Famous boys and how they became great men
Subtitle: dedicated to youths and young men, as a stimulus to earnest living
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: James Miller
Published: 1867
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Boys; Biography; Juvenile literature; Inventors; Adventure and adventurers; Artists; Philosophers; Clergy; Politicians; Authors
Notes: Added title page, engraved by J.W. Orr.

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Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Daniel Webster; title: Samuel Drew; title: Benjamin Franklin; title: Robert Burns; title: Elisha Kent Kane; title: Henry Clay; title: John Leyden; title: James Montgomery; title: Nathaniel Bowditch; title: Henry Havelock; title: David Livingston; title: Oliver Evans; title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: Robert Fulton; title: John Kitto; title: Humphrey Davy; title: Amos Lawrence; title: Stephen Girard; title: Samuel Crompton; title: Thomas Chalmers; title: Jacques Lafitte; title: John James Audubon; title: William Jay; title: Roger Sherman.