865. Lessons in Physical Diagnosis; Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of Old Age; Text-Book of Practical Medicine.
Loomis, Augustus Ward. Ct., 1816- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, for many years a missionary among the Chinese of California. Learn to Say No; Scenes in Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; The Profits of Godliness; Confucius and the Chinese Classics; English and Chinese Lessons.
Loomis, Eben Jenks. N. Y., 1828- ——. An astronomer of Washington city, senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac office. Wayside Sketches; An Eclipse Party in Africa. Rob.
Loomis, Elias. Ct., 1811-1889. An astronomer and mathematician who was professor at Yale University from 1860. He published a series of text-books in thirteen volumes, among which are, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Treatise on Astronomy; Treatise on Meteorology. Har.
Loomis, Justin Rudolph. N. Y., 1810-1898. An educator of Pennsylvania, president of Lewisburg University, 1858-78. Elements of Geology; Elements of Anatomy.
Loomis, Lafayette Charles. Ct., 1824- ——. A physician and educator of Washington city. Mizpah: Prayer and Friendship; Mental and Social Culture; Summer Guide to Central Europe; Index Guide to Travel and Art Study in Europe. Lip. Scr.
Loomis, Samuel Lane. Ms., 1856- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Modern Cities and their Religious Problems.
Loomis, Silas Laurence. Ms., 1822-1896. Brother of L. C. Loomis, supra. A physician and educator of Washington city. Analytical Arithmetic; Normal Arithmetic. Lip.
Lord, David Nevins. Ct., 1792-1880. A merchant and importer of New York city. Exposition of the Apocalypse; Characteristics of Figurative Language; Louis Napoleon: is he to be Anti-Christ?; Visions of Paradise, an Epic.
Lord, Eleazer. Ct., 1788-1871. Brother of D. N. Lord, supra. A noted financier of New York city who was the founder of the Manhattan Insurance Company. Among his rather numerous writings are, Credit, Currency, and Banking; Six Letters on a National Currency; The Epoch of the Creation; Analysis of Isaiah; The Prophetic Office.
Lord, John. N. H., 1809-1894. A Congregational clergyman widely known as an historical lecturer, who did much to arouse an interest in the study of history. History of the United States; Modern History; Points of History; The Old Roman World; Ancient States and Empires; Life of Emma Willard, infra; Beacon Lights of History; Two German Giants. Ap. Fo.
Lord, John Chase. N. Y., 1805-1877. A prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Buffalo. The Land of Ophir, and Other Lectures; Occasional Poems. See Memoir, 1878.
Lord, William Wilberforce. N. Y., 1819- ——. Brother of J. C. Lord, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and more recently of Cooperstown, New York, whose verse attracted the praise of Wordsworth simultaneously with the ridicule of Poe. Poems; Christ in Hades; André, a tragedy.
Lord, Willis. Ct., 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman who held several theological professorships as well as pastorates in Chicago and elsewhere. Men and Scenes Before the Flood; Christian Theology for the People; The Blessed Hope.
Lorimer, George Claude. S., 1837-1904. A noted Baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of Tremont Temple. Isms Old and New; Under the Evergreens; The Great Conflict; Jesus: the World’s Saviour; Studies in Social Life. Le. Sc.
Loring, Charles Greeley. Ms., 1794-1868. A lawyer of Boston. The Neutral Relations of England and the United States; English Liability for Indemnity; Life of William Sturgis.
Loring, Edward Greeley. Ms., 1837-1881. A physician of New York city. Text-Book of Ophthalmoscopy: I. The Normal Eye; II. Diseases of the Retina. Ap.
Loring, Frederic Wadsworth. Ms., 1848-1871. A Boston journalist killed by the Apaches in Arizona. Two College Friends, a novel; The Boston Dip, and Other Verses.
Loring, George Bailey. Ms., 1817-1891. A noted agriculturist of Salem, Massachusetts, United States commissioner of agriculture, 1881-85, minister to Portugal, 1889-90. The Farmyard Club of Jotham.
Loring, William Wing. N. C., 1818-1886. A soldier who, after serving successively in the United States and Confederate armies, served in the Egyptian army, 1869-79. A Confederate General in Egypt is a narrative of personal adventure.
Loskiel, George Henry. R., 1740-1814. A Moravian bishop in Pennsylvania whose two books have been many times reprinted. Etwas fürs Herz; History of the Moravian Missions among the North American Indians.
Lossing, Benson John. N. Y., 1813-1891. An artist and wood-engraver of Poughkeepsie who made many valuable contributions to American history. His later years were spent at Dover Plains, New York. The more important of his many works include, Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812; Pictorial Field-Book of the Civil War; Life of General Philip Schuyler; The Two Spies: Nathan Hale and John André; Cyclopædia of United States History; Mary and Martha Washington; History of the United States Navy for Boys; Mount Vernon and its Associations; The Empire State, a History of New York; Life of Washington; Lives of the Presidents (1847). Ap. Fu. Har. Ho.
Lothrop, Amy. See Warner, Anna.
Lothrop, Mrs. Harriet Mulford [Stone]. “Margaret Sidney.” Ct. 1844- ——. A popular writer of juvenile literature, living at Concord, Massachusetts. Among her many books of this character are, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; The Pettibone Name; So as by Fire; Half Year at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; The Golden West; How they Went to Europe; Hester, and Other New England Stories. Lo.
Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland. N. H., 1830- ——. A lawyer of Boston. The Life of William H. Seward, infra.
Loughborough [luf´boro], Mrs. Mary Webster. N. Y., 1836-1887. A writer of Little Rock, Arkansas. My Cave Life in Vicksburg, an account of life in Vicksburg during the siege; For Better, for Worse, and Other Stories.
Loughead, Mrs. Flora [Haines]. Wis., 1855- ——. A writer of Santa Barbara, California. The Libraries of California; The Man Who was Guilty, a novel; Quick Cookery; The Abandoned Claim, a story for young people; Practical Handbook of Science. Hou.
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford. N. Y., 1838- ——. A professor of English at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University from 1871. History of the English Language; Life of James Fenimore Cooper; Studies in Chaucer. Ho. Hou.
Love, William De Loss. N. Y., 1819-1898. A Congregational clergyman. Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion.
Love, William De Loss. Ct., 1851- ——. Son of W. D. Love, supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1885. The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England. Hou.
Lowe, Mrs. Martha Ann [Perry]. N. H., 1829-1902. A verse-writer of Somerville, Massachusetts, whose husband, Charles Lowe, was a Unitarian minister of prominence. The Olive and the Pine, a book of verse; Love in Spain, and Other Poems; The Story of Chief Joseph (verse); Life of Charles Lowe.
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence. Ms., 1856- ——. A lawyer of Boston. Essays on Government; Governments and Parties in Continental Europe. Hou.
Lowell, Mrs. Anna Cabot [Jackson]. Ms., 1819-1874. Sister-in-law of J. R. Lowell, infra. Theory of Teaching; Edward’s First Lessons in Grammar and Geometry; Outlines of Astronomy; Letters to Madame Pulksky; Seed Grains for Thought, and several compilations. Rob.
Lowell, Charles. Ms., 1782-1861. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church from 1806 until his death. Occasional Sermons; Practical Sermons; Meditations for the Afflicted; Devotional Exercises for Communicants.
Lowell, Edward Jackson. Ms., 1845-1894. Grand-nephew of C. Lowell, supra. A lawyer of Boston. The Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, an exhaustive survey of the subject; The Eve of the French Revolution. Har. Hou.
Lowell, Francis Cabot. Ms., 1855- ——. A Boston jurist. Joan of Arc, a valuable historical biography. Hou.
Lowell, James Russell. Ms., 1819-1891. Son of C. Lowell, supra. The foremost American man of letters. He was born in Cambridge, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1838, where he succeeded Longfellow as professor of belles-lettres in 1855. He was one of the founders of The Atlantic Monthly, editing that periodical from the start in 1857 until 1862, and co-editor of The North American Review with C. E. Norton, infra, 1863-72. In 1877 he was appointed minister to Spain, and in 1878 transferred to England, where he remained as minister until 1885. He did much to make America and American letters respected in England, and was very popular with the English people both as a man and as a writer, a window having been placed to his memory in the chapter-house of Westminster Abbey in 1893. His work in verse includes: A Year’s Life (1841); Poems (1844); The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848); A Fable for Critics (1848); The Biglow Papers (1848); Poems (editions of 1848, 1849, 1854, 1858); The Commemoration Ode (1865); The Biglow Papers, Second Series (1866); Under the Willows, and Other Poems (1869); Three Memorial Poems (1876); Heartsease and Rue (1888); Last Poems (1895). In prose his writing comprises Conversations with Some of the Old Poets (1845); Life of Keats (with an edition of his works) (1854); Fireside Travels (1864); The President’s Policy (1864); Among My Books (1870); My Study Windows (1871); Among My Books, Second Series (1876); Democracy, and Other Addresses (1886); Political Essays (1888); Latest Literary Essays and Addresses (1891); The Old English Dramatists (1892); Letters, edited by C. E. Norton (1893). See Lives by E. E. Brown, Underwood, Lowell, by G. W. Curtis; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Haweis’s American Humourists; Stedman’s Poets of America; works on American Literature, by Nichol, Richardson, Hawthorne; Cheney’s That Dome in Air. Har. Hou.
Lowell, Mrs. Josephine [Shaw]. Ms., 1843- ——. Daughter-in-law of Mrs. Anna Lowell, supra. A philanthropist of New York city. Public Relief and Private Charity. Put.
Lowell, Mrs. Maria [White]. Ms., 1821-1855. The first wife of J. R. Lowell, supra. A verse-writer whose only volume of poems was privately printed. The Alpine Sheep is her best known poem.
Lowell, Percival. Ms., 1855- ——. Brother of A. L. Lowell, supra. A Boston writer, traveller, and astronomical investigator. Chosön, a sketch of Korea; The Soul of the Far East; Noto: an Unexplored Corner of Japan; Occult Japan; Mars. Hou.
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence. Ms., 1816-1891. Son of C. Lowell, supra. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, head master of St. Mark’s School, Southborough, 1869-73, and professor of Latin at Union College, 1873-79. After the latter date he continued to live at Schenectady, which is the locale of his book, A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town, as Southborough suggests that of his popular story of school life, Antony Brade. His other works include The New Priest in Conception Bay, a novel of life in Newfoundland, the scene of his first rectorship; Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years Ago, and Other Poems. The Defence of Lucknow is his most familiar poem. Rob.
Lowrie, John Cameron. Pa., 1808-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. Travels in Northern India; Two Years in Upper India; Manual of Foreign Missions; Missionary Papers; Presbyterian Missions.
Lowrie, John Marshall. Pa., 1817-1867. Cousin of J. C. Lowrie, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey. Esther and Her Times; Adam and His Times; A Week with Jesus; The Translated Prophet; The Prophet Elisha; The Life of David.
Lucas, Daniel Bedinger. W. Va., 1836- ——. A lawyer of Charlestown, West Virginia, who was a United States senator in 1887. A Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid of Northumberland, a dramatic poem; Ballads and Madrigals.
Luce, Stephen Bleecker. N. Y., 1827- ——. A rear-admiral of the United States navy, retired in 1887, who, beside publishing a treatise on Seamanship, has edited a collection of Naval Songs.
Lüders, Charles Henry. Pa., 1858-1891. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; Hallo, My Fancy! a collection of verse (with S. D. Smith). Scr.
Ludlam, Reuben. N. J., 1831-1899. A Chicago physician, dean of the Hahnemann Medical College. Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women.
Ludlow, Fitzhugh. N. Y., 1836-1870. A littérateur and journalist of New York city. The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures; Augustus Jones, Jr. Le.
Ludlow, James Meeker. N. J., 1841- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of East Orange, New Jersey, from 1886. My Saint John; Concentric Chart of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of the times of Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah; That Angelic Woman, a novel. Fu. Har.
Ludlow, Noah Miller. N. Y., 1795-1886. An actor and theatrical manager in the Southern States. Dramatic Life as I found It.
Lukens, Henry Clay. Pa., 1838- ——. A journalist of New York city. The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty; Story of the Types; Jets and Flashes.
Lum, Daniel Dyer. 18— - ——. The Spiritual Delusion; Early Social Life of Man; Utah and its People. Lip.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher. Ms., 1859- ——. A Los Angeles writer. The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon: Indian folk-lore stories; Some Strange Corners of our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand Chimú; A New Mexico David, and Other Stories. Cent. Lam. Mg. Scr.
Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell [Chellis]. N. H., 18— - ——. A prolific writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, All for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge; Father Merrill. Cr. Lo.
Lundy, John Patterson. Pa., 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Review of Bishop Hopkins’s “Bible View of Slavery;” Monumental Christianity; Forestry.
Lunt, Edward Clark. 186- - ——. A writer on economics. The Present Condition of Economic Science.
Lunt, George. Ms., 1803-1885. A lawyer of Newburyport, and later a resident of Scituate, among whose writings in verse and prose are, The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems: Sonnets and Miscellanies; Old New England Traits; Three Eras of New England. The latest collection of his verse was made in 1883.
Lunt, William Parsons. Ms., 1805-1857. A Unitarian clergyman of Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1835 until his death, whose literary work was much admired for the beauty of its style. Union of the Human Race; Gleanings.
Lupton, Nathaniel Thomas. Va., 1830-1893. An educator and scientist of Alabama, State chemist from 1885, and author of The Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture.
Lusk, William Thompson. Ct., 1838-1897. A prominent obstetric physician of New York city. The Science and Art of Midwifery.
Luska, Sidney. See Harland, Henry.
Lyle, William. S., 1822- ——. A verse-writer of Rochester, New York. The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems.
Lyman, Henry Munson. H. I., 1835- ——. A Chicago physician, professor of medicine in Rush College. Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep; Artificial Anæsthesia; Practice of Medicine.
Lyman, Joseph Bardwell. Ms., 1829-1872. An agricultural journalist of New York city. Philosophy of Housekeeping; Resources of the Pacific States; Women of the War; Cotton Culture.
Lyman, Theodore. Ms., 1792-1849. A noted philanthropist of Boston, the founder of the Lyman School at Westborough. Three Weeks in Paris; The Political State of Italy; Account of the Hartford Convention; The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations.
Lyman, Theodore. Ms., 1833-1897. Son of T. Lyman, supra. A scientist of note associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy in Cambridge from 1860. His principal work is the Ophiuroidea of the Challenger Expedition.
Lynch, Anne C. See Botta, Mrs.
Lynch, James Daniel. Va., 1836- ——. A political writer of Mississippi. Kemper County Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississippi; Bench and Bar of Texas.
Lynch, William Francis. Va., 1801-1865. A naval officer of prominence as an explorer. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea; Naval Life, or Afloat and Ashore.
Lyon, Anne Bozeman. Al., 1860- ——. A Southern writer of fiction. No Saint; A Sterlings Camp.
Lyon, David Gordon. Al., 1852- ——. An educator of Cambridge, Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1882. Keilschrifttexte Sargons Koenigs von Assyrien; An Assyrian Manual. Scr.
Lyon, Irving Whitall. N. Y., 1840-1896. A Hartford physician who wrote Colonial Furniture in New England. Hou.
Lyons, Albert Brown. H. I., 1841- ——. A prominent chemist of Detroit who has published a Manual of Practical Assaying.
Lytle, William Haines. O., 1826-1863. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, remembered in literature for the poem beginning, “I am Dying, Egypt, Dying.” See Poems of, edited, with Memoir, by W. Venable, infra. Clke.
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright. 1845- ——. A journalist and essayist of New York city, editor of The Outlook. Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas; My Study Fire; Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short Studies in Literature; Essays in Literary Interpretation; Essays on Nature and Culture; Essays on Books and Culture. Do. Rob.
McAdoo, Mrs. Mary Faith [Floyd]. Tn., 1832- ——. Wife of W. McAdoo, infra. The Nereid, a romance; Antethusia.
McAdoo, William Gibbs. Tn., 1820-1894. A jurist of Tennessee. Poems; Elementary Geology of Tennessee (with H. C. White).
MacAfee, Mrs. Nelly Nichol [Marshall]. Ky., 1845- ——. A Kentucky writer of fiction. Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings from Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wearing the Cross; Passion; A Criminal through Love.
McAnally, David Rice. Tn., 1810- ——. A Methodist clergyman, prominent in St. Louis and elsewhere in the Southwest, who, besides a History of Methodism in Missouri, has written a number of lives of Methodist bishops.
MacArthur, Arthur. S., 1815-1896. A prominent jurist of Washington. Lectures on the Law; Reports of Supreme Court Cases; Education in its Relation to Manual Industry. Ap.
MacArthur, Robert Stuart. Q., 1841- ——. A distinguished Baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church from 1870. Quick Truths in Quaint Texts; Calvary Pulpit, or Christ and Him Crucified; Divine Balustrades, and Other Sermons. Bap. Fu. Re.
McBride, James. Pa., 1788-1859. A writer of Hamilton, Ohio. Pioneer Biography. See Bibliography of Ohio.
McCabe, James Dabney. Va., 1842-1883. A versatile and prolific Southern writer whose principal work is a Life of General Robert Lee, while among his many others are, Planting the Wilderness; History of the War between France and Germany; History of the Turko-Russian War; Paris by Sunlight and Gaslight; Our Young Folks Abroad; The Great Republic; Lights and Shadows of New York Life; Centennial History of the United States. Le. Lip.
