Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . erfully yielded obedience to the civil power, never exceeding hisorders, nor rashly assuming responsibilities, nor leading his men upon unwise vent-ures. While always the military commander of the colony, his counsel and helpwere counted as equally valuable in matters of administration. He served re-peatedly as one of the governors council; he was at one time assistant-governoror deputy, and, from 1644 to 1649, was treasurer of the Plymouth colon
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . erfully yielded obedience to the civil power, never exceeding hisorders, nor rashly assuming responsibilities, nor leading his men upon unwise vent-ures. While always the military commander of the colony, his counsel and helpwere counted as equally valuable in matters of administration. He served re-peatedly as one of the governors council; he was at one time assistant-governoror deputy, and, from 1644 to 1649, was treasurer of the Plymouth went to England as the envoy of the colonists in 1625, and in the midst ofplague, of evil times and of bitter jealousies, withstood the tyranny of the Lon-don traders who owned the Pilgrims labor; and braving both heavy debt and thepossibility of censure, bought out the traders rights in the name of his associates. The personal descriptions of this remarkable man that have come down tous, show him as a man of small stature, quick-tempered, choleric, sturdy andbluff, * As a little chimney is soon fired, wrote the Puritan historian Hubbard,. 111o >< UJ XH II. o 111ec 3\- < o MILES STANDISH 193 •• so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot andangry temper. And yet his relations with such men as the noble Bradford, theblameless Brewster, the politic Winslow, were so close and of so personal a char-acter that one can hardly accept unquestioningly the story of his hot and unrea-soning temper. He was a soldier and a fighter; but he loved peace and quiet,and his life was full of friendly offices and of kindly deeds. On Nantasket Beachhe built the first house of refuge and life-saving station in America. He gentle nurse in the winter of sickness, a friend and adviser to those in troub-le or distress, a loving father in the days when parents were not unfrequentlytyrants, and a forgiving spirit, as the old story of his famous
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