. Self-made. B 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 FALKNER 310 Sir Humphrey Davy 314 ROBERT DODSLEY 320 viii Inhalt. PAGB ANTONIO CANOVA 323 PHILIP VAYRINGE 330 NATHANIEL BOWDITCI 1 336 VALENTINE JAMERAI DUVAL 343 CHARLES DICKENS 353 SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE 353 WILLIAM GI
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. Self-made men. B 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 Vlll CONTENTS. PAGB ANTONIO CANOVA 323 PHILIP VAYRINGE 330 NATHANIEL BOWDITCI1 336 VALENTINE JAMERAI DUVAL 343 CHARLES DICKENS 353 SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE 353 WILLIAM GIFFORD 374 BENJAMIN WEST 3g2 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.. ANDREW JACKSON. Andrew Jackson was descended from a Scotch family whichemigrated to the North of Ireland at a very early period. Thetroubled state of that country induced Andrews father to seek anew home in the land of promise, America. In 1765 he arrivedat the port of Charleston, South Carolina, bringing with him awife and two sons, Hugh and Robert. He settled on a tract ofland then called Waxhaw Settlement, near the boundary-lineof North Carolina. Here, two years subsequently, the subject ofthis memoir was born (15th March, 1767). Soon after the birth of Andrew, his father died, leaving himand his two brothers to the sole care and guardianship of Mrs.Jackson, an excellent woman, famed for her heroic resolution, A 2 10 SELF-MADE MEN. and admirable qualities of head and heart. In early life she hadwitnessed the tyranny of British rule in Ireland, and the stillmore tyrannous exactions of the Irish nobility. These reminis-cences she recounted to her sons, and their infl
