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• Harpers's popular cyclopædia of United States history from the aboriginal period, containing brief sketches of important events and conspicuous actors (Harper & brothers, 1893), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of United States history. 1492-1895. Four centuries of history. (Puritan Publishing Co., 1894), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedic dictionary of American reference ([Boston?, 1901), by J. Franklin Jameson and James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 A. D. to 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing ... (Harper & brothers, 1907), by Benson J. Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new dictionary of American history (Philosophical Library, 1952), by Michael Rheta Martin and Leonard Gelber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopedia of United States history from 458 A. D. to 1909 (Harper, 1906), by Benson J. Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American politics : comprising accounts of political parties, measures and men .... (A. L. Burt, 1892), by Everit Brown and Albert Strauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harpers' encyclopædia of United States from 458 A. D. to 1905 based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing, with special contributions covering (Harper & brothers, 1905), by Benson J. Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopaedia of political science, political ecomony, and of the political history of the United States (M.B. Cary & co., 1883), by John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States. (Rand, McNally, 1881), by John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography, arranged in chronological paragraphs, with full accounts of prehistoric America and the Indians, and notes on contemporaneous history ... (The Coburn & Newman publishing co., 1881), by Stephen Morrell Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of United States history. (Puritan Pub. co., 1897), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• U. S. "snap shots"; an independent, national, and memorial encyclopedia. (Alphabetically arranged for ready reference.) A gazetteer of national industries ... National and state politics, parties and statesmen. Interesting reminiscences, anecdotes, songs ... of famous campaigns ... Chronicle outline of American history from 986 to 1892, with a ... description of the World's Columbian exposition. Facts about presidents and biographical stories, anecdotes, and reminiscences of the ... nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties ... (A. M. Thayer & co., 1892), by Oliver McKee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopaedia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States (C. E. Merrill & Co., 1888), by John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harpers' popular cyclopaedia of United States history from the aboriginal period, containing brief sketches of important events and conspicuous actors (Harper, 1887), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1902, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing ... (Harper & Bros., 1902), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• America : an encyclopaedia of its history and biography, arranged in chronological paragraphs ... (Coburn & Cook, 1882), by Stephen Morrell Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedic dictionary of American history (American history society, 1900), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of United States history. (History publishing co., 1900), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedic dictionary of American reference (, 1901), by J. Franklin Jameson and James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopaedia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1912. (Harper & brothers, 1912), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of United States history. 1492-1898. Four centuries of history. (Puritan publishing co., 1898), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of United States history : embracing famous characters and historic events ... written concisely and arr. alphabetically. (Historical Pub. Co., 1908), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harpers' popular cyclopaedia of United States history from the aboriginal period to 1876, containing brief sketches of important events and conspicuous actors (Harper, 1881), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopæia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1909, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing ... (Harper & Bros., 1905), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of United States history (Harper & Bros., 1905), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's popular cyclopædia of United States history containing brief sketches of important events and conspicuous actors (Harper & Brothers, 1898), by Benson John Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harpers' popular cyclopædia of United States history : from the aboriginal period to 1876 : containing brief sketches of important events and conspicuous actors (Harper & Bros., 1882), by Benson John Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harpers' popular cyclopædia of United States history from the aboriginal period, containing brief sketches of important events and conspicous actors (Harper, 1888), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedic dictionary of American reference (American History Society, 1901), by J. Franklin Jameson and James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harper's encyclopaedia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1912. (Harper & brothers, 1912), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography, arranged in chronological paragraphs. With full accounts of prehistoric America and the Indians, and notes on contemporaneous history ... the discovery and development of North and South America, with biographies of the leaders thereof. (B.H. Barnes, 1882), by Stephen Morrell Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopaedia of United States history from 458 A. D. to 1902 (Harper & brothers, 1902), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dictionary of American politics : comprising accounts of political parties, measures and men (A.L. Burt, 1892), by Everit Brown and Albert Strauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of United States history, 1492-1897. Four centuries of history. (Puritan Publishing Co., 1897), by J. Franklin Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States, by the best American and European writers. (A.H. Andrews & Co., 1886), by John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopedia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1915. (Harper Bros, 1915), by Benson J. Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's popular cyclopedia of United States history ... (Harper & Bros., 1894), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States, by the best American and European writers (Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1899), by John Joseph Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopaedia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1912. (Harper & brothers, 1915), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1905 : based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing (Harper & Brothers, 1905), by Woodrow Wilson and Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 A.D. to 1905, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing ... (Harper & brothers, 1906), by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Key terms in the social studies. (The Norwich Free Academy, 1939), by Harry Alan Cohen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cyclopædia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States (Maynard, Merrill, & co., 1881), by John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cottage cyclopedia of history and biography : a copious dictionary of memorable persons, events, places, and things, with notices of the present state of the principal countries and nations of the known world, and a chronological view of American history (A.S. Hunter, 1873), by Ed. M. Pierce and Wis Hunter (A.S.). La Crosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopaedia of political science, political economy, and of the political history of the United States. (Maynard, Merrill, 1895), by John J. Lalor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harpers' popular cyclopaedia of United States history : from the aboriginal period : containing brief sketches of important events and conspicuous actors (N.Y. : Harper, 1889., 1889), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• American biography: or, An historical account of those persons who have been distinguished in America, as adventurers, statesmen, philosophers, divines, warriors, authors, and other remarkable characters. Comprehending a recital of the events connected with their lives and actions. : Vol. I[-II]. / By Jeremy Belknap, D.D. ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil] ; Published according to act of Congress. (Printed at Boston, : by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Faust's statue, no 45, Newbury Street., MDCCXCIV. [1794-1798]), by Jeremy Belknap (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (partial serial archives)
• The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (10 volumes; Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904), ed. by Rossiter Johnson and John Howard Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herringshaw's national library of American biography; contains thirty-five thousand biographies of the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States; illustrated with three thousand vignette portraits ... (American publishers' association, 1909), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• American biographical notes : being short notices of deceased persons, chiefly those not included in Allen's or in Drake's biographical dictionaries (J. Munsell, 1875), by Franklin B. Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century. Accurate and succinct biographies of famous men and women in all walks of life who are or have been the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States since its formation. (American publishers' association, 1901), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century. Accurate and succinct biographies of famous men and women in all walks of life who are or have been the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States since its formation. (American publishers' association, 1898), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of American biography. New series. (American Historical Society, 1934), by Winfield Scott Downs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical congressional directory, 1774 to 1903 : The Continental Congress: September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, inclusive. The United States Congress: the First Congress to the Fifty-seventh Congress, March 4, 1903, inclusive. (Govt print. off., 1903), by United States Congress and O. M. Enyart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biographical directory of the American Congress. 1774-1927. The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Sixty-ninth Congress, March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1927, inclusive. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1928), by United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• American legionnaires of France; a directory of the citizens of the United States on whom France has conferred her national order, the Legion of Honor. (W.F. Roberts co., 1920), by James Howard Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• American men of science; a biographical directory. (Science Press, 1906), by James McKeen Cattell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States (James H. Lamb Company, 1900), by John Howard Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who knows, and what, among authorities, experts, and the specially informed. (Marquis-Who's Who, 1954) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who was who in America; a companion biographical reference work to Who's who in America. (Marquis Who's Who [etc.], 1607) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography : under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies : Supplement one (Scribners, 1943), by Harris E. Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• American biography; a new cyclopedia. (Pub. under the direction of the American historical society, 1916), by William Richard Cutter and inc. American historical company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cyclopædia of American biography (Press Association Compilers, 1915), by L. E Dearborn, Herbert M Linen, John William Fay, James E. Homans, Charles Dick, John Fiske, and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography (D. Appleton & Co., 1898), by John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time : containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history of the American continent. Giving also the pronunciation of many of the foreign and peculiar American names, a key to the assumed names of writers, and a supplement (J.R. Osgood and Co., 1874), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Check list of the Founder ancestors (General Court of the Order, 1963), by Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time : containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history of the American continent : giving also the pronunciation