...Goshen. He was only ten years of age when his parents removed to the home farm and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the stock. Later he operated a sawmill upon the farm for six years, and then went to Missouri, where he...

...brother's share in the estate. His education was acquired in the common schools and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops so that 24 when he began farming on his own account practical experience enabled him to carefully conduct...

...Saline, this county, and for two years in Parsons Commercial College at Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was reared to the occupation of farming, early becoming familiar with the best methods of caring for the fields by the assistance which he rendered to his father in his boyhood days. When twenty-one...

...Kansas in 1893. Joseph P. Farrand, reared upon the old home farm under the parental roof, early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the stock. In the winter months he attended the district schools, wherein he mastered the common branches...

...in Dowagiac. Through the summer months he assisted in the labors of the field and meadow and became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for stock. He continued to give his father the benfit of his services until the time of his marriage, which...

...by the public schools, and when not busy with his text-books he worked with his father on the farm, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. In 1894 he bought eighty acres from his father and has since remained on the old homestead. In 1901...

...since and is accounted one of the successful agriculturists of the community, thoroughly conversant with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. GE Clarke is the youngest of a family of three sons and one daughter, his sister being Lucy, wife of...

...with his parents until 1875 and assisted in the farm work, gaining thorough and practical knowledge of the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. On starting out in life on his own account he rented a farm of eighty acres on section 13, Montebello...

...College at College Springs after he had completed his preliminary course in the public schools. He was reared to the occupation of farming, early becoming...familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil, and when his school days were over he concentrated his energies upon farm work and was thus continuously...

...training at farm labor was not meager, for at an early age he began work in the fields and soon became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He remained on the home farm with his father until he reached the age of twenty-five years and then...