. Contemporary American biography . that he should lose popularity and political influence in servingthese important ends, but the value of his services will nevertheless be permanently degree of was conferred upon him by Kenyon College, and also by Harvard, Yale,and Johns Hopkins universities. Mr. Hayes was married in 1S52 to Lucy Ware Webb,daughter of Dr. James Webb, of Chillicothe, Ohio. This estimable Christian wife and motherexercised an important and salutary influence on her husbands career, awakening his energyand ambition, giving him practical aims, and stimulatin
. Contemporary American biography . that he should lose popularity and political influence in servingthese important ends, but the value of his services will nevertheless be permanently degree of was conferred upon him by Kenyon College, and also by Harvard, Yale,and Johns Hopkins universities. Mr. Hayes was married in 1S52 to Lucy Ware Webb,daughter of Dr. James Webb, of Chillicothe, Ohio. This estimable Christian wife and motherexercised an important and salutary influence on her husbands career, awakening his energyand ambition, giving him practical aims, and stimulating him to noble endeavor. One dis-tinguishing feature of her occupancy of the White House was the banishment therefrom ofalcohol in every shape, for she, like her husband, was a total abstainer and did not fear topractise what she believed, regardless of precedent and surroundings. Mrs. Hayes died in1889, leaving a life-long example of a pure consistent Christian character worthy of the mostexalted conception of American CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 259 GEORGE M. PULLMAN. George Mortimer Pullman, inventor of world-wide fame, founder of the town ofPullman, 111., and one of Chicagos most distinguished citizens, was born in ChautauquaCounty, N. Y., March 3d, 1831. He received an ordinary country-school education; at the ageof fourteen was employed in a country store, and three years later went to Albion, N. Y., wherehe entered into the cabinet-making business with an elder brother. He varied this line ofwork during the next ten years by undertaking contracts of various sorts, among others formoving warehouses and other buildings along the line of the Erie Canal, which at this timewas being widened by the State. His experience thus far and probably his natural bent had,as can be readily seen, led him in the direction which he was in fact destined to followthroughout his life. From cabinet-making to moving buildings was one step; another wasmade when he settled in Chi
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