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night wolves killed a number of sheep in a field close to the house, 

 and that the trunks of sweet-apple trees in the orchard were scratched 

 by the claws of bears which came to gather the fruit. In doing so 

 they left marks which made an abiding impression on the heart and 

 the mind of the boy. It was in this region that the early childhood 

 of our late associate was passed, and it was in such schools as the lo- 

 cality and the State could offer that his education was gained. When 

 he was thirteen years old his father again moved, to Springfield, Ver- 

 mont, and carried on an iron foundry there, which was totally destroyed 

 by fire two years later, to the complete impoverishment of the family. 



Cyrus, as he grew older, — together with his next elder brother, 

 Samuel M. Warren, — became ambitious of obtaining a more liberal 

 education, and both of them directed their energies earnestly to this 

 purpose. For a number of years they supported themselves as best 

 they could by any work they could find to do. They taught schools 

 in the winters, and worked in hayfields during the summer vacations, 

 pursuing their studies meanwhile at every opportunity, in the early 

 morning and late at night, often under great difficulties, until the 

 elder brother, in the hope of more speedily gaining the desired end, 

 conceived an idea of improving the process of covering roofs with 

 tarred sheathing, which was then struggling into existence. Samuel 

 established works to this end at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1846, and in the 

 course of the next year asked his brother Cyrus to join him. A part- 

 nership was soon formed by the two brothers, with the understanding 

 that, the moment the profits of the business should admit of it, the elder 

 brother should be at liberty to study a profession, thus carrying out his 

 fixed purpose from the beginning. The business succeeded so well 

 that Samuel soon entered a lawyer's office at Cincinnati, and after- 

 wards studied for a time at the Dane Law School in Cambridge. He 

 graduated in due course from the Cincinnati Law School, and was 

 admitted to the bar ; but afterwards became a minister and preached 

 at Brookline, Massachusetts, and for a number of years in London, 

 England. 



Cyrus remained meanwhile in Cincinnati, and he was married there 

 in 1849 to Miss Lydia Ross. Other brothers had been called in to help 

 carry on the roofing business, and in due course Cyrus, in his turn, 

 found the purposed opportunity to devote himself wholly to study. He 

 moved to Cambridge with his family in 1852, and entered the Law- 

 rence Scientific School in the departments of Zoology and Chemistry. 

 His first meeting with Agassiz at this time was an important event in 

 his life. He never forgot the cordiality with which he was greeted, and 