McCabe, William Gordon. Va., 1841- ——. Cousin of J. D. McCabe, supra. A Confederate officer, since 1888 head master of a school in Petersburg, Virginia. The Defence of Petersburg; A Latin Grammar.
McCall, George Archibald. Pa., 1802-1868. A soldier of Philadelphia, who served in the Mexican war, and in the Civil War was brigadier-general of volunteers in the Federal army. Letters from the Frontier.
McCall, Hugh. S. C., 1767-1824. A United States army officer. History of Georgia (1811-16).
McCall, John Cadwalader. Pa., 1793-1846. Cousin of G. A. McCall, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Troubadour, and other poems; Fleurette, and other rhymes.
McCall, Peter. N. J., 1809-1880. Cousin of G. A. McCall, supra. An eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, mayor of that city, 1844-45. Rise and Progress of Civil Society; History of Pennsylvania Law and Equity.
MacCarroll, James. I., 1815-1892. A musical and dramatic critic of New York city. Letters of Terry Finnegan to D’Arcy McGee; The New Gauger; Adventures of a Night; The New Life-Boat.
MacCarty, J—— Hendrickson. Pa., 1830- ——. A Methodist clergyman. The Black Horse and Carry-All; Inside the Gates; Two Thousand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; Fact and Fiction in Holy Writ. Meth.
Macchetta, d’Allegri, Blanche Roosevelt [Tucker], Marchesa. O., 1853-1898. Home Life of Longfellow; Marked “In Haste;” Stage Struck; Life of Doré; The Copper Queen; Verdi, Milan, and Othello. Fo.
McClellan, Carswell. Pa., 1835-1892. Brother of H. B. McClellan, infra. A topographical assistant on the staff of General A. A. Humphreys in the Civil War. Afterwards a civil engineer in railroad and government service. The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S. Grant versus The Record of the Army of the Potomac. Hou.
McClellan, Ely. Pa., 1834-1893. Brother of C. McClellan, supra. Assistant medical director, United States army. The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States.
McClellan, George. Ct., 1796-1847. A noted surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College, for which institution he obtained the charter. The Principles and Practice of Surgery. Lip.
McClellan, George Brinton. Pa., 1826-1885. Son of G. McClellan, supra. A distinguished soldier, general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1861-62; an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1864; governor of New Jersey, 1878-81. His most important works include, The Armies of Europe; Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; European Cavalry; McClellan’s Own Story. See Appletons’ American Biography.
McClellan, Henry Brainerd. Pa., 1840- ——. Brother of C. McClellan, supra. A major in the Confederate service during the Civil War, who published an admirable Life of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. Hou.
McClelland, Alexander. N. Y., 1796-1864. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman and educator. Canon and Interpretation of Scripture; Sermons.
MacClelland, Margaret Greenway. 18— -1895. A Virginia novelist. Mammy Mystic; Old Ike’s Memories, a book of verse. Princess; Oblivion; Jean Monteith; Madame Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett’s Lock; St. John’s Wooing; The Old Post Road. Har. Ho. Mer.
MacClelland, Milo Adams. Pa., 1837- ——. A physician of Knoxville, Illinois. Civil Malpractice, a Treatise on Surgical Jurisprudence. Hou.
MacClenachan, Charles Thompson. D. C., 1829- ——. A lawyer of New York city, long employed in the department of public works, among whose writings are, Law of the Fire Department; The Atlantic Cable of 1858; Book of the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.
McClintock, John. Pa., 1814-1870. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, professor in Drew Theological Seminary at the time of his death. He is best known by the Theological and Biblical Cyclopædia which he began with James Strong, infra, but he was the author, also, of Living Words; Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and Methodology. See Life by G. R. Crooks, supra. Meth.
McClure, Alexander Kelly. Pa., 1828- ——. A Philadelphia journalist, founder of The Times in 1873, and its editor since then. Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains; The South: its Industrial, etc., Condition. Lip.
McClure, Alexander Wilson. Ms., 1808-1865. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, among whose writings are, Lectures on Ultra Universalism; Life of John Cotton, supra.
McConnel, John Ludlam. Il., 1826- ——. A lawyer and novelist of Jacksonville, Illinois, who was a soldier in the Mexican War. His fictions are studies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon; Grahame, or Youth and Manhood; The Glenns; Western Characters.
McConnell, Samuel D Pa., 1846- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence as an independent thinker, rector of St. Stephen’s Church in Philadelphia, 1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, subsequently. Sons of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the Episcopal Church in the United States; A Year’s Sermons; An Open Secret. Ar. Wh.
McCook, Henry Christopher. O., 1837- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a naturalist. Object and Outline Teaching; The Last Year of Christ’s Ministry; The Last Days of Jesus; Garfield Memorial Sermons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The Gospel in Nature; The Mound-Making Art of the Alleghanies; Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey Ants and Occident Ants; Tenants of an Old Farm; American Spiders. Fu. Lip.
McCord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah [Cheves]. S. C., 1810-1880. A writer of South Carolina. Sophisms of the Protective Policy, translated from Bastral; Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; My Dreams, a volume of verse.
McCormick, Richard Cunningham. N. Y., 1832- ——. An Arizona journalist, governor of that Territory, 1866-69. Visit to the Camp at Sebastopol; St. Paul’s to St. Sophia; Arizona: its Resources (1865).
McCosh, James. S., 1811-1894. A metaphysician of eminence and a Presbyterian divine of the Free Church. After being professor in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1852-68, he came to America in 1868, and was president of Princeton College, 1868-88, resigning in the latter year, but holding an emeritus professorship until his death. As a philosophical thinker he exercised an extended influence. His principal writings include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive Thought; Christianity and Positivism; Scottish Philosophy; Mill’s Philosophy; Method of the Divine Government; First and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; The Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel Sermons; Philosophy of Reality; The Religious Aspect of Evolution; Realistic Philosophy defended; Whither? O Whither Tell Me Where; The Development of Hypotheses; Philosophic Series: I. Expository, II. Historical and Critical. See Life of, edited by W. M. Sloane, infra. Meth. Scr.
McCoy, Mrs. Catherine [Webb] [Towles]. Ms., 1823- ——. A writer of Columbus, Georgia. Tales from the Freemason’s Fireside; The Three Golden Links; Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.
McCrackan, William Denison. Bv., 1864- ——. An author and lecturer of New York city, born in Munich of American parents. The Rise of the Swiss Republic; Romance and Teutonic Switzerland; Swiss Solutions of American Problems; Little Idyls of the Big World. Ar. Kt.
MacCracken, Henry Mitchell. O., 1840- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, chancellor of the University of the City of New York from 1891. Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant and Lotze; A Metropolitan University; Leaders of the Church Universal.
MacCreary, George Washington. Ind., 1835-1890. An Indiana jurist. Treatise on the American Law of Elections; Reports of the Circuit Courts of the United States, Eighth District, 1879-83.
McCulloch, Hugh. Me., 1808-1895. A distinguished financier, secretary of the treasury, 1865-69 and 1884-85. Men and Measures of Half a Century was his only publication. Scr.
McDermott, Hugh Farrar. 1833-1890. A journalist of New York city. Poems from an Editor’s Table; The Blind Canary, a book of verse.
McDonald, James Madison. Me., 1812-1876. A Congregational clergyman who was pastor of a church in Princeton, New Jersey, 1856-76. Credulity; My Father’s House, or the Heaven of the Bible; Life and Writings of St. John; Ecclesiastes Explained; Key to the Book of Revelation. Scr.
McDougal, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple] [Greene]. R. I., 1805-1875. A Rhode Island writer who resided in California from 1862. The Original; The Mechanic; Might and Right, a History of the Dorr Rebellion; Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; The Dwarf Boy, and Minor Poems; Beyond the Veil.
MacDowell, Mrs. Katherine Sherwood [Bonner]. Mi., 1849-1883. A writer of Holly Springs, Mississippi, from 1873 to 1878 a resident of Boston and the private secretary of Longfellow. In Mrs. Kirk’s novel of “Margaret Kent” she figures as the heroine. Dialect Tales; Suwanee River Tales; Like unto Like. Har. Rob.
Mace, Mrs. Frances Parker [Laughton]. Me., 1836- ——. A popular verse-writer of San José, California. The authorship of Only Waiting, her best known poem, has been claimed by several writers. Legends, Lyrics, and Sonnets; Under Pine and Palm. Hou.
McFadden, Bernarr Adolphus. Mo., 1868- ——. A teacher of physical training in New York city. The Athlete’s Conquest, a novel; System of Physical Training.
MacFerrin, Anderson Purdy. Tn., 1818- ——. A Methodist clergyman in Tennessee. Sermons for the Times; Heavenly Shadows and Hymns.
MacFerrin, John Berry. Tn., 1807-1887. Brother of A. P. MacFerrin, supra. A Methodist clergyman in Tennessee. History of Methodism in Tennessee.
McGaffey, Ernest. O., 1861- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. Poems of Gun and Rod; Poems. Do. Scr.
MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius. O., 1844-1878. A famous journalist and war correspondent. During the Franco-Prussian war he was the correspondent at Paris of the New York Herald, and he went through the Russo-Turkish war as the correspondent of the London Daily News. Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the Northern Lights; Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. Har.
McGarvey, John William. Ky., 1829- ——. A clergyman of the Christian denomination, professor of sacred history in the University of Kentucky from 1865. Commentary on the Acts; Commentary on Matthew and Mark; Lands of the Bible; Text and Canon; Credibility and Inspiration of the Bible.
McGiffert, Arthur Cushman. N. Y., 1861- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of church history in Union Seminary from 1893. Dialogue of Papias and Jason. He has published a translation with prolegomena and notes of the Church History of Eusebius Pamphilus; The Apostolic Age. Scr.
McGill, John. Pa., 1809-1872. A Roman Catholic bishop of Richmond. Our Faith the Victory; The True Church Indicated; Life of John Calvin, from the French.
McGlasson, Eva Wilder. See Brodhead, Mrs.
McIlvaine [ma̯k-il-văn´], Charles Petitt. N. J., 1799-1873. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and long a prominent figure among Low Churchmen. Evidences of Christianity; Oxford Divinity; The Holy Catholic Church; The Truth and the Life, include his chief works. Ran.
McIlvaine, Joshua Hall. Del., 1815-1897. A Presbyterian clergyman of note in the Middle States who founded Evelyn College at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1887. He was professor of belles-lettres at Princeton College, 1860-70, and president of Evelyn College at the time of his death. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Elocution, the Sources and Elements of its Power; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture; The Wisdom of the Apocalypse; Pastoral Directions to Inquiring Souls. Ran. Scr.
McIntosh, Maria Jane. Ga., 1803-1878. A New York writer whose novels and tales of domestic life enjoyed a long popularity. Her writings include, Praise and Principle; Conquest and Self-Conquest; Violet; Two Lives, or To Seem and To Be; Charms and Counter-Charms; The Lofty and the Lowly; Meta Gray; Two Pictures; Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Aunt Kitty’s Tales; Woman in America, her Work and her Reward; The Cousins, a juvenile tale. Ap.
Mackaye, Mrs. Maria Ellery [Goodwin]. R. I., 1830- ——. An educator of Cambridge, author of The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other French Studies. Le.
McKeever, Harriet Burn. Pa., 1807-1886. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, Nothing but Leaves; Edith’s Ministry; The Old Château; Crown Jewels. Meth.
McKellar, Thomas. N. Y., 1812- ——. A prominent type-founder of Philadelphia who, beside publishing American Printer, and was the author of Tam’s Fortnight Ramble, and Other Poems; Droppings from the Heart; Lines for the Gentle and Loving; Rhymes Atween Times. His verse is unpretentious, and seldom more than commonplace in sentiment and execution. Lip.
McKenny, Thomas Lorraine. Md., 1785-1859. A writer for many years in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes; Essays on the Spirit of Jacksonianism; History of the Indian Tribes (with J. Hall); Memoirs, Official and Personal.
McKenzie, Alexander. Ms., 1830- ——. A Congregational clergyman of Cambridge from 1867. Cambridge Sermons; History of the First Church in Cambridge; Some Things Abroad; The Two Boys. Lo.
Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell. N. Y., 1803-1848. A naval officer of prominence in his day. Popular Essays on Naval Subjects; The American in England; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commodore Decatur, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; A Year in Spain. Har.
Mackenzie, Robert Shelton. I., 1809-1881. A journalist of London who came to America in 1852, and from 1857 was the literary editor of the Philadelphia Press. His writings include, Lives of Dickens, Scott, and Guizot; Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine; Partnership en Commandité, a work upon commercial law; Bits of Blarney; Mornings at Matlock; Tressilian and his Friends.
Mackey [măk´ee], Albert Gallatin. S. C., 1807-1881. A physician of Charleston whose life was principally devoted to the study of freemasonry. Text-Book of Masonic Jurisprudence; Lexicon of Freemasonry; The Mystic Tie; Book of the Chapter; Manual of the Lodge; Cryptic Masonry; Masonic Ritualist; Masonic Parliamentary Law; History of Freemasonry in South Carolina; Encyclopædia of Freemasonry. He edited the Ahimon Rezon.
Mackey, John. S. C., 1765-1831. A journalist, and educator of Charleston whose American Teacher’s Assistant (1826) was the first comprehensive work on arithmetic published in America.
Mackie, John Milton. Ms., 1813-1894. A New England writer, in early life a tutor in Brown University. Cosas de España; Lives of Leibnitz, Schamyl, Samuell Gorton; Tai Ping Wang; From Cape Cod to Dixie.
McKim, Randolph Harrison. Md., 1842- ——. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany at Washington. Nature of the Christian Ministry; Vindication of Protestant Principles; Future Punishment; Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons; Christ and Modern Unbelief; Christianity and Buddhism. Wh.
McKinney, Mordecai. Pa., c. 1796-1867. A jurist of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistrate and Civil Officer; Pennsylvania Tax Laws; Digest of Pennsylvania Banking Laws.
McLaren, William Edward. N. Y., 1831- ——. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago. He was consecrated bishop in 1875, but prior to 1872 was a Presbyterian clergyman. Catholic Dogma the Antidote of Doubt; The Practice of the Interior Life.
McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham. Il., 1861- ——. A professor of American history at the University of Michigan from 1891. Life of Lewis Cass, supra. Hou.
Maclean, Mrs. Clara Victoria [Dargan]. S. C., c. 1840- ——. An educator of South Carolina. Her work in fiction includes Riverlands; Helen Howard.
McLellan, Isaac. Me., 1806-1899. A verse-writer of New York city of note as a sportsman. His verse, once popular, is now nearly forgotten. The Year, and Other Poems; The Fall of the Indian; Poems of the Rod and Gun (1883), with biographical sketch.
McLeod, Alexander. S., 1774-1833. A Reformed Presbyterian minister of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day. Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness; American Christian Expositor, include his chief works.
McLeod, Xavier Donald. N. Y., 1821-1865. Son of A. McLeod, supra. A Roman Catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an Episcopal clergyman. Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, include the more important of his works.
McMahon, John Van Lear. Md., 1800-1871. A prominent lawyer and politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is an authority on the early history of the province.
McMaster, Gilbert. I., 1778-1854. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman of Duanesburgh, New York. The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; Apology for the Psalms; Moral Character of Civil Government.
McMaster, Guy Humphrey. N. Y., 1829-1887. A jurist and verse-writer of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of Steuben County, but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum.
McMaster, John Bach. L. I., 1852- ——. A professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania from 1883, and prior to that date an instructor in engineering at Princeton College. Bridge and Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of the United States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution (with F. D. Stone). Ap. Hou.
McMillan, Conway. Mch., 1867- ——. A professor of botany in the University of Minnesota from 1891. Twenty-Two Common Insects of Nebraska; The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.
McMurtrie, Henry. Pa., 1793-1865. An educator of Philadelphia. Lexicon Scientiarum is his principal work.
McMurtrie, William. N. J., 1851- ——. A professor of chemistry in the University of Illinois. Culture of the Sugar Beet; Culture of Sumac; Grape Culture in the United States, are among his publications.
McNamara, John. I., 1824-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska. Three Years on the Kansas Border; The Black Code of Kansas.
McNaughton, John Hugh. N. Y., 1829- ——. A verse-writer of Caledonia, New York, many of whose songs have been set to music, and proved extremely popular. Babble Brook Songs; Onnalinda, a romance in verse.
Macomb, Alexander. D. C., 1782-1841. An officer of prominence in the American army during the War of 1812, becoming major-general in command of the army in 1828. Treatise on Martial Law; Treatise on Practice of Courts-Martial; Pontiac, a drama. See Memoir by G. H. Richards.
Macon, John Alfred. Al., 1851- ——. A journalist of New York city. Uncle Gabe Tucker. Lip.
McPherson, Edward. Pa., 1830-1895. A journalist of Gettysburg, editor of The Tribune Almanac from 1877, and for some years American editor of the Almanach de Gotha. Political History of the United States during the Civil War; Political History of the United States during Reconstruction; Handbook of Politics.
