. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. w York in 1829, learnedthe trade of a bookbinder, and becamenoted for hia habits of some influence he was inducedto atte
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. w York in 1829, learnedthe trade of a bookbinder, and becamenoted for hia habits of some influence he was inducedto attend a temperance meeting in Octo-ber, IH12, where he signed the temper-ance pledge, and from that time wasthoroughly reformed. He not only prac-ticed total abstinence, but began to advo-cate it from the platform with the earnestness and eloquence forwhich he is now so greatly distinguished. His reputation as anorator widely increased as he traveled and lectured throughout theUnited States andCanada. His fameextended also toEngland, and in 1853the London temper-ance league invitedhim to visit GreatBritain. He did so,!ind eloquently advo-cated the temper-ance cause in allparts of England forabout two years,when he returnedto America. Up tothis time, in thetwo nations, he hadtraveled more than29,500 miles, deliv-ered 1,045 lectures,and obtained manythousands of signa-tures to the tem-perancepledge. Thebeneficial effects ofhis labors are John B. Gough. Distinguished Orator and TemperanceLecturer. After his return he continuedto labor in this manner, and in 1857 he again sailed for England,where he lectured with still greater success than on his former iStiO be came back to the United States. He now added lectureson other subjects to his course, and continued to maintain his popu-larity, amassing wealth by his eloquence, and building an elegantresidence near Worcester, Mass. In 18T8 he made a third visit toEngland. His autobiography was published in 1870. He w
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