. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . days,in a place like Steubenville, this meant only a living,even to the most thrifty. When he died, therefore, in1827, he left his widow in straitened circumstances,with four children to care for. Young Edwin, thenthirteen years of age, was the eldest, and him sheplaced, with his ready assent, in the bookstore of His salary there was meagre enough, —being but four dollars a month, — but to her this wasthen a helpful sum, which, in her circumstances, shecould not afford to forego. This situation took him from school, but he devotedhi
. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . days,in a place like Steubenville, this meant only a living,even to the most thrifty. When he died, therefore, in1827, he left his widow in straitened circumstances,with four children to care for. Young Edwin, thenthirteen years of age, was the eldest, and him sheplaced, with his ready assent, in the bookstore of His salary there was meagre enough, —being but four dollars a month, — but to her this wasthen a helpful sum, which, in her circumstances, shecould not afford to forego. This situation took him from school, but he devotedhis evenings, under his latest teacher, the Rev. , to such preparatory studies as would benecessary for his entrance at Kenyon College. At thestore he read much, and sometimes, as his employercomplained, to the neglect of customers, faUing to seethem when they first came in. Mr. Gallagher, a venerable and highly respectedcitizen of Steubenville, better known there as Squire A leading member of the bar of that city, since BIRTHPLACE OF MR. STANTON, STEUBENVILLE, OHIO SCHOOL-DAYS 9 Gallagher, attended school with Stanton, and says ofhim that he was a good boy; amiable and tells of his enterprise in starting a circulatingKbrary; also of prayer-meetings held by some boysunder his leadership. His only adverse criticism uponhim was when he referred, with a tinge of bitterness, tohis having gone over to Jackson. John Harper, afterwards and for many years thepresident of the Bank of Pittsburg, went to Steuben-ville a boy in 1826, and remained until 1831. Heknew young Stanton intimately during those years, andtestifies to his greed for books. He was especially fondof poetry. He was of a rehgious tendency, and intheir Sunday strolls in the country generally gave theconversation a moral and religious turn. He had notaste for the streets, nor for association with boys ofcoarse manners or language. Mr. Harper bears willingtestimony to the general amiabil
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