The classic collection of brief biographies of famous Americans, written to educate and delight children. Included are biographies of: George Washington, William Penn, John Paul Jones, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin Franklin, Louis Agassiz, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Edward Lee, John James Audubon, Robert Fulton, George Peabody, Daniel Webster, Augustus St. Gaudens, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, William Hickling Prescott, Phillips Brooks, Mark Twain, Joe Jefferson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Mcneill Whistler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jane Addams, Luther Burbank, Edward Alexander Macdowell, and Thomas Alva Edison.
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