History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . perament. Although he died at the age of forty, his vigorous manhooddeveloped a finished individuality which was impressed upon thecomnumity he left, and his professional life, though short, would,if sketched from the court records of his state, well-nigh fill thealottcd three score vears and ten of other men. Charles Manley Wells, Angeles, Cal. The most important event inthe life of C. M. Wells occurred()ctober 23d. 1842—he wasborn—Gibson, S u s q ue h a n n aCounty, Pennsylvania. He be-gan life, not only ve
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . perament. Although he died at the age of forty, his vigorous manhooddeveloped a finished individuality which was impressed upon thecomnumity he left, and his professional life, though short, would,if sketched from the court records of his state, well-nigh fill thealottcd three score vears and ten of other men. Charles Manley Wells, Angeles, Cal. The most important event inthe life of C. M. Wells occurred()ctober 23d. 1842—he wasborn—Gibson, S u s q ue h a n n aCounty, Pennsylvania. He be-gan life, not only very yotmg,I)ut also very small, his chiefattributes at that time being\-()ice and appetite. Hardlyworth raising. was the , in accordance with tlie cus-tom of liabies, he grew and wasgood and naughty, a blessingand a trial, as most children thirteen years of age, helived in the coal mining town of Wilkesbarre, Penn., where hisfather, Geo. H. Wells, practiced law. During these vears theboy had the advantages of a good, plain home, a devoutly Chris-. Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 205 tian mother, a practical, free-thinking, upright father; and he re-ceived i)lenty of precepts and admonition, enforced hy the motherwith mild slaps and by the father with a severe rod. His primary schooling- was mostly obtained at home, taughtby his parents ; hence it was neither systematic nor great bug-bear was the horrible, unprincipled, wicked spell-ing of the English language, lacking sense and reason and right;causing tears and heart burns innumerable; otherwise he tookhold well, without either precocity or dullness, and at thirteenstood, in patches, l)Oth l)eyond and behind the pupils of like agein the public schools. In 1855 tl^^ ^if^ o^ young Wells changed from town to coun-try—Wilkesbarre, Penn., to Gibson, Penn., since the father, be-cause of failing eyesight, was compelled to aljandon the practiceof law and become a farmer. This mean
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