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| Title | Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 5 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, James Grant Wilson |
| Editors | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1900 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jun 30, 2007 |
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