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BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE (1832– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANCROFT, See also:HUBERT See also:HOWE (1832– ) , See also:American See also:historical writer, was See also:born at See also:Granville, See also:Ohio, on the 5th of May 1832. From 1852 to 1868 he was a bookseller in See also:San Francisco. During this See also:period he accumulated a See also:great library of historical material, and at last gave up business in See also:order to devote himself to the publication of his Native Races of the Pacific States (5 vols. 1874–1876), See also:History of the Pacific States of See also:North See also:America (21 vols. 1882–1890), and other See also:works. For the collection of data he necessarily relied upon the labours of a See also:corps of assistants, and the publications named represent, properly speaking, an See also:encyclopaedia rather than a unified history; but as a storehouse of material their value is great and is likely to be enduring. In 1905 Bancroft's vast collection was acquired by the university of See also:California. An See also:account of his methods of See also:work is given in his See also:Literary See also:Industries 1890).

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