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

=Henry, Thomas Chalmers.= _Pa._, 1790-1827. A Presbyterian clergyman
of South Carolina. Consistency of Popular Amusements for Professing
Christians; Moral Etchings from the Religious World; Letters from an
Anxious Believer. _See Memoir by T. Lewis, 1829; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Henry, William Seaton.= _N. Y._, 1816-1851. An officer in the United
States army who published Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico.

=Henry, William Wirt.= _Va._, 1831-1900. A Virginia lawyer and
historical writer who published Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of
Patrick Henry.

=Hensel, William Uhler.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A politician and journalist
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, author of Lives of T. A. Hendricks and
Grover Cleveland.

=Henshaw, David.= _Ms._, 1791-1852. A politician who was secretary of
the navy in 1843, and wrote Letters on the Internal Improvement and
Commerce of the West.

=Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley.= _Ct._, 1792-1852. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island. Theology for the People; Lessons in
Elocution; On Confirmation; The Work of Christ’s Living Body, are his
principal works.

=Henshaw, Joshua Sidney.= _Ms._, 1811-1859. A lawyer in Utica from
1848, but previously an instructor in the United States navy.
Incitements to Well Doing; Life of Father Mathew; United States Manual
for Consuls; Around the World (1840); Philosophy of Human Progress.

=Hentz, Mrs. Caroline Lee [Whiting].= _Ms._, 1800-1856. Wife of N. M.
Hentz, _infra_. A popular Southern writer of many sensational romances
of ephemeral interest. Among them are, Lovell’s Folly; Rena; The
Planter’s Northern Bride; Linda. _Pet._

=Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus.= _F._, 1797-1856. A French educator well
known as an entomologist. He came to America in 1816, and taught in the
University of North Carolina and elsewhere in the South.

=Hepburn, James Curtis.= _Pa._, 1815- ----. A missionary to Japan
of note as a lexicographer. A Japanese and English Dictionary; A
Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridgment of the
earlier work.

=Hepworth, George Hughes.= _Ms._, 1833-1902. A New York journalist
since 1887 on the editorial staff of the Herald. From 1855-72 he was
a Unitarian clergyman, but subsequently entered the Presbyterian
ministry. Rocks and Shoals; Brown Studies; Hiram Golf’s Religion; The
Life Beyond; They Met in Heaven; Herald Sermons; Starboard and Port, a
summer’s yacht cruise; a book entitled !!!. _Dut. Har._

=Herbermann, Charles George.= _Wa._, 1840- ----. A professor of Latin
in the College of the City of New York from 1869, author of Business
Life in Ancient Rome. _Har._

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

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

=Henry, Thomas Chalmers.= _Pa._, 1790-1827. A Presbyterian clergyman
of South Carolina. Consistency of Popular Amusements for Professing
Christians; Moral Etchings from the Religious World; Letters from an
Anxious Believer. _See Memoir by T. Lewis, 1829; Allibone’s Dictionary._

=Henry, William Seaton.= _N. Y._, 1816-1851. An officer in the United
States army who published Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico.

=Henry, William Wirt.= _Va._, 1831-1900. A Virginia lawyer and
historical writer who published Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of
Patrick Henry.

=Hensel, William Uhler.= _Pa._, 1851- ----. A politician and journalist
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, author of Lives of T. A. Hendricks and
Grover Cleveland.

=Henshaw, David.= _Ms._, 1791-1852. A politician who was secretary of
the navy in 1843, and wrote Letters on the Internal Improvement and
Commerce of the West.

=Henshaw, John Prentiss Kewley.= _Ct._, 1792-1852. The first Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island. Theology for the People; Lessons in
Elocution; On Confirmation; The Work of Christ’s Living Body, are his
principal works.

=Henshaw, Joshua Sidney.= _Ms._, 1811-1859. A lawyer in Utica from
1848, but previously an instructor in the United States navy.
Incitements to Well Doing; Life of Father Mathew; United States Manual
for Consuls; Around the World (1840); Philosophy of Human Progress.

=Hentz, Mrs. Caroline Lee [Whiting].= _Ms._, 1800-1856. Wife of N. M.
Hentz, _infra_. A popular Southern writer of many sensational romances
of ephemeral interest. Among them are, Lovell’s Folly; Rena; The
Planter’s Northern Bride; Linda. _Pet._

=Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus.= _F._, 1797-1856. A French educator well
known as an entomologist. He came to America in 1816, and taught in the
University of North Carolina and elsewhere in the South.

=Hepburn, James Curtis.= _Pa._, 1815- ----. A missionary to Japan
of note as a lexicographer. A Japanese and English Dictionary; A
Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary, an abridgment of the
earlier work.

=Hepworth, George Hughes.= _Ms._, 1833-1902. A New York journalist
since 1887 on the editorial staff of the Herald. From 1855-72 he was
a Unitarian clergyman, but subsequently entered the Presbyterian
ministry. Rocks and Shoals; Brown Studies; Hiram Golf’s Religion; The
Life Beyond; They Met in Heaven; Herald Sermons; Starboard and Port, a
summer’s yacht cruise; a book entitled !!!. _Dut. Har._

=Herbermann, Charles George.= _Wa._, 1840- ----. A professor of Latin
in the College of the City of New York from 1869, author of Business
Life in Ancient Rome. _Har._

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A dictionary of American authors

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