MONUMENT TO PRESIDENT GARFIELD, IN THE CAPITAL GROUNDS IN WASHINGTON.

THE GREAT AMERICAN BOOK OF BIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRIOUS AMERICANS

THEIR LIVES AND GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS,

EMBRACING

BOOK I. THE GREAT FOUNDERS OF THE REPUBLIC.
BOOK II. THE NOBLE BUILDERS OF OUR UNION.
BOOK III. THE GREAT GENERALS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
BOOK IV. THE HEROES OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.
BOOK V. OUR GREAT PRESIDENTS AND STATESMEN.
BOOK VI. OUR GIANTS OF INVENTIVE ACHIEVEMENT.
BOOK VII. OUR SUCCESSFUL MEN OF BUSINESS.

BOOK VIII. OUR GREAT PULPIT ORATORS AND REFORMERS.
BOOK IX. OUR NOTED LITERARY MEN AND WOMEN.

BOOK X. THE POLITICAL LEADERS OF THE PRESENT DAY.

PREPARED BY A CORPS OF DISTINGUISHED WRITERS.

HAMILTON W. MABIE, LL.B., WILLIAM GARNETT, D. C.L., ALLEN C. THOMAS, M.A.,
EDWARD S. ELLIS, M.A., PROF. W. W. BIRDSALL, W. FLETCHER JOHNSON,
FRANCES E. WILLARD, AND OTHERS.

INTRODUCTION

BY EDWARD EVERETT HALE, LL.D.,

THE MOST DISTINGUISHED POLITICAL WRITER IN AMERICA.

Illustrated with Magnificent Full-page Photogravure Portraits,

AND A WEALTH OF OTHER FINE ENGRAVINGS.

"Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Foot prints on the sands of time."

INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
PHILADELPHIA, PA., AND CHICAGO, ILL.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896, by

W. E. SCULL,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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