the salient life-facts in regard to 16,216 living people whose present position with relation to American interests and activities or whose achievements in the past have made them nationally notable. The range of interests and activities they represent is very wide, embracing in kaleidoscopic variety the innumerable phases of civil, military, and ethical government, the commerce and industry, the inventive and organizing genius, the religion, education, science, and arts, the literature, and the professional and social endeavors of our Great Republic.

These are selected out of the eighty millions, not as the best, but as an attempt to choose the best-known; and it is believed that, more than its predecessors, the present volume achieves the purpose to present a useful biographical dictionary of notable living men and women of the United States, whether residing in America or in any other part of the world.

Suggestions for improvement will always be received with appreciation, as it is the desire to make WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA a more and more indispensable denizen of every reference-shelf.