Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
by Charles F. Horne
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
- Credits
- Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CT: History: Biography
- Subject
- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 26424
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26424
- Release Date
- August 27, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
- 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — WILLIAM III. OF ENGLAND (1650-1702) — ISAAC NEWTON By John Stoughton, D.D. (1642-1727) — PETER THE GREAT (1672-1725) — MARIA THERESA [1] By Anna C. Brackett (1717-1780) — EDMUND BURKE [2] By Dr. Heinrich Geffcken (1730-1797) — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) — PATRICK HENRY [3] By General Bradley T. Johnson (1736-1799) — GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) — JOHN ADAMS By Edwin Williams (1735-1826) — THOMAS JEFFERSON [5] By Hon. John B. Henderson (1743-1826) — ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757-1804) — COUNT DE MIRABEAU [6] By Charles S. Hathaway (1749-1791) — MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE (1758-1794) — JEAN HENRI PESTALOZZI By Harriet Martineau (1746-1827) — GEORGES CUVIER By John Stoughton, D.D . (1769-1832) — ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT [7] By Louis Agassiz (1769-1859) — DANIEL O'CONNELL [8] By Justin McCarthy (1775-1847) — SIMON BOLIVAR [9] By Hon. John P. St. John (1783-1830) — JEAN FRANÇOIS CHAMPOLLION [10] By Georg Ebers (1790-1832) — ANDREW JACKSON [11] By Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1767-1845) — DANIEL WEBSTER By Rev. Dr. Tweedie (1782-1852) — WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD [12] By Hon. Charles E. Fitch (1801-1872) — ABRAHAM LINCOLN [13] By Terence Vincent Powderly (1809-1865) — HORACE GREELEY [14] By Noah Brooks (1811-1872) — LOUIS AGASSIZ [15] By Asa Gray (1807-1873) — CHARLES DARWIN Extracts from "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin," by Arch. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S. (1809-1882) — LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS (1797-1877) — LÉON GAMBETTA (1838-1882) — BENJAMIN DISRAELI [16] By Harriet Prescott Spofford (1804-1881) — WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE By Justin McCarthy (Born 1809) — PRINCE VON BISMARCK [18] By Prince Outisky (1815-1898) — CHARLES STEWART PARNELL By Thomas Davidson (1846-1891) — WILLIAM McKINLEY By Rossiter Johnson (1843-1901) — GROVER CLEVELAND [19] By Clarence Cook (BORN 1837)
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