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having been made to a house near there in 1850. Three years 

 later another move was made to gio North Fifth street, three 

 doors above, where the family lived happily until 1867. 



After attending the Jefferson Primary School a short time, 

 Linnaeus was promoted to the secondary school at Third and 

 Brown, thence to the Jefferson Grammar School, at that time 

 under the charge of Zephaniah Hopper, who shortly before 

 Linnaeus was prepared to enter the High School was appointed 

 to a professorship in that institution, a position he still holds 

 at the age of eighty-three. Linnceus Fussell entered the High 

 School in 1858, finished the two years' course, and ended his 

 school days proper on February 14th, i860. But the follow- 

 ing year, spent near the place of his birth, in Pendleton, 

 Indiana, was infiniteh' more effective in paving the way for 

 his professional career in after life. 



During the winter of i860 Neal Hardy and his wife and 

 daughter had been on a visit East, and on his return took 

 Linnaeus and his sister, Emma J. Fussell, home with him. 

 Enima returned in October, i860, but Linnaeus, having l)een 

 appointed a teacher, remained until March, 1861. He had 

 already decided that he would like to be a physician, and as 

 showing under what sort of guidance his selection was made, 

 a portion of a letter written to him upon his eighteenth birthday 



will be of more purpose than anything that can be written now. 



* 

 "Thee is just at the time of Hfe when to many come^ the 'tide, 



which taken at the flood, leads on to fortiine.' Bnt to many others, on 

 the other hand, it leads to shipwreck and destruction. Of course, we 

 feel all of parents' solicitude. We have settled down into the following 

 plan as to what seems to us to be the best for thee, and offer it for thy 

 consideration. First, come fully to the conclusion that with a Heavenly 

 Father's assistance and a very little aid from men thee can work out thy 

 own future, whatever it may be ! Now, what shall it be? If thee still 

 turns wistfully to the profession of thy father, we will encourage and 

 help thee all we can to be a noble physician. Remember, no half-breeds 

 for us ! A high place, or not at all ! Now, if this is the conclusion, let 

 me offer the following suggestions as to the best way of its accomplish- 

 ment — a way for thee to do it tlij-self. Set out in the beginning with a 

 determination to do everything thee attempts in the best manner of 



