Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Sloane, William Milligan

SLOANE, WILLIAM MILLIGAN, an American historian; born in Richmond, O., Nov. 12, 1850; was graduated at Columbia in 1868; studied in Berlin and Leipsic (1872-1876), and during part of that time was private secretary of George Bancroft, then minister at Berlin. He

was for several years a professor at Princeton, later Professor of History at Columbia. He published: &ldquo;The French War and the Revolution,&rdquo; &ldquo;Life of James McCosh,&rdquo; in 1897 brought out a very important &ldquo;Life of Napoleon,&rdquo; in four volumes. His later works include: &ldquo;The French Revolution and Religious Reform&rdquo; (1901); &ldquo;The Balkans&rdquo; (1914); &ldquo;Party Government in America&rdquo; (1915).