Childhood of famous Americans

Concentrates on the childhood of the thirty-fifth President of the United States.

The hero of Manila Bay was awarded with a promotion to Rear Admiral and retired a national hero. The author climaxes the events of his boyhood with an account of the famous battle of the Spanish-American War.

A portrait of young Abigail Adams, the woman who became both wife to a President and mother of a President.

As a child, Frances Willard was always crusading for something. When she grew up, she crusaded for higher education for women and their rights to enter professions.

When Mrs. Wheatley bought the thin, frightened little black girl at the Boston slave market, she could not guess that the child would become a celebrated poet renowned throughout the colonies.

The early years of Daniel Webster : orator, lawyer, Senator and Secretary of State.

A biography stressing the childhood of the Missouri farm boy who became the thirty-third President.

A biography of the first Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, whose wise government and fair treatment of the Indians remain models of excellent leadership.

A biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of a President of the United States, and a great humanitarian in her own right.