Little Visits With Great Americans Or Svccess Ideals And How to Attain Them
Little Visits With Great Americans Or Svccess Ideals And How to Attain Them
Marden Orison Swett
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At the outbreak of the conflict his father, A. W. Johnson, had joined the Confederate army as a colonel, removing his wife and children, from the Kentucky homestead near Georgetown, to the south, and finally to Staunton, Virginia, for greater safety. There the boy Tom, who was born in 1854, spent four of the most impressionable years of his life, and there he earned his first dollar. HIS FIRST SPECULATION. 'T am glad I was old enough to remember my home before the war, " he said, in speaking of... his early life. "Rightly or wrongly, I attach great importance to this fact as a constant incentive in my career. The thought of regaining the position which we had previously held was always with me. " ^34 Railway Magnate and Single Taxt-r The five weeks immediate]} following Lee's surren- der were a golden time to Tom financially ; in that period, he earned eighty-eight dollars, enough to carry the family (which consisted of his parents and two younger brothers), back to Kentucky. This was the way he did it: There was, of course, great thirst for news in Staunton, as all over the country, but only once a day was Staunton in railwa_\- communication with the outside world.
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