NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF Eminent Americans: INCLUDING ORATORS, STATESMEN, NAVAL AND MILITARY HEROES, From Original Full Length Paintings by ALONZO CHAPPEL. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVES, BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK, EDITOR OF "CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE," ETO. IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I. NEW YORK: . JOHNSON, FRY & COMPANY, 27 BEEKMAN STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862 BY JOHNSON, FRY AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. IN MEMORY OF John Wakefield Francis, THE GOOD PHYSICIAN, THE DEVOTED PROMOTER OF MANY NOBLE PUBLIC WORKS AND CHARITIES; WHOSE REPUTATION WILL REMAIN IDENTIFIED WITH THE CITY OF NEW YORK WHICH HE LOVED SO WELL: BUT ESPECIALLY FOR THE WARMTH AND KINDLINESS OF HIS INTEREST IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT WORK FOR WHICH WAS ANTICIPATED A MOST AGREEABLE REWARD IN ITS MEETING HIS FRIENDLY EYE IN PRINT, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY AND REVERENTIALLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. |