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Excerpt from Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living; Noteworthy as Having Achieved Success in Their Chosen Avocations in the Various Civil, Military, Educational, Religious, Industrial, Commercial and Other Lines of Human Effort This most admirable collection of contemporary biography of America's foremost leaders of life and thought will be an invaluable acquisition to the world's libraries and historical archives. The sketches of the leaders of life and thought now at the helm of America's Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, Industrial and Commercial lines of human activity have been selected with the greatest of care from current historical works and publications and from various other sources. As Builders and Merchants they have built cities and illumined the marts of trade; in the field of science and medicine they haveobtained great prominence; in the arena of states manship they have produced men of thought and men of action, while at the bar and in the admini stration of Justice they have shown erudition and Wisdom. As Clergymen, educators and lecturers they have occupied high places; and as musicians, com posers, artists, authors and poets they have contrib uted profusely to social life. 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.