MacQueary, Howard. Va., 1861- ——. A Universalist clergyman of Minneapolis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman in Ohio, but, on account of his denial of the Virgin birth of Christ, was tried for heresy in 1891, and suspended from the Episcopal ministry. Evolution of Man and Christianity; Topics of the Times, lectures on theological and sociological themes. Ap.
McSherry, James. Md., 1819-1869. A lawyer of Frederick, Maryland. Père Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; Williloft, or the Days of James the First; History of Maryland.
McSherry, Richard. W. Va., 1817-1885. A physician of prominence in Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. Early History of Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; Health and How to Promote It, are his principal writings. Ap.
McTyeire [măk-teer´], Holland Nimmons. S. C., 1824-1889. A Methodist bishop in Tennessee. Manual of Discipline; Duties of Masters; History of Methodism, are among his works.
McVickar, William Augustus. N. Y., 1827-1877. An Episcopal clergyman who became rector of Christ Church, New York city, in 1876. Life of Rev. John McVickar; City Missions. Hou.
Macy, Jesse. Ind., 1842- ——. A professor of political science in Iowa College. Our Government; The English Constitution. Mac.
Madison, James. Va., 1751-1836. The fourth President of the United States. The Reports of the Debates in the National Convention of 1788 are the most important writings of his earlier career. His complete works have been issued in six volumes. See Lives by Rives, J. Q. Adams, S. H. Gay; History of the United States, Madison’s Administrations, by H. Adams.
Maffit, John Newland. I., 1795-1850. A once noted Methodist preacher and lecturer. Tears of Contrition; Pulpit Sketches; Poems.
Magill, Mary Tucker. Va., 1832- ——. Granddaughter of H. St. George Tucker, infra. An educator and fiction-writer of Winchester, Virginia. The Holcombes; Women, or Chronicles of the Late War; School History of Virginia; Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems. Lip.
Magoon, Elias Lyman. N. H., 1810- ——. An eminent Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a lecturer and art connoisseur of liberal thought and wide attainments. Proverbs for the People; Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity; Westward Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; Living Orators in America.
Magruder, Allan Bowie. 18— - ——. The Bible Defended; Life of John Marshall, infra. Hou.
Magruder, Julia. Va., 1854- ——. A novelist. Miss Ayr of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet; Princess Sonia. Cent. Har. Lgs. Lip. Lo. S. Scr.
Mahan [ma̯-hăn´], Alfred Thayer. N. Y., 1840- ——. A distinguished officer in the United States navy whose masterly works upon sea power in history have received official recognition from both home and foreign governments. The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1783-1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters; Life of Admiral Farragut; Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain. Ap. Lit. Scr.
Mahan, Asa. N. Y., 1799-1889. A Congregational clergyman and educator, president of Adrian College, 1860-1871, and after the latter date resident in England. Critical History of Philosophy; The Science of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic; Theism and Anti-Theism in their Relations to Science; Critical History of the American Civil War. Bar. Meth.
Mahan, Dennis Hart. N. Y., 1802-1871. A military engineer of distinction whose text-books have been widely used. Treatise on Field Fortifications; Elementary Course of Civil Engineering; Elementary Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Industrial Drawing; Descriptive Geometry; Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent Fortifications; an edition of Moseley’s Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture, with additions. Wil.
Mahan, Milo. Va., 1819-1870. Brother of D. H. Mahan, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore. The Exercise of Faith; History of the Church; Reply to Colenso; Palmoni, a Free Inquiry; Comedy of Canonization.
Malcom, Howard. Pa., 1799-1879. A Baptist clergyman and educator at one time prominent in Philadelphia. Nature and Extent of the Atonement; Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule of Marriage; Travels in Southeastern Asia.
Mallery, Garrick. Pa., 1831-1894. An army officer in charge of the bureau of ethnology from its foundation in 1879. Calendar of the Dakota Language; Introduction to the Study of Sign Language among North American Indians; Greeting by Gesture; Israelite and Indian, a Parallel in Planes of Culture; Picture Writing of the American Indians, are among his important contributions to ethnology.
Malone, Walter. Mi., 1866- ——. A verse-writer of Memphis, Tennessee. Songs of Dark and Dawn.
Maltby, Isaac. Ct., 1767-1819. A Boston author who was general of militia. Elements of War; Courts-Martial and Military Law; Military Tactics.
Manly, Basil. S. C., 1825-1892. A Baptist clergyman and educator, professor in the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville. Kind Words Teacher; A Call to the Ministry; Bible Doctrine of Inspiration Defended.
Manly, John Matthews. Al., 1865- ——. Pre-Shakesperean Drama.
Mann, Cyrus. N. H., 1785-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Westminster, Massachusetts, 1815-41. Epitome of the Evidences of Christianity; History of the Temperance Reformation.
Mann, Horace. Ms., 1796-1859. A famous Massachusetts educator and philanthropist, president of Antioch College, Ohio, 1852-59, and for twelve years secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He entirely remodelled the school system of his State. Beside his twelve important annual reports on education, he published Lectures on Education; An Educational Tour; Thoughts for a Young Man; Slavery: Letters and Speeches; Lectures on Intemperance; Powers and Duties of Women. See Life by Mrs. Mann; Boone’s Education in the United States; Gordey’s Rise and Growth of the Normal School System; Horace Mann, the Educator, by A. Winship. Le.
Mann, Mrs. Mary Tyler [Peabody]. Ms., 1806-1887. Wife of H. Mann, supra, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody, infra. Flower People; Christianity in the Kitchen; Culture in Infancy (with E. Peabody); Life of Horace Mann; Juanita, a Romance of Real Life in Cuba. Le. Lo.
Mann, Matthew Derbyshire. N. Y., 1845- ——. A physician, professor of gynæcology in the University of Buffalo, who has published a Text-Book on Prescription Writing, and edited The American System of Gynæcology.
Mann, William Julius. G., 1819-1892. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, author of Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg. See Memoir by E. T. Mann, 1893.
Manning, Jacob Merrill. N. Y., 1824-1882. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church, 1857-82. Helps to a Life of Prayer; Half Truths and the Truth; Not of Man, but of God; Sermons. Hou.
Mansfield, Edward Deering. Ct., 1801-1880. Son of J. Mansfield, infra. A lawyer and journalist of Cincinnati. Utility of Mathematics; Treatise on Constitutional Law; Political Grammar of the United States; Legal Rights, etc., of Married Women; Life of General Scott; History of the Mexican War; American Education; Memoirs of D. Drake, supra; Popular Life of General Grant; Personal Memories. Clke.
Mansfield, Jared. Ct., 1759-1830. A mathematician, professor at West Point, 1812-28, who published Essays: Mathematical and Physical.
Mansfield, Lewis William. Ct., 1816- ——. A writer of Cohoes, New York. The Morning Watch, a book of verse; Up-Country Letters; Country Margins.
Manship, Andrew. Md., 1824- ——. A Methodist evangelist of Philadelphia. Thirteen Years in the Itineracy; Cherished Memories; Reminiscences from the Saddle-Bags of a Methodist Preacher; History of Gospel Tents and Experience.
Manville, Mrs. Helen Adelia [Wood]. N. Y., 1839- ——. A verse-writer of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Heart Echoes, a volume of verse.
Manville, Marion. Daughter of Mrs. Manville, supra. See Pope, Mrs.
Marble, Manton. Ms., 1835- ——. A journalist of New York city, editor and proprietor of The World, 1862-76, and author of A Secret Chapter of Political History.
March, Alden. Ms., 1795-1869. A once prominent surgeon of Albany. Wounds of the Abdomen; Improved Forceps for Harelip Operations.
March, Charles Wainright. N. H., 1815-1864. A journalist and essayist of New York city. Daniel Webster and His Contemporaries; Sketches in Madeira, Portugal, and Spain.
March, Daniel. Ms., 1816-1902. A Congregational clergyman. Walks and Homes of Jesus; Night Scenes in the Bible; Our Father’s House; From Dark to Dawn; Home Life in the Bible; The First Khedive, or Lessons in the Life of Joseph; Morning Light in Many Lands. C. P. S.
March, Francis Andrew. Ms., 1825- ——. A philologist of distinction, professor at Lafayette College from 1856, and the successor of James Russell Lowell in 1891 as president of the American Language Association. Relation of the Study of Jurisprudence to the Roman Period; Hamilton’s Theory of Perception; Method of Philological Study of the English Language; Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language; Anglo-Saxon Reader. Har.
Marcy, Erastus Edgerton. Ms., 1815-1900. A physician of New York city. Theory and Practice of Medicine; Theory and Practice of Homœopathy; Christianity and its Conflicts; Life Duties.
Marcy, Henry Orlando. Ms., 1837- ——. A physician of Cambridge. Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia; professional translations from the Italian of Ercolani. Ap.
Marcy, Randolph Barnes. Ms., 1812-1887. Brother of E. E. Marcy, supra. A brigadier-general in the United States army. Exploration of the Red River in 1852; Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border; The Prairie Traveller; Border Reminiscences. Har.
Marden, Orison Swett. N. H., 1848- ——. A Boston writer whose collections of brief biographies, comprise Pushing to the Front; Architects of Fate. Hou.
Marguerittes, Julie de. See Rea, Mrs.
Markell, Charles Frederick. Md., 1855- ——. A Maryland lawyer and journalist. Charmodine, a volume of verse.
Markham, Charles Edwin. Or., 1852- ——. An educator and verse-writer of California. In Earth’s Shadow, a book of verse; Songs of a Dream Builder; The Man with the Hoe.
Markham, Jared Clark. Ms., 1816- ——. An architect who designed the Saratoga monument. Appeal in Behalf of National Monuments; Monumental Art; Historic Sculpture.
Markoe, Thomas Masters. Pa., 1819-1901. A surgeon of New York city, professor in Columbia College from 1860, and author of a Treatise on Diseases of the Bones. Ap.
Marsh, Mrs. Caroline [Crane]. Ms., 1816-1901. Wife of G. P. Marsh, infra. The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems; Life of George P. Marsh. Scr.
Marsh, George Perkins. Vt., 1801-1882. A philologist of distinction who was minister to Italy, 1861-82. Lectures on the English Language; Man and Nature, re-written and enlarged with the title, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of the English Language; Mediæval and Modern Saints and Miracles. See Life by Mrs. Marsh, supra. Har. Scr.
Marsh, John. Ct., 1788-1864. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as a temperance lecturer. Epitome of Ecclesiastical History; Half Century Tribute to Temperance; Temperance Recollections.
Marsh, Othniel Charles. N. Y., 1831-1899. A palæontologist, professor at Yale University from 1866. Odontornithes; Dinocerata; Sauropoda, are among valuable scientific monographs by him.
Marshall, Edward Chauncey. N. Y., 1824-1898. An educator, inventor, and journalist. Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval Academy; Ancestry of General Grant.
Marshall, Humphrey. Pa., 1722-1801. A famous botanist of Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages.
Marshall, John. Va., 1755-1835. Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death. The Life of Washington; Writings upon the Federal Constitution. See Lives by Van Santvord, 1854, Flanders, 1858, Magruder, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography.
Martin, Edward Sandford. N. Y., 1856- ——. A journalist of New York city. Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of the Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, some Views of Ours; Windfalls of Observation; Lucid Intervals. Har. Scr.
Martin, François Xavier. F., 1764-1846. A New Orleans jurist, chief justice of Louisiana, 1837-45. General Digest of Louisiana Laws; Reports of Louisiana Supreme Court, 1813-30; History of Louisiana to 1814.
Martin, Henry Newell. I., 1848-1896. A biologist of note, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. The Human Body; Practical Biology (with T. H. Huxley); Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection (with W. A. Moale). Ho.
Martin, John Hill. Pa., 1823- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia, legal editor of The Intelligencer from 1881. Bethlehem and the Moravians; The Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Chester and its Vicinity; Delaware County.
Martin, Mrs. Margaret [Maxwell]. S., 1807- ——. An educator of Columbia, South Carolina. Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest; Religious Poems; Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina, include the larger part of her writings.
Martin, William Alexander Parsons. N. Y., 1827- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen College, Peking. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he has published The Chinese: their Education, Philosophy, and Letters; The Lore of Cathay. Har.
Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne [Smith]. N. H., 1805-1879. A writer of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New York city. Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France; William Tyndale; Lady Alice Lisle.
Martyn, William Carlos. N. Y., 1841- ——. Son of Mrs. Martyn, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. History of the Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fathers of New England; History of the Dutch Reformation; Lives of John Milton, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge. Fu.
Marvel, Ik. See Mitchell, D. G.
Marvin, Enoch Mather. Mo., 1823-1877. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. The Work of Christ; Sermons; To the East by Way of the West.
Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton [Briggs]. Ms., 1823-1890. A verse-writer of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, was long a popular song. Utterance, a Collection of Home Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; Rose Hamilan, a tale. Hou.
Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Arthur. Me., 1844-1884. The Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of verse. Lo.
Mason, David Hastings. Pa., 1828-1903. A Chicago journalist who published a Short Tariff History of the United States. Bai.
Mason, Emily Virginia. Ky., 1815- ——. A nurse in Confederate hospitals, and after the Civil War an educator in Paris. She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.
Mason, George Champlin. R. I., 1820-1894. An architect of Newport, Rhode Island. Newport and its Environs; Application of Art to Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; Reminiscences of Newport.
Mason, John. E., 1600-1672. A Puritan soldier who held a place in the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding to that filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. History of the Pequot War is a vigorous narrative, first printed by Increase Mather in 1677. See Tyler’s American Literature; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra.
Mason, John Mitchell. N. Y., 1770-1829. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration on the Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. Letters on Frequent Communion; Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles. See Works in four volumes; Memoirs by Van Vechten, 1856.
Mason, Otis Tufton. Me., 1838- ——. An anthropologist of note. The Hupa Indian Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture; The Origins of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North American Indians; The Antiquities of Guadeloupe. Ap. Scr.
Mather, Cotton. Ms., 1663-1728. Son of I. Mather, infra. A famous Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, 1683-1728, and his father’s colleague for the greater part of that period. He was a prolific author, publishing nearly four hundred works, large and small, but it is upon the Magnalia Christi Americana that his reputation rests. Among other works are Wonders of the Invisible World; Christian Philosopher; Psalterium Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium; Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The Armour of Christianity; Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; Death made Easie and Happy. His style is disfigured by pedantry and strained analogies, and is at all times far removed from simplicity, but the author is nevertheless easily seen to be intensely in earnest in his endeavours to be of service to his generation. See Lives by S. Mather, 1729, W. B. O. Peabody, A. P. Marvin, 1889, B. Wendell, 1892; North American Review, July, 1840, April, 1869; Tyler’s American Literature; Pond’s The Mather Family; Old Colony Days, by Mrs. May Alden Ward.
Mather, Fred. N. Y, 1833-1900. A pisciculturist of note, author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks.
Mather, Increase. E., 1639-1723. Son of R. Mather, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, and president of Harvard College, 1685-1701. Of his nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction the existence of mundane supernatural forces. His style is much superior to that of his son. See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Mather, Moses. Ct., 1719-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Darien, Connecticut, from 1744 till his death, who was of much prominence in his day as a controversialist. Systematic View of Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; Election Sermons. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Mather, Richard. E., 1596-1669. A Puritan clergyman who came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester, 1636-69. He was a man of large influence in the colony, and was one of the three divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification is as important as any of his many writings. See Life by I. Mather; Tyler’s American Literature.
Mather, Samuel. Ms., 1706-1785. Son of C. Mather, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston who succeeded his father and grandfather as pastor of the North Church, but in 1741 became the head of a new church, of which he was pastor till his death. Among his writings are, Life of Cotton Mather, supra; Essay on Gratitude; America Known to the Ancients, an attempt to prove the Japhetic origin of the first inhabitants of the American continent. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Mather, William Williams. Ct., 1804-1859. A geologist of Ohio. Geology of the First Geological District.
Mathews, Albert. N. Y., 1820-1903. A lawyer of New York city. Walter Ashwood, a Love Story; A Bundle of Papers, by Paul Siegvolk; Thoughts on Codification of the Common Law; Ruminations, and Other Essays. Put.
Mathews, Cornelius. N. Y., 1817-1889. Cousin of A. Mathews, supra. An author and playwright of New York city, among whose non-dramatic works are, Indian Book of Fairy Tales; The Enchanted Moccasins, and Other Legends; Money-Penny: a romance. Jacob Leisler; The Politicians; Witchcraft, comprise some of his plays.
Mathews, James McFarlane. N. Y., 1785-1870. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city, at one period chancellor of the University of the City of New York. What is Your Life?; The Bible and Men of Learning; Fifty Years in New York.
Mathews, Joanna Hooe. N. Y., 1849-1901. Daughter of J. M. Mathews, supra. A writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, The Bessie Books; The Sunbeams. Cas.
Mathews, Julia A——. 183- - ——. Daughter of J. M. Mathews, supra. A writer of Sunday-school fiction, among which are, The Bessie Harrington’s Venture; Jack Granger’s Cousin; Drayton Hall Series. Ran.
Mathews, William. Me., 1818- ——. An educator and essayist of Chicago, and later of Boston. Hours with Men and Books; Getting on in the World; The Great Conversers; Literary Style; Men, Places, and Things; Oratory and Orators; Wit and Humor, their Use and Abuse; Nugæ Litterariæ. Rob. Sc.
