A dictionary of American authors (part 3 of 6)

A dictionary of American authors (part 3 of 6)

=Gage, Simon Henry.= N. Y., 1851- ----. A physiologist who has been professor of physiology at Cornell University. The Microscope and Histology; Anatomical Technology (with B. G. Wilder, infra).

=Gage, William Leonard.= N. H. 1832-1889. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford, 1868-84. Trinitarian Sermons to a Unitarian Congregation; Songs of War Time; Light in Darkness; Life of Carl Ritter; Studies in Bible Lands; Verses; The Home of God’s People; A Leisurely Journey; Palestine, Historic and Descriptive; The Salvation of Faust; a number of translations from the German. Lo.

=Gallagher= [găl´a-ḡer], =William Davis.= Pa., 1808-1894. A journalist of Cincinnati prominent in the early literary annals of the Ohio Valley, whose home in later years was near Louisville. Miami Woods and Other Poems; A Golden Wedding, and Other Poems; Erato (verse). See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America. Clke.

=Gallatin, Albert.= Sd., 1761-1849. A financier of distinction. He came to America from Switzerland in 1780, and was active in political affairs. He was secretary of the treasury under President Jefferson; an associate of Adams and Clay in negotiating the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain in 1815; minister to France 1816-23; subsequently minister to Great Britain. After his retirement from public life he became a banker in New York city. Considerations on the Currency and Banking System of the United States; Synopsis of the Indian Tribes; Notes on the Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America; Peace with Mexico; War Expenses. His writings have been edited in six volumes by H. Adams, supra. See Lives by H. Adams, J. A. Stevens. Lip.

=Gallaudet= [găl-aw-dĕt´], =Edward Miner.= Ct., 1837- ----. Son of T. H. Gallaudet, infra. Popular Manual of International Law; Life of T. H. Gallaudet, infra.

=Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins.= Pa., 1787-1851. A celebrated educator of deaf-mutes, who was superintendent of the institution for deaf-mutes at Hartford, the first in the United States, 1817-30. Child’s Book of the Soul; The Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Sermons Preached to an English Congregation in Paris; Bible Stories for the Young. See Lives by H. Humphrey, E. M. Gallaudet.

=Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine.= Prince. Hd., 1770-1841. The son of the Russian ambassador to France, he came to America in 1792, was educated as a Sulpitian priest, and founded the Roman Catholic colony of Loretto in Pennsylvania in 1803. Defence of Catholic Principles; Appeal to the Protestant Public; Six Letters of Advice; Letter to a Protestant Friend on the Holy Scripture. See Lives by Lemcke, Heyden, Brownson.

=Galloway, Charles Betts.= Mi., 1849- ----. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. Methodism a Child of Providence; Aaron’s Rod in Public Morals.

=Galloway, Joseph.= Md., 1731-1803. A Philadelphia lawyer who was a noted loyalist, and went to England after the evacuation of the city by the English. Historical and Political Reflections on the American Rebellion; The Prophetic History of the Church of Rome.

=Gallup, Joseph Adams.= Ct., 1769-1849. A Vermont physician, professor in Vermont Medical College, which he founded. Epidemic Diseases in Vermont; Outlines of the Institutes of Medicine.

=Gammell, William.= Ms., 1812-1889. An educator of Rhode Island, professor at Brown University, 1835-64. Life of Roger Williams; History of American Baptist Missions.

=Gannett, Ezra Stiles.= Ms., 1801-1871. A Unitarian clergyman of prominence in Boston for many years, who published a great number of single sermons and addresses. See Memoir by W. C. Gannett.

=Gannett, Henry.= Me., 1846- ----. The chief topographer of the United States Geological Survey since 1882. Boundaries of the United States; The Building of a Nation; Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States; Results of Primary Triangulation; Manual of Topographical Methods; Geographic Dictionaries of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey.

=Gannett, William Channing.= 1840- ----. Son of E. S. Gannett, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis, and subsequently of Rochester, New York. A Year of Miracle, a poem in Four Sermons; Memoir of E. S. Gannett, supra; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with F. L. Hosmer). A. U. A. El. Rob.

=Garden, Alexander.= S., circa 1685-1750. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston remembered for his vigorous opposition to Whitefield. Six Letters to the Reverend George Whitefield; Two Sermons. See Tyler’s American Literature.

=Garden, Alexander.= S., 1728-1791. A botanical writer of Charleston for whom Linnæus named the genus Gardenia. He went to England as a loyalist in 1783, and became vice-president of the Royal Society.

=Garden, Alexander.= S. C., 1757-1829. Son of A. Garden, 2d. An officer in the American army during the Revolution. Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War (1822). See edition of 1865.

=Gardener, Mrs. Helen.= See Smart, Mrs.

=Gardiner, Frederick.= Me., 1822-1889. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in the Berkeley Divinity School at Middletown from 1869. The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in English; Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old and New Testament in their Mutual Relations; Aids to Scripture Study. Hou.

=Gardner, Augustus Kinsley.= Ms., 1812-1876. Son of S. J. Gardner, infra. A physician of New York city. The French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children, a Handbook for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; translation of Scanzoni’s Diseases of Females.

=Gardner, Charles Kitchell.= N. J., 1787-1869. A United States army officer who was postmaster of Washington in President Polk’s administration. Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; Permanent Designation of Companies, and lesser works.

=Gardner, Dorsey.= Pa., 1842-1894. A journalist of New York city who was one of the revisers of the Webster International Dictionary. Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo; Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.

=Gardner, Eugene C.= Ms., 1836- ----. An architect of Springfield, Massachusetts. Homes and All About Them; The House that Jill Built; Homes and How to Make Them; Illustrated Homes; Home Interiors; Common Sense in Church-Building; Town and Country School Buildings.

=Gardner, Samuel Jackson.= Ms., 1788-1864. A lawyer of Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, New Jersey, whose essays over the signature “Decius” were issued in book form with the title Autumn Leaves.

=Garfield, James Abram.= O., 1831-1881. The twentieth president of the United States. A statesman of Ohio, prominent as a general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and subsequently as a congressman till his elevation to the presidency. In July, 1881, he was mortally wounded by an assassin, and died in the September following. His Complete Works have been edited by B. A. Hinsdale, infra. See Appleton’s American Biography; Life by J. R. Gilmore, infra, 1880; Eulogy by G. F. Hoar.

=Garland, Hamlin.= Wis., 1860- ----. A novelist who was for some years a resident of Boston, and then returned to the Western States, in which the scenes of his realistic fictions are mainly laid. Main Travelled Roads; A Spoil of Office; Prairie Folks; Prairie Songs; Crumbling Idols; Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly; Little Norsk. St.

=Garland, Landon Cabell.= Va., 1810-1895. A mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges, and published Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.

=Garman, Samuel.= Pa., 1846- ----. A naturalist of Cambridge, assistant in the Agassiz Museum there. The Reptiles and Batrachians of North America; Reptiles and Batrachians of Bermuda. Clke.

=Garnett, James Mercer.= Va., 1840- ----. A professor of English literature at the University of Virginia since 1882. Translation of Beowulf; Anglo-Saxon Poems; Translations of Elene, Judith, Athelstan, and Byrhtnoth.

=Garretson, James Edmund.= “John Darby.” Del., 1828-1895. A physician of Philadelphia, dean of the dental college there from 1879. System of Oral Surgery; Odd Hours of a Physician; Thinkers and Thinking; Two Thousand Years Ago; Hours with John Darby; Brushland; 19th Century Common Sense. Lip.

=Garrett, Alexander Charles.= I., 1832- ----. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Northern Texas. Historical Continuity, a series of Sketches on the Church. Wh.

=Garrigues, Henry Jacques.= Dk., 1831- ----. A Danish physician who came to America in 1875, and since 1886 has been professor of practical obstetrics in the post-graduate medical school of New York city. Gastro-Elytrotomy; Practical Guide in Antiseptic Midwifery.

=Garrison, James Harney.= Mo., 1842- ----. A clergyman and editor of religious journals. Heavenward Way; Alone With God.

=Garrison, Joseph Fithian.= N. J., 1823-1892. An Episcopal clergyman of Camden, New Jersey, professor of canon law at the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School for some years. The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; The American Prayer Book.

=Garrison, William Lloyd.= Ms., 1805-1879. A very celebrated anti-slavery journalist of Boston who established The Liberator in 1831, and was its editor for the thirty-five years of its existence. His uncompromising attitude roused the fiercest opposition in both North and South, and he was at one time dragged through the streets of Boston by a mob who intended to hang him for his newspaper utterances, but he fortunately lived to see the triumph of his ideas and the liberation of the slave. Thoughts on African Colonization; Sonnets and Other Poems. See Johnson’s Garrison and his Times; Life by his Sons.

=Gath.= See Townsend, G. A.

=Gay, Ebenezer.= Ms., 1696-1787. A Unitarian clergyman of Hingham from 1718 until his death. The Old Man’s Calendar, a sermon preached on his eighty-fifth birthday, went through several editions in America and England, and was translated into several continental languages.

=Gay, Eben Howard.= Ms., 1858- ----. Nephew of S. H. Gay, infra. A banker of Boston who has published A Treatise on Municipal Bonds.

=Gay, Sydney Howard.= Ms., 1814-1888. Great-grandson of E. Gay, supra. A journalist of New York and Chicago, during the Civil War the managing editor of the New York Tribune. Life of James Madison; Bryant and Gay’s Popular History of the United States, of which the preface only was the work of Mr. Bryant. Hou. Scr.

=Gayarré, Charles Étienne Arthur.= La., 1805-1895. A jurist of New Orleans, profoundly versed in the history of his State. Histoire de la Louisiane; Romance of the History of Louisiana; Colonial History of Louisiana; Louisiana as a French Colony; The Spanish Domination in Louisiana; Philip the Second, a Biography; Louisiana Supreme Court Reports; School for Politics, a drama; Fernando de Lemos, a novel; Aubert Dubayet, a sequel to the preceding; School for Politics, a Dramatic Novel.

=Gayler, Charles.= N. Y., 1820-1892. A dramatist of New York city among whose many plays are, The Gold Hunters; Taking the Chances; Fritz. Among his various novels are, The Romance of a Poor Young Man; Out of the Streets, both of which were dramatized by their author.

=Gaylord, Glance.= See Bradley, Warren.

=Geer, George Jarvis.= Ct., 1821-1885. An Episcopal clergyman, long rector of St. Timothy’s Church, New York city, and the author of The Conversion of St. Paul, a series of Discourses.

=Gemünder, George.= Wg., 1816-1899. A violin-maker who came to America from Würtemberg in 1847, and settled in New York city, 1852. He published Progress in Violin-Making.

=Genin, John Nicholas.= N. Y., 1819-1878. A noted hatter of New York city who wrote a History of the Hat from the Earliest Ages.

=Genth, Frederick Augustus Louis Charles William.= G., 1820-1893. A professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1872. Ammonia Cobalt Bases (with O. W. Gibbs, infra); Minerals of North Carolina; First and Second Preliminary Reports on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania.

=Genung= [je-nŭng´], =John Franklin=. N. Y., 1850- ----. A professor at Amherst College. A Study of In Memoriam; The Epic of the Inner Life, an annotated translation of Job; Practical Elements of Rhetoric; The Study of Rhetoric in College Courses. Gi. Hou.

=George, Henry.= Pa., 1839-1897. A very widely known political economist of New York city whose radical views upon economic and social topics have met with much criticism both in America and Europe. Progress and Poverty; Our Land and Land Policy; The Subsidy Question and the Democratic Party; Protection or Free Trade; The Irish Land Question; The Land Question; Social Problems.

=George, Nathan Dow.= N. H., 1808-1896. A Methodist clergyman, long prominent in Maine, and subsequently in Massachusetts. An Examination of Universalism; Universalism Not of God; Materialism Anti-Scriptural; Annihilation Not of the Bible. Meth.

=Gerard, James Watson.= N. Y., 1822-1900. A lawyer of New York city. The Pelican Papers, a satire; Titles to Real Estate in New York City; Title of the Corporation and Others to the Streets, Wharves, Lands, and Franchises in New York City; The Peace of Utrecht; Aquarelles (verse); Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters, a collection of humourous verse. Put.

=Gerhard, William Paul.= G., 1854- ----. A sanitary engineer of New York city. Theatre Fires and Panics; Anlagen von Haus-Entwässerungen; Diagram for Sewer Calculations; House Drainage and Sanitary Plumbing; Guide to General House Inspection; Domestic Sanitary Appliances; Prinzipien der Haus-Kanalization, include his principal writings. Wil.

=Gerhard, William Wood.= Pa., 1809-1872. A Philadelphia physician. Diagnosis of Chest Diseases; Spotted Fever; Fevers; Clinical Guide.

=Gerhart= [gair´hart], =Emmanuel Vogel.= Pa., 1817-1904. A German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, professor of theology in Franklin and Marshall College. Philosophy and Logic; Monograph of the Reformed Church; Child’s Heidelberg Catechism; Institutes of the Christian Religion.

=Gerrish, Theodore.= Me., 1846- ----. A clergyman of Portland, Maine. Army Life; Will Newton, the Young Volunteer; Life in the World’s Wonderland; The Blue and the Gray, an army history (with J. Hutchinson).

=Gholson, William Yates.= O., 1807-1870. An Ohio jurist who published Speeches on Payment of the Public Debt of the United States.

=Gianque, Florien.= O., 1843- ----. A Cincinnati lawyer of Swiss descent. Laws of Election in Ohio; Election and Naturalization Laws of the United States; Manual for Ohio Road Supervisors; Manual for Guardians and Trustees; Manual for Assignees, Insolvent Debtors, etc.; Laws of Ohio relating to Roads, Ditches, Bridges, and Water-Courses; Manual for Notaries, etc.; Appendix to Ohio Revised Statutes. Clke.

=Gibbes= [ḡĭbz], =Robert Wilson.= Ms., 1809-1866. A physician, educator, and journalist of Columbia, South Carolina. Monograph of the Squalidæ; Typhoid Pneumonia; Documentary History of South Carolina; Documentary History of the American Revolution.

=Gibbon, John [Oliver].= Pa., 1827-1896. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War who published The Artillerist’s Manual.

=Gibbons, Henry.= Del., 1808-1848. Son of W. Gibbons, infra. A physician of San Francisco, professor in the Pacific Medical College who was the author of an anti-tobacco treatise, Tobacco and its Effects.

=Gibbons, James.= Md., 1834- ----. A cardinal of the Roman Catholic church since 1886. The Faith of Our Fathers; Our Christian Heritage; The Ambassador of Christ.

=Gibbons, James Sloan.= Del., 1810-1892. Son of W. Gibbons, infra. A prominent financier and philanthropist of New York city. He was a noted abolitionist, and was a pioneer in the movement for preserving the forests. The Banks of New York; The Public Debt of the United States. He wrote the popular war song, “We are Coming, Father Abraham.”

=Gibbons, Mrs. Phœbe [Earle].= Pa., 1821-190-. An author of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Dutch, and Other Essays; French and Belgians. Lip.

=Gibbons, William.= Pa., 1781-1845. A philanthropist and scientist of Wilmington, Delaware. He wrote Truth Vindicated, a notably clear exposition of the principles of the Friends.

=Gibbs, George.= L. I., 1815-1873. A lawyer and antiquarian of New York city. The Judicial Chronicle; Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon or Trade Language of Oregon; Comparative Vocabulary; Research relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America; Suggestions relating to Scientific Observation in Russian America.

=Gibbs, Josiah Willard.= Ms., 1790-1861. A philologist who was professor of sacred literature at Yale University, 1824-61. Philological Studies; New Latin Analyst; Teutonic Etymology.

=Gibbs, Josiah Willard.= Ct., 1839-1903. Son of J. W. Gibbs, supra. A professor of physics at Yale University, and the author of scientific papers and monographs.

=Gibbs, [Oliver] Wolcott.= N. Y., 1822-1903. Brother of G. Gibbs, supra. A chemist of distinction, Rumford professor at Harvard University, and author of scientific papers.

=Gibson, Louis Henry.= Ind., 1854- ----. An architect of Indianapolis. Beautiful Houses, a Study in Housebuilding; Convenient Houses; Gradual Reduction Milling; Artistic Houses at Moderate Cost. Cr.

=Gibson, William.= Md., 1788-1868. A once famous physician of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-55. Principles and Practice of Surgery; Rambles in Europe. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

=Gibson, William.= Md., 1826-1887. A United States naval officer retired in 1879. Sailing Directions for the Kattegat, etc.; Poems of Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and Other Poems; a translation of the Miscellaneous Poems of Goethe. Le.

=Gibson, William Hamilton.= Ct., 1850-1896. An artist and author of New York city who has illustrated his own writings. The Complete American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways; Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Happy Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a Rambler’s Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms. See New England Magazine, February, 1897. Har.

=Giddings, Franklin Henry.= Ct., 1855- ----. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia University since 1891. Report on Profit Sharing; The Modern Distributive Process (with J. B. Clark); The Principles of Sociology. Mac.

=Giddings, Joshua Reed.= Pa., 1795-1864. A once noted anti-slavery statesman and congressman of Ohio. The Exiles of Florida; The Rebellion: its Authors and its Causes; Speeches in Congress; Essays of Pacificus. See Life by G. W. Julian, infra.

=Gihon, Albert Leary.= Pa., 1833-1901. A United States naval surgeon. Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene; Need of Sanitary Reform in Ship Life; Sanitary Commonplaces Applied to the Navy; Prevention of Venereal Disease by Legislation.

=Gilbert, Benjamin.= Pa., 1711-1780. A miller of Northumberland, Pennsylvania, who wrote on theological themes. Truth Defended; Discourses on Perfection; Further Discourses on Sin, Election, Reprobation, and Baptism.

=Gilbert, Charles Henry.= Il., 1859- ----. An ichthyologist, professor of zoölogy at Stanford University. Synopsis of the Fishes of North America (with D. S. Jordan).

=Gilbert, David McConaughy.= Pa., 1836- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Virginia. The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1776-1876; The Synod of Virginia; The Annihilation Theory Briefly Examined; Muhlenberg’s Ministry in Virginia.

=Gilbert, Grove Karl.= N. Y., 1843- ----. A geologist attached to the United States Geological Survey. Geology of the Henry Mountains; Topographical Features of Lake Shores; Geology of Nevada, Utah, etc.; Lake Bonneville.

=Gilder, Richard Watson.= N. J., 1844- ----. A writer of New York City well known both as a poet and as the editor of The Century Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner’s Monthly, he has been editor-in-chief since 1881. The New Day, The Poet and his Master, Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and Other Poems; Five Books of Song (1894), include all of his collected poems up to the year of issue. Cent.

=Gilder, William Henry.= Pa., 1835-1900. Brother of R. W. Gilder, supra. An Arctic explorer. Schwatka’s Search; Ice Pack and Tundra. Scr.

=Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau.= S. C., 1831- ----. A professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins University from 1876, and editor of the American Journal of Philology from its establishment. He is the author of Essays and Studies, and has published a Latin Grammar, and editions of Justin Martyr and the Odes of Pindar. Gi. Har.

=Giles, Chauncey.= Ms., 1813-1893. A Swedenborgian clergyman of Philadelphia, and of much prominence in his denomination. The Nature of Spirit; The Second Coming of our Lord; Perfect Prayer; Man as a Spiritual Being; The Incarnation; The Wonderful Pocket; The Magic Spectacles, a fairy tale; The Gate of Pearl; The Magic Shoes, and Other Stories; Heavenly Blessedness; The New Jerusalem; The Spiritual World; The Valley of the Diamonds, and Other Stories. Lip.

=Giles, Ella Augusta.= Wis., 1851- ----. A writer of Madison, Wisconsin. Bachelor Ben; Out from the Shadows; Maiden Rachel; Flowers of the Spirit (verse). See Bibliography of Wisconsin.

=Giles, Henry.= I., 1809-1882. A Unitarian minister of Liverpool, England, and after 1840 a literary lecturer in the United States. Lectures and Essays; Christian Thought on Life; Illustrations of Genius; Human Life in Shakespeare; Lectures on the Irish, and Other Subjects. See Hart’s American Literature.

=Gill, Theodore Nicholas.= N. Y., 1837- ----. A naturalist, professor of zoölogy in the Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia. Arrangement of the Families of Mollusks; Arrangement of the Families of Fishes; Arrangement of the Families of Mammals; Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America; Scientific and Popular Views of Nature Contrasted.

=Gill, William Fearing.= Ms., 1844- ----. The Martyred Church (verse); Home Recreations; Life of Poe.

=Gill, William Ireland.= 18-- - ----. Evolution and Progress; Analytical Processes; Christian Conception and Experience.

=Gillespie, George.= S., 1683-1760. A Presbyterian clergyman, once prominent in Delaware. Treatise Against Deists and Free Thinkers; Letters to the Presbytery of New-York; Remarks upon Mr. George Whitefield.

=Gillespie, William Mitchell.= N. Y., 1816-1868. A professor of civil engineering at Union College, 1845-68. Rome as seen by a New Yorker; Roads and Railroads; Manual for Roadmaking; Principles and Practice of Land Surveying; Levelling; Topography and Higher Surveying; Philosophy of Mathematics (from Comte). Ap.

=Gillet, Ransom H----.= N. Y., 1800-1876. A lawyer of Ogdensburg, New York. History of the Democratic Party; The Federal Government; Life of Silas Wright.

=Gillett= [jĭl-lĕt´], =Ezra Hall.= Ct., 1823-1875. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, professor of political economy in the University of New York from 1868. History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Life of John Huss; God in Human Thought; The Moral System; Life Lessons in the School of Christianity; What Then? or the Soul’s To-Morrow; Ancient Cities and Empires. Scr.

=Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Fidelia [Woolley].= N. Y., 1827- ----. A Universalist minister who published Pebbles from the Shore (verse); Editorials and Other Waifs.

=Gillette, William Hooker.= Ct., 1853- ----. An actor and playwright, among whose plays are Held by the Enemy; The Professor; Esmeralda; The Private Secretary.

=Gilliss, James Melville.= D. C., 1811-1865. An astronomer of distinction in charge of the naval observatory at Washington. United States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere; Observations at the Naval Observatory. Lip.

=Gillmore, Quincy Adams.= O., 1825-1888. A military engineer in charge of the Federal bombardment of Charleston in 1863. He was a major-general of volunteers in the Civil War, and a high authority on engineering matters. Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski; Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars; Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston; Compressive Strength, etc., of Building Stones of the United States.

=Gilman, Arthur.= Il., 1837- ----. An educator of Cambridge, and the organizer of Radcliffe College (long known as “the Harvard Annex”). First Steps in English Literature; Seven Historic Ages; First Steps in English History; History of the American People; Rome from the Earliest Times; Tales of the Pathfinders; Short Stories from the Dictionary; The Saracens; Colonization of America; The Discovery of America; The Making of the American Nation. He has also edited the Riverside Chaucer. Lo.

=Gilman, Mrs. Caroline [Howard].= Ms., 1794-1888. Wife of S. Gilman, infra. A writer whose married life was passed in Charleston. Among her writings are included Recollections of a Southern Matron; Recollections of a New England Housekeeper; The Sibyl, or New Oracles from the Poets; Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Travelling in the United States; Ruth Raymond; Stories and Poems. Le.

=Gilman, Chandler Robbins.= O., 1802-1865. A physician of New York City, professor from 1841 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Legends of a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life of J. B. Beck, supra; The Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession; Tracts on Generation.

=Gilman, Daniel Coit.= Ct., 1831- ----. An educator of prominence, President of Johns Hopkins University from 1875. Our National Schools in Science; Life of James Monroe.

=Gilman, Nicholas Paine.= Il., 1849- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, formerly of Massachusetts, prominent as a writer upon economics and since 1895 professor of sociology at the Meadville Theological Seminary. Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee; The Laws of Daily Conduct; Socialism and the American Spirit. Hou.

=Gilman, Samuel.= Ms., 1791-1858. A Unitarian clergyman of Charleston, 1819-58. He published Memoirs of a New England Choir; The History of a Ray of Light; Pleasures and Pains of a Student’s Life; Contributions to Literature, and was the author of the noted college song, “Fair Harvard.”

=Gilman, Mrs. Stella [Scott].= Al., 1844- ----. Wife of A. Gilman, supra. Mothers in Council.

=Gilmer, George Rockingham.= Ga., 1790-1859. A Georgia lawyer who was governor of his State, 1829-31, and three times a representative in Congress. The Georgians, an historical work (1855).

=Gilmore, James Roberts.= “Edmund Kirke.” Ms., 1823-1903. In earlier life a shipping merchant in New York city, but during and since the Civil War a journalist and miscellaneous writer. Among the Pines; My Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among the Guerillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder; The Advance Guard of Western Civilization. See Hart’s American Literature. Ap.

=Gilmore, Joseph Henry.= Ms., 1834- ----. A Baptist minister of Rochester, New York, professor of rhetoric in the University of Rochester since 1867. Outlines of the Art of Expression; Outlines of Logic; English Language and its Early Literature; English Literature; He Leadeth Me, and Other Poems.

=Gilpin, Henry Dilwood.= E., 1801-1860. Son of J. Gilpin, infra. A jurist of Pennsylvania who was attorney-general of the United States, 1840-41. He edited The Atlantic Souvenir, the first American literary annual, and published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; Opinions of the Attorneys-General. He also edited the Papers of President Madison in three volumes.

=Gilpin, Joshua.= Pa., 1765-1840. A Philadelphia writer who published Verses at the Fountain of Vaucluse; Farm of Virgil, and Other Poems; Memoir on a Canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware.

=Girard, Charles.= F., 1822-1895. A naturalist who came to the United States with Agassiz in 1847. Life in its Physical Aspects; Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; Herpetology of the Wilkes Expedition, are his more important publications. Lip.

=Girardeau, John L.= S. C., 1825-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina, professor of systematic theology in Columbia Theological Seminary from 1876. Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism Compared; The Will in its Theological Relations.

=Gladden, Washington.= Pa., 1836- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, of prominence as a writer upon social reforms. The Lord’s Prayers: Seven Homilies; The Christian League of Connecticut; Things New and Old; Amusements, their Uses and Abuses; Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the Hub to the Hudson; Being a Christian; Working-People and their Employers; The Christian Way; The Young Man and the Church; Applied Christianity; Parish Problems; Tools and the Man; Who Wrote the Bible?; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age; The Cosmopolis City Club; Burning Questions, a volume of sermons. Cent. Co. Hou.

=Glazier, Willard.= N. Y., 1841- ----. A captain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and the discoverer, in 1881, of the true source of the Mississippi River. Capture, Prison-Pen, and Escape; Three Years in the Federal Cavalry; Battles for the Union; Heroes of Three Wars; Peculiarities of Great Cities; Down the Great River. See Life by Owens, “Sword and Pen,” 1881.

=Gleason, Mrs. Rachel Brooks.= Vt., 1820- ----. A physician of Elmira, New York, for many years in charge of the Gleason Sanitarium. She has published Talks to My Patients.

=Glisan, Rodney.= Md., 1827- ----. A physician of Portland, Oregon, emeritus professor of obstetrics in Willamette University. Journal of Army Life; Modern Midwifery; Two Years in Europe.

=Glyndon, Howard.= See Searing, Mrs.

=Gmeiner, John.= Bv., 1847- ----. A Roman Catholic priest of Milwaukee, professor of homiletics in St. Francis de Sales Seminary. Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten; Sind wir den Weltende nahe?; Modern Scientific Views and Christian Doctrines Compared; The Spirits of Darkness and their Manifestations on Earth; The Church and the Various Nationalities in the United States.

=Godfrey, Thomas.= Pa., 1736-1763. A lieutenant in the colonial militia who possessed much poetic ability, and was the first dramatic author in America. The Court of Fancy; Juvenile Poems on Various Subjects, with The Prince of Parthia, a Tragedy. See Tyler’s American Literature.

=Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.= I., 1831-1902. A prominent journalist of New York city. He came to America in 1856. From 1865 to 1869 he was editor of The Nation, and, 1881-1899, of the Evening Post. Government; History of Hungary; Reflections and Comments; Problems of Democracy. Scr.

=Godman, John D.= Md., 1794-1830. A physician and naturalist of Cincinnati and New York. A man of great natural gifts whose career was one of failure and disappointment. Rambles of a Naturalist; American Natural History; Irregularities of Structure and Morbid Anatomy; Anatomical Investigations. See North American Review, January, 1835; Gross, Lives of Eminent American Physicians, 1861, and Autobiography, vol. 1.

=Godwin, Parke.= N. Y., 1816-1904. A journalist of New York city, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant, whose writings he edited. He was long connected with the Evening Post, and was the editor of Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 1853-55 and 1867-70. Pacific and Constructive Democracy; Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier; Vala, a mythological tale; Political Essays; History of France; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Out of the Past, a collection of essays; Commemorative Addresses; Handbook of Universal Biography (edited). Har.

=Goebel, Julius.= G., 1857- ----. A philologist, professor at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. Ueber die Zukunft unseres Volkes in Amerika; Ueber Fragische Schuld und Sühne; Zur deutschen Frage in Amerika; Poetry in the Limburger Chronik.

=Goff, Mrs. Harriet Newell [Kneeland].= N. Y., 1828- ----. A noted reformer of Brooklyn and elsewhere, prominent in the temperance, woman-suffrage, and other movements. Was it an Inheritance?; Who Cares?; Episodes in the Life of Mary Campbell.

=Gooch, Mrs. Fannie.= See Inglehart, Mrs.

=Good, James Isaac.= Pa., 1850- ----. A German Reformed clergyman and educator of Reading, Pennsylvania, professor in Ursinus Theological Seminary, 1890-93. Origin of the Reformed Church of Germany; Rambles Around Reformed Lands.

=Goodale, Dora Reed.= Ms., 1866- ----. Sister of Mrs. E. G. Eastman, supra, and author with her in their childhood of Verses from Sky-Farm; Apple Blossoms; In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers. She has contributed much verse to The Century and other periodicals, and has also published Heralds of Easter. Put.

=Goodale, Elaine.= See Eastman, Mrs. Elaine.

=Goodale, George Lincoln.= Me., 1839- ----. A botanist of prominence, professor of botany at Harvard University from 1878. The Wild Flowers of America; Physiological Botany; Concerning a Few Common Plants; Useful Plants of the Future. Wn.

=Goode, George Brown.= Ind., 1851-1896. An ichthyologist in the government service. Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas; Annual Resources of the United States; Game Fishes of the United States; Beginnings of Natural History in America; Britons, Saxons, and Virginians; American Fishes, a popular treatise; Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States; Oceanic Ichthyology (with T. H. Bean). Est.

=Goodell, William.= Malta, 1829-1894. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Lessons in Gynæcology.

=Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor.= Ct., 1869- ----. An architect of Boston whose border designs and initials for book illustration are of notable excellence. Mexican Memories.

=Goodenow, John M.= Ms., 1782-1838. An Ohio jurist who published American Jurisprudence in Contrast with the Doctrine of English Law.

=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= L. I., 1859- ----. A professor of administrative law in Columbia University from 1884. Comparative Administrative Law; Municipal Home Rule. Mac.

=Goodrich, Aaron.= N. Y., 1807- ----. A Minnesota jurist, secretary of legation at Brussels 1861-68. He published A History of the So-called Christopher Columbus. Ap.

=Goodrich, Charles Augustus.= Ct., 1790-1862. Brother of S. G. Goodrich, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; History of the United States; View of Religions; Family Tourist; Great Events of American History; Outlines of Geography; Universal Traveller. He assisted his brother in the preparation of a number of works.

=Goodrich, Chauncey Allen.= Ct., 1790-1860. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Yale University, 1817-60. He published Greek and Latin Lessons; A Greek Grammar; was the editor and reviser of Webster’s Dictionary, and also edited Select British Eloquence, with careful critical notes. Har.

=Goodrich, Frank Boot.= “Dick Tinto.” Ms., 1826-1894. Son to S. G. Goodrich, infra. A dramatist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. The Court of Napoleon; Man upon the Sea; Tri-Colored Sketches of Paris; The Tribute Book; World-Famous Women; Women of Beauty and Heroism; History of Maritime Adventure. Lip.

