American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in
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American Biographical Notes
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Excerpt from American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in Drake's Biographical Dictionaries This volume owes its origin to an accidental circumstance. Nearly twenty years ago, the undersigned had occasion to ascertain the date of death of a person who many years before had been a distinguished citizen of Albany, holding an important public office, and filling a prominent place in social circles in the day id which he lived. All existing biographical collections failed to give the information desired, and an extended course of personal inquiry among aged citizens of Albany elicited nothing but this, that while all remembered the fact that he had lived, none could give the slightest information as to when or where he died. At length a man was found who thought, that by looking in the files of a newspaper, published some forty years before, the date desired might be found, and accordingly, after a lengthy search, it was discovered, but several years earlier than the year which the informant had indicated. Now this incident must have bad its parallel in the experience of every one who has had occasion to find obituary dates. It impressed upon the writer the importance of saving, in form for convenient reference, these dates scattered all along the course of passing time, and daily coming under our notice to be read, laid aside and forgotten. Accordingly at leisure moments, those passing facts, with a brief note, and often a reference, were written down upon slips of paper of uniform size, and kept in alphabetical order until the practice became a habit; and the collection extended to several thousand in number, without the slightest thought of its ever being used by any one but the writer. These abstracts were carried through several series of magazines and scientific periodicals, and through many volumes that came within our range of reading, without professing to be exhaustive in any case A.
Excerpt from American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in Drake's Biographical Dictionaries This volume owes its origin to an accidental circumstance. Nearly twenty years ago, the undersigned had occasion to ascertain the date of death of a person who many years before had been a distinguished citizen of Albany, holding an important public office, and filling a prominent place in social circles in the day id which he lived. All existing biographical collections failed to give the information desired, and an extended course of personal inquiry among aged citizens of Albany elicited nothing but this, that while all remembered the fact that he had lived, none could give the slightest information as to when or where he died. At length a man was found who thought, that by looking in the files of a newspaper, published some forty years before, the date desired might be found, and accordingly, after a lengthy search, it was discovered, but several years earlier than the year which the informant had indicated. Now this incident must have bad its parallel in the experience of every one who has had occasion to find obituary dates. It impressed upon the writer the importance of saving, in form for convenient reference, these dates scattered all along the course of passing time, and daily coming under our notice to be read, laid aside and forgotten. Accordingly at leisure moments, those passing facts, with a brief note, and often a reference, were written down upon slips of paper of uniform size, and kept in alphabetical order until the practice became a habit; and the collection extended to several thousand in number, without the slightest thought of its ever being used by any one but the writer. These abstracts were carried through several series of magazines and scientific periodicals, and through many volumes that came within our range of reading, without professing to be exhaustive in any case A.
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American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in
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Franklin B. Hough, Books, Reference and Language, American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in, American Biographical Notes: Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in Drake's Biogra.
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