Herringshaws National Library Of American Biography Vol 5 Of 5 PDF Download

Excerpt from Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography, Vol. 4 of 5: Contains Thirty-Five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Maas-Richards States, confirmed the opinion that the public is sufficiently alive to the value and importance of such a work, and the lasting benefit to be derived from placing their names, side by side with those of our most honored ones, in a work that will be found in the great public libraries and read ing rooms throughout the world, and which is ultimately destined to go down to posterity as an enduring record of the most eminent people of the United States; bearing in mind that without such a record some of the most illus trious names would be lost in oblivion, and their posterity deprived of the gratification and advantage of reference to so honorable an ancestry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.