Jules Marcou was a French, Swiss and American geologist.
Augustus Addison Gould was an American conchologist and malacologist.
Charles Russell Lowell Sr. was a Unitarian minister and a son of judge John Lowell.
John Phillips was an American politician, serving as the first mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1822 to 1823. He was the father of abolitionist Wendell Phillips.
John Lowell Jr. was an American lawyer and notable member of the Federalist Party in the early days of the United States of America.
James Fitton was an American Catholic priest and missionary, active in New England.
Theodore Chickering Williams was an American Unitarian pastor and hymnwriter.
Thomas Edward Chickering was a piano manufacturer and soldier.
The 41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Charles Hale (1831–1882) of Boston was a legislator in the Massachusetts state House and Senate intermittently between 1855 and 1877. He was Speaker of the House in 1859. In the 1860s he lived in Cairo, Egypt, as the American consul-general. From 1872 to 1873 he worked as United States Assistant Secretary of State under Hamilton Fish.
William Russell was an educator and elocutionist. He was formally educated in the Latin school and in the university of Glasgow; and, he came to the USA in 1819, wherein that year, he took charge of Chatham Academy in Savannah, Georgia. He moved to New Haven, Connecticut, a few years later, and there he taught in the New Township Academy and also in the Hopkins Grammar School. He then devoted himself to the instruction of classes in elocution in Andover, Harvard, and Boston, Massachusetts. He edited the American Journal of Education 1826-1829. In 1830, he taught in a girls' school in Germantown, Pennsylvania, for a time with Bronson Alcott. He resumed his elocution classes in Boston and Andover in 1838, and he lectured extensively in New England and in New York State. He established a teachers' institute in New Hampshire in 1849, which he then moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1853. His subsequent life was devoted to lecturing, for the most part, before the Massachusetts teachers' institutes, under the guidance and instruction of the state board of education.
Sylvester Rosa Koehler was a German-born American author and museum curator. He was the first curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Alfred T. Ordway was an American landscape and portrait painter, and one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.
Cyrus Wakefield was a manufacturer of rattan furniture and carriage bodies, and the founder of the Wakefield Rattan Company, the largest manufacturer at the time of rattan products. Wakefield, Massachusetts is named for him.
Ephraim Peabody was a Unitarian clergyman from the United States.
Cyrus Alger was a United States arms manufacturer and inventor.
Richard Green Parker was a United States educator and a history and textbook writer.
Nathaniel Thayer was a United States financier, philanthropist, and the father of John Eliot Thayer, an amateur ornithologist.
Francis Samuel Drake was a United States historian. His Dictionary of American Biography was a precursor of, and incorporated into, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.
James Grant Wilson was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the Chicago Record in 1857, the first literary paper in that region. During the American Civil War, he served as a colonel in the Union Army. In recognition of his service, in 1867, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment as a brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865. He settled in New York, where he edited biographies and histories, was a public speaker, and served as president of the Society of American Authors and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
John Fiske was an American philosopher and historian.
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.