Mathews, William Smith Babcock. N. H., 1837- ——. A musical critic of Chicago. Outline of Musical Form; Dictionary of Music and Musicians; How to Understand Music; New Musical Miscellanies.
Matthews, [James] Brander. La., 1852- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Among his many writings the more important are, The Theatres of Paris; French Dramatists of the 19th Century; Margery’s Lovers, a Comedy; The Last Meeting, a Story; The Secret of the Sea, and Other Stories; A Family Tree, and Other Stories; The Story of a Story; Tom Paulding; Studies of the Stage; Americanisms and Briticisms; Vignettes of Manhattan; His Father’s Son; Introduction to the Study of American Literature; The Royal Marine; Tales of Fantasy and Fact. Har. Scr.
Matthews, James Newton. Ind., 1852- ——. A physician and verse-writer of Mason, Illinois. Tempe Vale, and Other Poems, includes many of his contributions to The Century and other periodicals. Ke.
Matthews, Stanley. 1824-1889. A Cincinnati jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1881. A Summary of the Law of Partnership for the Use of Business Men. Clke.
Matthews, Washington. I., 1843- ——. A surgeon in the regular army, well known as an ethnologist. Among his writings are included a Grammar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians; Gentile Organization of the Navajo Indians.
Mattison, Hiram. N. Y., 1811-1868. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, active as a controversialist. Bible Doctrine of Immortality; The Trinity and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the Times; Impending Crisis; Defence of American Methodism; Popular Amusements, include his chief works. Meth.
Maturin [măt´u-rĭn], Edward. I., 1821-1881. An educator of New York city. Beside Lyrics of Spain and Erin, he was the author of several historical novels, comprising Eva; Bianca; Montezuma; Benjamin: the Jew of Grenada. Har.
Maury [maw´rĭ], Ann. E., 1803-1876. Cousin of M. F. Maury, infra. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family.
Maury, Dabney Herndon. Va., 1822-1900. Nephew of M. F. Maury, infra. A Confederate major-general in the Civil War. Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops; Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. Scr.
Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Va., 1806-1873. A once famous scientist, for many years in charge of the Hydrographical Office at Washington, as well as of the Naval Observatory. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate service, and from 1868-73 was a professor in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Treatise on Navigation; Physical Geography of the Sea; Wind and Current Charts; Physical Geography for Schools; The World we Live In. See North British Review, May, 1858; Life by his daughter, Mrs. Corbin; Manly’s Southern Literature.
Maury, Mrs. Sarah Mytton [Hughes]. E., 1808-1849. Sister-in-law of A. Maury, supra. Etchings from the Caracci; The Englishwoman in America; The Statesmen of America; Progress of the Catholic Church in America.
May, Caroline. E., c. 1820- ——. A writer of New York city. American Female Poets; The Woodbine, a Holiday Gift; Poems; Hymns on the Collects; Lays of Memory and Affection.
May, Edith. See Drinker, Mrs.
May, John Wilder. Ms., 1819-1883. A jurist of Boston. The Law of Insurance; Law of Crimes; Criminal Law. Lit.
May, Margaret. See Tucker, Mrs.
May, Samuel. Ms., 1810-1899. A retired Unitarian clergyman of Leicester, Massachusetts, of prominence in the anti-slavery movement, and author of The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims.
May, Samuel Joseph. Ms., 1797-1871. Cousin of S. May, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse prominent in the anti-slavery cause, and also in educational reforms. Education of the Faculties; Revival of Education; Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict. See Memoir, 1873.
May, Sophie. See Clarke, Rebecca.
Mayer, Alfred Marshall. Md., 1836-1897. Nephew of B. Mayer, infra. An astronomer, professor of physics in Stevens Institute at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1871. Light (with C. Barnard); Notes on Physics; The Earth a Great Magnet; Sound; Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters (edited). Ap. Cent.
Mayer, Brantz. Md., 1809-1879. A lawyer and journalist of Baltimore, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Mexico as It Was and as It Is; Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and Republican; Observations on Mexican History and Archæology; Mexican Antiquities; Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Memoir of Jared Sparks, infra.
Mayer, Lewis. Pa., 1783-1849. A German Reformed clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania. Lectures on Scriptural Subjects; The Sin Against the Holy Ghost; History of the German Reformed Church.
Mayhew, Experience. Ms., 1673-1758. A missionary to the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard. Indian Converts; Grace Defended.
Mayhew, Jonathan. Ms., 1720-1766. Son of Experience Mayhew, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church, 1747-66. He was a bold thinker both in religion and politics, and his influence over the colonial mind at an eventful period was very great. He was as eloquent as he was original and independent. A noted Sermon on the Repeal of the Stamp Act is an effective example of his style. Seven Sermons; Sermons to Young Men. See Memoir by Alden Bradford, 1838.
Maynard, Charles Johnson. Ms., 1845- ——. A naturalist of Newton, Massachusetts. The Naturalist’s Guide; The Birds of Florida; The Birds of Eastern North America; A Manual of Taxidermy; The Butterflies of New England.
Mayo, Amory Dwight. Ms., 1823- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, prominent since the Civil War in educational matters in the Southern States. Graces and Powers of the Christian Life; Symbols of the Capitol; Religion in Common Schools; Talks with Teachers.
Mayo, Robert. Va., 1784-1864. A writer long in the civil service at Washington. View of Ancient Geography and History; New System of Mythology; United States Pension Laws; Synopsis of the Commercial and Revenue System; The Treasury Department, its Origin and Operations.
Mayo, Mrs. Sarah Carter [Edgarton]. Ms., 1819-1848. Wife of A. D. Mayo, supra. The Palfreys; Ellen Clifford, and several compilations of verse and prose.
Mayo, William Starbuck. N. Y., 1812-1895. A novelist and physician of New York city. Kaloolah; The Berber; Never Again; Flood and Field; Romance Dust, a collection of short stories. Put.
Mead, Charles Marsh. Vt., 1836- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Andover Seminary, 1866-1882, and since the latter date a resident in Germany. He published The Soul Here and Hereafter, a Biblical Study; Christ and Criticism; Supernatural Revelation. Ran.
Mead, Edwin Doak. N. H., 1849- ——. A Boston writer and lecturer upon social and historical topics, and editor of The New England Magazine (1897). Martin Luther: a Study of the Reformation; The Philosophy of Carlyle; The Roman Church and the Public Schools. El.
Meade, William. Va., 1789-1862. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Family Prayers; Old Churches of Virginia; Lectures on the Pastoral Office; Reasons for Loving the Episcopal Church. See Memorial by J. Johns.
Mears, John William. Pa., 1825-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Hamilton College, 1870-81. The Bible in the Workshop; The Martyrs of France; The Beggars of Holland; The Story of Madagascar; The Heroes of Bohemia; From Exile to Overthrow.
Meehan, Thomas. E., 1826-1901. A botanist and nurseryman of Germantown, Philadelphia, editor and publisher of “Meehan’s Monthly,” a popular journal devoted to botany and floriculture. American Handbook of Ornamental Trees; Flowers and Ferns of the United States.
Meek, Alexander Beaufort. S. C., 1814-1865. An Alabama jurist and journalist. Red Eagle; Songs and Poems of the South; Romantic Passages in Southern History.
Meek, Fielding Bradford. Ind., 1817-1876. A palæontologist in government service. Palæontology of the Upper Missouri; Check List of North American Invertebrate Fossils; Report on Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country.
Megapolensis, Johannes. Hd., 1603-1670. A Dutch clergyman of the New Amsterdam colony, the first Protestant missionary to the Indians. His Short Account of the Mohawk Indians appeared in 1651.
Meigs [mĕgs], Charles Delucena. Ba., 1792-1869. A noted Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College, 1841-61. Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery; Science and Art of Obstetrics; Treatment of Child-Bed Fevers; Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus, and several translations from French medical writers. See Memoir by J. F. Meigs, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Meigs, James Aitkin. Pa., 1829-1879. A physician and naturalist of Philadelphia, author of Cranial Characteristics, and other scientific monographs. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.
Meigs, John Forsyth. Pa., 1818-1882. Son of C. D. Meigs, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Memoir of C. D. Meigs, supra; Diseases of Children.
Meigs, Return Jonathan. Ct., 1734-1823. A noted soldier in the American Revolution. Journal of Occurrences during the Expedition to Quebec.
Meigs, Return Jonathan. Ky., 1801-1891. Grand-nephew of R. J. Meigs, supra. A noted lawyer of Tennessee. Reports of Tennessee Supreme Court Cases; Digest of Tennessee Decisions; The Code of Tennessee.
Meline, James Florant. N. Y., 1811-1873. A New York writer, an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Two Thousand Miles on Horseback; Commercial Travelling; Mary Queen of Scots and her Latest English Historian, an attack upon Froude’s view of the subject; Life of Sixtus V. Clke.
Melish, John. S., 1771-1822. A once noted traveller of Scottish birth. Travels in the United States, etc.; Description of the Roads, etc.; Description of the United States (1816); Necessity of Protecting Manufactures; Information for Emigrants; Statistical View of the United States.
Mell, Patrick Hues. Ga., 1811-1888. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Georgia, vice-chancellor of the University of Georgia. Baptism; Corrective Church Discipline; Parliamentary Practice; The Philosophy of Prayer; Church Polity; Predestination.
Mellen, Grenville. Me., 1799-1841. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city, whose verse was once very popular and much praised by critics, but is now forgotten. Our Chronicle of ’26, a satire; The Martyr’s Triumph, and Other Poems; The Passions; Glad Tales and Sad Tales, a collection of tales in prose; The Rest of the Nations. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Mellick, Andrew D——. N. J., 1844-1895. A lawyer of Plainfield, New Jersey. The Story of an Old Farm; The Hessians in New Jersey.
Melville, George Wallace. N. Y., 1841- ——. Chief of the Bureau of Steam-Engineering in the United States navy from 1887. A survivor of the ill-fated “Jeannette,” of which he was engineer. In the Lena Delta, a Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his Companions. Hou.
Melville, Herman. N. Y., 1819-1891. A novelist of New York city, for many years employed in the custom-house. His earliest writings were very popular, but had nearly passed out of remembrance before the author’s death. Typee; Omoo; White Jacket; Redburn; Mardi; Pierre; Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales; Moby Dick; The Confidence Man; Battle Pieces, a volume of verse; Clarel, a poem; John Marr and Other Sailors; Timoleon, a collection of poems. Har.
Mendenhall, James William. O., 1844-1892. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Review from 1888. Echoes from Palestine; Plato and Paul. Meth.
Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin. O., 1841- ——. A prominent scientist, president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1894, and author of A Century of Electricity. Hou.
Menken, Adah Isaacs. La., 1835-1868. An actress of Jewish birth whose name originally was Dolores Adios Fuertes. She was several times married and divorced, but is known by the name of her first husband. Her verse is morbid, but still finds occasional readers. Memories; Infelicia. See Every Saturday, September 12, 1868. Lip.
Mercein, Thomas Fitz Randolph. N. Y., 1825-1856. A Methodist clergyman of New York State. Natural Goodness; The Wise Master Builder; Childhood and the Church. Meth.
Mercer, Charles Fenton. Va., 1778-1858. A congressman from Virginia, 1816-40, prominent as an opponent of slavery. The Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States was not published until 1863.
Mercur, James. Pa., 1842-1896. A scientist and army officer, professor at West Point from 1884. Elements of the Art of War; Military Mines, Blasting, and Demolitions. Wil.
Meriwether, Mrs. Elizabeth [Avery]. Tn., 1832- ——. A novelist of Memphis, Tennessee. The Master of Red Leaf; Black and White; The Ku Klux Klan; My First and Last Love.
Meriwether, Lee. Mi., 1862- ——. Son of Mrs. Meriwether, supra. A special agent of the United States Bureau of Labor. A Tramp Trip: how to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day; The Tramp at Home; Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean. Har. Scr.
Merriam, Augustus Chapman. N. Y., 1843-1895. A Greek scholar, adjunct professor of Greek at Columbia College. Law Code of Gortynia in Crete; Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab; The Phæacians of Homer; Sixth and Seventh Books of Herodotus. Har.
Merriam, Clinton Hart. N. Y., 1855- ——. A naturalist of note, chief of the United States Biological Survey. Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region; Mammals of the Adirondacks. Ho.
Merriam, Florence Augusta. N. Y., 1863- ——. Sister of C. H. Merriam, supra. A Washington writer. A-Birding on a Bronco; My Summer in a Mormon Village; Birds Through an Opera Glass. Hou.
Merriam, George Spring. Ms., 1843- ——. A littérateur of Springfield, Massachusetts. A Living Faith; Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, supra; The Way of Life; The Story of William and Lucy Smith; A Symphony of the Spirit; The Chief End of Man; Reminiscences and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs. Cent. El. Hou.
Merrill, Ayres Phillips. Ms., 1793-1873. A physician of Memphis, and subsequently of New York city. Lectures on Fevers.
Merrill, George Perkins. Me., 1854- ——. A geologist, professor in Columbian University, Washington, from 1893. Stones for Building and Decoration; Handbook of the Geological Department, Smithsonian Institution.
Merrill, Selah. Ct., 1837- ——. A Congregational clergyman and archæologist, United States consul at Jerusalem, 1882-86. East of the Jordan; Galilee in the Time of Christ; Greek Inscriptions Collected in 1875-77 East of the Jordan; The Site of Calvary. Scr.
Merrill, Stephen Mason. O., 1825- ——. A Methodist bishop in Ohio. Christian Baptism; New Testament Idea of Hell; The Second Coming of Christ; Aspects of Christian Experience; Digest of Methodist Law; Outlines of Thought on Probation; Mary of Nazareth and Her Family. Meth.
Merrill, William Emory. Wis., 1837- ——. A military engineer in the United States army. Iron Truss Bridges; Improvement of Tidal Rivers.
Merriman, Mansfield. Ct., 1841- ——. A civil engineer, professor at Lehigh University from 1881. Continuous Bridges; Elements of the Method of Least Squares; The Figure of the Earth; Mechanics of Materials; Treatise on Hydraulics; Text-Book on Retaining Walls and Masonry Dams; Introduction to Geodetic Surveying; Text-Book on Roofs and Bridges. Ho.
Merritt, Timothy. Ct., 1775-1845. A Methodist clergyman and journalist. Christian Manual; Convert’s Guide; Discussion against Universal Salvation; Validity of Infant Baptism; Lectures on Universal Salvation (with W. Fiske, supra).
Merwin, Elias. Ct., 1825-1891. A Boston lawyer, professor of equity in Boston University from 1854. The Principles of Equity and Equity Pleading. Hou.
Merwin, Henry Childs. Ms., 1853- ——. Son of E. Merwin, supra. A Boston lawyer living in Concord, Massachusetts. The Patentability of Inventions; Road, Track, and Stable, a book about Horses. Lit.
Messenger, Mrs. Lilian Roselle. Ky., 1853- ——. In the Heart of America (verse); The Vision of Gold, and Other Poems.
Metcalf, Richard. R. I., 1829-1881. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Winchester, Massachusetts, 1866-81. Letter and Spirit; The Abiding Memory, a collection of Sermons. A. U. A.
Metcalf, Theron. Ms., 1784-1875. A jurist of Massachusetts. Principles of the Law of Contracts; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Court Cases, 1816-1823; Reports, 1840-1849.
Metcalfe, Henry. N. Y., 1847- ——. An instructor of ordnance at West Point who has published The Cost of Manufactures; Ordnance and Gunnery. Wil.
Metcalfe, Samuel L——. Va., 1798-1856. A physician and scientist of New York city. Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West; New Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism; Caloric. Lip.
Michie [my´key], Peter Smith. S., 1839-1901. A military engineer, professor of mathematics at West Point from 1871. Wave Motion Relating to Sound and Light; Life of General Upton, infra; Analytical Mechanics; Hydromechanics; Practical Astronomy (with Harlow). Wil.
Middleton, Henry. F., 1797-1876. A once prominent writer of Charleston. Prospects of Disunion; The Government and the Currency; Economical Causes of Slavery in the United States, and Obstacles to its Abolition; The Government of India; Universal Suffrage.
Milburn, William Henry. Pa., 1823-1903. A Methodist clergyman, famous as “the blind preacher,” who has been six times chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley.
Miles, George Henry. Md., 1824-1871. A Maryland lawyer and educator, professor of English literature at Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmettsburg, Maryland, popular at one period as a verse-writer and dramatist. Besides his dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De Soto, he published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened; A Review of Hamlet; The Truce of God.
Miles, Henry Adolphus. Ms., 1809-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Eastern Massachusetts. Lowell as It Was and Is (1845); Grains of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a Friend; Modern Ideas of the Birth of Jesus; Traces of Picture Writing in the Bible. El.
Miles, James Warley. S. C., 1818-1875. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston. Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Grounds of all Religious Belief based on Reason (1849).
Miles, Nelson Appleton. Ms., 1839- ——. A noted soldier of the United States army who served as a brigadier-general of volunteers during the Civil War. He became a major-general in 1890. Personal Recollections.
Miles, Pliny. N. Y., 1818-1865. A traveller who made his home in London in his later years. Statistical Register; Elements of Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory; Northufari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean Steam Navigation; Postal Reform.
