CONTENTS

1. Calvin Coolidge 9
2. Thomas A. Edison 17
3. Alexander Graham Bell 29
4. Theodore Roosevelt 37
5. John Pershing 44
6. William Howard Taft 51
7. Luther Burbank 57
8. Clara Barton 65
19. George W. Goethals 73
10. James Whitcomb Riley 81
11. Helen Keller 91
12. Wilbur and Orville Wright 99
13. Robert E. Peary 109
14. William Jennings Bryan 117
15. Henry Ford 125
16. Ben B. Lindsey 131
17. Frances Willard 139
18. Jane Addams 147
19. John Mitchell 155
20. Maude Ballington Booth 161
21. Andrew Carnegie 169
22. Anna Shaw 177
23. Ernest Thompson Seton 187
24. John Wanamaker 195
25. Woodrow Wilson 205
26. Mark Twain 213
27. Warren G. Harding 221

[Illustration: PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, MRS. COOLIDGE, AND SON, JOHN]

CALVIN COOLIDGE

As I begin this story, I am seated in an old-fashioned hotel in a
small village nestled amid the hills of Vermont. I have come all the
way from the broad prairies of Illinois that I might catch a little of
the spirit of Calvin Coolidge.

In his autobiography, Mr. Coolidge wrote: "Vermont is my birthright.
Here one gets close to Nature, in the mountains and in the brooks, the
waters of which hurry to the sea; in the lakes t