The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . Union. INSCRIPTION ONTHE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY Of DANIEL WEBSTERIN THE HALL OF FAME. DANIEL WEBSTER, who will hold rank through alltime as one of the greatest orators and statesmen ofthe world, was born January 18, 1/82, at Salisbury,New Hampshire. His first education was at the hands ofhis mother, and he said in after years that he could neverrecollect the time when he could not read the Bible. He hada few brief terms of in
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . Union. INSCRIPTION ONTHE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY Of DANIEL WEBSTERIN THE HALL OF FAME. DANIEL WEBSTER, who will hold rank through alltime as one of the greatest orators and statesmen ofthe world, was born January 18, 1/82, at Salisbury,New Hampshire. His first education was at the hands ofhis mother, and he said in after years that he could neverrecollect the time when he could not read the Bible. He hada few brief terms of instruction in the district schoolhouse,but the books which he found in the Salisbury Library hecounted of more importance. It is possible he would have grown up a farmer savethat he was a feeble lad, and did not promise to be worthmuch on the farm. So his father, seeing that he tookreadily to education, determined to give him as good achance as possible. Webster, writing toward the latter partof his life, recalls these words of his father: My child,I now live but for my children; I could not give yourelder brother the advantages of knowledge; but I can now 64.
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