"History is but the essence of innumerable biographies."— Thomas Carlyle. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NOTABLE AMERICANS BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS STATESMEN, AND OTHERS WHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, PH. D., LL. D. EDITOR OF THE ANNUAL CYCLOPÆDIA AND ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA MANAGING EDITOR JOHN HOWARD BROWN WITH WHOM ARE ASSOCIATED MANY EMINENT CONTRIBUTORS VOLUME V BOSTON THE BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY |