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Title: Brief biographies from American history, for the fifth and sixth grades : required by the syllabus for elementary schools of New York state education department
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turpin, Edna Henry Lee, 1867-1952
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Publisher: New York : C. E. Merrill Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the state legisla-ture made a grant to establish the University of Vir-ginia. Jefferson gave practically his whole life to the serv-ice of his country. He was in office thirty-nine years,and spent more than twenty years revising the Vir-ginia Statutes and laboring to establish the Universityof Virginia. Thus, he said, his public services oc-cupied over sixty years. During this time, his privateaffairs were neglected. From wealth in youth, he wasreduced in old age to straitened circumstances. liesold his library, thirteen thousand volumes, to Con-gress for $23,950, about one-half of its auction value,and the money went to his creditors. In the summer of 1826 Jefferson was taken ill. Atmidnight July the third, he w^as heard to murmur, This is the fourth of July. About midday he died,■fifty years after the Declaration of Independence wasadopted. On the same day in Massachusetts was dy-ing John Adams who had helped in the fight for thepeoples rights. During his last hours, his thoughts
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON 103 turned to his great associate and he said, ThomasJefferson still lives, On Jeffersons tombstone were recorded as he hadrequested --- not the offices he had held nor the honorshe had received — but the three things by which hewished to be remembered,— that he wrote the Declara-tion 6f Independence, the Virginia Statute for religiousliberty, and founded the University of Virginia. Alexander Hamilton The Founder of the Federalist Party The Democratic-Republican party which believed inthe power of the masses and the rule of the peoplewas founded by Thomas Jefferson. The Federalistparty, which believed in a centralized government pat-terned on the aristocratic one of England, was foundedby Alexander Hamilton. Little is known about thefamily and early life of Hamilton. He was born inthe little West India island of Nevis in January, 1757.His father is supposed to have been a Scotch traderand his mother a Frenchwoman. His family waspoor, and it was necessary for him

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