Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 224
HN HAY. BY CHAUNCEY BUTLER (AGE 13). Foremost among the men of the twentieth centurywho have contributed to the welfare and good govern-ment of the United States is Ex-Secretary John Hay. He first saw the light in Salem, Indiana, where hisfather was a lawyer. From his childhood he was abright boy… … at the blackboard. by locise gleason, age 15. 760 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [June, that he never tried a case. Whilethere, however, he attracted theattention of Abraham Lincoln who,when he became President, tookhim to Washington as his assist-ant secretary. While in this position the pub-lic noticed how…
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