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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 Daughters of the American Revolution
Subjects: Historic buildings Statesmen
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
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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night, whilethey, as Jack expressed it, lay sleeping at the rate of forty miles an hour,as, after crossing the Alleghanies, they would descend into the fertile regionof Kentucky, the heroic land of American history. The dark and bloody ground, — was nt it called that ? asked Roger. The home of Daniel Boone, cried Jack. And of Henry Clay, said Bert. Henry Clay ? queried Christine ; is nt he the man who said, I hadrather be right than President ? Tell us about him, Uncle Tom, said Marian. Can we see wherehe lived ? That s the next thing on the docket, Uncle Tom replied. I hopeto show you Ashland to-morrow. But see here, he said, as, a few minutes later, they sat in the unoccu-pied saloon compartment of their car, which the) now and then, as Bertexplained, preempted for a conference, what can you boys and girlstell me about Henry Clay ? Who was he ? They really could nt tell so very much when thus brought to book.Bert said that Clay was called the great Kentuckian, though just why, he
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PAINTED BY MATTHEW HARRIS JOOETT. HENRY CLAY AT THE AGE OF FORTY-THREE* When he was Speaker of the House of Representatives. ED BY H. C. MCDOWELL. 140 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS

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