Lives Of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Published: October 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781410106773
Subjects: Biography: historical; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; 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.