Miley, John. O., 1813-1895. A Methodist minister and educator, professor of systematic theology in Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, from 1873. The Atonement in Christ; Systematic Theology.
Millard, David. N. Y., 1794-1873. A minister of the Christian denomination, professor at Meadville Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1845-67. The True Messiah Exalted; Journal of Travels in Egypt, etc., 1841. See Life by D. E. Millard, 1874.
Miller, Mrs. Annie [Jenness]. N. H., 1859- ——. A dress reformer of New York city, publisher of The Jenness Miller Magazine. Physical Beauty; Mother and Babe; Barbara Thayer, a novel. Le.
Miller, Charles Henry. N. Y., 1842- ——. An art critic of New York city. The Philosophy of Art in America.
Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner. “Joaquin Miller.” Ind., 1841- ——. A poet and prose-writer who, after a life of adventure in California, went to London in 1870, and speedily became famous as the author of Songs of the Sierras. For a time his work continued popular, but his fame has since greatly declined, though his writings continue to be read. Since 1887 he has lived in Oakland, California. His more important works include, Songs of the Sierras; The Ship of the Desert; Songs of the Sunland; in prose: The Danites in the Sierras; Shadows of Shasta; Memorie and Rime; ’49, or the Gold Seekers of the Sierras; The One Fair Woman; The Destruction of Gotham; The Building of the City Beautiful, a poetic romance. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Vedder’s American Writers. Fu. St.
Miller, Elihu Spencer. N. J., 1817-1879. Son of S. Miller, infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania. Treatise on the Law of Partition by Writ in Pennsylvania; Caprices, a volume of verse.
Miller, Mrs. Emily Clark Huntington. Ct., 1833- ——. An educator of Evanston, Illinois, president of the Woman’s College of the Northwestern University, and a popular writer of semi-religious fiction for young people. Among her various writings are, From Avalon and Other Poems; The Royal Road to Fortune; The Kirkwood Series; Captain Fritz; Little Neighbors. Dut.
Miller, Mrs. Harriet Mann. “Olive Thorne Miller.” N. Y., 1831- ——. A writer of Brooklyn whose books and magazine articles upon birds have been widely popular. A Bird-Lover in the West; Little Brothers of the Air; Bird-Ways; In Nesting Time; Four-Handed Folk; Little Folks in Feathers and Fur; Nimpo’s Troubles; Queer Pets at Marcy’s; Our Home Pets; Little People of Asia. Dut. Har. Hou.
Miller, James Russell. Pa., 1840- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Week Day Religion; Home Making; In His Steps; Silent Time; Come Ye Apart; The Marriage Altar; Practical Religion; Bits of Pasture; Making the Most of Life; Mary of Bethany; The Dew of Thy Youth; The Every Day of Life. Rev.
Miller, Joaquin. See Miller, C. H.
Miller, John. N. J., 1819-1895. Son of S. Miller, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who was a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and who lived in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1871. He was tried for heresy, but allowed to withdraw from the Presbytery, and subsequently established several independent churches in the vicinity of Princeton. Design of the Church; Commentary on the Proverbs; Fetich in Theology; Metaphysics; Are Souls Immortal?; Was Christ in Adam?; Is God a Creed?; Theology; Commentary on Romans. Ran.
Miller, Mrs. Minnie [Willis] [Baines]. N. H., 1845- ——. A religious writer of Springfield, Ohio. The Silent Land; His Cousin the Doctor; The Pilgrim Vision.
Miller, Olive Thorne. See Miller, Mrs. Harriet.
Miller, Samuel. Del., 1769-1850. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the Brick Church, New York city, 1793-1813, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Princeton Theological Seminary for the remainder of his life. Presbyterianism the Truly Primitive and Apostolic Constitution of the Church of Christ; Letters on Clerical Habits and Manners; Letters on Unitarians; Life of Jonathan Edwards; Letters on the Christian Ministry; Letters on Church Government, include his more important writings. See Life by his son.
Miller, Samuel Freeman. Ky., 1816-1890. A jurist of Kentucky, and after 1850 of Iowa; a strong opponent of slavery. The Supreme Court of the United States, a series of Biographies; Reports of Supreme Court Decisions.
Miller, Stephen Franks. N. C., c. 1810-1867. A once noted Georgia lawyer. Bench and Bar of Georgia; Wilkins Wylder, or the Successful Man; Memoir of General Blackshear and the War in Georgia, 1813-14. Lip.
Millet, Francis Davis. Ms., 1846- ——. An artist and littérateur of New York city. A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories; The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. Har.
Milligan, Robert. I., 1814-1875. A Campbellite clergyman and educator, president of Kentucky University, 1859-66. Brief Treatise on Prayer; Reason and Revelation; Scheme of Redemption; The Great Commission; Analysis of the New Testament Commentary on Hebrews.
Mills, Abraham. N. Y., 1769-1867. A once popular educator of New York city who, besides editing a number of text-books, was author of Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland; Outlines of Rhetoric; Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks; Compendium of the History of the Ancient Hebrews. Har.
Mills, Charles Karsner. Pa., 1845- ——. A physician of Philadelphia, a specialist in nervous diseases. The Nursing and Care of the Nervous and Insane.
Mills, Robert. S. C., 1781-1855. An architect of Washington, the original designer of the Washington Monument. Statistics of South Carolina; American Pharos, or Lighthouse Guide; Guide to the National Executive Offices.
Miner, Alonzo Ames. N. H., 1814-1895. A prominent Universalist clergyman of Boston. Bible Exercises; Right and Duty of Prohibition; Old Forts Taken. See Life by Emerson, 1896.
Miner, Charles. Ct., 1780-1865. A journalist of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. History of Wyoming; Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert.
Mines, John Flavel. F., 1835-1891. A journalist of New York city. The Heroes of the Last Lustre, a poem; A Tour Around New York by Mr. Felix Oldboy. Har.
Minifie, William. E., 1805-1880. An architect and educator of Baltimore. Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing; Text-Book of Geometrical Drawing; Theory and Application of Color; Popular Lectures on Drawing and Design.
Minor, John Barbee. Va., 1813-1895. A professor of law in the University of Virginia. Virginia Report of 1799-1800; Synopsis of the Law of Crimes and Punishments; Institutes of Common and Statute Law.
Minor, Lucian. Va., 1802-1858. Brother of J. B. Minor, supra. A lawyer of Williamsburg, Virginia. Reasons for Abolishing the Liquor Traffic; Travels in New England.
Minot, Henry Davis. Ms., 1859-1890. At the time of his death a railway president in Minnesota. While a schoolboy of Roxbury, Massachusetts, he wrote at the age of sixteen The Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England. Hou.
Minot, William. Ms., 1849-1900. A Boston lawyer. Taxation in Massachusetts (1877); Local Taxation and Municipal Extravagance.
Minturn, Robert Bowne. N. Y., 1836- ——. From New York to Delhi, a popular book of travels.
Mitchel, Frederick Augustus. 1839- ——. A son of O. M. Mitchel, infra. Fiction editor of the American Press Association. Chattanooga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Chickamauga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and General. Hou.
Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight. Ky., 1810-1862. An astronomer of distinction, director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and a prominent Union general in the Civil War. Planetary and Stellar Worlds; The Orbs of Heaven; Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, etc.; Astronomy of the Bible. See Headley’s Old Stars; Popular Science Monthly, March, 1884; Life by F. A. Mitchel.
Mitchell, Annie Maria. Ms., 1847- ——. A writer of religious juveniles, among which are Martha’s Gift; Freed Boy in Alabama.
Mitchell, Donald Grant. “Ik Marvel.” Ct., 1822- ——. A littérateur of New Haven, who is best known by his earlier and still popular works, Dream Life; Reveries of a Bachelor, books of a pleasantly sentimental cast. His other works include, My Farm at Edgewood; Dr. Johns, a novel; Rural Studies; Fresh Gleaning from the Old Fields of Europe; The Battle Summer, or Paris in 1848; The Lorgnette; Fudge Doings; Seven Stories; Wet Days at Edgewood; About Old Story-Tellers; The Woodbridge Record, a genealogy; Bound Together: a Sheaf of Papers; Out of Town Places, a revision of Rural Studies; English Lands, Letters, and Kings; American Lands and Letters. Scr.
Mitchell, Edward Coppée. Ga., 1836-1887. A real estate lawyer of Philadelphia. Separate Use in Pennsylvania; Contracts for Land Sales in Pennsylvania; Equitable Relations of Buyer and Seller.
Mitchell, Edward Cushing. Ms., 1829-1900. Grandson of N. Mitchell, infra. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Leland University, New Orleans, from 1887. Les Sources du Nouveau Testament; Hebrew Introduction; Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament; The Critical Handbook.
Mitchell, Elisha. Ct., 1793-1857. An educator of note, professor of geology in the University of North Carolina from 1825. While exploring the mountain region of North Carolina, he lost his life. He is buried on the summit of the mountain bearing his name. Elements of Geology; Reports on North Carolina Geology.
Mitchell, Henry. Ms., 1830-1902. A hydrographer of prominence, among whose scientific monographs are, Physical Hydrography of the Maine Coast; The Estuary of the Delaware; Reclamation of Tide Lands.
Mitchell, Hinckley Gilbert. N. Y., 1846- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator, a professor at Boston University from 1883. Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Lessons; Amos, an Essay in Exegesis; The Pentateuch.
Mitchell, James Tyndale. Il., 1834- ——. A jurist of Philadelphia. History of the District Court; Mitchell on Motions and Rules.
Mitchell, John. Ct., 1794-1870. A Congregational minister of Stratford, Connecticut. Letters to a Disbeliever in Revivals; Notes from Over the Sea; Reminiscences of College Scenes and Characters; My Mother; Rachel Kell, or the Diamond.
Mitchell, John Ames. Ms., 1845- ——. A journalist of New York city, founder of Life in 1883, and its editor from that date. The Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert; The Romance of the Moon; The Last American; Amos Judd, a novel; That First Affair, and Other Stories. Ho. Scr.
Mitchell, John Kearsley. W. Va., 1798-1858. A physician of Philadelphia, of eminence as a medical lecturer. Indecision, and Other Poems; St. Helena: a poem; Remote Consequences of Injuries of Nerves; Cryptogamic Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers; Five Essays on Fevers. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries. Lip.
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn. “John Philip Varley.” Pa., 1862- ——. Son of S. W. Mitchell, infra. A verse-writer of promise. Sylvian, a Tragedy; Poems; Love in the Backwoods, prose stories. Har. Hou.
Mitchell, Mrs. Lucy Myers [Wright]. Per., 1845-1888. An archæologist (the wife of S. S. Mitchell, an artist), who spent much of her life abroad. Her only writing, a History of Ancient Sculpture, is one of the best books in English upon Greek art. Do.
Mitchell, Maria. Ms., 1818-1889. Sister of H. Mitchell, supra. A distinguished astronomer, professor at Vassar College from 1865. Her scientific papers have not [1897] been collected. See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record; Life by Mrs. Kendall.
Mitchell, Nahum. Ms., 1769-1853. An eminent jurist of Massachusetts, well known in his day as a musical composer. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater; Grammar of Music.
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus. 1792-1888. A noted geographer of Philadelphia who besides publishing a series of geographies was author also of General View of the World; New Traveller’s Guide.
Mitchell, Silas Weir. Pa., 1829- ——. Son of J. K. Mitchell, supra. A distinguished physician of Philadelphia, well known also as novelist and poet. His professional writings include Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked; Injuries of the Nerves; Nurse and Patient; Fat and Blood; Doctor and Patient. In fiction he has published Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker; Hephzibah Guinness; In War Time; Roland Blake; Far in the Forest; Philip Vernon; Prince Little Boy, and Other Tales out of Fairy Land; Characteristics; A Madeira Party; When all the Woods are Green; and, in verse, Francis Drake, a Tragedy of the Sea; The Mother, and Other Poems; The Cup of Youth; The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems; A Psalm of Death; A Masque, and Other Poems. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Cent. Hou. Lip.
Mitchell, Walter. Ms., 1826- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Two Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a novel; Poems. Tacking Ship off Shore is the poem by which he is best known. Hou. Wh.
Mitchell, William. Ct., 1793-1867. Brother of John Mitchell, supra. A Congregational minister of Texas who published A Doctrinal Guide for Young Christians; Coleridge and the Moral Tendency of his Writings.
Mitchill, Samuel Latham. L. I., 1764-1831. A once famous physician and man of letters of New York city who filled there a position very similar to that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston at a later day, the two men having many points of resemblance. He was long a professor of chemistry in Columbia College, and for more than a generation one of the prominent literary and social figures of the metropolis. Among his writings are: Life of Tammany, the Indian Chief; Picture of New York; Description of Schooley’s Mountain. See Reminiscences of, by J. W. Francis, 1859; Allibone’s Dictionary.
Moak, Nathaniel Cleveland. N. Y., 1833-1892. An Albany lawyer. Albany Penitentiary Statutes; English Reports; English Digest.
Moffat, James Clement. S., 1811-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1853-90. Comparative History of Religions; Life of Dr. Chalmers; Song and Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scotland; Alwyn, a Romance of Study (verse); The Church in Scotland; Church History in Brief; Rhyme of the North Countrie; The Story of a Dedicated Life. Do. Ran.
Mombert, Jacob Isidor. G., 1829- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Paterson, New Jersey. Faith Victorious; Handbook of the English Versions of the Bible; Great Lives; History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; History of Charles the Great; Short History of the Crusades. Ap. Ran.
Monfort, Francis Cassatt. Ind., 1844- ——. A Presbyterian minister and editor of Cincinnati. Sermons for Silent Sabbaths; Socialism and City Evangelization.
Monroe, Harriet. Il., 1860- ——. A verse-writer of Chicago. Valeria, and Other Poems; Life of John Wellborn Root; The Passing Show. Hou. Mg.
Monroe, James. Va., 1758-1831. The fifth President of the United States. An able though not brilliant statesman. State Papers; Tour of Observation in 1817; The People: the Sovereigns; View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States. See Lives by J. Q. Adams, 1850, D. C. Gilman, 1885; Concise History of the Monroe Doctrine by G. F. Tucker, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography.
Montague, Charles Howard. Ms., 1858-1889. A journalist of Boston, city editor of The Globe. The Romance of the Lilies; The Face of Rosenfel; Two Strokes of the Bell; The Doctor’s Mistake; The Countess Muta.
Montague, William Lewis. Ms., 1831- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor of modern languages at Amherst College from 1862. Comparative Spanish Grammar; Manual of Italian Grammar; Introduction to Italian Literature.
Montefiore, Joshua. E., 1762-1843. A Hebrew lawyer, brother of Sir Moses Montefiore, who came to the United States, and settled in St. Albans, Vermont. Commercial and Notatorial Precedents; Commercial Dictionary; Traders’ Compendium; United States Traders’ Compendium; Law and Treatise on Bookkeeping; Laws of Land and Sea.
Montgomery, George Washington. Sp., 1804-1841. A United States consul at Tampico. Tarcas de un Solitario, a collection of tales; El Bastarde de Castilla; Journey to Guatemala in 1838.
Montgomery, George Washington. Me., 1810-1898. A Universalist clergyman of Rochester, New York. Illustrations of the Law of Kindness; Sermons.
Montgomery, Marcus Whitman. N. Y., 1839-1894. A Congregational clergyman, instructor in Chicago Theological Seminary from 1890. History of Jay County, Indiana; A Wind from the Holy Spirit; The Mormon Delusion.
Monti, Luigi. Sy., 1830- ——. An educator of New York city who appears in Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn as “The Young Sicilian.” An American Consul Abroad; Leone, a novel. Le.
Mooar, George. Ms., 1830- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Pacific Theological Seminary at Oakland, California, from 1870. The Religion of Loyalty; Prominent Characteristics of Congregational Churches.
Moody, Dwight Lyman. Ms., 1837-1899. A celebrated evangelist. Among his more important writings are The Second Coming of Christ; The Way and the Word; Secret Power; The Way to God; Glad Tidings; Great Joy; To All People; Bible Characters; How to Study the Bible. Ran. Rev.
Moody, James. N. J., 1744-1809. A New Jersey farmer, active as a Royalist spy during the Revolution. Lieutenant James Moody’s Narrative of his Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government.
Moody, Samuel. Ms., 1676-1747. A once famous Congregational clergyman. The Doleful State of the Damned; Judas Hung in Chains.
Moore, Mrs. Annie Aubertine [Woodward]. “Auber Forestier.” Pa., 1841- ——. A Wisconsin translator of note from the Norse; co-translator with Anderson of Björnson’s novels, and editor of Echoes from Mist Land. See Bibliography of Wisconsin. Sc.
Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield. See Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara.
Moore, Charles Herbert. N. Y., 1840- ——. A professor of art at Harvard University. The Development and Character of Gothic Architecture, a work of much value; Examples for Elementary Practice in Delineation. Hou. Mac.
Moore, Charles Leonard. Pa., 1854- ——. A lawyer and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems Antique and Modern; Banquet of Palacios, a Comedy; A Book of Day Dreams (verse). Ho.
Moore, Clement Clarke. N. Y., 1779-1863. An educator of New York city, professor of Oriental literature in the General Theological Seminary, 1821-63. He published a Hebrew-English Lexicon and a volume of Poems, but is more widely known as the author of the famous poem, The Visit of St. Nicholas.
