Mcmaster

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

JOHN BACH, an American historian; born in 1852 in Brooklyn, graduated 1872 at the College of the City of New York and became for some years after a civil engineer. In 1877 he became an instructor in Princeton University, and in 1883 he accepted his present position as professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. In his first year as professor appeared the first volume of his "History of the People of the United States," and since that time at various intervals until 1913 seven more volumes were published, completing the history of the United States from the close of the Revolutionary to the outbreak of the Civil War. For his materials McMaster depended upon strictly primary sources, most of all the newspapers. He has gathered in his work all of importance that transpired in the United States in the period covered. Particular attention was paid to social and economic conditions as well socia as political, nor was the development of the Western territory neglected, as had been the case in previous works. McMaster has published a number of other works, as, "Life and Times of Stephen Girard" (1917); "A History of the War of the United States with Germany," etc. MacMILLAN, DONALD BAXTER, American explorer; born in Provincetown, Mass., 1874. He graduated from Bowdoin College and began teaching, being head of the classical department of Swarthmore Preparatory School in Pa., 1900-1903, and instructor at Worcester Academy, 1903-1908. In 1908 he joined the Peary North Polar Expedition and in 1910 the Cabot Labrador Party. From 1913 to 1917 he was leader of the Crocker Land Expedition. His ethnological studies of the Labrador Eskimos have been an important contribution to scientific knowledge.