Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . h agenial manner and unquestioned honesty,gained the confidence ofMaster Griggs sofully that, a month or two after being withhim, he was intrusted with the driving of themarket wagon into Boston every other morn-ing, and selling the products of the farm. Atthe end of two years he returned to following spring he worked in SalmonFalls in the wheel pits and foundation trenchesof the factory that was then being built remained at that rough work but a fewweeks, a
Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap countries, New Hampshire . h agenial manner and unquestioned honesty,gained the confidence ofMaster Griggs sofully that, a month or two after being withhim, he was intrusted with the driving of themarket wagon into Boston every other morn-ing, and selling the products of the farm. Atthe end of two years he returned to following spring he worked in SalmonFalls in the wheel pits and foundation trenchesof the factory that was then being built remained at that rough work but a fewweeks, as it was gradually breaking down aconstitution which at this period of life wasrather delicate. Again he returned to Gonic,and this time became clerk for John riummerin the village store, a cheap wooden buildingwhich then stood on what is now the villagesquare. Here he exhibited the same aptitudefor business, the same energy and enthusiasmthat characterized him all through life. Whennot quite twenty-three years old he built thebrick store still standing (though recentlygreatly improved and modernized by his son),. <::=4<^-^^J^ t^tTT^^e^ BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 44 stocked it with the goods required at that timein a country store, and began trading for him-self. The following year he fitteil up thestory over the store as a dwelling, furnished itin a simple manner, and on the thirty-first clayof July, 1825, did what he used to say wasthe best days work of his life, by marryingSusan, the daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth(Chesley) Place. For the following three or four years hewas busily engaged in trading when, havingtrusted out much of his stock, and hard timescoming on, he failed. His creditors tookwhat remained of his stock, and in the lan-guage of those days shut him up. Nothingdaunted or discouraged, he began to look aboutto get started again, and about this time wentto New York to try for something; but, gettinghomesick after three weeks absence from hisyoung wife and famil
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