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Development of the industrial U.S. Biographies /

Benson, Sonia.

Development of the industrial U.S. Biographies / Development of the industrial US Sonia G. Benson ; Jennifer York Stock, project editor. - Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2006. - lvi, 252 p : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jane Addams -- Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Andrew Carnegie -- Chinese transcontinental railroad workers -- Eugene Victor Debs -- Thomas Edison -- John Fitch -- Henry Ford -- Frank and Lillian Gilbreth -- Florence Kelley -- Robert M. LaFollette -- Julia C. Lathrop -- Mary Elizabeth Lease -- Francis Cabot Lowell -- Elijah McCoy -- J.P. Morgan -- George Washington Murray -- A. Philip Randolph -- John D. Rockefeller Sr. -- Samuel Slater -- Ellen Gates Starr -- Ida M. Tarbell -- Cornelius Vanderbilt -- Booker T. Washington.

ISBN: 1414401760 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781414401768 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2005016350

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Industries--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Industrial revolution--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865--History--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: HC 102.5.A2 / .B46 2006