Preface

I. MERCHANTS.

1. Stephen Girard

2. John Jacob Astor

3. Alexander T. Stewart

4. Amos Lawrence

5. Andrew V. Stout

6. Jonas Chickering

7. Nicholas Longworth

8. George Peabody

II. CAPITALISTS.

9. Cornelius Vanderbilt

10. Daniel Drew

11. James B. Eads

12. Cyrus W. Field

III. INVENTORS.

13. Robert Fulton

14. Charles Goodyear

15. Eli Whitney

16. Chauncey Jerome

17. Elias Howe, Jr.

18. Richard M. Hoe

19. Samuel Colt

20. Samuel F.B. Morse

IV. PUBLISHERS.

21. James Harper

22. James T. Fields

V. EDITORS.

23. James Gordon Bennett

24. Robert Bonner

VI. LAWYERS.

25. John Marshall

26. James T. Brady

VII. ARTISTS.

27. Benjamin West

28. John Rogers

29. Hiram Powers

30. Emmanuel Leutze

VIII. DIVINES.

31. Henry Ward Beecher

32. Peter Cartwright

IX. AUTHORS.

33. Henry W. Longfellow

34. Nathaniel Hawthorne

X. ACTORS.

35. Edwin Booth

36. Joseph Jefferson

XI. PHYSICIANS.

37. Benjamin Rush

38. Valentine Mott