. Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. rentsof his father and mother emigrated to Orangecounty, New York, when the latter were chil-dren ; the parents of his father died in Orangecounty, while those of his mother removed toCayuga county, where they died. His fatherwent to Scipio when about twenty-one yearsold, immediately after his marriage, and set-tled upon an uncleared farm. He had elevenchildren, of whom Henry was the sixth. Thelatter spent his childhood and ear
. Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. rentsof his father and mother emigrated to Orangecounty, New York, when the latter were chil-dren ; the parents of his father died in Orangecounty, while those of his mother removed toCayuga county, where they died. His fatherwent to Scipio when about twenty-one yearsold, immediately after his marriage, and set-tled upon an uncleared farm. He had elevenchildren, of whom Henry was the sixth. Thelatter spent his childhood and early youth inworking upon his fathers farm in the sum-mer and attending the public schools for thefew months in the year when they were pro-vided. He was especially interested in booksand study, and read with great eagerness thefew books of history and literature whichwere to be found in the library and the log-houses of the neighbors. He had an especialtaste for mathematics, and learned the ele-ments of trigonometry and surveying before ^he was sixteen years old. In the spring of1821 he was employed as rod man by DavidThomas, then chief engineer of the Erie Canal.
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