iirxi.i-iv. THOMAS in 





.rural Society 



SrioadetiM ,,f - i.uk, .!:.:.. i- . , 



American I 



.! Ijeatfur. In IHW he received the 



flrt artut ever 





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I.N I.;::, i- SdtJ 



thoM already 

 asjtfaoad, in 



-nmeiit nt 

 Vs.. 



in 1 



-tntue of 



harbor; 

 iu -rial dooreof 



1 Obsenra- 



Hlnl i:\liili , 



builaiQfioi tin- 

 Mil: 

 inv at West 



I Chapel an. 1 



>oUage: th< 



ig.Uoal an-'. 



1 the resi- 



Millv 



i; llunl 



urt " 

 ;!- William K. 



: the Pocg Mu- 



. Mav*. ; mau- 



-1; nnil t mbat 



I N I Ih'M vs HI MM. 



>r was a teacher in Kalii 



ally and in.-ntally. I 

 ther so completely 



band* 

 IH I reached 



Jt had 1 them that I 



ly find any trace of my father in my- 



tcpt an inborn faculty fur drawing. 

 loctsjMlaly. in my case ha- 



rtper. and that amount of 



purpnar wht- h uufr^t.,11 



meat, ami p^iMni uf the mflrt Irfsnins olac 

 eyes I ever saw in a woman'* nei 

 mora education than other women of the middle 

 classes la her day. aha had an esealleai meatal 

 rapanty. liar most 



,- fc 't that .h, ha.1 noe 

 modi time to arrive at any onmrtasloa, 

 would say: *I can not help it; thing* fla*h 

 across me!' That j has beasj passpd 



IIM- in full fttn-nK'th; it has sometimas 

 i me MM! tru-k, ami it ha al 

 W ariiest education was meafvail 



M-|,,,| l,,-rrl,t, f ft 



made a n tn-rr inninsilbla. aad he 



turned to rra^ln 



>e philopWcal 



.any were stodied with aifir 



ness. No book came amiss. He took op one 



after anothrr -.00 in 



any very long, lib great desire was to become 



> u-al enineer, nn. 1 U read 



thi* n. n.iti.l. Altl.Miighhe failed to realise this 



laM a I 



t>M MiKly of medicine in the office of his 

 r-m-law. a physician. Thence be pasted 



< 'ro Medical - 

 was graduated in 1846 * 



pllVMolnifV. Of ' 



only | .art of mv |. 

 in-!*: and 



:. m .- ksj i- 



pariod b wi k i 



tMk w^ tilm^ilf^rv 



* that natural 



n.-\rr DoQaoAd anything, and 

 alway* a burden to me 

 he architectural and engineer- 



afraid there b very little 

 ralbt in m.-. 1 n\ir llected 

 spedes work was 

 feared for wa 



ing part of tin- tnisiness, the working oufof the 

 wonderful unity ,,f plan in the thousands and 

 tfsOMBBmi of <h\, r- 



the modin. milar apparatus to serve 



diverse ends.** While he wan in the medical 



published a paper in which be 



sheath of the hair, ami (hi i> n... ,;;. 

 ley's layer. 



.' was too young to qual/ 

 f Stifgeons. he appUi ^ illiam Itumnt 



medical aiiiwintment in the navt. Hr 



to call, which he did, 

 thu* describe* the result 



navt. 

 d. and 



I think 1 M him now as be snlstiJ wftb ** rni 

 In hi. hand. Th flrK thine b* did va to rrtom it 



loiiMawoilMroeeasioa. Tl maiwa. to 

 thrr I M an IrUnuan. I Mpposs the air of 



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 hrkaJorV 



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I-,. .- pasai Iti . ! . 

 and ememTon the books of 



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