History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . every happy, consigned him to the care of his paternalaunts, whose good intentions sometimes failed ofmeeting the requirements of the sensitive and grow-ing boy. It was probably on this account that heacceded to their plan for sending him to DummerAcademy, in Byfield, where the preceptor was Nehe-tniah Cleaveland, who had married his cousin, AbbyP. Manning. But it was a heart-breaking business toleave his grandfather, who had been very kind tohim and to whom he was very necessary, an
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . every happy, consigned him to the care of his paternalaunts, whose good intentions sometimes failed ofmeeting the requirements of the sensitive and grow-ing boy. It was probably on this account that heacceded to their plan for sending him to DummerAcademy, in Byfield, where the preceptor was Nehe-tniah Cleaveland, who had married his cousin, AbbyP. Manning. But it was a heart-breaking business toleave his grandfather, who had been very kind tohim and to whom he was very necessary, and he darednot trust himself to say good-bye, but stole away earlyin the morning. The experience entered on so pain-fully was very beneficial, Mr. and Mrs. Cleavelandproving admirable directors of his studies and help-ing the formation of his character with affectionateand judicious guidance of his habits and his a period of repression succeeded a period ofgenial growth. I have often thought, he wrote notlong before his death, that if I had grown up from 1 By Rev. John W. Chadwick, Brooklyn, N. /g^Ml /X4^t*-t~, IPSWICH. 608a early childhood with more sunshine and less wind, Ishould not have wrapped the cloak of reserve soclosely about me, and might have been less censo-rious, of gentler and more considerate speech, andaltogether a more agreeable member of society. Butif he ever was censorious, harsh, or inconsiderate, itmust have been at a period to which the memory ofhis later friends did not go back. In 1S25, after about eighteen months at Byfield, hisschool-days came to an end, and on the day before thelaying of the corner stone of Bunker Hill Monument,June 24th, he entered on his business life in Boston,which continued with a single change of employerstill he removed to Philadelphia in 1831. At thistime his intellectual tendency of mind and earnest-ness of character had already sensibly declared them-selves. With no taste for dissipation, refusing thesummer eve
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