Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 6

Download or read book Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 6 written by James Grant Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 6: Sunderland-Zurita; With Supplement and Analytical Index Swan, William Draper, educator, b. In Dor chester, Mass, 17 Nov., 1809; (1. There, 2 Nov., 1864. He was principal for many years of the Mayhew grammar-school in Boston, Mass, and afterward a bookseller in that city. In 1862 he served in the Massachusetts senate. He published a series of readers for schools, and with his brother, Robert, principal of Winthrop school in Boston, and Daniel Leach, superintendent of schools' in Providence, R. I., he was the author of a series of arithmetics, and also of The Critic Criticised and Worcester Vindicated (boston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.