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Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

Chapter 33: Transcriber's Notes
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A series of concise biographical sketches traces how boys who began life in poverty overcame hardship through industry, perseverance, and character to achieve prominence in various fields. Each portrait highlights formative struggles, practical habits, and turning points that enabled upward mobility, and several lives are presented as windows onto broader historical currents such as national unification, the abolition movement, and major wartime events. The collection emphasizes moral lessons about work, will, and philanthropy and aims to inspire youth by showing diverse paths from humble origins to public usefulness.

"Children of the Heavenly King,"

Abraham Lincoln was buried, Bishop Simpson, now dead, spoke eloquently, quoting Mr. Lincoln's words, "Before high Heaven and in the face of the world I swear eternal fidelity to the just cause, as I deem it, of the land of my life, my liberty, and my love."

Charles Sumner said, "There are no accidents in the Providence of God." Such lives as that of Abraham Lincoln are not accidents in American history. They are rather the great books from whose pages we catch inspiration, and in which we read God's purposes for the progress of the human race.


BOOKS BY SARAH K. BOLTON.

"Mrs. Bolton never fails to interest and instruct her readers."—Chicago Inter-ocean.

POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS
GIRLS WHO BECAME FAMOUS
FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE
FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN
FAMOUS ENGLISH STATESMEN
FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS
FAMOUS ENGLISH AUTHORS
FAMOUS EUROPEAN ARTISTS
FAMOUS TYPES OF WOMANHOOD
FAMOUS VOYAGERS AND EXPLORERS
FAMOUS LEADERS AMONG MEN
FAMOUS LEADERS AMONG WOMEN
FAMOUS GIVERS AND THEIR GIFTS
EMERSON
RAPHAEL
FROM HEART AND NATURE (Poems)
THE INEVITABLE (Poems)

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NEW YORK:
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS.

Transcriber's Notes

Punctuation has been standardised.

Minor printer errors (e.g. omitted, superfluous or transposed characters) have been fixed.

Page 72, "Amodeus" changed to "Amadeus" (Amadeus Mozart was)

Page 134, "tamborine" changed to "tambourine" (beating the tambourine)

Page 186, "capitol" changed to "capital" (capital of united Italy)

Page 241, "enterprizing" changed to "enterprising" (enterprising young man)

Page 273, "sadler" changed to "saddler" (a saddler was found)