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General Delaware Women Remembered.  Mary Sam Ward.  (Wilmington: 1977) A History of Delaware Through Its Governors. Roger A. Martin (Wilmington: McCalafferty Printing, 1984) A Legacy from Delaware Women.  Compilation  (Wilmington: 1987) Delaware’s Medal of Honor Winners.  Roger Martin.  (Privately Published:  1993) Forgotten Heroes of Delaware.  W. Emerson Wilson (Deltos Publishing Co.:  1969) Colonial Delaware Assemblymen: 1682-1776. Bruce A. Bendler.  (West Minster, MD: 1989) Top

A The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury in Three Volumes.  Elmer T. Clark, ed. in chief  (London: 1958) Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson an Officer of the Delaware Regiments in the Revolutionary War.  Henry Hobart Bellas, LLB.   Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware XVI, (Wilmington: 1896) Jacob Alricks and His Nephew Peter Alricks. Edward A. Price, Esq..  Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, XXII (Wilmington: 1898) Richard Allen:  Apostle of Freedom.  Charles H. Wesley  (Washington D.C.: 1935) The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Reverend Richard Allen.  Richard Allen  reprint (New York: 1960) Francis Alison:  American Philosophe.  Elizabeth A. Ingersoll. University of Delaware dissertation, 1974. Top

B The Congressional Career of Thomas Francis Bayard:  1865-1885.  Charles Callan Tansill (Washington D.C.:  1946) The Foreign Policy of Thomas F. Bayard: 1885- 1897.  Charles Callin Tansill (NY: 1940) The Cutting Edge: The Life of Thomas Andrew Becker:  1831-1899.   Thomas J. Peterman  (Devon, PA.: 1982) A Life Uncommon:  The Life of John Biggs, Jr.  Seymour I. Toll  (Philadelphia:  1993) Robert Montgomery Bird:  Physician and Man of Letters.  John Collins Kilman, University of Delaware dissertation, 1978. George Bourne and The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable.  John W. Christie and Dwight L. Dumond (Baltimore: 1969) Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter.  Nick Catalano (New York: 2000) Harry Fletcher Brown:  An Essay in Appreciation.  John A. Perkins and Robeson Bailey  (Wilmington: 1960) Top

C Enough for One Lifetime:  Wallace Carothers, Inventor of Nylon.  Matthew E. Hermes (American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation:  1996) Strictly Business:  Walter Carpenter at DuPont and General Motors.  Charles W. Cheape (Johns Hopkins Press: 1995) Elbert N. Carvel:  Oral History Series No.1, Delaware Heritage Commissin  (Wilmington: 1997) John Clowes, Jr., 1730-1790:  Broadkill Patriot:  The Man- His Family- The Times.  Hazel Brittingham,  (Wilmington: 1989) Isaac Collins:  A Quaker Printer in 18th Century America.  Richard F. Hixson (New Brunswick, NJ:  1968) William Yeates Conwell:  Seafaring Native of Broadkill Hundred.  Tilney Clarke Conwell.  (Privately Published:  1970) Recollections of Pamela Cunningham Copeland:  Her Early Years in Litchfield, Connecticut.  (Mt. Cuba, Delaware: 1996) Louise duPont Crowinshield: 1877- 1958.  Walter Muir Whitehill (Winterthur: 1960) Memoir of George David Cummins D.D.  A.M. Cummins  (Philadelphia: 1878) Life and Characteristics of Right Reverand Alfred A. Curtis D.D.  Sisters of the Visitation, comp. (New York: 1913) Top

D Samuel Davies:  Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia.  George William Pilcher (Knoxville: 1971) John Dickinson: Conservative Revolutionary.  Milton E. Flower  (Charlottsville:  1983) Give Us Each Day:  The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson.  Gloria T. Hull, ed. (New York.: 1984) Alfred I du Pont:  The Family Rebel.  Marquis James (New York.:  1941) The Life of Alexis Irenee du Pont.   2 vol.  Allan J. Henry  (Philadelphia: 1945) Coleman du Pont:  1863-1930:  A Biographical Memoir.  (American Historical Society, Inc.: 1935) E.I. du Pont Botaniste:  The Beginning of a Tradition.  Norman B. Wilkinson (Charlottesville: 1972) Francis Gurney du Pont:  A Memoir.  2 vols. Allan J. Henry  (Philadelphia:  1951) Henry Francis du Pont:  Observations of the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. John A. H. Sweeney (Winterthur: 1980) Jessie Ball du Pont.  Richard Greening Hewlett (Gainsville: 1992) Lammot du Pont and the American Explosives Industry:  1850-1884.  Norman B. Wilkinson (Charlottesville:  1984) DuPont de Nemours:  1739-1817.  2 vols.  B.G. du Pont.  (Privately Published: 1933) Du Pont de Nemours:  Apostle of Liberty and the Promised Land.  Pierre Jolly, trans. from French by Elise du Pont Elrich  (Wilmington: 1956) The Autobiography of Du Pont de Nemours.  Trans by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese  (Wilmington.: 1984) Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours.  Ambrose Saricks (Lawrence, KS: 1965) De  Stael-Du Pont Letters- Correspondence of Madame de Stael and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. James F. Marshall, ed and trans. (Madison: 1968) Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation.  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. And Stephen Salsbury  (New York:  1971) Extracts from Private Journal-Letters of Captain S.F. du Pont (Wilmington: 1885) Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont, U.S. Navy.  H.A. du Pont (New York:  1926).  DuPont:  The Making of An Admiral:  A Biography of Samuel Francis DuPont.  James M. Merrill (New York: 1986)    Sophie du Pont:  A Young Lady in America:  Sketches, Diaries and Letters, 1823-1833.  Betty Bright Low and Jacqueline Hinsley (New York:  1987) Lives of Victor and Josephine du Pont.  B.G. du Pont (Privately Published: 1930) Two Hundred in Two Thousand:  A du Pont Family Reunion.   Roger Rebetsky  (du Pont de Nemours Cemetery Co.: 2000) The Du Pont Family.  John D. Gates.  (Garden City, NY: 1979) The Du Ponts:  From Gunpowder to Nylon.   Max Dorian.  (Boston.: 1961) The du Ponts of Delaware. William H.A. Carr (New York: 1964) The Du Pont Dynasty.  John K. Winkler (Baltimore: 1935) A Dozen Captains of the American Industry.  Walter Wilson Jennings (New York: 1954) Top

