BIO: Victor Hugo Paltsits; New York State
surname: Paltsits

submitted by W. David Samuelsen (no relation)
***********************************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm

http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm
***********************************************************************
An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Victor Hugo Paltsits, the State Historian, was born in New York city on
July 12, 1867, and was educated in public and private schools of New York city
from 1872 to 1881. He then studied in the scientific course of the Cooper
Institute until 1886. Later he became a student of German, Latin, Greek,
Spanish and French in high schools and with tutors.

     On January 1, 1888, he became an employee of the Lenox Library and was
one of the stataff of that library when he was appointed State Historian. He
was an assistant in the reading room, then a sub-lirarian, and finally held
the title of assistant librarian.

     While connected with the Lenox Library he was editor of The Journal of
Captain William Potts, Jr., 1745-47; of papers concerning the Siege of
Charleston, 1780; of the Captivity of Capt. John Gyles, 1689-97; of Rev. John
Miller';s New York Considered and Improved, 1695; and the Captivity of
Nehemiah Howe. He revised Vols. 3 and 5 of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American
Biography and was biographical adviser in the preparation of Jesuit Relations
and Allied Documents, writing eighty-eight of the biographies. He is the
author of "Bibliography of the Separate and Collected Works of Philip
Freneau," of "Scheme for the Conquest of Canada in 1746," of "The Depredation
at Pemaquia in August, 1689," and of bibliographies of the Works of Father
Louis Hennepin. He also has been the author of articles regarding the Lewis
and Clark Expedition, and of many articles in magazines on historical
subjects; as well as the adviser of the historical illustrations to be used
with Avery's History of the United States.

     He is a member of the American Historical Association, of the
Bibliographical Society of America, of the Maine Historical Society, of the
New York Library Club, of the Committee on Bibliography of the American
Historical Association, a fellow of the American Ethnological society, and a
councillor of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences.

     Governor Hughes, on July 15, 1906, appointed him as State Historian.