=Goodrich, Samuel Griswold.= “Peter Parley.” Ct., 1793-1863. Brother of Charles A. Goodrich, supra. A once famous writer and compiler of Boston and New York. He published nearly two hundred volumes, mainly juvenile and educational, some of which achieved a wide popularity. Among them are, History of All Nations; Tales of Peter Parley about America; Recollections of a Lifetime, an autobiography. See Allibone’s Dictionary.

=Goodwin, Daniel.= N. Y., 1832- ----. A lawyer of Chicago. James Pitts and his Sons in the American Revolution; The Dearborns; The Lord’s Table; Provincial Pictures.

=Goodwin, Daniel Raynes.= Me., 1811-1890. An Episcopal clergyman who was a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and of much prominence as a Low Churchman. Southern Slavery in its Present Aspects; Christianity Neither Ascetic nor Fanatic; The Christian Ministry; Shall we Return to Rome?; The Perpetuity of the Sabbath; The New Ritualistic Divinity; Christian Eschatology. See Bibliography of Maine.

=Goodwin, Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth [Bradbury].= Ms., 1827-1893. A Boston writer for young people, among whose works are Madge; Christine’s Fortune; Dorothy Gray; Dr. Howells’s Family; Fortunes of Miss Follen. Ap.

=Goodwin, Isaac.= Ms., 1786-1832. A writer of Worcester, Massachusetts, and the father of Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin, supra. History of the Town of Stirling; The Town Officer; The New England Sheriff.

=Goodwin, John Abbott.= Ms., 1824-1884. Son of I. Goodwin, supra. A Lowell writer who published The Pilgrim Fathers Neither Puritans nor Persecutors; The Pilgrim Republic, an historical review of the Plymouth colony. Hou.

=Goodwin, Mrs. Lavinia Stella [Tyler].= Vt., 1833- ----. The Mysterious Miner; The Little Helper; Little Folks’ Own. Le.

=Goodwin=, =Mrs. Maud [Wilder].= N. Y., 1856- ----. An historical novelist of New York city. The Colonial Cavalier, or Southern Life before the Revolution; The Head of a Hundred; White Aprons, an historical romance; Dolly Madison, a biography. Lit. Scr.

=Goodwin, Nathaniel.= Ct., 1782-1855. A Hartford genealogist and probate judge. Genealogical Notes of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

=Goodwin, William Watson.= Ms., 1831- ----. Nephew of I. Goodwin, supra. An eminent Greek scholar, Eliot professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1860. He has published Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb; A Greek Grammar. Gi.

=Goodyear, William Henry.= Ct., 1846- ----. An art educator of New York city, the son of the noted inventor, Charles Goodyear. Roman and Mediæval Art; Renaissance and Modern Art; History of Art; The Grammar of the Lotus; Ancient and Modern History. Bar. Fl.

=Gookin, Daniel.= E., c. 1612-1687. A colonial writer of Massachusetts, the friend of John Eliot, the “Indian apostle,” and a man far in advance of the general sentiment of his time and country in regard to the treatment of the Indians. For the last thirty years of his life he was superintendent of the Indians in Massachusetts. His writings include Historical Collections of the Indians in New England; Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England. The first of these remained in manuscript until 1792, and the second until 1836. See Tyler’s American Literature.

=Gordon, Adoniram Judson.= N. H., 1836-1895. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon Church from 1869 until his death. Grace and Glory; In Christ; Ministry of Healing; The Ministry of the Spirit; The Life that Now Is and That to Come; The Holy Spirit in Missions; Ecce Venit. See Life of, by E. B. Gordon, 1896. Bap. Rev.

=Gordon, Archibald D.= I., 1848-1895. A dramatic critic and playwright of New York city. The Ugly Duckling; Is Marriage a Failure?; That Girl from Mexico, are among his plays.

=Gordon, Armistead Churchill.= Va., 1855- ----. A lawyer of Staunton, Virginia, co-author with T. N. Page, infra, of a volume of verse entitled Befo’ the War; Echoes in Negro Dialect; Congressional Currency. Put.

=Gordon, Clarence.= “Vieux Moustache.” N. Y., 1835- ----. A writer of Newburg, New York. His writings, intended for juvenile reading, include Christmas at Under Tor; Our Fresh and Salt Tutors; Two Lives in One; Boarding-School Days.

=Gordon, George Angier.= S., 1853- ----. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Old South Church from 1884. The Christ of To-Day; The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy, and Life; Immortality and the New Theodicy. Hou.

=Gordon, George Henry.= Ms., 1823-1886. A lawyer of Boston who served as a brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the Second Massachusetts Infantry; The Campaign of the Army of Virginia under General Pope; War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion; Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain. Hou.

=Gordon, Julien.= See Cruger, Mrs. Julia.

=Gordon, M. Lafayette.= Pa., 1843-1900. A Congregational clergyman and physician, formerly a missionary to Japan, and subsequently a professor in Dōshisha University, Kyōto. An American Missionary in Japan. Hou.

=Gordon, Thomas F----.= Pa., 1787-1866. A Philadelphia lawyer and antiquarian. Digest of the Laws of the United States; History of Pennsylvania to 1776; History of New Jersey to 1789; History of America; Cabinet of American History; History of Ancient Mexico; Gazetteers of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

=Gordon, William Robert.= N. Y., 1811-1896. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York and New Jersey. Supreme Godhead of Christ; Particular Providence, A Threefold Test of Modern Spiritualism; The Peril of our Ship of State; Revealed Truth Impregnable; The Reformed Church in America; Christocracy (with J. T. Demarest, supra), include his principal writings.

=Gore, James Howard.= Va., 1856- ----. A professor of mathematics in Columbian University, Washington, District of Columbia. Geodesy; Elements of Geodesy; and several annotated editions of German works for college study. Gi. Hou. Wil.

=Gorgas, Ferdinand James Samuel.= Va., 1834- ----. A Baltimore dentist, professor in the College of Dental Surgery from 1860. Lectures on Dental Science and Therapeutics; Dental Materia Medica.

=Gorrie, Peter Douglas.= S., 1813-1884. A Methodist clergyman of New York. Churches and Sects in the United States; Episcopal Methodism as it Was and Is; Lives of Eminent Methodists.

=Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch.= W. I., 1841-1885. A United States naval officer who superintended the removal of the obelisk from Egypt to New York, and after leaving the navy engaged in shipbuilding. His only publication is a work on Egyptian Obelisks.

=Gorton, David Allyn.= N. Y., 1832- ----. Descendant of S. Gorton, infra. A physician of Brooklyn. The Monism of Man, or the Unity of the Divine and Human; The Principles of Mental Hygiene; The Drift of Medical Philosophy; Neurasthenia. Put.

=Gorton, Samuell.= E., 1592-1677. The founder of a small sect sometimes called “Nothingarians,” which survived him for about a century. Simplicitie’s Defence against Seven Headed Policy; An Incorruptible Key composed of the CX. Psalm; Saltmarsh Returned from the Dead; An Antidote Against the Common Plague of the World; Certain Copies of Letters. See Life of, by L. G. Janes, 1896; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

=Goss, Warren Lee.= Ms., 1838- ----. A writer of Norwich, Connecticut, and more recently of Rutherford, New Jersey. The Soldier’s Story of the Captivity at Andersonville; Jack Alden; Tom Clifton; Jed; Recollections of a Private. Cr. Le.

=Gouge, William M----.= Pa., 1796-1863. A financial writer, for thirty years in the Treasury Department at Washington. History of the American Banking System (1835); Expediency of Dispensing with Bank Paper; Fiscal History of Texas.

=Gough= [gŏf], =John Bartholomew.= E., 1817-1886. A celebrated temperance lecturer. He came to America in 1829, fell into habits of dissipation, but reformed and signed the pledge in 1842. Entering into the temperance movement as a lecturer, he soon rose to fame. Autobiography (1846); Temperance Lectures; Sunlight and Shadow, or Gleanings from my Life Work; Temperance Dialogues; Platform Echoes. See Life, by Carlos Martyn, infra.

=Gould= [goold], =Augustus Addison.= N. H., 1805-1866. Son of N. D. Gould, infra. A conchologist of Boston. System of Natural History; Mollusca and Shells; Olia Conchologia; The Mollusca of the North Pacific Expedition; The Invertebrata of Massachusetts.

=Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.= Ms., 1787-1859. An educator of Massachusetts who published The Prize Book; Adam’s Latin Grammar; and editions of Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.

=Gould, Benjamin Apthorp.= Ms., 1824-1896. Son of B. A. Gould, supra. A distinguished astronomer, from 1868-1885 director of the Argentine Republic national observatory at Cordova, and subsequently a resident of Cambridge. Uranometry of the Southern Heavens; Trans-Atlantic Longitude as Determined by the Coast Survey.

=Gould, Edward Sherman.= Ct., 1808-1885. Son of J. Gould, infra. A merchant and author of New York city. The Sleep Rider; The Very Age, a comedy; John Doe and Richard Roe, a tale of New York life; Classified Elocution; Good English.

=Gould, Ezra Palmer.= Ms., 1841-1900. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of New Testament literature in the Philadelphia Episcopal Divinity School. Commentary on Corinthians; Notes on the Lessons of 1885.

=Gould, Hannah Flagg.= Vt., 1789-1865. Sister of B. A. Gould, 1st, supra. A verse-writer of Newburyport whose work was simple in conception but not unpleasing. The Snow Flake and the Frost still find a place in anthologies, and afford a fair example of her style. Hymns and Poems for Children; The Golden Vase; The Youth’s Coronal; Mother’s Dream, and Other Poems; Diosma, poems original and selected; Gathered Leaves, a volume of prose. See North American Review, October, 1835.

=Gould, James.= Ct., 1770-1836. A jurist of Connecticut who published The Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions.

=Gould, John W.=[4] Ct., 1814-1838. Son of J. Gould, supra. Forecastle Yarns; Private Journal of Voyage from New York to Rio Janeiro.

=Gould, Nathaniel Duren.= Ms., 1781-1864. A musician and penman of Boston who published A History of Church Music.

=Goulding, Francis Robert.= Ga., 1810-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman of Georgia whose Young Marooners on the Florida Coast, a tale for boys, has long been popular. Other works of his include Marooner’s Island; Frank Gordon; Fishing and Fishes; Woodruff Stories; Little Josephine; Cousin Aleck; Adventures among the Indians; Boy Life on the Water. Do.

=Gouley, John William Severin.= La., 1832- ----. A physician, professor in the University of New York. External Perineal Urethrotomy; Diseases of the Urinary Organs; Diseases of Man. Ap.

=Graebner, August Lawrence.= Mch., 1849- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at St. Louis from 1887. Half a Century of Sound Lutheranism in America; Life of John Sebastian Bach.

=Grafton, Charles Chapman.= Ms., 1832- ----. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac, and, prior to his consecration in 1889, rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. Vocation, or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister’s Life.

=Graham, David.= E., 1808-1852. A lawyer of New York city. Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; Courts of Law and Equity in New York State.

=Graham, John Andrew.= Ct., 1764-1841. A lawyer of Rutland, Vermont. Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont (1797); Speeches; Memoirs of Horne Tooke.

=Graham, Mrs. Margaret [Collier].= Ia., 1850- ----. A California writer who has published Stories of the Foot-Hills. Hou.

=Graham, Sylvester.= Ct., 1794-1851. A once well-known vegetarian and lecturer upon temperance. He advocated the use of unbolted wheat, since called Graham flour. Lectures on the Science of Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; Philosophy of Sacred History.

=Grahame, Nellie.= See Dunning, Mrs.

=Granbery, John Cowper.= Va., 1829- ----. A bishop of the Methodist Church South who published a Bible Dictionary.

=Grant, Asahel.= N. Y., 1807-1844. A physician who was a missionary in Persia. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes. See Memoir, 1847; Grant and the Nestorians, 1853.

=Grant, Robert.= Ms., 1852- ----. A lawyer of Boston well known as a littérateur; from 1893 a judge of probate and insolvency for Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He has written several satirical works, including The Little Tin Gods on Wheels; The Lambs; Yankee Doodle; and the juvenile tales, Jack Hall; Jack in the Bush. In fiction he has published Confessions of a Frivolous Girl; The Carletons; Mrs. Harold Stagg; An Average Man; The Knave of Hearts; A Romantic Young Lady; Face to Face; The Bachelor’s Christmas, and Other Stories; The Opinions of a Philosopher; Reflections of a Married Man. Other works of his are, The Art of Living; The Oldest School in America. Hou. Scr.

=Grant, Ulysses Simpson.= O., 1822-1885. The eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War as lieutenant, and in the Civil War as major-general, 1861-64, and subsequently became lieutenant-general in command of the entire army. Report of the Armies of the United States; Personal Memoirs. See Military Life of, by A. Badeau, supra; Life by J. G. Wilson; Appleton’s American Biography. Cent.

=Gratacap, Louis Pope.= N. Y., 1850- ----. A naturalist connected with the American Museum of Natural History in New York city who has published Philosophy of Ritualism, or Apologia Pro Ritu.

=Graves, Mrs. Adelia Cleopatra [Spencer].= “Aunt Alice.” O., 1821-1895. An educator of Tennessee. Life of Columbus; Poems for Children; Seclusarval, or the Arts of Romanism; Jephtha’s Daughter, a drama.

=Graves, James Robinson.= Vt., 1820-1896. Brother-in-law of Mrs. A. C. Graves, supra. A Baptist clergyman of Nashville, prominent as a controversialist. The Great Iron Wheel, or Republicanism Backward; The Little Iron Wheel; The Intermediate State; Old Landmarks; Intercommunion of Churches; The Redemptive Work of Christ; The New Great Iron Wheel; Denominational Sermons; Parables and Prophecies of Christ.

=Gray, Albert Zabriskie.= N. Y., 1840-1889. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, warden of Racine College, Wisconsin, 1882-88. Racine and her Labour of Love; The Land and the Life; Jesus Only, and Other Devotional Poems; Mexico as it Is. Ran.

=Gray, Asa.= N. Y., 1810-1888. An eminent botanist of Cambridge, and one of the highest authorities in his department. He was professor at Harvard University 1842-88, and was in charge of the botanical garden at Cambridge. Elements of Botany, now called Structural and Systematic Botany; How Plants Grow; A Free Examination of Darwin’s “Origin of Species;” Darwiniana; Natural Science and Religion; Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States; Synoptical Flora of North America; How Plants Behave; Field, Forest, and Garden Botany; Lessons in Botany; School and Field Book of Botany; Botany of the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition (1854); Scientific Papers selected by C. S. Sargent. See Letters of, edited by Mrs. Gray. Am. Ap.

=Gray, Barry.= See Coffin, R. B.

=Gray, David.= S., 1836-1888. A journalist of Buffalo, on the editorial staff of The Courier, 1856-82. See Letters, Poems, and Selected Writings.

=Gray, Elisha.= O., 1835-1901. An electrician and inventor who published Experimental Researches in Electric Harmonic Telegraphy.

=Gray, Francis Calley.= Ms., 1790-1856. A Boston lawyer prominent as an enlightened patron of arts and education who published a work on Prison Discipline.

=Gray, George Seaman.= N. Y., 1835-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman who, after retiring from the ministry, engaged in business in Cincinnati. Eight Studies of the Lord’s Day. Hou.

=Gray, George Zabriskie.= N. Y., 1838-1889. Brother of A. Z. Gray, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the Theological School, 1876-89, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Scripture Doctrine of Recognition; The Children’s Crusade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Century; Husband and Wife; The Church’s Certain Faith. Hou. Wh.

=Gray, John Chipman.= Ms., 1839- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Royall professor of law at Harvard University from 1883. Restraints on the Alienation of Property; Rule against Perpetuities; Select Cases. Lit.

=Graydon, Alexander.= Pa., 1752-1818. A citizen of Harrisburg who published Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years (1811), a lively, entertaining autobiography.

=Graydon, William.= Pa., 1759-1840. Brother of A. Graydon, supra. A lawyer of Harrisburg. Digest of the Laws of the United States; Justice and Constable’s Assistant; Forms of Conveyancing.

=Grayson, William John.= S. C., 1788-1863. A South Carolina statesman. Chicora, and Other Poems; The Hireling and Slave, a poem; The Country, a poem; Life of James Petigru. Har.

=Greeley, Horace.= N. H., 1811-1872. A famous journalist of New York city, founder and editor of The Tribune. In 1872 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic party for the presidency. For a generation he was one of the most influential leaders of American public opinion. Letters from Texas; Glances at Europe; Essays in Political Economy; What I Know About Farming; The American Conflict; Recollections of a Busy Life. See Lives by Parton, 1868; Reavis, Ingersoll; Appleton’s American Biography.

=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Ms., 1844- ----. An arctic explorer in the United States service. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, and was thus at the head of the Weather Bureau until its transfer to the Department of Agriculture in 1891. Three Years of Arctic Service; American Weather; Handbook of Arctic Discoveries; Explorers and Travellers. Do. Rob. Scr.

=Green, Alexander Little Page.= Tn., 1806-1874. A Methodist clergyman of Nashville who was the author of The Church in the Wilderness.

=Green, Anna Katharine.= See Rohlfs, Mrs.

=Green, Ashbel.= N. J., 1762-1848. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1812-22. Sermons from 1790 to 1836; Sermons on the Assembly’s Catechism; History of Presbyterian Missions. See Autobiography and Memoir by J. H. Jones, 1849. Ran.

=Green, Beriah.= Ct., 1795-1874. A reformer and anti-slavery leader of Ohio and New York. History of the Quakers; Sermons and Discourses.

=Green, Duff.= Ga., 1780-1875. A Washington lawyer and journalist. Facts and Suggestions; How to Pay off the National Debt.

=Green, Francis Matthews.= Ms., 1835-1902. A United States naval commander. The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes; List of Geographical Positions.

=Green, George Walton.= N. Y., 1854-1903. A New York city lawyer and politician. Repudiation.

=Green, Horace.= Vt., 1802-1866. A physician of New York city, president of the New York Medical College, 1850-60. Diseases of the Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment of Croup; Surgical Treatment of the Polypi of the Larynx; Report of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases.

=Green, Jacob.= Pa., 1790-1841. Son of Ashbel Green, supra. A Philadelphia scientist who was professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College. Chemical Diagrams; Chemical Philosophy; Astronomical Recreations; Trilobites; The Botany of the United States; Notes of a Traveller; Diseases of the Skin.

=Green, Joseph.= Ms., 1706-1780. A Boston loyalist, widely known in his day for his political lampoons and his ready wit. He went to England in 1775, and never returned. The Wonderful Lament of Old Mr. Tanner; Poems and Satires. See Tyler’s American Literature; Hart’s American Literature.

=Green, Mrs. Julia [Boynton].= N. Y., 1861- ----. A verse-writer of Rochester, New York, who has published Lines and Interlines.

=Green, Rufus Smith.= N. Y., 1848- ----. A Presbyterian minister, president of Elmira College for Women since 1893. History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; Both Sides, or Jonathan and Absalom.

=Green, Samuel Abbott.= Ms., 1830- ----. A physician and antiquarian of Boston. Groton during the Indian Wars; History of Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series.

=Green, Seth.= N. Y., 1817-1888. A noted pisciculturist, from 1870 until his death the superintendent of the New York Fish Commission. Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; Fish Hatching and Fish Catching.

=Green, William Henry.= N. J., 1825-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature at Princeton College from 1851. The Pentateuch Vindicated; Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argument of Job Unfolded; Moses and the Prophets; Newton Lectures for 1885; The Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch; The Unity of the Book of Genesis. Scr. Wil.

=Green, William Mercer.= N. C., 1798-1887. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mississippi. His only publications were Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft and Bishop Otey.

=Greene, Aella.= Ms., 1838-1903. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts. Rhymes of Yankee Land; Into the Sunshine, and Other Poems; Stanza and Sequel, and Other Poems; John Peters; Gathered from Life.

=Greene, Albert Gorton.= R. I., 1802-1868. A lawyer of Providence who is chiefly remembered for his humourous poem, Old Grimes. He published Canonchet.

=Greene, Asa.= Ms., 1788-1837. A bookseller of New York city of note among his contemporaries as a humourist. Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth; Perils of Pearl Street; A Yankee Among the Nullifiers; A Glance at New York; Debtor’s Prison; Travels of Ex-Barber Fribbleton in America.

=Greene, Belle C.= See Greene, Mrs. Isabella.

=Greene, Charles Ezra.= Ms., 1842-1903. A professor of civil engineering in the University of Michigan from 1872. Graphical Method for Analysis of Bridge Trusses; Trusses and Arches; Notes on Rankine’s Civil Engineering. Wil.

=Greene, Charles Warren.= Ms., 1840- ----. Nephew of S. S. Greene, infra. A Massachusetts physician who has written upon natural science. Animals, their Homes and Habits; Birds, their Homes and Habits.

=Greene, Edward Lee.= R. I., 1843- ----. A professor of botany in the University of California. Illustrations of West American Oaks; Flora Franciscanæ.

=Greene, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple].= See McDougal, Mrs.

=Greene, Francis Vinton.= R. I., 1850-1900. A captain in the United States army who resigned in 1886. The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78; Sketches of Army Life in Texas; The Mississippi, a military work; Life of General Greene. Ap. Scr.

=Greene, George Washington.= R. I., 1811-1883. An historian who was professor of American history at Cornell University from 1872. Historical Studies; The German Element in the American War of Independence; Short History of Rhode Island; Historical View of the American Revolution; Life of General Nathanael Greene; Biographical Studies; History and Geography of the Middle Ages. Hou.

=Greene, Homer.= Pa., 1853- ----. A story-writer of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The Blind Brother; Burnham Breaker; Coal and the Coal Mines; The Riverpark Rebellion. Cr. Hou.

=Greene, Mrs. Isabella Catherine [Colton].= Vt., 1844- ----. A novelist and writer for young people, long a resident of Nashua, New Hampshire. A New England Conscience; Adventures of an Old Maid; A New England Idyl; The Hobbledehoy. Lo.

=Greene, Nathaniel.= N. H., 1797-1877. A Boston journalist, postmaster of Boston 1829-40 and 1845-49. He published a translation of Sforzosi’s History of Italy; Tales from the German; Tales and Sketches from the German, Italian, and French.

=Greene, Samuel Stillman.= Ms., 1810-1883. An educator of Providence, professor at Brown University, 1851-83, who published Analysis of the English Language and several text-books on English Grammar.

=Greene, Mrs. Sarah Pratt [McLean].= Ct., 1858- ----. A writer whose first novel, Cape Cod Folks, was widely popular, while the fact that certain of the dramatis personæ were portraits of living people gave rise to much litigation. Her other works include Towhead; Some Other Folks; Peter Patrick; Vesty of the Basins; Flood Tide. Har.

=Greene, William Batchelder.= Ms., 1819-1878. Son of N. Greene, supra. In early life a member of the noted Brook Farm Community. He was subsequently a Unitarian minister, and during the Civil War served as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. Remarks on the Science of History; Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc., Fragments; Reflections and Modern Maxims. Put.

=Greene, William Houston.= Pa., 1854- ----. A Philadelphia chemist, professor in the Central High School from 1880. Medical Chemistry; Lessons in Chemistry. Lip.

=Greenhow, Robert.= Va., 1800-1854. A surgeon and scholar whose latest years were spent in California. History of Tripoli; History of Oregon and California (1846).

=Greenleaf, Benjamin.= Ms., 1786-1864. An educator of Bradford, Massachusetts, who published a popular series of text-books on arithmetic and the higher mathematics.

=Greenleaf, Jonathan.= Ms., 1785-1865. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn. Sketches of Ecclesiastical History of Maine; History of New York Churches; Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.

=Greenleaf, Moses.= Ms., 1788-1834. Brother of J. Greenleaf, supra. Statistical View of Maine (1816); Survey of Maine (1829).

=Greenleaf, Simon.= Ms., 1783-1853. Brother of B. Greenleaf, supra. A distinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and professor of law at Harvard University from 1835 till his death. His greatest work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, has passed into fifteen editions. His other writings include Origin and Principles of Freemasonry; Full Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31; Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. See Bibliography of Maine.

=Greenough= [green´o], =Henry.= Ms., 1807-1883. An architect of Cambridge whose writings include the novels Ernest Carroll; Apelles and his Contemporaries, and various essays on art.

=Greenough, James Bradstreet.= Me., 1833-1901. A professor of Latin at Harvard University from 1873, who published with J. H. Allen, supra, a series of classical text-books. Other works of his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic Fantasia. Gi.

=Greenough, Mrs. Richard.= See Greenough, Mrs. Sarah.

=Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana [Loring].= 1827-1885. The wife of the noted sculptor Richard Greenough. In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law; Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; Mary Magdalene, and Other Poems. Rob.

=Greenwald, Emanuel.= Md., 1811-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Order of Family Prayer; The Lutheran Reformation; The Baptism of Children; Meditations for Passion Week; Romanism and the Reformation; The True Church; Meditations for the Closet, include the most of his controversial and other writings. See Life by Haupt, 1889.

=Greenwood, Francis William Pitt.= Ms., 1797-1843. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of King’s Chapel, 1824-43. History of King’s Chapel; Sermons to Children; Sermons of Consolation; Sermons on Various Subjects; Essays; Lives of the Apostles; Miscellaneous Writings. A. U. A.

=Greenwood, Grace.= See Lippincott, Mrs. Sarah.

=Greenwood, James Mickleborough.= Il., 1836- ----. An educator and school superintendent of Kansas City who has published Principles of Education Practically Applied. Ap.

=Greer, David Hummell.= W. Va., 1844- ----. Protestant Episcopal bishop-coadjutor of New York from 1904. The Preacher and his Place; From Things to God; Visions. Scr. Wh.

=Greey= [gree], =Edward.= E., 1835-1888. An English writer of French descent who came to America in 1868, and was for many years a dealer in Japanese curios in New York city. His writings include the dramas, Vendome, and Mirah; Blue Jackets, a novel; The Golden Lotus; the juvenile tales Young Americans in Japan; The Wonderful City of Tokio; The Bear Worshippers of Yezo; and translations from the Japanese of the novels, The Loyal Ronins; The Captive of Love. Le.

=Gregg, Alexander.= S. C., 1819-1893. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Texas. History of the Old Cheraws, an Account of the Indian Tribes in the Valley of the Pedee.

=Gregory, Daniel Seeley.= N. Y., 1832- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Lake Forest University, Illinois, 1878-86. Christian Ethics; Why Four Gospels; Practical Logic; The Tests of Philosophic Systems; Christ’s Trumpet Call to the Ministry. Fu.

=Gregory, John Milton.= N. Y., 1822-1898. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Michigan and Illinois. Handbook of History; New Political Economy; The Seven Laws of Teaching.

=Greylock, Godfrey.= See Smith, J. E. A.

=Griffin, Edward Dorr.= Ct., 1777-1837. A Congregational clergyman of Boston and elsewhere who was president of Williams College, 1821-36. Lectures in Park Street Church, Boston; Sixty Sermons on Practical Subjects. See Recollections of, by P. Cooke, 1856.

=Griffin, George.= Ct., 1778-1860. Brother of E. D. Griffin, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Sufferings of Our Saviour; Evidences of Christianity; The Gospel its Own Evidence.

=Griffin, Gilderoy Wells.= Ky., 1840-1891. A journalist who was a consul in Australia and elsewhere. Studies in Literature; Danish Days; Visit to Stratford; New Zealand, her Commerce and Resources; Life of George Prentice, infra.

=Griffin, Solomon Bulkley.= Ms., 1852- ----. A journalist of Springfield, Massachusetts, who has published Mexico of To-Day (1886). Har.

=Griffis, William Elliot.= Pa., 1843- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, pastor at Schenectady 1877-86, in charge of the Shawmut Congregational Church in Boston 1886-92, and subsequently settled at Ithaca, New York. An authority upon Japanese topics. The Mikado’s Empire; Japanese Fairy World; Corea: the Hermit Nation; The Tokio Guide; The Yokohama Guide; Japan in History, Folk-Lore, and Art; The Religions of Japan; Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us; The Lily Among Thorns, a biblical study; Life of Matthew Calbraith Perry; Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations; Townsend Harris, first American Envoy in Japan; Honda the Samurai: a Story of Modern Japan. Do. Har. Hou. Scr.

=Griffith, Robert Eglesfield.= Pa., 1798-1850. A physician and botanist who was from 1838 a medical professor in the University of Virginia. Medical Botany; Universal Formulary.

=Griffiths, John Willis.= N. Y., 1809-1882. A naval architect of New York city. Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, a work of great value; The Ship Builders’ Manual; The Progressive Ship Builder.

=Grimke= [grim´ke], =Archibald Henry.= S. C., 1849- ----. A Massachusetts lawyer of African descent. Eulogy on Wendell Phillips; Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics; William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist. Fu.

=Grimke, Frederick.= S. C., 1791-1863. Son of J. F. Grimke, infra. An Ohio jurist. Ancient and Modern Literature; Nature and Tendencies of Free Institutions. Clke.

=Grimke, John Faucheraud.= S. C., 1752-1819. A jurist of South Carolina. Revised Edition of Laws of South Carolina; Law of Executors of South Carolina; Public Law of South Carolina; Probate Directory; Duty of Justices of the Peace.

=Grimke, Sarah Moore.= S. C., 1792-1873. Daughter of J. F. Grimke, supra. A reformer who was very prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States; Letters on the Condition of Women.

=Grimke, Thomas Smith.= S. C., 1786-1834. Son of J. F. Grimke, supra. A reformer of Charleston, active in temperance and in the promotion of peace societies, who published Addresses on Science, Education, and Literature.

=Grimshaw, Robert.= Pa., 1850- ----. A civil engineer, lecturer on physics at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. History, etc., of Saws; Saw Filing; Steam Engine Catechism; Pump Catechism; Steam Boiler Catechism; Record of Scientific Progress; Hints to Power Users; Fifty Years Hence. Bai. Cas. Wil.

=Grimshaw, William.= I., 1782-1852. A Philadelphia writer who published a once popular series of school histories, and also Etymological Dictionary; Gentlemen’s Lexicon; Ladies’ Lexicon; The American Chesterfield; Life of Napoleon. Lip.

=Grinnell= [grin´el], =George Bird.= N. Y., 1849- ----. An ornithologist and the editor of “Forest and Stream” of New York city. He has enjoyed a long and friendly acquaintance with the Indians of the Great Plains. The Story of a Prairie People; The Story of the Indian; Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. Ap. Scr.

=Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell.= Vt., 1821-1891. A distinguished citizen of Iowa; in early life a Presbyterian minister. He founded the Iowa town of Grinnell in 1854, and was president of Iowa College, formerly Grinnell University. It was to him that Horace Greeley is said to have made the famous remark, “Go West, young man, go West.” Home of the Badgers; Cattle Industries of the United States; Men and Events of Forty Years. Lo.

=Griscom, John.= N. J., 1774-1852. A once noted educator who was professor of chemistry at Rutgers College, 1812-28. A Year in Europe; Monitorial Instruction. See Memoirs of, by his Son.

=Griscom, John Hawkins.= N. Y., 1809-1874. Son of J. Griscom, supra. An eminent physician of New York city. Animal Mechanism and Physiology; Prison Hygiene; Use and Abuses of Air; Use of Tobacco and Evils Resulting Therefrom; Physical Indications of Longevity. Har.

=Griswold, Alexander Viets.= Ct., 1766-1843. Third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. Discourses on the Most Important Doctrines; The Reformation and the Apostolic Office; Remarks on Prayer Meetings. See Memoirs, by J. S. Stone, infra.

=Griswold, Mrs. Frances Irene [Burge] [Smith].= R. I., 1826-1900. A Brooklyn writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are The Bishop and Nannette Series; Miriam’s Reward.

=Griswold, Mrs. Harriet [Tyng].= Ms., 1842- ----. In early life a schoolteacher in Columbus, Wisconsin, who has published Apple Blossoms, a volume of poems; Home Life of Great Authors; Waiting on Destiny; Lucille and her Friends. Her poem, Under the Daisies, has had a wide popularity as a song. Mg.

