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The Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography is a 32-volume collective biographythat was published in irregular intervals from 1914 to 1967 by the Lewis Publishing Company.Virtually all of the biographies identify the subject's date of birth, parents, spouse and children,and some provide extensive genealogical notes.

Although each of the thirty-two volumes in the Encyclopedia is separately indexed, the value ofa cumulative name index to biographies, for the purpose of expediting research in this richsource, seems self-evident. In 1932 a cumulative index to the first twenty volumes of theEncyclopedia, referring to 16,000 names, was published by the Lewis Publishing Company. Noone saw fit to prepare an index to the remaining volumes, however, until 1994 when Walter D.Stock, a professional librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, assembled a 26,000-nameindex to the balance of the series. Both cumulative indexes are published here in one volume forthe convenience of the researcher. In both cases the indexes furnish the name, volume, and pagenumber of every subject of a biography in the Encyclopedia. In this way, the Index constitutes acrucial new finding aid for persons with Pennsylvania ancestry. It will be of great use to themany institutions that already own the Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography. Similarly,researchers who buy the Index but have no access to the Encyclopedia can write to the FreeLibrary of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Attn: Social Science and History Department,Philadelphia, PA 19103, for photocopies of short biographical entries whose subjects theyuncover in a check of the Index. ... Read more

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Profiles of some of America's explorers, statesmen, inventors, naturalists, and suffragettes, explaining how some of these figures are responsible for holidays we now observe. ... Read more

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A massive work--forty years in the making--there's never been a reference book likethis for the state of New Jersey. The 100,000 biographies recorded by Mr. Sinclair, wereextracted from no fewer than 2,000 volumes scattered among collective sources, notsingle-volume biographies. This fact alone establishes this book as the key reference work forNew Jersey biography. It hardly needs to be said that Mr. Sinclair's book will prove to be aninvaluable tool for genealogists given the obvious connection between biography and familyhistory, as well as the fact that a number of the compiler's 237 sources contain not onlybiographies but genealogical sketches. The subject of each entry in the Index is identified by his full name and his years of birth anddeath. Following the subject's name, his biography is cited in abbreviated form, the publicationin which it appears, with volume and page numbers, designated by a code which is displayedwith the list of sources at the front of the book. ... Read more

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A tongue-in-cheek look at love and male-female relationships
An quick-paced, entertaining look at love and male-female relationships down through the ages. The author has been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine since 1929 and has written 51 books in her lifetime. Those who are unfamiliar with her work might also wish to peruse China to Me or Times and Places, two of her autobiographical books. ... Read more

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This book provides a convenient starting point for information about over 13,500 composers living today, deceased since 1950, or born since 1900, regardless of date of death. The new " Volume III" indexes 98 reference works in numerous languages (almost all of them published since the appearance of Volume II). ... Read more

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from a masterful writer
The late Berton Rouche, along with St. Clair McKelway, wrote regular columns for the New Yorker magazine on medical and social issues (McKelway wrote "True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality." Bothhad a genious for lucid non-fiction that seemed stranger than fiction.Highly recommended if a bit (!) dated. ... Read more

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Outlines the contributions of important Jews of the Middle Ages. Includes Anan Ben David, Chasdai Ibn Shaprut, Gershom Ben Judah, and Solomon Ibn Gabirol. ... Read more