DOI Kapitel:
[Katalog] 19. Jahrhundert
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.70035#0546
1881-1890
Kat. 186
James Grant Wilson (1832-1914) und John Fiske (1842-1901)
Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography
New York: D. Appleton and Company
1887-1889
8°; 6 Bde., jeweils mit Porträt-Frontispiz (Stahlst.), insgesamt 55 Porträttaf. (Stahlst.) u. 1960
Ill. (Holzst.) im Text, davon 1633 Porträts mit Autografen, davon 33 Künstlerporträts
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München (21888)
Weitere Aufl. u.Ausg.: New York: D. Appleton and Company 1888,1894,1898-1901 (durchges.,
erw., auch um einen Supplement-Bd.)
Literatur
John Hendley Barnhart: Some Fictitious Botanists, in: Journal of the New York Botanical Garden
20 (1919), Nr. 237, S. 171-181. - John Blythe Dobson: The Spurious Articles in Appleton's Cy-
clopaedia of American Biography. Some New Discoveries and Considerations, in: Biography 16
(1993), Nr. 4, S. 388-408. - Margaret Castle Schindler: Fictitious Biography, in: The American
Historical Review 42 (1937), Nr. 4, S. 680-690.
Taf. 186: Henry Hobson Ri-
chardson, in: Wilson und Fiske:
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia, Bd. 5,
1888, S.241
poor of New York and Brooklyn.
RICHARDSON, Henry Hobson, architect, b.
in Priestley’s Point, St. James parish, La., 29
Sept., 1838; <1. in Brookline, Mass., 28 April, 1886.
His father, Henry D. Richardson, was a planter of
American birth,
but his earlier
ancestors were
Scotchmen, who
had moved to
England before
the family came
to this country.
His mother was
Catherine Caro-
line Priestley, a
granddaughter of
Dr. J oseph Priest-
ley. He was at
first intended for
West Point and
the army, but the —.
death of his father A/ // A) ‘ /
changed his plans, /(/, Al . J
and he was gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1859. His college career was
not remarkable for proficiency or promise, but after
539
Kat. 186
James Grant Wilson (1832-1914) und John Fiske (1842-1901)
Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography
New York: D. Appleton and Company
1887-1889
8°; 6 Bde., jeweils mit Porträt-Frontispiz (Stahlst.), insgesamt 55 Porträttaf. (Stahlst.) u. 1960
Ill. (Holzst.) im Text, davon 1633 Porträts mit Autografen, davon 33 Künstlerporträts
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München (21888)
Weitere Aufl. u.Ausg.: New York: D. Appleton and Company 1888,1894,1898-1901 (durchges.,
erw., auch um einen Supplement-Bd.)
Literatur
John Hendley Barnhart: Some Fictitious Botanists, in: Journal of the New York Botanical Garden
20 (1919), Nr. 237, S. 171-181. - John Blythe Dobson: The Spurious Articles in Appleton's Cy-
clopaedia of American Biography. Some New Discoveries and Considerations, in: Biography 16
(1993), Nr. 4, S. 388-408. - Margaret Castle Schindler: Fictitious Biography, in: The American
Historical Review 42 (1937), Nr. 4, S. 680-690.
Taf. 186: Henry Hobson Ri-
chardson, in: Wilson und Fiske:
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia, Bd. 5,
1888, S.241
poor of New York and Brooklyn.
RICHARDSON, Henry Hobson, architect, b.
in Priestley’s Point, St. James parish, La., 29
Sept., 1838; <1. in Brookline, Mass., 28 April, 1886.
His father, Henry D. Richardson, was a planter of
American birth,
but his earlier
ancestors were
Scotchmen, who
had moved to
England before
the family came
to this country.
His mother was
Catherine Caro-
line Priestley, a
granddaughter of
Dr. J oseph Priest-
ley. He was at
first intended for
West Point and
the army, but the —.
death of his father A/ // A) ‘ /
changed his plans, /(/, Al . J
and he was gradu-
ated at Harvard in 1859. His college career was
not remarkable for proficiency or promise, but after
539