Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Fictitious Entries

Fictitious Entries
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Sources for names of fictitious entries.
a.  Barnhart, John Hendley. "Some Fictitious Botanists." Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 20 (September 1919): 171-81. (This lists 14, and is at Google Books.)
b.  O'Brien, Frank M. "The Wayward Encyclopedias", New Yorker, XII (May 2, 1936), pp. 71-74. (This is a summary of Barnhart's article.)
c.  Schindler, Margaret Castle. "Fictitious Biography." American Historical Review 42 (1937), pp. 680-90. (This lists 47, including the 14 from Barnhart's article.)
d.  Dobson, John Blythe. "The Spurious Articles in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography—Some New Discoveries and Considerations." Biography 16(4) 1993: 388-408. (This lists 4 in "I" - Iff, Illiers, Iselin and Issertieux.)
e.  Cantillon, Joseph F., S.J. Woodstock Letters: Volume 67 (1938), Woodstock, Maryland: Woodstock College Press, 1938, pp 163-203, "Some Phantom Jesuits". (This lists 94, including the 47 in Schindler's article.)
f. Williams, Kelsey Jackson, Appletons' Cyclopeadia And A Mysterious Literary Hoax. (This lists Ingulf von Köln, who had been listed as suspicious by Dobson, and Zénon de Rouvroy).
g. These were identified as fictitious not by sources, but due to significant issues within these biographies: these issues are listed at Fictitious biographies.
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