PREFACE
THERE is not extant any one volume or set of volumes that contains biographies of even one-half of the who have risen to eminence in the United Hence, the purpose of Herringshaw's Library OF American Biography is to meet this glaring inadequacy, and to present in Five Compact Volumes 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 noted personages States.
Portrait Engravings.
The most
attractive
which perpetuates
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memory
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Biography,
of individuals, and, while
aptly illustrating the conduct of lessons.
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gard they are the glory and women that a country produces and village are men every city, town of the country. In and women of character and influence, who have contributed by their enterprise and thrift, by their activity
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and sagacity in business, their zeal in educational, in religious, and in political matters, to the moral and spiritual advancement as well as to the material prosperity of the
community in which they live.
Herringshaw's Library of American Biography includes accurate biographies of all the Presidents and
