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William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (August 28, 1850 – May 8, 1926) was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer . Life. Coolidge was born in New York City as the son of Frederic William Skinner Coolidge, a Boston merchant, and Elisabeth Neville Brevoort, sister of James Carson Brevoort and Meta Brevoort.
During his lifetime Coolidge made more than 1200 mountain ascents and apparently had at least as many quarrels; but, far more important, he became the greatest of alpine historians and a superb editor of alpine guidebooks.
Feb 7, 2009 · A book published in 1908 by W. A. B. Coolidge, an American geologist and explorer, about the Alps and their natural and historical features. The book is available for free download and streaming from the Internet Archive.
BY the passing away, in his seventy-sixth year, of the Rev. William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge, at the Swiss home which he had built for himself, Chalet Montana, Grindelwald, another famous...
- A. E. H. Tutton
- 1926
Coolidge, W. A. B. (William Augustus Brevoort), 1850-1926: The Alps from end to end (Archibald Constable and Co., 1895), also by William Martin Conway, A. D. McCormick, T. and A. Constable, and Archibald Constable & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Who was W. A. B. Coolidge? William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer. Coolidge was born in New York as the son of Frederic William Skinner Coolidge, a Boston merchant, and Elisabeth Neville Brevoort of the Netherlands.
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Coolidge, W. A. B. (William Augustus Brevoort), 1850-1926. Created / Published London : New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 1889.