Moore, David Albert. “Paul Wright.” N. Y., 1814- ——. A physician of Syracuse. A Panorama of Time; How She Won Him.
Moore, Erasmus Darwin. Ct., 1802-1889. A Congregational minister and editor of Boston. Life Scenes in Mission Fields; The New Heart.
Moore, Frank. N. H., c. 1828- ——. Son of J. B. Moore, infra. A writer of New York city who has edited a Cyclopædia of American Eloquence; The Rebellion Record, and other compilations. Women of the War is one of his original works.
Moore, George Henry. N. H., 1823-1892. Son of J. B. Moore, infra. The superintendent of the Lenox Library, New York city, from 1872 till his death. History of the Jurisprudence of New York; Treason of Charles Lee; Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts; Washington as an Angler; Employment of Negroes in the Revolutionary Army.
Moore, Horatio Newton. N. J., 1814-1859. Orlando, a Tragedy; The Regicide, a drama; Memoir of the Duanes; Mary Morris, a novel; Lives of Marion and Wayne.
Moore, Jacob Bailey. N. H., 1797-1853. A journalist who was postmaster of San Francisco, 1849-53. Laws of Trade in the United States; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; Annals of Concord, New Hampshire.
Moore, John Weeks. N. H., 1807-1889. Brother of J. B. Moore, supra. Historical Gatherings relating to Printers, Printing, and Publishing (1820-86).
Moore, Joseph West. 18— - ——. Picturesque Washington; The American Congress: a History of National Legislation and Political Events, 1774-1895. Har.
Moore, Mrs. Susan Teackle [Smith]. Md., 18— - ——. Sister of F. H. Smith, infra. A novelist of Brooklyn. Ryle’s Open Gate. Hou.
Moore, Thomas Vernon. Pa., 1818-1881. A Presbyterian minister of Nashville. Last Words of Jesus; God’s University, or the World a School; The Culdee Church; Corporate Life of the Church; The Last Days of Jesus.
Moore, William Eves. Pa., 1823-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, from 1872. New Digest of the General Assembly; The Presbyterian Digest.
Moorehead, Warren King. Iy., 1866- ——. An archæologist of Italian birth, but American parentage, curator of the Ohio State Archæological Museum at Columbus. Primitive Man in Ohio; Fort Ancient: the Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio; Wanneta the Sioux, a Story of Indian Life; Field Work. Clke. Do. Put.
Mordecai, Alfred. N. C., 1804-1887. A soldier and military engineer, secretary of the Pennsylvania Canal Company from 1867. Digest of Military Laws; Ordnance Manual; Reports of Gunpowder Experiments; Artillery for United States Land Service.
More, Paul Elmer. Mo., 1864- ——. An instructor in Sanskrit and Greek at Bryn Mawr College. The Great Refusal: Being Letters of a Dreamer in Gotham. Hou.
Morfit, Campbell. Md., 1820-1897. A chemist who lived in London from 1861. Practical Treatise on the Making of Soaps; Pure Fertilizers and Phosphates; Arts of Tanning and Currying; Use and Manufacture of Perfumery, are among his works.
Morford, Henry. N. J., 1823-1881. A journalist of New York city who wrote a number of novels, dramas, and poems of ephemeral merit. The Bells of Shandon is his best-known play, and among his novels are, Shoulder Straps; Days of Shoddy; Only a Commoner. Other works are, Rhymes of Twenty Years; Rhymes of an Editor; Sprees and Splashes.
Morgan, Abel. W., 1673-1722. A Welsh Baptist minister who came to Philadelphia from Wales in 1712. He was the author of Cyd Gordiad, a Scripture concordance published in 1730, the second Welsh book printed in America.
Morgan, Henry. Ct., 1823-1884. A once prominent Methodist minister and lecturer of Boston. Ned Nevins, the Newsboy; The Fallen Priest; Sketches and Sermons; The Shadowy Hand, or Life Struggles; Boston Inside Out.
Morgan, [James] Appleton. Me., 1849- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Laws of Literature; The Shakespearean Myth; A History of the Shakespeare Text; Some Shakespearean Commentators; Shakespeare in Fact and Criticism; Venus and Adonis: a Study in Warwickshire Dialect; English Version of Legal Maxims. Clke.
Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1819-1881. A lawyer of Rochester, New York, widely known as an ethnologist. League of the Iroquois; Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family; The American Beaver and his Works; Ancient Society; Horses and Horse Life of the American Aborigines. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Ho.
Morgan, Morris Hicky. R. I., 1859- ——. A professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University. De ignis eliciendi modis apud antiquos; Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis; The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon, a translation with Essays and Notes. Gi.
Moriarty, James Joseph. I., 1843-1887. A Roman Catholic clergyman of New York state. Wayside Pencillings; Stumbling Blocks made Stepping Stones on the Way to the Catholic Faith; All for Love; The Keys of the Kingdom.
Moriarty, Patrick Eugene. I., 1804-1875. An Augustinian priest of Philadelphia, father superior of his order in the United States. Life of St. Augustine.
Morrell, Benjamin. Ms., 1795-1839. A navigator who published a noted Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Seas.
Morrill, Justin Smith. Vt., 1810-1898. A distinguished Vermont statesman, a member of Congress from 1855, and a senator from 1867. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons.
Morris, Caspar. Pa., 1805-1884. A noted Philadelphia physician. Life of William Wilberforce; Lectures on Scarlet Fever; Hospital Construction; Heart Voices and Home Songs.
Morris, Charles. Pa., 1833- ——. A Philadelphia author and compiler. Manual of Classical Literature; The Aryan Race; The Stolen Letter; The Detective’s Crime; Broken Fetters, an historical review of the drinking habit. Lip. Sc.
Morris, Charles D’Urban. E., 1827-1886. An educator who was professor of Latin and Greek in Johns Hopkins University from 1876. A Compendious Grammar of Attic Greek; Compendious Grammar of the Latin Language; Principia Latina.
Morris, Edmund. N. J., 1804-1874. A journalist and agricultural writer of Burlington, New Jersey. Ten Acres Enough; How to Get a Farm and Where to Find One; Farming for Boys.
Morris, Edward Joy. Pa., 1817-1881. A diplomatist who was minister to Turkey, 1861-70. He published A Tour Through Turkey; The Turkish Empire; Afraja, or Life and Love in Norway; Corsica, Social and Political, all but the first-named being translations from the German.
Morris, Edwin Dafydd. N. Y., 1825- ——. A Presbyterian minister and educator, professor of theology in Lane Seminary from 1874. Outlines of Christian Doctrine; Ecclesiology; Salvation After Death; A Defence of Lane Seminary.
Morris, Mrs. Eugenia Laura [Tuttle]. “Alyn Yates Keith.” Ct., 1833- ——. A writer of New Haven. A Spinster’s Leaflets; A Hilltop Summer; Aunt Billy. Le.
Morris, George Pope. Pa., 1802-1864. A journalist of New York city, long famous as a song-writer, and now chiefly remembered for such poems as My Mother’s Bible; Woodman, Spare that Tree. He was for many years editor of The Home Journal, and one of the prominent literary figures of the metropolis. Briarcliff, a drama; The Little Frenchman; Poems.
Morris, George Sylvester. Vt., 1840-1889. An educator and philosophical writer, who was professor at the University of Michigan from 1870. British Thought and Thinkers; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, a Critical Exposition; Philosophy and Christianity; Hegel’s Philosophy of the State and of History. Sc.
Morris, Gouverneur. N. Y., 1752-1816. A New York statesman of distinction, prominent in the formative period of the republic. Observations on the American Revolution. See Sparks’s Memoirs of, with Selections from his Papers and Correspondence; Diary and Letters, edited by Annie Cary Morris; Life by T. Roosevelt, infra, 1888.
Morris, Harrison Smith. Pa., 1856- ——. A littérateur of Philadelphia. A Duet in Lyrics (verse, with J. A. Henry); Madonna, and Other Poems. He has edited Tales from Ten Poets; In the Yule Log Glow; Where Meadows Meet the Sea, and an edition of Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare with a continuation and completion. Lip.
Morris, Herbert William. W., 1818-1897. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1877 retired from the ministry and devoted to literary pursuits. Science and the Bible; Present Conflict of Science with Religion; The Testimony of the Ages; The Celestial Symbol Interpreted; Natural Law and Gospel-Teachings.
Morris, James Cheston. Pa., 1831- ——. Son of Caspar Morris, supra. A Philadelphia physician. The Milk Supply of Large Cities; The Water Supply of Philadelphia; Annals of Hygiene.
Morris, John Gottlieb. Pa., 1803-1895. A noted Lutheran divine of Baltimore, founder of The Lutheran Observer, and long professor of natural history in the University of Maryland. Catechumen’s and Communicant’s Companion; Popular Exposition of the Gospels; Life of John Arndt; Life of Catherine de Bora; The Blind Girl of Wittenberg; Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry; The Diet of Augsburg; Journeys of Luther; Luther at Wartburg and Coburg; Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, comprise his chief works.
Morris, Phineas Pemberton. Pa., 1817-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor of law in the University of Pennsylvania from 1862. The Law of Replevin; Mining Rights in Pennsylvania.
Morris, Ramsay. N. Y., 1858- ——. An actor and playwright of New York city. He dramatized his own novel, Crucify Him, with the title, The Tigress.
Morris, Robert. Ms., 1818-1888. A writer of Lagrange, Kentucky. History of the Morgan Affair; Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry; Code of Masonic Law; History of Freemasonry in Kentucky; Freemasonry in the Holy Land; The Poetry of Freemasonry.
Morris, Thomas Asbury. W. Va., 1794-1874. A Methodist bishop in Ohio. Church Polity; Essays, etc.; Sketches of Western Methodism. Meth.
Morris, William Hopkins. N. Y., 1820-1900. Son of G. P. Morris, supra. A brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the Civil War, brevetted major-general. Field Tactics for Infantry; Infantry Tactics.
Morrison, Charles Robert. N. H., 1819-1893. A jurist of Concord, New Hampshire. Digest of New Hampshire Reports; Probate Directory; Justice and Sheriff and Attorney’s Assistant; Town Officer; Digest of Common-School Laws; Proofs of Christ’s Resurrection from a Lawyer’s Standpoint.
Morrison, Leonard Allison. N. H., 1843- ——. A New Hampshire antiquarian. History of the Morison or Morrison Family; History of Wyndham in New Hampshire; Rambles in Europe, with Historical Facts Relating to Scotch-American Families.
Morse, Abner. Ms., 1793-1865. A Congregational clergyman and genealogist of Sharon, Massachusetts. Memorial of the Morses; Genealogy of Early Planters in Massachusetts; Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, are his more important publications.
Morse, Mrs. Charlotte Dunning [Wood]. “Charlotte Dunning.” N. Y., 1858- ——. A novelist. Upon a Cast, a society novel; A Step Aside; Cabin and Gondola. Har. Hou.
Morse, Edward Sylvester. Me., 1838- ——. An eminent biologist of Salem, Massachusetts, who has published First Book on Zoölogy; Japanese Homes, and many scientific papers. Har.
Morse, James Herbert. Ms., 1841- ——. An educator and verse-writer of New York city. Summer Haven Songs.
Morse, Jedidiah. Ct., 1761-1826. A Congregational clergyman of New England, very active as a controversialist and eminent as a geographer. He is sometimes styled the “Father of American Geography,” his being the first school text-books in America of any importance. Elements of Geography; American Gazetteer; Annals of the American Revolution; Compendious History of New England; Geography Made Easy; American Geography. See Life by W. Sprague, infra.
Morse, John Torrey. Ms., 1840- ——. Nephew of the wife of O. W. Holmes, supra. A lawyer of Boston. Lives of Hamilton, J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lincoln, Franklin; Banks and Banking; Arbitration and Award; Famous Trials. Hou. Lit.
Morse, Mrs. Lucy [Gibbons]. N. Y., 1839- ——. A novelist of New York city. Rachel Stanwood, a Story; The Chezzles, a Story of Young People. Hou.
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese. Ms., 1791-1872. Son of J. Morse, supra. The inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph. Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States; Our Liberties Defended; Imminent Dangers through Foreign Immigration.
Morse, Sidney Edwards. Ms., 1794-1871. Son of J. Morse, supra. A journalist and geographer of New York city. System of Modern Geography; Premium Questions on Slavery. With a younger brother he founded The New York Observer in 1823.
Morton, Charles. E., 1620-1698. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1686, and was minister at Charlestown and vice-president of Harvard College. The Ark: its Loss and Recovery; System of Logic, long a text-book at Harvard.
Morton, Henry. N. Y., 1836-1902. A noted physicist, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1870. The Student’s Practical Chemistry (with A. R. Leeds) and many valuable scientific monographs. Lip.
Morton, James St. Clair. Pa., 1829-1864. Son of S. G. Morton, infra. A Federal officer killed in the attack upon Petersburg. Instruction in Engineering; New System of Fortifications; Memoir on Fortification; Dangers and Defences of New York City.
Morton, Nathaniel. H., 1613-1685. The secretary of the Plymouth Colony from 1647 till his death, whose New England’s Memoriall is well known among colonial annals. See Tyler’s American Literature. C. P. S.
Morton, Oliver Throck. Ind., 1860-1898. A lawyer of Chicago. The Southern Empire, with Other Papers. Hou.
Morton, Samuel George. Pa., 1799-1851. A once prominent Philadelphia physician and scientist, and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Crania Americana; Crania Egyptica; Illustrated System of Human Anatomy.
Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth [Apthorp]. Ms., 1759-1846. A verse-writer of Quincy, Massachusetts. Ouabi, an Indian Tale in four cantos; My Mind and its Thoughts.
Morton, Thomas. E., c. 1575-1646. A famous adventurer who, settling himself at Mount Wollaston, which he termed Ma-re Mount, scandalized the colonists at Plymouth and Boston by his sports and carousals. The New English Canaan is a sarcastic and humourous description of his pious neighbours and their country. See Motley’s Morton’s Hope and Merry Mount; Hawthorne’s Merry Mount; Mrs. Jane Austin’s Betty Alden, chapters 8 and 9; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 39.
Morton, Thomas George. Pa., 1835-1903. Son of S. G. Morton, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of Practice from 1756; Transfusion of Blood and its Practical Application.
Mosby, John Singleton. Va., 1833- ——. A famous Confederate cavalry leader, consul at Hong Kong, 1878-85, and subsequently a lawyer in San Francisco. War Reminiscences. See Scott’s Partisan Life with Mosby; Crawford’s Mosby and his Men. Do.
Motley, John Lothrop. Ms., 1814-1877. A distinguished historian, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was minister to Austria, 1861-67, and to England, 1869-70. His writings are remarkable for colour and dramatic vigour, while his estimates are tinged more or less with personal feeling. But though not a dispassionate historian, he is nevertheless quite removed from a spirit of blind partisanship. His work evinces immense research, but the main lines of the narrative are always clear. Morton’s Hope, a romance; Merry Mount, a romance; The Rise of the Dutch Republic; The History of the United Netherlands; Life and Death of John of Barneveld. See Correspondence of, edited by G. W. Curtis, supra; Life, by O. W. Holmes; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Har.
Mott, George Scudder. N. Y., 1829-1901. A Presbyterian minister of Flemington, New Jersey. The Prodigal Son; The Resurrection of the Dead; The Perfect Law. Ran.
Mott, Henry Augustus. S. I., 1852-1896. Grandson of V. Mott, infra. A chemist of New York city. The Chemist’s Manual; Was Man Created?; The Air We Breathe; Fallacy of the Present Theory of Sound. Wil.
Mott, Valentine. L. I., 1785-1865. A celebrated surgeon of New York city. Travels in Europe and the East; Mott’s Cliniques; a translation of Velpeau’s Operative Surgery, and surgical papers. See Lives by S. D. Gross and S. W. Francis; Appletons’ American Biography.
Moulton, Mrs. Ellen Louise [Chandler]. Ct., 1835- ——. A prominent poet and prose-writer of Boston. Her verse is characterized by a great degree of feeling, and her sonnets display a remarkable mastery of technique. Her volumes of verse include, Poems; Swallow Flights; In the Garden of Dreams; In Childhood’s Country. Her prose comprises, This, That, and the Other; Juno Clifford; My Third Book; three collections of Bed-Time Stories; Some Women’s Hearts; Random Rambles, a volume of travel sketches; Ourselves and Our Neighbors; Miss Eyre from Boston; Firelight Stories; Stories Told at Twilight; Lazy Tours in Spain; Life of Arthur O’Shaughnessy. Cop. Har. Rob. St.
Moulton, Joseph White. Ct., 1789-1875. An antiquarian writer of Roslyn, Long Island. History of the State of New York (with J. Yates); Chancery Practice of New York.
Moulton, Richard Green. E., 1849- ——. An educator of note, professor in the University of Chicago. Ancient Classical Drama; The University Extension Movement; Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. Mac. Rev.
Moultrie, William. S. C., 1731-1805. A soldier of distinction in the American army during the Revolution, made major-general in 1782. He was governor of South Carolina, 1785-87 and 1794-1796. Memoirs of the Revolution (1802).
