Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biographies: Bowes and Bigelow Family History

Title	Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biographies
Publisher	edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887- 1889; http://www.famousamericans.net/henryivison/
Source ID	SR75

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"Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. 6 vols. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 was the "most-quoted" biographical source for 19th and early 20th America. Appleton's, due to its age, reflects the bias and prejudice of late 19th Century America. It is also estimated that 100 to 200 of the 35,000 biographies are entirely fictitious. Additionally, the OCR technology used to transfer the text to the web was, at best, only a 99% accurate. We rely on volunteers to edit and update these historic biographies on a continual basis."