Word pictures of 52 all American personalities
By: by Jack Wilbur, with drawings by E.M. Stevenson
Publisher: Clement-Smith-Rogers
Published: 1925
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Biography
Table of contents: title: Christopher Columbus: discovers the American Indian; title: John Cabot: a sailor and business man; title: Ferdinand Magellan: a soldier of fortune; title: Captain John Smith: a gallant soldier; title: Miles Standish: pilgrim and friend; title: John Alden: pilgrim and lover; title: Peter Stuyvesant: colonial governor; title: William Penn: Quaker; title: Benjamin Franklin: printer; title: George Washington: leader; title: Daniel Boone: scout; title: Paul Revere: patriot; title: John Hancock: gentleman; title: Thomas Jefferson: the people's friend; title: James Monroe: a man of sound judgment; title: Robert Fulton: executive dreamer; title: Meriwether Lewis: Coast to coast explorer; title: Daniel Webster: orator and statesman; title: Washington Irving: American man of letters; title: Brigham Young: organizer; title: Marcus Whitman: medical missionary; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne: master of prose; title: Robert E. Lee: southerner; title: Ulysses S. Grant: northerner; title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: poetical story teller; title: Abraham Lincoln: savior of our country; title: James Abbot McNeil Whistler: painter; title: Mark Twain: joy maker; title: Andrew Carnegie: the Steel King; title: John D. Rockefeller: the world's richest man; title: William McKinley: honorable gentleman; title: Theodore Newton Vail: capitalist; title: W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill): showman; title: Thomas A. Edison: wizard; title: Alexander Graham Bell: telephone inventor; title: Samuel Gompers: labor leader; title: Robert Boyd Ward: bread maker; title: W.B. Ward: the second bread maker; title: James Whitcomb Riley: American poet; title: Robert E. Peary: discoverer; title: Woodrow Wilson: World War president; title: George W. Goethals: Panama Canal engineer; title: Edward Alexander MacDowell: American composer; title: Warren G. Harding: post war peacemaker; title: Wilbur Wright: pioneer air man; title: Henry Ford: automotive genius; title: John J. Pershing: World War commander; title: Theodore Roosevelt: typical American; title: Elihu Root: lawyer; title: Luther Burbank: nature magician; title: Frank W. Woolworth: business builder; title: Calvin Coolidge: president.