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Biographical

______Biographical Encyclopedia, Edited by David Crystal; Cambridge University Press (1998)

______The Hereditary Register of the United States of America , United States Hereditary Register, Inc. Washington, D.C. (1974)

______Notable American Women 1607-1950 A Biographical Dictionary Volume I A-F Belknap Harvard (1971)

______Notable American Women 1607-1950 A Biographical Dictionary Volume III P-Z Belknap Harvard (1971)

Durant, John and Alice; The Presidents of the United States Volume I, George Washington to William McKinley, A.A. Gache & Son, Publishers-Miami, Fla.(1973)

Durant, John and Alice; The Presidents of the United States Volume II, Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Wilson Reagan, A.A. Gache 7 Son, Publishers-Miami, Fla. (1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980)

Furer, Howard B. Edited by; J. Garfield 1831-1881, C. Arthur 1830-1886, Oceana Publications, Inc. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. (1970)

Parker, George F.; Recollections of Grover Cleveland, The Century Company-New York (1911)

Sifakis, Carl; The Encyclopedia of American Crime; Abbandando to Zwillman, Facts on File, Inc. New York City (1982)

Vexler, Robert I. Edited by: Grover Cleveland 1837-1908, Oceana Publications, Inc. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. (1968)

Vlekke, Dr. Bernard H.M. and Rev. Dr. Henry Beets; Hollanders Who Helped Build America, American Biographical Company New York City (1942)

Ethnic

______American Jewish Year Book, A Record of Events and trends in American and World Jewish Life. Jewish Publication Society of America (1952)

Bellin, Mildred Grosberg; The Jewish Cook Book, Bloch Publishing Company (1944)

Brinton, Daniel G.; The Lenape and Their Legends, AMS Press-N.Y. (1969) Original date: (1884)

De Haas, Jacob; Edited by, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge in One Volume, Behrman's Jewish Book House- New York, (1934)

_____Enciclopedia Vniversal Ilvstrada Evropeo-Americana, Apendix-total of 10 volumes; Each volume has approximately 1300-1700 pages: There is a total of 95 volumes of  encyclopedia. It is written in the Spanish language. Printed in: Spain; Copyright by Espasa-Calpe, S.A.  (1908-1962)

Golden, Harry; Our Southern Landsman, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York (1974)

Golden, Harry; Travels Through Jewish America, Doubleday & Company, Inc.-New York (1973)

Hidalgo, Hilda; Edited by, Hispanic Temas A Contribution to the Knowledge Bank of the Hispanic Community, Puerto Rican Studies Program, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey.

Joselit, Jenna Weissman; The Wonders of America Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950, Hill and Wang-New York (1994)

Kaganoff, Benzion C.; A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History, Shocken Books Inc.(1977)

Kalikow, Betty; Grandma's Kosher Recipes, Bekay Publishing Company (1961)

Kolatch, Alfred J.; These Are The Names, The Jonathan David Co (1957)

Portes, Alejandro and Ruben G. Rumbaut; Immigrant America A Portrait, University of California Press (1990)

Postal and Koppman; A Jewish Tourist's Guide To The U.S., The Jewish Publication Society of America (1954)

Strassfeld, Michael; The Jewish Holidays A Guide & Commentary, Harper & Row (1985)

Wakin, Edward; The Immigrant Experience, Faith, Hope, & The Golden Door, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.-Indiana (1977)

______Who's Who of Finnish Extraction In America Published by Raivaaja Publishing Company-Mass (1949)

Etiquette

Eichler, Lillian; Book of Etiquette, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Oyster Bay, N.Y., Volumes I and II (1921)

Post, Elizabeth L.; Emily Post's Etiquette A Guide to Modern Manners, Harper & Row-New York, 14th Edition (1984)

Vanderbilt, Amy; Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York (1952)

Genealogy

Allaben and Washburn; How to Trace and Record Your Own Ancestry, The National Historical Company-New York (1932)

Fox-Davies, A.C.; A Complete Guide To Heraldry, Bonanza Books-New York (1978)

______Genealogical Books In Print, Netti Schreiner-Yantis-Virginia (1975)

______Handy Book for Genealogists, The Everton Publishers, Inc. (1967)

Helmbold, F. Wilbur; Tracing Your Ancestry, Oxmoor House, Inc.-Birmingham (1976)

Linder, Bill R.; How To Trace Your Family History, Everest House-New York (1978)

Long, Harry Alfred; Personal and Family Names, Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, (1968)

