Bachmann Ludvig. Pillsbury und Charousek

Ansbach, 1914. — 322 p. — Bd. 12 der "Schachklassiker".
After Paul Morphy, the next great chess player was Harry Pillsbury (1872-1906).Harry Nelson Pillsbury was born on December 5, 1872 in Somerville, Massachusetts, located just north of Boston. His father, Luther Batchelder Pillsbury (1832-1905), was a high school teacher and owned a stationary store. He later became a successful dealer in real estate and was in the insurance business. Harry’s mother was Mary A. (Leathe) Pillsbury (1838-1888), a teacher and writer. Harry had two older brothers and an older sister.
Ludwig Ernst August Bachmann was a German chess author and chronicler of chess. He worked for the Bavarian railway as a senior official. In his spare time, he collected information on chess events and put them in yearbooks (Schach-Juhrbuch), from 1891 to 1930. He wrote 44 volumes of chess events and yearbooks. His nickname was the ‘Chess Herodotus’. He was the first person to issue a yearbook on chess. He authored several textbooks in chess history, including biographies of Steinitz, Anderssen, Pillsbury, and Charousek.