A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum

CHAPTER I. IN THE BEGINNING.

Family and Birth--School Life--His First Visit to New York City--A Landed Proprietor--The Ethics of Trade--Farm Work and Keeping Store--Meeting-house and Sunday-school--"The One Thing Needful."

CHAPTER II. EARLY YEARS AT BETHEL.

Death of his Grandmother and Father--Left Penniless and Bare-footed--Work in a Store--His First Love...