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Censure him all you choose, and then look at the 

 conditions of his childhood and wonder that he 

 lived to fifty years of age before the lack of early 

 care brought forth its fruit. Aaron Burr received 

 as good an intellectual and moral legacy as any one 

 of the 1,400 of the Edwards family. His father 

 and mother, grandfather and grandmother would 

 have given him as good an environment and train- 

 ing as any one of them enjoyed, but — his father 

 died before he was two years old, and his mother, 

 grandfather, and grandmother died when he was 

 two years old, and he and his sister, four years old, 

 went to live with his oldest uncle, Timothy Ed- 

 wards, who was only twenty. This uncle was also 

 bringing up two younger brothers aged eight and 

 thirteen, and three young sisters. While Timothy 

 Edwards made an eminently worthy citizen and 

 reared a family of noble sons and daughters, he 

 was not prepared at nineteen to support so many 

 younger children and give a two-year-old boy the 

 attention that he needed. 



At twelve years of age Aaron Burr went to col- 

 lege, and after this time he never had even the 

 apology of a home, indeed he never had a home 

 such as his nature demanded. There are three pic- 

 tures of the child which satisfy me that the right 

 training would have enabled Aaron Burr to go into 

 history as the noblest Roman of them all. 



At four years of age he was at school, where the 

 treatment was so severe that he ran awav from 



