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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 33.

POOR BOYS.

HERE are some encouraging facts for poor boys, culled by some enterprising scribbler:—

John Adams, second President, was the son of a farmer of very moderate means. The only start he had was an education.

Andrew Jackson was born in a log hut in North Carolina, and was raised in the pine woods, for which the state is famous.

James K. Polk spent the earlier years of his life helping to dig a living out of a farm in North Carolina. He was afterward clerk in a country store.

Millard Fillmore was the son of a New York farmer, and his house was a very humble one. He learned the business of a clothier.

James Buchanan was born in a small town among the Alleghany Mountains. His father cut the logs and built his own house in what was then a wilderness.

Abraham Lincoln was the son of a very poor Kentucky farmer, and lived in a log cabin until he was 21 years of age.

Andrew Jackson was apprenticed to a tailor at the age of ten years by his widowed mother. He was never able to attend school, and picked up all the education he ever got.

General Grant lived the life of a common boy, in a common house on the banks of the Ohio River, until he was seventeen years of age.

James A. Garfield was born in a log cabin. He worked on a farm until the time he was strong enough to use carpenter tools, when he learned the trade. He afterward worked on the canal.