History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . rkable age of more than eighty-eight years, retaining his faculties to the last. He died May 10,1882. Elias S. had in his youth no educational ad-vantages other than the common schools worked when a boy, about three years with hisfather at masonry. When about eighteen he learnedshoemaking, and for a few years worked at cuttingand making shoes for neighboring manufacturers. In1838 he took a large lot of boots and shoes, the prop-erty of various manufacturers in Weymouth,
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . rkable age of more than eighty-eight years, retaining his faculties to the last. He died May 10,1882. Elias S. had in his youth no educational ad-vantages other than the common schools worked when a boy, about three years with hisfather at masonry. When about eighteen he learnedshoemaking, and for a few years worked at cuttingand making shoes for neighboring manufacturers. In1838 he took a large lot of boots and shoes, the prop-erty of various manufacturers in Weymouth, on boarda vessel and sailed for Savannah, Ga , where he dis-posed of part of the same to advantage, the remainderhe shipped to Charl(!Ston, S. C, and then sold thelarger part of what he had left from the Savannahmarket. This was Mr. Beals first business ventureout in the world, and the fact that his neighborstrusted him, a young inexperienced man, showed theesteem in which he was held by his his return from Savannah to Charleston he sailedon board the steamer Savannah, celebrated as being.
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