Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
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Chapter 1 STEPHEN GIRARD.
Chapter 2 JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
Chapter 3 ALEXANDER T. STEWART.
Chapter 4 AMOS LAWRENCE.
Chapter 5 ANDREW V. STOUT.
Chapter 6 JONAS CHICKERING.
Chapter 7 NICHOLAS LONGWORTH.
Chapter 8 GEORGE PEABODY.
Chapter 9 CORNELIUS VANDERBILT.
Chapter 10 DANIEL DREW.
Chapter 11 JAMES B. EADS.
Chapter 12 CYRUS W. FIELD.
Chapter 13 ROBERT FULTON.
Chapter 14 CHARLES GOODYEAR.
Chapter 15 ELI WHITNEY.
Chapter 16 CHAUNCEY JEROME.
Chapter 17 ELIAS HOWE, JR.
Chapter 18 RICHARD M. HOE.
Chapter 19 SAMUEL COLT.
Chapter 20 SAMUEL F.B. MORSE.
Chapter 21 JAMES HARPER.
Chapter 22 JAMES T. FIELDS.
Chapter 23 JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
Chapter 24 ROBERT BONNER.
Chapter 25 JOHN MARSHALL.
Chapter 26 JAMES T. BRADY.
Chapter 27 BENJAMIN WEST.
Chapter 28 JOHN ROGERS.
Chapter 29 HIRAM POWERS.
Chapter 30 EMMANUEL LEUTZE.
Chapter 31 HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Chapter 32 PETER CARTWRIGHT.
Chapter 33 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
Chapter 34 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
Chapter 35 EDWIN BOOTH.
Chapter 36 JOSEPH JEFFERSON.
Chapter 37 BENJAMIN RUSH.
Chapter 38 VALENTINE MOTT.
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Chapter 36 JOSEPH JEFFERSON.

The subject of this sketch is one of a race of actors. His great-grandfather was a contemporary of some of the brightest ornaments of the English stage, and was himself a famous actor and the intimate friend of Garrick, Sam Foote, and Barr. He was a man of amiable and winning disposition, and was strikingly handsome in person. He occupies a promine

             
            

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