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Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, Pickering-Sumter

Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, Pickering-Sumter. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888.
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People Mentioned in this Work

Poe, Edgar [pages:44-46, 44(ill.)]
Raymond, Henry [pages:192-193(ill.)]
Roosa, Daniel [pages:317]
Savage, John [pages:406]
Seymour, Charles [pages:475]
Shanly (Shanley), Charles [pages:481]
Shattuck, Aaron [pages:103, 484]

Mentions that Robert M. Pratt painted his portrait in 1859.

Shaw, Henry [pages:485(ill.)]

Under Henry Wheeler Shaw

Shepherd, Nathaniel [pages:495]

Brief biographical information for Shepherd including his role as a war correspondent, poet, and teacher.

Sothern, Edward [pages:608(ill.)]
Stedman, Edmund [pages:658(ill.)]
Stoddard, Elizabeth [pages:697]
Stoddard, Richard [pages:697(ill.)]
Strakosch, Maurice and Max (brothers) [pages:716]

"His piano compositions were once very popular, among them the music of one of Bayard Taylor's songs" (716).

MENTIONED IN - Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, Pickering-Sumter

Poe, Edgar

Often credited with inspiring the Pfaff's Bohemians, Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the army on May 26, 1827 under the name Edgar A. Perry.

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