CONTENTS MERCHANTS: Stephen Girard, John Jacob Astor, Alexander T. Stewart, Amos Lawrence, Andrew V. Stout, Jonas Chickering, Nicholas Longworth, George Peabody CAPITALISTS: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, James B. Eads, Cyrus W. Field INVENTORS: Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear, Eli Whitney, Chauncey Jerome, Elias Howe Jr., Richard M. Hoe, Samuel Colt, Samuel F. B. Morse PUBLISHERS: James Harper, James T. Fields, James Gordon Bennett, Robert Bonner LAWYERS: John Marshall, James T. Brady ARTISTS: Benjamin West, John Rogers, Hiram Powers, Emanuel Leutze DIVINES: Henry Ward Beecher, Peter Cartwright. AUTHORS: Henry W. Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson PHYSICIANS: Benjamin Rush, Valentine Mott