. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. ptain in the Revolutionary war. His fatherwas a tailor, farmer and sometimes hotel-keeper, and Phineas drove cows to pasture,weeded garden, plowed fields, made hay. and, when possible, went to school. Later onhe became clerk in a i-ountry store established by his father. The latter dying in 1825,leaving the family in coniparalively indigent circumstances, young Phineas then startedinto tlie world, securing employment for a time with a mercantile firm at Grassy Plains,his remuneration being six dollars jicr month. In 1826 he went to the city of Brooklyn asc
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. ptain in the Revolutionary war. His fatherwas a tailor, farmer and sometimes hotel-keeper, and Phineas drove cows to pasture,weeded garden, plowed fields, made hay. and, when possible, went to school. Later onhe became clerk in a i-ountry store established by his father. The latter dying in 1825,leaving the family in coniparalively indigent circumstances, young Phineas then startedinto tlie world, securing employment for a time with a mercantile firm at Grassy Plains,his remuneration being six dollars jicr month. In 1826 he went to the city of Brooklyn asclerk in the store of Oliver Taylor, and for a time in the following year he was in busi-ness in New York. In 1829 he had a fruit and confectionery store in his grandfatherscarriage liouse in Hcllicl. and also had on hand hittery business, and was auctioneer in thebook trade. In 1831, in lonipany with his uncle, Alanson Taylor, he opened a countrystore in Betliel. Several months later the nephew bought <nit the uncles interest, and. PmXEAS T. BARXUM RRIDGErOKT AND VlfIXITY 7 also the same year, on (litober lUtli, he issiied the first copy of the llciaUl of hi he lacked the e\|>erionce which indicates cauticjii and was snon idunj,e(linto litigation, being finally sentenced to pay on one suit a fine of one liundred doliais andbe imprisoned in the jail lor sixty days. He had a good room, lived well and liad con-tinued visits from friends, edited his paper as usual, and received large accessions to tliesubscription lists. At tlic ex|iiration ol his imprisonment he received an ovation, andafter a suni|>tuous dinner, witli toasts, speeclies and ode and oration, in a coacli drawn bysix horses, accompanied Ijy a band of nuisic. forty horseman, sixty carriages of citizensand tlie marshal of oration of tlie day, amid roar of cannons and cheers of a multitudeMr. Barnum rode to his home in Hethel, where tlie band played Home Sweet Home, andthe procession then
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