New York, November, 1881.

LIVES OF AMERICAN WORTHIES

Christopher Columbus
(1440–1506)

THE FIRST AMERICAN CITIZEN
(BY ADOPTION)

BY
W. L. ALDEN

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1881

Copyright, 1881,
BY
HENRY HOLT & CO.

Electrotyped and Printed by
S. W. GREEN’S SON,
74 and 76 Beekman Street,
NEW YORK.

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