OF PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND REMINISCENCES. TO WHICH IS ADDED A Birdseye View of the History of Our Republic, AND MUCH OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION. BY THOS. W. HERRINGSHAW. "Of all things, the most interesting to man is Mon.” ILLUSTRATED WITH 350 PORTRAITS. HOME PUBLISHING HOUSE, CHICAGO. H 1158.88.3 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY JUL 1 1914 CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS MEMORIAL COLLECTION ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1888, BY A. B. GEHMAN & CO., IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN AT WASHINGTON, D. C. DONOHUE & HENNEBERRY, PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO. PREFACE. THE purpose of this work is to present in as condensed a form as is consistent with the presentation of all the important facts the lives and achievements of the most celebrated men and women now living; the perusal of which can not but be of almost incalculable benefit to all those desirous of becoming intelligent and well-informed on current topics to keep fully abreast of the times. Indeed, it is imperatively necessary to become familiar with the lives and deings of the leaders of life and thought of our day and generation - the molders of the world's history in order to more fully comprehend what is being done and the remarkable changes that are constantly taking place in this busy world of ours. Consequently, there being no comprehensive work of the kind extant the bulky biographical cyclopædias being almost wholly composed of the lives of individuals long since passed away rather than the lives of the living,- this volume of PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DAY aptly fills this niche in the tablet of current literature. Truly, it is a veritable portrait gallery and scrap-book of illustrated biographical sketches and reminiscences of eminent personages of the times, comprising such a varied collection of names that has cost infinite pains and expense to |