My Autobiography

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My Autobiography

Book by S. S. McClure; F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1963. 268 pgs.

Title Page

S. S. Mcclure: Immigrant and American

Contents

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Chapter I: My Early Childhood--The Road to Bally Money--Peat Cutting--My Early School Ing--My Father Dies--We Sail for America

Chapter II: My Mother's Courageous Efforts--My Mother Marries Again--I Attend School in Winter--My Work on the Farm--Val, Paraiso High School--I Work as A Chore Boy--Charley Griffith--My Restlessness --I Try for A College Education

Chapter III: Knox College--Working My Way as A Farm Hand--Teaching Country School--Greek the Most Important of My Studies--My Return to Ireland When I Was Nineteen-- Restless for America--I Determine to Ship as A Stow-Away--My Letter to the First Officer--Working My Passage as Mess-Boy--My Engagement--A Winter in Which I Nearly Perished of Cold and Hunger--My Dismal Meals with the Divinity Student

Chapter IV: Living on Eighteen Cents A Week--I Decide to Peddle Coffee-Pots--I Open A Restaur Ant--I Have A Run of Bad Luck--The Discouraging Side of A Peddler's LIfe-- Clerking in A Grocery Store--A Horse Trade--My Mother Goes Peddling with Me--My Friendship with Albert Brady-- Selling Microscopes Around the Great Lakes--John Phillips and Robert Mather --My First Experience as An Editor-- My Disappointing Graduation

Chapter V: My Arrrval in Boston--I Go to Colonel Pope and Ask for Work--Colonel Pope's Career --A Job That I Had to Have--I Learn to Ride A Bicycle--How I Accidentally Be Came An Editor--My Marriage--I Go to New York and Apply for Work on the "Century Magazine"--The Launching of My New Venture

Chapter VI: Hard Sledding--Getting the Syndicate on Its Feet--My First Authors--Henry Harland and the "Yellow Book"--I Write A Series of Articles on Cookery--Getting Syndicate Ideas--My First Call Upon Stevenson--The Offer for "St. IVes"-- We Plan the South Sea Cruise--Henry James and Stevenson--Stevenson's Will Ingness to Be Edited--Stevenson's Wife

Chapter VII: Help from An Unexpected Source--On the Edge of Bankruptcy--George Meredith-- the New Writer

Chapter VIII: The "Muck-Raking" Movement--The Stan Dard Oil Articles--The Municipal Gov Ernment Articles--Miss Stone's Story-- the Montessori Method--Mr. Turner's Chicago Articles--The Commission Form of Government

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