OR,

SHORT LIVES

OF

THE MOST INTERESTING PERSONS

OF

ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.

CONTAINING

MORE THAN EIGHTY SKETCHES

OF THE LIVES AND DEEDS OF EMINENT PHILANTHROPISTS, INVENTORS,
AUTHORS, POETS, DISCOVERERS, SOLDIERS, ADVENTURERS,
TRAVELERS, POLITICIANS, AND RULERS, WOMEN

AS WELL AS MEN.

BY

JAMES PARTON,

AUTHOR OF LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, LIFE AND
TIMES OF AARON BURR, FAMOUS AMERICANS OF RECENT TIMES, GENERAL
BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS, ETC., ETC.

RICHLY ILLUSTRATED

WITH TWELVE STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY.

A. S. HALE & COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONN.

R. C. TREAT, CHICAGO, ILL.; H. H. BANCROFT & CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

1868.

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Redmond Coll.

Manufactured by

CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD,

HARTFORD, CONN.