Famous Americans of recent times.
By: By James Parton ...
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "The papers contained in this volume were originally published in the North American Review, with four exceptions. Those upon Theodosia Burr and John Jacob Astor first appeared in Harper's Magazine; that upon Commodore Vanderbilt, in the New York Ledger; and that upon Henry Ward Beecher and his church, in the Atlantic Monthly."--Note.