# The war maker

Author: Smith, Horace Herbert, 1868-1936; MacDonald, Pirie, 1867-1942 [Photographer]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73378

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+war+maker+Smith&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I was born on May 1, 1842, on Fifth Avenue, New York, not a long way north of Washington Square. My father was a distinguished surgeon and owned a large estate on Lake Champlain, where most of my youthful summers were spent. I had three brothers and two sisters; but not for many years have I known where they are, or whether alive or dead. After having had a private tutor at home I was educated by jumps at the Hinesburgh, Vermont, Academy; at the old Troy Conference Academy at Poultney, Vermont, and at the Burlington, Vermont, Academy, where, young as I was, I became deeply interested in the study of medicine, for which I had inherited a pronounced liking; that was the one point on which I...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-war-maker-73378/chapters/5/index.md)