 Ohio from Pennsylvania. Jesse Grant, who had worked as a tanner for the father of the afterwards noted Abolitionist, John Brown, started in business for himself at Ravenna, but removed to Point Pleasant, and...  History of Bridgeport and Vicinity - Page 792by George Curtis Waldo (Jr.) - 1917Full view - About this book
 | L. U. Reavis - Missouri - 1875 - 1110 pages
...arrived at his seventeenth year, was such as could be obtained at the district schools of the day, working on his father's farm in summer, and attending school in winter. And again let it be remembered, that this has been the early experience of many men, who to-day are... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - Missouri - 1876 - 1062 pages
...arrived at his seventeenth year, was such as could be obtained at the district schools of the day, working on his father's farm in summer, and attending school in winter. And again let it be remembered, that this has been the early experience of many men, who to-day stand... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1890 - 846 pages
...its progress. At the age of 20 the latter began the study of law, his boyhood having been passed in working on his father's farm in summer and attending school in winter. In J845, being tiien admitted to the bar, he began to practise his profession at Port Washington, Wisconsin,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1890 - 854 pages
...its progress. At the age of 20 the latter began the study of law, his boyhood having been passed in working on his father's farm in summer and attending school in winter. In 1845, being then admitted to the bar, he began to practise his profession at Port Washington, Wisconsin,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 988 pages
...and again in 1823 to Georgetown, about forty miles from Cincinnati, and here Ulysses was brought up, working on his father's farm in summer and attending school in winter. Jesse Grant, who was an intelligent man. a great reader, and a contributor to western newspapers, desirous... | |
 | Railroad Historical Company - Railroads - 1900 - 810 pages
...1854. He was educated in the schools of Butler county, Iowa, whither the family had moved in 1857, working on his father's farm in summer and attending school in winter. In 1875 he entered the service of the BCR & NRR as a laborer on a section where he remained one year.... | |
 | George Thomas Little - Maine - 1909 - 716 pages
...mother qualities which contributed largely to his success in life. He spent his youth in Swansville, working on his father's farm in summer and attending...of having a college education, he prepared himself and at the age of seventeen was prepared to enter, but too close application to his studies had undermined... | |
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