. Contemporary American biography . actical business training in the store of his father, who was a grocer andtea merchant; and the mercantile life not being attractive, soon turned again to study, takingup agricultural chemistry and engineering, in both of which he made fine progress and after-ward performed practical work. To his acquirements in the former, indeed, with its collateralbranches, it may be said that he owed much of the success of his subsequent career as a manu-facturer. He was for a time engaged in railroading, holding a responsible position with theold Grand Junction Eailroad
. Contemporary American biography . actical business training in the store of his father, who was a grocer andtea merchant; and the mercantile life not being attractive, soon turned again to study, takingup agricultural chemistry and engineering, in both of which he made fine progress and after-ward performed practical work. To his acquirements in the former, indeed, with its collateralbranches, it may be said that he owed much of the success of his subsequent career as a manu-facturer. He was for a time engaged in railroading, holding a responsible position with theold Grand Junction Eailroad, now the Northwestern, and showed such marked capability forthe vocation that he was strongly urged to make railroading his life-work. But in spite of theties that are thus shown to have existed and strong inducements brought to bear upon him toremain in England, he made up his mind to locate in America, and hither he came early in was the result of favorable impressions made upon him during a visit five years before for.
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