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, several of which totaled more than a thousand pages.

Works

* ''History of Arkansas'' * ''Battle of Gettysburg'' * ''History of Illinois'' * ''History of Bureau County, Illinois'' (1885) * ''History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania'' (1886) with Aaron Sheely, M.A. Leeson, and others * ''History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania'' (1887) with Samuel P. Bates, H.C. Bell, J.H. Battle * ''Commemorative Biographical and Historical Record of Kane County, Illinois'' (1888) * ''History of Vigo County, Indiana, with Biographical Selections'' (1891) * ''History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Selections'' (1891) * ''History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania'' (1893)

References

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