The Child's Book of American Biography

Mary Stoyell Stimpson

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE CHILD'S BOOK OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY

GEORGE WASHINGTON

WILLIAM PENN

JOHN PAUL JONES

JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

LOUIS AGASSIZ

DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX

ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT

SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE

WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT

PHILLIPS BROOKS

SAMUEL CLEMENS Better Known as MARK TWAIN

JOE JEFFERSON

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

JANE ADDAMS

LUTHER BURBANK

EDWARD ALEXANDER MACDOWELL

THOMAS ALVA EDISON

Title: The Child's Book of American Biography

Author: Mary Stoyell Stimpson

Language: English

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Transcriber's note

Corrections are indicated with a mouse-hover and are also listed at the end of this book.

He rode beside the coach on a chestnut horse. Frontispiece. See Page 6. He rode beside the coach on a chestnut horse. Frontispiece. See Page 6.

The Child's Book
of
American Biography

MARY STOYELL STIMPSON

ILLUSTRATED BY

FRANK T. MERRILL

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1924

Copyright, 1915,
By Little, Brown, and Company.

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