﻿THE YOUNG MATHEMATICIAN. 



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The Young Mathematician. 



TRUMAN HENRY SAFFORD was born in Royalton, Vermont, in the 

 year 1836. He was a frail and delicate infant, and but for the pe- 

 culiar tenderness and care of his very affectionate and skilful moth- 

 er, his life could not have been saved. So feeble and sickly was he the 

 first year of his life, that he passed most of its nights in wakefulness 

 and weeping. After he entered upon his second year of life, his 

 health improved. He showed more vigor ; and seemed, by the strong 

 affection he exhibited, to be desirous of repaying in love the toil and 

 care which had cherished his doubtful life. 



He very early gave evidence that his mind was superior to that of 

 other children. He was always asking curious questions. When 

 only twenty months old, he learned the alphabet from blocks, each 

 of which had a letter upon it, and which were given him for amuse- 



