. Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade. In this Store My Father Worked as a Boy, at Groton, N. Y. Village Hotel, Groton, N. the dances were held. Chapter IIAS A YOUTH IN GROTON AND McLEAN 1855-1861 WITH his education apparently completed atthe age of thirteen and having completed apreliminary business career of one year asrelated at the age of fourteen, Father grew too bigfor West Winfield and resolved to seek a larger andmore inviting field. The vilage of Groton, TompkinsCounty, New York, of about f
. Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade. In this Store My Father Worked as a Boy, at Groton, N. Y. Village Hotel, Groton, N. the dances were held. Chapter IIAS A YOUTH IN GROTON AND McLEAN 1855-1861 WITH his education apparently completed atthe age of thirteen and having completed apreliminary business career of one year asrelated at the age of fourteen, Father grew too bigfor West Winfield and resolved to seek a larger andmore inviting field. The vilage of Groton, TompkinsCounty, New York, of about four or five hundredpeople, and ninety miles from Winfield to the south-west, was the place which attracted him; probably forthe reason that he had a better opportunity, butundoubtedly for the principal reason that his olderbrother, Professor Williams, was in that village teach-ing the only school in the place, namely the GrotonAcademy. Thither he went without his mother, andbecause of his brothers connection with the schoolhe was able to get free the schooling, which otherwisewould have cost him $ per year. In the sameschool his brother Ralph was janitor and his sisterMinn
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