Author talk:Leonard Bacon (1802-1881)

Sources

Name: Leonard Bacon
Birth - Death: 1802-1881
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• 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)
• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
• 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 Biographies. By Wheeler Preston. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. (AmBi)
• Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB)
• Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern. Edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1902. (BiD&SB)
• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 11: September, 1976-August, 1979. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1980. (BioIn 11)
• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 17: September, 1990-August, 1992. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1992. (BioIn 17)
• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 19: September, 1993-August, 1994. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1994. (BioIn 19)
• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 24: September, 1998-August, 1999. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1999. (BioIn 24)
• Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 25: September, 1999-August, 2000. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 2000. (BioIn 25)
• 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)
• Dictionary of American Religious Biography. First edition. By Henry Warner Bowden. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. (DcAmReB 1)
• Dictionary of American Religious Biography. Second edition. By Henry Warner Bowden. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. (DcAmReB 2)
• A Dictionary of American Social Reform. By Louis Filler. New York: Philosophical Library, 1963. (DcAmSR)
• Dictionary of American Temperance Biography. From Temperance Reform to Alcohol Research, the 1600s to the 1980s. By Mark Edward Lender. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. (DcAmTB)
• Dictionary of English Literature. Being a comprehensive guide to English authors and their works. Second edition. By W. Davenport Adams. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, . (DcEnL)
• 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)
• Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics. Edited by Jeffrey D. Schultz, John G. West, Jr., and Iain Maclean. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999. (EncRelA)
• Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History: From 458 A.D. to 1915. New edition entirely revised and enlarged. 10 volumes. By Benson John Lossing. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1915. (HarEnUS)
• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 1. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 1)
• Notable American Philanthropists. Biographies of giving and volunteering. Edited by Robert T. Grimm, Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Use the Index to locate biographies.(NotAP) Biography contains portrait.
• Ohio Authors and Their Books. Biographical data and selective bibliographies for Ohio authors, native and resident, 1796-1950. Edited by William Coyle. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1962. (OhA&B)
• The Poets of the Church. A series of biographical sketches of hymn- writers with notes on their hymns. By Edwin F. Hatfield. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1884. (PoChrch)
• The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA)
• 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)
• Who Was Who in American Politics. A biographical dictionary of over 4,000 men and women who contributed to the United States political scene from colonial days up to and including the immediate past. By Dan and Inez Morris. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974. (WhAmP)
• The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. Edited by John S. Bowman. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (CamDcAB)
• American National Biography. 24 volumes. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (AmNatBi)