Matthews, John; Complete American Armoury and Blue Book combining 1903, 1907 and 1911-23 editions, Heraldic Publishing Company, Inc.-New York (1965)

Peskett, Hugh; Discover Your Ancestors, Arco Publishing Company, Inc. (1978)

Pierce's Register, Seventeenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.-Baltimore (1973)

Quackenbush, Gail Richard; The Quackenbush Family In America, Henington Publishing Company-Texas (1987)

Williams PH.D., Ethel W.; Know Your Ancestors A Guide To Genealogical Research, Charles E. Tuttle Company-Vermont (1960)

Medical

______American College of Surgeons 1933.

______American College of Surgeons 1934.

______American College of Surgeons 1936.

______American College of Surgeons 1938.

______American College of Surgeons 1942-1943.

______Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, The Medical Society of the State of New York (1916)

______Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, The Medical Society of the State of New York (1929)

______Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, The Medical Society of the State of New York (1935)

______Polk's Medical Register and Directory of North America: R. L. Polk & Co.(1914-1915)

Military

______Blue and Gray, Georgetown University and the Civil War Editor: James S. Ruby, The Georgetown University Alumni Association, Inc. (1961)

Goss, Warren Lee; The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel Prisons, I.N. Richardson & Co.-Boston (1871)

Huidekoper.Frederic Louis; The Military Unpreparedness of the United States; A History of American Land Forces from Colonial Times until June 1, 1915, The Macmillan Company (1916)

Moore, Frank; Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice, S.S. Scranton & Co.-Hartford, Conn. (1867)

Myers, Robert Manson; Edited by, The Children of Pride, A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War, Yale University Press (1972)

Sandburg, Carl; Abraham Lincoln The War Years in Four Volumes, Harcourt, Brace & Company-New York (1936, 1937)

______The American Civil War; Extracts from the Times 1860-1865. Introduced and edited by Hugh Brogan. Times Books (1975)

______Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865. Volume: I, Compiled in the Office of the Adjutant General. William S. Stryker, Adj. General. John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, Trenton-New Jersey (1876)

Victor, Orville J.; The History, Civil, Political & Military, of the Southern Rebellion, J.D. Torrey-New York, Volume I (1861)

Warner, Ezra J.; Generals in Gray Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge-Louisiana (1959)

Warner, Ezra J.; Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge-Louisiana (1964)

New York City Information

Baral, Robert; Revue The Great Broadway Period, Fleet Press Corporation-New York (1962)

Barrett, Walter; The Old Merchants of New York City, Carleton,New York City (1863)

Blanchard, Fessenden S.; Long Island Sound, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. Princeton,New Jersey (1958)

______Blue Book of Brooklyn, The directory of Society in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Blue Book Association, New York (1955)

______Davison's Silk Trade; The Silk Guide 33rd annual Edition 1928 by Davison Publishing Co.-New York (1928)

______Dau's New York Social Blue Book: Containing the Names and Addresses of Twenty Thousand Prominent Residents Arranged Alphabetically and by Streets and Much Other Valuable Social Information. Publisher: Dau's Blue Books-New York City (1930)

Dorsey, Leslie & Janice Devine; Fare Thee Well, A backward look at two centuries of historic American hostelries, fashionable spas & seaside resorts, Crown Publishers Inc. N.Y.(1964)

Drummond and Platt; New York Our City of Progress, Allyn and Bacon-New York (1940)

Durso, Joseph; Madison Square Garden 100 Years of History, Simon and Schuster-New York (1979)

Ellis, Edward Robb; The Epic of New York City A Narrative History, Old Town Books-New York (1966)

Hamilton, David; The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Opera, Simon & Schuster-New York, (1987)

Harrison, Bob; Naked New York, Paragon Associates Inc. (1961)

Jenkins.Stephen; The Greatest Street in the World; The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany, G.P. Putnam's Sons-New York The Knickerbocker Press (1911)

Knowles, Charles E.; History of the Bank for Savings in the City of New York 1819-1929, (1929)

Leonard, John W.; Who's Who in New York City and State, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, L.R. Hamersly & Company, New York City.(1909)

Levinson, Leonard Louis; Wall Street, A Pictorial History, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company-New York (1961)

Long Island A History of Two Great Counties Nassau and Suffolk; Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc. New York.Volume III (1949)

McDarrah, Fred W.; Museums In New York, Quick Fox-New York (1967)

Merriman, Charlotte E.; Tales of Sint Sink, Cow Neck Historical Society (1935)

Myers, Gustavus; The History of Tammany Hall, Boni & Liveright, Inc. (1917)

