Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...of 725 copies only was issued of the "Life and Works of Alexander Anderson, M. D., the First American Wood Engraver," by Frederick M. Burr. J. A. Coles, M. D., was the author of a biographical sketch of "Abraham Coles," and J. Howe Adams, M. D., of the " History of the Life of D. Hayes Agnew, M. D." "Dunn Piatt: His Work and his" Ways," was by Charles Grant Miller. "What America owes to Women," a series of pen portraits of American women past and present, edited by Lydia Hoyt Fanner, Columbian poems and prose sketches of " Kentucky Pioneer Women," by Mary Florence Taney, "A Woman of the Century," biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women, edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, and " Women of Cleveland," by Mrs. W. A. Ingham, bear testimony to the prominent position assumed by the sex during the Columbian year; and, retracing our steps, we have "Presidential Inaugurations from George Washington, 1789, to Grover Cleveland, 1893," by Thomas Hudson McKee. F. B. Heitman also drew up the ' Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783." "Oliver Cromwell: With Illustrations from Old Painting and Prints" was by George II. ('lark, and Charles Kuowles Bolton described "Saskia, the Wife of Rembrandt" The ' Genealogy of the Plumb Family," by Henry Blackman Plumb," Genealogical Sketches of Robert and John Ilazleton and some of their Descendants," by W. B. Lapham, M. D., "The Estos Genealogies," by Charles Estcs, the "Genealogy of tho Cutts Family iu America," by ('. II. C. Howard, and the "Creole...