=Griswold, Rufus Wilmot.= Vt., 1815-1857. An industrious compiler and literary editor who possessed but a slight amount of critical insight and discrimination. His best known publications are, Female Poets of America; Prose Writers of America; Poets and Poetry of America; Sacred Poets of England and America. His other works include Washington and the Generals of the Revolution; The Republican Court; Scenes in the Life of the Saviour; Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire (with H. B. Wallace, infra). See Lowell’s Fable for Critics. Ap. Co.

=Griswold, William Macrillis.= Me., 1853-1899. Son of R. W. Griswold, supra. A literary worker of Cambridge who has published A Manual of Misused Words, and many valuable indexes to periodicals.

=Gronlund, Laurence.= Dk., 1847-1899. A lecturer upon socialistic topics in many cities of the United States. The Coöperative Commonwealth in its Outlines; Ça Ira, or Danton in the French Revolution; Our Destiny. Le.

=Gross, Joseph B----.= 18-- -1891. Brother of S. D. Gross, infra. A Lutheran clergyman, among whose writings are The Heathen Religion in its Symbolical Development; Teachings of Providence; Truth in Religion; Belief in Immortality on Purely Logical Principles; Old Faith and New Thoughts.

=Gross, Samuel David.= Pa., 1805-1884. A distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia who was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College 1856-82, and a member of many medical associations in America and Europe. A System of Surgery; Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the 19th Century; Manual of Military Surgery; History of American Medical Literature; John Hunter and his Pupils; Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the Intestines; Diseases of the Urinary Organs. He also edited American Medical Biography. See Autobiography, edited by his sons, 1887.

=Gross, Samuel Weissell.= O., 1837-1889. Son of S. D. Gross, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia who succeeded his father as professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College in 1882. Tumors of the Mammary Gland; Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied Disorders. Ap.

=Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus.= Ms., 1845- ----. A professor of European History at Amherst College, and from 1873-90 professor of history at Roberts College, Constantinople. Constantinople. Rob.

=Grote, Augustus Radcliffe.= 18-- -1903. A scientist, formerly of Buffalo, but afterward living in Bremen, Germany. Notes on the Bombycidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba; Notes on the Zygænidæ of Cuba; Genesis; The New Infidelity; Notes of the Lepidoptera of America (with C. T. Robinson); Rip Van Winkle, a Sun Myth, and Other Poems.

=Grubé, Bernhard Adam.= G., 1715-1808. A Moravian missionary who came to America in 1746 and settled in Pennsylvania. He published Delaware Indian Hymn Book; Harmony of the Gospels.

=Grund, Francis Joseph.= Bo., 1805-1863. A journalist of Philadelphia who published Exercises in Arithmetic; Americans in their Moral, Religious, and Social Relations; Aristocracy in America; Life of General Harrison (in German); Thoughts and Reflections on the Present Position of Europe (1860).

=Guernsey, Alfred Hudson.= Vt., 1818-1902. A writer of New York city, at one period editor of Harper’s Monthly. The Spanish Armada; The World’s Opportunities; Carlyle, his Life, Books, and Theories; Emerson, Poet and Philosopher. Ap.

=Guernsey, Clara Florida.= N. Y., 1836- ----. A Rochester writer of juvenile tales, among which are, The Boys of Eaglewood School; The Silver Library; Friends in Need; The Merman and the Figure Head. Lip.

=Guernsey, Egbert.= Ct., 1823-1903. A homœopathic physician of New York city, editor of The Medical Times from 1872. History of the United States; Homœopathic Domestic Practice; The Gentleman’s Book of Homœopathy.

=Guernsey, Henry Newell.= Vt., 1817-1885. A homœopathic physician of Philadelphia. Application of Homœopathy to Obstetrics; Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects; The Keynote System; Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; Lectures on Materia Medica.

=Guernsey, Lucy Ellen.= N. Y., 1826-1899. Sister of C. F. Guernsey, supra. A writer of Rochester, New York, who published more than fifty juvenile tales, including Old Stanfield House; Through Unknown Ways; Winifred; Agnes Warrington’s Mistake. Do.

=Guernsey, Rocellus Sheridan.= N. Y., 1836- ----. Juries and Physicians on Insanity; Mechanics’ Lien Laws for New York City; Municipal Law and its Relations to the Constitution of Man; Key to Story’s “Equity Jurisprudence;” Living Authors at the New York Bar; Suicide, a History of the Penal Laws Relating to It; New York City and Vicinity during the War of 1812.

=Guild, Mrs. Caroline Snowden [Whitmarsh].= Ms., 1827-1898. A religious writer of Boston. Violet; Daisy; Never Mind the Face; Some House Songs. Compiler of Hymns of the Ages; Prayers of the Ages. Hou.

=Guild, Curtis.= Ms., 1828- ----. A journalist of Boston, founder and editor of The Commercial Bulletin. Over the Ocean, a popular book of travels; Abroad Again; Britons and Muscovites; From Sunrise to Sunset, a volume of verse; A Chat About Celebrities. Le.

=Guild, Reuben Aldridge.= Ms., 1822-1899. A librarian of Brown University, 1848-93. Librarian’s Manual; Rhode Island in the Continental Congress (edited); History of Brown University; Chaplain Smith and the Baptists; Footprints of Roger Williams; Roger Williams, the Pioneer Missionary to the Indians.

=Guiney= [gī´nĭ], =Louise Imogen.= Ms., 1861- ----. A writer of Newton, Massachusetts, whose published works include Goose-Quill Papers; Brownies and Bogles; Three Heroines of New England Romance (with Mrs. Spofford and Alice Brown); Monsieur Henri, a Footnote to French History; A Little English Gallery; Lovers’ Saint Ruths, and Three Other Tales; Patrins, a collection of essays; Verse: Songs at the Start; The White Sail; A Roadside Harp. She has edited the select poems of Mangan, with a study of his life and work. Cop. Har. Hou. Lam. Lo. Rob.

=Gummere= [gŭm´ery], =Francis Barton.= N. J., 1855- ----. A professor of English in Haverford College, Pennsylvania. The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor; Handbook of Poetics; Germanic Origins, a study in Primitive Culture. Gi. Scr.

=Gummere, John.= Pa., 1784-1845. A once noted educator of Burlington, New Jersey. Treatise on Surveying; Theoretical and Practical Astronomy.

=Gummere, Samuel R.= Pa., 1789-1866. Brother of J. Gummere, supra, and also an educator of Burlington. Treatise on Geography; Compendium of Elocution.

=Gunnison, Almon.= Me., 1844- ----. A Universalist clergyman of prominence. Rambles Overland, a Trip Across the Continent; Wayside and Fireside Rambles.

=Gunnison, Elisha Norman.= Ms., 1837-1880. A journalist of York, Pennsylvania, who published One Summer Dream, and Other Poems; Our Stars.

=Gunnison, John Williams.= N. H., 1812-1853. A civil engineer killed by Mormons and Indians while making railway surveys in Utah. A History of the Mormons was his only published work.

=Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley.= O., 1856- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Chicago. The Metamorphosis of a Creed; The Transfiguration of Christ; Monk and Knight, an Historical Study in Fiction; Phidias, and Other Poems; October at Eastwood; Songs of Night and Day. Hou. Mg.

=Gunter, Archibald Clavering.= E., 1847- ----. A writer of popular sensational romances quite destitute of literary merit. Mr. Barnes of New York; Mr. Potter of Texas; The First of the English; The Ladies’ Juggernaut.

=Gurowski, Adam.= Po., 1805-1866. A Polish count who came to the United States in 1849, and was employed as a translator in the state department at Washington. La Civilisation et la Russie; Pensées sur l’Avenir des Polonais; Aus meinem Gedankenbuche; Eine Tour durch Belgien; Impressions et Souvenirs; Die letzen Ereignisse in den drei Theilen des alten Polen; Le Panslavisme; Russia as It Is; The Turkish Question; A Year of the War (1855); America and Europe; Slavery in History; My Diary, 1861-66.

=Gurteen, Stephen Humphreys Villiers.= E., 1840-1898. An Episcopal clergyman of Buffalo, Toledo, and elsewhere, prominent as an organizer of charities. Phases of Charity; Provident Schemes; What is Charity Organization; How Paupers are Made; Casuistry; The Arthurian Epic; Epic of the Fall of Man. Put.

=Gustafson, Axel.= “Carl Johan.” Sn., 1849- ----. A Swedish writer who came to the United States in 1868, and has published The Foundation of Death: a Study of The Drink Question; The Drink Problem; Some Thoughts on Moderation. Fu.

=Gustafson, Mrs. Zadel [Barnes] [Buddington].= Ct., 1841- ----. Wife of A. Gustafson, supra. Meg: a Pastoral, and Other Poems; Can the Old Love? a novel; Genevieve Ward, a Biography. Le.

=Gutheim, James Koppel.= Wa., 1817-1886. A Jewish clergyman of New Orleans who published The Temple Pulpit, a volume of sermons; and a translation of Gratz’s History of the Jews.

=Guyot= [ḡe-o´], =Arnold Henry.= Sd., 1807-1884. A geographer of distinction who came to America in 1849, and from 1854 until his death was professor of geography at Princeton College. He was the founder of the Princeton Museum. Earth and Man; Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science; Physical Geography; Social Economy. See Memoir by J. A. Dana, supra. Scr.

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=Habberton, John.= L. I., 1842- ----. A journalist of New York city whose first book, Helen’s Babies, enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to its literary merit. His subsequent writings include Other People’s Children; The Barton Experiment; The Jericho Road; Who was Paul Grayson?; The Scripture Club of Valley Rest; The Bowsham Puzzle; Brueton’s Bayou; Country Luck; Grown-Up Babies; Life of Washington; Some Folks; My Mother-in-Law; Mrs. Mayburn’s Twins; The Worst Boy in Town; The Chautauquans; All He Knew; Honey and Gall; The Lucky Lover. Fl. Fu. Har. Ho. Lip.

=Habersham, Alexander Wylly.= N. Y., 1826-1883. A naval officer who in later life was a tea merchant in Japan, and the author of My Last Cruise, an Account of the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Lip.

=Hackett, Horatio Balch.= Ms., 1808-1875. A Baptist clergyman, professor at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts, 1839-70, and from 1870 till his death professor in Rochester Seminary, New York. He was one of the American Revisers of the Bible, and editor of Smith’s Bible Dictionary. A Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts of the Apostles is his chief work. Others are, Memorials of Christian Men in the War; Illustrations of Scripture by a Tour in the Holy Land. See Memorials of, 1876.

=Hackett, James Henry.= N. Y., 1800-1871. A popular actor, noted for his impersonation of Falstaff. Notes and Comments on Shakespeare.

=Hackley, Charles William.= 1808-1861. An Episcopal clergyman who was professor of mathematics at Columbia College from 1843 until his death. Treatise on Algebra; Elementary Course in Geometry; Elements of Trigonometry.

=Haddock, Charles Brickett.= N. H., 1796-1861. Nephew of D. Webster, infra. A professor of rhetoric at Dartmouth College, 1819-50, and chargé d’affaires in Portugal, 1850-54. He originated the railway system of New Hampshire, and also the system of common schools in that State. His Addresses and Miscellaneous Writings appeared in 1840.

=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Ct., 1856- ----. Son of J. Hadley, infra. President of Yale University from 1899; previously a professor of political science there. Private Property and Public Welfare; Railroad Transportation, its History and Laws; Report on the System of Weekly Payments. Put.

=Hadley, James.= N. Y., 1821-1872. A philologist who was Greek professor at Yale University, 1848-72. Lectures on Roman Law; A Greek Grammar; Elements of the Greek Language; Essays, Philological and Critical; Brief History of the English Language. See The New Englander, January, 1873. Ap.

=Hageman, Samuel Miller.= N. J., 1848- ----. Grandson of S. Miller, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who has published Once, a novel; and several volumes of poems, including Vesper Voices; Greenwood, and Other Poems; Silence; Saint Paul.

=Hagen, Hermann August.= P., 1817-1893. An entomologist of prominence who came to Cambridge from Königsberg in 1870, and was professor of comparative zoölogy at Harvard University. Catalogue of Neuropterous Insects in the British Museum; Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America; North American Astacidæ; Some Insect Deformities.

=Hagen, Theodor von.= G., 1823-1871. A musician who came to New York city from Germany in 1854. Civilisation und Musik; Musikalische Novellen.

=Hager, Albert David.= Vt., 1817-1888. A geologist, from 1877 librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Geology of Vermont (with C. H. Hitchcock, infra); Economic Geology of Vermont.

=Hager, Mrs. Lucie Caroline [Gilson].= Ms., 1853- ----. A Massachusetts writer who has published Boxborough, a New England Town and its People.

=Hagert, Henry Schell.= Pa., 1826-1885. A noted nisi prius lawyer of Philadelphia. Poems, with Memoir by C. A. Lagen (1886).

=Hague, Arnold.= Ms., 1840- ----. Son of W. Hague, infra. A geologist in the government service. Volcanoes of California, Oregon, and Washington; Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin; Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District; Volcanic Rocks of Salvador; Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe.

=Hague, James Duncan.= Ms., 1836- ----. Son of W. Hague, infra. An engineer attached to the United States Geological Survey who has published a work on Mining Industry.

=Hague, Mrs. Parthenia Antoinette [Vardaman].= Ga., 1838- ----. A Florida writer. A Blockaded Family; Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War. Hou.

=Hague, William.= N. Y., 1808-1887. A Baptist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Christianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New; Guide to Conversion; Home Life; Authority of the Christian Sabbath; Self-Witnessing Character of the New Testament; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Life Notes, or Fifty Years’ Outlook. Le.

=Haldeman= [hŏl´de-man], =Samuel Stehman.= Pa., 1812-1880. A professor of comparative philology in the University of Pennsylvania, 1869-81. Zoölogical Contributions; Analytical Orthography; Word-Building; Tours of a Chess Knight; Elements of Latin Pronunciation; Pennsylvania Dutch; Outlines of Etymology; Affixes in their Origin and Application; Rhymes of the Poets. Lip.

=Hale, Benjamin.= Ms., 1797-1863. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, president of Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1836-58. Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry; Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy; Education in its Relations to a Free Government; Historical Notices of Geneva College (1849). See Life of, by Malcolm Douglass, 1883.

=Hale, Charles Reuben.= Pa., 1837-1900. The Protestant Episcopal coadjutor bishop of Springfield, Illinois, with the title of Bishop of Cairo. The Mozarabic Liturgy; The Universal Episcopate; Speeches and Addresses.

=Hale, Edward Everett.= Ms., 1822- ----. A prominent Unitarian clergyman of Boston, widely known as a writer, whose literary activity covers a wide field. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the South Congregational Church, and his influence in civic life has been extensive. As a writer of short stories he will, perhaps, be longest remembered, his work in this direction including The Man Without a Country; Ten Times One is Ten; In His Name; Mrs. Merriam’s Scholars; His Level Best; The Ingham Papers; Four and Five; Crusoe in New York; Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Christmas in Narragansett; Our Christmas in a Palace. Longer essays in fiction are, Margaret Percival in America; Mr. Tangier’s Vacations; Ups and Downs; Philip Nolan’s Friends; The Fortunes of Rachel. Other works of his are, Sketches in Christian History; Kansas and Nebraska; How To Do It; What Career?; Gone to Texas; Seven Spanish Cities; June to May, a collection of sermons; Boys’ Heroes; The Story of Massachusetts; Sybaris and Other Homes; Sunday-School Stories on the Golden Texts of 1889; For Fifty Years, a collection of poems; A New England Boyhood, an autobiographic work; Chautauquan History of the United States; If Jesus Came to Boston. See Vedder’s American Writers. See, also, Hale, Susan. A. U. A. Cas. Fu. Lam. Rob. Scr.

=Hale, Edwin Moses.= N. H., 1826-1899. Nephew of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A Chicago physician, professor in the Homœopathic College. Pocket Manual of Domestic Practice; Homœopathic Materia Medica; Treatment of Diseases of Women; Treatise on Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.

=Hale, Enoch.= Ms., 1790-1848. A physician in Boston, and a nephew of the patriot Nathan Hale. History of the Spotted Fever at Gardiner, Maine, in 1814; Typhoid Fever.

=Hale, Horatio.= R. I., 1817-1896. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A lawyer and ethnologist of prominence who lived in Clinton, Ontario, from 1856. Ethnology and Philology; Indian Migrations as Evidenced by Language; Report on the Blackfeet Tribes. He has edited the Iroquois Book of Rites.

=Hale, Lucretia Peabody.= Ms., 1820-1900. Sister of E. E. Hale, supra. A writer who is best known by her humourous juvenile books. The Peterkin Papers; The Last of the Peterkins. Her other works comprise The Lord’s Supper and its Observance; The Service of Sorrow; Sunday-School Stories for Little Children; Fagots for the Fireside, a collection of games; The Struggle for Life, a Story of Home; Art Needle Work; An Uncloseted Skeleton (with E. L. Bynner, supra); The New Harry and Lucy (with E. E. Hale). Hou. Rob.

=Hale, Robert Beverly.= Ms., 1869-1895. Son of E. E. Hale, supra. Elsie and Other Poems; Six Stories and Some Verses.

=Hale, Salma.= N. H., 1787-1866. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Sarah Hale, infra. A New Hampshire jurist who represented his State in Congress in 1816. History of the United States; Annals of the Town of Keene. Har.

=Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha [Buell].= N. H., 1788-1879. A once well-known writer of Philadelphia who was editor of The Lady’s Book for forty years. It was largely through her influence that Thanksgiving became a national festival. Among her numerous books Woman’s Record, a large biographical and critical work, is the most important. Others are, The Genius of Oblivion, and Other Poems; Northwood, a novel; Sketches of American Character; Traits of American Life; Flora’s Interpreter; The Way to Live Well; Grosvenor, a Tragedy; Manners, or Happy Homes; Love, or Woman’s Destiny, with Other Poems; The White Veil; The Judge, a drama; Three Hours, or the Vigil of Love; Harry Gray, a Sea Story; Alice Ray, a Romance in Rhyme. She also edited cookery books, compilations, annuals, and the letters of Madame de Sévigné and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. See Allibone’s Dictionary. Har.

=Hale, Susan.= Ms., 1833- ----. Sister of E. E. Hale, supra, and co-author with him of the Family Flight series of travels for young people. She has also published The Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton, supra. Ap. Lo. Rob.

=Hall, Abraham Oakey.= N. Y., 1826-1898. A once prominent Tammany politician of New York city, of which he was at one time mayor. He was subsequently on the staff of The World, but for many years lived in Europe. The Manhattaner in New Orleans; The Congressman’s Christmas Dream; Ballads; Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot, a story for the holidays. Har.

=Hall, Arethusa.= Ms., 1802-1891. An educator in New England, and subsequently in the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. The poet Whittier was one of her early pupils. Manual of Morals; Life of Sylvester Judd; Memorials of S. Judd, Senior; Thoughts of Pascal, a translation. See Memorial of, edited by F. E. Abbot, 1892.

=Hall, Arthur Crawshay Alliston.= E., 1847- ----. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. He was for many years in charge of the mission of the Cowley Fathers in Boston. Confession and the Lambeth Conference; Meditations on the Creed; Meditations on the Collects; The Example of the Passion.

=Hall, Baynard Rush.= Pa., 1798-1863. An educator of New Jersey and New York. A Latin Grammar; The New Purchase of Life in the Far West, long a very popular book; Something for Everybody; Teaching a Science; The Teacher an Artist; Frank Freeman’s Barber’s Shop.

=Hall, Benjamin Franklin.= N. Y., 1814-1891. A New York jurist, chief justice of Colorado, 1861-64. The Land Owner’s Manual; The Republican Party; Methodism, its Source and Power.

=Hall, Benjamin Homer.= N. Y., 1830-1891. Brother of Fitzedward Hall, infra. A lawyer of Troy, New York. College Words and Customs; History of Eastern Vermont; Bibliography of the United States: Vermont.

=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= N. Y., 1852- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, 1877-97; from 1897 president of Union Theological Seminary. Does God Send Trouble?; Into His Marvellous Light; The Children, the Church, and the Communion; Qualifications for Ministerial Power; The Gospel of the Divine Sacrifice. Do. Hou.

=Hall, Charles Francis.= N. H., 1821-1871. An Arctic explorer. The Arctic Regions; Life Among the Esquimaux; Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition. Har.

=Hall, Charles Henry.= Ga., 1820-1895. An Episcopal clergyman of Brooklyn, rector of Holy Trinity Church, 1869-95. Commentaries on the Gospel; Protestant Ritualism; Spina Christi; The Church of the Household; Valley of the Shadow.

=Hall, Charles Winslow.= Ms., 1843- ----. A lawyer of Minnesota. Arctic Rovings; Twice Taken; Adrift in the Ice-Fields; Drifting Around the World. Le.

=Hall, Christopher Webber.= Vt., 1845- ----. Professor of geology and mineralogy in University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, from 1878, and dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy, and Mechanic Arts. He has written many valuable professional papers, and a History of the University of Minnesota.

=Hall, Edward Henry.= O., 1831- ----. Stepson of Louisa Hall, infra. A Unitarian clergyman of Worcester, and subsequently of Cambridge. Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Christian Church; Lessons on the Life of Saint Paul; Discourses. A. U. A. El.

=Hall, Edwin.= N. Y., 1802-1877. A Congregational clergyman, professor of theology in Auburn Seminary, 1854-77. The Law of Baptism; The Puritans and their Principles; Historical Records of Norwalk; Shorter Catechism with Proofs.

=Hall, Fitzedward.= N. Y., 1825-1901. A philologist of distinction who was inspector of schools in India, 1846-62, and in the latter year became professor of Sanskrit in King’s College, London. Recent Exemplifications of False Philology; Modern English; English Adjectives in -able with Special Reference to Reliable; Lectures on the Nyâya Philosophy; and several works in Sanskrit. Scr.

=Hall, Mrs. Florence [Howe].= Ms., 1845- ----. Daughter of Mrs. J. W. Howe, infra. A writer of Plainfield, New Jersey. Social Customs; The Correct Thing in Good Society. Est.

=Hall, Frederick.= Vt., 1780-1843. An educator who was professor of chemistry in Columbian College, Washington, at the time of his death. He published Letters from the East and from the West.

=Hall, Gertrude.= Ms., 1863- ----. A Boston writer of short stories and poems. Far from To-Day, a collection of strikingly original stories; Allegretto, a volume of verse; Foam of the Sea, and Other Tales; Verses. Rob.

=Hall, Granville Stanley.= Ms., 1845- ----. An educator of note, president of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1888. Aspects of German Culture; Hints Toward a Bibliography of Education (with J. M. Mansfield); How to Teach Reading.

=Hall, Harrison.= Md., 1785-1866. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, infra. A scientist of Philadelphia who in 1815 published a work on Distillation that was much commended in its day.

=Hall, Hiland.= Vt., 1795-1885. A jurist of Vermont and governor of that State, 1858-60, who wrote a History of Vermont to 1791.

=Hall, Isaac Hollister.= Ct., 1837-1896. Son of E. Hall, supra. A lawyer and Oriental scholar, lecturer on New Testament Greek in Johns Hopkins University, 1884-96. He published American Greek Testaments, a critical Bibliography.

=Hall, James.= Pa., 1744-1826. A Presbyterian clergyman in the Southern States. Narrative of a Most Extraordinary Work of Religion in North Carolina; Missionary Tour through the Mississippi and Southwest Country.

=Hall, James.= Pa., 1793-1868. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, infra. Letters from the West; Legends of the West; Tales of the Border; Sketches of the West; Notes on the Western States; Life of General Harrison; History of the Indian Tribes (with McKinney); The Wilderness and the War Path; The Harpe’s Head, a Legend of Kentucky; Romance of Western History. See Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Ohio. Clke.

=Hall, James.= Ms., 1811-1898. A paleontologist of distinction, professor of geology at the Troy Polytechnic School from 1836, and State geologist of New York from 1837. Geology of the Fourth District of New York; Paleontology of New York; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; and many scientific monographs.

=Hall, John.= Pa., 1806-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the First Church in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1841, among whose writings are, Translation of Milton’s Latin Letters; History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton; Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, supra; Sabbath-School Theology.

=Hall, John.= I., 1829-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman who came from Dublin to America in 1867, and became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York city. All the Way Across; The Chief End of Man; Familiar Talks to Boys; Questions of the Day; God’s Word through Preaching; A Christian Home; Foundation Stones for Young Builders, include his principal writings. Bar. Ran.

=Hall, John Elihu.= Pa., 1783-1829. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, infra. A lawyer and author of Philadelphia who edited The Portfolio, 1817-27. Memoirs of Eminent Persons; Practice and Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty; Life of Dr. John Shaw; Tracts on Constitutional Law. _See A. H. Smyth’s Philadelphia Magazines, 1892._

=Hall, Mrs. Louisa Jane [Park].= Ms., 1802-1892. A writer of Providence. Miriam, a dramatic poem; Joanna of Naples, a tale; Life of Elizabeth Carter. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.

=Hall, Samuel Read.= N. H., 1795-1877. An educator of Vermont who organized the first training-school for teachers in the United States. The Instructor’s Manual; Lectures on Education; Geography for Children.

=Hall, Mrs. Sarah [Ewing].= Pa., 1761-1830. A Philadelphia writer well known at one time as the author of Conversations on the Bible. Selections from her work were published in 1833, with Memoir by Harrison Hall, supra.

=Hall, Thomas Mifflin.= Pa., 1798-1828. A Philadelphia littérateur. Son of Mrs. Sarah Hall, supra.

=Hall, William Whitty.= Ky., 1810-1876. A physician of New York city, the founder of Hall’s Journal of Health. Health and Good Living; Health and Disease as Affected by Constipation; Fun Better than Physic; Consumption; Sleep; Guide-Board to Health; Coughs and Colds; Health at Home; How to Live Long; Dyspepsia; Treatise on Cholera; Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases. Hou.

=Hallam, Robert Alexander.= Ct., 1807-1877. An Episcopal clergyman who was rector of St. James’s Church, New London, Connecticut, from 1835 till his death. Lectures on the Morning Prayer; Lectures on Moses; Sovereigns of Judah; Sermons; Annals of St. James’s.

=Halleck, Fitz-Greene.= Ct., 1790-1867. A poet who was for many years a clerk in a New York banking-house, and subsequently confidential adviser to John Jacob Astor. His verse has grace and sweetness, but is wanting in positive qualities, and has already largely passed out of remembrance. Marco Bozzaris is his most famous poem. Fanny; Alnwick Castle, and Other Poems. See Life and Letters, by Grant Wilson; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Bryant and his Friends; Appleton’s American Biography. Ap. Cr.

=Halleck, Henry Wager.= N. Y., 1816-1872. A major-general who was general-in-chief of the armies of the United States, 1862-64. Bitumen, its Varieties, Properties, and Uses; Mining Laws of Spain and Mexico; Elements of International Law (1866); Treatise on International Law (1861); Elements of Military Art and Science. See Appleton’s American Biography. Lip.

=Halliday, Samuel Byram.= N. J., 1812-1897. A Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, assistant of Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church for nearly twenty years. The Little Street Sweeper; The Lost and Found, or Life Among the Poor; Winning Souls; The Church in America and Its Baptisms of Fire (with D. S. Gregory, supra). Fu.

=Hallock, Charles.= N. Y., 1834- ----. A journalist of New York city, founder of Forest and Stream. The Fishing Tourist; Camp Life in Florida; The Sportsman’s Gazetteer; Our New Alaska. Har.

=Hallock, Mrs. Julia Isabel [Sherman].= Ct., 1846- ----. A Connecticut writer. Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery, a study of country life. Le.

=Hallock, Mrs. Mary Angelina [Ray] [Lathrop].= Ms., 1810- ----. Wife of W. A. Hallock, infra. A writer of Sunday-school books, including That Sweet Story of Old; Child’s History of the Fall of Jerusalem; Child’s Life of Daniel; The Story of Moses; Bethlehem and her Children; Beasts and Birds; Child’s History of Solomon; Life of the Apostle Paul.

=Hallock, William Allen.= Ms., 1794-1880. A Congregational clergyman, secretary of the American Tract Society, 1825-70. Life of Harlan Page; Moses Hallock; Justin Edwards, supra, and several very popular tracts.

=Hallowell, Richard Price.= Pa., 1835-1904. A wool merchant of Boston who wrote The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts; The Pioneer Quakers. Hou.

=Halpine, Charles Graham.= “Miles O’Reilly.” I., 1829-1868. A journalist of New York city who came to America in 1852 and served during the Civil War as a colonel in the Federal army. Lyrics; Poems; Miles O’Reilly Papers; Life and Adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly; Baked Meats of the Funeral. His Poetical Works, edited by R. B. Roosevelt, infra, appeared in 1869. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 24; Appleton’s American Biography. Har.

=Halsey, Leroy Jones.= Va., 1812-1896. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1859 professor in Chicago Theological Seminary. The Literary Attractions of the Bible; The Life and Pictures of the Bible; The Beauty of Emmanuel; Living Christianity; Scotland’s Influence on Civilization.

=Halstead, Murat.= O., 1829- ----. A journalist of note, editor and proprietor of The Commercial of Cincinnati, and since 1890 of The Standard Union, Brooklyn. Caucuses of 1860; Life of William McKinley.

=Halsted, Byron David.= N. Y., 1852- ----. An agricultural writer, since 1884 professor of botany in Iowa Agricultural College. A Century of American Weeds; The Vegetable Garden; Farm Conveniences; Household Conveniences.

=Halsted, George Bruce.= N. J., 1853- ----. Grandson of O. S. Halsted, infra. A professor of mathematics in the University of Texas from 1887, and a mathematician of prominence. Metrical Geometry, a Treatise on Mensuration; Elements of Geometry; Synthetic Geometry; Number, Discrete and Continuous. See Bibliography of Texas. Gi. Wil.

=Halsted, Oliver Spencer.= N. J., 1792-1877. A jurist of Newark, New Jersey. The Theology of the Bible; The Book called Job.

=Ham, Charles Henry.= N. H., 1831-1902. A lawyer and journalist of Chicago. Manual Training: the Solution of Social and Industrial Problems. Har.

=Ham, Marion Franklin.= O., 1867- ----. A verse-writer of Chattanooga. The Golden Shuttle, and Other Poems.

=Hamersley, Lewis Randolph.= D. C., 1847- ----. A lieutenant in the United States marine corps. Records of Living Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps (1890); Naval Encyclopædia.

=Hamilton, Alexander.= W. I., 1757-1804. A statesman who ranks as the ablest political writer of his day in America. In 1789 he became the first secretary of the United States Treasury, and his first Report on the Public Credit was one of the most notable of national state papers. He was the principal contributor to The Federalist, 51 of its 85 articles being by him alone, and he assisted Washington in preparing the latter’s Farewell Address. See Complete Works, including The Federalist, edited by H. C. Lodge, infra, 1885; Lives, by Williams, 1804; J. C. Hamilton, infra, 1840; Renwick, 1841; Smucker, 1856; J. T. Morse, Jr., 1876; Shea, 1879; Lodge, 1882; Hamilton and his Contemporaries, Richtmueller; Shea’s Historical Study of Hamilton; Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, Ford, 1886. Ap. Put.

=Hamilton, Alice King.= 18-- - ----. A novelist. Mildred’s Cadet; One of the Duanes. Lip.

=Hamilton, Allen McLane.= N. Y., 1848- ----. A physician of New York city. Clinical Electro-Therapeutics; Nervous Diseases; Medical Jurisprudence; Types of Insanity; The Modern Treatment of Headaches. Ap.

=Hamilton, Edward John.= I., 1834- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of philosophy in the State University of Washington. The general system of philosophy advocated by him is best defined by the term Perceptional. The Human Mind; Mental Science; The Modalist, or the Laws of Rational Thought; A New Analysis in Fundamental Modes, a short treatise in ethics. Gi.

=Hamilton, Frank Hastings.= Vt., 1813-1886. A distinguished surgeon of New York city, for many years professor in Bellevue Hospital. Strabismus; Fractures and Dislocations; Military Surgery; Principles and Practice of Surgery; Surgical Memories of the War of the Rebellion.

=Hamilton, Gail.= See Dodge, Abigail.

=Hamilton, James Alexander.= N. Y., 1788-1878. Third son of A. Hamilton, supra. A lawyer of New York city. Reminiscences during Three Quarters of a Century; Martin Van Buren’s Calumnies Repudiated.

