The Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780548020562
Subjects: Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: IF America had been asked who were to be her most munificent givers in the nineteenth century, she would scarcely have pointed to two grocer's boys, one in a little country store at Danvers, Mass., the other in Baltimore; both poor, both uneducated; the one leaving seven millions to Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, the other nearly nine millions to elevate humanity.