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Archibald Alexander

• Archibald Alexander (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography)
• Archibald Alexander, 1772-1851 (Princeton Cemetery, Nassau Presbyterian Church)
• "Archibald Alexander: First Professor of Princeton Theological Seminary" (John Van Der Brink)
• The Life of Archibald Alexander.... (James W. Alexander; 1870)  [ Another copy ]

James Waddell Alexander

• Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander....  Edited by the surviving correspondent, John Hall.  (2 v.; 1860)  [ Volume 2 ]  [ Another copy; volume 2 ]
• Sermons... at the "Memorial Services," October 9, 1859 (Charles Hodge & John Hall; 1859)

William Alexander

• William Alexander, 1848-1937 (The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity)

Lyman H. Atwater

• "The Rev. Lyman H. Atwater" (The New York Times, Feb. 18, 1883)

Commodore William Bainbridge

• Bainbridge, William (The Columbia Encyclopedia)
• Commodore Bainbridge: From the Gunroom to the Quarter-Deck (James Barnes; 1912)
• Commodore William Bainbridge (Surface Navy Association Hall of Fame)
• Congressional Gold Medal Recipient William Bainbridge
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
• The Life and Services of Commodore William Bainbridge, United States Navy (Thomas Harris; 1837)
• Our Countrymen (Benson J. Lossing; 1855)
• Selected Naval Documents: USS Constitution (Naval Historical Center)
• William Bainbridge (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography)

Hobart (Hobey) A. H. Baker

• Baker Memorial Rink (A Princeton Companion)
• Hobey Baker (Wikipedia)
• Hobey Baker: The Legend Lives On (Bill Esposito; HobeyBaker.com)

George Dashiell Bayard

• Find A Grave
• George Dashiell Bayard (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography)
• The Life of George Dashiell Bayard.... (Samuel J. Bayard; 1874)
• Pictures of George Dashiell Bayard (The Generals of the American Civil War)

Samuel Bayard

• Bayard, Samuel (A Princeton Companion)
• Samuel Bayard (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography)

Sylvia Beach

• Find A Grave
• Sylvia Beach, 1887-1962 (Centre County [PA] History)
• Sylvia Beach [Drawing]  (David Levine)
• The Sylvia Beach Collection Princeton University Library  [ Image portfolio ]

Erkuries Beatty

• Erkuries Beatty, or Beattie (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography)
• Journal of Lieut. Erkuries Beatty, of the 4th Penn. Line (1779)  [ Portrait ]
• Replies: Erkuries Beatty (John B. Linn in The Magazine of American History; 1878)

Jonathan Belcher

• Belcher, Jonathan (A Princeton Companion)
• The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays  [ Portrait ]

Elias Boudinot

• Elias Boudinot (Burlington City, NJ)
• Elias Boudinot (Donald W. Whisenhunt; 1975)
  Pamphlet 18 in the series New Jersey's Revolutionary Experience.
• Elias Boudinot (St. Mary's Churchyard)  [ Grave photo ]
• Elias Boudinot (Stanley L. Klos, Virtualology.com)
• Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)
• The Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot.... (1896) [ Volume 2 ]
• The Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot.... (Book review in Atlantic Monthly; 1896)
• The Thanksgiving Proclamation (Papers of George Washington)

Cyrus Fogg Brackett

• 1859: Cyrus Fogg Brackett (Nehemiah Cleaveland, History of Bowdoin College with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates; 1882)
• Brackett, Cyrus Fogg (A Princeton Companion)

Margaret Breckinridge, 1802-1838

• Margaret Breckinridge (1802 - 1838)
• A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge (1839)

Margaret E. Breckinridge

• Woman's Work in the Civil War.... (L. P. Brockett & Mary C. Vaughan; 1867)
  [ Portrait ]

Charles Browne

• Browne, Charles, 1875-1947 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)

Aaron Burr, Sr.

• Aaron Burr, Sr (Find A Grave)
• Aaron Burr, Sr., 1748-57 (The Presidents of Princeton University )
• Burr, Aaron, Sr. (A Princeton Companion)
• Aaron Burr (Virtualology.com)

Aaron Burr, Jr.

• Aaron Burr (Historic Valley Forge)
• Aaron Burr, Jr (Find A Grave)
• Aaron Burr: More than Just a Disgraced Duelist (New Jersey Historical Society)
• Burr, Aaron (Encyclopedia Americana)
• Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)
• Burr, Aaron, Jr. (A Princeton Companion)
• The Duel (American Experience, PBS)
• Hamilton-Burr Duel, July 11, 1804-July 11, 2004
• Indicted Vice President Bids Senate Farewell (U.S. Senate Historical Minute Essays)
• Life of Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States (Charles Burr Todd; 1879)
• Memoirs of Aaron Burr with Miscellaneous Selections from his Correspondence (2 v.; 1836)  [Another copy: Volume 1 - Volume 2]
• The Private Journal of Aaron Burr During His Residence of Four Years in Europe (1838; volume 2)

