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.
Our Gifts to the Arts and Crafts
Literature
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.