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Title: Some successful Americans
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Sherman
Subjects: Presidents Statesmen Inventors Philanthropists
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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cause. But the war hasterminated, and what this country needs now is absolute and profoundpeace. Lamar was a representative Southern man and adhered to LELAND STANFORD 129 the convictions of his boyhood and manhood. There can never bepacification in this country until these war memories are obliteratedby the action of the executive and of Congress. Mr. Stanford was by turns farmer boy, lawyer, railroadbuilder, governor, and United States senator, but it isbecause of his generous gifts that he is best known andwill be longest and most kindly remembered. And thegreatest gift of all, one that will never cease to be a powerfor good, is the university founded in remembrance of hisson, an institution where no tuition is charged, where allwho will and who are properly fitted may attend. Hismagnificent gifts to this school, nobly supplemented bythose of his wife, make it the most richly endowed uni-versity in America. Who can CvStimate the value of a lifethat culminates in such a grand work ?
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Charles Pratt 130 CHARLES PRATT 183O-189I Charles Pratt was born at Watertown, Massachusetts,October 2, 1830. His father, Asa Pratt, had a family of tenchildren, and it was necessary that each child should learnto help himself as soon as possible. Charles left home towork for a near-by farmer when he was only ten years old.Here he worked for three years, going to school for threemonths each winter. Although he was not strong he wasvery ambitious, and when only thirteen years of age he wentto Boston and worked in a grocery. After spending a yearhere he went to Newton and learned the trade of a machin-ist. All this time he was as economical as possible, hopingto save enough to enable him to get a better education.At length he was able to pay for a years tuition at Wil-braham Academy, where he lived for a dollar a week. At the close of his year at school he went to Boston asclerk in a paint and oil store. He had learned some thingsthoroughly, among others to rely upon himself, to utilize

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