Author:James Grant Wilson

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James Grant Wilson (1832–1914)

See also biography. An American author; born in New York City, April 28, 1832; served in the Civil War. He published numerous addresses, essays, and articles in periodicals. He died in 1914. Source: Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

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[edit] Books

• Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers (1862–1863)
• Love in Letters, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent Persons (1867)
• Life of General Grant (1868–1885)
• Life of Fitz-Greene Halleck (1869)
• Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers (1874)
• Poets and Poetry of Scotland (1876)
• Centennial History of the Diocese of New York, 1775-1885 (1886)
• Bryant and His Friends (1886)
• Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitution (1889)
• Life of General Grant (1897)
• The President of the United States (1901)

[edit] Edited works

• Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography (6 vols., 1886–1889), co-editor with John Fiske)
• Memorial History of the City of New York
• The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 (4 vols., 1914)

Works by this author are in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. They are not necessarily in the public domain in the United States if published from 1923 to 1977. For a US-applicable version, see {{PD-1996}}.