Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... the ladder of fame Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame, s proud temple shines afar!--Beat-tie. hose who greatly succeed in the conduct of life teach many valuable lessons to others and give great happiness to the world. All cannot succeed. In the customary course of things many must fail. But to a just and sensitive mind the spectacle of a lofty, puissant character and a noble prosperity is one of the incomparable comforts of human experience. Such a mind will find delight in dwelling upon this spectacle, will exult in it, and will extol it; for the good reason that here is manifest a brilliant example, soothing and encouraging, of the capabilities inherent in human nature. A The beauty of true sueMotive of great character greatly successful, shining this book. in its righteous eminence and irradiating a beneficent grace, implies the divine element and the celestial future of mankind. Nothing can be more helpful to humanity than the contemplation of this kind of success. An impulse to celebrate such a character and to tell, in such detail as is permissible, the story of such a life, therefore explains itself, and surely it does not need the shield of apology. MaryAnder-mary antoinette anderson was born guifoT.m at Sacramento, California, on July 28, 1859. Her father, Charles Henry Anderson, was a native of New York; her mother, Marie Antoinette Leugers, was a native of Philadelphia. Mary is the elder of two children born of this marriage, the younger being her brother, Charles Joseph Anderson, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, born January 28, 1863. Her father died in 1863, aged 29, at Mobile, Alabama, and his ashes rest in the Magnolia Cemetery at that place. Her mother is now the wife of Dr. Hamilton Griffin, .
