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Page 15 - Beginning on the east side of Ticonderoga, from thence to the great falls on Otter Creek, and continues the same course to the height of land, that divides the streams between Lake Champlain, and the river Connecticut ; from thence along the height of lands [to] opposite Missisque and then down to the Bay: — That is the land belonging to the seven nations, which we 1 Gov.
Page 203 - Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand ; and he went out and came in before the people.
Page 188 - Williamson and you are ministers," he would say. And even years afterward, when he and his family had removed to the neighborhood of Fort Snelling, and he and his brother had built at Oak Grove, with the people of their first love, Gideon H. could hardly be persuaded that it was his duty to become a preacher of the gospel. I remember more than one long conversation I had with him on this subject. He seemed to shrink from it as a little child, although he was then thirty-seven years old. In the spring...
Page 188 - Fe bore up the name of neither father nor mother, but probably of the man under whose roof he received his birth. Tradition nays that his mother, in a fit of displeasure with her host for some supposed neglect, called her child by his name. " Mothers love, and love for ever.
Page 15 - State — beginning on the East side of Ticonderoga from thence to the great Falls on Otter Creek and continue the same course to the height of land that divides the streams between lake Champlain and the river Connecticut from thence along the height of land opposite Mesisqua and then down to the bay...
Page 95 - in this part of the country numerous quarries of marble, some of them of superior quality. Machines may easily be erected for sawing it into slabs by water and in that state it might become an important article of commerce.
Page 117 - ... that he was going too far in that respect, but it did not change his course. The secret of Senator Proctor's business success is no secret at all. Any business with reasonable natural opportunities administered with his business ability and upon his prudent business principles is bound to succeed. He concentrated all his efforts in one particular line, refusing all allurements to other business fields. In the marble business itself he made investments which might have seemed reckless to those...
Page 28 - Mead and Asa Johnson in behalf of the settlers in Rutland and Pittsford. I have run out lots from the south bounds to within about two miles of the Great Falls. I found it in vain to persist any longer, as they were resolved at all events to stop us ; there have been many threats pronounced against me. Gideon Cooley, who lives by the Great Falls, headed the party who was to shoot me.
Page 117 - ... investments which might have seemed reckless to those with less abounding faith but he made no other business investments. At the time of his decease, with exceptions too trivial to mention, his entire estate consisted of his marble interests and investments in real estate, for which he always had a liking. It was by the application of these simple principles, concentration, energy, singleness of purpose, organization, economy, spending in the business all that it could earn, that under his master...