| IN EVERY COUNTRY, there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people.
NOTE: A print version of each story is available by clicking on the  near the top-right of each story page.
- George Washington
- William Penn
- John Paul Jones
- John Singleton Copley
- Benjamin Franklin
- Louis Agassiz
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- Ulysses Simpson Grant
- Clara Barton
- Abraham Lincoln
- Robert Edward Lee
- John James Audubon
- Robert Fulton
- George Peabody
- Daniel Webster
- Augustus St. Gaudens
- Henry David Thoreau
- Louisa May Alcott
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse
- William Hickling Prescott
- Phillips Brooks
- Samuel Clemens
- Joe Jefferson
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- James Mcneill Whistler
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Jane Addams
- Luther Burbank
- Edward Alexander Macdowell
- Thomas Alva Edison
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