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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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e than ordinarilysuccessful lawyer. He was born in the city of Buffalo, NewYork on November 6, 1859. His early education was acquiredin the common schools of that city, and from them he pro-ceeded to St. Josephs College, a Buffalo institution of highrank. Necessity, however, drove him to lay aside his books atan early age to begin the practical work of life. For a timehe worked in the humble, but by no means unenlightemngcapacity of a newspaper boy, selling papers on the streets ot Buffalo. „ £ , . „„„„ His native bent, however, like that of so many of his race,was toward the law and politics. He cherished that ambitioneven while he was selling newspapers, and omitted no oppor-tunity of studying to prepare himself for such a career Themany difficulties and obstacles in his path were one by oneovercome by his indomitable spirit and unfailing energy, andat the last, in January, 1880, before he was twenty-one years otage, he was able creditably to pass his examinations and gam
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