Identifier: centurybookoffam00broo2 (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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een long years,when, in 1810, he builds the house now famous as the Hermitage. o We might, if we had time, follow him step by step throughout hissteady progress from a piney-woods boy to President. It would be a coursecheckered with much hard fighting, many personal quarrels, lawsuits, duels,bitterness, and anger, for Andrew Jackson loved hard and hated hard ; butthere would be in it, too, honesty, integrity, business ability, firmness, cou-rage, loyalty, and love. These were the things that sent him ahead, that gavehim popularity, that made people believe in and follow him. Let me giveyou these steps upward, in just so many words: farmer-boy, soldier-boy,saddlers apprentice, law-student, horse-trainer, lawyer, frontiersman, prose-cuting attorney, land speculator, constitution-maker, representative, senator,judge, storekeeper, farmer, flatboat-builder, wholesale shipper, cotton-planter, stock-raiser, militia officer, volunteer soldier, general, conqueror in IN AND AROUND THE HERMITAGE
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ANDREW JACKSON. the war of 1812, victor in Florida, governor of Florida, United States sena-tor, presidential candidate, President, hero by popular acclaim ! - - there is arecord of steady progress filling a life of seventy-eight busy years, and punc-tuated with all those fiery incidents that made Andrew Jackson at once aterror and a triumph. I think there is no other figure in American historywhose success is so meteoric, or whose career was so dramatic as that of thistall, thin, sinewy, strong-faced, stiff-haired, seventh President of the UnitedStates, whom men still love to refer to as Old Hickory. The train, soon after, left them on the platform of the little wayside sta-tion called Hermitage — a depot, a cross-roads country store, a house or 164 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS two in sight, and, stretching all about, green and wooded slopes and pastures.The girl at the store stepped to the door and shouted, Jack ! You Jack! withsuch startling earnestness that our Jack real

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