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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 1994
An index to 368 English-language biographical dictionaries, the ABI provides A-to-Z access to information about roughly 250,000 North Americans from all walks of life who flourished from Columbian times to the early 20th century. Most of the sources indexed were published in the 19th century, and many are now quite rare, e.g., Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons (1873). In addition, a fair number of these sources are limited to people prominent at the state level, e.g., Sketches of New Hampshire Men (1882). Hence, ABI covers not only "the lives of the great...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
