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American biographical and historical dictionary, containing an account of the lives, characters,...   by   William Allen, 1832  Goo

 

American Biographical Notes: Being Short... By Franklin Benjamin Hough. 1875   Goo

 

American biographical notes, being short notices of deceased persons, chiefly those not included in Allen's or in Drake's biographical dictionaries, gathered from many sources.   by Franklin B. Hough., 1822-1885.  1975   Goo   MoA

American Bookmen: Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the of the 19th century   by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe  1898  Goo

The American encyclopedia of history, biography & travel, ancient & modern history    by William O Blake,  1856  MoA

American pioneers    by William Augustus Mowry, 1829-1917 Mowry, Blanche (Swett) 1870-   New York, Boston, [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company, c1905   OpL   

Americans By Adoption: Brief Biographies of Great Citizens born in Foreign Lands     by Joseph Husband,  Boston 1930  Har   

 

Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who Have Died in the United States for 1857...  by Nathan Crosby    Goo 

 

Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography;   MoA  

Authors at Home: Personal and Biographical Sketches of Well-known American Writers    by Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard) Gilder  1902  Goo

Bibliographia Genealogica Americana: an Alphabetical  Index to American Genealogies  and Pedigrees...    by Daniel S Durrie, 1886  Goo

Biographical & critical miscellanies   by William Hickling  Prescott, 1796-1859.   1851  MoA

A Biographical Dictionary: Including more than 2000 articles of American biography    by  Rev John Lauris Blake,  1788-1857.   MoA  13 th ed 1859     

Biographical Directory of American (Univ Houston)   2004   UH

Biographical Dictionary [18,000+ people]    2000   On-Line

Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989     by Robert Sobel  Goo

Biographical Memoirs.    by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)  1877   Goo    v 4 1902

The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day [illus.]   by Thomas William Herringshaw,  1888  link 

Biographical Sketches of Preeminent Americans   by Frederick G. Harrison  1893  Goo

Biographies Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica     by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay  1860  Goo 

Brief Biographies.    by Samuel Smiles.  1881  Goo 

The cavalier dismounted: an essay on the origin of the founders of the thirteen colonies...    by William H. Whitmore., 1836-1900.   MoA    

Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, who Have Been...    1844  Goo 

The cottage cyclopedia of history & biography...persons, events, places, & things; chronological view of Amer.    by Edward M Pierce,    MoA 

Crayon sketches and off-hand takings, of distinguished American statesmen, orators, divines, essayists, editors, poets, and philanthropists.    By George W. Bungay.,  1818-1892.     MoA 

Crozier's General Armory: A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor   by William Armstrong Crozier  1904  Goo

The Cyclopædia of American Biography.    by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, Charles Dick, James Edward Homans, John William Fay, Herbert M. Linen, L. E. Dearborn,    Goo    1888   1900

 

A Dictionary of American Authors     by Oscar Fay Adams, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) Goo   1897    1904 

 

Dictionary of American Biography.     Goo        1872    1879-supplement     1885    1897    1900   

Dictionary of National Biography    by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee  1890   Goo 

The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America from the Earliest Period    by Henry Howard Brownell  1853   Goo

Everyday Biography: Containing a Collection of Brief Biographies Arranged for Every Day in the...    by Amelia J. Calver.  1889   Goo 

Famous Actor-Families in America   by Montrose Jonas Moses - Biography & Autobiography-  1906  Goo

The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad who Came to the Colonies in ...      by Charles Knowles Bolton  1919  Goo

A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register.     by James Savage, 1784-1873.  John Farmer, Orrando Perry Dexter.  1860     

      Gnet       MoA  vol 1    vol 3    vol 4       Goo     vol 1     vol 2      vol 3. K-R     vol 4     cross index of the  4  vol      

Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five ...   by Thomas William Herringshaw -1914  Goo

Indian wars of the West: biographical sketches of those pioneers who headed the western settlers in repelling…    by Timothy Flint, 1780-1840.  1833  LC  

A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England: ... To which are Added Various ...    by John Farmer. 1829   Goo

Half-Hours With the Best American Authors     by Charles Morris   Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company, 1891   vol 1   vol 2   vol 3   vol 4

Index to American Genealogies: And to Genealogical Material Contained in All Works Such as Town histories ...  5th ed  by Daniel Steele Durrie.  1900  Goo    Index      Supplement 1900 to 1908   

Lives of celebrated Americans: comprising biographies of three hundred and forth eminent persons. with over 100 fine portraits.    by Benson John Lossing, 1813-1891 1869   Goo    MoA  

 

The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places and Events, During...   by Stella S. Coatsworth, C. B. Farwell. 1869  Goo

 

The Memories of Fifty Years: containing brief biographical notices of distinguished Americans,...   by William Henry Sparks.  1872   Goo      MoA

 

Men of our times; or, Leading patriots of the day.  Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.    by Harriet Beecher Stowe., 1811-1896.  MoA   

 

Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical notices of einent characters of both sexes ...   10th ed  by Thompson Cooper 1879  Goo

 

Modern leaders,...biographical sketches    by Justin McCarthy, 830-1912    MoA

 

A New American Biographical Dictionary: Or, Rememberancer of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and...   by Thomas Jones Rogers.  1824   Goo

 

New General Biographical Dictionary.     by Hugh James Rose.  London, 1857  Goo   Vol 9

 

Newspapers and Newspaper Writers in New England, 1787-1815: Read before the New England Historic,...    by Delano Alexander Goddard. 1880  Goo

 

Noteworthy Families (Modern Science)  An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements ... Publicly Recorded    by Francis Galton, 1822-1911 & Schuster, Edgar    Gut

 

One Thousand American Men of Mark of To-day: Twentieth Century Edition de Luxe. A National...    1916   Goo

 

Our album of authors, a cyclopedia of popular literary people,   by Frank M'Alpine.  PhiladelphiaChicago [etc.]: Elliott & Beezley, 1886.   MoA

 

Our countrymen, or, Brief memoirs of eminent Americans. Illustrated by one hundred and three portraits, by Benson John Lossing, 1813-1891.   MoA  MoA 

 

Our Foreign-born Citizens: What they have done for America [biography]   by Annie E. S. Beard,   NY  1922  Har

 

Our whole country: Past & present of the US, hist. & descriptive; local histories, biographical sketches…     by John Warner Barber, (1798-1885)  1861  MoA

Pioneers Of Modern Education 1600 1700    by John William  Adamson,   At The University Press, 1921  OpL   

Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America ... biographies.    by Evert A. Duyckinck ... Illustrated by Evert A. (Evert Augustus) Duyckinck, 1816-1878.  c1872-74   MoA  vol 1   vol 2

 

Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical & historical memoirs.    by John A Livingston,    MoA  

Reminiscences and Sketches    by Charles Forster Smith  1909  Goo

Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of  New England made in the years 1858, 1859, 1860...   by Samuel Gardner Drake.   1860  Goo 

Trail Blazers Of Science Life Stories Of Some Half Forgotten Pioneers Of Modern Research   by Martin Gumpert  Funk & Wagnalls, 1936  OpL   

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...     by Rossiter Johnson, Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917, John Howard Brown, Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931.   1904  Goo

Who Was Who: 5000 BC to Date: Biographical Dictionary 1914  Gut 

Who's it in America: Being a Sort O'biography of Certain Prominent Persons, with Some Facts about...   by Charles Eustace Merriman. 1906   Goo