BIOGEAPHICAL KEMAKKS. 



^- WAS born iu tlie coimtj of Genesee, State 

 A. (,f New York, The '-Garden of tlie World." I 

 amused myself in my younger days by taming 

 and educating animals of the small kind or 

 order. At the age of twelye years I had a 

 caravan on a small scale of trained and tamed 

 coons, croAvs, squirrels, dogs, rabbits, etc. Such 

 an innate desire had I to see" to what perfection 

 the ed\\cation of animals could be brought, that 



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