 | William Watts Hart Davis - Bucks County (Pa.) - 1905 - 1036 pages
...age entered the common schools, where he acquired a good practical English education. In his youth he became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and he continued to assist in the operation of the home farm until he had attained his majority. He... | |
 | Leigh Hadley Irvine - California - 1905 - 774 pages
...age of fourteen years he put aside his text-books and worked upon his father's farm, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He was thus engaged until 1877, when he had determined to try his fortune in America, having heard favorable... | |
 | Anthony Deahl - Elkhart County (Ind.) - 1905 - 1062 pages
...assisting in the work of the farm save through the short winter season when he attended school, and liecame familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In 1860 occurred the marriage of John 'W. Miller and Miss Mary Stutsman. a daughter of Daniel B. and... | |
 | Edward Miner - Greene County (Ill.) - 1905 - 662 pages
...schools of Greenfield and remained with his father until he had attained his majority, early becoming. familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. After his marriage he located where he now resides, at first renting the land, and when several years... | |
 | Robert F. Eldredge - Macomb County (Mich.) - 1905 - 724 pages
...attended the common schools and wras reared to the occupation of farming, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In his business career he prospered and at various times he followed farming, mining and the lumber... | |
 | Sherman B. Daboll, Dean W. Kelley - Clinton County (Mich.) - 1906 - 588 pages
...living. Daniel Perkins, the second oldest, was reared upon the old homestead in Victor township, becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. After attaining his majority he removed to the farm upon which he now resides and which at that time... | |
 | Henry Park Collin - Branch County (Mich.) - 1906 - 1173 pages
...remained at home until twenty-eight years of age, acquiring a public school education and becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. As the years passed he became more and more proficient in his farm labor and ultimately took charge... | |
 | Lowell H. Glover - Cass County (Mich.) - 1906 - 940 pages
...reared iij •the county of his nativity, spending; his' boyhood days upon a farm and early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of "the agriculturist. • No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine ' of farm life and he attended school... | |
 | Samuel Willard Beakes - Washtenaw County (Mich.) - 1906 - 840 pages
...afterward continued his studies in Saline township. He remained upon the home farm until twenty-two years of age, during which time he became familiar with all the work that falls to the lot of the agriculturist. He was afterward employed as a farm hand for several... | |
 | Homer Howard Field, Joseph Rea Reed - Pottawattamie County (Iowa) - 1907 - 690 pages
...parents to Iowa, the family home being established in Belknap township, Pottawattamie county. He early became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and when twenty-three years of age begaii farming for himself in James township. Thirteen years later... | |
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Schenck was reared, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and thus becoming well prepared to carry on farming on his own account at a later day. 
