Biography A - K             Biography L - Z

Donald Lambert

• An Album Devoted to the Post-9/11 Airport (The New York Times, January 18, 2004)
  Includes a review of Lambert's "Recorded 1959-1961" on CD.
• Donald Lambert (Scott Yanow, Artistdirect.com)
• Donald Lambert (Wikipedia)
• Donald Lambert, 1904-1962 (BLUE BLACK jazz)
• Donald Lambert, 1904-1962 (Princeton Cemetery, Nassau Presbyterian Church)
• Donald Lambert: Anitra's Dance (Jazz.com)
• Donald Lambert - Giant Stride (Meshes of the Afternoon)
• Donald Lambert: Recorded 1959-1961 (Storyville Records)
• The Lion, The Lamb & Eubie Blake at Newport '60 (Agustín Pérez, Mule Walk & Jazz Talk)
  Includes links to three YouTube videos featuring Donald Lambert.
• Portraits from Jelly Roll's Later Travels, April 1923 to 1941 (Peter Hanley)
  FIND lambert to read about Eubie Blake's reaction to Donald Lambert's performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1960.

Mary Elizabeth (Green) Libbey

• Mary Elizabeth (Green) Libbey (Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide; v. 1, 1917)
• Princeton Cemetery Gravemarker Photo (DistantCousin.com)

William Libbey

• Princeton Cemetery Gravemarker Photo (DistantCousin.com)
• William Libbey (Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide; v. 1, 1917)

Walter Lowrie

• Biographical Sketch (Walter Lowrie Papers, Princeton University Library)
• Princeton Cemetery Gravemarker Photo (DistantCousin.com)

John Maclean, Sr.

• History of Medicine in New Jersey and of its Medical Men.... (Stephen Wickes; 1879)
• A Memoir of John Maclean, M.D., the First Professor of Chemistry in the College of New Jersey (John Maclean; 1876)

John Maclean, Jr.

• Discourse Delivered at the Funeral of John Maclean.... (John T. Duffield; 1887?)
• John Maclean, Jr., 1854–68 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• John MacLean to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, December 20, 1864 (Honorary degree from Princeton)
• Maclean, John, Jr. (A Princeton Companion)

William F. Magie

• Magie, William Francis (The National Cyclopaedia of American Bibliography; v. 12, 1904 )
• Magie, William Francis (A Princeton Companion)
• Magie-Hodge [Marriage Announcement] (The New York Times, June 3, 1894)
• Professor William F. Magie and the Discovery of the Flouroscope, 1896 (Alan E. Oestreich, American Journal of Roentgenology; v. 165, November, 1995)

Capt. John H. Margerum

• Capt. John H. Margerum (Find A Grave)  [ Princeton's Flag Man ]
• Capt. John H. Margerum, 1830-1904 (Princeton Cemetery)
• [The national flag....] (John F. Hageman, History of Princeton and its Institutions; v.1, 1879)

Allan Marquand

• History (Princeton University Art Museum)
• Marquand, Allan (A Princeton Companion)
• Marquand Logic Machine (IBM)

Dean Mathey

• College History (Mathey College, Princeton University)
• Mathey, Dean (A Princeton Companion)
• Windham Foundation (History)

Helen Mathey

• Miss Helen Monypeny Newsom (Encyclopedia Titanica)
• "Mrs. Dean Mathey, Titanic Survivor, 72" [Obituary] (Encyclopedia Titanica)

James McCosh

• James McCosh, 1868-88 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• "James McCosh, President of Princeton College"  (The Century; February, 1887)
• The Life of James McCosh: A Record Chiefly Autobiographical (1897)
• McCosh, James (A Princeton Companion)
• The Princeton College Bulletin: McCosh Memorial Number (February, 1895)

