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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century

ADAMS, FRANCIS COLBURN, author, was born in 1850. He was a writer of Charleston, S. C., and wrote under various pseudonyms. He was the author of Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; Our World, or the Democrats' Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; and The Von Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family.

Name: Francis Colburn Adams
Birth Year: 1850
Death Year: 1891
Title: Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement; The Bibliophile Dictionary; Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern; A Dictionary of American Authors; A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950
Title Pen: 0014; 0170; 0235; 0237; 0881; 1139
Title Code: Alli SUP; BbD; BiDSA; BiD&SB; DcAmAu; DcNAA
Accession Number: 21217 Source:

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
The Bibliophile Dictionary. A biographical record of the great authors, with bibliographical notices of their principal works from the beginning of history. Originally published as Volumes 29 and 30 of The Bibliophile Library of Literature, Art, and Rare Manuscripts. Compiled and arranged by Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, and Caroline Ticknor. New York: International Bibliophile Society, 1904. (BbD)
Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors. Compiled by Lucian Lamar Knight. Atlanta: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1929. Originally published as Library of Southern Literature, Volume 15, Biographical Dictionary of Authors. (BiDSA)
Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern. Edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1902. (BiD&SB)
A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA)