Leading bankers include: J. Pierpont Morgan, _Welsh_ ... Nathan Straus, Felix Warburg, Jacob Schiff, Otto Kahn, and James Speyer, _German Jews_ ... Charles G. Dawes, _English_ ... Amadeo Gianini, _Italian_ ... and Jesse Jones, _Welsh_. _Building_ First American iron sea-going steamship built in 1859 by José Francisco de Navarro, _Spaniard_, who also laid foundation of cement business in this country ... Panama Canal built by General Goethals, _Netherlander_ ... George Washington Bridge built by Othmar Ammann, _Swiss_ ... Manhattan Bridge in New York and Interstate Bridge connecting Philadelphia and Camden built by Leon Moisseff, _Russian_. Hetch Hetchy water system from Sierra Nevada to San Francisco built by Michael O’Shaughnessy, _Irish_ ... Ralph Modjeski, _Polish Jew_, chairman, Board of Engineers, San Francisco-Oakland Bridge ... Peter Demyanoff, _Russian_, railroad builder. [Illustration] Our Gifts to the Arts and Crafts _Literature_ [Illustration] Outstanding novelists have been James Fenimore Cooper, _English-Swedish_; Oliver W. Holmes, _English-Netherlander_; Mark Twain, _English_; Wm. Dean Howells, _Welsh-Irish-English-German_; Mary Wilkins-Freeman, _English_; Nathaniel Hawthorne, _Irish_; Theodore Dreiser, _German_; James W. Johnson, _Negro_; Frank Norris, _English_; Booth Tarkington, _English_; Fannie Hurst, Edna Ferber, and Ludwig Lewisohn, _German Jews_; Jacob Riis, _Dane_; Louis Adamic, _Yugoslav_. Our leading poets include, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier, _English_; Edgar A. Poe, _Scotch-Irish-English_; Walt Whitman, _English-Netherlander_; Sidney Lanier, _French_; Eugene Field, _English_; Robert Frost, _Scotch-English_; Edwin Markham, _English_; James W. Riley, _Netherlander-English_; Carl Sandburg, _Swede_; Edna St. Vincent Millay, _English-French_; Joaquin Miller and Joyce Kilmer, _Germans_; Louis Untermeyer, _German Jew_, and Arthur Guitermann, _Austrian Jew_; Christopher Morley, _Irish_; Phillis Wheatley and Paul Dunbar, _Negroes_. Pioneer heroism immortalized by O. E. Rölvaag, _Norwegian_.... Good literature circulated in humble homes by P. F. Collier, _Irish_ ... historian, writer, and lecturer, William Hendrik van Loon, _Netherlander_. _Music_ [Illustration] Father of our orchestras and founder of Handel and Haydn Society was Gottlieb Graupner, _German_ ... first organ builder and maker of spinets was Gustaf Hesselius, _Swede_ ... our first important composer was Ernst Bloch, _Swiss Jew_. “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” composed by James Bland, _Negro_ ... “Johnny Comes Marching Home” composed by Patrick Gilmore, _Irish_ ... “Old Folks at Home,” by Stephen Foster, _Scotch-Irish_ ... an _Italian_, Campanini, was first director and leader of Metropolitan ... Gatti Casazza, _Italian_, famous director of Metropolitan ... organizer of Flonzaley Quartet was Alfred Pochon, _Swiss_.