=Hamilton, John Church.= Pa., 1792-1882. The fourth son of A. Hamilton, supra. A lawyer in New York city. Memoirs of Alexander Hamilton; History of the Republic; The Prairie Province. He edited his father’s works.

=Hamilton, John William.= W. Va., 1845- ----. A Methodist clergyman who founded the People’s Church in Boston. Memorials of Jesse Lee; Lives of the Methodist Bishops; People’s Church Pulpit.

=Hamilton, Kate Waterman.= “Fleeta.” N. Y., 1841- ----. An Illinois writer of Sunday-school and other fictions. Among them are, The Old Brown House; Frederick Gordon; Wood, Hay, and Stubble; Rachel’s Share of the Road, a Novel; The Parson’s Proxy. Hou.

=Hamilton, Robert S----.= 18-- - ----. Present Status of Social Science; Present Status of the Philosophy of Society.

=Hamilton, Schuyler.= N. Y., 1822-1903. Son of J. C. Hamilton, supra. A major-general in the Federal army during the Civil War. History of the American Flag; Our National Flag.

=Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster.= Ty., 1855- ----. Son of Cyrus Hamlin, infra. An architect, professor of architecture in Columbia College from 1889. Handbook of the History of Ornament.

=Hamlin, Augustus Choate.= Me., 1829- ----. A surgeon of Bangor. Martyria, or Andersonville Prison; The Tourmaline; Leisure Hours Among the Gems. Hou.

=Hamlin, Charles.= Me., 1837- ----. Cousin of A. C. Hamlin, and son of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-president of the United States, 1861-65. He was an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War, and has published The Insolvent Laws of Maine.

=Hamlin, Cyrus.= Me., 1811-1900. A Congregationalist missionary in Turkey, 1837-60, president of Robert College, Constantinople, 1860-76, and of Middlebury College, Vermont, 1880-85. Papists and Protestants; Arithmetic for Americans; Cholera and Its Treatment; Among the Turks; My Life and Times (1893). C. P. S.

=Hamlin, Teunis Slingerland.= N. Y., 1847- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Washington. Denominationalism versus Christian Union. Rev.

=Hamline, Leonidas Lent.= Ct., 1797-1865. A Methodist bishop prominent in Ohio. Sermons; Works, edited by F. G. Hibbard.

=Hammett, Samuel A----.= “Philip Paxton.” Ct., 1816-1865. A journalist of New York city. A Stray Yankee in Texas; The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest, are among his works.

=Hammond, Anthony.= 18-- - ----. Law of Nisi Prius; Parties to Actions; Principles of Pleading; Reports in Equity; Criminal Code: Forgery; Practice and Proceedings in Parliament; Index to Tennessee Reports; Criminal Code: Simple Larceny.

=Hammond, Edward Payson.= Ms., 1831- ----. A noted evangelist who has been a prolific author of religious books and tracts. Among his hundred or more publications are, Good Will to Men; Sketches of Palestine; The Conversion of Children; Gathered Lambs. See Reaper and Harvest, by P. C. Headley, infra. Fu. Rev.

=Hammond, Mrs. Henrietta [Hardy].= “Henri Dangé.” Va., 1854-1883. A Southern writer of fiction. The Georgians; A Fair Philosopher; Her Waiting Heart; Woman’s Secrets, or How to be Beautiful. Hou.

=Hammond, Jabez D.= Ms., 1778-1855. A jurist of New York State. The Political History of New York; Life of Julius Melbourn; Life of Silas Wright; Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul.

=Hammond, James Henry.= S. C., 1807-1864. A South Carolina politician, governor of his State, 1842-47, and United States Senator, 1857-60. Owing to a speech of his in Congress in which the term “mudsills” was used, he was afterwards known as “Mudsill Hammond.” He published The Pro-Slavery Argument.

=Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus.= S. C., 1814-1876. Brother of J. H. Hammond, supra. A United States army officer whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A Critical History of the Mexican War.

=Hammond, William Alexander.= Md., 1828-1900. An eminent physician of New York city, surgeon-general of the United States army, 1862-64; later on the retired list as brigadier-general and surgeon-general. His medical writings include Military Hygiene; Physiological Essays; Sleep and its Derangements; Nervous Derangements; Physiological Memoirs; Lectures on Venereal Diseases; Wakefulness; Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations; Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism; Diseases of the Nervous System; Insanity and its Medical Relations; Sexual Impotence in the Male; Cerebral Hyperæmia; Neurological Contributions. His novels include Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; Mr. Oldmixon; A Strong-Minded Woman; On the Susquehanna. Ap. Lip.

=Hanaford, Mrs. Phebe Ann [Coffin].= Ms., 1829- ----. A Universalist minister, the first woman to enter the ministry in the Universalist denomination. Since 1887 she has been in charge of a church at New Haven. Life of Abraham Lincoln; Life of George Peabody; Lucretia the Quakeress; Leonette, or Truth Sought and Found; The Best of Books and its History; Frank Nelson the Runaway Boy; The Soldier’s Daughter; Field, Gunboat, and Hospital; Women of the Century; The Captive Boy of Tierra del Fuego; Life of Dickens; From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems. Mer.

=Hancock, Anson Uriel.= 18-- - ----. The Genius of Galilee, an historical novel; John Auburntop, Novelist; Old Abraham Jackson, a Nebraska Story. Ke.

=Hanson, Edgar Filmore.= Me., 1853- ----. Demonology or Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.

=Hanson, John Wesley.= Ms., 1823- ----. A Universalist clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, Chicago, 1869-84. Histories of Danvers, Norridgewock, and Gardiner, in Maine; Bible Threatenings Explained; Cloud of Witnesses, a compilation; Aion Aionos; Bible Proofs of Universal Salvation; Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer; The Leaven at Work; The New Covenant, a translation of the New Testament.

=Hapgood, Isabel Florence.= Ms., 1851- ----. A writer and translator of New York city. The Epic Songs of Russia; Russian Rambles; translations of Gogol and Victor Hugo. Hou. Scr.

=Harbaugh= [har´baw], =Henry.= Pa., 1817-1867. A German Reformed clergyman of Pennsylvania, professor in Mercersburg Seminary, whose principal writings include Fathers of the German Reformed Church in Europe and America; The Heavenly Home; Christological Theology; The True Glory of Woman; Heaven, or the Sainted Dead; Birds of the Bible; The Golden Censer; Union with the Church.

=Harbaugh, Thomas Chalmers.= Md., 1849- ----. A popular verse-writer of Casstown, Ohio, whose only published collection of poems is entitled Maple Leaves.

=Harby, Isaac.= S. C., 1788-1828. A dramatist of Charleston whose plays include Alexander Severus; The Gordian Knot; Alberti. See Life by H. L. Pinckney, 1829.

=Harby, Mrs. Lee [Cohen].= S. C., 1849- ----. A New York writer, formerly of Texas, who has published Christmas Before the War. See Bibliography of Texas.

=Hardee, William Joseph.= Ga., 1815-1873. A Confederate general who was the author of a well-known work on Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. See Southern Generals, by W. P. Snow.

=Hardie, James.= S., c. 1750-1832. An educator of New York city. Corderii Colloquia; Epistolary Guide; Freeman’s Monitor; Wonders of Art and Nature, especially in America; Biographical Dictionary; Malignant Fevers in New York; Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ; Description of New York City.

=Hardy, Arthur Sherburne.= Ms., 1847- ----. A professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College 1878-93, well known both as novelist and mathematician. Elements of Quaternions; New Methods in Surveying; Elements of Analytic Geometry; Elements of Calculus; But Yet A Woman; The Wind of Destiny; Passe Rose; Joseph Hardy Neesima, a biography. See London Academy, June 30, 1883. Gi. Hou.

=Hare, George Emlen.= Pa., 1808-1892. Son of R. Hare, infra. An Episcopal clergyman, professor of biblical learning in the Philadelphia Divinity School from 1852. Christ to Return; Visions and Narratives of the Old Testament, a volume of sermons. Dut.

=Hare, John Innes Clark.= Pa., 1816- ----. Son of R. Hare, infra. A noted Philadelphia jurist. Treatise on Contracts; New England Exchequer Reports; American Constitutional Law. Lit.

=Hare, Robert.= Pa., 1781-1858. A once prominent Philadelphia scientist who made a number of important discoveries, and contributed frequently to scientific journals. Brief View of Policy and Resources of the United States; Spiritualism Scientifically Demonstrated; Chemical Apparatus and Scientific Manipulations.

=Hargrove, Robert Kenyon.= Al., 1829- ----. A bishop of the Methodist Church South from 1882. Laws of the Methodist Episcopal Church South as Interpreted by the College of Bishops.

=Hark, J[oseph] Max[imilian].= Pa., 1849- ----. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Unity of Truth in Christianity and Evolution. He has translated and edited from the German The Chronicon Ephratense.

=Harkey, Sidney Levi.= N. C., 1827- ----. A Lutheran clergyman whose writings include The Signs of the Times; The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints; Thorough Education; Agnosticism; National Blessings and Dangers.

=Harkey, Simon Walcher.= N. C., 1811-1889. A Lutheran clergyman of Illinois. True Wisdom Triumphant; Justification by Faith; The Church’s Best State, are among his writings.

=Harkness, Albert.= Ms., 1822- ----. An educator of Providence, professor of Greek in Brown University from 1855. He has published Complete Latin Course for the First Year, and many Greek and Latin text-books.

=Harkness, James.= S., 1803-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman who emigrated from Scotland in 1839, and was a pastor in Jersey City, 1862-78. Messiah’s Throne and Kingdom was his only published work.

=Harkness, William.= S., 1837- ----. Son of J. Harkness, supra. A mathematician of distinction who has published Magnetic Observations on the Monadnock.

=Harlan, George Cuvier.= Pa., 1835- ----. Son of R. Harlan, infra. A Philadelphia physician who has made a specialty of diseases of the eye, and is the author of Eyesight and How to Take Care of It.

=Harlan, Richard.= Pa., 1796-1843. A physician and naturalist of Philadelphia. Observations on the Genus Salamandra; Fauna Americana; American Herpetology; Medical and Physical Researches.

=Harland, Henry.= “Sidney Luska.” N. Y., 1861- ----. A novelist of New York city who removed to London, and has there edited The Yellow Book. Grandison Mather; Mea Culpa; As It Was Written; Mrs. Peixada; The Land of Love; The Yoke of the Thorah; My Uncle Florimond; Grey Roses. Cas. Rob.

=Harland, Marion.= See Terhune, Mrs.

=Harman, Henry Martyn.= Md., 1822-1897. A Methodist clergyman, professor in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1870. Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land; Introduction to Study of the Scriptures. Meth.

=Harney, John Milton.= Del., 1789-1825. A Savannah journalist who became a Dominican monk. He published Crystallina, a fairy tale in verse, and his other poems appeared posthumously in periodicals.

=Harney, William Wallace.= Ia., 1831- ----. A journalist and verse-writer of Florida whose poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies, but have not been gathered into book form.

=Harper, Robert Goodloe.= Va., 1765-1825. A once noted South Carolina and Maryland statesman. Letters on the Proceedings of Congress; Letters to Constituents. His Select Works appeared in 1814.

=Harper, William Rainey.= O., 1856- ----. A Baptist clergyman, president of the University of Chicago. Elements of Hebrew; Elements of Hebrew Syntax; Hebrew Vocabularies; An Introductory New Testament, Greek Method (with R. F. Weidner). Scr.

=Harrigan, Edward.= N. Y., 1845- ----. An actor and playwright of New York city among whose many plays of low life in the metropolis are, Squatter Sovereignty; Cordelia’s Aspirations.

=Harriman, Walter.= N. H., 1817-1884. A New Hampshire politician, governor of his state, 1867-68, and during the Civil War a Federal officer. History of Warner, New Hampshire; Travels and Observations in the Orient. See Life by Amos Hadley. Le.

=Harrington, Mark Walrod.= Il., 1848- ----. A scientist, professor of astronomy in the University of Michigan. The Analysis of Plants; Identification of Crude Drugs.

=Harris, Amanda Bartlett.= N. H., 1824- ----. A writer whose life has been mainly spent at her birthplace, Warner, New Hampshire. Christ our Friend; Thy Will be Done; The Duty of Uniting with the Church; Summer’s Autographs; How we went Birds’-Nesting, republished as Field, Wood, and Meadow Rambles; Wild Flowers and Where They Grow; Door-yard Folks; Pleasant Authors for Young Folks; American Authors for Young Folks; The Luck of Edenhall. She has contributed much to periodical literature, and has written reviews for The (Boston) Literary World from 1877. Lo.

=Harris, Chapin A----.= N. Y., 1806-1866. A dentist of Baltimore, founder of the Baltimore Dental College. Principles of Dental Surgery; Characteristics of the Human Teeth; Diseases of the Maxillary Sinus; Dictionary of Dental Science.

=Harris, George.= Me., 1844- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor of Christian theology in Andover Theological Seminary since 1883, and one of the editors of “The Andover Review,” 1884-93. Editor (with W. J. Tucker and E. K. Glezen) of Hymns of the Faith. Author of Moral Evolution. Hou.

=Harris, George Washington.= Pa., 1814-1869. A Tennessee River steamboat captain who contributed humourous and political articles to newspapers. Sut Lovengood’s Yarns were published in 1867.

=Harris, Joel Chandler.= Ga., 1848- ----. An Atlanta journalist, editor of The Constitution, celebrated as the author of Uncle Remus, a unique character study of the Southern negro as well as a notable contribution to the literature of folk-lore. His writings include Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings; Nights with Uncle Remus; Uncle Remus and his Friends; Mingo, and Other Sketches in Black and White; Balaam and his Master, and Other Sketches; Little Mr. Thimblefinger, a juvenile; Mr. Rabbit at Home, a juvenile; The Story of Aaron, a juvenile; Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches; Evening Tales, from the French of Fréderic Ortoli; Stories of Georgia; Sister Jane, her Friends and Acquaintances; Georgia, from the Invasion of De Soto to Recent Times. See Chautauquan, October, 1896. Ap. Hou. Scr.

=Harris, Mrs. Miriam [Coles].= L. I., 1834- ----. A novelist of New York city whose first story, Rutledge, was very popular. Later works are, Richard Vandermarck; The Sutherlands; St. Philip’s; Happy-Go-Lucky; Missy; Frank Warrington; A Perfect Adonis; Phœbe; An Utter Failure; Louie’s Last Term at St. Mary’s; The Rosary for Lent, a compilation. Ap. Hou.

=Harris, Samuel.= Me., 1814-1899. A Congregational clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Yale University from 1871. Zaccheus, or the Scriptural Plan of Benevolence; The Kingdom of Christ on Earth; The Philosophic Basis of Theism; The Self-Revelation of God; Christ’s Prayer for the Death of His Redeemed; God: Creator and Lord of All. See Andover Review, February, 1884. Scr.

=Harris, Samuel Smith.= Al., 1841-1888. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Michigan. The Dignity of Man; Christianity and Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality; Shelton, a novel. Mg. Wh.

=Harris, Thaddeus Mason.= Ms., 1768-1842. A Unitarian clergyman of Dorchester from 1793 until his death. Discourses in Favor of Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory (1805); Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of James Oglethorpe; Natural History of the Bible.

=Harris, Thaddeus William.= Ms., 1795-1856. Son of T. M. Harris, supra. An entomologist and physician who was librarian of Harvard University from 1831. He published Systematic Catalogue of the Insects of Massachusetts, and a valuable work on Insects Injurious to Vegetation.

=Harris, Thomas Lake.= E., 1823- ----. A mystical philosopher who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had its home at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, New York. He has since lived in California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; The Wisdom of the Adepts; God’s Breath in Man. See Life of Laurence Oliphant, by Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant.

=Harris, William Logan.= O., 1817-1887. A Methodist bishop of prominence as educator and missionary. The Powers of the General Conference; Ecclesiastical Law (with W. J. Henry); Relation of Episcopacy to the General Conference. Meth.

=Harris, William Torrey.= Ct., 1835- ----. A speculative philosopher and educator of Washington city, a translator of Hegel, and editor of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; since 1889 United States commissioner of education. The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina Commedia; Method of Study of Social Science; How to Teach Social Science; Hegel’s Logic, a critical exposition; Introduction to the Study of Philosophy. Ap. Hou. Sc.

=Harrison, Mrs. Burton.= See Harrison, Mrs. Constance.

=Harrison, Mrs. Constance [Cary].= Va., 1846- ----. A novelist and miscellaneous writer of New York city. Story of Helen Troy; Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edelweiss of the Sierras, and Other Tales; Bar Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book; Folk and Fairy Tales; Anglomania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia Cousin; Bric-a-Brac Stories; A Bachelor Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow’s Nest and Belhaven Tales; Externals of Modern New York. Bar. Cent. Har. Scr.

=Harrison, Gabriel.= Pa., 1818-1902. A Brooklyn dramatist and instructor in elocution. Life of John Howard Payne; The Stratford Bust, a Critical Inquiry as to its Authenticity; Melanthia; Dartmore, are among his writings.

=Harrison, George Leib.= Pa., 1811-1885. A philanthropist of Philadelphia. Chapters on Social Science; Legislation on Insanity, a compilation of lunacy laws.

=Harrison, Gessner.= Va., 1807-1862. A once noted educator of Virginia. Exposition of some Laws of Greek Grammar; On Greek Prepositions.

=Harrison, Hall.= Md., 1837-1900. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. From 1865 to 1879 he was a master in St. Paul’s School at Concord, and after the latter date rector of St. John’s church at Ellicott City, Maryland. Life of Hugh Davy Evans, supra; Life of Bishop Kerfoot.

=Harrison, James Albert.= Mi., 1848- ----. An educator in Virginia, since 1876 a professor of languages at Washington and Lee University. Greek Vignettes; Spain in Profile; The Rhine; French Syntax; The History of Spain; The Story of Greece; Autrefois, tales of Old New Orleans and Elsewhere; A Group of Poets and Their Haunts; Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (with W. M. Baskerville); Exodus and Daniel (with T. W. Hunt). Hou. Lip. Lo. Mer. Put.

=Harrison, Jonathan Baxter.= O., 1835- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of New Hampshire. Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life; The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations. Hou.

=Harrison, Joseph.= Pa., 1810-1874. A Philadelphia engineer and inventor, from 1843-52 employed in locomotive construction by the Russian government. Essay on the Steam Boiler; The Locomotive Engine and Philadelphia’s Share in its Early Improvements; The Iron Worker and King Solomon, a poem.

=Harrison, William Pope.= Ga., 1830- ----. A prominent clergyman of the Methodist Church South. Theophilus Walton, a controversial work; Lights and Shadows of Forty Years; The Living Christ; The High Churchman Disarmed; Methodist Union; The Gospel among the Slaves.

=Harrisse= [har-ēs´], =Henri.= F., 1830- ----. A bibliographer of New York city, of French birth, but long a citizen of the United States. Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima; Christophe Colombe; Jean et Sebastian Cabot; The Discovery of North America. Do.

=Harsha, David Addison.= N. Y., 1827-1895. A writer in Argyle, New York. The Heavenly Token; The Star of Bethlehem; Manual of Sacred Literature; Lives of Charles Sumner, Doddridge, Baxter, Bunyan, Addison, James Hervey, Watts, Whitefield, Abraham Booth; Eminent Orators and Statesmen. Co.

=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Pa., 1854- ----. A professor of history in Harvard University. Coercive Powers of the United States Government; Introduction to the Study of Federal Government; Formation of the Union, 1750-1829; Studies in Education; Life of Salmon P. Chase; Practical Essays on American Government. Fl. Hou. Lgs.

=Hart, Charles Henry.= Pa., 1847- ----. A lawyer and antiquarian of Philadelphia. Memoir of W. H. Prescott, infra; Biographical Sketch of Abraham Lincoln; Turner, the Dream Painter; Remarks on Tabasco, Mexico; Bibliographia Websteriana.

=Hart, James Morgan.= N. J., 1839- ----. Son of J. S. Hart, infra. A professor of Germanic languages at Cornell University from 1868. Handbook of English Composition; Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature; German Universities. Put.

=Hart, John Seely.= Ms., 1810-1877. An educator of New Jersey who was professor of rhetoric at Princeton College, 1872-77. Manuals of English and American Literature; Composition and Rhetoric; In the Schoolroom.

=Hart, Samuel.= Ct., 1845- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, professor in Trinity College from 1868, who has published editions of Juvenal and Persius. Historical Sermons of Bishop Seabury.

=Harte, [Francis] Bret.= N. Y., 1839-1902. A Californian writer who first drew public attention in 1868 by a short story called The Luck of Roaring Camp, published in The Overland Monthly, which he edited. This tale, and the now famous poem, Plain Language from Truthful James, established his reputation. From 1871 to 1878 he resided in New York, and afterward he made his home abroad, but mainly in London from 1885. His writings include, Condensed Novels; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches; Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands; Tales of the Argonauts; Gabriel Conroy; Two Men of Sandy Bar, a play; The Story of a Mine; Drift from Two Shores; Thankful Blossom; The Twins of Table Mountain; By Shore and Sedge; Flip, and Found at Blazing Star; In the Carquinez Woods; On the Frontier; Maruja; Snow-Bound at Eagle’s; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, a Child’s Story; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready; The Crusade of the Excelsior; A Phyllis of the Sierras; The Argonauts of North Liberty; Cressy; The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh; A Waif of the Plains; A Ward of the Golden Gate; A Sappho of Green Springs; Colonel Starbottle’s Client; A First Family of Tasajara; Susy; A Protégé of Jack Hamlin’s; Sally Dows; The Bell-Ringer of Angel’s; Clarence; In a Hollow of the Hills; Barker’s Luck. In verse he has published East and West Poems; Echoes of the Foot Hills. See Haweis’s American Humorists; Nichol’s American Literature; Vedder’s American Writers; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1896. Hou.

=Harte, Walter Blackburn.= Ont., 1866- ----. A littérateur who has published Meditations in Motley. Ar.

=Hartley, Cecil B----.= 18-- -18--. Louis Wetzel, the Virginia Ranger; lives of Empress Josephine, Francis Marion, Daniel Boone; Hunting Spots in the West; Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons; Pictorial Teaching and Bible Illustration. Co.

=Hartley, Isaac Smithson.= N. Y., 1830-1899. Son of R. M. Hartley, infra. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Utica since 1871. Prayer and its Relation to Modern Criticism; Old Fort Schuyler in History, are his principal works.

=Hartley, Robert Milham.= E., 1796-1881. A philanthropist who founded in 1842 the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. History, Science, and Practical Essay on Milk; Temperance in Large Cities and Towns.

=Hartshorne, Edward.= Pa., 1818-1885. A Philadelphia physician. Separate System for Criminals; Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery; an edition of Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, with Notes.

=Hartshorne, Henry.= Pa., 1823-1897. Brother of E. Hartshorne, supra. A Philadelphia physician, professor of organic science at Haverford College, 1867-97. Memoranda Medica; Essentials of Principles and Practice of Medicines; Family Adviser; Our Homes; Cholera; Household Manual; Handbook of Human Anatomy; Conspectus of the Medical Sciences; Glycerin and its Uses; Woman’s Witchcraft, a dramatic romance; Summer Songs. Lip.

=Hartt, Charles Frederick.= N. B., 1840-1878. A professor of geology at Cornell University, 1868, and chief of the geological surveys in Brazil at the time of his death. Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil; Contributions to the Geology of the Lower Amazons; Amazonian Tortoise Myths.

=Hartzell, J[onas] Hazard.= Pa., 1830-1890. An Episcopal clergyman of Waverly, New York, but prior to 1881 a noted clergyman in the Universalist faith, for fourteen years a pastor in Buffalo. Wanderings on Parnassus, a collection of verse; Application and Achievement.

=Harvey, William Hope.= W. Va., 1851- ----. A writer on financial topics whose theories regarding unlimited coinage of silver have been popular with superficial thinkers. Coin’s Financial School; A Tale of Two Nations, a financial novel.

=Harwood, Andrew Allen.= Pa., 1802-1884. Son of J. E. Harwood, infra. A rear-admiral in the United States navy. Summary Courts Martial; Law and Practice of the United States Navy Courts Martial.

=Harwood, John Edmund.= E., 1771-1809. An English actor who came to the United States in 1793, and published a collection of Poems the year of his death.

=Hascall, Daniel.= Vt., 1782-1852. A Baptist clergyman of Hamilton, New York. Baptism; Elements of Theology; Analysis of Divine Revelation.

=Haskell, Daniel.= Ct., 1784-1848. A Congregational clergyman of Burlington, Vermont, who was subsequently a writer in Brooklyn. Gazetteer of the United States (with J. C. Smith); Chronological View of the World.

=Haskins, David Greene.= Ms., 1818-1896. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Cambridge. Selections from the Old and New Testament for Use in Families and Schools; French and English First Book; Maternal Ancestors of Ralph Waldo Emerson (his cousin).

=Hassard, John Rose Greene.= N. Y., 1836-1888. A New York journalist who was a literary critic on the staff of The Tribune. The King of the Nibelung; School History of the United States; Life of Archbishop Hughes, infra; Life of Pope Pius Ninth; A Pickwickian Pilgrimage. Hou.

=Hassaurek, Friedrich.= A., 1832-1885. A journalist and lawyer of Cincinnati. Four Years Among the Spanish-Americans; The Secret of the Andes. Clke.

=Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph.= Sd., 1770-1843. A noted surveyor in the government service who published System of the Universe and a series of works on astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry.

=Hastings, Horace Lorenzo.= Ms., 1831-1899. A Boston writer. Signs of the Times; Reasons for My Hope; Thessalonica; Atheism and Arithmetic, are his principal writings.

=Haswell, Charles Haynes.= N. Y., 1809- ----. A civil engineer of much prominence. Mechanics’ and Engineers’ Pocket Book; Mechanics’ Tables; Mensuration and Practical Geometry; Bookkeeping; History of the Steam Boiler; Reminiscences of New York from 1816 to 1855. Ap. Har.

=Hatfield, Edwin Francis.= N. J., 1807-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of St. Louis, and subsequently of New York city. Universalism As It Is; History of Elizabeth, New Jersey; St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope; The Poets of the Church. Rev.

=Hathaway, Benjamin.= N. Y., 1822- ----. A verse-writer who was for many years a nurseryman and farmer. Art Life, and Other Poems; The League of the Iroquois; The Finished Creation, and Other Poems. Ar.

=Haupt= [howpt], =Herman.= Pa., 1817- ----. An engineer of distinction who has held many important posts, and is the inventor of a drilling engine. Since 1875 the chief engineer of the Tide Water Pipe Line Company. Hints on Bridge Building; General Theory of Bridge Construction; Plan for Improvement of the Ohio River; Military Bridges; Street Railway Motors. Ap. Bai.

=Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg.= Pa., 1844- ----. Son of H. Haupt, supra. An engineer of Philadelphia, since 1872 professor of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania. Engineering Specifications and Contracts; Working Drawings and How to Make Them; The Topographer: his Methods and Instruments; Essays on Road Making. Bai.

=Haven, Mrs. Alice [Bradley] [Neal].= “Cousin Alice.” N. Y., 1828-1863. A writer of juvenile tales which were very popular. Her later years were spent in New York city, but she formerly lived in Philadelphia, her first husband being J. C. Neal, infra. Among her writings are, No Such Word as Fail; Contentment Better than Wealth; Patient Waiting No Loss. See Memoir; Harper’s Magazine, October, 1863. Ap.

=Haven, Erastus Otis.= Ms., 1820-1881. A Methodist bishop, chancellor of Syracuse University from 1874, and from 1863-69 president of the University of Michigan. Pillars of Truth; Young Man Advised; Rhetoric; American Progress. Har. Meth.

=Haven, Gilbert.= Ms., 1821-1880. A Methodist bishop whose official residence was in Atlanta. National Sermons; The Pilgrim’s Wallet; Our Next-Door Neighbor, or Mexico of To-Day; Life of Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher; Christus Consolator. Meth.

=Haven, Joseph.= Ms., 1816-1874. A Congregational clergyman, a professor in the Chicago Theological Seminary, 1858-70. Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy and Theology; Systematic Theology.

=Haven, Samuel Foster.= Ms., 1806-1881. An archæologist who was librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester. Archæology of the United States; History of the Grants Under the Great Council for New England.

=Hawes, Joel.= Ms., 1789-1867. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Hartford, 1818-67. Lectures to Young Men; The Religion of the East; Looking-Glass for Ladies; Washington and Jay; Experimental and Practical Sermons; Tribute to the Pilgrims; Character Everything to the Young.

=Hawes, William Post.= N. Y., 1803-1842. A lawyer of New York city, author of Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches, published, with Memoir, by H. W. Herbert, infra.

=Hawkins, Benjamin Waterhouse.= E., 1807-1889. An English anatomist who removed to the United States in 1868. Popular Comparative Anatomy; Elements of Form; Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame; Artistic Anatomy of the Horse; Artistic Anatomy of Cattle and Sheep; Artistic Anatomy of the Dog and Deer; Atlas of Comparative Osteology (with Huxley).

=Hawkins, Dexter Arnold.= Me., 1825-1886. A lawyer of New York city, an advocate of protection and similar political measures. Among his writings are, Traditions of Overlook Mountain; Free Trade and Protection; The Roman Catholic Church in New York City.

=Hawkins, Rush Christopher.= Ct., 1831- ----. Cousin of D. A. Hawkins, supra. A New York city lawyer who served as a colonel in the Federal army during the Civil War, and has since been a prominent advocate of political reforms. He has published The First Books and Printers of the 15th Century.

=Hawkins, William George.= Md., 1823- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Nebraska, prominent in the field of domestic missions. Life of J. H. Hawkins, his father, a noted temperance reformer; Lunsford Lane; History of the New York Freedmen’s Association.

=Hawks, Francis Lister.= N. C., 1798-1866. A once noted Episcopal clergyman, rector of churches in New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore. History of North Carolina; Reports of Cases in North Carolina Supreme Court; History of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and Maryland; The Romance of Biography; Cyclopædia of Biography; Egypt and its Monuments; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church.

=Hawley, Bostwick.= N. Y., 1814- ----. A Methodist clergyman of New York State. Close Communion; Manual of Methodism; The Shield of Faith; Dancing as an Amusement; The Lenten Season; Methodist Episcopacy Valid, include his chief works. Meth.

=Hawley, Charles.= N. Y., 1819-1885. A Presbyterian clergyman of Auburn, New York. Early Chapters of Cayuga History; Sanitary Reforms; Memorial Discourses; Early Chapters of Seneca History.

=Hawthorne, Julian.= Ms., 1846- ----. Son of N. Hawthorne, infra. A novelist who has inherited much of his father’s originality, but whose work is often careless and hasty in construction and of ephemeral interest only. Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry; Fortune’s Fool; Beatrix Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison; Sebastian Strome; Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough’s Diamonds; David Poindexter’s Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and a Forgetting; Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon; Prince Saroni’s Wife; Love is a Spirit. Ap. Fu. He. Hou.

=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Ms., 1804-1864. A celebrated romancer, born at Salem, Massachusetts. From 1838 to 1841 he held a position in the Boston custom-house, was next a member of the Brook Farm Association, and after 1843 a resident at Concord, Massachusetts, from time to time until his death, though within that period he was surveyor of the port of Salem, 1846-50, and from 1853 to 1857 consul at Liverpool. Fanshawe; Twice-Told Tales; Grandfather’s Chair; Mosses from an Old Manse; Famous Old People; Liberty Tree; Biographical Stories for Children; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; The House of the Seven Gables; A Wonder-Book; The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales; The Blithedale Romance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble Faun, known in England as Transformation; Our Old Home; Passages from American Note-Books; English Note-Books; French and Italian Note-Books; Septimius Felton; The Dolliver Romance; Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret. See North American Review, July, 1837, July, 1850, January, 1852; Blackwood’s Magazine, November, 1863; Atlantic Monthly, May, 1860; Lathrop’s Study of Hawthorne; James’s Hawthorne; Hawthorne Index; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Personal Recollections of, by H. N. Bridge; Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, by J. Hawthorne; Some Memories of Hawthorne, by Mrs. R. H. Lathrop; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature. Hou.

