Christopher Columbus: Young Explorer
Christopher Columbus was born in Italy in
1451. His father was a weaver, but like most young men living near a seaport,
Columbus looked to the sea to...
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Young Artist, Writer, and Inventor
Leonardo Da Vinci is best known as the
Renaissance painter who created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. he also made
great contributions as a...
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Marie Curie: Young Scientist
Marie Curie was a world-renowned scientist who
made many important discoveries, as well as a great teacher and a mother, but
her accomplishments...
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Gandhi: Young Nation Builder
The man we remember simply as Gandhi was born
Mohandas Gandhi in India in 1869. From an early age he was made keenly aware of
the rigid Hindu caste...
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Mother Teresa: Friend to the Poor
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother
Teresa grew up in a small war-torn town in Macedonia. The youngest of three
children, Mother Teresa was...
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Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church
Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on
May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school -- especially in
religion and literature. He...
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Anne Frank: Young Diarist
In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and
her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. In 1940,...
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Lady Diana, Princess of Wales: Young Royalty
Diana Spencer grew up to be the princess of
Wales. But when she was a little girl, she did not dream she would become a
princess. When she was still...
Childhood of Famous
Americans
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Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
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John Jacob Astor
* John Deere
* John Smith
* Patrick Henry
* Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer
* Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective
* Harry Houdini: Young Magician
* Eugene Field
* Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy
* George Gershwin
* Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket
* Jed Smith: Young
Western Explorer
* John Alden: Young Puritan
* John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant
* Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard
* The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys
* Osceola Young Seminole Indian
* Robert Peary: Boy of the North
* Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior
* John Hancock New England Boy
* Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer
* Elias Howe Inventive Boy
* Babe Didrikson: Girl
Athlete
* Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy
* Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy
* Lee DeForest
* Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer
* George Westinghouse:
Young Inventor
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
* John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream
* John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest
President
* Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl
* Tom Edison: Boy Inventor
* Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
* A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco
* Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors
* Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker
* Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor
* George Eastman: Young Photographer
* Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman
* Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion
* Juliette Low: Girl Scout
* Noah Webster: Boy of Words
* Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel
* Walter Reed: Boy Who Wanted To Know
* Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
* Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader
* Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy
* Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy
* David Farragut: Boy Midshipman
* Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector
* George Dewey: Vermont Boy
* Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea
* John Peter Zenger: Young Defender of a
Free Press
* Dan Beard: Boy Scout
* Frances Willard: Girl Crusader
* Kate Douglas Wiggin: The Little
Schoolteacher
* John Audubon: Boy Naturalist
* Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri
* Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl
* William Penn: Friendly Boy
* Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer
* Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer
* Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial
Patriots
* Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a
Dream
* James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet
* Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate
* Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl
* Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator
* John Marshall: Boy of Young America
* Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's
Rights
* Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall
* Tom Jefferson: Third President of the
United States
* Woodrow Wilson: Boy President
* J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy
* Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy
* F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy
* George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder
* Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet
* Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot
* Cecil B. DeMille
* Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic
Explorer
* Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen
* Gail Borden
* Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback
* Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman
* James Oglethorpe: Young Defender
* Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider
* Nathaniel Greene
* Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
* William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe
* Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl
* Lew Wallace
* Matthew Calbraith
Perry
* Bird Girl: Sacagawea
* Pocahontas: Brave Girl
* Dan Webster: Union Boy
* Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy
* William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy
* Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic
* John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy
* Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy
* Samuel Morse
* Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide
* Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox
* John Sevier: Pioneer Boy
* Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy
* Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier
* Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy
* Ben Franklin: Boy Printer
* Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy
* Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains
* Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red
Cross
* Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker
* Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy
* George Carver: Boy Scientist
* George Custer: Boy of Action
* George Washington: Young Leader
* Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy
* John Fitch: Steamboat Boy
* Kit Carson: Boy Trapper
* Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot
* Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy
* Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl
* Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy
* Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston
* P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy
* Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton
* Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy
* Squanto: Young Indian Hunter
* Tecumseh: Shawnee Boy
* U. S. Grant: Young Horseman
* Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl
* Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings
* Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler
* Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest
* Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
* Knute Rockne: Young Athlete
* Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest
* Richard Byrd: Boy of the South Pole
* Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy
* Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days
* Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl
* Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill
* Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York
* Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston
* Martha Washington: America's First First
Lady
* Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl
* Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller
* Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist
* Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
* Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social
Justice
* Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four
Freedoms
* John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy
* John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot
* Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy
* DeWitt Clinton
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Connecticut Girl
James Monroe: Good
Neighbor Boy
* Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes
* Washington Irving:
Boy of Old New York
* Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer
* George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old
Northwest
* Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph
* Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
* Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer
* Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins
* William Fargo: Boy Mail Carrier
* Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready
* Ernie Pyle: Boy From Back Home
* Ethan Allen
* James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking
Boy
* Jeb Stuart: Boy in the Saddle
* Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife
• Jim Bridger
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