Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Hyphenation in some quoted passages was done differently than in the rest of the book.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Irregular punctuation in page lists was remedied and the spelling of some names was changed to match the spelling on the referenced pages.

Text uses both “jr.” and “Jr.”

Page 45: “preÉminent” was printed with the acute accent. As it was in a quotation, it has not been changed here.

In the caption of the illustration facing page 570, the names originally were more-or-less below the individuals. In this eBook, the names are grouped by row (Back, Middle, Front; left-to-right), and those row identifiers were added by the Transcriber.