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 PREFACE. nnH£R£

is

not extant any one volume or set of volumes

that contains biographies of even one-half of the

noted personages who have risen to eminence in the United States.

OF

Hence, the purpose of Hi:rrinc;shav's Library is to meet this glaring inade-

Amlricax Bicgkaphy

quacy, and to present in Five

Compact Vilumes

the lives

and achievements of thirty- five thousand of the most celebrated men and women who have been the founders, defenders and builders of this Great Republic of the United States of America, including every name of eminence it has produced from its formation to the present time. It is also illustrated with over Three Thousand Vignette Portrait Engravings.

The most attractive form which perpetuates the memory

of history

aptly illustrating the conduct of lessons.

History,

it

is

Biography,

of individuals, and, while

conveys important

life,

has been well said, does not

much

re-

gard fertile soil or material wealth hut the admirable men and women that a country produces they are the glory In everv city, town and village are men of the country.

—

and

women

of character

and influence, who have conand thrift, by their activity

tributed by their enterprise

and sagacity in business, their zeal in educational, in reand in political matters, to the moral and spiritual advancement as well as to the material prosperity of the communitv in which they live. Lirkarv oi A^^ERICAx Biography H^:RRI^liSHA^^ ligious,

includes accurate biographies of

all

the Presidents

and

I.