of many of the foreign and peculiar American names, a key to the assumed names of writers, and a supplement (J.R. Osgood and Co., 1872), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• American legionnaires of France : supplement : a directory of the citizens of the United States on whom France has conferred her national order, the Legion of honor (W.F. Roberts Co. ;, 1922), by James Howard Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time; containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history, of the American continent. Giving also the pronunciation of many of the foreign and peculiar American names, a key to the assumed names of writers, and a supplement. (J.R. Osgood and company, 1876), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new universal biographical dictionary, and American remembrancer of departed merit : containing complete and impartial accounts of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation, but more particularly of those who have signalized themselves in America. In four volumes. Embellished with a number of portraits of the most distinguished characters, engraved from original drawings (Printed and Published by Johnson & Stryker, at the Literary Printing-Office No. 29 Gold-Street, 1801), by James Hardie and A. Citizen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marquis who's who (Marquis Who's Who, inc., [etc.], 1900), by Inc Marquis Who's Who (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography (J. R. Osgood and company, 1874), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century. Accurate and succinct biographies of famous men and women in all walks of life who are or have been the acknowledged leaders of life and thought of the United States since its formation ... (American Publishers' Cssociation, 1906), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time; containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history of the American continent ... (J.R. Osgood and company, 1872), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography (D. Appleton and Company, 1887), by John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Wisconsin : a biographical dictionary of leading men and women of the commonwealth, Volume one. (Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Ltd., 1947) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century ... / edited and compiled under the supervision of Thomas William Herringshaw ; assisted by a corps of well known writers. (American Publishers' Association, 1905), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Illinois, a biographical dictionary of leading men and women of the commonwealth. (Vol. one). (Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Ltd., 1947) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Builders of our nation; men of 1913-<1914> (Men of nineteen-thirteen, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American men of science; a biographical directory (The Science Press, 1921), by James McKeen Cattell and Dean R. Brimhall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century. (American publishers' association, 1904), by Thomas William Herringshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in the lyceum (Pearson Bros., 1906), by Alfred Augustus Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time ... and a supplement. (Houghton; Osgood, 1960), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American men of science; a biographical dictionary. (Science Press, 1910), by James McKeen Cattell (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Blue-Book of biography. Prominent Americans of 1914. (American Publishers' Association., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of 1913. (Men of nineteen-thirteen, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of American biography. (Appleton, 1888), by John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Twentieth century biographical dictionary of notable Americans. (Gale Research Co., 1968), by John Howard Brown and Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national cyclopedia of American biography : Current volumes A- (J. T. White, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cottage cyclopedia of history and biography : a copious dictionary of memorable persons, events, places, and things, with notices of the present state of the principal countries and nations of the known world, and a chronological view of American history (A.S. Hunter, 1873), by Ed. M. Pierce and Wis Hunter (A.S.). La Crosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography (D. Appleton, 1888), by John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical congressional directory with an outline history of the national Congress, 1774-1911. (Govt. print. off., 1913), by United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who was who in America : historical volume 1607-1896: a component volume of Who's who in American history, a compilation of sketches of individuals in some manner related to the history of the United States, from the founding of Jamestown colony to the year of continuation by Volume I of Who was who. (Marquis, 1963) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty-fifth anniversary year book. ([The Class], 1956), by Princeton University. Class of 1931 and Princeton University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The cyclopedia of American biography. (Press Association compilers, Inc., 1918), by L. E. Dearborn, Herbert M. Linen, and James E. Homans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of American biography (Published under the direction of The American Historical Co., 1936), by Winfield Scott Downs and American Historical Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography (D. Appleton, 1886), by John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of American biography, including men of the time; containing nearly ten thousand notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history of the American continent ... (Houghton, Osgood & company, 1876), by Francis S. Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new American biographical dictionary ... ([New York?, in the 1830s) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American biography: or, An historical account of those persons who have been distinguished in America, as adventurers, statesmen, philosophers, divines, warriors, authors, and other remarkable characters. Comprehending a recital of the events connected with their lives and actions. : Vol. I[-II]. / By Jeremy Belknap, D.D. ; [Five lines in Latin from Virgil] ; Published according to act of Congress. (Printed at Boston, : by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. Faust's statue, no 45, Newbury Street., MDCCXCIV. [1794-1798]), by Jeremy Belknap (HTML at Evans TCP)

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