conducted by James B. Longacre ... and James Herring ... under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Henry Perkins,
Date of Publication
1834-1839.
Physical Description
4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Each volume has added engraved t.p. with dates: v.1: 1834; v. 2: 1835. An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
Original issue has imprint: New York, M. Bancroft, 1834-1839.
Library has v. 3 only.
Contents
v. 1: George Washington, 1st President U.S. -- Martha Washington -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- Major-General Nathanael Greene -- Major-General Anthony Wayne -- Major-General William Moultrie -- Major General Israel Putnam -- Colonel Timothy Pickering -- Governor Isaac Shelby -- Governor Aaron Ogden -- John Marshall, LL.D., Chief Justice U.S. -- Edward Shippen, LL.D., Chief Justice of Pennsylvania -- Brigadier-General Jonathan Williams -- Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President U.S. -- Hon. Henry Clay, U.S. Senate -- Major-General Andrew Jackson, President U.S. -- Hon. Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate -- Hon. William Wirt -- Hon Lewis Cass, Secretary of War -- Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy -- Major-General Alexander Macomb -- Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, LL.D. -- Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senate -- Hon. Edward Livingston -- Hon. Louis M'Lane, Secretary of State -- Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania -- Rev. Timothy Dwight. S.T.D. LL.D. -- Hon. Joel Barlow -- Colonel John Trumbull -- Gilbert Charles Stuart, Esq. -- Samuel Latham Mitchell, M.D., LL.D. -- Theodoric Romeyn Beck, M.D. Washington Irving, Esq. -- Catharine M. Sedgwick -- James Fenimore Cooper, Esq.
v. 2: Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S. -- Thomas Jefferson, 3d President U.S. -- John Hancock, President of Congress -- John Jay, President of Congress, Chief Justice U.S. -- Patrick Henry -- Major-General Joseph Warren -- Major-General Henry Knox -- Major-General Benjamin Lincoln -- Major-General David Wooster -- Major-General Philip Schuyler -- Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury -- Governor John E. Howard -- Brigadier-General Otho H. Williams -- Governor John Brooks -- Colonel Francis Barber -- John Barry, U.S. Navy -- Daniel Boon[!] -- David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S. -- David Humphreys, LL.D. -- Edward Preble, U.S. Navy -- Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Navy -- Major-General Jacob Brown -- Governor Dewitt Clinton -- Hon. James A. Bayard -- Hon. John C. Calhoun, Vice President U.S. -- Governor Robert Y. Hayne -- Hon. William Gaston -- Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury -- Mrs. Marcia Van Ness -- Noah Webster, LL.D. -- Caspar Wistar, M.D. -- David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S. -- James Kent, LL.D. -- Charles Ewing, LL.D., Chief Justice of New Jersy -- Governor George Wolf.
v. 3: James Madison, 4th President U.S. -- Mrs. Madison -- James Monroe, 5th President U.S. -- John Dickinson -- Francis Hopkinson -- Elias Boudinot -- Benjamin Rush, M.D. -- David Ramsay, M.D. -- Major-General Arthur St. Clair -- Major-General Lachlan M'Intosh -- Major-General Daniel Morgan -- Brigadier-General Francis Marion -- Brigadier-General Andrew Pickens -- Brigadier-General Henry Lee -- Brigadier-General William Augustine Washington -- Major-General Morgan Lewis -- Benjamin Tallmadge -- Governor James Jackson -- Governor William Richardson Davie -- Paul Jones, U.S. Navy -- Richard Dale, U.S. Navy -- William Bainbridge, U.S. Navy -- Stephen Decatur, U.S. Navy -- Fisher Ames -- Rufus King -- Stephen Van Rensselaer -- William Pinkney -- Lindley Murray -- Charles Brockden Brown -- Robert Fulton -- Joseph Story, LL.D. -- Major-General William Henry Harrison -- Martin Van Buren, Vice President U.S. -- Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy -- Felix Grundy, U.S. Senate.
The American statesman: a political history, exhibiting the origin, nature and practical operation of constitutional government in the United States; the rise and progress of parties, the legislation relating to all matters of national importance, with views of distinguished statesmen on questions of foreign and domestic policy
Heroes of three wars: Comprising a series of biographical sketches of the most distinguised soldiers of the War of the Revolution, the War with Mexico, and the War for the Union, who have contributed their valor to establish and perpetuate the Republic of the United States
Account of Arnold's campaign against Quebec : and of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes who traversed the wilderness of Maine from Cambridge to the St. Lawrence, in the autumn of 1775
A review of the political conflict in America, from the commencement of the anti-slavery agitation to the close of southern reconstruction; comprising also a resume of the career of Thaddeus Stevens: being a survey of the struggle of parties which destroyed the republic and virtually monarchized its government
