Excerpt from Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living, Vol. 1 of 2: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions
This work presents to the world, sketches, with pen and pencil, of some Of those prominent Americans now living - including Lawyers, Doctors, Statesmen, Financiers, Merchants, Manufacturers and Farmers - whose talents, energy and enterprise, while affording an instructive lesson to mankind, seem worthy of being held up as examples for emulation. That the memory of such persons, besides being treasured in the hearts of relatives and friends, should have its public record also, is peculiarly proper; because a knowledge of men whose substantial fame rests upon their attainments, character, and success, must exert a wholesome influence on the rising generation Of the American people; while to those who have arrived at a period in life not to be benefited by lessons designed for less advanced age, it cannot fail to prove interesting.
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