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=Alexander Hamilton= (1757–1804), Statesman, Financier, Secretary of the Treasury. By Prof. =William G. Sumner=, of Yale University.
=Father Juniper Serra= (1713–1784), and the Franciscan Missions in California. By JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL.D.
=Cotton Mather= (1663–1728), Theologian, Author, Believer in Witchcraft and the Supernatural. By Prof. BARRETT WENDELL, of Harvard University.
=Robert Cavelier=, _sieur_ de La Salle (1643–1687), Explorer of the Northwest and the Mississippi. By EDWARD G. MASON, Esq., President of the Historical Society of Chicago, author of “Illinois” in the Commonwealth Series.
=Thomas Nelson= (1738–1789), Governor of Virginia, General in the Revolutionary Army. Embracing a Picture of Virginian Colonial Life. By =Thomas Nelson Page=, author of “Mars Chan,” and other popular stories.
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=Sir William Johnson= (1715–1774), and The Six Nations. By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D., author of “The Mikado’s Empire,” etc., etc.
=Sam. Houston= (1793–1862), and the Annexation of Texas. By HENRY BRUCE, Esq.
=Joseph Henry, LL.D.= (1797–1878), Savant and Natural Philosopher. By FREDERIC H. BETTS, Esq.
=Ralph Waldo Emerson.= By Prof. HERMAN GRIMM, author of “The Life of Michael Angelo,” “The Life and Times of Goethe,” etc.
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