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Americans by adoption

Chapter 1: AMERICANS BY ADOPTION
By Joseph Husband
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The volume collects nine brief biographies of men who left their native lands to become American citizens, tracing each subject's early background, career development, and public influence across areas such as science, engineering, public life, music, industry, and the arts. Emphasis falls on how the opportunities of their adopted country enabled them to pursue work to the full measure of their abilities, whether through inventive ambition, civic reform, creative practice, or enterprise, and on the broader theme that voluntary migration was driven by a desire to be judged and to contribute according to individual merit.

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Title: Americans by adoption

Brief biographies of great citizens born in foreign lands

Author: Joseph Husband

Author of introduction, etc.: William Allan Neilson

Release date: April 1, 2023 [eBook #70434]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920

Credits: Bob Taylor, hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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L. Agassiz (signature)

AMERICANS
BY ADOPTION


BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF
GREAT CITIZENS BORN IN
FOREIGN LANDS

By JOSEPH HUSBAND

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON
PRESIDENT OF SMITH COLLEGE



ILLUSTRATED


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BOSTON