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Men of our times, or, Leading patriots of the day : being narratives of the lives and deeds of statemen, generals and orators : Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckigham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher

Title
Men of our times, or, Leading patriots of the day : being narratives of the lives and deeds of statemen, generals and orators : Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckigham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher / by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's cabin ; beautifully illustrated with eighteen steel portraits.
Author
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Publication
  • Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Co. ; New York : J.D. Denison ; Chicago : J.A. Stoddard, 1868.
  • ©1868.

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Description
xiv, [1], 12-575, [1] pages, [19] leaves of plates : portraits; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Alternative Title
  • Men of our times
  • Leading patriots of the day
Subject
  • Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
  • Statesmen > United States > Biography
  • Generals > United States > Biography
  • Orators > United States > Biography
  • United States > Biography
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography
Note
  • "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
  • "Electrotyped by Lockwood & Mandeville, Hartford, Conn."--verso of title page.
  • Last page blank.
Indexed In (note)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
ch. 1. Abraham Lincoln -- ch. 2. Ulysses S. Grant -- ch. 3. William Lloyd Garrison -- ch. 4. Charles Sumner -- ch. 5. Salmon P. Chase -- ch. 6. Henry Wilson -- ch. 7. Horace Greeley -- ch. 8. David G. Farragut -- ch. 9. John A. Andrew -- ch. 10. Schuyler Colfax -- ch. 11. Edwin M. Stanton -- ch. 12. Frederick Douglass -- ch. 13. Philip H. Sheridan -- ch. 14. William T. Sherman -- ch. 15. Oliver O. Howard -- ch. 16. William A. Buckingham -- ch. 17. Wendell Phillips -- ch. 18. Henry Ward Beecher.
Call Number
Sc 920-S (Stowe, H. Men of our times)
ISBN
051810026X
LCCN
06006492
OCLC
  • 704314
  • NYPGR704314-B
Author
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, author.
Title
Men of our times, or, Leading patriots of the day : being narratives of the lives and deeds of statemen, generals and orators : Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckigham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher / by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's cabin ; beautifully illustrated with eighteen steel portraits.
Publisher
Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Co. ; New York : J.D. Denison ; Chicago : J.A. Stoddard, 1868.
Copyright Date
©1868.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9920
Provenance
Copy in Sc 920-S (accession no. B593759) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Added Author
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc 920-S (Stowe, H. Men of our times)
AGZ(Stowe, H. E. B. Men of our times)
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