Salmon P. Chase's Early Days as a Laborer

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 38.

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Salmon P. Chase's Early Days as a Laborer

OF the early days of Salmon P. Chase, of President Lincoln’s cabinet, and afterward chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, a correspondent of the Christian Advocate, August 2, says: “My father built the first brick house in Columbus, Ohio, with his own hands; Salmon P. Chase was his hod-carrier, and hauled the brick and lime in an ox-cart. He wore a flax togam and went barefoot.”