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" McNab's parents both died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his grandfather and grandmother. "
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the ... - Page 285
1894
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Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of ..., Volumes 6-7

Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England) - Juvenile delinquency - 1824 - 1080 pages
...months, learning a trade, and conducting himself very satisfactorily. J. H — aged sixteen : his parents died when he was very young-, and he was brought up by a person who had known his mother. He was apprenticed to a weaver, bnt was induced to join a set of...
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Notable South Australians; Or, Colonists, Past and Present

George E. Loyau - South Australia - 1885 - 366 pages
...familiar to many, is a native of this colony, and was born near Auburn, Sept. 11, 1851. His parents died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his grandfather, a pioneer colonist, who initiated him into the art and mystery of farming, had him educated at the...
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All the Year Round, Volume 35; Volume 55

1885 - 692 pages
...age, and there was a reason for this. Both his parents Charle» Dicken*.] [November 22, 1884.] 159 died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his maternal grandmother, a lady who was born in the year AD 1698. In her system of education, I think,...
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Spiritual Heroes: A Study of Some of the World's Prophets

David Saville Muzzey - Ethical culture movement - 1902 - 332 pages
...born to whom his parents gave the name of Siddhartha, " the fulfilment of wishes." The boy's mother died when he was very young, and he was brought up by an aunt in surroundings of wealth and luxury. When he reached the age of manhood he married his cousin,...
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Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs ..., Volume 1

William Richard Cutter - Middlesex County (Mass.) - 1908 - 630 pages
...(V) William Whittredge, son of Samuel Whittredge (4), was born in Gloucester about 1730. His father died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his mother probably in Gloucester. He married there, 1755, Mary Saville. He removed after the birth of...
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History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of Its ..., Volume 2

Robert Sidney Douglass - Missouri - 1912 - 798 pages
...Obion county, Tennessee, where he, too, began this life in 1854, on December 20. His father and mother died when he was very young and he was brought up by Dr. Charles P. Glover, with whom he lived for nineteen years. This same gentleman also gave a home...
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Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University...

Yale University - 1911 - 1264 pages
...Joseph Jaquith and Julia Ann (Flint) French, was born June 12, 1836, in Boston, Mass. Both his parents died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his uncle, in Andover, Mass., where he was prepared for college at Phillips Academy. After graduation he...
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Literature of the World: An Introductory Study

William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - Literature - 1922 - 544 pages
...considering that his literary work was confined to eight brief years, the product is notable. His mother died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his grandmother. At Moscow, where he went in 1826 to complete his education, he proved a poetic youth,...
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The Catholic Charities Review, Volume 6

1922 - 528 pages
...left for America, from whence the report came back that he had married another woman. Frank's mother died when he was very young and he was brought up by relatives. However desultory may have been their efforts at training him, yet when interviewed, they...
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Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Griffin, of Smithville, Ont: A Pioneer ...

1924 - 224 pages
...at Niagara, May 1, 1827, to Mehitable Ackard, of Duchess Co., NY, who was born in 1808. His parents died when he was very young and he was brought up by his grandfather, Ebenezer Collver, Esq. In 1827 he took possession of the farm of 140 acres at Smithville, left him...
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