| Lowell H. Glover - Cass County (Mich.) - 1906 - 940 pages
...EF Lewis in his boyhood days. He was reared in his native township and attended the common schools, his time being divided between the duties of the schoolroom,...the pleasures of the play-ground and the work of the home farm. However, in 1864, he responded to his country's call for aid. His two elder brothers had... | |
| Henry Park Collin - Branch County (Mich.) - 1906 - 1173 pages
...special importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for our subject in his youth, his attention being divided between the duties of the schoolroom,...the pleasures of the playground and the work of the home farm. He mastered the common branches of English learning and also became proficient in the labors... | |
| Hancock County (Ill.) - 1907 - 804 pages
...privileges he enjoyed. His boyhood and youth was passed in his parents' home, his time being occupied by the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the...fields. On attaining his majority, he started out in business on his own account, and for one year cultivated rented land, after which he purchased forty... | |
| Homer Howard Field, Joseph Rea Reed - Pottawattamie County (Iowa) - 1907 - 690 pages
...was only seven years of age at the time of his fathers death. During his boyhood days his time, was divided between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the farm. After attaining his majority he resolved to continue in the occupation to which he had been reared... | |
| Lewis M. Gross - De Kalb County (Ill.) - 1907 - 768 pages
...represented on another page of this work.' In his boyhood days the subject of this review divided his time between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the home farm. He assisted his father in cultivating the fields to the time of his marriage, which was... | |
| Samuel Gillespie, James E. Steele - Clay County (Iowa) - 1909 - 718 pages
...in Lafayette county, Wisconsin. spending his boyhood days in his parents' home, while his time was divided between the duties of the schoolroom, the...pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. He lived at home until 1862, when at the age of eighteen years he responded to the country's call for... | |
| William J. Bahmer - Coshocton County (Ohio) - 1909 - 530 pages
...James T. The last named remained at home until he was twenty-five years of age, his time and attention being divided between the duties of the schoolroom,...the pleasures of the playground and the work of the farm. At the age of twenty-five he was married to Miss Minnie Marshall, a native of Coshodon county,... | |
| W. L. Kershaw - Page County (Iowa) - 1909 - 658 pages
...Sperry, the former a farmer by occupation. Samuel E. Sperry was reared in the usual manner of farm lads, his time being divided between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the task assigned him by parental authority. In the periods of vacation he worked in the fields and was... | |
| William Alexander Taylor - Columbus (Ohio) - 1909 - 840 pages
...Sartain. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of life for him in his youthful days, his time being divided between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and certain tasks which were assigned to him through parental authority. He continued his education until... | |
| Augustus Waldo Drury - Dayton (Ohio) - 1909 - 1094 pages
...of the present city. The public schools of Dayton afforded him his educational privileges, his youth being divided between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and such tasks as were assigned him by parental authority. He was but seventeen years of age when, in response... | |
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