Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 5
James Grant Wilson and John Fiske · 1888
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Volume Five of Appletons' Cyclopaedia came out in 1888, running from Pickering to Sumter. The set was nearing its end, and the editors' net had caught most of the nation's notable dead and living. Subscribers received the volumes year by year.
Revolutionary statesmen, Civil War generals, and leading clergy crowd this part of the alphabet. The entries keep the house style: dates, posts, battles, books, and a closing judgment. Charles Sumter's contemporaries and Charles Sumner both appear in these pages. For students of nineteenth-century America, the volume is a dense quarry of names, dates, and careers.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James Grant Wilson and John Fiske |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1888 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6119792 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |
Source: https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclop05wilsuoft