Show Illustrious Book Peddlers James G Elaine began life as a book agent in Washington Pennsylvania selling sell-ing a Life of Henry Clay The poet Longfellow was a book agent before his verses began to attract the attention at-tention ot the public Jay Gouid made his first money peddling ped-dling books in the rural districts of New York when a mere boy Rutherford B Hayes footed it all over Southern Ohio when a mere lad getting subscriptions for Baxters Saints Rest Daniel Webster paid his second years tuition at Dartmouth by acting as local agent in Merrimac county New Hampshire Hamp-shire for De Tocquevilles America When Napoleon Bonaparte was a I Lieutenant in the army and unemployed at Paris he canvassed a suburban Parisian Paris-ian arrondissement for a work entitled LHistoire de la Revolution General Grant after his resignation from the army and before his ventures on the Dent farm took part of the Territory of a general agent of Putnams to dispose of Irvings Columbus George Washington while surveying Fairfax countyin his youthcanvassed Bydells American Savage How He May be Tamed by the Weapons of Civilization Civil-ization and sold over 200 copies in Alexandria Virgina 1 TT1 L Bismarck when at tteiaeiburg during the winter vacation having his allowance allow-ance cut short by his father the Baron canvassed for Blumenbachs Aufges chnichte die Wesselgung in der Spiegel cisen and made enough to pay for his beer and tobaccoNew York Graphic 1 |