=Hawthorne, Mrs. Sophia [Peabody].= Ms., 1810-1871. Wife of N. Hawthorne, supra, sister of Elizabeth Peabody, infra. Her only publication was Notes in England and Italy. Hou.

=Hay, John.= Ind., 1838- ----. A writer who was Lincoln’s private secretary, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during the Civil War, and also served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore as major and assistant adjutant-general, being brevetted colonel. He was subsequently in the diplomatic service. Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. G. Nicolay, infra); Pike County Ballads, and Other Poems; Castilian Days, a volume of travels. Of his dialect poems, Jim Bludso and Little Breeches are the best known. Cent. Hou.

=Hayden, Ferdinand Vanderveer.= Ms., 1827-1880. A professor of geology in the University of Pennsylvania. Origin and Progress of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories; The Yellowstone National Park.

=Hayden, Horace H----.= Ct., 1769-1844. A once noted Baltimore dentist who published Geological Essays.

=Hayden, William Benjamin.= N. Y., 1816-1893. A Swedenborgian clergyman. Science and Revelation; Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism; The Apocalyptic Dispensation; Light on the Last Things; Dangers of Modern Spiritualism, include the greater portion of his work. See Selected Essays and Memorials of his Life, 1894. Lip.

=Hayes, Augustus Allen.= 1837-1892. A novelist of Brookline, Massachusetts. New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail; The Jesuit’s Ring, a Romance; The Denver Express. Har. Scr.

=Hayes, Henry.= See Kirk, Mrs. Ellen.

=Hayes, Isaac Israel.= Pa., 1832-1881. An Arctic explorer whose first voyage was made with Dr. Kane, infra. The Open Polar Sea; An Arctic Boat Journey; Cast Away in the Cold; The Land of Desolation; Pictures of Arctic Travel. Har. Hou. Le.

=Haygood, Atticus Green.= Ga., 1839-1896. A Methodist clergyman of much prominence in the South. The Monk and the Prince, a Critical Study of Savonarola and Lorenzo de’ Medici; Our Keep-Sake; Our Children; Our Brother in Black; Speeches and Sermons; Jack-knife and Brambles, a discussion of the authorship and meaning of the books of the Bible; Pleas for Progress; The Man of Galilee. Meth.

=Hayne, Paul Hamilton.= S. C., 1830-1886. A lyric poet whose verse has much melody. He served as a colonel in the Confederate army, and at the close of the Civil War, broken in health and fortunes, retired to the small village of Grovetown, Georgia, where the rest of his life was passed. Avolio; The Mountain of the Lovers; Legends and Lyrics; Sonnets and Other Poems; Lives of Robert Hayne and Hugh Legare, infra. A complete edition of his Poems appeared in 1883. Lip. Lo.

=Hayne, William Hamilton.= S. C., 1856- ----. Son of Paul Hayne, supra, and a popular lyrist of the South. Sylvan Lyrics. Sto.

=Haynes, Emory Judson.= Vt., 1846- ----. A Methodist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Are These Things So?; Fairest of Three, a Tale of American Life; Dollars and Duties; A Farmhouse Cobweb, a Vermont novel. Har.

=Hays, George Peirce.= Pa., 1838- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Kansas City. Everyday Reasoning; The Honest Book; May Women Speak?; Presbyterians.

=Hays, William Shakespeare.= Ky., 1837- ----. A popular ballad and song composer of Louisville. Mollie Darling is one of his best known songs. He has published a volume of Poems and Songs.

=Hayward, Edward Farwell.= Ms., 1851- ----. A Unitarian clergyman for some years pastor of a church in Boston. Willoughby; Patrice; Ecce Spiritus.

=Hayward, George.= Ms., 1781-1862. A Boston writer who published View of the United States; Religious Creeds of the United States; Book of Religions, and several gazetteers.

=Hayward, George.= Ms., 1791-1863. A Boston physician of note. Outlines of Physiology; Surgical Records.

=Haywood, John.= N. C., 1753-1826. A jurist of Tennessee. Manual of Laws of North Carolina; Haywood’s Justice; Tennessee Reports; History of Tennessee; Statute Laws of Tennessee (with R. L. Cutts).

=Hazard, Caroline.= R. I., 1856- ----. Granddaughter of R. G. Hazard, infra. Narragansett Ballads; Thomas Hazard, a Study of Life in Narragansett in the XVIIIth Century; Memoirs of J. L. Diman, supra. She has edited, with introductions, the works of R. G. Hazard.

=Hazard, Ebenezer.= Pa., 1744-1817. A Philadelphia writer who was postmaster-general, 1782-89. Historical Collections, the beginnings of a United States history; Remarks on a Report Concerning the Western Indians.

=Hazard, Rowland Gibson.= R. I., 1801-1888. A woolen manufacturer of Peace Dale, Rhode Island. Essays on Finance; Resources of the United States; Essay on Language, and Other Essays and Addresses; Freedom of Mind in Willing; Causation and Freedom in Willing; Man a Creative First Cause. See Works, in four volumes, edited by C. Hazard. Hou.

=Hazard, Samuel.= Pa., 1784-1870. Son of E. Hazard, supra. An archæologist of Philadelphia. Annals of Pennsylvania, 1609-82; Register of Pennsylvania, 1828-36; Pennsylvania Archives, 1682-1790; United States Commercial and Statistical Register.

=Hazard, Samuel.= Pa., 1834-1876. Son of S. Hazard, supra. An officer in the United States army. Santo Domingo Past and Present; Cuba with Pen and Pencil. Har.

=Hazard, Thomas Robinson.= R. I., 1784-1876. Brother of R. G. Hazard, supra, and like him a manufacturer at Peace Dale. He was an ardent Spiritualist, and wrote much in defence of his beliefs. Facts for the Laboring Man; The Ordeal of Life; Capital Punishment; Mediums and Mediumship; Recollections of Olden Time.

=Hazard, Willis Pope.= Al., 1825- ----. Son of S. Hazard, supra. A retired bookseller of Westchester, Pennsylvania. The Art of Pleasing, a work on etiquette; The Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey Cow; Butter and Butter-making; Annals of Philadelphia, a continuation of Watson’s Annals. Co.

=Hazelius, Ernest Lewis.= P., 1777-1853. A Lutheran clergyman who was professor in a South Carolina theological seminary. Life of Luther; Church History; History of the Lutheran Church in America.

=Hazeltine, Mayo Williamson.= Ms., 1841- ----. A New York journalist, since 1878 the literary editor of the New York Sun. Chats About Books; British and American Education; The American Woman in Europe. Scr.

=Hazen, William Babcock.= Vt., 1830-1887. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, and from 1880 chief officer of the Signal Service. The School and the Army in Germany and France; Barren Lands in the Interior of the United States; A Narrative of Military Service. Clke. Har. Hou.

=Head, Franklin H.= N. Y., 1835- ----. A Chicago Writer who has published Shakespeare’s Insomnia and the Causes thereof, an ingenious burlesque. Hou.

=Headley, Joel Tyler.= N. Y., 1813-1897. An historical writer of Newburg, New York, whose work is usually strongly partisan in character, though nearly always as entertaining as it is undiscriminating. Napoleon and his Marshals; The Old Guard of Napoleon; Life of Oliver Cromwell; The Great Rebellion; Sacred Scenes and Characters; Washington and his Generals; Life of Washington; Grant and Sherman; Life of General Grant; Life of Havelock; Achievements of Stanley and Other Explorers; The Adirondacks, or Life in the Woods; Farragut and Our Naval Commanders; Chaplains of the Revolution; Sacred Heroes and Martyrs; Letters from Italy and the Alps; The Second War with England. Scr.

=Headley, Phineas Camp.= N. Y., 1819-1903. Cousin of J. T. Headley, supra. A Congregational clergyman. Women of the Bible; The Island of Fire; Young Folks’ Heroes of the Rebellion; Lives of Josephine, Lafayette, Napoleon, Mary Queen of Scots; Half-Hours in Bible Lands; Evangelists in the Church. Le.

=Heap, David Porter.= Ty., 1843- ----. A major of engineers in government service. History of Application of Electric Light to the Courts of France; Ancient and Modern Lights; Electrical Appliances of the Present Day (1884).

=Heap, Gwynn Harris.= Pa., 1817-1887. A diplomatist who was consul-general at Constantinople from 1878. He published Central Route to the Pacific.

=Heard, Franklin Fiske.= Ms., 1825-1889. A Boston lawyer who was a high authority on pleading. Criminal Law; Criminal Pleading; Civil Pleading; Shakespeare as a Lawyer; Libel and Slander; Leading Cases in Criminal Law (with E. H. Bennett, supra); Curiosities of the Law Reporters; Oddities of the Law; Precedents of Equity Pleadings; Precedents of Pleadings in Special Actions. Lit.

=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Ion., 1850-1904. A writer of Irish and Greek parentage long a resident of New Orleans, later of New York city, and more recently of Japan. Stray Leaves from Strange Literature; Some Chinese Ghosts; Chita; Two Years in the French West Indies; Youma, the Story of a West Indian Slave; Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan; Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan; Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Har. Hou.

=Hebbard, Stephen Southwick.= 1841- ----. A Universalist clergyman. The Secret of Christianity; History of Wisconsin under the Dominion of France. See Bibliography of Wisconsin.

=Hecker, Isaac Thomas.= N. Y., 1819-1888. A Roman Catholic clergyman who in early life was one of the noted Brook Farm community. Becoming a Roman Catholic he founded the Order of the Paulists in 1858. In 1865 he established The Catholic World, of which he remained the editor till his death. Questions of the Soul; Aspirations of Nature; Catholicity in the United States; Catholics and Protestants agreeing on the School Question; The Church and the Age.

=Heckewelder= [hĕk´e-wel-der], =John Gottlieb Ernest.= E., 1743-1823. A Moravian missionary who made extended studies of Indian customs. His views were vehemently attacked by Lewis Cass, and stoutly defended by Nathan Hale. History, etc., of the Pennsylvania Indians; Mission of the United Brethren among the Delawares; Names which the Delawares Gave to Rivers and Streams, etc., with their Signification. See Life by E. Rondthaler, 1847; Bibliography of Ohio.

=Hedge, Frederic Henry.= Ms., 1805-1890. Son of L. Hedge, infra. A Unitarian clergyman, professor of German language and literature at Harvard University, 1872-81. Reason in Religion; The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition; A Christian Liturgy; Prose Writers of Germany; Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays; Atheism in Philosophy; Sermons; Hours with German Classics; Martin Luther and Other Essays; Metrical Translations and Poems (with Mrs. A. L. Wister, infra). Co. Hou. Rob.

=Hedge, Levi.= Ms., 1767-1843. An educator of Massachusetts, professor of logic in Harvard University, 1810-27, and author of A System of Logic.

=Heilprin, Angelo.= Hy., 1853- ----. Son of M. Heilprin, infra. A Philadelphia naturalist and artist, professor of geology at Wagner Free Institute from 1885. Contributions to the Tertiary Geology and Palæontology of the United States; Town Geology, the Lesson of the Philadelphia Rocks; Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals; Explorations on the West Coast of Florida; Animal Life of Our Seashore; Geological Evidences of Evolution; The Arctic Problem. Ap. Lip.

=Heilprin, Louis.= Hy., 1851- ----. Son of M. Heilprin, infra. A writer of New York city. The Story of Hungary (with A. Vambéry); Historical Reference Book; Chronological Table of Universal History. Ap. Put.

=Heilprin, Michael.= Po., 1823-1888. A Polish refugee and scholar who supported Kossuth in Hungary in 1848, and came to the United States in 1850. He published Historical Poetry of the Hebrews Critically Examined. Ap.

=Heitzman, Charles.= Hy., 1836- ----. A physician who came to New York city from Vienna in 1874, and is of prominence as a dermatologist. Chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie; Descriptive and Topographical Anatomy of Man; Microscopic Morphology of the Animal Body.

=Helmuth, Justus Christian Henry.= G., 1745-1825. A Lutheran clergyman who came to America in 1769, and was pastor of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, 1779-1820, and for eighteen years professor of languages in the University of Pennsylvania. Taufe und heilige Schrift; Unterhalten mit Gott; Geistliche Lieder; and several works for children.

=Helmuth, William Tod.= Pa., 1833-1902. A surgeon of New York city. Treatise on Diphtheria; Medical Pomposity; System of Surgery; Scratches of a Surgeon; Suprapubic Lithotomy; With the “Pousse Café,” postprandial verses.

=Helper, Hinton Rowan.= N. C., 1829- ----. A Southern writer long resident in New York city. The Impending Crisis of the South, a once famous work, which appeared shortly before the opening of the Civil War; Nojoque; The Negroes in Negroland; The Land of Gold; Oddments of Andean Diplomacy; The Three Americas Railway.

=Hempel, Charles Julius.= P., 1811-1879. A physician of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who came to America from Prussia in 1835. Christendom and Civilization; System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; The Science of Homœopathy; Homœopathic Theory and Practice in Surgical Diseases (with J. Beakley); True Organization of the New Church; Life of Christ (in German); several important translations from the German.

=Henck, John Benjamin.= Pa., 1816- ----. A professor of engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1865-81, and the author of a Field Book for Railway Engineers.

=Henderson, Ernest Flagg.= N. Y., 1861- ----. An instructor in Wellesley College. A History of Germany in the Middle Ages; Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (edited); collaborator in Larned’s History for Ready Reference. Mac.

=Henderson, Isaac.= N. Y., 1850- ----. A New York city journalist, 1872-81, who has since lived abroad. The Prelate; Agatha Page. The second of these two novels has been dramatized. Hou.

=Henderson, Mrs. Mary [Foote].= N. Y., 1842- ----. A writer of St. Louis who organized the Industrial Art School in that city. Practical Cooking and Dinner-Giving; Diet for the Sick. Har.

=Henderson, Peter.= S., 1823-1890. A noted seedsman of New York city. Gardening for Profit; Practical Floriculture; Gardening for Pleasure; Handbook of Plants; How the Farm Pays; Garden and Farm Topics. Ju.

=Henderson, William James.= N. J., 1855- ----. A journalist on the staff of the New York Times. The Story of Music; Preludes and Studies; Sea Yarns for Boys; Afloat with the Flag; Elements of Navigation. Har.

=Hendrix, Eugene Russell.= Mo., 1847- ----. A bishop of the Methodist Church South, whose official residence is at Kansas City. He has written Around the World.

=Hening, William Waller.= 17-- -1828. A legal writer of Virginia. The American Pleader and Lawyer’s Guide; The New Virginia Justice; The Statutes of Virginia, 1691-1792; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and in the Supreme Court of Chancery for Richmond District (with W. Munford, infra).

=Henkle, Moses Montgomery.= Va., 1798-1864. A Methodist clergyman of Baltimore and elsewhere. Masonic Addresses; Primary Platform of Methodism; Analysis of Church Government; Life of Bishop Bascom; Primitive Episcopacy.

=Hennequin= [en´-căn], =Alfred.= F., 1846- ----. A dramatist and educator who beside several Anglo-French text-books has published The Art of Playwriting. Hou.

=Henningsen, Charles Frederick.= E., 1815-1877. A soldier of Swedish descent and English birth who served with the Carlists in Spain in 1834, and subsequently joined Kossuth in Hungary. He came to America in 1856, was with Walker in Nicaragua, entered the Confederate army in 1861, and became a general. The Last of the Sophis, a Poem; Twelve Months’ Campaign with Zumalacarregui; The White Slave, a novel; Eastern Europe; Sixty Years Hence, a novel of Russian life; Scenes from the Belgian Revolution; Analogies and Contrasts; Personal Recollections of Nicaragua; The Past and Future of Hungary.

=Henry, Alexander.= N. J., 1739-1824. A once noted traveller in northwest America who published Travels and Adventures in Canada between 1760-76.

=Henry, Caleb Sprague.= Ms., 1804-1884. An Episcopal clergyman of New York and Connecticut who held professorships in several colleges, and was at one time a journalist in New York city. Moral and Philosophical Essays; Satan as a Moral Philosopher; About Men and Things; Dr. Oldham at Greystones and his Talk There; Social Welfare and Human Progress; Household Liturgy; The Endless Future of the Human Race; Epitome of the History of Philosophy. He was the translator of Guizot’s History of Civilization and other works. Ap. Har.

=Henry, Guy Vernor.= N. J., 1839-1899. Son of W. S. Henry, infra. An officer in the United States army who served during the Civil War, and in Indian wars subsequently. Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army; Army Catechism for Non-Commissioned Officers; Manual of Target Practice.

=Henry, James.= Pa., 1809-1895. A rifle manufacturer of Boulton, Pennsylvania, who was president of the Moravian Historical Society, and published Sketches of Moravian Life and Character.

=Henry, John Flournoy.= Ky., 1793-1873. A physician of Burlington, Iowa, who published a Treatise on Causes and Treatment of Cholera.

=Henry, John Joseph.= Pa., 1758-1811. A jurist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was author of the Accurate and Interesting Account of Arnold’s Campaign Against Quebec.

=Henry, Joseph.= N. Y., 1797-1878. A scientist of eminence who was director of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 till his death. Syllabus of Lectures on Physics; Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry, 1886. See Memorial, 1880; Appleton’s American Biography.

=Henry, Patrick.= Va., 1736-1799. A celebrated Virginia patriot and orator known to literature by his speeches. See Lives by William Wirt, H. H. Everett, M. C. Tyler, W. W. Henry; Appleton’s American Biography.

=Henry, Mrs. Sarepta Myrenda [Irish].= Pa., 1839-1901. Temperance reformer of Evanston, Illinois. Victoria, with Other Poems; After the Truth; The Voice of the Home; Mabel’s Work; Beforehand; One More Chance.

=Henry, Thomas Chalmers.= Pa., 1790-1827. A Presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina. Consistency of Popular Amusements for Professing Christians; Moral Etchings from the Religious World; Letters from an Anxious Believer. See Memoir by T. Lewis, 1829; Allibone’s Dictionary.

=Henry, William Seaton.= N. Y., 1816-1851. An officer in the United States army who published Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico.

=Henry, William Wirt.= Va., 1831-1900. A Virginia lawyer and historical writer who published Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Patrick Henry.

=Hensel, William Uhler.= Pa., 1851- ----. A politician and journalist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, author of Lives of T. A. Hendricks and Grover Cleveland.

=Henshaw, David.= Ms., 1791-1852. A politician who was secretary of the navy in 1843, and wrote Letters on the Internal Improvement and Commerce of the West.

=Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley.= Ct., 1792-1852. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island. Theology for the People; Lessons in Elocution; On Confirmation; The Work of Christ’s Living Body, are his principal works.

=Henshaw, Joshua Sidney.= Ms., 1811-1859. A lawyer in Utica from 1848, but previously an instructor in the United States navy. Incitements to Well Doing; Life of Father Mathew; United States Manual for Consuls; Around the World (1840); Philosophy of Human Progress.

=Hentz, Mrs. Caroline Lee [Whiting].= Ms., 1800-1856. Wife of N. M. Hentz, infra. A popular Southern writer of many sensational romances of ephemeral interest. Among them are, Lovell’s Folly; Rena; The Planter’s Northern Bride; Linda. Pet.

=Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus.= F., 1797-1856. A French educator well known as an entomologist. He came to America in 1816, and taught in the University of North Carolina and elsewhere in the South.

=Hepburn, James Curtis.= Pa., 1815- ----. A missionary to Japan of note as a lexicographer. A Japanese and English Dictionary; A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridgment of the earlier work.

=Hepworth, George Hughes.= Ms., 1833-1902. A New York journalist since 1887 on the editorial staff of the Herald. From 1855-72 he was a Unitarian clergyman, but subsequently entered the Presbyterian ministry. Rocks and Shoals; Brown Studies; Hiram Golf’s Religion; The Life Beyond; They Met in Heaven; Herald Sermons; Starboard and Port, a summer’s yacht cruise; a book entitled !!!. Dut. Har.

=Herbermann, Charles George.= Wa., 1840- ----. A professor of Latin in the College of the City of New York from 1869, author of Business Life in Ancient Rome. Har.

=Herbert, Henry William.= “Frank Forester.” E., 1807-1858. A versatile, gifted writer who came to America in 1831, and lived near Newark, New Jersey. His writings in historical fiction include Cromwell; Marmaduke Nyvil; The Puritans of New England, issued later as The Puritan’s Daughter; The Fronde; Sherwood Forest. In history: Captains of the Old World; Cavaliers of England; Knights of England; Chevaliers of France; Persons and Pictures from French and English History; Captains of the Great Roman Republic; Henry VIII. and his Six Wives. As “Frank Forester” he published Field Sports of the United States and British Provinces; Fish and Fisheries of the United States; Frank Forester and his Friends; Warwick Woodlands; My Shooting Box; The Deer Stalkers; Manual for Young Sportsmen; Horse and Horsemanship; Fugitive Sporting Sketches. He also made a number of translations from the French, while a collection of his Poems, edited by M. Herbert, appeared in 1888. See Life by T. Picton, 1881; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography. Co. Lip.

=Hering, Constantin.= Sxy., 1800-1880. A German physician who came to Philadelphia in 1833 and founded there the first homœopathic school in America. Among his writings are, Rise and Progress of Homœopathy; Condensed Materia Medica; Effects of Snake Poison; American Drug Provings; Domestic Physician. See Allibone’s Dictionary.

=Hering, Rudolph.= Pa., 1847- ----. A civil engineer of prominence and an authority upon sewerage and the water supply of cities, upon which topics he has written valuable reports.

=Herndon, Mrs. Mary.= See Chiles, Mrs.

=Herndon, William Henry.= Ky., 1818-1891. A lawyer of Springfield, Illinois, and a law partner of Abraham Lincoln, of whom he published a Life in 1891.

=Herndon, William Lewis.= Va., 1813-1857. A naval officer sent by government to explore the Amazon. The results of his expedition are detailed in his Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon (1853). His daughter became the wife of President Arthur.

=Herrick, Mrs. Christine [Terhune].= N. J., 1859- ----. Daughter of Mrs. Mary Terhune, infra. A writer of New York city who has written much upon housekeeping themes. Housekeeping Made Easy; The Chafing-Dish Supper; The Little Dinner; What to Eat, how to Serve It; Cradle and Nursery; Liberal Living upon Narrow Means. Har. Hou. Scr.

=Herrick, John Russell.= Vt., 1822- ----. A Congregational clergyman, president of Dakota University since 1883, and the author of Lectures on Positivism.

=Herrick, Samuel Edward.= L. I., 1841-1904. A Congregational clergyman of Boston. Some Heretics of Yesterday. Hou.

=Herrick, Mrs. Sophia McIlvaine [Bledsoe].= O., 1837- ----. Daughter of A. T. Bledsoe, supra. A New York writer on The Century staff, and well known as a microscopist. Wonders of Plant Life; Chapters in Plant Life; The Earth in Past Ages. Har. Put.

=Herron, George Davis.= Ind., 1862- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Iowa, since 1893 professor of applied Christianity in Iowa College, very prominent as a writer and lecturer upon Christian Socialism. The Christian Society; The Call of the Cross; The Larger Christ; The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth; The Christian State; Social Meanings of Religious Experiences. See The Arena, April, 1896. Ar. Cr. Rev.

=Hewett, Edwin Crawford.= Ms., 1828- ----. An educator of Illinois, president of the State Normal University from 1876, and author of Pedagogy for Young Teachers.

=Hewett, Waterman Thomas.= Mo., 1846- ----. An educator who has held the chair of German literature at Cornell University from 1883. The Frisian Language and Literature; Aims and Efforts of Collegiate Study of Modern Languages; Mutual Relations of High Schools and Colleges.

=Hewit, Nathaniel Augustus.= Ct., 1820-1897. A Roman Catholic clergyman who, previous to 1846, was successively a Congregational and Episcopal clergyman. In 1858 he entered the Paulist order, taking the name of Augustine Francis, and since 1865 has been a professor in the Paulist Seminary. Reasons for Submitting to the Catholic Church; Life of Princess Borghese; Life of a Modern Martyr,--Dumoulin-Borie; Problems of the Age; The King’s Highway; Light in Darkness.

=Hewitt, Mrs. Emma [Churchman].= La., 1850- ----. A writer of Philadelphia. Ease in Conversation; Hints to Ballad Singers; Queens of Home, a book for the household.

=Hewitt, John Hill.= N. Y., 1801-1890. A Baltimore author, once a rival of Poe. He wrote many ballads, among which is The Minstrel’s Return from the War; The Governess, a comedy; Washington, a play; Shadows on the Wall, a collection of reminiscences.

=Hewitt, Mrs. Mary.= See Stebbins, Mrs.

=Hibbard, Freeborn Garretson.= N. Y., 1811-1895. A Methodist clergyman of western New York. Christian Baptism; Geography and History of Palestine; The Religion of Childhood; Life of L. L. Hamline, supra; Eschatology; Commentary on the Psalms. Meth.

=Hibbard, George Abiah.= N. Y., 1858- ----. A Buffalo writer of short stories, notable for excellence of workmanship. Iduna, and Other Stories; Nowadays, and Other Stories; The Governor, and Other Stories. See The Book-Buyer, August, 1895. Har. Scr.

=Hickok= [hĭk´ŏk], =Laurens Perseus.= Ct., 1798-1888. A Congregational clergyman who held several college professorships, and was president of Union College, 1866-68. He subsequently lived at Amherst. Logic of Reason; Moral Science; Empirical Psychology; Rational Psychology; Rational Cosmology; Creator and Creation; Humanity Immortal. Gi.

=Hickox, John Howard.= N. Y., 1832-1897. The State librarian of New York, 1848-63, and subsequently employed in the Congressional Library. Historical Account of American Coinage; History of New York Paper Money, 1709-89; Catalogue of United States Government Publications.

=Hicks, Elias.= L. I., 1748-1830. A famous Quaker controversialist, and founder of the sect known as Hicksite Quakers. He was an early and very active opponent of slavery. Observations on Slavery; Journal of Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks; Doctrinal Epistle. See Letters of; History of the Friends, by S. Janney, infra.

=Higginson, Mrs. Ella [Rhoads].= Kan., 1862- ----. A druggist of New Whatcom, Washington, who has written much verse of a popular character, and The Flower that Grew in the Sand, and Other Stories.

=Higginson, Francis.= E., 1588-1630. A Puritan clergyman of Salem who emigrated to America in 1629. True Relation of the Last Voyage to New England; New England’s Plantation. See Life, by T. W. Higginson, infra; Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

=Higginson, John.= E., 1616-1708. Son of F. Higginson, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Salem, from 1659 till his death in charge of the church founded by his father, and widely popular in New England. The Cause of God and His People in New England; Attestation to Cotton Mather’s Magnalia. See Tyler’s American Literature.

=Higginson, Mrs. Mary Potter [Thacher].= Me., 1844- ----. Wife of T. W. Higginson, infra. Seashore and Prairie, stories and sketches.

=Higginson, Mrs. Sarah Jane [Hatfield].= Pa., 1840- ----. A writer of New York city. A Princess of Java, a tale of the Far East; Java: the Pearl of the East; The Bedouin Girl. Hou.

=Higginson, Stephen.= Ms., 1743-1828. A descendant of J. Higginson, supra. A merchant of Boston of note in his day as a political writer. Essays by Laco, reprinted as Ten Chapters in the Life of John Hancock; Defence of Jay’s Treaty.

=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Ms., 1823- ----. Grandson of S. Higginson, supra. An essayist and littérateur of Cambridge. In early life he was a Unitarian clergyman of a radical type, and prominent among anti-slavery thinkers. During the Civil War he commanded a regiment of freedmen. He has since been particularly active as an advocate of suffrage for women. His writings include, The Birthday in Fairy Land; Woman and her Wishes; Out-Door Papers; a translation of Epictetus; Malbone, a romance; Army Life in a Black Regiment; Atlantic Essays; Sympathy of Religions; Oldport Days; Young Folks’ History of the United States; Young Folks’ Book of American Explorers; Short Studies of American Authors; Common Sense about Women; Life of Margaret Fuller; Larger History of the United States; Travellers and Outlaws; Women and Men; The Afternoon Landscape, a collection of poems; Life of Francis Higginson; The New World and the New Book; Concerning All of Us; Such as They Are; The Monarch of Dreams; Hints on Writing and Speech-Making; Cheerful Yesterdays; English History for Americans (with E. Channing, supra); Book and Heart. Do. Har. Hou. Le. Lgs.

=Hildeburn, Charles Swift Riché.= Pa., 1855-1901. The librarian of the Philadelphia Athenæum from 1876. A Century of Printing, or the Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784; Printers and Printing in Colonial New York. Do.

=Hildeburn, Mrs. Mary Jane [Reed].= Pa., 1821-1882. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, Day Dreams; Archy and Pussy Series; Dr. Leslie’s Boys; Gaffney’s Tavern.

=Hildreth, Charles Lotin.= N. Y., 1856-1896. A journalist of New York city. Judith, a novel; The New Symphony, and Other Stories; The Masque of Death, and Other Poems.

=Hildreth, Ezekiel.= Ms., 1784-1856. An educator of Ohio and Virginia. Logopolis, a grammatical treatise; A Key to Knowledge.

=Hildreth, Richard.= Ms., 1807-1865. A Boston journalist and historian who was consul at Trieste in his latest years. Archy Moore, an anti-slavery novel; History of Banks; Theory of Politics; Despotism in America; Japan as it Was and Is; History of the United States from the Discovery of the Continent to the Close of the 16th Congress in 1820, a work which has few charms of style, though its general merit is unquestioned. Har.

=Hildreth, Samuel Prescott.= Ms., 1783-1863. A physician once prominent in Marietta, Ohio, where he settled in 1806. History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio; Lives of the Early Settlers of Ohio; Contributions to the Early History of the North-West; Meteorological Observations (with J. Wood); Pioneer History of the Ohio Valley (1848); Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio. See Bibliography of Ohio. Meth.

=Hilgard, Eugene Waldemar.= Bv., 1831- ----. A professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of California from 1875. Geology and Agriculture of Mississippi; Geology of Lower Louisiana; Cotton Production in the United States; Climatic Features, etc., of the Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope (with T. C. Jones).

=Hilgard, Julius Erasmus.= Bv., 1825-1891. Brother of E. W. Hilgard, supra. A civil engineer of note who was superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, 1881-85, who published many valuable professional papers.

=Hill, Adams Sherman.= Ms., 1833- ----. The Boylston professor of rhetoric at Harvard University from 1876. Our English; The Principles of Rhetoric; The Foundation of Rhetoric. Har.

=Hill, Mrs. Agnes Leonard [Scanland].= “Mollie Myrtle.” Ky., 1842- ----. Myrtle Blossoms; Vanquished, a novel; Heights and Depths.

=Hill, Benjamin Dionysius.= E., 1842- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, for some time at Notre Dame University, who has published Poems Devotional and Occasional.

=Hill, Benjamin Harvey.= Ga., 1823-1882. A noted Georgia statesman. Notes on the Situation (1867-68); Address to the People of Georgia.

=Hill, Britton Armstrong.= N. J., c. 1818- ----. A prominent lawyer of St. Louis. Liberty and Law under Federative Government; Absolute Money; Specie Resumption and National Bankruptcy Identical.

=Hill, Daniel Harvey.= S. C., 1821-1889. A noted mathematician who held professorships in several Southern colleges before and since the Civil War, but during that conflict was a general in the Confederate army. Elements of Algebra; Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount; The Crucifixion of Christ.

=Hill, David Jayne.= N. J., 1850- ----. An educator of note, president of the Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania, from 1879, and subsequently of the University of Rochester, New York. Science of Rhetoric; Elements of Rhetoric; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Bryant; Principles and Fallacies of Socialism; Social Influences of Christianity; The Elements of Psychology; Genetic Philosophy.

=Hill, Edward Judson.= N. Y., 183- - ----. A lawyer of Chicago. Common Law Jurisdiction in Illinois; Chancery Jurisdiction in Illinois; Probate Jurisdiction in Illinois; Municipal Offices in Illinois.

