Excerpt from Famous Americans: Their Portraits, Biographies and Thrilling Experiences T last America has a Hall of Fame. Its tablets bear the names of those who made the Republic of the United States of America what it is - the First and Foremost of Nations. This Book contains the Stories of the Lives, Exciting Experiences and Achievements of those Famous Americans whose names constitute the American Roll of Fame, whose glorious deeds and victories on land and sea entitle them to have their names inscribed upon the tablets of History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.