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Childhood of Famous Americans Books
The Childhood of Famous Americans series was published from the 1940's through the 1960's. Each book has an easy-to-read story about a boy or girl who grows up to be famous as an inventor, statesman, nurse, doctor, explorer, or some other worthy occupation. Many of these titles are out-of-print, but a few have been reprinted by Patria Press as the Young Patriots series. Please check with Alibris, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble to find the out-of-print treasures and new re-prints.
Aird, Hazel B. and Ruddiman, Catherine
- Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
Anderson
- John Jacob Astor
Bare
- John Deere
Barton
- John Smith
- Patrick Henry
Bebenroth, Charlotta M.
- Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer
Borland, Kathryn and Helen Ross Speicher
- Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective
- Harry Houdini: Young Magician
- Eugene Field
Bryant, Bernice
- Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy
- George Gershwin
Burnett, Constance Buel
- Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket
Burt, Olive W.
- Jed Smith: Young Western Explorer
- John Alden: Young Puritan
- John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant
- Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard
- The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys
Clark, Electra
- Osceola Young Seminole Indian
- Robert Peary: Boy of the North
Cleven, Cathrine Seward
- Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior
- John Hancock New England Boy
Comfort
- Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer
Corcoran
- Elias Howe Inventive Boy
de Grummond and Delanne
- Babe Didrikson: Girl Athlete
- Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy
Dobler
- Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy
- Lee DeForest
Dunham, Montrew
- Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer
- George Westinghouse: Young Inventor
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Frisbee, Lucy Post
- John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest President
Govan, C.N.
- Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl
Guthridge, Sue
- Tom Edison: Boy Inventor
Hammontree, Marie
- Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
- A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco
- Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors
Henry, Joanne Landers
- Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker
- Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor
- George Eastman: Young Photographer
- Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman
Higgins, Helen Boyd
- 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
Howe, Jane Moore
- Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
Hudson, Wilma J.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader
- Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy
Jordan, P. C.
- Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy
Long, Laura
- 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
Mason, Miriam E.
- 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
Melin, G. H.
- Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer
- Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer
Millender, Dharathula H.
- Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream
Mitchell, Minnie Belle
- James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet
Monsell, Helen Albee
- 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
Moore, Clyde B.
- J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy
- Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy
Myers, Elizabeth. P.
- F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy
- George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder
- Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet
Myers, H.
- Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic Explorer
Newman, S. P.
- Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen
Paradis, A.
- Gail Borden
Parks, Aileen Wells
- Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback
- Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman
- James Oglethorpe: Young Defender
Parks, Edd Winfield
- Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider
Peckham, Howard Henry
- Nathaniel Greene
- Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
- William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe
Place, M.T.
- Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl
Schaaf
- Lew Wallace
Scharbach
- Matthew Calbraith Perry
Seymour, Flora Warren
- Bird Girl: Sacagawea
- Pocahontas: Brave Girl
Smith, Bradford
- Dan Webster: Union Boy
- Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy
- William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy
Snow, Dorothea J.
- Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic
- John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy
- Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy
- Samuel Morse
- Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide
Steele, William O.
- Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox
- John Sevier: Pioneer Boy
Stevenson, Augusta
- 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
Van Riper, Jr., Guernsey
- 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
Wagoner, Jean Brown
- 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
Warner, Anne Spence
- Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl
Weddle, E. H.
- Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller
- Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist
Weil, Ann
- 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
Widdemer, Mabel Cleland
- 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
Wilkie, Katharine Elliot
- 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
Winders, Gertrude Hecker
- 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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