Author talk:John Melish

Sources

Name: John Melish
Birth - Death: 1771-1822
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• A Cyclopedia of Education. Five volumes. Edited by Paul Monroe. New York: Macmillan Co., 1911. (CyEd)
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (Alli)
• American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (AmAu&B)
• American Geographers, 1784-1812. A bio-bibliographical guide. By Ben A. Smith and James W. Vining. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Use the Locator index to locate biographies.(AmGeo)
• Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB)
• Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. First edition. Edited by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. (BenetAL)
• Biographical Index to American Science. The seventeenth century to 1920. Compiled by Clark A. Elliott. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. (BiInAmS)
• A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
• Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB)
• A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA)
• Drake's Dictionary of American Biography. Including men of the time, containing nearly 10,000 notices of persons of both sexes, of native and foreign birth, who have been remarkable, or prominently connected with the arts, sciences, literature, politics, or history, of the American continent. By Francis S. Drake. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. (Drake)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fourth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (OxCAmL 4)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fifth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. (OxCAmL 5)
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Sixth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (OxCAmL 6)
• The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. By Max J. Herzberg. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962. (REnAL)
• Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. (WhAm HS)