Antique Book, Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton Pez_candy_container The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Antique Book, Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton Pez_candy_container The Autocrat of the Breakfast-TableA rare antique book, Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, Boston; 1885. The book includes biographies of an interesting array of men including such notables as George Peabody, Bayard Taylor, Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison, Ezra Cornell, Philip H. Sheridan, Thomas Cole, George W. Childs, Dwight L. Moody, and Abraham Lincoln. The illustrated book has 367 pages plus advertising. In