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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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biography

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

Strakosch, Maurice and Max (brothers)

Maurice and Max Strakosch were brothers who emigrated from Austria. Their connection to the Pfaff's circle is tenuous; only two known sources tie them to Pfaff's directly.