=Hill, Frederic Stanhope.= Ms., 1829- ----. A journalist of Cambridge. Twenty Years at Sea, or Leaves from my Old Log-Books; Historical Continuity of the Anglican Church. Hou.

=Hill, George.= Ct., 1796-1871. A verse-writer who held several government clerkships, and after 1835 lived at Guilford, his native town. Ruins of Athens, and Other Poems; Titania’s Banquet, and Other Poems. See Griswold’s Poets of America.

=Hill, George Canning.= Ct., 1825-1898. Lives of Captain John Smith, Israel Putnam, Benedict Arnold, Daniel Boone; Homespun, or Five and Twenty Years Ago; Our Parish, or Pen Paintings of Village Life.

=Hill, Hamilton Andrews.= E., 1827-1895. A Boston writer who published History of the Old South Church, Boston, 1669-1884; Memoir of Abbott Lawrence. Hou. Lit.

=Hill, Henry Barker.= Ms., 1849-1903. Son of T. Hill, infra. A professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1879, and author of Notes on Qualitative Analysis. Put.

=Hill, Theophilus Hunter.= N. C., 1836-1901. A lawyer of Raleigh, North Carolina. Hesper, and Other Poems, the first book copyrighted by the Confederate government; Passion Flower, and Other Poems.

=Hill, Thomas.= N. J., 1818-1891. A Unitarian clergyman and educator and a mathematician of eminence. He was president of Harvard University, 1862-1868, and held pastorates at Waltham, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine. He invented several mathematical instruments, one of which is the occultator. The Postulates of Religion and Ethics; The Stars and the Earth; The True Order of Studies; Geometry and Faith; Curvature; Jesus the Interpreter of Nature; Christmas, and Poems on Slavery; The Natural Sources of Theology; In the Woods and Elsewhere, containing notable experiments in classic metres; and several text-books on arithmetic and geometry. See Bibliography of Maine. El. Le. Put.

=Hill, Walter Henry.= Ky., 1822- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of Chicago, a professor in St. Louis University, 1864-65 and 1871-1884. Elements of Philosophy; Ethics, or Moral Philosophy; Historical Sketch of St. Louis University.

=Hillard, George Stillman.= Me., 1808-1879. A lawyer of Boston. Life of General McClellan; Life of George Ticknor (with Mrs. Ticknor); Six Months in Italy. He also published a series of school readers and an edition of Spenser. Hou.

=Hillhouse, James Abram.= Ct., 1789-1841. A dramatic poet of New Haven. His ambitious, heavy dramas, Percy’s Masque, Hadad, Demetria, were once extravagantly praised, but have long been hopelessly dead. Dramas, Discourses, and Other Pieces, appeared in 1839. See North American Review, January, 1840.

=Hilliard= [hil´yärd], =Francis.= Ms., 1808-1878. A jurist of Boston. The Law of Taxation; The Law of Vendors and Purchasers; The Law of Mortgages; The Law of Torts; Law of Injunctions; Law of New Trials; Law of Contracts; Law of Bankruptcy; American Jurisprudence; American Law, a Comprehensive Summary. Lip.

=Hilliard, Henry Washington.= N. C., 1808-1892. A lawyer and congressman of Alabama. In 1841 he was chargé d’affaires to Belgium. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army, and subsequently practiced law in Atlanta, serving as minister to Brazil, 1877-81. Speeches and Addresses; De Vane, a Story of Plebeians and Patricians; Politics and Pen Pictures. Har.

=Hills, George Morgan.= N. Y., 1825-1890. An Episcopal clergyman, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Burlington, New Jersey, 1870-90. History of the Church in Burlington; John Talbot, the First Bishop in North America; Church of England Missions in New Jersey; Transfer of the Church from Colonial Dependence to the Freedom of the Republic.

=Hinkel, Charles John.= E., 1817-1894. A German educator who came to America in 1855, and was professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar College, 1869-90. Die Speculative Analysis des Begriffs Geist; Leitfaden bei dem Unterreicht in der deutschen Grammatik; Allegemeine Aesthetik für gebildete Leser.

=Hinman, Royal Ralph.= Ct., 1785-1868. A lawyer and antiquarian of New Hampshire, and subsequently of New York city. Historical Recollections of Connecticut in the American Revolution; Catalogue of the First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut.

=Hinrichs, Carl Detlef.= Dk., 1836- ----. A Danish educator who came to America in 1860, and was professor of physical sciences in Iowa University, 1863-85. Elements of Physics; Elements of Atom Mechanics; Principles of Pure Crystallography; Principles of Physical Sciences; First Course in Qualitative Analysis.

=Hinsdale, Burke Aaron.= O., 1837-1900. An Ohio educator, president of Hiram College, 1870-82, and for four years subsequently superintendent of schools in Cleveland. Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels; President Garfield and Education; Schools and Studies; The Old Northwest; How to Study and Teach History; editor Life and Works of Garfield. Ap. Hou. Sil.

=Hinton, Isaac Taylor.= E., 1799-1847. A Baptist clergyman who came to America from England in 1822, and was pastor in Richmond, Virginia, and in New Orleans, in which latter city he died. History of Baptism; Lectures on the Prophecies.

=Hirst, Henry Beck.= Pa., 1813-1874. A lawyer and verse-writer of Philadelphia. His poetical writings comprise Endymion, a Tale of Greece; The Penance of Roland; The Coming of the Mammoth, and Other Poems. He also published a Poetical Dictionary.

=Hitchcock, Alfred.= Vt., 1813-1874. A surgeon of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who published Christianity and Medical Science.

=Hitchcock, Charles Henry.= Ms., 1836- ----. Son of Edward Hitchcock, infra. The State geologist of New Hampshire. Natural History and Geology of Maine; New Hampshire Geological Survey; The Geology of New Hampshire.

=Hitchcock, Edward.= Ms., 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman, State geologist of Massachusetts, 1833-1844, and president of Amherst College, 1845-54. Religion of Geology; Illustrations of Surface Geology; Fossil Footprints in the United States; Ichnology of New England; Dyspepsia Forestalled and Resisted; Religious Truth Illustrated from Science; Elementary Geology; Reminiscences of Amherst College. See Allibone’s Dictionary.

=Hitchcock, Edward.= Ms., 1828- ----. Son of E. Hitchcock, supra. A physician, professor of hygiene in Amherst College from 1861. Anatomy and Physiology.

=Hitchcock, Enos.= Ms., 1744-1803. A Congregational clergyman of Providence once famous as a preacher. Treatise on Education; Sermons; Catechetical Instruction for Children and Youth.

=Hitchcock, Ethan Allen.= Vt., 1798-1870. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War. He was a grandson of Ethan Allen, the noted patriot, and was an ardent advocate of the doctrines of Swedenborg. Alchemy and the Alchemists; Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher; Christ the Spirit, an argument for the symbolic exposition of the Gospels; Remarks on the Sonnets of Shakespeare; Spenser’s Colin Clout Explained; Notes on Dante’s “Vita Nuova.”

=Hitchcock, James Ripley Wellman.= Ms., 1857- ----. Son of A. Hitchcock, supra. A littérateur of New York city. The Western Art Movement; A Study of George Jenness; Etchings in America; Madonnas by Old Masters; Notable Etchings by American Artists; Some American Painters in Water Colors; The Future of Etching.

=Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight.= Me., 1817-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Union Seminary from 1880. Life of Edward Robinson, infra; Complete Analysis of the Bible; The New Testament, with Readings Preferred by the American Committee Incorporated into the Text; Eternal Atonement (with Francis Brown, the editor of The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles). Scr.

=Hittell, John Shertzer.= Pa., 1825-1901. A journalist of San Francisco. Evidences against Christianity; Mining in the Pacific States; Brief History of Culture; History of San Francisco; The Spirit of the Papacy; History of Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times; Resources of California. Ap. Ho.

=Hittell, Theodore Henry.= Pa., 1830- ----. Brother of J. S. Hittell, supra. A prominent lawyer and historian of San Francisco. Adventures of Captain Capen Adams; General Laws of California, 1850-64, commonly called Hittell’s Digest; Codes and Statutes of California; History of California, a work of great value, the first two volumes, appearing in 1885, carrying the narrative as far as the close of the Mexican War, the remaining two volumes, issued in 1897, bringing it to 1887. Goethe’s Faust, a critical review, was issued in 1870. Se.

=Hobart, John Henry.= Pa., 1775-1830. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, and a leader of Church thought in his day. Companion for the Altar; State of Departed Spirits; Festivals and Fasts; Apology for Apostolic Order. See Early and Professional Years of Bishop Hobart, 1834-36. Dut.

=Hobart, John Henry.= N. Y., 1817-1889. Son of J. H. Hobart, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Instruction and Encouragement for Lent; Church Reform in Mexico; Mediæval Papal and Ritual Principles Stated and Contrasted.

=Hobby, William.= Ms., 1707-1765. A Congregational clergyman of Reading, Massachusetts. Vindication of Whitefield; Self-Examination.

=Hodge, Archibald Alexander.= N. J., 1823-1886. Son of C. Hodge, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology at Princeton College from 1877. Outlines of Theology; Life of Charles Hodge, infra; The Atonement; Commentary on the Confession of Faith; Popular Lectures on Theological Themes. Scr.

=Hodge, Charles.= Pa., 1797-1878. A Presbyterian clergyman, for nearly forty years editor of The Princeton Review, which he founded, and to which he was the chief contributor. Systematic Theology; Commentaries on the Epistles; Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; What is Darwinism?; Discussions in Church Polity; Conference Papers. See Life by A. A. Hodge; Princetoniana, by Charles Salmond. Scr.

=Hodge, Frederick Webb.= E., 1864- ----. An ethnologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Architecture of the Prehistoric Pueblos of Southern Arizona; Methods of Irrigation of the Ancient Inhabitants of the Salado Valley.

=Hodge, Hugh Lenox.= Pa., 1796-1873. Brother of C. Hodge, supra. A physician who was professor of obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania from 1835. Principles and Practice of Obstetrics; Diseases Peculiar to Women.

=Hodge, John Aspinwall.= Pa., 1831-1901. A Presbyterian clergyman in Hartford, 1866-92. What is Presbyterian Law?; Theology of the Shorter Catechism (second part); Recognition After Death.

=Hodges, George.= N. Y., 1856- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, dean of the Theological School at Cambridge from 1894, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Heresy of Cain; Christianity Between Sundays; Faith and Social Service. Wh.

=Hodgkin, Louise Manning.= Ms., 1846- ----. An educator who was from 1876 to 1891 professor of English Literature in Wellesley College. Guide to the Study of Nineteenth Century Literature; Via Christi.

=Hodgson, Francis.= E., 1805-1877. A Methodist minister in Pennsylvania and other States. Examination into the System of New Divinity; Ecclesiastical Policy of Methodism Defended; Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted. Meth.

=Hoffman, Charles Fenno.= N. Y., 1806-1884. Half brother of M. Hoffman, infra. A once popular poet and story-writer of New York city who from 1850 lived in absolute retirement by reason of mental disorder. He excelled as a song-writer, his best known songs being, Sparkling and Bright, and The Myrtle and Steel. A Winter in the West; Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie; The Vigil of Faith, and Other Poems; The Echo, or Borrowed Notes for Home Circulation (verse). Love’s Calendar, and Other Poems; Grayslaer, a novel. See Poems of, edited by E. Hoffman, 1874.

=Hoffman, David.= Md., 1784-1854. A lawyer who was professor of law in the University of Maryland. A Course of Legal Study; Legal Outlines; Legal Hints; Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men and Things; Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew; Viator, a Peep into my Notebook.

=Hoffman, David Bancroft.= N. Y., 1827- ----. A politician and physician of San Diego who has published Medical History of San Diego County, California.

=Hoffman, David Murray.= N. Y., 1791-1878. A once prominent New York jurist. Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery; Estate and Rights of the Corporation of New York as Proprietors; Law of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Law in the State of New York; Law and Practice as to References.

=Hoffman, Eugene Augustus.= N. Y., 1829-1902. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, dean of the General Theological Seminary from 1879, and a prominent benefactor of that institution. Free Churches; The Ritualistic Week; Manual of Devotion for Communicants.

=Hoffman, John N----.= Pa., 1804-1857. A Lutheran clergyman of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Evangelical Hymns, Original and Selected; A Collection of Tests; The Broken Platform, a Defence of the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church.

=Hoffman, Wickham.= N. Y., 1821-1900. Son of D. M. Hoffman, supra. A diplomatist who, after serving as secretary of legation at Paris, London, and St. Petersburg successively, was minister to Denmark, 1883-85. Camp, Court, and Siege, a Narrative of Personal Adventure during Two Wars; Leisure Hours in Russia.

=Hogan, John.= I., 1805-1892. A politician and banker of St. Louis. Thoughts about St. Louis; Resources of Missouri; Sketches of Early Western Pioneers; History of Western Methodism.

=Hoge= [hōg], =Moses.= Va., 1752-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator of Virginia, president of Hampden and Sidney College, 1806-20, and widely known as an eloquent preacher. Christian Panoply, a Reply to Paine’s “Age of Reason;” Sermons.

=Hoge, William James.= Va., 1821-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and subsequently of Petersburg, Virginia, very popular in his day, and the author of Blind Bartimeus, or the Sightless Sinner.

=Hogg, Wilson Thomas.= N. Y., 1852- ----. A Free Methodist clergyman, president of Greenville College from 1893. Handbook of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology; Revivals and Revival Work.

=Hoke, Jacob.= 18-- - ----. The Age we Live In; Holiness, or the Higher Christian Life; Clusters from Eshcol; Guide to the Battle Field of Gettysburg; The Great Invasion of 1863.

=Holbrook, Alfred.= Ct., 1816- ----. An educator of Lebanon, Ohio. The Normal, or Methods of Teaching; An English Grammar Conformed to Present Usage.

=Holbrook, James.= 1812-1864. From 1845 a special agent of the United States Post Office. He published Ten Years Among the Mailbags.

=Holbrook, John Edwards.= S. C., 1794-1871. A physician and naturalist, professor of anatomy at the Medical College in Charleston for more than thirty years. American Herpetology; Ichthyology of South Carolina.

=Holbrook, Martin Luther.= O., 1831-1902. A physician of New York city, professor of hygiene in the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, and editor of The Herald of Health and Journal of Hygiene. Parturition Without Pain; Eating for Strength; Hygiene of Brain and Nerves; Marriage and Parentage; How to Strengthen the Memory; Hygienic Treatment of Consumption.

=Holbrook, Silas Pinckney.= S. C., 1796-1835. Brother of J. E. Holbrook, supra. A lawyer of Medfield, Massachusetts. Sketches by a Traveller is a collection of his contributions to the Boston Courier and the New England Galaxy.

=Holcombe, Henry.= Va., 1762-1826. A Baptist clergyman of Philadelphia. Lectures on Primitive Theology; First Fruits.

=Holcombe, Hosea.= S. C., 1780-1841. A Baptist clergyman of Alabama. Collection of Sacred Hymns; Anti-Mission Principles Exposed; History of Alabama Baptists.

=Holcombe, James Philemon.= Va., 1820-1873. A lawyer and educator of Virginia, professor of law in the University of Virginia, 1852-60, and member of the Confederate Congress, 1861-1863. Law of Debtor and Creditor; Literature and Letters; Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence; Leading Cases upon Commercial Law; Digest of United States Supreme Court Decisions; Merchants’ Book of Reference. Ap.

=Holcombe, William Frederick.= Ms., 1827- ----. A physician of New York city, professor of eye and ear diseases in several medical institutions. History of Mount Sterling, Kentucky; History of the Holcombes in America; Family Records, their Importance and Value.

=Holcombe, William Henry.= Va., 1825-1894. Brother of J. P. Holcombe, supra. A homœopathic physician of New Orleans, who was well known as a Swedenborgian writer. Our Children in Heaven; Lost Truths of Christianity; The Other Life; Southern Voices, a volume of verse; Scientific Basis of Homœopathy; How I Became a Homœopath; Poems; The Sexes Here and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End of the World; The New Tenant; Letters on Spiritual Subjects; Condensed Thoughts About Christian Science. Lip.

=Holden, Edward Singleton.= Mo., 1846- ----. An astronomer, president of the University of California since 1880, and director of the Lick Observatory. Astronomy for Students (with S. Newcomb, infra); Life of Sir William Herschel; Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion; Notes on the Bastion System of Fortification; Astronomical Bibliography; Handbook of Lick Observatory; The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan. Scr.

=Holden, George Henry.= Ms., 1848- ----. The proprietor of a bird store in Boston who has published Canaries and Cage Birds. Ju.

=Holden, Luther Loud.= 18-- - ----. Persis, a Tale of the White Mountains; A Summer Jaunt through the Old World.

=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Ms., 1851- ----. Son of J. B. Holder, infra. A naturalist of New York city, and a popular writer upon natural history topics. Elements of Zoölogy (with J. B. Holder); Marvels of Animal Life; The Ivory King; Living Lights; Wonder Wings; A Strange Company; A Frozen Dragon, and Other Tales; All About Pasadena; Along the Florida Reef; Life of Agassiz; Young Folks’ Story Book of Natural History. Ap. Do. Le. Lo. Put. Scr.

=Holder, Joseph Bassett.= Ms., 1824-1888. A zoölogist who was a curator in the American Museum of Natural History, New York city. History of the North American Fauna; History of the Atlantic Right Whales; The Living World.

=Holdich, Joseph.= E., 1804-1893. A Methodist clergyman who was secretary of the American Bible Society, 1849-78. Bible History; Life of A. H. Hurd; Life of Wilbur Fisk, supra. Har. Meth.

=Holland, Edward Clifford.= S. C., 1794-1824. A journalist of Charleston who was the author of a volume of Odes, Naval Songs, and Other Poems.

=Holland, Frederick May.= Ms., 1836- ----. Son of F. W. Holland, infra. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts. The Reign of the Stoics; Stories from Robert Browning; The Rise of Intellectual Liberty from Thales to Copernicus; Life of Frederick Douglass. Fu. Ho.

=Holland, Frederick West.= Ms., 1811-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Concord, Massachusetts. Scenes in Palestine; Sinai and Jerusalem, or Scenes from Bible Lands.

=Holland, Henry Ware.= N. Y., 1844- ----. Son of F. W. Holland, supra. A Boston lawyer and journalist. William Dawes and his Ride with Paul Revere.

=Holland, Josiah Gilbert.= “Timothy Titcomb.” Ms., 1819-1881. A popular author and lecturer whose writings met with severe criticism as literary productions without being materially affected in popularity. They were addressed to average commonplace humanity, and exerted a wide and helpful influence. He was editor of The Springfield Republican, 1849-66, and of Scribner’s Magazine from 1870 until his death. His writings in verse include, Kathrina; Bitter Sweet; The Mistress of the Manse; The Marble Prophecy; Garnered Sheaves, including all his poems up to 1873; The Puritan’s Guest, and Other Poems. In fiction: The Bay Path; Arthur Bonnicastle; Sevenoaks; Miss Gilbert’s Career; Nicholas Minturn. His other works comprise, Gold Foil Hammered from Popular Proverbs; History of Western Massachusetts; Letters to Young People; Lessons in Life; Concerning the Jones Family; Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects; Life of Abraham Lincoln, which had an enormous sale. See Century Magazine, December, 1881; Memoir by Mrs. H. M. Plunkett. Scr.

=Holland, Robert Afton.= Tn., 1844- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of St. Louis, but formerly a clergyman of the Methodist faith. The Philosophy of the Real Presence; Relations of Philosophy to Agnosticism and Religion; The Proof of Immortality; Midsummer Night’s Dream, an Interpretation; Democracy in the Church; What is the Use of Going to Church?

=Holley, Alexander Lyman.= Ct., 1832-1882. An engineer of eminence who was a lecturer on iron and steel manufacture in the Columbia School of Mines from 1879, and an inventor of prominence. Railway Economics (with Zerah Colburn, supra); Treatise on Ordnance and Armor. See Memorial of, 1884.

=Holley, Marietta.= “Josiah Allen’s Wife.” N. Y., 1844- ----. A well-known and popular humourous writer whose home has always been at Ellisburg, New York. Her writings contain much real wit and shrewd sense, but the effect is often marred by extravagance and faults of taste. My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet’s; My Wayward Pardner; Josiah Allen’s Wife as a P. A. and a P. I.; Samantha at the World’s Fair; Samantha in Europe; Samantha Among the Brethren; Samantha at Saratoga; Samantha at the Centennial; Poems; Sweet Cicely; Josiah’s Alarm. Fu. Lip.

=Holley, Mrs. Mary [Austin].= 17-- -1846. The wife of Horace Holley, a Unitarian clergyman of Kentucky. Texas: Observations Historical, Geographical, and Descriptive (1833); Memoir of Horace Holley.

=Holley, Orville Luther.= Ct., 1791-1861. Brother-in-law of Mrs. Holley, supra. A lawyer and journalist of New York city. Description of New York City; Life of Benjamin Franklin.

=Hollister, Gideon Hiram.= Ct., 1817-1881. A lawyer of Litchfield, Connecticut, who was minister to Hayti, 1868-69. Mount Hope, an historical romance; History of Connecticut; Thomas à Becket, a Tragedy, and Other Poems; Kinley Hollow.

=Holloway, Mrs. Laura [Carter].= Tn., 1848- ----. A writer who was for ten years on the editorial staff of The Brooklyn Eagle. Ladies of the White House; An Hour with Charlotte Brontë; The Hearthstone, or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Chinese Gordon; Howard, the Christian Hero; Life of Adelaide Neilson; The Buddhist Diet Book. Fu.

=Holly, Henry Hudson.= N. Y., 1834-1892. An architect of New York city. Country Seats; Church Architecture; Modern Dwellings in Town and Country.

=Holm, Saxe.= See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.

=Holmes, Abiel.= Ct., 1763-1837. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, pastor of the First Church there, 1792-1832. Life of Ezra Stiles, infra; History of Cambridge; American Annals; Memoir of the French Protestants. See Life by W. Jenks.

=Holmes, Daniel.= N. Y., 1810-1873. A Methodist preacher in Michigan and Indiana. Pure Gold, or Truth in its Native Loveliness; The Wesley Offering; Discussion on the Atonement.

=Holmes, Mrs. Georgiana [Klingle].= “George Klingle.” Pa., 185- - ----. A verse-writer of Philadelphia. Make Thy Way Mine; In the Name of the King. Sto.

=Holmes, John.= Ms., 1773-1843. A once prominent senator in Congress from Massachusetts, and subsequently from Maine, who was the author of The Statesman, or Principles of Legislation.

=Holmes, Mrs. Mary Jane [Hawes].= Ms., 18-- - ----. A voluminous author of popular fiction of a domestic kind, the literary merit of which is slight. She has for many years lived at Brockport, New York. Among her writings are, Lena Rivers; Tempest and Sunshine; Marian Grey; Gretchen. Dil.

=Holmes, Nathaniel.= N. H., 1814-1901. A jurist of St. Louis in earlier life, but from 1868-72 Royall professor of law in Harvard University, and for many years a resident of Cambridge. He was an ardent advocate of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. The Authorship of Shakespeare; Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself. Hou.

=Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= Ms., 1809-1894. Son of A. Holmes, supra. A famous physician of Boston, widely known as poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in Cambridge, and there and in Boston his life was almost entirely passed. From 1847 to 1882 he was professor of anatomy in Harvard University. His popularity dates from the founding of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, in the earliest number of which he began the publication of the articles entitled The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Much of his verse was composed for especial occasions, and is more or less ephemeral in its nature; but his serious verse and his essays entitle him to a high place among American writers. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table; Mechanism in Thought and Morals; Memoir of Motley; Over the Teacups; Our Hundred Days in Europe; Life of Emerson; Medical Essays; Elsie Venner; The Guardian Angel; A Mortal Antipathy; Currents and Counter Currents; Pages from an Old Volume of Life, comprise his prose works. In verse his publications include, Urania; Astræa; Songs in Many Keys; Songs of Many Seasons; The Iron Gate; The School-Boy; Before the Curfew. See Lives by W. Kennedy, E. E. Brown, J. T. Morse; Haweis’s American Humourists; Nichol’s American Literature; Richardson’s American Literature; Stedman’s Poets of America; O. W. Holmes, by Walter Jerrold; Ashcroft Noble’s Impressions and Memories; Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors, 1890; Harper’s Monthly, December, 1896. Hou.

=Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.= Ms., 1841- ----. Son of O. W. Holmes, supra. A jurist of Boston who has published The Common Law and edited Kent’s Commentaries. Lit.

=Holst, Hermann Eduard von.= Livonia, 1841-1904. An historian who first came to America in 1866 and engaged in lecturing and writing, but returned to Europe in 1872 and was successively professor of history in the University of Strassburg, 1872-74, and at Freiburg, 1874-92. In 1892 he became professor of history at the University of Chicago. His greatest work is Verfassung und Demokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, the translation of which is entitled The Constitutional and Political History of the United States. His other works are, Life of Calhoun; Life of John Brown; Constitutional Law of the United States. Hou.

=Holt, John Saunders.= Al., 1826-1886. A lawyer of New Orleans. Life of Abraham Page, a Novel; What I Know About Ben Eccles; The Quines. Lip.

=Homes, Henry Augustus.= Ms., 1812-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was a missionary at Constantinople, 1836-50, and subsequently in the diplomatic service there. From 1854 he was employed as librarian in the State library at Albany. The Need of Yezedees of Mesopotamia; Design and Import of Medals; Our Knowledge of California; The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709; The Water Supply of Constantinople, comprise his principal works.

=Homes, Mrs. Mary Sophie [Shaw] [Rogers].= Md., 1830- ----. A writer of New Orleans. Carrie Harrington, or Scenes in New Orleans; Progression, or the South Defended, a volume of verse; A Wreath of Rhymes.

=Honeywood, Saint John.= Ms., 1763-1798. A lawyer of Salem, New York, whose political Poems were published in 1801.

=Hood, George.= Ms., 1807-1882. A clergyman long prominent as an educator in Massachusetts. Southern Church Melodies; Musical Manual; History of Music in New England (1846).

=Hood, John Bell.= Ky., 1831-1879. A noted general in the Confederate army. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experience in the United States and Confederate Armies, a careful defence of his military movements.

=Hood, Samuel.= I., c. 1800-1875. A Philadelphia lawyer, author of A Practical Treatise on the Law of Decedents in Pennsylvania.

=Hooke, William.= E., 1601-1678. A Puritan clergyman who was a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. He came to America about 1636; was for some seven years minister at Taunton, and for twelve years following pastor at New Haven. Returning to England in 1656, he became chaplain to Cromwell. New England’s Teares for Old England’s Feares is the best known of his writings. See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

=Hooker, Edward William.= Ct., 1794-1875. A Congregational clergyman of Vermont who was a descendant of T. Hooker, infra. A Plea for Sacred Music; Life of Thomas Hooker.

=Hooker, Herman.= Vt., 1804-1865. An Episcopal clergyman who retired from the ministry and became a bookseller in Philadelphia. Family Book of Devotion; The Uses of Adversity; Thoughts and Maxims; The Portion of the Soul; Popular Infidelity; The Christian Life a Life of Faith.

=Hooker, Horace.= Ct., 1793-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Youth’s Book of Natural Theology; Bible History.

=Hooker, Mrs. Isabella [Beecher].= Ct., 1822- ----. The youngest daughter of Lyman Beecher, supra. A philanthropist of Hartford, prominent as an advocate of spiritualism and woman-suffrage. Womanhood: its Sanctities and Fidelities.

=Hooker, Thomas.= E., 1586-1647. A Puritan clergyman who came to America in 1633, and was for three years minister at Cambridge, then called Newtowne. In 1636 he led a large portion of his flock to the Connecticut valley, where they founded the town of Hartford. A theologian of great influence in his century. Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline (with John Cotton); Application of Redemption; The Poore Doubting Christian drawne to Christ. See Tyler’s American Literature; Palfrey’s History of New England; Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.

=Hooker, Worthington.= Ms., 1806-1867. A physician of Norwich, Connecticut, who was professor of medicine at Yale University, 1852-67. Physician and Patient; An Examination of Homœopathy; Human Physiology for Schools; Rational Therapeutics; Child’s Book of Nature; Child’s Book of Common Things; Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions; Science for the School and Family; The Medical Profession and the Community. Har.

=Hooper, Edward James.= E., 1803-189-. A once prominent agriculturist in the West who published a Dictionary of Agriculture.

=Hooper, Johnson.= N. C., 1815-1863. A lawyer of Alabama. Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs; Widow Rugby’s Husband, and Other Alabama Tales.

=Hooper, Lucy.= Ms., 1816-1841. A verse-writer of much promise whose home was in Brooklyn. Scenes from Real Life, a collection of prose Sketches, appeared during her lifetime, and her Complete Poems in 1848. See Griswold’s Female Poets of America.

=Hooper, Mrs. Lucy Hamilton [Jones].= Pa., 1835-1893. A Philadelphia author who lived in Europe after 1870, and was Paris correspondent for several American papers. Poems, with translations from the German; Under the Tri-Color, a Novel; The Tsar’s Window, a Novel. Lip. Rob.

=Hope, James Barron.= Va., 1827-1887. A lawyer and journalist of Norfolk. Leoni di Monti, and Other Poems; An Elegiac Ode; Under the Empire, or the Story of Madelon; Arms and the Man, and Other Poems.

=Hopkins, Alphonso Alvah.= N. Y., 1843- ----. A journalist, educator, and lecturer. His Prison Bars, a Temperance Tale; Newspaper Poets; Our Sabbath Evenings; Sinner and Saint, a Novel; Life of General Clinton Fisk; Asleep in the Sanctum, and Other Poems; Waifs and their Authors; Wealth and Waste; Geraldine, a novel in verse on the model of Lucile. Fu. Hou.

=Hopkins, Caspar Thomas.= Vt., 1826-1893. Son of Bishop Hopkins, infra. A Californian journalist who established the first insurance company on the Pacific coast. He published a Manual of American Ideas.

=Hopkins, Edward Washburn.= Ms., 1857- ----. A professor of Sanskrit in Yale University. Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India; The Religions of India. Gi.

=Hopkins, Erastus.= Ms., 1810-1872. A Presbyterian clergyman, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the author of The Family a Religious Institution.

=Hopkins, John Henry.= I., 1792-1868. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigour and versatility, prominent both as a High Churchman and a controversialist. History of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve Canzonets, words and music; History of the Church in verse, include his principal writings. See Life by his son, J. H. Hopkins, infra.

=Hopkins, John Henry.= Pa., 1820-1891. Son of J. H. Hopkins, supra. An Episcopal clergyman who founded The Church Journal, of which he was long the editor. Among his writings are included Carols, Hymns, and Songs; Poems by the Wayside; Life of Bishop Hopkins; Faith and Order of the Protestant Church in the United States; and a translation of Goethe’s Autobiography. See C. F. Sweet’s Champion of the Cross, 1894. Wh.

=Hopkins, Lemuel.= Ct., 1750-1801. A political writer of note in his day, author of satires, poems, and a favourite version of Psalm cxxxii. With Barlow and others he wrote the Anarchiad, a plea for an efficient federal constitution.

=Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa Parsons [Stone].= Ms., 1834-1895. An educator of Boston, for some years a member of the Boston School Board. How Shall my Child be Taught?; Practical Pedagogy; Educational Psychology; Observation Lessons in Primary Schools; Cosmic Geography; Handbook of the Earth; Parables of Nature and Life. In verse she wrote, Motherhood; Breath of the Field and Shore; Easter Carols. Le.

=Hopkins, Mrs. Louisa [Payson].= Me., 1812-1862. A writer of religious works for young people, the wife of Professor Albert Hopkins, Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Pastor’s Daughter; Lessons on the Book of Proverbs; Henry Langdon; The Guiding Star; The Silent Comforter; Select Thoughts. See Sewall’s Memoirs of Albert Hopkins.

=Hopkins, Mark.= Ms., 1802-1887. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Williams College, 1836-1872, and a man of wide influence as an educator and a religious writer. Lectures on Moral Science; The Law of Love and Love as a Law; Discourses and Essays; Outline Study of Man; The Scriptural Idea of Man; Teachings and Counsels; Evidences of Christianity. See Life by F. Carter, supra. Rev. Scr.

