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- Sir Samuel Bentham by Mary Sophia Bentham
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- Portrait of Julius Caesar by Suetonius
- List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 by William Douglas Parish
- Life of Henry Clay by Carl Schurz
- The Poetical Works of William Cowper (introductory memoir) by William Benham
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- St. Edmund, King and Martyr, by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955(?) - 1020(?)). A literary account of the martyrdom of St. Edmund, a King of England.
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- James Gilmour of Mongolia by Richard Lovett
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- Right Reverend Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, D. D. First Bishop of Central Pennsylvania: A Biographical Sketch by Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.
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- Notice de la Vie et des Ecrits de George Louis Le Sage (English) by John Playfair
- The Story of Abraham Lincoln by James Baldwin
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers
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- Biography of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Aviator
- Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography by Edmund Gosse from 11th Edition Britannica
- Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and Philosophy by Helen Zimmern, the influential work that introduced Schopenhauer and his philosophy to the English speaking world.
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- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (early biographical sketches of Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, et.al., written in 1906).
- Representative Men, 1850, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie
- The Beginner's American History by David H. Montgomery
- Lives of the Eminent Commanders by Cornelius Nepos
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 1st-2nd century C.E., by Plutarch
- Men of Invention and Industry, 1884, by Samuel Smiles (biographies of British engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs).
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 1st-2nd century C.E.
- The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 by James Grant Wilson (editor)
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
- A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
- Goodspeed's Northwestern Arkansas/Biographical Appendix
- Men of 1914 (1915)