. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. nt. His father offered to advance him moneyand he finally borrowed ^500 to buy absolutelynecessary law books. From the beginning he madehis way, slowly but surely; after the first year hetook an office in the Mercantile Exchange build-ing with James G. King, Jr., and John A. the latter Henry made a new and very im-portant acquaintanceship — with Johns sister Julia— and before many months passed they were en-gaged to be married. Henry was at this time earning about ^i,cx)o ayear. His father proposed to
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. nt. His father offered to advance him moneyand he finally borrowed ^500 to buy absolutelynecessary law books. From the beginning he madehis way, slowly but surely; after the first year hetook an office in the Mercantile Exchange build-ing with James G. King, Jr., and John A. the latter Henry made a new and very im-portant acquaintanceship — with Johns sister Julia— and before many months passed they were en-gaged to be married. Henry was at this time earning about ^i,cx)o ayear. His father proposed to lend him what heneeded to enable him to marry, but Henry knewthat any advance would be charged against his shareof his fathers estate and declined, though it gavehim a feeling of security to know that his fatherstood back of him. The early training that Henryhad received from his father stood him in good steadat this time. He had trained me to have the great-est aversion to being in debt and always to pay a billpromptly on its presentation. And though I had but [ -62 ]. ST. Johns chapel-in-the-fields, 1821. engraved by W. D. SMITH FROM A DRAWING BY A. J. DAVISFrom The New York Mirror, 1829 Peaceful Days at Last a few hundred dollars of my own at my marriage I New Yorknever was under the necessity of violating his determined to live within my income and alwaysdid, and paid *as I went. Wheeler, who was always ready to step forwardwhen he could help any of his relatives, owned acomfortable little house at 80 Charles Street, justnorth of Bleecker Street and opposite the fine oldfarm of Abram Van Nest. He offered to rent thisto Henry and Julia at a modest sum and they wereonly too glad to accept. Charles Street is in Green-wich Village and the house stood within a stonesthrow of the one which Lockwood de Forest hadoccupied when he first came to New York. Finally the all-important day — April 15, 1847 —arrived, and Henry, in telling the story of it, againgives some lo
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