Title: Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography
Description: This book is Vol. 5 of the 6 volume set, Pickering - Sumter.   It is a compendium of short biographies  of noteworthy people in American History, laid out in alphabetical order using the person's surname.  Some entries have references of parentage and decendents within them.
Subjects: Dictionaries, Biography
Places: North America, United States, South America