TAILIEUCHUNG - The Child's Book of American Biography

No one ever tells a story about the early days in America without bringing in the name of George Washington. In fact he is called the Father of our country. But he did not get this name until he was nearly sixty years old; and all kinds of interesting things, like taming wild colts, fighting Indians, hunting game, fording rivers, and commanding an army, had happened to him before that. He really had a wonderful life. George Washington was born in Virginia almost two hundred years ago. Virginia was not a state then. Indeed, there were no states. Every colony from Maine to Georgia was. | The Child s Book of American Biography by by Frank T. Merrill 1 The Child s Book of American Biography by by Frank T. Merrill The Project Gutenberg eBook The Child s Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Child s Book of American Biography Author Mary Stoyell Stimpson Release Date May 31 2010 eBook 32628 Language English The Child s Book of American Biography by by Frank T. Merrill 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILD S BOOK OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland Carla Foust and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See or http files 32628 32628-h or http files 32628 Transcriber s note A list of corrections will be found at the end of this e-book. THE CHILD S BOOK OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY by MARY STOYELL STIMPSON Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill Illustration He rode beside the coach on a chestnut horse. FRONTISPIECE. See Page Ố. Decoration Boston Little Brown and Company 1924 Copyright 1915 By Little Brown and Company. All rights reserved Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co. Norwood Mass. . FOREWORD In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. CONTENTS PAGE GEORGE WASHINGTON 1 WILLIAM PENN 9 JOHN PAUL JONES

• Tiếng Anh thương mại
• GEORGE WASHINGTON
• WILLIAM PENN
• JOHN PAUL JONES
• GEORGE PEABODY
• ABRAHAM LINCOLN
• Peanut Man
• College Life
• David Grandison Fairchild
• Professional Life
• washington
• guide
• field
• university
• george
• tổng thống mỹ
• lịch sử các đời tổng thống mỹ
• President of USA
• barack obama
• kinh doanh
• quản trị
• quản lý
• bản sao bức chân dung
• vị Tổng thống đầu tiên
• kiến thức mỹ thuật
• mỹ thuật nước ngoài
• tác phẩm nghệ thuật
• danh họa
• họa sĩ nổi tiếng
• trường phái nghệ thuật
• Movable School
• Big Reward
• Early Education
• dnah nhân thế giới
• nhân vật nổi tiếng
• tài liệu về danh nhân
• nhân vật lịch sử
• tìm hiểu về danh nhân
• Chinese Transcontinental
• Thomas Edison
• Lillian Gilbreth
• Samuel Slater