Biographies of Working Men

My acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiles's Lives of the Engineers, Life of the Stephensons, and Life of a Scotch Naturalist; to Lady Eastlake's Life of Gibson; to Mr. Holden's Life of Sir William Herschel; to M. Seusier's J. F. Millet, Sa Vie et Ses Oeuvres; and to Mr. Thayer's Life of President Garfield; from which most of the facts here narrated have been derived.