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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Members of the Universalist Church of America, Ethan Allen, Clara Barton, Horace Greeley, P. T. Barnum, Hosea Ballou, Madeleine L'Engle, Benjamin Rush, John L. Stevens, Ted Sorensen, Ralph Stanley, Carlton Pearson, Judith Sargent Murray, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Olympia Brown, Elias Hicks, Adin Ballou, Alexander Mack, Thomas Talbott, Lot M. Morrill, Walter Harriman, Charles H. Vail, Dale Thompson, Marilyn McCord Adams, William D. Washburn, Josiah Quincy II, Sidney Perham, Abner Kneeland, Mary Livermore, Hannah Whitall Smith, Amos G. Throop, John Murray, John Albert Cousens, Lydia Moss Bradley, John Murray Spear, Bert M. Fernald, Edwin Hubbell Chapin, James Fisk, Paul Dean, Charles L. Robinson, Keith DeRose, Alonzo Ames Miner, George de Benneville, Caleb Rich, Augusta Jane Chapin, Thomas Potter, Frederick W. Hamilton, Stanley C. Wilson, Aaron B. Grosh, Clarence Skinner, Roland Gammon, Richard Eddy, Clinton Lee Scott. Excerpt: Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 - February 12, 1789) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S. state of Vermont, and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War. Born in rural Connecticut, Allen had a frontier upbringing but also received an education that included some philosophical teachings. In the late 1760s he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory. Legal setbacks led to the formation of the Green Mountain Boys, whom Allen led in a campaign of intimidation and property destruction to drive New York settlers from the Grants. When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ti...
