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REVOLUTIONARY HEROES, AND OTHER HISTORICAL
PAPERS
HISTORICAL CLASSIC READINGS--No 10.
BY
JAMES PARTON,
AUTHOR OF
"LIFE OF HORACE GREELEY," "LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON,"
"LIFE AND TIMES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN," ETC. ETC.

GEN. JOSEPH WARREN SIGNING THE DECLARATION OF
CAPT. NATHAN HALE INDEPENDENCE. GEN. WASHINGTON'S
SPIES. ROBERT MORRIS. VALLEY FORGE. JOHN JAY. JOHN
ADAMS. FISHER AMES. THE PINCKNEYS.

INTRODUCTION.
James Parton was born in Canterbury, England, February 9, 1822.
When five years old he was brought to America and given an education
in the schools of New York City, and at White Plains, N. Y.
Subsequently he engaged in teaching in Philadelphia and New York
City, and for three years was a contributor to the Home Journal. Since
that time, he has devoted his life to literary labors, contributing many
articles to periodicals and publishing books on biographical subjects.
While employed on the Home Journal it occurred to him that an

interesting story could be made out of the life of Horace Greeley, and
he mentioned the idea to a New York publisher. Receiving the needed
encouragement, Mr. Parton set about collecting material from Greeley's
former neighbors in Vermont and New Hampshire, and in 1855
produced the "Life of Horace Greeley," which he afterwards extended
and completed in 1885. This venture was so profitable that he was
encouraged to devote himself to authorship. In 1856 he brought out a
collection of Humorous Poetry of the English Language from Chaucer
to Saxe. Following this appeared in 1857 the "Life of Aaron Burr,"
prepared from original sources and intended to redeem Burr's
reputation from the charges that attached to his memory. In writing the
"Life of Andrew Jackson" he also had access to original and
unpublished documents. This work was published in three volumes in
1859-60. Other works of later publication are: "General Butler in New
Orleans" (1863 and 1882); "Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin"
(1864); "How New York is Governed" (1866); "Famous Americans of
Recent Times," containing Sketches of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,
John C. Calhoun, John Randolph, and others (1867); "The People's
Book of Biography," containing eighty short lives (1868); "Smoking
and Drinking," an essay on the evils of those practices, reprinted from
the Atlantic Monthly (1869); a pamphlet entitled "The Danish Islands:
Are We Bound to Pay for Them?" (1869); "Topics of the Time," a
collection of magazine articles, most of them treating of administrative
abuses at Washington (1871); "Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and
Public Spirit" (1871); "The Words of Washington" (1872); "Fanny
Fern," a memorial volume (1873); "Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third
President of the United States" (1874); "Taxation of Church Property"
(1874); "La Parnasse Français: a Book of French Poetry from A.D.
1850 to the Present Time" (1877); "Caricature and other Comic Art in
All Times and Many Lands" (1877); "A Life of Voltaire," which was
the fruit of several years' labor (1881); "Noted Women of Europe and
America" (1883); and "Captains of Industry, or Men of Business who
did something besides Making Money: a Book for Young Americans."
In addition to his writing Mr. Parton has proved a very successful
lecturer on literary and political topics.
In January, 1856, Mr. Parton married Sara Payson Willis, a sister of the
poet N. P. Willis, and herself famous as "Fanny Fern," the name of her

pen. He made New York City his home until 1875, three years after the
death of his wife, when he went to Newburyport, where