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Civil war. He is in his fifty-eighth year, having been 

 a farmer since he was sixteen years of age, when his 

 father moved to a farm, leaving it mainly to the care of 

 himself and a brother two years younger. Possessed 

 of an exuberant enthusiasm, Air. Giauque always 

 enters heartily into any scheme for securing better 

 methods and higher standards in the calling of his 

 choice. Ambitious always to have a good garden, he 

 has usually had one, when it has been possible in that 

 dry climate. 



Brainard S. Higley 

 was born on a farm in Windham, Portage county, 

 Ohio, of New England ancestors, September i, 1637, 



B. S. HIGLEY 



and has always resided in Ohio. Nearly his whole life 

 has been passed in that part of Ohio known as the Con- 

 necticut Western Reserve. Until he was twelve years 

 of age he attended country schools — most of the time 

 at one held in a log cabin. At the age of twelve his 

 parents moved to a nearby village, where he prepared 



