8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1825, 
and Greek for two years, excepting the three summer 
months, when I was taken home to assist in the corn 
and hayfield. For my father, buying up, little by 
little, lands which had been cleared for charcoal, had 
become a farmer in a small way, an occupation to 
which he was most inclined. So about these times 
he sold out the tannery and bought a small farm 
nearer to Sauquoit, mainly of the land which my 
maternal grandfather had settled on, including the 
house in which he had married my mother. To it he 
removed, and there resided until he bought out an 
adjacent small farm in addition, with an old house 
very pleasantly situated, which he rebuilt and lived 
in until after I had attained my majority. But soon 
after that he bought a small farm close to the Sanquoit 
village on the western or Presbyterian side, hard 
the meeting-house the family had always attended. 
There my father indulged his special fancy by re- 
building another old house, and the place, after his 
death, and, much later, after that of my mother, fell 
to my eldest brother, who still possesses it.1 
I am not sure, but I think it was after two years 
of the Clinton Grammar School that I was transferred 
to Fairfield Academy.? Fairfield, Herkimer County, 
1 Asa Gray was the oldest of eight ange three sisters and four 
— of whom there survive two sisters and two brothers, 
2 Dr. Gray visited Fairfield again in (e summer of 1860 or 1861. 
He pointed out his old room, and told about some of the pranks he 
He was no doubt restless and active, nd lonening 
