Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Preface (supplement)
PREFACE.
In this volume will be found nearly two thousand notices of Americans of the
army and navy who won renown in the recent war with Spain and the Philippine
Islands, also of persons of the New World who have in various ways become
prominent in the peaceful activities of life during the decade that has passed since
the first appearance of “Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography,” in six
octavo volumes. In this new volume is included complete lists of Pen-names,
Nicknames, and Sobriquets mentioned in the complete work; also of persons who
have died ainoe the publication of the original six volumes in 1887-'8, together
with lists of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, of the Presidents of
the Continental Congress and of the Congress of the Confederation, 1775-'88,
and of the Presidents of the United States, Vice-Presidents, and Cabinet officers
from the adoption of the Constitution to the year 1900. This additional volume
includes an exhaustive Index, and numerous small portraits, executed by the same
skilful artist who, through his fifteen hundred admirable vignettes, added so much
to the value of the original work, together with twelve full-page steel portraits
and other illustrations.
- New York, December, 1899.