 | Knox County (Ohio) - 1902 - 652 pages
...plow he began work in the fields and assisted in the cultivation of the home farm until twenty-one years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. With his brothers, George and Isaac, he cleared a piece of land known as the Smidley farm, and thereon... | |
 | Peter Ross - Long Island (N.Y.) - 1903 - 728 pages
...his literary education in the public schools of Virginia. He worked on the home farm until seventeen years of age, when he started out in life on his own account, being employed in various ways until he reached the age of twenty, when he took up the study of electricity,... | |
 | Thomas Wren - Nevada - 1904 - 988 pages
...work of plow-ing, planting and harvesting upon his father's farm. He was thus engaged until nineteen years of age, when he started out in life on his own account by taking charge of his father's farm, which he operated until his removal to Nevada. While living... | |
 | Anthony Deahl - Elkhart County (Ind.) - 1905 - 1062 pages
...who was left an orphan at the age of eight years, was reared by his uncle John Holtz until fifteen years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. For three years he worked at the blacksmith's trade an.? for one year rented a coal bank in Stark county,... | |
 | Sherman B. Daboll, Dean W. Kelley - Clinton County (Mich.) - 1906 - 588 pages
...the home farm in Lorain county, Ohio, LB Downie was reared, remaining with his father until sixteen years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. In the fall of 1864 he came to Clinton county, Michigan, and was afterward employed in a lumber camp... | |
 | Samuel Willard Beakes - Washtenaw County (Mich.) - 1906 - 840 pages
...continued his studies in the public schools of Ann Arbor. He remained upon the home farm until eighteen years of age, when he started out in life on his own account, and later he spent the years 1887 and in England. In 1884 he was married to Miss Kate A. Welling, a... | |
 | Lowell H. Glover - Cass County (Mich.) - 1906 - 940 pages
...however, was not meager and he remained at home assisting in the work of the farm until twenty-one years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. As a companion and helpmate for life's journey he chose Miss Elizabeth Broner, whom he wedded in 1857.... | |
 | Henry Park Collin - Branch County (Mich.) - 1906 - 1173 pages
...farm, assisting in plowing, planting and cultivating. He continued to aid his father until twenty-one years of age, when he started out in life on his own account, working by the month as a farm hand. Samuel I. Treat was thus engaged until 1862, when, feeling that... | |
 | Hancock County (Ill.) - 1907 - 804 pages
...gathered in the late autumn he aided in the work of the fields. He was thus engaged until twenty-one years of age, when he started out in life on his own account and completed his arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage in October, 1858, to Miss... | |
 | Henry Franklin Thomas - Allegan County (Mich.) - 1907 - 814 pages
...when he removed with his father to the farm in Tompkins township, there remaining until twenty-five years of age, when he started out in life on his own account. Going to northern Michigan he engaged in lumbering and in milling in the employ of others, but subsequently... | |
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... years of age. when he started out in life on his own account. 
