''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' is a multi-volume collection of biographical articles and portraits of Americans, published since the 1890s.
The primary method of data collection was by sending questionnaires to subjects or their relatives.
[ It has over 60,000 entries, in 63 volumes.][ The entries are not credited.][ The overall editor was ]James Terry White
James Terry White (July 3, 1845 in Newburyport, Massachusetts – April 3, 1920 in Manhattan, New York) was an American publisher and poet. Given his wide range of interests and involvement in various businesses and cultural activities, he ...
. It is more comprehensive than the ''Dictionary of American Biography
The ''Dictionary of American Biography'' was published in New York City by Charles Scribner's Sons under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
History
The dictionary was first proposed to the Council in 1920 by h ...
'' and the ''American National Biography
The ''American National Biography'' (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Le ...
'', but less scholarly because it doesn't cite the original sources used for the information.
See also
* ''Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
''Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography'' is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World. Published between 1887 and 1889, its unsigned articles were widely accepted as authoritative f ...
''
References
External links
* Hathi Trust
''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography''
fulltext
* ''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' By James Terry White, online at Google Books:
Volume 2
published 1895. John Adams is in Volume 2, page 1.
Volume 3
published 1893.
Volume 4
published 1897. Ulysses S. Grant is in Volume 4, page 1.
Volume 5
published 1894.
Volume 8
published 1900.
Volume 9
published 1899.
Volume 10
published 1909. William Mason is in Vol.10, page 368.
Volume 11
published 1901.
Volume 12
published 1904.
Volume 14 (Supplement 1)
published 1910.
*Other volumes are accessible fro
The Online Books Page
United States biographical dictionaries
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