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A Sketch of the Life of Reuben E. Fenton : A Member of XXXIII, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII XXXVIII Congress, Governor of the State of New-York (Classic Reprint). Unknown Author

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Author: Unknown Author
Page Count: 44 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
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Language: English
ISBN: 9781330769188
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Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life of Reuben E. Fenton: A Member of XXXIII, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII XXXVIII Congress, Governor of the State of New-York About 1777, Roswell Fenton, the grandfather of the Governor, removed from Mansfield to Hanover, New Hampshire. Here George W. Fenton, the father of Reuben, was born, and here he resided until 1808. In that year he removed to Chautauqua County, in this State, and settled on a farm upon a part of the Holland Land Company Tract, where his son, the Governor, still resides. Thus the Governor and his family have, from an early period, been identified with the interests of the Empire State, and he has had every opportunity to become familiar with its wants, its resources, and its people in every condition. Governor Fenton is emphatically a self-made man. Until fifteen years of age his life was that of a farmer's son, employing the summer in farm labors, and spending the winter in the log school-house of the district where he dwelt. Between 1834 and 1838 he enjoyed short terms of instruction at "College Hill Academy," near Cincinnati, and at the "Fredonia Academy," in this State, making rapid progress as a student, and receiving the approbation of his teachers for his upright and faithful conduct. While at these academies he read several elementary law books, and in 1838 entered the law office of Joseph and Franklin II. Waite, Esqrs., where he remained nearly a year as a student at law. It was not, however, his object to engage in that profession, but he sought to acquire a complete fitness for an active business life, by familiarizing himself with those principles and forms of law which enter into the usual course of mercantile transactions. Financial misfortune occurring while yet a youth, rendered it impossible for young Fenton to avail himself of the means of education provided at that early day in his own section, as he desired. And that large knowledge and grace of elocution which has since rendered him one of the most useful of our representatives in Congress, and a persuasive and accomplished debater, are the result of assiduous self-culture and patient effort during the busy years of his mercantile life. A Lumberman. In 1840, young Fenton, leaving his father's farm, with the most limited means, commenced the business of a lumberman, which he steadily pursued for many years, and finally with very great success. 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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