Mountford, William. E., 1816-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston who became a spiritualist in his later years. Martyria; Euthanasy, or Happy Talk Toward the End of Life; Christianity the Deliverance of the Soul; Minutes Past and Present; Thorpe, a Quiet English Town. Hou.
Moustache, Vieux. See Gordon, C.
Mowatt, Mrs. See Ritchie, Mrs.
Mowry, Sylvester. R. I., 1830-1871. An army officer who resigned in 1858. Arizona and Sonora: the Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Regions of North America.
Mowry, William Augustus. Ms., 1829- ——. An educator of Boston. Talks with My Boys; Studies in Civil Government; Elements of Civil Government; School History of the United States (with A. M. Mowry). Rob. Sil.
Mudge, Enoch. Ms., 1776-1850. A once noted Methodist itinerant preacher of New England. Notes on the Parables; Lynn, a Poem; The Juvenile Expositor; Lectures to Seamen.
Mudge, Zachariah Atwell. Me., 1813-1888. Nephew of E. Mudge, supra. A Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Among his miscellaneous writings are, The Christian Statesman; Views from Plymouth Rock; Witch Hill, a History of Salem Witchcraft; Life of Abraham Lincoln; Footprints of Roger Williams; Arctic Heroes; Fur-clad Adventurers; History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts; The Luck of Alden Farm. Lo. Meth.
Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henry Ernst. Pa., 1753-1815. A Lutheran divine of Philadelphia, famous as a botanist in his day. Catalogus Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis; Descriptio uberior Graminum et Plantarum Calamiarum Americæ Septentrionalis; English and German Lexicon and Grammar. See G. H. E. Muhlenberg als Botaniker, by Maisch, 1886.
Muhlenberg, William Augustus. Pa., 1796-1877. A distinguished Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, in New York city, 1846-77. He was the founder of St. Luke’s Hospital, and organized the first Protestant Sisterhood in America. His hymn, “I would not live alway,” is widely known. Church Poetry; Music of the Church; People’s Psalter; Evangelical Catholic Papers; Christ and the Bible, Family Prayers; Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods; St. Johnland; Ideal and Actual. See Lives by Anne Ayres, supra, W. W. Newton, infra; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1880. Ran. Wh.
Muir, James. S., 1757-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia. An Examination of the Principles in the “Age of Reason” in Ten Discourses; Sermons.
Muir, John. S., 1838- ——. A noted California scientist and explorer, discoverer of the Muir Glacier in Alaska. The Mountains of California. Cent.
Mulford, Elisha. Pa., 1833-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, lecturer in the Episcopal Theological School there, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Nation; The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States; The Republic of God. Hou.
Mulford, Prentice. L. I., 1834-1891. A journalist of New York city and San Francisco. The Swamp Angel; Life by Land and Sea; Your Forces and How to Use Them.
Mullany, Patrick Francis. “Brother Azarias.” I., 1847-1893. A Roman Catholic educator of the order of Brothers of the Christian Schools; president of Rock Hill College, 1878-89, and subsequently a resident of New York city. The Development of English Literature: Old English Period; Philosophy of Literature; Psychological Aspects of Education; Address on Thinking; Aristotle and the Christian Church; Culture of the Spiritual Sense; Phases of Thought and Criticism. Ap. Hou.
Müller, Nikolaus. G., 1809-1873. A German poet who emigrated to New York city in 1853 and established himself there as a printer. Zehn gepanzerte Sonette; Neuere Gedichte; Frische Blätter auf die Wunden deutscher Krieger.
Munday, John William. “Charles Sumner Seeley.” Ind., 1844- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. The Spanish Galleon; The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs, both tales of adventure for boys. Mg.
Munde, Paul Fortunatus. Sxy., 1846-1902. A prominent New York physician. Obstetric Palpation; Minor Surgical Gynæcology; Management of Pregnancy.
Munford, William. Va., 1775-1825. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, who, beside several volumes of Law Reports, published a volume of Poems (1798) and a scholarly blank-verse translation of the Iliad. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.
Munger, Theodore Thornton. N. Y., 1830- ——. A Congregational clergyman of New Haven, prominent among liberal thinkers of that faith. On the Threshold; The Freedom of Faith; Lamps and Paths; The Appeal to Life. See Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883. Hou.
Munkittrick, Richard Kendall. E., 1853- ——. A humorous writer of New York city, on the editorial staff of Puck. The Moon Prince, a juvenile; Farming; The Acrobatic Muse, a collection of humourous verse. Har. Wy.
Munroe, [Charles] Kirk. Wis., 1850- ——. A popular writer, now resident in Florida, whose writings are mainly for juvenile readers. Wakulla; Life of Mrs. Stowe (with her son); The Flamingo Feather; Derrick Sterling; Chrystal Jack and Co.; The Golden Days of ’49; Dorymates; Under Orders; Prince Dusty; Campmates; Canoemates; Cab and Caboose; Raftmates; The Coral Ship; The White Conquerors; The Fur Seal’s Tooth; Big Cypress; Snow-Shoes and Sledges; Totem of the Bear; Rick Dale; A Young War Chief; At War with Pontiac. Do. Har. Put. Scr.
Munsell, Franklin. N. Y., 1857- ——. Son of J. Munsell, infra. A publisher of Albany. Chips for the Chimney Corner; The Bibliography of Albany.
Munsell, Joel. Ms., 1808-1880. A printer and publisher of Albany. Outlines of the History of Printing; Every-Day Book of History and Chronology; Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making.
Munsey, Frank Andrew. Me., 1854- ——. A prominent magazine publisher of New York city. Afloat in a Great City; The Boy Broker; Deringforth.
Munson, James Eugene. N. Y., 1835- ——. A phonographer of New York city. The Complete Phonographer; Dictionary of Practical Phonography; Phrase Book of Practical Phonography. Har.
Murat, Napoléon Achille. F., 1801-1847. The son of Joachim Murat, King of Naples. In his youth he bore the title of Prince of the Two Sicilies. He came to the United States in 1821, was naturalized and settled at Tallahassee, Florida. He was mayor of that place in 1824, and postmaster, 1826-28. Lettres d’un citoyen des États Unis à ses amis d’Europe; Esquisses morales et politiques sur les États Unis d’Amérique; Exposition des principes du gouvernement republicain tel qu’il à été perfectionné en Amérique, which went through more than fifty editions.
Murdoch, James Edward. Pa., 1811-1893. A noted actor and lecturer. Orthophony (with W. Russell); The Stage; Plea for Spoken Language; Analytic Elocution. Clke. Lip.
Murdock, Harold. Ms., 1862- ——. A bank cashier of Boston. The Reconstruction of Europe, a Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe from the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire. Hou.
Murdock, James. Ct., 1776-1856. A Congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven. He was the author of Sketches of Modern Philosophy, and translator of Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, and other works, as well as of a Literal Translation of the New Testament from the Ancient Syriac.
Murfree, Fanny Noailles Dickinson. Tn., 185- - ——. Sister of M. N. Murfree, infra. Felicia, a Novel. Hou.
Murfree, Mary Noailles. “Charles Egbert Craddock.” Tn., 1850- ——. A novelist of Tennessee whose stories are all concerned with the life of the mountaineers in North Carolina and Tennessee. They display close, sympathetic observation and strong, vivid characterization. In the Tennessee Mountains; Where the Battle was Fought; The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; Down the Ravine; His Vanished Star; In the Clouds; The Story of Keedon Bluffs; The Despot of Broomsedge Cove; In the “Stranger People’s” Country; The Phantoms of the Footbridge; The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories; The Juggler. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Har. Hou.
Murphy, Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata [Noel]. E., 1846-1881. The eldest daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough. She married her father’s organist, came to America, and wrote stories and sketches for the magazines. On the Rhine, and Other Sketches.
Murphy, Henry Cruse. L. I., 1810-1882. A lawyer and journalist of Brooklyn. The Voyage of Verrazano; Henry Hudson in Holland; Anthology of the New Netherlands.
Murphy, Thomas. I., 1823-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Pastoral Theology; Pastor and People; Duties of Church Members.
Murray, David. N. Y., 1830- ——. An educator of New York city, foreign adviser to the Japanese government on education. Manual of Land Surveying; Outline History of Japanese Education; The Story of Japan.
Murray, James Ormsbee. 1827-1899. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College, and dean of the college from 1886. Life of Francis Wayland, infra.
Murray, John O’Kane. I., 1847-1885. A physician and author of New York city. Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Catholic Pioneers of America; Lessons in English Literature; The Prose and Poetry of Ireland; Little Lives of the Great Saints; Catholic Heroes and Heroines of America.
Murray, Lindley. Pa., 1745-1826. A famous grammarian whose life after 1784 was passed near York, England. Grammar of the English Language; Power of Religion on the Mind; Compendium of Religious Faith and Practice. See Memoirs written by Himself with continuation by E. Frank, 1826; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 39; Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Maine. Lip.
Murray, Nicholas. “Kirwan.” I., 1802-1861. A Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabeth, New Jersey, famous in his day as a controversialist. Letters by Kirwan to Bishop Hughes; Romanism at Home; Men and Things; The Happy Home; Preachers and Preaching; Parish and Other Pencillings. See Life by Prime. Har.
Murray, William Henry Harrison. Ct., 1840-1904. A noted Congregational minister, pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, 1868-74. Adventures in the Wilderness; Adirondack Tales; Deacons; Music Hall Sermons; The Perfect Horse; Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How Deacon Tubner Kept New Year’s; The Doom of Mamelons; Daylight Land; Words Fitly Spoken. Le.
Murray, William Vans. Md., 1762-1803. A Maryland statesman who was minister to the Netherlands from 1793 till his death, and author of a treatise on The Constitution and Laws of the United States.
Musick, John Roy. Mo., 1849-1901. A novelist and historian of Kirksville, Missouri. The Banker of Bedford; History Stories of Wisconsin; Calamity Row; Brother Against Brother; Mysterious Mr. Howard; and a series of twelve Columbian historical novels, including Columbia; Estevan; St. Augustine; Pocahontas; The Pilgrims; A Century Too Soon, a story of Bacon’s Rebellion; The Witch of Salem; Braddock; Independence; Sustained Honor; Humbled Pride; Union. Fu. Lo.
Mussey, Reuben Dimond. N. H., 1780-1866. A Boston physician who published Health: its Friends and its Foes.
Muzzey, Artemas Bowers. Ms., 1802-1892. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who retired from active ministry in 1865. The Blade and the Ear; Prime Movers of the Revolution; The Young Men’s Friend; Moral Teacher; Christ in the Will, the Heart, and Life; The Higher Education; Immortality in the Light of Scripture and Science; Truths Consequent upon Belief in God; Education of Old Age, comprise his chief works. A. U. A. Le. Lo.
Myer, Albert James. N. Y., 1827-1880. A brigadier-general in the United States army, for some years chief signal officer and author of Manual of Signals for Use in the Field.
Myers, Peter Hamilton. N. Y., 1812-1878. A lawyer and romancer of Brooklyn. The First of the Knickerbockers, a tale; The Young Patroon; The King of the Hurons; The Prisoner of the Border.
Myers, Philip Van Ness. N. Y., 1846- ——. An educator of Cincinnati, professor of history and political economy in the University of Cincinnati from 1890, and dean of the University from 1895. Life and Nature under the Tropics; Remains of Lost Empires; Outlines of Ancient History; Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History; A History of Greece; The Eastern Nations and Greece; A History of Rome; General History. Gi. Har.
Myers, Mrs. Sarah Ann [Irwin]. Del., 1800-1876. A writer and artist of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Among her many contributions to juvenile literature are, Margaret Gordon; Impatient Ellen; The Silk-Weaver of Lyons.
Myrtle, Mollie. See Hill, Mrs. Agnes.
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Nack, James. N. H., 1809-1879. A deaf and dumb verse-writer of New York city. The Legend of the Ark; Earl Rupert; The Immortal, a dramatic romance; The Romance of the King, and Other Poems. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Nadal, Bernhard Harrison. Md., 1812-1870. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Virginia who published New Life Dawning. Meth.
Nadal, Ehrman Syme. W. Va., 1843- ——. Son of B. H. Nadal, supra. A journalist who has lived much in London as secretary of legation, 1870-1871, and 1877-1884. Essays at Home and Elsewhere; Impressions of London Social Life; Zweiback, or Notes of a Professional Exile. Cent. Scr.
Naphegi, Gabor. Hy., 1824-1884. A native of Buda-Pesth who became a naturalized American citizen in 1868. Ghardia, or Ninety Days in the Desert; The Album of Language; Hungary; Among the Arabs; The Grand Review of the Dead (verse). Lip.
Napheys [nā´feez], George Henry. Pa., 1842-1876. A prominent physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. The Body and its Ailments; Modern Medical Therapeutics; Modern Surgical Therapeutics; The Transmission of Life; Physical Life of Woman; Prevention and Cure of Disease; Personal Beauty (with D. G. Brinton, supra). My.
Nasby, Petroleum Vesuvius. See Locke, D. R.
Nash, Simeon. Ms., 1804-1879. A jurist of Gallipolis, Ohio. Digest of Ohio Reports; Pleading and Practice under the Civil Code; Morality and the State; Crime and the Family. Clke.
Nason, Elias. Ms., 1811-1887. A Congregational minister of North Billerica, Massachusetts, among whose numerous religious biographical and historical writings are, Gazetteer of Massachusetts; Life of John A. Andrew; Lives of Moody and Sankey; Life of Charles Sumner; Life of Henry Wilson, infra; History of Middlesex County; Originality; Thou Shalt Not Steal; Fountains of Salvation. Lo.
Nason, Mrs. Emma [Huntington]. Me., 1845- ——. A verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. White Sails (verse); The Tower, with Legends and Lyrics. Hou. Lo.
Nason, Henry Bradford. Ms., 1831-1895. Cousin of Elias Nason, supra. A professor of chemistry in the Troy Polytechnic Institute. Table of Reactions for Qualitative Analysis; Table for Qualitative Analysis in Colors, are among his published works.
Nast, William. G., 1807-1899. A Methodist minister of Cincinnati, editor of The Christian Apologist for many years. Christological Meditations; Gospel Records; A German Commentary on the New Testament; Das Christenthum und seine Gegensätze.
Nauman, Mary. See Robinson, Mrs. Mary.
Navarro, Madame Mary Antoinette [Anderson] de. Cal., 1859- ——. A once popular actress who retired from the stage in 1890, was married to M. de Navarro soon after, and has since lived in England. A Few Memories, an autobiography. See Lives by Farrar, 1884, Winter, 1886.
Nead, Benjamin Matthias. Pa., 1847- ——. A lawyer and journalist of Harrisburg. Sketches of Early Chambersburg; Guide to County Officers; Early Government of Pennsylvania; Brief Review of the Financial History of Pennsylvania.
Neal, Alice B. Wife of J. C. Neal, infra. See Haven, Mrs.
Neal, John. Me., 1793-1876. A once famous littérateur of Portland, Maine, who early gained a hearing, and, as poet, novelist, dramatist, and magazinist, was constantly before the public for the rest of his long life, though little of his work can be said to survive, able as some of it is. The more important of his writings include, Keep Cool, a novel; The Battle of Niagara, a poem; Goldau, and Other Poems; Rachel Dyer, a novel; Downeasters, a novel; True Womanhood; Bentham’s Morals and Legislation; Great Mysteries and Little Plagues; Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life (1870). See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography; Bibliography of Maine.
Neal, Joseph Clay. N. H., 1807-1847. A journalist of Philadelphia who founded The Saturday Gazette, and was a popular humourist in his day. Charcoal Sketches; Peter Ploddy, and Other Oddities. See Griswold’s American Prose Writers.
Neely, Thomas Benjamin. Pa., 18— - ——. A Methodist clergyman. Young Workers in the Church; The Church Lyceum; Parliamentary Practice; Evolution of Episcopacy and Organic Methodism; The Parliamentarian; The Governing Conference in Methodism. Meth.
Neill, Edward Duffield. Pa., 1823-1893. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but formerly a Presbyterian clergyman. History of Minnesota; Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland History; The Fairfaxes of England and America; History of the Virginia Company; English Colonization of America in the 17th century; Founders of Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Carolorum; Concise History of Minnesota. Lip.
Neill, John. Pa., 1819-1880. Brother of E. D. Neill, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Neill on the Veins; Compend of Medicine (with F. G. Smith).
Neill, William. Pa., 1778-1860. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, president of Dickinson College, 1824-1829. Lectures on Bible History; Divine Origin of the Christian Religion; Ministry of Fifty Years.
Neilson, Joseph. N. Y., 1813-1888. Memoirs of Rufus Choate, with some Consideration of his Studies, Opinions, and Style. Hou.
Nelson, David. Ind., 1793-1844. A Presbyterian minister and educator of Missouri and Illinois. His principal work, Cause and Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read.
Nelson, Harry Leverett. Ms., 1858-1889. A lawyer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Bird Songs About Worcester, a collection of nature studies. Lit.
Nelson, Henry Addison. Ms., 1820- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Lane Seminary, 1868-74, and from 1886 editor of The Church at Home and Abroad. Seeing Jesus; Sin and Salvation; Home Whispers. Ran.
Nelson, Henry Loomis. N. Y., 1846- ——. A journalist of New York city, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Weekly, 1894-99. The Money We Need; Our Unjust Tariff Law; John Rantoul, a novel. Har. Hou.
