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Project Gutenberg's From Canal Boy to President, by Horatio Alger, Jr. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: From Canal Boy to President Or The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Author: Horatio Alger, Jr. Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14964] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM CANAL BOY TO PRESIDENT *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Josephine Paolucci, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: JAMES A. GARFIELD, AT THE AGE OF 16. _Copied by permission of_ J.F. RYDER, _Cleveland, G._] FROM CANAL BOY TO PRESIDENT, OR THE BOYHOOD AND MANHOOD OF JAMES A. GARFIELD. BY HORATIO ALGER, JR., AUTHOR OF RAGGED DICK; LUCK AND PLUCK; TATTERED TOM, ETC. _ILLUSTRATED_. NEW YORK AMERICAN PUBLISHERS CORPORATION 310-318 SIXTH AVENUE 1881 TO HARRY AND JAMES GARFIELD WHOSE PRIVATE SORROW IS THE PUBLIC GRIEF, THIS MEMORIAL OF THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS FATHER Is inscribed WITH THE WARMEST SYMPATHY. GENERAL PREFACE. The present series of volumes has been undertaken with the view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration. The writings of Charles Dickens have been selected as the basis of the scheme, on account of the well-known excellence of his portrayal of children, and the interests connected with children--qualities which have given his volumes their strongest hold on the hearts of parents. These delineations having thus received the approval of readers of mature age, it seemed a worthy effort to make the young also participants in the enjoyment of these classic fictions, to introduce the children of real life to these beautiful children of the imagination. With this view, the career of Little Nell and her Grandfather, Oliver, Little Paul, Florence Dombey, Smike, and the Child-Wife, have been detached from the large mass of matter with which they were originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will we doubt not, be as attract
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