Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-05-17
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Several years ago. a youth of sixteen
yea 5, of good sense, and a fair English
education, not having profitable en-
ployment at his fathers home i'm Ken
lucky, sought for employment among
his enterprising neiehbOrs few miles
Distant and although wages were low
in those days of gold and silver curren-
cy, he saved from his first years wages
$40. He was then II years old, heal
thy, lively looking, aspiring and am
bilious to become useful noble, and per-
haps great. He had already learned
that money loaned at high rates Of in
terest was oppressive to the borrower,
and reacted on the loancr, and in the
falling of prices of nearly all articles in
the commercial world that men
sought justification for their bankrupt
cy and delinquency in the fact that they
uad paid large rates of interest. Feel
ing, therefore, that a liherality, as we'll
IS justice, was necessary to every man
| IN dealing with his fellow men, he
| loaned his so to an exemplary, enter
prising and prosperous trading man in
his neighborhood, at the lowest rate Of
interest known in business in that
| State, viz, six per cent. per annum. He
worked another year, clothed himselfin
neat Kentucky jeans and other cheap
| but neat articles fapparel, and went to a
country school three m onths in the
winter of that year, and learned the
rudiments Of Latin and something of
the higher branches of mathematics,
working fora prosperous and liberal far
mer morning and evenings to pay the
BOARDING ; and at the end of the second
year, or when he was Is years of age, he
| lad saved S96 more. His character for
integrity and industry began to be bet
| ter known in the neigh bOrhOOd, and
| his services were sou ght for
He worked on a farm and rode as col
| lector for trading men and the Sheriff of
his county ;and at the end of his nine
| teenth year had saved $l10 more. With
| the interest accumulated on his other
| two years. wages he had now $500 was
comfortably clothed, and had good
| business education, which he improved
| from one winter to another, till he be-
came a scholar, both literally and scien-
| .itically. His influence ana usefulness in
creasing, he had at the age of twenty
years, $3.50. AT twenty-One he had ac-
cumu!ated $3.50, and was we'll known
Tor his activity of life. as a young man
of very attractive manners and ways.
| He moved to Western State where
| land was cheap, and entered 100 acres
| by land warrant, which he purchased
with $50 Of his mo ley. He made good
selection of land, in a good re. lion OF
country; he used portion of the balance
of his money in improving his land
buying little stock, and a few nipple
ments Tor farming, and the second year
he raised a small crop. Having gone to
his new neighborhood with about $500
in money, and used it cautiously, he by
degrees gained the name of a response
BILE citizen and good paymaster and
his influence rose gradually from his APP
pearance among his new and scattering
neighbors. Year after year he raised a
crop, continuing to read the best news
papers, periodicals, and looks, VIII ch
still further improved his mind till
sheep, cattle, and other stock grew up
in focks around him, more land adjoin-
ing him being purchased from time to
| time, till now he finds himself, whei,
scarcely arrived at the middle of life, a
gentleman farmer of wealth, surrounded
by comfort and many luxuries esteemed
| by neighbors both far and near, and
would receive the suffrage of those who
know him to any Office for which he
might he nominated, irrespective of par
| ty politics, so firm is their confidence in
both his ability and integrity.
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