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Title: Some successful Americans
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Sherman
Subjects: Presidents Statesmen Inventors Philanthropists
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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oon led hisclass in reading and spelling, studies in which he alwaysexcelled. He was a delicate but not a sickly child, tow-headed, odd-mannered, with a lisping, whining voice. Thenand all through his life he was good-natured and not easilyprovoked. There were some twenty books in his fathers house, whichhe had read again and again before he was six years old.Among the number was ^Pilgrims Progress. He hadread the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It is said thathe could spell every word in the Bible, but this, no doubt,is an exaggeration. As he grew older he borrowed and HORACE GREELEY 57 read all the books to be had in a radius of seven miles. Inthe daytime he would lie under the shade of a tree and readfor hours at a time, forgetting even his dinner, noting noth-ing till darkness came on. He would gather pine knotsto give light for his evening reading, and be so absorbedthat the neighbors would come and go, eating apples anddrinking cider, without his having been conscious of their
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Horace Greeleys Birthplace presence. At a very early age he began to read the FarmedsCabinet, a weekly paper published at Amherst, containingreligious, agricultural and miscellaneous selections and afew brief editorials. The father of Horace Greeley was no better financierthan was his illustrious son in later years. Before Horacewas ten years old his father had speculated in lumber in asmall way and become bankrupt. His home and furniture 58 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS were sold by the sheriff, and he was obliged to leave thestate to escape arrest. Some of the debts that were notsettled then were paid by the son thirty years later. A few weeks after the sale of their home the Greeleysmoved to Rutland County, Vermont. The whole familyand all the household goods that the law had left themwere carried in one sleigh load. They were very poor, sopoor that the children ate their porridge together from asingle tin pan, sitting on the floor as they ate. In spite oftheir poverty they were happy,

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