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The Riverside Biographical Series

ANDREW JACKSON, by W. G. BROWN
JAMES B. EADS, by LOUIS HOW
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by PAUL E. MORE
PETER COOPER, by R. W. RAYMOND
THOMAS JEFFERSON, by H. C. MERWIN

_IN PREPARATION_

WILLIAM PENN
GENERAL GRANT
LEWIS AND CLARKE

Each about 100 pages, 16mo, with
photogravure portrait, 75 cents.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK



[Illustration: Jas. B. Eads]




JAMES B. EADS



BY

LOUIS HOW



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

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LOUIS HOW
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED




PREFACE


I must mention with particular gratitude several books that were
invaluable in preparing this sketch, in supplementing the usual
biographical dictiona