SAMUEL

See also:

• AUSTIN
• AUSTIN, ALFRED
• AUSTIN, JOHN (179o-1859)
• AUSTIN, SARAH (1793-1867)
• AUSTIN, STEPHEN FULLER (1793-1836)

AUSTIN

See also:

• SAMUEL AUSTIN ALLIBONE (1816-1889)

ALLIBONE (1816-1889)  , American author and bibliographer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of April 1816, of French Huguenot and Quaker ancestry . He was privately educated and for many years was engaged in mercantile business in his native city . He, however, devoted himself chiefly to reading and to bibliographical research; acquired a very unusual knowledge of English and American literature, and is remembered as the compiler of the well-known Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors (3 vols.: vol. i . 1854, vols. ii. and iii . 1871) . To this, two supplementary volumes, edited by John Foster Kirk, were added in 1891 . From 1867 to 1873, and again in 1897-1879, Allibone was book editor and corresponding secretary of the American Sunday School Union; and from 1879 to 1888 he was librarian of the Lenox Library, New York City . He died at Lucerne, Switzerland, on the 2nd of September 1889 . In addition to his Critical Dictionary he published three large anthologies and several religious tracts . See the " Memoir" by S . D . M'Connell, an address delivered tefore the Historical Society of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1890) .