Samuel Miller

• A Discourse Commemorative of the...Late Rev. Samuel Miller.... (H.A. Boardman; 1850)
• "The Intellectual Life of Samuel Miller...." (John De Witt)
  An article published in The Princeton Theological Review, April, 1906.
• The Life of Samuel Miller, D. D., LL. D., Second Professor in the Theological Seminary.... (Samuel Miller; 1869)
• Manuscript Group 879, Samuel Miller (The New Jersey Historical Society)
• Samuel Miller, 1769-1850 (Dickinson College)
• Samuel Miller, D.D., 1769-1850 (Princeton Cemetery, Nassau Presbyterian Church)

James Clement Moffat

• James Clement Moffat (Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography; v. 4, 1888 )

James Ormsbee Murray

• Murray, James Ormsbee (A Princeton Companion)
• Princeton Cemetery Gravemarker Photo (DistantCousin.com)
• Rev. Dr. James Ormsbee Murray (The New York Times; March 28, 1899)

John Nash, Jr.

• A Brilliant Madness (American Experience,  PBS)
• John F. Nash, Jr. (Nobelprize.org)
• John Nash (Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library,  Princeton University)

John O'Hara

• John Henry O'Hara (Find A Grave)
• John O'Hara (David Levine Gallery, The New York Review of Books)
• "John O'Hara's Protectorate"
  Article by Benjamin and Christina Schwarz in The Atlantic Monthly, March, 2000.
• John O'Hara's Study at Penn State (Penn State Special Collections Library)

Charles S. Olden

• The Governors of New Jersey 1664-1974: Biographical Essays [PDF format]
• [Portrait]  [PDF format]

Charles G. Osgood

• Osgood, Charles Grosvenor (A Princeton Companion)

Francis L. Patton

• Francis L. Patton, 1888-1902 (The Presidents of Princeton University)

Frances (Folsom) Cleveland Preston

• The Bride of the White House (Francis Howard Williams; 1886)
• By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies....  (American Memory)
• Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston (National First Ladies' Library)
• Frances Folsom Cleveland (Find A Grave)
• Frances Folsom Cleveland (The White House)
• Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston (Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide; v. 2, 1919)

Prime

• An Act for Setting Free Negro Prime
• Petition of Prime for Manumission (1786)

Roger Atkinson Pryor

• Birthplace of Roger Atkinson Pryor (The Historical Marker Database)
• Pryor, Roger Atkinson, 1828-1919 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)
• Roger Atkinson Pryor (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; v.5, 1888)
• Roger Atkinson Pryor (Find A Grave)
• Roger Atkinson Pryor, 1828-1919 (Confederate Officers Photograph Album)

Sarah Agnes Pryor

• Mrs. Roger A. Pryor [Photograph]
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life (1909)
• Sarah Agnes Rice Pryor (Find A Grave)

Moses Taylor Pyne

• M. Taylor Pyne (Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide; v. 1, 1917)
• Moses Taylor Pyne (Francis Bazley Lee, Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey; v.2, 1907)
• Moses Taylor Pyne (The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record; v. 53, 1922)
• Pyne, Moses Taylor (A Princeton Companion)

Paul Robeson

• Paul Robeson on the Web

Julia (Stockton) Rush

• Julia Stockton Rush (Elizabeth F. Ellet, The Women of the American Revolution; v. 3, 1856)

Henry Norris Russell

• Henry Norris Russell (The Bruce Medalists, Sonoma State University)

William Berryman Scott

• Biographical Memoir of William Berryman Scott, 1858-1947 (National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs; v. 25, 1948?)
• Scott, William Berryman (A Princeton Companion)
• William Berryman Scott (Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University)
• William Berryman Scott, 1858-1947 (Lefalophodon)

William E. D. Scott

• The Story of a Bird Lover (1903) [ Another copy ]

Charles Woodruff Shields

• A Sermon, Memorial of the Reverend Charles Woodruff Shields.... (Henry C. Potter, 1905)

William Milligan Sloane

• Princeton Cemetery Gravemarker Photo (DistantCousin.com)
• William Milligan Sloane (Wikipedia)

Samuel S. Smith

• Samuel S. Smith, 1795-1812 (The Presidents of Princeton University)

Lyman Spitzer, Jr.

• Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (John H. Bahcall & Jeremiah P. Ostriker)
  Article from Physics Today, vol. 50, no. 10 (October, 1997), p. 123-124.
• Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (Spitzer Space Telescope)
• Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Dies at 82; Inspired Hubble Telescope (The New York Times, April 2, 1997)

Annis Boudinot Stockton

• Annis Boudinot Stockton (Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green, The Pioneer Mothers of America; v. 3, 1912)
• Annis Stockton (Elizabeth F. Ellet, The Women of the American Revolution; v. 3, 1856)
• A Brief History (Morven Museum & Garden)
• George Washington to Annis B. Stockton, September 2, 1783   (American Memory)
• George Washington to Annis B. Stockton, June 30, 1787   (American Memory)
• George Washington to Annis Boudinot Stockton, 31 August 1788   (The Papers of George Washington)
• "An Invitation Ode to a Young Lady in New York From Her Friend in the Country" (New Jersey Women's History)
• Manuscript Group 1221, Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801), Poet (The New Jersey Historical Society)

Elizabeth (Betsey) Stockton

• Betsey Stockton (Moody Radio of Hilo)
• Betsey Stockton (Wikipedia)
• Betsey Stockton's Journal, November 20, 1822–July 4, 1823 (AARDOC)
  Includes significant biographical and bibliographical information.
• Christian Missionaries of African Heritage
• Early African American Missionaries (Day Missions Library, Yale University)
  A Powerpoint presentation.
• Green, Ashbel. The Life of Ashbel Green, V. D. M. (1849)
• The Harmonies of Struggle and Liberty
  The African American experience at Princeton Theological Seminary, from the Summer, 1998, issue of inSpire. The fourth page of the article has a section on Betsey Stockton.
• The History of the African American Community in Princeton: Noted Princeton African Americans (PULSE, Princeton High School)
  Includes a portrait of Betsey Stockton.
• Stewart, C. S.   A Residence in the Sandwich Islands (1839) [ Another copy ]
  The complete book chronicling the Rev. C. S. Stewart's, and Betsey Stockton's, time in Hawaii.  In the text, she is referred to as B--------.
• Stewart, C. S.  A Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes...1829 and 1830 (1831)
  Page 159 talks about Hawaiian memories of Betsey Stockton's service.
• Stockton, Betsey (BlackPast.org)
• Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church (New Jersey Women's History)

John Potter Stockton

• Stockton, John Potter, 1826-1900 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

Richard Stockton, 1730-1781 (The Signer)

• Richard Stockton (Find A Grave)
• Richard Stockton (Signers of the Declaration, National Park Service)
• Richard Stockton, 1730-1781 (Stockton Family Historical Trust)
• Richard Stockton, 1730-1781 (ushistory.org)
• Stockton, Richard (A Princeton Companion)
• Stockton, Richard, 1730-1781 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

Richard Stockton, 1764-1828

• Stockton, Richard, 1764-1828 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

Robert Field Stockton

• Captain Robert F. Stockton, USN, 1795-1866 (Naval Historical Center)
• Robert Field Stockton (Find A Grave)
• A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton (Samuel John Bayard; 1856) [ Another copy ]
• Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

John Renshaw Thomson

• John Renshaw Thomson (Find A Grave)
• Thomson, John Renshaw, 1800-1862 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

Paul Tulane

• Paul Tulane (Find A Grave)
• Paul Tulane (Laura C. Holloway, Famous American Fortunes....; 1885 )
• Paul Tulane, 1801-1887 (Princeton Cemetery, Nassau Presbyterian Church)
• Tulane University History

Louisa C. Tuthill

• Defining Her Life: Household Management (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Department)
• Louisa C. Tuthill (John Seely Hart, The Female Prose Writers of America; 1866)
• Mrs. Louisa C. Tuthill (John F. Hageman, History of Princeton and its Institutions; v.2, 1879)

