Frank Carlson Library

The lessons of her childhood helped a Quaker girl to become famous as the hostess of the White House. Glossary. Bibliog.

The story of Penn's childhood in England. He became a Quaker, and later came to America to settle his colony and to found the city of Philadelphia.

Concentrates on the boyhood of the man who started life as a slave and grew to become a great African American educational leader and organizer of Tuskegee Institute.

A childhood biography of the Pennsylvania German woman who became a Revolutionary War heroine when she carried water to American soldiers and even fired a cannon herself during the Battle of Monmouth.

William grew up on his grandfather's farm in England. He went to school for a short time. He met Mr. Brewster who influenced him, to become a Pilgrim, to migrate to Holland and finally to the New World where he was elected governor of the Plymouth colony every year as long as he lived.

Recreates the childhood of the woman traditionally remembered as the maker of the first American flag, which was secretly presented to General George Washington in Philadelphia in 1776.