Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . and respected citizen, and convinced him there were otherand higher objects in life than a mans daily wage. Determining to fithimself for a greater career, he devoted himself assiduously to the readingof books upon history, travel, political economy and especially the biogra-phies of great men. When he went to Springfield, he continued to make good use of hisleisure hours. He attended nigh
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . and respected citizen, and convinced him there were otherand higher objects in life than a mans daily wage. Determining to fithimself for a greater career, he devoted himself assiduously to the readingof books upon history, travel, political economy and especially the biogra-phies of great men. When he went to Springfield, he continued to make good use of hisleisure hours. He attended night school, and being a ready speaker, atrait which he had inherited from both parents, he joined a debating the time he was twenty-two years of age, he became convinced that hecould find something to do which would be more in accord with histastes than working at the bench. He announced his decision to his parents,and one day walked out of the shops at noon and went forth like Abrahamof old, not knowing whither he was going. He spent a portion of thefollowing year at a business college in Springfield, where he came incontact with a different class of men, all intent upon a business
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