Henry Van Dyke

• Henry Jackson van Dyke, 1852-1933 (The Cyber Hymnal)
• Henry Van Dyke (Find A Grave)
• "Henry Van Dyke: Another 'Wise Man'" (James H. Smylie, The Presbyterian Outlook)
• Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D. (Traveling Culture, U. Iowa Libraries)  [ Second broadside ]
• Selected Poetry of Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933 (Representative Poetry Online)
• van Dyke, Henry (A Princeton Companion)

James Vandeventer

• Sarah Maria Van Doren (A. Vam Doren Honeyman, The Van Doorn Family... in Holland and America, 1088-1908; 1909)

John von Neumann

• John Louis von Neumann (The History of Computing)
• John von Neumann, 1903-1957 (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
• John von Neumann, 1903-1957 (National Academy of Sciences)
• von Neumann, John (A Princeton Companion)

Canvass White

• Canvas White (Find A Grave)
• Canvass White (History of the Erie Canal, University of Rochester Dept. of History)
• Portrait of Canvass White (N.B. Sylvester, History of Saratoga County, New York; 1878)
• The Erie Canal: America's First Concrete Classroom (Luke M. and Billie G. Snell)

Jesse Lynch Williams

• 1918 Winners (The Pulitzer Prizes)
• K. C. Yacio's Theatre 61113 Project
• "A (Very) Brief History of PAW on the Occasion of its 100th Anniversary"
  Article by J. R. Merritt, Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 5, 2000.
• Williams, Jesse Lynch (A Princeton Companion)

Woodrow Wilson

• American Experience: Woodrow Wilson (PBS)
• Colonel David M. Flynn Takes Part in Tribute to Hon. Woodrow Wilson (The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society; v. 12, 1913)
• [Portraits] (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Wilson, Woodrow (A Princeton Companion)
• Woodrow Wilson (POTUS: Presidents of the United States)
• Woodrow Wilson (The White House)
• Woodrow Wilson, 1902-10 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• Woodrow Wilson House
• The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library

Elizabeth (Montgomery) Witherspoon

• Elizabeth Montgomery Witherspoon (Elizabeth F. Ellet, The Women of the American Revolution; v. 3, 1856)

John Witherspoon

• Dr. John Witherspoon (Significant Scots)
• John Witherspoon (Find A Grave)
• John Witherspoon, 1723-1794 (Famous Scots)
• John Witherspoon, 1723-1794 (ushistory.org)
• John Witherspoon, 1768-94 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• Religion and the American Revolution (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic)
• Witherspoon, John (A Princeton Companion)
• Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

Alfred Alexander Woodhull, 1810-1836

• Alfred Alexander Woodhull, 1810-1836 (The Cyber Hymnal)
• Biographical Sketch XXVII. (Mary Gould Woodhull, Woodhull Genealogy; 1904)

Alfred Alexander Woodhull, 1837-1921

• Biographical Sketch XL. (Mary Gould Woodhull, Woodhull Genealogy; 1904)

Bruce M. Wright

• African Americans and Princeton University: A History in Brief (Tad Bennicoff, Seeley G. Mudd Library)  [second paragraph]
• Bruce McM. Wright, Erudite Judge Whose Bail Rulings Caused an Uproar, Dies at 86 (Robert D. McFadden)
  The New York Times, March 26, 2005.
• Bruce Wright: Off the Bench but on the Case (Corey Kilgannon)
  The New York Times, September 17, 1995.
• NLG Friend Judge Bruce M. Wright Dies at 86 (Michael Steven Smith)
  The obituary is on page 7 of the Fall, 2005, New York City News of the National Lawyers Guild.
• Princeton Honors Ex-Judge Once Turned Away for Race (Karen W. Arenson)
  The New York Times, June 5, 2001.

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Last revised: December 4 , 2010