Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Illustration: Mme. Roland in the Prison of Ste. Pélagie.] GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN _A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of_ THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY VOL. VI. Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS edited by Charles F. Horne [Illustration: Publisher's arm.] New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher Copyright, 1894, by SELMAR HESS. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE BENEDICT ARNOLD, _Edgar Fawcett_, 207 PETER COOPER, _Clarence Cook_, 299 CHARLOTTE CORDAY, _Oliver Optic_, 229 GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER, _Elbridge S. Brooks_, 391 SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, _John Timbs, F.S.A._, 277 THOMAS ALVA EDISON, _Clarence Cook_, 404 JOHN ERICSSON, _Martha J. Lamb_, 311 CYRUS W. FIELD, _Murat Halstead_, 354 GENERAL JOHN C. FRÉMONT, _Jane Marsh Parker_, 340 ROBERT FULTON, _Oliver Optic_, 267 WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, _William Lloyd Garrison_, 318 GENERAL CHARLES GEORGE GORDON, _Colonel R. H. Veitch, R.E._, 384 NATHAN HALE, _Rev. Edward Everett Hale_, 212 ANDREAS HOFER, 246 DR. EDWARD JENNER, _John Timbs, F.S.A._, 263 ELISHA KENT KANE, _General A. W. Greely_, 325 THADDEUS KOSCIUSKO, 216 LOUIS KOSSUTH, 304 MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE, _William F. Peck_, 221 FERDINAND DE LESSEPS, _Clarence Cook_, 334 DAVID LIVINGSTONE, _Professor W. G. Blaikie, L.L.D._, 350 _Letter of Affection and Advice from Livingstone to his Children_, 353 QUEEN LOUISE OF PRUSSIA, _Mrs. Francis G. Faithfull_, 249 MARIE ANTOINETTE, _Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen_, 241 _Letter to Marie Antoinette from Maria Theresa on the Duties of a Sovereign_, 242 SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, 297 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, _Lizzie Alldridge_, 369 DR. LOUIS PASTEUR, _Dr. Cyrus Edson_, 378 MADAME ROLAND, _Ella Wheeler Wilcox_, 233 GENERAL SAN MARTIN, _Hezekiah Butterworth_, 281 HENRY M.