BIOGRAPHY
His Excellency George Washington, by Joseph J. Ellis; Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M., by Timothy Mather Cooley, published in New York in 1837; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
In Consequence of Loyalty: A Pioneer History, by John and Kay Chesser; self-published in 2002 by a couple from Cobourg, Ontario, it contains biographical data about Philip Skene and John Chesser Jr. and Sr. Donated by the authors.
The Life, Travels, Labors, and Writings of Lorenzo Dow, published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan, NewYork, 1856; donated by Marilyn Robinson. Autobiography of famous 19th-century preacher.
Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes 1753-1833, by John Saillant, Oxford University Press, 2003.
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery, by Henry Mayer, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. This biography amplifies a collection on Garrison, who published Journal of the Times in Bennington in 1828-29; donated by Tyler Resch.
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, by William H. Seward; Derby, Miller and Company, 1849; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
Maude Adams, A Biography, by Ada Patterson, Meyer Bros. & Co., 1907; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen; Little, Brown, 1950; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
The Adams Papers: The Earliest Diary of John Adams, edited by L. H. Butterfield et al., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
The Adams Family, by James Truslow Adams; Little, Brown and Company, 1933; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
John Adams, by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, 2001; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
The Life of the Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G., by Jennie M. Bingham, 1899. The subject, a social activist in 19th-century England, is not the person for whom Shaftsbury, Vermont, is named but one of his ancestors was.
Life of Col. Ethan Allen by Jared Sparks, LL.D., B. Goodrich & Co., Burlington, 1858; donated by Miriam K. Fredenthal.
Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire, by Tom Chaffin, Hill and Wang, 2002.
Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George M. Marsden, Yale University Press, 2003.
The Center of My World, an autobiography, by Marshall E. Dimock of Bethel, Countryman Press, 1980.
Gentleman Johnny, a novel by Showell Styles, Macmillan, 1962. Subtitled “The dramatic life of the lover, soldier, actor, playwright, known to his friends as Gentleman Johnny, and to history as ‘The man who lost America, General John Burgoyne;’” purchased at a tag sale.
The True Adventures of Grizzly Adams, by Robert M. McClung, Morrow Junior Books, 1985; from the Thelma Vandale Collection.
Calvin Coolidge: His First Biography, by R. M. Washburn; Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, 1923; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
The Building of a Life, by E. Urner Goodman (of Bondville), 1965; donated by Nancy H. Otis.
“The painting life of Luigi Lucioni,” Shelburne Museum pamphlet, 1968; donated by Nancy H. Otis.