Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Wilson, James Grant

WILSON, JAMES GRANT, an American author; born in New York City, April 28, 1832; served in the Civil War. Besides numerous addresses, essays, and articles in periodicals, he published: &ldquo;Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers&rdquo; (1862-1863); &ldquo;Love in Letters, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent Persons&rdquo; (1867); &ldquo;Life of General Grant&rdquo; (1868-1885); &ldquo;Life of Fitz-Greene Halleck&rdquo; (1869); &ldquo;Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers&rdquo; (1874); &ldquo;Poets and

Poetry of Scotland&rdquo; (1876); &ldquo;Centennial History of the Diocese of New York, 1775-1885&rdquo; (1886); &ldquo;Bryant and His Friends&rdquo; (1886); &ldquo;Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitution&rdquo; (1889); &ldquo; Life of General Grant&rdquo; (1897); &ldquo;The President of the United States&rdquo; (1901); etc. He was the editor (with John Fiske) of &ldquo;Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography&rdquo; (6 vols. 1886-1889), and alone of &ldquo;Memorial History of the City of New York.&rdquo; He died in 1914.