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• Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Richmond, IN, and New York: Gersham Pub. Co., 1894), ed. by Winfield Scott Garner, contrib. by Samuel T. Wiley (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com; 104 MB)
• A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and its People (3 volumes in 1; New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by John W. Jordan (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania (2 volumes: New York and Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1904), ed. by Gilbert Cope and Henry Graham Ashmead (PDF (with both volumes) at delawarecountyhistory.com; 64 MB)
• A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and its People (3 volumes in 1; New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by John W. Jordan (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com)

• Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Richmond, IN, and New York: Gersham Pub. Co., 1894), ed. by Winfield Scott Garner, contrib. by Samuel T. Wiley (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com; 104 MB)
• History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts and Co., 1884), by Henry Graham Ashmead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com
• History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Printed by H. B. Ashmead, 1862), by George Smith (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com; 142 MB)
• A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and its People (3 volumes in 1; New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by John W. Jordan (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com)
• Chester (and its Vicinity), Delaware County, in Pennsylvania; With Genealogical Sketches of Some Old Families (Philadelphia: Printed by W. H. Pile and Sons, 1877), by John Hill Martin (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com; 137 MB)

• History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Printed by H. B. Ashmead, 1862), by George Smith (PDF at delawarecountyhistory.com; 142 MB)

• The Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography (partial serial archives)
• Emigrants From the Palatinate to the American Colonies in the 18th Century (special study #1; Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1953), by Friedrich Krebs and Milton Rubincam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750: Being a List of Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1902), by Albert Cook Myers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Journal of a Voyage from Philadelphia to Cork in the Year of our Lord, 1809; Together With a Description of a Sojourn in Ireland (Philadelphia: West Park Pub. Co., 1915), by Margaret Boyle Harvey, contrib. by Dora Harvey Develin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of the Captivity of John McCullough, ESQ: Written by Himself (handwritten volume; 1833), by John McCullough (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, ed. by William Henry Egle (partial serial archives)

• History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the Revolution, from 1774 to 1783 (Reading, PA: C. F. Haage, printer, 1894), by Morton L. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)

• 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co., 1909), ed. by James A. McKee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Pub. Co., 1909), ed. by James A. McKee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Earlier Settlers (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co., 1903), contrib. by John Franklin Meginness
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: Containing Genealogical Records of Representative Families, Including Many of the Early Settlers and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens (2 volumes; New York and Chicago: T. S. Benham Co. and Lewis Pub. Co., 1904), ed. by Ellwood Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: Brown, Runk and Co., 1891), ed. by Herbert C. Bell (text files at usgwarchives.net)

• Story of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Press of Rex Printing House, ca. 1919), ed. by J. St. George Joyce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750: Being a List of Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1902), by Albert Cook Myers
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (Philadelphia: S. Robinson, c1851), ed. by John Cassin, contrib. by William A. Stephens, Richard Vaux, and Isaac W. Moore, illust. by H. L. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• West Philadelphia Illustrated: Early History of West Philadelphia and Its Environs, Its People, and Its Historical Points (Philadelphia: Avil Print. Co., 1903), by M. Laffitte Vieira (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts and Co., 1882), ed. by George Dallas Albert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching (Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1913), by Fanny Jackson Coppin (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Sketch of Henry Franklin and Family (Philadelphia: Collins Printing House, 1887), by Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Benjamin Chew, 1722-1810, Head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System Under Colony and Commonwealth (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Burton Alva Konkle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justus Falckner, Mystic and Scholar, Devout Pietist in Germany, Hermit on the Wissahickon, Missionary on the Hudson: A Bi-Centennial Memorial of the First Regular Ordination of an Orthodox Pastor in America (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1903), by Julius Friedrich Sachse
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Thomas Eakins, Who Painted (electronic edition, with many added images; original book c1946), by Margaret McHenry, illust. by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn., 1912), by Alexander Berkman
  • HTML at Pitzer
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (second edition; New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assn., 1920), by Alexander Berkman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Memoir of Elizabeth Newport (Philadelphia: J. Comly, 1874), by Ann A. Townsend, contrib. by Elizabeth Newport (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1898), by William Henry Egle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
  • Volume 1 (De Commines et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Earl of Clarendon et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Charles V et al): multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
• The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.