Dictionary of American biography, published under the auspices of the American council of learned societies ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

United States.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

volumes 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1943-

Summary:

No living persons ... have biographies in the Dictionary ... (and) no persons who ... (have) not lived in the territory now known as the United States. Introd., v. 1, p. vii.

Contents:

I. Abbe-Barrymore.

II. Barsotti-Brazer.

III. Brearly-Chandler.

IV. Chanfrau-Cushing.

V. Cushman-Eberle.

VI. Echols-Fraser.

VII. Fraunces-Grimké.

VIII. Grinnell-Hibbard.

IX. Hibben-Jarvis.

X. Jasper-Yarkin.

XI. Larned-MacCracken.

XII. McCrady-Millington.

XIII. Mills-Oglesby.

XIV. Oglethorpe-Plattner.

XV. Platt-Roberdeau.

XVI. Robert-Seward.

XVII. Sewell-Stevenson.

XVIII. Steward-Trowbridge.

XIX. Troye-Wentworth.

XX. Werden-Zunser.

XXI. Supplement one. [To December 31, 1935]

XXII. Supplement two. [To December 31, 1940].

Notes:

"No living persons ... have biographies in the Dictionary ... [and] no persons who ... [have] not lived in the territory now known as the United States."--Introd., v. 1, p. vii.

Editors: v. 1-3, Allen Johnson.--v. 4-7, Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone.--v. 8-20, Dumas Malone.--v. 21, Marris E. Starr, --v. 22, Robert Livingston Schuyler.

Local Notes:

Library has: v.1, v.2, v.3, v.4, v.5, v.6, v.7, v.8, v.9, v.10, v.11, v.12, v.13, v. 14, v.15, v.16, v.17, v.18, v.19, v.20, Index, v.21, Suppl. 1, v.22, Suppl. 2, I

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Other Format:

Online version: Dictionary of American biography.

OCLC:

6471662