Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . , ,Jesse H. Farwell was born January 22,1834. His father, George Farwell, was agrandson of William Farwell, who was amongthe first white inhabitants of the town. Onsettling in life, George Parwell bought a littlecorner of the old farm, and built the smallhouse in which all the children were born; butafterward he owned the whole farm, and livedin the old farmhouse. An editorial in a Vermont journal gives oneof the few glimpses we have of the early lifeof his son Jesse : —
Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . , ,Jesse H. Farwell was born January 22,1834. His father, George Farwell, was agrandson of William Farwell, who was amongthe first white inhabitants of the town. Onsettling in life, George Parwell bought a littlecorner of the old farm, and built the smallhouse in which all the children were born; butafterward he owned the whole farm, and livedin the old farmhouse. An editorial in a Vermont journal gives oneof the few glimpses we have of the early lifeof his son Jesse : — His boyhood was a tjpe of that of manyfrom New England farms and firesides, whoafterward became leaders, the representativemen of the nation. His sole educational ad-vantages were derived from the district schoolnear his old home. An (dd neighbor detailssome interesting reminiscences of his earlydays. Having business with the elder Far-well, he visited him one day at noon, as theindustrious habits of the family detained themin the fields from early morn until the eveningshadows fell. Duiing the progress of busi-. BIOGRAIMIK ,\l. KEVIKW 417 ncss ail intricate mathcniatical problem wasinvolvccl, wiiich neither could satisfactorilysolve. Jesse, then a lank stripling of aboutfifteen years, weighing not over seventy-five orone hundred pounds, clad in a pair of jeanoveralls, hitched by a single suspender over al)artially sleeveless shirt, and with tufts ofbrown Iviii- waving tlirongli the crevices of abroken straw hat, sat on a log by the roadside,improving his nooning by the perusal of ascrap of an old newspaper. Observing thedilemma of the two men, he jiried a scrap ofbark from the log on whicii he was resting,and, fishing a portion of a nail from hispocket, soon had the matter correctly ad-justed. The attention of the gentleman beingthus called to the boy, he entered into con-versation with him. The picture he pre-sented, as, with bare feet crossed over his hoehandle, in the bri
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