Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Excerpt from Sketch of the Life of Increase Niles Tarbox In March, 1825, a little less than a year after his father's death, the lad went to reside with an uncle in Vernon, Conn. But the death of that uncle left him, at the age of fourteen, to return to East Windsor, to live with Mr. John Bissell, and to assist him in his farm work. This proved a good home, and young Tarbox remained there faithfully discharging his multifarious - if simple and humble duties, and quietly laying in a stock of sound physical health, and of solid common sense views of men and things, which stood him in good stead thereafter, until the autumn of 1833, when - in his nine teenth year - Mr. Bisscll released him that he might teach a district school in North Coventry, Conn., where he imparted what be him self had learned ia the common schools, so far his sole reliance, augmented from his private reading and his own stores of reflection. The next spring he went to the Academy at East Hartford, Conn to fit for college, whence, in the summer of the following year, he entered Yale. When it is remembered how little time he had been able to devote especially to his preparatory studies, it is obvious that he must have had an alert and apprehensive mind, and must have used prodigious application to study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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