The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n. This work was pub-lished in 1808, in a handsome volume, embellishedwith fine engravings, executed in London. It wasdedicated to Robert Fulton. In 1811, while occu-pied in making
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . n. This work was pub-lished in 1808, in a handsome volume, embellishedwith fine engravings, executed in London. It wasdedicated to Robert Fulton. In 1811, while occu-pied in making a collection of historical documents,with the view of writing a history of the revolution,Barlow was nominated by Pj-esident Madison minis-ter plenipotentiary to the court of France. He ac-cepted the mission, and did all in his power to ne-gotiate with Napoleon I. a treaty of commerce, andto arrange for the settlement of the spoliation claims,but without success, being perpetually baffled by theintrigues of the French diplomatists. Being invitedby the Due de Bassano in October, 1813, to a per-sonal conference with the Emperor at Wilna, in Po-land, he started on this journey, and from exposureto the inclemency of the season and the privations ofthe journey, he was attacked with inflammation ofthe lungs, from which he never recovered. He diedon Dec. 34, 1813, at Zamavica, in Poland. OP AMEEICAN BIOGRAPHY. 187. VAN RENSSELAER, Howard, physician,was born m Albany, N. Y., June 36, 1858, son ofBayard Van Rensselaer and Laura Reynolds, daugh-f\^ ^®. elebrated Marcus Tullius Reynolds, oneot tHe brightest stars of his time in the legal profes-sion ot Albany. He received his elementary educa-tion at the Albany Normal school,and subsequently entered the Al-bany academy, where ho remainedtwo terms, and was sent to a pri-vate boarding-school at he remained three years,and afterward went to St. Paulsschool at Concord, N. H. He pur-sued his studies at this famousschool for s
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