"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
The area covered in Pennsylvania includes the Wyoming Valley and all or parts of the counties of Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming.
Joseph J. Flory, the father of Jacob, came from the German Palatinate in 1733 and settled in Pennsylvania. Jacob was probably born in Maryland not later than 1760 and appears in Virginia by 1786. Joseph may have been French originally because he is noted as a Hugenot.
