Identifier: selfmademen00seym (find matches)
Title: Self-made men
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Seymour, Charles C. B. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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JOHANN GOTtLIEB FICHTE . . . . . 106
DAVID RITTENHOUSE . . . . . 114
CARSTEN NIEBUHR . . . . . 121
HENRY CLAY . . . . . 130
JOHN LEDYARD . . . . . 138
STEPHEN GIRARD . . . . . 165
SIR WILLIAM PHIPS . . . . . 181
DANIEL BOONE . . . . . 191
JOSEPH BRAMAH . . . . . 209
JAMES HARGREAVES . . . . . 212
ALEXANDER WILSON . . . . . 215
EDMUND CARTWRIGHT . . . . . 234
COUNT RUMFORD . . . . . 238
THOMAS POSEY . . . . . 253
ISRAEL PUTNAM . . . . . 258
JOHN PRIDEAUX . . . . . 270
ROGER WILLIAMS . . . . . 275
WILLIAM HUTTON . . . . . 289
JOHN PAUL JONES . . . . . 303
WILLIAM FALCONER . . . . . 310
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY . . . . . 314
ROBERT DODSLEY . . . . . 320

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ANTONIO CANOVA . . . . . 323
PHILIP VAYRINGE . . . . . 330
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH . . . . . 336
VALENTINE JAMERAI DUVAL . . . . . 343
CHARLES DICKENS . . . . . 353
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE . . . . . 353
WILLIAM GIFFORD . . . . . 374
BENJAMIN WEST . . . . . 382
JOHN FITCH . . . . . 394
PATRICK HENRY . . . . . 401
ELI WHITNEY . . . . . 420
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . . . . . 428
OLIVER EVANS . . . . . 449
ROGER SHERMAN . . . . . 454
ROBERT FULTON . . . . . 460
SIR WILLIAM JONES . . . . . 469
CAPT. JOHN SMITH . . . . . 479
JAMES BRINDLEY . . . . . 496
THOMAS HOLCROFT . . . . . 500
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD . . . . . 507
SIR RICHARD ARKWRIGHT . . . . . 512
HENRY KIRKE WHITE . . . . . 520
JAMES WATT . . . . . 531
WILLIAM COBBETT . . . . . 538
AMOS WHITTEMORE . . . . . 553
CAPT. JAMES COOK . . . . . 557
GEORGE STEPHENSON . . . . . 575

SELF-MADE MEN.
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ANDREW JACKSON.

Andrew Jackson was descended from a Scotch family which
emigrated to the North of Ireland at a very early period. The
troubled state of that country induced Andrew4s father to seek a
new home in the land of promise, America. In 1765 he arrived
at the port of Charleston, South Carolina, bringing with him a
wife and two sons, Hugh and Robert. He settled on a tract of
land then called Waxhaw Settlement, near the boundary-line
of North Carolina. Here, two years subsequently, the subject of
this memoir was born (15th March, 1767).
Soon after the birth of Andrew, his father died, leaving him
and his two brothers to the sole care and guardianship of Mrs.
Jackson, an excellent woman, famed for her heroic resolution,

10 SELF-MADE MEN.

and admirable qualities of head and heart. In early life she had
witnessed the tyranny of British rule in Ireland, and the still
more tyrannous exactions of the Irish nobility. These reminis-
cences she recounted to her sons, and their influence was observ-
able in after-life in a sturdy oppostion to tyranny and exaction.

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