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Such a one was Jeremiah Smith. He was born the 6th of April, 1841, in the little town of West Hampton, Vt. His father, a farmer, died soon after, leaving his mother, a woman of a keen, though uneducated mind, and his grandfather, a relic of Revolutionary days, as guardians of Jeremiah's early years. History is almost silent about his childhood. We know that he early developed a taste for letters. He learned his alphabet at the age of two, and literally devoured his picture-books...
Shortly after, completing the eighty-ninth chapter, he fell in love with a maiden of West Hampton, and began to write poetry. In the files of the Hampton Gazette, preserved in the College library, one may find a large number of poems addressed to M. W., which flowed from his facile pen. History says that M. W. rejected the poems, but accepted the man. Jeremiah, in consideration of his increased happiness, consented to abandon his literary projects, and to devote himself to farming. In this pursuit he achieved a success which neither he nor a great many other young...
Glimmering in the west...
...heard, -that it takes all kinds of people to make up a world. So it is with that part of the world which consists of our section. There are men in it that I thought -before I came to college -only existed in the uncivilized "universities" of the far West...
JULIAN AUGUSTUS MEAD, West Acton...