Oppel, Frank; Edited by, Gaslight New York Revisited, Castle Books-New Jersey (1989)

Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar; The Park and the People, A History of Central Park, Cornell University Press (1992)

Savage, Theodore Fiske; The Presbyterian Church in New York City, Published by The Presbytery of New York (1949)

Shannon, Joseph; Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1869)

Silver, Nathan; Lost New York, Published by Houghton Mifflin Company (1967)

Simon, Kate; Fifth Avenue A Very Social History, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.(1978)

______The New York Public Library American History Desk Reference A Stonesong Press Book (1997)

______The Unofficial Palace of New York. A Tribute to the Waldorf-Astoria edited by Frank Crowninshield Published in New York (1939)

Valentine, D. T.; Manual of the Common Council of New York, George P. Putnam, (1852)

Valentine, D. T.; Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1853)

Valentine, D. T.; Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1859)

Valentine, D. T.; Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1860)

Valentine, D. T.; Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1865)

Valentine's Manual of the City of New York, New Series No. 2. Edited by Henry Collins Brown; The Old Colony Press.(1917-1918)

Valentine's Manual of Old New York. No. 7, New Series Edited By Henry Collins Brown (1923)

Van Every, Edward; Sins of New York As "Exposed" by the Police Gazette, Frederick A. Stokes Company New York,(1930)

Werner, M.R.; It happened in New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.-New York (1957)

Werner, M.R.; Tammany Hall, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. (1928)

White, E.B.: Here is New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers-New York, (1949)

______White Orr's Classified Business Directory, Formerly White-Orr's Reference Register. A Compendium for General Business Reference, Comrpising the Financial, Commercial, Industrial and legal Interests of the Cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and Newark, N.J. Published by White, Orr & Company New York City, U.S.A (1930)

New York State Information

Beach, Allen C. Secretary of State; The Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York, Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers-Albany (1879)

Hapgood, Norman and Henry Moskowitz; Up From the City Streets: A Life of Alfred E. Smith, Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. (1927)

______New York, A Guide to the Empire State: Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of New York .Oxford University press-N.Y.(1940)

______Our Village Briarcliff Manor 1902 to 1952.

______Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester County N.Y. Session of 1922.

Sullivan, Dr. James; Editor-in-Chief, History of New York State 1523-1927, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. New York, Volume: Biographical (1927)

Sullivan, Dr. James; Editor-in-Chief, History of New York State 1523-1927, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. New York, Volumes: I and V (1927)

______The New International Encyclopedia; Dodd, Mead and Company-New York, A Total of 21 Volumes (1902-1905)

______Westchester County Social Record (Including Greenwich, Conn.), The Exclusive Registry, Rofflow C. Blackmer Publisher (1931)

Societies and Organizations

______Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century Hamilton Press, Brooklyn, New York (1942)

MacBean, William M.; Biographical Register of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York. Vol. I 1756-1806 In Two Parts, Printed for the Society (1922)

______Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York; 200th Anniversity 1756-1956, 1756-1956. Clark Printing House, (1956)

______Society of Colonial Wars Constitution, Officers and Members (1896)

______Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey Year Book (1955)

______Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey Year Book (1917)

______Society of the Sons of the Revolution New Jersey, (1924)

______Year Book of The Holland Society of New York (1913) Bergen Book.

United States General Information

______A Century of Population Growth in the United States 1790-1900; From the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth 1790-1900; Washington Government Printing Office (1909)

______A Guide to America's Greatest Historic Places; American Heritage Press,Inc., New York, (1985)

______America's Historylands, National Georgraphic Society (1962)

______Annual Report of the American Historical Association For the Year 1900 Volume I. Washington: Government Printing Office (1901)

Appelbaum, Stanley; The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record with text , Dover Publications (1980)

Bancroft, George; History of the United States of America; From the Discovery of the Continent, D. Appleton and Company, 4 Volumes (1883)

Birmingham, Stephen; America's Secret Aristocracy, Little, Brown and Company-Boston (1987)

Cohen.David Steven; The Ramapo Mountain People, Rutgers University Press (1974)

______Concise Dictionary of American History, Charles Scribner's Sons, (1962)

Conlin, Joseph R.; A History of the United States Primary Sources .Our Land Our Time, Coronado Publishers (1986)

Cunningham, John T. and Donald A. Sinclair; Murder Did Pay, 19th Century New Jersey Murders, New Jersey Historical Society (1982)

Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, Stoff; Volume I: to 1877 Nation of Nations; A Narrative History of the American Republic, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company (1990)

