Lives of GenUlysses SGrant and HonHenry Wilson, together with sketches of Republican candidates for Congress in Indiana . milder seasons. At the age of eighteen his father died,and the boy was thrown upon his own resources. Determining tosecure an education, he labored in the harvest-field in summer andtaught school in winter, keeping even with his classes in year of his course of study was passed at Oberlin, Ohio, afterwhich he entered Michigan University, and graduated in the same year, he engaged in teaching, together with hiswife, whose companionship and helping h
Lives of GenUlysses SGrant and HonHenry Wilson, together with sketches of Republican candidates for Congress in Indiana . milder seasons. At the age of eighteen his father died,and the boy was thrown upon his own resources. Determining tosecure an education, he labored in the harvest-field in summer andtaught school in winter, keeping even with his classes in year of his course of study was passed at Oberlin, Ohio, afterwhich he entered Michigan University, and graduated in the same year, he engaged in teaching, together with hiswife, whose companionship and helping hand were to him invalua-ble. He edited the La Porte Union during a part of 1859 and1860, and having studied law he was admitted to the bar, and hadjust commenced the practice of his profession when the war of theRebellion called him away from his chosen pursuit. Enlistingearly as a private in the Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteers he wassoon made First Lieutenant of his company. After the battles ofIuka and Corinth he was promoted to the captaincy of anothercompany in the same regiment, which he commanded in the Ticks-.
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