The Declaration, the Constitution, the life of every signer, and every President's inaugural from Washington to Pierce — the patriotic shelf of an American parlor of 1855, complete in one volume.

Franklin Pierce

2 pages in this part of The American's Own Book.

Franklin Pierce

FRANKLIN PIERCE was born at Hillsborough, N. H., on the 23d of November, 1804. He was the fourth son of Benjamin Pierce, a brave soldier of…

Franklin Pierce: Hillsborough

Mr. Pierce espoused the doctrines of the Democratic party. In the second year of his practice, when only twenty five years old, he was…

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