ALLIBONE, SAMUEL AUSTIN 1 , American author and bibliographer, was born in Philadelphia (Pa.) , April 17, 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, 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 (1854-71), and of various anthologies and indexes. From 1867 to 1873, and again in 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, Sept. 2, 1889.
See the "Memoir" by S. D. M'Connell, an address delivered before the Historical Society of Philadelphia (189o) .