. 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. this stage that George M. Pullman came to the front withthe railway coach so remodeled as to give it the air of domestic enjoy-ment, containi
. 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. this stage that George M. Pullman came to the front withthe railway coach so remodeled as to give it the air of domestic enjoy-ment, containing the facilities for eating and sleeping with the same was a woman of superior taste, from whom the future manufacturerof palace cars inherited his love of the artistic and the beautiful. Receiving a fair education in the schools of that time, he com-menced work in a furniture establishment, but was soon afterwardsengaged as a contractor in raising buildings along the line of theErie canal, at the time of its enlargement. In 1859 he removed to Chicago and entered upon the work ofelevating the buildings of the city to grade—an enterprise just beingcommenced at the time of his arrival. Among the large edifices at that time raised were the MattesonHouse, the Tremont House, and the entire business block extendingfrom Clark to LaSalle street. These great stone buildings and brickedifices were elevated several feet, complete, with scarcely a Home Enjoyment and Social Life on the Journey. regularity and pleasure that might be cxpericiucd in the j)arlornf themost luxurious home. Hundreds of thousiuids of people havingenjoyed the comforts of the palace, sleeping and dining cars, it maysafely be presumed that it will be Interesting to know simiething ofthe inventor and the means by which this imi)rovenient was given to theworld. Tlie Hiiljject tit our sketch was born in Clmutau(iua county, N. Y.,March Ills father, James L. PuUnuui, was an industriouflmechanic, and his
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