A dictionary of American authors

Name: A dictionary of American authors
Author: Adams, Oscar Fay

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Dawes, Anna Laurens.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A daughter of Senator Dawes
of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and periodicals.
How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and Future; Biography
of Charles Sumner. _Do. Gi._

=Dawes, Rufus.= _Ms._, 1803-1859. A witty jurist of Massachusetts, who
won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of the Nashaway, and
Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Historical
Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.

=Dawson, George.= _S._, 1813-1883. A once influential Albany
journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The
Pleasures of Angling.

=Dawson, Henry Barton.= _E._, 1821-1889. An historical writer of New
York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and editor of
The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles of the United
States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts;
Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the Revolution. _Scr._

=Day, Henry.= _Ms._, 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer
Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a volume of
Spanish travels.

=Day, Henry Noble.= _Ct._, 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A
Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president,
and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric,
reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics;
The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of
Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton;
Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater
number of his writings. _Scr._

=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman of
Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.

=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1773-1867. Son of J. Day, _supra_. A noted
mathematician who was president of Yale College, 1817-46. Introduction
to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; Examination of
Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane Trigonometry; Navigation and
Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will
and Contingent Volition.

=Day, Richard Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist of Syracuse.
Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.

=Dayton, Amos Cooper.= _N. J._, 1813-1865. A Baptist clergyman and
physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith,
was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel’s Daughter, a
novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book;
Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion.

=Dean, Amos.= _Vt._, 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures on
Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical
Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of
Civilization.

=Dean, John.= _Ms._, 1831-1888. A physician who published Microscopic
Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray Substance of
the Medulla Oblongata.

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Dawes, Anna Laurens.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. A daughter of Senator Dawes
of Massachusetts, who has written much for journals and periodicals.
How we are Governed; The Modern Jew, his Present and Future; Biography
of Charles Sumner. _Do. Gi._

=Dawes, Rufus.= _Ms._, 1803-1859. A witty jurist of Massachusetts, who
won notice both as orator and poet. The Valley of the Nashaway, and
Other Poems; Athena of Damascus, a tragedy; Nix’s Mate, an Historical
Romance; Miscellaneous Poems.

=Dawson, George.= _S._, 1813-1883. A once influential Albany
journalist, editor of the Evening Journal, 1846-77, and author of The
Pleasures of Angling.

=Dawson, Henry Barton.= _E._, 1821-1889. An historical writer of New
York city, editor of the Historical Magazine, 1866-77, and editor of
The Federalist, reprinted from the original text. Battles of the United
States by Sea and Land; Current Fictions tested by Uncurrent Facts;
Rutgers against Waddington; Westchester County in the Revolution. _Scr._

=Day, Henry.= _Ms._, 1820-1893. A lawyer of New York city. The Lawyer
Abroad; From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, a volume of
Spanish travels.

=Day, Henry Noble.= _Ct._, 1808-1890. Nephew of J. Day, 2d. A
Congregational clergyman, for many years a Western railway president,
and president of Ohio Female College, 1858-64. The Art of Rhetoric,
reprinted as Art of Discourse; Elements of Logic; Science of Æsthetics;
The Art of Elocution; Rhetorical Praxis; Logical Praxis; Science of
Thought; Elements of Mental Science; The Logic of Sir William Hamilton;
Introduction to the Study of English Literature, include the greater
number of his writings. _Scr._

=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1738-1806. A Congregational clergyman of
Connecticut, whose Sermons Collected were issued in 1797.

=Day, Jeremiah.= _Ct._, 1773-1867. Son of J. Day, _supra_. A noted
mathematician who was president of Yale College, 1817-46. Introduction
to Algebra; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; Examination of
Edwards’s Freedom of the Will; Plane Trigonometry; Navigation and
Surveying; Inquiry Respecting the Self-Determining Power of the Will
and Contingent Volition.

=Day, Richard Edwin.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A journalist of Syracuse.
Lines in the Sand; Thor, a Drama; Lyrics and Satires; Poems.

=Dayton, Amos Cooper.= _N. J._, 1813-1865. A Baptist clergyman and
physician of Tennessee, whose novel Theodosia, or the Heroine of Faith,
was very popular. His other works comprise The Infidel’s Daughter, a
novel; Baptist Facts and Methodist Fiction; Baptist Question Book;
Children brought to Christ; Pedobaptist and Campbellite Immersion.

=Dean, Amos.= _Vt._, 1803-1868. A jurist of Albany. Lectures on
Phrenology; Manual of Law; Philosophy of Human Life; Medical
Jurisprudence; Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial Law; History of
Civilization.

=Dean, John.= _Ms._, 1831-1888. A physician who published Microscopic
Anatomy of the Lumbar Enlargement of the Spinal Cord; Gray Substance of
the Medulla Oblongata.

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A dictionary of American authors

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