Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey.
James Smith, was an American lawyer and a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania.
Stephen Titus Hosmer was an American lawyer and jurist who was the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1815 to 1833.
Isaac William Wiley was an American who distinguished himself as a physician, a Methodist missionary to China, a pastor, as the president of a seminary, as an editor, and as a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.
John Randolph Tucker was an American lawyer, author, and politician from Virginia. From a distinguished slaveholding family, he was elected Virginia's attorney general in 1857 and after re-election served during the American Civil War. After a pardon and Congressional Reconstruction, Tucker was elected as U.S. Congressman (1875-1887), and later served as the first dean of the Washington and Lee University Law School.
Thomas Richard Whitney was a nineteenth-century politician and writer from New York.
Charles Allen Sumner was a U.S. Representative from California.
Frederick William Thomas was an American writer.
John Stuart Skinner was an American lawyer, publisher, and editor.
James Cook Ayer was the wealthiest patent medicine businessman of his day.
Asa Whitney was an American manufacturer, inventor, railroad executive and politician.
Charles Anthony Rapallo was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
George Lunt was an American editor, lawyer, author, and politician. George's ancestor, Henry Lunt, was one of the original settlers of Newbury (1635). His grandfather's exploits with John Paul Jones were chronicled by James Fenimore Cooper.
James Curtis Booth was a United States chemist who was the melter and refiner at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia for many years.
Alice Dalsheimer was an American poet. She published in local newspapers under the pseudonym of Salvia Dale.
Lewis Henry Steiner was a United States physician and librarian.
Robert Empie Rogers was a United States chemist.
John Denison Champlin Jr. was a nonfiction writer and editor from the United States. As an editor, he worked in journalism and graphic arts.
Edward Henry Knight was a United States mechanical expert.
John Howard Appleton was an American chemist.
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Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World. Published between 1887 and 1889, its unsigned articles were widely accepted as authoritative for several decades. Later the encyclopedia became notorious for including dozens of biographies of people who had never existed. The apostrophe in the title is correctly placed and indicates that more than one person, i.e. a company, authored the work.
