Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 6
James Grant Wilson and John Fiske · 1889
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Volume Six of Appletons' work, from 1889, completes the set, covering Sunderland to Zurita. A general index to all six volumes closes the work. Wilson and Fiske had finished the largest American book of lives of their century.
The final alphabet stretch holds Washington's officers, western explorers, and the editors' own contemporaries. Washington himself receives one of the longest lives in the set. The index lets readers trace families and find every portrait. Appletons' remained the standard national biography until the twentieth century's greater dictionaries replaced it, and it is still mined for lost details. The last pages let a reader find any name in the whole set in a few short steps.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James Grant Wilson and John Fiske |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1889 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 6725304 |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |
Source: https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclop06wilsrich