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DETERMINED NOT TO REMAIN POOR.”
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“Did you attend both school and college?”
“I attended the common and high schools at home, but not long. I had no college training. Indeed, I cannot say that I had much of any public school education. I left home when seventeen years of age, and of course had not time to study closely.
“My first venture in trade was made as clerk in a country store at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where everything was sold, including dry-goods. There I remained for four years, and picked up my first knowledge of business. I
SAVED MY EARNINGS AND ATTENDED STRICTLY TO BUSINESS,
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and so made those four years valuable to me. Before I went West, my employer offered me a quarter interest in his business if I would remain with him. Even after I had been here several years, he wrote and offered me a third interest if I would go back.
“But I was already too well placed. I was always interested in the commercial side of life. To this I bent my energies; and