. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . rday as we wandered about Lex-ington. Let me see if I can recall it. o Two Presidents of the United States—Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln —were Kentucky born, you know, and the one Confederate President, Jef-ferson Davis. Besides these, two Yice-Presidents of the United Statesand two acting Yice-Presidents, two Secretaries of State, four Secretariesof the Treasury, three Secretaries of \Yar, one Secretary of the Navy, oneSecretary of the Interior, six Postmasters-General, six Attorneys-Gen
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . rday as we wandered about Lex-ington. Let me see if I can recall it. o Two Presidents of the United States—Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln —were Kentucky born, you know, and the one Confederate President, Jef-ferson Davis. Besides these, two Yice-Presidents of the United Statesand two acting Yice-Presidents, two Secretaries of State, four Secretariesof the Treasury, three Secretaries of \Yar, one Secretary of the Navy, oneSecretary of the Interior, six Postmasters-General, six Attorneys-General,seven Judges of the Supreme Court, two Presidents of the Senate, and sixSpeakers of the House. That s quite a list, is nt it? I should say so, said Bert. Anything left for Ohio? queried Jack. You dont think that Kentucky mans Kentucky-ness made him swellthings, do you ? asked Roger. \Yell, his loyalty may have led him into over-appropriation, saidUncle Tom ; for he included James G. Blaine, because the famous Speakertaught school and married his wife in Kentucky, and I suspect one or two. THE MAN IN THE SMOKINGCOMPARTMENT. IX AND AROUXD THE HERMITAGE others may have been Kentuckian by his , its a strong list, and one not easily s a great State, you see. So they all concluded before they were throughwith it. Their two days in Louisville were crowdedwith pleasure. The situation, extent, energy, andstateliness of the city impressed them, its widestreets and verdant lawns gave to it breadth andbeauty, while its hospitality was avoided only by avigorous effort. o But Uncle Tom, with a stern sense of duty,dragged his brood away from the delightful Third-street mansion wrhere lived a charming Kentuckywoman whom some of the boys and girls had met attheir Maine summer resort by the sea, and who in-sisted upon keeping them all and indefinitely. Soat last they escaped across the Kentucky border by the skin of their teeth, Bert biblically declared
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