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Good Stories for Great Birthdays

Name: Good Stories for Great Birthdays
Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Read by brianna, Lynda Marie Neilson, Lynne T, Dusty Brailsford, BettyB, Sarah Jump, mparker, Bill Mosley, Natasha Fisher, Janis Hopkins Salmon, Siobhan McAlpin and Beau Wood · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Foreward (12:15)
October 12 Columbus and Discoverer's Day (45:31)
October 14 William Penn, The Founder of Pennsylvania (17:37)
October 27 Theodore Roosevelt, America's Hero: The Square Deal, Theodore Roosevelt (37:46)
October 30 John Adams, The Son of Liberty (24:52)
November 15 William Pitt, Defender of America (18:35)
December 2 Dom Pedro the Second, the Magnanimus, the Best Republican in Brazil (26:00)
December 20 William Bradford, and the Landing of the Pilgrims (28:09)
January 7 General Israel Putnam, 'Old Put' (12:45)
January 11 Alexander Hamilton, Defender of the Constitution (9:59)
January 17 Benjamin Franklin, the American Socrates (11:17)
February 12 Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator (17:28)
February 22 George Washington, The Father of his Country Part 1 (29:20)
February 22 George Washington, The Father of his Country Part 2 (36:02)
February 25 Jose de San Martin of Argentina, The Protector Part 1 (31:47)
February 25 Jose de San Martin of Argentina, The Protector Part 2 (31:34)
March 15 Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory (35:30)
April 13 Thomas Jefferson, The Framer of the Declaration of Independence (13:24)
May 29 Patrick Henry, The Orator of the War for Independence (9:31)
June 9 Francisco de Miranda of Venezuela, the Flaming Son of Liberty (29:21)
June 23-24 Roger Williams and the Founding of Providence (9:55)
July 6 John Paul Jones, America's Immortal Sea-Fighter (17:03)
July 24 Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Liberator (27:05)
August 20 Bernardo O'Higgins, First Soldier, First Citizen of Chile (21:26)
September 6 The Marquis de Lafayette, the Friend of America (17:23)
September 24 John Marshall, the Expounder of the Constitution (42:32)