=Hopkins, Mark.= Ms., 1851- ----. Son of M. Hopkins, supra. A journalist in London. The World’s Verdict, a novel. Hou.

=Hopkins, Samuel.= Ct., 1721-1803. A Congregational clergyman of Newport, Rhode Island, the founder of what has been called Hopkinsian Divinity, which differed from Calvinism in maintaining the free agency of sinners, the moral inability of the unregenerate, and ascribing the essence of sin to the disposition and purpose of the mind. His views had great influence in the modification of contemporary thought. He was a strong opponent of slavery, and his influence procured the passage of a law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Rhode Island. The System of Doctrine contained in Divine Revelation is his principal work. Others are, The True State of the Unregenerate; Nature of True Holiness; The Duty and Interest of American States to Emancipate their Slaves. See Life by Park; Mrs. Stowe’s Minister’s Wooing; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

=Hopkins, Samuel.= Ms., 1807-1887. Cousin of M. Hopkins, 1st, supra. A Congregational clergyman of New England, long a resident of Northampton, Massachusetts. The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth; Lessons at the Cross; Youth of the Old Dominion.

=Hopkins, Samuel Miles.= Ct., 1772-1837. A jurist of New York State. Chancery Reports; Treatise on Temperance.

=Hopkins, Samuel Miles.= N. Y., 1813-1901. Son of S. M. Hopkins, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1847. Manual of Church Polity; Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer.

=Hopkins, Stephen.= R. I., 1707-1785. One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and ten times governor of Rhode Island. He was the author of Rights of the Colonies Examined; History of the Planting and Growth of Providence. See Life by W. E. Foster, 1884; Bibliography of Rhode Island.

=Hopkinson, Francis.= Pa., 1737-1791. A once famous political writer and lawyer of Philadelphia, among whose political writings are, The Pretty Story; The Prophecy; The Political Catechism; The New Roof. He is best known by his humourous poem, The Battle of the Kegs. Three volumes of his Miscellaneous Writings were published in 1792.

=Hopkinson, Joseph.= Pa., 1770-1842. Son of F. Hopkinson, supra. A jurist of Philadelphia who is chiefly remembered as the author of the poem, Hail Columbia.

=Hoppin, Augustus.= R. I., 1828-1896. An artist and illustrator. On the Nile; Ups and Downs on Land and Water; Jubilee Days; Hay Fever; Recollections of Auton House, a novel; A Fashionable Sufferer; Two Compton Boys; Married for Fun, a romance. Hou.

=Hoppin, James Mason.= R. I., 1820- ----. Cousin of A. Hoppin, supra. A Congregational clergyman, professor of homiletics at Yale University, 1861-1879, and subsequently of the history of art. Notes of a Theological Student; Old England; Life of Admiral Foote; Memoirs of Henry Armitt Brown, supra; Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Office and Work of the Christian Minister; Sermons on Faith, Hope, Love, etc.; The Early Renaissance; Greek Art on Greek Soil. Do. Fu. Har. Hou. Lip.

=Horn, Edward Traill.= Pa., 1850- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of Charleston. The Christian Year; Old Matin and Vesper Services of the Lutheran Church; Outlines of Liturgics; The Evangelical Pastor.

=Hornaday, William Temple.= Ind., 1854- ----. A naturalist of Washington, for eight years chief taxidermist of the National Museum. Two Years in the Jungle; The Buffalo Hunt; Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco; Free Rum on the Congo; Taxidermy and Zoölogical Collecting. Scr.

=Horner, William Edmunds.= Va., 1793-1853. A physician of Philadelphia, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1819-53. Special Anatomy and Histology; United States Dissector; Anatomical Atlas; Pathological Anatomy. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

=Horsfield, Thomas.= Pa., 1773-1859. A naturalist and traveller who was a native of Philadelphia, but was in the employ of the East India Company, and lived in England after 1820. Lepidopterous Insects; Zoölogical Researches in Java. See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 27.

=Horsford, Eben Norton.= N. Y., 1818-1893. A chemist of Cambridge who was Rumford professor at Harvard University, 1847-63. He was the discoverer of acid phosphate, and one of the founders of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Theory and Art of Breadmaking; The Army Ration; Discovery of America by Northmen. Hou.

=Horsford, Mrs. Mary L’Hommedieu [Gardiner].= N. Y., 1824-1855. Wife of E. N. Horsford, supra, and author of Indian Legends and Other Poems.

=Horsmanden, Daniel.= E., 1691-1778. A jurist of New York city. The New York Conspiracy, or the History of the Negro Plot; Letters to Governor Clinton.

=Horton, George Forman.= Pa., 1808-1888. A lawyer of Terrytown, Pennsylvania. Geology of Bradford County, Pennsylvania; The Horton Genealogy.

=Horton, Samuel Dana.= O., 1844-1895. A publicist of Pomeroy, Ohio, eminent as an advocate of bimetallism. Silver and Gold; The Silver Pound and England’s Monetary Position since the Restoration, with a History of the Guinea; Silver in Europe. Clke. Mac.

=Hosack, David.= N. Y., 1769-1835. An eminent physician and scientist of New York city who founded the first botanic garden in America. Contagious Diseases; Vision; Hortus Elginensis; Memoir of Hugh Williamson; Memoirs of De Witt Clinton; Essays on Medical Science; Theory and Practice of Medicine.

=Hoskins, Nathan.= Vt., 1795-1869. A lawyer of Vermont and Massachusetts. History of Vermont; Notes in the West; The Bennington Court Controversy.

=Hosmer, Frederick Lucian.= Ms., 1846- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of Chicago. The Way of Life; The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems (with W. C. Gannett, supra). Rob.

=Hosmer, George Washington.= 1846- ----. A physician. The People and Politics; As We Went Marching On, a Story of the War. Har. Hou.

=Hosmer, James Kendall.= Ms., 1834- ----. A professor in Washington University of St. Louis, 1874-92, and since the latter date public librarian of Minneapolis. Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom; The Story of the Jews; Life of Sir Henry Vane; Life of Samuel Adams; Thomas Hutchinson, Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; The Color Guard, a narrative of personal experience; The Thinking Bayonet, a novel; A Short History of German Literature; How Thankful was Bewitched. Hou. Put. Scr.

=Hosmer, Mrs. Margaret [Kerr].= Pa., 1830-1897. A Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, A Chinaman in California; The Chinese Boy; The Little Captives; Lonny the Orphan. She wrote, also, three novels, Blanche Gilroy; The Morrisons; Ten Years of a Life Time. Co. Lip.

=Hosmer, William Henry Cuyler.= N. Y., 1814-1877. A lawyer of western New York who wrote much in verse, the greater part of which is concerned with Indian legends. Fall of Tecumseh; Legends of the Senecas; The Themes of Song; The Months; Yonnondio; Bird Notes; Indian Traditions and Songs; The Pioneers of Western New York. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

=Hotchkiss, James Harvey.= Ct., 1781-1851. A Presbyterian minister of Prattsburg, New York, the author of History of the Churches of Western New York.

=Hough= [hŭff], =Franklin Benjamin.= N. Y., 1820-1885. A physician whose later years were passed in Lowville, New York, in scientific and historical study. Among his works are, Catalogue of Plants in Lewis and Franklin Counties; History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties; The Siege of Charleston in 1780; Duty of Government in the Preservation of Forests; Report on Forestry; Elements of Forestry; American Constitutions. Clke.

=Hough, George Washington.= N. Y., 1836- ----. An astronomer of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory. Annals of Dudley Observatory; Report of Dearborn Observatory; The Galvanic Battery, are among his writings.

=Houghton= [ho´ton], =George Washington Wright.= Ms., 1850-1891. A journalist and verse-writer of New York city. His published volumes of verse include, Songs from Over the Sea; Album Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; The Legend of St. Olaf’s Kirk; Niagara, and Other Poems. Hou.

=Houghton, Henry Clark.= Ms., 1837-1901. A physician of New York city, dean of the ophthalmic hospital. Lectures on Clinical Otology.

=House, Edward Howard.= Ms., 1836-1901. A journalist and critic of Boston and New York, long resident in Japan. The Simonoseki Affair; The Kagosima Affair; The Japanese Expedition to Formosa; Japanese Episodes; Yone Santo, a Child of Japan; The Midnight Warning, and Other Stories. Har.

=Houston, Daniel Franklin.= N. C., 1866- ----. A professor of political economy in the University of Texas. A Critical History of Nullification in South Carolina. Lgs.

=Hovey= [hŭv´ĭ], =Alvah.= N. Y., 1820-1903. A Baptist clergyman, professor in Newton Theological Seminary from 1849, and from 1868 its president. The Miracles of Christ; The Scriptural Law of Divorce; Life of Isaac Backus; State of the Impenitent Dead; Christian Teaching and Life; God With Us; Systematic Theology; Biblical Eschatology; Studies in Ethics and Religion, include his principal works. Bap.

=Hovey, Charles Mason.= Ms., 1810-1887. A noted horticulturist of Cambridge, editor of Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, which reached its thirty-fourth volume, and author of Fruits of America.

=Hovey, Horace Carter.= Ind., 1833- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Celebrated American Caverns.

=Hovey, Richard.= Il., 1864-1900. A verse-writer of Washington. The Laurel, an Ode; Launcelot and Guenevere, a Poem in Dramas, republished as The Marriage of Guenevere; Seaward, an Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons, infra; Gandelfo, a tragedy; Songs from Vagabondia, and More Songs from Vagabondia (with W. B. Carman, supra). Cop. Lo. St.

=Howard, Blanche Willis.= See Teuffel, von.

=Howard, Bronson.= Mch., 1842- ----. A prominent dramatist of New York city. Saratoga, produced in London as Brighton, and in Berlin as Eine Erste und Einzige Liebe; Diamonds; The Banker’s Daughter; Old Love Letters; Young Mrs. Winthrop; One of Our Girls; The Henrietta; Shenandoah; Aristocracy; Moorcroft; Hurricanes; Wives; Met by Chance; Greenroom Fun.

=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Me., 1830- ----. A major-general in the United States army who served during the Civil War and in several Indian campaigns; in command of the Division of the Atlantic from 1888. Donald’s School Days; a translation of Agenor’s Life of Count de Gasparin; Chief Joseph, or the Nez Percés in Peace and War; Isabella of Castile. Fu. Le.

=Howarth, Mrs. Ellen Clementine [Doran].= N. Y., 1827-1899. A verse-writer of Trenton, New Jersey. Poems; Poems edited by R. W. Gilder, (1868). ’Tis but a Little Faded Flower, and Thou Wilt Never Grow Old, are well-known poems of hers.

=Howe, Edgar Watson.= Ind., 1854- ----. A journalist of Atchison, Kansas, editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; A Man Story.

=Howe, Fisher.= Vt., 1798-1871. A philanthropist of Brooklyn. Oriental and Sacred Scenes; The True Site of Calvary. Ran.

=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= Pa., 1867- ----. Taxation and Taxes in the United States under the Internal Revenue System, 1791-1895. Cr.

=Howe, George.= Ms., 1802-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, from 1831. Theological Education; History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina.

=Howe, Henry.= Ct., 1816-1893. An historical writer and compiler of Cincinnati. Historical Collections of New Jersey (with J. W. Barber, infra); Our Whole Country; The Great West; Historical Collections of Virginia and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures and Achievements of Americans; Times of the Rebellion in the West, are among his works.

=Howe, Henry Marion.= Ms., 1848- ----. Son of S. G. and J. W. Howe, infra. A metallurgist who has published The Metallurgy of Steel; Copper Smelting.

=Howe, Herbert Alonzo.= N. Y., 1858- ----. An astronomer of Colorado, director of Chamberlin Observatory, University of Denver. A Study of the Sky; Elements of Descriptive Astronomy. Fl. Sil.

=Howe, John Badlam.= Ms., 1813-1882. A publicist of Indiana whose works upon finance have had much influence. Monetary and Industrial Fallacies; Mono-Metalism and Bi-Metalism; The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France in the Use of Money; The Common Sense of Money; Replies to Criticisms. Hou.

=Howe, Mrs. Julia [Ward].= N. Y., 1819- ----. Wife of S. G. Howe, infra. A writer of Boston long prominent in philanthropic movements, and as a lecturer upon the enfranchisement of women. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort. Her writings include, Passion Flowers; Words for the Hour; The World’s Own; A Trip to Cuba; From the Oak to the Olive; Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir of S. G. Howe, infra; Modern Society; Life of Margaret Fuller; Is Polite Society Polite?; From Sunset Ridge, poems. Lam. Le.

=Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe.= R. I., 1809-1895. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central Pennsylvania. Domestic Slavery, a Reply to Bishop Hopkins; Life of Alonzo Potter, infra.

=Howe, Maud.= See Elliott, Mrs.

=Howe, Samuel Gridley.= Ms., 1801-1876. A physician of Boston, the first superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and a man of prominence in the anti-slavery movement. Reader for the Blind; Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. See J. F. Clarke’s Memorial and Biographical Sketches; Memoir by Mrs. Howe.

=Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford.= N. C., 1801-1868. A once noted Baptist clergyman of Nashville. Terms of Sacramental Communion; The Way of Salvation; Evils of Infant Baptism; The Cross; The Covenant; Early Baptists of Virginia.

=Howells, William Cooper.= W., 1807-1894. Life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840. Clke.

=Howells, William Dean.= O., 1837- ----. Son of W. C. Howells, supra. A novelist of much prominence who at nineteen was a printer on a Cincinnati journal, and in 1860 published with J. J. Piatt, infra, Poems of Two Friends. In the same year he wrote a Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1861-65 was consul at Venice. Venetian Life, and Italian Journeys, date from this portion of his career. From 1872-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and since then has devoted his time wholly to literature in Boston and New York. His writings since 1869 include: The Day of Their Wedding; At the Sign of the Lion’s Head; No Love Lost; Suburban Sketches; Their Wedding Journey; A Chance Acquaintance; A Foregone Conclusion; The Lady of the Aroostook; The Undiscovered Country; A Modern Instance; A Woman’s Reason; The Minister’s Charge; Indian Summer; A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories; Doctor Breen’s Practice; The Rise of Silas Lapham; April Hopes; Annie Kilburn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; The Shadow of a Dream; An Imperative Duty; The Quality of Mercy; The World of Chance; The Coast of Bohemia; A Traveller from Altruria; Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children; A Parting and a Meeting; The Sleeping-Car, and Other Farces; The Mouse-trap, and Other Farces; Out of the Question, a comedy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy; A Sea Change, or Love’s Stowaway; Poems; Stops from Various Quills, a book of verse. Among miscellaneous writings of his are, Three Villages (Shirley, Lexington, Gnadenhütten); Modern Italian Poets; A Boy’s Town; Tuscan Cities; My Year in a Log Cabin; Criticism and Fiction; My Literary Passions. Steuart’s Letters to Living Authors; Century Magazine, March, 1882; Vedder’s American Writers; New England Magazine, October, 1893; The Bookman, February, 1897. Har. Hou.

=Howison, George Holmes.= Md., 1834- ----. A mathematician who has published a Treatise on Analytic Geometry.

=Howison, Robert Reid.= Va., 1820- ----. A lawyer of Richmond. History of Virginia; History of the American Civil War; Fredericksburg; Lives of Generals Morgan, Marion, Gates; God and Creation.

=Howland, George.= Ms., 1824-1892. An educator of Illinois, president of the State board of education, 1882. Grammar of the English Language; Little Voices, a book of verse; an hexameter translation of the Æneid; Practical Hints for the Teachers of Public Schools. Ap.

=Hows, John William Stanhope.= E., 1797-1871. A journalist and educator of New York city who published The Practical Elocutionist, and edited a number of school books.

=Hoyt, Epaphras.= Ms., 1765-1850. A major-general of the Massachusetts militia, who lived in Deerfield. Treatise on the Military Art; Military Instructions; Cavalry Discipline; Antiquarian Researches.

=Hoyt, Henry Martyn.= Pa., 1830-1892. A Pennsylvania lawyer, governor of his State, 1878-83. Controversy between Connecticut and Pennsylvania; Protection versus Free Trade. Ap.

=Hoyt, John Wesley.= O., 1831-1892. An educator of distinction, governor of Wyoming, 1878-82, and president of Wyoming University from 1887. Resources and Progress of Wisconsin; Resources and Progress of Wyoming.

=Hoyt, Ralph.= N. Y., 1806-1878. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. The Chant of Life, and Other Poems; Echoes of Memory and Emotion; Sketches of Life and Landscape. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.

=Hoyt, Wayland.= O., 1838- ----. A popular Baptist minister of Brooklyn. Hints and Helps for the Christian Life; Present Lessons from Distant Days; Gleams from Paul’s Prison; The Brook in the Way; Saturday Afternoon; Light on Life’s Highway. Ran.

=Hubbard, Bela.= N. Y., 1814-1896. A prominent lawyer and geologist of Detroit, author of Memorials of a Half Century; Ancient Garden Beds of Michigan.

=Hubbard, Elbert.= Il., 1856- ----. A littérateur of East Aurora, New York, editor of The Philistine. No Enemy but Himself; Little Journeys; The Legacy, a novel; Forbes of Harvard; One Day, a Tale of the Prairies. Put.

=Hubbard, Lucius Lee.= O., 1849- ----. The State geologist of Michigan from 1893. Summer Vacations at Moosehead Lake; Woods and Lakes of Maine. Hou.

=Hubbard, William.= E., 1621-1704. A colonial historian who was a Congregational clergyman of Ipswich, and a member of the first graduating class at Harvard College, 1642. Narrative of Troubles with the Indians; Sermons; Present State of New England. He also wrote a History of New England, for which the colony paid him £50, and which was printed by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1815. See Tyler’s American Literature.

=Hubbell, Mrs. Martha [Stone].= Ct., 1814-1856. A writer of religious juveniles, and of The Shady Side, or Life in a Country Parsonage, which for a time enjoyed an extraordinary popularity.

=Hubner, Charles William.= Md., 1835- ----. A journalist of Atlanta. Souvenirs of Luther; Poems and Essays; Modern Communism; Wild Flowers, a book of verse; Cinderella, and Prince and Fairy, two lyrical dramas. Meth.

=Hudson, Charles.= Ms., 1795-1881. A Universalist clergyman in charge of a parish at Westminster, Massachusetts, 1819-41, and subsequently a resident of Lexington in the same State. Letters to Reverend Hosea Ballou; History of Westminster; History of Lexington; Doubts Concerning the Battle of Bunker Hill; History of Marlborough.

=Hudson, Erasmus Darwin.= Ct., 1805-1880. A surgeon of New York city. Resections; Essay on Temperance; Immobile Apparatus for Ununited Fractures.

=Hudson, Erasmus Darwin.= Ms., 1843-1887. Son of E. D. Hudson, supra. A physician of New York city. Doctors’ Hygiene and Therapeutics; Home Treatment of Consumptives; Physical Diagnosis of Thoracic Diseases; Methods of Examining Weak Chests; Diagnosis of the Relations of Weak Digestions.

=Hudson, Frederick.= Ms., 1819-1875. A journalist connected with The New York Herald in various capacities for nearly thirty years, who after 1866 lived at Concord, Massachusetts. History of Journalism in the United States, 1690-1872. Har.

=Hudson, Henry Norman.= Vt., 1814-1886. An Episcopal clergyman who was a Shakespearean scholar of eminence. He served as chaplain in the Federal army during the Civil War, and in his later years was professor of Shakespeare study in Boston University. Lectures on Shakespeare; Sermons; Studies in Wordsworth; A Chaplain’s Campaign with General Butler; Shakespeare: his Life and Characters; Essays on Education. He edited the Harvard and the University editions of Shakespeare. His criticisms are helpful, but are somewhat dogmatic in tone. Est. Gi. Lit.

=Hudson, James Fairchild.= O., 1846- ----. A journalist of Pittsburg for many years. The Railways and the Republic. Har.

=Hudson, Mrs. Mary [Clemmer] [Ames].= N. Y., 1839-1884. A journalist of Washington, well known at one period by her Woman’s Letters from Washington in The Independent. Eirene; His Two Wives; Victoria (three novels); Ten Years in Washington; Men, Women, and Things; Poems of Life and Nature; Memorials of Alice and Phœbe Cary. See Memorial Biography, by E. Hudson.

=Hudson, Thomson Jay.= O., 1834-1903. The Law of Psychic Phenomena; A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life. Mg.

=Hudson, William Henry.= E., 1863- ----. A professor of English literature at Leland Stanford Junior University from 1892. The Church and the Stage; Introduction to Study of Herbert Spencer.

=Hughes, John.= I., 1797-1864. A noted Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, 1850-64. He was prominent as a controversialist, and a controversy which he held with Erastus Brooks on the church property question attracted much attention. He collected the letters on both sides in a volume entitled Brooksiana. His writings were published in 1865. He founded St. John’s College, Fordham, New York, in 1839. See Life by Hassard; Appleton’s American Biography.

=Hughes, Robert William.= Va., 1821- ----. A jurist of Richmond, Virginia. Reports of Cases; The Currency Question from a Southern Point of View; Transcript of United States Supreme Court Decisions; The American Dollar; Lives of Generals Floyd and Johnston. Ap.

=Huidekoper, Frederic.= Pa., 1817- ----. A Unitarian theologian and philanthropist of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Belief of the First Three Centuries concerning Christ’s Mission to the Underworld; Judaism at Rome; Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels.

=Huidekoper, Henry Shippen.= Pa., 1839- ----. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War who afterwards attained the rank of major-general in the Pennsylvania militia. He was postmaster of Philadelphia, 1880-1885, and author of a Manual of Military Service.

=Hull, William.= Ct., 1753-1825. A famous general court-martialed in 1812 for his surrender of Detroit to the English. His defence of his action appears in his book, The Campaign of the Northwest Army (1824). See Life by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke (1848).

=Humes, Thomas William.= Tn., 1815-1892. An Episcopal clergyman and educator of Tennessee who published The Loyal Mountaineers of Tennessee.

=Humphrey, Edward Porter.= Ct., 1809-1887. Son of H. Humphrey, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman of Louisville. Our Theology in its Development; Sacred History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law.

=Humphrey, Heman.= Ct., 1779-1861. A Congregational clergyman who was president of Amherst College, 1823-1845. Tour in France, etc.; Domestic Education; Sketches and History of Revivals; Essays on the Sabbath; Life of Nathan Fiske; Letters to a Son in the Ministry.

=Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson.= Pa., 1810-1883. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War, subsequently Chief of Engineers of the United States Army. The Virginia Campaigns of 1864 and 1865; From Gettysburg to the Rapidan. Scr.

=Humphreys, David.= Ct., 1752-1818. A colonel who was aide-de-camp to Washington. His miscellaneous works, of which two collections appeared in his lifetime, include articles in both prose and verse, and he was also the author of a Life of General Putnam.

=Humphreys, Edward Rupert.= I., 1820-1893. An educator of Boston who came thither from England in 1859. Lessons on the Liturgy of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Education of Military Officers; The Higher Education of Europe and America; Manual of Political Science, include his principal works.

=Humphreys, Milton Wylie.= W. Va., 1844- ----. A professor of Greek at the University of Virginia from 1887. He has published scholarly translations, with notes, of the Antigone of Sophocles and The Clouds of Aristophanes.

=Hunnewell, James Frothingham.= Ms., 1832- ----. A resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands; The Lands of Scott; The Historical Monuments of France; The Imperial Island: England’s Chronicle in Stone; Bibliography of Charlestown and Bunker Hill; A Century of Town Life, a History of Charlestown. Hou. Lit.

=Hunt, Ezra Mundy.= N. J., 1830-1894. A physician of Trenton, New Jersey. Patients’ and Physicians’ Assistant; Physicians’ Counsels; Alcohol as Food and Medicine; Principles of Hygiene, are among his writings.

=Hunt, Freeman.= Ms., 1804-1858. A publisher of New York city who was the founder of Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine. Lives of American Merchants; Sketches of Female Character; Letters About the Hudson River.

=Hunt, Harriot Kezia.= Ms., 1805-1875. A physician of Boston who lectured upon woman-suffrage and sanitary reforms. She published Glances and Glimpses, or Fifty Years’ Social and Twenty Years’ Professional Life.

=Hunt, Helen.= See Jackson, Mrs. Helen.

=Hunt, Henry Jackson.= Mch., 1819-1889. A brigadier-general in the Federal army during the Civil War, brevetted major-general at its close. He was the author of Instructions for Field Artillery.

=Hunt, Jedediah.= N. Y., 1815- ----. A verse-writer of Chilo, Ohio. The Cottage Maid, a Tale in Rhyme.

=Hunt, Samuel.= Ms., 1810-1878. A Congregational clergyman of Franklin, Massachusetts. He assisted Henry Wilson, infra, in writing The Rise of the Slave Power, and completed the work after Mr. Wilson’s death. He was author of Political Duties of Christians; Letter to the Avowed Friends of Missions.

=Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.= N. Y., 1844- ----. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College. Principles of Written Discourse; English Prose and Prose Writers; Ethical Teachings in Old English Literature. Fu.

=Hunt, Thomas Poage.= Va., 1794-1876. A clergyman and temperance lecturer of Pennsylvania. History of Jesse Johnson and his Times; Death by Measure; Liquor Selling, a History of Fraud, include the most of his works.

=Hunt, Thomas Sterry.= Ct., 1826-1892. A geologist who was professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1872-78. Chemical and Geological Essays; Azoic Rocks; Mineral Physiology; New Basis for Chemistry.

=Hunter, John Dunn.= Circa 1798-1827. An adventurer whose Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi once attracted much attention.

=Huntington, Faye.= See Foster, Mrs. Theodosia.

=Huntington, Frederic Dan.= Ms., 1819-1904. The first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York. He was in earlier life a Unitarian clergyman, and in 1842 was professor of Christian morals in Harvard University. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1860, and was consecrated bishop in 1864. Christian Believing and Living; Sermons for the People; Christ in the Christian Year; Steps to a Living Faith; Lessons on the Parables; Helps to a Holy Lent; Christ in the World; Forty Days with the Master, The Fitness of Christianity to Man; Human Society, include the larger part of his works. Dut. Wh.

=Huntington, Jedediah Vincent.= N. Y., 1815-1862. A writer who was once an Episcopal clergyman, but became a Roman Catholic layman. He was a journalist in St. Louis for some years, and died in France. America Discovered: a Poem; Alban, or the History of a Young Puritan; Poems; Lady Alice, or the New Una; Blonde and Brunette; Rosemary, or Life and Death.

=Huntington, William Reed.= Ms., 1838- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of prominence as a Broad Churchman. He was rector of All Saints church at Worcester, 1862-83, and since 1883 has been rector of Grace church, New York city. The Church Idea; Conditional Immortality; The Peace of the Church; The Church Porch; Questions on the Fourth Gospel; The Causes of the Soul; Short History of the Book of Common Prayer; Quinquaginta, a book of fifty poems. Dut. Scr. Wh.

=Hurd, John Codman.= Ms., 1816-1892. A writer of Boston. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States; The Theory of Our National Existence. Lit.

=Hurlburt, William Henry.= S. C., 1827-1895. A journalist of New York city of much prominence at one time as one of the editors of The World. His latest years were spent in Europe. Gan Eden, or Pictures of Cuba; General McClellan and the Conduct of the War. See Hart’s American Literature.

=Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman.= N. Y., 1843- ----. A Methodist clergyman of prominence in New York and New Jersey. Manual of Biblical Theology; Studies in the Four Gospels; Outlines in Old Testament History. Meth.

=Hurst, John Fletcher.= 1834-1903. A Methodist bishop of much prominence as a writer. Literature of Theology; History of Rationalism; Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Literature in the Fatherland; Outline of Church History; Our Theological Century; Bibliotheca Theologica; Short Histories of the Church; Short History of the Christian Church; Indika, the Country and People of India and Ceylon, include the greater part of his original works. He is also the translator of Hagenbach’s History of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries; of Van Oosterzee’s Lectures on John’s Gospel; and of Lange’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, with additions. Har. Meth. Ran. Scr.

=Hutchins, Thomas.= N. J., 1730-1789. A noted geographer of the colonial period. Topographical Description of Virginia, etc.; History, Narrative, and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida.

=Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay.= N. Y., 18-- - ----. A literary journalist of New York city, on The Tribune staff, and editor with E. C. Stedman of The Library of American Literature, in eleven volumes. She has published Songs and Lyrics. Hou.

=Hutchinson, Thomas.= Ms., 1711-1780. The last royal governor of Massachusetts. An historian of great ability but whose merits as such were not recognized by his contemporaries. His History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, the third and last volume of which was not published till nearly fifty years after his death, begins with the year 1628, and closes with the year 1774. He published also a Collection of Original Papers relating to the same subject. See Diary and Letters of, edited by P. O. Hutchinson, 1884-86; Life by J. K. Hosmer, supra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 28; Appleton’s American Biography.

=Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman.= Ms., 1822-1867. A noted physician of Brooklyn. History of Asiatic Cholera in Brooklyn; Physiology and Hygiene; Contributions to Orthopædic Surgery; Acupressure.

=Hutson, Charles Woodward.= S. C., 1840- ----. Out of a Beleaguered City, a Tale of the Revolution; Beginnings of Civilization; History of French Literature; The Story of Beryl, a novel.

=Hutton, Laurence.= N. Y., 1843-1904. A littérateur of prominence in New York city. Other Times and Other Seasons; Plays and Players; Artists of the 19th Century (with Mrs. Waters, infra); Literary Landmarks of London; Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh; Curiosities of the American Stage; From the Books of Laurence Hutton; Portraits in Plaster; Edwin Booth; Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem; Literary Landmarks of Venice; Literary Landmarks of Florence; Literary Landmarks of Rome. Har.

=Hyatt, Alpheus.= D. C., 1838-1902. A professor of zoölogy in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and curator of the Boston Society of Natural History. Observations on Fresh Water Polyzoa; About Pebbles; Commercial and Other Sponges; Common Hydroids; Worms and Crustacea; Guides to Science Teaching; The Oyster, Clam, and other Common Mollusks.

=Hyde, Edward Wyllys.= Mch., 1843- ----. A professor of mathematics and civil engineering in the University of Cincinnati from 1875, and author of Skew Arches; Directional Calculus. Gi. Vn.

=Hyde, James Nevins.= Ct., 1840- ----. A surgeon of Chicago. Early Medical Chicago; Diseases of the Skin.

=Hyde, Thomas Worcester.= Iy., 1841-1899. A brigadier-general in the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War, and afterwards a builder of steel ships at Bath, Maine. Following the Greek Cross, or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps. Hou.

=Hyde, William De Witt.= Ms., 1858- ----. A Congregational clergyman, president of Bowdoin College from 1885. Practical Ethics; Outlines of Social Theology. Ho. Mac.

=Hylton, John Dunbar.= W. I., 1837- ----. A physician of Palmyra, New Jersey, whose writings are wholly in verse of a very ambitious but unpoetical character. They include The Bride of Gettysburg; Betrayed, a Northern Tale; The Heir of Liolyn; Above the Grave of John Odenswurge; Artaloisi, a Romance of King Arthur.

=Hyneman, Leon.= Pa., 1805-1879. An editor of New York city. The Fundamental Principles of Science; Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813.

=Hyslop, James Hervey.= O., 1854- ----. An instructor in Columbia College. The Elements of Ethics; The Elements of Logic; The Ethics of Hume. Gi. Scr.

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=Ide, George Barton.= Vt., 1804-1872. A Baptist clergyman, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Green Hollow; Bible Echoes, or Lessons from the War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile tale; Bible Pictures.

=Ilsley, Charles Parker.= Me., 1807-1887. A writer whose home was in Portland, Maine, till 1866. The Island Fête, a poem; The Liberty Pole, a tale of Machias; Forest and Shore, subsequently published as The Wrecker’s Daughter.

=Ingalls, Joshua King.= 18-- - ----. Social Wealth; Economic Equities.

=Ingalls, William.= Ms., 1769-1851. A physician who was professor of anatomy at Brown University, 1811-23, and author of a treatise on Malignant Fevers.

=Ingersoll, Charles Jared.= Pa., 1782-1862. A political writer and statesman of Philadelphia who filled several diplomatic positions abroad. History of the War of 1812-15; Chiomara, a Poem; Edwy and Elgiva, a Tragedy; Inchiquin, the Jesuit’s Letters in American Literature and Politics; Recollections, etc., a volume of personal reminiscences. See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Life by W. M. Meigs, 1897.

=Ingersoll, Edward.= Pa., 1817-1893. Son of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries; Personal Liberty and Martial Law.

=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Mch., 1852- ----. A naturalist of New York city whose writing is mainly for young people and of a popular character. Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice Queen, a story; Birds’-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond; Habits of Animals. Har. Lo. Mer. Wn.

=Ingersoll, Luther Dunham.= 18-- - ----. The librarian of the War Department at Washington. Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of Horace Greeley; History of the War Department.

=Ingersoll, Joseph Reed.= Pa., 1786-1868. Brother of C. J. Ingersoll, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia who was minister to England in 1852. Secession a Folly and a Crime; Memoir of Samuel Breck.

=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= N. Y., 1833-1899. A noted lawyer and politician of Peoria, Illinois, and more recently of New York city, famous also as a lecturer and writer strongly opposed to the Christian religion. The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures; Prose Poems. Ban.

=Inglehart, Mrs. Frances [Chambers] [Gooch].= Mi., 1851- ----. A writer of Austin, Texas, author of Face to Face with the Mexicans. Fo.

=Inglis, David.= S., 1825-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn who published Systematic Theology in Relation to Modern Thought.

=Ingraham, Edward Duncan.= Pa., 1793-1854. A lawyer of Philadelphia. English Ecclesiastical Reports; A View of the Insolvent Laws of Pennsylvania.

=Ingraham, Joseph Holt.= Me., 1809-1866. An Episcopal clergyman of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the earlier portion of his career he wrote a number of wildly sensational romances, among them Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; Captain Kyd; The Dancing Feather, all of which were very popular and quite worthless as literature. The Southwest, by a Yankee, was another work of this period. He entered the Episcopal ministry in 1855, and afterwards wrote three religious romances as popular as the others and almost as valueless. They are, The Prince of the House of David; The Pillar of Fire; The Throne of David. Rob.

=Innsley, Owen.= See Jennison, Lucia.

=Inskip, John Swannell.= E., 1816-1884. A Methodist clergyman who was a noted camp-meeting conductor. Life of Rev. William Summers; Methodism Explained and Defended; Remarkable Display of the Mercy of God.

=Iredell, James.= N. C., 1788-1853. A lawyer of Raleigh who was governor of North Carolina, 1827. Laws of North Carolina; North Carolina Reports; Equity Reports; Law of Executors; Digest of Reported Cases.

=Ireland, Joseph Norton.= N. Y., 1817-1898. A merchant of New York city. Records of the New York Stage, 1750-1860; Memories of Mrs. Duff; Professional Life of Thomas Cooper.

=Irving, John Treat.= N. Y., 1812- ----. Nephew of Washington Irving, infra. A lawyer of New York city. Indian Sketches; Hawk Chief; The Attorney; Harry Harson; The Van Gelder Papers. Put.

=Irving, Peter.= N. Y., 1771-1838. Brother of Washington Irving, infra. A journalist of New York city, who published Giovanni Sbogarra, a Venetian Tale.

=Irving, Pierre Munroe.= N. Y., 1803-1876. Son of William Irving, infra, and the author of a Life of Washington Irving. Put.

=Irving, Roland Duer.= N. Y., 1847-1888. A professor of geology in the University of Wisconsin from 1870. Geology of Central Wisconsin; Geology of Lake Superior; Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, are among his writings.

=Irving, Theodore.= N. Y., 1809-1880. Nephew of Washington Irving, the son of his brother Ebenezer. An Episcopal clergyman and educator. The Fountain of Living Waters; Tiny Footfalls; More than Conqueror; The History of De Soto’s Conquest of Florida. Put. Ran.

=Irving, Washington.= N. Y., 1783-1859. The most popular of the earlier American writers of the 19th century. He was born in New York city, and his earliest work was Salmagundi, written with his brother William and J. K. Paulding, infra. Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York, his next work, and the one by which he will be longest remembered, appeared in 1809. Irving spent the years from 1815 to 1832 abroad, a portion of the time as secretary of the United States Legation at London, and from 1842 to 1846 as minister to Spain. The rest of his life was spent at his home in Tarrytown on the Hudson. His writings not already named include, The Sketch Book; Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of Grenada; The Companions of Columbus; The Alhambra; Crayon Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of Oliver Goldsmith; Mahomet and his Successors; Wolfert’s Roost; Life of Washington; Spanish Papers. See Life and Letters of, by Pierre Irving; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1860, and June, 1864; Haweis’s American Humourists; Irvingiana; Life by C. D. Warner; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American Literature; The Bookman, February, 1897. Cr. Har. Kt. Lip. Mac. Put.

=Irving, William.= N. Y., 1766-1821. Brother of Washington Irving, supra. A merchant of New York city who was in Congress, 1814-18. He was author of the poetical portion of Salmagundi.

=Ives, Levi Silliman.= Ct., 1797-1867. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, consecrated in 1832 and deposed in 1853, he having become a Roman Catholic at the close of 1852. After that period he lectured in convents of the Sacred Heart. Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism; The Obedience of Faith; Manual of Devotion; Humility a Ministerial Qualification.

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=Jackson, Abraham Reeves.= Pa., 1827- ----. A noted surgeon of Chicago, who has published many valuable professional papers.

=Jackson, Abraham Willard.= Me., 1842- ----. A Unitarian clergyman who was formerly a pastor in New Hampshire and California, but has since devoted himself to study and literary work at Concord, Massachusetts. The Immanent God, and Other Essays; James Martineau. Hou. Lit.

=Jackson, Charles.= Ms., 1775-1855. A jurist of Boston who published a valued Treatise on Real Actions.

=Jackson, Charles Davis.= Ms., 1811-1871. An Episcopal clergyman of Westchester, New York. Suffering Here and Glory Hereafter; Popular Education; Relation of Education to Crime. Ran.

=Jackson, Charles Thomas.= Ms., 1805-1880. A Boston scientist whose laboratory for research in analytical chemistry was the first of its kind in the United States. Report on the Geology of Maine; Mineral Lands in Michigan; Manual of Etherization.

=Jackson, Edward Payson.= Ty., 1840- ----. An educator of Boston, master in the Latin School from 1877. Mathematic Geography; A Demigod, a novel; The Earth in Space; Character Building. Har. Hou.

=Jackson, Francis.= Ms., 1789-1861. A once prominent reformer who was president of the Anti-Slavery Society for many years, and published a History of Newton, Massachusetts (his home), from 1639 to 1800.

=Jackson, George Anson.= Ms., 1846- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Swampscott, Massachusetts. The Son of a Prophet, an historical novel; Apostolic Fathers; Fathers of the Second Century; Post-Nicene Greek Fathers; Post-Nicene Latin Fathers, four works which form a series of early Christian literature primers. Hou.

=Jackson, George Thomas.= N. Y., 1852- ----. A noted dermatologist of New York city. Diseases of the Hair and Scalp; Baldness; Handbook of Diseases of the Skin.

=Jackson, Mrs. Helen Maria [Fiske] [Hunt].= “H. H.” Ms., 1831-1885. A novelist and poet whose greatest achievement is Ramona, a powerful romance of Indian life in southern California. To her is usually attributed the authorship of the “Saxe Holm” stories. Her other works include, Verses; Bits of Travel; Bits of Talk; A Century of Dishonor; Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose; Bits of Travel at Home; The Story of Boon, a Poem; Sonnets and Lyrics; Nelly’s Silver Mine; Cat Stories; Mercy Philbrick’s Choice; Hetty’s Strange History; Zeph; Glimpses of Three Coasts; Between Whiles, a collection of short stories; The Procession of Flowers in Colorado; Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California (with K. Abbot). See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Kt. Rob.

=Jackson, Henry Rootes.= Ga., 1820-1898. A Georgia jurist who was minister to Austria, 1854-58, and to Mexico 1885-86. During the Civil War he was a general in the Confederate army. Tallulah, and Other Poems, was published in 1850. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

=Jackson, Isaac Wilber.= N. Y., 1805-1877. An educator who was professor of mathematics in Union College from 1826, and did much toward developing the arts of landscape gardening and horticulture. Elements of Conic Sections; Treatise on Optics.

=Jackson, James.= Ms., 1777-1867. Son of C. Jackson, supra. The first physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston, and professor of medicine at Harvard University from 1810 until his death. On the Brunonian System; Medical Effects of Dentition; Syllabus of Lectures; Text-Book of Lectures; Letters to a Young Physician.

=Jackson, James Caleb.= N. Y., 1811-1895. The founder of a popular hydropathic institution at Dansville, New York, called “Our Home.” Hints on the Reproductive Organs; The Sexual Organism and its Healthful Management; Consumption; Tobacco and its Effect; How to Treat the Sick without Medicine; Dancing, its Evils and Benefits; American Womanhood; Training of Children; Debilities of Our Boys; Christ as a Physician; Morning Watches.

=Jackson, Sheldon.= N. Y., 1834- ----. A Presbyterian missionary, government general agent of education in Alaska since 1885. Alaska and Missions on the North Pacific Coast; Education in Alaska. Do.

=Jacobi= [yä-kō´bē], =Abraham.= Wa., 1830- ----. A New York city physician, professor in the College of Physicians since 1870. Dentition and its Derangements; Infant Hygiene; Diphtheria; Pathology of the Thymus Gland; Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood; Contributions to Midwifery (with E. Noeggereth); Infant Diet. Lip. Put.

=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.=[5] 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=[6] 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.

=Noyes, Arthur Ames.= Ms., 1866- ----. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published a treatise on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

=Noyes, Charles Henry.= “Charles Quiet.” Mch., 1849-1898. A lawyer and verse-writer of Warren, Pennsylvania, who has published Studies in Verse. Lip.

=Noyes, George Rapall.= Ms., 1798-1868. A Unitarian clergyman eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University from 1840. He published translations with notes of the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs; and a translation of the New Testament. A. U. A.

=Noyes, Henry Drury.= N. Y., 1832-1900. An ophthalmologist of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; Text-Book on Diseases of the Eye.

=Noyes, James.= E., 1608-1656. A Puritan clergyman of Newbury, Massachusetts, pastor of the church there, 1635-56. The Temple Measured; Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State.

=Noyes, James Oscar.= N. Y., 1829-1872. A physician and journalist of New Orleans. Roumania; The Gypsies: their History, Origin, and Manner of Life.

=Noyes, John Humphrey.= Vt., 1811-1886. A noted religionist who founded the Oneida Community, and other associations of socialists. The Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith; History of American Socialisms; House Talks. Lip.

=Nuttall= [nŭt´al], =Thomas.= E., 1786-1859. A noted ornithologist and botanist, of English birth, whose life was mainly spent in the United States, but who returned to England in 1842. The Genera of North American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The North American Sylva; Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832 and 1834); Geological Sketch of the Valley of the Mississippi; A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America, being a new edition of the Manual of Ornithology revised and annotated by Montague Chamberlain. See Popular Science Monthly, March, 1895. Lit.

=Nye, Bill.= See Nye, Edgar.

=Nye, Edgar Wilson.= Me., 1850-1896. A humourous journalist whose writing, though very popular, is ephemeral in its nature and of little or no literary value. Bill Nye and the Boomerang; Forty Liars, and Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye’s Blossom Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye’s Thinks; The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of the United States; A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories; Comic History of England. Lip.

=Nystrom, John William.= 18-- -1885. An engineer in the United States navy. Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships; Technological Education; The Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the Elements of Mechanics; New Treatise on Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Mechanics and Engineering; Principles of Dynamics; Treatise on Screw Propellers. Bai. Lip.

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=Oakes, Urian.= E., 1631-1681. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church in Cambridge, and president of Harvard College, 1675-81. He is chiefly remembered for his Elegy upon the Death of Thomas Shepard, a notable poem in six-lined stanzas, but his sermons, in point of style, are the best which were written in America during the colonial period. See Tyler’s American Literature.

=Oakey, Alexander F.= N. Y., 1850- ----. An architect of Buffalo. Building a Home; Home Grounds; The Art of Life and the Life of Art. Ap. Har.

=Oakey, Emily Sullivan.= N. Y., 1829-1883. An educator of Albany. Dialogues and Conversations; At the Foot of Parnassus, a collection of verse.

=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ms., 1849- ----. A writer of Beverly, Massachusetts, well known as a traveller. Camps in the Caribbees; Young Folks’ History of Mexico; The Silver City; Travels in Mexico; Mexican Resources and Guide to Mexico; Montezuma’s Gold Mines; The Knockabout Club in the Antilles; The Knockabout Club in the Everglades; In the Wake of Columbus; Josephine, Empress of the French. Est. Le. Lo. Mer.

=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon.= Pa., 1868- ----. Son of Mrs. Oberholtzer, infra. A Philadelphia journalist. The Referendum in America, a Discussion of Law-Making by Popular Vote.

=Oberholtzer, Mrs. Sara Louisa [Vickers].= Pa., 1841- ----. A verse-writer of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Violet Lee, and Other Poems; Come for Arbutus; Hope’s Heart Bells, a novel; Daisies of Verse; Souvenirs of Occasions. Lip.

=O’Brien, Fitz James.= I., 1828-1862. A brilliant but erratic journalist of New York city. Poems and Stories; The Diamond Lens, and Other Stories. See Memoir by W. Winter, infra. Scr.

=O’Brien, John.= I., 1841-1879. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, professor of ecclesiastical history and sacred theology in Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Maryland, from 1877. He published, in 1879, A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Churches, which has since passed through fourteen editions. It is non-controversial in character, and is clear and forcible in its style.

=O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey.= I., 1797-1880. An historical writer of Albany, and subsequently of New York city. History of New Netherlands; Jesuit Relations; Documentary History of New York. He edited many volumes of State and colonial records.

=O’Connell, Jeremiah Joseph.= I., 1821- ----. A Roman Catholic priest of the Benedictine order in North Carolina. Catholicity in the Carolinas and Georgia; Conferences on the Blessed Trinity.

=O’Connor, Joseph.= N. Y., 1841- ----. A journalist of Rochester, New York, whose collected Poems appeared in 1895. Put.

=O’Connor, William Douglas.= Ms., 1832-1889. A clerk in the civil service at Washington. Harrington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet, a defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; Three Tales; Hamlet’s Note-Book. Hou.

=O’Conor, John Francis Xavier.= N. Y., 1852- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the Society of Jesus, a professor in Boston College. Something Real; Lyric and Dramatic Poetry; Reading and the Mind.

=Odenheimer, William Henry.= Pa., 1817-1879. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, 1859-74, becoming bishop of Northern New Jersey in the latter year. Origin of the Prayer-Book; Essay on Canon Law; The Sacred Scriptures the Imperial Record of the Glory of the Holy Trinity; Jerusalem and its Vicinity; The Devout Churchman’s Companion; The True Catholic no Romanist; Thoughts on Immersion; Bishop White’s Opinions; Sermons, with Memoir. Dut.

=Odiorne, Thomas.= N. H., 1769-1851. An iron manufacturer of Malden, Massachusetts. The Progress of Refinement, a Poem; Fame and Miscellanies.

=O’Donnell, Daniel Kane.= Pa., 1838-1871. A Philadelphia journalist who published The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems.

=O’Donnell, Jessie Fremont.= N. Y., 1860- ----. A writer of Lowville, New York. Heart Lyrics; Horseback Sketches.

=Officier, Morris.= O., 1823-1874. A Lutheran missionary. Plea for a Lutheran Mission in Africa; Western Africa a Mission Field; African Bible Pictures.

=O’Hara, Theodore.= Ky., 1820-1867. An officer in the United States army during the Mexican War, and subsequently in the Confederate army. He is remembered for his poem, The Bivouac of the Dead, stanzas from which have been inscribed on tablets in several of the national cemeteries.

=Olin, Mrs. Julia Matilda [Lynch].= N. Y., 1814-1879. Wife of S. Olin, infra. Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; Curious and Useful Questions on the Bible; The Perfect Light, comprise her most important writings.

=Olin, Stephen.= Vt., 1797-1851. A Methodist clergyman and educator, president of Wesleyan University from 1842. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land; Greece and the Golden Horn; College Life, its Theory and Practice; Youthful Piety. See Life and Letters, 1857. Meth. Har.

=Oliver, Benjamin Lynde.= Ms., 1788-1843. A lawyer of Boston. Hints on the Pursuit of Happiness; Rights of an American Citizen; Law Summary; Practical Conveyancing; Forms of Practice; Forms of Chancery. Lit.

=Oliver, Mrs. Grace Atkinson [Little] [Ellis].= Ms., 1844-1899. A littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts. Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She edited Tales of Maria Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane Taylor.

=Oliver, Mrs. Martha [Capps].= Il., 1845- ----. A writer of Jacksonville, Illinois. Her writings in verse for juvenile readers comprise, The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; The Far West.

=Oliver, Peter.= N. H., 1822-1855. Nephew of B. L. Oliver, supra. A lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Commonwealth, an historical review of the Puritan government of Massachusetts, presents a not altogether favourable picture of the period under discussion. Lit.

=Olmsted= [ŭm´sted or ŏm´sted], =Alexander Fisher.= N. C., 1822-1853. Son of D. Olmsted, infra. A professor of chemistry in the University of North Carolina who published Elements of Chemistry.

=Olmsted, Denison.= Ct., 1791-1859. A scientist who was professor of natural philosophy at Yale College from 1825. Letters on Astronomy; Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Students’ Commonplace Book; Introduction to Natural Philosophy.

=Olmsted, Francis Allyn.= N. C., 1819-1844. Son of D. Olmsted, supra. A physician who published Incidents of a Whaling Voyage.

=Olmsted, Frederick Law.= Ct., 1822-1903. A celebrated landscape architect of Boston. He designed the Central Park of New York city and the park systems of Boston, Buffalo, and many other American cities. Walks and Talks of an American Farmer; A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; A Journey through Texas; A Journey in the Back Country.

=Olney, Jesse.= Ct., 1798-1872. A noted educator of Connecticut. The National Preceptor; Geography and Atlas (1828), a standard work for a generation; History of the United States.

=Olssen, William Whittingham.= N. Y., 1827- ----. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor of mathematics in St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, New York, from 1871. Personality, Human and Divine; Revelation, Universal and Special.

=Olsson= [ōl´sŭn], =Olof.= Sn., 1841-1900. A Lutheran clergyman, president of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1891. At the Cross; Greetings from Afar, a volume of travel; The Christian Hope.

=Onderdonk, Henry.= L. I., 1804-1886. Nephew of H. U. Onderdonk, infra. An educator of Long Island, principal of Union Hall Academy, 1832-1865. Queens County in Olden Times; Annals of Hempstead, 1643-1832; Long Island and New York in Olden Times.

=Onderdonk, Henry Ustick.= N. Y., 1789-1858. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Episcopacy Tested by Scripture, republished as Episcopacy Examined and Re-Examined; Essay on Regeneration; Sermons and Charges; Family Devotions.

=O’Neall, John Belton.= S. C., 1793-1863. A South Carolina jurist. Digest of the Negro Law; Annals of Newberry District; Bench and Bar of South Carolina.

=Opdyke, George.= N. J., 1805-1880. A banker of New York city, and mayor of that city, 1862-63. Treatise on Political Economy; Report on the Currency; Official Documents and Addresses.

=Optic, Oliver.= See Adams, W. T.

=O’Reilly, Henry.= I., 1800-1886. A journalist of Rochester, New York. Sketches of Rochester; American Political Anti-Masonry.

=O’Reilly, John Boyle.= I., 1844-1890. A noted journalist of Boston, editor of The Pilot. In his youth he was concerned in a Fenian outbreak in Ireland, and banished to Australia. Escaping thence he came to America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where his talents speedily secured recognition. Much of his work in verse is ephemeral, but his best lines have the ring of true poetry. Songs, Legends, and Ballads; Moondyne; The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems; Songs of the Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he published, Stories and Sketches; The Ethics of Boxing. See Life by J. J. Boche, infra; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42.

=O’Reilly, Miles.= See Halpine.

=Orme, Mary.= See Nichols, Mrs.

=Ormond, Alexander Thomas.= Pa., 1847- ----. Stuart professor of mental science and logic at Princeton University from 1883. Basal Concepts in Philosophy. Scr.

=Orne, Mrs. Caroline [Chaplin].= Ms., 18-- -1882. Niece of J. Chaplin, 1st, supra. A once popular magazinist, who was the author of more than two hundred and fifty stories.

=Orne, Caroline Frances.= Ms., 1818- ----. A Cambridge writer of verse, and also of stories for children. Her life has all been passed in Cambridge, her native place. A Day in the Woodlands; Lucy’s Party, and Other Tales; Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, with Other Poems; Morning Songs of American Freedom.

=Orton, Edward.= N. Y., 1829-1899. The State geologist of Ohio from 1883. Economic Geology of Ohio; Petroleum and Inflammable Gas. Clke.

=Orton, James.= N. Y., 1830-1877. A Congregational clergyman, well known as a naturalist, who was professor of natural history at Vassar College, 1869-1877. Comparative Zoölogy; The Andes and the Amazon; Underground Treasures; Liberal Education of Women. Bai. Har.

=Orton, James Rockwood.= N. Y., 1800-1867. A littérateur of New York city. Poetical Sketches; Arnold, and Other Poems; Camp Fires of the Red Men; Confidential Experiences of a Spiritualist. Mac.

=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= Ct., 1857- ----. A professor of biology at Columbia College. From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the evolution idea. Mac.

=Osborn, Henry Stafford.= Pa., 1823-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor in Miami University, Ohio, 1871-73. Palestine Past and Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land; Scientific Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States; Manual of Bible Geography; Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries; Little Pilgrims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive Geography of Palestine; The Prospector’s Field Book and Guide; A Practical Manual of Minerals, Mines, and Mining. Bai. Clke.

=Osborn, John.= Ms., 1713-1753. A physician of Middletown, Connecticut, whose Whaling Song was long popular among sailors.

=Osborn, Laughton.= N. Y., 1809-1878. An artist and littérateur of New York city. Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of Oil Painting; Travels by Sea and Land, and a number of comedies and tragedies, include the most of his writing.

=Osborn, Selleck.= Ct., 1783-1826. A journalist, once popular as a poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and Satirical.

=Osborne, [Samuel] Duffield.= L. I., 1858- ----. A littérateur of New York city. The Spell of Ashtaroth; The Robe of Nessus. Scr.

=Oscanyan, Hatchik.= Ty., 1818- ----. An Armenian writer of New York city who took the name of Christopher. Acaby, a satirical romance; Veronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young readers; The Sultan and His People, once a very popular work.

=Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent [Locke].= Ms., 1811-1850. A verse-writer whose poems were for a time extremely popular. She was the wife of an artist, and lived some years in London. The Casket of Fate; A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England; The Happy Release, a play written for Sheridan Knowles; Poems. See Life by Griswold; Allibone’s Dictionary.

=Osgood, Samuel.= Ms., 1748-1813. A statesman who was a member of the Continental Congress, 1780-84, and naval officer of the port of New York, 1803-13. Letter on Episcopacy; Remarks on Daniel and Revelation; Theology and Metaphysics.

=Osgood, Samuel.= Ms., 1812-1880. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of the Church of the Messiah in New York city, 1849-69. In 1870 he entered the Episcopal ministry, but assumed no parochial duties. Studies in Christian Biography; God with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life Journey; The Hearthstone; Student Life; The Gospel Among the Animals; American Leaves; The New Hampshire Book (with C. J. Fox). His published orations upon patriotic events, notable men, and historic themes, are numerous. Har.

=Osler, William.= Ont., 1849- ----. A physician, professor in Johns Hopkins University from 1889. Clinical Notes on Small-Pox; Histology Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of Children; Principles and Practice of Medicine; Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors. Ap.

=Osmun, Thomas Embley.= “Alfred Ayres.” O., 1826-1902. An author of New York city. The Verbalist; The Orthoepist; an annotated edition of Cobbett’s Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; The Essentials of Elocution. Ap. Fu.

=Ossoli= [ŏs´o-lee], =Sarah Margaret [Fuller], Marchioness d’.= Ms., 1810-1850. A once famous writer of Boston whose personality was more than anything she ever wrote, and who is little more than a name to the present generation. She was a gifted woman, and as a teacher in Boston, editor of The Dial, and literary critic for The New York Tribune, was a prominent figure. In 1845 she went to Italy, and there was married to the Marquis d’Ossoli. Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Art, Literature, and the Drama; At Home and Abroad; A Summer on the Lakes. See Memoir by Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke; Lives by Higginson, Mrs. J. W. Howe; Galaxy Magazine, May, 1878; Lowell’s Fable for Critics.

=Oswald, Felix Leopold.= Bm., 1845- ----. A naturalist of Tennessee. Physical Education; Summerland Sketches; Zoölogical Sketches; Household Remedies; The Secret of the East, or the Origin of the Christian Religion; Days and Nights in the Tropics; The Bible of Nature; The Poison Problem. Ap. Lip. Lo.

=Otis, Mrs. Eliza Henderson [Bordman].= Ms., 1796-1873. Daughter-in-law of H. G. Otis, infra. A philanthropist and social leader in Boston who wrote The Barclays of Boston, a novel.

=Otis, Elwell Stephen.= Md., 1838- ----. A United States army officer. The Indian Question.

=Otis, Fessenden Nott.= N. Y., 1825-1900. A physician of New York city. Lessons in Drawing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the Panama Railroad; Stricture of the Male Urethra; Clinical Lessons on Syphilis; Physiology of Syphilitic Infection.

=Otis, George Alexander.= Ms., 1830-1881. A surgeon who was curator of the Army Medical Museum at Washington. Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the United States Army, 1867-71; Amputation at the Hip Joint.

=Otis, Harrison Gray.= Ms., 1765-1848. Nephew of J. Otis, infra. A prominent citizen of Boston famous for his eloquence. Letters in Defence of the Hartford Convention; Orations and Addresses.

=Otis, James.= Ms., 1725-1783. A celebrated orator and politician, and one of the most active advocates of American independence. He was an impetuous, vehement speaker, and seldom failed to carry his hearers with him. Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved; Vindication of the British Colonies; Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists; A Vindication of the Rights of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay. See Life by Tudor.

=Otis, James.= See Kaler.

=Ott, Isaac.= Pa., 1847- ----. A physician who has published Cocaine, Veratria, and Gelseminum; Action of Medicines; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System.

=Otts, John Martin Philip.= S. C., 1838-1901. A Presbyterian minister of Talladega, Alabama. Nicodemus with Jesus; Light and Life for a Dead World; The Southern Pen and Pulpit; Inter-denominational Literature; The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The Fifth Gospel; Unsettled Questions; At Mother’s Knee. Rev.

=Overman, Frederick.= G., c. 1810-1852. A mining engineer of Philadelphia. The Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of Steel; Political Mineralogy; Moulder’s and Founder’s Pocket Guide; Mechanics for the Millwright, etc.; Treatise on Metallurgy. Ap. Bai.

=Owen, Catherine.= See Nitsch, Mrs.

=Owen, David Dale.= S., 1807-1860. Brother of R. D. Owen, infra. The State geologist of Indiana. Report of a Geological Survey of Kentucky; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; Report of a Geological Reconnoissance.

=Owen, John Jason.= N. Y., 1803-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator of New York city. Commentary on the Gospels; Acts of the Apostles in Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book editions of Xenophon, Thucydides, and Homer.

=Owen, Richard.= S., 1810-1890. Brother of R. D. Owen, infra, and of D. D. Owen, supra. A geologist of New Harmony, Indiana. He succeeded his brother David as State geologist in 1860, and was author of a Key to the Geology of the Globe.

=Owen, Robert Dale.= S., 1801-1877. A prominent writer of New Harmony, Indiana, the son of Robert Owen, the noted Scottish socialist. He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate of Spiritualism. Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark; Moral Physiology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel; Threading my Way; Debatable Land between this World and the Next. See Woollen’s Biographical Sketches of Early Indiana; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 42. Lip.

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=Packard, Alpheus Spring.= Me., 1839- ----. A naturalist of eminence, professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown University from 1878. Zoölogy; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology; Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast; Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine. Est. Ho.

=Packard, Frederick Adolphus.= Ms., 1794-1867. A Philadelphia writer, editor for nearly forty years of the publications of the American Sunday School Union. The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; Union Bible Dictionary, include his most important writings.

=Packard, John Hooker.= Pa., 1832- ----. Son of F. A. Packard, supra. A surgeon of Philadelphia, surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1884. Manual of Minor Surgery; Lectures on Inflammation; Handbook of Operative Surgery; Sea Air and Sea Bathing. Lip.

=Packard, Lewis Richard.= Pa., 1836-1884. Son of F. A. Packard, supra. An educator who was professor of Greek at Yale University from 1866, and author of Studies in Greek Thought.

=Packard, Silas Sadler.= Ms., 1826-1898. An educator who founded a business college in New York city. Bryant and Stratton’s Bookkeeping Series; Complete Course of Business Training; Commercial Arithmetic; New Manual of Bookkeeping.

=Paddock, Benjamin Henry.= Ct., 1828-1891. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1873-1891. Ten Years in the Episcopate; The First Century of the Diocese of Massachusetts; The Pastoral Relation; The Foundation of Religious Belief. Ap.

=Paddock, Mrs. Cornelia.= 18-- - ----. In the Toils; The Fate of Madame la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. Fo.

=Page, Charles Edward.= Me., 1840- ----. A physician of Boston. How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and Feet; Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.

=Page, Charles Grafton.= Ms., 1812-1868. An examiner in the Patent Office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy, Spirit Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed.

=Page, David Perkins.= N. H., 1810-1845. A once prominent educator of Albany whose Theory and Practice of Teaching was long popular.

=Page, Emily Rebecca.= Vt., 1834-1862. A verse-writer of Vermont whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the volume, Lily of the Valley.

=Page, Richard Channing Moore.= Va., 1841-1898. A physician of New York city, but during the Civil War a Confederate officer. Genealogy of the Page Family of Virginia; Sketch of Page’s Battery, Lee’s Army; Chart of Physical Diagnosis.

=Page, Thomas Jefferson.= Va., 1808-1899. A naval officer in the service of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-62. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay.

=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Va., 1853- ----. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, whose studies of Southern life are notable for a singular charm of style. In Old Virginia; Two Little Confederates; On Newfound River; Elsket, and Other Stories; The Old South; Pastime Stories; Essays, Social and Political; Unc’ Edinburg, a Plantation Echo; The Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; Befo’ de War (with A. C. Gordon, supra). Har. Scr.

=Paige, Lucius Robinson.= Ms., 1802-1896. A Universalist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1839, and subsequently filled several offices of trust in Cambridge. Commentary on the New Testament; History of Cambridge, 1630-1877, with Genealogical Register; History of Hardwick, Massachusetts. Hou.

=Paine, Elijah.= Vt., 1796-1853. A jurist and legal writer of New York city. Paine’s Reports; Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the State of New York (with W. Duer, supra).

=Paine, Halbert Eleazar.= O., 1826- ----. A Federal army officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer in Washington, whose Treatise on the Law of Elections to Public Offices is a much-valued work. Lit.

=Paine, Harriet Eliza.= “E. Chester.” Ms., 1845- ----. A Boston educator. Girls and Women, a helpful book for girls. Hou.

=Paine, Martyn.= Vt., 1794-1877. A physician of New York city. Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine; The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion; Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as distinguished from Materialism; Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defence of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical Arrangement of Materia Medica; Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical and Physical Doctrines. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

=Paine, Robert.= N. C., 1799-1882. A prominent Methodist bishop whose Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular biography.

=Paine, Robert Treat.= Ms., 1773-1811. A once noted verse-writer of Boston whose spirited song, Adams and Liberty, has preserved his memory. He gave up his profession of law for literary pursuits, and received large sums for his poems, among which are, The Invention of Letters, and The Ruling Passion. His work was stilted and conventional, with the exception of the song named above. His collected Verse and Prose, edited by Prentiss, appeared in 1812. See Allibone’s Dictionary.

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