. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . iked, and was received and en-tertained by an uncle, Cummins Jack-son, on a farm at Weston, where heremained during his boyhood, assistingin the rural work and picking up therudiments of education at a countryschool. He was at this youthful period a ladof spirit, and had the hardihood, at theage of nine, in company with an elderbrother, to undertake an erratic fortune-seeking journey on the Ohio, fi
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . iked, and was received and en-tertained by an uncle, Cummins Jack-son, on a farm at Weston, where heremained during his boyhood, assistingin the rural work and picking up therudiments of education at a countryschool. He was at this youthful period a ladof spirit, and had the hardihood, at theage of nine, in company with an elderbrother, to undertake an erratic fortune-seeking journey on the Ohio, fi-omwhich, after encountering various hard-ships of toil as a wood-cutter on anisland of the Mississippi, and enfeebledby the ague of the spot, he was enabledto return to Virginia by the charity ofa steamboat captain. At home he wasknown to the country round as a suc-cessful rider of his uncles horses in therace-course, for which that relative hada true Virginians affection. It ischaracteristic at once of young Jack-sons incipient manliness and of theprimitive habits of the region in whichhe dwelt, that at about the age ofsixteen he was elected Constable bythe Justices of the County Court of.
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