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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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ression as follows : Roberts Brothers paid me $2022 for books. S. E. S. investedmost of it with the $1000 F. sent. Gave C. M. $100,—a thankoffering for my success. I like to help the class of silent poor towhich we belonged for so many years, — needy, but respectable, andforgotten because too proud to beg. Work is difficult to find forsuch people, and life made very hard for want of a little money. Miss Alcott died March 6, 1888, mourned by many andsincere friends. Through hundreds of short stories, as awriter for SL Nicholas and the Youths Companion, as theauthor of many volumes, she w^as loved by hundreds ofthousands of American boys and girls. ** Little Womenis her great work. Among the most noted of her otherbooks are *^ Little Men, ^^Work, *^ Hospital Sketches, Old-Fashioned Girl, and Shawl Straps. More than amillion copies of her books were sold, and not less than$200,000 was paid her as royalty, a large part of whichwas used in adding to the happiness and comfort of others.
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Alexander H. Stephens no ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS 1812-1883 At the close of the War of the Revolution a certainCaptain Stephens of the patriot army found himself almostpenniless. He had been one of the Jacobites who fled fromEngland to America, and had taken part in the French andIndian War as well as in the later conflict. He settled inwhat is now Taliaferro County, Georgia, and brought up afamily of eight children. One of his sons became a school-teacher, and with his earnings purchased a farm of onehundred acres, where on February 11, 1812, Alexander H.Stephens was born. The boy was weak and delicate from his birth. Hisfather was very poor, and from his earliest childhood Alex-ander had to work, doing whatever his tender years andfrail body would permit. He had little opportunity foracquiring an education, partly because he must work, butchiefly because there were no schools save what were knownas field schools, which were usually presided over by veryinefficient teachers. Under such

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