The Online Books Page

Georgia -- Biography

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Georgia
• Georgia -- History
• United States -- Biography
• Biography

• Atlanta (Ga.) -- Biography
• Baldwin County (Ga.) -- Biography
• Wilkes County (Ga.) -- Biography
• African American clergy -- Georgia -- Biography
• African Americans -- Georgia -- Biography
• Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Biography
• Feminists -- Georgia -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Georgia -- Biography
• Judges -- Georgia -- Biography
• Lawyers -- Georgia -- Biography
• Mayors -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography
• Soldiers -- Georgia -- Biography
• Women -- Georgia -- Biography
• Women plantation owners -- Georgia -- Biography

• Georgians in Profile: Historical Essays in Honor of Ellis Merton Coulter (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1958), ed. by Horace Montgomery (PDF at Georgia)
• Convention Sketches: Brief Biographies of the Members of the Constitutional Convention, July 11, 1877 (Atlanta: Constitution Pub. Co., 1877) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Miscellanies of Georgia: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc., by Absalom H. Chappell (page images at MOA)
• Historical Collections of Georgia: Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. Relating to its History and Antiquities, From its First Settlement to the Present Time (New York: Pudney and Russell, 1854), ed. by George White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, by Dolly Sumner Lunt (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1978), by Harold H. Martin (PDF at Georgia)

• History of Baldwin County, Georgia (Anderson, SC: Keys-Hearn Printing Co., 1925), by Anna Maria Green Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Eliza Frances Andrews
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of Dimmock Charlton, a British Subject, Taken from the Brig "Peacock" by the U.S. Sloop "Hornet," Enslaved While a Prisoner of War, and Retained Forty-Five Years in Bondage (Philadelphia: The editors, 1859), by Dimmock Charlton, ed. by Mary L. Cox and Susan H. Cox (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. ("The Black Spurgeon"), Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City (Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902), by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, by William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Lehigh
  • Gutenberg text
• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, by Rebecca Latimer Felton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Georgia Lawyer: His Observations and Public Service (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1946), by Stirling Price Gilbert (PDF at Georgia)

• A Georgia Lawyer: His Observations and Public Service (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1946), by Stirling Price Gilbert (PDF at Georgia)

• William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1978), by Harold H. Martin (PDF at Georgia)

• Johnny Cobb, Confederate Aristocrat (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1964), by Horace Montgomery (PDF at Georgia)
• Two Boys in the Civil War and After, by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by B. M. Zettler (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, by Rebecca Latimer Felton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library at Wormsloe, Isle of Hope near Savannah, Georgia (3 volumes; 1931), by Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library (all volumes in 1 file: PDF at Digital Library of Georgia)

• Miscellanies of Georgia: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc., by Absalom H. Chappell (page images at MOA)

• The New Georgia Encyclopedia (electronic edition, actively updated) (illustrated HTML at georgiaencyclopedia.org)

• Northern Georgia Sketches, by Will N. Harben (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), ed. by E. Merton Coulter and Albert Berry Saye (PDF at Georgia)
• The Strouds: A Colonial Family of English Descent (Lakeland, FL: The Child Printery, 1919), by A. B. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Georgia Voices: A Documentary History to 1872 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1966), by Spencer Bidwell King (PDF at Georgia)
• The Toombs Oak; The Tree That Owned Itself; and Other Chapters of Georgia (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1966), by E. Merton Coulter (PDF at Georgia)
• The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
• First Lessons in Georgia History (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1913), by Lawton B. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgia Land and People (Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Pub. Co., ca. 1893), by Frances Letcher Mitchell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Georgia, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1852), by T. S. Arthur (page images at MOA)
• Miscellanies of Georgia: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc., by Absalom H. Chappell (page images at MOA)
• Plantation Slavery in Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933), by Ralph Betts Flanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1940), by Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project, ed. by Mary Granger (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Georgia Place-Names (third edition, 1999), by Kenneth K. Krakow (PDF files at kenkrakow.com)

• The First Printing in Georgia (Metruchen, NJ: Printed for C. F. Heartman, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The "Negro in Georgia": Another "Pamphlet" Called Forth by Governor Hugh M. Dorsey's Slanderous Document, Scattered Broadcast Over the Country, and In Which He Purported to Set Forth the Brutal Treatment Accorded the Negro by White Citizens of Georgia, the "American Belgian Congo" (ca. 1921), by Caleb A. Ridley and Dixie Defense Committee (Georgia Division) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Plantation Slavery in Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933), by Ralph Betts Flanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, by Rebecca Latimer Felton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839, by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (New York: Harper and brothers, 1863), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1940), by Savannah Unit Georgia Writers' Project, ed. by Mary Granger (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by B. M. Zettler (HTML and TEI at UNC)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.