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Men of Our Day

Published in 1872, this book contains biographical sketches of many prominent and successful men of that time. Included are several leaders of the Civil War, many politicians and businessmen of the day.

Biographies in This Book
Ulysses Simpson Grant		William Tecumseh Sherman
Admiral David D. Porter		Lieutenant-General Philip H. Sheridan
Major-General George Gordon Meade		Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock
Major-General John McAllister Schofield		Brigadier-General Oliver Otis Howard
Salmon Portland Chase		William Henry Seward
Schuyler Colfax		Hannibal Hamlin
Benjamin Franklin Wade		Hamilton Fish
George S. Boutwell		George Maxwell Robeson
George H. Williams		Jacob Dolson Cox
Simon Cameron		Charles Francis Adams
Revardy Johnson		Caleb Cushing
John Adams Dix		John Lothrop Motley
George Bancroft		Elihu Benjamin Washburne
Robert Cumming Schenck		Andrew Gregg Curtin
David Davis		Charles Sumner
Henry Wilson		Lyman Trumbell
John Sherman		Carl Schurz
Oliver Percy Morton		Reuben E. Fenton
William Alfred Buckingham		William Gannaway Brownlow
James Harlan		Hon. Roscoe Conkling
Major-General John A. Logan		Hon. James F. Wilson
Benjamin Franklin Butler		Hon. William D. Kelley
Henry Laurens Dawes		Benjamin Gratz Brown
John McAuley Palmer		John Thomas Hoffman
Edwin D. Morgan		Joseph Russell Hawley
Horace Greeley		William S. Groesbeck
Thomas A. Hendricks		William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips		Gerrit Smith
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher		Matthew Simpson D. D., LL.D.
Jay Cooke		Alexander Turney Stewart
Ariel Abbot Low		Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas Alexander Scott		Cyrus West Field
Hon. Ezra Cornell		Daniel Drew

Source: Men of Our Day; or Biographical Sketches of Patriots, Orators, Statesmen, Generals, Reformers, Financiers and Merchants, Now on the state of Action: Including Those Who in Military, Political, Business and Social Life, are the Prominent Leaders of the Time in This Country, by L. P. Brockett, M. D., Published by Ziegler and McCurdy, Philadelphia Penna; Springfield, Mass; Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo., 1872

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