HERRINGSHAW'S
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY
contains
Thirty-Five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States
illustrated with
THREE THOUSAND VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES
INCLUDING EVERY NAME OF EMINENCE PRODUCED BY THIS GREAT REPUBLIC SINCE FORMATION TO THE PRESENT TIME
EDITED AND COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
THOMAS WILLIAM HERRINGSHAW
Author of Home Occupations, Prominent Men and Women of the Day, Aids to Literary Success, Mulierology, Local and National Poets of America, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, and Other Works.
ASSISTED BY
a staff of distinguished biographers
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED
VOLUME I.
AARON— CLASON
"THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN"
CHICAGO, ILL.
AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION
1909
