A dictionary of American authors

In the present issue of this work such errors and misprints as the writer or others have noted in earlier editions are corrected, while the supplement has been extended sixty-fi...

=Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. Son of C. F. Adams, _supra_. An officer in the Union army during the Civil War, and subsequently an expert in railway science an...

=Ames, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1708-1764. A physician of Dedham, Massachusetts, who published, 1725-64, an Astronomical Diary and Almanac which contained much shrewd humour and origi...

=Baker, William Mumford.= _D. C._, 1825-1883. A popular novelist who was a Presbyterian clergyman in the Southwest until 1870, and afterwards the pastor of a church in Boston. H...

=Batterson, Hermon Griswold.= _Ct._, 1827-1903. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia. The Missionary Tune Book; The Churchman’s Hymn Book; Christmas Carols and Other Verses; T...

=Bird, Robert Montgomery.= _Del._, 1803-1854. A romantic novelist of Philadelphia whose Nick of the Woods was his most popular work. His two Mexican stories, Calavar: a Knight o...

=Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth.= _N._, 1848-1895. A writer of Norwegian birth, long resident in New York, and a professor in Columbia College at the time of his death. His novels and...

=Brown, Theron.= _Ct._, 1832- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, who has written several books for young people, among which are The Blount Family; Walter Neil’s Example; Life...

=Burton, Richard [Eugene].= _Ct._, 1859- ----. A littérateur and journalist of Hartford, Connecticut. Dogs and Dog Literature; Dumb in June, and Other Poems; Memorial Day and Ot...

=Carr, Lucien.= _Mo._, 1829- ----. An archæologist of Cambridge, assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, 1876-1894. The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered...

=Chase, Thomas.= _Ms._, 1827-1892. Brother of P. E. Chase, _supra_. An educator of Pennsylvania, and president of Haverford College. He was co-editor with George Stuart of a ser...

=Clarke, MacDonald.= _Ct._, 1798-1842. An eccentric, unbalanced verse-writer of New York city, who was commonly styled “the Mad Poet.” Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguis...

=Comstock, John Lee.= _Ct._, 1789-1858. An educational compiler of Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The Elements of Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; Sy...

=Cowan, Frank.= _Pa._, 1844- ----. A Pennsylvania lawyer and journalist, who has travelled extensively and who entered Corea before that country had made any treaties with forei...

=Curtis, Thomas F.= _E._, 1815-1872. A Baptist divine who was for some years president of Lewisburg University, Pennsylvania. Progress of Baptist Principles in the Last Hundred...

=Davidson, Margaret Miller.= _N. Y._, 1823-1838. Sister to L. M. Davidson, and, like her, a juvenile prodigy whose immature verses were extravagantly lauded by contemporary writ...

=Denison, Frederic.= _Ct._, 1819-1901. A Baptist divine of Rhode Island. The Supper Institution; The Sabbath Institution; History of the First Rhode Island Cavalry; Westerly and...

=Dolbear, Amos Emerson.= _Ct._, 1837- ----. A professor of physics and astronomy at Tufts College since 1874. The Art of Projecting; The Speaking Telephone; Sound and its Phenom...

=Dummer, Jeremiah.= _Ms._, _c._ 1680-1739. A noted scholar who was colonial agent for Massachusetts in London, 1710-21, and was a political friend of Bolingbroke. A Letter to a...

=Edwards, Emory.= _Va._, 1841- ----. A naval engineer who served in the United States navy as assistant engineer, 1864-68, and was subsequently employed in a similar capacity in...

=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= _Ms._, 1803-1882. The most distinguished of American essayists, and by some critics ranked as the foremost American poet when the substance of his poetry...

=Faunce, David Worcester.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Baptist minister of New England. Words and Works of Jesus; Words and Acts of the Apostles; The Christian in the World; A Young Ma...

=Floy, James.= _N. Y._, 1806-1863. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, prominent as a botanist and as an anti-slavery leader. Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden; Occasion...

=French, Henry Willard.= _Ct._, 1853- ----. A lecturer and miscellaneous writer of Boston. Art and Artists in Connecticut; Our Boys in China; Our Boys in India; Through Arctics...

