. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . s always accompanied by his family, 41: WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. who were thus brought into familiar relationswith families of the lauded gentry by whom hewas employed, and who made it as pleasant asthey could for the stranger during his imparted a cosmopolitan character to thesubject of our sketch very uncommon with hiscountrymen. Wherever his father resided hepunctually attended the best classical and math-ematical schools, and his father declined engage-ments wherever such schools were not accessibl
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . s always accompanied by his family, 41: WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. who were thus brought into familiar relationswith families of the lauded gentry by whom hewas employed, and who made it as pleasant asthey could for the stranger during his imparted a cosmopolitan character to thesubject of our sketch very uncommon with hiscountrymen. Wherever his father resided hepunctually attended the best classical and math-ematical schools, and his father declined engage-ments wherever such schools were not accessible, be familiarly called, to distinguish him fromother Johns, profited by his opportunities, andhow readily he entered into the self-reliantspirit of our country, is evinced by the fact thatin the winter of 183(3, whilst a lad, racy of thesoil, he engaged with Mr. Adams, chairman ofthe district, to teach the public school atAdamsville, now a station on the Albany andSusquehanna Kailroad, ten miles from Albany,before lie had quite reached his sixteenth and he preferred engagements on estates inKerry to much more lucrative ones elsewhere,because of superior opportunities for highereducation. Hence he remembers schools andschoolmates in the city of Limerick, soon afterat Lestowell, then at Tralee, then after threeyears absence at Lestowell again, and then aftertwo years back again to Limerick before comingto America in the summer of 1836. How abundantly John Julius, as he used to The following year, 1837, he was offered betterpay, and took charge of the somewhat aristo-cratic school at Coeymaus, making his home atthe opulent mansion of Colonel Abraham Ver-planck, whose family occupy high social posi-tion in the State. In that year he was entered as a law studentat Albany, and the next year (1838) he took themoreconvenient school at Watervliet, making hishome at Colonel Lansings hospitable mansion. WAYNE COUNTY. At the close of that year he had his nametransferred from Albany
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