< Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
Fictitious Entries
H V A-G, I-L M-U, W-Z
  • Verden, Karl vonc,e
  • Verdugo, Vicentec,e
  • Vergara y Zamoral, Diegoe
  • Verhuen, Jacobusc,e
  • Veuillot, Désiréc
  • Viana, Miguel Pereirac
  • Vicente y Bennazar, Andresc
  • Vigier, Georgec
  • Villadarias, Manoel Duarte Caldeiras Centenera dec
  • Villiers, Jean Pierrec
  • Vilmot, Charles Stanislasc
  • Vivier, Jacques dua,c
  • Vogué, Jean Pierre dec
  • Voisin, Charles Antoinec,e
  • Voisin, Pierre Josephc
  • Voiture, Nicolas Augustec
  • Menacho, Juan Pereze
  • Meyer, Bernharde
  • Mimeure, Victor Emmanuele
  • Monteil, Nicolas Antoinec
  • Moraud, Dieudonnée
  • Mortier, Édouard Louisa,c
  • Mouraille, Theodoree
  • Nascher, Friedrich Wilhelma,c
  • Neé, Isidore Charles Sigismonda,c
  • Orlando, Giuseppee
  • Ormond, Cesare
  • Oudin, Christian Julese
  • Percheron, Etiennee
  • Pereira, Antonioe
  • Perret, Jacquese
  • Quentin, Charles H.e
  • Ramée, Stanislas Henri de laa,c
  • Renaud, Pierre F.e
  • Sa, Simao Pereira dee
  • Sibiel, Alexandere
  • Solis y Rivadeneyra, Antonioe
  • Soulabie, Louis F.e
  • Sylvie, Édouarda,c
  • Tapin, Richardc
  • Thibaudin, Gaston Louisa,c
  • Uffenbach, Bernard vone
  • Urfe, Louis Edouarde
  • Wallerton, Charles Louis Augustea,c
  • Wallon, Louis F.e
  • Watteau, Boudoin Louisc
  • Zapata, Juan Ortiz dee
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. It's 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," not detected before.)
e.  Zorn, George, S.J. Woodstock Letters Index: Volumes 1-80 (1872-1951), Woodstock, Maryland: Woodstock College Press, 1960. Visited 13 October 2011. Search on "phantom Jesuit" or "Appleton's". (This lists 42, including 4 from Schindler's article. It has a "V" subject which wasn't picked up in Schindler's survey.)
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