OF

AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY,

INCLUDING

MEN OF THE TIME;

CONTAINING NEARLY

TEN THOUSAND NOTICES OF PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES, OF NATIVE
AND FOREIGN BIRTH, WHO HAVE BEEN REMARKABLE, OR

PROMINENTLY CONNECTED WITH THE

Arts, Sciences, Literature, Politics, or History,

OF THE

AMERICAN CONTINENT.

GIVING ALSO THE PRONUNCIATION OF MANY OF THE FOREIGN AND PECULIAR
AMERICAN NAMES, A KEY TO THE ASSUMED NAMES OF WRITERS, AND A

JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,

(LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, And Fields, Osgood, & Co.)

ΤΟ

SAMUEL GARDNER DRAKE,

THE HISTORIAN OF BOSTON,

This Work

IS INSCRIBED,

AS A TRIBUTE OF FILIAL REGARD.