Published by Good Press, 2019

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       PREFACE.

       PORTRAITS.

       CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY.

       DAVID MAYDOLE,

       ICHABOD WASHBURN,

       ELIHU BURRITT,

       MICHAEL REYNOLDS,

       MAJOR ROBERT PIKE,

       GEORGE GRAHAM,

       JOHN HARRISON,

       PETER FANEUIL,

       CHAUNCEY JEROME,

       CAPTAIN PIERRE LACLEDE LIGUEST,

       ISRAEL PUTNAM.

       GEORGE FLOWER.

       EDWARD COLES,

       PETER H. BURNETT.

       GERRIT SMITH.

       PETER FORCE.

       JOHN BROMFIELD,

       FREDERICK TUDOR,

       MYRON HOLLEY,

       THE FOUNDERS OF LOWELL.

       ROBERT OWEN,

       JOHN SMEDLEY,

       RICHARD COBDEN,

       HENRY BESSEMER.

       JOHN BRIGHT.

       THOMAS EDWARD,

       ROBERT DICK,

       JOHN DUNCAN,

       JAMES LACKINGTON,

       HORACE GREELEY'S START.

       JAMES GORDON BENNETT,

       THREE JOHN WALTERS,

       GEORGE HOPE.

       SIR HENRY COLE.

       CHARLES SUMMERS.

       WILLIAM B. ASTOR.

       PETER COOPER.

       PARIS-DUVERNEY.

       SIR ROWLAND HILL.

       MARIE-ANTOINE CARÈME,

       WONDERFUL WALKER.

       SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN.

       SIR JOHN RENNIE,

       SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE.

       MARQUIS OF WORCESTER,

       AN OLD DRY-GOODS MERCHANT'S RECOLLECTIONS.

PREFACE.

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      In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. The American people were fortunate in having at an early period an ideal man of this kind in Benjamin Franklin, who, at the age of forty-two, just mid-way in his life, deliberately relinquished the most profitable business of its kind in the colonies for the sole purpose of developing electrical science. In this, as in other respects, his example has had great influence with his countrymen.