The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography is a multi-volume collection of biographical articles and portraits of Americans, published since the 1890s. The primary method of data collection was by sending questionnaires to subjects or their relatives. It has over 60,000 entries, in 63 volumes. The entries are not credited. The overall editor was James Terry White. It is more comprehensive than the Dictionary of American Biography

Dictionary of American Biography

The Dictionary of American Biography was published in New York City by Charles Scribner's Sons under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. The first edition was published in 20 volumes from 1928 to 1936. These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies...

 and the American National Biography

American National Biography

The American National Biography is a 24 volume biographical encyclopedia set containing approximately 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. A 400-entry supplement appeared in 2002...

but less scholarly because it doesn't cite the original sources used for the information.

External links

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography By James Terry White, online at books.google. Volume 2, published 1895. Volume 3, published 1893. Volume 5, published 1894. Volume 8, published 1900. Volume 9, published 1899. Volume 10, published 1909. Supplement 1, published 1910. Volume 11, published 1901. John Adams is in Volume 2 page 1, William Mason Vol.10, page 368.