Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography

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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske


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As it is the commendation of a good huntsman to find game in a wide wood, so it is no imputation if he hath not caught all. Plato.


Contents

[edit] Volumes

[edit] I. Aaron-Crandall

[edit] II. Crane-Grimshaw

[edit] III. Grinnell-Lockwood

[edit] IV. Lodge-Pickens

[edit] V. Pickering-Sumter

[edit] VI. Sunderland-Zurita

[edit] VII. Abbett-Young

Pen-names, nicknames, and sobriquets. List of deaths in volumes I to VI of the original edition. Analytical index.

VIII. Non-alphabetical index

[edit] Entries not confirmed outside of Appletons'

These are entries for which no confirmation of their existence outside of Appletons' and related sources (e.g. http://famousamericans.net) has as yet been located, and for which no source has been found which describes them as fictitious.

[edit] Entries for fictitious people

These are entries which have been described as fictitious in verifiable sources.

[edit] Sources

  • 1 I. Aaron-Crandall
  • 2 II. Crane-Grimshaw
  • 3 III. Grinnell-Lockwood
  • 4 IV. Lodge-Pickens
  • 5 V. Pickering-Sumter
  • 6 VI. Sunder-land-Zurita
  • 7 VII. Abbett-Young. Pen-names, nicknames, and sobriquets. List of deaths in volumes I to VI of the original edition. Analytical index.
  • 8 VIII. Non-alphabetical index


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