=George, Henry.= _Pa._, 1839-1897. A very widely known political economist of New York city whose radical views upon economic and social topics have met with much criticism both...

=Goodwin, Daniel Raynes.= _Me._, 1811-1890. An Episcopal clergyman who was a professor in the Philadelphia Divinity School, and of much prominence as a Low Churchman. Southern S...

=Greene, William Batchelder.= _Ms._, 1819-1878. Son of N. Greene, _supra_. In early life a member of the noted Brook Farm Community. He was subsequently a Unitarian minister, an...

=Hague, William.= _N. Y._, 1808-1887. A Baptist clergyman of Boston and elsewhere. Christianity and Statesmanship; The Baptist Church Transplanted from the Old World to the New;...

=Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus.= _S. C._, 1814-1876. Brother of J. H. Hammond, _supra_. A United States army officer whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A C...

=Hathaway, Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1822- ----. A verse-writer who was for many years a nurseryman and farmer. Art Life, and Other Poems; The League of the Iroquois; The Finished Cre...

=Henry, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1797-1878. A scientist of eminence who was director of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 till his death. Syllabus of Lectures on Physics; Scientifi...

=Hittell, John Shertzer.= _Pa._, 1825-1901. A journalist of San Francisco. Evidences against Christianity; Mining in the Pacific States; Brief History of Culture; History of San...

=Hopkins, Edward Washburn.= _Ms._, 1857- ----. A professor of Sanskrit in Yale University. Mutual Relations of the Four Castes in Manu; Translation of Laws of Manu; Social and M...

=Hudson, Mrs. Mary [Clemmer] [Ames].= _N. Y._, 1839-1884. A journalist of Washington, well known at one period by her Woman’s Letters from Washington in The Independent. Eirene;...

=Jacobi= [yä-kō´bē], =Abraham.= _Wa._, 1830- ----. A New York city physician, professor in the College of Physicians since 1870. Dentition and its Derangements; Infant Hygiene;...

=Johnston, Richard Malcolm.= _Ga._, 1822-1898. A Baltimore writer and educator whose humourous writings are very distinctly original. Life of Alexander Stephens, _infra_ (with W...

=King, Edward.= _Ms._, 1848-1896. A journalist who lived in Paris as correspondent for American journals. The Gentle Savage; The Golden Spike; French Leaders; My Paris, or Frenc...

=Lathrop, George Parsons.= _H. I._, 1851-1898. A littérateur of New York city, and more recently of New London. His writings in verse include, Rose and Rooftree; Dreams and Days...

=Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane [Clarke].= “Grace Greenwood.” _N. Y._, 1823-1904. A popular littérateur of Philadelphia who wrote much in the line of newspaper correspondence, but w...

=Lowell, Robert Traill Spence.= _Ms._, 1816-1891. Son of C. Lowell, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, head master of St. Mark’s School, Southborough, 1869-73, and pr...

=McKinney, Mordecai.= _Pa._, _c._ 1796-1867. A jurist of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistr...

=Mathews, Albert.= _N. Y._, 1820-1903. A lawyer of New York city. Walter Ashwood, a Love Story; A Bundle of Papers, by Paul Siegvolk; Thoughts on Codification of the Common Law;...

=Miller, John.= _N. J._, 1819-1895. Son of S. Miller, _infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman who was a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and who lived in Princeto...

=Morris, Harrison Smith.= _Pa._, 1856- ----. A littérateur of Philadelphia. A Duet in Lyrics (verse, with J. A. Henry); Madonna, and Other Poems. He has edited Tales from Ten Po...

=Nason, Elias.= _Ms._, 1811-1887. A Congregational minister of North Billerica, Massachusetts, among whose numerous religious biographical and historical writings are, Gazetteer...

=Noyes, George Rapall.= _Ms._, 1798-1868. A Unitarian clergyman eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University from 1840. He published translations...

=Page, Thomas Nelson.= _Va._, 1853- ----. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, whose studies of Southern life are notable for a singular charm of style. In Old Virginia; Two Little C...

=Paschall, George Washington.= _Ga._, 1812-1878. A jurist of Texas, and later of Washington, where he was professor of jurisprudence in Georgetown College. Annotated Digest of T...

