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he learned TO draw and paint. an accom-
plishmcnt that became a science. His draw
ings OF birds are celebrated. His works
are Birds OF America" "OrnitholoSical
Biography" and "QuadrupedS Of America
What Audubon did for the birds OF Amer
lea Asa Gray did for the flowers and plants.
lie was professor OF natural history ~
Harvard, ana Il noted botaniSt.
John Marshall was Chief Justice OF tbs
United States from 1901 to lS5. Ofd-.Jsh-
Ioncd folks in these United States are stiiI
telling good stories about the odiliie5 OK
chief Justice Marshall" He was Il Nic-
ciu.au. a soldier OF thc + volution and auth
or rf u famous book, THE Life Of WASH
i~nston."
After John Marshall. in the list II Amer
lean immortais. comes James Kent. one %
the three lawyers and Judges now selected
FOR a place in the Hall Of Fame He lived
from 1863 to 1871. and wrote "kent's Com
meDtarics," whose full title is 'COmmeH-
tarics on American Law he was CHIEF
Justice OF the New York Supreme Court.
Joseph Story of Massachusetts. who died
in 1916. was another eminent jUrist. Tho
mention of the name Story recalls another
man. his son. The son is almost as Dis
tinguished as the father, but IN =. different
walk OF life. Joseph Story wrote COM
Tl'NtdTltS OF the "a W u AAS cu4Ali aiA0
William wetmore story was a sculptor and
poet. Story was Associate Justice of tbs
Supreme Court.
A man who was called The Apostle 20
the Indians and who was president Of
Princeton College when he died in 1.5s.
heads the list of preachers and theoioSians
whose names will appear in the Hall cc
Fame. Jonathan Edwards. Congregation
alist. is noted for something else not 50
creditable as his missionary zeal-he perse-
cuted witches. Even now he Is sometimes
referred to as the "witch-burner." His most
celebrated work was AN Essay on tho
Freedom of the Will"
Henry Ward Beecher, the famous pastor
OF Plymouth Congregational Church, Brook
Ign. y. ", was one of the most prominent
OF the anti-slavery orators. In 1865 he tsay-
eled in England. and lectured about slavery
In America He was much loved and much
hated.
All OF the three preachers and theologians
whose names have been selected Tor the
college of American inrmortals are New
England men. Jonathan Edwards and Hen
~ Ward Beecher were born in Connecti-
cut. and William Ellery Charming in Rhode
Island. Charming was one OF the chief foun-
ders OF American Unitarianism. He was
born in 1880 and died in 1si.. Another.
William Ellery Claiming. nephew of the
great Unitarian. was Il Bostonian. He was
a poet. journalist and general writer. and
WAS prominent at the time Of tbs Civil
War.
When Gilbert Stuart was painting his
numerous portraits of American men and
women he did not know that the possession
OF those same portraits would constitute
q title of aristocracy in a hundred years..
He was Il Rhode Island man. born IN I1s0.
and died at Boston in 1s2s. He was a pupil
of West in London. He painted tive whole
lengths and a number of other portraits or
Washington. Many Of the prominent men
Of the Revolution sat 10 Stuart
Education was the hobby and the profess
sion of Horace Mann u19s-ISS9l. He re-
formed the Massachusetts school system.
making a mode! for other States.
Robert Fulton spent a number of years In
London studying the art of painting under
Benjamin West. but he was not born for
a painter. Building steamboats, was to be
his claim for fame. He was born in
America. but his first experiments in steam
boat building were made in England and
France. On August II, 1867. his boat. the
Ciermont. made a trial trip from New York
to Albany, and now Robert F'ulton's name
leads all the rest in the list of American
inventors
1t Is strange that two inventors whose
work had SO much TO do with American
commercial development s. ould have Gons
TO London to study under Benjamin West.
the great painter. Fulton went. and SO did
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the man who
invented the electric telegraph. Morse
made a poor living as a painter when ho
returned to America. though he had studios.
at different times. in Baltimore and New
York. He was the first president Of the
New York Academy of Design. He had a
studio in New York when he patented tho
telegraph. The first line was established in
lSH.
II was well that Eli Whitney left New
England. where he was born. and went
South. He was teaching in Georgia some
thing over a hundred years ago when he
invented the cotton-g'n.
There are scores of different makes OF
sewing-machines nowadays, but there was
only one in Is45, and Elias Howe made it
Peter Cooper. philanthropist. had a mea-
ger education. and he determined that 9TH
er poor boys should have opportunities that
had not come to him. The son Of a poor
halter. he learned the trade Of carriage
making. and made his money In the Cam
ton ironworks in Maryland. He founded
Cooper Union in New York. where poor but
ambitious young folks may be educated
IN the arts and trades.
Another phi,anthropist who was interest,"
ed in education was George Peabody. who
was born in Massachusetts, in 1875, and who
died Il rich London banker in 1868. The
Peabody Institute iii Baltimore was found
ell by him. colleges were remembered in his
will and he gave a fund for :he education
Of the workinSmen of London
II is said OF Ralph Waldo Emerson that
has done more 10 set the young people OF
of America to thinking than any other one
man" THE Sage of Concord was an
individualist. and an apostle of culture. He
was once "A Unitarian clergyman, and -
best known as an essayist. poet and lee
turer. He wrote: Essays" Nature"
Poems" Representative Men," English
Traits Conduct of Life and Society
and Solitude" 1t Is told of Emerson that
he always ate pie for breakfast
Perhaps the most popular Of American
% Gets is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
UTILISED. The author of "Evangeline."
'The song of Hiawatha," THE Courtship
of Miles Standish" and Tales of a Way
side Inn." he is most loved because Of his
shorter poems, such as "The Psalm OF
Life" The Village Blacksmith" The
Old Clock OF the Stair" Excelsior" "Res-
isnation.' Hymn TO the Night and The
Bridge"
The Knickerbockcr History OF New
Ycrh' won his first fame for Washington
Irving. 1t was published in 1893. Among his
historical works, the Life of Washington"