. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . MARSHALL FIELD. 725 and when he was seventeen left the farm and went to Pittsfield, where he obtainedemployment in a country store. Here he remained four years, and exhaustedthe opportunities of the situation, so far as business training was concerned. Inthese four years he developed a determination to reach something higher thanwas attainable in a New England country town. The tendency of the time wastoward the West, and in 1S56 he left Massachusetts and made straight forChicago, where he became a salesman in the wholesale dry-g
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . MARSHALL FIELD. 725 and when he was seventeen left the farm and went to Pittsfield, where he obtainedemployment in a country store. Here he remained four years, and exhaustedthe opportunities of the situation, so far as business training was concerned. Inthese four years he developed a determination to reach something higher thanwas attainable in a New England country town. The tendency of the time wastoward the West, and in 1S56 he left Massachusetts and made straight forChicago, where he became a salesman in the wholesale dry-goods house ofCooley, Farwell & Co. ,
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