The Project Gutenberg EBook of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin

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 http://www.gutenberg.org/license

Title: Thomas Jefferson

Author: Henry Childs Merwin

Release Date: June 28, 2010 [Ebook #33011]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOMAS JEFFERSON***

*The Riverside Biographical Series*

NUMBER 5

THOMAS JEFFERSON

BY

HENRY CHILDS MERWIN

[Illustration: Th. Jefferson]

THOMAS JEFFERSON

BY

HENRY CHILDS MERWIN

[Publisher's emblem]

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue
*The Riverside Press, Cambridge*

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HENRY C. MERWIN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. YOUTH AND TRAINING 1
II. VIRGINIA IN JEFFERSON'S DAY 16
III. MONTICELLO AND ITS HOUSEHOLD 28
IV. JEFFERSON IN THE REVOLUTION 36
V. REFORM WORK IN VIRGINIA 45
VI. GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA 59
VII. ENVOY AT PARIS 71
VIII. SECRETARY OF STATE 82
IX. THE TWO PARTIES 98
X. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON 114
XI. SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM 130
XII. A PUBLIC MAN IN PRIVATE LIFE 149

THOMAS JEFFERSON

I

YOUTH AND TRAINING

Thomas Jefferson was born upon a frontier estate in Albemarle County,
Virginia, April 13, 1743. His father, Peter Jefferson, was of Welsh
descent, not of aristocratic birth, but of that yeoman class which
constitutes the backbone of all soc