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• Mary Louisa Duncan Putnam : a memoir ; William Clement Putman : a memoir (Davenport Academy of Sciences, 1907), by Elizabeth Duncan Putnam and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Naomi W. Cohen (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, by Andrew Carnegie, ed. by John C. Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. (Houghton Mifflin company, 1920), by Andrew Carnegie and John Charles Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lesson in practical philanthropy : Dr. D.K. Pearson's method of helping poor colleges ([s.n.], 1898), by D. K. Pearsons and Mich.) Civic-Philanthropic Congress (1898 : Battle Creek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacob H. Schiff; his life and letters. (Doubleday, Doran, 1928), by Cyrus Adler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial sketch of the life and public works of Mrs. Harriet Annie Lucas. (Press of Times Printing House, 1893), by J. A. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Layman's ministry : notes on the life of Nathan Bishop, LL. D. (s.n., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andorū Kānegī jijoden (Fuzanbō, 1922), by Andrew Carnegie, Kyūgorō Obata, and John Charles Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of George Peabody containing a record of those princely acts of benevolence which entitle him to the esteem and gratitude of all friends of education and the destitute, both in America, the land of his birth, and in England, the place of his death (B.B. Russell;, 1870), by Phebe A. Hanaford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The will of the late Stephen Girard, procured from the office for the probate of wills, with a short biography of his life. (Printed by L. R. Bailey, 1839), by Stephen Girard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louise du Pont Crowninshield, 1877-1958. (Winterthur, Del., 1960), by Walter Muir Whitehill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memorial of John F. Slater, of Norwich, Connecticut, 1815-1884. (Norwich, Conn., 1885), by Rutherford B. Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elihu Burritt : an apostle of international brotherhood ([s.n.], 1907), by Ozora Stearns Davis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Walter Patton Murphy, 1873-1942: A Biography (c1952), by Walter Dill Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nettie Fowler McCormick : profile of an American philanthropist (State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1962), by Charles O. Burgess and State Historical Society of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Autobiography and memorials of Ichabod Washburn : showing how a great business was developed and large wealth acquired for the uses of benevolence (D. Lothrop and Company, 1878), by Ichabod Washburn and Henry T. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)

• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents in his life. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1856), by Amos Lawrence and William Richards Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence : with a brief account of some incidents in his life. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1855), by Amos Lawrence and William Richards Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life, by Amos Lawrence, ed. by William R. Lawrence (Gutenberg ebook)

• Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Charles Henry Hackley, an appreciation. (Muskegon, Mich., 1929), by Muskegon Hackley Memorial Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mary Williamson Harriman (New York : [Columbia University Press], 1960., 1960), by Persia Crawford Campbell and Grayson L. Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memorial of Anson G. Phelps, Jr. (Charles Scribner, 1860), by Henry Boynton Smith and George Lewis Prentiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good men and true : biographies of workers in the fields of beneficence and benevolence (Gebbie, 1890), by Alexander H. Japp (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of John Howard the prison-reformer (London (Paternoster Row) and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1879) (page images at Florida)

• Sipur Mosheh ṿi-Yerushalem = ... Moĭseĭ i Ieruzalim... : ṿe-hu sipur masaʻ la-Arets ha-ḳedoshah asher nasaʻ ha-śar ha-gado ... Mosheh Monṭifyori ... (Bi-defus Y. Alafin, 1879), by Moses Montefiore and Asher Amsheyeṿits (page images at HathiTrust)

• Derekh tsedaḳah : pirṭe ḥag ha-yovel... be-yom melot shivʻim shanah le... Ḳalonimos Zeʼev Ṿisotsḳi... Tamuz 5654... (Defus Halṭer ṿe-Aizenshṭadṭ, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mary Williamson Harriman (New York : [Columbia University Press], 1960., 1960), by Persia Crawford Campbell and Grayson L. Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Name Is Lola: As Told to and Written by Susie Sparks (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Lola Rozsa, ed. by Susie Sparks (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Samson Wertheimer, der Oberhoffactor und Landesrabbiner, (1658-1724) und seine Kinder. (F. Beck, 1888), by David Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Howard the philanthropist. (Religious Tract Society, in the 19th century), by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Sir George Williams (Hodder and Stoughton, 1918), by J. E. Hodder-Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Charitable Samaritan, or, A short and impartial account of that eminent and publick-spirited citizen Mr. Tho. Firmin who departed this life on Monday Dec. 20, 1697 / by a gentleman of his acquaintance. (London : [s.n.], 1698), by Gentleman of his acquaintance (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Samuel Montagu, First Baron Swaythling, Born December 21st, 1832, Died January 12th, 1911: A Character Sketch (London: Truslove and Hanson, ca. 1913), by Lilian Helen Montagu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoir of Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, R.N., C.B. : with sketches of his professional life, and exertions in the cause of humanity, as connected with the "Children's Friend Society," &c., observations upon his "Naval history," and "Life of the Earl of St. Vincent" (James Nisbet and Co., 1842), by Jahleel Brenton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie de Buxton : précédée et suivie de deux notices sur l'esclavage et sur la colonie de Libéria (J. Cherbuliez, 1853), by Charles Buxton and Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the public and private life of John Howard, the philanthropist (T. and G. Underwood, 1823), by James Baldwin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of Samuel Gurney. (H. Longstreth, 1859), by Hannah Ransome Geldart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the earlier life of the Earl of Selkirk paper read before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, February 8th, 1881 (s.n., 1881), by George Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty portraits of religious and philanthropic celebrities : with brief literary notices. (S.W. Partridge & Co., 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Howard, compiled from his diary, his confidential letters, and other authentic documents. Abridged by a gentleman of Boston, from the London quarto edition. (Lincoln and Edmands, 1831), by James Baldwin Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Apomnēmoneumata (Typographeion "Hestia", 1908), by Andreas Syngros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memoir of Dwarkanath Tagore (Thacker, 1870), by Kissory Chand Mittra (page images at HathiTrust)

• Brevi memorie intorno alla vita di Anna Maria Bosio : raccolte e pubblicate (Presso Federico Nicoli-Cristiani, Tipografo nel Palazzo Avogadro a S. Alessandro, 1827), by Federico Nicoli Cristiani, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lorenzo Bruno : cenni biografici (L. Roux & C., 1894), by Luigi Drochi (page images at HathiTrust)

• William Greenleaf Eliot : minister, educator, philanthropist (Houghton, Mifflin, 1904), by Charlotte Eliot and James K. Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical sketch of Stephen Girard, Esq. (Printed by L. R. Bailey, 1847), by Stephen Girard and Lydia R. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obituary notice of Henry Seybert (s.n., 1883), by Moncure Robinson and American Philosophical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Na wozie i pod wozem, 1837-1917 : wspomnienia z lat ubiegłych wnukom i wnuczkom opowiedziane (Wydawn. Polskie R. Wegnera, 1918), by Włodzimierz Czetwertyński-Światopełk, Stanisław Wasylewski, and Seweryn Czetwertyński (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• John Hope : philanthropist and reformer (A. Elliot, 1900), by David Jamie (page images at HathiTrust)

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