Esther (Edwards) Burr

• "The Wooing of Esther Edwards" (Mary Caroline Crawford, The Romance of Old New England Churches; 1903 )

James Carnahan

• "Dr. James Carnahan" (Jacob Harris Patton, A Popular History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; 1900)
• The Presidents of Princeton University

Grover Cleveland

• 1908: Gruff Old Grover (Jon Blackwell, The Trentonian)
• Cleveland, Grover (Encyclopedia Americana)
• Cleveland, Grover (A Princeton Companion)
• Grover Cleveland (Find A Grave)
• Grover Cleveland (National Parks Service)
• Grover Cleveland (POTUS: Presidents of the United States)
• Grover Cleveland (Virtualology.com)
• Grover Cleveland (The White House)
• Grover Cleveland: A Record of Friendship (Richard Watson Gilder; 1910)
• Mr. Cleveland: A Personal Impression (Jesse Lynch Williams; 1909)
• Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present  (Library of Congress)

Ruth Cleveland

• Baby Ruth (Urban Legends Reference Pages)
• Grover Cleveland: Baby Ruth's Final Illness (Doctor Zebra)
• Ruth Cleveland (Find A Grave)

Varnum Lansing Collins

• Collins, Varnum Lansing (A Princeton Companion)
• Varnum Lansing Collins (Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide; v.2, 1919)

Thomas Crabbe

• Rear-Admiral Thomas Crabbe (John F. Hageman, History of Princeton and Its Institutions; v. 1, 1879)

Walter F. Craig

• Prof. Walter F. Craig
  1887 newspaper article reproduced in The African American Experience in Ohio.
• Professor Walter F. Craig (William J. Simmons, Men of Mark....; 1887)

Samuel Davies

• Davies, Samuel (A Princeton Companion)
• Davies, Samuel, 1759-61 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• "Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Davies" (John Maclean, History of the College of New Jersey....; 1877)
• Samuel Davies (Find A Grave)
• Samuel Davies, 1723-1761 (The Cyber Hymnal)
• Samuel Davies: Apostle of Virginia (Thomas Talbot Ellis, Fire and Ice Sermon Series)

Jonathan Dickinson

• "The Administration of the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, First President of the College of New Jersey" (John Maclean, History of the College of New Jersey....; 1877)
• History of Elizabeth, New Jersey.... (Edwin F. Hatfield; 1868)
• Jonathan Dickinson (Richard Webster, A History of the Presbyterian Church in American from its Origin until the Year 1760....; 1858)
• Jonathan Dickinson, 1708-1747 (William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit....; 1858)
• Jonathan Dickinson, 1747 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• Rev. Jonathan Dickinson (Edwin Francis Hatfield, History of Elizabeth, New Jersey....; 1868)

Albert B. Dod

• Albert B. Dod, D.D. (Bethuel L. Dodd and John R. Burnet, Genealogies of the Male Descendants of Daniel Dod....; 1864)

Eddie Donovan

• Princeton Athletics Mourns Passing of Eddie Donovan
• You (John McPhee)

Jonathan Edwards

• "Edwards" (Paul Elmer More, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature)
• Edwards, Jonathan (A Princeton Companion)
• Jonathan Edwards (Find A Grave)
• Jonathan Edwards, 1758 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• Jonathan Edwards.com
• Jonathan Edwards: The Life of a Master Preacher (Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University)
• The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online (Yale University)

Sarah Edwards

• Sarah Edwards (1710 - 1758)

Albert Einstein

• A. Einstein: Image and Impact (AIP Center for History of Physics)
• Albert Einstein Online (S. Morgan (Friedman)
• Einstein, Albert (A Princeton Companion)
• Einstein in Princeton  (Historical Society of Princeton)
• Herblock's History [4th cartoon] (Library of Congress)

Richard Stockton Field

• Field, Richard Stockton, 1803 - 1870 (Biographical Directory...U.S. Congress)
• Richard Stockton Field (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography)

Carl A. Fields

• Carl A. Fields Center for Equality & Cultural Understanding
• Educator Carl A. Fields, First African-American Dean at Princeton, Dies at Age 79 (Princeton University)
• Fields Memoir Chronicles Career of Pioneering Administrator (Princeton University)
• Princeton Renames Center to Honor Former African American Dean
  From Black Issues in Higher Education,  May 23, 2002. 
• When Carl Fields Came to Princeton
  Article by Gregg Lange, Princeton Alumni Weekly, June 6, 2007.

