Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15

To the Editor.--I send you my
autobiography, written by myself,
Edgar Wilson Nye was born in
Maine, in 1850, August 18th, but at
two years of age he took his parents
by the hand; and, telling them that
piscataquis county was no place for
them, he boldly struck out for Croix
county, Wisconsin, where the hardy
young pioneer soon made a home for
his parents The trst year he drove
the Indians out OF the ST. Croix Val
lev. and suggested TO the North
Western Railroad that il would be
good idea TO build to st. Paul as soon
as the company could get a grant
which would pay them two or three
times the cost of construction The
following year he adopted trousers
and made Sl7o from the sale OF wolf
scalps. lie also cleared twenty-sevcn
acres of land, and raised some water
melons, In 1854 he established and
endowed a district school in Pleasant
Valley. lt was at this time he be-
gan tn turn his attention TO the abb
clifton OF slavery in the South and
to write articles Tor the press. signed
'Neditas, in which he advocated the
war Of 1860, or as soon as the gov
crnmert could get around 20 it,
In 1855 he graduated from the farm
and began 20 study law. He did not
advance very rapidly in this protes-
sion, falling several times in his eX-
animation, aud giving bonds for his
appearance at the next term OF court.
He was, however, close student OF
political economy, and studied per
sonal economy at the same time, till
he found that h. could live on ten
cents a day and his relatives easily.
Mr. Nyc now began TO look about
him for a new country 10 build up and
foster, and. as Wisconsin had grown
10 be so thiekly settled in the north
western part OF the state that neigh
hors were frequently found as near as
five miles apart he broke loose from
all restraint and took emigrant rates
for Cheyenne. Wyoming Here he
engaged board at the Inter-Ocean
Hotel and began to look about him
for a position in a bank Not sue
ceeding in this he tried the law and
journalism. He did not succeed in
getting a job for some time, but final
~ hired as associate editor and
ianitof OF the Laramie Sentinel The
salary was small but his latitude was
great. and he was permitted 10 write
ANYTHING that he thought would
please the people, whether it was
news or not.
BY and by he had won every heart
by his gentle, patient poverty and his
delightful parsmony with regard 20
facts With hectic Imagination and
an order on restaurant which ad-
vertiscd in tho paper, he scarcely
cared the liyelong day whether school
kent or not
Thus he rose TO justice OF the peace,
and finally TO an income which is re-
ported very large TO everybody but
the assessor
lie is the father Of several very
beautiful children bv his first wife
who is still living She is a Chicago
girl. and loves her husband far more
than he deserves lie is pleasant 10
the outside world but perfect brute
in his home He early learned that.
in order TO win the love OF his wife.
he should be giraffe, and kick the
stove over on the children when he
came home. He therefore asserts
himself in this way and his family
love and respect him, being awcd by
his greatness and gentle barbarism.
lie eats plain food with both hands,
conversing all the time pleasantly
with anyone who may be visiting at
the house II his children do not be-
have, he kicks them from beneath the
table till they roar with pain, as he
chats on with the guests with a bright
and cver-howing stream Of bon mots,
which please and delight those who
visit him to that degree that they al
most forget that they had hardly any
thing 90 cat
In conclusion, Mr. Nyc is in every
respect lovely character He feared
that injustice might be done him,
however, in this biographical sketch,
and SO he has written Il himself