The Columbian Plutarch
Subtitle: or, An exemplification of several distinguished American characters .
Contributors: Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853.
Publisher: Printed for the author, by Clark & Raser
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: United States -- Biography
Notes: "For the biographical memoirs contained in this collection, the author is principally indebted to Dr. Rees' Cyclopaedia, Allen's Biographical dictionary, and Delaplaine's Repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished American characters." - Introd.  Of the nine lives from Delaplaine's Repository, at least six were written by Charles Caldwell.  Cf. his Autobiography, Philadelphia, 1855, p. 274, 431-432.
Includes lives of the naturalist John Bartram and the physicians David Ramsay and Benjamin Rush, the latter adapted from Caldwell.