=Perrine, William Henry.= _N. Y._, 1827-1880. A Methodist clergyman, professor for some years in Albion College, Michigan. The Principles of Church Government with Special Appli...

=Poinsett, Joel Roberts.= _S. C._, 1779-1851. A South Carolina statesman, sent on a special mission to Mexico in 1822, minister to that country 1825-29, and secretary of war und...

=Prudden, Theophile Mitchell.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. A New York physician, professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Manual of Normal Histology (with Delafi...

=Rees, John Krom.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. An astronomer, professor at Columbia College, and director of the Observatory from 1881. Report on the Solar Eclipse, 1878; International...

=Roberts, Oran Milo.= _S. C._, 1815-1898. A Texas jurist who was governor of Texas, 1879-83, and professor of law in the University of Texas from 1883. He wrote a description of...

=Rush, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1745-1813. An eminent physician of Philadelphia who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and treasurer of the United States Mint, 1...

=Schaff= [shäf], =Philip.= _Sd._, 1819-1893. A distinguished German Reformed divine who came to the United States in 1844, and was professor of church history in the seminary at...

=Seelye, Julius Hawley.= _Ct._, 1824-1895. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as an educator. He was a professor of Amherst College from 1850, and its president, 1876-90....

=Shindler, Mrs. Mary Stanley Bunce [Palmer] [Dana].= _S. C._, 1810-1883. A once popular South Carolina verse-writer whose home was at Nacogdoches, Texas, after 1869. In 1844 she...

=Smith, John.= _N. H._, 1752-1809. A Congregational minister and educator, professor of languages at Dartmouth College and college pastor, 1778-1809, as well as librarian of the...

=Spencer, Jesse Ames.= _N. Y._, 1816-1898. An Episcopal clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New York, 1869-83, and editor of many valuable classical...

=Stewart, Charles Samuel.= _N. J._, 1795-1870. A Presbyterian clergyman, chaplain in the navy. Residence at the Sandwich Islands in 1822-23; Visit to the South Seas in the Ship...

=Strong, James.= _N. Y._, 1822-1894. A Methodist clergyman and educator of eminence, professor in Drew Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, from 1868. With T. McClintock, _supra_, h...

=Taylor, George Lansing.= _N. Y._, 1835-1903. A Methodist clergyman of eastern New York. Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad Epic; Grant: an Elegy, and Other Poems; What Shall we Do w...

=Thompson, Daniel Pierce.= _Ms._, 1795-1868. A lawyer of Montpelier, Vermont, whose semi-historical fictions, though somewhat artless in construction, are vigorously conceived n...

=Tone, William Theobald Wolfe.= _I._, 1791-1828. A son of Wolfe Tone, the Irish patriot and French general. After serving in the French army he came to America in 1816 and was i...

=Tuomy, Michael.= _I._, 1808-1857. A professor of geology in the University of Alabama, 1847-57, State geologist of South Carolina from 1844, and of Alabama from 1848. Geologica...

=Vaux= [vauks], =Calvert.= _E._, 1824-1895. An English architect and landscape gardener who settled in the United States in 1851. With F. L. Olmsted, _supra_, he designed Centra...

=Walworth= [wŏ´wŏrth], =Clarence Alphonsus.= _N. Y._, 1820-1900. Son of Reuben Walworth, _infra_. A Roman Catholic clergyman who was one of the founders of the Paulist order in...

=Waterhouse, Benjamin.= _R. I._, 1754-1846. A physician who was professor of medicine at Harvard University, 1783-1812, and of natural history at Brown University, 1784-91. Lect...

=Wharton, Francis.= _Pa._, 1820-1889. Son of T. I. Wharton, _infra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston, professor of ecclesiastical and international law in the Episcopal Theolog...

=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= _Ms._, 1807-1892. A famous New England poet, born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, December 17, 1807, and all his life a member of the Society of Friends...

=Wilmer, Lambert A----.= _Circa_ 1805-1863. A Philadelphia journalist. New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corrup...

=Wood, Mrs. Julia Amanda [Sargent].= _N. H._, 1826- ----. A Roman Catholic writer of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. Myrrha Lake; Hubert’s Wife; Annette; Strayed From the Fold; From Err...

=Zeisberger, David.= _Ma._, 1721-1808. A noted missionary of the Moravians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Delaware and English Spelling-Book; Sermons for Children; Dictionary in Germ...

=Bailey, Vernon.= _Mch._, 1863- ----. A naturalist in government service. Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley; Pocket Gophers of the Mississippi Valley; Revision of Voles of...

=Bernadou, John Baptiste.= _Pa._, 1858- ----. A United States naval officer in the employ of the naval department at Washington from 1888. A Trip through Northern Corea in 1883-...

=Brent, Henry Johnson.= _D. C._, 1811-1880. A New York littérateur who founded the Knickerbocker Magazine with Lewis Gaylord Clark (page 63). Among his writings are Life almost...

=Carson, Hampton Lawrence.= _Pa._, 1852- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The Law of Criminal Conspiracy; History of the Supreme Court of the United States; History of the Centen...

=Cram, William Everett.= _N. H._, 1871- ----. Brother of R. A. Cram (page 18). A writer and illustrator of ornithological works at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Little Beasts of...

=Dodge, Robert.= _N. Y._, 1820- ----. A lawyer of Flushing, New York. Diary Sketches and Reviews; Lectures on Austria; Memorials of Columbus; Tracts for the West (1861); Advance...

=Finn, Francis J[ames].= _Mo._, 1859- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman, a member of the Society of Jesus from 1879, and now (1904) professor of English literature at Saint Xavie...

=Goodwin, Hermon Camp.= _N. Y._, 1813-1891. A journalist of central New York. The Pioneer History of Cortland County and the Border Wars of New York; Life of John Jacob Astor; L...

=Heermans, Forbes.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A journalist and playwright of Syracuse. Thirteen Stories of the Far West; Love by Induction, and Other Plays; The Silent Witness, a dra...

=Hughes, Thomas Patrick.= _E._, 1838- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city from 1885, and for twenty years previously an English missionary in Northern India. Notes on...

=Jones, John Mather.= _W._, 1826-1874. A journalist of Welsh birth who came to America in 1849, founded the towns of New Cambria, Missouri, in 1865, and Avonia, Kansas, in 1869....

=Lambert, Louis Aloisius.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman, editor of the Freeman’s Journal from 1894. Thesaurus Biblicus; Notes on Ingersoll; Tactics of Infidels;...

=Luby, Thomas Clarke.= _I._, 1822-1901. An Irish writer active in Fenian movements and after five years’ imprisonment exiled for the rest of his twenty years’ sentence. He came...

=Mell, Patrick Hues.= _Ga._, 1850- ----. Son of P. H. Mell (page 252). A scientist of Auburn, Alabama. Wild Grasses of Alabama; Life of Patrick Hues Mell, Senior; Climatology of...

=Norris, William Fisher.= _Pa._, 1839-1901. A Philadelphia surgeon who, in addition to many professional papers, has published (with C. A. Oliver) A Text Book of Ophthalmology a...

=Phillips, Morris.= _E._, 1834-1904. For many years the proprietor of the New York Home Journal, now Town and Country, and formerly associated with N. P. Willis (page 427) in it...

=Richards, Charles Herbert.= _N. H._, 1839- ----. A Congregational clergyman in Philadelphia. Religious Rights of a Christian State; The improvement of Worship; Evolution of a R...

=Schelling, Felix Emmanuel.= _Ind._, 1858- ----. A professor of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Literary and Verse Criticism of the Age of Elizabeth; Life...

=Smith, William Benjamin.= _Ky._, 1850- ----. A professor of mathematics at Tulane University, New Orleans, from 1893. Elementary Coördinate Geometry; A Clue to Trigonometry; Bi...

=Tappan, Eva March.= _Ms._, 1854- ----. A teacher in the English High School, Worcester, Massachusetts. Charles Lamb: the Man and the Author; In the Days of Alfred the Great; Ol...

=Votaw, Clyde Weber.= _Il._, 1864- ----. A professor of biblical Greek in the University of Chicago from 1900. Inductive Studies in the Founding of the Christian Church; The Pri...

=Wilcox, Delos F[ranklin].= _Mch._, 1873- ----. A writer of Elk Rapids, Michigan. The Study of City Government; Municipal Government in Michigan and Ohio; The American Newspaper...