Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ILLARD FILLMORE, thir-teenth President of the United^,, States, was born at Summer. h Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y ., onthe yth of Januar}-, 1800. His^ father was a farmer, and ow-ing to misfortune, in humble cir-cumstances. Of his mother, thedaughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard,of Pittsfield, Mass., it has beensaid that she possessed an intellectof very high order, united with muchpersonal loveliness, sweetness of dis-position, graceful manners and ex-quisite sensibilities. She died in1831; having lived to see her son ayoung ma
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ILLARD FILLMORE, thir-teenth President of the United^,, States, was born at Summer. h Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y ., onthe yth of Januar}-, 1800. His^ father was a farmer, and ow-ing to misfortune, in humble cir-cumstances. Of his mother, thedaughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard,of Pittsfield, Mass., it has beensaid that she possessed an intellectof very high order, united with muchpersonal loveliness, sweetness of dis-position, graceful manners and ex-quisite sensibilities. She died in1831; having lived to see her son ayoung man of distinguished prom-ise, though she was not permitted to witness the highdignity which he finally attained. In consequence of the secluded home and limitedmeans of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender ad-vantages for education in his early years. The com-mon schools, which he occasionally attended werevery imperfect institutions; and books were scarceand expensive. There was nothing then in his char-acter to indicate the brilliant career upon which hewas about to
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