ISBN: 9781146058612

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A JOURNEYMAN PRINTER. Departure from Poultney - Visits his Father - Works as a Journeyman at Jamestown and Lodi, New York-Chopping Wood Again - Employed on the Erie (Pennsylvania) Gazette - Offered a Partnership; Declines-Returns To His Father's -In Vain Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A JOURNEYMAN PRINTER. Departure from Poultney - Visits his Father - Works as a Journeyman at Jamestown and Lodi, New York-Chopping Wood Again - Employed on the Erie (Pennsylvania) Gazette - Offered a Partnership; Declines-Returns To His Father's -In Vain Tries to Procure Work in the West - Resolves to Go to New-York - Divides his Earnings with his Father - The Journey to New-York - Arrival Therewith a Cash Capital of Ten Dollars-Diligent Search for Work - Sets up a "Lean" New Testament - Chicken-pox Proof-Varied Experience as a Journeyman in the Great City - Steady Progress - Visits New England - Business on his own Account. By the terms of his contract of apprenticeship, Horace Greeley was to remain in the office of the Northern Spectator until he should become twenty years of age. But in June, 1830. some ten months before the expiration of his apprenticeship, that journal discontinued publication, and the contract by that fact was terminated. He had gone to Poultney an uncouth, unknown youth. Now that he was about to depart, he found that he had many admiring friends, who bade him good-by with unaffected sorrow to part with him, and sin- cerest good wishes for his future. Nearly thirty years afterwards he said to more than a hundred thousand readers, when speaking of Poultney: "I have never since known a community so generally moral, intelligent, industrious, and friendly- never one where so much good was known, and so little evil said, of neighbour by neighbour." He shook many a friend by the hand, and stepping into a wagon, proceeded, in company with a friend of like years, to Comstock's Landing, some twelve miles distant, on the Champlain Canal, where they Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, life-of-Horace-Greeley-founder-of-the-New-York-tribune-with-extended-notices-of-many-of-his-contemporary-statesmen-and-journalists~~Lurton-Dunham-Ingersoll, 999999999, The Life Of Horace Greeley, Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, 1146058616, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 746 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=37mm, Gew.=1306gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - B… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 746 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=37mm, Gew.=1306gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biography / Autobiography], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.<

ISBN: 9781146058612

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may ha… More...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, Books, Biography and Memoir, The Life Of Horace Greeley: Founder Of The New York Tribune, With Extended Notices Of Many Of His Contemporary Statesmen And Jo Books>Biography and Memoir This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.<

ISBN: 9781146058612

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Paperback, [PU: Nabu Press], This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book., Biography: General<