E Oliver Evans:  A Chronicle of Early American Engineering.  Greenville Bathe and Dorothy Bathe  (Philadelphia: 1935) Top

F Resistance and Obedience to God:  Memoirs of David Ferris (1707-1779).  Martha Paxon Grundy, ed.  (Philadelphia: 2001) “I Well Remember” The Memoirs of a Mennonite Schoolmaster.  Clarence A. Fulmer as told to Robert H. Hallsted (Wilmington: 1987) Top

G The Famous Case of Myra Clark Gaines.  Nolan B. Harmon, Jr. (Baton Rouge: 1946) Biography of Lieut. Col. Julius P. Garesche.  Louis Garesche (Philadelphia: 1887) The Garrett Snuff Mill Fortune.  C.A. Weslager (Wilmington: 1965) The Land of Boasted Freedom:  The Life and Times of Thomas Garrett.  James F. Conlin, OSFS and J. Cornelius Desmond OSFS (Privately Published: n.d.) Station Master on the Underground Railroad:  The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett.  James A. McGowan (Moylan, PA: 1977)  Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons:  Told Chiefly Through Her Correspondence.  Sarah Hopper Smerson, ed. 2 vols.  (New York:  1897) William G. Gibbons:  A Memorial.  (Philadelphia:  1887) The Civil War Career of John Pritchett Gillis, USN.  Robert Evan Owens, Jr. University of Delaware, masters thesis, 1967. Top

H Admiral Halsey’s Story.   William F. Halsey, USN and J. Bryan III, USNR  (New York:  1947) In Memoriam: Samuel Milby Harrington.  (Philadelphia: 1878) Samuel Maxwell Harrington:  A Pioneer Judge.  Julian D. Winslow  (New York: 1994) Facts and Forecasts:  Speeches Delivered in the United States Senate:  1928-1936.  Daniel O. Hastings with George H. Moses, ed.  (Concord, N.H.: 1940) Sketch of Rev. John Hersey: Minister of the Gospel of the M.E. Church.  Rev. F. E. Marine  (Baltimore: 1879)  Memorial Address of the Life and Character of John H. Hoffecker.  (Washington D.C.: 1901) In Memoriam: Merritt Hulbard (1842-1896). (New York: 1896) Top

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J On Wings to War:  Teresa James, Aviator.  Jan Churchill (Manhattan K.S.: 1992) Janvier Family of Cabinetmakers of Odessa, Delaware. L. Corwin Sharp, University of Delaware, masters thesis, 1980. A Narration of Many Memories, Several Detours and A Few Thoughts. Louise S. Johnson,  with Judith M Barnes and Robert Pfeiffer, eds (Newark, DE: 1999) Press, Politics and Perseverance:  Everett C. Johnson and The Press of Kells.  Robert C. Barnes and Judith M. Pfeiffer (Wilmington: 1999) Judy Johnson:  Delaware’s Invisible Hero.  Ellen Rendle (Wilmington:  1994) The Virginia Bishop (Rt. Rev. Doctor John Johns):  A Yankee Hero of the Confederacy.  John Sumner Wood (Richmond: 1961) Top

K The Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware Regiment of the Continental Line.  Rev. Joseph Brown Turner.  Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware LVI (Wilmington: 1910) What Next?  Autobiography of H.J. Kreby for 32 years a Danish Citizen:  Industrial Developments since 1850.  H.J. Krebs (Philadelphia: 1926) Top

L A Delawarean In the Celestial Empire:  John Richardson Latimer and the China Trade.  Joan Kerr Facey Thill University of Delaware masters thesis, 1973 Alfred Lee. (1807-1887).  (Philadelphia: 1888) The Life of John Lofland “The Milford Bard” The Earliest and Most Distinguished Poet of Delaware:  With Comments and Representative Selection from His Works.  William W. Smithers (Philadelphia: 1894) Top

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