A PPL ET ON S' CYCLOPÆDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON AND JOHN FISKE As it is the commendation of a good huntsman to find game in a wide wood, Plato. SOME OF THE CHIEF CONTRIBUTORS TO APPLETONS CYCLOPÆDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Adams, Charles Kendall, President of Cornell University. Anthor and Professor. Aide-de-Camp to "Stonewall" Jackson. Author - Dictionary of Authors." Author “Life of General Sullivan," etc. Author “History of the United States.' Secretary of State. Lieutenant U. S. Navy. Author “ Life of Franklin," etc. Poet, late Minister to Russia. Justice United States Supreme Court. Author “Sermons in English Churches." Author and Journalist. President of Williams College. Ex-Secretary of the Navy. Author * Ten Great Religions," etc. Author - Rural Hours," etc. Miscellaneous Writer. Professor in Lehigh University, Pa. P. E. Bishop of Western New York. Mayor of Charleston, S. C. Author - Register of West Point Graduates," etc. Author “Life of James Buchanan,” etc. Author and Editor. Author " Tenting on the Plains." United States Senator from Virginia. Ex-President Genealogical and Biographical Society. Author “Life of Edgar Allan Poe." Dix, Morgan, Rector of Trinity Church, New York. P. E. Bishop of Albany. Author “Historic Personages of Boston," etc. Secretary of Wisconsin Historical Society. Of Delaware, late U. S. Army. Editor New York - Commercial Advertiser.” Author and Professor. Author “Life of George Ripley." Author “History of Louisiana.” Member of New York Bar. President of Johns Hopkins University. Author “ Rear-Guard of the Revolution," etc. Ex-Chaplain-General British Army. Member of Illinois Bar. Author " Three Years of Arctic Service." Late P. E. Bishop of Mississippi. United States Engineer Corps. Author “ Franklin in France," etc. Member Pennsylvania Bar. Author “Life of Lincoln," etc. of the Virginia Historical Society. Author - History of the United States," etc. Late Minister to Brazil. Anthor and Poet. Of Yale College. Author “ Later Lyrics," etc. Rector of Grace Church, New York. Late Minister to Austria. |