Nesmith, James Ernest. Ms., 1856-1898. An artist and verse-writer of Lowell, Massachusetts. Monadnoc, and Other Sketches in Verse; Philoctetes, and Other Poems; Life and Addresses of Governor Greenhalge.
Nevin, Alfred. Pa., 1816-1890. A prominent Presbyterian clergyman and religious editor of Philadelphia. His more important writings include, Words of Comfort for Doubting Hearts; The Voice of God; The Man of Faith; Letters to Colonel Ingersoll; Christian’s Rest; Guide to the Oracles; Triumph of Truth.
Nevin, Edwin Henry. Pa., 1814-1899. Brother of A. Nevin, supra. A German Reformed clergyman of Philadelphia. The City of God; Humanity and its Responsibilities; Thoughts About Christ; The Minister’s Handbook.
Nevin, John Williamson. Pa., 1803-1886. Cousin of A. Nevin, supra. An eminent German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, president of Franklin and Marshall College, 1866-76. Prior to his presidency he had been active as a theologian at Mercersburgh, and his works form the basis of what is styled the “Mercersburgh Theology.” Among his writings are, History and Genesis of the Heidelberg Catechism; The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The Anxious Bench; Biblical Antiquities. See Life by T. Appel. 1889.
Nevin, William Channing. O., 1844- ——. Son of E. H. Nevin, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. History of All Religions; Life of Albert Barnes, supra; The Blue Ray of Sunlight; A Slight Misunderstanding; A Wild Goose Chase; In the Nick of Time; Joshua Whitcomb’s Tribulations; A Summer School Adventure.
Nevin, William Wilberforce. Pa., 1836-1899. Son of J. W. Nevin, supra. A journalist and railway director of Philadelphia who published Vignettes of Travel.
Nevins, William. Ct., 1797-1835. A Presbyterian minister of Baltimore. Thoughts on Popery; Practical Thoughts; Select Remains, with Memoir.
Nevius, Mrs. Helen S—— [Coan]. N. Y., 1832- ——. Wife of J. L. Nevius, infra. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (in Chinese); Our Life in China; Life of J. P. Nevius. Rev.
Nevius, John Livingston. N. Y., 1829-1893. A Presbyterian missionary in Ningpo. China and The Chinese; San-Poh, or North of the Hills; Methods of Missionary Work; Demon Possession; and a number of works in Chinese. See Life by his wife. Rev.
Newberry, John Strong. Ct., 1822-1892. A geologist who was professor of geology in the School of Mines of Columbia College, 1866-92, and State geologist of Ohio from 1869. He published nine volumes of reports relating to the geological survey of Ohio; Paleozoic Fishes of North America, and many scientific papers.
Newcomb, Harvey. Ms., 1803-1863. A Congregational clergyman of Western Pennsylvania and other localities among whose many moral and religious works, mainly juvenile in character, are, Young Lady’s Guide; How to be a Man; How to be a Lady; Manners and Customs of North American Indians.
Newcomb, Simon. N. S., 1835- ——. An astronomer of distinction, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, issued by the Navy Department, from 1877, and professor of astronomy and mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-93. Popular Astronomy; School Astronomy; Geometry; Analytic Geometry; Essentials of Trigonometry; Calculus; A Plain Man’s Talk on the Labor Question; Principles of Political Economy; The A, B, C, of Finance, include his most important publications. Har. Ho.
Newell, Robert Henry. “Orpheus C. Kerr.” N. Y., 1836-1901. A journalist of New York city, at one time popular as a humorist. Versatilities, a collection of humorous and other verses; The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems; Avery Glibun, an American romance; The Walking Doll, a novel; There Was Once a Man; Studies in Stanzas. Fo. Le.
Newell, Samuel. Me., 1784-1821. A noted Baptist missionary in Bombay. The Conversion of the World (1818); Life of Harriet Newell (his first wife) which was widely popular.
Newell, William Wells. Ms., 1839- ——. A folk-lore scholar of Cambridge, editor of The Journal of American Folk-Lore from 1888. Games and Songs of American Children; Words for Music, a collection of verse. Har.
Newhall, Charles Stedman. Ms., 1842- ——. A clergyman and educator of Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Trees of Northeastern America; The Shrubs of Northeastern America; The Vines of Northeastern America; The Leaf-Collector’s Handbook and Herbarium. His writings for young people include Harry’s Trip to the Orient; Joe and the Howards; Ruthie’s Story. Put.
Newman, John Philip. N. Y., 1826-1899. A Methodist bishop at Omaha, at one time a prominent Washington pastor. From Dan to Beersheba; Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh; Christianity Triumphant; America for Americans; The Supremacy of Law. Fu. Meth.
Newman, Samuel Phillips. Ms., 1796-1842. An educator who was a classical professor in Bowdoin College. Practical System of Rhetoric, long a popular work; Elements of Political Economy.
Newton, Richard. E., 1812-1887. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, long prominent among extreme Low Churchmen. The King’s Highway; The Great Pilot; Rills from the Fountain of Life; Bible Promises; Natural History of the Bible, are among his writings. Rev.
Newton, Richard Heber. Pa., 1840- ——. Son of R. Newton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of All-Souls Church, and prominent as a very Broad Church theologian. Among more conservative thinkers his views have excited much opposition and needless alarm. Womanhood; The Morals of Trade; The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings; Philistinism; Social Studies; Church and Creed; The Children’s Church. Put. Ran.
Newton, Robert Safford. O., 1818-1881. A surgeon of New York city. Eclectic Treatise in the Practice of Medicine; Antiseptic Surgery.
Newton, William. E., c. 1820-189-. Brother of R. Newton, supra. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The First Two Visions of the Book of Daniel; The Morning Star, and Other Poems; Nature’s Testimony to Nature’s God.
Newton, William Wilberforce. Pa., 1843- ——. Son of R. Newton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Essays of To-Day, Religious and Theological; The Legend of St. Telemachus; The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems; Summer Sermons; The Voice Out of Egypt; Ragnar, the Sea King; Paradise; The Priest and the Man, or Abelard and Héloise, an historical novel; Life of W. A. Muhlenberg, supra; and several collections of sermons to children, including, The Wicket Gate; The Interpreter’s House; Little and Wise; A Father’s Blessing. Hou. Ran. Wh.
Nichols, Edward Leamington. E., 1854- ——. A professor of physics at Cornell University from 1887. Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Mechanics; The Galvanometer. Mac.
Nichols, George Ward. Me., 1831-1885. A writer on art and music who was president of the Cincinnati College of Music. The Story of the Great March; Art Education Applied to Industry; Pottery; Sanctuary, a story of the Civil War. Har.
Nichols, Ichabod. N. H., 1784-1859. A Unitarian minister of Portland, Maine, 1814-55, and from the latter date a resident of Cambridge. Natural Theology; Hours with the Evangelists; Remembered Words. A. U. A.
Nichols, James Robinson. Ms., 1819-1888. A manufacturing chemist of Boston who founded The Journal of Chemistry (now The Popular Science News) in 1866. What, When, and Where?; Fireside Science; Chemistry of the Farm; The New Agriculture.
Nichols, Mrs. Mary Sargeant [Neal] [Gove]. “Mary Orme.” N. H., 1810- ——. A hydropathic physician. Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology; Experience in Water Cure; A Woman’s Work in Water Cure and Sanitary Education. As “Mary Orme” she published the novels, Uncle John; Agnes Norris; The Two Loves, Eros and Anteros.
Nichols, Mrs. Rebecca S—— [Reed]. Ms., 1820- ——. A verse-writer of Cincinnati. Bernice, and Other Poems; Songs of the Heart.
Nichols, Starr Hoyt. Ct., 1834- ——. A broker of New York city, in earlier life a Unitarian minister. He has published Monte Rosa, the Epic of an Alp.
Nichols, Thomas L——. Circa 1820- ——. An American physician who settled in Malvern, England, near the opening of the Civil War. Women in All Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty Years of American Life; How to Cook; How to Behave; How to Live on Sixpence a Day; Human Physiology the Basis of Sanitary Reforms.
Nichols, Walter Ripley. Ms., 1847-1886. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who published Water Supply from a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint, and many scientific papers.
Nicholson, Mrs. Eliza Jane [Poitevent]. “Pearl Rivers.” Mi., 1849-1896. A journalist of New Orleans, owner and editor of The Picayune, and the first woman in the world to own and manage a great daily paper. Lyrics.
Nicholson, James Bartram. Mo., 1820- ——. A prominent bookbinder of Philadelphia, author of a Manual of Bookbinding, an exhaustive treatise on the subject. Bai.
Nicholson, William Rufus. Mi., 1822-1901. A Reformed Episcopal bishop, dean of the theological seminary of that faith in Philadelphia. The Blessedness of Heaven; Why I Became a Reformed Episcopalian; The Real Presence; The Call to the Ministry.
Nicolay, John George. Bv., 1832-1901. The private secretary of President Lincoln, and marshal of the United States Supreme Court, 1872-87. The Outbreak of the Rebellion; Abraham Lincoln, a History (with J. Hay, supra). Cent. Scr.
Nicum, John. Wg., 1851- ——. A prominent Lutheran minister of Rochester, New York, who has published History of the New York Ministerium; Gleichniss-Reden Jesu; Weihnachts Andacht; and a translation of Wolf’s Lutherans in America.
Nieriker, Mrs. May [Alcott]. Ms., 1840-1879. Daughter of A. B. Alcott, supra. An artist who published Concord Sketches; Studying Art Abroad. Rob.
Niles, Hezekiah. Del., 1777-1839. A journalist of Baltimore, founder of Niles’s Register. The towns of Niles, Michigan, and Niles, Ohio, were named in his honour. Quill Driving; Principles and Acts of the Revolutionary Period. Bar.
Niles, John Milton. Ct., 1787-1856. A journalist of Hartford who was postmaster-general in 1840. Lives of Perry, Laurence, Pike, Harrison; The Civil Officer; History of the Revolution in Mexico and Central America.
Niles, Samuel. R. I., 1674-1762. A Congregational clergyman who was pastor of the church at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1711 till his death. Tristitiæ Ecclesiarum, a Brief and Sorrowful Account of the Churches in New England; God’s Wonder-Working Providence for New England in the Reduction of Louisburg; Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin; The True Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin; History of the French and Indian Wars.
Nipher, Francis Eugene. N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor of physics in Washington University at St. Louis from 1874, who has published Theory of Magnetic Measurement.
Nitsch, Mrs. Helen Alice [Matthews]. “Catherine Owen.” E., 18— -1889. A writer on domestic science whose home was at Plainfield, New Jersey. Choice Cookery; Culture and Cooking; Ten Dollars Enough; Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; Molly Bishop’s Family; Progressive Housekeeping. Har. Hou.
Noah, Mordecai Manuel. Pa., 1785-1851. A once noted journalist of New York city, who endeavoured unsuccessfully to found a Jewish colony on Grand Island, in the Niagara River. Travels in England, France, and Spain; Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest. He wrote several successful plays, among which are, The Siege of Tripoli; The Fortress of Sorrente.
Noble, Annette Lucile. N. Y., 1844- ——. A fiction-writer of Albion, New York, among whose works are, Uncle Jack’s Executors; Eunice Lathrop, Spinster; Love and Shawl-Straps; After the Failure; The Silent Man’s Legacy. Put.
Noble, Lucretia Gray. Ms., 18— - ——. A writer of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, whose only novel, A Reverend Idol, was very popular. Hou.
Noble, Edmund. S., 1853- ——. A journalist who travelled in Russia, 1882-1884, and since 1884 has lived in Boston. The Russian Revolt (1885). Hou.
Noble, Louis Legrand. N. Y., 1813-1882. An Episcopal clergyman who held various rectorships successively in the State of New York. Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; The Course of Empire, a work relating to the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and Other Poems; A Voyage to the Arctic Seas.
Nordheimer, Isaac. G., 1809-1842. An educator of New York city, instructor in sacred literature at Union Theological Seminary, 1838-42. Hebrew Grammar; Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of Scripture.
Nordhoff, Charles. P., 1830-1901. A littérateur and journalist of New York city. Man-of-War Life; The Merchant Vessel; Whaling and Fishing; Man-of-War Yarns; Cape Cod and All Along Shore; Peninsular California; Northern California; Secession is Rebellion; Communistic Societies of the United States; Politics for Young Americans; God and the Future Life, include his more important works. Do. Har.
Norman, Benjamin Moore. N. Y., 1809-1860. A bookseller of New Orleans. Rambles in Yucatan; New Orleans and its Environs; Rambles by Land and Water.
Norman, Henry. Ms., 1858- ——. A journalist of prominence. The Peoples and Politics of the Far East; The Real Japan. Scr.
Norris, George Washington. Pa., 1808-1875. A Philadelphia physician. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
Norris, Thaddeus. Pa., 1811-1877. A Philadelphia business man who wrote much on sporting topics. American Angler’s Book; American Fish Culture. Co.
North, Elisha. Ct., 1771-1843. A physician of New London, Connecticut. Treatise on Spotted Fever; Outlines of the Science of Life; Uncle Toby’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Phrenology. See Life and Writings of, 1887.
Northend, Charles. Ms., 1814-1895. A prominent educator of Connecticut. Teacher and Parent; Teachers’ Associations; Annals of American Institutes of Instruction; Life of Elihu Burritt, supra.
Northend, William Dummer. Ms., 1823-1902. Brother of C. Northend, supra. A lawyer of Salem, Massachusetts. Speeches and Essays on Political Subjects; The Bay Colony. Est.
Northrop, Birdsey Grant. Ct., 1817-1898. A prominent Connecticut educator, secretary of the State Board of Education, 1869-82. Education Abroad; Rural Improvement; Tree-Planting.
Northrup, Ansel Judd. N. Y., 1833- ——. A lawyer of Syracuse. Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks; Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan; Sconset Cottage Life.
Norton, Andrews. Ms., 1786-1853. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University, 1819-30, and prominent among conservative theologians of his faith. Historical Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Tracts Concerning Christianity; Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of the Trinitarians. See Memoir by W. Newell. A. U. A.
Norton, Augustus Theodore. Ct., 1808-1884. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alton, Illinois, author of a History of the Presbyterian Church in Illinois.
Norton, Charles Eliot. Ms., 1827- ——. Son of A. Norton, supra. A distinguished Dante scholar and a high authority on the history of art, since 1875 professor of the history of art in Harvard University. He has edited the Letters of J. R. Lowell, supra; the Writings of G. W. Curtis, supra; the Goethe and Carlyle Correspondence; the Letters of Carlyle; and has translated Dante’s Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia. His other works include, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages; Notes of Travel and Study in Italy; Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories. Har. Hou.
Norton, Charles Ledyard. Ct., 1837- ——. A journalist of New York city, at one time editor of Outing. Handbook of Florida; Political Americanisms; Jack Benson’s Log; A Medal of Honor Man, a book for boys. Lgs. We.
Norton, Frank Henry. Ms., 1836- ——. A journalist of New York city. Lives of General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; Daniel Boone, a romance.
Norton, George Habley. N. Y., 1824-1893. An Episcopal clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia, who published Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church.
Norton, Herman. N. Y., 1799-1855. A Presbyterian evangelist in New York State. The Christian and Deist in Contrast; Signs of Danger and Promise; Startling Facts for American Protestants.
Norton, John. E., 1606-1663. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1635, and in 1653 succeeded John Cotton as teacher of the church at Boston. He wrote much, and was a strenuous advocate of religious persecution. Among his writings are, The Heart of New England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation; Life of Mr. John Cotton. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Longfellow’s New England Tragedies.
Norton, John. Ms., 1651-1716. Nephew of J. Norton, supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church at Hingham, 1678-1716, who is remembered for his Elegy on Anne Bradstreet, a poem of some force and merit. See Tyler’s American Literature.
Norton, John Nicholas. N. Y., 1820-1881. Brother of G. H. Norton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville, among whose many works are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, Bowen, Freeman, Provost, Stewart, Wilson, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons for Families; The King’s Ferry-Boat; Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop Cranmer. Wh.
Norton, Mrs. Minerva [Brace]. N. Y., 1837- ——. An educator of Beloit, Wisconsin. In and Around Berlin; Service in the King’s Gardens. Mg.
Norton, Sidney Augustus. O., 1835- ——. A scientist who has been professor of chemistry in Ohio University from 1873. Elements of Natural Philosophy; Elements of Physics; Elements of Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry.
Norton, William Augustus. N. Y., 1810-1883. A professor of civil engineering in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, from 1852. Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.
Nott, Eliphalet. Ct., 1773-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, president of Union College, 1804-66. Counsels to Young Men; Lectures on Temperance. See Memoir by Van Santvoord, 1876.
Nott, Josiah Clark. S. C., 1804-1873. A physician of Mobile, who wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, and was co-author with Gliddon of the once famous Types of Mankind, and of Indigenous Races of the Earth. Lip.
Nourse, James Duncan. Ky., 1817-1854. A journalist of St. Louis. The Forest Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of the Mississippi; God in History.
Nourse, Joseph Everett. D. C., 1819-1899. Cousin of J. D. Nourse, supra. A professor in the Naval Academy, 1850-81. The Maritime Canal of Suez; Astronomical and Meteorological Observations; American Explorations in the Ice Zones. Lo.