justice, working in various ways for the happiness and benefit of their fellows. There are many of these. We have been obliged to confine our attention to those of chief prominence and to deal with these but briefly. But we trust that the records of noble life and useful achievement here given may prove interesting and inspiring to readers, and serve to show that the heroes of mankind are of many types, and that the conqueror is not only he who leads victorious armies over prostrate realms, but also he who faces hostile circumstances or braves threatening situations, winning through sheer force of energy and intellect where men of smaller mould would have shrunk back in dismay. Of such stuff are made the heroes of peace and progress, and we here present some of the chief among those who have nobly helped to make the United States great among the nations of the earth. CONTENTS ROGER WILLIAMS, THE PIONEER OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.... JOHN ELIOT, the Apostle to the IndianS. WILLIAM PENN, THE FRIEND OF THE RED MEN. PATRICK HENRY, THE Orator of the REVOLUTION. SAMUEL ADAMS, THE PIONEER OF AMERICAN. LIBERTY. ..... ...... PAGE 56 66 JOHN ADAMS, the Leader OF THE BOSTON PATRIOTS.. ELI WHITNEy, America's FIRST GREAT INVENTOR.. ROBERT FULTON, the Inventor of the SteamBOAT. JOHN JACOB ASTOR, THE MONARCH OF THE FUR INDUSTRY 101- STEPHEN GIRard, the FRIEND OF THE ORPHAN.... .... 107 JOHN MARSHALL, THE EXPOUNDER OF THE CONSTITUTION.. 115 HENRY CLAY, the great Advocate of COMPROMISE. HORACE WELLS AND THE DISCOVERERS OF ANÆSTHESIA... 184 CHARLES SUMner, the ChampION OF POLITICAL HONOR.. 214 LUCRETIA MOTT, THE QUAKERESS ADVOCATE OF Reform.. 219 ✓ Dorothea Dix, the SaviouR OF THE INSANE. GEORGE PEABODY, THE BANKER PHILANTHROPIST. PETER COOPER, the BenefactOR OF THE UNEducated. 253 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE EMANCIPATOR OF THE SLAVE.... 260 HORACE GREELEY, THE PREMIER OF AMERICAN EDITORS... 287 JOHN ERICSSON, THE INVENTOR OF THE MONITOR. THOMAS A. EDISON, THE WIZARD OF INVENTION... FRANCES E. Willard, the WOMAN'S TEM perance LeaDER 309 CLARA BARTON, THE RED CROSS EVANGEL OF MERCY. viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MONTICELLO TITLE-PAGE TO ELIOT'S ALGONQUIN BIBLE.... HANOVER COURT HOUSE. ASTORIA GIRARD COLLEGE.... 102 108 WEBSTER, CLAY, AND JACKSON.... 130 COMBINED HARVESTER AND THRASHER. 168 “Roadside," the HOME OF LUCRETIA MOTT.... 220 DINING-ROOM AND OFFICE IN CLARA BARTON'S HOME.... 318 THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN HIS Library at OYSTER BAY... 346 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF PANAMA CANAL LOCKS... 362 |