The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 91. , Thomas, merchant, wasborn at Ling Riggs, Weardale, County Durham, Dec. 15,1845; spent one year in Oanandaigua,N. Y., and in 1854 remove
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 91. , Thomas, merchant, wasborn at Ling Riggs, Weardale, County Durham, Dec. 15,1845; spent one year in Oanandaigua,N. Y., and in 1854 removed to London, Can., wherehis father, a man of great industry and persever-ance, was killed by a boiler explosion in 1874. Hismotlier, born in 1823, is a resident of that city. Theeducational advantages afforded Mr. Martindale inhis boyhood were limited totwo years regular attendanceat school. After he enteredupon his mercantile career hespent his leisure time in dili-gent study and reading. Healso went to night-schools andto commercial schools, andtook an active part in debat-ing societies, thus early in lifeacquiring considerable abilityin public speaking. In 1859he engaged in the dry-goodsbusiness in London, where heremained seven years, and be-fore he was twenty had a su-perintending chargeof the larg-est mercantile establishmentof that kind in Canada, and was president of the Dry -goods Salesmens associationof Toronto. After spendi
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