Henry Burchard Fine

• AMS Presidents: A Timeline (American Mathematical Society)
• Henry Burchard Fine (MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive)

Samuel Finley

• "The Rev. Samuel Finley, D. D." (Archibald Alexander, Biographical Sketches of the Founder and Principal Alumni of the Log College)
• "Samuel Finley" (Richard Webster, A History of the Presbyterian Church in America....)
• Samuel Finley, 1761–66 (The Presidents of Princeton University)

Ernest Gordon

• "Savagery That Gave Me Faith" (Joanna Coles, The London Times)
• "Ernest Gordon, Retired Princeton Dean, Dies at 85" (The Presbyterian Outlook)
• "POW's Triumph Now A Film" (David Weinstein, The Princeton Packet)
• "Service Set for Longtime Chapel Dean" (Princeton Weekly Bulletin)

Rex Goreleigh

• [Ellis Wilson and Rex Goreleigh] (Smithsonian Archives of American Art)
• Rex Goreleigh (Paul R. Jones Collection Digital Archive, University of Delaware)
• Rex Goreleigh, 1902-1986 (Princeton Cemetery)
• Rex Goreleigh Displayed a Talent on Canvas (The African American Registry)

Ashbel Green

• Ashbel Green, 1812-22 (The Presidents of Princeton University)
• "Ashbel Green, D.D., LL.D." (Samuel Miller, Presbyterian Reunion....)
• "Autobiography of Dr. Green" (Book Review, The Princeton Review, October, 1849)
• "Dr. Green's Administration...." (John Maclean, History of the College of New Jersey....)
• Green, Ashbel (A Princeton Companion)
• The Life of Ashbel Green.... (Ashbel Green; 1849)
• "The Rev. Ashbel Green, D.D." (Samuel Irenaeus Prime, Memoirs of the Rev. Nicholas Murray)
• "Sketch of Dr. Green's Life" (John Maclean, History of the College of New Jersey....)

Arnold Guyot

• Arnold Guyot Collection (American Philosophical Society)
• Arnold Henry Guyot (Wikipedia)
• Guyot, Arnold [Henri] (A Princeton Companion)
• Memoir of Arnold Guyot, 1807-1884 (James D. Dana; 1886)

Andrew Hatcher

• Andrew Hatcher, Assistant Press Secretary [Photo] (Mary Ferrell Foundation)
• The History of the African American Community in Princeton: Noted Princeton African Americans (PULSE, Princeton High School)
  Scroll down the page for a photo and information on Andrew Hatcher, associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.
• The Tide Turns; African Americans Enter the Executive Ranks (James N. Giglio)
  From a special issue of American Visions,  Feb-March, 1995: The Untold Story of Blacks in the White House.

Joseph Henry

• Henry, Joseph (A Princeton Companion)
• Joseph Henry and the Telephone ( Frank Rives Millikan, Smithsonian Institution)
• Joseph Henry Lays the Groundwork for the Telephone (The American Experience, PBS)
• The Joseph Henry Papers Project (Smithsonian Institution Archives)
• A Memorial of Joseph Henry (Smithsonian Institution; 1880)
• Unveiling the Statue of Joseph Henry: Smithsonian Grounds, Thursday, April 19, 1883 (1883)

John Grier Hibben

• John Grier Hibben (Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide; v. 1, 1917)

Albert E. Hinds

• Albert E. Hinds, Town's History Partner, Dies at 104 (Matthew Hersh; Town Topics, June 7, 2006)
• As Princeton Changes, A Black Community Fears for Future (Iver Peterson; The New York Times, September 3, 2001)
• It's Hinds Plaza Now as Borough Hall Votes to Honor Beloved Princeton Figure (Matthew Hersh; Town Topics, May 2, 2007)
• A Princeton Man Who Embodied History (Kevin Coyne; The New York Times, December 17, 2006)
• Princeton Resident Albert Hinds Has Been a Witness to History (Jean Stratton; Town Topics, June 8, 2005)

Charles Hodge

• Charles Hodge (Find A Grave)
• The Life of Charles Hodge.... (Alexander A. Hodge; 1881)
• "The Life of Dr. Charles Hodge" (Book Review, New Englander and Yale Review; March, 1881)
• A Short Biography of Charles Hodge (Robert W. Anderson)

Christine Moore Howell

• Christine Moore (Find A Grave)
• Christine's Beauty Salon (PULSE, The History of the African American Community....)

David Hunter

• David Hunter (Find A Grave)
• David Hunter: The General Who Burned VMI (Edward A. Miller, Jr., VMI Alumni Review)
• General Hunter's Letter (David Hunter; 1862)
• Hunter's Raid, June 1864 (Virginia Military Institute Archives)
• [Portrait of Maj. Gen. David Hunter....] (Library of Congress)

James C. Johnson

• Black History Timeline for Princeton University (Ivy League Sports)
• James Johnson (Find A Grave)
• James C. Johnson (Princeton Press, May 16, 1896)

Joseph Kargé

• General Joseph Kargé (Princeton Press, Dec 31, 1892)
• The History of the First New Jersey Cavalry (Henry R. Pyne; 1871)
• Joseph Karge (Find A Grave)

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Last revised: August 12, 2008