Colonial collegians [electronic resource] : biographies of those who attended American colleges before the War for Independence project director, Conrad Edick Wright

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Wright, Conrad Edick.

Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885.

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920.

Massachusetts Historical Society

New England Historic Genealogical Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.

United States.

Harvard University--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.

Harvard University.

Yale College (1718-1887)--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.

Yale College (1718-1887).

Princeton University--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.

Princeton University.

Physical Description:

1 CD-ROM : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, c2005.

System Details:

System requirements: PC: Pentium I or higher processor; Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP operating system; 28MB hard disk space minimum (32MB recommended); 32MB RAM minimum; VGA or higher resolution video adapter for monitor (SVGA monitor 256-color or higher recommended).

System requirements: MAC: PowerPC or higher processor; System 7.5 or higher (emulation mode only for System OS X); 30MB hard drive space (minimum); 20MB RAM minimum (32MB recommended).

Summary:

This CD-ROM provides the most complete biographical database on the nearly 5,800 boys and men who attended American colleges through the Class of 1774, the last to graduate before the Revolutionary War. It includes the full text of all the sketches in the 18 volumes of Sibley's Harvard Graduates, as well as all the entries through the Class of 1774 in Franklin Bowditch Dexter's Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, and James McLachlan et al., Princetonians. Additional entries cover all colonial graduates, and most colonial non-graduates, of Brown University, Columbia Medical School, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Rutgers University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, the College of William and Mary, and William Tennent's Log College.

Notes:

Title from disc surface.

Related Work:

Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885. Biographical sketches of graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920. Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College.

Contains:

Princetonians.

OCLC:

64581428