Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

Thousands of short American lives — soldiers, inventors, preachers, governors, novelists — each given a paragraph: born where, did what, and why anyone remembered.

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2423 lives in this part of Herringshaw's American Biography, printed on pages 812–911.

Sabin, Alvah – Sayre, Lewis Albert

217 lives · printed pages 812–821

Scales, Alfred Moore – Scurry, Richardson

188 lives · printed pages 821–828

Seabrook, Whitemarsh B – Shaw, William Smith

244 lives · printed pages 828–838

Shea, George – Shutter, Marion Daniel

213 lives · printed pages 838–847

Sibbet, S. D – Smiser, Butler

214 lives · printed pages 847–856

Smith, Abner – Smithson, James

298 lives · printed pages 856–868

Smock, John Conover – Sower, Christopher

102 lives · printed pages 868–873

Spaeth, Adolph – St. Clair, Arthur

257 lives · printed pages 873–884

Stearns, Ashael – St. Martin, Louis

246 lives · printed pages 884–893

Stockard, Henry Jerome – Stryker, William Scudder

230 lives · printed pages 893–903

Stuart, Alexander – Szabad, Emeric

214 lives · printed pages 903–911

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