Excerpt from Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography, Vol. 2 of 5: Contains Thirty-Five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Claus-Gwynn Vice-presidents of the United States; every member of all the cabinets; every United States Senator and Speaker of the House; every United States Congressman; every mem ber of the Supreme Court; ever signer of the Declaration Of Independence; the Governors of the States and Terri tories; all the Authors, Poets and Composers; all the eminent Clergymen, Judges, Lawyers; all the Admirals and distinguished naval officers; all the Generals and distinguished army officers; while no name eminent in Literature, Art, Music, Science or Invention has been omitted. As the failure to consider the lives of men of affairs as of historical importance is a defective feature of all biographical works heretofore published, a special feature of this work has been to include the lives of the great pio meers, merchants, manufacturers, railroad builders, and other practical men who have developed the mines, forests and farms, built the railroads, steamboat lines and canals, set afloat and managed the shipping, organized the cor porations, and introduced the new processes in science and mechanics, which have so greatly reduced the cost and promoted the comfort of living, while contributing to the power and prestige of the nation itself. They have founded the great museums, erected statues, libraries and reading rooms; and it is by them that the colleges, schools and philanthropic institutions are built and maintained° and it surely is befitting that their records should be pre served for all time in this national work of representative Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.