Delaney, John J.and James Edward Tobin; Dictionary of Catholic Biography, Doubleday & Company Inc. New York City (1961)

Dowdey, Clifford; Experiment in Rebellion, The Human Story of the Men Who Guided the Confederacy, Doubleday & Company-New York, (1947)

Flexner, Stuart Berg; I Hear America Talking, An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases, A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon and Schuster-New York (1976)

Furer, Howard B.; James A. Garfield 1831-1881, Chester A. Arthur 1830-1886,Oceana Publications, Inc. New York (1970)

Grun, Bernard; The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Simon and Schuster-New York (1946)

Heusser, Albert H; The History of The Silk Dyeing Industry in the United States, Silk Dyers' Association of America Paterson, N.J. (1927)

Hornor, William S.; This Old Monmouth of Ours, Morris Genealogical Library Reprint 1974, Originally Published by Moreau Brothers of Freehold, N.J. (1932)

______History of Trenton, New Jersey, The Record of its early Settlement and Corporate Progress, Compiled by Francis Bazley Lee (1895)

______Illustrated Guide to the Treasures of America; The Readers' Digest Association, Inc. (1974)

______In the Minds and Hearts of the People, Prologue to the American Revolution: 1760-1774; New York Graphic Society Greenwich, Connecticut (1974)

Kittross and Sterling; Stay Tuned A Concise History of American Broadcasting, Wadsworth Publishing Company-California (1978)

Kouwenhoven,John A.; Adventures of America 1857-1900; A pictorial review from Harpers Weekly, Harper & Brothers (1938)

Lathrop, Elise; Early American Inns and Taverns, Tudor Publishing Company New York, (1926)

Leiby, Adrian C; The Hackensack Water Company 1869-1969 A Centennial History (1969)

Lowell, Dwight; America In Our Time 1896-1946, Henry Holt and Company (1937)

Morison, Samuel Eliot; The Oxford History of the American People, Oxford University Press (1965)

Melick, Sid Frank and Arden Davis; The Presidents: Tidbits & Trivia, Hammond Inc., Maplewood, New Jersey (1975)

Porter, Glenn and Harold C. Livesay; Merchants and Manufacturers, Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteenth-Century Marketing, Ivan R. Dee, Inc. Chicago (1971)

Powell, Lyman P.; Edited by, Historic Towns of The Middle States, G.P. Putnam's Sons-New York. The Knickerbocker Press (1901)

Richardson, James D.; A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, Authority of Congress, 9 Volumes plus index (1899)

Sandburg, Carl; Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Harcourt, Brace and Company-New York, One Volume Edition (1926)

Scott, Donald M. and Bernard Wishy; America's Families A Documentary History, Harper & Row-New York (1982)

Shuman, Eleanore Nolan; The Trenton Story, MacCrellish & Quigley Company Trenton, New Jersey (1958)

Sinclair, Gladys Mellor; Bayonne Old and New, Maranatha Publishers-New York City (1940)

Sloane, Eric; Eric Sloane's America, Promontory Press (1954)

Stockton, Frank R.; Stories of New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, N.J. (1961)

Symmes, Rev. Frank R.; Compiled by, History of the Old Tennent Church, George W. Burroughs, Printer, Cranbury, N.J.(1901)

Tarbell, Ida M.; Life of Lincoln , Lincoln Memorial Association , Volumes I and II, (1895)

______The American Historical Annual, John S. Taylor, Publisher (1853)

______The Annals of America; Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 19 Volumes (1968)

______The Bicentennial Almanac edited by Calvin D. Linton, Ph.D. 200 Years of America Thomas Nelson Inc. Publishers (1975)

______The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia In Ten Volumes, The Century Company-New York (1889)

______The Children of Pride; A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War edited by Robert Manson Myers. Publisher: Yale University Press (1972)

______The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, The Abraham Lincoln Association, Volumes: I-VIII and Index, Rutgers University Press-New Jersey (1953)

______The Columbia Encyclopedia Third Edition edited by William Bridgwater and Seymour Kurtz Publisher: Columbia University Press-New York (1968)

______The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary. Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York. (1967).

______Union City 50th Anniversary 1925-1975.

Weis, Eleanor; Saga of A Crossroads: Florham Park, The Historical Society of Florham Park, N.J. (1988)

Wish, Harvey; Society and Thought in Early America, A social and Intellectual History of the American People Through 1865 Vol.I, David McKay Company, Inc.-New York (1950)

Wish, Harvey; Society and Thought in Early America, A Social and Intellectual History of the American People From 1865 Vol. II, David McKay Company, Inc.-New York (1952)