and Military (1864) Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (1864) Famous Americans of Recent Times (1867) Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation (1868) (Twelve biographies of women, of which Parton wrote three: Florence Nightingale, Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble, and Jenny Lind Goldschmidt) The People's Book of Biography (1868) Life of Thomas Jefferson (1874) Life of Voltaire (1881) Noted Women of Europe and America: Authors, Artists, Reformers, and Heroines. Queens, Princesses, and Women of Society. Women Eccentric and Peculiar. From the Most Recent and Authentic Sources (1883) Captains of Industry (two series, 1884 and 1891) References Attribution External links http://www.answers.com/topic/parton-james 1822 births 1891 deaths 19th-century American historians People from Canterbury 19th-century American biographers Writers from Newburyport, Massachusetts 19th-century American male writers American male biographers English emigrants to the United States