. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. then the State Normal School at Albany. He was ithe last-named institution when the Civil War broke out, and iAugust, 1862, he left the school and entered the army as fixjheutenant in the 125th Regiment of New York Volunteer Iifantry. Prom that rank he was promoted to captain, whicrank he held when mustered out of service. His father died when the son was fourteen years old, and 1maintained himself for several years at school and elsewhere bhimself teaching school, which he did for parts of four successi^years. At the close of the war he bade
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. then the State Normal School at Albany. He was ithe last-named institution when the Civil War broke out, and iAugust, 1862, he left the school and entered the army as fixjheutenant in the 125th Regiment of New York Volunteer Iifantry. Prom that rank he was promoted to captain, whicrank he held when mustered out of service. His father died when the son was fourteen years old, and 1maintained himself for several years at school and elsewhere bhimself teaching school, which he did for parts of four successi^years. At the close of the war he bade farewell to school anentered into business for himseK, engaging with his brother ithe bakers trade in the city of New York. Two years later Isold out his interest to another brother, and began the career, iwhich he has since been engaged, as a manufactm-er of flax aBhemp twines, yarns, and threads, first at Waterford and then £Troy, and afterward at Schaghtieoke, New York. He was orof the incorporators of the Cable Flax Mills of Schaghtieoke 146. <S a^.
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