A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . tistminister. He was left without a fathers care and guid-ance when he was an infant of two years of age;and upon his noble mother devolved his training andeducation. She did not live to see him attain manhood,as he was barely fourteen years of age when her lifeended. The early precepts and example of the prayer-ful widow were not lost upon the youth, and havesince remained as his guiding star to a higher and bet-ter life. Mr. Taylors early
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . tistminister. He was left without a fathers care and guid-ance when he was an infant of two years of age;and upon his noble mother devolved his training andeducation. She did not live to see him attain manhood,as he was barely fourteen years of age when her lifeended. The early precepts and example of the prayer-ful widow were not lost upon the youth, and havesince remained as his guiding star to a higher and bet-ter life. Mr. Taylors early education was obtained inthe subscription schools of his native county, which heattended in the intervals of work on a farm, which washis first business in life ; and afterwards at the countyacademy, where he went after the death of his early dependence upon his own resources developedin him that self-reliance without which there can be nolasting success. To paddle ones own canoe hasproved in numberless instances the surest road to thedevelopment of and physical energy. Aftersome time spent in teaching school, which he began at.
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