Address of Charles Francis Adams Jr And Proceedings At the Dedication of the
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His father had died in 1818, not yet forty-nine. Though a substantial farmer and a man well off for the times, he left a wife and six children to divide his small estate, — the oldest of the children being not yet of age, while young Thomas was only fifteen. A strong, robust, well-knit lad, the choice of a means of earning his living was before him. He could not well be a lawyer, a minister, or a doctor, — a member of one of the three learned professions as they were called. He had not the educ...ation, nor had he the means or time to get it. He must earn his bread at once ; and he might make shoes, or work on a farm, or cut stone to do it. He tried his hand at shoe-making for awhile, but the confine- ment injured his health ; and fortunately for him, fortunately for his native town, the lad's natural inclinations then carried him to the more robust, the hardier calling. He became a stone-cutter, and as a journeyman learned his trade. It was now, during those most dangerous years of life which end youth and precede maturity, — the period of false and callow manhood, — it was during these years that young Crane's religious sense began to stir and befriend him.
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