. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ar Bennettsville, SouthCarolina, where he is engaged in agricultural pursuits, in the midst ofthe friends of his youth. He has three daughters and one son, whose education receives hisclosest attention. He is social, but temperate ; warm in his friend-ships, zealous in business—^having a keen sense of honor ; a cultivatedand easy address, with that happy mixture of vanity running throughhis conversation, and generally exhibited in the actions of self-mademen, which serve as shades
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ar Bennettsville, SouthCarolina, where he is engaged in agricultural pursuits, in the midst ofthe friends of his youth. He has three daughters and one son, whose education receives hisclosest attention. He is social, but temperate ; warm in his friend-ships, zealous in business—^having a keen sense of honor ; a cultivatedand easy address, with that happy mixture of vanity running throughhis conversation, and generally exhibited in the actions of self-mademen, which serve as shades to bring out the features of those youesteem. His sentiments are eminently conservative and practicable, andalthough his fortune seems to have been cast among those who widelydiffer with him on many subjects, yet, his high character and manlybearino- in such controversies rarely fail to insure him the privateesteem of his opponents. Indeed, he is often the umpire to settle differ-ences between them, and he is generally the confidant of the commu-nity in all business matters requiring assistance and
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