Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous (29 Biographies)
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowll Company
Published: June 1, 1913
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780827429772
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.