biography
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Allibone, Samuel Austin
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| male
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| lived:
| (1816–89)
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| biography:
| Bibliographer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He started out in business, working for an insurance company in Philadelphia. As editor of the American Sunday School Union (1867–79), he published many indexes and anthologies, including An Alphabetical Index to the New Testament (1868) and Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1876). Other works include his invaluable Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors (3 vols, 1858, 1871). |
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