The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . THOMAS JEFFERSON, 91 VotesJOHN MARSHALL, 91 Votes ROBERT FULTON, 86 VotesRALPH WALDO EMERSON, 87 Votes (75) 4EW Yfiftl IL3. and become a preacher. But the pressure of that largefamily, like the pressure of a growing crowd of young birdsin the nest, crowded him over the side of the nest intowork. At ten years of age he was set to work in the tallowchandlery, but the flavor of it was not to his taste. Assoon as he had learned to read
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . THOMAS JEFFERSON, 91 VotesJOHN MARSHALL, 91 Votes ROBERT FULTON, 86 VotesRALPH WALDO EMERSON, 87 Votes (75) 4EW Yfiftl IL3. and become a preacher. But the pressure of that largefamily, like the pressure of a growing crowd of young birdsin the nest, crowded him over the side of the nest intowork. At ten years of age he was set to work in the tallowchandlery, but the flavor of it was not to his taste. Assoon as he had learned to read, which was very early, he de-voured every book he could get his hands on, and so hisfather concluded to make a printer of him, and apprenticedhim to an elder brother till he was twenty-one. Two or three years after the commencement of the ap-prenticeship, his brother set up the fourth newspaper pub-lished in America, the New England Conrant. The pressnaturally took root in America. From the first, it has calledforth the best talent in the country, and in Franklins daywas pretty much the only avenue open for miscellaneousliterature. The young Franklin caught the mania of writing fromthe consequence it gave the contributors to the paper, and,knowing that a prophet has no honor in
Size: 2826px × 884px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectuniteds, bookyear1902
