. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . ,^. AMES KNOX POLK,% the eleventh President of§m the United States, 1845-s 49, was born in Meck- lenburg County, NorthA- Carolina, November 2,1795. He was the eldestson of a family of six sonsand four daughters, and wasa grand-nephew of ColonelThomas Polk, celebrated inconnection with the Meck-lenburg Declaration of In-dependence. In 1806 his father, SamuelPolk, emigrated with his fam-il}- two or tliree hundred miles west to thevalley of the Duck River. He was a sur-veyor as well as farmer, and gradually in-creased in wealth until
. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . ,^. AMES KNOX POLK,% the eleventh President of§m the United States, 1845-s 49, was born in Meck- lenburg County, NorthA- Carolina, November 2,1795. He was the eldestson of a family of six sonsand four daughters, and wasa grand-nephew of ColonelThomas Polk, celebrated inconnection with the Meck-lenburg Declaration of In-dependence. In 1806 his father, SamuelPolk, emigrated with his fam-il}- two or tliree hundred miles west to thevalley of the Duck River. He was a sur-veyor as well as farmer, and gradually in-creased in wealth until he became one ofthe leading men of tlje region. In the common schools James rapidly be-came proficient in all the common branchesof an English education. In 1813 he wassent to Murfreesboro Academy, and in theautumn of 1815 entered the sophomore classin the University of North Carolina, atChapel Hill, graduating in 1818. After ashort season of recreation he went to Nash-ville and entered the law office of FelixGrundy. As soon as he had his finished legal stu
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