James Grant Wilson

28 April 1832 – 1 February 1914

61 works on record

Biography

James Grant Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of poet William Wilson. Soon after his birth, his family relocated to Poughkeepsie, New York. He was educated at College Hill, and then privately tutored. He joined his father in business, later becoming his partner. In 1855, he began a two-year trip to Europe. In 1857, he returned to the U.S. and founded the Chicago Record, a journal of art and literature. In 1862, during the Civil War, he sold his the Chicago Record and entered the Union Army as a major of the 15th Illinois Cavalry. He left the Army in 1865 and moved to New York City, where he became an author, speaker, and president of the Society of American Authors. In 1885 he also became president of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. He edited several works of history and biography.

Works

The Presidents of the United States

1894

The Memorial History of the City of New York

1893

Philip Henry Sheridan

1892

A Description of the Dedication of the Monument Erected at Guilford

1869

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Bryant, and his friends

Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography

The Cyclopaedia of American biography

Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography

Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln

The poetical writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck

The centennial history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York 1785-1885

Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography

Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6

The memorial history of the City of New-York

The poets and poetry of Scotland

Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America ...

The Cyclopædia of American Biography

Recollections of Lincoln

Lincoln's Gettysburg address

The world's largest libraries

John Pintard, founder of the New York Historical Society

Washington--Lincoln and Grant

Lord Lovelace and the second Canadian campaign, 1708-1710

The discovery of the Hudson River

The life and campaigns of Ulysses Simpson Grant

Thackeray in the United States

The memorial history of the city of New York, from its first settlement to the year 1892

Commodore Hull and the Constitution. The anniversary address before the New York genealogical and biographical society February 27, 1880

Great Commanders

Biographical sketches of Illinois officers engaged in the war against the rebellion of 1861

Colonel John Bayard (1738-1807) and the Bayard family of America

Old New York

Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6, including a record of a variety of Thackerayana

Mr. Secretary Pepys

Memorials of Andrew Kirkpatrick, and his wife Jane Bayard

The poets and poetry of Scotland from the earliest to the present time, comprising characteristic selections from the works of the more noteworthy Scottish poets, with biographical and critial notes