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tors had for many generations lived in this country. His 

 father had tried to make a tailor of him, but he did not 

 take kindly to that business, and became a physician. 



My mother was German, her father and mother 

 having both come from the fatherland. Like many others 

 at that day, her education never went beyond the ability 

 to read, and I am not sure that her reading ever went out- 

 side of the Bible. Possibly confining her reading to so 



Fig. 1. — Some of the Author (from the Southwest). 



good a book was one reason why she was a woman of 

 remarkably good judgment, and to her credit be it said 

 that she spared no pains to carry out the dying wish of 

 my father that the children should be allowed to secure 

 an education. She was a faithful Methodist, and al- 

 though belonging to the two different churches, my 

 parents usually went to church together, first to one 

 church and then to the other. 



When my mother married the second time, she mar- 



