the America that I like
to think of as the America of Abraham Lincoln and of Theodore
Roosevelt--not faultless, but less faulty. It is a part in trying to
shape that America, and an opportunity to work in that America when it
comes, that I ask in return for what I owe to her. A greater privilege
no man could have.

EDWARD WILLIAM BOK

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

1863: October 9: Born at Helder, Netherlands.

1870; September 20: Arrived in the United States.

1870: Entered public schools of Brooklyn, New York.

1873: Obtained first position in Frost's Bakery, Smith Street,
Brooklyn, at 50 cents per week.

1876: August 7: Entered employ of the Western Union Telegraph
Company as office-boy.

1882: Entered employ of Henry Holt & Company as stenographer.

1884: Entered employ of Charles Scribner's Sons as stenographer.

1884: Became editor of _The Brooklyn Magazine_.

1886: Founded the Bok Syndicate Press.

1887: Published Henry Ward Beecher Memorial (privately printed).

1889: October 20: Became editor of _The Ladies' Home Journal_.

1890: Published _Successward_: Doubleday, McClure & Company.

1894: Published _Before He Is Twenty_: Fleming H. Revell Company.

1896: October 22: Married Mary Louise Curtis.

1897: September 7: Son born; William Curtis Bok.

1900: Published _The Young Man in Business_: L. G. Page & Company.

1905: January 25: Son born: Cary William Bok.

1906: Published _Her Brother's Letters_ (Anonymous): Moffat,
Yard & Company.

1907: Degree of LL.D. of Order of Augustinian Fathers conferred
by order of Pope Pius X., by the Most Reverend Diomede
Falconio, D.D., Apostolic Delegate to the United States,
at Villanova College.

1910: Degree of LL.D. conferred, in absentia, by Hope College,
Holland, Michigan (the only Dutch college in the United
States).

1911: Founded, with others. The Child Federation of
Philadelphia.

1912: Published _The Edward Bok Books of Self-Knowledge_;
five volumes: Fleming H. Revell Company.

1913: Founded, with others, The Merion Civic Association, at
Merion, Pennsylvania.

1915: Published _Why I Believe in Poverty_: Houghton, Mifflin
Company.

1916: Published poem, _God's Hand_, set to music by Josef
Hofmann: Schirmer & Company.

1917: Vice-president Philadelphia Belgian Relief Commission.