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The Columbian Plutarch; or, An exemplification of several distinguished American characters   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Woodward, Thomas
Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853
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Title
The Columbian Plutarch; or, An exemplification of several distinguished American characters
Publisher
Philadelphia, Printed for the author, by Clark & Raser
Description
"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

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Language eng
Publication date 1819
publication_date QS:P577,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: library_of_congress; americana
Accession number
columbianplutarc00wood
Notes this book ahs some tight guuted pages and there are alot of pages that have the text in the gutter like 77,76,85,86,50-55,113,137,226,227.
Authority file  OCLC: 1042105177
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https://archive.org/download/columbianplutarc00wood/columbianplutarc00wood.pdf

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