Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 4
James Grant Wilson and John Fiske · 1888
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Volume Four of Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography appeared in 1888, covering Lodge to Pickens. The dictionary had become a fixture in American libraries. Wilson and Fiske drew on family papers and earlier collections for their facts.
This stretch of the alphabet holds many Revolutionary officers, senators, and college presidents. Entries balance public deeds with private character sketches drawn from obituaries and memoirs. A few lives were polished by the families themselves, a flaw later readers learned to discount. Even so, the volume preserves facts about hundreds of figures that survive nowhere else in print. Many entries rest on obituaries clipped from the newspapers of the day.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James Grant Wilson and John Fiske |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1888 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6239175 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |
Source: https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclo04wilsrich