Autobiography of Captain ; biographical sketches of relatives, reminiscences of 1861-1865, also some opinions and reflections concerning public duty . s wife Ann Mylchreest the writer went to Australia Alfred was a littleboy seven years old, and when I returned from Aus-tralia and was at our home in Castletown for a shorttime, he was just ten years. It was about twelveyears later when he came to the State of Kansas, ayoung man. He had been educated in the GrammarSchool of Castletown, where the best student won ascholarship in King Williams College. Alfred won thescholarship an
Autobiography of Captain ; biographical sketches of relatives, reminiscences of 1861-1865, also some opinions and reflections concerning public duty . s wife Ann Mylchreest the writer went to Australia Alfred was a littleboy seven years old, and when I returned from Aus-tralia and was at our home in Castletown for a shorttime, he was just ten years. It was about twelveyears later when he came to the State of Kansas, ayoung man. He had been educated in the GrammarSchool of Castletown, where the best student won ascholarship in King Williams College. Alfred won thescholarship and finished his education in King Will-iams College, and later had learned the business ofdruggist. I think it was in 1866 he came to the quiet life he had led in Castletown, andhow very different everything seemed to him in Kan-sas, I had much sympathy for him, and when he seemedto grow very homesick and I discovered that he had asweetheart back in Castletown, I wTOte to Father (whowas then in the Isle of Man) early in August, 1867,that as John had gone into the army again as Lieu-tenant in the 18th Kansas Cavalry Battalion, and as (53). DOUGLAS MYLCHREEST CAIN, President Cain Mill Company, Chairman County Commissioners,Atchison, Kansas. GEXEALOGY. 55 there was no prospect of anj- children in my own house,and John might not survive the campaign on theIndian frontier, that Iwould like to see Alfred mar-ried and settled on a farm; and that I had learnedfrom other sources that it was a wish Mother hoped tosee gratified before she died,—to have Alfred and MissMolyneux marry. On the 25th of August, 1867,Father wTote me from Castletown: •Your idea respecTins: Alfred settling down as a family man upona farm of his own deserves consideration. He seemed to me to berather reserved, but that may only apply to his intercourse Avith me;perhaps to you he may speak his mind more freely, and I think thatif you feel hini inclined to talk upon such a subject it would be quiter
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