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(Includes Genealogy)<br />

Biography<br />

Collected Biography<br />

Atkinson, William Biddle, ed.<br />

Biographical dictionary of contemporary American physicians<br />

and surgeons. 1880<br />

qrg26.i A87<br />

Book of Chicagoans; a biographical dictionary of leading living<br />

men of the city of Chicago; ed. by J. W. Leonard.<br />

1905 qrg20 B63<br />

Modeled on the plan of "Who's who in America."<br />

Brewster, H. Pomeroy.<br />

Saints and festivals of the Christian church. 1904<br />

"Authorities quoted," p.501.<br />

Each day of the year is marked by its saint. A brief sketch of his life<br />

and notes on the origin and customs of the day are given.<br />

Cockburn, Henry Thomas, lord.<br />

Memorials of his time. 1856<br />

Cockburn (1779-1854) was a Scotch judge.<br />

His "Memorials of his time" contains his autobiography up to his appointment<br />

to the solicitor-generalship, interspersed with sketches of<br />

Scottish social and political history and anecdotes of Edinburgh<br />

notables. Condensed from Dictionary of national biography.<br />

rg22 B73<br />

920 C64<br />

Doran, John.<br />

Monarchs retired from business. 2v. 1857 923- 1 D731TI<br />

Biographies of dethroned kings and of kings who abdicated their thrones.<br />

Ferguson, Robert, &.1837.<br />

English surnames and their place in the Teutonic family.<br />

1858 rg2g.4 F38<br />

"List of the principal works consulted," p.7-8.<br />

Surnames as a science. 18S3 rg2g.4 F38S<br />

"List of the principal works consulted," p.213-214.<br />

Gait, John.<br />

Lives of the players. 2v. in 1. 1831<br />

Contents: Charles Hart.—Thomas Betterton. — Edward Kynaston.—<br />

Joseph Haynes.—Robert Wilks.—Nell Gwinn.—William Mountfort.<br />

—Samuel Sandford.—Mrs Elizabeth Barry.—Mrs Anne Oldfield.—<br />

Richard Savage.—Susanna Centlivre.—Colley Cibber.—Thomas Dogget.—Barton<br />

Booth.—Ge<strong>org</strong>e Farquhar.—James Quin.—Lacy Ryan.—<br />

Mrs Woffington.—Thomas Weston.—David Garrick.—Samuel Foote.<br />

—Charles Macklin.—John Henderson.—Mrs Charlotte Charke.—Mrs<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e Ann Bellamy.—Arthur Murphy.—Thomas King.—Thomas Holcroft.—Ge<strong>org</strong>e<br />

Frederick Cooke.—Mrs Baddeley.—Miss Farren.—Mrs<br />

Jordan.—John Philip Kemble.—John Emery.—Mrs Siddons.<br />

Goddard, Dwight.<br />

Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the<br />

inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical<br />

progress. 1906<br />

3^0<br />

Contents: LIST OF AMERICANS: Benjamin Franklin.—John Fitch.—<br />

Nathan Read.—Oliver Evans.—Robert Fulton.—John Stevens.—<br />

Robert L. Stevens.—Eli Whitney.—Thomas Blanchard.—Elias Howe.<br />

—John Ericsson.—Peter Cooper.—Ge<strong>org</strong>e H. Corliss.—Alexander<br />

L. Holley.—William R. Jones.—James B. Eads.—LIST OF EUROPEANS:<br />

Richard Arkwright.—Thomas Newcomen.—James Watt.—Matthew<br />

Boulton.—William Murdock.—William Symington.—Richard Trevithick.—Henry<br />

Maudsley.—Ge<strong>org</strong>e Stephenson.—I, K. Brunei.—James<br />

Nasmyth.—Alfried Krupp.—Charles Babbage.—Sir Joseph Whitworth.<br />

-—Sir Henry Bessemer.—Sir William Siemens.<br />

927-g G15<br />

g26 G54

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